The rebel’s stronghold.
“Damon, are you ready?”
“Aryandor-sama.”
Damon raised his head.
He was creating new undead among the corpses.
Aryandor had told him to prepare for war, so he was preparing everything for this.
“What are you doing? Is there anything you want me to do?”
Damon asked as he walked out of the corpse.
Aryandor shook his head at this.
“I came here for work. It reminded me of the past.”
Damon and Aryandor weren’t the first to meet when they formed the rebels.
Epomos, where the two met for the first time.
Both were orphans.
He was a weak orphan without parents, strength, or anything else.
Of course, we didn’t know each other in detail at the time.
Aryandor was just an orphan rolling around in the streets, and Damon lived on errands from necromancers.
Because they lived in different environments, they only knew their faces.
It was quite a coincidence that the two met.
Aryandor was being educated by Ophilus, and Damon was captured by the Astrian family along with the necromancers.
When they grew up to a certain extent, the two met in the marketplace.
Damon was briefly out on an errand, and Aryandor was wandering around with Ophilus.
Aryandor found Damon and saved him.
To be precise, Ophilus stole him.
And together, the two rebels.
Damon raised his head and looked at Aryandor.
“Once upon a time, was it when you were in Epomos?”
“okay.”
Aryandor and Damon occasionally chatted about the subject of their time in Epomos.
Then there is a story that must not be missed.
Aryandor always told stories about his older sister.
Before, I didn’t know who the woman was, but I recently found out that his older sister was Saint Beatrix.
It was because he had seen the data he was studying and the results.
Damon looked at it and got a rough idea of what he was trying to do.
And suddenly I started to wonder.
When Aryan’dor first rebelled, Damon thought that Aryan’dor had two goals.
A purpose to change the world and a personal purpose for yourself.
I didn’t know what that personal purpose was then, but now I know it.
After that, there was a question as to whether Aryandor would go along with the rebel’s purpose.
What if Aryandor’s purpose was not for the rebels, but only for himself?
Jeffrin is dead, Raven is dead.
The guys who were around and who were with me are dying one by one.
Sacrifice is obviously required for a cause.
If they can get what they want, these sacrifices can be made.
However, if Aryandor only thinks about his own purpose.
Damon looked at Aryandor quietly.
“Anyway, I came here because I have something to say other than that. I will be away for a while.”
Damon narrowed his brow.
“Can’t we just go as usual? Are you going to be away for a long time?”
“Not long. And it’s not going anywhere, it’s going to be nearby. All you have to do is block anyone from coming near it. In the meantime, prepare for war.”
“… … Okay. But maybe.”
“Well?”
“May I ask what you do?”
Damon knew about it.
Still, I asked a question.
What the hell is Aryandor going to do?
what to do
Aryandor replied to this.
“Ready. Ready to end all of this.”
***
“Well then, I’ll go.”
With Ian’s words, I looked at Priscilla next to me.
“Priscilla, are you ready?”
“okay.”
Seeing the reaction of the two, Ian immediately moved Mana.
“move.”
At this, I immediately looked at Priscilla.
“Suck!”
Priscilla exhaled her spirit, but Ian disappeared and moved right next to her.
“… … .”
“Not this time.”
I sighed.
Currently, I am practicing how to control space.
The last time Aryandor used time magic, he failed to stop it.
There was nothing I could do about it because I hadn’t done any training yet.
But not next.
Next time you meet Aryandor, you have to make sure you don’t fail.
For that, I was training with Ian.
“How about taking a break?”
“Is that so?”
I’ve done it a few times already and my head hurts.
I forgot about it, but using Priscilla consumes mental power.
Now that the body has grown to a certain extent, it is possible to control it to some extent, but that does not mean that the consumed mental power is gone.
Ian walked over to me while I was resting.
“Still, you seem to have gotten used to it to some extent.”
It’s been three days since I started training like this.
It wasn’t that there were no results so far.
It didn’t block space magic at all, but it made it possible to twist the coordinates.
The number of successes increased as we went on, but we could not be satisfied with this.
It should be to the extent that I can stop it when I want to.
The question was not how much to twist the space magic, but how much time it would take to stop it altogether.
Neither Ian nor I have infinite time.
Aryandor may move when.
Even if it blocks Aryandor’s time magic, it’s hard to say it’s a perfect victory.
Aryandor must also prepare for me.
Even if I can master my abilities perfectly, I will prepare to win.
So I have to work twice as hard as him.
To control his time magic, and to defeat other abilities… … .
“Commander.”
Astina walked to the training center where Ian and I were.
“What’s going on?”
“It is a letter from the imperial family.”
Astina handed the letter to Ian.
Ian opened the letter and read it slowly.
The more I read, the more Ian’s expression became distorted.
“Is this all?”
“I left the message that you should come to the Imperial Palace once.”
I tilted my head and opened my mouth.
“what happened?”
“It looks like the garbage is moving.”
“If it’s trash… … .”
“Who would it be? They are nobles who have rotted and rotted.”
“Did they move?”
The speech that Ian gave while ascending the duke.
No matter what faction, any position, any character, if they have the ability, they will be placed in the middle ranks.
It was said that if there was no ability, it would be dropped from the position it was in.
Perhaps Ian was referring to the guys who belonged to it.
But do you need to make a face like that?
Naturally, the aristocrats would react.
“Isn’t that what you expected? Is it just that… … .”
“The problem is they are trying to join the rebels.”
So I wrinkled my expression just like Ian.
“… … Are you a rebel?”
“Anyway, these days, the traitors seem to be moving. It looks like the other guys are trying to stick with it too.”
He already knew that there was a territory attached to the rebels.
The imperial army near the center, or the original army, took care of it, but it was in a situation where they could not arrange it to the outer edge of the empire.
In a way, this could be a bad situation.
The guys inside are plotting to betray him.
However, if I found it now, it would have been better.
The enemy inside is actually more terrifying than the enemy outside.
Before we fight the rebels, we need to clean them up.
“I must move slowly. Rudy, what are you going to do?”
Ian will be away to clean up the guys.
Then he couldn’t train space magic, so he had to develop other abilities.
I looked at Astina next to Ian.
“Are you going with Astina-senpai?”
Astina shook her head at this.
“I think I will probably manage the Imperial Army.”
“Then are you staying?”
Astina grinned.
“Are you asking me to deal with you?”
Astina was not playing with the Imperial Army.
Rather, it would have been better than before.
I smiled and crossed my arms.
Now that I can handle space magic, and Astina has grown up, the battle structure must have changed.
It was a match against Astina after a long time, so I was really looking forward to it.
“then… … .”
Contrary to such expectations, Astina reached out to me as if to stop.
“Not now.”
“yes?”
“You’re not some kind of fighter, are you trying to fight all the time?”
I looked puzzled at Astina’s words.
Ian roughly picked up his luggage and got up from his seat.
“Anyway, let’s talk about it and I’ll go first.”
“ah… … . Yes. Let’s go.”
I greeted Ian roughly and looked at Astina.
“Do you have work to do?”
“No, work is almost done. All that’s left now is garbage.”
“then… … .”
Astina looked at me like that and smiled kindly.
“Can you compete in such a narrow space?”
***
“… … Where are you?”
I looked around with bewildered eyes.
where you see it for the first time
All I could see were trees and stones, and it was difficult to guess the location because it flew with Astina’s magic.
“It’s just a mountain near the Empire.”
Astina, who had prepared something, was walking towards me.
I widened my eyes at Astina’s sudden change in outfit.
“… … Did you change here?”
Astina opened her eyes and looked at me.
“It’s the clothes I was wearing inside. What are you thinking?”
“Are you wearing that kind of clothes inside?”
What Astina is wearing now is a plain tee and short shorts.
shorts… … .
I was wearing a skirt before, so that was called underpants.
If you don’t know anything, you’ll think they’re ordinary short pants, but when you find out they’re underpants… … .
something to be ashamed of
“… … What are you looking at like that!”
“Oh, no.”
I made an awkward expression on my face and coughed in vain.
“Anyway, in a place like this, we can fight properly.”
The sky is open and there is no one around.
Even if you use your power properly, there is no risk of damaging the surrounding objects or hurting anyone.
“Can I go right?”
“Did you move here with the intention of making it lighter?”
“You may get hurt.”
“Don’t worry about yourself.”
Astina and I smiled and moved our mana.