Punk, who had watched the entire scene from the air, did not speak up to stop Babeng's reckless act of charging his physical body straight at the fake magic tower.
Granted, he could have simply cast over a dozen Collapse Singularities in succession and blasted the magic tower along with everything inside it into scraps, but the cautious Legendary Mage did not choose to do so.
One reason was that the task assigned by the "President" had explicitly required the enemy to be captured alive. Punk did not think he could bring back a thoroughly dead corpse and still receive the full reward.
The other reason was that "Whisper of Destruction" intended to ensure his own safety.
Even though Oven had so far appeared as helpless and fragile as a fish on the chopping block, Punk would never underestimate any enemy who had reached the Legendary tier.
One must not forget that, aside from a bluffing magic tower, the "Rune Sage" was still a level twenty-seven spellcaster affiliated with the Mage Guild. Punk did not believe he could casually bombard such a Legendary Mage, one who had lived for so long, to death with a single Legendary Magic spell.
At the same time, there was another reason he did not act... When a Legendary spellcaster prepared to cast Legendary Magic repeatedly in attack, that Legendary Mage would undoubtedly enter a troublesome and exceptionally vulnerable state. The astonishing expenditure of Legendary Magic would drain a quarter or even more of the caster's mana each time, while consuming one hundred percent of their mental focus.
Although a spellcaster usually needed only around one second to restore their mana to full, after throwing out four or five Legendary Magic spells in a row, their mana reserves would have to remain nearly empty for