Knight's & Magic: Volume 1 [Complete] by Hisago Amazake-no

Author:Hisago Amazake-no
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 6: Let’s Go on a Field Exercise

The year was 1277 O.C.

Ernesti Echevialier was not yet twelve, and he had entered the academy’s middle school along with his childhood friends, the twins Archid and Adeltrude Alter. Their mutual childhood friend, the dwarf Batson Termonen, had spent all this time in the blacksmithing curriculum, but recently he’d been influenced by Ernie and had started showing interest in the craft of knightsmithing. He could often be seen talking to Ernie about silhouette knights and their design.

And as for Ernesti, the child who right after enrolling in Laihiala Knight Runner Academy had forced himself into a class completely unrelated to his course of study because he was after knowledge on silhouette knights... Now that three years had passed, he was satisfied after taking all the classes he wanted out of the blacksmithing department—and now he was intruding on high school classes in the knight runner department instead.

The knight runner department was the namesake of Laihiala Knight Runner Academy as well as its leading department. Students with good ability who finished the knight curriculum up to the middle school level would then go to the knight runner curriculum in high school. However, the knight runner department was not comprised of just graduates from the middle school knight department. A pilot—or knight runner—alone could not make a silhouette knight move. Silhouette knights were, in the end, machines, so there needed to be people to maintain the unit as well.

For that purpose, knight runners learned piloting techniques while blacksmiths learned how to manufacture and repair the outer skin and inner skeleton of a silhouette knight. Meanwhile, alchemists learned how to produce and maintain crystal tissue, and engravers learned how to maintain silhouette arms. All these topics which had been separate through middle school would be unified and aggregated in high school.

With that background, the teaching style of the knight runner department was very practical. By getting hands-on practice piloting the silhouette knights owned by the academy, each student would gain experience and skills applicable to their trade. Laihiala Knight Runner Academy, and by extension the knight runner department, owned a total of twenty silhouette knights. In terms of numbers, that was slightly more than two companies, which would be slightly more than a midsize fort. Still, all these units were the previous generation’s model, the Solodreah, so they were second-rate in terms of combat strength.

On top of having seen continuous use and repair over long years, each silhouette knight had been used for training by many successive generations of students, so the wear and tear was intense. It was so severe, the prevailing sentiment was that the toughest job in the knight runner curriculum went to those behind the scenes, as they labored over worn-out units that required frequent maintenance. Because it was so hard, most blacksmiths and alchemists that graduated the knight runner course already had the skills to be employed on the front line. Or so went the general consensus.

★★★

Today, as usual in Laihiala Knight Runner Academy, there were silhouette knights in the training area meant for holding drills.

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