Prepared for battle, we followed the city that was lurking with repeated raids. For the residents, I don't think they cared when they would sacrifice their battle. Days went by, but this should set them free for the first time. After checking their gear with each other in mind, gather around Ciel. I will rely on Ciel's magic to minimize the use of magic. Fluffy feet left the ground and floated in space, and we slowly started flying into the western sky. Along the way, we felt unusual force from a group of only ten people going down the street under our eyes, but if this one was above the sky, there was no way we could stop it, and we made it to Empire City safely.

This is the second time I've been here. I was previously invited as a national guest so I could enter the city dignified from the front, but now I just have to break in from above. Although there is no way the city's inhabitants are walking out for the middle of the night, not all of them are, and the number of soldiers on the lookout is high. Eyes on the castle. As always, it's a practical castle without a single piece of decoration. Even though it is normal time, the presence of large baristas and other anti-aircraft weapons everywhere adds to its vibrant atmosphere. We're going to raid this castle now.

"Lapis, how close should I get?

"The closer you get, the better, but you risk being felt too close, and most importantly, you could get caught up in the aftermath of your magic. It's as close as you can get."

"Okay."

From us to the castle, large baristas can reach critical or unreachable distances. At this distance, it's close enough to get caught as soon as Pegasus, Winged Dragon, etc. come up for interception. I could say it was pretty dangerous.

"Lapis, what magic do you use?

"It's lightning magic. Perhaps the greatest power of all."

You get interested when it comes to magic, Ciel is intrigued when he says this is the case.

"They say the magic of lightning can only be used by brave men, right?

"That's a misunderstanding. Because there are so few people who can use the magic of thunder, it's not magic to say that you can't use it except for the brave."

"Were you? That's good information."

For once, did Ciel try to relieve me of the tension? Grateful for her care, I switched my mind to battle, increasing my concentration and magic as I glanced at the castle in the front. Three hundred years ago, a tremendous amount of magic ran through my body in order to use the great magic that I had only ever used to count with one hand. The aftermath leaked out of the body and waved at the surface of my body.

"Lapis..."

"It's amazing magic!

"This is what my master meant..."

"I regret it, but you can't compare to me."

Karin, Dieria, Rubias, Ciel, she looks at me with amazement, trying to unleash magic. There is still room for magic. I would have unleashed magic here before, but now I have a different power than I used to. This is an opportunity that will never happen again, so we should give it a further ride.

(The god of wisdom, Widam. Give me a hand!)

So the moment I wished in my heart, I was attacked by the feeling of darkening in front of me, and the magic seemed dangerously dispersed. In a hurry, he controls the magic that was in a state of readiness, adding even more power to it. The lightning magic I used in the battle against Tiamato was successful in beating out the wings of a man with excellent magic defense. I can't even imagine how powerful it would be if we multiplied the magic of lightning emitted with this maximum power by more power borrowed from God.

I managed to complete the magic while desperately controlling the magic that was going to run wild if I lost my mind. All I have to do is hit this on the castle. For a moment, I can't stop thinking about non-combatants who would live in a castle. I regained my mind and turned my right hand to the front and unleashed my magic all at once.

Moments - the world is filled with white. Released from my hand. That was too linear to say lightning. A raised line made of light, if you say so. rays. However, the thickness of that line was incredibly large and had a width that would have swallowed it softly if it was about the size of a large mansion. The ray ran straight into the castle with fine lightning around it, reaching its goal without a temporal difference. But...

"What!?

"I knew there was a barrier!

My magic was thwarted by a large wall of light the moment I hit the castle directly. But that's a flash, too. Although the barrier held up for about a few seconds, it made a dry noise and smashed and scattered. And now the rays of freedom reached the castle, thrust into the castle with tremendous shock and roar.

"Ahhh!

"Damn!?

"It's gonna blow me away! Everybody, step on it!

Immediately after the magic hit the castle, the shockwave will wind our party up like a leaf in the air. It is best to ensure that Ciel-centric members are each desperate to help and stay together. If an unusable member of the Flying Magic is thrown into the sky, he will have to crash to death without the art of exchange.

Desperately controlling the magic of flight, something called a giant rock passes right by us at a tremendous speed. That's not one or two either. A variety of rock masses, large and small, have been blown into the air by the aftermath of the impact. I was squeezing the remaining magic to tie the line of defense and prevent anything that was going to hit me directly from one end.

He's shaken up front, back, left, right, and his ears are stupid with the explosion. My vision is white and blurred because I saw the magical light properly. But it's also between bundles. There was more sight under my eyes than I could have imagined when the explosion and impact subsided.

§ § §

- Levre V Perspective

That day, the rest was jumping up the bedroom remembering a strange heartbeat. This is said to be the safest place in the Imperial capital, the Emperor's bedroom. Most assassins can't even enter the castle, and even if they can sneak in, there's no such thing as a fierce man who can reach the rest of the bedroom. I mean, it's impossible for enemies to get in here. What is this chest noise when I say it is? There is the word bug news, but it is also an unusual story to be left and right by such an unfounded hunch.

"At times like this, this room with no windows seems resentful"

There is also a lack of security, such as putting a bedroom on the side of the window. The rest of the bedroom is present in the centre of the castle. The place of affairs is on the top floor, but the place where you sleep is the heaviest protected place in the castle. You have to go down the route that once you get up to the top floor and come back down again to get here. Although it is troublesome at best, it has advantages that are easy to protect and to place soldiers because it is the main road.

"Your Majesty, what have you done?

"I'm worried about what's going on out there. Get ready."

"Understood."

When I leave the bedroom, I order the Kingsguard who was waiting in front of the room to convene a platoon. If you are an emperor, you cannot move alone, and even a few need an escort. But time is up. Late at night, it will take some time to gather the soldiers of the escort. But you should think of that as luck.

Suddenly my standing room swayed with the roar. I thought it was an earthquake for a moment, but it's not. Because the ceilings and floors in the room collapsed all at once, with shaking, the moment I thought the immense magic was looming at a tremendous rate.

"Sire!"

"Hmm!?

The Kingsguard, who rushes to protect the rest of his body, instantly disappears beyond the rubble. The stubborn magic barrier tried to prevent massive rock masses, but in time, the rest of the body was bounced back and forth, left and right, as if it were a toy swinging by a baby. It's not good to lose consciousness. My body is pushed away somewhere with crumbling rock masses as I bump all over my body. His whole body is bleeding from bumps all over the place, and a few bones seem to be broken. Still eating up his teeth and enduring, he eventually was thrown out, or he could see the white smoke and starry sky that would soon rise above him.

"Ugh..."

"Ouch... someone... help..."

"Someone......! There's nobody here! Get me out of here!

I hear countless weak voices from around me. It would be the voices of the injured and those trapped in the rubble. But something like that doesn't deserve consideration. Because now it's a prerequisite to figure out what happened.

Take one sword that was rolling there, and raise altitude at once after floating in the universe fluttering. Then beneath his eyes was the figure of a habitual castle, which had suffered tremendous destruction.

"... it's just a natural disaster that won't do this. That magic I felt just before, it would surely be some kind of attack. But who the hell...?

Along with the debris, there are scattered bodies that expose themselves to debris everywhere. But I don't care about that stuff. Because the Empire is the rest, and the rest is the Empire itself. How much did other elephants find out to die? But whoever does this must be punished at all costs. I applied mud to the rest of my body. Of course, the person who executed it must definitely hold his/her breath.

"Hmm?"

At that time, I found a chilling shadow at the edge of my vision. I thought it was a bird, but there are only a few birds flying in the middle of the night or something, and that size is too big for a bird. Human for sure. That's more than one.

"... apparently, that's the executioner. You think it's safe to fly in the sky? Don't think you'll make it home alive!

The rest flew all at once to the executioner, spilling magic all over his body with anger.