Combat Maid Harem

Julianne stared at the old lady coldly. She was ready to kill her whenever. With the three of them, it was a piece of cake.

"I…"

The old lady hesitated. She glanced at the old man, who was in between Ember and Lawrend. She shook her head and realized resistance was futile.

"Fine."

The old lady thought it was better to live than to die. As an Earth Mage, she still had a long time to live. Pointlessly dying here wasn't worth it.

She was still loyal to the Blumin Emperor, and she believed that he would pay the price to save her life.

The three envoys surrounded her before grabbing hold of her body with their hands. They then channeled their mana into her body and sealed it.

Gregory carried the old lady and flew down.

The three envoys watched the battle ongoing at Lawrend's side.

…

Lawrend lifted his hand and pointed it at the old man. He acted seemingly slow, and it allowed the old man to prepare his best defensive spell.

"O' Terra, shake the land, rise the seas, crack the earth, provide for the land, and protect this earth, World Armor!"

The earth released pure Earth Mana while the old man glowed a bright brown color. He absorbed the Earth Mana and used his own to create a mud armor around his body.

Instead of looking like a mage, he looked like a battle-hardened soldier.

"Supernova!"

A small sun formed on top of Lawrend's palm. It greedily sucked in the fire mana in the surroundings to fuel its flames. It glowed a very bright white, a sign of powerful heat.

And then sunspots appeared on its surface with solar flares rising up and about.

"W-what is that spell?"

The old man felt fear. It was a fear he had never felt before. Even when facing the Blumin Emperor, he had never felt such an innate fear.

"I still have no chant for this spell, but it should be enough," Lawrend said.

It was hard for him to create a chant for two elements. He didn't know how the chant would work out, so he still needed to conduct a lot of trial and error.

Using the spell on this old man was such a trial.

"Impossible! You created that!?"

The old man turned around and immediately fled again without waiting for Lawrend to answer.

"I'm not a weakling, stupid."

Ember raised her staff and caught up to the old man fairly easily. He was no match for Ember. She had phoenix wings, while the old man had no advantage in speed to speak of.

He was not a lightning mage, nor was he a wind mage.

"Why!?"

The old man gave up and turned around. He saw Lawrend throw the sun at him.

"Ember, run as far as you can!" Lawrend shouted and turned into lightning.

Ember turned into a powerful flame and left flames on her trail.

"Shit!"

The sun approached him at breakneck speed. The old man fled too, but he still felt the sun's heat grow closer and closer.

The old man realized fleeing was futile. He had already tried to flee three times, and each time resulted in failure. He finally accepted his fate.

"Overload!!"

The old man poured all of his Earth Mana and sucked everything from the surroundings. He didn't bother purifying it and threw all caution to the wind.

The mud armor suddenly turned into a diamond armor. When the old man saw it, he couldn't help but fill with hope.

*DUUM*

The explosion shook the fabrics of space. It blasted the whole sky and the earth below it into oblivion.

The mages in the army were left with no chance to form a defensive formation. They used their own defensive spells to cope with the shockwave.

"Ah!"

It was like a boulder crashed on their chests. The weaker High Mages were blown away.

Lawrend was floating several kilometers away from the explosion. Ember was standing beside him.

"Master???"

Ember looked at him in disbelief. She didn't know what to say and could only stare at him.

"I underestimated my spell…"

Lawrend thought it was safe to use this spell near the mage army.

The shockwave reached them and fluttered their clothing.

"Ah!"

Ember pushed down on her skirt and stopped it from revealing her panties.

The explosion finally dissipated. There was nothing left in that area except for a huge hole on the ground with some melted rock.

The whole defensive formation covering Sunset City broke down into glass. It took in a lot of the shockwave because of the city's huge size. It ultimately couldn't hold back such power.

The three envoys were the only ones fine. They stared at the huge hole with fear. The old lady from the Blumin Empire released a huge sigh of relief.

She was truly glad at her quickwittedness. That would have been her if she had tried to resist earlier.

The three envoys looked at each other. Otor and Gregory stared at Julianne, thankfully. They were thankful not because she defended them from the shockwave but because she sided with Lawrend early.

It was the best decision they had ever made in their whole lives.

"Conduct casualty analysis!" Julianne ordered after regaining her wits.

The commanders of the battalions went over and checked the mages. A few had died from the shockwave. Those were the people that barely reached High Mage. They were very weak compared to the others.

Lawrend flew back and furrowed his eyebrows. He was glad no great damage was done, but it pained him to see that he had done damage to his own men.

"I will generously reward the families and friends of the casualties," Lawrend said.

That was the only thing he could do. He couldn't exactly return people from the dead.

"Your Imperial Majesty!!"

In actuality, the mages in the army felt reverence instead of feeling bad. Those weak High Mages were never liked anyway. As mages, they despise these people that forcefully increase their strength.