Episode 294
Samit was the first to hand over the prize money to Cell.
Then, he nods slightly towards the back and a man comes with a long stick.
A stick wrapped in something like a bundle and tied tightly with a rope.
It was about 2m long, and I could roughly guess its shape.
There was a handle in the middle and what looked like five fingers sprouting from the top.
Looking at the cell, I felt strangely familiar with it.
“Doom Miller, a staff used by a man who was a warlock 300 years ago. Do you see this part?”
Samit points to the finger.
“I’ve never seen it, but they say it’s the bone of a creature called an imugi.”
-Is it a snake?
“I’ll cut to the chase and tell you the effects first. If you raise your mana or use magic.”
He pointed to the top with his hand again.
“Resonance occurs in this part.”
-Resonance effect?
“To be exact, it’s amplification. Up to 8th circle to 9th circle magics are amplified by about 1.5 times in power. As you might have guessed, this handle part.”
Samit pointed to the handle in the middle of the staff, and Cell nodded.
“You have to point to this part and use magic to apply it. To put it simply, it goes like this. The power of magic is 1.5 times higher, and the amount of mana consumed is also 1.5 times higher.”
-It’s simple.
Samit handed the staff over to Sel.
Seldo, who received the staff, bowed his head in gratitude, just like Thanos.
Then he asked this question:
-Is it okay to spread things like this?
Samit burst out laughing and patted Cell on the head as an adult would usually do to a child.
“Isn’t it just because you have it that you’re giving it away?”
He told me that it was something for adults to worry about, and that children should be like children and not worry about such things.
And the team battle.
Samit, who was handing out prize money to five children, couldn’t take his eyes off one child.
shallot.
A child who forfeited the individual category while moving to the team category.
Honestly, I was curious.
If Thanos and this kid fought, who would win?
Since I couldn’t get a feel for it, I had no choice but to come to this conclusion.
‘… … I don’t know.’
As if she didn’t know what was going on, Charlotte took the prize money with a bright expression and nodded.
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So Samit raised his hand.
The host who had been watching shouted into the microphone.
“This concludes the closing ceremony of the first Academy Awards! Thank you!”
The host said it was the end, but I wonder. Is it really the end?
At least not among the many present.
Soon the Academy Awards will turn into something more than just a showdown.
There were some who felt that way.
Heynckes Beckermann.
Tem-Samit Ismail.
And Tem-Azuri watching the closing ceremony from afar.
Next up are Valentine Milos and Jack Valantier.
These were they.
* * *
Thanos, with a giant sword slung over his back, walked slowly.
“I really didn’t know you would win.”
Next to him was a man with a compressed form of Thanos’ face.
Torreira Cradle.
“What kind of training and experience do you have to become like you?”
“Luck, easy.”
Torreira tilts his head.
Luck?
Can all of that be explained by one word: luck?
Torreira might have been puzzled, but Thanos was truly thinking the same thing.
“I was able to practice and grow through experiences that others could not even imagine because I met him. And meeting him was luck. No, I should say luck, luck.”
Thanos thought that two syllables in a word would be better than one.
Torreira was looking at Thanos with strange eyes.
Good luck, you say?
Torreira found himself laughing.
Thanos was one of the swordsmen who was considered to be the strongest swordsman on the continent in the future.
That’s also very powerful.
For a man like that to say that it was just luck.
“How humble.”
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Thanos did not answer.
I still feel like I’m lacking something.
I thought that I still had a long way to go before I could become the strongest prosecutor on the continent, and that I needed to train myself more.
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“But why did you come here?”
Thanos and Torreira arrived at the dormitory where the students of Tulcan Academy were staying.
Thanos said.
Just like Jack said.
“I wanted to have a conversation with that idiot.”
* * *
Thanos could easily meet Roman Stewart.
“… … There are a lot of strange people coming here.”
Those were Roman’s first words.
Thanos stared blankly at Roman.
“Why are you just staring? If you want to swear, then do it. If you have anything else to say, just do it and get out.”
Roman’s appearance was completely different from what we saw on the pitch.
His hair was unkempt, his eyes were cloudy, and his whole body smelled like he hadn’t washed, and about 90% of that smell was alcohol.
“My lord once told me that among the children currently in their teens, there are four who will be able to stand in a unique position in the future world with only their talent for mana.”
“… … Four people?”
Roman was curious.
Honestly, I couldn’t help but be curious.
Who could it be?
“One is Charlotte, one is Cel. Another is Elizabeth Valantie, your lord’s sister. The last one is you.”
Roman’s expression turns quizzical.
“You’re not here?”
“Oh. I didn’t have any. The mana talent I possess is pitiful compared to the four people before me.”
Eventually, Roman ended up slamming his fist on the table.
Boom-!
“Who are you kidding? If you’re done talking, then get out.”
Thanos’ expression was the same as when he first entered this accommodation.
“You said you would become the strongest prosecutor on the continent. You said you wanted to go beyond common sense and push the limits. But what kind of common sense and limits are you going to push now?”
“… … .”
“Do not doubt your lord. No matter what you see and feel around you, no matter what Heynckes Beckerman, the strongest swordsman on the current continent, teaches, no matter what the instructors of the Tulcan Academy say. No matter what honor they have, what knowledge they have, what talents they have, they cannot see the insight and the world that your lord sees.”
Thanos took a small coin out of his pocket and placed it on the table.
The shape of the coin was unusual.
It wasn’t something that was generally used as currency.
A round shape without even an inch of error.
The size is that of an index finger.
The coin had a relief of a ship on its face, with a large sword piercing through it, beautifully engraved diagonally.
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Torreira, who was standing next to him, made a face like, “Hey, is that it?”, but no one paid any attention.
“A lucky talisman that the Grand Duke, known as the Cradle’s First Sword, always carried with him. It doesn’t have a name. If I had to give it one, it would be called the Grand Duke’s Coin.”
Roman scoffs at the unfunny name.
“I am not arrogant. I am not satisfied with my current level, and my goal is to become the strongest swordsman on the continent. I will walk that path and not take any shortcuts. That is my pledge.”
Thanos paused for a moment and pushed the coin towards Roman.
“What’s the point of walking alone? Try to catch me. Try to beat me who beat you. Follow me from behind. That way I can go further.”
Thanos’ words were almost like a declaration of war.
Thanos then turned around.
Torreira, who had been blankly watching the situation, eventually turned around.
Roman, who was looking at the two, held a coin in one hand and took a stance as if he was going to throw it.
but.
I couldn’t throw it.
Kwaaak- Blood began to trickle out of Roman’s hand, but no one around him tried to comfort him or come near him.
like.
Like a loner.
* * *
“are you okay?”
Thanos responded to Torreira’s words nonchalantly.
“what?”
“No, that coin. That… … .”
Words that are difficult to say carelessly.
Torreira scratched his head and finally said.
“That’s a relic.”
“… … .”
“That’s also the Archduke’s heirloom. Isn’t it?”
“that’s right.”
A relic that Thanos always carried in his arms during his time at the Academy.
If you sold it to an antique shop or something, it would fetch quite a price, but to Thanos personally, it was like something that could not be exchanged for money.
But since I gave it to Roman, it was natural that Torreira didn’t understand.
“I have received much from my lord.”
“so?”
“I received a lot from you, but there was nothing I could do in return. You were too wonderful a person.”
That wasn’t a wrong statement.
Jack lacks nothing.
Looks, money, power.
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A man who is perfect in every way.
“That’s what my lord is interested in. I want you to have everything you want. I can do anything for that.”
Honestly, a coin.
The weight it carried was enormous for Thanos personally.
But compared to what Thanos received from Jack, the weight is relatively light.
“Every time Roman sees that coin, he’ll think of me. Then, when he realizes his situation and stands up from where he fell, when he comes to his senses.”
“If you prepare it?”
“The guy will go to his lord.”
“… … Are you sure that he will naturalize to the Kingdom of Teslan?”
Thanos chuckled.
Because there was something wrong with what Torreira said.
“It’s not like I’m naturalizing as a Teslan or anything, I’m just going to my lord’s side.”
Thanos turned his head and looked straight into Torreira’s eyes.
“Just in case, I’m telling you this, don’t equate Teslan with my lord. My lord has no attachment to Teslan. That country maintains its national system simply because of that. That’s the only reason.”
A country like Tesla can’t contain Jack.
Because the jack is not light enough to be carried by a single country.
I don’t know if Jack would have held it.
That’s how Thanos and Torreira parted ways.
“Come visit the cradle once. There are still many who miss the Grand Duke.”
Thanos did not respond to Torreira’s words of separation.
I just waved my hand lightly.
* * *
First, after the closing ceremony, I called the ‘responsible people’ from each academy to the Ishmael Royal Palace, using Samit’s words.
Once when Charlotte was changing from an individual event to a team event, and once when she was bringing in the Tulcan Academy.
A total of nine executives, who had met at least twice, gathered in an empty royal palace conference room.
“There seem to be quite a few people with curious expressions on their faces as to why we’re all gathered here.”
This was my impression after looking around the area.
In fact, everyone except our teacher and Samit had a puzzled expression on their face.
I guess I still don’t quite get why you’ve been called here.
“Let me put it simply. Putting everything else aside, the union of kingdoms, is this okay?”
“… … ?”
“It seems like there are still too many kids who can’t tell the difference between poop and soybean paste. But this can’t be happening. I came up with just one clever idea.”
Questions arise here and there.
A trick?
What trick?
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He continued speaking with a smiling face.
“The five kingdoms have united, five relatively weak nations have banded together to keep the largest nation in check… … . Don’t you find anything strange here?”
Apart from our teacher, there were only two people in the room who had a clear idea of what the story would be about to continue.
One is Tem-Samit.
And the other one is Heynckes Beckermann.
The answer was simple.
“You don’t have a brain. A brain. What’s really interesting is that if one or two of these five countries were to fall, the situation would change completely. Right now, it’s boiling and in the early stages, so there’s nothing that could explode, and it’s just going to pass quietly, so you seem to be quite complacent, but if something ‘big’ happens, and there’s no one with the final authority, how can you properly respond in that situation?”
