Chapter 370: 356 World’s Strongest Level_2
Under the relentless barrage of colossal fireballs, everything from vampire bats to werewolves, including the sluggish low-level vampires, all became charred cinders within the bursting flames, engulfed and blown away by the wildfires time after time, ultimately leaving it hard for any of the monsters to have their bodies remain intact.
The surrounding buildings and the entire battlefield were incinerated alongside them.
The alleys had become utterly shattered, either scorched black or blasted into huge craters, as if they had been ravaged by artillery bombardment.
Neighboring buildings had either collapsed from the explosions or were peppered with gaping holes, almost reduced to ruins.
"...There shouldn’t be any civilians living around here, right?"
Lakyus, who had already dispelled her floating swords, looked out over the charred landscape and at the crumbling buildings and couldn’t help but voice her concern.
Clearly, she had begun to worry about the possibility of innocent civilians living inside those buildings.
"If there were people in those buildings, then they would have had it bad, they would definitely be affected, and it would be a huge stroke of luck if even a few survived."
Brian shrugged and shared his thoughts.
"Didn’t you go a bit too far, Reiger my boy?"
Gegran even protested to Reiger.
At that time, it was Ivey, Tia, and Tina who spoke up in defense of Reiger.
"It should be fine, I didn’t sense any living humans nearby."
"Same here."
Tia and Tina, the thief-like sisters, seemed to have checked the surroundings with their own abilities, speaking with certainty.
"Even if there were people living in this area, they definitely wouldn’t be good folks, otherwise, the ’Eight Fingers’ wouldn’t dare to carry out their shady business in front of ordinary people."
Ivey adjusted the hood over his head as he said this.
Lakyus thought about it carefully and nodded.
"Indeed, with an ’Eight Fingers’ stronghold here, it’s unlikely that ordinary civilians would live nearby; otherwise, the abnormalities would have been noticed to some extent and word would’ve spread to the people with interests, exposing this base."
’Eight Fingers’ was ultimately a criminal organization from the Underworld, and even with many nobles in collusion and providing shelter for them, they wouldn’t make their criminal activities public.
With this in mind, it was unlikely that there were any innocent civilians living nearby, and if anyone did dwell here, those people would surely be connected to ’Eight Fingers’.
Such people, if something happened to them, then it happened; there was no need to feel concerned about their lives.
With this conclusion, Lakyus finally let go of her worries and turned to the group.
"Is everyone uninjured? Do you need healing?"
In response to Lakyus’s question, heads shook one after another.
"We’re not hurt, we haven’t even exhausted ourselves."
"We’re in perfect condition."
"Actually, we didn’t even join the battle, so how could we be worn out?"
Tia, Tina, and Gegran said so.
"I was protected by Lord Brillhaut, completely unharmed."
Brian regained his relaxed demeanor.
"I haven’t lost much magic power, so there’s no need for a special recovery."
Ivey said this while glancing at Reiger.
All one could say was that, thanks to Reiger’s prowess, Ivey hardly had to lift a finger afterwards; with the enemies beaten into a retreat by Reiger, they had no intention to attack her, so her exhaustion was minimal, not affecting her condition in the slightest.
Lakyus was probably in a similar situation, but Reiger, who had cast so many area-of-effect magic spells and those astonishingly powerful fireballs, must have expended no small amount of energy, right?
At least, Iveyer Ivey admits that if it were her, she would definitely have used up nearly ninety percent of her Magic Power by now, and would likely find it difficult to continue fighting with full force.
If Reiger needed to rest, needed to recover, then Iveyer Ivey wouldn’t find it strange at all.
What Iveyer Ivey didn’t know, harboring the highest level of "Essenheal" ability, was that Reiger’s spiritual power (Magic Power) regenerated at a rate she could hardly imagine.
He had never experienced Magic Power depletion to the point that rest was necessary, so whether it was casting third-tier enhanced Magic consecutively, tenth-tier Magic, or even Super-tier Magic, Reiger did not need to rest nor recover.
The consumption of casting consecutive Fireballs was instantly replenished by "Essenheal" for Reiger.
Therefore, Reiger was even in a better condition than both Iveyer Ivey, who had consumed some of her Magic Power, and Lakyus, not to mention comparable to Brian, Gegran, and others who had not participated in combat from the start, in perfect condition.
"I don’t have any problems, don’t worry about me,"
said Reiger casually in front of everyone looking at him.
"Even if I run out of Magic Power, I still have my sword, I won’t lose my ability to fight."
As he spoke, Reiger even stretched out his hand, and with a very natural motion, touched the sword at his waist, causing everyone to exchange glances in surprise.
"Monster."
Both Tia and Tina uttered without hesitation, voicing their opinion of Reiger.
The others said nothing, but surely they thought the same thing, didn’t they?
Lakyus thought to herself as she looked at the calm-faced Reiger.
"Maybe Ligulit was right, this man is special, he might indeed have a significant impact on this world."
His power was definitely cheating level, whether it was swordsmanship or magic, both were beyond first-rate or even super first-rate, his strength was incomparable to ordinary humans.
Although Lakyus herself wielded a sword as a Priest Warrior, she was essentially a Magic Singer, skilled in magic, and if it came to swordsmanship alone, she couldn’t even beat Brian or Gegran.
Reiger was different.
As a warrior, he could block Brian Angelos’s full-powered sword strike with just two fingers and at the draw of his sword, he could make Gegran as well as Iveyer Ivey tremble, proving his tremendous ability in close combat, perhaps even surpassing the renowned strongest Kingdom Warriors’ commander.
As a Magic Singer, he was said to be capable of using fifth-tier magic of the Heroic Domain, and he also possessed a suspected innate ability that could make a third-tier magic like Fireball unleash power comparable to legendary sixth-tier magic. With his ability to enhance magic, his magical prowess left even beings like Iveyer Ivey shocked.
Until now, Lakyus always believed that the strongest human beings were probably Ligulit and that leading Empire Magician capable of sixth-tier magic – those abnormal beings.
Those two were beings that transcended the Heroic Domain, powerful enough to not be completely powerless even compared to Iveyer Ivey, and could be called the most powerful humans.
That’s what Lakyus used to believe.
But now, Lakyus felt that the strongest being among humans should be this man in front of her—Reiger Brillhaut.
"If his full power is as what Gegran and Iveyer Ivey told, even Brian Angelos would be scared senseless, just the aftershocks of the battle could alter the geography of the Ye·Lantier Northern Forest, then what level of being would he be?"
"A being that transcends the Heroic Domain... definitely more than just abnormal."
"Or could it be... he’s at the level of a Dragon King?"
Lakyus was startled by her own thought.
Dragon King level, that is the world’s strongest class, not just the strongest among humans but looking across all the races, all the creatures, all humans, demi-humans, and heteromorphs.
It’s said that not even the Thirteen Heroes reached this level, only the six Great Gods of the Slane Theocracy and the legendary Eight Greed Kings could match the power of the Dragon Kings.
Reiger Brillhaut, could this man be on par with the legendary six Great Gods and the Eight Greed Kings?
Lakyus dared not think further.
Reiger didn’t give Lakyus more time to think either.
"Let’s go, check inside that stronghold."
Hearing Reiger’s words, everyone pushed aside the various thoughts in their minds and nodded in agreement.