Chapter 625
On a street of a city now lying in ruins...
“It’s surprising they didn’t even try to escape,” Cristina murmured, her eyes fixed on the brutally murdered mages of the Black Order, their bodies lying in a gruesome state.
Ludwig’s right arm, still wrapped in bandages, looked untouched, as if he had never wielded that chilling and ominous dark aura blade.
The mages of the Black Order had all been slaughtered by Ludwig. None had even attempted to flee.
“Did they know that trying to escape was pointless?” Cristina wondered aloud.
“Who knows,” Anna de Gerna replied, approaching from a distance, carefully navigating the rubble-strewn terrain. “There are no life forms detected nearby. This is... all of them.”
Anna turned her gaze away from the corpses, her expression steely and resolute. Even if they had tried to flee, Anna’s magic would have ensnared them, and the Immortal archmages had already set up a spatial barrier further out.
“There might be a few scattered stragglers, but it doesn’t matter. They can’t take the Immortals from us anyway.”
The Black Order had been wiped from existence. A few individuals might have slipped through or survived, but that was inconsequential.
“It’s a bit frightening to think that without Louis, we might have lost the entire army of Immortals,” Cristina said, a bitter smile playing across her lips.
The Black Order’s intentions had been clear from the beginning, which was why Louis had dedicated himself to unraveling the hidden secrets they had placed within the countless alchemical recipes. Without Louis, the Black Order would have harnessed the power of the Immortals and tried to control the world by force.
It wasn’t a contest of cleverness. It was simply genius triumphing over deceit.