Dream Life

It has been five years of the Tilia School of Magic, but as usual it is under the direct guidance of Professor Raspade. However, there were subjects I had to attend five years of classes.

That is a subject of service as a magician.

Basically, something that can use attack magic and something that can use healing magic is a must for that subject, and neither me nor Sharon is an exception.

Even if you don't have to be a court magician, expectations of magicians are high in the defense of cities, for example.

This is not only because we expect a long-range attack by magic, but also because, as intellectuals, we are expected to plan operations, that is, our ability as operational staff and military mentors.

Build one squadron with forty in class, one battalion for the entire fifth grade, five squadrons. Then, the instructor of practical skills - called a special instructor - becomes the captain of the battalion and teaches classes of military instruction.

This lecturer, named Joshua Metcalf, is a former court magician in the magical and famous Kingdom of Sartooth. It was over thirty years ago, but they also have real-time experience with the Demons.

The college students are given the nickname "Old General" because he is about seventy years old and has long gray hair, an eagle nose on his wrinkly face, and a sharp eye.

This is Metcalf, but I was more inclined to say "old age” than “old general”. Because I stick to my opinions and all the new theories are people who decide to be evil.

The first time I was coached by Metcalf was in the beginning of September, shortly after I was in fifth grade. First, as a basic knowledge, I learn military theory, but that was poor.

It's not his fault about this, it's caused by the fact that theories about military matters in this world lag considerably behind even in relation to the medieval period on Earth.

There is no theory in this world that was a rational system for the formation of the army.

In the West of BC if the Earth, battles were conducted in a rational formation to take advantage of the tactics that said Macedonian Phalanx, Roman Legion, and military theories that were systematic in Chinese military laws such as Sun Tzu were constructed in the East as well.

But there was no clear tactical theory in this world, just a combination of infantry, cavalry, archers, and magicians, and there was no idea of forming an army to make the most of tactics.

At first, there is the idea that the protagonist of the tactics is the cavalry, which is a knight, with infantry as an aid to its cavalry, and archers and magicians for the purpose of backup shooting by means of ranged attacks.

But that's all.

The Knights have formations that started with platoons and said squadrons, battalions and regiments. But infantry and archers have nothing to say.

This is because infantry, archers, etc. are rarely professional soldiers in that country and are often made up of conscripted peasants, hunters, or mercenaries. For once, there was a commander who commanded the infantry, but it was a knight, and it was not a commander specialized in infantry or archers.

Infantry roles include outposts in camps and protection of heavy units, where the knights become commanders on a rotational basis. Since the archers are intended to cover the horseback assault of the knights, only a nasty command has been given directly by the Commander-in-Chief, with absurdity that he appropriately sidelined and said he would shoot if signaled.

And a magician's unit, but it basically consists of only court magicians. In other words, although there is a sequence within the court, it is organized solely by the ruling class.

For this reason, court magicians are often given the same authority as knights, and they say it is possible to refuse commanders' orders.

And it's a tactic taught by Metcalf “the old general," but it's even simple.

An infantry creates a defensive formation, from behind which archers and magicians mount ranged attacks and finally decide to win or lose in a horseback assault by a cavalry, not at a level that can be called tactics.

This “tactic” assumes battle on the plains, but the actual battlefield takes place in various terrain such as forests and mountains. But there is no theory about it.

In the “methods of warfare" taught by the Old General, the Commander's abilities are said to be the greatest factor. And they say the only thing that supports that commander's abilities is experience.

It is the court magicians who advise that commander, but the old general's teaching was badly skewed. His little “experience” was everything.

His experience is exclusively combat experience in the forests of the Kingdom of Lax, which forms the Kingdom of Sartooth and the United Kingdom, and he has only dealt with ghost people who do not use flying tools - tribes who use orgasms and orcs in the tribes of demons east of the Aquila Mountains. It also fights only a few enemies more overwhelmingly than its allies.

And to the poor nature of the "we" teach the “experience” as if it were a general theory.

Here's the “tactical” bone his magician takes.

Attract as many enemies as you can and shoot magic into the nearby enemies in front of you. Later, it means attacking each enemy on the side so that they don't get in the way of the knights' attack.

The first time I heard it, I made the mistake of making a joke.

I was going to hang out with a joke and asked, "Is it okay for non-ghost enemies to do the same?" Then he just answered "That's not true" with a serious face and didn't try to answer any more.

And I asked him, "What if I used flying gear?" And he said, "No orgs, no orcs, no goblins, no flying gear."

That's when I first realized he wasn't joking.

(You're lying, aren't you? There is a Winged Demon clan in the Demon clan that should use dark attribute magic. They don't talk about the Winged Demons showing up on the battlefield, but the Winged Demons "Lesser Demons" and the Little Demons "Imp" are showing up with the Ghosts. They use magic. And yet... with this lecture, "Master of the Army"... that's terrible...)

There is no further mention of the importance of replenishment or information gathering, and if you ask about it,

"That's not what court magicians think. All you have to do is think about it," he answered.

I didn't want to hear any more, I listened to his lecture.

But there was less criticism of this old general's lecture than I thought.

Speaker Worgman's reform of the college is pervasive and the number of incompetent teachers is decreasing, but for some reason the old general was not subject to elimination.

An independent study showed that few magicians had real-life experience with military units - in fact, to the extent of a battalion of hundreds - and was caused by the lack of comparables. The lecturer before the old general said it was the same thing, and no one is questioning it.

Countries also hate to be pulled out of the college lecturers by outstanding court magicians. Furthermore, court magicians seconded by the Sorcerer's Guild are incapable of standing on the battlefield, and as a result, the College has few magicians with service experience.

As for the old general, he didn't seem to be a big deal as a court magician in Sartooth. And since he grew older and declined physically, he lost his place in Sartooth, where there were many long-lived elves, so he became a lecturer at the college.

Moving on to practical skills, that is, military coaching, I was entrusted to the Squadron Leader of the First Squadron, a group of chiefs.

Having said that, it's no big deal in itself, just line up the attacking magic users and tell them when to hit the magic.

During my first class, I had a little idea.

Four detachments, one detachment for ten with reference to attributes and levels, and two combined to form one platoon. Incidentally, the first detachment of each platoon became an attacking unit gathered around fire, light and wind attributes, while the second detachment became a support unit for water, trees, dirt, etc.

And only the first detachment of each platoon was allowed to participate in the attack, with the second detachment taking the form of a support somewhat rearward.

That didn't seem to bother the “old general”.

"Who said we could change formation on our own! Don't all line up in a row!

I said, "Some people don't like attack magic. Then it spreads too far to the side," he said, waving his wand in his hand, "Are you listening to me? I don't have ears to ask."

When asked why, "Non has won this way! Don't let the chick talk business! I didn't talk about it."

The old general was right to line up side-by-side, but instead of the chain of command, he said he would line up in order of seats regardless of even the attributes, and even see everything by himself as a squadron leader.

If I had the same authority as a knight, I thought there must be a chain of command, and I asked him about it.

Then it turns out that it's frightening.

The Mage Squad has no capacity as a unit, and they always operate everyone they send as one unit. In other words, whether they are dispatched five or a hundred, the Mage Squad is one unit and will not be divided into the right numbers.

I was frightened enough to weaken myself on this, but just in case I asked why, "The court magician is granted the same command as the knight. You don't have to split the troops."

(No, that's weird... well, it's classes like playing right now, and this is fine. But the soldiers who fight under the commanders advised by these people are unfortunate ahead... but I don't feel like I'm going to be involved in the military, except for the village vigilante... well, I'll think about it if I have as much time as the tactical theory...)

That's what I thought, and I started thinking about how to skip his class.

And I immediately came up with the method.

I knew someone like this old general.

He was the chairman of a business partner company I met in my previous life.

The chairman is the one who has grown the small town factory into a company with about two hundred employees with his own talent. In late life, however, he had spoken one word of his son's policy, his successor, and had disrupted his management.

Its chairman, formerly a good technician and manager, adheres to his success experience and denies all new concepts he does not understand. And I try to move things forward with the old reason that I succeeded. He was such a person.

At that time, I was not in a sales position, I was just in charge of designing equipment updates, and the chairman thought I deserved respect as a technician. At meetings, however, the chairman will always show his face in the conference room and place some orders. That was all that was out of focus. It was closed to being denied the image of the three-dimensional CAD shown in the presentation.

As far as I'm concerned, I have to listen to the chairman, the chief executive at the customer's place. So, unwise, if I had seriously pretended to listen, I would have been strangely liked and called out frequently.

I had other work to do, and it was very annoying, but the president of that company lowered his head and said, "Ask for my father's opponent," and sighed in my heart, dating an old story. That's when I got the skills to hang out with the old man's long story.

As I pretend to listen, from time to time, I hammer. I've heard it many times, so I appropriately said, "This is what the chairman thinks," even with the kind of comments I understand.

This worked surprisingly well.

From below the president there, I appreciated the work and was pleased to hear more orders from the sales of our company. The only downside was that only my overtime was increasing.

I tried this skill on the old general as well.

When I'm in school, I do other magic and tactical research, pretending to take notes seriously, and sometimes I pinch the questions he wants me to ask. And then he looks like he figured it out, and he sums up the story, "Is this what the teacher said?"

It's a simple one, and that only makes the old general in a better mood, complimenting me on "That's not Dr. Raspade's favorite apprentice," he said.

I repeated that several times, and after about twenty days, I cut it out like this, with a report.

"I've summarized your thoughts with me and Miss Jakes"

"That's Mr. Lockhart and Miss Jakes," the old general looked at the report and nodded with satisfaction. I'll get right to the point there.

"We are going to study ourselves to gain a deeper understanding of what our teacher has taught us. We want teachers to invest in teaching other than us so that we can all serve in good standing. Regards,"

Even persuading the old general as if he were thinking about classmates, he narrows his eyes and nods.

"Mm-hmm. You're a friend... good. You will not be stuffed with the same content as them right now. Allow yourself to study until they catch up with you."

I decided to pose as a gut in my heart, but I also felt a little backwardness towards my classmates.

(I guess the others don't care, but I don't feel bad about being made to take useless classes...)

He was also anxious to see if he would be like the old general.

(... I'm nearly sixty, too, considering my age from previous life. I don't think there's anything like sticking to my opinion at the moment, but what about ahead... can my spirit stay young when my body is young... I also feel that way when I look at the elves, but what about the truth...)

By the way, the report I submitted was just a crude addition to the old general's old story with similar examples examined in the library.

It was so crude that I seriously decided to study the magician's possible tactics.

The theme is research on how to use magic effectively in mass warfare.

That's why I chose that theme, but I came to think of it because it only helped me with one thing in the old general's lecture. That turns out the current sorcerer's tactics are inefficient.

The attack magic unleashed by high-ranking mages is a more powerful means of ranged attack than arrows, and the only comparable means of ranged attack is a siege weapon such as the siege bow Barista. Although the advantage of using a siege weapon is that it can be used by anyone, it can only be used for about siege warfare because it lacks mobility.

So there comes value in an attack by magic, but in the power of one sorcerer if you don't become a high-ranking sorcerer in Professor Raspade's class, it's not much use in hundreds of units of combat.

I thought of magic as “firepower."

Concentration of firepower is fundamental to tactics. Then we thought that if magic also operated centrally, it would gain comparable attack power to a single high-ranking magician.

After thinking that far, I began to think that there was no choice but to discuss the magician's tactics alone.

(Considering the tactics of the Mage Squad, it doesn't make much sense if the operation as a whole is as usual. I'm a little interested, and seriously think about it...)

And I started thinking about tactical theory.

But I have no experience or knowledge of the battlefield that is a prerequisite. I first sought to gather military information from this world and to verify it.