I Became a Civil Servant Who Can Use Magic

After the activation of the 6-star large-scale area artifact.

Like cracks tearing apart the earth,
Hundreds of lightning bolts burst out in all directions, sweeping across the battlefield.

Each lightning bolt was fired only towards those recognized as enemies by the artifact user.

Striking faster than sound, the knights’ ears didn’t hear any thunderous noise.
They only perceived that a blue flash had flickered for an instant.

Boom!

By the time they blinked a couple more times,
A deafening roar belatedly exploded and spread.

The thunder sound released without time lag became a huge mass that resonated in their ears.
Only then did people recognize the situation.

“Insane.”
“I don’t even know what I’m seeing right now..”

The magic-armored knight members waiting below the fortress gate couldn’t hide their shock.

A horrific scene unfolded before their eyes.

In an instant, over three hundred corps knights met their end.
Those directly hit by lightning evaporated without even leaving corpses behind.

If they had been ordinary soldiers, the power would have easily killed over a thousand.

“That’s Duke Carl Franz’s magic contained in….”

One knight member muttered.
Witnessing firsthand what they had only heard about in words was simply, astounding.

Tap.
Loen landed on the ground, receiving fear-filled gazes from both allies and enemies.

Nevertheless.

The corps knights were still filling the front.
Their numbers were so great that over half survived.

However, as if their momentum had been sharply broken, the knights hesitated and gradually widened their distance from Loen.
Fear could be felt brimming in their eyes.

Well, if they weren’t affected at all after facing a 6-star archmage’s magic, that would be stranger.

As the fortress interior was wrapped in silence.

Loen, who was staring straight ahead, gave a signal.

Clearing the surroundings was a priority before dealing with them.

“Psyche.”

Immediately, Psyche, who had been hiding in the smoke, jumped up kicking off the ground.
Thud. She landed on top of the wall and charged towards the corps mages, shaking the stone floor.

She flew in like an arrow and thrust out her fist, Wham! A mage spat blood and let out a death cry.
Next, she struck the jaw of another nearby mage up and down, causing him to roll his eyes and faint.

“Fireball!”
“Mana bullet!”

The mages who belatedly recognized the situation attempted to counterattack.
But Psyche was also a proper 4-star dragon race mage.

Blocking threatening magic with barriers and taking lighter magic with her body, Psyche continued her advance like a tank.

Bang, crack, crunch.
With speed and strength hard to believe even when seen with one’s own eyes, she crushed the corps mages one after another.

Finally, the corps magic commander stepped forward.

He felt that if all the mages were taken out like this, then there really would be no answer.
First, he had to stop that girl’s movements.

“Bind.”

As his magic activated, Psyche’s body stopped for a moment. Huh?
The commander, who grabbed her with all his might as she tried to break free from the binding, shouted.

“Judgment!”

Whoosh.
Just as he, with his hand raised upwards, was about to strike down a blazing magic spear on the dragon race girl before his eyes.

Zap—
A lightning spear that shot up from the gate direction pierced through the commander’s head.
Crunch. His head burst into six pieces.

“C-Commander?”

Before the vice-commander covered in blood could recognize the situation,

Crackle.
Seraphine, transformed into lightning, appeared on top of the wall climbing up the wall.

“I’m here too?”

Eventually, Seraphine, who released her lightning transformation state, fired lightning magic indiscriminately towards the mages and soldiers attached to the siege weapons.

Mana bullet, Magic bullet, Lightning strike.

Lightning bullets and lightning beams that cut through the air tore the enemies apart.
The magic that swept in like a storm pulverized the enemies.

Rumble!
Soon after, lightning struck from the clear sky, burning the siege weapons. Even the soldiers standing around them were electrocuted to death by the aftermath of the lightning strike.

The corps mages fell into confusion under Seraphine’s continuous attacks, boasting fast casting speed even among 5-star mages.

“Block it!”
“Protect— Urgh.”
“Mana blad— Gack.”

While she might have been beaten by Loen at the Inspection Headquarters, looking at the entire empire, most mages couldn’t even come close to Seraphine’s level.

Therefore, from the moment the magic commander fell helplessly to a surprise attack,
The outcome was already decided.

It was impossible for the remaining 3 and 4-star mages to stop Seraphine.

When Psyche started rampaging again on top of this, the battlefield completely turned into a massacre scene.

Seraphine and Psyche.
The two swept away the enemies on top of the wall at a rapid pace.
Every time blue light flashed and chilling impact sounds were heard, the enemies’ screams echoed.

At the same time.

In the courtyard below the wall, the corps knights and magic-armored knights faced off with Loen in between.

The corps knights, who had been retreating, soon realized there was no chance of winning like this and ignited their fighting spirit.
Anyway, it was impossible to retreat further in this situation.
To survive, they ultimately had to drive out the inspector.

Having steeled their resolve, they charged fiercely to take down Loen.
A waterfall of mana-imbued swords poured down on Loen from both sides.

“Eliminate the inspector first!”
“We only have a chance if we kill the mage!”

In response, the magic-armored knights also charged, raising their shields to protect Loen.

“Protect Loen!”

The sound of armor joints interlocking filled the surroundings.
The knights’ shouts crying out for a charge were mixed in as well.

Loen standing in the middle of this.

Loen attempted to cast a specialized magic.

Specialized magic.
A privilege that only mages who have reached 5-star can wield.

From this point on, mages can create magic specialized for themselves.
Of course, not to the level of creating something from nothing.

It can be seen as modifying existing common magic in a more specialized direction by adding individual unique attributes and colors.

However, not just anyone can complete it.
Consistent effort and time investment are necessary.

The process towards 6-star is an endless walk to reach the limit.
One must constantly walk their own path.
Because at the end of the path, there is a door leading to the next realm.

Therefore, one can never reach the limit with common magic created by others.
Only through specialized magic containing one’s unique color can one reach the limit.

For this reason, 5-star mages consistently complete and develop their own specialized magic.

Knowing this, Loen had been continuously agonizing and training every night.

And only recently succeeded in creating several specialized magic spells.

As her father said, it wasn’t that difficult.
Above all, knowledge from her previous life was very helpful in creating specialized magic.

A world full of numerous lethal weapons that show phenomena like magic,
A world overflowing with all kinds of ideas that stimulate human imagination was Loen’s hometown.

In the end, she was able to complete her own specialized magic based on those.

Loen, who had broken away from past memories, devoted her mind entirely to casting specialized magic.

Even with the spectacle of hundreds of knights rushing at her right before her eyes, her nerves were completely focused on casting.

First, the attribute.
Amplification derived from the light attribute.
Annihilation derived from the dark attribute.

She imbued mana with amplified power of annihilation.

Next, the ‘cutting’ property that would be the core of the specialized magic.
She added two properties to this.

She concentrated it to raise the density of mana.
She accelerated it to further raise its power.

She imbued mana with the concentrated and accelerated cutting property.

Finally, she gathered mana to the limit and finished casting.

Loen stretched her hand forward.
Lowering her hand slightly and fixing it on the legs of the hundreds of charging knights, she said.

“Cross-section Cut.”

A long white line was drawn in the air.
The line stretched so long that it extended from one end of the wall to the other.

Eventually, pitch-black darkness spread like paint from the line.

At that very moment.

Slice—

The world split apart.

The legs of the knights charging from the front were cut off.
Even the knights in the third row couldn’t escape this horrific phenomenon, beyond the first and second rows.

In an instant, over fifty knights were incapacitated.

“Huh?”
“…?”
“What is this..?”

At what happened in a flash, the knights who had fallen to the ground looked bewildered.

Suddenly their vision was spinning and facing the ground or sky, how could they not be confused?

Those who belatedly realized the situation cried out with fierce screams and pain.

“My, my legs..”

Because of this, the charging speed of the knights who weren’t affected by the cross-section cut slowed down significantly.

It was because their comrades right in front had lost their legs and collapsed in droves.

Her attack didn’t end here.

Loen stretched her right hand forward and shouted the activation words.

“Dark Light Sphere.”

A sphere emitting light as bright as the sun was created at Loen’s fingertips.

The knights’ eyes turned towards the seemingly holy sphere.

Even as the holy sphere slowly moved forward, Loen still had her right hand stretched out.

Woong.

When the leading knight rushing at high speed reached near the sphere.

Grip.
Loen tightly clenched her hand as if grabbing the ball.

Boom!
A powerful explosion occurred inside the sphere compressed into a single point.

Dozens of sharp black fragments spread out in a fan shape.

Each fragment endlessly advanced forward, crushing and annihilating everything it touched.

Thud.
Eventually, the leading knight with only two legs left collapsed helplessly to the ground.

The situation wasn’t much different for the rest of the knights following behind.
Knights with holes pierced all over their bodies had to lay down on the cold ground without even being able to scream.

Silence fell for a moment.

Everyone closed their mouths at Loen’s specialized magic.

The corps knights completely lost their will to fight and lost their words. It was because they realized that the power of a group had no meaning before her.

The magic-armored knights were just dumbfounded.

Most of them are the empire’s elite knights with experience serving on the front lines. Therefore, they had considerable experience fighting mages.

So they know well.

How nonsensical the power of the specialized magic Loen showed was.

Serious doubt began to sprout in the magic-armored knight captain’s mind.

Somehow, something seemed strange from when a 5-star mage used triple casting.

But at that time, they said something about the Franz family’s secret, so he just let it slide. He also thought there was no point in doubting an inspector.

In that situation, a mage who had just reached 5-star not long ago even uses specialized magic? And offensive specialized magic of rarely seen power at that?

This is a bit….

But this too was meaningless.
Even if he guessed her identity, the only answer was that she was an imperial guard hiding her identity pretending to be an inspector.
In other words, the doubt was meaningless.

The knight captain just emptied his mind.
The magic-armored knights’ mission was to faithfully escort Inspector Loen.
Therefore, it was a matter of just being faithful to the mission.

As he emptied his brain like that, his mind became much more at ease.

Meanwhile, unlike the knight captain, there was someone whose mind was still uncomfortable….

It was Seraphine watching that scene from atop the wall.
Is that… really right?

It was even more shocking for her, who was more versed in magic than anyone.

‘After reaching 5-star later than me.. she’s already completed specialized magic?’

“Ugh.”

Seraphine unknowingly ground her lips. Apart from their friendship, this was an unavoidable instinct.

Every time she lost in friendly duels with Loen, Seraphine would lie on her bed and repeatedly kick the blanket.

In the end, she would comfort herself with the fact that she had reached 5-star first and pull herself together.

In terms of realm, I’m one step ahead~
Something like that feeling.

However, now even that has become meaningless.
Because Loen completed specialized magic first.

“Inspector Seraphine. Are you alright~?”

Psyche worriedly asked Seraphine with an innocent face.

“Me? ……I’m fine.”
“Ah. It’s just that you suddenly bit your lip, so I was worried.”

Seraphine showed an elegant smile.
It was a smile with various emotions swirling.
I’m really fine~

Psyche quietly nodded at the inexplicable chill she felt from her.

Shortly after, Loen’s group, having received the knights’ surrender, immediately entered the inner castle.

Now all that remained were Duke Donnelly and his direct guard.

Duke Donnelly.
A top-tier noble who is one of the empire’s ten dukes and serves as the Southern Corps commander.

Fire and cold.
A dual-attribute mage who handles contradictory attributes like Loen.

The eradication target was now right before them.