18 Aftermath
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Nacht teleported away, sending a whole fucking nuke toward the entire town. The whole place was stunned to the point of confusion by this recent turn of events.
Whether friends or foes, everybody looked towards the mysterious figure in black as he slowly disappeared from everyone's vision.
After all, who wouldn't be surprised if a random stranger walked into them and claimed to punish their sins? They were all caught off guard.
As their senses calmed down, another big surprise hit them. Everyone felt that something was wrong with their surroundings. The mana was surging uncontrollably, and then a blinding light hit them.
Most of the Magic Knights were flash banged by the sudden burst of light, but they could feel the violence in their surroundings surging by the millisecond.
There was only one feeling in their heart, impending death. They all felt it in their core as the temperature of their surroundings began to rise; it rose to an uncomfortable skin-burning degree in mere moments.
"MANA ZONE" But then they heard a voice of a person while they were blinded and burning; their eardrums were almost at the point of rupture due to the sudden rise in pressure.
Suddenly, after the voice was heard, the heat from the surrounding that was increasing at a light's speed stopped increasing, but still, it was enough heat to roast the skins of almost all the Magic Knights there.
All the Magic Knights that were given a second chance wasted no effort and used all of their mana to create a mana shield around them.
Julius had deployed his Mana Zone that stopped half of the explosion from going off. He wasn't powerful enough yet to control the entire blast.
It was a bizarre sight to behold; the Mushroom cloud that was about to form got split in two where. Half of it was frozen in time, while the latter was ever increasing in size, blowing the rest of the city with an astounding speed.
Julius was bleeding profusely while stopping the explosion, but he still couldn't save the people from the other side where the explosion truly went off.
The other side of the city mostly contained Mage Warriors, but there was a good amount of Magic Knights too.
Not being able to hold on any longer and sensing that almost all of the people in his protected area used their mana shield to at least have a fighting chance against this calamity, Julius released his Mana Zone and teleported away.
Almost instantly, the huge wave of the explosion, which was temporarily suppressed by Julius's time magic, was unleashed.
Another ear-deafening bang was heard, giving an illusion that two of these nukes went off with a time delay. In an instant, the people who were too mana exhausted and injured were evaporated with no traces left whatsoever.
Despite having their shields up, most of the people perished under the sheer force of the shockwave Julius was suppressing.
The only ones who managed to survive were the people who managed to merge their mana shields with others, making a group shield of sorts, which can last longer and feed on multiple people.
Almost all individuals weren't strong enough to pull this feat off alone, so many people combined their mana to fend off the explosion.
People from the other side, where Julius didn't stop the explosion had it worse. The few lucky ones that survived the first nuke were hit by it again; in a way, they were hit by the lagged second explosion that Julius suppressed.
Only 1% of the other side managed to live under this tactical dipping nuke sent by Nacht.
The town of Kiten, which looked like a wasted ghost town before, was wiped out of existence, with a massive crater in the middle of it.
Some few pillars were erected inside the crater, indicating the people who used mana to absorb the shockwave and heat from the explosion, but everything else was wiped out, vaporized into non-existence.
Even wood from the built houses disappeared, either turned to ashes or blown far away from the shockwave. Not one dead body of their shawarma-type roasted friends and comrades; they all seemed to be (slightly) overcooked.
Everybody was stunned, shocked, and confused. 99.99% of Magic Knights and Mage Warriors collapsed almost
Before collapsing from his Mana Exhaustion, Julius sent the last SOS message to the HQ and lost consciousness.
Not a single soul was standing or awake just after the explosion. Almost all of the survivors had multiple 3rd-degree burns on their bodies; although these wounds could be healed with magic, the trauma left by the feeling of being cooked in the oven will remain for the rest of their lives.
The fear this feeling of being roasted was the same as what men feel when someone threatens to shoot an industrial stapler gun on their naked nut sack.
And these survivors will have to bear the trauma of their nut sack being stapl... ahem~ their skin being roasted for the rest of their lives.
One can heal wounds with magic, but only time can heal the mind.
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On the other side of the region, a dense magical forest could be seen. Inside the forest, in a wooden tree-like castle, sat a gothic-dressed bitch on the wooden throne.
The bitch was looking into the crystal ball, and some images were shown in it. "I suddenly have a bad premonition, as if a Storm Is Approaching." she said to herself while still trying to operate the crystal ball.
[A/N: Sorry for the 100D experience :p]
