Dozens of things filled my mind.

It even began to list off all the magic skills I failed to obtain under Alcazar's tutelage.

"YOU!!!" (Abomination)

I was still in a daze trying to figure out my situation when the enormous amalgamation of abominations suddenly turned to me to prepare for an attack.

"THAT WAS MINE!" (Abomination)

"ALL MANA WILL BE MINE!" (Abomination)

Instinctively I fired my old faithful ability when large tendrils of black goo shot towards me.

"WAIT!" (Scarecrow)

*DOOM*

It felt like an appropriate amount of mana to put in, but I immediately regretted that after what happened next.

As soon as the ability leveled up, I could feel the effects and range of the power increase tenfold if not more...
Large fissures appeared underneath me, culminating in the ground splitting open around me.
The surroundings rumbled as if an earthquake was occurring.

Despite my attempts to restrict the scope of the ability, the range exploded far and wide, seemingly expanding to encompass every location I've ever visited over the past two years.
...T- that's basically the entire world.

Having failed to restrict the targets of my mental ability as well, the remaining skeletons all collapsed to the ground.

For each creature hit by my mental ability, I felt a reaction, I could even tell it affected a large army that was in the second layer and heading towards us.

Despite them not even being in my field of view, I could tell the entire army collapsed.

That was probably the army of humans searching for the culprit that nuked their city...

The radius when a 1000 mana is put into the ability is insane...
It eventually even hit the capital.
Robbing what remained of the entire human population of their consciousness.

Eh?

*CRASH!!*

The giant amalgamation of abominations had paused for a brief moment when I fired off my mental ability, enough for me to move out of the way.

Its giant black tendrils that had shot towards where I was stood before created large craters in the ground.

...I shouldn't get too full of myself after that level up, if one of those hits me, it's still instant death for sure...

As per usual, levelling up isn't all that useful to an inanimate object like me.

My health has even stopped increasing when I level up I think?
Whatever, it was always pretty stringy with the amount of health it would increase anyway.
I'll just continue to upgrade it myself using my mana crystals if that's how it's going to be.

That said, the benefits from my soul seemingly levelling up seemed fairly beneficial-

"MINE!!" (Abomination)

Not giving me any chance to think, the abomination belted another provocation my way.

All the black tendrils of goop instantly retracted back into the main body as it began convulsing.

"ALL MANA WILL BE MINE!!!" (Abomination)

The black pile morphed into the shape of a wave violently crashing down towards us.

"Leave this one to me..." (Alcazar)

Alcazar hopped forward, sounding eager to test something out.

Furby and I flew away to create some distance between us and Alcazar, understanding perfectly well that something big was about to go down.

I feel back for the skeletons that can't run to safety because they're unconscious, but there's not much we can do except defeating the abomination.

I spotted Julia riding Doctor Sniffles towards us, having picked up on the hint that something bad was about to happen.

How are any of you still conscious anyway?

I recall accidentally hitting all of them with my mental ability.

Is it because I gave them all titles?

"You will have the honour of being the first recipient of my perfected formula!" (Alcazar)

Alcazar's tiny glass body filled up with a dangerous-looking liquid as a menacing grin appeared on his mug.

The abomination looked fairly disinterested in the tiny glass figurine standing in front of him.

"I've only used this in small portions before, but you look like an excellent test subject for something a little bigger!" (Alcazar)

"Fu fu fu... it's something my students would refer to as... a nuke!" (Alcazar)

Oh no.

Furby and I immediately looked at each other with mixed emotions of regret and fear.

"Not that a foul creature like you would know about such a thing." (Alcazar).

"..." (Abomination)

I grabbed on to Furby, who quickly flew towards Julia and Sniffles, picking them up with his claws.

"Hold on!" (Scarecrow)

That damned reckless old man is going to kill us all at this rate!

In the past few years living with Alcazar, we had made the crucial mistake of reminiscing about our old world around him.

He always had a lot of questions about how the world worked without any magic.

Our knowledge of another world was our bargaining chip for free magic lessons.
So we indulged his questions and even let information slip about the disasters caused by one of our world's worst man-made weapon's.

We figured it would serve as a cautionary tale, but it seems Alcazar took it up as a challenge instead without our knowing.

"Behold my latest creation! FWA HA HA HA!" (Alcazar)

I suppose when you live in a world full of life-threatening demons, the idea of a nuke just sounds like another neat utility to have.

I quickly poured a large amount of mana into my afterburner ability.

Blueish flames appeared under my legs, immediately boosting us forward at a preposterous speed.

"KWAAAA" (Furby)
Furby made a hopeless bird noise as we careened towards the exit of the cavern.

*DOOOOM!*

An enormous explosion quickly encompassed the entire cavern behind us.

Despite our blazing speed, we got hit by the devastating blast wave of the enormous explosion.

(ARGH!)
I could feel my entire body being burnt away by the intense heat.

Ah... that can't be good-