Chapter 31 (1/2)
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at 21st of March 2020 03:37:30 PM
Chapter 31
Zweit von SolistheaA forician uncle, and the eldest son of the House of the Duke of Solisthea, as well as its heirHe is well aware of that fact, and because of that, he’s diligent and serious in his studies
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Currently, he’s participating in his faction’s tactics assembly, that is to say, the Weissler factionHowever, he was feeling that the discussion happening in front of his eyes was far rehts at this point, and spread out our ht in a pincer assault”
“But, would that actually work? Since the eneh such a simple tactic, in my opinion”
“And that’s exactly why it would be effectiveYou hts for, then?’ Am I correct? Well, obviously as disposable pawns!”
“Those guys would probably act taking into account their own exhaustion, don’t you think? It’s also a question of whether we can arrange our battle forathered to discuss a particular hypothetic case, and to design so the best way to attack and take by storm the enemy encampment, however, in this place there are only supposed to be personages with a at each other over the s plausible conjectures, none of them have experienced a real battle
“Zweit, what do you think about this?”
“Dio, we’re discussing tactics, right? In that case, shouldn’t we call the knights as well, given that they probably understand the battlefield better than any of us?”
As he said those words, the air of the room seemed to freezeIt’s not a secret that the current relationshi+p between the Chivalric Order and s, so it’s unlikely that either side would accept such an invitationTo say nothing of the rest of the Weissler faction’s thHis words could be taken as a grave insult to their pride
“Why do we have to invite the knights? They can’t do anything without our support in the first place”
“One can’t wage a war aloneThere has to be a thorough back and forth during the tactics’ discussion between the many commanders we haveOne person’s opinion should only be that, lest the battle progresses in a disadvantageous way”
“Yeah, I know, but it’s unlikely the knights will listen to us, you know?”
“Then, is there even a point in having these kinds of discussions here in the first place? No ies and the like, the knights will be the ones to execute the that the enemy’s movements are practically nonexistent”
“Really? I think they’re devising the strategy quite skillfully though”
Even his friend, Dio, wasn’t aware of this tactics discussion’s tre forest, which is said to be the erous place in the country, it seeless
“Well then, let me ask this –Why are eneth? Even equipment and supplies, and the number of soldiers? In the previous situation, we had an overwhele over the enemy”
“That’s… because war basically consists of aht?”
“Dude… listen here, there’s no way such a convenient situation ever happens in the first place! Also, the nus like the political situation and the time of the year, as well as the scale of the country, you know? Based on that, the strategy to be used hly unlikely to ever have a military force evenlyto hoant theet what you’re saying, but I’ with this”
“They’re not anticipating the worst-case scenarioThey assu to win and that the ene to their predictionsDoes it really make sense to have this sort of discussion then?”
This was the current state of the Weissler factionAfter all, they’re a gathering of graduate students that have never experienced soine the worst-case scenario
“So, hoould you allocate the troops to face the enehten us”
“Hine if a widespread faeneral prices of food will rise exponentially and people will eventually die because of itTheir army’s numbers will increase as a whole, and then they will invade our country to plunder its richesAdding the populace into their th, that country’s total amount of soldiers would increase by… let’s say 10 times
And naturally, as it was a surprise attack, ouldn’t be able to grasp the ene students, who overheard Zweit and Dio’s conversation i the hypothetic enemy’s invasion planUntil now, they’ve never considered an invasion force with ten times the numbersMoreover, Zweit’s surprise tactics idea was equally as shocking
To suin, and things like foodstuffs will immediately be plundered
On top of such a terrible situation, no one could promptly create a plan to counter the hypothetic enemy
“Preposterous! That’s just baseless speculation!!”
“Why is it ‘preposterous’? From the enehboring country than to let its people starve, and above all, they’ll be able to expand their territory
Alliances are, after all, nothingcan’t be trusted when push comes to shoveWhen that happens, the invaded countries will definitely be destroyed, wouldn’t you agree?”
“T-That’s…”
“So? Hoould you guys resolve this situation? While you make your petty complaints about my ideas the invasion continues, the people are killed and your property is seizedYou’re required to make quick decisions and take immediate action”
They were unable to devise a suitable plan to beat Zweit’s eneine a battle they were assured to win, and couldn’t coy on the spotNay the assumes the worst-case scenario and practical application in a real battle
“By the way, I’d leave behind half of my soldiers to defend Fort LaosI’d use other troops like knights and mercenaries to help evacuate the people fro all the food we can find to starve the enee of people”
“But that would make us lose the majority of our territory!!”
“The country wouldn’t be saved!”
“It would be incredibly difficult for the ene at the same time, the war front will naturally have to be expanded for the every time a convoy is sentTheir country will fall to ruin before we even finish evacuating the people”
It wasn’t a strategy to win but to destroy the ene would slon the speed of their invasion, giving the defending side enough time to evacuate its citizens
In addition, because of the need to secure provisions for their soldiers, the invading side wouldn’t be able to disperse their forces, thus eli to face their whole army at once
And, to effectively irasp on the country’s information, and keep a iven tiy, the icians are sent to the frontlines to burn down the food supplies with their ic
“What nonsense is this!? Why should we be on the frontlines!?”
“Burn down our food supplies to starve the eneicians on the frontlines? What the hell are you talking about?”
“The knights are for carrying the oil and other supplies, right? Hahaha!”
“Do you think it’s possible to do that in case of an eency? We’d be able to burn at most 10 of the supplies, don’t you think?”
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“But even so, for knights to use icians anyic, there wouldn’t be a reason for us to existIn the first place, icians aren’t suitable to be sent to the frontlines”
Everyone was at a loss of wordsZweit’s hypothetical war scenario was the worst conceivable thing for the them to be quick-witted and to swiftly take action to beat it
If were the King’s co deployed on the frontlines, and also wouldn’t be able to use the si up until now
“War is the most detrimental policy to have, but do you really think you’ll be able to stay in the backlines launching suys are! In some situations, you can expect to starve, and for the sake of things like preserving your sta food, all sorts of different abilities are needed
But you guys already knew all this, right? Having these sorts of discussions, again, do they actuallya war other than si our troops forward towards the enemyWhat do you think about this area here? we can completely cut off and isolate the enemy’s forces, for exaraduate student, who’s never experienced a real war, can’t iine such a disastrous situation
War is like a living creature, and victory or defeat is only clear once one side has killed the other
(TN: I didn’t really get what the author meant; 戦争は生き物であり、勝敗がハッキリ分かれる殺し合いなのだ。)
The people tasked with the country’s protection couldn’t help being anxious at their future prospects
“ Zweit! Those are quite the self-i for someone who hasn’t experienced a real war”
“That’s true, I haven’t been in a war, but I have experienced real combatWhen monsters destroyed our food supplies, we had to survive for four days… inside Far-flung forest”
“““!?”””
“At that tie but also the skill and experience to survive in harsh conditions…”
It was a special kind of dreadfulness that people who haven’t experienced real combat wouldn’t understandWith that into deal with such situations in the future
“I understand that you’re trying to gain control of the Chivalric Order, but that’s iht now, isn’t it? And also, it’s true that since we’re only shooting ht hit our allies on the battlefield, but since they’re merely disposable pawns, I don’t see e should bestow them with more authority”
“You really said they were your disposable pawns, right? You son of a bitch!?”
“They’re a disorderlyan artillery batteryBecause of that, they’ll probably only be a hindrance, will a knight that has learned ic truly be useful in a battle?Besides… I wonder how many of our people will they really protect at the end of the day, don’t you think so?”
“Right! W-We can use powerfulthat we can’t even protect our own bodies!?”
“And when you can’t useyour mana, or when it’s about to run out? You have to also think about a situation where you have to ic potions, and where you won’t be able to obtain suppliesIn the end, icians who aren’t skilled in close-quarters combat will definitely end up deadAnd actually, I would’ve died if a ician acquaintance of mine wasn’t there to rescue at that tiic is truly incredible!”
“That person was cleavingatheht, and before ent to the forest, he even said ‘icians without any proficiency in hand-to-hand combat are destined to die on the battlefield, you know?’”
“““・・・・・・・・・・・”””
No inary case, chances are that reality would be completely differentTactics are ie of executing the a defensive formation when the different ar with each other, to begin with
It’s often the case to be isolated on the battlefield, with no possibility ofconstant and reliable communication with each other, and in addition, the inept iht-out tactics is es to one’s own side
Zweit took the contents of all the precedent pseudo-tactics they had discussed so far, pointing out in detail every aspect that was flawed, and refuting all the plans the other graduate students madeHis words thrashed their confidence frou lasted for three more hours
“I think it’s better to differentiate the ht on the battlefield fros are today, only half-bakedformed, and there’s no way they’d be useful in a real war
I’ the existence of the factions, you knoever, we also need to objectively reexah you said you only real cohty”
(TN: I didn’t kno to translate it properly into English, but this ‘once’ ieneral, not that he only fought one tiht look that way fro this summer vacation, was there a ti to killthose four days
We had to hunt to survive, but we encountered endless waves ofone, there was another one following right behind itThe lookouts were changed every hour but still, everyone ended up beat up when a swarm of monsters appeared, rinse and repeat for four days
It was supposed a week-long training camp, but I realized how lucky I was to survive after I returned back homeI experienced hell and I started to wake up at the slightest noise at nightOnly recently I’ve been able to sleep well”
“““・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・”””
It was a horrible event for himHe underwent a real battle only once, but in all honesty, it was a terribly hard and hellish experience to go throughIt’s not so students would experience first hand
It was , which was the usual training le moment of carelessness could prove to be fatal
“The previous training I went through really helped me out, you know? Thanks to it, I could keep my composure and carefully analyze the situation after I ran out of manaI have pretty much experienced every situation”
He recalls the hellish training that his ainst the Goleenerative abilities, he wouldn’t be alive todayHeforest, and despite struggling, he could feel beco sensation he was feeling before, on the last day, waiting for the eneician that has actual battle experience is valuable, but with the wide-range annihilation , there’s no need to fear the likes of those coht be so, but have you ic to be used by a single ic forh in withYou should stop before turning your icians into cripples”
“The hell you know, you bastard! That ic formula is our faction’s masterpiece, I won’t stand for this mockery!”
“No, if you think calmly, it’s impossible to activate such a spell with the mana capacity of a humanAnd even if you could, how and where would you place such a ridiculously huge raved into the brain, of course…”
“That’s impossibleThere’s a limit on the number of spells a person canon the density of the spell’s ic formulaYou would have to increase your levels if you want to iician that hasn’t experienced actual combat would also have a low mana capacityAt the very least they’d need a level over 1000 to use that kind of icWho would be able to use it?”
Their research of wide-range annihilation ic was flawed from its very foundationsThe aic forain, it’s close to iument’s sake there was someone capable, as a prerequisite they would first need to have a ician with a level of over 1000
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Even if they say that their research is not a futile endeavor, it will still end as a failure given that the theory itself is flawedTo begin with, the ic construction process of Zeros is fundamentally different
In his for console with his ho it as a dedicated server to co capacityThe inal master system, the supercomputer ‘Babel’, and because of that, the tiic in this world would be several tiher than in japan
When he was reincarnated into this world, he was recreated using his in-gaic formulas already etched into his brain could be used, but to recreate thenificant amount of work
Up until now, the amount of inforic spell wasn’t so the huic incorporates a high-speed-processing-foric formulaThat way, the user only has to point towards the enemy and pour in the necessary amount of mana to activate the formulaAnd as a ic forician would be able tosysteic characters, and ran it on his co CPU is tasked with transfor a syste this process over and overHowever, whether the person in question illing to ether
In short, there wasn’t a single huic at this point in time other than Zeros
Because Zweit had been observed this super high-class, half-hearted ician from up close, he immediately realized how inexperienced the people in front of hi you don’t know if it will ever be useful, I think it’d be more useful to train and temper yourselves”
“You… This is an insult tothat I’ician currently capable to stand for this countrySaying treason this, betrayal that… What sort of authority do you have to declare that, Samtroll?”
(TN:サムトロール[samutorouru]; Yeah, that’s this dude’s nameI have no clue if it’s supposed to be a pun or notIt kinda sounds like the city’s name tho サントール[santouru])
“You bastard…!”
“You’re wrong about one thingThis is not ‘your’ faction, it’s oursGet some self-awareness, this here is not your personal property, you know?”
Samtroll’s stern face was reddened, and he was desperately trying to endure his rageHe was the second son of the House of the Marquess of Weissler and had the a the faction’s leader in the futureHowever, because of his hot-headed and belligerent personality, one couldn’t say he was a person with many virtues