Western Kingdom, near the border.
The sparse forests of shrubs are lit red by the setting passing sun, which stretches out its shadows for a long time.
The sound of the birds trying to return to the nest and the bugs that were becoming louder were creating such a scene that they wanted to invite the homeland to mourn and plunge into the thoughts of things... should have been, often.
Now there was a strong hitting sound echoing over and over in the land.
The loud and heavy metal bumps together cause the birds to escape and silence the bugs.
The massive mass that kicks the earth rocks the ground and drives the animals out of the woods.
At the heart of its sound and vibration were two human shapes.
It's human, but it can't be human. Different sizes.
From the surrounding trees, they shall be ten times taller and seventeen to eighteen meters taller than men.
A huge body of armor kept meeting each other with a huge sword worthy of height for over an hour.
"You're tough."
In the cockpit, Cornell pounds his tongue.
It's not going to be as many opponents for me to run the Knights of the National Knights, such as the Knights in the possession of a criminal organization, which I thought it was, but the opponents were more formidable than I expected.
A knight is a man-shaped golem.
The total height is around 18m and the figure is very similar to a heavily armed infantry with armor together.
Then a pilot sitting in the cockpit inside the chest maneuvers and fights.
It was the supreme power of the human race, using the magic of the pilot as an energy source and operated with the skill of the pilot's magic manipulation.
No matter how powerful sorcery can be exercised, a person has many weaknesses in being alive.
First, the defensive side.
In the biological case, if we do not constantly develop the magic barrier, we will faint with one stone thrown.
In the case of knights, the pilot is within a golem called the knight, which makes it difficult to hurt him unless he attacks enough to destroy the golem.
Next, the attack surface.
Unless you activate magic, people's physical attack power is known.
But the knight's physical attack power is powerful.
If you let him have a giant hammer, that blow will destroy the fort's stone tower, and if you let him have a great sword, that wave will slap and slay the giant tree with ease.
Additionally, if you have a weapon with a built-in demon cube that activates attack magic, it is possible for the pilot to activate it without chanting, simply by pouring magic into it.
Depending on the type of demon squares built in, the attack magic activated on a weapon-by-weapon basis is different. In other words, you can change the attack magic that activates by changing the weapon.
And magic efficiency.
Usually, if a magician exercises a surgical ceremony outdoors, the magic used as magic is only about 30% of the magic consumed. A lot of it spreads around.
However, in the case of knights, the shell covering the cockpit encloses the magic diffused from the pilot in the shell.
Thus, the magic efficiency reaches 80%. Nearly three times as good as in biological cases.
For this reason, even if it consumes magic to drive a giant golem, it can also distribute magic to an attack, just like a natural sorcerer.
The cockpit contained inside a robust golem, a powerful physical attack, and a magical attack that you can change at will.
A huge, human-shaped golem that takes full advantage of the strengths of the human race: erasing the weaknesses of biological magicians and accumulating knowledge and technology.
The presence of a knight makes it possible to stand alone against a great warcraft if a first-class pilot rides a first-class fuselage. He was in possession of so much power.
But at first glance, even the all-powerful knight has weaknesses. There are two big ones.
One is that it is extremely expensive and takes time to build.
The shell covering the cockpit is made by layers overlapping the entire depiction of an advanced and complex demonic formation on a plate with thinly extended misrilled silver.
Incidentally, all the demon squares depicted on the Mithrill Silver Board are different, piece by piece, to seal the various magic powers released by the sorcerer.
The other is the low number of properly piloted people.
This is the amount of magic you hold as an individual. Besides knight manipulation, magic manipulation requires a high level of skill.
How magically efficient it is, it drives a knight, in some cases for a long time, and activates attack magic. The more magic the pilot has, the better.
Specifically, intermediate magician-like magic holdings were required.
And magic manipulation.
This is the ability to link a pilot's perception with a knight and manipulate it as he wishes.
With this, you can see what the knight sees with his eyes, and move the knight's body just like his own.
However, magic manipulation has not yet clarified its reality.
I can connect the knight with the senses and manipulate them.
But I haven't figured out how it works out why it does.
But this ability is essential to manipulate a knight.
To date, it has not been possible to manipulate knights at an operational level in other ways.
I don't know how it works, but I don't have an alternative so I have to use it. It was such an ability.
And the holders of magic manipulation were rare.
Also, the method of making magic manipulation newly acquired has not been discovered so far.
We have no choice but to unearth and raise innate holders.
From the above, it is difficult to align and operate knights without a national level.
The nations, as the dominant power of their own country, have "Knights".
Cornell thought it would be a substitute for the same things made of battlefield scrap that could only be a threat to biological human opponents, such as knights rolled out by criminal organizations near the border.
"It's a national knight class."
Change your mind.
That's how you determine the strength of your opponent when you lay the spear on the spear.
"Huh?"
Cornell felt the way his opponents fought changed.
An unidentified knight began to twist and retreat as he fought.
But I don't show any gaps.
If you try to chase him, he'll punch in a sharp counter.
"So far?"
Exhale as you watch the unidentified knight retreat.
Unwillingly, the pursuit must be abandoned.
The only knight on the kingdom's side here is one of his own. The opponent also has only one horseman, but in the unlikely event that he is defeated, the accompanying border guard will be wiped out.
Besides, the other party retreated outside the border. Imperial territory, to be precise.
Though to pursue criminal organizations, we cannot enter without permission.
Plus, I don't have much magic left of me. There was no reason to enforce the pursuit anywhere.
Cornell watched as the border guard opened an investigation into the criminal organization's Azit.
Then a few days later, Cornell was in the office of the Knights Commander at the Knights headquarters in Wangdu. for reporting purposes.
"... you couldn't find anything inside what appears to be the Azit of a criminal organization that would be corrupted and evidenced by corrosive magic,"
The Knights Commander took a deep sigh after reading the report.
It's a magnificent old man who has accumulated white splendid beauty.
"Ha, it seems the knight in the matter was buying time to erase the evidence. After the knight retreated, there was no one left."
Uhm, and the Knights captain has a very good mustache.
"But the strength of that knight doesn't seem to belong to an irregular knight. On a personal note, there seems to be a full median class of National Knights"
"Not sure who you are, but you're saying that the strength of that knight indicates the possibility that the knights of the National Knights,... are probably what the Imperial Knights disguised as"
Cornell nods.
That knight wore nothing that would indicate the knight's affiliation. And the appearance was unnatural, like cutting off the original decorations.
"But even if the true identity was an Imperial Knight, you can't ride the opponent's provocation. If we go deep and step into imperial territory, it could be used as an excuse to start a war. Kingdom-knights have broken into the empire, so they start a defensive war."
The Empire is mighty. The power of the state is more than several times that of the kingdom.
We cannot give the pretext of war or anything else in the international community of the weak and the strong.
We both fully understood that.
The Knights Leader puts his gaze on Cornell.
"It's a shame you let the criminal organization get away with it, but you were right not to go deep on the provocation. Empire provocations will continue in the future, but to prevent outbursts of subordinates and themselves and to continue the mission"
Thank you for your hard work, stay back. In response to the words, Cornell left the room in a courtesy.
Return to your men's waiting room and tell them what the conversation was about in the Knights Chief's office.
"But you never imagined the Empire could be behind it at first."
Cornell tells his men.
The beginning of the incident was the appearance of a crude potion in the Wang Dynasty.
Since it has become clear that there are quite a few of them out there, he cooperated with the Merchant Alliance to investigate their origin.
As a result, Cornell, a member of the Knights of the Kingdom, was ordered to investigate the discovery of a large criminal organization rooting within the Kingdom.
And as we examined the criminal organization and captured those involved in the potato ceremony in the process, it turned out that Azit was near the western border.
So I mobilized the Border Guard to hit the prosecution, but I didn't expect the opponent to roll out the knight, which gave me room to erase the evidence and escape.
"Not at all. Regardless of what happens in the kingdom, if the empire is chewing on us, it will be difficult to investigate in the future."
My men shrug their shoulders like a man.
"Well, we might have to thoroughly examine the traces left in the country and build up circumstantial evidence from there."
Cornell sighed deeply, imagining the thoughtlessness that had crushed the head of the criminal organization and the effort it would take to do its future work.