Seeing the nobles trembling before him in terror, Punk remembered that before beginning the "Shadow Raven" mission, he really had said something for Sebastian to relay to the Hatak Royal Family. Thinking about it now, though, much of what the spellcaster had said at the time had merely been angry words born of various frustrations. In truth, he could not be bothered to destroy his own imperial nation over a few Morris Emerald Fruits.
Bombarding cities one by one with Legendary Level Spells would waste time; dropping Legendary Magic directly would expose his trump cards; damaging the environment on the Faerun plane would mean having to repair it himself afterward; making such a grand spectacle would also make it easy for the River of Fate to add another entry to its little ledger... Most importantly, even if he burned all of Hatak to ashes, Morris Emerald Fruits that no longer existed would not appear out of thin air. Only lunatics like Aimoda or evil knights like Kane would do work that was troublesome yet brought no benefit. Punk had no interest in meaningless destruction.
But to Hatak's nobles, this matter was anything but simple.
In the minds of ordinary beings throughout the Multiverse, so-called "great Legends" were simply Natural Disasters that were unreasonable, irresistible, and mercurial. Who would dare take even an offhand remark from such an existence lightly? Especially when the construct butler representing a Legendary powerhouse's will had personally come to deliver the notice—what meaning was there in indulging in self-deceiving hopes of luck?
Thus, under the threat of "a Legendary powerhouse's wrath," the entire Hatak Imperial Nation, from royals and nobles down to commoners, fell into boundless panic. Yet beneath the shadow of death, these people did not even have a chance to flee.
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