Chapter 235 – Full Armor Sophia
“You dirty witch! How dare you do this kind of trick?!”
In the end, Mayer, clearly pissed at the fact that no one could interrupt Glinda’s speech until it was over, slammed the table with an angry expression.
“Zi, calm down!”
“Calm down? Right now, most of the 30,000 troops are shaken by what happened just now. In this situation, are you asking us to calm down?!”
When he picked up the ink bottle with a tearful expression, the SS soldier who had stopped Mayer closed his eyes with a winced expression.
Tak!
“Even so, it is nothing more than a shallow ploy by the Demon King’s army, which is on the defensive.”
At that time, it was Mizar, Septent Lion’s second-in-command, who appeared to take the ink bottle that Mayer had thrown at her soldier.
“I thought you told me not to let anyone into the barracks without my permission?”
“I had something I wanted to propose urgently, so I had no choice but to violate Archon’s orders. Please forgive me.”
As Mizar said that and bowed her head in a polite manner, Mayer, who quickly became cold, asked with a sharp look in his eyes.
“So, what brought you to me?”
“It would be a shame to avoid battle just because the soldiers are agitated. Rather, it would be like giving them the time they want. How about we attack first before that happens?”
“… Keep trying.”
“Anyway, with their current technological capabilities, there is no way to shoot down Gungnir floating in outer space. Perhaps Princess Gloriana, who belatedly joined the front line, has regained her former strength, but as of now, they do not have the power they can use. There must be a limit.”
“There’s certainly some truth to that.”
Mayer Griffith stroked her chin and looked down at the military map lying on her table.
Desmond Plain, a geographically open area, was the ideal battlefield when using Gungnir, a celestial weapon.
“If my brother and I go to the battlefield and buy time, and the remaining five members of Septentrion, including Alioz and Megrez, focus only on using Gungnir in the rear, we can definitely win this war.”
In response to Mizar’s confident words, Mayer Griffith thought she was being deceived and decided to join in.
“Good. Then, let’s follow your plan this time. But you know the price if you fail, right?”
“Don’t worry. Even if it’s like this, it’s something I risked my life for.”
As Mizar said this and gave a salute by placing her open palm on her left chest, Mayer accepted her salute with the same motion.
“Heil Mayer!”
***
Glinda came down from the podium and asked me with a very uncomfortable expression.
“Are you okay? You mixed lies into your speech to the soldiers.”
I said, waving my index finger left and right in response to Glynda’s unnecessary worries.
“Did you say that the culprit in the assassination of Queen Titania’s fiancé was never caught? I just added some flesh to it. In a case like this, the culprit is the one who benefited the most by causing the situation.”
When something happens and the suspect only has mental evidence and no physical evidence, you usually have to find clear evidence to convince everyone.
However, there is no way we can find evidence now that was not found 500 years ago, and the truth is not very important now anyway.
All I had to do was let people know that the group called ‘Serpent of Wisdom’, which the 5th Archon, Mayer Griffith, is believed to belong to, is a group of very vicious people.
From the beginning, I did not think that I could persuade all the soldiers with just one speech.
However, once the seed of doubt begins to grow, it can grow to a gigantic size in the blink of an eye.
As a result, when they start to question their own beliefs, they will be free from the illusion that they are patriots.
“Anyway, I’ve given you something that no elf can ignore, so now is the second act.”
As I said that, I looked at Sophia who was standing behind me.
“Septentrion is the strongest military group consisting of a total of seven 7th-rank mages. Although Glinda defeated his leader in the last battle, considering its importance, it is not strange to have spare members.”
So, I needed at least 7 people with equal or similar strength to me.
First of all, there are five people in the Demon King’s army, including the Demon King, Walter, Gabriel, Vanessa, and me, and Glinda, who has similar interests, can also be included in the number.
But even if we save up like this, there are only 6 people.
If I called my Master in Oz as reinforcements, I could fill the last spot, but I was reluctant to call my Master on the battlefield, where I could die if I made a mistake, and it was uncertain whether Master would come even if I called him.
So the last remaining option is Sophia.
“I asked the Demon King to bring me all the weapons you most need right now from the Demon King’s castle’s treasure trove.”
“… What weapon do I need most?”
“Well, you’ll find out when you see it for yourself.”
That was the moment I said that and tapped Sophia on the shoulder.
Flash!
A dazzling flash of light erupted from the forest not far from the Demon King’s army camp.
“They say even tigers will come if I tell them.”
As I muttered that and looked towards the source of the flash, Glinda next to me recognized the identity of the magic and muttered.
“It’s teleportation magic.”
Has it been about 10 minutes since then?
The hero’s armor arrived in front of us, delivered directly from the Demon King’s treasure warehouse.
“Oh, hello, brother.”
With an old friend I once fought with in a hero party.
***
“My name is Zhuge Lin… If you have difficulty with the Eastern Continent name, please feel free to call me Lin.”
The wise man of the warrior party, Lin.
We are colleagues who have now become past tense.
After coming out of the dungeon and making her deal, she thought her whereabouts had become unclear, but the twist was that she was working as a maid in the Demon King’s castle at the Demon King’s mercy, but she had completely forgotten about it since then.
Because she was someone who had nothing to do with me in the first place.
But this time, I found him again.
Why?
“A wise man is a wizard who specializes in buff magic.”
I defined her in just one word.
“Buff?”
“Sage is a rare class that only appears in the descendants of Zhuge Hyuk, who is called the first sage. I don’t know how the descendants of Zhuge Hyuk, the founder of modern hierarchical magic, came to have a lineage specialized in buff magic, but because of that powerful buff magic, past hero parties Most of them included sages.”
I said that and asked Rin to cast any buff spell as an example.
Then, as Lynn looked at me, she hesitated, and then she cast a haste on Sophia.
“Try making a move.”
When I suggested it with a hand gesture, Sophia moved her body with a disapproving expression.
“!”
And then immediately makes a surprised expression.
I guess it’s because I feel like I’m moving much faster than usual.
“What do you think?”
When I asked with a grin, Sofia nodded her head with a shy expression.
“It’s definitely good.”
“From now on, this guy, and you are one team.”
As I said that, I pushed Rin’s shoulder, which was standing upright, towards Sophia.
“I think I have a convenient pet. Or maybe a talking accessory. If he rebels or tries to run away, I don’t care what he does.”
When I said that in a calm voice, Sophia blinked her eyes and then nodded quietly.
“I understand.”
“Hi!”
Well then, let’s move on to the next item.
I gave Sophia two of the three sacred weapons called Trinity, the warrior’s weapons that Sage Lin brought from the Demon King’s Castle.
“This is…”
“It was originally a sword and shield given to the hero by the Goddess of Courage. After the death of the previous hero, the Demon King collected them and hid them in a treasure trove. Now they are yours.”
The warrior’s weapon has special power.
That is the ability to maximize the user’s potential.
Even though the Sentai hero Artorius was a sword expert, it was thanks to this miracle that he was able to wield the power of a sword master.
So, if Sofia, who had reached the unprecedented level of double master with her extraordinary talent, obtained Trinity, there was a possibility that she could become the strongest warrior of all time.
“… Aren’t you worried? I might betray you in exchange for something.”
After hearing that, I shrugged her shoulders.
“If I was going to betray, I would have betrayed it a long time ago. And you know now. Just because you’re the goddess of courage doesn’t mean you’re always just.”
In just over a year with me, Sophia must have seen and felt a lot.
Everything I said to her when I was cajoling her in her dungeon was all true.
“Honestly, I still don’t know. Is it right for me, the hero, to follow you, the leader of the Demon King, or not?”
I said to Sophia, who was still hesitating, while handing her the last of the three sacred weapons, Unlimited Power.
“In times like that, you just have to do what you think is right.”
“…”
Sophia looked down at the necklace I held out, then smiled bitterly and stretched out her right hand.
“I can’t help it.”
I’ll help you just this once.
