I Became the Golden Sun That Steals the Academy’s Aircraft

010. Entrance Mock Battle

Seraphina, who was observing the entrance mock battle, smiled happily as she looked at the green freshmen.

For her, who was always greedy for talent, her academy’s entrance ceremony was both an opportunity to see the twinkling stars with her own eyes and a strainer that could filter out her chaff.

No matter how detailed the reports she received, Seraphina, who had a great eye for talent, always preferred to see them for herself. She always concluded her agenda by personally viewing any information related to her talent that came from her intelligence department under her command.

In that sense, her entrance mock competition had the same meaning as her party banquet.

‘Is the author Ian Tigris Linebarrel?’

A gentle-looking man with unusual black hair entered the eyes of Seraphina, who was sitting in her VIP seat.

Although his physique was not bulky, he was sturdy and seemed to be quite disciplined, and his soft eyes and round face had a charm that made people like him.

In fact, it wasn’t that strange that most of the people looking at him were women.

But what Seraphina saw was his general information rather than his appearance.

The Earl of Rhinebarrel was highly regarded by the people of the territory, and was a wealthy family whose wealth accumulated was one of the largest in the empire.

In particular, the special products from the territory owned by Linebarrel consisted of items created with brilliant wit by the outstanding talents of their family. A lot of new products that had not been seen anywhere else were produced in their territories, leading the trends of aristocratic society and commoners.

In the Linebarrel family, which had such technological prowess and wealth, there was a person born with a different talent than before, and that was Ian Tigris Linebarrel.

He showed extraordinary talent in swordsmanship and military science from a young age, and was known to be particularly gifted with giant weapons.

Seraphina’s intelligence department said that Ian was the number one target for recruitment as he had already awakened the Colossus-related characteristic skills.

What is the characteristic skill?

It was a realm of talent given by God that was not allowed to ordinary people, and even if it was allowed, there were many cases in which people would die without being able to awaken for the rest of their lives if heavenly fortune did not reach them and find out the conditions for awakening.

The man who broke these conditions and acquired characteristic skills from a young age was a man named Ian Tigris Linebarrel.

With the combination of Ian’s talent and the wealth of the Line Barrel family, he had already grown to a level comparable to that of a level 5 knight, and his position as the next knight was considered to be a longshot.

Furthermore, as he was a successor loved by the people of the territory, he was selected as the number one talent recruit for Seraphina.

‘By the way.’

After Marquis Lucas’ speech, the full-scale entrance mock battle was announced and the selection of commander cadets began.

Seraphina was happily guessing who would be the first to apply for the position of commander. She expected that they would engage in a search war between each other since it was a seat, but her expectations were spectacularly wrong.

“I will do it.”

Her height is around 190 and her hair is blonde and flowing. Her ears are gold-colored piercings that are unbelievably noble, and her eyes are as red as an apple.

A man with massive muscles, visible even through his cadet uniform, stood up from his seat without delay.

Seraphina looked curiously at the man who confidently stepped forward as if she didn’t even need a search battle. Someone did it, but it was Gilbert the Lionheart, whom I had already met once.

“Isn’t it fun?”

“Your Majesty. I was so foolish that I did not understand what God was saying.”

“Yannick. I’m sure they said that name is prohibited inside the Academy.”

“I’m sorry, Seraphina.”

The man named Yannick immediately straightened his posture and bowed his waist.

Seraphina waved her hand at Yannick’s appearance and asked Yannick the question she had asked again.

“What kind of man do you think Gilbert Lionheart is?”

“I think he is rude, dishonorable, and a terrible man.”

“It’s disrespectful, it’s not honorable, it’s not good. Is it…”

Yannick tried to say something more, but swallowed back what he was trying to say as he looked at Serafina who was lost in thought.

She mulled over her words to her own escort, Yannick, a few more times. That was the public’s opinion of a man named Gilbert.

You heretic who knows no honor, has no manners, and has a bad character.

Seraphina also had the same thoughts as them until she saw him in person. She still hadn’t given up on that thought, and she thought that she wasn’t even on the list of candidates to recruit, but was rather a cancerous entity that had to be cut out first.

Suddenly, the image of Gilbert I saw in the fitness room a few days before the entrance ceremony came to mind.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that his body was perfected to the extreme. I had a small doubt as to whether it would make sense for him to have such a body if he were a spoiled idiot like the world knew.

Is he really an irredeemable piece of trash who was training almost to the point of overwork in a physical training room that no one would come to visit?

It started with such a small question, and it is still an ongoing difficult problem. Considering that the margin of error for the information gathered by her intelligence department was about 5%, it was safe to say that most of the reports she received were true.

But her eyes and her intuition kept telling her that there was something about Gilbert. That was the reason why he decided to wait and see a little more.

Seraphina’s eyes rested for a long time on Gilbert, who had been appointed commander and was standing to one side.

The entrance mock battle progressed quickly after Gilbert volunteered as commander. After the next three commander positions were filled, random team assignment was made, and the operation began in earnest after a short period of time.

Serafina saw the unusual combination of the three teams, and she predicted the elimination of the first team, which was the target of the combined team.

Rather than it being a matter of foresight, the conditions for the first team were too unfavorable to overcome the numerical inferiority. In order to overcome the situation, there had to be at least one thing that was better than the coalition team, but in Seraphina’s judgment, there was nothing like that in the first team.

Until, of course, Gilbert encounters the Alliance team’s vanguard.

“Yannick. How did you see it?”

“… I can’t believe that the author is really Gilbert the Lionheart, even though I saw it with my own eyes.”

“What is that like?”

“A way to overcome numerical inferiority. That was not an ordinary skill. Aside from operational skills, I think that one’s strength is that one is fearsomely calm.”

“Sounds like it’s worth watching a little more.”

“I think we need to watch a little bit.”

Serafina nodded inwardly at her Yannick’s assessment. Although her piloting skills were amazing, her opponents were also inexperienced.

Of course, if there was such a difference in numbers, it was definitely an amazing achievement, not only because of inexperience, but because only a small number of people could not withstand the battle of quantity.

It was not at all easy to strike only critical blows with an iron sword through the necessary movements. However, what Seraphina and Yannick noticed, like Angelina, the first team’s deputy, was focused on his composure.

You might be intoxicated by the overwhelming victory, but the way he cleared the battlefield and returned immediately showed the appearance of a thoroughly thorough commander preparing for the next battle.

That’s what it means to be worth watching.

After one clash, there was a brief lull as strategy meetings and strategies were busy. It was the opposite of what had been predicted that a fast-paced mock battle would proceed after one team was eliminated due to the alliance of the first three teams.

“Yannick. What do you think about future developments?”

“In God’s eyes, the first team seems to be the key.”

“Is it because of Gilbert Lionheart?”

“That’s right. We’ve already accomplished the feat of blocking the combined team’s vanguard almost single-handedly. Then, I think each team’s thoughts have no choice but to become dizzy in order to prevent wasting troops.”

“That’s the truth. It’s no exaggeration to say that Team 1 already holds the hilt. There’s a way to attack Team 1 once again, but considering the following, we’ll need to preserve our troops. Inevitably, there will be a power leak. .”

Seraphina and Yannick accurately judged the aspects of the mock battle and exchanged opinions. Soon, she saw the interview between Team 4 and Team 1, and it seemed like the outcome was quite interesting.

As a result, the 3 to 1 structure became a 2 to 2 structure.

Seraphina could not help but highly praise Gilbert, who completely shook up the mock battle and created a new one. The man was holding in his hands something he needed to get out of the situation.

The 1st team formed an alliance with the 4th team and attacked the base where the 2nd team Ian Tigris Line Barrel was located. A melee began, and there was some level of preparation, as if an alliance between the two teams was expected.

Seraphina looked at Ian here. I wondered if he, like Gilbert, held in his hands the key to overcome this difficulty.

Soon, a melee between the three teams unfolded. The giant god soldier and the giant god soldier were intertwined, and the iron sword tore through the air.

Among them, Ian’s performance was more outstanding than Gilbert’s. In fact, he was showing off his more flexible control skills than Gilbert, who was blocking the three teams’ vanguard.

In the end, it was first team leader Gilbert who had to stop him, and the two clashed spectacularly. Amidst the fierce battle of one advance and one retreat, Seraphina applauded the two brightly shining talents.

The decisive battle intensified as the play heated up, and finally the decisive move came from Gilbert.

“Ha, hahahahaha!”

Seraphina burst into laughter when she saw Gilbert demonstrating an evasive maneuver through back tumbling. Even Yannick, who normally would have tried to stop him from being frivolous, just stared at Gilbert’s giant soldier in astonishment.

“Isn’t he really a man who makes women happy? I ask you, Yannick, do you think that a man who is known to have boarded the Colossus for the first time can show such three-dimensional maneuvers?”

“In God’s eyes, there is nothing.”

“Then I will ask you once again. Should we say that he has deceived our eyes and secretly developed his skills? Or should we say that he is an innate talent?”

Yannick was unable to give any answer to Seraphina’s sharp questions. No matter how talented you were, it would have been difficult to pull off such a maneuver in just a few hours.

But to answer that he has developed his skills by deceiving the intelligence department would be to doubt the intelligence department’s incompetence or the true intentions of the Count Hart family.

I had no choice but to keep my mouth shut due to the embarrassment of not being able to choose any response, and I thought I would endure anything Seraphina said.

But Seraphina did not ask Yannick a question to get an answer. She did ask Yannick a question, but it was a self-questioning question.

Her thoughts were no different from Yannick’s. Still, if she had to give an answer, she would bet on the latter.

She was fully aware of the fact that her intelligence department was capable, and she also did not want to do anything that would doubt her steadfast emperor, the Countess of Pineheart.

So, she decided to think of it as an innate talent that was not bad even in her situation.

The entrance mock competition entered another phase due to the elimination of one team, and it was a moment when the name Gilbert Lionheart was deeply engraved in the heart of Seraphina, the embodiment of greed for talent.