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Sereraji did not believe in the saying that one's true nature is revealed in a moment of crisis.
This is because all living things have an instinct to protect themselves from external and internal threats.
She thought that human nature rather came out normally.
'If there are two similar people, which one would be more condemned: the one who has fasted for three days and steals, or the one who has skipped one meal and steals?'
The ivory tower taught a lot of moral common sense to its cadets, who might one day go outside the tower, so that they could live by imitating the common sense of society.
'You didn't need to understand it. Just memorize it and follow along.'
The secret was that he was confident, and thanks to that, Sereraji was able to wander the outside world for a year without causing any problems on the level of a massacre.
So Sereraji calmly stared at the chaos before her eyes.
“Eww!”
“Evacuate, evacuate residents!”
The police chiefs screamed loudly.
“Lord Valen! You must run away. Don’t die!”
Rudy grabs Valencianus.
“If you don’t stop now, I’ll cut off your head.”
Tentia aimed her sword at the eroder boy's neck.
The eroder boy answered in a poisonous voice.
“Who forced my mouth open?”
Sereraji approached the boy step by step and hit the boy on the back of the head with the iron tip of the cane.
Exactly.
Her powers were not enough to knock the boy unconscious, but they could inflict pain.
"this!"
“I just hit it once.”
"what……?"
“How dare you open your eyes wide in front of me?”
The eroder boy was about to ask, "Then can you open your eyes wide?", but Sereraji hit the boy on the back of the head again.
“It’s not working well. I guess I should try strengthening magic… … .”
puck!
Tentia struck the boy's neck with her blade, causing him to fall to the ground.
“Is this what you wanted?”
Sereraji nodded.
“Yeah. Reducing variables is the most important thing, right?”
"yes?"
Sereraji squinted his eyes as he felt the green flames burning all over the city.
She said, her face twisted with pride.
“They say that when the caster disappears, the mana disperses and goes berserk. There’s still some time. If I move quickly, I can dispel one or two of them, right?”
She was a sorceress who was not discouraged even when the entire sky was covered with brain matter leaking out of the demonic realm.
“But the remaining five-”
“Isn’t it better than all seven exploding?”
* * *
Tentia nodded without hesitation.
“It is sad that I cannot save everyone, but that is no reason not to do my best. Your Majesty, I will serve you.”
Valencianus joined in, comforting the weeping and clinging Rudi.
“If I’m lucky, I might be able to get them all?”
Serera asked with narrowed eyes.
Even if I were to use the Flash Blink spell to transform my body into lightning and fly through the sky, I wouldn't have time to go around seven places, and more importantly, I wouldn't have any mana left to dispel.
“What do you mean?”
“First of all, it’s a flame. You can interfere with it with the ‘Bloom and Follow’ spell. When we fought down there earlier, we blocked or stole each other’s flames.”
Valencian frowned and said.
“I’ll gather them all together, and you dispel them all at once.”
“It won’t be easy… … .”
Sereraji bit her lip, and Valencian took the red medicine from his bosom and drank it.
“… … Originally, the effect on the loyalty oath wasn’t that great even if a mental wave or explosion occurred. I put in effort in that direction in case I couldn’t catch them. I was planning on picking out a noble who was entangled with the Encroacher and framing them all, or spreading articles about how the Encroacher wanted the empire to split up. I’ve already sent a full report to the newspapers.”
Rudy, who had sent it, hiccupped.
Sereraji asked, forming a circle.
“Are you saying that’s not the case anymore?”
“That guy. Anyone can tell he’s royalty.”
At that moment, the genius wizard's face hardened.
The reason why he had to die because he inherited the talent for blood was right before his eyes.
“Is the responsibility of the royal family growing?”
“Yeah. That’s smart.”
“That’s how it was originally, little brother.”
Valencian looked around and gave orders.
“Police officers, evacuate as many residents as possible.”
The police chiefs prepared for their duties with determination.
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
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"All right!"
“Sir Tentia, Sir and Rudy, please transport that eroder safely to the Imperial Magic Workshop. … … If there is an attack, your safety will be more important than transporting the interest.”
The knight and the maid placed their clenched right hands on their hearts.
“Yes, Your Majesty.”
“Yes, Lord Valen.”
“Sister. Let’s go down together. I’ll gather them all, so dispel them.”
The genius wizard leaned forward gracefully, holding his staff in one hand and the hem of his robe in the other.
“Yes, little brother. I don’t know if there will be a huge explosion or nothing, but let’s give it a try. It’s the right and duty of a genius to try.”
* * *
Valencianus followed Celerazi's lead and headed towards the center of the seven explosive magics.
“Wouldn’t it be better to pull it in from the closest place?”
“Are you here?”
“Yeah. It’s here.”
The magic was starting to run wild, and in the distance, a cold, hot heat and a faint green light were flickering.
It seemed likely that the sheriff's department would begin receiving reports of smoke rising from the sewers.
Valencian stood still and recited the spell, drawing on both his dragon energy and mana.
“The flame that follows rises.”
Saaaaah-.
The pupils were split vertically, both hands were covered in dark red scales, and scales rose up to the neck.
Originally, magic that controlled something was more effective the closer and more visible it was.
In most cases, it would not manifest at all even if it was just a little bit farther away, and even if it did manifest somehow, the efficiency would drop like the depth of the ocean.
In such a situation, it would be something that a normal magician would never even think of attempting to draw in the explosive magic planted throughout the vast capital at the moment of its explosion.
'I'll finish everything and meet Severic. The central part is originally in the hands of the imperial family. Once the negotiations between the east and the north are over, three-fifths of the empire will be stable. Then the west and the south will naturally have no choice but to bow their heads.'
But for Valencian, even this miracle was not a goal but a process.
'I will give the united empire to Jaylilith. And so I will bring peace to this world. The territorial wars will end, the encroachers will burn, and I will live a life of luxury. As the harmless Emperor Valencianus!'
His will, his mana, rushed to the end of the labyrinthine underground waterway.
The green flame resisted, flickering its serpentine tongue, but the power inherited through blood, awakened through valor, and nurtured through effort grabbed the serpent by the nape of its neck and dragged it away.
Saaaaaaaah-.
Green flames spread out through the culvert.
'Come.'
The advancing flames met at a corner and began to merge into a single stream.
A green flame surged from around the corner in the distance.
“Sister.”
“The preparations are complete. Once we gather together, we can dispel it right away.”
Sereraji said confidently with a determined expression.
The intense heat blew her hat, hair, and robe in a gust of wind, but she paid no attention to it.
Valencian clenched his fist.
Kwakwakwakwakwakwakwa!!
The green flames that surged in like waves changed into orange and red, then clumped together into a sphere.
It was a process of bringing the exploded green flame, imbuing it with his power, taking control of it, and then putting it back to sleep.
He couldn't slow down enough to drag the exploded flame straight here, and he couldn't run out of mana and power to dye it with his colors.
“Ugh!”
Valencian groaned for the first time.
A giant ball of flames was rising, filling the culvert.
The stone ceiling above melted from the heat, and thick vapor rose from the water below, covering the two.
The steam also contained heat reaching hundreds of degrees.
Sereraji covered his body with his cloak in a hurry, and Valencian also gritted his teeth and held on.
“Ahhhhh!”
He slowly brought both hands together, putting strength into his knuckles.
The fireball that had grown large enough to fill the passageways of the dungeon compressed into the size of a human head, and curved, dark red horns sprouted from Valencian's head.
Whack, slap!
But the ceiling, which had already risen as high as it could, could no longer support the load.
Stones, sand, gravel and dirt came crashing down, and Sereraji took a step back to avoid it.
“What the hell is this!”
Fortunately, there was a building right above it, so the debris from the collapsed building did not fall on Valencianus' head.
But Valencian, looking out through a hole as large as a house, thought that it would have been better that way.
The area above where they were standing was in the middle of the street.
* * *
The carriages stopped as the horses wailed, and the citizens passing by screamed.
“The floor is collapsing! Get out of here!”
“It’s magic!”
“Look, look at that fireball in there!”
“Who is there?”
Valencian immediately began to lash out.
"world!"
He always assumed the worst, and immediately turned his head and said to Sereraji.
“Get back! Even to the back of that corner.”
Sereraji asked back in confusion.
She didn't know the human heart.
“Why?”
“You know I’m going to cause this explosion! I’ve almost got it! When I don’t have any more green sparks, then jump out and dispel them and take me down!”
Serenade confirmed that the green flames that had just surged forward like a giant serpent were now only slightly thicker than an adult's forearm.
She hurriedly retreated to the corner of the cistern, watching people gather at the edge of the hole.
Citizens gathered at the edge of the hole saw a horrific sight.
It was the moment when the identity of the mad wizard who had been terrorizing the capital for nearly two weeks was revealed.
Archduke Valencian, with his head covered in devilishly curved horns, was chanting endless spells with a determined expression on his face.
His golden eyes were slit vertically, and his shadowed face and pale cheeks gave him a very determined and cruel air.
With his uniquely handsome appearance, he looked like a mysterious and evil high-ranking invader performing a terrifying ritual.
“Green flame… … .”
Someone muttered something like that.
Everyone saw Valencian 'collecting' the green flame.
It was only a moment before pieces of broken brick began to fly.
“Inspectors! High nobles! XX, anyone, please come here!”
“Head, head! Head!”
“Honey, run away!”
“Kids! Hold mommy’s hand tight!”
“You did it yourself? You were the one who did it from the beginning, and you sent out thugs to go around and stir things up to catch him?”
“… …Why? Why on earth?”
“Is that why you wanted to keep our discipline so tight? The high-ranking officials are gathering in the capital, so commoners like us shouldn’t be seen on the streets?”
“Save my friend and my son!
Valencian looked at each of the faces with anger.
“… … I knew this would happen.”
The atmosphere in the capital was becoming tense due to the fierce fighting between the armies brought by the great lords, and food prices were also rising.
He had the nobles' soldiers stationed as far out as possible, and Hadritan had done his best to control prices, but it was something that could only be delayed, not stopped.
In the midst of all this, a mad wizard's chain of explosions occurred, people died, and the imperial family released thugs to keep an eye on the people, so it would be strange if discontent didn't build up.
I could understand.
puck!
A brick flying at high speed struck Valencian's temple.
But instead of staggering, he opened his vertically slit eyes wide and glared at the people around the hole.
“That son of a bitch!”
“It’s here, here.”
“Are you trying to kill us all?”
“You damn bastard! Hey. Bring me more. I’ll just bury it.”
Silently enduring the pouring rain of bricks and pebbles, the capital's most mischievous archduke mustered up his last bit of concentration.
Swish.
From around the corner of the culvert, the last of the green flames crawled like a snake's tail into the glowing orange orb.
Even standing in the midst of jeers, criticism and attacks, he still seemed confident.
Valencian muttered, smiling as brightly as his uniform.
“I did it.”
Just then, Sereraji jumped out from behind the corner.