Regressor Of The Fallen Family [EN]: Chapter 466

Even after using very strong magic, the Emperor used even more power.

It was like magic was flowing endlessly from inside him.

That magic quickly formed eight layers of blue shields, blocking Logan’s path.

– Absolute Shield. Nothing can break it.

The Emperor thought this, and Logan understood his thoughts clearly because Logan was now stronger and could sense magic better.

But Logan’s power was different. It could change what was supposed to happen. A ‘simple’ 8th class spell could not stop it.

Flash!

A golden line appeared in the air, stretching across the battlefield, capturing everyone’s attention.

A powerful wave of energy filled the air, stronger than all the chaos of the battle.

It felt like everything on the battlefield stopped for a moment.

Creeeeeak.

It looked like the sky and earth were being cut in half by the golden line. Then, a bright flash of light covered the battlefield again.

Kwakwakwakwakwakwakwa!

The storm of shockwaves swallowed all the noise of the battlefield and continued for a long time.

When the loud storm of noise finally stopped, the lord of McLaine announced, “[The Emperor has fled!]”

“Waaah!”

The McLaine army shouted with joy.

“H-How could His Majesty….”

“Retreat! Retreat!”

The desperate sound of Imperial knights retreating echoed throughout Luthspellheim.

“[Intercept the fleeing enemy! Pursuit outside the castle is forbidden!]”

“Eat this and get lost, you Imperial bastards!”

“I’ll stick an arrow in your arse!”

Tap tap tap.

Wham!

The McLaine army’s morale was high, while the Imperial army was frustrated by their lord’s escape. Their expressions were very different.

At the center of it all, Logan stared at the space where the Emperor had been, his face hard.

‘How…?’

Logan’s special sword techniques were meant to defeat enemies stronger than himself. His strongest technique, the 9th form, was so powerful it could change what was supposed to happen. It was a power that only someone at the highest level should have.

It was only natural that the opponent could not resist unless they also possessed power of the highest level.

But the Emperor had clearly run out of power and was only using magic of a very strong level. Yet, he shook off that power and disappeared with the space itself, sacrificing only the ‘staff’ he was holding in his hand.

Logan could not understand how the Emperor escaped, even though Logan felt like he was becoming almost god-like in power.

That bothered him.

The Imperial army was effectively finished. But….

‘If the Emperor is alive, it will be a great disaster. I’m the only one who can stop him.’

If he failed to kill the Emperor, a disaster would surely occur. The magic he had shown at the beginning of the battle was so strong that destroying a city would not be difficult.

That was why he could not fully rejoice in the victory of the war.

But the reaction around him was different.

“We, we did it, Logan!”

Aileen, her clothes ripped and blackened, and her skin marked with angry red burns, threw her arms around Logan. He stood stiffly, staring into the distance, his face blank as a stone statue. A faint smell of burnt hair and ozone hung in the air around her.

She, too, had risked her life.

If she had not defeated the Emperor quickly, she would have become a handful of ashes.

‘Right. That’s what happened….’

He had not fully seized the opportunity that his partner had created at the risk of her life.

Logan’s fist trembled, but Aileen forcibly unfolded his hand and intertwined her fingers with his.

“It’s okay. We won. The Emperor will have a hard time just taking care of the collapsing Empire.”

Only at those words, as if she had read his mind, was Logan able to loosen his hardened expression.

‘Right. That’s right.’

He would have to protect what was left rather than seek revenge.

If the Western 10 nations, which had been defeated in the West, heard this news, they would mobilize their remaining forces and start advancing again, and McLaine would not stop at Luthspellheim either.

‘There’s also the Holy Kingdom’s declaration of war.’

Unless the Emperor wanted the destruction of the Empire, he would have to pay attention to the East, Central, and even the West, regardless of his grudge against Logan.

Moreover, the Emperor had clearly paid a heavy price in the final offensive.

Logan’s special ability let him see souls. He saw that the Emperor’s soul was being made bigger and stronger by the staff he held. And Logan had definitely smashed it to pieces.

‘Maybe he can’t use magic of the highest level anymore… no, let’s not be too optimistic.’

Even as he resolved to do so, he could feel the anxiety in his heart clearly diminishing.

“Sniff.”

Tirr, who had approached before he knew it, also nudged Logan’s back with the bridge of the nose of his middle head, as if to say he had worked hard.

Even as he staggered for a moment at the affection of the beast, who had transformed into a house-sized behemoth, laughter involuntarily escaped his lips.

“Yeah, you worked hard too….”

Before he could finish speaking, the beast, who had shrunk back down again, jumped into Aileen’s arms.

The beast glared at Logan for a moment.

“Squeak.”

Before he knew it, with pitiful eyes, the beast licked Aileen’s cheek, which had a slight burn.

“T-That tickles, Tirr.”

Logan was watching the scene with dumbfounded eyes when the one-armed old man staggered over and coughed up blood with a fit of coughing.

“Hoo. I feel refreshed now.”

The old man smiled, wiping the blood from his mouth.

“The Casel Magic Tower bastards weren’t here, but can I consider this as having repaid my debt?”

Looking at that face, what more could he say?

“……Of course. Ha…… ahem, ahem. Lord Heyman. Thank you.”

Just looking at these three people, no, two people and one divine beast, he was once again convinced that he was lucky.

He couldn’t help but think, how could all these people be here? So many relationships were intertwined and gathered in this place.

And thanks to that, he had achieved a feat that he could not have imagined immediately after his regression.

To only be worried in this situation was clearly too negative.

Logan watched the Imperial army running away, and in an instant, he shook off his worries and raised his sword high.

And he gathered all his remaining strength and shouted.

“We have won! We have defeated the Empire!!!!!”

He could have shouted with spirit power, but shouting like this with his own voice also had its own effect.

The effect of being conveyed with a sense of reality.

“We won!”

“Long live McLaine!”

“Long live Emperor Logan!”

From the cheers erupting from all over Luthspellheim.

“Waaaaaah!”

“Your Majesty!”

“We won!”

Seeing his younger brother, his teacher, and his other friends running towards him made Logan feel safe and happy. It felt like all his worries about the future were going away completely.

‘Yes, for now… It’s time to enjoy our victory,’ Logan thought. He opened his arms wide to welcome them.

‘But… I feel like I’m forgetting something.’

A small worry tugged at his mind, a feeling that something wasn’t right. But then, loud cheers filled the air from everywhere around him. ‘Hail McLaine! Long live our Emperor!’ The sound was so strong and full of joy that it pushed away his small worry.

Meanwhile, deep underground in a cold, stone square inside Lusphelheim castle…

“It’s done! It’s all done! Your Majesty? Your Majesty!” Victoria had just finished changing the great magic circle and was almost crying. She was so tired and worried, but she had to finish this.

“He said he would send orders just by thinking, right?” she muttered to herself. But, like she thought, there was no answer.

“Your Majesty! I have finished changing the great magic circle as you ordered!” She shouted as loud as she could, but… Daaaah… Only her own voice came back.

‘I have no choice. I have to activate it now.’

This was war. She couldn’t wait for permission for everything.

Woooong… Victoria bit her lip and used her magic. Soon, the great magic circle, a ring of glowing symbols on the floor, changed to only weaken people at the ‘8th class superhuman’ level, started working.

Woooong… A bright blue light, so strong it hurt the eyes, spread everywhere…

“D-Done.”

Victoria wiped the cold sweat from her face and sighed in relief. She had done all she could. Now her magic was used up, and she couldn’t go back to the fight even if she wanted to. All she could do now was…

“Your Majesty, please win,” she whispered. Her heart ached for her Emperor, hoping he was safe. She could only pray.

And she would only learn later that her action had made Logan, who was hugging his friends on the city walls, suddenly fall to his knees, and everything became chaotic.

McLaine had won the war against the Empire! The news of McLaine’s victory spread quickly around the world. It wasn’t that people doubted McLaine could win anymore. Before the battle, people were not sure who would win, some thought the Empire would, and some thought McLaine would.

However… The Imperial Army had lost many soldiers very quickly in a short fight, and the sudden rain of blue meteors was the main reason. This made people across the land misunderstand things greatly.

“It’s divine punishment! Punishment from the gods for angering the Holy Hero!”

“I knew it! Our Emperor is really a hero sent by the gods!”

“Hail McLaine!”

“Haha!”

The McLaine Kingdom was full of cheers.

“If it was divine punishment, why did they start another war?”

“Stupid Empire people.”

“Still, maybe there really is a hero like that. I thought the temple was talking nonsense.”

“You’ll get in trouble for saying that!”

“So what? Am I wrong? Look at what the temple has been doing lately…”

“Yeah, maybe…”

Even people who had nothing to do with the Empire were just amazed. It was all a misunderstanding because the Emperor himself had caused the disaster, but the Imperial Family couldn’t tell anyone the truth. So, the misunderstanding just grew bigger every day.

Because of this misunderstanding, the Imperial citizens also became very worried.

“What will happen to our Empire?”

“What’s going to happen to the world?”

“It’s the end of the world. The end of the world is here.”

“Mum…”

The Imperial citizens could not believe the Empire had lost, especially because they thought it was divine punishment. The Empire started to fall apart from inside.

“The Emperor! The Emperor brought disaster on us!”

“Bring my son back to life, you evil people!”

“Why did you do this! You bad people!”

After the war, where hundreds of thousands of soldiers had died, the cries of families who lost loved ones were heard everywhere in the Empire. This would never have happened in the Empire before. But the Imperial Family had lost most of their soldiers in the war and could not stop it.

Of course…

“Where is the Emperor?”

“The Emperor must show himself!”

Even in this bad situation, some people still believed in the Imperial Family. They trusted them because they hoped the Emperor, who was known as a great archmage, could somehow fix this problem, this disaster. But the confusion only grew because the Emperor, who had run away from Lusphelheim, had not been seen for days.

– “His Majesty is resting and getting better. The citizens of the Empire should not lose hope and should keep living their lives. The Empire is strong!” Gallen Dicaide, the Frostwind Magician, and Locteus Guesfeldt, the Iron-Eyed Chancellor, said this. But people were already losing hope, and nothing could stop it.

“Has His Majesty the Emperor died?”

“Don’t say such terrible things!”

“Still…”

Even the people of Aserian, who were very loyal to the Emperor and the Imperial Family, were saying these things. This showed how much people were losing hope. And what made people even more worried was that more and more countries declared war.

– “Our Western Ten Nations have not forgotten the Empire’s cruel rule. We will make them pay.” The remaining Western armies, who had attacked the Empire before and lost, gathered their strength again and said they would attack again.

– “The Eastern Continent is now McLaine’s land. Draw a straight line from Penna in the old Empire land, and everything east of that is McLaine’s.” McLaine, having won the war, declared that land was his alone.

And in this situation…

– “We will make the Imperial Family answer for using evil ways and working with the Kassel Magic Tower.” Even the whole army of the Holy Kingdom, gathering in the capital, Noviens… The Empire could not control anything anymore.

“W-What’s really going to happen?”

“Is the Empire going to fall apart like this?”

“Surely not…”

The threat from the west loomed like a dark cloud, the victorious nation in the east was like a rising sun ready to burn everything, and even the temple’s forces were like snakes slithering within the Empire itself… Since the Empire was first created, the citizens of Ares felt for the first time that their homeland might be destroyed, and they began to shake with fear.