And as expected, without Del Delatia moving even a finger, all the magic circles floating around the man shattered with sharp cracking sounds.
"Wha!? Impossible!! Are you... Are you saying you are a magician!? But you are supposed to be just a wandering mage—!! Damn it… someone! Anyone!! There's a criminal here!!!"
But no matter how he shouted, no one answered.
Not a single voice rose from the silent witnesses.
Why?
The answer came smoothly from the mouth of the one closest to the throne of god.
"Yell all you want, no one is coming. Everyone in this castle has been made to follow the emperor in death. I can't risk not knowing who knows what, or where information might leak from. Also, the Engelhardt Empire and the followers of Aha, I will re-duce all of them into ashes."
The man tried to step back on instinct, but he tripped over one of the bodies lying at his feet and fell on his backside in a pathetic way.
