The Unwilling Protagonist

Chapter 44: The Ruler of the World and the Heart of the World.

"I know a God-tier spell when I see one." Emperor continued, "Reighland is alive, isn't she?"

Y/N held his sword ready, ignoring Emperor's question as he grit his teeth in anger. If Emperor knew that Charlotte was Reighland's host, he would likely kill her.

"No matter. You are but mere pests before me..."

Opening Theme:

Theme of Emperor:

Damn that Magician... Emperor thought. If he didn't take so long to kill Reighland the first time, I wouldn't have this problem...The way things are; if I can stop all of them, yet still retain my fighting speed, I can only hold the freeze for at most, one second...I'll have to bide my time; wait until my strength returns...

Emperor began his charge.

Freeze.

Everything stopped except for him. He had to make the most of this one second. He thrust forward at Y/N's head right as the freeze ended. Y/N reactively blocked it with a reflexive light barrier, but the surprise made him fall backward.

Unfortunate.

Emperor couldn't use his ability back-to-back while in this weakened state of his. Now, he had to take the chance to bide his time. He ducked down as a lightning bolt from Kara whizzed over his head and made his way to her. Miriam stepped in his way and proceeded to occupy him in melee.

I see you're using Reighland's sword. Emperor thought as he blocked all of Miriam's strikes. But you're not as good as her.

Emperor saw Y/N coming behind him through the reflection on Miriam's necklace gem.

Dammit! Freeze! One second to act.

Emperor deftly sliced Miriam's abs and kicked Y/N away. When time resumed, Y/N found himself knocked to the side and blood started spurting out of Miriam's abs and mouth as she coughed up blood. Emperor was about finish off Miriam, until Kara intervened by swiping her axe at him. The lightning-imbued weapon buzzed as it passed by Emperor; just being near it made him uncomfortable.

While this went on, Emperor was growing frustrated; he wasn't young anymore, yet why did he keep making childish decisions? Rushing into a fight was a poor choice on his part...

Y/N jumped to his feet and rushed to Miriam's side as she seized up from her wound and continued coughing up blood. In his desperation, he placed his hand on her wound and hoped for some lucky bullshit to come through; which fortunately, it did. A bright light shone from Y/N's hand and Miriam's wound closed up and healed itself. Y/N breathed a sigh of relief as Miriam recovered from her healed injury. Then he went back to fighting Emperor.

At the site of the World's apparent defeat, Org'gax's army observed the site. All of them were drawn to the large hole in the ground and they stared down into the darkness. Among the scorched ground, one curious orc picked up a red crystal. As he observed it and wondered where it came from, a black spike shot out of the crystal and into his eye, causing him to drop it. The other orcs turned to face the commotion as Magician reformed himself around the crystal. The first thing he did in his rage was cut the first orc's head off. As the other orcs charged at him with their weapons drawn, Magician's fingers extended into long tendrils and he wrapped them around their necks. Then, the thick tendrils became as thin as wires, and Magician tugged on them, decapitating the orcs instantly. His rampage through the orcish army continued as he cut down the soldiers with his wrist blade or his cutting wires.