episode_0011

As soon as the elimination of Team 2, led by Ian, the main character, was confirmed, Gilbert immediately raised his guard against Team 4 to the highest level.

Although Patrick seemed to be purely happy with this big win, Gilbert, who was routinely beaten to the point of being left in the water in Tactical Combat, never let down his guard.

That kind of thing was something newbies did at best, and no matter how much it was a mock battle, it was no longer a game, it was reality.

Using his senses as much as possible and being cautious several times can become a good habit for him to live well in this world.

While everyone was shouting in victory, he quickly connected the communication to his lieutenant, Angelina, whom he had left behind at the base.

[Adjutant Angelina.]

[reception. Congratulations on your impressive victory. Commander.]

[I just did what I could. Rather, have you been able to understand the trends of the third team?]

[As soon as the 2nd team engaged in combat, movement to support troops was detected and orders were issued to delay it as much as possible. Destroying two teams in such a short period of time was beyond my expectations.]

[This is a long comment. So what is the current status?]

[Currently, all 3 teams, excluding the minimum number of people who will defend the base, are heading there. Also, according to the report of the personnel who sent reconnaissance to Team 4, Team 4 personnel are also heading there.]

Gilbert sighed at the fact that it was exactly as Angelina had predicted.

Maybe I didn’t know if it was natural. Gilbert knew best how much of a burden his presence was on other teams.

However, coincidentally, it was a bit unexpected that a forced joint event occurred as soon as one team was eliminated, like in a game.

I knew that the situation had to come together, but emotionally, I didn’t. This is because I was worried that I might get hung up on the game’s story just because this situation was perfect.

Gilbert immediately shook his head a couple of times as if to shake off random thoughts and checked the condition of the Giant God Soldier. It seemed like he was having useless thoughts because he was so focused.

After checking the condition of the Giant God Soldier, Gilbert decided that he could not perform any better than this. This was because the accumulated damage from the battle with Ian and the high-speed and three-dimensional maneuvers were used beyond the capabilities of the aircraft itself, so the remaining horsepower battery was low.

Even though he was a flying and crawling creature, it was impossible to continue fighting without supply.

However, to go back like this and receive combat supplies, we would have to face an all-out attack from two teams, and it was obvious that the base would fall to the enemy in the meantime.

After thinking for a moment, Gilbert immediately looked for Angelina.

[Adjutant Angelina.]

[yes. Commander.]

[Now we begin the description of the operation.]

[All right.]

Angelina didn’t have any questions about Gilbert’s explanation of the operation without further explanation.

They both knew that the current situation was not good, and Commander Gilbert’s guidance was needed to overcome the situation.

As a lieutenant, Angelina’s job was to assist commander Gilbert in his operations and commands.

I still didn’t have faith in Gilbert as a person, but at least I could trust the bold actions and cool-headed judgment he showed in this admissions mock competition.

Therefore, she planned to use all her abilities to perform her duties as Gilbert’s adjutant during this entrance mock competition.

[As of now, you will retake the third team’s base, leaving behind the minimum number of troops to defend the base. If we succeed in recapturing the 3rd team’s base, we will immediately raid the 4th team’s base and move towards retaking the base. All command authority according to this tactic will be transferred to you.]

[…Commander. Does that mean we should abandon our main unit?]

[I saw it right away. Currently, most of the troops, including this commander, are in poor condition. On the other hand, considering that the 3rd team is in a non-existent state except for the damage suffered by the initial vanguard, it is only an ideal to beat the alliance of teams 3 and 4 even if Deputy Angelina comes with reinforcements.]

Becoming a stagnant water did not simply mean being good at handling giant spirits. If you think of Tactical Combat as just a game where you board a giant soldier and engage in battle, it could never become a rotten game.

Tactical Combat was created by mixing giant soldiers with strategy and tactics, and the gamer was the main character in the game.

It was safe to think that making a split-second decision and having the wit to get through it were the prerequisites for turning into rotten water.

Moreover, Gilbert was the first person to achieve 100% achievement. Among them, there was an almost impossible feat of having to solve the game using only strategic tactics without ever boarding a giant god soldier.

Gilbert was slightly shaken as he recalled the memory of saving and loading over and over again, barely able to wake up. I made a wrong choice and started over hundreds of times, so just thinking about it made me feel sick.

[The 3rd and 4th team alliance must have brought in as many people as possible in order to unconditionally annihilate the main unit I belong to. And just as Deputy Angelina said, there are currently only a minimum number of people left in the opponent’s base. Then, there is only one thing we need to do here.]

In a real-time strategy (RTS) game, what to do when the opponent’s base’s defense is weakened is predetermined.

[Strike the enemy’s base.]

Operation name: Empty house robbery begins.

***

Lily Roseus Nobilitas was not pushed back despite the overwhelming numerical inferiority, and glared at Gilbert, who fought back, as if he were going to kill him.

When I met him for the first time in ten years, he looked quite different from before. Their heights, which were similar to each other, have now grown so much that I had to look up for a while, and I could see solid muscles writhing even through the cadet uniform that matched their height.

For someone who didn’t know anything about him, it would be no exaggeration to say that his appearance had grown to be attractive enough to be liked, even considering the golden piercings in his ears, his uncharacteristically tanned skin, and his overbearing appearance.

However, the dog-chat-like personality that had spread throughout the social world was even more broken than it had been since I was a child. It was basic to treat the common people a lot, and although they made a fuss about it, according to the rumors going around, harassing women was also common. In particular, there was a strong perception that he was the worst kind of trash who messed with a powerful woman with a sense of privilege.

Lily gripped the control stick tightly and looked down at her large breasts. Even though I tried to reduce its size as much as possible, the bulge in my cadet uniform made me bite my molars. For her, whose breasts had grown exceptionally well since childhood, her breasts became a huge complex.

Ever since she first went to a social party with her older sister, the countless lust-filled eyes from men had always been a source of stress for her. That was the crucial reason why I became psychologically withdrawn and avoided men.

Among them, it was the Gilbert Lion Heart in front of me that made it a major trauma. Gilbert, who appeared in the social world at a similar age, showed a different approach than her, with a bolder side compared to his young age, and in the eyes of the still young Lily, this seemed cool.

Unlike now, the bright eyes and round face of a child were similar to those that Lily admired at the time. So I mustered up the courage I didn’t have and approached Gilbert, and it became the biggest mistake of my life.

Gilbert, whose personality had been ruined since those days, did not hesitate to make fun of her when he saw her big breasts, and the severity of this became more severe in the few interactions they had after that. Lily, who was greatly hurt by Gilbert, who was so different from her thoughts, was trembled at men after that and began to put in all her efforts to become a knight.

Her older sister, whom she loved, was worried about her younger brother, but she couldn’t see anything other than becoming a knight.

And now, dozens of years later, Gilbert, who was no different from his enemy, was in front of him.

It would be rather strange that Lily’s eyes did not roll over.

[Commander! We can’t stop Team 1’s commander!]

[Stop it somehow! If that kid isn’t there, the entrance mock battle is ours!]

[Pfft! no!]

One of the team members who was reporting to her was roasted by Gilbert’s iron sword and communication was cut off. Lily, gritting her teeth, assessed the situation and rushed towards Gilbert, who was in the midst of a melee. Due to the increasing damage from the battle, it seemed that Gilbert’s Colossus was approaching its limit of maneuver.

Still, his manipulation skills that caused such damage were admirable, but Lily didn’t want to admit it to him. Even now, his words and actions were coiled deep in her heart and tormenting her. Acknowledging him, Gilbert, was something I couldn’t do even if there was a knife at my throat.

For Lily, it was nothing more than a last line of defense.

Feeling anxious that all the effort he had made so far would collapse and return to the days when he was small and young, he fiercely swung his iron sword at Gilbert.

[Commander! The first team’s troops have invaded the base!]

[…!]

Lily, who was struggling to somehow defeat Gilbert’s giant soldier, felt like she had missed a message when she received a communication from the team members remaining at the base. Due to his hatred for Gilbert, he overlooked the fact that many of Team 1’s troops were at Team 1’s base.

She glared at Gilbert as if he were killing him, who was still using his monstrous manipulation skills to dispose of his allies. I felt like I knew why reinforcements didn’t come and why they didn’t retreat even in an unfavorable fight. While all the forces of teams 3 and 4 were mobilized to deal with him, they targeted the main base of the two teams whose defenses had weakened.

Lily was horrified to see even herself using words on the chessboard. I felt like I had been doused with cold water because I felt like I had seen with my own eyes a genius different from the rumors.

[Commander! Please give me further instructions! The enemy is right in front of you…!]

With those words, communication with the team members guarding the base was cut off. It has become unclear how the current situation is going.

The situation seemed to be the same for Team 4 as well.

However, if the battlefield is already intensified and you have to retreat, you will end up in an awkward situation. It would have been the right decision to clear this place as quickly as possible and get to the base.

‘Gilbert the Lionheart!’

I cried out the name of the enemy I hated, and rushed at me like a wounded beast. Under the guidance of her older sister, who was already well-known as a knight, Lily’s piloting skills were showing signs of superiority compared to other cadets.

Even if he was inferior to Gilbert, there was nothing he could not do to defeat Gilbert, who was using a giant god soldier that was close to its mobility limit. Capturing the split-second moment when her allies rushed in, she approached Gilbert’s giant soldier as if flying at high speed, and stabbed the cockpit mercilessly with the iron sword she held with both hands.

bang!

That was the final blow. Gilbert’s giant soldier was declared lost as its magic barrier reached 0.

Lily wanted to cheer inwardly, but since the situation was serious, she held back and opened the team channel communication magic to collect the troops and return to the base.

[Everyone return to base quickly…!]

[Team 3 and Team 4’s bases have been occupied by Team 1. The first team wins the admissions mock battle. All cadets who participated in the entrance mock competition, please gather in the auditorium. Thank you all for your hard work.]

However, as soon as Gilbert was lost, the base also fell. Lily couldn’t hide her anger as she saw the blonde-haired man who opened the cockpit and came out.

They achieved a tactical victory by roasting Gilbert, but in the end, it was Gilbert who took the strategic victory.

This fact was hard for Lily to bear, and she felt her anger toward Gilbert growing even stronger than before.

I will definitely get revenge someday.

Lily somehow swallowed her anger and made a firm resolve.

***

If you receive excellent grades or record outstanding achievements at Demeia Academy, you will receive an award badge, just as you would receive a medal for your major. In the game, each type of award badge had various functions, and it was an equipped item that increased abilities or experience within the academy.

In addition to the game element function, the award badge is used in the evaluation of cadets, and the award badge of a high grade or the award badge obtained under special circumstances has a great influence on the selection of apprentice knights in the future. In addition, they were given the right to receive various preferential treatment, such as payment of money for activity expenses and the right to rent artifacts stored at the academy.

As the entrance mock competition held for new cadets was also one of Demeia Academy’s major events, all winning teams were awarded medals of honor.

Accordingly, Gilbert and the first team became recipients of the award badge, and gathered in the auditorium where the entrance ceremony took place to receive the award badge as a reward for winning the entrance mock competition.

In particular, Gilbert, who volunteered as a commander, received an additional award badge, but it was not given unconditionally for winning as a commander. The Admission Mock Battle Commander’s Award Badge was awarded only when the academy faculty viewed the entrance mock battle and judged that the cadet who applied to be a commander was qualified to receive it.

So, even though it was an annual entrance mock contest, there were very few people who received this commander’s award badge. The last person I received before Gilbert was Seraphina, who had been called a knight even before entering the Academy and had participated in the battlefield, so it had already been several years ago. In addition, the commander’s award insignia had a special meaning because it had to go back so far that it could be counted on both hands before Seraphina.

“The director of this academy cannot hide his joy for the soldiers who performed their duties well.”

The academy director, Lucas, who hand-applied award badges to everyone, burst into laughter. This time, as there were many outstanding talents, the performance of the first team was impressive enough to count on one hand during Lucas’ tenure as academy director.

In particular, my attention was drawn to a man with a strong appearance who had earned the commander’s award badge for the first time in a few years.

‘He was said to be the son of an iron-blooded bastard.’

Lucas thought about the time when he and William were on the battlefield together. William, who was thorough in everything, performed his duties well as his lieutenant, and when the war ended, he returned to his territory and was faithfully carrying out his duties as margrave.

I clicked my tongue at the fact that William had such a son-of-a-kind son, but now I realized it wasn’t like that at all. Even putting aside the part about character, I could never get over the part about being incompetent trash.

The three-dimensional maneuver shown in the first battle using the giant god soldier and the strategy of using even himself as bait made me feel like I was seeing my own father. William’s creed that he must use himself as a chess piece in order to achieve victory was incorporated into it.

Lucas finished the mock exam for admission, looking forward to what the son of Iron Blood would show.

Meanwhile, Gilbert gets a lot of attention from Lucas.

[You have successfully completed the tutorial entrance mock battle.]

[Rewards will be strengthened by achieving an overwhelming evaluation in the admissions mock battle.]

[By being the first to support the commander in the entrance mock battle, you receive additional points for increasing special abilities.]

[You achieved the achievement earlier than anyone else and faster than anyone else.]

[Skills are created by satisfying special conditions in special situations.]

I was using up my mental strength to somehow calm down the corners of my mouth that seemed to be tearing up due to the jackpot being hit all at once.

***

Final victory in the admissions mock contest.

1st team.

Commander Gilbert Lionheart.