Offer a Tribute and Become an Archmage - Chapter 162



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Offering Tribute to the Archmage Chapter 162

County of Aolor [1]

Episode 162.

The most important thing when using magic is to not hurt yourself or your allies.

It is extremely difficult to perfectly control magic. It is difficult to move your hands and feet in an emergency situation, so controlling magic that is separated from your body is no easy task.

Borrowing Karanqal’s expression, it was said to be similar to wanting to move the hair on one’s body or head.

This means that it is extremely difficult to control something that is not one’s own body, and it is extremely difficult for allies engaged in melee combat with enemies to use magic without taking damage.

“hmm.”

As Ronobe left the barracks, his cloak emblazoned with the Gradas emblem fluttering, a melee of friendly and enemy forces fighting each other unfolded before him.

It was a dark night, and the sun hadn’t risen yet.

Even if the torch fell and lit a little fire in the barracks, it was not visible. In fact, the darkness could be even darker because there was a little fire. In this situation, there could be no magic to distinguish between allies.

Of course, Ronobe didn’t really show it off.

“Cool underfoot.”

Tsk tsk tsk!!

“Wizard! It’s a wizard!”

“Ugh, my feet are frozen!”

“shit!”

Like most animals, humans are creatures who live with their feet on the ground.

A person cannot move when their feet touch the ground. Ronobe did not have the experience to distinguish between enemies in the melee ahead. There was no need for that. All he had to do was freeze them.

A person can easily be stopped and subdued simply by having frozen feet.

Distinguishing between the two? Distinguishing between the two in the pitch-black night is difficult even in modern times.

Ronobe didn’t have to do anything difficult.

All of them had to be frozen, and the distinction could be made later.

“I adjusted the strength, so if I melt it well, it will only end up as a light frostbite.”

Ronobe walked alone on the frozen ground, examining the faces of the frozen soldiers. It was dark at night, but Ronobe was a hunter, and perhaps thanks to his transformation magic, his night vision was quite good.

The soldiers who were killing each other in the melee that unfolded before their eyes suddenly trembled as their feet froze.

The number of enemies was quite large.

About twenty years old.

But the article was not visible.

“Cold tripe.”

Papapapapapat!

Ronobe, who had confirmed their faces, killed them all without a shred of mercy. There was nothing more foolish and stupid than showing mercy to the enemy. Ronobe was foolish, but he was not stupid enough to show mercy to the enemy.

“Ugh, wooweek!”

“Ugh.”

The soldiers who saw Ronobe’s cruel magic could not help but vomit. Only after they were all dead did he melt the ice and control the soldiers.

“What about Sir Tommy?”

“You are fighting enemy knights in the forest!!”

The perceptive guy spoke quickly.

Ronobe looked at him. He was a rather young man, but his face looked quite bright.

“If you want to be successful, come to Hopper.”

“Yes! I understand!”

The startled soldier answered loudly.

Ronobe nodded and entered the forest.

No, to be exact, I was trying to go in.

“What’s going on!”

Benald came running out of the makeshift barracks.

“…”

“…”

Ronnobe and Benald glared at each other.

The soldiers who knew of the animosity between the two held their breath without saying a word. Those who wanted to take off their boots because their frozen feet were starting to itch held back. If they showed up now, they could die or get beaten to death.

However, contrary to the soldiers’ expectations, Benald and Ronobe temporarily put aside their grudge against each other. They were not complete nobles, and the urgency of the situation was more important than their pride.

Having lived as a mercenary for a long time, Benald knew this well, and although Ronobe was wary of him, he had no desire for revenge.

Because he was the winner of the battle of pride.

“Sir Benald, guard the barracks. I’ll go find Commander Tommy.”

“You’re alone? There’s nothing more foolish than a wizard going alone. Take some soldiers with you.”

“… Okay, I understand.”

Their feelings toward each other are not good, but if one of them dies, the morale of the army will drop significantly and it will be difficult to deal with the aftermath.

Although it wasn’t Lonobe, it was Benald, who had yet to settle down in Gradas.

Besides, it was absurd to belittle his level after seeing this.

‘What kind of magic is this…’

The ice that burst out from the bodies of the twenty or so enemy soldiers showed a wonder that could not be ignored. It was none other than the wizard Benald who recognized the extraordinary level of skill.

“Follow me for five minutes.”

After saying that, Ronobe went ahead.

The soldiers followed him as he hesitated and then disappeared into the forest.

Strong power has magical power.

The power to attract people.

The soldiers who would have normally been moved only by pointing out someone followed him on their own.

He had that kind of power.

“Did you hold out until Lord Hopper used this magic?”

“Oh, no. We were just fighting, and as soon as we left the barracks, you froze us all in an instant!”

Benald didn’t show it, but his heart was pounding fast. The casting time was fast. And the range of the magic. And judging by the killing power, Ronobe’s magic was of a very high standard.

‘Red, no. At this level, white too…’

It is a magic that is qualified to be surpassed.

Just the level of utilization of this alone is enough to easily receive the red citation. Benald said as he stroked the blue citation attached to his chest while looking at the back of Ronobe who had disappeared into the forest.

“I guess I should prepare some wine.”

In order to make up for mistakes, the best thing to do was to show sincerity.

*

Same time.

Ronobe did not let his guard down as he headed into the forest with five soldiers.

He’s usually a bit of a jerk, but he’s cool-headed when it comes to combat.

It had to be that way.

He became a hunter when he was young, and when he grew up he became a wizard and was good at fighting.

What helped him survive at the crossroads of life and death were always hunting skills, the hunting mindset, and Bernard’s teachings.

Bernard’s teaching that he could always be hunted is a great virtue that has made Ronobe who he is today.

So, although Ronobe was more foolish than anyone else when he was young, he was a cool-headed hunter and magician when it came to battle.

There were also some reasons not to be afraid.

“Benny, can you see?”

“Yeah. It’s disadvantageous.”

Because Benny was with us.

Benny’s eyes, equipped with an iron bow, pierced even the darkness. Although Ronobe had already figured out the enemy’s location with his bear nose and bear ears, it was no better than seeing it with his own eyes.

Benny actually looked at Tommy’s condition with his own eyes and judged it accurately.

“There is one knight. But there are a few more behind him. They might be wizards.”

“The dead person?”

“There are quite a few.”

That means you weren’t alone at first.

Tommy probably sensed something suspicious and followed cautiously with a few soldiers. However, this was a trap, and the enemy had launched a surprise attack on the barracks as a diversionary operation.

The enemies’ intentions are clear.

“It must have been popular.”

Ronobe also nodded at Benny’s reasoning. The enemies were trying to kill the count who was occupying the count’s territory. However, if supplies were provided, even they would have a hard time. Cutting off the enemy’s supply line on the battlefield was a basic of the basics.

It is natural that the target is supplies.

“I guess the soldiers thought it was enough to burn the supplies.”

“Can I just complain?”

“huh.”

A surprise attack by twenty soldiers.

He probably figured that setting fire to the supplies wouldn’t be that difficult. If he just burned the supplies, he wouldn’t have felt bad about throwing away twenty soldiers. He probably didn’t know that there would be a magician of the level of Ronobe in that gap. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have planned such an ambush.

The enemy does not know us, and we know the enemy.

It was a perfect opportunity to launch a surprise attack.

“Benny, support me.”

“okay.”

Ronobe used his sound-eating feet and transformed into a sparrow, flying up.

As we quietly crossed the forest, we saw broken trees and soldiers lying bleeding among them.

“Whew, whoosh…!”

At the center of it all was the predictably short and dwarf Commander Tommy, with a knight swinging his sword in front and soldiers standing guard with nervous expressions.

And there was an unknown figure wearing a robe over his head.

‘There’s a high chance that he’s a wizard.’

Benny said he might be a wizard.

The reason was that, although he actually looked like a wizard, he didn’t seem to be holding a staff or anything special. If he was actually a wizard, there was no need for him to be there.

But there was also a high possibility that he was a wizard.

Because he was positioned behind the shield-bearing soldier as if he was being guarded.

“It’s short, it’s short.”

The knight who confronted Tommy, unlike him, had long limbs and a slender appearance. A knight wearing full body armor is impervious to most blades.

That’s what happens when a knight armed with iron is like that. That’s why they say one man is worth a hundred men.

But strangely, Tommy kept bleeding. Ronobe could quickly figure out why.

“That’s because you’re going to the battlefield in that piece of crappy armor. What kind of knight would someone with short arms and legs expect to be?”

“Shut up! A knight should respect the honor of his opponent. You are not even a knight!”

The opposing knight let out a hollow laugh, as if he found it absurd.

“Hey, dwarf. Even honor is something that you have to keep for your rank. Rank. Where is the blue dwarf singing about honor?”

“That damn bastard…”

As the bastard said, Tommy is blue.

However, the opponent was a knight wearing a red lance on his chest.

There is a difference in skill and armament.

Perhaps he fell into a trap because his experience as a knight and as a commander was very different.

“The Lord of Gradas is really immature. He sent reinforcements to a lowly knight like you. Of course, that’s why he didn’t know there was a liver.”

I stayed still and it started talking on its own.

Of course, I wanted to just sit there and listen to them chatter away, but saving Tommy was more important.

Ronobe flew silently behind the enemy and bit the robed wizard.

It was the fang of Ageidon.

The long fangs on the sparrow’s beak pierced through the robe and bit the wizard’s nape.

“evil!”

The soldiers were startled and shouted as the wizard let out a scream that was too good to be called a death scream and fell to the ground.

However, Ronobe had already turned into a human and was using magic right away.

Damn it!!

Ronobe, who had skewered seven soldiers with the spear at his feet, felt relieved for a moment, but then a dagger flew towards his head, creating bubbles in the water.

The dagger’s speed was reduced by the bubbles that suddenly swelled.

Ronobe, who easily caught the dagger, blew bubbles in all directions. The dark forest was filled only with faint moonlight. While the bubbles sparkled in the moonlight and blew in all directions, the knight immediately flew to the forest on the opposite side.

“?”

It was not the direction where Ronobedo or Tommy were.

This was a very quick decision.

Their original purpose was to provide supplies.

Dealing with Commander Tommy is a win-win for them, as it involves killing one enemy knight and taking his loot.

Because achieving your goal and breaking the knight’s sword, armor, and power without taking damage is itself an advantage in war.

But if support had come to him and his allies had fallen in a surprise attack, he had no reason to fight any longer.

It was a surprisingly cool-headed judgment.

“Benny!”

Benny, who had prepared in advance, immediately fired his iron bow, but the knight sensed the presence and swung his sword.

Wow-!

“Ugh.”

But even he didn’t know that it was the Iron Family’s iron bow and arrow, and his move to lightly strike the arrow went awry.

The arrow was stronger and faster than expected, so the knight was unable to completely deflect the arrow and ended up dropping his sword.

Of course, he immediately threw away his sword and ran away. He was extremely fast, and in this dark forest at night, chasing him was a sure way to die.

Ronobe licked his lips in regret and turned to Tommy.

“Are you okay?”

“Ah, ah! It’s okay! Thank you! If it weren’t for you…”

Tommy shut his eyes tightly, feeling dizzy just thinking about it. The corpses of the soldiers who had been with him were already scattered around him.

Tommy’s face twisted.

Even though I was alive, I wasn’t really alive.

“Let’s sort things out first.”

The situation is over.

Ronobe took the weapons and loot worn by the dead soldiers.

It’s the same for someone who appears to be a wizard.

A robe that looked bad. A necklace. A glass bottle of herbs and even a purse.

“Are you a wizard?”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

Ronobé fiddled with the bastard’s robe.

Strangely enough, this guy’s robe was a grimoire. The wooden necklace seemed to have some kind of story, but it meant nothing to Ronobe. He threw it away and simply packed the things he needed.

“Sir Tommy. Do you know what kind of magic this guy used?”

Tommy was picking up the sword that the enemy knight had discarded.

“Ahem. Yes. He used some strange magic. It felt like the edge of the sword was dull. I had a hard time cutting him without even a scratch.”

“What a wonderful magic.”

It is not a magic with high lethal power.

However, if you support the knight, it is definitely a useful magic.

‘It’s also a robe.’

Items that become grimoires are strong.

It is not easily burned by fire, and is not easily cut by physical attacks or swords.

Because it was imbued with a miracle. So, even this old robe would be very tough, despite its appearance. It might even be as tough as a piece of iron armor.

“I have acquired something precious.”

Ronobe handed it to Benny.

“Why? It’s better for Ronobe to wear it.”

Benny refused, but Ronobe urged him even more strongly.

“My skin is tough.”

It is immune to most attacks.

That’s because it’s a bear skin.

Besides, it’s not really necessary since you can protect it with other magic.

But not Benny.

Although she is wearing the armor that Elicia gave her, it is not full-body armor. Since she mainly uses a bow, she wears lighter armor. Therefore, it is better to wear a thick robe like this. Since Beni is a sniper, a dark robe like this is good for hiding in the forest.

“thank you.”

“Isn’t it just me?”

“huh!”

Benny looked around and kissed Ronobe on the cheek. Ronobe felt something burning inside him, but unfortunately he couldn’t do it now.

“I have to go back.”

“Yeah.”

Tommy and his men were returning to base camp with their loot.

We collected what we could and drove out the enemy, but we still had to clean up the bodies of our soldiers. The bodies of the fallen soldiers would have been thrown on the roadside if possible, but these were regular soldiers.

First of all, they had to be sent back to their hometown.

“We need to re-plan our supply routes.”

In addition, the rebels had their supply route precisely mapped out. The supply route had to be changed once again and the operation had to be revised.

“I slept well.”

As I was finishing up and spending time organizing things, the sun was rising.

Of course, I can’t rest.

I had to erase all traces and move, in case the enemy came again.

After clearing the barracks and marching again, Ronobe inspected the wizard’s purse.

“Oh~”

There were twenty silver coins in the pocket.

Ronobe swallowed the pouch and safely stored it in the snake cage. Then he took out the medicinal herbs contained in the glass bottle, and it was something special.

“The smell is no joke.”

You can tell at first glance that it is not an ordinary herb.

That’s understandable, because strangely enough, this herb had a magical feel to it.

Phone was a bit like that, but this one was even worse.

It was a little different from Pone.

It was a power that was a little more pure.

The pleasant scent of medicine. The moment I thought about asking Yonterion.

“Ugh!”

A magical presence seeped into Ronobe’s nose as he tried to sniff it. When Ronobe, startled, opened his eyes again.

He was looking at a familiar road.

“crazy.”

It was the road in my dream.