I Became a Civil Servant Who Can Use Magic

“Garrison commander. Be sure to hold the city gate at all costs!”
“Yes!”

Count Rofen, who came down from the city wall like a beam of light, ordered a fight to the death and then…

“Hyah!”

Clop clop, clop clop.

He himself mounted a horse and fled towards the inner city, leading his knights.
It was indeed a fitting sight for a merchant-turned-noble who lived by his wits.

The garrison commander blankly watched his retreating figure.
Dirty bastard, trying to save only himself..

Soon coming to his senses, he shouted towards the garrison.
It was a cry tinged with desperation.

“Everyone! Take defensive positions!”

At his order, over two thousand city garrison troops hurriedly gathered in front of the broken gate.
They desperately built up a semicircular defensive wall.

Sharp spear tips were all aimed at the enemy beyond the gate.
Behind them, archers pulled their bowstrings with calloused hands.

A formation showing firm determination to not let anyone through was completed.

“How are we supposed to stop that…”
“Keep quiet.”

However, in reality, the soldiers’ hands holding the spears were damp with sweat and their tightly closed lips were pale.
In fact, they knew too.

The fact that they could never stop the great army beyond with the likes of themselves.
This was merely to buy time.

Nevertheless, the soldiers desperately held onto their trembling legs and maintained their positions.

Thud, thud, thud.

At some point, the faint sound that had been heard gradually grew louder.
It was a heavy roar as if a giant siege engine was rolling in.

As everyone was wondering.

Someone appeared from beyond the broken gate.

The identity of that person was a dragon clan girl with surprisingly delicate-looking build, with long sky-blue hair fluttering in the wind, horns on both sides of her head, and a long tail extending behind her back swaying side to side.

“That was the footsteps?”
“A dragon clan?”

Shock and disbelief spread among the soldiers.
To think that roar shaking the ground was the sound coming from the girl in front of them…

The dragon clan girl who had now entered inside.
Her eyes, shining with what might be joy or something else, were clearly visible.

At that very moment.

Bang.

With a roar, she kicked off the ground and leaped up.
Like a shell just fired, she rushed towards the garrison’s formation at a speed difficult to follow with the eyes.

Before the wide-eyed garrison commander could shout anything, her fist flew in.

“Block—”

Crack!

With a chilling bursting sound, the commander’s head exploded.
Starting with brain matter and bone fragments scattering in all directions, her one-sided massacre began.

She rampaged through the soldiers like a storm.

Crunch.
Every time her delicate fist swung, a heavy impact sound rang out along with soldiers’ armor caving in and bones breaking.

With one kick, three or four soldiers fell at once.

“A-Attack all at once!”

Whoosh—!

Her long sky-blue tail extending behind her back cut through the air and swept away the soldiers pouncing from behind.
Immediately after, soldiers wearing sturdy steel armor floated up helplessly like leaves, flying to crash into walls or smash into the ground.

“Forget allies or whatever, just shoot!”

Unable to stand it anymore, the archers fired arrows all at once.
A shower of arrows almost like direct fire poured down on her.

Ping, ping.
But it was futile.

As if hitting a solid steel plate, the arrows that touched her body bounced off powerlessly.
Rather, it only took the lives of allied soldiers hit by the arrows.

Clang!
Even when they managed to land a hit with a spear or sword on her body, the result was similar.
Instead, the spear shaft broke and the sword blade only bent.

The soldiers’ desperate resistance was meaningless.
Ordinary weapons couldn’t even leave the slightest scratch on the dragon clan’s robust body imbued with all sorts of strengthening magic.

Amidst the overwhelming difference in power, one-sided massacre, and hopeless situation, someone muttered in a trembling voice.

“Mo-Monster..”

Did she hear that mutter? She stopped moving and her head turned sharply.
And her eyes curved prettily.
An innocent crescent eye-smile bloomed on her face drenched in blood.

“You finally realized?”

She answered in a clear voice and stood in front of the soldier who had muttered.

Crunch—

The next moment, the soldier’s upper body exploded from her kick.

The price for making her smile was death.

Her massacre continued even after this.

Wherever her hand touched, flesh and blood spouted like a fountain.
Some soldiers crumbled helplessly without even being able to scream.
The surroundings instantly turned into a red hell.

“Ah~ really. There’s never a dull moment when I’m with Loen.”

Her smile grew deeper as time went on.

It looked more like she was playing around rather than fighting enemies.

As she was gradually giving herself over to instinct.

Someone’s shout pierced her ear.

“Psyche!”

Stop.
Her movement ceased.

Right after Psyche entered inside the gate.

The vanguard knights charging with good momentum began to noticeably slow down.
Eventually, they came to a stop below the gate.

“Why did they stop charging?”

Loen, frowning at this, increased her speed.
Did some unexpected enemy appear?

Thinking there might be some problem, Loen immediately passed by them and entered inside the gate.

And as soon as she entered, she immediately understood the reason.

Psyche’s massacre was taking place there.

Covered in blood, sweeping away soldiers with a bright smile blooming, Psyche was a disaster in human form itself.
That’s not how Loen felt, but from an objective viewpoint, that’s how it was.

The enemies had long since lost their will to fight.
Yet Psyche showed no signs of stopping.

‘… Her eyes have completely gone crazy?’

It was a moment where she fully understood why the vanguard knights couldn’t advance further and hesitated.

Loen didn’t delay any longer and shouted towards Psyche.

“Psyche!”

Stop.
Psyche’s movement came to a complete halt.

Only her head turned creakily like an unoiled doll to face Loen.

“..”

Eventually, light returned to her eyes.
Immediately after, as if nothing had happened, Psyche relaxed her frozen posture and returned to her usual self.

“Loen? Did you call me?”
“Yes.”

Loen gestured with her chin towards the surroundings.

The garrison that had been firmly guarding the gate until just a moment ago was nowhere to be seen.

Only corpses, crushed and burst to the point of being hard to recognize, were strewn about.
Everywhere was drenched in blood and flesh, and a pungent iron smell stung the nose.

It was a horrible sight that would make even allies’ knees weak.

“Ah…. Hehe. I got too excited and before I knew it…”

Psyche, looking around, scratched the back of her head with an embarrassed laugh.

Well, this is…
Loen, staring blankly at Psyche, sighed softly and gestured.

“..Come here. Let’s get rid of the blood on your body first.”
“Okay!”
“Cleanse.”

As Loen was washing Psyche with magic,
Seraphine, who approached from the side, opened her mouth worriedly.

“Inspector Psyche.”
“Yes?”
“Are you alright?”
“Of course! I’m completely fine?”

Both Loen and Psyche….
Seraphine was simply dumbfounded by how they transformed into cold-blooded beings without shedding a single tear whenever they fought enemies.

“If you say you’re fine, that’s good..”

Taking advantage of the gap while Seraphine was talking with Psyche in a dazed state,

Loen issued orders to the vanguard knights.

“Don’t just stand there blankly, quickly subdue the Southern Alliance nobles and secure key points.”
“Yes!”

Under the instructions of the commander-level knights who came to their senses, the vanguard split into battalions and infiltrated various parts of the city.

The vanguard’s mission was clear.
To raid the mansions of Count Rofen’s confidants and nobles belonging to the Southern Alliance.
To paralyze their command system and nip resistance in the bud through simultaneous attacks.

That was the picture Loen had drawn.

Shortly after, sporadic battles broke out throughout the city.
Short and intense bursts of sound, screams, and metallic sounds erupted.

“Don’t let them pass!”
“Throw your bodies at them! You have to be worth the money you’ve been paid, you bastards!”

The private soldiers run by the nobles and the mercenaries hired by them desperately blocked the way.
Fierce close combat continued between those trying to block and those trying to break through.

However, as the corps’ knight order was a military force ranking among the top even throughout the entire empire,

The enemies’ resistance was merely buying a little time.

Before the vanguard’s powerful knight forces, the enemies were swept away like dry leaves.

They relentlessly broke through the resistance lines and dug into their respective target points along the spider web-like roads of the city.

Meanwhile, Loen…

“Psyche, Seraphine. Let’s go to Count Rofen’s mansion.”

Headed towards Count Rofen’s mansion, the largest and most splendid, located in the heart of the city.

Bang!

The main gate burst open without warning.
The iron gate reinforced with steel by Loen’s magic crumpled like paper and flew to the side.

“Wow~ There’s more than I thought?”
“It’s impressive that he gathered this many in such a short time.”
“Indeed.”

The three women conversed leisurely while looking at the scene that unfolded afterwards.

Sure enough.

The mansion’s vast garden was filled with elite troops that the count seemed to have scraped together, like a final line of defense.
From knights armed with shining armor to mercenary groups with all sorts of fierce looks.

Although they overwhelmed Loen’s group in numbers, their faces were filled with bewilderment and deep fear.

They too instinctively realized.
That the black-haired woman before them and her companions were beings of a different dimension from themselves.

“….”

In the tension where even the sound of wind seemed to have stopped,
A knight who appeared to be the commander drew his sword and shouted.

His voice was tinged with desperate bluster.

“Charge! If we drag this into a melee, we have a chance!”

Just as they were about to charge towards Loen’s group with a battle cry.

Loen too, simultaneously, uttered a short phrase.

“Planar Cut.”

Swish—!

A chilling white line that seemed to cut through space itself crossed the middle of the garden.

A single absolute line drawn ignoring everything.

Eventually, with a sense of discomfort as if space itself was being cut, the enemies who were about to charge collapsed on the spot.
More precisely, they were cut in half.

Splendid armor, sturdy shields, sharp sword blades, and even the bodies of those holding them.

Everything was cut silently.

“…!”
“Uh, uh..”

At the sight that made them doubt their eyes, the survivors froze in place.
Some dropped the weapons in their hands, and a few sat down as if strength had left their legs.

In that terrible silence, Loen opened her mouth again.

“Let’s go.”
“Okay!”

Loen calmly crossed the garden where flesh was scattered and advanced towards the main building of the mansion.
Psyche wagged her tail as if used to it, and Seraphine followed behind, pretending to be unfazed.