Ophelis Hall Occupation Situation (1)
The original goal was to completely secure a stable residential environment before the vacation was over.
The improvised wooden shelter is so terribly poor that I can’t even remember the last time I had a good night’s sleep.
At least before the end of the vacation, I thought that everything would be finished and I would be able to go to school from the second semester, but now that the second semester starts a week away, there is still a long way to go.
“Hmm…”
The finished hut had a wooden entrance and window. If the hinges get loose, my head hurts, so I bought a fairly large one… I’m a little worried that it will make a loud squeaking sound if it gets rusty. Well, better than having the hinges come off altogether.
Anyway, there was at least a little more work to be done in order to live in the hut.
The most important are the fireplace and furniture.
Among them, the fireplace was a concern. It may not be cold at this time because it is night, but as the seasons change, internal heating becomes indispensable.
In addition, at night, only the light from the fireplace will be a proper light source, and it is necessary for cooking food… It is essential to light a fire inside for other survival activities.
Even so, if you make a fireplace out of wood in a hurry, and it catches fire, you will have to prepare a sturdy material to make a fireplace. The first thing that comes to mind is brick.
Although Elte Sanghoe is a vendor of all things, there was no way to even distribute bricks for building materials to these educational facilities, and to use them at the nail tube construction site… There was no way I could give up.
In the end, I decided to start making bricks from today.
[ New finished product ]
casting for bricks
I simply connected the remaining bushes after construction in a square shape and nailed it. If you fill it with mud, it seems to be able to frame it into a brick shape.
Crafting Difficulty: ◐○○○○
“Whew…”
After making a single casting mold in about 5 minutes, I threw the hammer on the workbench and wiped the sweat.
After scooping up mud from the river and putting it in the casting, press it firmly, and then take it to a shaded place and remove only the casting. After repeating this process dozens of hundreds of times to mass-produce standardized bricks, they plan to dry them for about a week and then stack them well to make fireplaces and chimneys.
However, the role of cement to maintain the bonding state between bricks also had to be solved with clay, but it was too weak and would collapse quickly, so I thought I had to make a support stand to support it.
Besides that, it would be nice to be able to make some furniture for the interior, but there are no concrete plans for that yet.
From noblemtl.com
My woodworking skills have improved quite a bit, and I have quite a bit of craftsmanship, so I think I can make simple furniture in a snap. The methodology itself comes to mind easily and easily.
It’s like a chair or a table. It’s relatively simple if you have the materials.
The bed itself seems to be easy to make. As for the mattress… I think I’ll just have to get a large piece of cloth or bag and stuff it with feathers, cotton, hay, etc.
I would like to replace the windows with glass windows if possible, but I am wondering if there is anywhere I can get them.
While organizing these thoughts, I walked through the forest with my bow tied up today to find my daily bread.
[ Combat Ability Details ]
Rank: Beginner to Combat
Specialty: Bow
Bow Mastery Lv 6
– Vital Sniper Lv 3
– Rapid Fire Lv 2
– Retreat Shot Lv 1
Aiming Sense Lv 2
Vision Expansion Lv 1
I feel it all over again Ed Roth Taylor has no talent for combat skills. Every time I hunt, I force myself to use a bow, but even after a semester and half of the vacation, my bow-related skill proficiency is sluggish.
This also seems to require some special measures. I will try to somehow create an opportunity to properly add growth.
“found.”
Suddenly, I found a fawn walking through the forest. I drew out my bow and muttered to myself as I hid among the trees.
Recently, there have been quite a few cases where this kind of guest visits the camp.
Bell Maia used to stop by from time to time to hand out these and other ingredients, but these days it’s a bit sparse.
Ziggs jogs through the woods once every three or four days. Apparently, he doesn’t just run in the forest, he runs around Aken Island, but his stamina is not normal. If Elka wasn’t in the Ministry of Magic, he would have joined the combat club.
In addition, there was a case where a dear student came in and saw me carrying a bunch of squirrel corpses and ran away with it, and Claire, Princess Fenia’s escort knight Claire, came to see me and seemed to be going to check if I was doing well.
What should I say, it seems that the number of people who know that I live in the northern forest is increasing… I hope it doesn’t become a problem by entering the bachelor’s ears for nothing…
In any case, the entire Aken Island is not an area managed by a bachelor, so there is no reason to kick your ass out right away. No need to be too scared
Anyway, there are three people who are particularly noteworthy among the frequent visitors.
Guest A is a rare genius wizard yangban, and his main visit time is completely random.
Sometimes they come in broad daylight when the sun is in the middle of the sky and lie down next to a campfire to sleep, or they can be found on the roof of a hut under construction at midnight.
When I went hunting by the river, I was lying in a hammock made of net and looking at the hut with twinkling eyes. He asks me if it feels like there is a secret base or a hideout…
“Hey. Are you going to build a chimney?”
“ooh! There is a door!”
“Let’s make a back door too!”
As I was chopping wood by the river, I appeared from the tree
“Can’t the windows be made of glass?”
“Isn’t it going to fall apart? You mustn’t use magic nearby.”
“What if there was a window in the roof as well?”
They say that they come out from among the grass while collecting noose to improve hunting traps.
“Can I use magic inside?”
“Why don’t you try putting the marten skin on the inside?”
When I was sharpening the blade of a dagger on a rock, I sat on the rock and swung my feet and chattered.
“If possible, why don’t you put the door out in a sunny direction?”
“You know, you need two windows to get good airflow.”
Anyone who sees it will know that you are building it, you bastard.
I was too tired to respond to each one, so I was just repeating the act of picking up the wizard and throwing it in the wooden shelter.
This guy is Guest A.
And Guest B, the second-year chief, is a fairly capable spirit samurai yangban. This is the position where I am more welcoming.
“Voice, I brought eggs. I got a deal that Bell would love to bring Ed to.”
This guy, who smiles and puts down a basket of eggs next to the campfire, is actually a grateful neighbor who brings food and other daily necessities that are hard to find in the forest.
To the extent that his permission to visit often is not disrespectful, this spirits yangban come every day to sit at the root of a tree, read a book, photosynthesize, or chat with the spirits.
One day, the spirits manifested and brought something like a large basin, and he boiled water out of nowhere.
“I’ll show you something amazing. Don’t worry, stay there, Ed!”
Bessi laughed like that, so he stopped paying attention and just dumped mud in the brick casting at the riverside. Then, when he came up to eat, he found that he was stepping on something in the basin with his arms rolled up and his skirt tied up.
When I checked the contents, it was my school uniform shirt.
It was a shirt that was always being washed like crazy with the force to tear the fabric, but no matter how much I wore it for a semester, it was unavoidable that things like old things that could not be erased were piling up.
It seems that this elemental yangban was very uncomfortable with that.
“Voila, if you boil brine and then step on it like this, it will turn white. Aren’t you curious? My parents often did this when my clothes got dirty on the ranch.”
Then, she unfolds her all-white shirt and smiles as if proudly. When I see them smiling triumphantly as if to praise me, I feel embarrassed again and I have no choice but to applaud them.
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Anyway, even though it seems to be clearly visible, there is another part that I can’t understand… Even if Lucy shows up at the camp out of nowhere, I say hello and say hello without a sign of surprise, and even then, how often does Lucy go to camp? are you coming He is a person who frequently engages in behaviors of unknown cause.
This person is Guest B.
The main point is… Guest C.
Customers A and B are relatively frequent yangbans, so they are not particularly surprised or surprised when they meet, just treat them as usual. But when it comes to guest C, why does this gentleman appear here? The thought comes to mind.
Slowly, the sun disappeared to the west, and the forest was turning red.
The first shot of the arrow missed, and the chase had to take place for over an hour. It was around the time when he returned to the camp carrying the corpse of the fawn he had just captured.
Two unexpected figures were waiting for me near the bonfire.
One was dressed in a neat maid outfit, and stood calmly with his hands held in a respectful manner.
The other was sitting by the fire, humming with both hands clenched his chin.
“Oh, my lord. I waited. You’ve been busy with business.”
A yangban called ‘Golden Daughter’ in the world…
It was guest C.
*
The ‘occupancy of the Ophelis Hall’ is an event that signals the start of Act 2, and takes place at the Ophelis Hall on the last day of vacation.
It is quite lengthy even to briefly summarize the main points.
It is a situation in which the lower-class students who have returned to school as the vacation is slowly over, occupy the dormitory with a grudge against the students of Ophelis, who monopolize all kinds of preferential treatment and treatment.
At the center of it is ‘Willane, the representative of the inferior student’, and the statement he made was so long that it was almost twenty pages long.
Honors students are guaranteed a life like a nobleman by differentiating their dormitory facilities, have the right to choose a seat first when taking classes in the faculty building, have more free time for meals, have a dedicated maid, Convenience benefits provided at the undergraduate level are also completely different.
It was the season of returning to school this vacation that caused the emotions that had accumulated so little to explode.
When it was time to return to school, it was raining heavily in the southwestern Belor region, where Aken Island is located, and it was announced that only Ophelis students would be provided with wagons and ships at the academic level, and that they would tolerate it for a few days even if they were not able to return to school on time. .
This is where the frustrations of the inferior students, who had to go through the heavy rain and arrived at school, for fear of deducting points for failing to meet the deadline for returning to school, explode here. With the Dex Hall student meeting as a starting point, a plan was established in which the inferior students gathered together to occupy the aristocratic and luxurious Ophelis Hall and express their dissatisfaction.
Of course, this is an unrealistic plan.
The Ophelis Hall is where the students with the best skills in each grade reside, and the maids who manage it are also not friendly. Basically, everyone knows how to wield a rapier, and the senior maids even use intermediate magic.
No matter how many inferior students gather, there is no way they can occupy the Ophelis Hall, so if you look at it from a distance, you feel like you are watching a group of lemmings rushing to the cliff.
And even if they take over, they will face headwinds if they hit the chess board at the Ophelis Hall where all kinds of nobles and children of influential people live. So, there is bound to be some limit to the scale of the situation.
Until Lortel secretly intervened.
“There are interesting plans going on among the inferior students.”
Across the bonfire, Lortel grinned. I was sharpening the blade of the dagger without any reaction.
If you raise your gaze a little and look to the side, the person who is standing slightly is definitely Ellis, the maid chief of the Ophelis Hall.
As if waiting for Lortel… There is no discomfort in standing quietly without saying a word.
She is the only human with access to all of the protective magic inside the Ophelis Hall. It’s called protective magic, but it can be used in other ways at any time by slightly twisting its direction.
There is no need to painfully explain how important the authority is, so only those who have worked with the trust of a bachelor for a long time can qualify as a maid chief. In other words, there is absolutely no human being who can easily be bought with a few pennies.
“therefore?”
“I want to get some help from you.”
“Why do you need my help?”
“Because you are the right person.”
Lortel let out a deep sigh and continued speaking.
“Originally, I was going to entrust the job to the windman… Tote, but things went awry because he was seriously injured.”
Hearing those words, I put down the dagger that I was sharpening.
Because there was a story that could not be heard.
“Mom, you are finally listening to me seriously. Seniors.”
“What about Tote?”
‘Wind Catcher Tote’. It’s not a very important role, but it’s a name I remember well.
The intro boss that appears at the beginning of Act 2. During the vacation season, he plays the role of being beaten up by Taylor, and he reappears as the phase 1 boss in Act 2, Chapter 3, ‘Ophelia’s Occupation Situation’.
It’s not as large an event as the Glaskan subjugation, but this Ophelis Hall event, which has enough influence afterward… is obviously made up of five named bosses.
1st floor boss ‘Wind Catcher Tote’
2nd floor boss ‘Dismal Clevius’
3rd floor boss ‘Shenny in charge of tableware management’, ‘Kelly in charge of washing bedding’
4th floor boss ‘Willane, the representative of the inferior student’
5th floor boss ‘Maid Jean Ellis’
Among them, it is Tote’s job to come out first, evoke the atmosphere, and then disappear after being beaten. Obviously, according to the truth, he must be bought by Lortel and intervene in the Ophelis situation.
“He didn’t like the frivolity, he didn’t like the feeling of frivolity, he wasn’t at all suspicious… but he had a heavy mouth. So I thought I’d trust it, but I didn’t know that Ziggs would beat him so hard. I am in the hospital now.”
Confidentiality is deviated in a place you are not conscious of. There probably weren’t any great events during this vacation.
“Ziggs beaten up?”
“It seems that Tote had an argument with Taylor and Ziggs during this vacation. Seriously, why are you doing that?”
It is a known fact so far.
Since he is one of the third-rate villains that announces the start of Act 2 in the first place, he is arguing over and arguing with something that is not a big deal, and then getting beaten up by the main characters.
Actually, he’s a character to make Jigs float. Maybe he was the guy who was making fun of the failed swordsman Taylor, what kind of talent he’s pretending to be here, and then Ziggs smashed the pot.
Since Taylor and Ziggs are quite close during vacation, it was possible to predict that the intro for the second act would have taken place. He was clearly conscious.
However, it seems that there were parts that I did not remember.
For example, what kind of lines Tote struck to Taylor in detail.
“When I saw Taylor, I said that you were less than Ed Roth-Taylor… less than a worm, right? Are you serious?”
“under…”
“In other words, because you insulted both Taylor and Ed at the same time… Jiggs was doubly angry.”
That’s why we minimized our involvement with the main characters… However, it’s difficult to deal with it like this.
“Usually, I would have been a little upset, but Elvira told me that maybe I got even more angry that day. Well, he said he went to apologize after his anger had subsided… but it was kind of emotional.”
Having said that, Lortel sighed.
“I don’t believe in such an emotional person, either.”
And he looked straight at me and said.
“Anyway, it’s not that difficult. All you have to do is get the key from Mr. Ellis, go inside the Ophelis Hall, and open the door when inferior students come in.”
“There must be many other people who can do that.”
“It’s not as much as you think. Whatever the situation, you have to be cool and, above all, have a reason to engage in this kind of thing.”
Why is Lortel saying this?
“Even if you give me a lot of money, there is no way I will not tell the truth to the insider at the university after the incident is over. In fact, behind all of this, there is a first-year Lortel, and what would be my position if I brushed it off. No one can be trusted.”
After hearing that, I think I understand why Lortel came to me.
I am in the position of being kicked out of the Ophelis Hall. He had been ridiculed, despised, and even despised by the students, and had been leading his school life.
Frankly, I don’t really care. In the first place, Ed Roth Taylor was a cheap human being. It’s a bit unfair from my point of view, but right now, I have to focus on surviving.
What is the evaluation of the students? As time goes by, it will somehow fade. In fact, it seems that some favorable evaluations have begun among first-year students.
“Don’t you want to eat a bite? Sir Ed.”
But Lortel said so and smiled softly.
He guessed that I was holding a grudge against the Bachelor. Needless to say, that is conjecture.
“I don’t really want to do that.”
“Oh my goodness.”
“Still, I have to listen to your terms.”
Without panicking, I quickly made a decision.
Yes, when I wake up, my love affair is already twisted. However, it is not such a huge twist that it is difficult to rectify as in the first act. Rather, it is cute enough.
If I reject Lortel’s offer here, and Lortel leaves in search of another person, it’s even more disturbing. Who will be the windman in Phase 1 instead of Tote is completely unknown.
Rather, it would be enough if I took on the role, opened the door in moderation, and lost to Taylor in moderation. In the beginning, Tote was only that kind of person.
The key is that the phase 1 boss, Tote, is not functioning properly. If you just solve that part, the story will flow smoothly again as usual.
However, that doesn’t mean you have to do it for free. Since that person is a person with sufficient ability to pay, it is correct to take as much as you can.
“Twenty.”
Lortel whispered softly. Considering the difficulty of the task to be dealt with, it is a ridiculous level of compensation, but considering that the cost of silence is included, the calculation seems to be wrong.
I don’t want to confide in the fact that Lortel is behind this incident, from my point of view, hoping that the story goes well anyway. In fact, it’s almost a bummer.
If I act well in the first place, there will be no question of being investigated. Stay out of sight, send Taylor up, grab a cup of tea in Yenica’s room, hide for a bit, and run away.
“call.”
Having said that, I started sharpening the dagger again.
nothing more to say It was an action in that sense.
It’s like he’s become a phase 1 boss.
*
“I feel uncomfortable.”
in the forest at night.
The young Colossus and the Maid Chief were walking side by side back to the Ophelis Hall.
The reticent Maid Jean, who had never opened her mouth, only spoke out with Lortel and her clear voice.
“There is very little ‘why?’ in that man’s speech.”
A mature maid knows how to see people. At least, I knew enough that Ed Roth Taylor wasn’t a rookie.
In fact, if you just listened to the conversation, it didn’t really matter. It can be funny to talk about how you can’t see Ed in the water with just this kind of conversation.
However, the identity of the sense of incongruity that Maid Zhang was talking about… Lortel was also keenly aware of it.
“I think Elise felt the same way.”
Lortel grinned.
“If you think about it, that guy is always like that.”
I don’t feel the curiosity that a human should show.
If Lortel had come up with such a proposal, common sense should have said ‘why?’ dozens of times.
Why is Lortel trying to intervene in the occupation of Ophelis Hall?
Why is Maid Jean Ellis joining Lortel?
Why do you not feel any objection to these group actions of inferior students?
Other than that, why? why? Why? should stick out. This is a back transaction where 20 gold coins come and go. As a human being, you can’t help but feel curious about what the purpose is and why you are doing this. To answer that curiosity, he even prepared a false cause.
However, Ed Roth-Taylor only used the word ‘why’ once.
Why, after all, are you asking me?
“Well, it must be one of two things… that kind of reaction. If you can get money, you’re a person who doesn’t care about anything else…”
Lortel felt his back heat up after a long time.
“…or a person who has seen all of this in the first place.”
I still vividly remember the warmth that remained in the three gold coins I got back. Ed Roth-Taylor, at least, isn’t a man who sells his life for gold.
Then, there is only one possibility left by the elimination method.
“How much do you know? There would have been no clues.”
Lortel closed her eyes and let out her characteristic foxy smile. A feeling I haven’t felt in a long time. ‘Fear of the unknown’.
The night goes deep. Lortel’s gait through the darkness of the forest is unstoppable.
While Lortel was chattering, the boy was just sharpening his dagger across the bonfire.
After Lortel left, what was the boy thinking as he sat in front of the bonfire?
Unable to fathom the insides, Lortel’s heart fluttered rather.
Smells like kin
to the point of being dreadful. Surely.
I wonder who the maid love interest in the tag is… Thats the biggest question i have lol