Isekai Journey Of The Magic Archer

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[On the Dwarven planet– Dwarinon.]

A fight had just concluded here.

A fight that had left only devastation on one of the largest mountains of the planet of dwarves, the closest planet to the human home, had just come to an end.

The ones who had engaged in this fight were not usual mortals either…

While this was the planet of the dwarves, they had only migrated here from the common home that they shared with the humans.

They had only been here for less than a few thousand years, and the dwarves lived under the surface… the planet's condition itself wasn't the same as the habitable home that many of their kin still called home.

The solar system that they were part of was unique in many ways. Coupled with the technology and magic of the modern era, a few thousand years ago, dwarves moved to Dwarinon, the elves moved to a small moon of the gas giant, to the Elenor.

The barbaric orcs made the resourceful, uncultivated planet of Bairian located further away in the star system their new home, and in the process of doing so, the Titan, a dwarf planet that would have otherwise been forgotten– the resting place of last remaining giants, was discovered by the old adventurers.

But the battle this time was fought on the planet of the dwarves.

-Swiiiiiiiiiiiiiish…

On one side were the transcendent beings comparable to the gods, those who had broken the bounds of the world and had reached a realm unfathomable by the mortals, and against them were actual divinities– or at least, Avatars that represented the will of the gods that they served.

Why the battle started, no one knows. How was there so 'little' destruction despite the battle between those possessing divinities and the world powers? That was the bigger question on the mind of the headmaster when he arrived here.

The red-brown landscape of the Dwarinon, covered in high mountains filled with resources, metals, and precious materials that the dwarves love, the planet that the headmaster recognised as one of the calmer and simpler places, did not seem to be in a good state right now.

"Did you get them?" The headmaster asked one of the three individuals who were repairing the mountains to its former glory.

The person, the being that he had asked this question to, was not a dwarf. They weren't a humanoid being either.

They resembled a deer, however, instead of having antlers, they had tree-like branches on their head.

{ "No… they escaped. We were right… they have more hands behind them." }

The Mana voice of the being was so gentle one would willingly swear their loyalty to them. The being was charming, however, there was a deep resentment in the gentle eyes of the being, as well as sadness towards the destroyed land that was being repaired by a magic using dwarf, as well as a humanoid being covered completely by a bright robe.

"Those bastards…"

The headmaster had been on the move searching for the bastards that had attacked them during the compilation of the Lifeblood.

They were evil gods, beings who, despite possessing divinities and divine restrictions, were interfering into the matters that they should not.

If they were doing anything to anyone else, the headmaster would still have to think about his actions, but directly attacking and hurting his students was an offence that he could never overlook.

He was the headmaster within the academy, and his students were his responsibility.

If those damned gods had become bold enough to interfere with the matters of a realm that they have no authority over, then they must have forgotten their place in this world.

The headmaster was furious for a long while when he retired from his small trip, and while he had left the matters regarding Anna to her capable brothers and sisters, this was a matter that only he could take care of.

"I'm going to issue a bounty."

{ "Merlin?" }

The matter wasn't actually small.

With the creation of Lifeblood, many new paths had opened up for humanity.

There were many new things that the humans could do now, there was much more that they could explore.

The evolving potential of the humans race… the headmaster wanted the future children to be better than their seniors, to make the world far better than it was right now.

But that wasn't going to happen with the interference of flies like them…

The matter was not limited to the gods. Had the strife with the divine was simply limited to the battle with the divine in the realm of the divine, he would not have had to move himself in the first place.

There were enough gods behind him that could take care of the things in the divine realm, so he was taking care of more fundamental nuisances.

"It's just a bait, they will know that as well, I know.

But they will know if I'm willing to do this, then I'm willing to do far and beyond that for what I want."

The hierarchy and the intricately crafted systems of these gods was something the headmaster was well familiar with.

He had dealt with them before so this was no new matter for him.

***

"You've got some talent, kid."

The emperor looked straight in my eyes with a smirk on his filthy face.

"You convinced even me for a moment there with those words. I almost believed that all you were after was in fact the fulfilment of your goals."

There was a strange kind of anger in his eyes. A strange kind of thrill that was not present there a moment before.

"But… you're so confident in your abilities that you do not consider the sheer difference of character that we have, hun?"

I didn't want this, but at the end, it seems like this bastard finally figured something out.

"You act cold and you show that you do noy care about something unless your own plans are achieved, however, on the other hand, you talk about your own interests openly, ask me for a direct duel with THEIR presence as a threat, and not only that, you tell me about the demons that I myself purged from these grounds?

Hahaha, that's some funny jokes you play, young child!"

An insurmountable amount of Mana exploded from his along with a strange laughter that reverberated throughout the entire battlefield.

"You almost had me there, hahahaha!"

The mana that he exuded strangely did not cross over to outside, but it was so intense that the soldier of his own ranks standing at the front of the lines ended up suffocating due to the sheer density of his mana.

"Hahahaha!"

Additionally, the creature that he was riding on, the giant earth drake, an <S> rank creature that was few of its kind present on this planet, ended up with Mana poisoning, reuniting in a deadly fluctuation of the Mana present inside of him.

"Hahahahaha…!"

The kind of destruction that his mere laughter was causing surprised even the opposing forces, my forces that were looking at this entire happening with complicated heart.

The knights of the crown Prince and the members of Gambit watching all this happening from the back of the ranks and from the floating island were surprised quite a bit.

"HAHAHAHAHA!"

And strangely, he laughed like that while looking directly into my eyes. Making the entire situation even more intimidating.

"Haaaa…" but then he suddenly stopped and sighed so loudly it echoed thrice throughout the battlefield.

I was looking right back into his eyes since his intimidation didn't work one bit on me thanks to my crown skill.

It wasn't going to work on me in any way anyway. There was no need to be intimidated by just this burst of emotion anyway.

"Do as you please, masked fool." He finally said in his usual, authoritative tone, and used his Authority on the near dead creature he rode on, and blew a new life into it.

He was about to go back to his side, he had turned his creature around as well, however, right before he took any step to go away, he looked back at us for one last time, and there was a certain craziness in his eyes that I recognised very well.

"However…"

He looked behind me, at the skeleton army, at the undead creatures that certainly were stronger than anything he had expected.

He then glanced at the rest of the forces that we had at our disposal, and smirked like a devil while looking back at me.

"Bloodshed is inevitable. If you aren't going to kill, I'll have to do your part of killing."

-Strrrrrip!

He jerked his reins and the creature that itself was now in a near undead state, jumped away towards their own ranks.

[ "That fucking bastard…" ]

[ "Hun? What happened? Did he do something? What did that motherless son of shit say?!" ]

Even El was worried by that sudden cursing but she didn't need long to realise just what the emperor might have said that made me curse out loud like that.

[ "Oh hell… he's serious now, isn't he?" ]

[ "Yes." ]

That bastard was serious about this whole shit now.

'Under the normal circumstances, he would have only gotten that serious by the time his rest of the forces had arrived here, or by the time we had defeated a good chunk of his forces.'

But the battle had not even started yet and he was already serious about this whole fight. And it meant he was going to do crazy things from the start…

[ "Get ready for the magic we talked about, El." ]

[ "Looks like we don't have any other choice anymore." ]

The others around us couldn't feel it but the two of us who possessed the same level of Worldline Authority as him could tell what he was up to at the moment.