The Academy’s Weapon Replicator - Chapter 289

Academy’s Weapon Replicator Episode 289

Chapter 86 Declaration (2)

When Prometheus leaves and the magic power within Cape Ten Thousand disappears.

Frondier, who was sitting and resting, raised his head.

It was the same for Aten, who treated Frondier.

“…Mr. Frontier.”

“okay.”

The eyes of Constell’s students naturally turned to Frontier.

Even if mana detection was not great, everyone could feel that the blowing wind had changed.

They all waited for Frondier’s words.

The leader was Aster, but it was not his job to make this declaration.

“I won.”

A quiet word.

A dry tone without any decoration flutters in the air.

“Waaaaaa!!”

A shout rising toward the sky all at once.

At that moment, someone appeared from Mangot.

The one who flew as if swimming in the air was Ospreet.

“President!”

Frondier called to him and Ospreet came to his side.

Frontier said happily.

“You succeeded.”

“Okay, now there’s no need to worry about God coming.”

Ospreet gave Frondier the answer he had been longing for. But his expression was not good.

“…Something happened inside.”

Frondier, noticing that expression, spoke and Ospreet nodded.

“I have something to tell you. “Not now, but later.”

Frondier also nodded his head.

To be honest, I wanted to put off anything that could be put off right now. I feel so tired and exhausted that I don’t want to do anything.

First of all, we won the war, so that was enough. Now I am enjoying the feeling of victory.

“…No.”

Frontier came to his senses halfway through.

I lightly pushed Aten’s hand that was healing me and stood up.

“Mr. Frontier?”

“It’s not over yet.”

Frontier had a determined look on his face. Aten asked after seeing that.

“…Could it be on the wall?”

“huh. “It may be okay here, but the attacks from Mangot shepherds and monsters from outside will still continue there.”

Frondier looked around. Most of the students did not appear to have serious injuries.

‘But they are comrades who have already fought at the wall and have fought another battle here. ‘You can’t force it to go.’

“President. Could you please connect the door to the wall? “I will create another workshop.”

“Are you planning on going to help the soldiers?”

“of course.”

Ospreet stroked his chin at those words. He looked like he was thinking about something.

It wasn’t that he was worried about Frondier, and he seemed to be hiding what he wanted to say.

“…Right. “It was really kept a complete secret.”

“yes?”

“No, no. Anyway, I’m in favor of going back.”

As if waiting for Ospreet’s words, Frontier stretched out his hand and reestablished the attack.

Several students checked it and raised their voices in admiration.

‘Now it’s become difficult to hide it all.’

As he created an attack, Frontier sighed inwardly.

His power was discovered by the people here. He poured out all of his strength while fighting Belphegor. No matter how busy you were fighting the army of corpses, you couldn’t fail to see the ridiculous magic sword technique created by Frondier.

Even in a war of this magnitude, it was impossible to hide one’s power from the entire empire. In the first place, there was nowhere to hide the power.

‘Still, the people who came to Cape Man, where the Empire’s eyes could not reach, fought, and saw only a small portion of Constell at most.’

This number of people is a very small number when considering the entire empire, and rumors are bound to be distorted and exaggerated. Just like before, it will be a mixture of rumors and exaggerations.

“True Aster!”

Frondier found Aster and called him. Aster turns his head and looks at Frontier.

“why?”

“Let’s go help the people at the barrier!”

“Aren’t you tired?”

Even as he said that, Aster approached Frontier. His light steps seemed to have no problem at all with his condition.

Frondier pointed to the workshop door with his gaze.

“let’s go. “I would like to take everyone here, but everyone would be exhausted.”

“Can’t you see I’m tired?”

“Can’t you see?”

Frontier’s words were half sincere. Aster didn’t seem to be suffering, as if he had really recovered recently. Even resilience is indeed the main character.

‘okay. After all, the protagonist should take the lead.’

As Frondier walked to the workshop, he subtly slowed down and followed Aster.

Rather than attracting attention by showing up at the door first, let’s draw Aster’s attention and then move secretly. That was Frontier’s thought.

“Why are you going just the two of us?”

At that time, Elodie, who realized the situation, flew lightly. She smiled and seemed to still have the strength to fight.

It wasn’t just her.

“If there’s still anything left, we should finish it.”

Cybel came and spoke to me.

“I won’t let you leave.”

Aten also stood behind Frontier.

Frontier checked their appearance. Everyone was concerned that someone might be overdoing it.

“Frondier, are you a mother?”

At that time, Robald Liev, who was trotting along, spoke.

“Everyone says they take care of what they do.”

“…yes.”

Frondier nodded.

Meanwhile, Ospreet’s hand moves and creates space magic on the door of the workshop, and everyone glares at the door with determined faces.

“This time, let’s end the war once and for all.”

“okay.”

Led by Aster, they walked forward and opened the door.

and.

“Waaaa!!”

They saw soldiers cheering on the walls.

“…?”

Everyone who came through the door again blinked blankly.

Everywhere I looked, there were just shouts of joy and no enemies.

“…it’s over?”

Elodie, who was the first to come to her senses, asked blankly.

However, one of the soldiers found them opening the door.

“uh? Look over there!”

Ike Frondier subtly took his foot to the side.

It seems that the friends’ performance on the wall was so great that the rumor spread quickly. The sound of victory in war is closely related to morale.

It was a good thing that there was Aster and several friends here to hide him.

‘But how did the war end so quickly?’

Even with the monsters outside, it wouldn’t have been easy to catch all the shepherds of Cape Mangot.

Frondier, who was secretly trying to run away with such a small question.

“It’s Frontier! “There’s a frontier over there!!”

A shout that came out of nowhere stopped me.

“Eh…?”

At that cry, Frondier made a strange face. Why would his name pop up in this situation? It will only be normal if we hear the support of Aster or Elodie Cybel.

More than that, do you know me?

“oh! It’s true! “It’s Frondi!”

“excuse me! Wow frontier!”

“Frondier de Roach!”

“Frondier~!!”

But it wasn’t just one person.

Everyone’s eyes gathered together after hearing someone call out “Frondier.”

The voices of countless people on the wall became one. Those who discovered Frondier all became angry and waved their hands at Frondier.

Soon the scattered cries mingled together into one voice shouting Frondier’s name. The name trembled through the air and echoed throughout the battlefield.

Frontier! Frontier! Frontier!!

“What is it? “Why is this like this?”

Frondier looked around, truly and completely perplexed.

I didn’t do anything. No, there are a lot of things that were done, but there’s no way they would know that.

Doesn’t this make it seem like Frontier was the main character who won the war? It was a very difficult thing for him.

Sigh –

While he was panicking, everyone in Frondier’s group except him smiled in the dark.

Whick!

“Oh, what!”

It started with Aster.

He lifted Frondier up from behind. No, in fact, it was closer to being thrown into the air.

After that, Elodie used magic to make Frondier float. Of course, it wasn’t something Frontier could control.

There, Aten created ice from the floor and enveloped Frondier. To others, it was a magic that decorated Frondier splendidly, but from Frondier’s point of view, it was just a prison that prevented him from leaving.

Next, Cybel raised her rapier, ignited flames on the blade, and shook the air. The color of the flames engraved the name of ‘Frondier de Roach’ in the sky as big as a gate along its path.

‘What the hell is this…!’

The guys around are just playing around to the sound of Frontier’s era. That’s understandable. But the great resonance of the people gathered here was sincere.

All of them know Frontier and are shouting its name in unison.

‘no way!’

At that time, Frondier’s head, noticing Ospreet’s subtle expression, jerked towards Ospreet. Ospreet’s head also turned. Of course, there was nothing in that gaze.

“President! “You know something!”

“Hmm, I’ll tell you this too. “Not now, but later.”

“You should have told me sooner!”

Frontier shouted with all his might towards Ospreet.

But in the meantime, Frontier witnesses something even more surprising.

Hissing –

A hologram filled with eyes appeared in the air above the barrier. It was now reflecting his appearance like a mirror.

“…What is that?”

Boom –

And just in time, his Sage phone rings.

When Frontier picked up the phone and brought it to his ear, he heard a familiar voice.

“Hello Frontier. Phew, I finally fixed it.”

“…Senior Queenie?”

“Yep. Ah, it’s nice to hear your voice. “I wanted to see and hear, but it’s halfway resolved.”

Queenie still had her unique cool voice.

To be honest, Frontier was also glad to see this, but more than that, an explanation of the situation came first.

“So what is that? “My face is floating in the sky, feeling very burdened.”

“Oh, I’ll show you.”

“What?”

Queenie doesn’t answer him, and it seems like there’s no need to answer.

Soon the hologram screen changed.

[What on earth is this?!]

Belphegor suddenly appeared in the hologram and shouted something,

and only then did Frondier understand everything.

Frondier’s empty hands covered his eyes in shame and despair.

The sky is dark and the world is dark.

Is this really the world after winning the war?

“Hey, it came out well. How about Frontier? Thanks to this, Mangot lost morale and the war ended. The angle and directing are perfect! huh!”

“….”

Frondier couldn’t even reply.

Instead, the past Frontier, still fighting hard in the hologram, was shouting excitedly without even noticing.

[You still don’t know!!]

I shouted so loudly that the echo echoed for a long time.

[I am─]

Frontier de Roach─!!

De Roachda!

Loah!

Roahda….

* * *

After the war, most of the demoralized shepherds of Mangot were arrested.

Some people died before him, and some of them even committed suicide, but the empire did its best to restrain the shepherds as much as possible.

As a result, they arrived in front of the emperor inside the imperial palace with the shepherds kneeling side by side.

As the nobles and the emperor watched, their heads were shaking in shame and anger.

“…The crimes of those who started the war without even declaring war are so egregious—”

“Shut up and kill them!”

Notker interrupted the imperial palace secretary.

“Why are you being so rude! “Does the imperial palace find it fun to play with people who will die soon?”

Those words brought a spark to the eyes of most nobles?

fun? How dare something like that come out of your mouth? How dare the people who set fire to the empire!

“Notker.”

It was Emperor Bartello who raised a heavy voice at that time.

“What is it, Bartello?”

“How dare this guy!”

The nobles’ patience eventually ran out due to Notker’s way of speaking the emperor’s name carelessly, but Bartello stopped them.

Sigh –

Bartello got up from his chair. He even took steps and approached the shepherds.

Everyone was surprised by that.

“It’s dangerous, Your Majesty!”

“What is dangerous? “I’ve restrained them all so they can’t use their power.”

Anyway, there are only cowards. Bartello seemed in a bad mood for some reason.

Bartello lowered his posture and made eye contact with the kneeling noteker.

“Shepherd of Mangot.”

“….”

“Why did you start the war?”

It’s an obvious question.

However, from Mangot’s perspective, this is not the case.

For them, war will come at any time and is nothing more than a process of results that they will create on their own.

However, it failed.

Suddenly, Notker’s jaw tightened as if his molars were about to break.

“You abandoned us! “Emperor!!”

A vicious cry. Although the aurors were unable to appear due to the restraints, the miserable sound of the voice was not obscured at all.

“…It’s a story from our ancestors.”

Emperor Bartello’s grandfather Edezion.

He is the person who was placed at the starting point of the monster invasion. That is, the period when the empire was unable to respond to a sudden situation at all and the lives of its citizens were cruelly lost to monsters. The empire retreated as soon as the monsters pushed, and its territory continued to narrow.

The current capital of the empire is Cilester, but this is already after the third transfer of the capital.

…Before that, the location of Mangot was the territory of the empire.

“The empire used all the citizens as shields to divert the attention of the monster, and then escaped like that! We stood there believing only in the Empire! Because I believed that the knight would come and the soldiers would come and protect me! Didn’t I say that!! Why didn’t you come! If you weren’t going to come, why did you leave us there! Why did you tie people up with lies and throw them away as food for monsters?”

Bartello’s eyes sink at Notker’s words.

Notker is too young to understand the situation at the time. Of course, he is not a person who experienced that period. Perhaps someone in Mangot who barely survived had a child and these stories were passed down.

This is the truth about Mangot.

Mangot knows the truth from their perspective.

“You idiot! At that time, the east and west sides of the empire were—!”

“stop.”

Bartello again interrupts someone’s shout.

Knowing all the facts does not change a person’s mind.

Not all facts can determine right or wrong.

‘…I wanted to embrace Mangot in the arms of the empire. No matter what happened in the past, I knew that in order to relieve Mangot’s anger, I needed their forgiveness rather than an explanation. But I looked down on that karma.’

Bartello’s eyes looked at Notker.

“…?!”

At that time, Notker felt a strange feeling in Bartello’s eyes.

I didn’t feel anything like survival or ambition. A fear that was difficult to explain aroused me.

Bartello’s eyes are not normal. Not any metaphor or exaggeration, just the facts.

“I will bury everything in the past. “All of your fire will burn me.”

Bartello said.

Notker, who was dazed for a moment, growled again at those words.

“How dare such sophistry….”

“Do you think it’s sophistry?”

Bartello’s voice is still calm. And the pupils.

“I know myself well. I’m not saying this for nothing. “This ‘eye’ tells us that.”

Bartello, who spoke like that, was somehow uncharacteristic of an emperor.

“Just as Mangot had hoped, the emperor of the empire will burn in a fire and die.”

* * *

Cape Mangot collapsed.

The empire won the war.

This raid on Mangot feels much earlier than in the original game. As it was, they came only after the main character, Aster, graduated.

So, all the events that happened in between were skipped, and I don’t know if they were omitted altogether or if they will remain as triggers that will appear again someday.

…Yes.

At this point, having won the war against Mangot, I had passed a hurdle I had never crossed before in the game.

“Now the only advantage I brought to this world is gone.”

From here, a world that even I know nothing about unfolds.

Of course, my prerequisite knowledge is not necessarily quests or stories. I know numerous elements in the game as knowledge. It will be useful in the future.

But now I don’t know what will happen next.

Just like the residents of this world, I too will live swept up in the flow of huge waves.

“I wish it would have ended here.”

Haha, naturally I sigh.

The smell of blood still lingers in the air in front of the barrier, where I came out alone after difficultly obtaining everyone’s understanding.

Of course, I had expectations that completing this main quest would clear the game. I also had hopeful expectations that once it was cleared, I would be able to return to my original world.

…I’m still here.

“Mangem.”

When will it be cleared?

If I clear it, can I get out of here?

Is there a way to clear this game in the first place?

“…No, the question was completely wrong.”

A fact that I had been trying to turn a blind eye to until now.

It’s such an obvious fact, but it’s something I’ve been avoiding because I felt like I would break down if I accepted it.

“…This is not a game.”

It took me a really long time to say that one word myself.

A word I mutter every time I encounter unfair situations, contradictions, and incomprehensible trials while living in this world.

Mangem.

It was a lament and a complaint about irrationality, and at the same time, it was a repetition of the self-suggestion that this world was a game.

But this is reality.

Because it is reality, it is full of absurdity, irony, and contradictions.

What I need to return to the original world is not clearing the game.

Just simply finding out how I came to this world, who did that, and whether that method is also possible here.

Beep –

At that time, for the first time in a long time, the smartwatch on my wrist responded.

I turned on the screen, checked the message that had arrived, and said,

“

….”

An indescribable discomfort settled in my throat and I chewed it with my molars.

“It’s cancelled. It’s still a mess.”

I spit it out like an extra’s line, then turned my back on the wall and walked away again.

Even though the war is over, the smell of blood will remain for a long time and

the winter here will last forever.

….

[World Quest.]

[‘Etius’ completed.]