Episode 31. Finding hints (3)
I asked Ariel to remodel the delivery scroll, so I can communicate with the human world without any problems. In particular, he had told the tax collector to let him know immediately if there was a problem.
I was planning to stay here as much as possible until the warriors reached their limits.
Still, you will be able to break through your limits much faster than if you looked at it generously for two years. Looking at the growth so far, the discretion of the warriors was worth looking forward to.
So the warriors started training to gain enlightenment the day after they came to the spirit realm.
“Mmm. I’m sure I’ve come to feel mana well……. I can’t feel it even if I ask you to read the essence of the sword…….”
As I watched Tina staring at the sword, Iris approached.
“Master, would you like to swing your sword at me?”
“Did you catch on already?”
“That…… To be honest, I haven’t gotten a feel for it yet, but I think I’ll have to give it a try.”
Iris spoke timidly, but she seemed to notice something.
“Good.”
I pulled out my vengeance and possessed Phasma. Iris takes her stance without drawing her sword.
“You have to swing with all your might! I guess that’s how you know.”
“Are you going to take it with your bare body?”
“Oh, can’t I?”
“I may die.”
No matter how hard a warrior’s body is, if my mana is the power of the World Tree, I will never be able to withstand it. If you look at physical power alone, you might be able to receive it with your body. The reason for raising it to the invincible stage was not to withstand physical force, but to withstand the demonic energy.
“Lord, dying is difficult, so I will draw my sword.”
Iris pouted and chose the guardian of the sanctuary.
“Pasma.”
“Okay.”
Aura is loaded on the sword. Since she will strike her sword intentionally, hitting her with all her might won’t do much damage to her.
“As expected, that aura…… It is an admirable color. Clear and transparent, it seems that all impurities have been removed, leaving only clean and pure mana.”
In the meantime, I smiled bitterly at Iris, who spoke with respect for her. It’s because of the mana of the World Tree.
“Go.”
Phasma uses my body to spur the ground and advance fiercely. He arrived in front of Iris in an instant and swung his sword with all his might.
Kaang!
The aura of the guardian of the sanctuary where the aura was stored is cut off and makes a crackling sound.
“Awesome!”
Iris lets out her moan and endures her shock.
If the weapon had durability, it would have been cut off by this attack. If he had been naked, he would have suffered wounds that could not be healed with potions.
“…… A failure.”
“Oh, what? Is this not it?”
Her fox ears drooped. I put her hand between her ears. It was a stroke that meant that there was no need to be intimidated.
“Don’t worry, try again. I will hang out with you any number of times.”
As I tried to get back into my stance, I heard an explosion from the side and black dust filled the surroundings.
“What…… !”
“Maria!”
I hurriedly drew her sword and called out to her, digging through her dust. Tina and Iris followed belatedly.
At the center of the dust, a blonde elf was coughing and tearing his eyes.
“hahahaha… ….”
“What’s going on?”
I asked with my mouth closed. Maria looked at me and whipped her fingers around to clear the dust with wind magic.
“Ah, that…… While combining the ninth magic, the formula went wrong, so it exploded.”
The ninth…… ?
“As expected, this is not easy. As Master said, will it be easier if we break through the ninth tier first?”
Is it because of the sensitive mana?
Maria is an elf familiar with mana and her spirits, and she is a warrior with magical tendencies.
Perhaps among her warriors, Maria will be the first to get a hint. She’s there, and if she’s good at it, she could be breaking through in a few months, let alone two years. I’m looking forward to this.
She said, “As much as she has ever used 9th-level magic, even while she uses 8th-level magic, she must always be aware of 9th-level magic. Then she will be able to go to the 9th tier more easily. There’s nothing I can advise you about overlapping magic spells, so don’t be impatient and do it calmly.”
I stroked Maria’s hair and looked at her face. Her Maria’s expression was not very good.
After entering training, there were quite a lot of cases where shadows were cast on the warriors’ faces.
Unlike when you grew up just fighting, you have a lot to think about and troublesome things, so it will be cramped.
I don’t think they’ll lose their motivation right away, but it seemed like the moment they needed motivation to do it passionately.
“I will ask you one question.”
“What is it, Master?”
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To be honest, I don’t think there’s anything good about asking these things. However, I couldn’t come up with a suitable motive to boost their motivation right away.
“That…… You, do you like me?”
“Yes…… ?”
The three warriors almost instantly turned dumbfounded. After a while, he blushed and hid his face.
“Go, go, go, what are you talking about all of a sudden?!”
Maria shouted as if to hide her embarrassment, not only her face but also her ears and neck turned red. Her blonde hair was tied in a ponytail, so her pointy ears were exposed.
“Ah, ah… Joe, ok… Good…… Well, I do……. This, don’t make me confess like this, I think it’s a bit too much to make…….”
Perhaps because of her white hair, Iris’s flushed face is accentuated. She stutters, but she can’t lift her head, perhaps because she’s ashamed.
“… ….”
Tina didn’t say anything as she shyly crossed her fingers and looked at me. Her response was quite simple for a child who would normally say, ‘I like you, Master!’
And looking at the reaction of these three children, I knew for sure.
They don’t like me as a teacher.
Actually, I wasn’t surprised that this question was asked in anticipation of the warriors’ reactions to some extent. I didn’t know that it would be so blatant, though.
“I see… ….”
I predicted that it would happen anyway, so this question was simply a confirmation kill.
The main topic started now.
Until now, both during training and during sparring, I often ignited my will by giving them a powerful thing called the ‘Wish Realm’.
I decided to go with the same strategy this time, but with a bit more force. Even if it’s an act of selling me…….
“I will become clumsy, and I won’t argue whether it’s not good or bad.”
The warriors began to pay attention to my words with their faces blushing.
“If I succeed in breaking through my limits within this year, I will do anything you ask of me.”
There is plenty of time until next year for the outbreak of the Great War of Man and Horse, so if it is achieved within this year, the timing will be sufficient.
If the heroes only succeed in breaking through the limits, this war can lead to unconditional victory.
In the game, the warriors’ limit breakthrough occurred during the Manma War, so the empire was pushed to half, but in reality, we couldn’t wait until that happened.
If that happens, at least tens of millions of imperial citizens will die.
It was a shock enough to cause PTSD just to have nearly a thousand people killed in Ecabell’s breath, but I didn’t have the confidence to watch tens of thousands of people die.
“Uh, what can I ask for?!”
After the war, there will be no need to raise the morale of the warriors, so this will be the last.
“Yes. Of course, it’s hard to listen to something like a ridiculous request for tens of thousands of gold.”
This is their feelings…… No, it’s using affection.
Others might say that I’m trash, but I’m a weakling, so I was willing to do anything to achieve my goal.
If I don’t achieve the goal of saving this world in the first place, everything I’ve accumulated will disappear, and I’ll forget everyone I’ve been with up until now.
Isn’t that too lonely as it is?
Even if I choose to return to my original world, I wanted to take with me the experiences I had in this world.
I felt like I could say that I cleared the game with a smile and saw a happy ending.
“Stir… ….”
Tina creeps up to me and grabs my sleeve and pulls it tight. Pulling her twice, she slowly lifts her head.
Looking up at me with her lips pursed with a flushed face. It’s a face that looks like it’s going to die of shame, but it seems that it can barely stand the shame.
“Then… Then you know, Master…… ! Fight, fight, marriage…… Does it?”
“…… Uh?”
…… Aha, would you do that?
Tina whispered. Perhaps it was because of the trembling in my voice, I was nervous without realizing it. He belatedly regains composure and barely raises the corner of his mouth.
“Oh, Tina!”
Maria yelled at Tina for cowardice, pointing her finger at her. Iris watches the two of them scuffle from a step away. She then grabbed the two warriors by the shoulders.
“Gwa, it’s okay. Maria. The Empire allows polygamy, polygamy.”
“Now, wait a minute. That means…….”
“I can share Master… ….”
I unknowingly hit my forehead.
He is talking crazy and crazy. Does Iris know that she herself knows what she means?
“But I want to monopolize the master.”
Tina firmly refused Iris’ compromise.
“But that would definitely make things worse between us. Me too…… I want to monopolize Master. I want to make Master’s body smell only of me. But if I do, I will definitely fight you guys. I hate that.”
“Yes. I also think Iris is right. Set a date if you want to be exclusive. On that day, can’t we just make sure we don’t interfere with what the two of us are doing?”
“But I don’t like that… ….”
In the end, I had no choice but to intervene in the opinion that was rarely narrowed down.
“Uh, anyway, within this year. Don’t get excited already. There is no guarantee that you will achieve it within this year.”
Breaking through the limits is not that easy.
So far, I have been able to step through the process based on accurate information, but this time there were too many clumsy and ambiguous parts.
You have to find that part all by yourself, but it’s not going to be easy. I don’t even know if I’ve played the game.
“Don’t worry. It will definitely be seen within this year.”
Tina said as if she was prepared like a warrior leaving the battlefield.
“So when you turn 20…… I am getting married.”
“But Tina.”
“Huh?”
“If the request is to marry the three of us, I can ask Master twice more.”
“That’s not—”
“Doesn’t it matter? If I got married anyway, I would do everything with my master. Now stroking my hair, kissing me…… Entire.”
I tried to refute it urgently, but unexpectedly, Tina spoke calmly.
“I see. Tina… I thought you were stupid……. She was a genius.”
“Iris also sometimes casually says things that she thinks are too much.”
Laughter leaks out among the warriors. At some point, the atmosphere was back to normal again.
“Because I will break through the limits properly and learn the mind sword. Please wait patiently. Do you understand, brother?”
Tina’s brother’s remarks were a big stimulus to Iris and Maria, and she immediately tried to argue with Tina.
Seeing the three of them arguing, I regretted it a little.
Half a year has passed since that promise was made.