Shikkaku Mon no Saikyou Kenja~ Sekai Saikyou no Kenja ga Sarani Tsuyoku Naru Tameni Tenseishimashita~ Chapter 214

Chapter 214

Chapter 214 Strongest Sage, Astonished

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"We've prepared doc.u.ments detailing the present situation on the desk over here . If you'd please . "

Five minutes after Biffgel came looking for trouble .

We've all gathered at Baron Relaia's residence .

Apparently, it's normal to use the lord's residence as a council room for low ranked n.o.bles who don't have a public office .

Progress of battle, supply situation and combatants are written in minute details in the doc.u.ments .

It's very well done for a combat report .

However . . . This isn't the kind of info I need .

What we need now is a clue that will lead us to the one pulling the strings of these dolls .

"Were there any human in the enemy rank?"

"We did not find even a single soul . We have defeated 320 dolls and zero human so far . "

" . . . I see . That's a problem . "

In cases like this, dealing with the dolls itself is relatively simple .

If there's a problem in the magic circle that governs the dolls' autonomous actions, focusing on it should make the dolls easier to deal with .

One famous method is by dropping the automaton dolls in water .

If the action of [Swimming] does not exist in its set autonomous actions, the dolls will attempt to move their legs pointlessly even if they don't touch the grounds .

If there were humans among the enemy rank, they could have revised it on spot, but if the dolls are completely automatic, the act of destroying them itself is pretty simple .

Though I don't think they've made such an obvious mistake, however, it still means the tide is in our favor .

Yet, what's easier is strictly the battle .

If we want to look for the mastermind, it's of course easier if there's a human among the enemy .

If there is a human among the dolls, that would mean they're connected to the dollmaster, thus going from there would make things easier for us to find out the dollmaster's ident.i.ty .

. . . Well, considering the situation, we'd be better off infiltrating Saihill Empire than investigating the domestics .

Now that Viscount Regido is here, he should be able to handle protecting and dealing with things inside the kingdom .

We'll leave all the bothersome stuff to the viscount and concentrate on gathering information ourselves .

That aside . . .

"Are you sure this chart is not a mistake?"

I pointed at one doc.u.ment on desk .

The doc.u.ment details about today's locations of battle, victims, number of defeated dolls and those who did that .

The problem is the chart that lists those with excellent combat records .

First place is Castor, second place is Reich, third is Irijis, fourth is Dezaia .

So far so good .

The first place, my father is as strong as the knight commander, second place, my brother has learned chantless magic, so of course they'd take those spots .

I don't know the third and fourth places, so I have nothing to complain about .

The problem is the fifth place .

Fifth Place: Biffgel Hildesheimr .

That's what written there .

What kind of joke is this .

" . . . A mistake? The doc.u.ment has been double checked by multiple supervisors, I'd like to think that there is no mistake . . . "

"Which means, Biffgel took the fifth place in doll subjugation?"

According to the chart, Biffgel defeated four dolls .

Far less than Castor with 50 dolls, and Reich with 32 dolls . . . but that Biffgel, fifth place?

Since there were around 120 people who partic.i.p.ated in the battle, I thought Biffgel would get around 110th place or something though .

While thinking that . . . Baron Relaia replies .

"Biffgel Hildesheimr indeed defeated four dolls . He was quite a force for he is a Glory Crest bearer capable of using 『Heat Ball』 . "

This 『Heat Ball』 . . . if I'm not mistaken, it's one of chant magic spells .

In Second Academy, it was categorized as a mid-cla.s.s spell before I introduced chantless magic there .

『H-Heat Ball? I don't think that spell has any practical use in real combat . . . 『Heat Ball』 is that spell that needs a long chant and consumes a moderate amount of mana yet is only as strong as weaker spells right?』

『That spell might have completely gone out of fas.h.i.+on in Second Academy, but it was one of the better spells with chant magic . There's a world of difference between chant and chantless magic though . . . 』

Just as Ruli and Alma pointed out, 『Heat Ball』 is ultimately a chant magic .

It's not even as strong as beginner level chantless magic even though it consumes moderately lot, as a result, there's no one in Second Academy that's still using it .

You'd get treated as a potential force just for being able to use such spell huh . . .

This kinda takes me back .

. . . Well, it has only been a year since the people in this era started to use chantless magic, so it's not that long back .

Even today, Glory Crest is still hailed as the strongest except in a few places like the Royal Capital .

"Still, Castor is as monstrous as always . "

"Are the two of you acquainted?"

"Yeah . Actually, there's no one in the Knight Order's top

bra.s.s who doesn't know Castor . "

Looks like Viscount Regido knows my father Castor .

Castor, so you were famous . . .

Viscount Regido speaks while I'm still thinking .

"So long Castor is here, we should be able to hold off the dolls . . . the problem now is how to go about doing our counterattack . . . Baron Mathias, have you got an idea?"

Viscount Regido asked for my opinion without hesitation .

Responding to that, I give him an answer that I've got in stock after consulting with the girls .

"How does having just us infiltrate the empire sound to you?"