Chapter 619

- Ssrrrrr

A meadow where green grass waves in the wind.

-Kakang!

The shock wave that explodes as the swords collide scatters the leaves, breaks the ground, and shatters the fragments of the magic barrier.

-Kung! Clang! Kwakang!

The empty darkness drew a sharp and thick trajectory on the flashing sword, and I dodge or strike the sword busily.

Several times like this.

No, this many times.

I can't even remember how many times.

I can't count how many days I've been dying.

Now it feels almost like a habit.

The battlefield in the habit.

-Kwakang!

With Alsvinger escaping from my grasp, the flashing sword approaches my neck.

-Skuk!

The void sword Lament sweeps over my neck, and a gruesome pain passes through my mind.

Blackout of consciousness.

"......Hoo."

And awakening.

Once again, I look at Ellen standing opposite me in the meadow in the same way as before, and this time I take out Tiamat.

In this training to prevent the death that will come someday.

I become more accustomed to defeat and death than victory.

"Just let me lose once."

"......"

The Ellen in my dream never said anything.

Just rush.

-Shwiik!

Ellen, who flew on the mountain wind, stabs me with the void sword.

A dream battle that has already exceeded thousands.

I still haven't done more than withstand Ellen.

* * *

"Just sleep comfortably. Isn't it okay to take a day off every three days?"

When I woke up, Iri, who had her hand on my forehead, asked me with a worried look.

Not only my forehead, but my whole body was covered in cold sweat.

Of course.

It's weird if there's no physical reaction when you die dozens of times in a dream. If that happens, I'll be afraid of death that I've become too familiar with.

At the moment of actually fighting, I sometimes want to get rid of this nonsense, thinking that it's a dream and giving up.

"Sleeping is like sleeping forever."

"Don't say unlucky things."

When I say a phrase I heard somewhere, Iri's expression darkens.

Morning.

More than two months have passed since the incident of the Divine Faith.

March.

After a long winter, spring has come.

Spring of expedition.

The spring of advance has come.

* * *

"The Allied Forces have almost completed their preparations for the expedition. They will soon depart, and as you know, their destination is Grosnia."

Everyone sitting down nodded at Harryot's words.

The Allied Forces will now march to their next destination after completing their preparations.

Was this rest long or short for the army that had been marching for a long time?

Even if it passed in a moment, it was not an exaggeration.

But as if I didn't spend that time playing, or rather, as if I was busy, the Allied Forces were busy during that short time.

This time, Sarkergar opens his mouth.

"Your Majesty, the improvement of the Titans is complete."

"How long?" "It seems that they can operate for more than five times longer than before."

"So, about 30 to 40 minutes?"

"Yes, it seems they have also equipped additional weapons."

The Titans could only move for about 7 minutes before.

But Adelia, the Grand Duke, and the Grand Duke's wizards began work on improving the Titans.

In just three months, they achieved a remarkable result of increasing the Titans' operating time by five times.

Sarkergar's report on the Allied Forces' reconnaissance is over.

Next is Olivia Lanche.

"It's going pretty well."

"...."

"Okay. We have completely brought in the high-ranking clergy, and now we are focusing on mental education for the lower-level priests. Of course, secretly."

"What about the policy of embracing heretics?"

"It's a sensitive issue. We've been approaching it cautiously since the announcement of the heretic policy. You know that if we touch it carelessly, the same thing will happen again. First, we need to properly arm the priests within the sect. It's still in progress. It won't be done quickly, you know?"

"What about Rowen?"

He has mental issues from one to ten, but there's nothing to criticize about his work. Honestly, that crazy guy would be most loyal to you here. Just be careful of his excessive loyalty and strange behavior."

"That's right."

It was inevitable that we would swallow up the Shinto sect.

But it was not a task that could be accomplished in a short time to make all the priests of the Shinto sect accept the Masin religion.

Moreover, it would be even later to embrace all heretics, including the policy of embracing heretics.

Therefore, we could not show hasty movements until we had firm control over the Shinto sect and completed our own conversion.

All the leaders are integrated into us, but most of the lower-level priests do not know that fact.

We don't have to worry about external interference, so we just have to worry about collapsing from within.

Reform the Holy Order and the Shinto sect from within.

I'm not sure if reform is the right word.

And we didn't just swallow up the Shinto sect.

"What about our Masin leader?"

"The integration work is progressing smoothly. We can assume that about 60% of it has already been completed. The speed has picked up, so it seems that soon, most of the Masin believers will have a consistent faith."

Antirianus says with a bitter smile.

It's fitting in a way.

Since Rowen is nominally the commander of the Holy Order, Antirianus is in charge of integrating the Masin and Dragon Knight believers in the refugee village.

Unfortunately, there was no one as diligent as him who was good at dealing with petty things, so there was no one else but Antirianus to do it.

We didn't plan to ask Antirianus to do it in the first place. Anyone could do it, but when we asked who would do it, the old man raised his hand with a childish expression.

After integrating the Masin believers, we will integrate the Shinto sect when it is sufficiently reformed. In a continent where everything has almost gone to waste, they have become a group that can be called a nation. "I always told you not to do useless things." "Would there be a choice? Oh, great existence." Rowen and Antirianus have something in common. They are trustworthy, but there is always a decisive factor of anxiety. The Allied Forces' expedition is ready, the Titan improvement is confirmed, and the work of the Shinto sect and Masin religion integration is progressing smoothly. The Immortal Alliance's deployment has been confirmed, and they are a military force that can be considered among the strongest in humanity's history. The issue of replication is being considered, but it is feared by the Empire. The danger of the technology is being felt. "To prevent the Gate incident, if the technology that caused the Gate incident to become nothing is developed... I'm not sure if that's a good thing... I couldn't help but agree with Charlotte's worried words. If things continue like this, the Gate incident will be resolved smoothly. But what if we have done too many dangerous things to overcome the crisis? I couldn't do anything about that anxiety. "We don't need to think too hard about it. Even though the Immortals are strong, they are just machines without free will. If we need to suppress them, we just need to suppress the controllers, not the machines," said Lucinil, and there was enough reason in his words. We don't need to create a magic that destroys tanks to suppress them. It is enough to have a magic that snipes the people inside the tanks. After all, the Immortals are just robots in human form, controlled by someone. The control device or controller. If we can get our hands on that, the Immortals are just empty shells in human form. But is that possible? I also know that we have to deal not only with the Empire but also with those who directly operate the Immortals. They must be well aware of the weaknesses of Immortal operation. We cannot ignore the weaknesses that we can think of from the perspective of the operators. If we touch them without proper preparation, the Immortals may go berserk. Then everything will be over. "Anyway, the Immortals won't be used to attack us right away, but it's better to keep looking for ways to neutralize or deal with them," said Lucinil, and the march began again. The changed Allied Forces will move towards the end of the Gate incident in the changed situation. Finally, I looked at Charlotte. Enough reports have been made about external affairs, so it's time to share internal affairs. "The settlement of immigrants is almost complete. Now the overpopulation problem in Lajak will be greatly alleviated. The establishment of local administrative bodies is also complete, and there seems to be no need to worry about public safety issues." It was to disperse the population that had been overcrowded in Lajak to various places on the island. It was a situation where the stability of local administrative bodies was in doubt, so it had not been properly carried out until now. Any mention of weakening control over the regions was a taboo, and there was nothing good about it. But Charlotte succeeded in establishing a proper local administrative system. Maintaining public safety and creating a system for delivering and reporting administrative power. That's why it is now becoming a proper country. "Keep working hard to establish and stabilize local administrative bodies. If the situation becomes unfavorable, we may have to bring the Shinto sect or Masin religion from Huangdo here," she said. The work is being completed one by one. We prepare for everything. But. I couldn't shake off the ominous imagination that we might end up not preparing for anything by doing so. * * * The Elder Council meeting is over. For now, the work we were doing, standing at the forefront, scouting the battlefield, and annihilating the enemy through preemptive attacks, will stop at this stage. "Our job will be done by the Immortals. It's clear that they can do it much more accurately and reliably than us. It's a scale that makes my hair stand on end just thinking about it. Unless we're launching an attack on a metropolitan scale, we may not need to participate in the war anymore. We should be quietly holding our breath and thinking about what comes after the Gate incident. Hey, Reinhardt, do you have a moment?"