Chapter 506
Strictly speaking, Ellen has no particular class.
Although she has occasionally commanded units with special missions in charge of the Gate incident, and is under the command of the Allied Forces General Headquarters, Ellen does not belong to the Imperial Army.
There was a title that came with becoming the princess’s guardian knight, but now that the princess disappeared with the demon king, it didn’t mean much.
The Emperor of the Empire, Bertus de Gradias, gave Ellen no rank or affiliation.
-The warrior has arrived!
-The hero is back!
However, all soldiers who encountered Ellen, who should have no rank, saluted Ellen when they saw her even from a distance.
That was regardless of command.
Every single soldier, platoon commander, company commander, and even commander-level commander saluted with respect and respect when they saw Ellen.
The reason Ellen doesn’t have a rank is because it only annoys her and doesn’t mean anything.
If you clumsily assign an intermediate rank, Ellen’s superior will be created.
If that’s the case, if the rank of commander-in-chief is given, Ellen, a powerful combatant, will have to be called to various meetings.
It could be simply given an honorary rank, but Bertus did not do that.
There is no affiliation or rank, but Ellen can use everything in the military, can be recruited, and can be requisitioned.
Now, with the troops stationed there, they were about to wipe out the monsters on the march and in the area near the troops.
Ellen did not always wear bondi lament and lapelt.
However, as she began to live for a long time in a military garrison where people could see her anywhere, anytime, Ellen made a scabbard of Lament and wore it around her waist.
It was also because of the soldiers who, from time to time, got too excited to see Ellen in real life and rudely asked to see Lament and Rapelt.
But to be precise, it was to make sure people could see themselves everywhere.
People’s morale rises visibly when Ellen is seen from afar.
So, as I read the secret wishes of the military commanders that Ellen always wears the holy relic, even in a non-combat state, Ellen wore the relic.
Those who attended the master class prefer to wear only light armor or weapons unarmed. Why wear plate armor that restricts your actions when you can defend with Auror armor that is harder than steel?
Ellen didn’t have to wear plate armor, but even wearing fancy plate armor was in the same context as wearing a holy relic.
Of course, that doesn’t mean that this plate armor is completely useless.
It doesn’t happen very often, but this is the formal armor that Adelia and her researchers made for Ellen to wear when she goes out to public events.
Armor made only for warriors.
Of course, just because it’s for formal wear doesn’t mean it doesn’t have practicality at all.
The armor itself possesses tremendous anti-magic power, and is a national treasure-level artifact with numerous enchantments, including weight reduction.
However, in the end, the fact that it is shown does not change.
It’s not that Ellen enjoys people’s gazes like that.
It was because the more people projected their aspirations on themselves, the more they knew what their ultimate goal was.
death of the king.
Every time Ellen read the wishes of those who wished for it, it felt like someone was strangling her.
Everywhere you go, there are only soldiers, and it is an army that has the great responsibility of saving mankind. And of all these soldiers, Ellen had the most important responsibility. Maybe even more so than Saviolin Tana.
So, Ellen was suffering from more stares and pressure than usual.
Immature people exist regardless of age.
If you are resting in your own tent, it is not only the soldiers who snoop around the tent because they want to see Ellen’s face.
Not only the imperial army, but also elite soldiers and commanders from other regions and countries, including the emirates, were all gathered.
In the early days of the campaign, there were more commanders and knights who came to see them condescendingly, saying who they were and saying hello.
Ellen couldn’t let them go, and Saviolin Tana, who heard that the situation was so, moved Ellen’s barracks and even gave a strict order not to let outsiders in.
After that, Ellen, at least, was not disturbed by anything while returning from duty and resting in the tent.
Such a garrison, the place where Ellen’s barracks are located.
Ellen handed the horse’s reins to the soldier and went inside, being greeted with a salute by the soldiers who were standing guard not to allow outsiders to enter the garrison.
Quite a unique and special area among the garrison barracks areas.
For Ellen, this garrison area was still better than the others.
“Uh, Ellen. Are you here?”
“huh. Adelia.”
“You worked hard, Ellen.”
“Thank you, Louie.”
Ellen nodded as she was greeted by Adelia and Louis Ancton, who were moving around carrying armfuls of magical items.
A place where troops drawn from the Temple reside.
Among them, located a little farther, is the garrison area for troops from the royal class.
No one here calls Ellen a hero.
So, Ellen sometimes had the illusion that she was going back to a certain moment in the past that she could no longer go back to.
* * *
Not all students at Temple were drafted into the military. Because not everyone had a combat-related major.
However, almost all the students of the Temple Royal class were pulled out, and those who were in the second year of the Royal class at the time of the gate incident were all pulled out, except for those who disappeared along with Bertus and Reinhardt.
Even if not all of them were as good as Ellen, they had their own duties and roles.
“Kayer! I told you to charge the Arc Crystal!”
“I do! Are you going to eat some rice before that?!”
“You don’t know when to use it, but how many times have I told you to do it in advance?!”
“Ah, something the size of a rat is always tickling me.”
“what? rattlesnake? Did you tell your senior?”
“I don’t even go to temple classes, so what kind of senior are you? Don’t you call me brother?”
“Why are you my brother, you son of a bitch!”
Ellen had grown quite tall in the past two years, but she was still watching from a distance as the two children, Rudina and Kaier, were quarreling.
Rudina has the talent of no casting.
And Kaier, who has great magical powers.
It’s been quite a while since those two were forced to become partners in battle.
One can fire magic without casting, but the amount of magic power is only a rat tail, and the other side has enormous amount of magic power, but cannot use magic.
So, after Adelia made the Arc Crystal, a super-sized version of the power cartridge, Kaier charged it whenever she had time, and Rdina drew the charged mana and used magic for a long time.
An arc crystal designed to extract the mana of Kaieru, who has the tactic of mana management.
It could only be used by Kaier, and the magical power within it was designed so that Rdina could use it. It was a super-large artifact created by Adelia for that purpose in the first place.
It was so huge that it could not be held and moved by hand, but there was nothing quite like it as a base defense strategy against the monsters’ large-scale air raids.
Only those who have seen the spectacle of thousands of fireballs falling from the sky sweeping away waves of monsters know.
No matter how much magic the Arc Crystal had, Ludina could consume it in a short time.
So, the Arc Crystal is always in a state of lack of magic power.
There is nothing like the two of them in terms of ability compatibility, but the relationship between the two was getting worse the more they were together.
“uh? Is Ellen here?”
“Yes, senior.”
When Rdina saw Ellen watching from a distance, she quickly came over and pointed her finger at Kaier.
“What do you say to that child! Even if I told you to charge it in advance, you didn’t see me doing it right?”
“No!”
Seeing Ellen from a distance, Kaier nodded, then shouted at Ludina again.
“I am a human too! Stop treating me like a magical power charger?”
“Then you are a magic charger, you bastard! Other than that, what do you do with your research since you want to be put into battle like Ellen? Is it that hard to hold the Arc Crystal for a few hours?”
Rudina was not angry or scolding as a joke.
It is genuinely angry.
“Do you know how many people died last time because the defense line was breached? is that difficult? what the hell are you doing This wouldn’t have happened if you had just charged it a little more!”
Kaier wasn’t protesting moderately either.
Kaier was genuinely angry as well.
“I almost died several times last time because of my magical power exhaustion. do you know that? am i playing? have nothing to do? Do you think you would be anything without me?”
This is a war against monsters.
People actually die, and Rdina has to see people die because she can’t respond to monsters because the arc crystal’s magical power is insufficient.
Kaier, who is a great magical talent, also has infinite magical power. You have to wait until the depleted magic power is restored before you can recharge the Arc Crystal.
Working hard.
However, I couldn’t like it because of the things that happened because we couldn’t help each other.
The two are on bad terms.
And, it’s getting worse.
Eventually, when sharp words began to come out, Ellen carefully placed her hand on Rudina’s shoulder.
“Stop it, stop it, senior.”
“… … .”
“Kayer, go eat. Get some rest first.”
“… … Chet.”
At Ellen’s intervention, the two stopped fighting.
Rudina was glaring at the dirt floor of the garrison with her teeth clenched.
little bit more.
A little more.
if i could have done something
They would have been people who didn’t have to die.
Because of that thought, Rudina gets angry with Kaier, her most important supporter.
Even though I know it’s stupid.
In the end, Rudina let out a suppressed moan while covering her face with both hands.
“I… … . It’s like a climber… … .”
We know each other is doing our best.
Because of regret and remorse over someone’s death, they hurt each other by saying things they shouldn’t have.
“… … Rdina?”
From afar, a person wearing the insignia of a paladin sees Ellen and Rdina and approaches.
“Adriana… … .”
It was Adriana who left the temple, but returned to the Tuan Church after the Gate Crisis and was on her mission as a paladin.
There were problems, including the suspicion of collusion with the Demon King, but Adriana was pardoned, not pardoned.
The truth about everything that happened was unknown and it was frustrating and sad, but Adriana, like everyone else, was fighting this war in search of what only she could do.
“what’s the matter? Did you fight Kaier again?”
“… … .”
Adriana looks at Ellen as she carefully embraces Rudina’s shoulders, who are pouring out suppressed tears.
“Rest, Ellen. You must be the most tired.”
“… … Yes, senior.”
Ellen watched silently as Adriana took Rudina to the tent.
Ellen knows that even Adriana’s face has an indelible shadow.
A person whom Adriana cherished, Irene’s wild dog.
In the end, he played the most direct role in Royard’s death, and Adriana was by his side.
I think there is nothing to say even if I am resentful, but Adriana has never resented Ellen.
War.
The war against monsters was destroying people.
That is, even the students from the Royal Class were no exception.
Ellen herself was no exception.
* * *
Those from the royal class and those with non-combat majors all have roles. Representatively, Adelia is a non-combat major, but with her unique talent, she designed a power cartridge that plays a very important role in this war. And they continued to make improvements.
In the case of Kono Lint, he is not good at fighting, but he was tasked with teleporting critically injured soldiers to the rear or sending troops to the battlefield by moving around the battlefield by space movement.
Even in the case of the musical talent, Lanian Sesor, he was not able to open his eyes because he was put into morale-boosting activities such as conducting performances in the garrison while conducting a military band.
Everyone had their part in the gate avalanche, according to their part, and each was doing his duty in this final march.
Ellen dined in the common dining tent of the Royal Class Garrison.
You could eat in a private tent, but Ellen didn’t want special treatment.
While Ellen sat quietly and ate, someone sat across from her.
“Looks like you’re back. Ellen.”
“ah… … . huh.”
It was Ludwig.
* * *
Due to the effect of moonshine, now all of the close combat majors in the royal class knew how to enhance magical power.
However, only Ellen was on the master class.
However, Ludwig was also one of the four who realized magical power enhancement on their own during their first year.
Ellen, Reinhardt, Cliffman and Ludwig.
Each person has their own role, and Ellen tends to perform solo missions because her level is too high, but the Royal Class students tend to move in groups according to the number of people needed for the mission.
Some say that they are from the temple, their skills are outstanding, and most of the Royal Class students move together because of the bond that results.
It’s not like there were cases like Rudina and Kaier, but moving among students usually had a positive effect.
In the combat operation between such students, two of the close combat majors stand out the most.
They were Cliffman, who had a fighting talent, and Ludwig, who had a physical talent.
It’s just that Ellen’s level has risen too high, but all the soldiers who know that the skills of the two are also amazing.
“When do you think the next march will be?”
At Ludwig’s question, Ellen ponders for a while as she munches on the bread.
“Probably in four days or so… … . I think it will.”
“Four days… … . Yes, that’s right.”
Ellen doesn’t know much about Ludwig.
However, I knew that he was a bright guy who always had a bright attitude and was a bit heated.
However, at some point, Ludwig stopped laughing at all.
horrors of war.
And until now, the demon king was by my side, but I didn’t know that.
Because of that, Ludwig lost his laugh. He had lost his smile, and not only that, but his expression and eyes were brimming with anger and hatred.
A point in time not long after the advance.
During the defense of the garrison, No. B-4, Ashir of the Divine Power talent died.
After that, the light of hatred and anger in Ludwig’s eyes didn’t know how to go out.
