I Was Just Having Fun With The Time Limit - Chapter 127

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The Princess, whom Vilotian has positioned as a strategic asset, will disappear from this land today.
“Ah, this alone won’t be enough.”
He desired a perfect conclusion.
“I’ll go myself.”
“If you do, the Grade 3 Buster will….”
“Proceed with that as planned. I’ll take care of myself.”
With the Grade 3 Buster deployed, the Archmage moved personally.
It was certain that no Princess could survive.
“Really now, why do you guard your strategic assets so carelessly? Treasures must be kept safe.”
Through several warps and Transportation Gates, he arrived at Calphoa Village in an instant.
Less than three hours had passed since he issued the Grade 3 Buster order.
It was quite taxing physically, but that didn’t matter.
‘The Grade 3 Buster should begin soon.’
He wrapped his body in magical power, generating a powerful shield as he entered Calphoa Village.
Boom-crash!
Soon after, Grade 3 Buster bombardment rained down, and the entire village began to burn.
The village descended into chaos in an instant.
“A beautiful sight. It seems alive.”
He moved forward and stood before the house where the Princess was.
‘I sense quite a powerful aura.’
This seemed to be the magical power of that commoner-born Major.
For someone of commoner birth, it was impressive, but it was nothing compared to himself, an Archmage.
‘I must erase all evidence.’
He couldn’t leave any witnesses either.
He decided to finish quickly and leave this place.
As he snapped his fingers, the house door shattered.
“We received intelligence that you’re harboring a Grade 1 dangerous criminal here.”
Armitel stepped forward, positioning Isabel and her companions behind him.
With each step he took, a mountain-like presence could be felt.
‘A powerful one.’
She immediately drew her sword and asked.
“Who are you?”
“To think there’s someone with decent magical power in this rural village. How suspicious.”
“My name is Armitel. I’m a Major of the Vilotian Empire.”
“Puhahaha! What is a Major of the Vilotian Empire doing in such a remote place?”
Kriass already knew everything anyway.
However, he couldn’t reveal that he knew.
There would be no survivors here anyway.
“Now you’re even selling soldiers of the Sword Art Empire. Is this a human trafficking site?”
Isabel stepped forward.
“You’ve seen me before, haven’t you?”
“Where would I have seen a little thing like you?”
“No. You have seen me.”
I had already gathered information about Kriass, who had participated as a VIP and mediator at the debate venue.
“You would know who I am.”
“I don’t know what nonsense you’re spouting. You’re in league with those villains too.”
I could sense it.
As he spoke, powerful magical energy gathered in Kriass’s hands.
I continued speaking.
“Archmage Kriass, I warn you to withdraw your baseless hostility toward me, Princess Isabel of the Sword Art Empire.”
“Who told you my name was Kriass?”
Through the exchange of words, I came to understand.
The facts didn’t really matter.
He was certainly determined to leave no survivors in this place.
Armitel came to the same conclusion.
‘He couldn’t have moved without knowing. This was an attack aimed at the Princess from the start.’
She tightened her grip on her sword.
‘If I don’t strike first, I have no chance.’
She pushed off the ground and rushed forward, swinging her blade.
It was a strike aimed at Kriass’s neck.
Clang!
Her sword was blocked by an invisible, intangible mana barrier.
“For a villain, you have decent skill.”
Armitel was an excellent warrior, but she was no match for an Archmage.
Kriass’s palm touched Armitel’s abdomen.
Boom!
With the sound of an explosion, Armitel’s body flew into the air before crashing to the ground.
“Ugh!”
Armitel used her sword as a staff to push herself up.
From just one clash, she could understand perfectly.
‘He’s not an opponent I can face.’
Strength is always relative.
There was no way to defeat him.
Armitel glanced behind her.
There were three young children who needed protection.
“Run… away.”
Even if she couldn’t win against him, she could buy time.
It seemed the Magic Federation had issued a buster alert, and at this level, the Imperial Knights would surely mobilize to investigate.
She just needed to buy time until then.
“Your Highness. Please escape….”
Armitel sensed something amiss.
The Princess had her eyes closed.
‘A powerful magical surge?’
He could feel the distinctive magical aura that emanated from a formidable Mage.
Isabel was muttering something incessantly.
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I possessed an acute sensitivity to all manner of spiritual energies.
Upon confronting genuine killing intent, I plunged into overwhelming terror.
The murderous aura of an Archmage was nearly unbearable for a child’s body to withstand.
It felt as though a terrifying demon whispered against my ear, pronouncing my death.
‘I cannot die here.’
I absolutely could not perish.
Not after being granted these twenty-one additional years.
I did not wish to depart from this place.
‘I want to live.’
Armitel’s voice reached me.
He was desperately screaming for me to flee.
Yet I understood well that escaping outside would be far from a wise choice.
The exterior was already under bombardment.
‘I will not die!’
My survival instinct, my desperate will to live, moved my subconscious.
My subconscious recalled Robena, the most formidable Mage I had ever witnessed.
An aura rivaling that of my biological father, whom I had believed to be the strongest in the world.
I remembered the successful spell—replicating that aura to freeze the One-Eyed Giant solid.
‘The Princess, without even realizing it, copied her mentor’s magic.’
‘Why aren’t you surprised? You’re a magic user yourself—you should understand how extraordinary this is.’
My ability, which had even astonished Robena, now unfurled.
A cold wind swept forth, and then a ferocious chill engulfed Kriass’s body.
When I had faced the One-Eyed Giant before, I had frozen all the land beyond the castle.
But this time was different.
My friends stood behind me, needing protection.
If I froze all the land, my friends would be injured.
This sincere conviction allowed me to control my magical power with precision, concentrating immense mana into a single point.
I chanted the incantation.
“Summon the True Demon Blade.”
A spectral sword materialized in the void.
Piercing through the vicious chill and blizzard that enveloped Kriass, the blade shot forth.
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Kriass wiped away the blood trickling from the corner of his mouth.
‘That little Princess…!’
No matter how careless I had been.
No matter how much stamina and mana I had exhausted rushing here so desperately.
‘To suffer such humiliation.’
Even if only for a brief moment, my body had certainly frozen under Isabel’s magic, and my mana circuits had been sealed in ice.
When I broke free from it, the summoned weapon was already hurtling toward my chest.
I hastily formed a shield, but the sudden surge of mana damaged my mana circuits.
As a consequence, I coughed up a small amount of blood.
‘Her understanding of magic runs far deeper than I anticipated.’
I reached a conclusion.
‘That child is dangerous.’
The fact that such a talent had been born in Villorian was nothing short of a catastrophe for the Magic Federation.
The only saving grace was that the Princess’s body could not withstand such overwhelming mana and had collapsed.
My eyes narrowed.
‘I must finish this here, no matter what.’
I unleashed my full power, channeling mana and employing various combat spells.
Armitel clung to me with such persistence that even I had to admire it, but it did not last long.
Eventually, that troublesome commoner-born soldier lost consciousness and fell.
‘Once I eliminate this woman, the rest will be easy to handle.’
A cross formed from flames materialized in the air.
It descended toward the fallen Armitel’s back.
I cried out with satisfaction.
“Execution!”
But then I faced an unbelievable situation.
‘What?’
The fiery cross vanished.
Moreover, I could not move at all.
The natural mana that had always been my ally now bound me in place.
Some form of sealing magic had been activated.
‘What… what is this?’
I could not even speak.
It felt as though all of space and time had frozen.
Magic that manipulates time—it was the dream of every mage, an unreachable ideal.
A realm that even the Archmages had never reached.
I looked around, but could see nothing.
All space had darkened, and I was left alone in that void.
“This child had only one reason to live. For that reason alone, she barely clung to life. But now she wants to be happy.”
It was the voice of a young child.
“W-who are you?”
In the darkness, emerald eyes gleamed with light.
“Do you know what happiness this child has come to dream of? Going on a spring picnic with a new friend, trying spicy ramen and tteokbokki, becoming closer with Beolkkot, befriending her friend’s friends. That’s all it is. What is an ordinary day for someone is a wish for this child.”
Someone approached with bare feet.
“I’ve only just now met this precious friend who gave me that wish.”
She was a young girl.
The Emerald-Haired Girl with eyes to match.
“What I shall deliver to the adult who trampled upon that innocent wish is.”
Her emerald eyes narrowed to slits.
“Death.”
The dark space shattered.
The entire world surrounding Kriass fractured like shards of glass.
Everything around Kriass came to an end.
And two days passed.

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