“Tell me,” Alfred said, as Wilhelm silently inspected a small vial containing a golden, glowing liquid. “You seem like the type who wants to die for something. Will you die for the princess?”
“No. She’s just a brat,” Wilhelm bluntly and coldly said. “She’ll probably end up dead in a ditch one day if she doesn't fix that arrogance of hers.”
Alfred’s eyes narrowed.
“What about the saintess? That Phoebe girl?”
“No. She’s just a naive girl...
“How did you find that? So the Defense Forces have been hiding strategic herbs all this time?”
“What a damning conclusion. Although, there’s also the possibility that we acquired it right after the Crown Princess demanded it, while the Royal Guard and Imperial Army failed in that task.”
“Failed? If you bastards allowed us to send troops up north to acquire it we’d have gotten it first.”
“Look, I don’t control the Ministry of Defense’s regulations on ...
Two fourth-year students, both eighteen years of age, left the main entrance to the so-called ‘Perlenstadt Catacombs’, more commonly known nowadays as the Great Dungeon due to its enormous magical properties.
The main entrance was on the ground floor of the Academy’s General Building, which was at the center of the four dormitory and administration buildings that surrounded it.
Foot traffic here was quite busy, with many students, usually young boys, travelling down in th...
[GLYPH DRAWING I (LV 7 >>> 8)]
A wide smile appeared on Alexa’s face as she watched the blue orb of water fly slightly above the glyph paper that was starting to dissolve in the air as the magic was activated.
Drawing the simple ‘Water Orb’ spell only required around twenty attempts for Alexa, before Wilhelm deemed that her proficiency was good enough and he allowed her to finally use mana ink for the last one.
Upon activation, this was th...
“Five pounds of Redhill Moss. That’s certainly not a lot for our future purposes, but this should be enough to produce two batches of testing elixirs and one actual batch of the aiding elixir…”
Alexa watched mindlessly behind Wilhelm as he checked the ingredients on his table. The Redhill Moss was…well, it was red, and it glowed slightly whenever it was touched.
It certainly wasn’t something normal. It was a magical herb, obviously, and therefore, it was somewhat sc...
“Final summary of the ‘2nd Special Gathering Operation’. Casualties: 82 men killed, 23 missing, and 167 wounded or sick. Participating units: 223rd Penal Battalion and the 24th Scout Squadron. Items retrieved—62 pounds of ‘Redhill Moss’. Goodness…these herbs are quite the expensive buggers to acquire, eh?”
“Based on our doctrine of maximizing the enemy’s attrition rate while minimizing ours, the calculus for this special gathering operation is indeed quite awful.”...
“Headmaster Olston! The fire in the west wing of the Hohle Dormitory has now been stopped. The hole in the roof has been sealed as well by the mage engineer corps.”
“...What else?”
“Luckily, no one’s hurt. That’s been fully confirmed, though the students in the Hohle Dormitory building are very shaken.”
“I see.”
Headmaster Manfred von Olston turned away from the stressed mage professor to face Alexa, Phoebe, and Areya. Even William was standing ...
“At its core, glyph magic simply is a mode of imparting instructions to change the fabric of reality around it,” Wilhelm explained to the class. “Normally, we utilize magic circles to manipulate the world by giving the mana from the magic circles in our hearts commands, then by casting that activated mana out through our gate.”
The students in the classroom, most of them boys, listened intently to Wilhelm's speech.
“However, this is not the only way to impart these ins...
Eight flare bolts rose to the skies, bathing the dark, snowy battlefield with bright light when they detonated, enough that it was almost as if eight moons were high above the earth. Down below, the screams of the damned human soldiers reached their crescendo as they broke into a rout.
“Retreat!”
“Hurry up!”
“Don’t get caught in the open!”
Hundreds of soldiers ran into dug-in trench lines with panicked faces. Alongside dirty white coat uniforms, they ...
“So you’re now instructing the princess herself? That sounds like a very ambitious task, so I’m not sure if you’ll get far in that one.”
“Her Highness is difficult to deal with, but her assistance has its uses. Besides, she’s still the next Empress, at the very least, someone has to guide her somewhat...”
“You still delude yourself too much, Wilhelm. Do you actually see yourself as a teacher now? I thought all you want in life is to kill demons? Then focus on t...
“Of course, I’m still working on finding those herbs. But, Your Highness, my job also involves protecting you,” Alfred turned back to his brother, his face burning with rage. “I wish to inform you now. This man, he’s manipulating you. I can see it in his face. He’s a Defense Forces trooper, of course, he’d stoop so low to do this. Nothing else matters to these men than killing demons.”
“And what’s wrong with killing demons?” Wilhelm asked with a laugh, when sudden...
“You can hear them, can’t you?”
The figure in front of the young boy was pale, ghostly, and most of all…almost indistinguishable from the demon devils earlier.
With a baggy white coat, a mask that obscured half of his lower face, and a steel helmet that hid much of the rest, all Wilhelm could see was the man’s dead grey eyes.
“You killed…a dozen of them,” the man continued. “And you did it with nothing but glyph traps. Tell me, boy. Do you see them in y...
“How could this be? I thought my plan worked…”
Alexa was disturbed, very much so. The thing she was reading, oh, it almost was enough to make her faint. The novel changed, yes, but her hopes for victory were now once again dashed.
Instead of seeing herself as an Empress who died in a violent revolution, or an Empress who built the most wonderful nation imaginable—she found herself absent in the damned ending.
She had been fully replaced by the saintess. By t...
“Is that her? The prophesied ‘Saintess’...?”
“I heard she’s new. My, she’s no human…”
“A non-noble, in the Grand Academy?”
“How dare she—to walk amongst us like this? I bet that prophecy is a farce!”
“It cannot be, wouldn’t that mean the church is practicing heresy then?”
“These are troubling times indeed…”
With her head fixed straight, a graceful young lady walked through the hallways of the Grand Academy. Stil...
“The Ministry of Defense wants YOU!”
“My, what an unpleasant poster that is,” Alexa pointed out, annoyed. “I’ve been seeing them for a while.”
“Your Highness, we should probably continue now on our way to the academy as you planned,” her lady-in-waiting, a blue-haired woman of her age named Adele von Florence, called out from behind. “Sir Alfred is already calling for us.”
“Tell me, Adele. Why are there so many of these unsightly posters i...
“How terrible. You appear quite irate today.”
“Why wouldn’t I be irritated, Sir Alfred? You are quite late. So disappointingly late! Please refer to the wall clock behind you.”
“Oh…”
Alexa impatiently tapped her feet on the floor. The ingenious nineteen-year-old knight in front of her, Alfred von Gottfried, on the other hand, gracefully turned to the clock and nodded. Then, he kneeled in front of Alexa while lowering his head.
“Then you are permit...
“The Crown Princess locked herself up! We succeeded!”
“The martyrs will be delighted. This is good progress, brothers. Soon, even the regency council will tremble at our might!”
“How long has it been since? Three days?”
“It seems that our attack truly drove great fear into that brat. Cheers for another victory for the Free Republic!”
Henry Richard von Hecker, however, wasn’t convinced of the celebrations of his colleagues in the ‘Society of the Most...
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“Grease the guillotine!
“Grease the guillotine!
“Grease the guillotine, with the Empress’ fat and tears!
“By the clergy’s bowels!
“By the clergy’s bowels!
“By the clergy's bowels, hang her nobles too!”
Those song-like chants from the crowd, accompanied by an upbeat tune of fifes and drums, drowned Alexa’s injured ears, as she looked...
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