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Demeia Academy was shocked by the information that the uninhabited island that served as the stage for the comprehensive evaluation had been taken over by the Resistance.

It was widely known that the Resistance was dissatisfied with not only the Empire, but also the Demeia Academy, but this was the first time they had launched such a direct attack.

Of course, the children of key figures in the empire. This was Demeia Academy, where the descendants of the imperial family who might become the next rulers of the empire attended. It was an issue that could never be easily overcome.

All staff at the academy, including Academy Director Lucas, urgently convened an emergency meeting and began to investigate the situation.

“Is there anything known about the situation on the island yet?”

“It seems like the Resistance guys have made the right decision. Currently, a force field that interferes with long-distance communication magic and space movement magic has been spread across the island.”

Brianna gritted her teeth. I’ve heard that the Resistance’s movements have been unusual recently, but I really didn’t expect them to launch a direct attack like this.

I felt regret that I should have caught and killed those radical terrorists a long time ago.

Brianna vowed that if this situation was over, she would absolutely tear them to death.

But now, ensuring the safety of the cadets was the priority. Although the restrictions of the formal contract were released to Ian just before communication was cut off, the Resistance’s total number of giant soldiers identified was seven.

No matter how much better Ian’s piloting skills were than the other cadets, winning against the seven resistance fighters was a matter of luck.

Perhaps Ian might have fallen into the hands of the Resistance by now.

“How long does it take to get from the nearby territory to the island?”

“It takes at least one day.”

“Even if we’ve already left, there’s not enough time.”

Troops were quickly dispatched from a nearby territory to the island, but physically there was not enough time. I never thought that setting up a training center in a place that requires a day’s boat ride would cause such problems.

Academy Director Lucas felt the urge to hold his throbbing head. In the end, all the current faculty could do was pray that the cadets would survive without dying. A feeling of helplessness and despair descended on the conference room.

“Ha, academy director!”

One of the professors who was continuously exchanging communication magic with the territory that had dispatched the troops shouted in a very excited voice. His face was a mixture of disbelief and happiness.

Academy Director Lucas intuitively realized that something unusual news had arrived.

“What’s going on? Hurry up and tell me.”

“A little while ago, a communication came from an uninhabited island.”

“Is it the Resistance?”

Academy Director Lucas asked with suspicion.

“No. I’m a cadet! We have a message from Cadet Gilbert Lionheart!”

“If you are Cadet Gilbert… ?”

“He was known as that idiot… .”

Although awareness had improved a lot, there was still a perception among faculty members that Gilbert was an asshole.

However, the reactions of the professors teaching the courses Gilbert was taking were different. I knew better than anyone else that he was different from the rumors because I watched him change during the lecture.

In particular, Professor Alexander, who was giving a lecture on the use of giant weapons, and Professor Brianna, who was his previous student, had certain expectations.

“Try to connect the communication.”

“Okay.”

Academy Director Lucas also felt the same way as Professor Alexander and Brianna, and ordered a communication magic connection. Eventually, the communication magic was connected.

[Gilbert Lionheart, a cadet from Class 1. A communication magic connection was requested to report the current situation]

Gilbert’s sharp voice rang through the conference room. Although his unique fierce eyes were tired, they were still shining sharply.

Academy Director Lucas put aside his formal greetings and first requested a briefing on the current situation.

“Cadet Gilbert. Could you briefly brief us on the current situation?”

[it’s possible. Around three o’clock in the afternoon. Seven unidentified giant monsters believed to be resistance fighters were discovered. It is believed that the targets of the unidentified Colossus were new cadets, and Cadet Ian Tigris Linebarrel responded with the academy’s general-purpose Colossus. However, due to numerical inferiority, he was unable to avoid a struggle and was knocked out by concentrated fire.]

“Stun? No, that’s not important right now, just keep reporting.”

[I, who happened to be waiting nearby, rescued Cadet Ian and continued the mission. All seven unidentified Giant God Soldiers have been roasted. Excluding the cadets who were eliminated early in the comprehensive evaluation, there were 30 lightly injured, 20 seriously injured, and 0 killed in action. For detailed reports, please check the records of the artificial spirit.]

– All seven giant bottles are lost?

-Are you a cadet who just entered school?

There was an uproar among the faculty. The fact that there were seven giant monsters of the Resistance was surprising, but it was difficult to believe that it was a new cadet who had roasted all seven. However, as Gilbert said, the excitement soon subsided because it was a fact that would be revealed immediately by checking the information recorded in the artificial spirit.

And understanding the context could be put off until later.

“You worked hard. I’ll send a recovery team right away, so please bear with me until then.”

[Has confirmed.]

Academy Director Lucas breathed a sigh of relief after ending the communication magic. Fortunately, it didn’t turn out to be the worst he thought it would be. It would be a pain to deal with the incident, but for now, I was satisfied that the cadets were safe.

“Professors Brianna and Alexander. The two of you should get to the island as quickly as possible so that you can return the cadets and conduct a fact-finding investigation. We will send personnel later as soon as the investigation team is formed.”

“Okay.”

“I will prepare it right away.”

Professors Brianna and Alexander got up from their seats and headed straight to the moving magic circle. After the two people left, the faculty meeting for follow-up began to proceed smoothly.

***

After the Resistance attack incident, Gilbert had to spend a bit of a busy day. Having single-handedly shot down seven of the Resistance’s giant soldiers, he had to assist the investigation team as a reference. Because the information left on the artificial spirits was limited, the opinion of Gilbert, who personally fought against them on the spot, was needed.

In addition, the fact that Ian moved the giant soldier in violation of the formal contract became a problem. At the time, it was an urgent situation, so I did it without thinking about it, but it was accepted as a accepted theory that other people could not move a giant god soldier who had originally signed a formal contract.

The formal contract method was to use each knight’s unique magical power pattern to make a contract with an artificial spirit, and through that pattern, recognize the knight as the one who would operate the giant soldier.

Therefore, in order to use someone else’s giant god soldier, there was no choice but to replace the artificial spirit.

However, Gilbert did not take such actions and used the Giant God Soldier as an artificial spirit with a mental contract with Ian, which was controversial. Fortunately, the incident ended with a problem occurring at the time of the attack due to an error detected in the aircraft.

This was fortunate for Gilbert, who had not yet had time to announce his characteristic skills. To be honest, I tend to be a bit embarrassed to speak confidently to someone.

In fact, Gilbert had never thought that he would be able to fulfill the conditions for activating the characteristic skill in that situation. It was because of the trigger condition he set when setting ‘Your aircraft is awesome.’

When setting up a custom character, Gilbert observed that the greater the restrictions on characteristic skills, the greater the effect that can be achieved in return, so he set some more stringent conditions. That is, it is limited to gigantic soldiers equipped with artificial spirits that have entered into a formal contract.

At the time, he chuckled that he had achieved both laughter and performance, but this penalty was more serious than he thought.

Even though Demeia Academy was a military education institution, it needed a minimum level of safety measures for the safety of its cadets, and a simple contract was designed to meet that need.

Although it was a concept that did not exist before, it was a method presented as an alternative to reduce the number of injuries and casualties that occur every time training is conducted.

This groundbreaking alternative lowered the existing accident rate by nearly 90%, and is therefore the method currently used in most academies.

In other words, it was impossible for Gilbert to activate the characteristic skill, at least within the academy.

I thought it was a characteristic skill that didn’t exist because I couldn’t satisfy the activation conditions, let alone riding someone else’s aircraft, but I never thought it would be so useful.

I thought I’d only use it occasionally since it only activated a little later… . Wouldn’t you say something like this is a blessing in disguise?

As for Gilbert, the only explanation was that he was really lucky.

In any case, Gilbert, who single-handedly shot down seven of the Resistance’s giant monsters and contributed greatly to saving the lives of numerous cadets, was told that he would be rewarded at the Academy and Empire levels.

It was said that the exact contents of the award were under internal discussion, but in fact, Gilbert was not very interested in the contents of the award. Rather, it was important to Gilbert that the results that the Count of Lithuania had spoken of were satisfactory.

Since it was said that the reward would be given by the Empire and not Demeia Academy, even if he were the Margrave of Iron Blood, he would have no choice but to acknowledge it.

‘by the way… . Is the reason Professor Brittana called me because of the ice pick?

Currently, Gilbert was on his way to Professor Brianna’s lab. No matter how much I thought about it, I guessed that it was because of the use of the Winter Sword’s Five Swords among the battle records stored in the artificial spirit.

Since accepting him as his exclusive student, he demonstrated the use of the winter sword and used the five-width sword only once as a giant god soldier, so it was already expected that he would ask questions about it.

The only problem was that I couldn’t decide how to deal with it… . I was wondering what was going on.

If you don’t have anything to say, just say you did it because you could.

Thinking lightly, Gilbert knocked on the door of Professor Brianna’s laboratory.