Vol.1

The sun shines through the clean glass and warmly sprinkles on the white quilt.

Obviously, the quilt was dried for a while, and the temperature gradually rose, and the person in his sleep turned over slightly, trying to make himself sleep more comfortably, but as a result, he accidentally fell off the bed with a bang, making a heavy sound.

"Huh?"

He made a voice that didn't mean anything.

"No, do you want some coffee?"

The cohabitant said, handing him the freshly brewed coffee.

"Ah, thank you."

He took the cup and looked at the other person for three or four seconds before he realized that this person was Crutz Naldan. Like himself, a guerrilla of the Guerrilla Association. However, one of the two belongs to the Liber Kingdom, and the other belongs to the Erebonian Empire, so they don't have too deep friendship.

When he saw Crutz, he reacted.

"Ah...... Come to think of it, I'm on vacation in Crossbell now......"

He—Tovar—said this, yawned, and sat on the floor lazily stretching. I forgot the coffee cup in my hand for a moment, and the brown liquid poured down......

Then, with a thud, he fell to the floor.

I'm afraid, downstairs is going to complain, right?

Thinking so, Tovar tucked his tactical guide back into his waist, picked up the iced coffee, and headed to the kitchen - rinsing it with water and waiting for it to melt and drink.

Crutz looked at his background and secretly sighed in his heart. Continue to sip your coffee in small sips.

Anyone who has used a tactical force guide knows that Tovar's actions just now are nothing short of miraculous.

Before the liquid in the cup hits the ground, pull out the tactical guide - it's nothing.

Before the liquid in the cup hits the ground, the coffee is frozen with ice magic - it's incredible.

Tovar is the first to be driven by channeling magic. Maybe he's not the strongest magician, and he's not the best at using magic, but he's certainly the fastest at using magic.

As Krutz looked at today's newspaper, he wondered who would be teaching the support section today.

Under the guidance of Yuki Tatsumi, Clutz, Yanias, Karuna, and Tovar came to Crossbell to help train the support section. For convenience, the two men and two women lived separately and arranged a very reasonable training schedule.

Crutz is confirming whose training is today......

"Wait a minute, Tovar, shouldn't you be the instructor today to teach a magic lesson?"

“……………… What a thing! I'll go right over! ”

Vol.2

It was just dawn, and the morning light had not yet fully shone into the room, and in the darkness, the bright yellow eyes opened.

She neatly lifted the quilt with the expression of a decadent black cat, revealing her white skin and black pajamas with a cat's claw pattern, and climbed up.

It's just a fourteen-year-old girl, but she gets up very crisply in the morning.

Today is the day when the guide network is scheduled to be overhauled.

And there's Tovar's Guiding Magic class today. This man with beautiful blonde hair who likes to wear white as much as Yuki has a super-imaginable quick magical drive.

Really curious what he would say.

She—Theo—shook her head, her long aqua blue hair glowing softly in the light.

Take out the portable guide terminal and make it on the Shadow Pill cushion. Ah, Kagemaru is a character in a novel, a lazy black cat. Theo loved the character very much.

Okay, so there's still a full 3 hours left before training to check the guide network.

VOL.3

"Hmm! Rumble! biubiu~”

The little girl with glasses is in the vast sea of stars, surrounded by bright blue and white, and countless beautiful stars are shining.

I don't know what principle it is based on, anyway, this girl is flying!

Around her, six fist-like objects with a streamlined metal appearance swirled around her.

With the simulated sound of the little girl's mouth, Lotus Xu, the six machines instantly turned into meteors, drawing a crisp gray light in the sky.

The flight speed is 80 subelongation per second and the sprint speed is 220 subelongation per second. Their speed is god-fast. This is a speed that humans can't do.

"Good! Come back, everyone! ”

With the slogan of Hexu, the six machines in the distance began to return, and then under the command of Hexu, the flight trajectory of the six machines staggered into a spiral, and finally stopped steadily on Hexu's side.

"Good behave~ Finally, attack! It's going to be up! ”

Under her command, six gray steel-colored machines seem to be constantly drawing complex trajectories in the air, and then, the oblate triangular leader shoots out red, blue, or green pillars of light.

"Yay! That's great! ”

He Xu said this, and before she knew it, she seemed to have lost the ability to fly......

The boundless black enveloped Lotus at once, and his body became very cold......

"Wow, aa

Then, she woke up.

Beside her, Theo, who was holding the quilt in both hands, was looking at her with a calm expression.

"If you don't get out of bed, you won't be able to catch up with Mr. Tovar's training."

"Yes, yes! I know! ”

VOL.4

On the same day, at 10:30 a.m.

"Ahaha~ I'm here."

With a refreshing laugh, Tovar, with clean blonde hair, hurried to the agreed place, the Ursla Road in the south of Crossbell.

It is a passage along the river, with abundant water vapor and relatively open terrain, so as long as you avoid the guide bus, it is a very rare training location.

However, none of the three people waiting here seemed to be particularly excited.

Ellie, Theo, and Lotus sat on the grass with their hands on their knees, and when they saw Tovar coming, they all cast cold glances at him.

Because the support department also has its own tasks, the training is always separated, and the magic training is mainly Alysio and Hexu, and the others take advantage of this time to solve the mission. It's hard to accumulate a good parity, but you can't lose it because of slackness.

It's unheard of to actually throw the trainees aside and be an hour late! Even if you don't mean to!

Noticing the change in the attitudes of the three of them, Tovar coughed lightly, trying to pretend to be serious.

Actually, this is the first lesson, the mind. To be a magician is to be able to endure, wait for the fighter, and then make a reversal! ”

Listening to Tovar's improvised rhetoric, Lotus Xu, a young girl who had not been deeply involved in the world, seemed to believe it for three points, she looked at Tovar with a confused expression, and finally fixed her gaze on Theo.

"Mr. Tovar......"

Theo spoke coldly, and the indifference in his words startled Toval, and he subconsciously thought of his former boss.

"What's wrong?"

"Did you oversleep?"

"No, it's all ......"

"Did you oversleep?"

"Yes...... Sorry......"

VOL.5

In the dessert shop on West Street, Tovar looked pitifully at his deflated wallet, and his heart couldn't help but hurt.

In order to ease the mood of the young ladies, Tovar felt that the money was well spent......

Okay, let's go back and ask Yu Tatsumi if the money can be reimbursed.

Watching the three girls feast, Tovar dragged his chin with his hands helplessly and watched them dig into ice cream.

To be honest, the way girls eat is very cute, Ellie is a personable lady, Tio is a small bite but frequent eating, Hexu is different from the two, eating very happily, from time to time will be frozen by ice cream to the mouth, whirring white air.

Ahhhh......h If only a woman could be as cute as they are. Tovar thought about what he had and didn't have, and fiddled with the tactical guide ARCUS (the fifth-generation tactical guide on the side of the Erebonian Empire) in his hand.

"Speaking of which, the tactical force guide you use is the 'Enigma' of the Epstein Consortium, right?"

It was too boring just to wait, and Tovar tried to open the conversation. Listening to him get down to business, one of the most vocal people in the book, Theo nodded and said, "Yes." Mr. Tovar's is arcus, right? ”

"Ahh It's worthy of being a staff member of the foundation, so I really understand. ”

Tovar smiled, clicking open the casing of the tactical deporter, revealing the structure inside.

Ellie leaned over curiously, her guide gun was not powerful enough, and she often needed to use magic to enhance her combat power, and she was still very interested in these things.

After a little look, Ellie realized that something was wrong, and opened her own Enigma to compare. The circuits of Tovar's ARCUS are all circular, inlaid with circuits of various colors, revealing a clean light color in the bright light, like pearls, while the circuits of his own Anigema are square, like polished crystals.

"It's a beautiful shape."

Ellie complimented from the bottom of her heart. Women naturally like shiny, shiny things, and it would be even better if it also had a cute look. Compared to the somewhat dull squares, Ellie prefers cute spherical shapes.

"Actually, Anigema is also very powerful - ARCUS here, but I deleted the classic system, which makes me a little uncomfortable."

Tovar sighed, this was not a means to attract girls, but it was a feeling from the bottom of his heart.

Seeing that Ellie was a little confused, Theo explained to her calmly.

"In the ARCUS of the Empire, magic is a minimalist operation of a circuit corresponding to a magic. Our Anigema is a linkage operation. ”

Hearing her say this, Ellie somewhat understood: "That is, ARCUS doesn't have to draw a chain like us?" ”

Ellie turned off Enigma's switch, and the circuit suddenly dimmed a lot, her slender fingers slid on it, and her white skin touched the two circuits, connecting them in a line.

This is how the realm of the channeling magical winds is driven.

Because it is a more complex magic, the driving force is naturally much stronger than low-level magic such as the Wind Wheel.

"If it's ARCUS, just do it~"

Lotus had finished the ice cream in front of her, and she stood up and went across the table to reach Ellie's Enigma, who was so small that she had to put her body on tiptoe as much as she could.

Seeing this, Ellie resisted the urge to pull Anigema away from her—such a lovely child, I really wanted to see what else she could do! - Hand over his own Enigma.

I saw that He Xu said in a somewhat proud tone: "If this circuit is the realm of wind, as long as it is like this~ Hey! ”

She said this, holding down a circuit hard.

Ellie immediately understood what a handy feature it was.

It's not a problem now, after all, there are very few circuits equipped, and if magic develops further, there will definitely be a situation where a long chain is drawn through three or even four circuits in order to drive a magic, and ARCUS avoids misoperation in this case.

"Isn't that a handy new feature?"

Ellie truthfully expressed her feelings.

Both Tovar and Hoo's expressions were a little subtle. Scratching his head vigorously, Tovar said reluctantly, "However, this way, there will be less magic to use." Moreover, the cost of magic has increased a lot, and I envy you at this time. ”

He Xu also nodded in agreement. This problem arose in the beta version of Anigema II, which she participated in before, no, it should now be called Yu-Tatsumi Special Edition, and the core circuit system of ARCUS and the tactical leader system were transplanted, resulting in a lack of overall output, and the estimated 7 circuits had to be cut down to 3.

"But ......"

Theo said, swallowing the ice cream in her mouth, her bright yellow eyes shining with the light of truth.

"Your ARCUS, it doesn't seem that simple, does it?"

Hearing Theo's affirmation, Tovar smiled, noncommittal, and decisively changed the subject.

"So, if we have eaten well, let's start special training, shall we?"

VOL.6

He had expected the tall blonde man to teach things like magic theory, or the power of fast-drive tips, but in fact, what he taught wasn't that common.

What he teaches is very basic, very peculiar things.

To put it simply, it's the application of magic.

For example, now, Tovar's training task for Lotus is to use the light of the guiding magic stone to loosen the soil.

Stone Mangs work by condensing the Amber Veins in the earth to create boulders that pierce the ground. Using this magic, you can easily activate the earth attribute veins in the earth, and the process of piercing the stone out of the ground is just right to loosen the soil.

The only difficulty is the restriction that Tovar has added: it cannot destroy the surface.

Hoo's training ground was a lawn, and Tovar's demands could barely be fulfilled.

As long as the stone pierces the ground, it will inevitably destroy the turf that grows on the surface. Therefore, Lotus must precisely control his magic, allowing it to spawn while stopping the drive before it pierces the ground, allowing the condensed Qiyao veins to spread.

It's easy to say, but it's incredibly difficult to do.

Guided magic was developed for combat, and attacking enemies from the underground, of course, has to be very fast, and if you slow down, you will be dodged before you can hit anyone.

Therefore, it takes a great deal of concentration and reflexes to precisely control the Stone's rays and remove them before they stab out of the ground.

"Hey, I'm so tired......"

He Xu looked at the ground that had been messed up by herself, and sat down angrily, not even caring that the mud stained her skirt.

"There's bugs crawling!"

Suddenly, a man's voice came from behind Hexu, and Hexu was startled - frightened by the bugs.

"Where, where!"

"Lie to you~"

"Ahh Mr. Tovar is so bad! ”

He Xu said angrily, like a squirrel. Tovar laughed, raised the ARCUS in his hand, and pressed it casually, and suddenly a small earth sword stabbed out of the ground, compared to the normal stone ray, the stone ray in Toval's hand was simply a children's version. I saw that there were faint traces of the Seven Yao Veins on Tovar's hand, and then, under his operation, the small earth sword peeled off the shell little by little, and finally turned into a standing groundhog!

"Wow!"

This is amazing! He Xu saw it at once!

Not only is he quick to drive, but he also has the ability to manipulate magic with precision, and Tovar is someone who has truly worked magic.

"I'll give it to you. Let's aim for this and work hard to practice magic! ”

"Yes, yes! Hexu will come on! ”

VOL.7

Ellie's training is similar to that of Lotus

However, her training is to cut targets with precision with the wheel of wind.

Her training place was near Hexu, close to the forest.

Tovar hung 20 square planks in the forest, each with a red, scar-like mark. Ellie's goal was them, to hit the disc-shaped wheel of wind as accurately as possible with those marks.

At first, Ellie didn't think it was too difficult, after all, she was the one who got a perfect score in the fixed-point shooting, which is also a kind of shooting training.

However, when she operated it, she realized that it was not so easy at all.

Every shot of her hit the board. But the trajectory of each shot is different.

Unlike bullets that resemble grains of rice, bullet attack marks are a circle, while wind wheel attacks are long strips, so the angle of rotation and the radius of the disc will cause the attack marks to deviate greatly.

If you use the wind wheel carefully, one is that the speed will be slower, and the other is too consuming to be practical.

Obviously, when Tovar was doing the demonstration, every shot of magic hit the mark very easily, and it was exactly the same, but I did it myself and realized how difficult it was.

"Ah, how's the training?"

Tovar's voice came from behind.

"It's a little worse."

Tovar's gaze passed through Ellie, landing on the target of the prototype that was so messed up by the Wheel of Wind that it was almost impossible to see the prototype, and smiled inexplicably.

"It's okay to have a good record. The most important thing about magic is precision. No matter how strong the attack is, it makes no sense to hit the vital point. In the same way, no matter how weak the attack power is, hitting a weak point can actually deal damage. ”

Tovar patiently explained to Ellie.

She had no experience with the devil, but Tovar knew. Many Warcraft have their own weaknesses, even if Warcraft itself has good anti-magic power, it will fall to the ground miserably if it is attacked by others. In the same way, even if the monster is very afraid of magic, and the place where it attacks is not painful, it cannot be harmed in the slightest.

To explain it in terms of biology, it is the armadillo (pronounced: qiu\\yu. An animal with armor on its back). The armadillo has a sturdy back armor, and if the Guiding Magic Wind Wheel is cut up, although it has no magic resistance, and it is not even a magical beast, it will not receive great damage, and that bone back armor prevents the Qiyao vein from transmitting to the body and causing damage. However, if you hit the Wheel of Wind on its soft belly, it can be fatal in one blow.

Tovar has always been an advocate of making magic more efficient. As long as it is magic, it has the meaning of its existence, and it is not blindly pursuing high-power magic, but trying to bring out the best effect of magic.

To this end, his magic is unmatched in speed and with great accuracy and maneuverability.

Ellie understood his intentions, nodded, and continued practicing.

This is very similar to the concept of shooting, and Ellie naturally understands it.

Helping Ellie change her target, Tovar walked to the last man's place.

VOL.8

Like everyone else, Theo was assigned a task.

Let Theo practice making ice cream.

Give her the whipped cream, then freeze the ice cream with the cold air emitted by the ice-based channeling magic. If the ice power is too high, it will become a hard lump of ice, and if the ice power is too small, it will still be cream. The grasp of the "degree" of the power of magic is what Tovar asked of Theo.

However, when he reached the water's edge near the south gate, he did not see Tio.

From a distance, I saw some people surrounding the south gate.

Curiosity drove Tovar over to find out.

The closer you get, the more clearly you can hear the sobbing of a child. Squeezing through the thin circle of good deeds, Tovar saw the whole picture.

Tio was holding a pot of cream and was looking at a child at a loss, and there was a mother-like person comforting the child. On the ground between Theo and the child, there was also a sweet corpse, which had been dead for no more than 20 minutes, only a little melted, and the deceased's work before his death was supposed to be served in an egg roll cone to be eaten.

Ah, it seems, it's the kid's ice cream that went off, so he's crying, and the mother happens to be the kind of gentle and spoiling the child, and then seeing that there's a problem, Theo comes over.

Theo suddenly noticed Tovar.

He quickly ran over in small steps, and held the cream tub high in both hands and handed it to Tovar.

The meaning is obvious: you make one for that kid.

"Yes, but shouldn't it be up to you?"

Tovar smiled, but Theo's eyes flickered sideways.

"Failed ......"

She muttered quietly.

"Huh?"

"It's too ugly to do......"

Theo's voice exuded frustration.

If you talk about the power of magic alone, Theo is confident that he will not lose to Tovar, and how to use magic, Theo is also confident that he can be on a par with Tovar, but this is the precise operation of magic...... Theo wasn't so confident.

Especially for something as difficult as making ice cream, although Tio can do it, but that is only the level of "making", that kind of thing can only be said to be barely qualified, and it is still impossible to soothe a child's injured heart.

Perhaps seeing that he had caused trouble to the people around him, his mother persuaded him with kind words and promised to buy another one, while showing an apologetic expression asking for forgiveness to the people around him.

"Na Na...... The kids over here......"

Hearing someone call him, the child instinctively looked up, only to see Tovar bent over, holding the cream basin that Tio had held before.

"Actually, I'm a magician!"

Tovar said this, and without waiting for the child to speak, he gently pressed his finger to the edge of the basin, and Theo was keenly aware that there were subtle traces of the activity of the water attribute in the air. There was no doubt that Tovar was driving magic at this time.

Tovar murmured in a thoughtful manner, and the child almost instinctively reduced his crying and sneaked to look.

In fact, for children, it is not because they are sad because they have lost ice cream, but because they are sad because they can't eat ice cream, and crying is just a means to force their mother to buy another one.

Seeing something interesting in, children instinctively arouse their curiosity.

"Hey!"

Tovar made a strange noise, his fingers raised high into the sky.

With the amplitude of his fingers, it was as if a huge ice cream tree had grown out of the basin, with branches and foliage that were half the height of a child.

"Wow wow! Good, so good! ”

"Then, don't cause trouble to the people around you anymore! If you can do it, I'll give it to you. ”

"Yes! Big brother! ”

That's amazing!

Theo thought.

I wanted to help, but he didn't call me big sister......

VOL.9

"Mr. Tovar."

"Huh?"

Theo and Tovar talk to each other, meeting in the direction of Ellie and Hoo.

"Why, you're so good at channeling magic?"

Theo's voice was filled with emotion called uncanny.

Channeling magic is convenient and powerful. However, due to various reasons such as the driving time of the guide device, the energy consumption of the guide magic, the limited energy box of a tactical guide device, and the poor continuous combat effectiveness, there are not many people who are really willing to study the guide magic.

Theo thought he was already gifted with magical warfare. But Tovar showed her a completely different kind of ingenuity.

To make an analogy, Theo uses magic, just like Randy holding a berserker, which is very powerful and skillful. But things outside of the battle, not so bad. And the feeling of Tovar's use of magic is the feeling of Yu-Tatsumi, omnipotent versatility, and he has a lot of experience in everything, such as fighting, such as cooking.

Theo also used magic as a means of fighting. Tovar, on the other hand, uses magic as a life skill, like fishing, cooking, or whatever, and combines it with everyday life - most people don't think of using guiding magic to loosen the soil and make ice cream.

Tovar trusts in magic and studies it like a pilgrim.

Theo couldn't understand the feelings.

"If you want to tell me why you are good at it......"

Tovar put his hands behind his head and tilted his head back with a thoughtful look and a subtle expression on his face.

Why do I like magic so much?

Really...... It's because of that......

"Don't you think it's a great thing to be able to use magic to make people smile?"

As he spoke, he strode away as he beckoned to Ellie and Lotus in the distance.

Theo couldn't help but think back to the heartfelt smile that the child showed when he got the ice cream tree, warm as the sun.

Mr. Guy ...... Could it be that you ......

Theo's fingertips unconsciously touched his own detractor, and there was a somewhat faded Mishi pendant hanging from the chain, because it was not an ornament used by Ainigema, so the buckle was incompatible with the style of the tactical detractor.

It was the gift she received when she first met Guy Bannings.

It was also the first gift she received in her memory.

Did I laugh like that at that time?

VOL.10

Late at night, Theo finally typed the last word of the report into the email.

There are two kinds of work reports, and the weekday work notes can be transmitted with a guide terminal, just like what Tio is doing now. On the other hand, the report must be written by hand to show a sense of formality. In addition, such reports are stored in the archives for preservation. That's why Theo always goes to the Epstein Consortium.

Submitting her work report, Theo drank half a glass of cocoa from the side, the cold and sweet drink soothing her tired brain a little.

She took Anigema and carefully stroked the half-worn Mishi pendant.

Then, she walked in front of the mirror. A calm and delicate face is reflected in it.

Theo tried to laugh and lift his facial muscles.

Nothing has changed much.

Two slender fingers pressed the corners of his mouth and poked it upwards hard.

It's even uglier to look at......

Sure enough, didn't I smile at Mr. Guy at that time?

I...... Can you be like Mr. Tovar and make others smile?

I...... Can it really be done?

With this thought in mind, Theo turned off the light and lay back on the bed.

In the quiet darkness, there was only the trivial sound of cloth rubbing.

"I want to try to be like Mr. Guy and Mr. Tovar."

Recalling the child's smile, the cold female voice in the darkness whispered.

VOL.11

On the other side, Tovar was lying on the bed in his clothes, reaching out his hand as if touching something.

In the space between the ceiling and the bed, Tovar seemed to see the face of a woman with a high degree of elegance and majesty.

"Is there a reason to use magic...... Don't you just want to make people smile......"