"Did you manage to save your life?"
[Of course. This is my temple. How could I possibly allow someone to die so easily without my permission? I had a squadron of priests in charge of first aid and prepared a holy pool. He wouldn't have died if he hadn't died on the spot.]
"… Then, you know … um, did you?"
[Nope. Scram.]
The conversation fell silent. Although there was no beginning or end to this conversation, the inconvenient contents of the conversation had been communicated.
Rorschach suspected that Matt had participated in the silver elves' revenge, or that he had already joined the silver elves' side.
When Matt was carried out half-dead from the pile of trash, he was saved by a squadron of priests. It was impossible for him to keep any of his thoughts.
But now, the result was clearly out of his expectations.
"Is it completely unrelated?"
[That's not it. A middleman merchant found his family and took the initiative to sell it to them. He spent quite a bit of money to purchase this machine. However, he didn't know anything about it. Besides, this happened not long after we returned to Aishi.]
"Ha, as expected. You always want to use all sorts of instigating tactics to kill someone with a borrowed knife. You're just like the elves described in the books."
[If you go for wool and come back shorn in the end, helping your enemy out of friendship is completely the elves' style. What do you intend to do with the borrowed knife …]
Rorschach fell silent for a long while before he finally spoke after some hesitation.
"There's nothing much to say about a duel. Life and death are our own. However, I indeed didn't hold back when I discovered that it was an elven military product. How about I apologize? "
[Who's asking you that? Can't you be a little more aware that this is a world of war? He deserved to be killed on the spot for initiating a duel. I'm talking about the duelist's rights. Since you didn't have an agreement, as the loser who initiated the duel, you'll lose everything. At the very least, you'll have to pay a large ransom. Also, you'll have to pay for the night patrol that you destroyed.]
"… Just tell me, what do you want?"
[Matt's family is a rather famous arms merchant. He's also somewhat famous among the Starknight Academy's merchant students. We're lacking some sponsors, as well as a channel to purchase certain military products.]
"It's up to you. You know I can't do that."
After that incident, Rorschach didn't want to talk about money at all.
Something?
"Two gold coins? It's really cheap. I thought it would be at least 50 gold coins. After all, this material is worth that much. Hehe, it's really good to meet a fool who doesn't know the trade. "
When they were buying the sword, Rorschach made an evaluation as a swordsman. This was nothing, but Rorschach had blurted it out when he was bargaining with others.
"… Hey, why are you talking about it? Didn't you say you're an idiot who doesn't know what's good for you? "
At this point, Rorschach had handed over all matters related to business and money to others. He had a bad habit of accidentally saying what was on his mind. Even when he went out to buy breakfast, it made him feel uncomfortable.
[Okay, as long as you agree to let me handle this.] ,
"Yep. Remember to compensate that unlucky bastard who lent me his magic armor. Even I can't stand his pitiful gaze."
Lori's attention was focused elsewhere. Rorschach was originally supposed to return to the editing department to continue writing negative material, but after hesitating for a moment, he still chose to sit down in the arena's spectator stands.
"Milord, please have some tea."
Less than two minutes after Rorschach sat down, a Divine Temple Knight brought him a plate of food. His current attitude was completely different from half an hour ago.
Rorschach could only helplessly shake his head when he sensed the youth's heartfelt respect.
"He wasn't like this before. He was so polite, but he obviously didn't take anything I said seriously … It would seem that there's a huge difference between this world and Earth. Only the strong will listen to their words, while the weak won't take them seriously no matter how correct they are."
Rorschach took the teacup and looked at the warriors training in the arena.
It wasn't that these ordinary level two or three Divine Temple Knights had any thoughts, but rather that he was focusing on his gains and losses in the battle just now.
"… Actually, if I think about it carefully, I made at least two fatal mistakes just now. If I had been unlucky, I might have been the one to die …"
This was something that Rorschach's father had taught him during his swordsmanship training. After every battle, he had to reflect on his mistakes. Not only did he have to make sure that he couldn't make any more mistakes, he also had to work hard to make up for his weaknesses and weaknesses in the shortest amount of time possible after the battle.
Not long ago, Rorschach's bitter battle with Jack had allowed him to see his fatal weakness: he lacked long-range attacks and anti-air abilities.
After returning, the first thing that Rorschach did was to develop this mystical magic technique, Raptor Slash. Although it wasn't perfect yet, it would at least give him the ability to fight against any flying targets.
Today, he had used this trump card to deal with Matt's unicorn not only because he needed to finish the battle quickly, but also because he had to be vigilant.
What was he vigilant about? Since he had discovered traces of an elf, he naturally had to be vigilant against any possible tampering with his magic armor, such as an explosion, an explosion, an explosion.
After the battle, Rorschach had confirmed that he hadn't thought too much about the unicorn's remains. The self-detonation device on the magic power pool would be enough to send half of the arena flying into the sky once it was activated.
This would allow him to increase the distance between himself and his opponent, thus preventing any trouble from occurring.
And from a certain standpoint, it was precisely this self-detonation device, which was the typical elf style, that cleared Matt of many suspicions.
After all, no matter how great the enmity between them was, and no matter how dedicated Matt was to the path of knights, he wouldn't be crazy enough to put a bomb on his own magic armor and detonate it at the slightest disagreement … In Rorschach's opinion, someone who didn't care about his own life at all and would casually detonate his own magic armor was either a lunatic or a member of the evil cult.
Although this battle had been very short, it was still Rorschach's first time piloting his magic armor in a life-and-death battle against an opponent. The process and rewards of this battle were worth repeatedly reviewing.
"My first major mistake was that after I used the [Nerve Connection] mode, I subconsciously treated my magic armor as my own body. No, when I forcefully operated it, I even gave my magic armor more pressure than my physical body, which directly caused my magic armor to overload and damage. If the damage had been even greater, my entire magic armor would have been rendered useless, and I would have been the one to die."
Rorschach wasn't lying, nor was he exaggerating. Even if Matt acted like a knight and didn't kill Rorschach, as long as Matt and Rorschach got close enough to each other and confirmed that it was impossible for Rorschach to dodge, the "third party" in the audience would probably unhesitatingly detonate that bomb.
However, Rorschach didn't only reflect on this.
From Rorschach's point of view, not carefully considering the load capacity of the magic armor was already a fatal mistake.
Then, next time, before a battle, Rorschach would definitely understand the various limits of the magic armor. At the very least, he would figure out what actions could be done and what actions couldn't be done, and what kind of damage would be done to the magic armor after he did them.
Rorschach still didn't know that distinguishing the limits of the physical body and the magic armor, as well as the limits of actions represented by the various values of the magic armor, was also something that Star Knight Academy would teach him.
However, it was obvious that he wouldn't be facing first-year students who didn't need to come into contact with actual combat. However, these considerations were definitely not superfluous. When the time came for him to learn these things, he would naturally understand and attach more importance to them than his classmates.
What he learned in actual combat was completely different from the theoretical knowledge he read in books.
"My second mistake was the lack of prior information. I didn't clearly investigate the type of magic armor the other party was wearing. I shouldn't have accepted the duel invitation from the start."
In this battle, what gave Rorschach the greatest pressure wasn't the fact that the other party's magic armor was a fifth-generation military product, but rather the fact that the magic armor was specially modified for charging.
The first time Rorschach had forcefully dodged the charge, his magic armor had been severely damaged. Furthermore, the other party's high defense meant that as long as Rorschach continued charging, the light swordsman-type magic armor that he couldn't break through would definitely be a dead end … Of course, the prerequisite was that both parties had to be at the same level of strength.
Controlling a magic armor that was completely countered and defeating a powerful opponent was also one of the reasons why the Temple Knights respected Rorschach so much right now. However, Rorschach would rather not receive such respect. He could only think of one possibility.
"If the person controlling the magic armor is a knight on the same level as me, or even stronger than me, such as … Jack."
After slightly considering this possibility, Rorschach couldn't figure out how he could escape with his life after the Spear Saint controlled this unicorn.
At this moment, Rorschach made up his mind. He had to … study hard.
That's right, study hard. Distinguishing a magic armor's type and function based on its appearance, manufacturing company, and color icon was a compulsory course in the Starknight Academy. However, Rorschach hadn't paid much attention to this before.
"… I used to rely on the support AI for help, but now I know that the support AI isn't reliable at all. There's so little information on it. It's like I'm completely at a loss when I meet an opponent or a special magic armor for the first time."
Rorschach sipped on some tea as he watched the training below. With their leader watching them, the young knights trained even more seriously. Some of them were even really angry at the trainees.
However, they didn't know that Rorschach wasn't looking at them at all. He was looking past the current him and reflecting on his own mistakes and shortcomings.
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