Chapter. 16. Saint and Perfection (13)
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“What are you doing so late? That Gregory fanatic stalker said that again? “Do you want to stick by the saint’s side even if you die?”
“Ah… well. That’s right. “Yes, that’s exactly what he said.”
“Hey! I knew that guy would do that. You son of a tick. Even when cleaning up King’s Land, they followed behind like cheerleaders and said, ‘Don’t lose consciousness!’ ‘I will be with you until the end of your noble sacrifice!’ “They said the same thing.”
For some reason, I couldn’t see the kid who would normally be up high somewhere scribbling on charcoal, so I guess he was captured by Gregory.
Anyway, now that I’ve taken it all away, I won’t have to look at it for a while.
“I um…”
“What. “You looked a little strange earlier. Do you have something to say?”
“….no. “I just thought it wouldn’t be such a bad thing to come with the paladins.”
“That’s right… that’s right. Because they have outstanding abilities. That’s why it had to be left in Kingsland.”
I did my best to normalize King’s Land to some extent, but it was only a stopgap measure. Even as we leisurely leave on the airship like this, the chamber maids will be extracting low-level mutes in droves, so even if they remove the mute’s blood and sprinkle my own blood, it will inevitably return to its original state after a few days.
I thought that if the Paladins remained, I would be able to prevent blood from spilling inside the castle, so I spoke firmly to the Paladins who were begging like children. ‘Let your light shine somewhere else than me-‘ When I said this, they kind of understood. Thanks to this, the Paladins were a little discouraged.
Buuuuu-
『Rising! Rise! The destination is- uh… Te Teldrat Aedran Territory! The supply ship is returning!』
While I was talking to Idrasil, I heard a sailor’s voice mixed with some hesitation as if preparations were complete.
“…Return ship? As far as I know, our destination is-”
“The ship is going to the Aedran territory, right? “If we just supply supplies here and that’s it, other isolated cities will dry up and die?”
It doesn’t take long for a round trip, but we need to keep supplying supplies going. The ship returns to Aedran territory. The ship is.
“It’s just that we’ll have to make a few stops before heading back.”
“…You’re saying you’re going to get off at a stopover. It took about three days to get from Aedran to Rodrik, so the round trip took six days. “Are people going to find out that the professor was traveling on an airship for those six days?”
Idrasil also seemed to slowly sense what Notum and Otman were talking about, ‘feeling’.
Approximately 30% of the airship’s crew are navigators hired from the Great Desert, and are people who shared the life and death and hardships of the professor in the desert.
Before takeoff, the professor was unusually busy walking around the Aircraft Command and talking with people, and said,
‘Ah, that’s it.’
‘That’s it. That’s right. Do something. professor.’
‘Go in and sleep. ‘It looks like it’s going to be busy.’
Otman and Notum sighed at the sight of the professor running around red-faced and went into the cabin early.
Now, it was Idrasil where they could vaguely feel the true nature of what they felt.
…Do something. I don’t know what it is, but he’s plotting something similar to the self-immolating saint wandering around the city.
“…What should we do during these six empty days?”
“hmm? Hey, you really learned a lot? “I’m starting to notice things like this.”
“Unfortunately, that seems to be the case.”
“I learned the most essential thing to blend into the human world. Nothing special this time. I’m going to be away for a bit, so all you have to do is move around so that people can see you. Attending social gatherings and managing supplies at Aedran Territory. “I’ve already briefly talked about it with Ottman, so he’ll probably let me know.”
As expected, I was planning on counting in the middle.
“If there are people who ask about the professor’s whereabouts, what can I say?”
“Turn it back to heresy. At this point, it seems suspicious to be inquiring about the whereabouts of one of the most important people. If you want to know, get official information through the church.”
Idrasil shook his head at the sight of him already thinking of excuses for his group. Of course, Son was diligently recording his advice.
“Joining?”
“If you move in an airship, it will become natural. “Now that we have supplied supplies to Kingsland, the spine of the Allied Forces, there is only one place to send supplies next.”
Rodrik Western Front. It is the center of the Great Mute War, where allied forces first gathered together to fight, and is not far from the headquarters of the Church of Light. And now, the commanders who planned this crappy operation are sitting there with their butts glued to their faces.
“Ah, when you come, tell the temple there and bring only one of the religious robes that fits my size. “Maybe there is.”
As the professor said that, he cast his gaze beyond the railing of the airship that was beginning to ascend.
Perhaps the next time we meet, it will be in a place where we have to be quite polite. It will be a solemn and majestic place that requires somewhat polite attire. A joint funeral for high-ranking nobles would be quite grand.
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Fiyu Light Moo-
Uh
Kwazijic! Kwajak! Kwaja Jajak-
Cooung!
A black object crashed from the sky with the sound of a missile falling. Broken trees and a forest shaking as if there had been an earthquake.
“Ahhh…. It’s Saksin. Landing safely… Oh, did it land at the landing site? “I think it’s a forest…” Since
the airship was flying above the clouds, it was impossible to check below, so the location was estimated by frequently consulting Captain Avery, who served as a guide.
A colleague who has lived and died with me. Aside from their role as guides, the navigators were still learning their trade as apprentice sailors on airships, which means that they were surplus manpower.
Sailing in the sky is peaceful, and there are many surplus personnel who do simple tasks like veteran sailors, so when the flight becomes stable, only these people naturally work and Gold Geyser’s regular crew members have a moment to rest.
I took advantage of that moment and jumped out of the airship to avoid the eyes of the people over at Goldgey.
A 6-day alibi prepared in advance.
Infiltrate without your allies knowing by recruiting insiders!
“Let’s see. If I roughly estimate it based on how to see the constellations that I learned in the desert… I may have missed the mark a little, but I think I got it roughly right, right? Hey, honestly, isn’t this an airborne operation where you can feel free to say that you are from the 14th Special Operations Unit?”
Even in my opinion, I was expecting a reaction from the people in the chat room due to the smooth progress, but…
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– Jokass: Wow, such a sissy guy. Come by plane.
– takealook: Wow, throw away broadcasters who don’t know the needs of viewers –
Holly: It was kind of cool to fight with a fiery look back then!
– Nutria Gena: Ah, I thought I was finally turning into a saint who would not hesitate….
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Most of the reactions were disappointment. I wondered why he was like that, and he said he wanted to walk all the way from Kingsland to here in a burning state and turn every place he went into a sea of fire.
“….friends? I’ll say it again, the state of the fire at that time was full of defects of no use to the world! My nerves have all melted, and I feel like I’m waddling even when I walk. My muscles are cooked to medium-rare, and my power output and strength have dropped by almost half. Do you know how dirty I feel? You know that tingly, itchy feeling when you walk when your legs are numb? Imagine going into battle with your whole body in that state! Ugh, I’ll never do that again!”
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– takealook: Well. If most of the wide front lines are suffering from such an onslaught of supplies, it would be necessary to perform the ‘Sacrament of Flame’ at least once wherever we go to make it feel like a populated town.
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“I don’t know! They say there are real saints on the Western Front, not just idiots like me! “The saint must have taken care of it!”
Wow!
The gossip ends here. Now that the dizzy feeling from the fall has recovered to some extent, it is time to move.
The place chosen as the landing point was a forest quite far away from the Western Front outpost, that is, at the edge of enemy territory.
The reason I chose this place is because it is far from the city, so there is less risk of being caught by the archer-type heroes stationed in the city or the water-type wizards who are always on duty using long-sight magic.
“Wow, it’s sticky. “It covered an entire area with a real blood mist.”
The biggest reason was that it was easy to infiltrate the friendly formation thanks to the work of the mutes who occupied this area.
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– Jokass: Is this it? What is a chamber maid evolution?
– takealook: ㅇㅇ That’s right. Usually, mutes are active and take 3-4 years to evolve, but Professor’s came out after almost a year.
– Holly: Uh… Is this your first time seeing this? I tried my best to live in the community, but…
– Jokass: I had no choice but to do that. 4 years of in-game time is 48 months, which requires nearly 10 months of game time in real time, so how many people can survive with one character that long? There are only three cases, two of which are not ranked and not well known. Even the community has no information about this fog-like ability. This means that a new species has emerged in addition to the originally known evolved species.
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As people in the chat room say, this kind of modified chamber maid does not occur that easily. This is because there are not many situations where chamber maids need to be equipped with other functions in the first place.
Chamber Maid only needs to perform its role well as a production base and respond to opponents by changing the type of mute that comes from it.
but. In my world, there was a highly intelligent commander called Falcatus.
Falcatus seems to have thought that the Chamber Maid, which was modeled after the Queen’s production institution that specialized in producing high-quality objects, was inefficient. Moreover, since there is a queen who has acquired the divine status of prosperity, isn’t it a spring that meets all the needs and conditions?
There were two types of flower chamber maids that the Archbishop told us about.
First, the source of the volume that is pouring out as if it will bury all of Roderick with blood and corpses. According to Archbishop Norman, an entity called ‘broad roots’. The entity that can be confirmed in the community is this guy.
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– Jokass: That name is so insincere. What did the community call that?
– takealook: Juggling Blood.
– Jokass: People here are good at naming names.
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It is literally a type of chamber made that spreads its roots very shallowly and widely. As an entity specialized in quantity, it cannot produce entities exceeding level 4, but boasts an insane production capacity of 40 to 50 units per litter for those below that level. Up to this point, it seems like it could be possible if there were more general chamber maids.
The most visible characteristic is that the objects it produces are created from the beginning for the purpose of recycling. Usually, the chamber maid makes it. ‘Oh my queen…’ If a regular factory can only think at the same level, this is a smart factory that can think about efficiency.
Even a level 6 mute wears a hard chitinous carapace that rivals armor all over its body, and the objects it creates are all soft flesh. At best, it’s as hard as a head that can sink teeth and claws.
Of course, it is weak enough to easily deal with ordinary soldiers, but the important thing is after killing this soft mute.
‘…I guess this guy’s roots were visible even inside Kingsland?’
About 15cm? It has roots spread out all over the place, so much so that you can see them if you just run your hand over them. It is said that if you don’t suck out all the mute blood in the area at the level of the ‘Burning Saint’, no matter how much you burn and cut these roots, they will grow endlessly like summer weeds. .
The growing roots swallow up the corpses of low-level mutes created based on absorption, and new low-level mutes are born with almost no loss of nutrients. What we are talking about is absorption and production, but in reality it is at the same level as infinite resurrection and export.
‘It even has the intelligence to distinguish between corpses to absorb and those not to absorb, depending on the need. There were rotting mute corpses piled up near Kingsland, but they were sucking them all so frugally that there was no smell of mute blood once you left the castle’s territory. Knowing that the accumulated corpses had a negative effect on humans, they deliberately left them alone without absorbing them. The roots extending inside King’s Land were even spitting out blood absorbed from other places into the ground inside the castle.’
For no reason did I say to people in the chat room, ‘Punch!’ You ‘saint who set himself on fire!’ This means that they did not put any effort into cleaning the inside of Kings Land. When I dug into the truth, I found out that it was a strategic weapon beyond rumors. First of all, we burned and sucked out everything around the walls of King’s Land, but it will probably spread its roots again in a few days. The blood of the mutes created in the meantime will be sprinkled on the ground.
Even up to that ‘wide root’, it’s the true essence of what a Tier 0 mute queen can do if she’s given enough time, which is close to innovation in quantity. But in my world, it’s Mr. Falcatus’ custom-made big taffy that I sent to hell with my own hands. This existed.
People here call it ‘the pillar of the poor.’
This evolved Chamber Maid, whose name exudes extraordinary power, has been transformed to a level that deviates from the essence of the Chamber Maid.
This guy has almost lost his ability to reproduce. Instead, I heard that it is an entity that maximizes the Chamber Maid’s most basic function, ‘the ability to absorb and process nutrients.’
The red-hot fog whose efficacy I can see right now before my eyes.
The ability itself is really simple. The ‘Pillar of the Poor’ covers its territory with fogged mute blood. It does not fly away when the wind blows, does not mix with rain, and even if burned with fire, it only flinches for a moment, but then recovers in an instant, covering all living things that enter its area with a blood mist that makes it impossible to see an inch in front of you.
The only way to safely enter the area where this is embedded is through the High Priestesses of Mercy and Abundance, who can perform the Holy Purification Magic on a large scale and continuously. Holy magic such as Light or Courage and Wisdom is impossible due to poor durability.
That is why it is called the ‘pillar of the poor’. Just as the people of the slums desperately cling to the priests of mercy and abundance who often come to them for relief, they have created an impregnable toxic zone where they cannot enter even a single step without the help of these two denominations.
The area of effect is small enough to cover a couple of villages… but the largest one, embedded in the Chamber Maid Township, the center of the Mute offensive, is said to boast a diameter the size of five large cities lined up in a row. Looking from above the airship, I could see large, red foggy areas scattered throughout Roderick from afar.
‘Push the front line and increase fatigue with an endless offensive of wide roots, then deploy a few elite units to occupy the area. Once an area is occupied, the pillars of the poor are driven into the area to completely turn it into its own land, and then the push is repeated with the injection of supplies. It’s a simple enough system that runs well even without Falcatus’ orders.’
Just looking at the fact that both have abilities that are very closely related to blood, it was clear whose work it was. If Falcatus had survived and met me on this battlefield, he would have been happy and boasted. Oh father! I saw and learned your blood magic! This time too, the teachings are blah blah blah.
The good news is that they are all related to mute blood, so I can counter them all. Wide roots can be solved temporarily by doing the ‘Flame Saint’, and the muted fog zone is like a heel floor to me.
The problem is that no one else can do it except me. The biggest problem was that no matter how much I cleaned up the front lines across the entire Roderick area by flying in an airship, the amount of repairs that would take place while I was away was much larger.
‘This is a plan intentionally made to keep only me busy. A problem that only I can solve. That means he can specify the direction I’m going in, and in effect, it becomes a game where you can move your allies and opponents’ pieces by yourself, like chess played alone. Well, it was a good thing you killed Falcatus. ‘Dead well, you bastard!’
What if you faced this situation with a living Falcatus? If you clear it and don’t survive, you might have thrown it away and turned around thinking, ‘I should just enjoy the rest of my life.’ While I was wandering around the Empire, Falcatus made great use of his free time.
….anyway! Whether it’s uprooting the pillar or burning the root, it’s something to think about later when it’s time to launch a full-scale offensive.
What’s important right now is that this fog provides me with unlimited amounts of nutritious mute blood and provides excellent concealment to hide me from friendly observers.
As I made my way through the forest stained with blood mist, it wasn’t long before I came into sight of an open area where all the trees had been cut off and a large castle that was half in tatters.
“I found it, Hetheln.”
There are three cities that became the center of the Western Front.
The large city of Cologne and the smaller cities of Hetheln and Olfea.
Originally, after the rare stupid commander’s meeting, the commanders had to move to their respective cities on a wide-spread battlefield, but as we all know, as soon as the front line was spread, cities with no communication began to appear here and there, and the Allied commanders who were just moving on horseback gasped. Upon returning, we begin to pursue responsibility and prepare countermeasures. Meanwhile, the long line of fronts was cut off in various places and they were unable to move, leaving them all on the Western Front. Most of them are still in Cologne, debating their brains, but some are said to be planning to return and are staying in Hetheln, which is closer to the east.
In short, there are people gathered here in Hetheln who are full of shit and have no intention of cleaning it up.
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– Holly: Still, wouldn’t it be better to attack Cologne, which has the most commanders, if possible? Since there are three castles, if word gets out that one of them has been attacked, the rest will be on high alert.
– Jokass: Miss, no matter how much we live by making fun of professors, that’s not true.
– Noru Drug: Okay then. The professor isn’t such a bad guy that he deserves to die so miserably.
– Holly: ?????
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“….Compared to Cologne, the defense force is weak, there are only trash that won’t be offended if killed, and there are many other reasons… But even putting that aside, Cologne will never, ever! “You can’t touch it.”
How many innocent people were shot to death to save their lives? How can they spare the lives of the nobles who joined in splitting up other people’s land just because they had a countermeasures meeting? There was no other reason for not paying attention to Cologne, which would have the greatest effect when attacking.
“The Argalian Sword is there.”
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– Holly: ?!
– Jokass: Oh god Swordman. No matter how much Red Mute has overcome all kinds of adversity, Argalman is too much of an adversity.
– takealook: In fact, he sent all the hero units to other fronts and blocked the western front alone. If a regular hero unit has allies like the Yellow Turban Red Otman, Argalian Sword can be seen as Lu Bu.
– Heungan Dumplings: Actually, you have to risk your life to get into Hedeln. The moment the emergency bell dings at Hetheln, it will fly like a missile from the spire of Cologne Castle towards Hetheln before the next ‘ding’ rings.
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That Argalian Sword for me? What if it’s not just man-to-man, but what if you face me in a red mute state?
“Uuuuuu! Absolutely not. “This time, instead of going crazy, we will be very careful, calmly and quietly assassinate the key figures and get out.”
When I remembered the duel between Cheonryuje and Argalian Sword that I had seen in the video, the thought of going wild as I wanted disappeared completely.
Fortunately, I have some expertise when it comes to sneak attacks.
“I have more talents now than I did back then.”
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– Jokass: Oh, is it possible to transform? Can you transform into a woman?
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“Unfortunately, what I have is ‘regenerative’ power, so I can’t hold on to a form different from my body for long. You saw that time, the ax made from the outer skin disappears after about 5 or 10 seconds. .”
“Then how do you hide that body?”
“….like this?”
widely!
In response to questions from people in the chat room, I flicked the flint I had brought with me on the branch that broke when I fell.
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– takealook: ….Packer punch?
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“….Let’s do it just one more time.”
Of course, people cheered as they saw me approaching the small fireworks.
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