episode_0066

As soon as the ceremony was over, the academy was attacked, and Gilbert led the black horse and quickly headed to the hangar.

The black horse, which was smarter than expected, seemed to understand Gilbert’s urgent mind and galloped according to the rider’s intentions without being swayed by the sudden gunfire.

There were a few dangerous moments on the way to the hangar, but I was able to get there safely by making full use of my horseback riding skills.

Gilbert took the core of CT-777 that he had prepared in advance and then loaded himself into a general-purpose giant soldier standing on one side of the hangar. When CT-777, which was in standby mode, was mounted on the artificial spirit core, the giant soldier immediately activated, and CT-777 also woke up.

[CT-777 release from standby mode.]

[Checking the status of the Giant God Soldier.]

[Check the status of the Giant God Soldier.]

[Giant soldier maneuver completed.]

[article. An accurate briefing on the current situation is needed.]

At the words of CT-777, which maneuvered in an instant, Gilbert grabbed the control stick and raised his mana. I was planning on giving a detailed explanation as I left the hangar.

“Currently, raiders have occurred at Demeia Academy. Our ultimate goal is to protect the academy cadets and ensure the safety of the citizens who visit the academy.”

[Starting to determine the current status according to the entered information.]

[Identification completed.]

[Set the final goal of the mission.]

[The ultimate goal is to protect academy cadets and ensure the safety of citizens. The secondary goal is set to completely destroy the Demeia Academy raiders.]

[Is this correct article?]

Although no secondary goals were specified, CT-777, which had superior performance, independently derived goals that Gilbert had not set using situational information. In this respect, a high-level artificial spirit was needed.

“That’s right. We need information about the current attackers.”

[The total number of giant soldiers that attacked Demeia Academy was 120. It is difficult to make a judgment due to the lack of information on the specification of the Giant God Soldier, but it is believed to be a higher-ranking Giant God Soldier than the general-purpose Giant God Soldier deployed at the Academy.]

“I guess so… What is Master Brianna’s location?”

[Brianna Tefeo Malkirav. Tracking. Tracking complete. Currently, the target is encountering and fighting with the attackers.]

CT-777 quickly dug into Demeia Academy’s information system and figured out Brianna’s situation. All of this was possible thanks to Gilbert, who had a level 6 knighthood.

Of course, in normal times, even Gilbert, who had a level 6 knighthood, did not have access to the academy’s information system. This was to prevent academy information from being passed on to outside parties.

Still, the reason Gilbert had access was simple. The special circumstances of the academy attack made it possible.

The Demeia Academy had a special provision whereby only those with knighthood could obtain access to information in the event of an emergency. Although this provision was not made for the situation of attacking the academy, it was intended to be used in case the knights came to support in an emergency.

However, even within that special provision, detailed conditions were divided. The identity of the article requesting access was one of the representative detailed conditions. This was because if a spy planted by an enemy country were to gain unauthorized access to Demeia Academy’s information system, it could cause even greater trouble.

However, Gilbert was free from those detailed conditions.

Was he just a level 6 knight?

He was Professor Brianna’s previous student and the only priest of Princess Serafina, the closest person to the throne.

Moreover, since he was the eldest son of the Hart family, one of the three earls of the empire, even if there were complicated detailed conditions in the special clause, it had no meaning to Gilbert. Because the person whose identity was more certain than anyone else was Gilbert Lionheart.

However, no matter how accessible the information system was, it was impossible for an ordinary artificial spirit to analyze information so quickly. Just receiving and processing a large amount of information was beyond the performance range of a general-purpose artificial spirit.

However, it was an easy task for CT-777, which was developed as the next generation artificial spirit.

“For the final goal, joining Master Brianna is the top priority. Shortest distance marking is required.”

[Set your top priority goal. Joined by Brianna Tefeo Malkirav.]

[The priority goal has been set.]

As Gilbert intended, CT-777 displayed the shortest distance to Brianna in the upper right corner of the screen.

[article. Multiple enemy giant soldiers have been detected between the current point and the target point.]

“What is the number?”

[It’s exactly the tenth century. Additionally, signals from academy cadets and subjects who were unable to evacuate are also detected.]

For Professor Brianna’s survival, it was necessary to quickly join her, but it was impossible to turn a blind eye to the academy’s cadets and subjects attending the celebration. After thinking for a very short time, he drew an iron sword and deployed a magic booster to protect the academy cadets and subjects who were unable to evacuate.

Not long after deploying the booster, we were able to arrive at the place where the enemy giant soldiers were carrying out a sabotage operation. Cadets and citizens could also be found fleeing frantically to avoid the ruins of buildings collapsing due to indiscriminate shelling.

“Going. CT”

[Don’t worry. article.]

With those words, the spectacular battle between Gilbert and the CT-777 duo began.

The attackers, who were working hard on sabotage, were surprised by their sudden appearance, but they responded quickly. Making good use of their numerical superiority, they immediately surrounded Gilbert. At first glance, I was surrounded by giant enemy soldiers in all directions and there was no escape hole, but this was a normal case.

Gilbert, who was already second to none in terms of piloting skills, started to show off all the barrage of magical weapons pouring at him with a single iron sword or to perform miraculous evasive maneuvers with just a fraction of a piece of paper.

The attackers, who were obsessed with controlling the giant monster that only existed in theory, tried to somehow penetrate Gilbert’s blind spot. It was judged that his defense and evasive maneuvers could not be overcome in a head-to-head fight.

But unfortunately, those efforts had no effect on Gilbert. Even in the original world, Gilbert had the best spatial perception ability in the world.

What’s more, isn’t he currently receiving limited backup of his game system?

The abilities displayed in the status window were not just a quantification of his abilities. In addition to presenting objective indicators, the system provided support commensurate with the numbers.

The reason why Gilbert was able to perform acrobatic maneuvers that were only possible in games was not only because of his natural piloting skills and experience as a player, but also because his high abilities received system backup.

And there was one more thing that gave wings to his abilities.

[High horsepower response detected at 12 o’clock. It is judged to be a magical armed wind cannon.]

It was the existence of CT-777 that supported his battle in real time. CT-777, which was created based on the data of the final artificial spirit of Tactical Combat, began to provide more complete support by accumulating Gilbert’s battle data that far exceeded the normal knight specifications.

Although the giant soldier that Gilbert rode was a general-purpose giant recruit from the academy, CT-777 took that into account and briefed only the necessary parts to help Gilbert in the fight.

As time passed, CT-777 became more sophisticated, and Gilbert also realized that as he continued to interact with CT-777, his control of the Giant God Soldier became more sophisticated.

And at a certain point, when CT-777’s and Gilbert’s judgments coincided, they began to break through the specification limitations of the general-purpose giant god soldier. CT-77’s battle prediction and Gilbert’s spatial perception ability began to make up for the Giant God’s specs, which were lacking compared to the attackers.

After parrying the Wind Cannon aimed at the back with one stab, Gilbert turned the control stick and used the reverse booster to approach the giant soldier who attacked him.

Gilbert, who accurately grasped the opponent’s location even though he was not looking behind him, held the iron sword overflowing with golden magic upside down and stabbed the giant soldier’s cockpick accurately.

After tearing down the magic barrier with just one stroke and dispatching the attackers inside, he identified the positions of the cadets displayed on the screen in real time, moved his position to avoid the aftermath of the battle, and took out the attackers’ giant soldiers step by step.

[What a monster…! Request support right now!]

[No, that’s impossible! Teams 2 and 3 are currently in a situation where they have all volunteered to deal with Brianna! The other 4 groups do not have the capacity to support because they are blocking other academy professors!]

The attackers were astonished to see Gilbert handling the giant soldier as if it were his own body. Hazard, the leader of the first resistance attack group, who judged that they could not deal with Gilbert on their own, ordered support from other groups, but only received a report that there was no attack group that could come here to provide support right away.

Hazard, who eventually realized that he would have to deal with Gilbert with the personnel here, hid his fear and gritted his teeth. To show them shaking in fear would be to undermine the noble cause they came here for.

Even if you were afraid, you had to overcome it to open a new era.

Hazard quickly shook his head. Now, they were trying to find the only way to deal with Gilbert. But there was one thing they had to take without even thinking about it.

The best way to do this is by outnumbering them. A long game was the answer.

[No matter how good the guy is, in the end, the Giant God Soldier’s maneuver time is set! Especially if you see his movements, the magic battery won’t last long!]

[All right!]

It was an accurate judgment. Gilbert was increasing his output beyond usual in order to quickly end the battle. It was not a giant soldier belonging to a superior imperial corps, and the maneuver time of a general-purpose giant soldier was not that long.

Even so, it was able to withstand its current power output because it was a training giant god soldier from Demeia Academy. If it were a giant god soldier from a weak country, it would have already overheated and overheated.

In that respect, Hazard’s decision was appropriate. No matter how good a Colossus pilot was, there was no way to do anything if the Colossus itself was neutralized.

Of course, according to rumors, a high-level knight could easily take on a giant god soldier with his bare body, but these were just dismissed as exaggerated rumors.

Even if such a thing was possible, it was highly unlikely that such a person would exist at the Academy. No, to be exact, Brianna, who was the only one who had a chance, was captured by another raiding party, so the odds were converging to zero.

The team members also responded quickly to Hazard’s quick judgment. Instead of blindly believing in numbers and charging in, he widened the distance and began dealing with Gilbert using a fighting method that focused on artillery fire.

Their bombardment using magic weapons and magic guns was definitely effective. For Gilbert, who had to consider the damage around him, it was impossible for him to run wild.

I didn’t know if the target would be lost and there would be casualties from the ricocheted magic.

In the end, as the magical barrier was deployed and dodged with minimal movement, damage was accumulated on the giant soldier. As we used an unnecessary magic barrier, the previously tight maneuver time limit quickly approached.

[article. There are 3 minutes and 20 seconds left until the Giant God Soldier stops moving.]

“It seems like this is the limit for a general-purpose giant weapon.”

[It is recommended to use emergency escape magic immediately. I will take my time until then.]

CT-777 presented the most reasonable opinion for the protection of contractors, which is one of the principles of behavior of artificial spirits. Artificial spirits usually had several behavioral principles that were input from the time of design.

The first of these was to complete the entered task, and the second was to follow the contractor’s orders without violating the first rule. And finally, the third thing was to protect the safety of contractors.

The current situation, as judged by CT-777, was a situation that violated the first and third principles. Even if the mission continued like this while aboard the Giant God Soldier, the likelihood of success was zero. The most reasonable decision was to let him escape and continue the mission.

“Do not use escape magic. I have a plan.”

[3 minutes until the giant soldier stops moving. There is no time. This is your last chance, as the Giant God Soldiers have not yet stopped moving.]

CT-777 gave Gilbert another recommendation and immediately prepared an emergency escape spell. It was to maintain his principles of conduct regardless of his opinions.

But Gilbert opened the cockpit hatch before him and jumped out. Due to Gilbert’s unexpected behavior, CT-777 tried to catch him, but even CT-777 could not catch Gilbert, who had already begun to surpass the human limit.

Gilbert, who jumped off brilliantly, launched himself at the giant soldier of the attackers who had fallen earlier in an emergency escape. This was the result of partially inducing the opponent to use emergency escape magic immediately after realizing that the limit of maneuver was approaching.

The standard rule for ordinary Titan pilots was to follow CT-777’s recommendations. Even if he was a knight-level pilot who could fly and crawl, it was reckless to face a giant god soldier with his bare body.

However, Gilbert was different from ordinary Colossus pilots. Because he had one way to overcome this situation.

[The characteristic skill appears when your body is hot.]

A system message that appears as soon as you board the raiders’ giant soldier.

For the first time since he woke up in this world, Gilbert was able to like his characteristic skills.