Tsuihou Sareta Bannou Mahou Kenshi wa, Koujou Denka no Shishou Tonaru

The girl in charge of attacking magic in the Knights of St. Sophia, Arte the Wise, was being hunted down.

Arte thought he was competent about himself. And with the exception of Sophia the Virgin and Cleon the Holy Knight, I didn't even think there was a stronger adventurer than me.

In fact, the Imperial School of Magic graduated as its chief and quickly became an executive in the Knights of St. Sophia as an attacking magic genius.

Then Arte is also a beautiful girl. This wasn't complacency, it was an objective fact.

Dark-haired, dark-eyed girls like Arte were rare in the Empire and made such noise in the Empire as beauties with strange atmospheres.

Arte was a lot jealous of the women around him because of his beauty, and he confessed a lot from a man he didn't care about, but he didn't care about that.

It's just that you deserve to be next to that wonderful and beautiful Virgin Sophia, someone who not only has the strength, but also the fascinating appearance.

So Arte thought he was the one who should be next to Sophia.

No, a mediocre man like Magic Swordsman Solon should not be by Sophia's side.

Arte has admired the Virgin Sophia since her magic school days, and that's why Solon by Sophia has always been a disturbing presence.

Solon seemed special to Sophia and Cleon, and it was these three founding members that were at the core of the Knights, and there seemed to be no room for Arte to enter there.

But at last Arte succeeded in expelling Solon.

The eviction of troublemaker executive Solon also allowed Arte to act as deputy commander.

Now Arte, with all his fame, is the number three of the Knights.

I'm good, Arte believes.

Yet what is this troubled situation?

Arte doesn't have a formidable enemy in front of him, and it doesn't mean he's in danger for his life.

The problem was, he was a Knights executive who was supposed to be one of us.

This is a meeting room for Knights executives.

A regular executive meeting of the Knights is held.

Both Sophia, the captain, and Cleon, the deputy captain, are absent, but not so uncommon.

In addition to the two, there are no exiled Solons, so there will be a total of ten Knights executives.

And those executives were all aligned and had dark faces.

And naturally, the Knights' ruin attacks have been overlapping these days.

One of the executives, summoner Notaras, stood up.

Notaras is a skinny young man with round, thick glasses and round-cut hair.

I don't like Arte.

Notaras cut his mouth fire with a tall voice.

"Lord Arte. You said we could be more active without Lord Solon."

"Yes, you did."

"If you do, is this the status quo what you wanted?

"Even if you don't say it in a disgusting way, let's be clear, shall we? He says we're all failing badly."

Arte tried to calmly answer Notaras, but in the end, he couldn't hide his frustration.

It was clear that the Knights of St. Sophia were suffering because Solon was gone.

enemies, obtaining supplies, arranging maps and guides, and negotiating with local officials.

Solon was on his own doing the chores necessary to explore the ruins.

Arte thought it would be easy to do that extent without him, but it wouldn't work at all if he had to try.

Arte is aristocratic and highly prided, and he is not good at bowing his head and seeking the help of the local people.

Solon has used his cluttered and extensive knowledge of law, medicine, biology, literature, history and folklore to solve fine problems, but Arte has only the knowledge and power of magic.

I can't even make enemies. Arte isn't defensive because he's a magician, and if he moves alone, he feeds his enemies as soon as he can.

On the contrary, Magic Swordsman Solon had roughly all the skills required of an adventurer. Each skill is not necessarily high. But I was able to act alone and know exactly where the enemy was.

As an alternative to such a solon, Arte dispatched several non-executive Knights constituents to scout difficult ruins.

But they were wiped out.

He's dead.

Arte missaw the complexity of the ruins and the strength of the enemy.

That is the reason for the tragedy.

It was also Solon who had previously set the guiding principles for the ruins attack, but where Solon was, there were few victims in the Knights in the ruins attack.

"Our knights have been known as undefeated. And there was a beautiful breeze that valued the lives of our members above all else."

"What's wrong with that?

"Didn't Lord Arte ruin our knighthood tradition?"

"I didn't let those kids die because I liked them."

"But now they're dead. This did not happen when Lord Solon was here. He was clever."

Some of the executives whispered in agreement with Notaras' words.

Not good, Arte thinks.

We're talking in a bad direction.

In the first place, all of their executives were in favor of Solon's exile.

Yet Arte thought it was cowardly to blame him now and all about himself.

"Even you said you didn't like having a magic swordsman with insufficient strength as deputy commander!

Arte stood up and slapped his desk hard.

In contrast to the fierce Arte, Notaras remained only calm and grinned slightly.

For once, Notaras nodded to Arte's protest.

"Master Left. Indeed, my son did not oppose the banishment of Lord Solon. But that's because I said forcefully that Lord Arte and the others wouldn't have to be without Lord Solon."

"That's right..."

The word came out to Arte's throat that it was not his fault.

Arte respected the Virgin Sophia and loved her. At the same time, however, he also knew that Sofia had a weak personality that was not suitable for running the organization.

The Virgin herself seemed to be aware of it, staying in the symbolic presence of the Knights, regardless of the operational matters of the organization, albeit the head of the regiment.

It was Solon, the deputy commander, who had instead partitioned everything in the Knights. With Solon gone, the new deputy chief Cleon is in a position to put the executives together.

But he hardly shows up these days.

Previous deputy commander Solon has chosen to be the target of all the ruins he can surely attack. This rather cautious and conservative policy was also one of the seeds of dissatisfaction with the Knights executives' solons.

On the contrary, however, Cleon orders us to attack the more challenging ruins with forceful methods.

True, if you succeed, you get a lot in return, and in fact, if you do the strength of the Knights, you don't have much success in the offense.

But the Knights' executives and members were exhausted by the overly rapid expansion route.

As if possessed by something, Cleon was in a hurry to attack.

In these circumstances, Arte was not at all well advanced in the operation of the Knights or in the strategy of the ruins.

"Even if it's a witch, it means she's a lady without knowledge."

Notaras smiled.

He was born of a monstrous house, once of nobility, but with no lower ranks, no titles.

I hear that there are no territories, no salaries, and that the poverty of their lives was lower than that of the concomitant civilians.

Arte against was the birth of a great nobleman with the title of Marquis.

Arte lost momentum and asked Notaras as he weakened.

"What do you want me to do?

"It will be decided. I call Lord Solon back."

"That's... that's all I don't like"

Recall Solon, which means admitting Arte was wrong.

That's how Arte's pride won't allow him, such as bringing him back to the Knights, bending his knees and making him vice president again.

At that time, Arte will surely be chased through the Knights number three, which he earned because of it.

On the contrary, it is not strange that the returning Solon tries to completely eliminate Arte from the Knights.

"Anyone who agrees to recall Lord Solon is invited to take a seat."

Notaras said quietly.

In response to his call, three executives took their seats.

But that was it.

It will mean that Arte and the other five still support Solon's exile.

"Hmm. I can't help it."

Notaras shrugged her shoulders and sat down in her chair.

Good, Arte thinks.

I managed to avoid the worst.

There are still many executives who are in favor of Solon's exile, first of all because there are those who are not personally close to Solon, like Garrells, the executive of the shield.

And more importantly, Cleon was the leader of Solon's exile.

If it was a previous Cleon, no matter how much Arte complained, he did not lend his ear to the proposal of Solon's exile. That suddenly and aggressively led Cleon to agree with Solon's exile, and he actually kicked Solon out.

In this Knights, the voice of the Virgin Sophia and the Holy Knight Cleon is overwhelmingly strong.

She and he were overwhelming other executives in their ability to fight, and both were charismatic in popularity from executives and members.

However, this situation does not necessarily continue.

Arte thinks there will be no next time.

Anyway, we need to make a track record of convincing everyone by then.

Arte ran his eyes to the map in the corner of the room.

And found a ruin just north of the imperial capital.

It was once a land where countless leading adventurers challenged but no one succeeded in their offense.

They say there's enough treasure at the bottom of it to blind them. Plus there are plenty of resources that can be collected in the ruins, near the heart of the economy called Imperial Capital.

If we attack this ruin, the people of the Imperial capital will cry out for praise, and Arte's status and fame will be immovable.

No matter how much sacrifice you make on the offense.

If we even succeed, no one should be able to complain about Arte.

Now it's time for people like Solon and Notaras to stop interrupting me.

In that case, Sophia the Virgin, the birth of Arte the Best Wise.

Arte declared the executive meeting closed as he let his chest dance to his dark ambitions.

Arte hadn't noticed yet at this time.

The night before, the Virgin Sophia snuck out of Knights headquarters to the fact that she had made her way to the Imperial Capital.