Fled Without Realizing I Had Prevented the Apocalypse

“Whew…”
Right after unleashing a barrage of lightning, I caught my breath on the battlefield filled with the smell of burning.
Basically, magic’s power varies depending on the technique, the user’s magic power, and proficiency, but magic is also affected by many other factors.
Just as water magic performed in a place without water is surprising, magic is inevitably influenced by external factors including the environment.
And the caster’s own emotions are also included in such external factors.
While the environment for casting magic can be avoided as much as possible, it’s not something humans can control, but emotions are something people can control.
This is why many magicians preach equanimity.
However, I didn’t do that.
While maintaining equanimity, I sometimes imbued even those emotions into magic.
For instance, in cases like now when Elaine’s story aroused anger, other magicians would try to maintain equanimity before battle, but I didn’t.
Instead, I drew up the anger rising in my mind and turned it into rage.
Then I created it as magic.
Chiiik.
“Keu, keuuuu…”
“Save me…”
The scene created like that was the battlefield unfolding before my eyes.
And at the same time, it was the reason why I could fire off more powerful magic than others.
“…Feeling better?”
I brushed off the remnants of lightning at my fingertips and surveyed the scorched battlefield.

Fortunately, or should I say, after using magic imbued with emotion like this, no matter how intensely it heated up, it would cool down coldly.
It’s like entering a sage time after running intensely.
Although I use emotions to cast magic, the basic quality of a magician is indeed equanimity, so I could say it’s not bad.
“Im, impossible…”

As I drove out the remnants of magic power and surveyed the battlefield, a trembling voice was heard over the blackened, scorched battlefield.
A wolf head like the original target I aimed for. However, the fur is not white but black.
It’s probably not the White Wolf himself, but likely one of the direct subordinates in the legion he commands.
“A technique so elaborate and large as to cover the entire battlefield, the magic power to support it, and lightning that defies human reason… Anyone can see it’s the Heavenly Thunder himself.”
“That would be the case if someone hadn’t taken my alias while I was gone.”
“The White Wolf clearly said he heard confirmation from the Khan that you had disappeared…”
I disappeared?
If being away is called disappearing, then I did disappear, but…
The wolf beast-man’s eyes, which had been staring blankly at the sky for a moment, move back and forth.
His neck, seemingly mixed with anger, was trembling faintly.
“White Wolf!!!!”
Even though his body was seared by lightning and he was on the verge of death from excessive blood loss, the wolf beast-man’s anger didn’t dissipate.
It only grew stronger.
“Our leader! Where have you gone!? The Heavenly Thunder is here!”

The wolf beast-man continued to shout, looking for the White Wolf even after that.

At the point where one would be disgusted by how such impossible strength comes from a dying body, as is common with Northern warriors.

He spat out words that grated on my ears.
“White Wolf!! If it’s you who fought equally against the Heavenly Thunder, you’d know that now is the best time to face him! After unleashing such a technique, his magic power can’t be intact!!!”
“What did you say?”
I narrowed my eyes at the wolf beast-man’s words.
Because there was an utterly unbelievable statement in the middle.
“Who fought equally with whom?”
“Heavenly Thunder. Although you may only shoot magic from afar, you are also a warrior, so denying the fact that the White Wolf blocked your path, even if you’re an enemy, goes against a warrior’s honor.”
“Huh.”
I’m so dumbfounded that words don’t come out.
The claim of fighting equally with the White Wolf, where on earth did such a rumor come from?
I just tore off the arm of a wolf cub that was blocking my way while confronting the Khan.
Could it be that this was distorted into a rumor of fighting equally?
If that’s really the case, it’s rather me who would lose the warrior’s honor.
Of course, I have nothing to do with the honor that Northern warriors cry out about.
Anyway.
Dumbfounded, I looked at the dying wolf beast-man for a while and slowly opened my mouth.
“That’s what they say, but what do you think?”
The originator of the rumor.
Probably some white wolf who had been spreading this nonsense lie.
“White Wolf.”
**
‘Shit shit shit shit.’
The White Wolf, Lycan, who had hidden to avoid the Heavenly Thunder’s sudden lightning, bit his newly given claws from the Khan and trembled his legs.
You might wonder where a wolf beast-man could hide in a snow field full of snow, but the White Wolf originally had snow-white fur.
If he lies down near a pile of corpses and hides, he becomes a pile of snow that no one would notice unless they look closely.
It’s perfect if you add a little snow piled on top of your head.
‘Khan, you damn bastard.’
Lycan, who had deployed such perfect camouflage, cursed his lord inwardly.
‘Fucking bastard. Empty-headed bastard all the way to the bone marrow. Bastard with odd-numbered parents!’
And that, so intensely that it might be thought to be directed at a mortal enemy rather than his lord.
The reason was simple.
‘You said there was no Heavenly Thunder!’
The information that the Khan had personally told him before coming down here as the vanguard.

The Heavenly Thunder. The monster of heaven’s lightning who cut off his arm would no longer appear.
Hearing those words, he took the vanguard again.
Although he hadn’t fully regained his past glory, at least it was enough to deal with the cowards of the continent.
He also had to take care of the damn descendants of the Green Wolf tribe.
However.

“Whew…”
The Heavenly Thunder’s breath could be heard. Lycan, who had exceptionally keen senses even among beast-people, felt the Heavenly Thunder’s magic power permeating the air.
As long as that monster is here, all plans are completely canceled.
It was to the point where surviving right now was the most important thing.
Thinking this, he tried to slowly move his body through the piled-up snow, but.
“White Wolf!!!!”
“……”
“Our leader! Where have you gone!? The Heavenly Thunder is here!”
He had to desperately stifle the groan that burst out at the booming voice of someone still alive.
The Heavenly Thunder, despite being a magician, has damn good senses too.

If he exhales loudly here even once, he would surely notice.
‘Why are they suddenly looking for me!!’

Lycan, who had barely stifled his breath, wanted to send a resentful gaze towards the wolf beast-man who was still alive, but couldn’t.
“White Wolf!! If it’s you who fought equally against the Heavenly Thunder, you’d know that now is the best time to face him! After unleashing such a technique, his magic power can’t be intact!!!”
“What did you say?”

He had to turn his head without even managing that, at the words that followed.
He fought equally with the Heavenly Thunder.
Of course, that wasn’t actually the case, but it was an unavoidable lie.
After all, how could a person who became the vanguard commander and leader maintain honor with a past of being robbed by just one person?
Especially a wolf who couldn’t even withstand a single exchange and had his arm cut off.
That’s why Lycan spread a definite false rumor before setting out as the vanguard.
The fact that the nightmare of the North, the Heavenly Thunder, and the vanguard commander Lycan fought equally.

Although he had to retreat as the situation worsened, it was a fierce battle to the point of losing an arm.
Many know about the Heavenly Thunder’s power, but not many clearly know about Lycan’s power.
And there was no one among the members of the legion who would stand at the vanguard.
That was the reason why the White Wolf could be on equal footing with the Heavenly Thunder, even if only for a moment.
Of course.
“That’s what they say, but what do you think?”
It became futile as the originator of the rumor learned that fact.
“White Wolf.”
“……”
The Heavenly Thunder, looking straight at him through the piled corpses and the snow-white field.

Meeting those cold eyes, unchanged at all, visible through the snow-white mask, Lycan slowly rose to his feet.

As the large body buried in the snow field slowly stood up, energy naturally leaked out.
No matter how much he lost to the Heavenly Thunder, he is a warrior who has built up seven stars.

Even if he was defeated, he was not one to submit his power.
Gooo.
Lycan steadily drew out energy throughout his body and slowly approached the Heavenly Thunder.

“What do you mean, what do I think about what?”
“The rumor that you fought equally with me. I’d like to know what you think about that rumor.”
As he got closer, the Heavenly Thunder’s lightning was clearly felt.
Even though he had nothing wrapped around his body and only remnants of magic power remained, his whole body tingled.
However, Lycan didn’t cower.

“A rumor is just a rumor.”
“That’s…”
“But if such a rumor spread, wouldn’t it be because an incident naturally occurred?”

He went even stronger instead.
Although his body was tingling, it was somewhat bearable.
The Heavenly Thunder also seemed to age, as the level of magic power felt was lower than before.
Of course, Lycan himself wasn’t in normal condition either, but it wasn’t comparable to the Heavenly Thunder’s realm.
To the extent that he thought he might be able to win if they fought now.
Therefore, Lycan was about to slowly prepare for battle while receiving the expectant gaze of the dying wolf beast-man, but.
Kwajijijijk!!
“……”
He closed his mouth, looking at the blue lightning that struck towards him in an instant and the large hole it created.
“If that’s what you think, I should directly confirm whether the rumor is true.”
The Heavenly Thunder saying this seemed angry enough that one didn’t need to see his face.
There’s no one among those who have faced him who doesn’t know that the magician before their eyes is a mad transcendent who uses even his emotions as a medium to cast magic.
That’s why, the first technique Lycan used the moment the wolf beast-man watching him met his last moment of life was one.
The technique that he was most confident in and used the most since being born as a white wolf.
Therefore, a technique that had become second nature to his feet.
“An opportunity to confirm will come someday.”
Tadatat-!
Thirty-six stratagems, running away.
In other words, fleeing without looking back.