Ascendance of a Bookworm

It seems that the harvest festival period is over and the blue cleric has returned to the temple. Although I do not know because I have not seen the blue clergy in person, in the orphanage the increase of God's grace seems to show it prominently.

The chief cleric returned relatively quickly, meaning it was a nearby village that was dispatched. For this reason, my help is also resurrected, and after the bell of 3, I go to the priest's chamber.

"Chief Cleric, this calculation is complete."

Even today, as is the daily routine, I was putting forth my finesse in the calculations entrusted to the Chief Cleric. Just as the cut came on and I looked up, I could see a white bird flying straight up against the window.

"Ah!?

The moment I accidentally raised my voice, thinking I would bump into him, the white bird slipped all the way through the glass. He circled around the room as he was, clamped down on the chief cleric's desk, and feathered himself with decency.

"Wow!?

Unlike me, who opens his eyes for a moment and is surprised, the priesthood ministers around him try to get up and gaze at the white bird if they know what this bird is.

"Mine, be quiet."

The moment the chief priest touched the white bird as he reprimanded me, a man's voice echoed from the bird's mouth.

"Ferdinand, there was a request from the Knights. Prepare to leave immediately."

Repeating the same word three times, the bird's figure disappeared all the time, and the yellow stone rolled in colloquy on the spot.

The chief clergyman takes out a glowing tact-like stick from somewhere and gently slaps the stone rolling on his desk as he says something bumpy. Then the stone crooked and increased in size, and took the form of a bird again.

Copy that.

When the chief cleric says so to the bird and waves a pretentious tact, the bird flies along with it. They flew through the glass just like they did when they flew in.

... Wow! Fantasy!

When I was excited about the magical strange phenomenon caused by the Chief Cleric in front of me, the Chief Clerical looked down on me. When I realize it, the side servants around me who have been quietly working are somehow cleaning up or getting ready for the next one.

"Mine, don't blur! It's a request from the Knights. Change into ritual costumes and come to the aristocratic gates."

"Yes!"

Although I replied well to the chief clergyman's sword screen, I don't know the aristocratic gate.

"... Um, where is the aristocratic gate?

"I know you."

Fran, saying so, gratefully held me to the chief cleric, and left the chief cleric's room early. Walk straight through the corridor with Stasta and his big crotch.

"Master Mine, do you remember the ritual prayer?

"Yep."

"This is a request from the Knights. Be ready to leave as soon as you get back to your room."

I nodded cocklessly, clinging to Fran's shoulder.

Fran, who returned to the room early on, opened the door and made a loud noise that was not normally conceivable.

"Delia, get ready for your ritual costume right away!

"Ha!"

Fran's legs won't stop while I command Delia. Up the stairs fast.

"Delia, Rosina, hurry up and get ready, please"

I arrived upstairs and was gently lowered by Fran. When he lowers me, Fran turns his back and goes downstairs early enough.

Delia, who had rushed to her hand with a costume for the ritual, immediately stripped away the blue costume she was wearing now when she placed the costume on the table.

"Wow!?

"Ho! Please stay still."

Delia stares at me kickingly and forcefully as I accidentally relax into a slightly more violent move than usual.

While his eyes were black-and-white at the momentum around him, he was now bastered with a costume for the ritual. As I was putting my arms through my sleeves, Rosina brought a belt and began to roll.

When Delia picks up an elongated cloth like a yellow taski and gives it to Rosina, Rosina ties it together to further wrap and decorate it from the top of her belt.

... Awesome collaborative play.

Around the same time the belt can be fixed by Rosina, Delia then pulls through the girdle. Faster than Pasari and my hair fell off, I was put in a chair by Rosina with my hand in my side.

"Dear Mine, your opponent is the Knights. If something unpleasant happens, don't ever put it on your face."

"... Yes"

Sitting in a chair, while Rosina combs her hair, Delia brings a luxurious pair of baptismal chops from her closet.

"Dear Mine, I'd like to ask you to give me a shovel."

"Yes."

And I put on my hand the handkerchief that was offered, and I wore the handkerchief as usual.

"Master Mine is ready."

Fran rushes up the stairs to Delia's voice. And he put the tools on the table that Fran, wearing bags like West Porch, was using to do his affairs in the Cleric Chief's room.

"Rosina, please clean this one up. Master Mine, if you'll excuse me, I'm in a hurry."

Speaking of which, Fran lifted me up and began walking again with his big crotch.

"Fran, where is the aristocratic gate?

"It is also in the deepest part of the temple's aristocratic area. The aristocratic gates are gates connected to the aristocratic city, gates used by blue clerics to return to their homes or to the aristocratic city for rituals."

Well, it seemed like a gate I didn't need to use that was completely civilian and completely useless to the aristocratic city, after being careful not to wander around the aristocratic area too much to avoid face-to-face with the blue clergy.

"Thank you for waiting"

Out the door behind the aristocratic area was Arnault with a sceptre, the chief cleric who had cemented herself in silver armor and the goddess of the water goddess Fruitraine.

The chief clergyman was wearing armor covering his entire body, as he was said to be sheet metal armor, with a helmet in his left hand. The blue cloak on the silver brilliant armor adds a vibrant colour.

At the front you can see a large, double-open door that looks like a high wall that separates the city from the outside and is unlikely to open at all by the power of man. Both were made of the same white stone as the temple, reflecting the sun and dazzling.

"Is that the costume for the ritual?

"Yes."

As Fran lowered me down, the chief cleric looked down at me and narrowed his eyes slightly. Spin your fingers and give me directions to turn.

"A little unfamiliar, but more than I expected."

"Arnault," the clergyman said, praising the costume for the ritual, loosening his expression. Arnault has offered me something.

"Mine, you were born in the summer, right? Let me lend you this. Put it on your middle finger."

It was a ring with a large blue stone that was given to me by Arnault in the words of the Chief Cleric. Receive a ring that is clearly not the right size, and I thank you.

It's a bump, huh? I put it on my middle finger on my left hand, as I was told. At the next moment, I wondered if the stone glowed blue, and the size shrunk on its own, to the size that suited me.

"Wow!?

"Don't be surprised how much this is."

"Oh, even if they say that..."

I can't help but be surprised. It's not "this much" to me.

The Chief Cleric will lend me this ring, which means I'm going where I need this. to a fantastic place where my common sense doesn't work at all.

"Wait there."

After the chief priest spoke to us that way, he walked in a noise with Gashagasha, and put his hand over the giant gate. Just like when opening the hidden room in the Cleric Chief's room, a large magic formation floats and glows. Then the gate opens on its own, albeit slowly.

I should have been used to seeing automatic doors during Reino, but I was so surprised that my heart popped out because of the first time I saw it here.

"Huh!?

"Civilian rounded out. At least shut up."

The clergyman says something rather unscrupulous to me, who is nothing but a civilian. But Arnault and Fran, who now accompany the aristocratic city as a side service to the clergyman, seem familiar and flat without changing one complexion.

If this is the ordinary of the aristocracy and the side service is common to the extent that I am experiencing with the Lord, I am sure that I will be seen with strange eyes by the Knights when I am surprised one way or another. I put a lot of effort into my mouth.

"Let's go."

"Yes."

Arnault and Fran lifted me up again to the clergyman, who walked out toward the fully open gate.

The aristocratic city was beyond the gates. I gazed at the fact that there was a whole different world at one gate than the lower town where I lived.

In front of the gate is a cobblestone square with a large fountain, whose cobblestones shine white and the same stones make their way into a boulevard. Unlike Lower Town, where narrow, tall buildings are dense, white cobblestones and lush green parks seem to last as long as you can see.

Most importantly, unlike a stinky, dirty city, one piece of dirt hasn't fallen off. It was a terribly clean and beautiful place. It's separated by something, not even the air.

"Dear Mine, please be aristocratic"

Watch out for Fran, who keeps me in his arms, in such a small voice that I can only hear him. I nodded cocklessly and tried to bring an elegant smile directly from Rosina.

In a square with white cobblestones spread, there were about 20 men who consolidated themselves in silver armor similar to that of the clergyman. Unlike the chief clergyman, it's a cloak with an array of loess. They would definitely be the Knights. Apparently, the men who noticed the opening of the door gather and align themselves in four rows.

Only the one at the front held his helmet aside. He's a big uncle with red tea hair. The motion is sophisticated and beautiful, but the atmosphere feels fierce with the feeling of samurai. As he knelt toward the chief clergyman, the knights in alignment knelt all at once.

"Dear Ferdinand, it seems that you have not changed."

"Oh, Calstead. That's right."

Someone called Calstead, who is talking to the clergyman, must probably be the leader of the regiment, the troop leader, someone in a position to lead the Knights who are here now.

"Not much."

"Because many have not yet returned from the harvest festival."

"It's not something I can wait for, so I can't help it."

When the clergyman, who exhaled lightly as he had given up, raised his hand gently, Fran lowered me and gently pressed my back to come forward.

"Calstead, it's Mine, the witch apprentice who performs this ritual. Please say hello."

"Dear Calstead, my name is Mine. Best regards,"

I greet Calstead on my knees, just as I greet the nobles. Calstead, who remained on his knees, and his eyes narrowed in thin blue so as to be judged.

"Nice to meet you"

"Okay, I'm leaving"

At the same time as the chief priest's words, all the knights stood up and touched the stone on the right hand of the armor. Then the stone glows and the animal sculpture fills the square. It doesn't move at all, colorful animals are like animals made of stone on the back of their hands. There are no stones left from the armor of any armor, and holes are drilled round.

"Calstead, let someone ride the side service. Here's Mine."

So held by the chief priest in his helmet while he gave instructions, I was put on an animal like a white lion with feathers. With a focus on stability, I cross the lion's throat.

As soon as the chief clergyman jumped behind me in a movement so light that he did not think he was wearing full body armor, and held the reins, the sculpture moved like a normal animal.

"Hih!?

My body swayed at the unexpected motion and struck me in the back of the head thoughtfully with a gong and a clergyman's chest.

"Yes, I went..."

"Keep your mouth shut. I'm gonna bite your tongue."

Having chewed down my back teeth for a long time, I knocked my body down so that it was slightly frozen, and grabbed a wiggly reins in front of me.

The feathered lion, which ran a few steps lightly with a tatter, rushed up to the sky as he shook his bass and feathers. It felt like something would hook me up like I broke through a spider nest along the way, but that was just for a moment. Run straight through the sky and jump over the lower town.

"Wow, expensive..."

"Weren't you scared?

"I'm just surprised at the strange phenomenon I don't know. I'm not more scared than a carriage for barely shaking."

"Ho..."

The Wonder Lion running through the sky was like a slow jet coaster. For not shaking more than a carriage, there is no sense of instability. I find it very thrilling that there is no safety belt, but I wasn't so scared, thanks to the clergyman's arms holding the reins from behind on both sides.

Similar flying sculpted animals begin to line the perimeter. Tenma seemed to be the most popular and the heavenly horses of various colors ran through the sky. Some wolfish or tiger-like animals. The cutest thing I personally thought was a feathered rabbit.

"Chief Cleric, what is this animal?

"It's what changed the demon stone. Unless the magic supply runs out, it moves freely. It depends on what the surgeon likes."

I ran through the streets of Lower Town and found myself crossing the gate. The streets follow, and you can see the exterior walls of the other cities squarely at the end of the streets. The city was surrounded by cropland and lush forests where the harvest was finished.

"Chief Cleric, where are you going?

"Right there."

The chief cleric pointed to the far back of the woods that we usually collect. There's just a hole in the woods like a big crater.

... Hole in the woods?

If you look closely, only that part is exposing the soil, there are no trees, no grass, and in the middle of it the great trees are swinging long branches and raging. And the bigger the tree, the more the crater looks to be expanding slightly.

"Hey, what is it, that?

"A demon tree called Trombe."

"Yeah!? That's the trombe!?

The trombe swinging branches in the middle of the crater was a little too different from the tree for me to know, and I had no idea when I saw it.

Speaking of which, both Lutz and the other downtown children were changing their complexions and mowing, and when they grew up a little more than half of the soldiers guarding the gate were out mowing. Trombe, too big to cope with by soldiers, had heard the Knights were going to mow, but he didn't expect to be in this state.

This is dangerous.

When I first started making paper, when I said I wanted to grow trombes, I finally understood why Lutz was angry with the tremendous sword screen.

"After the Knights have mowed, it's your turn. Until then, it's dangerous, so be hiding in the woods."

"Yes."

After the Knights take out the giant trombe, they say it's the clergy's job to fill the land where the root magic has been taken away again.

And this time, the chief clergyman seems to join those who do.

... Chief Cleric, seriously all-purpose.

As the chief clergyman manipulates the reins and descends towards the open place, a short distance from the crater of the trombes, the Knights descend along with it.

"Mine, Fran and Arnault are waiting here. Calstead, pick two or so escorts."

Then the clergyman down from the lion looked back and spoke to Calstead. Calstead, who nodded lightly, nominates an escort.

"Dermuel, Sikikoza. You're the escorts."

"Ha!"

As escorts, the two called Darmuel and Sikikoza disappeared as they descended from animals like Tenma. A sparkling orbit of light jumps into the hole in the armor and returns to the original stone.

"Thank you for your help"

"Sorry for the inconvenience"

Fran and Arnault thank the knight who let them ride, and then jump off the animal. I also tried to apprentice the two of them and jump magnificently, but before that the clergyman stared at me and said "stop" with only my gaze.

... I forgot. Elegant, elegant.

I recall my position and wait with my feet aligned, changing only direction on the back of the lion, which has become completely sculptural and no longer microscopic. "Absolutely, you are," the lowly groaning clergyman lifted me down.

"Don't scratch a witch apprentice, be sure to protect it"

In the words of the chief cleric, the knight of the escort said, "Ha!" and snort.

Trombe craters are getting a little bigger even while we're interacting in this way. When suddenly I wondered if there was a sound of the bass and the birds flying off, the ground shook as loud as Zushin and something fell.

"Yikes!?

From among the trees, I saw a single tree fall. The roots that jumped out of the soil as if they were willing to do so are entangled in that tree that fell towards the crater of the trombe. As I saw it, the leaves of the great tree withered and scattered, and the thick trunk dried away as if it had lost its vitality. The raw roots return to the earth just after they have been used.

A cold sweat transmits my spine into the richness of a trombe I never imagined. And I saw alternately the knights going to battle with the rampant trombes at the tip of the trees, and knelt on the spot.

"Chief Cleric, ladies and gentlemen of the Knights...... Best of luck. May there be protection for Angrief, the god of martial arts, the family of Ryden Shaft."

The moment I said so, the ring I had borrowed from the chief cleric glowed blue and the light poured down on the Knights. Realizing that the stone of the ring was sucking up magic, I hurriedly seized the magic. Allowing the magic to pull in, the light of the ring goes out.

"It's a witch blessing. Let's go!"

"Ha!"

In the words of Calstead I understand what I have done. Looking up at the Chief Cleric, he looked down at me with an indescribably complicated face.

"Mine, keep quiet until it's time, though,"

The chief clergyman emphasises and leaves behind, he runs across the lion and up again. The knights also manipulated the manoeuvres to follow the chief clergyman and headed towards the sky.