Ian relaxed his face a little and started to mind people’s nerves.
“…Priestess!”
Breaking the tense atmosphere, the people who were gathered around where Riley was sitting suddenly turned their heads toward the origin of the voice.
As if he ran here at full speed, the priest’s face was covered with sweat. He presented the priestess with something.
It looked like a message from someone.
“N-Now, at the Main Plaza area, something terrib…”
Before the priest could finish his sentence, they could hear an explosion in the distance.
The explosion could be heard from over the wall, coming from the Main Plaza’s direction.
* * *
It was incredibly loud.
A large lump of flame, created by the power called magic, was launched and collided with a building. The explosive sound had an incredible intensity. It made those hearing it go temporarily deaf.
“…Save me!”
Screams were being buried under the noise of explosions.
Hell.
The Main Plaza was in a state of festivities because of the King’s Swordsmanship Tournament. Now, the scenery could be summarized in one word, hell.
‘I only read about it in books. This is the first time seeing it for real.’
Another magic attack was launched at Riley.
He jumped over a roof and barely dodged the magic and looked at the woman under the rag…no, a frail, little girl under the rag who was indiscriminately shooting magic attacks.
‘She looks young.’
She looked substantially younger than Peruda, the one that guided him in the Magic Tower.
Her appearance looked horrifying.
Riley went over the varieties of magic and the number of shots that the girl was launching. Riley then sharpened his eyes.
‘She is so young, yet she is able to shoot so many shots of magic. Is that possible?’
Riley racked his brain trying to clear his doubts.
Solia’s guards who were in charge of the Main Plaza realized the situation and were running this way.
The guards were wearing armor.
It looked like they were skilled, but Riley thought they couldn’t stop this girl.
That was because,
“What are you?! If you don’t surrender immediately… Kuuaaak!”
One by one, the guards who were charging in like that were struck by her magic attacks and either became burned charcoal or shattered crystals after becoming frozen solid.
‘Sera wouldn’t be able to handle this. Looks like someone at least at Ian’s level should come.’
Riley looked around to assess the situation.
The damage was piling up, but he couldn’t sense anyone capable of stopping her, coming this way.
‘Ugh… The dumbasses from Erengium… Now would be the time to step up, yet they don’t have a grip on their nerves.’
When the carriage turned over as it got destroyed, perhaps they hit their heads or sustained injuries from the magic attack. The two young masters from the Erengium House were bleeding from their heads and lying unconscious.
‘I have to stop this?’
Under the mask, Riley scrunched up his face.
It was cool to see the magic, but it looked like he was not liking the idea of having to do something himself.
“Fireball.”
With her chanting, the girl created a fireball and immediately launched it toward Riley.
Riley, who was watching the situation from a roof, clicked his tongue and leaped to another roof.
Boom!
With an explosive sound, the roof that Riley was standing on a moment ago was destroyed and engulfed in flames.
‘But, really…she is fighting really comfortably.’
Upon setting foot on another roof, Riley looked at the girl who only changed the direction of her hand.
It looked like she was about to use magic yet again.
In light of this, Riley’s look in his eyes changed.
‘Magic… Should I really try learning it once?’
At least, unlike hard labor of swinging a sword, it looked way more comfortable to go ‘bam bam’ and shoot high-powered magic attacks from a distance like she was doing.
Other miscellaneous magic could be convenient as well, and Riley was thinking how nice it would be to have the teleportation ability.