< Final Chapter-003. >
Boom-! Boom-!
The suddenly appearing Liberty continuously fired the weapons mounted on the front of the airship.
Artillery, machine guns, and magical bombardnt formulas from the mages scattered throughout.
Though the damage to the hull was minimal thanks to deploying barriers belatedly, it was impossible to keep the airship airborne.
“Lowering altitude! Ergency landing in a nearby clearing…!”
“Commander! Over there!”
Amidst this chaos, one crew mber approached and pointed to a location.
“Hah…!”
Mages in trench coats jumping off the Liberty’s deck.
Seeing them charging this way with gliders spread out, Guille let out a hollow laugh in disbelief.
“They boasted they could do well without him… This completely disqualifies them.”
Red energy rising from his tightly clenched fist.
Grinding his teeth, Guille drew the pistol holstered at his side.
“Even for a surprise attack, trying to neutralize the Kalhyram Army with such a shallow tactic.”
The formula ford at the gun’s muzzle was [Eye of Horus]
The magic circle following Guille’s gaze captured every single mage flying in from the sky.
“They must have really underestimated us.”
With those words, dozens of Fireballs ford at the tip of Guille’s gun.
A penetration formula maximizing multiple targeting.
The mont he confird the magic had reached its critical state, Guille pulled the trigger without hesitation.
Boom—!
The dozens of streams of magic instantly pierced through the mages attempting high-altitude infiltration.
“Damn it, a mage above six stroke…!”
“Maximum barrier! Don’t be afraid! For revenge of our comrades, burn this one life…!”
Splat-!
Heads scattered with the sound of bursting waterlons.
Mages falling from the sky after losing balance.
Guille glanced at them with cold eyes and imdiately prepared his next formula.
The target was the enemy airship, the ‘Liberty’.
In the blink of an eye the formula was complete, and just as Guille was about to pull the trigger.
“Special Magical Power Unit Commander, Guille.”
Before him, a mage with spread Red Wings was swinging a sword.
“For Eugene Lorentz’s successor… your movents are a bit slow.”
“…!”
Boom-!
The ford magic exploded, blasting away one side of the airship
“What?!”
Though there were no casualties thanks to clearing the area, while they succeeded in withstanding the attack, the airship’s floor couldn’t handle it and collapsed.
Guille and the intruder were now falling through the air, tangled together.
Screech–!
Though the ground was drawing closer by the second, the man maintained a pleased smile while looking at Guille.
Guille could easily guess his intentions.
‘Unless he wants to die together, is he telling
to spread a barrier…!’
He used his comrades’ lives as consumables to close the distance.
After pushing him like that, now he’s throwing away his own life as collateral.
This intruder wasn’t in his right mind.
Boom–!
Guille and the man were driven into the ground with a shockwave.
However, neither of them sustained any impact.
This was because Guille had spread a barrier towards his back, completely negating the impact of the fall.
“Oh, you blocked it perfectly? Even high-ranking knights can’t produce barriers of this level…”
The man who imdiately stood up exclaid in apparent amazent.
Click-!
Without delay, Guille’s muzzle was aid at the man’s forehead.
Boom–!
A maximum output explosion formula.
The man hit by it rolled once across the ground.
A bombardnt formula activated at point-blank range.
However, Guille, who had blown away the man, prepared his next formula with a tense expression.
“Haha! A counterattack in the midst of that! Amazing! They weren’t kidding when they said you were Eugene Lorentz’s right-hand man! Kuhahaha-!”
To think he blocked that.
He’s no ordinary guy.
Thinking this, Guille imdiately sent a magical power communication through his imprint.
– I’ll hold him here.
– Other mbers form defensive positions.
– So retreat to the Imperial Capital and call Eugene.
Replies arriving one after another from the mbers.
After hearing them, Guille maintained his guard while questioning the man.
To bind him even briefly until support arrived.
“With the war already over, this doesn’t seem like a very good decision.”
“Over? What do you an?”
He took the bait.
Usually these unhinged types have their own intentions.
When that part was stimulated, the man began to unravel the knot in his mind while baring his teeth.
“You think the war is over? That everything will be fine if you just kill all the enemies in front of you? Sorry, but absolutely not.”
The heir of a fallen knight family sharpens his dagger to kill Eugene from his hideout.
The magic noble who fled from the people’s stones nurses revenge while biding their ti.
The child holding their father’s corpse who died in the revolution wails while looking at Eugene’s picture hung high in the sky.
“The continent is overflowing with those who hate you lot. You need to know that.”
“So that’s why you did this? To unite the resistance forces and start a revolution?”
“Revolution…? Ah.”
Had it been a while since he heard that word?
The man looked up at the Liberty floating in the sky, shrugging his shoulders as he spoke.
“There seems to be a misunderstanding. Sorry, but I don’t particularly plan to start a revolution.”
“…What?”
What nonsense is this now.
Coming here with an airship that’s practically the symbol of the Revolutionary Army and saying he has no plans?
After chuckling once as if finding his own words amusing, the man looked at Guille and said.
“Heroes who tried to change the empire were ignored, and pigs rummaging through the feed Eugene Lorentz gave them while sitting on those corpses.”
“…”
“To think so many heroes gave their lives to change such vermin… It’s deplorable. It’s no different from throwing precious lives into a sewage tank.”
Having said that, the man looked around at the surroundings with empty eyes.
The place where he and Guille were located was a field far from the Imperial Capital.
Having bound the Special Magical Power Unit commander who protects the Imperial Capital here ant this operation was as good as successful.
“If they don’t need us, that’s fine.”
“…!”
“Imperials, Republicans, knights, nobles. Let them all die.”
That’s exactly the goal of this operation.
After saying that, the man sent so kind of signal through his imprint.
Whoosh-!
Along with the man’s signal, the Red Wings emblem carved on the Liberty caught fire.
The airship’s gas cells slowly burning away.
However, when he saw the airship’s fra revealed beneath that outer skin, Guille’s eyes widened.
‘Those things attached to the airship… No way?!’
Red cylinders attached densely all over the airship like tumors on skin.
When Guille drew up magical power to look at them, he could only be shocked.
“These crazy bastards…!”
It was a familiar object.
So familiar that just recalling it made him sick.
The monster transformation gas that the Republic had used during the war.
That was now attached to the Revolutionary Army’s airship.
“Peace? Reconstruction? Harmony? Don’t make
laugh.”
Rumble–!
Along with the man’s voice, the auxiliary engines equipped inside activated.
“After destroying so many families, killing revolutionaries, and killing so many Republicans! You thought you’d be the only ones to enjoy that sweet peace?”
The Liberty advancing imdiately with montum.
Assuming those gas cells of that size were filled with monster transformation gas, it would be enough to infect all 1.2 million citizens residing in the Imperial Capital and then so.
If they let it fall, it would be over.
“You must suffer too! As much as you did to us! As much as Eugene Lorentz has oppressed us-!”
Wheeee–!
Along with the siren, the anti-aircraft guns installed on the Imperial Capital’s high-rise buildings began spitting fire.
Shells and bullets exploding at close range.
But seeing this, Guille ground his teeth.
“As expected, the barrier…!”
The airship continuing to advance through the anti-aircraft fire with mages’ barriers at the front.
Right now, there must be at least a five stroke imprint mage deploying barriers inside.
‘It’ll be too late to wait for Special Magical Power Unit troops to arrive. Must intercept quickly…!’
Clang-!
“That won’t do.”
The man blocked Guille who was hurrying to stop the airship.
As Red Wings blazed, in his hand was the fla sword that Claude once held.
“That’s my father’s ship that I recreated. It’s revenge upon the people who abandoned the revolution.”
“…Father?”
At those words, the man bared his teeth and revealed his na while holding up his sword.
“My na is McKenzie Ale Lascol. Son of Maximilien, founder of the Revolutionary Army.”
“…!”
“Do you understand? Our war. The will of the Revolutionary Army hasn’t ended yet…!”
Just as he was saying that.
“No, it has ended.”
Whoosh–!
A massive fireball extending from the Imperial Capital completely incinerated the incoming Liberty.
Magical power that eliminated the barrier spread by the mage inside with a single strike.
The heat burning white-hot rather than red incinerated the poison gas contained in the gas cells right there.
The Liberty turning into a fireball and falling in an instant.
Seeing this, McKenzie’s eyes grew as big as saucers.
“Fireball… that’s a basic formula, isn’t it?”
Magic in its most basic form without any structural modifications or processing.
To burn through a barrier spread by a five stroke mage with such magic?
There’s only one mage in the continent capable of such a thing.
Just as McKenzie muttered that while staring blankly at the sky.
Whir-!
Along with Guille’s imprint glowing as he faced off against him, a magical power communication belatedly flowed out.
Ergency ssage to all Kalhyram Army forces.
The Supre Commander has personally entered tactical operations in the Imperial Capital area.
Mages below five stroke and non-combat personnel are to evacuate the area imdiately.
With those words, an airship revealed itself in the sky above.
From that airship, a torrent of massive magical power slowly descended.
“Indiscriminate killing targeting civilians. Gas terror attack. Heavy weapons fire in civilian residential areas… You really went all out.”
A sensation that makes your whole body tingle just from looking at it.
There’s only one person who could emit such an aura.
“Eugene Lorentz…!”
“The war’s not over? No, the war is over. You’re the proof of that.”
Eugene, who had descended from the airship, looked at McKenzie… Maximilien’s son with his characteristically bored eyes.
Maximilien’s son carrying out terrorism against civilians…
It makes you laugh involuntarily.
If Maximilien saw this sight he’d be doing backflips in hell.
“From this mont on, what you and I are doing isn’t war.”
A law enforcent operation to suppress criminals who massacred civilians.
A military operation for that purpose.
No. To put it differently…
“Just, well, pest control.”
“…!”
“It’s not serious enough to use grand words like war.”
Eugene’s gaze looking down at him.
eting that gaze, an indescribably bizarre expression blood on McKenzie’s face.
Resentnt, ecstasy, yearning, hatred.
Unable to tell which of those. Perhaps all of them combined.
However, even amidst all that, there was one thing that could be stated with certainty.
“Finally, we face each other.”
The fact that his plan had worked exactly as intended.
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