Abandoned by my Childhood Friend, I Became a War Hero

76 – Victory Feast #4

A dark alley. Sneaky guys. A beautiful girl left alone.

It was a development that could only be seen in novels, but Marianne could never be happy that her target became herself.

An incident like this should have happened to the main character in the novel, but she couldn’t laugh if she was the subject.

Marian spoke in a soft tone to resolve the situation peacefully.

“Hey, you got the wrong way. I’ll be right back, so can you just pretend you didn’t see me?”

Of course, that was a no-brainer.

“hehehe, can’t you? As you can see, this is our district.”

“It’s a place where a girl like you shouldn’t come in. Maybe I should get some ‘admission fee’?”

The way they approached, speaking vulgar lines, showed their level of skill.

Marian could read the filthy lust in their eyes. She is because the men who looked at her in social circles often threw that kind of stare at her.

Although now it’s wilder than then and I haven’t hidden my desire.

One of them, a man with sparsely missing her teeth, stretched out her hand towards her, Marian, who slammed it hard.

“Don’t come closer!”

“Huh? Is this crazy-“

“Can’t you see this uniform? I’m a Fillion Academy student. If you touch me carelessly, the guards and the military police will search this place like teeth? If you don’t want to spend the rest of your life in a dungeon, you’d better leave me alone.”

Perhaps because of Marianne’s commanding tone and the confidence that radiated from her voice, her men murmured and could not approach her any further.

They also instinctively felt it. That the status of the woman in front of me is not ordinary.

At the mention of the academy and the military police, the men looked back at each other and exchanged glances on how to respond.

Meanwhile, the toothless man who had been hit by Marianne’s hand spat on her floor and said with a grim face.

“So, is the gendarmerie here now?”

“What… ?”

“We are just wanderers anyway. If you sell yourself out and scatter and hide, how will these guys find you? Are you an academy student? Then there will be a lot of people who want to buy more!”

The men around him nodded their heads as if they had a point.

“What is that… ?”

To Marian, she was nothing more than a dumb bullsh*t.

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The systemic gendarmerie was not a scarecrow at all, and it was clear that if the talents who would work for the empire in the future were threatened, the administrative agency would actively respond. Of course, the academy will also put in guards to protect students.

Marian also knows about the existence of the underworld by hearing rumors. So even the underworld slavers would never buy an academy student. If you don’t, you’ll know full well that your business is dangerous enough to be completely destroyed.

“That’s-“

She tried to tell them about it, but she gave up.

Their eyes were already gone. The story wasn’t up to par.

The moment she realized that, Marianne’s anger surged to the top of her head.

“Ha!”

Am I supposed to be ridiculed by these petty ghetto thugs?

Is that me, Marian von Karlstein?

It was funny that I thought of relying on Gwynn.

Since when did she rely on others for everything?

She was the one who had established her place alone in the aristocratic social world like pandemonium. In this situation, her lofty pride did not allow her to rely only on others.

“Yes. Let’s try this, right?”

It was my first time being surrounded by men, so I was a bit taken aback, but if you think about it, no matter how hard you push these guys, are they as scary as Instructor Ion in combat practice class?

Marianne isn’t confident in fighting, but she’s not just a fragile noblewoman with no way to fight.

She slipped her hand into the inside pocket of her cloak, and inside of her a crystal ball the size of her fingernail was sandwiched between her fingers.

She cast her magic into four crystal balls, and then her bright light flashed and her orbs turned into something the size of a man.

Down!

Golem soldiers armed with swords and armor.

They surrounded Marian as if escorting her.

“What, what is this!?”

“Wizard! A wizard!”

That too was nothing more than stupid bullsh*t.

Marian knows how to handle her magic, but this is not magic that creates new phenomena by squeezing her formula.

A technique for creating and handling artificial life forms such as the artificial spirit ‘Zegler’ and the doll golem ‘Shabuti’.

These were soldiers created using alchemy.

“Attack!”

Following the master’s command, the soldiers advanced silently. The men were taken aback by the intimidating sight of armed soldiers approaching, and their voices rose.

“What are you going to do! There was no such thing as a wizard!”

“… f*ck! If we run away like this, will that girl leave us alone? f*ck it! After all, there are only four of us! We’re over ten!”

“Damn it! aaa!”

The men each pulled out their blades and charged at the golem soldier, but all resistance was futile.

The golem soldier overpowered the men at once and stabbed his limbs with his sword.

Puck!

“Keep it!”

Pu-wook!

“Keah! My, my legs!!”

The power of Golem soldiers is actually not that strong. It’s just enough strength to fight one-on-one with the Imperial Army’s infantry.

So they weren’t completely wrong in their idea of pushing with numbers.

But only if it is a human soldier.

The golem soldier who was not afraid of getting hurt and fought to the end even when he was hurt made his opponents drool. It was none other than Marian who was manipulating it.

‘What is it? Is it easier than I thought?’

Marian has no direct combat abilities unlike the other Opal Black class students.

She is not as good at using a sword as Gwynn, nor is she as good as a batar.

He doesn’t know how to use magic like Oznia, nor how to deal with spirits like Titania.

However, she possesses genius strategy and strategic brains inherited from the Marquis Karlstein, the ‘chief of dragons’.

That was the reason why only four soldiers had an overwhelming advantage over ten men. Under Marian’s command, the four golem soldiers fought organically as if they were one body.

As a result, the back alley thugs were instantly subdued and all lay on the floor.

“Keep it off… ! Oh, it hurts….”

“Blood, blood… Someone stop the bleeding!”

Marianne looked at the brutal scene with her cold gaze and managed her expression with her composure.

But inside, her fingertips trembled delicately with tension and surprise, and the excitement of her battle.

‘Oh… ? Am I actually strong?’

When you think about it, it was a natural result.

No matter how freshman you are, Fillion Academy is the best institution in the empire and the best on the continent.

Marian was more intimidated than necessary due to her lack of practical experience, and the students who demonstrated outstanding capabilities in their respective fields were no longer on par with the general public.

This result is quite natural for students who have even a little bit of combat skills, as it would be for non-combat students who do not consider combat at all.

“Then, now we have to call the military police.”

In the end, he broke up with Gwynn and missed the pickpocket boy, but instead caught the other gang members. If we take these guys to the military police headquarters and interrogate them, we might find out where Schurz’s wallet went.

As Marianne spoke of the gendarmerie, her shoulders quivered indiscriminately to the men lying on her floor. It was only then that they seemed to have an intuition about what their future would hold. Of course, as a criminal, there was no room for sympathy.

At that moment, the toothless man who had been stabbed in the shoulder and held down let out a sullen laugh as he put his head on the floor.

“Kuh, keuhuh… ! Do you think you’ll get caught like this? No, no… That’s not allowed… !”

The man took a small bottle out of his pocket. It contained finely ground red powder, and the other men who saw it exclaimed in fright.

“Hey! That’s the prize the boss gave you! If you ate it… !”

“Shut up! You die this way, you die that way, but you die anyway!”

The man opened the lid of the bottle with eyes that seemed insane at first glance.

Marian didn’t know what it was, but somehow it didn’t feel right.

“No!”

I ordered the golem to snatch the bottle from the man, but the man was quicker to put the contents of the bottle into his mouth.

At the same time, the veins on the man’s face swelled and his skin turned red.

The man started screaming in pain. It was a loud scream that made my ears hurt.

“Quaaa!!”

The change happened in an instant. The screaming man’s muscles tightened, and black magic power subtly bloomed from his entire body.

Seeing the man transformed into a monster, Marian finally realized the identity of the powder the man ate.

“Ser, no way… Demon Shard!?”

There is a unique red crystal found only on the Demon Continent.

If you finely grind it into powder and inhale a very small amount, you will become an invincible soldier who will forget fear and fatigue and feel no pain.

The Empire and the Human Union first discovered the effect of this red crystal through a small coincidence, and decided to use it usefully in the war against the demon king’s army. It was because the soldiers who inhaled this crystal powder achieved amazing results in battle.

Of course, there were side effects. People who inhaled this powder showed symptoms of severe poisoning, and when the medicinal effect disappeared, they became more lethargic than ordinary people and their bodies gradually deteriorated.

However, in a situation where humanity was on the brink of extinction, there was no time to consider such a problem, and the empire gave this red crystal powder a ‘combat stimulant’ and supplied it to frontline soldiers on a large scale.

However, this battle stimulant was later discovered to have very fatal side effects.

People who inhale this powder lose their reason and become violent and eventually turn into monsters, a very serious side effect that cannot be compared to the symptoms of poisoning.

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The Empire, realizing that inhaling the powder turns people into monsters, completely stopped supplying combat stimulants and discarded all remaining supplies.

And, Marian had heard from her grandfather that the battle stimulant was no longer its original name, but was called ‘Demon Shard’, meaning the essence of the demon tribe.

“Why are things like that in the system?”

It was surprising that the demon shard still existed, and it was shocking that the man in front of him ate it and turned into a monster.

But now is not the time to be surprised, I had to subdue that man somehow.

At Marian’s beckoning command, the golem soldiers raised their swords and charged at the man.

However, when the man who became a monster strongly swung his forearm, which was as thick as a human waist, the golem soldier was hit by the forearm with the sound of cutting wind and shattered like broken pottery.

“Nonsense….”

Golem soldiers are useful, but each soldier costs as much as raising an apprentice knight.

Marian was horrified at the fact that four golem soldiers she had been saving for fear of being damaged during class were destroyed at once, but now was not the time to regret it.

‘What should I do now?’

Marian was troubled.

There are still a few crystals left in your pocket to summon the golem. I’m not confident in defeating it, but I think it’s possible to buy time and run away.

But, what if it keeps chasing me all the way to Jungang-daero?

What should I do if that monster goes wild in front of so many people?

‘Grandpa… Instructor Ion… !’

The contemplation was short and the decision was firm.

As her grandfather’s granddaughter and a student of the throng, she couldn’t bring shame to that name.

The moment he made up his mind, grabbed the crystal ball tightly, and threw it at the enemy.

Down!

A light suddenly flashed around, and a transparent wall made of light confined the monsters in all directions.

“Kooooo!!”

No matter how much the monster hit the wall with its huge arms, the wall didn’t budge at all.

Marian blinked her eyes in embarrassment at the sudden situation.

Then, she heard someone’s footsteps on the other side of the alleyway.

Marian was startled and she turned her head away hastily. She and she were even more startled than a moment ago.

“You… ?”

Long black hair, as if embracing the darkness of the night. She is so beautiful that even Marianne, the same woman, can’t help but think that she is favored by the goddess.

Saint Charlotte Orcia was there.