‘Can you help me?’
A conversation with the king began.
‘how?’
It wasn’t difficult to catch up with the envoys and gather information. But I don’t think that much will help. What the king needs now is quick and sure information about which side will win. But in the current situation, can anyone know that?
‘How about going to the site in person?’
It is not difficult to go. However, it would take more than a month for me to reach the border where the battlefield would be, even if I went quickly.
‘Isn’t it too late?’
‘We haven’t even declared war yet. Wars don’t start so easily. It’ll start sooner than you think, because Lionia doesn’t have time.’
Come to think of it, it was. I also only read the progress of the war or the strategy and tactics in the history books, but I don’t know how to prepare and how it started.
Few wars are started with the existing regular army. It will take a long time to issue a mobilization order and gather the personnel to the border as they are.
‘I’ll help.’
‘I’ll give you a person. It is a contact book. You can’t use direct transfer magic.’
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‘Send to the ether’
Then I returned to Ether and told her about the conversation with the King.
“Venus is indebted to the Guardian Spirit again.”
[Shouldn’t you pay the price of being called a guardian spirit? And I wanted to see the war in person.]
“Shall I go there too?”
[Perhaps, no, you must participate.]
There is no possibility that the king will do his own home. Generally speaking, there is no possibility of going to war with ether, but the king will send ether. Although it may be a commander’s position in vain, Aether needed achievements.
“I will see you there.”
[Yes, take care of yourself in the meantime, take care of Elizabeth as well]
Ether gave a grin instead of an answer. As soon as the conversation was over, I heard the attendant’s voice saying that someone had arrived outside.
When I went out alone, there was a middle-aged man who looked like he was advertising on his face that I was a wizard. He is a familiar figure to me, who often visits the Mage Tower.
This is Baron Ioville Harsen, one of the high-ranking wizards of the Mage Tower. Although he belongs to the Mage Tower, he is one of the magicians who take a very subtle route, taking on a lot of royal palace work. His field of expertise is life type auxiliary magic rather than combat. He was a wizard who was good at creating transmission magic and artifacts of the sub-magic type.
I feel like I’m being looked down upon because I’m not good at combat magic, but I make quite a lot of money. He is probably one of the highest earning wizards in the Mage Tower.
Eovil was holding a small board with chalk hanging from it. The use was obvious. I moved the chalk and wrote on the blackboard.
‘Hello, Baron Iovil Harsen. If there’s nothing special, I’ll leave right away’
“Oh oh! It is an honor to meet you, Guardian Spirit.”
The fact that the chalk moves on its own to write on the blackboard might seem bizarre to those who see it for the first time, but perhaps because it is a wizard, it seemed rather like an object of exploration.
“Then let’s start right away.”
Following Eoville, two wagons were ready. When the attendants saw Eobil, they bowed their heads and immediately got into the wagon and prepared to depart.
As you can see, I was already fully prepared. It seemed that the king completely prepared and entrusted the task to me. I’m sorry, but for now, let’s just move on. When I meet you later, I will give you a slap in the back of the head.
Eoville talked nonstop, not even checking to see if I was by his side to know what he was curious about.
It was annoying to pick up chalk and write, and he seldom answered, but he did occasionally tell interesting stories.
“Guardian spirits must be seeing what we can’t see, right? What kind of world is that?”
‘The world of souls, for example, there are three souls with a grudge attached to the coachman over there’
Most of the attendants in the two wagons had grudges attached to them. It was not a mere attendant, but a unit that undertook dark work under the direct control of the king.
“omg! Maybe me too?”
‘You don’t have it.’
One of the attendants, who was watching the conversation in the carriage together, impatiently asked a question. Originally, such questions were not allowed to them.
“What does the grudge do?”
‘When the power of the spirit of resentment becomes stronger, it does bad things to that person. And when that person dies, don’t let them ascend to heaven’
Seeing the answer, the attendant bowed his head deeply to show his respect. And rather, it became a little more comfortable expression.
“Why are you so relieved?”
Eoville asked if he was curious about that too.
“I just thought it was fortunate that I could atone for them even in death.”
At that time, one of the spirits of resentment hovering over the attendant’s head broke its thread and ascended to the sky. I thought for a while about whether to tell you this, but finally decided to tell you.
‘At your repentance, one spirit of grudge broke the thread and ascended to heaven by itself.’
Seeing this, the attendant quietly closed his eyes. Tears flowed quietly from the attendant’s eyes. Some of the other attendants around seemed to be holding back tears as well.
Perhaps trying to change the slightly solemn atmosphere, Eovil suddenly asked another question.
“I heard that the Guardian Spirit is well versed in magic. Could you possibly teach me?”
To be precise, I’ve been learning magic for about 10 years. Ioville in front of me must have been immersed in magic for at least 20 years. However, the accumulated knowledge is comparable to that of any wizard.
It was because he learned all the essences of all the mages of the Mage Tower during his heyday before the lord of the previous Mage Tower disappeared. It’s annoying, but I decided to teach you a few things.
‘Baron Ioville was researching a disc artifact that could control heat, right?’
“How did you know that? Oh, what kind of research is that? Succeeded but failed. What that means was that we succeeded in making the artifact, but it seemed that it would not be sold because the production cost was too high.”
It seemed so when I saw it. In the first place, the magic circuit was too crude. As a result, too many secondary materials were used and it was inevitable that it would be expensive.
‘Let me help you a little’
I organized the original magic circuit I had seen at the time in my head and started drawing a new efficient magic circuit. Of course, it doesn’t take mana, so it’s just scribbles, but a wizard like Iovil would be able to recognize it.
“uh? This…isn’t it…Oh my God!”
Eoville was always admiring. This is how Portega’s talent is. All the Mage Tower bastards who let this talent rot and die should reflect on themselves. Oh, is Eoville one of them? I suddenly felt bad. I threw away the chalk that was drawing the magic circuit.
“No, Guardian Spirit, why all of a sudden?”
Eoville was taken aback, but I didn’t answer.
It seems that his personality is getting worse and worse. I didn’t even know it was a side effect of absorbing a lot of the beast’s soul and evil spirits. Or maybe it’s a side effect of living too long as a soul.
The attendants took turns sleeping and driving the wagon, and the wagon ran non-stop. By switching horses a few times in the middle, I was able to reach the border faster than I thought.
The border area was really tense. Although the Kingdom of Venus has not yet been involved, it is a war in which at least three of the neighboring countries will participate. If Venus and several more countries participate in the war, it will be the first great war in 300 years.
I spoke to Eoville and immediately crossed the border and headed for Lionia first. In any case, the subject of this war is Lionia.
Even now, if Lionia were to risk heavy blood loss and import food, there would be no war. By the way, Lionia is traditionally a military powerhouse. At least that’s what it’s known for.
There was no full-scale war, but it was not that there was no local war at all. On those few occasions, Lionia was undefeated.
When I crossed over to Lionia, the first thing I noticed was the soldiers with full discipline. As a country rich in metal, the soldiers were well armed. Judging by the movements of the soldiers, they are quite elite. But I didn’t come here just to see the condition of the soldiers.
The core of war is knights and wizards. and a commander The king didn’t tell me what to look out for when scouting separately. Therefore, I just need to look at the parts that I think are important.
First, I found the knights. There were already hundreds of knights gathered at the border. There were also knights under the direct control of the palace, but it seemed that knights from nearby families were also recruited and gathered.
It was obvious what the tribe of knights would do when they gathered like this. Fighting was unfolding incessantly in all directions. The level of the knights was great. If you look at the overall level, objectively, it is higher than the Kingdom of Venus. In terms of knight power alone, it was right to say that it was a military powerhouse.
And what I found was the Commander. The person expected to assume command in this war is Duke Jonah Zartus. It wasn’t difficult to find Joe or the Duke. Well, of course, you just have to find the best place to stay.
I had high expectations. Duke Jonah Zartus is the first master-level knight I’ve ever seen. And Duke Jonah fully satisfied that expectation.
It was a soul of enormous size. And the brilliance that radiated from the soul was great. Of course, it was not at the level of Fortega. If Fortega is a genius that comes out once in a few hundred years, Duke Jonah seems to be a genius that only comes out once in a hundred years. That level of talent has honed and polished his skills for a long time and even has experience.
I haven’t been to Silymaron or Odyssey yet, but could there be a better commander than this? I thought.
There is no such person in Venus. If I had to choose, Ether would be able to outperform Joe and Duke if he accumulated experience and skills for about 20 more years.
And what surprised me even more was the staff led by Duke Jonah. Each had a great sized soul. At the strategy meeting, they were already winning the war.
Dozens of strategies and tactics were devised, and the number of cases was substituted to prepare to deal with all situations. I even thought that maybe the food problem was an excuse and that they were preparing for war from the beginning.
I looked back at my mage power, but it wasn’t as strong as I thought. However, even that was calculated by the command post and all the strategies were set up, so it wouldn’t be a problem unless there was a big variable.
I immediately left Lionia and went over to Silymaron. The borders of Silimaron were also full of tension. But that was up to soldiers and low-ranking commanders.
The level of the knights was terrible. It was full of spoiled brats. Silymaron is characterized by its fertile lands, but it is also famous for its developed culture. So, it was impossible to distinguish whether these were knights or clowns with swords.
I left the knights and looked at the wizard’s strength. The mage power was great. The number of high mages was likely twice that of Lionia. In the first place, magic is an expensive study. It is natural that countries with a lot of money also have many wizards.
Even if they had such sloppy knights, they had an advantage in magic power, so the commander could be said to decide the outcome.
So, the commander-in-chief of Silimaron was Count Hector Marcios. According to the information given by Ioville in advance, he is the son-in-law of the princess whom the King of Silimaron favors the most. In other words, it was the sire. He was known for his brilliant mind and excellent magic skills.
However, I couldn’t help but tilt my head at Count Hector’s appearance that I saw in person.