CH 14

The morning after I met Klaus-san, the lord of Volzard, the evil old man, I sank into the shadows of the back alley on my way to the guild as usual.

Of course, Reinhardt and Basten are watching over me where no one can see them.

I sank into the shadow space, looking for Fred and moving to that point at once.

[ Fred, then I'm heading over there, so I'm counting on you. ]

[ OK ... it's all good over here ... ]

During the special training last night, I practiced seeing if I could move not only to the places I went to in the past, but also to the places where Reinhardt and the others had gone.

As a result, if Reinhardt and the others act as landmarks, I can move to places I have never been to.

Yeah, this is super-convenient ... And the destination I moved to was Lastock in the Kingdom of Resenburg, infiltrating the enemy hideout.

Yesterday, I talked with Klaus-san over a meal, and if the Kingdom of Resenburg and the Republic of Landshelt were to go to war, I decided I'd be on the side of the Republic of Landshelt ... or rather, to be on the side of Volzard.

The reason is the difference in the way we think about people.

"You idiot! Okay, Kent. There are people in this world who can't do anything without effort, but there is no one who can't do anything for the rest of their lives. You have a margin for growth!"

When I said I was just a kid, Klaus-san yelled at me.

"It's the job of the people who stand on top to figure out how to raise and unlock people's potential. It would take another fifteen years for humans to be able to work like Kent today. Well, it would take another ten years to become a full-fledged adult, and if you think about it, you can't just cut someone off because they're useless at first glance. You just have to spend time and money, I can't do such a wasteful thing!"

Volzard is said to be called 'the farthest city' in the Republic of Landshelt.

It is protected by a solid wall, but it also means that there is a danger that that much wall will be needed.

Once every few years, the number of monsters may suddenly increase, and it is not uncommon for not only garrison members and adventurers but also ordinary people to be sacrificed.

That is why Klaus-san understands the value of human resources.

"Okay, Kent. You may not have any magical talent, but you've come out from the Devil's Forest alive, I can confidently say, you still have a talent asleep in you. Do a lot of work to find out. If donovan or Gilik tells you to practice, go crazy and work like you did today. Make a lot of mistakes and learn a lot. If you do, you will surely find a way to shine! Do you understand!"

"Huh ... yes, yes ... I understand ... uuh ..."

Embarassingly, I spilled tears in front of Klaus-san and Muell-san.

When I was in Japan, I was sleeping all the time, and everyone was always angry at me, every time I was labeled as bad, no, I was labeled as useless.

I don't think I've ever been recognized for my existence to my face.

Between Klaus-san, who declared that he would make me shine even if he knew that the 'Evil Eye Crystal' judged me to be useless, and the evil princess who tried to dispose of me without getting her hands dirty. It goes without saying which side I should be on.

I decided to help all my classmates escape to Volzard.

But it's not easy to achieve.

I can move back and forth without difficulty by moving in the shadows, but I don't know if I can move with someone else.

Then, in order ot move everyone to Volzard, I will have to traverse the Devil's Forest.

Of course, if you use Reinhardt as an escort, the chances of being able to overcome it will increase, but it is still difficult to protect nearly 200 humans.

Of course, there is also a concern that Resenburg will follow.

So, first of all, I decided to dertermine the current situation.

There was also a slight discrepancy between the impression I had of Klaus-san between just hearing about him before we met and the impression I had when we actually met and talked.

It's not that I don't trust Fred's report, but I really wanted to see what everyone was doing right now.

I was told that the city of Lastock never existed while Reinhardt and his friends were alive.

In the old days, it was said that there were just grasslands and wastelands, but now there is a town in the middle of the wheat fields that have been harvested.

It's like a land and a city that was cleared after Reinhardt and the others died.

The garrison where my classmates were taken is on the outskirts of the city, between the river than runs along the edge of the Devil's Forest and the city.

Perhaps it also serves as a preparation for monsters crossing the river, surrounded by sturdy walls, the opening has thick iron gates, and guards standing at the entrance to keep watch.

However, the shadows of trees, the shadows of buildings, the shadows of people ... We were able to dive into the shadows and move along those shadows without difficulty.

Mufufu, darkness attribute mage, seriously a cheat.

However, in a large military facility, my classmates were trained in groups of mages and knights, depending on the type and level of attributes.

I decided to look at them in order from the end, and the first thing I saw was training to become a knight.

Like me yesterday, the two groups are facing each other, holding a wooden sword with a leather helmet, vest, and a gauntlet.

There are about 20 people in each group, and about 40 people in total are glaring at each other.

"Both armies start chanting!"

"Mana, oh mana, oh mana that governs the world, gather, gather, gather in my body, return, return, return and become my power, strengthen!"

"Mock battle, start!"

"Uooooooo!"

The two armies who chanted all at once screamed and plunged into the other party.

I wondered if there was a formation of crane wings, fish scales, or some other kind of formation, but it was just a brute force battle that rushed straight towards the enemy.

Both groups have a mix of boys and girls, but it doesn't look like they're being more lenient with the girls at all.

The girls are doing more than equal work, and I'm scared because it seems like they're seriously killing each other.

"What's wrong! We don't need uselessness in Resenburg, do you want to be bait for monsters in the Devil's Forest?"

"If you don't want to die, kill your opponent! If you don't, you'll be killed!"

"That's why if you don't want to also be eaten by monsters! Kill, kill, kill!"

Wow ... It's about me that was useless and used as bait for monsters ... Is it used as a threatening material?

[ Reinhardt, was that the chanting for when you use physical enhancement? ]

[ That's right, the evaluation as a knight will change depending on how much you can strengthen, how long you can maintain, etc. ]

[ How much can you strengthen? ]

[ Well, if you have a weak magical power, it will be about 50% more, but if you have a high magical power, you will strengthen your body three to five times. ]

I see, the villainous princess who lifted that Funayama with one hand is a knight type and has a high amount of magical power.

While thinking about such things, it seems that a large number of simulated battles were decided.

Apparently, the rule of victory or defeat is that the group that has a larger number of people who wrestle with the opponent they collided with, go to the opponent's position if they win, and reach the position seems to be victorious.

It doesn't matter whether it's a boy or a girl, the winning side and the losing side are all tattered.

For the first time, I saw a girl screaming with a nosebleed, it's too scary.

[ Reinhardt, if they're working this hard, they'll become a soldier in about a year, right? ]

[ No, Kent-sama, this way you'll get fighting spirit, but you won't get experience or a calm judgment, the training method wasn't like this when we were alive. ]

[ Is that so? Isn't this the life-threatening training you mentioned last time? ]

[ I said that it was dangerous, as in pushing yourself to the point where you exceeded the limit, not that you should do dangerous training in a messy way. ]

[ Hmm ... In other words, it feels like a meaningful life-threatening and a meaningless life-threatening method? ]

[ That's right ]

Elsewhere, training for mages was taking place.

It has the same feeling as the guild's mage training, and it seems to be a practice of shooting magic at the target.

"Mana, oh mana, oh mana that governs the world ... ga, gather, gather, gather in my hands and become a flame ... Da, dance, dance, dance oh flame, become a fireball! Ya, yaaa!"

The magic that the female student cast was scattered as soon as it left her hand.

"No, no, chant more accurately and imagine it more accurately, such a traumatic changing will make you a fireball, or a fool!"

"Sorry, I'm sorry!"

The chanting to use magic is, of course, in the language of this world.

Due to the influence of summoning, we can speak, read, write, and understand, but I think that the pronunciation is like a foreign language.

Therefore, everyone seems to have a hard time chanting, and they can't activate it well, and they are kicked by the knights.

I don't think I need to chant it, but I wonder if I'd be useless.

When I was observing while thinking such, the handsome guy from the basketball club appeared.

"Mana, oh mana, oh mana that governs the world, gather, gather, gather in my hands and become a flame, dance, dance, dance oh flame, and become a fireball!"

Wow, the fireball of the person who was taking the training in the guild was about a softball, but this is about a basketball, and the ball speed is about 150 km, isn't it?

The straw doll that was hit was turned into ashes in a blink of an eye, and the Resenburg mage who was watching over it also claps his hands and praises him.

I wish he had a harder time chanting, but that's why the handsome guy ... I was a bit jealous, and a beautiful blonde woman walked up to him with a towel in her hand.

"As expected, Hero-sama."

"Thank you, Celia, but this is easy for me."

No, there's no reason to do anything like wiping sweat.

Anyway, hero? Oh, weren't we just soldiers?

According to Fred, this beautiful blonde is a maid exclusively for the handsome man, and she sleeps and eats together with him and takes care of his surroundings.

What is this? It's a complete honey trap, isn't it?

What an envious ... no, scary, but if I were this cheat magician ... I would be completely caught and tamed.

"Hero, are you still training?"

"Of course, I have to become stronger, I have to be stronger for those who aren't strong enough to make it so that there are no more sacrifices!"

Wow, it's the cliche that forcibly creates a feeling of sadness that I wasn't expecting.

Well, about that sacrifice, he's lurking at your feet.

When I left the training center for the mages, there was a place where they were doing civil engineering work.

If you look closely, it seems that there is a classmate here, or maybe there is the Funayama guy.

[ Kent-sama, this is a training ground for earth-based mages. ]

[ Training of earth attributes ...? ]

The people there are all muddy and putting kneaded soil into molds to shape them.

Oops, I think they are all students, but Ayako Sugiyama-sensei, the internship teacher, is mixed in.

"When Ayako-sensei finishes filling the mold with soil, she begins to chant.

"Mana, oh mana, oh mana that governs the world, gather, gather, gather in my hands and infuse the earth, infuse, infuse, infuse the earth, harden!"

"Let's see ... good, next!"

When the chanting is over, it seems that the knight of Resenburg hits it with a hammer to inspect the workmanship.

The one that got an OK seems to be a U-shaped gutter.

Apparently, it seems that the materials for civil engineering work are being made for training as well.

It's the simplest and most muddy job I've ever seen, and every face looks exhausted.

"Mana, oh mana, ohh, wor, wor, the world, oh mana ... ga, ga, gather, gather, ugh, gather in my hands and infuse... in, infuse the earth, infuse, infuse ... infuse the earth, ha, harden!"

Wow ... what a traumatic thing this Funayama's chanting, is it okay?

"This ... it isn't solidified at all, what are you doing, you big lump, do you really want to become a bait for monsters?"

"Ku ... I can't do this kind of work ... Gue ..."

"Are you not able to learn at all, over and over again?"

Oh, the knight is also hanging onto Funayama's neck with just his right hand.

Ayako-sensei, even if you want to stop him, it's crazy if you can't get the right timing.

Even though it's a tense scene, it's kind of healing.

"Choose your favorite, obedience or death, you big lump!"

"I ... o ... bey ..."

"What? I can't hear you, say it clearly, clearly!"

"Guu ... o ...bey ... I ..."

"Oh, you can't talk like this, hmm ..."

Ah, Funayama was thrown away like garbage again, I feel sorry for him when he plunges into the mud face first.

The knight grabbed the coughing Funayama's hair and dragged him up.

"So which one is it, obedience? Death? Do you want to be bait for monsters?"

"O, I will obey ... I will."

"Hmm, if you said that from the beginning, it didn't have to be painful or miserable, do you understand?"

Funayama nodded silently, even though he looked dissatisfied.

Uhyahya, Funayama is weak! THat's it!

Hey, Funayama bastard, you're not a knight, but a mage.

According to Reinhardt, the soldier candidates thusly recruited were first forced to undergo a physical fitness test, then taught to recite physical strengthening, and those who were not significantly stronger than the first measurement were trained as a mage type.

Funayama is strong even if he doesn't strengthen himself, but he's not as strong as someone who can use the magic of strengthening his body, and he's also inferior in agility, so he had to be a mage.

Knight of Resenburg, please rectify Funayama.

By the way, I can't see the chairman, but where is my chairman?

[ Saint is ... medical office ... ]

According to Fred, the chairman is in the facility's medical office, treating not only our classmates who were injured in training, but also the people of the city of Lastock.

Then, let's go to the tour immediately.

Shadow movement makes it easy to break inside the building.

The medical office is a little different from Japanese hospitals, and has something like a bathtub in addition to the examination table.

This bathtub is said to be used by water attribute mages who can heal, and it is said that people store the water with healing power and people immerse the affected area in the water.

Hwoever, since the chairman is a light attribute mage, the treatment seems to be done exclusively by the examination table.

"Mana, oh mana, oh mana that governs the world, gather, gather, gather in my hands and heal!"

When the chairman chanted cheerfully, she put her hand on the waist of the man sitting on the examination table.

The treatment seems to be over after about 3 minutes.

"How is it?"

"Yes, thanks to you, I'm getting much better, thank you, Saint-sama."

"Well, see you tomorrow."

"Yes, thank you, Saint-sama."

After continuing the treatment for about three minutes per person for about ten people, the chairman exhaled and wiped the sweat on her forehead.

Seeing the chairman like that, a woman who seems to be an assistant called out.

"Saint-sama, take a break ..."

"No, it's still okay."

"Saint-sama, there are still many people waiting for treatment, so please take a break so you can treat as many people as possible."

"Hmm ... well, I see, I'll take a break."

The chairman sighed deeply as she sank into the sofa in the corner of the room.

[ After all, as Fred says, Kent-sama is better at being a healer. ]

[ Hmm ... but it's not a strict comparison, and I think the chairman is doing her best. ]

[ Kent-sama, you don't chant ... also, the treatment time is long ... ]

I think it's because I was trained at the livre farm and self-healing.

However, I feel that the chairman's tiredness is terrible.

"Please, please help my son he's had a fever for three days, please, please, to the saint ..."

"No, no, don't overdo it, there are limits to the saint ..."

Somehow it was noisy outside the medical office, so when I went ot peep, a woman holding a boy about three years old and a soldier were asking and answering questions.

The boy held by the woman has a fever, but she also looks pale and earthy.

Isn't this pretty bad?

"Please come inside, I'll treat him right away!"

"Ah ... Thank you, Saint-sama, thank you."

"It's okay, come on, let him lie down there."

Oh, chairman, you really have become an angel.

The chairman, who laid the child on the examination table, chanted and put her hand on the child's chest and began treatment.

However, even if she chants again and again, the child's complexion doesn't improve.

On the contrary, it looks like the chairman's face is draining of blood.

[ Kent-sama, it seems that the situation is a little unpleasant ... ]

[ Yeah, it seems better to help a little. ]

The chairman may also have pride as a healer, but for now I will prioritize the recovery of the child.

From the shadows on the treatment table, I put my hand on the back of the child so that the people around him wouldn't realize it, and I imagined that the healing effect would spread throughout the body.

"Oh, my child's complexion got better in an instant ..."

"Breathing and pulse have stabilized."

"As expected of Saint-sama ... it's a miracle!"

"Thank you, Saint-sama, thank you, thank you."

Apparently the child's condition was stable, so I decided to keep an eye on what happened from the shadows.

People praised the chairman, but she is staring has her hands with a surprised look.

[ Good, it looks like the kid is getting better. ]

[ Kent-sama, that may not have been a good idea. ]

[ Why? ]

[ The woman called the Saint may have thought it was her power. ]

[ Yeah, it doesn't have to be my credit. ]

[ Kent-sama, I've only see it a little, but that woman seems to have a strong sense of responsibility. ]

[ Yeah, that's right, the chairman has a strong sense of responsibility. ]

[ What if she couldn't do what she thought she could do? ]

[ Eh? Ah ... well, I'm still glad I did it. ]

[ Yes, just try not to overdo it ... ]

The chairman took a break again, but while sitting on the sofa, she started at her hands, smiled, and seemed to cry a little.

Oh, maybe you're impressed with your achievements?

Actually, I helped ... it's hard to say.

I thought it was good, but I felt like I had created a fire of some trouble, and the aftertaste was a little bad.

Hmm ... what's wrong?