Knight's & Magic: Volume 3 [Parts 1 to 3] by Hisago Amazake-no

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

Chapter 21: Formidable Enemy and Determination

Time passed, and now winter had left Fremmevilla Kingdom, giving way to spring.

Spring was the season of meetings and partings. It was when students graduated and were replaced with new entrants. Older students moved up to the next grade, which for some meant graduating to the next level of schooling. The students were starting a new year, in which they would experience new scenery, though with the same faces.

In the midst of the merry mood that had spread throughout the academy, the knight runner department in the high school section also welcomed new students. These new students had freshly graduated from middle school and were aiming to become knight runners and knightsmiths. Burning up with hope and passion, they had no idea what they were getting into. This year, the knight runner department had become a hellish realm in which common sense went to die.

A Kaldatoah walked forward, shaking the ground with every step. The new knight runners and knightsmiths, who were being led somewhere by instructors, paused and shouted in exultation. As the officially adopted mass-produced unit, Kaldatoahs had spent many years protecting Fremmevilla. Their fame within the country was unparalleled, to the point where they had become synonymous with silhouette knights themselves. The new students were impressed, one of them muttering, “Wow, as expected of Laihiala, they even have the official in-service models.” And they all shivered in joy, thinking that they would be able to touch such wonderful machines.

The new students were being led to the workshop the Kaldatoah came out from. As usual, the inside was awash with the heat that came with active smithing, and many other Kaldatoahs could be seen resting on maintenance tables. In the smithy at the very back, knightsmiths were even now pounding on metal, in the middle of creating new parts. The newbies watched with interest and hope at what they would be learning in the years to come, but it wasn’t long before they tilted their heads in puzzlement, seeming to emit question marks.

Knightsmiths making new parts wasn’t in itself strange; it was something that any blacksmithing student would have more than one experience with. What was strange was what the knightsmiths had “equipped.” It was clearly a suit of armor, it couldn’t be anything else. To state the obvious, armor was defensive equipment, which wasn’t something that smiths needed. In fact, armor would usually be in the way.

Of course, the armor the knightsmiths were wearing wasn’t normal armor, they were wearing silhouette gears—Motolifts. These silhouette gears had only been introduced at the end of last year, but the knightsmiths of the Order of the Silver Phoenix were already using them constantly, producing tremendous sounds as they swung their hammers.

The new students that saw this—especially the knightsmiths—were reminded of last year’s events. It was known that the ones who made the Motolift’s predecessor, the Motor Beat, were middle schoolers and not the high school knightsmiths—or, in short, the very new students who were here now.

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