Academy Slave Instructor

44 – Melanie hates Joshua

Melanie hates Joshua

There are numerous dead bodies lying on the battlefield, indicating that a fierce battle has taken place.

It is the land of the empire, but the place that belongs to the frontier is not yet a place where people can live. There were countless monsters in places untouched by humans, and the empire created a place for people to settle by expelling monsters.

Usually, the opponents of the units moving around the frontier are monsters. As if to let us know that this is the land of monsters, there were many dangerous monsters that were not often seen among the corpses lined up everywhere.

From the Wyvern to the Cyclops, they are all strong monsters that can be said to be the patrons of this place. And the imperial army, which trampled on them and stood on the battlefield, now takes its place as a new place.

“Everyone is having a hard time.”

The knight, who was hitting the monster’s head to confirm the kill, backed off in surprise at someone’s words from behind.

I couldn’t feel any signs of it, but I came close to where the sword was supposed to touch. The knight covered in monster blood raised his sword, wary of Joshua with sharp eyes.

“Ah, I’m also in the Imperial Army, so there’s no need to be wary. I’m here to meet someone.”

Joshua, who was wearing luxurious ceremonial clothes in a disastrous battlefield, did not suit him at all. Starting with the first wary knight, the people around him slowly glared at Joshua.

Though their tired-looking faces, blood and mud-stained armor, and scattered randomly without any formation, the momentum they showed to Joshua and Cale was very sharp.

Many of the units roaming the borders are former port commanders. Most of them lost their country to the Empire and have remnants in their hearts.

Even though they are the same imperial army, their eyes staring at each other are like the eyes of a beast aiming at an enemy.

“What are you doing here?”

From among the people, Melanie comes out equally covered in blood and mud. Amidst her large crowd, she alone has a small body.

A beautiful face cannot be covered only by a dirty face. When she takes off her armor and puts on a gorgeous dress, her face looks like she would be enjoying tea time and embroidering without knowing about war.

“You won’t see me, so I’ll have to come. Long time no see, Melanie.”

“I asked what you were here for.”

“I replied that I came to see you?”

Joshua giggles. Melanie, expressionless, approaches her unit after instructing them to do what they were doing again.

When Cale feels that her slow approach is somehow close, Joshua naturally backs away from her and distances herself from Melanie.

“Woah- We’re not even that friendly. Are you going to give me a hug of joy?”

Seeing Melanie stop her steps by clicking her tongue, Cale wonders if she really tried to attack.

No matter how much I hate it, I am a member of the Imperial Army. According to information coming into her intelligence department, she had no complaints and was loyal to the Empire.

Melanie doesn’t continue her conversation and sees an intelligence unit far away from the battlefield.

It came to escort Joshua, but it’s a unit with many former port captains, and it’s right after the battle, so it’s a unit that was dropped saying not to provoke it.

“20 Seconds… 23?”

Joshua speaks to Melanie, who is counting seconds that are meaningless.

“No matter how much I retire from the battlefield, I won’t be able to beat you in 23 seconds, so don’t think you have no choice. There’s also a great shield here.”

Held by her shoulder, Cale, who was brought forward to her, nodded her head slightly towards Melanie with her confident expression on her face.

There is no change in his expression, but his heart is disturbed. His specialty is gathering and analyzing information, and he is not good at fighting. He will not be defeated by ordinary soldiers, but his opponents are veterans who can defeat Cyclops. He can confidently say he’s weaker than anyone here.

“Sorry.”

With a lovely smile on her face, Melanie, who says she regrets not being able to kill him, inserts her sword and sits on the back of the dead Cyclops’ head.

Joshua got along well with Elliot. When she first came to the unit, she was an idiot, but soon assimilated with Elliot and became a idiot who made bad jokes.

Since she’s always with him, her personality and way of speaking also resemble her, and when the two of them are together, it’s funny and makes me smile when I listen to the conversation they have.

Melanie smiles at Joshua’s tone, which has not changed even now.

The only difference between then and now is whether they didn’t know that Joshua was a traitor or not. The only smile I can give him now is the happy smile of being able to complete my revenge.

Seeing her eyes telling her to say what she wants to say, Joshua looks around her and raises her hands low to show her palms, as if to show that he has no intention of doing anything for her.

“I’m going to cast soundproofing magic. I’m worried because there’s nothing inside except soundproofing…”

– Kwagagagagak

Before Joshua could finish his words, stone pillars rose all around him and a circular barrier was struck. Completely separating the outside from the outside, the empty ceiling is blocked by blue sparks and intangible energy.

Cale flinched when he created such a huge barrier even though he didn’t even feel the mana. She sits casually, but Melanie creates a barrier in an instant.

Joshua, poised to unleash his soundproofing magic, shrugs his shoulders and lowers his hand.

“It’s been a while since I saw this. Haven’t you used it since Marquis Edelian applied it?”

“I just strategically tied up the commander.”

“It’s different from what I remember? Elliot told me not to do it, but I didn’t even know what the subject was and I ran at it and almost died.”

Each of them had different memories, but the fact that Adelian had beaten Melanie was the same. As they smiled and looked at each other, Joshua spoke hastily as Melanie slowly moved her hand to the sword.

“Do you miss Elliot?”

“It’s not a name you’ll say.”

Her hand grips the sword without stopping. The sword was pulled out with a soft but sharp sound, and her sword, with only a clean blade body, fluttered in the air.

Knowing that Melanie always waves her sword in the air as if performing her ritual before a fight, Cale steps aside to her side.

“You’re mean.”

“Because I’m not a combat agent.”

Melanie, who was shedding her sword as if dancing while Joshua was dumbfounded by her subordinate’s betrayal, naturally poses in her semicircle.

“Today is my last day. And your last day too.”

“I didn’t like you because you were always extreme.”

“I didn’t like you being close to him either.”

“Jealousy? What if my charm is greater than yours?”

Melanie doesn’t answer and leans her body forward as if to fall in front of her. And Joshua hurriedly turns around to dodge her, then spreads the distance and reaches into the air.

The space widens and the protruding sword is caught in his hand. The sword has no fancy decorations at all, but it is unknown what metal it is made of, as everything from the blade to the handle is black.

When a sharp stone pillar protrudes from under his feet, Joshua does not avoid it and crushes it with his foot. Stepping on his stone pillar and using his outstretched foot to position himself, he delivers an impeccable slap.

For those who wield a sword, everything in front of him is crushed by his downward strike, which is the most basic of the basics. He swung his sharp sword, but as if he was pressing down with something blunt, the fallen bodies burst open.

But Melanie, who is in her range, seems unaffected and casually draws her weapon out of her air, just like Joshua did. As soon as her strangely thick-bladed halberd was in her hand, she lunged at Joshua.

Melanie, who holds a sword and spear in each hand, and Joshua, who holds a mysterious black sword, fight fiercely.

Keil, who was watching from the sidelines, blankly watches the fight of those who made their names in the age of war.

Aside from not being able to keep up with the movement with the eyes, the activation speed of the spells used in between is too fast. I didn’t understand that you used magic only after it was activated. Actually, if you asked him to switch roles with him, he would have been defeated in an instant.

I’ve performed more than a dozen ceremonies and already competed dozens of matches, but the actual time was less than 20 seconds. Due to the unmatchable speed of battle, Cale wanted to take a look at the situation outside, but he couldn’t because of his vigilance.

If the intelligence unit arrives as she predicted, she should be able to feel it breaking the barrier by now. Perhaps her troops, led by her, seemed to stand in her way.

Melanie puts her sword on the floor and screams in spirit as Cale is putting her face on an incident that could lead to a civil war if done wrong.

“Haap-!!”

With her spirit, energy spreads in all directions, and the magic that Joshua had scattered everywhere is broken. The dozens of magical chains she created to block her movement are reduced to mana.

Little Cale is swept away by her strong energy and flies away, crashing into her wall.

“Cool…”

“Kale!! You dared to abandon me and run away, so handsome!”

What the hell is this stupid boss talking about? She wants to curse, but Cale, speechless in her pain, struggles to get her breathing back.

“Oh, sorry.”

After apologizing to Cale, Melanie swings her sword and draws a line in a half circle on the floor where he is.

“Don’t come out of there.”

After that, Melanie swings her sword at Joshua again. During the conversation, while secretly making a spell, he sprayed a mass of black mana in all directions, and Melanie threw away her sword and swung her halberd with both hands to knock out randomly flying magic.

The funny thing is that Joshua’s magic, which seems to be scattered randomly, never invades the lines Melanie has drawn for her. Even the black mana chunks that Melanie bounced off barely invaded.

She is strong enough to take care of Cale even during a fierce fight.

“That’s shameful.”

“Because I was with a human whose motto was to make the other person as uncomfortable as possible.”

She didn’t know until now, but Cale realized that Joshua had done something to her, using her comfort zone she was in. Even if you listened to her conversation, it was expected to the last, but it was something that Cale’s skills couldn’t tell.

Joshua, who has few direct hits but uses a variety of magic to hinder the opponent, and Melanie, who uses a few types of magic, but precise and concise. The fighting styles of the two were distinctly different.

While magic and weapons continue to come and go, Joshua begins to be pushed back.

It is natural. I don’t know how different the skills were when I was in the devil’s unit of the world, but after surrendering, Joshua only touched papers in the intelligence department, and Melanie continued to go around the borders and only went back and forth in fierce battles.

Melanie, who was one of the lieutenants representing her devil’s unit, has grown further and led her battles to her advantage with her formidable skills. Made a shove and pushed her behind her, shouting.

“Surrender! I’ll surrender! You turned into a monster without seeing me for a while.”

“The price of surrender is your neck.”

Joshua smiles hatefully as Melanie, who doesn’t mind raising her hands, tries to swing her sword again.

“There must be something more important than that?”

“…… Talk nonsense in the underworld. Think of something to excuse him.”

Huge mana covers her body and her heavy halberd trembles from oversupplying her mana. Cale is frightened by the enormous amount of mana that would break his weapon, and prepares for the shockwave that will spread in all directions.

Melanie, who was poised to wield it loudly, muttered.

“Finally, I’m letting one go. The next one… I don’t know if it’s possible, but I’ll try.”

Joshua smiles brightly at Melanie, who is chanting with her sad eyes.

“Elliot isn’t dead yet?”

“……”

At Joshua’s words, Cale as well as Melanie stare blankly at her speechless words.

The fact that the demons of all nations are alive is the top secret of the top secrets. Officially, Rai was supposed to have been executed a month after the Cailon Kingdom was destroyed.

Because he has won countless battles, there are many who respect and respect him, but there are also many who hate him. Not one or two soldiers were killed by his tactics, and not one or two officers were killed by his sword.

It was common to keep those with status alive and receive a ransom, but losing their lives was not uncommon as the battle intensified.

The empire is full of people who will rise up immediately upon hearing that he is alive and look for weapons first.

Frozen by her shocking words, Melanie asks in a trembling voice.

“I…Really?”

“Oh, I’m living well. Do you want to meet me?”

He looks like a mess because of the battle, but Joshua smiles as if he has the upper hand. Melanie, not in the mood to care about her nasty face, blankly nods at her.

“If you listen carefully, I will meet you in a few months.”

I don’t know what you’re suggesting. Cale looks at Joshua with a shocked expression. Meeting the two is to create a new force within the empire. Furthermore, the head of that force is the Devil of the World.

Most of Melanie’s current units are from port commanders. Even if they harbor resentment towards the Empire, a unit that no one can say anything about may go to the Devil of the World.

“Is he… Is he really alive?”

Melanie asks again if it’s shocking to hear that Rai is alive. Joshua nods her head and she collapses into tears.

She seems too weak to be the cries of a knight slaying her foes through her fierce battles, but she weeps like a child, wiping the tears from her cheeks with her dirty gloves.

Dirty blood and mud cling to Melanie’s face, but her happy-looking smile doesn’t fade.

“I’ll see you in a few months, so get yourself a nice dress. You know him well. He’s surrounded by young people right now.”

There was no lie in Joshua’s words. Rai’s place was an academy full of young people.