I Became a Civil Servant Who Can Use Magic

“Father.”
“What is it?”
“Please teach me an effective area-of-effect magic for large-scale battlefields.”

Thinking that a mage should have at least one near-fatal area-of-effect magic, she spoke those words.

At Loen’s sudden request, Carl’s eyes narrowed.

“More details.”
“How should I put it. Like a storm raging over a wide area? Or lightning striking countless times, that kind of magic.”
“A lightning storm, huh..”

Carl Franz, stroking his chin, suddenly burst into laughter.

Indeed, blood cannot be denied.
Although Loen was particularly indifferent to things around her, her passion for magic was hotter than anyone else’s.

Whenever he saw his daughter like this, Carl couldn’t help but feel pleased. Well, whose daughter is she after all.

“As you know, unless you’re a lightning attribute mage, it’s nearly impossible to create lightning.”
“Is that so?”
“But something similar is possible. If you strike down mana at the speed of light, isn’t that essentially lightning?”

That’s how Loen received the transmission from her father.

It was a memory from a cloudy day long before joining the Inspection Department.

As if reflecting the desperate situation of Westra Fortress,
The sky, covered with thick clouds, was all gray.

Below it, about twenty people crossing the vast plain.

“Everyone stop!”

They pulled on their horses’ reins on a small hill overlooking the battlefield.

Tension filled the faces of everyone except two. Their bodies were busily secreting adrenaline in preparation for the impending battle.

“Looking at the weather reminds me of old memories.”
“Is that so..”

Loen threw out a light joke trying to lighten the mood, but it became even heavier instead.

Loen scratched her cheek with an embarrassed expression and then announced the start of the operation.

“I’ll be going up now. Psyche, can you handle it?”
“Yes!”
“Flight.”

The Count’s party’s eyes widened.
Although they had heard about it beforehand, seeing it in person was still amazing. A mage flying in the sky..

It was a natural reaction, as meeting a mage who had mastered flight magic in the frontier was like catching a star in the sky.

Loen, who quickly soared into the sky, disappeared into the dark clouds.

“Phew.”

In the tense atmosphere, the Count and Veronica’s eyes met. A determined gaze to do their best passed between them.

And Psyche watching this scene.
They say love blooms even in war..

After some time had passed.

The Count pulled out a horn from his waist and blew it hard.

Poooo!

The heavy sound of the horn echoed, enveloping the battlefield.
Soon, the enemy camp began to stir.
It could be felt even from afar.

The horn sound rang out once more.

Two hundred cavalry beyond the horizon turned their horses towards this direction.

From their perspective, although few in number, the Count’s party undoubtedly looked like reinforcements coming to support the fortress.

Psyche smiled.

“Nice~ It’s definitely drawing attention.”

She could feel the enemy’s gaze turning this way. Psyche was also starting to get heated up.

“Body Amplification, Mana Armor, Blade Protection…”

Various types of enhancement magic flowed from Psyche’s mouth.

Psyche, the 4-star dragon-kin mage.
However, she preferred close combat rather than magic.

She was closer to a martial artist than a mage.

Her style was to cast various enhancement spells on her sturdy dragon-kin body, then leap into the midst of the enemy and beat them directly.

“Hmm..”

Thanks to the enhancement magic, power overflowed from within Psyche’s body. Her heart pounded.

The blue inner light unique to dragon-kin shone in her pupils.

Her playful appearance was nowhere to be seen, and a sharp warrior’s aura enveloped her surroundings.

The change was so sudden that even the Count’s party was surprised.

“Adjutant? Are you alright?”
“Ah. Of course. I’m more than alright.”

While Psyche was barely suppressing her power, two hundred cavalry charged towards them from far away.

The sound of hoofbeats echoed.

Their response is quite fast, huh?
Psyche’s smile deepened.

“I’ll go ahead first.”
“W-Wait.”

Psyche dismounted and charged forward using a leap spell.

The Count called out “Wait” in bewilderment, but by that moment Psyche was already running towards the center of the enemy.

With each step Psyche took, the distance to the enemy cavalry noticeably shortened.

In fact, Psyche’s speed surpassed that of the enemy cavalry. The cavalry’s faces were tinged with bewilderment.

What in the world.

Judging by her running speed, she was definitely not an ordinary soldier. The cavalry commander at the front shouted.

“Prepare for mounted charge!”

The knights to the left and right of the commander immediately lowered their long spears. Then they reinforced the strength of their weapons with mana.

At that moment, Psyche leapt off the ground.

She soared into the air, drawing her fist back behind her shoulder while tracing a parabola. An enormous amount of power was imbued in her hand.

And at some point.

She struck her fist into the ground right in front of the cavalry, causing a powerful shockwave.

Boom!

Like an earthquake, the ground around Psyche shook and cracks formed.

“Aah!”
“Watch out for falling!”

The cavalry began to lose balance and fall from their horses on the unstable ground. In an instant, all of them fell off their horses.

Just as a battle was about to break out between Psyche and them,

Suddenly, a storm raged from the sky.

Loen, who had finished casting her magic, revealed herself through the dark clouds.

Fierce fighting was in full swing inside the fortress. Even from afar, it was visible that the invaders had the upper hand. The defenders were literally fighting to the death.

The problem is that this wasn’t all.
Outside the fortress, far more troops were waiting.

Didn’t the Count say it was close to 2000 men?

They were Loen’s target.

Loen’s hair fluttered in the wind as she floated in the sky.

Her appearance looking down on the battlefield was as mysterious and intimidating as a sky god.

It was enough to be mistaken as a divine being by ordinary people.

From her mouth came a death sentence towards the enemies.

“Mana Storm.”

Divine punishment descended from the sky.
In reality, it was merely an area-of-effect magic from a 4-star mage.

But everyone standing on the ground felt it as divine punishment.

Lightning striking through the dark clouds.

To be precise, it wasn’t lightning but mana clusters falling at very high speed, but to their eyes, it looked like lightning.

Pure white lightning slashed through the sky and struck down, followed by black lightning.

Crack, Boom!

Every time lightning struck, soldiers’ screams rang out.

Protective barriers from mages were deployed here and there, but with their skills of only 2-3 stars, it was insufficient.

To ordinary soldiers, the current scene was.
Truly the wrath of heaven itself.

The morale of the Traditionalist army plummeted in an instant.

When lightning struck the earth with a sharp noise as if the sky was being torn apart, more than a dozen troops standing there literally evaporated.

Moreover, it didn’t end with just one strike.
The lightning struck down endlessly one after another.

How could anyone maintain their sanity after witnessing such a gruesome scene?

An old soldier thought.

‘This must surely be divine punishment!’

Already, rumors were subtly spreading that the leader of the Traditionalist Faction was a dark mage.
Even absurd stories about offering living people as sacrifices were added.

Could it really be just false rumors spread by the enemy?
What if it’s true?
What if a goddess has descended from the sky to deliver divine punishment because of that?

It’s an absurd inference, but to him, it seemed quite plausible.

After all, that’s the level of thinking of medieval commoners living in the frontier.

“Look now! Can’t you see the goddess floating in the sky above, exuding a fierce aura!”

The old soldier shouted without realizing it.

“It’s divine punishment! Mmph.”
“It’s not a goddess, just a mage!”

A commander nearby hurriedly covered his mouth.
But it was already too late.

Everyone around had heard the old soldier’s cry.
Fear spread like a wave.

The morale that was already at rock bottom sank even further, and the word ‘divine punishment’ became the final trigger that broke their formation.

Deserters began to appear everywhere.

“I don’t want to die!”
“Run away!”

The army of thousands began to crumble after losing morale.

Meanwhile, the cavalry who had fallen off their horses were also blankly watching this scene.

But only for a moment.

Crack.
At the ominous sound that made them snap to attention, the cavalry’s heads turned urgently.

In their sight was a dragon-kin girl with sky-blue hair, smiling brightly.

“Everyone, get a grip!”
“Focus on the enemy in front of you!”

At the cries of some knights, they remembered again that they were in the middle of a battle with the dragon-kin girl.

“I was almost hurt that you weren’t paying attention to me~”

Loen is working so hard, I can’t just stand still either.
Psyche began to give it her all.

The numerous enhancement magics imbued in her dragon-kin body raised her physical level beyond its limits.
Soon, Psyche charged at a speed difficult to follow with the eyes.

Whoosh!
Moving like lightning in front of the enemy and Bang! with her fist.

“Ugh.”
One knight met his death with his armor caved in. Leaving only a short scream.

Then Bang! once again towards another knight behind him.

Crunch.
With a fist embedded in his head, he couldn’t even scream.

Psyche’s speed was so fast that her movements appeared to overlap like afterimages.

To ordinary soldiers, it seemed as if Psyche’s body had split into two or three, attacking simultaneously.

Bang with a fist to the chest, next target straight to the face, next to the abdomen, then a kick.
In the blink of an eye, more than ten people lost their lives.

This won’t do! We need to regain control!
A knight bit his lip and shouted.

“Form a tight formation, gah.”
It was a knight’s last words.

In fact, their fate was sealed the moment they fell off their horses.

Cavalry that lost mobility, even with knights mixed in, their highest combat power was only 3-star at best.

On the other hand, Psyche was a 4-star dragon-kin mage.

Moreover, unlike ordinary mages, she showed particularly strong performance in close combat, so the current situation was just a one-sided massacre.

“Charge!”

The Count’s party, who arrived belatedly, also joined the battle.
Although only twenty in number, they were also elites.

The cavalry eventually collapsed helplessly.

The survivors gathered and attempted to counterattack again, but they were all swept away before Psyche’s overwhelming power.

Two thousand troops to Loen’s magic, the cavalry to Psyche’s martial arts.
In the end, the Traditionalist army surrounding the fortress was annihilated and scattered in all directions.

Meanwhile, Loen descended from the sky and landed among the Count’s party.

Having witnessed an unbelievable scene, they wore dazed expressions despite achieving a great victory.

Among some soldiers, even hints of fear towards Loen could be seen.

“Inspector, you’ve come.”

The Count’s words stopped there.
Because he didn’t know what to say next.

How on earth could this be considered a 4-star mage?
Everyone must have similar thoughts.

While the Count was confused, Loen’s words reached his ears.

“Let’s enter the fortress.”

As she said, it wasn’t over yet.

Now it was time to rescue the troops fighting desperately inside the fortress.