Chapter 113
I looked at the students' levels and toyed with my chin.
It was more disappointing than I expected.
Checking their levels with [Analyze], they were in the early 80s.
It might have been different back when I was just playing the ga.
Now that the ga had beco reality, they needed to grow more.
“Hey, why are you only leaving out when teaching new magic?”
Adela voiced her complaint.
“In your case, it is more advantageous to increase your mana rather than learning new magic.”
“Why?”
“Your head is good, but your body cannot keep up.”
Adela wrinkled her face.
“My body cannot keep up? Even so, I always ranked in the top three during practical duels.”
I knew that much.
Although she was stronger in theory than practice, her practical skills were also above average.
However, even among geniuses, there are areas where they excel and areas where they fall short.
“If you were truly outstanding, there is no way you would find my training this difficult.”
“Don't you think the problem is your thod, not ?”
Adela was making a whining sound in front of .
She was in the middle of ditation, one of the basic training thods for magic.
“Even adult mages don't ditate to this extent!”
She was right.
For a mage, ditation was the act of closing one's eyes and circulating mana within the body.
Mana was naturally consud in that process.
When taught at the academy, ten minutes was the maximum.
Even then, many people could not do it properly and gave up halfway.
Currently, she was holding out for 33 minutes.
“Hold out for about an hour. If you cannot manage even this much, you will not survive in the future.”
“I’m going to die doing this first.”
“At least that’s much better than being bitten to death by a zombie.”
I replied firmly.
Because the wandering life had been long, I had not been able to look after the kids properly.
But now that a hideout was established, the story was different.
I would roll them and roll them again.
There was no room for leisure.
While ti was spent idly, the enemies' teeth grew sharper and sharper.
“If it's like this from the first day, I won't even be able to get up the next day.”
“That is your business.”
“You’re too cruel!”
“Keep going. If you stop, there is no dinner today.”
“You’re not giving food?”
The shadow grew deep on Adela's face.
“What is the recent nu?”
“It’s eggs.”
“And whose are those?”
“Of course, they belong to our group.”
“Wrong. Those things are mine.”
She looked at with eyes full of disappointnt.
I was not soone who would be shaken by such things.
“Dictator.”
“If you don't like it, I don't care if you leave the group.”
Adela bit her lip hard.
She would not give up.
It was her innate nature.
She would not be able to endure the stigma that she left the group because the training was too hard.
“Fine, I'll do it!”
I knew she would answer like that.
That was also the reason I chose her as the leader of the mage unit.
She was as easy to handle as Leo.
The sense of competition between them was also strong, so they burned well on their own without needing extra firewood.
“Damn it, I will definitely pull it off.”
“That is a good mindset.”
“Shut up! It’s distracting, so don't talk to anymore.”
At this pace, she would reach level 100 before entering the castle.
She needed to work hard.
Not just her, but everyone under .
Only then would I live, and they would be able to live as well.
* * *
“……Uh, so how did this happen?”
Vale, having finished preparing the al, arrived at the third floor room where they said they were training.
Upon arrival, he was horrified to see sothing sprawled on the floor.
Adela was slumped like a dried squid.
“I helped her with her training.”
Joshua replied calmly.
“T-Training?”
Vale let out a groan.
He closely examined the face of Adela, who had collapsed on the floor.
Her appearance was truly wretched.
She had never been broken this much even when passing through the forests on the way to Saint Stalia.
“You’ve turned her into a complete rag.”
Adela flailed her hands while lying down.
“Hey, I think she fainted.”
“If you don't mind, could you move her to her room? The rest of us will have the al.”
“Yep, I understand.”
Vale carried Adela on his back and took her to her room.
Then he headed to the dining room on the lower floor.
Rodwell had arrived at the dining room alone.
“Greetings.”
Rodwell offered a greeting.
He did not seem surprised to see him.
He must have heard the story from Joshua.
“Hello.”
“Is this olet your handiwork?”
“Yes, it is.”
“It’s not bad.”
“Since I’ve been taking on all the odd jobs, it seems only my strange skills have increased.”
“Cooking skills are helpful. When the mouth is happy, the heart is also satisfied.”
“You flatter .”
Having finished the greeting, Rodwell picked up his utensils and began eating first.
“By the way, where are the other children?”
“If you an the apprentice knights, they should be at the training ground.”
“Are you saying they are still training?”
“It’s not quite like that. They’ll crawl back on their own when they’re hungry.”
Crawl back?
Sohow the expression was strange.
With an unknown sense of unease, Vale turned his steps and went near the training ground.
He saw three people collapsed with their faces buried in the sand.
It was the knight unit.
Vale was startled and ran toward them.
“A-Are you guys okay?”
When he got close and turned the boys' bodies over, they were as pale as a sheet of paper.
Leo's mouth flickered.
“I-I am perfectly fine. I won't budge at this level.”
He was still pretending to be strong despite being no better than a half corpse.
Since it was sumr.
Nothing would happen if he left them under the shade.
He breathed a sigh of relief and returned to the dining room in the building.
Joshua and Luna ca to the dining room.
“Your skills have improved, Sir Vale.”
“It’s delicious, Uncle Vale.”
Joshua and Luna also poured out praise for the food Vale had created.
He held back his lips from curling up.
He took the seat next to Joshua.
“I went to the training ground and the kids from the knight unit looked half dead, is it okay?”
“It seems they didn't lose consciousness?”
“Yeah.”
Joshua raised his head and looked at Rodwell.
“Sir Rodwell, is the training of the Starlight Knights originally this loose?”
Rodwell stopped his hand while eating and t Joshua's gaze.
“What do you an by that?”
“I made all the students I was teaching faint, but it seems you could not do that.”
Vale trembled.
Co to think of it, Tania and Serena were not visible in this spot either.
He heard the two of them did not train together.
But how did this happen?
“Where did Tania and Serena go?”
“Those girls must be fast asleep in their rooms.”
“How did that happen?”
“Learning spells is not as simple as one thinks. Mana is consud in the process of accepting them into the mind.”
The magic he instructed them to learn would take fifteen days if estimated by their capabilities.
It was fifteen days just to accept the theory.
Since he told them to morize it in three days, it was not strange for their brains to cramp.
“Oho, are you saying we should have a match to see who is the better teacher now?”
Rodwell wore a smile with an excited expression.
“I can endure everything else, but I tend to not tolerate anyone speaking ill of my knight order.”
“I have no particular intention of competing, but the task I must entrust to the knight unit is heavy. I am worried.”
“What is that heavy task?”
Vale cut in midway.
“I am also a comrade in the war starting from now. Should I not know what kind of talk went back and forth?”
Joshua emptied his plate completely and opened his mouth.
“I’m going to make them face the Knight Captain.”
“The Knight Captain?”
“It’s a human nad Carius, the leader of the Sunlight Knights. Until Leonard ca under , he was staying under that man.”
Vale trembled.
Even so, making an apprentice knight face a Knight Captain.
Joshua was undoubtedly out of his mind.
“No matter how you look at it, isn't that impossible?”
“I am going to catch Sir Owain and the Countess. Should the ones called comrades not be able to do at least that much?”
“W-What are you talking about? You are going to catch Sir Owain? No, more than that.”
The boy clearly said it.
That he would also face the Countess.
The boy seed to know about her identity as well.
“I found there is a limit to the power of one person in surviving. Everyone must beco strong in order to survive.”
“…….”
“They don't need to be equal to , but should they not at least reach my knees for it to be worth taking them along?”
“Joshua, what on earth are you……?”
“I am a survivor. Don't you already know?”
Joshua slowly stood up.
“Sir Vale, you should practice your speaking skills in preparation for when you return to the castle and sit on the throne. With a dazed face like you have now, you won't have dignity.”
“I-I understand.”
“Don't forget that Sir Rodwell also needs to work hard.”
“Rest easy. I will turn those bastards into the best apprentice knights within fifteen days.”
“I look forward to that.”
* * *
A week has passed since training started.
Tania and Serena finished the theory and moved on to practice.
“It is harder than I thought.”
Tania was using [Explosion].
It was magic that rapidly raised the surrounding temperature.
“I made you do it knowing it was hard.”
“That may be so, but still.”
Beside her, Serena showcased [Swamp].
This side also looked like it had a long way to go.
She succeeded in changing the ground into wet mud, but the sucking power was far lacking.
[Is there not so trick?]
Serena let out a sigh as if she were frustrated.
“There is no trick. Practice is the only way.”
[Joshua, you always show new magic right then and there.]
“That is because I am special. You guys cannot copy .”
In my case, [Clever] perford the calculations necessary for magic instead.
This was sothing that could not be learned or taught.
“As you go through trial and error, you will gradually get a feel for how to maintain the magic. Even now, you are growing remarkably compared to the first day.”
[Really?]
“Yeah.”
I wondered if I was rushing a bit by saying fifteen days.
It was a needless worry.
Their magic was taking shape.
Rather, what could be a problem was confidence, not skill.
“You guys are doing well. As long as you don't lose your composure, you won't be defeated.”
Serena clenched her fist as if she had made a resolution.
Co to think of it, it was the first mission for the mage unit to carry out without .
I was with them during the Lake Eria incident, but I could not do that this ti.
[The knights, they will be strong, right?]
“Probably.”
[Can we do well?]
“Why, are you feeling pressured?”
Serena lowered her head.
Knights are different from zombies.
Unlike zombies, they think and are equipped with weapons.
However, I did not think such things were scarier than zombies.
“You guys have been fighting zombies side by side for nearly a month on the way to the castle. Do you think knights will be scarier than those bastards?”
Serena shook her head violently.
If she could choose an opponent to fight, it was definitely a knight rather than a zombie.
To say they think ant, interpreted differently, that they could be read.
However, if there was no thought, what remained was madness.
Madness could not be grasped as to where it would extend.
That was why zombies were scary.
“It ans there is nothing you cannot do if you act with the determination to die.”
[I will keep that in mind.]
She swallowed hard.
Tania, who was listening beside her, also had a face of renewed resolve.
“Joshua.”
A voice was heard from behind.
It was Rodwell.
He had left the island and returned to the hideout two days ago.
It was to grasp the situation of the castle.
“Let see you for a mont.”
“Okay.”
I left the two of them and stepped out of the room.
“It seems another problem has occurred at the castle.”
“What kind of problem?”
“It seems a few more humans living in the castle have gone missing.”
It seed the Countess had caused another accident.
The cycle of her committing acts was shorter than I expected.
I had planned accordingly, thinking she would stay quiet for fifteen days.
“Since the rumors are getting worse, it seems the number of people visiting the castle has drastically decreased lately.”
“That’s not a good sign.”
“Is that so?”
“Among the people who visited like that, there are quite a few talented individuals who could repair and manage the castle. Losing them is a bit painful.”
I frowned.
It was a castle I was about to take over, but the owner of the castle was throwing a lot of red pepper powder.
I did not know if she knew it would be taken away.
Or if even this was the world's trick directed at .
It was clear that stalling for ti would only lead to a loss.
“Let’s enter the mainland using the boat at dawn tomorrow.”
“Everyone?”
“Yes, training can be done there too, and I need to coordinate with Lady Lucille and Osmond.”
I shrugged my shoulders.
Now it was ti to eat the al that was all set.
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