Regressor Of The Fallen Family [EN]: Chapter 438

Suddenly, black power filled the air. Then, bright gold light pushed through the darkness.

For a second, the gold light and black power fought against each other. Then, the gold light grew stronger, pushing away all the blackness and filling the area.

Kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa.

Kwaaaang!

“This is bad…!”

A sharp, anxious voice.

Archmage Cassel moved so fast it looked like he vanished and then appeared again, easily dodging the gold light that covered a large area.

But that was all he could do.

The black magic he used couldn’t even reach Logan; it just disappeared. Meanwhile, the golden aura easily broke through the black magic’s defenses.

Both of them were surprised by these unexpected events.

Fortunately, Logan quickly understood why.

‘Incompatible… Right, now that I think about it…’

He suddenly remembered things he had ignored as just his own special ability.

In the past, the mages from Cassel Magic Tower in the Kingdom Alliance were easily defeated by his attacks. Louisa’s mind control magic also disappeared against his Force without much resistance.

So, he guessed that his power didn’t work well against theirs. But it wasn’t just the weaker mages…

‘The Archmage too?’

Why?

He was curious, but he wanted to defeat the Archmage even more.

‘Now is my chance!’

The power he thought was weak was actually beating the enemy. He didn’t need to wait any longer.

Seeing the Archmage’s pale face, no longer laughing, made him even more determined.

“It was the same, it was the same… This, hee hee…”

He didn’t need to listen to the Archmage muttering something no one could understand.

However.

Even though his power worked well against the Archmage, it wasn’t easy to catch him.

Scritch.

With a light swing of his sword, a golden aura blade shot out for dozens of meters. The golden aura could have crossed the wide space and broken the wall of the training ground, but it disappeared as soon as it touched the wall.

Logan showed amazing control of his aura, with an attack that covered the entire area.

However, the Archmage’s body disappeared as if it melted into the golden aura, and then appeared almost instantly dozens of meters away. As soon as Logan saw him, the golden sword strike swept through the spot again, but it only hit the Archmage’s afterimage.

The Archmage moved with skill, reading the small gaps that even a superhuman like Logan, an Aura Master, would have trouble noticing.

Also, the attacks that could cut through space and destroy souls didn’t stop him from using even greater powers.

Of course, the Archmage looked a little worse each time he disappeared and reappeared, but Logan, who was spreading aura in all directions under his control, didn’t look any better.

‘To move through space so easily…’

It was like having the most delicious soup in front of you but only having a fork to eat it with.

The Archmage had given up on attacking because his magic didn’t work and was only focused on dodging the rain of aura blades. This made him very hard to catch.

If so…

‘Why not just pick it up and drink it!’

Logan gritted his teeth and pushed his Force Core, which had only recently recovered, to its limit.

And just as he was about to use his special ability.

“If you really want to finish this, I will just leave, Your Majesty,” Archmage Cassel said, sounding a bit worried, stopping Logan.

Ooooong.

The aura around his sword Lux vibrated with regret, but Logan had to admit it.

‘…I can’t catch him.’

He could beat him in terms of compatibility, but he couldn’t stop him from escaping. The difference in their levels, still a tiny bit too far apart, held him back.

He should have used his special ability from the start, when he didn’t know about their compatibility, and attacked him all at once. But he couldn’t have known that would happen.

‘Damn it.’

He felt regret, but he couldn’t show it.

Logan forced a smile and shook his head.

“Well, that was interesting, Archmage.”

“The same goes for me. Thank you, Your Majesty.”

It was just a normal thing to say for Logan, but seeing the Archmage’s slightly red face as he smiled made him feel uneasy. He had an ominous feeling that he had given a hint to a potential enemy without realizing it.

He had to smile even though he didn’t want to, which made it even more unpleasant.

“…I was too aggressive. I haven’t fully recovered from my injuries, so I couldn’t control my excitement. I apologize, Archmage.”

“No, it’s not a problem. Thanks to you, I learned many things. You don’t have to worry about it, Your Majesty. Heu heu.”

Logan frowned slightly at that smile.

The Archmage knew that the previous attack was meant to kill him.

But the fact that he was acting so humble meant that Cassel Magic Tower didn’t want to make McLain angry, at least for now.

He didn’t know if that was because of their main goal or because of something he had just learned.

“Thank you…”

For now, he had to smile back.

Fortunately, he had also gained something.

After exchanging a few attacks, he could figure out why the Archmage’s magic was so easily broken.

It was more like a feeling than a real understanding. His soul’s power recognized the difference in a brief moment.

‘The Archmage’s magic, no, Cassel Magic Tower’s magic itself is similar to divine power. It feels like a weaker version of the power of will, the pieces left behind by the gods.’

Maybe the strong belief in Zibric Cassel was the basis of their magic.

But because there was no powerful being giving them that power like divine power, they were using the power of will through magic in unusual ways, so they were easily defeated by the power of yearning.

That difference caused the extreme incompatibility.

‘It’s probably weak against divine power too, so it’s amazing that they brainwashed the former Pope. Is it because of Zibric Cassel’s relic after all…?’

The fact that belief in someone who is not a god, someone without divinity, could become real power was quite surprising.

Because of that, he understood ‘the most important power’ better, and he gained another clue to overcome the ‘wall’.

‘Perhaps, to gain divinity, you need the power of will from a soul with a high level…’

The realm beyond the Aura Master, which had seemed impossible to reach even after using his special ability several times, seemed a little closer now.

Also, now that he knew that Cassel Magic Tower’s power couldn’t withstand the power of yearning, Logan could smile sincerely.

“I’m glad it was helpful.”

“Then shall we finish the discussion? About overthrowing that evil Empire.”

“Of course.”

“First, I will refuse to join the war directly. The Holy Kingdom is not ready yet…”

“Heu heu, of course. As I said, we will be at the western border…”

They discussed working together as if they had never fought, smiling at each other, knowing that they would eventually become enemies.

While Logan and Cassel made plans, war was already breaking out in other parts of the world.

The world was facing chaos like they haven’t seen in hundreds of years.

The McLain War, which followed the Empire’s announcement of war and its shocking results, and even the Western Ten Nations’ invasion of the Empire.

A war that affected both East and West swept across the continent, and a lot of blood was being spilled.

Then, finally, the Imperial Army, defeated in McLain, joined the Western Front.

Exmaster Clay Mulroney, the commander of the Gaia Kingdom, who claimed to represent the Western Ten Nations, openly made fun of the Empire.

And at this moment.

“Long live the Emperor!”

“For the Empire!”

“Waaaah!”

He had to shed tears of blood as the Imperial Army attacked fiercely.

“Damn it! Block them! I said block them!”

The red aura from his sword instantly cut in half a dozen Imperial soldiers who were fearlessly charging in.

However.

“Aaaaargh!”

“R, run away!”

“Kuhk…”

More than 70% of the soldiers falling around him were allies.

They had captured the walls of Lugenheim with great sacrifice, even with the secret help of the continent’s public enemy, but now they were collapsing.

And the main reason for that was.

‘Damn it, why are there so many knights!?’

It was the endless attacks of the Imperial knights.

The Imperial Army defending against the Gaia Kingdom army in Lugenheim right now had about 70,000 to 80,000 soldiers.

It was made up of the remains of the defeated Western 5th Corps and part of the Imperial Central Army. It wasn’t a very large force, which showed that many troops had been used in the war with McLain.

But with only about 1.5 corps-level troops, there seemed to be almost 5,000 knights.

‘I thought there were too many knights in the 5th Corps, but this is too much!’

The Gaia Kingdom’s 100,000 troops had less than 2,000 knights, so this was truly unbelievable.

So, at first, he thought that they were putting knight armor on ordinary soldiers to trick them and hide the fact that they had fewer soldiers. The Empire had a lot of money, so they might use that trick.

But that was a hopeless wish.

“B, block them!”

“Kuaaack!”

“No!!”

All around him, allies were dying.

To soldiers, knights and powerful warriors were enemies they couldn’t defeat anyway. The only difference was whether they died without even seeing the attack or held out a few times before dying.

Clay had heard stories from far away in the east about a weapon that could kill knights, but he thought it was not true.

If they had such a weapon, the difference in the number of knights, close to 3,000, was a terrible situation.

Of course, that didn’t mean he could give up.

“Damn it!”

Ooooong.

Clay used all his power, gripping his sword as if he would break it.

It put a strain on his whole body, but he had to push himself now.

‘I have to get back the advantage.’

And he was the only one who could do it.

“I’ll kill you all!!”

Kwaaang!

The aura that rose like flames pushed back the knights who were rushing at him and gathered on the raised axe.

Soon, his sword turned into a giant red aura axe.

A cold voice echoed around him, becoming a biting blue wind and rushing towards him like a storm.

Seeing that, Clay smiled sadly.

He had reached his main goal. The enemy leader, who had been flying through the air and defeating his allied knights without facing him, had started to focus his energy on him.

‘If I defeat this person.’

Pudeudeuk.

“Euaaaaab!”

With a scream, he used the best move he had practiced his whole life, splitting the strong blue wind in half.

Or so it seemed.

‘Huh?!’

The feeling in his hand was not the feeling of magic that should have stopped the attack, but only the feeling of hard stone from the fortress walls.

Urrrrrrrrrr.

Wheeeeeeeeng.

Then, part of the wall fell down, and the blue wind came back together right in front of his face.

“To be defeated by someone like this…”

Following the sharp voice, a wind sharper than that flew in.

Scritch.

The sound of his life ending was very quiet compared to the attack he had made.

‘This can’t be…’

The only thought he had as his neck hurt very badly was.

‘A small country in the East defeated these guys alone?’

…Not true.

That was the end of Clay Mulroney.

The Empire started to push back the Western Ten Nations, because they won the first fight.

A voice that would surprise the world again came from the eastern part of the continent.

I will strongly punish the evil Empire that is making the world not peaceful!

At the same time as McLain’s announcement, McLain’s army began to march towards the Empire’s eastern border.