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The table on the left was filled with silence as Graven smiled.

Even though all of his plans were exposed, everyone seemed speechless at Graven’s laughing attitude.

Mina, unable to bear the silence, threw a fastball.

“What is it? Why are you smiling?”

“No. It’s no big deal. just…

Mina, do you know how many times I won in the Black Swan preliminaries?”

“4 wins, 1 draw… In the final, the opponent withdrew… ”

“Do you really think that not all of them noticed this ice prison-imprint combo?

no. From the quarterfinals onwards, all opponents knew this plan.”

“But why… ”

“It’s your turn. mina. If you waste time, your points will be lost?”

Mina turns her eyes to the table again.

She traced the path of the sword club member’s dash with her finger.

“4th graders have not yet been able to collect three water mana. So if you attack… ”

“Are you moving?”

“No. Vice President. I’m just thinking about the situation… ”

A finger stabs my side and says, “Cook.”

“Chairman?”

“Coleman. Could you please explain? Why doesn’t Mina just attack?

Even if you can’t kill him by charging in, if you lose a lot of stamina, you can win with the next attack, right?”

“Let’s say we attack right away.”

A question asked in a soft, singing voice.

I took out a piece of paper and sketched the current situation with a pen.

“So the swordsman club members go deep into enemy territory like this, right?

And our allies end up far away like this.”

“Yes.”

“What if the crystal tank moves like this?”

I drew a model of the crystal tank between the swordsman club members and the main red horse unit.

“Crystal tanks use a huge base. And it also has pressure field ability.”

Pressure Field – A 4cm area around this unit’s model is rough terrain, and any unit that enters it loses flight.

“Aha. It’s a strategy to use the obstruction effect to block with the body.”

“And the tank has 8 defense and 15 health. If you don’t have high-penetrating weapons, it won’t penetrate. However, except for the swordsmanship club members, the rest of the members do not have such weapons.”

“With one maneuver of the tank, both continuous attacks and rescue attempts are blocked…”

“Yes. Mina knows that too, so she’s worried.”

Mina must have overheard what I was saying, and she opened her mouth and mumbled something to herself.

“But that doesn’t mean I can stay still.

The distance is exactly 30cm. If your mana is recharged, you’ll just get hit by that guy’s spell.”

“Mina. Do you know that I’ve been using my turn for 10 minutes now?”

“Be quiet… Ah!”

Mina snapped her fingers.

“I choose to be a member of the swordsmanship club! After using Chukji martial arts, move forward 16cm! And here, you give up your second action and end your turn right away!”

The place where the swordsman club member stopped was exactly in the middle of the two crews.

“Hoo. Did we get a little too close?”

“Because. Even if you freeze it, you can just unfreeze it! My crew includes Serah Knizia, who has learned Purification!”

Purification – 1 water, 24cm, 1 friendly unit, speed

Removes 1 spell from the target unit.

“Indeed. Serah, who has water mana, can definitely unlock Glacier Prison.”

“Yes. Anyway, you only have one turn until you shoot the Glacier Prison and shoot the engraving! That’s what you’re aiming for!”

“That’s right! Good job, Mina!”

Mark jumps up from the stands and cheers.

ah. mister. Please do your best.

Mark’s wife grabbed him and sat him down, but anticipation was already building among the crowd.

“This is really an unexpected method? Giving up action to put pressure on the enemy… ”

“That combo may seem invincible, but you only have to get within threatening range once to get through the round.

Then you can finish it before the apprentices even collect the mana!”

“ I guess you don’t think so?”

The chairman glances in my direction and smiles.

“Yes?”

“Coleman, you are the kind of person whose true feelings are revealed on your face.”

“What… I thought you were making a fuss.”

Sure enough, this time the commotion died down in front of Graven’s gentle smile.

He cleared his throat lightly and opened his mouth.

“Do you think the Black Swan students didn’t try that strategy of taking advantage of the loophole?”

“… What?”

“My turn. I chose my first apprenticeship. Supply water mana to the 4th grade student with an all-out action.”

“My turn. I chose Gygax Lung. Umm… I don’t have much mana, so there’s nothing I can do… Turn ends after walking twice.”

“Supplying mana to special recruits as second apprentices.”

“My turn. Should we do a mission… Operation after movement of kite agents in the west.”

“Providing land mana to special recruits as the third apprentice.”

“My turn… Ah.”

Realization flashed across Mina’s face.

“So… Three cats… ”

“I think I know now.”

How can a friendly unit act twice in a row?

It’s okay if the opponent doesn’t have any units that can act.

In other words, you can put off the aces’ turn by putting in a lot of cheap units and moving them.

“Do it. It’s your turn.”

“The central Kite agent walks once and then operates… ”

“Cat selection of the East. Walk twice.”

Originally, games like this that move one unit at a time include a function that allows you to declare a pass.

But I didn’t include that mechanic in the romantic period.

I didn’t want to worry too much about students who are new to miniature war games…

“… ”

“I need to move, right? Sarah Knizia?”

“Can’t give up a turn-”

“None. The rulebook states that you must take turns moving one unit per turn.”

You thought wrong. Within a month, a gamer emerged who viciously dug into loopholes in the system.

I will have to add a pass system in the next balance patch.

“Choose Sarah Knizia. Walk twice… ”

There is water mana, but it cannot be purified.

Because the spell that needs to be purified hasn’t been cast yet.

“My turn. Black Swan 4th grade casts Ice Prison. Penetrating 5.”

“Defense roll. Resistance is 6, so anything less than 1 is successful. Failed with 3… ”

“Gives frozen status. End of turn.”

“There are no units that can act…”

“So, it’s my turn to continue. A special recruit walks 12cm and then casts an imprint on the ice prison.”

“Ukkisqueak!”

A monkey roaring excitedly. There was nothing more to see.

Graven repeated the same operation in the subsequent rounds, freezing Serah Knizia and Gygax Rung as special students and fourth-year students.

The Crystal Tank pushed the kite agents out of the operational area, and the cats occupied the empty space, leading to victory in the game.

The final score was 2:1. The result including time score and paint score is 4:3.

Although the point difference was small, no one could deny that this was a landslide victory for the Black Swan.

The reason Mina was able to win time points after repeated Django in the first place was because the main models were frozen and unplayable.

“Both players, let’s shake hands.”

“It’s really amazing?”

“I told you so. This time it will be different.”

“If I had known this would happen, I would have come out with my model. Then, I would have been able to survive with freeze immunity and then roast the apprentices with a barrage of fireballs.”

Graven spoke slightly playfully at Mina’s words.

“Who can say something like that?”

“Haha! I know. In the first place, I couldn’t bring it in because the model wasn’t out yet.

Graven, 1 win, 1 loss with this?”

“Yes. Now that we’re in the same position, next time will be a real battle.”

“Ukki Ukki!”

Even after the game was over, I left the two players still doing post-mortem reviews and headed to the table on the right.

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An hour later, the winners of the previous match, Graven and Angela, faced each other at the center table and greeted each other.

“Hope for a good match.”

“Me too… Please take care of me too… ”

Graven, who nodded, already had the easy smile of a winner on his face.

After all, what kind of threat could such a rat-tailed kid be to someone who finished the Kuroshio preliminaries undefeated, surrendered in the finals, and won the return match against Mina Karcic?

But that smile quickly disappeared as Angela began placing the models on the table.

“Whoosh?”

“Now… Wait, so this is… ”

“From here to here, there are 10 Baekyang 0th grade students in one unit.”

“That unit… ”

“6 in total.”

“Single model units… ”

“Chairman, let’s do it.”

100 points 61 model crew.

No other Black Swan player has come up with such crazy combinations.

Graven was embarrassed and turned his eyes towards me.

“Over there. Is this okay? In the first place, the total number of Baekyang 0th grade students is not even 60, right?”

“There is no problem in terms of rules.”

“Umm… ”

“After placing, let’s start the game.”

Round 1. The black swan and the white sheep advanced towards each other.

Round 2. Black Swan’s special recruits and fourth-year students sealed President Lilac with an ice prison-imprint combo.

Baekyang 0th grade students occupied the center, west, and east. The cats tried to stop this, but were easily suppressed by the number of grade 0 students. Baekyang captured all objectives, so they earned 2 points.

White sheep 2 points, black swan 0 points.

Round 3. The crystal tank ran into the center and, after a struggle with the Baekyang 0th graders, was barely able to drive them away.

Even when the chairman was incapable of action, he was spreading an aura prohibiting operational action, making it impossible for the Black Swan to operate in the center, and the White Yang maintained control of all objectives.

White sheep 4 points, black swan 0 points.

Round 4. The Black Swan wizards began pounding the princess sealed in ice with their fists.

Baekyang was still occupying all three objectives.

White sheep 6 points, black swan 0 points.

Round 5. Black Swan managed to take out the chairman and occupied the central point.

The Baekyang occupation areas to the east and west remained the same. Since the White Sheep has more occupied territory than the Black Swan, it scores 1 point.

White sheep 7 points, black swan 0 points.

Both white sheep and black swans score time points and paint points.

“My model… If only I had brought my own implementation model… I could have melted it all with a wave of vampires… ”

“Total score 9 to 2! Angela wins!

Baekyang Dormitory wins the first Dormitory Cup of the Romantic Era!”

No one knew at that time. This is the beginning of the Graven warrior legend…

[Today’s Unit]

Black Swan Special Recruitment New Student – Academy, Black Swan, 1st year, (desired dual attribute)

Single model unit – 15 points

Movement 12 / Defense 4 / Resistance 4 / Magic Power 2 / Learning 3 / Stamina 10

strike armament

Punch – Attack 1 / Accuracy 5 / Penetration 0 / Damage 1

ability

I’m the star today – Once during the game, when this unit starts its turn, it can immediately gain 2 All-Purpose Mana. The mana gained this way can exceed your magic maximum.

Refinement 2 – When you focus, you do not reroll your Mana dice and instead change 2 Mana into All-Purpose Mana.