Chapter 789: Section 534: Bright Mirror (1)
As night fell, with Keders’ team retreating for a rest, Malin also activated the teleportation channel and led his own team back to Copenhagen.
The group of young people in the team didn’t share their usual laughter because, over the entire afternoon, Chaos had launched a total of seven assaults. Keders’ team had nearly lost half of its personnel—as the old man had said, Malin couldn’t save everyone, because mortals can never block out the sky with one hand.
Yet Malin also witnessed the courage of mortals; these young people from the western provinces of the Northern Kingdom faced Chaos and leaped out of the trenches time and again, whether against fallen humans like the Chaotic Believers or the purest embodiment of Chaos, the Plague Messengers, they never retreated.
The first three units that counter-charged were unable to find any survivors after the sixth offensive, not just them. Nearly seven units suffered such losses. Even if Malin’s spell formation buried thousands of Chaos, the endless tide-like waves seemed impossible to extinguish, charging wildly. More than once, Malin ignited his spiritual energy to utterly crush thousands of Plague Messengers.
Even if it meant saving just one young person.
However, during the seventh assault, old Keders was pierced through the chest by a longsword of a Plague Messenger in close combat. When Malin arrived, the old man was already on the brink of mutation, half-transformed into a Plague Messenger, and pleaded with Malin to end it quickly, to let him die in his human state.
All Malin could do was behead him, then cleanse everything with holy flames.
On the battlefield, a massive inferno that hadn’t yet died down, holy fire danced among the bone ashes of Chaos, tirelessly igniting all sins.
This was the scar Malin left on the land when his spiritual energy advanced.