Chapter 77 – Episode 77. What Is the Academy Like? (1)
The mace soared with the momentum to cut through the sky, but was soon plunged with that momentum. Her eight legs, a monster that looked like a spider that had grown hundreds of times, screamed in agony with her head crushed.
The body fluids of the monsters were acidic, so getting hit directly was dangerous. Wolfgang slightly avoids the monster spewing bodily fluids from his head and going crazy, then goes back to his side and kicks the monster’s side vigorously with his steel rib.
A monster flipping over and swatting its legs. When the stomach of the monster, whose relatively fragile flesh was exposed, was hit with the mace several times, the monster finally let out a scream and stopped breathing.
“Ashley!”
As Wolfgang called out his son’s name in a loud voice, Ashley’s spirited voice came from behind.
“Hracha!”
The two-handed hammer slammed into the back of the monster, and the heavy blow filled the monster’s back and stomach exploded at the same time in an instant, and died.
“Did you call?”
“Are you finished?”
A strong cold wave was raging.
The blizzard was blowing so hard that even though I was wearing my winter gear, the bone-chilling chill prevented me from advancing any further.
“It seems that the monsters have been sorted out for now. These, no matter how you look at them, are strange.”
Ashley took off her helmet and brushed her snow. If you leave it as it is, it will freeze, and if it freezes, removing it can also damage the equipment, so it was best to shake off the snow whenever you think about it.
“That’s right. Aren’t these the ones you didn’t normally see around here?”
Both Wolfgang and Ashley had constant doubts about the current ideal. The beginning of the situation is certain, but it was difficult to solve.
“That means it’s been weird since it appeared.”
At the tip of the finger pointed by Ashley, a fairly large tower was showing its shadow. The tower, which was vaguely revealing its presence even in the fierce snowstorm, was noticeably larger than when Ashley led his soldiers after receiving the report.
“This is going to be impossible.”
The problem is that I can’t access it. Strangely, the closer I got to the tower, the more distant it seemed, and didn’t get any closer. On the contrary, the closer they got, the more intense the cold and cold wave became, and it was difficult to withstand even if they pulled out the cold weather equipment in the Duchy of Mitterien and equipped it as much as possible.
Not only that, but the frequency of monsters appearing increased as we got closer. Originally, because of the cold climate in this northern region, foreigners were more wary than monsters.
That’s why, like Wolfgang and Ashley, most of them were against foreign peoples when they went out, but recently, there were more cases where they had to deal with monsters rather than foreign peoples.
The cold wave that gets stronger as you approach, and monsters that appear as if they are trying to protect the tower.
“This is how I want it.”
Wolfgang glared at the tower with a disapproving face. Even Wolfgang, an old, undefeated general, had no sharp edge.
Even though he sent a request to the imperial family to receive imperial support, he failed to reach that tower. If you think about it, the tower is that far away from the road. As they approached and approached, the tower showed no sign of getting any closer.
Hwanggun, not accustomed to the cold, only had a lot of heads, but it didn’t help much.
“I don’t know if it would have been a little different if I had an older sister.”
Ashley sat down on a rock where Bijuk stuck his head out in the snowy field. I really missed Astrid. If Astrid had been there, she would probably have thrown a stone at least.
A catapult can’t be dragged into a snowy field like this, so if there was Astrid, who could use that power to match a catapult, maybe.
“… Well, retreat.”
Wolfgang thought for a long while, stroking his beard, before giving the order to retreat.
It was hard to get closer to him, and I didn’t know if I would get into trouble if I forced him to. The tower itself doesn’t have a particularly threatening signal, so it’s the right thing to retreat for now.
Even if he forced himself to approach, the closer he got, the stronger monsters might appear, so there were no sharp answers right now.
Returning to the camp, Wolfgang was lost in thought for a moment.
That tower had too much anxiety to leave it as it is. If he couldn’t solve it with physical force, he had to resort to magic.
Wolfgang closed his eyes for a moment and lost himself in thought.
The people of the Mitterien family hate magic. Little people who are busy talking like girls from afar, then shouting and running away with a blow. Having to ask for help from such wizards is not the only thing that hurts his pride.
But now was the time, so it was not the time to cling to such petty pride.
The obviously growing tower has to do something about it before it grows bigger and reveals its true colors. Perhaps it would be best to trample down and destroy the root cause of the empire in advance.
“Call Ashley.”
After a while, Ashley’s voice came from outside the tent.
“Father, it is me.”
“Come in.”
Even though it was a tent that Ashley had briefly lifted to come in, the bitter cold penetrated through the gap. Ashley stepped onto the white bear skin carpet spread on the floor and stood in front of Wolfgang.
“Sit here. The stove is warm.”
“Yes, Father.”
He had no intention of imitating the military. Being on the battlefield didn’t change the father-son relationship, but it was a battlefield and it was funny to live like a general and general, so Wolfgang used the title of father and son even on a battlefield like this.
“What did you call for?”
Placing his hand near the stove, Ashley sniffed and sipped his nose. His frozen body met the warmth of the fireplace and melted away, causing his runny nose to flow.
Wolfgang looked at Ashley for a moment, then threw some potatoes into the stove again.
“Are there any ripe ones?”
“I ate it all. Doesn’t exist.”
“That’s too bad.”
Several pieces of potato skins were already lying around Wolfgang’s feet.
“Ashley.”
“Yes, Father.”
Ashley, who had been looking at the potato skins with a bit of pity, looked back at Wolfgang, and Wolfgang glanced at Ashley.
“Go to Baizik.”
Byzeek.
Marquis of Weissik von Georgien.
It was a man Ashley knew well. He had seen it a few times.
It was just a matter of distance, but Baizik’s territory was in the east. It was also not too close to go from the north.
“Yes? Are you talking about Marquis Giorgien?”
It wasn’t that he didn’t want to go, but Ashley, who was a bit reluctant to go to the wizard, frowned slightly. In front of his father and his father’s comrades-in-arms, it was also quite rude, but Wolfgang decided to turn a blind eye to such Ashley this time.
“Okay. Weizik inspiration.”
“But father, isn’t it the eastern part of the Marquis of Georgien?”
Since it is the lord of the eastern mage tower, of course it is the eastern part.
Wolfgang shook his head at Ashley’s question.
“No, it is the capital.”
“Yes?”
When he heard that Baizik was in the capital, Ashley put on a puzzled expression. He didn’t quite understand why he had to go to the capital to meet the eastern mage lord.
“There was a message saying that they had come to the capital a few days ago. Academy, to be exact.”
“If it’s an academy… “
“Yes, your sister… The academy where Astrid is.”
“Is that so. Then, what should I say to Mr. Georgeen?”
“Hmm.”
Wolfgang took a moment to organize his thoughts in his head. Ashley hates wizards just as much as Wolfgang or Astrid, so if you go and say sorry, he will definitely hate it.
In order to do that, it was necessary to tell Ashley to come back without any resentment.
“Go, ask for help breaking down that tower.”
“Uh… Yes.”
Ashley also nodded at Wolfgang’s words.
It had to be.
Even though he wasn’t Wolfgang’s real son, years had passed since Ashley also followed him around the battlefield.
His older sister Astrid calls him like a bear because he has good looks and great muscles, and he is always teased about what he does because he grows balloon muscles because he always loses strength fights, but Ashley is also a warrior.
Judging from the intuition of such a warrior, that tower was unreasonable with only physical strength. I thought it was time to devise other means, but I was worried about how to convince my father, Wolfgang, who was a hater of wizards.
“Then, I’ll leave right away, even tomorrow.”
“No. Go right now, go right now I ordered the withdrawal of all troops.”
“It is night now, Father.”
Wolfgang glanced out of the tent.
I didn’t notice it because it was snowing heavily, but it was definitely nighttime.
It was a rather difficult time to withdraw.
“Make withdrawals start tomorrow morning, and you start right away. I will write you a letter while you prepare, so take it with you.”
“I see, Father.”
After saying goodbye to prepare, Ashley left Wolfgang’s tent. Then he went back to his tent and clenched his fists.
I can meet my sister again.
I was able to see that beautiful figure again.
Ashley was just happy about that fact.
