Episode 64 Bite hard and hold on. (3)
The mana was sucked in again and the magic circle was completed.
Since Vanessa said she learned up to 5 circles, it’s probably 5 circle magic.
Moreover, since it is something that has consumed Giselle’s mana, its destructive power will be considerable.
If all of these were to be activated, the smokescreen would be destroyed and the people outside would be badly injured.
Wooooow!
Giselle quickly began to block the flow of mana swirling within Vanessa’s body, one by one.
As the flow of mana decreased, the magic circles flickered and distorted.
‘It’s dangerous if we continue like this.’
There was no way he could hold on to this forever.
However, if Giselle were to let go, all of Vanessa’s life force would be sucked out.
The magic will continue to activate unless she stops it herself.
Even if it was dangerous, I had to force her to wake up.
“Ugh!”
Jiselle blasted mana, instantly blocking all the mana rods within her body.
At the same time, as all paths were blocked, the mana that had been swirling wildly within Vanessa’s body also stopped flowing for a moment.
Without missing the moment, Giselle shouted loudly.
“Open your eyes!”
Wow!
Vanessa barely came to her senses after a shout loud enough to shake the training ground.
Passover… … .
Countless magic circles floating in the air lost their light and disappeared.
Jiselle confirmed that the fluctuating mana had calmed down and slowly removed her hand from Vanessa.
“Coolook!”
Vanessa bent over and vomited blood.
She felt ecstasy even as she writhe in excruciating pain.
I finally realized exactly what mana felt like.
The tiny speck of mana that settled inside my body added to my confidence.
“Whoa!”
She laughed even though she kept vomiting blood. It felt like her blocked stomach was clearing out.
She looked at Giselle even in her dazed state.
The person who made me feel mana. At this moment, I was so grateful that it made me shiver.
Jiselle also smiled with satisfaction at the sight of her.
‘It went as I thought. But I could have been in big trouble if I had made a mistake.’
Multi-channeling as soon as you feel the mana. It was a result that exceeded expectations.
Vanessa asked Giselle cautiously, who seemed to be in a good mood.
“Why… … did you do this to me, the first time you saw me?”
“Well, I need your strength. Will you help me?”
“Will I be of any help to you, Confucius?”
Then, Jiselle smiled as if she had heard something funny and answered.
“Then, it will be of great help. Now that you have felt the mana, I will teach you the proper mana cultivation method. I have something that is just right for you.”
Looking at Giselle’s playful face, Vanessa couldn’t help but shed tears.
Luckily, I met a good teacher and entered the magic tower known as the best in the North, but the reality was cruel.
Low talent, contempt from those around you, a reality that doesn’t change no matter how hard you try.
It got worse after the master died.
She suffered greatly after being demoted to a maid, but no one acknowledged her.
Rather, even the maids in her class harassed and ostracized her simply because she was a sorcerer’s apprentice.
In the magic tower, she was neither a wizard nor a maid, but just a stranger.
An unbelievable miracle has now happened to her, who had never belonged anywhere.
Vanessa opened her mouth slightly.
“… … I want to be.”
“Huh? What did you say?”
I felt like I really wanted to help him.
“I am…….”
The Confucius in front of me broke all the chains that were binding me with an unknown force.
I really wanted to repay the favor.
Vanessa spoke with a little more courage.
“I want to be of help to Confucius.”
“Don’t worry about that. I’m good at handling people. You just have to be prepared.”
Giselle laughed cheerfully. Vanessa smiled too.
Giselle lowered her body, squatted down, and looked into her eyes.
“Welcome to the Giselle Mercenary Corps, Vanessa.”
* * *
Vanessa began to practice Mana training in earnest under the guidance of Giselle.
He overhauled Ferdium’s mana cultivation method and taught it in a way that only allowed him to safely gather mana.
It would have been shocking for Count Ferdium and his vassals to know this.
It was an implicit taboo among the nobles to arbitrarily change the family’s vision or teach it to someone who had no connection to the family.
But Giselle didn’t care about that one bit.
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“It would be faster if I could use the training method I’ve been practicing.”
The mana training method that Jiselle used was tailored to his body, so he couldn’t teach it to anyone else.
Even he himself has difficulty controlling the unstable flow, so if someone else were to learn it, their body would explode.
“There will be a war soon. At that time, your magic will be really important.”
Giselle also explained to Vanessa what would happen next.
When something happens suddenly, it’s easy to panic and miss the timing.
If you prepare in advance, you will be able to deal with it properly when something happens.
“I, I can’t use magic properly yet.”
“It’s okay. You’ve mastered the 5th circle of drinking, right?”
“But, but I don’t have enough magic power… … .”
Vanessa hasn’t gathered much magic power yet.
No matter how talented you are, there is no way around the lack of time.
With the amount of mana she had accumulated, she could only cast very simple magic.
grasp.
A fist-sized light floated above Vanessa’s palm.
1st circle magic ‘Light’. This was the limit for now.
She looked at Giselle with a tearful face.
How can this help in the war?
“Oh, what should I do? This won’t help much… … .”
“I can’t help it because I lack magic power. I’ll take care of that myself, so just train hard.”
Vanessa nodded, though she seemed uneasy.
“When will the war break out?”
“It will probably happen in a month at the earliest? Two months at the latest.”
It’s already been a month and a half since I left the forest of demons.
The enemies would have already heard the news and begun preparing for war.
Jiselle hadn’t been letting it go all this time either.
For a month, I used the money I earned from selling runestones to recruit mercenaries.
The next fortnight was spent teaching Vanessa the art of mana cultivation.
Although it took a long time, it was a necessary preparation to win the war.
* * *
As Vanessa reached a point where she could gather mana on her own, Giselle began to spend less time with her and started to take care of the things that had been piling up.
“Gillian, how’s the training of the mercenaries going?”
“No problem. Now, they are better than the soldiers of any territory.”
Gillian answered with a satisfied expression.
Mercenaries were trained with a focus on moving organically rather than increasing individual strength.
Since we gathered people who had basic skills from the beginning, results were quickly apparent with just that.
Jiselle hesitated for a moment and then gave an order to Gillian.
“Then let’s take him to the Demon Forest.”
Jisel led three hundred mercenaries and entered the Forest of Demons again.
When you first open the path, you destroy all the monster habitats, but monsters are bound to swarm you again in the empty spaces.
The area had to be periodically cleared to prevent monsters from taking hold.
“Don’t worry, it’ll be easier this time.”
The mercenaries who entered the forest laughed comfortably.
The newly recruited mercenaries followed them with nervous expressions.
The path has already been paved and even the flesh and blood of the Blood Python has been properly secured.
As long as you don’t stray from the path, it will be safer than before.
Thanks to the increased number of personnel, Jisel and the mercenaries were able to easily eliminate the wandering monsters in the area and bring back a lot of rune stones.
Jiselle counted the remaining rune stones and sighed deeply.
“I guess I’ll have to be a little more frugal from now on.”
Runestones are not an infinite resource. There are still a lot left, but after mining them in large quantities twice, they have noticeably decreased compared to the first time.
Giselle returned to the castle, leaving Gillian and Kaor in charge of the mercenaries.
“Okay, then I’ll try practicing now.”
If you become even a little stronger, you can save at least one more person.
As he was heading towards the training ground, his followers swarmed in front of him.
As soon as I heard the news that another rune stone had been brought, I came running with great anticipation.
“Your Highness! Please give me the rune stone!”
“It has its uses.”
“Give me some! Give it to me!”
The vassals stubbornly held on. Giselle had no choice but to give them a small piece of the runestone.
Since I brought it with me with plans to use it again this time, I couldn’t just hand it out.
Now, it wasn’t a situation where I could go every day and fight monsters and drain my energy.
The vassals made a fuss, saying that there weren’t enough, but Jiselle snorted and chased them away.
After that, I devoted myself to cultivation for a while.
One day’s training was completed by completing physical training, martial arts training including swordsmanship, and mana training.
“It’s such a pity that I only have one body.”
When the training was finished, we reviewed how much progress had been made in building roads and fences in the Demon Forest.
Besides, I had to take care of Vanessa’s training, so I couldn’t waste even a little time.
There was an annoying problem, but I had so much to do right away that I couldn’t even find the time to look into it properly.
“I just don’t understand why. How did it turn out like this?”
Since fighting Blood Python, my resilience has improved slightly.
As your resilience improves, you’ll need less downtime, which means you’ll have more time to do other things.
It’s a good change in an urgent situation like now, but it’s really frustrating not knowing why my constitution has changed.
A power that you do not know well and cannot control is not a true power.
“Is that related to it?”
There was only one reason why something was wrong with my body.
Jiselle sighed and shook her head.
There was one way to check if the prediction was correct, but it required risking one’s life.
I couldn’t take risks when I didn’t know when war would break out.
“I guess I’ll have to check it out once the war is over.”
For the time being, I had no choice but to focus on basic training.
While Jiselle focused on her personal training, the mercenaries continued their consistent hand-to-hand training.
Whenever she had time, Jiselle would visit Gillian to check on her training.
The newly recruited mercenaries were very pleased with the current situation.
In reality, all they did was train, occasionally deal with monsters in the forest, and guard the road builders.
The work of preparing the road for carts and building fences on both sides is all done by laborers.
With the blood of the Blood Phyton sprinkled on the ground and Jiselle making another round to eliminate the monsters, there wasn’t much for the mercenaries to do.
“Wow, it’s a lot easier than I thought. Just train and occasionally fight monsters.”
“The Demon Forest isn’t as dangerous as it’s rumored to be. They say it was hard to get through, but… … I’m not sure if that’s true.”
“Even the treatment is paid as war wages. Hahahaha.”
The morale of the mercenaries was very high because they were paid a lot of money to hire them and were given expensive equipment.
But not all mercenaries truly followed Giselle.
There was nothing special about Giselle that could capture their hearts, and the time spent together was too short for a strong bond to develop.
However, they could not just carelessly ignore Giselle.
Because the existing mercenaries who are loyal to Giselle are holding them in check by force.
From the time he increased the number of mercenaries, Giselle intended to control and manage them through the existing mercenaries.
As long as he had money and power, he could manage the rough mercenaries without any problems.
“But you really train hard. Did you get information that someone was coming?”
“Arthur. Is war that easy? It takes a year just to prepare for something like a war of territories.”
“It’s because our young captain has no experience in war. He thinks he can just invade if he doesn’t like it.”
“It’s understandable that they would be scared, since there would be many lords drooling if rumors spread that there was a rune stone.”
“But if they actually invade, can you stop them? This isn’t a very strong territory, is it?”
“It’s okay now. When the rumors spread and the lords start to take notice, we can just watch and leave.”
Even mercenaries, before signing a contract with Giselle, took into account the time it took for rumors to spread and the time it took for other lords to prepare for war.
I signed the contract because I thought they wouldn’t come rushing in like that.
Of course, I couldn’t completely relax, but I had to take this level of risk to do mercenary work.
It was a fairly satisfactory country life for them, except for a few insecurities.
“Ah, this is so comfortable. I wish things like this could always happen.”
“Everything is good, but there is no place to play in this territory.”
“It’s a bit boring in the countryside. Let’s play a game.”
One day, while the mercenaries were resting comfortably as usual, one mercenary came running out of breath and shouted.
“Ouch, this is a big problem! This is a big problem! This is a big problem!”
The mercenaries who were preparing to gamble looked at the running man with indifference.
Even if something big happened in this territory, it was nothing special.
All it takes is a worker getting hurt while doing construction work, someone getting beat up by Kaor after messing with him, or someone slacking off on training and getting scolded by Gillian.
“What is it? Is someone hurt?”
“Did you get hit by a rabid dog or something?”
“Or maybe the training inspiration is coming again?”
The mercenaries chuckled.
But after hearing the words of the mercenary who came running, I couldn’t laugh anymore.
“It’s war! There really is war!”
