I Became a Civil Servant Who Can Use Magic

“Hey, have you heard? The rumor about a goddess appearing beyond the Barrier.”

“Bullshit, what goddess. Get your head straight.”

“I’ve also heard-”

An old man blocked the path of the mercenaries chattering as they walked.

“Excuse me, could you tell me more about that rumor?”

“What’s this now.., gulp.”

The mercenaries who were about to bark at the old man swallowed their words. An aura that weighed down the surroundings was flowing from the old man before them.

The mercenaries’ instincts told them. This old man was a powerful figure they couldn’t even dare to approach.

The mercenary, who suddenly became extremely polite, told the old man about the rumor.

“…that’s what they say.”

“I see, I’ve heard well. Then, I’ll be going.”

The old man who heard the rumor from the mercenary turned around.

“Only His Majesty the Emperor has the right to be called a god. Who dares.. to call themselves a god? I should go see the face of whoever it is.”

And he started walking towards the north.

Judging that the power gap had narrowed sufficiently, Loen marched towards the plains.

The tactic of mana storm followed by cavalry charge no longer worked. The enemies had gathered all their forces in one place to avoid being defeated piecemeal. Likewise, they marched towards the plains.

So now it was time to face them head-on.

Bamos’s side probably had similar thoughts.

From their perspective, engaging in a large-scale battle while they had the upper hand in power would be the best way to finish us off.

“Are you saying we just need to hold out?”

Loen nodded at the Count’s words.

“Just until Psyche and I take care of Bamos.”

To say this now, but this was also the reason for intervening in the war.

To gather troops to fight Bamos’s army.

Of course, there was also the option of quietly infiltrating and assassinating Bamos, but that carried too much risk.

Given that it’s wartime, not peacetime, the surrounding guards would be impenetrable, and moreover, who knows what might be in a dark mage’s lair.

So I just chose the direct approach.

‘If I had known it would be like this, I should have gotten a disposable attack artifact from father..’

That was somewhat regrettable.

“With regular soldiers, as well as knight and mage forces being similar, the outcome essentially depends on you, Inspector.”

“I suppose so.”

By the way, the misunderstanding with the Count had been cleared up.

He strongly emphasized that the behavior shown in the meeting room was just for the purpose of seizing military power, and his original personality… is not like that.

Also, he told them to keep calling him Inspector as before to hide his identity as an inspector.

For a moment, he considered just revealing his inspector identity to everyone, not just the nobles, since it had come to this.

But he quickly changed his mind.

Because he didn’t know how Bamos’s side would react.

Come to think of it, aren’t they nobles who cooperated with a dark mage?

From their perspective, this is a war they must win at all costs.

Because only death awaits them if they lose.

I guarantee that even if I reveal that I’m an inspector, rather than trembling and surrendering, they would certainly come up with countermeasures accordingly.

“All troops, halt!”

The Count’s shout announcing their arrival was heard.

Lost in various thoughts, they had already reached the great plains.

“Wow~ It’s literally a great! plain.”

“Indeed.”

On the vast land stretching to the horizon, not even a small hill could be found.

“Wow~ The enemies seem to have prepared thoroughly too.”

As Psyche said, the enemy army was already positioned in the middle of the plains.

And our forces took their position facing them.

“…”

“…”

A heavy tension settled over the vast plains. Like the calm before a storm, it was just quiet despite over ten thousand soldiers gathered from both sides combined.

The soldiers gripped their weapons tightly lest they break, and the horses, seeming to sense their masters’ anxiety, pawed the ground and snorted.

Loen’s sight caught Bamos standing at the rear of the enemy formation.

‘Since their forces are superior anyway, is he saying “you come in”?’

It would have been the perfect picture if he had come out front underestimating us, but it seems he’s not that stupid.

“He’s not a complete fool, it seems. Looking at him hiding way~ back there.”

Psyche had similar thoughts.

“What are you going to do?”

“I’m going to fly over.”

“Ah~”

Poooo!

At that moment, the sound of a horn echoed from the opposite side.

It was the signal for infantry to advance.

Our side’s horn sounded in response.

Thousands of infantry began to take one step at a time towards each other.

The sound of metal and heavy footsteps could be heard in sync with their steps.

Followed by a rain of arrows from the archers.

Hundreds of black needles covered the sky.

Just as the rain of arrows tracing parabolas was about to fall to the ground,

Blue barriers appeared above each formation.

Protection barriers!

Thud, thud thud, ting.

The mages who had finished casting by now fired spells towards each other’s formations.

Most were blocked by the barriers, but some penetrated the defense and hit the soldiers.

Boom!

In an instant, dozens of lives were shattered.

It was essentially no different from explosive shells falling in the middle of a medieval battlefield.

Meanwhile, neither Loen nor Bamos moved a finger. Partly because they were conscious of each other.

And because it was a waste to use mana just to block arrows.

They just quietly gazed at each other from a distance.

“So it’s that bitch”

Meeting her red pupils, Bamos fell into thought.

‘There’s no need to step forward unnecessarily.’

Although the forces were similar, his army was slightly superior.

And another reason for not stepping forward.

Based on synthesizing witness testimonies, there was a very high probability that she was a 5-star mage.

In many ways, she was not an opponent to face carelessly.

So he planned to confront her on a battlefield most advantageous to him.

Besides, for this to end, the other side had to move first anyway.

On the other hand, Loen waited for the right moment.

Flying over now would only result in being surrounded by enemy mages and knights.

So she planned to charge when fierce battle broke out between the two sides, taking advantage of the confusion.

“It’s either summoning or blood magic, one of the two.”

Loen guessed at Bamos’s specialty.

He was a more meticulous person than expected.

He didn’t carelessly leak information about himself.

He committed atrocities like dragging people away to offer as sacrifices without hesitation, but he didn’t use the power gained from it carelessly.

Nevertheless, the types of dark magic he would use were somewhat narrowed down.

Because the range of powers that could be obtained from demons in exchange for living sacrifices was limited.

“Psyche, what do you think?”

“Me? I haven’t really thought about it. Whatever he got from the demon, can’t we just smash it all?”

“I see..”

Poooo!

A second horn sound echoed.

A lower and heavier tone than the first.

Now it was time for the cavalry to deploy.

The infantry had already been clashing for a while.

They were engaged in a fierce battle with spears and swords clashing, shouts and screams mixing.

“Charge!”

In sync with the horn sound, cavalry from both sides charged towards each other.

Soon, the cavalry collided on the flanks of the infantry.

The roar of metal clashing against metal erupted, and the galloping horses screamed as they collided.

“Ugh.”

“Die!!”

The vast plains turned into a scene of carnage. Everyone focused all their attention on killing the opponent in front of them.

‘Now’s the time to move.’

Only about twenty guards remained by Bamos’s side.

They all looked like knights and mages, but Loen wasn’t alone either.

“Psyche, let’s go.”

“…Resistance increase, amplification, armor, blade protection.”

Psyche, who had been muttering for a while using enhancement magic, nodded and climbed onto Loen’s back.

“Oof, why are you so heavy?”

“Ah, because of the enhancement magic.. just a moment.”

Psyche jumped off and cast a weight reduction spell before climbing back on.

“Flight.”

Loen took off with Psyche on her back.

She flew through the sky towards the rear of the enemy formation.

“Loen!”

As if they had been waiting for this moment, a shower of mana bullets and mana cannons poured from the ground. Bamos and the mages by his side had begun their attack towards them.

Streams of blue, red, and other colors stretched up towards the sky.

Dozens of mana clusters decorated the sky as they rushed in.

Seeing this, Psyche sent out a warning.

‘Ah, come to think of it, I forgot to tell Psyche about the Seal of Protection.’

Moreover, since there had been no threats since entering the Barrier…

The Seal of Protection, an active defense artifact gifted by Archduke Goldpiece, activated.

And a mana shield that blocks attacks below 4-star appeared in front of Loen.

Boom boom, boom.

With a sound like beating drums, the shield blocked all the attacks from the enemy mages. All the mana bullets, not to mention the mana cannons, disappeared in vain.

“Eh?”

“I’m going to descend now, so get ready too.”

Ignoring the surprised Psyche, Loen changed direction and began to fall towards the ground. Since the enemies were equally surprised, there was no follow-up attack.

“I’ll go ahead!”

Psyche unwrapped her arms from around Loen and jumped off bare-bodied. Words like weight reduction release, increase, acceleration flowed from her mouth.

Whoosh.

Falling towards the middle of the enemies at a speed faster than Loen, almost close to the speed of sound, was Psyche.

“Uh oh..”

“She’s coming!”

The knights and mages who had been glaring at the sky took a step back with wide eyes.

Their expressions were a mix of shock and wariness.

Boom!

With a massive roar, the dragon-kin girl who had been cutting through the sky struck the ground. The impact was so great that a dust cloud formed around her.

Those standing nearby lost their balance and staggered or were blown away by the shockwave.

Following that, Loen also fell into the dust cloud, hiding her appearance.

“What are you doing! Stop standing around and start casting spells!”

Bamos urged the mages. And he himself began casting attack magic. The knights surrounded the dust cloud in a circle.

‘Crazy bitches! I expected them to come flying with flight magic, but to think they’d rush in so recklessly..’

But he was only surprised for a moment.

He had sufficiently anticipated that they would charge towards him. He had prepared various measures in advance for this moment.

‘This will become your grave.’

Bamos and the mages who finished casting magic all fired mana cannons together.

Five beams were shot towards the center of the dust cloud.

Five large holes appeared in the dust cloud from the powerful beam magic. However, it was still quiet inside the cloud.

“Did we get them?”

One mage said with a hopeful voice.

Two 2-star, two 3-star, and one 5-star.

It was a combined magic attack from five people.

Unless the opponent was a 5-star mage, there’s no way they could survive.

The dust cloud slowly began to clear. A woman’s voice was heard piercing through the gap.

“Wow, Loen was right that he was really 5-star? How many sacrifices did he have to offer..”

As the dust completely dispersed, the figures of two people were clearly revealed. Both were unharmed.

However, a mana shield that Loen had cast herself was floating in front of her.

It was something she had cast herself in preparation for the case that Bamos was 5-star. Because the artifact only blocks attacks up to 4-star.

As expected.

If Loen had been careless and not cast a defense spell, she would have taken a direct hit from Bamos’s mana cannon and suffered great damage.

Silence fell around them.

A brief standoff ensued.

The knights gripped their sword handles tightly.

The mages silently prepared their next move.

At that moment, Bamos burst into loud laughter.

“Kuhehe. I’ll admit it, you’re not to be underestimated, as the rumors say.”

But you chose the wrong opponent.

Bamos spread out both arms and shouted,

“Do you know why I, specifically, marched to this great plain?”

They absolutely won’t know.

They probably think I marched here just to have a head-on confrontation.

But the reality is different.

Bamos spoke at length in a voice filled with ecstasy.

“Long ago, a great battle was fought on this great plain where tens of thousands of troops clashed.”

“Countless lives were lost in the endless battle.”

“The corpses and blood of those who died then, and their resentment. All of it is buried right here! Under this land!”

Could it be?

Loen and Psyche looked at each other.

“Do you know what power I obtained through my deal with the demon? It’s… summoning the dead.”

Bamos, having built up the atmosphere to the fullest, shouted,

“Rise!”

No sooner had the words ended than the ground shook, and from between the cracks that formed, pale bone hands rose up en masse.

Eerie groans echoed as twisted forms endlessly crawled out.

With corroded armor and swords, and red eyes, they looked like an army of death.

The air itself froze from the chill emitted by the undead.

The undead, now swollen to hundreds in number, gradually closed in on Loen and Psyche.

Anyone could see they were like rats in a trap with no way out.

Bamos asked Loen with an arrogant expression,

“What will you do now?”

“..”

Loen answered his question.

She answered briefly, filled with light attribute:

“Flash.”