23 – The black flame dragon on the right hand…?
Again, I was originally an atheist who kept a wall around religion.
If there is such a thing as God, why is this world such a mess?
Why did my family have to leave the world like that,
And… Because I couldn’t explain why my precious person had to disappear like that.
For that reason, I never believed in the existence of God,
Of course, I had never prayed to them before.
Of course, I was often recognized as someone who made me, who was originally an ordinary office worker, a member of this world, or a gigantic hand of something that was still periodically giving me quests.
However, it was my idea that it was unreasonable to conclude that it was an absolute god.
It is true that he has a job called a paladin and deals with the power of divine power, but this is only the job and setting in the game world.
There was not a single speck of belief in an omnipotent being that existed somewhere in this world that had become reality.
that me
Right now at this moment.
About simply raising your voice in the empty air and making nonsense that you don’t know if it’s praise or prayer.
I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was full of energy the entire time I was doing this.
‘I really… what the hell is this doing Isn’t this completely different from the bullsh*t that middle school patients talk about?’
Of course, it was inevitable in order to test the newly acquired hidden skill.
However, as an extreme atheist in his mid-twenties, who had gone to the military, doing this was just like in a certain cartoon, ‘Keuugh!…’ Is the black flame dragon rampaging in my right hand!!’ It was accepted as equivalent to arranging the same sound.
‘The problem is that now I have to do this in front of a lot of people… Will I be able to do it well?…’
Feeling quite hot mentally like that, I tried to check how much my skills improved after this.
By the way…
“… ”
“?!…”
The next moment, right after I inadvertently turned my head, a person began to appear in front of me.
General Franklin.
The moment I saw her face, a word automatically started popping into my head.
‘… f*ck… ‘
A situation where a scene that could be personally dismissed as a dark history was caught by the person who did not want to show it the most here.
Feeling the heavy embarrassment wriggling in my heart at that fact, I tried to make something similar to an excuse in a voice that was as rigid as it was.
“ruler… General… sir? this… this is so… ”
By the way..
“sorry. It seems that the paladin unintentionally interrupted the precious time he had to communicate with the gods.”
“Yes?…”
Franklin leaves with a calm voice as if nothing is wrong.
Then, as if she was not interested, she immediately turned around and threw a few short words.
“Come to the meeting room when you’re done. Because we have to hold a strategy meeting.”
“ah… Yes. Got it… It is.”
“then.”
As if there was nothing strange about it, Franklin’s attitude was as cool as usual.
Watching this, I felt new, but once again, I clearly felt that this place was a fantasy world.
‘… Umm… but. In the first place, it is a place where powers such as divine power and magic exist on a daily basis. How can this kind of behavior be taken for granted?’
Considering the grandiose phrases used to chant magic spells or encourage soldiers before battle, there would be no reason to see my ‘praise to God’ as strange.
Even though the personal awkwardness still hasn’t gone away, at least I felt quite relieved that I didn’t have to pay much attention to the eyes of the people around me while doing this.
‘It’s fortunate, even doing it alone makes my face burn like this, but if other people looked at me strangely, I wouldn’t have dared to do it… ‘
I put aside my concerns about the part that I was worried about so deeply,
At the same time, recognizing the fact that apart from guns and cannons in this world, there are still quite a few influences on religion.
I started to turn my attention back to the part I was originally trying to check.
A skill worth using even while enduring such shame, ＜Agent of God＞.
According to the description, it was said to increase all skill efficiency by 300%, but it was the law to know what it actually was like after checking.
‘300% improvement. In other words, it means that the efficiency of the skill has increased by about 4 times compared to before, right? If so, that skill… ‘
Beyond basic skills such as recovery and defense,
A skill that may have a tremendous impact on the entire battlefield in terms of combat power and psychological meaning.
to try it out.
I used an enormous aura that seemed to overflow all over my body and activated one ability.
*
“ah… ”
After parting ways with Cromwell, Franklin left the place casually.
But at this moment, the thought of the scene she had just seen lingered in her mind.
‘I knew that he always had extraordinary abilities, but… I never thought you were hiding that much power… ‘
An intense feeling that I felt even though I was simply standing close to it.
As if witnessing the appearance of a god right in front of your eyes, that feeling touched me extremely holy and holy.
Even Franklin, who had once been an aristocratic daughter of the Empire and had met numerous paladins and priests as a rebel general, had never experienced it.
This level even overwhelmed Cromwell’s own strength, which he showed as the knight commander of the Imperial Army in the past.
And.
Through these facts, Franklin naturally began to think of an idea.
‘That means… Does this mean that Captain Cromwell has been hiding his power all this time? Something sublime that we can’t understand… To fulfill God’s will… ?’
In Franklin’s mind, Cromwell had already reached the level of worship.
The appearance of such a person radiating divine power called the power of God at such a tremendous level,
Naturally, he was trying to make Franklin feel that Cromwell wasn’t just a man of extraordinary abilities, but something outside the scope of an ordinary human being.
‘I can’t ask for more details right now, but… At least it seems clear that the captain has something. Maybe the reason why he left the Imperial Army and joined us was not simply because of betrayal, but because of a higher dimensional reason… ‘
Of course, the exact inside story would not be known until Cromwell told the story.
But,
At least at this critical juncture ahead of a battle against a formidable foe,
It was not difficult for her to predict that Cromwell’s holy power would play a significant role.
‘For now, you’ll find out the details in the process of preparing for battle. Whatever it is, I’ll just follow Captain Cromwell’s will.’
*
Rebel generals gathered together to discuss battle plans.
Now that General Gates is gone,
In this place, Franklin, who is in charge of this fortress, her subordinate Cromwell, and his generals.
Also, Vice Admiral Benelita Arnold, who was in charge of the left and right armies under General Gates, and her lieutenants were sitting together.
“As I said earlier, General Gates will lead a central force of 4000 to defend Fort Stanwick here. The rest of the troops we can operate will be about 5,000.”
General Franklin summarizing the situation along with the troop disposition drawn on the map.
Regarding this, Director Benelita nodded quietly and spoke in a calm voice.
“5000… Assuming the fact that the main unit is not moving, it means that we have to defeat the enemy’s 13,000 elite troops with that force..”
“You can see it that way. The good news is that even now, volunteers are arriving one after another from nearby villages that have turned to our side. As time goes on, the situation will become more and more favorable to us, as the number is no less than expected.”
Looking at Jane McCree, who is specially present here as a representative of the newly joined militia, Franklin first spoke of the positives.
In fact, thanks to her agitation, the imperial army was slowly becoming isolated in this area.
Of course, this situation would be reversed at once if the rebel forces here were destroyed. At least until then, the enemy had no choice but to act as a considerable burden.
But,
On this point Benelita spoke in a slightly sharp voice.
“Certainly, there is room for a positive view of that. However, unless the enemies are stupid, chances are high that the war will not drag on for long in this situation. In addition, the fact that there are many allies nearby means that the land to be protected is also wide. If the Imperial forces attempt to overrun settlements that have rebelled against them, things risk becoming very complicated.”
“Um… ”
Of course, if the imperial army went out just like that massacre of civilians, there would be a possibility that it would face an enormous reverse storm, but it was possible enough if they had an immediate victory in mind.
Above all, as much as the Imperial Army, who currently has the upper hand in military power. From their point of view, they will try to mobilize all means to induce an all-out war in a place that is advantageous to them in any way.
In that way, a heavy silence began to hang in the conference room for a while, feeling that it would not be easy to design the battlefield right away.
at that time.
“… If you don’t mind, can I tell you something about it?”
“!”
“radish… What is? Please tell me.”
Cromwell asked for permission to speak in a calm voice.
In response, Franklin and Benelita immediately began to show interest.
Regarding this, Cromwell calmly explained the strategy he had conceived…
To be precise, I started talking about a strategy that reconstructed the tactics used by leading the Imperial Army from the opposite point of view in the original work.
*
“Damn it!… How did I end up like this… ”
General Neto frowns while confined in the barracks.
With special handcuffs on him and unable to use even magic, he walked around the cramped barracks and just gnashed his teeth at the current situation.
‘What should I do?… If I continued like this, I would be executed without being able to do anything… how… What should I do here… ‘
General Neto contemplates a way out of this situation, obsessed with nervousness, anxiety, and fear.
at that time,
“ruler… General.”
“yes?”
The next moment, a small voice came from behind him.
In response, General Neto turned his gaze toward the source of the sound.
Right after that, the person he started to see…
“nice… Clara?”