episode_0013

March 187. Jeokma Dormitory Plaza.

“Are you coming? Are you saying you won’t run away, but will approach my crocodile?”

“If you don’t get close, you can’t hit the crocodile.”

“You mean hitting a crocodile? Are you out of your mind?

What you need to do in this situation is not shoot, but cast a termination spell.

You have to release the pool of blood so it only takes one attack, not two.”

Mina said quietly.

“Casting a spell. Wrong time, wrong place.

The target is Ashra, a man-eating crocodile. This spell is a quick spell, so it doesn’t consume action.

Generate hits. Penetrating 2.”

Time order! I overlooked that.

Graven quickly checked the reference table.

I was so caught up in putting together my own winning plan that I couldn’t check my opponent’s abilities.

Wrong place, wrong time – Sun 1 Moon 1, 18cm, 1 unit, fast

Generates 1 hit – Penetration 2 (friendly units are also forced to resist), target unit immediately acts 1 time.

If the target unit was an enemy unit, that unit is treated as having received this round of turns.

“Act immediately once.”

“And since the target unit is an enemy unit, it is treated as having received this round turn.”

The audience began to chatter.

“What is it? So in reality, doesn’t that mean the right to action has been reduced by one?”

“If you fail the resistance roll, so be it.”

“No. It’s more than that.”

Indira’s eyes sparkled.

“Surprise is an effect received at the start of the turn. Since this spell gives actions and not turns, it does not receive the effect of surprise.”

“Then the contamination effect is-”

” Pollution damage dice are rolled each time you take an action, so you still get it even if you act outside of your turn!”

“Now! Hurry up and roll the dice!”

At Mina’s urging, Graven closed his eyes tightly and rolled them.

Resistance 6 and Penetration 2, so a defense roll of 4 or lower is a success.

What came out of the dice was 10.

“You have to take action! Roll the contamination dice as soon as the action begins!”

Pollution 6 results in 5 dice being rolled.

1, 3, 4, 6, 6. So 5 damage.

“Rolling 5 and getting 5 damage is a waste of money…”

“The distance is 12cm, so you can’t even hit it with a charge. If only the real mobility were 2cm higher…”

Leaving aside the complaints of the Kuroshio first-year students, Graven began to worry.

The crocodile now has 15 health remaining. Should I continue to hide in a pool of blood and be hidden and concealed?

Or should I get out of the puddle to avoid contamination damage the next turn?

After much deliberation, he chose the former.

“6cm advance.”

He moved just enough so that the alligator was still above the pool of blood.

“Remy’s second action. Charge 14cm west and then fire at a gallop.

The goal is Vice President Tangaroa.”

10 attacks inflicted exactly 4 damage and eliminated Tangaroa.

Graven carefully picked up Tangaroa’s model and put it in his bag.

” Wow, really. Don’t you get lucky once? ”

“Stop it. It’s not polite to whine about having no luck.

This is also written in Chapter 1 of the rule book.

And don’t you remember that I had the luck of gathering Vampiric Wave mana exactly on turn 2?”

“Ukkisqueak…”

Putting aside the juniors’ complaints and the monkey’s consolation, Graven focused on the game.

He shot fireballs and magic bullets at the dwarves and eliminated the 3 model maid units remaining.

Mina struck twice with the West’s Butlers, completely defeating the first-year unit.

The central butlers moved east and blocked the road to Remi, impeding the crocodile’s path.

That’s how round 3 ended.

In the 4th round, the butler, maid, and Remy took out the dwarf with a joint attack, and the crocodile had to be content with eating the butler unit.

In round 5, when Mina’s remaining troops began to run away, the slow-moving Crocodile and Graven had no way to pursue them.

Round 5 ends. Calculate points for surviving units.

52 to 62.

Mina’s Red Horse Dormitory won by 10 points.

“I won! Tonight’s dinner is foie gras!”

Victory in a bloody battle that lasted nearly two hours.

The square at Jeokma Dormitory was filled with cheers.

“You are truly amazing, lady.

It was your first match, but I never thought you would win…”

“No. It’s all thanks to you.”

Indra smiled humbly and waved his hand.

“I just lent the crew. The reason you won with that was-”

“You are the one who chose the order. Remy can use the magic of the sun, moon, and time, but only learns 2.

With only two spells to choose from, you chose the best spell.

I’ll give you a vacation as promised, so relax and paint.”

“Thank you.”

“Ukkisqueak…”

Hearing Goofy’s sad cry, Mina turned her head.

Graven put all the models into bags and divided the table into easy-to-carry places.

“It was a good match.”

“Okay. It was a good match.

Don’t shake hands. Because the rule book defines this game as a ladies’ and gentlemen’s game.”

Shaking hands with him, Mina felt a strange sense of respect.

He did his best until the end.

After the critical hit on turn 3, some spectators left, saying the game had been decided.

But Graven did not give up.

I tried to find a way to win until the end, and I tried to somehow attach the crocodile to Remy.

If Mina had relaxed just a little, the fight would have ended in Graven’s victory with Remy being torn apart by the crocodile.

“I was lucky.”

“Well. It seems we had similar luck.

I was conceited that I was dealing with a beginner.”

Graven’s humility made Mina want to comfort him even more.

“In the first place, I guess the crew compatibility was a little bad.

You just brought a bunch of models you like.

Graven’s four models give buffs to Pirate Republic units, but there were no Pirate Republic units.

The vice president has synergy with the president, but he just took it on his own-”

“That’s not true.”

Graven resolutely dismissed the consolation.

“It is true that I like this crocodile model, and it is also true that I wanted to use a model modeled after myself.

However, I organized a crew to use those two models in a practical way.

The vice president is a table setter with a high learning ability of 5 and grass and ground magic, so I added it because I thought it would be helpful even without the student council synergy.

The reason the Pirate Republic model was not included was because they could not use fire magic.

I don’t know if this crew is the optimal crew, but it is a crew that put a lot of my concerns into it.

Of course-”

He grinned.

“I lost to a beginner in my first attempt, so I need to think more about it.”

“How do you make a crew? I want to try it too.”

“You can make it within 100 points. Ah.”

He rummaged through his bag and gave me a book.

Album – Red Horse Dormitory.

“You defeated me, so I’ll lend it to you.”

“Album?”

“This is a book that lists the abilities of units belonging to each dormitory.

You can look at it, choose the item you want to buy, and then go to the student council.”

“Thank you. I’ll return it after I see it.”

Graven nodded and returned to the Black Swan dormitory.

Returning to the Red Horse dormitory, Mina sighed into her broken teacup.

“Next time, don’t do something like this and confidently request a fight…”

Maybe he was actually embarrassed.

Asking yourself to play together.

So, I forced a fight and challenged it disguised as a duel.

Just like Academy students have been doing for the past decade…

After roughly organizing the teacup, Mina went up to her room and opened the album.

To plan how to form a crew.

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January 187. Student council room.

The new year has arrived, but I come home and say, ‘I will spend my vacation at school.’ Only one letter was sent:

Perhaps everyone else had the same thought, so all five of us gathered together even though we were on vacation.

“Within a week.”

The chairman opened the fire like that.

“All basic designs of units must be completed.

Detailed stats and abilities may be modified, but the basic concept remains the same.

Only then can we send the design to the imperial workshop from mid-January.”

“Hwang… Imperial craftsmen?”

Hwayoung let out an exclamation.

Lilac shrugged her shoulders as if wondering why.

“Oh my, then did you really think I would leave mass production to you two?”

“Well… Couldn’t you have told me earlier.”

“Tangaroa, I’m sorry. I didn’t want to talk about it until I was sure.”

The vice president sighed.

“Of course, you two need to make all the basic sample models that will serve as molds.

That way, production will be possible without problems in the workshop.”

“So, it has to be finished within a week.”

“But you’ve made a lot of sample models so far.”

Hwayoung blinked as if she didn’t know why this meeting had to be held.

The Crown Princess looked at Cleo.

She took her unique pose of raising her glasses and began to explain.

“Sorry, 90% of them will probably be discarded.”

“Yes? Then what we have done so far…”

” Among the sample models, we eliminate those that are unsuitable for mass production, are of poor quality, or do not comply with the design philosophy, and only the good ones remain.

I will send them to the workshop.”

“What is design philosophy?”

Grumbling Tangaroa.

I explained calmly.

“Why, there are things the vice president and chairman told us last time.

We created many units based on those anecdotes.”

“That’s right.”

“Now, keep only what matches the game and the image of each dormitory, and remove what does not.

By refining the units, we are giving the dormitories a sense of unity.”

I took the chalk and divided the blackboard into quadrants.

“Then, shall we do some brainstorming?”

“Brainstorming?”

“From now on, one by one, each person will freely say what comes to mind about each dormitory.

You may provide a basis, or you may not provide a basis.

However, never refute what others say!”

All four people nodded.

“I’ll start now. Jeokma Dormitory.”

“Gold spoon.”

“Hmm… nobleman? Imperial family? Empire? The dormitory’s use of words as symbols originated from the imperial emblem.”

“Military training. The ones who fall for the Imperial Army the most are the Red Horse kids.”

“User.”

I sighed in relief as I wrote down my thoughts out loud.

Fortunately, there is no slanderous atmosphere.

Capacity of 50 people assigned to each dormitory.

How to fill it differed from dorm to dorm.

Jeokma Dormitory is a dormitory dedicated to the imperial family.

In principle, the emperor freely decides on the 50 students to enroll.

However, customarily, the number of people directly selected by the imperial family was about 10, and the remaining 40 recommendations were distributed appropriately among the nobles.

Of course, the children of nobles were the ones who received letters of recommendation first, but there are not 50 children of nobles who are motivated enough to enter the academy every year.

Therefore, there were cases where letters of recommendation were given to the children of those who had achieved meritorious merit, and in many cases, letters of recommendation were given to commoners who would run errands for children of nobles.

“I’m a little cautious, but should I say incompetent…?”

Hwayoung looked at me and spoke softly.

But Cleo immediately shook her head and refuted.

“It’s not incompetence. Anyway, I have more skills than Baekyang.”

” Cleo Cleo. You should not give rebuttals during brainstorming.”

“Sorry.”

“Hey, Cleo.”

Tangaroa stabbed Cleo in the waist.

“Yes?”

“You know. Chairman, you are staying in the Baekyang dormitory…”

what? Not a red horse?

Well, there is no law preventing the Crown Princess from being caught in Baekyang’s random selection.

Still, don’t you usually ask for it to be taken out and then go for the red horse or blue dragon?

Princess Lilac stretched as if nothing had happened.

I’m glad the chairman has an easy-going personality. Now if Cleo just picks it up and swallows it properly…

“Vice President.”

“Huh?”

“Rebuttals are not allowed during brainstorming.”

Tangaroa’s duck beak widened at Cleo’s bombshell remark.

The Chairman gently gritted his teeth and said with a forced smile.

“Okay then, shall we go to the Blue Dragon Dormitory?”

This brainstorming thing seems to be out of my control…