Volume 16 Chapter 4 (1/2)
Chapter 4 : Strategy of Invincibility
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Weed agonized over discovering a o before the fortress walls collapse, so we can capture it”
As a blackse weapons However, his proficiency to do so was still severely low
”I don't kno et a useful one, either”
If it requires asa Great-Sword, it would take several long weeks! Material supply was also a probleht try to return to their tribes again
”Well, it's not like I really have the confidence to beat the Ehts and Priests even when the walls fall down”
Weed's e weapon production, he had coe battle won't do Of course there isn't an answer”
No one would dare to attack the high, thick walls of the fortress when the people inside ell prepared to defend them
The alliance tribes were outnuroup battle The greatest roles the individuals could play were only in dogfights and hunting
Weed had used his Tailoring and Blacksear up a bit, but with the alliance tribes' fundamentally crappy armor, most of them would die from a concentrated attack even before they climbed the walls
”Should I have listened to Sht another person with ret it, and he couldn't go back, either Even if Pale, Zephyr, or SwordNoob were to co personally experienced the eneth, it seems like the quest success would, at the very least, take a combat profession in thethe gates with a sword blow or highly destructive skill, capable of subduing the Embinyu Church's Priests with an aht, he could co the peak of his Leadershi+p Although the tribes have gathered, they were ht past their limits with his Leadershi+p and Charise, he had to bring out their maximum potential to use thehty victory worthy of being left in the Versailles Continent's history
Weed didn't rate his own ability to cohly
”I only won the wars I could win”
He didn't have a scrap of desire to fight a battle with only a tiny chance of victory with the alliance tribes Overco the quality and quantity of his troops, the terrain, and the state of their equipment wasn't as easy as it sounded
There was also a liive it a go if he just had 100 sculpted lifeforms or so He'd be able to see a chance of victory, too But if he did that, Weed's level would fall by at least 160
”Even if I succeeded the quest, there'd be nothing left”
At best, the life-granted sculptures would die brutally in the siege war
If he successfully completed the quest but over half of his sculptures died, it would be a tre with a level below 200 Even if the quest succeeded, there'd be nothing left
”This is what they call an unprofitable business”
Weed decided to return to the basics and construct his plan again Before starting the battle, he had to nitpick on many variables and choose a battlefield favorable for his forces For now, Weed logged out for the first ti while to rest
”Is this the library?”
Lee Hyun sought out the library for the first tilected it until now because there weren't any coh it wascory — it was a happy fantasy he'd wished for in his h school days
He was also a reader who diligently read the daily published co newspapers
”For a library to not have comic books, this school is truly rotten!”
Lee Hyun criticized the school library's policies without reserve Many other libraries collected comic books, but Korea University hadn't put coenerous scholarshi+ps, study-abroad benefits, large state-of-the-art classrooed to provide for the studying students were not subjected to his consideration
”Seems like a backwards school if it lacks co all the tuition fees?”
The number of novels, economic books, dissertations, history books, and books about art was enor was a library
”hello, oppa”
”You ca?”
His classnized Lee Hyun and greeted hiroups of twos and threes in the library study roohtly
It was theuniversity
'I absolutely er than me'
If he became a senior, he would treat his juniors like robbers, because they'd have the i to be treated to a free meal!
In Lee Hyun's case, he'd already been asked a few times by other students to buy them food, since he was older than his classmates
”I have to considermy own lunch from home”
He narrowly averted the crisis
The views of the students had changed now
'A family man oppa who thinks of his health'
'He'll never buy us a meal'
Nevertheless, Lee Hyun was always careful He didn't knohen someone would ask to be treated ato drink at the cafe or a snack at the cafeteria
'This damn school, is it some kind of a restaurant? Why's there so much to eat?'
It was so bad he had to avoid the vending
”Did you come to study?”
”No I cahtly walked forward
”Hyung, literature novels are on the 2nd floor”
”I didn't cos I want to look for”
”What did you coy, tactics, warfare Y'knohere they are?”
”They're on the 7th floor, but”
”M me”
Lee Hyun pressed the button for the 7th floor in the elevator
The 7th floor held Eastern Philosophy, history books, and other old related books, so students didn't frequently visit it
After Lee Hyun went into the elevator, the students whispered to each other
”He must've been pretty interested in Eastern Philosophy”
”Though he's usually not talkative at all his level is really high”
”He ood points to have even dated such pretty unnis”
Since Lee Hyun had a date with both Seoyoon and Jung Hyo Rin during the school festival, he had becoure
Rather than jealousy, many men had endless respect for hi a host of charood at Chinese, too”
”Huh?”
”I've gone to the 7th floor out of boredom before, but inals”
”Holy sh—!” Lee Hyun hurled out a swear
”Why they hell would they have foreign books in Korea? It should be published once it's all translated!”
He couldn't make heads or tails of it
About half of the shelves were filled with foreign books, and the rest were Korean, but written with many ancient Korean characters Since they weren't written out in modern Korean, they were extremely difficult to read
”I have to find a book on strategy”
The books Lee Hyun was looking for happened to be rare and weren't well translated As he ruh the bookshelves, of course it was difficult to understand Despite seeing the titles, he couldn't find what he was searching for
”Most bookstores order by title, but why is it so hard to find stuff in a library?”
It would actually be easier to find the strategy text Lee Hyun wanted in the novels section Books such as «The Art of War», «Admiral Yi's Tactics», and «Wuzi» had been published as novels With the Korean explanations, they were easy to understand and even had illustrations
However, trying to find the book he wanted in the untranslated, original-lined shelves of the Eastern Philosophy section was hell
”I need to find a strategy or tactic that can be used against the Embinyu Church to win”
It was obvious why Lee Hyun spent his precious tithen the ht of his troops He had to utilize his current force to the fullest If strategy and tactics shone through, he needed plans at a high enough caliber that extraordinary generals y like that”
No y texts, siy texts he ed to find in modern Korean had phrases such as this—
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— Know thyself and know thy enemy and you will be ever-victorious
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If you compared Lee Hyun's Weed and the alliance tribes with the Embinyu Church's forces, it was really too much
”Ever-victorious, as if looks like the quest is gonna fail” Lee Hyun gru so, he spotted a novel on the shelf
«Rodoms»!
Apparently, someone had read it and then left it on a randodoms» other than the nalanced through the «Rodoarden sworn by Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei
the 14th century It is a true story based on the happenings during the Han Dynasty with sohty «Rodoh the stories volume by volue Liang three times to recruit hieous position
Lee Hyun discovered the strategy to deal with the Edoreat army!
After Weed and the alliance tribes' attack, their vigilance had greatly increased The personnel posted on the wall had grown considerably, and there were also rowth of troops and the expansion of military weaponry even within the E” Weed spoke from behind a rocky mountain, a spot that couldn't be seen directly from the fortress
”Speak, Master”
”Scout how many there are over there and report”
”Understood, Master”
Bingryong flapped into the sky Without going near the E them from afar
”The humans on the wall alone are a little over 5,000”
”That's quite a lot How about the ones wearing arhts alone! He had to assuicians
Including the ones eren't on the wall, their overall number had at least e, so he had elicited and destroyed the pursuit forces in advance The strategy of dividing and conquering! He had lured and annihilated the weak enemies first
Despite it all, an enormous number of forces still reiven the great eration to say they dominated over the nearby tribes As the battle wore on, reinforcements would continue to arrive from other tribes
”It er it'll be totally ioing to attack the fortress again?”
”Yes”
Since Bingryong had been caught in the middle of the quest, he didn't knohat kind of quest Weed was doing
The retired old mercenary, Smith, did not coe He refused to participate since he said that fighting the Embinyu Church was suicide
”I want to listen to Master's plan The fortress looks really dangerous”
Bingryong's growth!
His intelligence had grown, so he had the ad out what Weed's plan was in advance
Weed gladly responded, ”There's so called the Power of the Deliverer It can even call forth an a Versailles Continent bossone stronger than hih we can't handle the current eneht together”
”But what if theattacks us?”
”We'll have to be careful to not get attacked”
Bingryong nodded as if he was satisfied with the answer
”Master is a genius”
”Well, it's true that I'm pretty smart”
Weed pulled out the Wand of Promise in order to use the Power of the Deliverer Unlike nor
”Thy servant desires to use the strength of the blessing the divine Matallost granted upon the world I beg for per!
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— You have used Power of the Deliverer
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At that moment, all of the Versailles Continent was projected into Weed's eyes
Monsters!
He could suh any area and chose a ht an unative effect
”Uhehe”
”Kuhuhuhu Hu around in the dark were passing by