178 – [3] Welcome
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Click.
The mouse moved constantly.
The place with the small white pointer is one of many auction items.
As I clicked and moved to the page, detailed information about the product began to flow.
Roughly when did you get it, what kind of item does it seem to be, and how much is the lowest price you are asking for?
When I turned the mouse wheel, pictures taken from various angles were revealed.
The color was so good that it was exaggerated to show that it was a high-quality product, but it soon stopped rolling.
It was because the mirror on one side of the photo was strange.
I immediately enlarged it with the magnifying glass tool and checked.
“…… Doesn’t exist?”
Obviously, there had to be something in the mirror at the angle the photo was taken.
But there was only a bright blue sky in the mirror.
If you check other things, hidden facts beyond https will be revealed, but there was no need to do so.
With just this one thing, it was clear that there was a problem with this product.
“AI image fraud.”
I was wondering if I had finally found something good.
As expected, the reality was not so easy.
I immediately went back to the additional button next to the mouse.
I looked away from the ‘mysterious sand of time’ and sighed.
“There are no low-risk items available at all… ….”
I looked around the auction house for a few days, but all I could see were defective products or low-quality products.
However, since there were aftereffects to the product itself, there was virtually no income from purchasing a lot in a more-is-more approach.
Even if you wanted to become stronger, it always had to be done without ruining your future.
It increases your magic power by five times, but if you take a drug that causes permanent hair loss in return, you will regret it forever.
It was inevitable to avoid tragedy.
So I invested more time, but I got nothing.
“I don’t know what will really come out until the game starts.”
Of course, this was a somewhat passive method.
It is safe to say that if you move actively, there are endless ways to obtain items.
“The problem is that it is difficult right now.”
The situation of a cadet who has to attend lectures and take exams.
It was no different from when I was punished by being locked in a prison called a school and a classroom for the crime of being a student and being punished by studying for 12 years.
At least we were able to move between Friday and Sunday, but that wasn’t enough.
If you wanted to get something right, you had to wait at least a week.
[Days remaining until vacation: 30 days]
Because, exactly one month.
From then on, the scope of movement will expand.
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You will be able to get what you need, and hopefully you will be able to deal with the removal target.
It was entirely possible to use the U.S. Gate without returning to the home country.
And all of this was not very efficient in that it was only possible during vacation.
To be truly efficient, these actions had to be possible at any time.
Probably, this would have been the case if the Palaistra Academy Shareltea campus had been in good condition.
The area beyond the Charelletea campus is a perfect place for adventure.
Getting unique items and catching strong monsters must have been like everyday life.
At the time of the terrorist attack, new students were left with an ideal academy life that they would never experience.
Anyway, whether they were wooden or fanatics, they were not helpful at all.
What will be gained if we just live in peace?
I rambled for a while and ended up leaving the house.
I went straight to Ines’ house to fulfill my promise.
Because it was always the same road, I walked step by step without thinking much.
And it was when we almost arrived at Ines’ house.
“There are no kids left behind, right?”
“Everyone, make sure it’s the person next to you!”
“They say 4 people within a 2-minute walk were left behind due to bathroom issues!”
A group of cadets were walking down the street.
It was not even casual clothing, but heavily armed clothing, and the direction it was heading was not towards the city, but the opposite.
Somewhere other than the gate.
After thinking about it carefully, I realized that the direction they were heading towards was San Juan City, with an airport at the end.
The direction was the same, so I followed them.
Then, he grabbed the cadet who was managing the other cadets from behind and asked.
“Hey, sorry, but did something happen?”
“Oh, it’s no big deal. “You just get called up.”
“A summons?”
“The federal government has summoned cadets attending academies in the United States, including the Palaistra Academy.”
A cadet convocation?
A cadet is not a soldier and is being called up?
“Uh…… What grade is it by any chance?”
“I am a fourth year student. “This time, the summons is limited to fourth-year students.”
“Ah… ….”
“I think he’s a first- or second-year junior. This convocation is only convening some of the 4th graders with insufficient GPA. “You don’t have to worry much.”
“Ah…… ! Thank you for telling me!”
He seemed to have figured out that I was a first year student based on my behavior.
I immediately greeted him politely and told him to be careful.
At that moment, he was passing Ines’ house, so he turned around and walked away.
However, there was some doubt mixed in with the hand that knocked on his door.
Ines immediately opened the door and came out.
She looked at me and gave me a look that I couldn’t tell if it was welcoming or fundamentally discriminatory.
“Welcome, Pointy-Eared Ddong Yang.”
“… ….”
I was slowly starting to get used to it, like a thousand damn birds, so I forced myself to skip it.
Finally, just as she was about to say something, Ines’ gaze shifted from me to the group of hunters who had been gathered.
“What, are we being called up again today?”
“Huh? “Do you know who those people are?”
“I know. “Isn’t he a fourth-year student leaving due to summons?”
What, I already knew.
I thought he would live a Dixie-like life in a corner of his room without knowing anything about the world, but he turned out to have surprisingly wide insight.
“How do you know that?”
“I found out about it through a news posted by someone on an Internet community called White Power.”
A suspicious and unusual community name.
It seems that his knowledge was not wide enough.
“I think you know more than that. “How did you find out?”
“Oh, I asked those people earlier. So I learned a little bit.”
There was bound to be a difference in the amount of information between asking a short question in real life and reading an article written on the Internet.
Since I couldn’t gain an information advantage, I decided to just ask the question outright.
“But what exactly happened that caused the cadets to be summoned?”
“Do you know by any chance that it is Anceates Divine Tree Soup?”
“Was it Operation Ifrit, or the country of Shareltea that was destroyed as a result of an operation launched after the terrorist attack?”
“That’s right. And they say they are going for civil operations and maintaining security in the Anceates region.”
Civil operations and public order maintenance.
Isn’t this usually done nationally by the side that destroyed the country?
Even the country that led Operation Ifrit was the United States.
In other words, civilian cadets were doing the work that should have been entirely borne by the U.S. Government.
“It looks like we don’t have enough manpower.”
“I heard that manpower is not being utilized properly due to absurd slander rather than a shortage.”
“A ridiculous slander?”
“Yes, hunters with correct ideas like me are being repatriated in large numbers without even being able to fight properly.”
I don’t know what the correct idea is, but the idea of large-scale repatriation was quite unexpected.
What happened to bring back frontline personnel?
“I heard that over trivial matters, fabrications are so rampant that even the Anceates are dissatisfied. Is this just a rumor or a fart?”
“What happened?”
“It’s really not a big deal. They killed the World Tree priests, destroyed all the World Tree saplings, accidentally bombed several villages, legally confiscated and distributed the assets of nobles and landowners for free, and robbed the temple a little. “They are only expressing their dissatisfaction because they suffered such damage.”
“…… ?”
Can you tolerate that?
Aren’t you crazy?
The situation is too big to say the least.
If the parties who seriously caused the problem were not repatriated, it seemed likely that a bigger problem would arise.
It was like destroying a country like eating a macaron and showing a regressive attitude.
If we go further, it was not just dissatisfaction, but an uprising was confirmed.
A reality that can be seen just by hearing that civil operations and public order have failed.
However, Ines spoke passionately, perhaps because she thought her country was truly being oppressed.
“Why is it so wrong to kill priests who deny and insult God?”
“They could have just executed the instigators later, but they just scratched the surface and made a mess.”
“Why are we so dissatisfied with the fact that first world companies have been purchasing farmland through gratuitous confiscation and paid distribution?”
“Uh…… I know a little bit about the story behind that…… “It won’t just be a simple purchase by companies.”
“Isn’t it possible that a unit of cross-race hunters from slaves who have a lot of accumulated wealth from the Sharelteans could run into trouble? Although I personally dislike these races, I think they did the right thing this time.”
“Hey, I’m also a different race, right?”
“Even though it was the British who stole all the holy relics, they are only blaming us in the United States!”
“They haven’t been pirating on land for more than a day or two.”
A major operation to stabilize the occupied territories of the United States, causing a storm.
In fact, it seems like it is not a stabilization operation, but just a purification operation.
Anyway, it felt like it wouldn’t be much of a difference even if a large number of cadets with credits were sent in for this reason.
No, it was safe to say that there were things that could possibly get worse.
“Honestly, we destroyed other countries, but isn’t that something we can do? “How much damage has the United States and the entire planet suffered because of these guys!”
Unlike current hunters, who have a lot of self-control, the academy cadets are full of young, energetic people.
Moreover, the cross-race hunter cadets often gnashed their teeth against the Shareltea humans, accusing them of discriminating against their ancestors and parents and treating them as slaves.
Just as Jojo grieved over his father’s death and showed himself as the most dutiful son of his time, it was said that the other tribes could also show the same loyalty, filial piety, and courtesy.
If something like that were to happen, there was a good chance that there would be people around me who would run faster than anyone else and join in.
In the end, the instability of the occupied territories will still remain.
I’m not sure if cadets below the 4th grade will also be taken there.
“The whole world is in chaos. “It’s uproar.”
Anyway, I decided to think about what to do with the land I had dumped in Anceates with the thousand horses later.
The reason I came here now was because I had to keep my promise to Ines.
She had to give her her dreams, hopes and future.
She immediately took out one of her items from her pocket.