Chapter.6 In the Name of Glory (13)
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The next morning, the professor woke up early as usual and started the morning refreshed as he watched the sun just beginning to rise beyond the open wall of the dormitory. I also said hello to the wizards who were doing what they were doing and were huddled on the lawn outside the dorm, but they seemed to shrink even more.
“It was really clear. Whoever made it is very cool. If you look at it now, even when I made a bundle out of curtains, and even when I make such a fuss and destroy the surroundings, when it’s all done, the end result is really nice, right?”
A thought occurred to me as I was looking at the traces of Borka being launched, brightening one by one like concentric circles in the light of the rising sun.
‘The hole was really pretty.’
Just looking at the traces, there was a majestic and wonderful hole, as if figures from the mythical era had jumped out and thrown the Spear of Longinus. In reality, it’s a trace of someone punching it with a fist and flying through it.
Now that I think about it, the insertion of the demonic crystal into the magic tower was just done without thinking at the time, but even now, when you look at it from a distance, it looks like it was some kind of performance art, right? A ruined magic tower and a crystal pillar next to it that emits a mysterious purple light.
[Characteristic: Sparkling Gaze – You see the world a little more beautifully. You receive additional bonuses for art-related activities.]
No matter how much you think about the cause, this is the only one. Art bonus. When something is created because of my actions, it naturally changes to look better through attribute bonuses.
‘I don’t know what it will be used for yet… but it might be worth watching. Until now, the effects hidden in the characteristics have never been bad.’
For now, my thoughts on characteristics end here. There was too much work to do right now to waste time on things like art that didn’t help right away.
First of all, now that we have instilled a sense of purpose in the party members, it is time to measure their objective combat power and divide the organization.
“Let’s see… Matralin Wizard is the second rank?”
“Yes yes! “I gained the realization of second-tier flow and flux!”
“It’s about flow and fluidity… It’s the norm.”
“I’m sorry!!!”
The first thing I did was organize the hierarchy and enlightenment of wizards and record specifically what magic they could use.
“…Andler 3rd rank. “Enlightenment?”
“I gained the realization of the pressure of flow and change.”
“oh! If you put pressure on change, it’s a method of destruction, right? “Isn’t it amazing?”
“Aaaah!”
The professor seemed surprised and praised him, but somehow the wizards were more afraid of him than they had been last night. Even the slightest exclamation or the slightest movement of the hand startles me and makes me scream…
‘Hey, did something happen last night?’
[hmm? Ah hehehe. There was. While you were sleeping, the wizards were staring at your severed hand growing. When you sleep, do you sleep with your eyes half open? So I took a look. Almost everything was covered, so I could only see the shape of a foot wandering nearby, but the wizards were right anyway.]
Oh my. I heard that it reacts very sensitively to the touch. I saw that.
[So I wrote it down. What are you teasing me with?]
….Huh?
The professor thought about what Hyde said once more to see if he had heard correctly. Did you write it down? Left hand in front of the wizards?
‘You wrote it down?’
[huh. With your fingers. Wait a minute…. Oh, there it is. Look at this.]
The image that came to mind with Hyde’s words:
Wizards gathered together in half fear and half curiosity to watch their right hand grow, and their left hand crawling in front of them as if it were alive. Like a scene from a horror movie, in front of them, their faces turning blue and dying, their fingers write something on the floor-
[That’s a curse!]
[The hands are alive and moving!]
[Hehe! It’s a monster!]
[It was watching us! He was observing us while pretending to be asleep!]
[If he continues like this, he will be punished!]
[Water! Find water! We need a lot of water to protect our bodies!]
Upon seeing this, the wizards were astonished like children hearing that Santa was actually their father.
[Oh, it was fun.]
‘You must have had fun. ‘What are those wizards guilty of?’
For some reason, I thought that there were many wizards who woke up earlier than me and that they were diligent. Did you not sleep well?
The professor put a period in the record he was writing while looking at the wizards who were wary of him with pity.
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Composition of the Gwangmyeong Church’s death squad.
1. Professor: A tank with excellent durability. Good at close combat. A commander without the threat of assassination.
2. 5 people including Reedflow School wizard Ottoman Baudelaire: 1 person in the 5th level, 2 people in the 3rd level, 2 people in the 2nd level. Decent magic power. Otman is more of a research wizard, but the two third-tier players possess many useful destructive spells. Physical weakness. Restrictions on long distance travel. Limited supply. trash.
3. Borka Dalun: Werewolf. Strong vitality. When fighting without going berserk, he won by a narrow margin. Although lacking in utility, he is excellent as a warrior. Considering the detection ability using the beastman’s unique sense of smell and night vision, it can be used in assassination operations. I hit it once and it listened well.
4. Notum: Hero unit. Even if the mission fails, he must come out alive. A typical melee tank. Since he is a troll, he also has good staying power. Strong strength is the main weapon. For a troll, he has good brains. If you teach it well, you might grow up quickly, right?
4. Warlock: –
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“The tank line is better than I thought. You can become a healer on your own, right? Both werewolves and I have unique vitality, and trolls can make potions with their blood, so it goes without saying.”
Beat, beat, beat, beat.
As the professor, who had finished organizing things, was about to call the warlock for the last time, he heard footsteps approaching from the temple towards the dormitory. I heard the sound
of small footsteps. White robes visible from afar.
Senadis. He is the bishop of the Church of Light of Tobrun.
Senadis entered the lodgings, looked at the open wall for a moment, and then slightly lowered his head without any agitation.
“ “Tura Ro-haram. Have you had a peaceful night, warrior and warriors?”
“Oh well. It was quite peaceful. Even though I was captured by the cult, my fingers and nails weren’t pulled out and my eardrums weren’t ruptured.”
Amid the uncomfortable silence, the professor responded somewhat sharply on behalf of the organization. Yesterday, I said that I was a warrior appointed by the church, but if I show that I am too close to a member of the church, all the hostility toward the church will come back to me. What happens next? There is a need to show a bit of a rough side for the sake of it.
‘If it’s someone like Senadis, they’ll notice and adjust to it. She’s a woman with that much sense.’
As if Senadis had read the professor’s thoughts, he responded in the same sharp tone, matching the professor’s words:
“If you want, I can move you to the basement right now. It’s damp and dark. It must be a familiar place to wizards.”
“Okay, let’s start with the reason why you took such a precious step in the morning. It must be important if a holy priest skips morning prayers to come visit you, right?”
“Yes. I bring you news that would surprise even a heretic.”
After taking a moment to catch his breath, Senadis continued in a somber voice,
“I wanted to give you a little more time, but I think you should leave right away. Last night, the Hebrahim Church of Mercy and Tolerance showed ‘mercilessness’ until the Mutes were completely exterminated. “Because I declared what I would do.”
“Hebrahim… declared mercilessness?”
The Hebrahim Church is a representative religious order that worships Hebrahim, the god of mercy and tolerance. Even during the Noble Wars, when warlords invaded and plundered the temple, the people who thought ‘It all must have a meaning’ were ruthless and therefore destroyed the temple. Did you declare it?
“No, what on earth happened to make those idiots and innocent people so angry?”
Senadis responded to the professor’s question with a somewhat embarrassed expression,
“Well… they say that the white flash of Edeornna has kidnapped the Hebrew priestess.”
“….a plague.”
‘Why did you say it was quiet… but is it starting to start?’
The situation was rapidly changing again. That meant that Mute, which had been gathering troops, had begun to move again.
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A few hours later, the professor and his party were leaving the church carrying a mountain of luggage.
“The… hero? ”
“Just call me captain, Borka.”
“Hmm, hmm! Then, Captain. Is there really a need to carry so much food? Still, it’s the work of a warrior of the Light Church. If you ask for it at a temple or a private house on the way, won’t they provide you with as much food as you can?”
“If it’s just food, I’ll give it to you. But wouldn’t it be rare to find an area with as much dried fish as Tobrunn?”
The wizards who were following behind flinched at the professor’s words.
“We’ll do some local procurement on the way, but the more supplies we bring, the better. It’s bulky, but it’s not particularly heavy, right?”
“Wow. Crispy fish. Delicious.”
“Oh no! Notum! You can’t eat that!”
When
the professor shouted to stop him, Notum swallowed the dried fish he had been holding in his mouth and stuffed the handful of dried fish he was holding into his bag. He looked at the mountains in the distance as if he had never done that before.
“It’s not tasty. Crispy fish. I won’t eat it.”
“I’m not telling you not to eat… Notum. Can you see the people following behind me?”
“Wow. I can see it. A human in blue. He has dried up. He will die soon.”
Although his complexion is a little bad, a water-type wizard is still very active for a wizard, so he is relatively healthy, but by Notum’s standards, he seems to have not much time left to live. But there is no need for me to correct that.
“Okay. That blue dress is. “I’m a weak and sick human being. I’m so sick that I can’t even touch anything other than fish. So, give me the dried fish and let’s eat something else.”
“Gwa. He takes care of the weakened creature of the group. He is a strong and excellent leader.”
Notum was already patting his head for the fifth time since he left. Looking at his, or rather her, happy face, the professor was worried about what might happen.
– Professor: No, it’s not true, right?
– Speed Wagon: For sure. Troll’s Even if it is not summer, estrus begins only when the temperature exceeds 32 degrees. There is no record of it going into estrus with another species in the first place. If there has not been a single record in the past 11 years since GG came into the world, it can be considered impossible.
– Soy Sauce Gay Bar : I wrote. It’s a shame
. Anyone could see that he was a troll in love. – professor: I
‘m going to dig it up. I’m glad he said no for now. Still, just in case, I asked Notum why he was listening to me so well, and the answer was more ordinary than I expected.
“Big deal.” “Little human. Uh… Professor? Professor. I like it.”
“Huh!”
“When I’m alone in the forest, I hunt. I wander around. I watch the sun set. I sleep. I don’t talk. There’s no one to talk to. But after I leave the forest, I talk a lot. There are a lot more beautiful things than the setting sun. There are also a lot more strange things. It’s hard. There are a lot of things, but it’s fun.”
Seueueueueu-
“The professor communicates well. He’s an easy person to hang around with.”
“Whew. That’s what I meant. Then, why don’t you stick around next to me…” ”
It’s convenient. I want to kill people who don’t communicate with me. If I can’t stand it, I’ll be kicked out of the stone nest. I can’t stand it anymore, so I came all the way here.”
In the end, I liked the human world I first came into, but as I wandered around, there were a lot of things that were very uncomfortable, so it meant going with a professor I could communicate with and was close
to. – Speed Wagon: Ah, when summer, the breeding season, passes and fall, female trolls begin to show maternal instinct. You become very strong. If you don’t have children, you will attack nearby trolls to steal their children. This may be part of the reason why Notum is chasing you. That’s okay. I do
n’t want to know that kind of knowledge. Even so, he always watches me with satisfaction whenever I do something. I expected it from the fact that he would suddenly try to pat my head.
Tap, tap, tap!
“Get out of the way!”
“Heeheeheehee!”
A loud noise was heard in the distance, and a knight on a horse was crossing the street with all his might. He was lightly armed and had a small flag engraved on the symbol of Tobrun. It was a messenger. The
professor said as he looked at the messenger passing by them
. It seems like there is a slow response even on the battlefield. “When I see a messenger running in such a hurry.”
“Captain, then where are we going?”
“Hmm… Originally, I was planning to go up along the river in the western part of Kingsland, but since my Hebrahim friends have declared ‘no mercy,’ I will have to change my plan. The headquarters of the Hebrahim Temple is also in the western part of Kingsland, so the Paladins of Mercy who depart from there will put tremendous pressure on the western front.”
“Then shouldn’t we take a course further west? It would be safer and easier to go to a place where there are many allies…”
While listening to Borka’s words, the professor took out the map he had received by stopping by Moon Shadow on the way.
“Generally speaking, that would be the case. What if reinforcements rushed out and the front lines became thicker? But the Hebrahim Holy Knights came out in the first place because of Mute’s stimulation, right? “Do you mean this is the version they made?”
Even thinking about it again, the timing was amazing. Thanks to my reputation as a red mute, the magic towers of each country were put on full alert. However, the temple did not suffer any damage, and in the case of Hebrahim in particular, since it was a sect renowned for healing and purification, it was time to dispatch more of the sect’s manpower to the battlefield in preparation for future damage. Taking advantage of the last opportunity just before the entire human race was ready for battle, they kidnapped Anna Maria, a Hebrahim goddess who was also known as the agent of mercy.
‘Wow, what a waste. If you don’t have floor heels, it’s hard to withstand the push in the final scenario.’
Anna Maria is a healing-specialized hero unit that continuously applies wide-area healing and purification on a legion scale based on her tremendous divine power as a priestess of a religious order specializing in healing and purification. There is no need to attack him because he participates in the war without having to make him a companion, but he is close to number one in importance.
In any case, this is a plan created by an opponent who knows how to use such clever tricks. I can assure you that if we go to the Western Front, things will go awry.
“Even though we tend to use our strength, it’s only a losing proposition in such a corps-scale battle. Even the battlefield prepared by the opponent. If you go, all you can do is die. Instead, there is one advantage to having the Western Front become so thick, right?”
“What is that?”
“I mean troops, troops. Since everyone has flocked there, the eastern part must have been empty, even if the central area adjacent to the western part is empty.”
It may have been a normal play, but in the world the professor plays, Mute is seriously lacking in troops. If you focus on one side like that, there will be a hole somewhere.
‘That could be why they are in a hurry. If we give it a little more time, and the elves and beastmen tribes of the far eastern desert countries of the Felheim Empire, the Federation of Shandala Free Cities, including Rodrick, participate in the recruitment process, humanity will be able to put pressure on Mute with numbers. The aftermath of the battle in Turan has brought the situation to this point!’
Mute’s position is that since the gambling rush failed in the beginning, they have to deal a blow to humanity using the troops and elite troops they have somehow managed to gather.
“This could really be an opportunity. Maybe… I could really stick my blade in front of the Mute Queen like this!”
With a small piece of charcoal, the professor drew a line from Tobrunn, through Turan, through Pellas, and towards the north.
“We are going to Pellas. It may not be completely empty, but if we do well, we will be able to create an opportunity to recover the city by cooperating with the military forces waiting for battle.”
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