Chapter 311: You Dont Notice My Kindness? (5)
“If Keter appears, ignore ally casualties and use your ultimate techniques.”
That was the order General Colton gave to knights of Master-level or higher and the Royal Mage Corps.[1]
Following Colton’s command, the Master knights unleashed a barrage of sword aura toward Keter. Though fired without prior coordination, not a single trajectory overlapped. It was proof of how much training the swordsmen had undergone and how seasoned they were.
The mages were no different. All of them were at least five-circle, and all twenty cast the same spell simultaneously: Thunder Bird, a four-circle lightning spell.
Because Keter’s movements were incredibly fast, and his arrows even faster, they attempted to counter him with lightning magic. But it was all meaningless.
Countless blades of sword aura and bolts of lightning couldn’t even reach Keter’s vicinity. Thousands of Milky Ways exploded, and the light they produced melted everything away like snow under the sun. It was as if a sun had risen atop another sun. There was no boom, no explosion sound at all—even the sound itself seemed to have been swallowed by the blast.
What the royal army witnessed was light. The entire world was dyed in a radiance so overwhelming that even squeezing their eyes shut was useless.
All twenty-five thousand soldiers—those who had pushed into the inner courtyard and those stationed outside—felt the same thing.
We’re going to die.
If one fell from a bottomless cliff, death was inevitable. Just as that was common sense, those engulfed by the light calmly accepted their own deaths. Soldiers began dropping their weapons, which were as precious as their lives. Their bodies simply went slack. And yet, for some reason, the death they awaited never came.
“...?”
Those who had shut their eyes against the flash slowly opened them.