Manaless Mage-Chapter 272: Did I… make a mistake?

The green clock behind Leon rapidly expanded even further, with more time energy violently bursting out of it.

The clock’s edges crackled with power, sending out thousands of green lightning bolts, each one tearing through the space with a reframing roar.

Leon remained in the midst of all the chaos, trying desperately to bring his energy under his control.

But unfortunately, that was easier said than done. The energy he used to control so easily now raged beyond his grasp, soaring even further into the skies with a loud roar.

"Ugh!" Leon groaned, his voice strained and drowned out by the storm swirling around him.

His body trembled uncontrollably under the immense pressure, which only kept increasing with each passing second.

Sweat dripped down his face, however, they were instantly evaporated by the blazing energy, vanishing into thin air.

The energy within him continuously surged, desperate to break free from his control.

The flames dyed the skies in a bright white colour, forming a giant whirlpool which swallowed up the clouds.

From afar, Leon looked nothing more than a thin broomstick swallowed up by a blazing inferno.

The powerful winds from the surge ripped his clothes into shreds, exposing his toned, athletic muscles to the world.

His hair which he had always kept trimmed and neat rapidly elongated, whipping uncontrollably in the air under the intense wind pressure.

"A-almost..." He muttered through gritted teeth, his voice easily drowned out in the howling storm.

His arms trembling uncontrollably as he struggled to clasp his hands together.

It was a simple task under most other circumstance, but with the huge pressure of his energy enveloping him, it now seemed impossible.

The time rewind spell had already been activated, but it was far from completion. All that remained was this final act, and he would successfully reverse the time around the whole world.

If he managed to do that, everything would reverse to the way it was before the celestials descended upon the world.

The earth would gain a second chance; a chance to prepare, to fight back, to change its fate!

Normally, something like this would be impossible, mainly due to Kronos having already wiped everybody from time.

For any other time mage, they might be able to reverse time, but the people extinguished by the celestial wouldn’t come back along with it.

This was because the people Kronos wiped had already been erased from time itself.

It wouldn’t matter whether it was in the past, present or the future; they wouldn’t exist anymore. Such was the supposed fate of those utterly erased from time, their fates were already sealed.

However, the case was very different when it came to Leon.

He was no ordinary time mage, and his power far exceeded that of his peers, even greater than the mana wielded by the celestials.

Since his energy was far superior, he would be able to easily overwrite the damage done by Kronos’ spell, reverting things to the way they were before he even arrived!

The huge amount of energy bursting out his him at the moment also made it all the more possible, so there was basically no chance of failure.

Not only would he get back everything he lost, the celestial’s arrival wouldn’t be so unexpected anymore.

He would surely be able to prepare before then, taking care of anything that came in his way. It was practically a win-win for him and the whole world at large!

All he had to do was succeed, and he could recover all the losses he had sustained so far.

"Arrrgh!" Leon grunted, veins bulging along his next and forehead, as his own power threatened to tear him apart from the inside. fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm

He was already so close; all he had to do was make that final step, and he would be able to reverse time on a global scale.

However, taking that single step was extremely difficult, as his energy kept spiraling out of control, threatening to break free from his grasp.

His eyes widened in shock as the energy surged once more, suddenly rushing towards a singular point within his body.

For a brief second, time seemed to slow down, the storm around him fading into a blur of light and sound.

Fwoomm!!!

Leon’s hands finally clasped together, and in that instant, a cataclysmic wave of white flames erupted from his body, expanding outwards in all directions with unimaginable speed.

The ground beneath him cracked and shattered, the sheer force of the blast splitting the earth apart.

The flames surged forth, consuming everything in their path, an unstoppable force of nature that roared across the landscape.

The sky above was torn asunder, the clouds parting in a violent swirl as the flames shot upwards, their brilliance lighting up the heavens.

Mountains crumbled to dust, forests were reduced to ash, and oceans evaporated in the blink of an eye.

The very fabric of reality warped and bent in response to the power Leon had unleashed.

"Nooo!!!" Kronos’ scream, filled with terror and fury, echoed across the skies.

However his cry was cut short as the flames engulfed him, his presence swallowed up in an instant.

Fwoosh!!

The wave of energy continued its relentless advance, not stopping at the planet’s edge.

BWOOSH!

It bursted into space, consuming everything in its path—planets, stars, entire galaxies—nothing was spared from its wrath.

The universe itself trembled in response to the power that had been unleashed, the very laws of physics twisting under the strain.

Time and space bent and contorted, the boundaries between dimensions blurring as the flames continued their advance.

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When the cataclysmic wave finally died down, the world was left in an eerie silence.

"Haa..." Leon panted uncontrollably, beads of sweat rolling down his face as his body trembled with exhaustion.

His body was still enveloped by the white flame, his eyes shining with a bright white light, as he floated within the air.

However, the energy around his body was slowly dimming, with his eyes gradually returning back to normal.

He could feel the immense power within him gradually slipping away, his strength returning to normal as the energy dissipated.

"I... did it?" Leon muttered, his eyes widening slightly in shock as his gaze swept across the landscape.

He took in the utter devastation surrounding him; the world he knew gone, replaced by a desolate wasteland.

Above him, the sky was a swirling vortex of darkness, thick, pitch-black clouds churning and twisting in a violent storm.

Rumble!

Bright blue and red lightning crackled within the clouds, each bolt sending shockwaves through the atmosphere, causing the ground to quake with each strike.

The earth below was a shattered ruin, vast trenches and deep cracks stretching across the landscape.

Massive boulders and debris littered the ground, remnants of mountains and buildings that had been reduced to rubble by the energy wave.

The air was thick with a dense fog, the acrid aroma of smoke and burnt earth strongly wafting in the air.

But the strangest sight of all were the tiny green particles drifting through the air like gas.

They floated aimlessly, shimmering with a faint light as they slowly evaporated into nothingness.

These particles were all that remained of the objects swallowed up by Leon’s energy.

Whether it was the giant rocks that had once stood proud or the clouds that dominated the sky, everything was disintegrating into tiny green dots before vanishing entirely.

Leon’s eyes narrowed as he recognized the green specks, a deep frown creasing his brow.

"Five years..." He thoughts aloud, his voice tinged with unease.

That was the point in time he had planned on reversing time to—the moment when the demon war had ended, and the world was ushered into an era of peace.

If he went back to that time, he would have bought humanity enough time to prepare for the celestial invasion, giving them a fighting chance against the godlike beings.

However, something felt very wrong about all of this, and an unsettling feeling crept over his mind.

He had never performed time reversal on such a huge scale, so he couldn’t help but wonder if what was happening was actually normal... or not.

The world was supposed to return to the moment he chose, five chance ago. But instead, everything seemed to be falling apart.

The green particles, the disintegrating matter, the unnatural darkness that had overtaken the sky—he didn’t really understand any of it.

Leon’s mind raced as he recalled what happened just before he took that final step, when almost all his energy suddenly rushed into the skill.

Though he wasn’t sure why that happened, it didn’t help lessen the terrible feeling within his heart.

The furthest he had done was rewind the time back a few days, and he didn’t remember anything like this taking place after.

He had expected the world to simply rewind, as it had always done in his past attempts.

Time would flow backward, and he would find himself standing in the same place, at the moment he had chosen to return to. But this was different—this was chaos.

"Did I... make a mistake?" Leon whispered, his gaze drifting to the thick clouds violently swirling above him.

While he wasn’t as knowledgeable as Kronos when it came to matters regarding time, he wasn’t a novice either.

He knew the catastrophe that could occur if a time mage messed up, and given his power, his was sure to be massive!

He could barely control the rising sense of dread within him, and his heart kept pounding in his chest.

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