Chapter 521

Chapter 521: The Final Match Has Been Decided.

“The girls are asking you if you are doing well or not. I have reported everything to them, but it’s something they want to ask you personally. How will you answer them?”

After informing me about the first day of the tournament, Sonia asked me how I’m doing. And it’s not about if we managed to stop the cult or not, or the situation over here. But they are asking if I’m fine.

Once again, I moved to tears from how considerate they are. I truly feel loved in this life.

“Tell them I’m doing fine. Tired, but fine. And I will rest for the rest of the day until the next enemy wave appears. Which is probably tommorow at the soonest. Tell them all to do their best in the tournament. I feel better if I know that they are doing their best over there as well,” I said to the ghost.

With how many of them suddenly appear at once today, I don’t think they will come again today. And probably, they will come tomorrow.

And we still don’t know where they came from. Just how prepared are they that no one knows where their main base is?

Until this morning, before the enemy came, we have been sending scouts to find where they came from. But we haven’t found any clue at all.

.....

I also returned to where we were originally supposed to go on the first day in case the cult planned to have another army to actually go the way we predicted from the start. But the result is thata there were no one coming at all! Even after having someone to camp over there to wait, there were no report of them coming from there!

Does it mean that they have the confident to just attack the capital of Consenza from just one direction? From this fake village?

If so, they must be really stupid. Or maybe, they never expected of this outcome at all. They thought that they will only start fighting after reaching the capital.

I guess I will start asking some of the experienced soldiers if there’s a chance of them attacking another location.

“What are you thinking about?”

I suddenly brouht back to reality when Sonia spoke. I guess I was too deep in my thought. Well, there are no enemies at the momenr, so it should be fine.

“I was just thinking if the cult will only attack from here or not. Wait, the armies here is not everyone, right?” I asked.

“You only asked that now? And did you not remember what the plan is?” the ghost had a shocked expression as she asked me that question.

“I only care about the plan that involve me. I know that I needed to bring two armies here, but that’s not everyone, right?” I repeated the question.

Sonia then sighed seeing me confused.

“Sigh... But I guess that’s how you really are. Of course not everyone is here. If the two countries whose army is here, Tatrama and Varadis, only have this amount of personnel, the two countries would have fallen a long time ago. Did you never thought of that?”

Oh, I’m being scolded by a ghost. Though she’s right.

I also didn’t see Hill and Oleg. Although a guard and a soldier is different, where a guard is just for the defense of a city and have more freedom than soldier, during emergencies where a huge battle like this happened, they can be considered as soldiers as well. And they are not here. That means Albert is sending them somewhere else to keep watch.

The biggest different between a soldier and a city guard is that city guards are more likely to deal with people related issues. Like crimes. But soldiers will be sent out once in a while outside of the cities they are protecting to subjugate the monsters and bandits nearby. Even if there are hunters helping, they will need to do that often. For the guards, going outside is optional. It depends mostly on their leader, or the city they are in.

That’s why soldiers usually have more experience in fighting than the guards. At least that’s what I heard a long time ago.

“As far as we know, the cult hasn’t attacked from another location. The only place we know that they are attacking is here. Another place should be the capital itself. There must be many cult members already there by now. And they are waiting for the reinforcement before they can attack the capital. Though so far, you have defeated all the reinforcements coming. Do you have other questions? If not, I’ll return back to Albert now. I’m also busy going all over the country, you know?”

Oh, right. If there are other armies, that mean Sonia as the only one who can teleport will be the busiest.

“I think I’m done for now. I’ll ask the soldiers here instead. Tell those who lost the tournament today and willing come that I will bring them here once I see the incoming enemies. If the enemy won’t come tomorrow, I might bring them the day after along with the team battle participants from Consenza if they lost. They will be fighting the team from Arturo, right? Thouh if they could win, that will be for the best,” I said to Sonia before she disappears.

The team from Arturo... If they only bring expert level mages to participate the tournament, the only one who can stop them is Kayla’s team.

Seems like for the very first tournament, both the winner of the team battle and the individual battle will be won by Tatrama kingdom. And Angela will be dubbed as the strongest mage in the whole continent.

Well, that’s great, but the enemy has real master level mages. I don’t know how many of them, or if it’s just the Archbishop, but I don’t think Angela or any of the girls would love to be called as the strongest when they know that there are some people who are stronger than them.

One of them is me of course!

After Sonia left, I talked to several high ranked soldiers about the other locations. And just as Sonia told me, they are split into several groups. Though they said that it was Albert and old man Henry who send the strongest army here.

...Maybe it was their own ego that make them said they are the strongest army. Well, I don’t care if they are the strongest or not. They have proven themselves to be able to handle many expert level mages without the help of the monsters or any expert level mages.

The soldiers also racking their brains during their free time to think of where the Arcbishop and the Evil god are kost likely hiding. I guess I underestimating them too much, while also overestimating my value in this war. They are doing so well that I started to think that even if I’m not here, they would still success.

Probably not, but they exceeded my expectation.

While I’m just here calling myself as the leader.

They probably didn’t even think that I’m their leader. But they do think that I’m an important key player in this war. And their morale will still go up or down depend on how I’m doing.

The cult never come after that. Today is the second day of the tournament, but the enemy still not here. Where is their main force? The one with children as experimental subjects and became artificial master level mages stronger than normal mohawks? And will there be more modified monsters coming?

While I was thinking, Sonia suddenly appears in front of me.

“What’s new? ” I asked.

“...for the second team battle, all team members from Consenza were defeated by just one of the enemies. With just a powerful AoE magic from their lightning mage, he alone defeated everyone. Not even the expert level mage from Consenza can protect himself from that attack,” Sonia reported.

I guess that’s to be expected. Although there were no mohawks in the participants from Arturo, each one of them should be stronger than any average expert level mage.

There’s no way that the cult would send their weakest mages for the tournament. Though we were lucky enough that they didn’t bring any mohawk with them, their participants are strong enough to handle a whole team singlehandedly.

When I asked if they can be sent here, Sonia said that they were injured very badly. They are being healed, but the soonest they can come here to help would be tomorrow.

“I see. Tell them that if there are no enemies coming today, they can come here along with the team from Varadis tomorrow. Also, tell Kayla and the other to be careful. The final for the team battle is the day after tomorrow, right? Tell Lina that Elsie can stay there a little longer to check on the opponent if they wear magical equipments to improve their magic or not,” I said.

To think that they will send a really powerful expert level mage for the tournament, and badly injured the opponents. As expected, they are thinking of dwindling our strength by injuring the participants. Before the main force arrives.

Well, they will face Kayla in the final. There’s no way that Kayla and the others will go down without a fight.