Episode 60
About a week after the special announcement.
Benderford’s mission dispatch was a blitz.
Apparently, the subjugation operation proceeded faster than expected.
The goal of the students was to wipe out the remnants hiding in the Calendron territory south of the Deser Mountains.
“Article 15, check supplies and maps.”
Hearing the assistant’s voice, the members each opened their saddle bags.
Confirming that there was nothing wrong, we went straight through the east gate.
“Here!”
“Gazua!”
Students who left school during the semester showed a somewhat excited look.
Group 14, who started a little ahead of us, ran frantically from the start.
It seemed that he was trying to reach his destination faster than anyone else and win the major.
Of course, I had no intention of doing that.
It’s pretty close to Calendron, but running like crazy from the grass?
That horse will definitely be exhausted and isolated in the middle.
I turned around and tossed the rolled-up papers.
“Come on, take one.”
“What is this?”
“Mission data.”
What I provided was an information sheet that was painstakingly compiled and summarized by Level 3 agents in the central branch.
Of course, the story of the Assassins was completely excluded, leaving only the information related to the Physics tribe.
Frickson, who quickly read the first part, opened his eyes wide and nodded.
The contents of the information sheet seemed quite surprising.
“It’s quite detailed? Where the hell did you get this?”
“I spent some money on the outing last weekend.”
“You mean you bought the information.”
“It’s quite expensive. But don’t worry too much about it. It’s a pittance anyway.”
He shrugged his shoulders as if it was not a big deal, but everyone just joked calmly.
Frixon was a donation student like me, so he had plenty of pocket money, and the other two were direct descendants of the 4th generation.
Since his father was the lord of Forben, which developed through trade, Curtis could also be said to be quite wealthy.
After all, there was not a single person struggling here.
“It’s more textured than I thought, isn’t it?”
Mack, who had been reading the materials related to the tribe of Physics, nodded with a satisfied expression.
I didn’t pay much attention to my much more luxurious clothes or the high price of information magazines.
Instead, I was admiring the detailed and robust level of information.
Of course it has to be.
It’s an internal document possessed by the continent’s best assassination squad.
“Do I have to bother with something like this? Can’t I just go and finish it?”
Meanwhile, Camille Felton rummaged through the papers and jammed them into the saddle bag.
After seeing a lot of letters, he took off his studies.
As expected, it was the reaction of a guy who is bothered by everything in the world.
“There are as many as 40 groups that have been put in this time. If you want to take the top spot among them, you have to know their characteristics well.”
I looked back at the other members of the team and said, ignoring Camille, who was drooping in the saddle.
“It is said that you can summon monsters, summon spirits, and possess them?”
As expected, the one who responded right away was the shy honor student Mac T.S.
Anyway, how long will you respect me?
I’m dying of embarrassment
I thought it would be burdensome to ask to change right away, so I tried to suppress my intrusiveness and answered.
“It’s a kind of unrefined magic. It’s called witchcraft, but in fact, there’s not much difference in that it deals with mana.”
“okay.”
“This is what matters. Now, turn to page 14.”
Following my words, the members of the team who passed the information sheet muttered with interest.
“This is how the seal of the ghost spirit was made…”
“The shape is more clunky than I thought, isn’t it?”
Druids all wore necklaces with T-shaped pendants.
It wasn’t just worn symbolically.
It was an item containing powerful magic power, and it was also a medium to communicate with the monster’s soul.
The way to determine the major in this mission was to secure how many seals of this monster.
“The 1st lord is brown, the 2nd lord is red, the 3rd lord is black, the 4th lord is silver, and the spirit lord is gold. The head of a tribe is called a lord.”
Perhaps the 1st spirit is the main force of those hiding in the Calendron Territory.
Anything higher than that would be only the middle manager level, the 2nd rank.
They were perfect for students to take charge of.
Even if I summoned the soul of a monster, it would be at the level of nothing like an Orc or a Gnoll.
“But why are you revealing this before departure?”
Curtis, who read the information sheet all the way to the end, suddenly tilted his head and asked a question.
I glanced at Camille, who was sleeping on the saddle.
“What good would it be to see the information spread out? It will take quite a while to travel anyway, so you can read it while you are going.”
The members of the crew, who noticed the meaning of my gaze, nodded loudly as if they knew.
Camille Felton’s carefree personality and eccentricity were very famous in the school.
If the information sheet was given in advance, there was a high possibility that it would be leaked.
It’s easy to just leave it somewhere and lose it.
“Huh?”
thud!
We were in a situation where we were moving along the road at a slow pace.
Suddenly, a strange sound came from behind, and the crew members stopped moving.
It seemed that something had happened while I was staring at the front for a moment.
I jerked my head around, and for a moment I saw nothing unusual.
Feeling stuck while searching for the wrong picture?
Looking at him with a curious look, Mac T.S. got off the horse with an awkward expression on his face.
Only then did I understand what was wrong.
‘Wow, that’s quite a joke.’
The commotion just now occurred when Camille, who had fallen asleep in the saddle, fell off her horse.
It was not a fast-running situation, but falling off the horse was something that could accompany serious injuries.
But he only opened his eyes when Mack picked him up.
“what?”
“Aren’t you sick? You just fell right on the floor.”
“Just like that?”
buck buck.
Camille Felton scratched her red tangled hair, climbed into the saddle, and threw herself back to sleep.
It was hard to believe that he could sleep in such a position even after witnessing it himself.
‘I’ll have to wait and see if I’m nervous or just crazy.’
McTyss shrugged his shoulders as he looked at Camille Felton and the other members.
Changing the horse’s gait to a brisk pace, I slowly began to pick up the speed.
“It’s spread too.”
“That’s right. He just ran from the beginning.”
I saw several groups that had spurted a lot earlier, resting in the shade of trees.
He was a typical aristocratic boy who had never been able to handle horses properly.
As I ran straight past them, the leading formation that had started first caught my eye.
‘I don’t feel very competitive, do I?’
In front, the second and third princes were running side by side.
Seeing that there wasn’t that much difference in speed from us, it didn’t seem like we were competing like crazy.
Besides, there seemed to be no tension between the two groups.
Meanwhile, Franz spoke to Ellington insinuatingly.
“You must be in a hurry to major, so why don’t you try to be a little more active?”
“Originally, the chased person’s heart is more impatient than the pursuer. If you want to win that way, go first.”
“Whoops! I’ve heard that you’re good at plotting.”
“I didn’t decorate anything.”
“I didn’t ask if I planned anything either.”
“How could the younger brother block the way of the older brother? Let’s go quickly.”
“done.”
The two princes were exchanging casual conversations.
It was slightly sharp, but for some reason it felt like I was giving in, saying hyung first and ah first.
Stealing their voices, I couldn’t help expressing my doubts.
‘Surely the Emperor said that his grades at Benderford would also be included in the evaluation of succession. Then, isn’t it normal to struggle to beat each other unconditionally?’
The information obtained from the central branch of the empire, even if it was a secret matter of the imperial family, must be certain.
However, Franz and Ellington seemed relaxed as if they were on a trip.
‘I hope these guys… … . You’re not thinking of the battle for the throne as a game, are you?’
It was not a place where the emperor could just play cards to win, and it seemed unlikely.
However, one word suddenly popped into my head.
‘A fight.’
Since power cannot be divided even between father and son, the strife within the imperial family must be truly terrifying.
They were just watching the liver without a break, getting used to all sorts of tricks.
The moment he showed his weakness, he would reveal his teeth to suffocate his brother.
The uncomfortable companionship of the leader continued until there was not much left in the Calendron estate.
However, it was around the time they passed through the completely empty gateway and entered a fairly wide land trade route.
rustle!
Could it be that there is an ominous movement in the scrubland to the right?
Before long, something large burst out of the bushes.
Whirik! Wow!
“Kwoaaa!”
The appearance of the monster, which emitted brown air currents all over its body, was terrifying.
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Jagged teeth, black eyes, a height of about 3m, and a gigantic body.
It resembled an ogre in some way, but it was subtly different and much more ferocious.
“That’s…”
As soon as they saw him, the members of Team 15 immediately turned to each other.
It was also because the monster had a clunky T-shaped pendant hanging from its neck.
Sussuk! Ssuk!
Soon after, dozens of something rumbled out from behind him.
It must have been a monster commanded by the Druid of the Physix tribe.
“They have appeared! Ready for battle!”
Franz looked around and shouted as if he were a commander.
Then, the students who were nervous about the appearance of the monster began to unite around the second prince.
Ellington was also trying to gather his crew and launch an attack as if he couldn’t lose.
“What should I do?”
McTees subtly summoned the spirit and asked a question.
However, I had no intention of being a horse in the princes’ war games.
“Break through as it is.”
“Yes? Can we just leave this here?”
“Our goal is 2nd Spirit or higher. Not those idiots.”
Can you win first place with the seal of a brown ghost?
At least it should be red.