Book 1 Chapter 545

Leo looked up at Ulein floating in the sky.

Ulein raised his hand towards Leo.

"You seem relaxed?"

"Now I can leisurely deal with you."

"Do you think that inferior being can stop Lord Berchia?"

"He's a trustworthy disciple I've relied on for a long time. And those two have fought each other to death, so I have no worries."

"You're spouting more nonsensical nonsense."

Ulein's eyes turned cold.

"You rejected my favor, Leo Froeb."

*Woong-!*

A massive wave of magic emanated from his hand.

"I will no longer hold back against you."

*Flash-!*

Countless particles of light appeared in the sky.

Leo chuckled as he watched the magic sparkle like stars in the night sky.

As Ulein's eyes twitched at his reaction.

*Voooooom-!*

A trumpet sound echoed from across the city.

Ulein frowned and looked towards the source of the trumpet sound.

The sound came from the entrance to the underground city.

Leo said, reacting to this.

"Something seems to have happened."

"It's nothing. It seems the slaves have planned a pathetic rebellion."

As the city's councilor, he had long noticed that the people of the underground city were showing signs of unrest.

"Even so, it won't mean much."

He pulled out a stone the size of a human face, with a grotesque shape, from his spatial dimension.

Countless magic circles were engraved on the stone's surface.

"Is it a meteorite?"

"Your insight truly amazes me. As you said, this meteorite is a divine object that brought the blessings of the stars to this land."

The meteorite began to emit immense magic.

The emitted magic alone distorted the surrounding space.

"You called me a crude, third-rate mage. I wonder if you still think that absurd thought."

"That's what I think."

"Insolent."

Ulein gritted his teeth as he looked at Leo, who was mocking him.

But soon, he curled his lips and looked down at Leo with arrogant eyes.

"Unlike you, I have a generous disposition. This is my last gift to you, the excellent Star Mage. I will bestow your end with this great power."

Ulein's lips formed a graceful curve.

Along with it, the countless fragments of light floating in the sky poured down towards Leo.

It wasn't an attack on a single person.

It was a grand, versatile magic that destroyed a vast area.

That powerful magic was poured onto a single person.

For anyone else, it would have been a desperate situation.

But Leo, with a relaxed expression even in front of the beam of light, raised his hand.

"I'm not particularly generous, but I'll still show you grace."

Leo's red eyes were momentarily filled with gray magic.

"I'll show you what Luna would have done if she were in front of you."

*Snap-!*

He snapped his fingers.

*Kwagagagagagagagag-!*

At that moment, the magic flying towards Leo exploded in mid-air.

*Hwaaaah-!*

"Kuaaah!"

The aftermath of the explosion engulfed Ulein.

He was able to avoid fatal damage due to the barrier he had deployed, but he couldn't avoid falling to the ground.

The meteorite that had been floating in his hand rolled on the ground.

Ulein looked up at Leo with shocked eyes.

He had accurately understood what had happened to his magic just a moment ago.

That's why his mind was filled with chaos.

'He interfered with someone else's magic array and fixed it! How is that possible!'

"What on earth are you…"

*Thump-!*

"Gasp?!"

Before Ulein could finish his question, Leo's fist struck him in the face.

Ulein, who had been brutally tossed to the ground, shouted with a furious expression.

"Such an insult!"

If it were magic, perhaps it would be different.

But for a mage, being beaten like this was an immense disgrace.

"I told you. I'd show you what Luna would have done."

Leo grabbed Ulein by the collar and lifted him up.

"If it were Luna, she would have smashed your face with her fists until she was satisfied, you damned half-wit mage."

*Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!*

"Kuaaah!"

Leo turned Ulein's face into a pulp.

Ulein, who continued to be pummeled, let out a roar and then unleashed his magic.

Leo nullified the attack without even flinching.

*Bbaak-!*

Leo's fist crushed Ulein's nose.

"Keurk!"

Ulein, breathing heavily as if having trouble breathing, raised his hand.

'More magic! More powerful magic!'

The meteorite that had been rolling on the ground flew towards Ulein.

*Tap-!*

Leo snatched the meteorite.

Seeing that, Ulein grinned.

"Foolish!"

*Pabababa-!*

Immense magic was released from the meteorite.

Leo, swept up by the magic, tightened his grip.

*Padeudeuk-!*

"……!"

Seeing the meteorite crack, Ulein's eyes widened.

*Kwadeuk-!*

The meteorite, shattered by Leo's hand, fell to the ground.

Seeing that, Ulein's mouth fell open.

"A, a divine object…! The history of great Elden…!"

As Leo watched him, his nose crushed and his speech slurred, Leo said.

"Just this paltry stone is this city's history?"

Leo, who had scoffed, crumbled the remaining meteorite fragments in his hand and approached Ulein.

"How… how is it possible! A divine object protected by powerful magic…!"

"Your magic is crude."

Leo curled his lips.

"If we're talking about refinement, first-year students at Seirun would be at a higher level."

Ulein's magic was complex.

But it wasn't refined.

It was magic that forcibly activated complex magic, not magic where the arrays were intricately interlocked, using pure magical power.

"Your magic isn't even complex. It's just messy."

Shoddy magic that is only complex and lacks refinement cannot defeat a mage with an overwhelming difference in skill.

Ulein knew that too.

But…

'How could that be possible!'

His body trembled.

'And this person isn't just a pure mage, but an all-class…'

Thinking that far, Ulein's eyes widened.

An all-class, following the hero of the beginning, Kyle.

On top of that, knowledge of star magic whose depths are unfathomable.

And…

'This person called himself Lord Berchia's disciple.'

Ulein's body began to tremble.

"No way… No way… The hero of the beginning… Kyle?"

Leo did not deny the question.

He merely looked down at Ulein with a cold face.

Ulein, taking that as affirmation, asked with a desperate voice.

"Why! Why! You who knows the progenitor of the nebula! You who learned magic from him! Why do you deny us! Why don't you acknowledge our heritage!"

Watching Ulein scream as if having a seizure, Leo tilted his head.

"Your Pure Blood Society is truly strange. You act as if you know Luna better than I do, even though you've never met her."

The followers of God who disappeared 5000 years ago were like this.

Ulein muttered dazedly at Leo's murmur.

"If it were Lady Luna, it would have been different from you. Lady Luna would have definitely…"

"Yes, it would have been different from me. If it were Luna, she would have definitely smashed each of your heads until she was satisfied."

He could vividly imagine Luna going berserk, wielding her staff and threatening to blow their heads off.

*Screech-!*

Leo drew his sword.

"Since Luna isn't here, I'll have to do it in her stead."

A chilling killing intent flickered in Leo's eyes.

"Now that I know how you've guarded your power, I will judge you as Luna's proxy."

At Leo's words, the pale Ulein frantically began to flee.

"Templars! Templars!"

And he shouted, calling for the Knight Templars.

But despite his desperate cries, his loyal knights did not appear.

*Hwaaaaah-!*

Leo saw the white flames soaring high above.

'She's overdoing it again.'

He could see Lunia blocking the Templars.

And it was a power that clearly far exceeded her limits.

'She's grown a lot.'

Leo smiled subtly.

Lunia was slowly, slowly following in Luna's footsteps.

Not just Lunia.

Even Eiran, who was acting as a shield for Lunia in the distance.

They were growing at an incredible rate.

"No! It can't be…! I still… still! Everything I want…"

*Thwack-!*

"Gasp?!"

Leo's sword pierced Ulein's neck.

*Gush-! Gush-!*

As he pulled out the sword, blood spurted out.

Ulein, trembling, lowered his head.

'The Pure Blood Society will end with this.'

The re-emergence of Seirun and the collusion with Tartarus had caused a noticeable collapse in the Pure Blood Society's power.

However, due to their immensely strong power, they still held significant influence despite their fall from grace.

But this is the end.

'I don't know exactly what's in the underground, but judging by the magic he cast, it's likely not far from my expectations.'

Inhuman acts of enslaving their own kind to steal life force.

Even if it were done to other races, it would be expulsion. If it were revealed that they did this to their own kind, the Pure Blood Society would finally be finished.

Leo moved towards Lunia and Eiran.

Eiran was blocking the Templars in the front.

Behind him, Lunia was solely focused on chanting magic.

Even though they were Battle Mages and possessed far superior magic and auras to Eiran, they couldn't overcome him, being so focused on learning Star Magic.

They were overwhelmed by swordsmanship.

The mages in the rear had all their magic blocked by Lunia's [Flame Emperor].

Flame Emperor, a magic created by Luna envisioning the strongest flame, was a special magic.

It was one of Luna's top-tier magics, one that even Luna hadn't completed, and could be counted among her best.

The Star Magic learned by the elves of Elden is unstable.

In Seirun, they pursue their own Star Magic by combining it with other magical concepts.

'In the first place, the Star Magic arrays passed down to later generations were unstable. Developing magic with just those arrays would only result in inferior versions of any magic.'

To the Pure Blood Society, it might be traditional and pure Star Magic.

But to those who use the real thing, it's crude magic.

'That's why they are destined to be consumed by Lunia's magic.'

No matter what anyone says, Lunia is Luna's official successor.

She is an elf who carries on Luna's will.

"You look like you're having a hard time."

"Leo?"

"Shall I help you?"

Lunia scoffed at Leo's words.

Even with an absolute advantage in terms of matchup, the opponent was not easy.

Both Lunia and Eiran were already at their limits.

"I don't need it."

"Oh? Why?"

"I can't always just receive help and be protected."

Lunia looked ahead.

"Just you wait, we will move forward! Move forward!"

Lunia declared.

"We will stand behind you!"

Leo's eyes widened slightly.

'Don't worry anymore! From now on, this Luna will!'

He remembered someone who declared with a triumphant voice.

'We will stand behind you!'

As a mage, it meant entrusting the front.

It also meant performing countless miracles from behind.

"A brat is speaking impudently."

"Did you call me a brat! You old man!"

Lunia shouted indignantly.

Leo burst into laughter at her reaction.

"I'll be waiting."

"Yes! Wait for me!"

Lunia shouted confidently at Leo's words.

Leo Bihr, his gaze shifting from Lunia, looked at Berchia, who was fighting him.

'These children are striving to stand on the battlefield where you could not, Berchia.'

Leo clenched his fist as he looked directly at his disciple struggling in agony.

'So, please snap out of it and set a good example for future generations, you damn disciple.'