I Noticed That It Was an Academy After 10 Years

195. That’s Not How War Works (1)

“Sergeant Morgan.”

“Okay? “Why are you calling me?”

A wilderness located at the western edge of the empire.

The guards guarding the walls of Fort Fletcher, located at the entrance to the wilderness, were having a lazy day again today.

Standing guard in a place where all there was was a yellow wilderness with no end in sight, it was a battle against extreme boredom.

It was difficult to stare blankly at the wilderness where nothing had happened for a long time. Sergeant Morgan leaned against his spear and glanced at the rookie standing next to him.

“Look over there.”

“What?”

His head, which had been staring blankly at the floor, lifted up. His eyes moved toward the horizon of the wilderness, which he had not seen for quite some time.

“Fuck. What is it…”

A wave of death fills the horizon.

Sergeant Morgan recalled his rookie days and cried out with all his might.

“It’s an attack! Bisaahah Ahhh! “

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[Contractor, how long is left until the academy?]

“There are still three more days left.”

I erased the fingernail-sized flame on my index finger and answered.

I was able to spend a good amount of time practicing to utilize the Phoenix’s protection, but Lue had nothing to do other than watch the same sights that she had already seen so many times.

Anyway, this is quite difficult.

It’s been almost 15 days since I practiced using the Phoenix’s protection.

Handling the protection of the Phoenix, one of the core cores of the knight tree, was more difficult than expected.

Should I say this is the difference between games and reality? In games, passive is automatically applied and active can be solved by pressing a single shortcut, but in reality, it took a lot of practice to handle divine protection.

The passive regeneration enhancement is applied automatically anyway, so it doesn’t really matter. However, the problem was that handling the Phoenix flame was more difficult than expected.

On the first day, I used it to light a fire and it ended up melting half of the igloo. It’s not anything else, it’s the flame of a divine beast, so just the flame emission used by a simpleton like me has more power than a decent level 3 magic.

If Lenny received this, he won! I think I could have shouted, “Part 1 is over!”

…I’ll take Lennie with me later.

Whatever it is, it is definitely strategically advantageous to focus on the strongest person. In an emergency, the difference between having an asymmetrical weapon or not is very big.

Actually, there is no need to receive the Phoenix’s protection.

Although the Phoenix’s protection is powerful, the Saint’s protection is also strong enough to not be defeated by it. No, in some ways, the saint’s protection was added. They even use healing magic with the full power of a saint behind the scenes.

Only those who have suffered the pain of having their arm cut off using all possible means, only to have it come back together as soon as they pick it up and hold it back.

Because the second phase of Lenny’s boss fight starts like that.

After.

I suddenly feel dizzy thinking about catching Lenny.

Let’s practice Gahona again.

Again, float a small flame on your index finger. Immediately afterwards, a flame appeared on his middle finger. Since I couldn’t shoot fireworks from inside the carriage, I was practicing delicate control by making several pea-sized fireworks.

No matter how powerful the protection is, if the person handling it is incompetent, it could actually become poisonous.

But this is really difficult.

I still had to concentrate as if I was doing fine work to create a small spark. As the number increases, the control difficulty increases exponentially.

With every attempt, I was almost amazed that wizards do this without any problem.

“I guess I need to get some help from Elisa.”

Elisa may be a good teacher, but this is it. How could she teach herself if she even threw in some simple tips? I also put a flame on my ring finger and spread my little finger.

I had succeeded with three so far, so now it was time to try the fourth.

Close your eyes and move your magical power as if you are drawing a line on your ring finger. The magical power amplified by the Phoenix’s protection slowly flowed through the fingers and immediately reached the fingernails as soon as the plate was laid. The magic concentrated in the nails slowly lights up the fingers-

“Is it a failure?”

In this way, you’re not just lighting a flame, you’re burning your fingers.

Wouldn’t it be better to have sharp ears and use them like a pirate who got pierced in the stomach by a magma fist? But I’m not a physical person.

You wouldn’t know it if I had post-human physical abilities, because even if my physical abilities were good, I was only an athlete.

In modern society, that would have been enough, but here it’s just a game.

In a world where there are many creatures with the destructive power of a strategic weapon through personal power, there is no choice.

As the saying goes, to people like that, they would be nothing more than a newborn baby, a person with the top physical strength of an athlete, or the height of an acorn.

“…Damn world.”

If you’re going to possess me, why not give me some crazy abilities? How long do I have to twist my body? It’s sad and disappointing to think that the final battle with Harpas is coming.

[Huh? What did you just say?]

“I’m talking to myself. “Don’t worry.”

[What, it’s not fun.]

It was then. The vibration of the carriage stopped, the window connecting the coach seat and the inside of the carriage opened, and a voice was heard.

“We arrived at Stein Village.”

Has it happened already? I carried the backpack that had been left in a corner of the carriage and hung Lue, which was clinging to the window, to my waist. As soon as I opened the carriage door and got out, I saw a peaceful village.

No, peaceful… ?

“Tom. Isn’t something a bit messy?”

“Hasn’t someone caused an accident?”

We tilted our heads and entered the village. As we entered the village, the chaotic atmosphere surrounding the village became even more intense.

People talk with serious faces, and some even cry. Some even said that it might spread to this point and that we should prepare weapons.

Until we arrived at ‘The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg’, where we had previously stayed, we remained silent and focused on the noise of the people around us whispering.

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“It’s a large-scale advance of monsters from the west…”

Tom mumbled and took a big bite of his portion of sausage.

War.

A terribly heavy sound stayed between us.

“You won’t be able to go west for a while.”

“Have you ever been to the West?”

“There are probably very few places on the continent that I haven’t been to. The West… Isn’t a very wealthy place. Still, it wasn’t a bad place. The land was a bit barren, but it wasn’t a land with a lot of danger.”

Tom talked for a while about his stories about the West. I listened to his chatter and pulled out some useful information.

Of course, it’s not that I don’t know about the West. Around the second year, I was able to complete some quests in the western part of the continent.

But it’s a game, this is reality.

The main story roughly follows the original, but almost all of the details have been turned over. Now it’s too late to cling to the original. It’s useful enough as a reference material, but…

Anyway, for me now, there was a need to know the West in reality, not the West in games. If possible, it would be a good idea to get a map as soon as you return to the academy.

“Tom. “I’d better stop talking about the West now.”

“…Hmm? Ah. I see…”

Tom was already drunk, probably because he had drank five beers. Stories about the West have long since degenerated into braggadocious sagas, and voices are growing louder, attracting the attention of others.

It wasn’t a very pleasant situation, so I called the inn staff, paid the money, and took Tom up to the room.

I’ve heard everything worth hearing anyway.

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“I want to see John… Right?”

Carina’s head turned to her side when Milia, who was sitting at the same table and diligently writing down her report in her notebook, suddenly said something.

‘John…Where are you and what are you doing now?’

Almost a month now.

Without Yohan, Yeomyeonggwan was somehow lacking vitality.

Milia, who was so active, spent more time looking at her window without saying a word, and Elisa also spent more time locked in her room. Even Lennie sometimes gets lost in his thoughts instead of working.

In that awkwardness, whenever Karina went out for her walk, she would look at the studio where he used to work.

‘When I come back… What should I say?’

Without him, Yeomyeonggwan is lonely.

Karina looked out her window without even realizing what she was thinking.