Fled Without Realizing I Had Prevented the Apocalypse

“It seems she made preparations in advance.”
Outside the room where Beatrice and the Main were clashing.
Kyle was focusing on their battle without entering the room.
Normally, he would have immediately entered and cut off the Main’s head, but Kyle exceptionally didn’t move.
It was because of Beatrice, who had entered the room saying not to interfere no matter what.
Kwang!
Bang-!
The sound of explosions heard even with the door closed. The damage caused by superhumans clashing. Even the aftershocks of techniques used intermittently.
Of course, considering outside eyes, both were reducing the power of their techniques, but even accounting for that, it was too big a fight to happen in a back alley of this city.
If he hadn’t used mana to put up a barrier around this radius, a commotion would have already broken out.
Moreover, Beatrice, as if anticipating something like this would happen, had evacuated most of the people who were staying in the back alley.
In fact, when Kyle spread out his sense, he couldn’t feel any life signs in this vicinity.
“She prepared this much thoroughly…”
Kyle glanced inside the room with an uneasy expression.
Jeoeoeoeng!
The slash unleashed by the Main grazes Beatrice’s cheek as it passes by.

Beatrice lightly brushes off the black flames on her cheek with magic threads, then swings the magic threads in her hand again.
Seogek.
However, magic threads no longer work on the Main.
Even if invisible, they can be felt, so for a superhuman, what can be felt is the same as what can be seen in front of them.

And if it can be seen, there’s no reason not to block magic threads flying so slowly.
“…Tch.”
As her magic threads were blocked too easily, Beatrice clicked her tongue and stepped back.
“Getting closer and closer, huh.”
After the first exchange ended, dozens of attacks and defenses had already been exchanged.
Living up to her alias as the spider that collects gold coins, Beatrice steadily put her opponent into her spider web while controlling all of the Main’s movements, but the Main wasn’t such an easy being.
The sight of him burning away all the spider webs Beatrice had laid with just the one sword in his hand.
After that, while Beatrice’s body was accumulating more and more wounds, the Main’s body was increasingly enveloped in darker demonic energy.
“Haa, haa…”

Beatrice’s defeat was gradually becoming more apparent.
“It was a foreseeable result.”
Looking at Beatrice panting, the Main slowly opened his mouth.
“5th rank and 6th rank. Apart from the difference in our ranks, do you know how much our experience differs?”
“……”
“Witch, when you were touching gold coins, I was gripping a sword. When you were moving to grow your guild, I was wandering through wars and made a contract with a demon. Do you understand what this means?”
Beatrice didn’t answer. She just tried to catch her overwhelming breath.
But as if not waiting for her answer, the Main answered himself.
“It’s the difference in practical experience. Something cowards who just caress money while sitting at a desk can never catch up to.”
Kyle nodded slightly at the Main’s words.
He didn’t want to agree with his words, but at least there was nothing wrong with that statement.
Of course, the initial exchange she showed when entering the room was excellent.
The form of manipulating the space to control the opponent’s movements, and based on that, embedding manipulation magic into the Main’s meridians to subdue him.
Probably those who don’t know about manipulation magicians would have been caught without even being able to deal with it easily.
In fact, even the Main who is now confronting Beatrice was caught like that.
However, that was all.
After the Main escaped from that technique, Beatrice couldn’t even properly counterattack once.
She was just barely managing to dodge the slashes unleashed by the Main.
Beyond simply the completeness of the technique, it was a matter of efficiency.
Because the mana used for the first exchange and dodging techniques was so large, she couldn’t even attempt a counterattack.
Of course, even if she expected it to end with the first exchange, now that plan has failed, so she should look ahead and deal with what comes next.
And what usually allows one to deal with that is experience.
Experience derived from numerous practical battles.
Beatrice lacked this, while the Main had it in abundance.
“……”
Beatrice, also seeming to realize this, doesn’t say anything.
The Main, who had been staring at her intently, raised his sword again.
“The match is already decided, so now it’s time to execute the plan.”
Standard stance. Demonic energy gathers in the Main’s sword as he takes a stance with the sword raised above his head.
Seeing the enormous energy gathering, incomparable to before, Kyle immediately took a stance.
That’s clearly a finishing move.
And Beatrice cannot block that technique.
Not because her capabilities are being disregarded, but simply because that technique is made of demonic energy.
If the black flames unleashed by Outer Gods are separate from the world’s laws, the demonic energy given by demons toys with the world’s laws.
Something that’s not a law and something that plays with laws.
While it’s impossible to determine which is superior between the two, at least if one knows how to handle that, a superhuman who doesn’t know about it absolutely cannot block it.
“She said not to interfere no matter what, but…”
Incurring Beatrice’s resentment is better than her dying.
Resentment or irritation, all can be heard because she’s alive.
Woong.
He prepares to move while warming up his mana. No matter how much he knows about that demonic energy, it’s not something that can be easily dealt with.
Especially now, when he has to block it with his fist without a sword, it was even more so.
So he heated up his mana and filled it into his fist.
Then, the moment he took a step to intervene.
Jeong-!
“I knew you would act like this.”
A familiar barrier blocked his view.
A mana barrier spread out as if to block Kyle’s movement. And a woman gently descending beside it.
Kyle slowly opened his mouth, looking at that woman.
“…Would you be able to explain what this is about, Your Majesty the Emperor?”

To Kyle’s question, the Emperor smiled and said,
“Demanding an explanation from the Emperor of a country. You sometimes tend to disregard etiquette.”
“I think you know this isn’t something to be brushed off with such jokes.”

Saying this, Kyle clenched his fist tightly.
A barrier spread by an 8th rank transcendent.
If he put in effort, he could probably break it, but during that time, Beatrice would inevitably be hit by that slash.
And that shouldn’t happen even if the Emperor harbored ill feelings towards Beatrice.
Therefore, Kyle spoke with sincerity and.
“No, let it pass this time.”
The Emperor also spoke with sincerity.
Kyle couldn’t hide his bewilderment at the Emperor’s rarely serious expression.
“What…”
“As I said, you must not interfere with that child’s challenge.”
“Challenge?”
At the Emperor’s words, Kyle turned his head.
The barrier spread by the Emperor still hadn’t disappeared, but he could clearly see what expression Beatrice was making beyond it.
The spider that collects gold coins.
The guild master of one of the Empire’s Five Major Guilds.
5th rank magician. Beatrice was glaring at her opponent without giving up.
As she always had.
**
She loved gold coins.
She loved that brilliantly shining color, the coin that would eternally shine its value without perishing.
She loved it even more because it was gold coins that would hold value until just before the world’s end.
To her, the gold coin handed over by a soldier was an unforgettable gift.
It was even more so because she had thought there was no selfless kindness in the world.
The girl from the back alley made money with one gold coin as the soldier had said, and before long, she was able to leave her hometown.

The girl who came out to the bright marketplace through the dark alley didn’t waste her talent.

The gold coins in her hand kept increasing, and before she knew it, the back alley girl had become the owner of a guild.
However, becoming a guild master didn’t change the girl’s goal.
The girl still loved gold coins, and wanted to prove that the soldier’s kindness wasn’t in vain.
Therefore, the girl wanted even higher places.
Because money naturally followed high places.
While aiming for high places like that, the girl heard rumors of a madman.
The advent of Outer Gods and demons. Darkness covering the world. The world’s destruction.

One who believes stories that no one would believe, and advances on their own.
It was the soldier who had helped the girl.
He had settled in an even higher place compared to when the girl first saw him, but his inherent personality hadn’t changed at all.
Perhaps that’s why.
The girl pulled out her goal of aiming upwards and cooperated in achieving the soldier’s purpose.
Everyone around tried to dissuade her, saying she was wasting money in strange places, but the girl didn’t think so.
It was because of what the soldier had told her when they first met.
‘Wasting money on useless things isn’t something you should do.’
True to those words, the girl didn’t waste money.
The soldier to whom she handed money became settled as the Empire’s First Star, and the girl who gave him money comparable to billions was able to rise to an even higher place.
That’s how the girl came to this position now, and now she was given two choices.
Would she give up the product she cherished most?
Or would she give up the gold coins she loved most?
At the question thrown by the Emperor, the girl took time to think for the first time in the room.
Gold coins and products. It was a burdensome question because she didn’t want to let go of either.
On the sixth day like that.
The girl suddenly thought.
If she didn’t want to let go of both, couldn’t she just not give up?
It can be called selfish. Someone might sneer, calling it arrogant.
However, whether as the spider that bites gold coins or as Beatrice, she had never not been selfish and arrogant.
She rose to this position because she utilized greed.
Therefore.
The girl wanted to grasp everything in the world in her hands.
That was Beatrice’s mental image.
Kwagagak-!
At the sound of everything being shredded, Beatrice slowly opened her eyes.
In her eyes was a black flame that looked as if it would swallow the world right now.
The sword strike unleashed by the Main. That sword strike tore apart all the walls and magic threads Beatrice had set up in front.
In front of the demonic energy and slash that seemed to scream at the world, Beatrice moved her fingers again.
The opponent is 6th rank, moreover a swordsman who accepted demonic energy through a contract with a demon.
It’s a slash unleashed with full power by that swordsman.
It must be an original and unique product that can’t be easily seen anywhere in the world.
I want to have it.
And to have a product, one must have something of even greater caliber.
Therefore, Beatrice. The manipulation magician, one of only two in the world, slowly moved her fingers.
The black hole that Kyle had unleashed before her eyes earlier is not a technique that can be unleashed even if she established her mental image.
Simply because manipulating the laws engraved in the world by subdividing them, no matter how forgotten, is only possible when one has reached the realm of transcendence beyond superhuman.
Therefore, what Beatrice will unleash is one step below that.
Holding only the mental image of wanting to have that slash before her eyes.
Facing the approaching slash, Beatrice whispered.
Manipulation-type unique magic.
[Thought Thread: Reversal]
Five rings.
After that, as one more ring was added, the colorless thread that was spread out.
Kagagak-!

Beyond receiving the slash unleashed by the Main, it even twisted its direction in the opposite way.