Ch 97: I want my retirement now!
<span style="font-weight:400">The farewell with Delia was so simple that anyone would think that we were strangers who had simply met for the first time. But the reality is very different. Thanks to having the Traveler ss, I can go back and forth between the war and the Solitary Temple.
<span style="font-weight:400">When Delia understood this, she stopped worrying.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Attention!! Everyone must form a team, bonding between 10 people. Once you have done so, form a line and orderly enter the gates that the Travelers will create."
<span style="font-weight:400">In arge square of the Denir city, hundreds of people gathered to go to war. Not only humans, but people from different races as well.
<span style="font-weight:400">Temporarily, I teamed up with the people near me, including the knights I followed from the mountain. And then, we patiently waited in line. In the meantime, I looked at the map for my inws, but luckily they are quite far away from the city.
<span style="font-weight:400">Apparently, they are going in the direction of the Denirbyrinth.
<span style="font-weight:400">Sometimeter, it was the turn of our temporary team. One of the members of our team collided his Union ne with that of the Travelers in charge, and then we entered through the illusory door.
<span style="font-weight:400">The next second, the atmosphere of the city disappeared, and instead, we heard the flowing of water and the chirping of birds. To my left is a vast forest, while far in front is arge river, whose waters, although veryrge, are shallow and easy to cross on foot.
<span style="font-weight:400">But most important of all, dozens of miles beyond the river lies an army of shining armor and, above them, the g of the Drial Cenit kingdom.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Mr. Emir, please follow me," said the captain.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Yes"
<span style="font-weight:400">After the hypnosis, these guys treated me like a hero of the nation. They should have treated me like that from the beginning, since I saved their lives. But it took hypnosis for them to treat me with true respect and not with those false words they used before.
<span style="font-weight:400">The knights led me to the army on this side of the river. In other words, the army of the Castemira kingdom. All those at the front ride on horseback, while those in the center wear full body armor, and at the end are those in light armor.
<span style="font-weight:400">The armies of both kingdoms used the river as a reference point for their separation, both meeting at some distance from each other with the river in between.
<span style="font-weight:400">We continued to walk alongside the army, as if to demonstrate the might of Castemira to the neers. And, at the end of the army, the tents came into view.
<span style="font-weight:400">In them, hundreds of people gathered and... Queues... Long queues to sign something.
<span style="font-weight:400">''Won''t there be any acquaintances to get me in line?''
<span style="font-weight:400">"Unlike them, I possess a certain rank as a knight, so we can expedite the paperwork. Therefore, we don''t have to wait so long"
<span style="font-weight:400">''Having you hypnotized was the best idea I''ve had all day!''
<span style="font-weight:400">I cheerfully followed the captain of the knights, who spoke to a certain guard. And he let us into the VIP line. I say VIP because...
<span style="font-weight:400">''There''s a [Magic Knight] attending to the people! What a luxury!''
<span style="font-weight:400">A Magic Knight, in simple words, is a Mage and a Knight at the same time. He can cast magic and fight skillfully with his weapon like a Knight. His magical attacks are mostly at close range. Among them is imbuing his weapon with mana, which improves its toughness and edge.
<span style="font-weight:400">If Saint is a legendary ss, then Magic Knights are thepanions of Saints!
<span style="font-weight:400">"Show him the scroll I gave you. That way, it will make things easier for you..."
<span style="font-weight:400">''- Why did I give him that scroll? ... ... Haa, I must have wanted to show off in front of the Saint.''
<span style="font-weight:400">For a moment, I got chills as, when I hypnotized him, I didn''t mention anything about the scroll he handed me. Luckily, the knight retired after his turn and didn''t turn his head to look at me. If all goes well, in a few days he will forget mepletely.
<span style="font-weight:400">[Dorian Aranís] [Magic Knight Lvl 28]
<span style="font-weight:400">Dorian has ck hair with some gray hair. He is a man who is apparently 47 years old, but his level is so high that I''m sure his age is bordering on 80 years old. He has light blue eyes, and he is very handsome. The slight wrinkles on his face, rather than old age, show maturity.
<span style="font-weight:400">Despite his [ss], he looks like someone who does not discriminate between nobles andmoners. The greatest proof of this is that he is standing in front of me, performing duties that should be done by knights of lesser rank.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Your name?" Dorian spoke to me.
<span style="font-weight:400">"First of all, I was told to show this paper to introduce myself."
<span style="font-weight:400">Without taking too much notice of my words, Dorian epted the parchment and read it. Secondster, he froze.
<span style="font-weight:400">''- What do youe to do in this damn war when a Saint is protecting you? Do youe to show off? Fuck off!!!''
<span style="font-weight:400">''The scroll in his hands trembled. Apparently, he must be gleeful with excitement.''
<span style="font-weight:400">''- Solus Temple only has seven Saints and this guy is under the care of one. If anything happens to him, then the Saint will refuse to help the wounded, and the temple will me me rather than reprimand her! It''s the same as saying that I will always be the bad guy!''
<span style="font-weight:400">With a smile on his face, he handed me back the scroll.
<span style="font-weight:400">''I knew it! He is a good person who doesn''t discriminate againstmoners.''
<span style="font-weight:400">''- No, no, no, wait for a little. I''ve been wanting to retire for a long time... Should I kill this guy to bring forward my retirement?''
<span style="font-weight:400">Normally, recruits are handed a paper, which they have to sign, and then they can retire to their respective squadrons, but Dorian filled out the paper himself without me signing anything. Secondster, a carrier pigeon arrived and put my paper in it.
<span style="font-weight:400">''Is it due to the protection of the lovely Saint Delia?''
<span style="font-weight:400">"Emir, you don''t have to do anything else. Just go to the reconnaissance group. There you will receive further instructions," he said warmly like a father.
<span style="font-weight:400">"I see, thank you... By the way, what is your name?"
<span style="font-weight:400">"My name is Ignacio."
<span style="font-weight:400">Emir: "..."
<span style="font-weight:400">''The words above your head don''t say the same thing! Something weird is going on here! No, no, no, let''s give it some thought. He''s a magic knight, so it''s quite logical that he''s hiding his identity so as not to draw attention to himself. Yep, that must be it.''
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<span style="font-weight:400">Omniscient POV
<span style="font-weight:400">At the same moment Emir headed towards the recon group, a handsome young man with blonde curly hair approached Dorian Aranis.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Admiral General!" shouted the young man.
<span style="font-weight:400">"What do you want now, Yair?" He said, sighing.
<span style="font-weight:400">The young man is none other than Yair Cangani! And Dorian is the Admiral General!
<span style="font-weight:400">What does this mean?
<span style="font-weight:400">It means that Dorian is in charge of the entire army, since allmanders and generals must follow his orders before the army steps forward. He is the only one authorized to initiate a full-scale war. With just one of his orders, thousands of soldiers will give their lives for him.
<span style="font-weight:400">"That guy who just left... I want him under mymand!"
<span style="font-weight:400">Emir''s fears came true… Back then, Yair really wanted to take him to war, just so he could give him orders on behalf of the king. And now that he has actually entered, Yair is willing to use all his contacts to make his life miserable!
<span style="font-weight:400">"I''m sorry, boy, but that won''t be possible." Dorian shook his head.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Huh? Why?"
<span style="font-weight:400">Dorian stood up from his seat and looked up at the sky. Then he said with great pride...
<span style="font-weight:400">"Because my retirement is on the line!"
<span style="font-weight:400">Yair: "..."
<span style="font-weight:400">"You don''t know how many fucking years I''ve been working for the king. For that fucking king! And that motherfucker still won''t authorize my retirement! 10 years of asking him for my goddamn retirement, and he still won''t give it to me!"
<span style="font-weight:400">Yair: "..."
<span style="font-weight:400">"It''s 50 gold coins a month, damn it. With that, I''ll be able to pay my children''s support!"
<span style="font-weight:400">Yair: "..."
<span style="font-weight:400">"Ah, ah. Who sent me to mess around with so many women? If I could travel back in time, I''d beat my younger self out of sticking his thing in any hole he saw!"
<span style="font-weight:400">Yair immediately realized that the conversation had gone too far awry, so he slowly walked away, using all the techniques he had learned in his life.
<span style="font-weight:400">…
<span style="font-weight:400">After great tribtions, Yair sessfully escaped.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Haa... I''m tired. I''m going to sleep for a while in my tent."
<span style="font-weight:400">Hearing Dorian''s tantrum took away much of Yair''s stamina, and only sleep will lessen his umted stress.
<span style="font-weight:400">"Shall we continue talking here in your tent?"
<span style="font-weight:400">Yair: "!!!!"
<span style="font-weight:400">But what Yair doesn''t know is that... The magic knight also suffers from stress!
<span style="font-weight:400">Now that Yair is willing to listen to him, he won''t be polite, and he''ll spill all the injustice umted over these months.
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