Episode 165
“… … Be careful, my lord.”
I found myself laughing faintly at Aveiro’s words.
No matter how great his information skills and intuition are,
As I said before, Aveiro has never seen me fight ‘properly’.
Did you kill the Dark Lord at the Ascendant Adventurer’s Guild branch?
The one who destroyed the Hermann family?
It’s a part of me.
He doesn’t know my true strength.
That’s why I brought it.
Aveiro.
To show him.
How handsome is the master you serve… … no, how strong he is.
I’m trying to imprint that on his memory.
in other words.
I’m saying I trust Aveiro.
A guy like that is enough.
-Boss, what should I do?
“No need, just rest in the back.”
At that moment, when I was about to take a step forward.
“Hey you!!”
I almost stumbled for a moment.
and.
Listen to the voice.
What do you boil and eat to make your voice so loud?
A raw tree that doesn’t contain any mana.
The high notes are really no joke.
I thought so and turned my head.
A man, wearing very expensive clothes, was walking out, pushing past soldiers about 400 meters ahead of me.
That look.
That look.
Oh, it’s been a while.
“Hello! How have you been? Grandfather!”
Count Mantis.
He was glaring at me with a face distorted like an evil spirit.
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* * *
The lord of Mantis County and the richest man in the current kingdom outside of the upper continent.
His full name is Leroy Mantis.
His age was not young.
64 years old.
I wasn’t even a high circle mana user.
On the outside, Count Mantis looked to be in his ‘old’ years.
That kind of him.
Now, he was showing more of the passion he had when he was young.
The driving force behind it all was anger.
anger.
With just that one simple word, Count Mantis seemed to be almost rejuvenated as he poured out his energy.
So when I saw Jack Valantier in front of me, I almost lost my mind.
“This dog !!”
Count Mantis, who is about to run away, is stopped by the Mantis Knights nearby.
“Let go!! Let go!!”
“Calm down, Count!!”
The knight who was trying to stop the count thought.
He’s clearly 64 years old and not a mana user, so where does this strength come from?
“I’ll tear you to pieces! I’ll tear you to pieces and kill you!!”
The Count’s momentum overwhelmed the entire surrounding area.
No, it seemed overwhelming.
“It’s so loud, could you please shut up, Grandfather?”
But it was a small voice.
The voice was heard very clearly in the ears of everyone on this plain.
like.
It was very similar to the voice of French Riley, who was shouting to hit the shield.
The knight raised his head.
Since when did it start?
The four masters were not looking at Count Mantis.
Their gaze was focused on one place.
There was ‘Jack Valantier’.
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As if he didn’t care about his surroundings at all.
Their eyes were fixed solely on Jack, as if they were being drawn to him.
Did they feel something?
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A knight of only 6 circles could not even guess what the world the masters saw.
So I didn’t know.
The fact that four masters are feeling the same emotion at this moment.
It’s oppressive.
Jack just standing on the floor with both feet on the ground.
A longsword as tall as himself was held in his hand.
The masters thought.
‘… … Oh my god. She’s only 14 years old?’
A sense of discomfort that goes beyond a sense of oppression.
The masters’ expressions become blank.
* * *
15 thousand troops.
Since the force was no different from an army, a command system was obviously necessary.
Even though most of them were mercenaries, once their numbers increased, it was essential to establish a command structure.
Count Mantis is not a warrior.
Field experience, experience on the battlefield.
Even if there are any, they are mostly small-scale territorial wars or suppression of bandits.
It is a contradiction in itself that Count Mantis controls the experience and savagery of mercenaries who have lived rough lives.
It’s weird to do that.
So the one who took charge of all the command was French Riley.
He was the leader of the French Guild.
Even though there were four masters in this place, I had to admit what needed to be admitted.
Even among the same masters, there is a gap.
There are three known Master ranking systems so far.
To be exact, it depends on the ‘color’ of the mana they use.
When all mana is raised, blue is considered a beginner level among masters.
Gold is intermediate, and red is advanced.
French Riley, he was a mid-level master with golden mana.
The remaining three were beginner masters with blue color.
That’s why I became a commander.
And he was feeling a sense of discomfort he had never felt before in his life.
“Brian.”
A man who had been staring blankly at Jack Valantier from the side like Riley suddenly comes over to Riley.
There were two masters belonging to the French Guild, and this Brian was the other one.
He, who was a junior master and also the younger brother of Ark, the master of the Ark Guild, felt a sense of discomfort like Raily.
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“The combination of magic and magic… Have you ever thought about it?”
Brian shook his head.
“No way. If I had known that, I would have grabbed the staff instead of the sword.”
It is said that in the case of a very small number of geniuses, multi-casting and even triple-casting are possible.
In fact, magicians who have reached the level of Master can easily perform double casting.
The problem is.
Even if you double cast, you can’t ‘synthesize’ magic like that.
That’s for sure.
To be exact.
There has never been anyone who has performed synthetic magic like that before.
in other words.
The emergence of new technologies.
“I don’t understand. That technology existed?”
“… … .”
“Synthesize magic? That’s a technique I’ve never heard of, and a kid like that did it?”
The question was natural.
And, furthermore.
“What on earth is this momentum… … ?”
Everything was questionable.
so.
Riley concluded.
first.
Let’s capture it.
That technique.
It is a technique that will make a mark on the world of magic beyond money.
Isn’t this how a farmer feels when he first sees a goose that lays golden eggs?
like that.
Greed appears in Riley’s eyes, and so do the other Masters and Mercenaries who sense it.
I came here to make money and noticed the emergence of new technologies.
No matter how much I think about it, I have to say that it smells like money.
All the mercenaries, forgetting their discomfort, smiled faintly.
they.
They tried hard to ignore the feeling of intimidation they had just felt and thought it was just an illusion.
That’s why.
In this place.
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Not a single person thought they were going to die.
* * *
“I’ll tear you to pieces! I’ll tear you to pieces and kill you!!”
It was at that moment that I was listening to Count Mantis’s screams.
-That voice… … .
The cell behind me speaks in a trembling voice.
At the same time as turning your head.
-I’ve heard of it, yes… … .
I looked at that cell for a moment, then looked at my grandfather again.
“It’s so loud, could you please shut up, Grandfather?”
As I said, my grandfather closed his mouth.
Looking at that maternal grandfather, I naturally turned my gaze towards the masters.
I immediately tilted my head.
Because the expressions on their faces were so strange that it was hard to describe.
It’s almost like an expression of someone discovering a treasure.
In my ears, I hear Riley’s words telling me to capture him.
He chuckled and ended up laughing.
He said, just reaching out and lightly brushing the ball of our cell.
“Just wait a moment.”
-boss…….
Just a little bit will do.
long time.
Because it doesn’t get caught.
He kicked the seat right away.
I moved through the wind, through the air, through space.
The location was the exact center of the 15,000-strong army.
It’s such an obvious thing that I didn’t go into detail about it, but the people who dealt with me in my past life had some understanding of me.
Why do we need to figure it out?
It’s simple.
Because they are the enemy.
But I was very strong, and they came up with numerous strategies and formations to kill me.
And I destroyed each and every one of those tactics.
It’s not for nothing that I say I have a lot of war experience.
Is that all?
Why on earth did child soldiers appear?
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We can’t say there are no soldiers.
It couldn’t be said that there were no mana users.
The reason the boy soldiers showed up was just one of the tactics to deal with me.
And I, I’m sure, have said this at some point.
You can’t kill me unless you’re a master.
As the case of the Exile Pantheon showed, master inspectors can ‘hit’ me.
That is, if those guys are all around me and trying to kill me with a deadly will, then this is not a joke, I could really die.
That was my weak point, and it was the core of the strategy that the Crown Prince of the Tulcan Empire had concluded.
but.
Among the many tactics to get to the core.
There was not a single ‘formation gathered in one place’.
An attack that spreads out from all directions unconditionally, or approaches from a considerable distance using teleportation magic with a time difference.
That was the best tactic they could come up with, and it was the best method.
Why didn’t they come together?
This is simpler.
They knew this would happen.
“[The place where I stand is my own land.]”
Among the four types of Spirit Sword, the first one is Sansan.
The air trembles and a black aura flows out from the body.
An absurd energy that completely destroys the balance of the world and tears it apart.
All the mana users looked like they didn’t understand what was happening.
Among them, those who reached the level of master reacted, albeit belatedly.
Riley adjusted his grip on his spear, the Master next to him adjusted his grip on his greatsword, and the other two Masters pulled out their dagger and longsword respectively.
but.
It’s late.
“[Nothing will invade or touch my land.]”
Silarion is stuck in the floor.
Phew-!
To some, that sound must have sounded like the world stopping.
To some, it might have sounded like the end of the world.
For me.
It sounded like the world was stopping.
* * *
Hwaaaaaaaah-!!
French Riley felt uneasy again.
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Technology like you’ve never seen before.
A feeling I’ve never felt before… … No.
Have you ever really felt this?
Obviously, no.
This energy.
I’ve felt it.
I don’t remember the exact time, but it was about a month ago.
And a few weeks ago.
I’ve felt this kind of energy once or twice, irregularly.
But it was simply fatigue, Riley thought.
That makes sense.
It was a strange sense of dissonance that had no form or substance, and didn’t seem to actually exist, so it was strange to think about it seriously.
however.
No it wasn’t.
The kid right in front of you.
It was definitely ‘Jack Valantier’, one of the targets for extermination that Count Mantis had written in his own handwriting on the request.
I was trying to extract information before killing him using some new technology, but this is impossible.
The guy wasn’t a kid.
How can you call someone who uses this kind of energy a kid?
“[The place where I stand is my own land.]”
Even when the kid blurted out his words with a strange aura, Riley was still focused on controlling his own emotions.
It was a clear misjudgment.
Whether he’s extracting information or not, in the end he’s still an ‘enemy’.
Are you thinking of something else when the enemy is right in front of you?
As someone who lives off of rice, it was a mistake that was close to disqualification.
So I tried to respond, albeit belatedly.
He held the giant spear and drew up mana.
Golden mana.
That’s when it was pushed to the tip of the spear.
“[Nothing will invade or touch my land.]”
Phew-!
The moment his longsword was stuck in the ground.
Riley had a gut feeling.
ah.
You’re late.
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I don’t know what it is, but it’s late.
It was the same with other mercenaries.
Everyone thought the same thing.
The sound of the world ending.
If the end comes, isn’t this what it’ll be like?
That’s why at this moment.
Not a single person in this place thought they would survive.
