A mid-level (middle-aged) office worker's laid-back industrial revolution in another world - Chapter 122

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“Scenario Phase Finished!!!!” signaled Harold, his shout echoing throughout the grounds.

Takeo, Alice, and the opposing soldiers paused their fighting.

Takeo and Alice quickly walked to the rear of their side of the grounds. Seeing the two of them retreat, the soldiers all took a knee, exhausted.

Everyone was totally exhausted, and they were all thinking, “We can finally rest for a second…”

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The training was progressing smoothly this time, too.

After Takeo had only taken a few hits from magical attacks, the commander ordered all soldiers to advance, and the soldiers complied. 

Alice and Takeo slowly walked forward and took out the first few soldiers to draw near with one or two swipes. This was a repeat of the last time. Ultimately, not a single person reached Alice with their sword.

It wasn’t as frequent as last time, but Alice said, “Takeo-san I’m thirsty” several times.

Each time she did, Takeo closed his hand slightly and replenished Alice’s hydration levels with “Aqua x1“.

While Alice was drinking water and vulnerable to attack, Takeo took care of supplying defense for her. He thought to himself, “If I can stack shields vertically, I can stack them horizontally, too,” and set up 3 squares of horizontally aligned shields, each of them 5 layers thick, and they held off the enemies’ attacks.

Every time, as soon as Alice finished drinking water, he activated “Care x15” and recovered her. 

Alice was blasting away soldiers with her attacks yet again.

The commander was giving orders to each and every one of his platoons, and while continuing his half-circle besiegement, he gave orders to heal those who fell right there on the battlefield.

Those hit hardest in this large scale practice were the mage platoons. They were exhausting their magical powers to the point of self-abuse.

“Once their magical forces are depleted, we’ll have them join the ranks,” said the commander, in the usual tenacious way he ordered his troops.

Due to the increase of mages on his side this time around, the commander’s troops were recovered in significantly larger numbers compared to the last practice.

However, Alice was unaware of all that. She simply continued to blast away the enemy troops that neared her.

There were mages who applied magic to their swords and attacked with them, but they were blasted away, all the same.

The newly formed 9th, 16th, and 17th platoons were also fully thrown into the fray, continuing their sudden extreme training from last time. Their morale was low as if to say, “…not this hell again.”

The other troops were fighting as if it were second nature as if to say, “Alright, let’s do this.”

The mage platoons were suspicious of Alice’s “Scarlet” nickname, thinking that at the end of the day, it was only an aristocratic name of prestige. They believed the platoons that participated in the last practice were telling tall tales of her prowess. They were, after all, mages – soldiers who could do what most others could not.

“We are the sole wielders of this powerful weapon called magic!” they thought, in their superior, bigoted way.

Alice was extremely proud of Takeo for fending off a hundred plus long-raged magical attacks during this large-scale practice.[Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com]

The commander later commented in Grandpa Elvis’s battle reports that the majority of the 10th and 15th platoons were saying right after the practice that Takeo was able to defend the attacks because they were not that powerful. The platoon leaders replied, “Alright, then let’s see you defend against the same attacks, right now.” As the platoon leaders prepared for them to take similar attacks to prove themselves, the platoon soldiers bowed deeply and apologized.

These three points came to be fully acknowledged by all soldiers in the nation:

1. Kitamizato-sama is extremely strong in a one-to-one battle. He is comparable to the “Scarlet” Alice in strength. When it comes to defense, he may be classified in the highest tier of soldiers.
2. Lady Alice’s “Scarlet” title is not undeserved.
3. There are two unparalleled warriors in the Elvis clan. Alice in offense, and Takeo in defense. There are surely not many groups that can stand up to the Elvis clan.

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“It’s over, it seems,” Grandpa Elvis said.

“It’s over, yes,” said Smith.

“Well, then, let’s go home,” said Frederick.

The tailor, the magical goods shopkeeper, the produce vendor, and the liquor vendor remained to continue the drinking party.

“Well, I must say, Kitmaizato-sama’s defense can be called first-class,” said Ralph.

“Yes, I agree. An average mage would never layer 10 “Shield” activations, though. That kind of thing would never be taught, and it eats up a huge amount of magical energy,” replied Taylor.

“Is that right?” asked the produce vendor.

“Layering ten ‘Shields’… well, yes. If you were to go by the standard mage playbook, you might see that kind of thing when three or four mages defend against a massive attack together. Ah, for example, it would make sense against an attack by Lady Alice… Oh wait, didn’t she actually breakthrough ten layers? Which means, in order to block Lady Alice’s sword attack, one would have had to develop thirteen or fourteen layers…right?” Taylor paused to consider the weight of what he had just said.

“Hoho, well, either way, it’s something else,” said the liquor vendor.

“He may have proved this time around that he could stop a blow-up from his wife!” remarked the produce vendor.

“That may be going a bit far,” said Ralph, and the others nodded in agreement.

“When we watched the last practice, I was worried that Kitmizato-sama would become completely controlled by his wife. It doesn’t seem that way, now, though,” said Ralph.

“Even after that vicious battle earlier today, they seemed to be able to work together just fine during the large-scale practice, didn’t they? Were they not fighting each other very seriously? I do have some doubts about that…” said the produce vendor.

“Surely, they were both taking it quite seriously,” said Ralph.

“You’re right,” the produce vendor agreed.

“Do you reckon Lady Alice and Kitamizato-sama are a good match for each other? They did split up the roles of offense and defense quite well, after all,” said Ralph.

“Ah, yes. Even to the untrained eye, it was quite clear that Kitmizato-sama was defending against the attacks, and as soon as those attacks let up, Lady Alice moved up to blast away the opposition… it was like that, over and over,” said the produce vendor.

“Not only that, any time Lady Alice took some damage, Kitmaizato-sama was healing her,” said Ralph.

“Hmm? Is that so?” asked the produce vendor.

“Yes. Whenever Alice was done drinking water, he was healing her directly afterward. Didn’t you notice that even as time passed, Lady Alice’s physical stamina held up?” asked Ralph.

“Ah, now that you mention it, yes. You’re right. In comparison, the opposing soldiers were losing their strength continually, weren’t they?” said the produce vendor.

“That’s why, personally, I see Kitmaizato-sama’s role as Lady Alice’s support. It was as if he was by her side the whole time, making sure she could keep fighting, full throttle,” said Ralph.

“…That team is pretty much a steel wall…” said the produce vendor, and everyone nodded.

Suddenly, footsteps could be heard at the bottom of the stairs leading up to the top of the castle gates.

They all heard the sounds, and waited for the two of them to arrive, thinking “speak of the devil”.[Read this novel and other amazing translated novels from the original source at the “Novel Multiverse dot com” website @ novelmultiverse.com]