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

016. Sub Quest – The Lion King’s Mana Practice

After Professor Alexander’s unconventional lecture, Gilbert concentrated solely on life at the academy. This was because it was still too early to reveal his knowledge of the game.

Tactical Combat was a console game. Therefore, there was a main story that became the main plot of the game, and other than that, it was just an additional element to enjoy the game.

For example, the sub-quests and mini-games that are included in the main story, and the academy life itself in general borrow from the training game system to increase play time and provide other enjoyable devices.

In that sense, if academy classes were not related to the main story or sub-story, they were often skipped, basically replaced with the phrase, “I took the class.”

But even if Gilbert could use the game system, it didn’t mean that this place wasn’t real. He was living in reality with this ability awakened, which is just a game system that hurts when you get hurt and gets tired when you overdo it.

If I were to translate that phrase, it meant that he could not skip lectures for his convenience or take time off to accept side quests. In the game, it seemed like day and night changed and time passed, but there was no change in time unless you progressed through the main story or side quests.

This means that just because the game has been played for over a week, the game time has not lasted more than a week. Therefore, he was not pressed for time, and was able to accept and play all the sub-quests and main quests he wanted to do.

But now that it is not a game but a reality, it is impossible to proceed with all the sub-quests. He was a cadet at the academy, and as an academy cadet, he had a schedule to fulfill.

Because he could not neglect training in preparation for the main quest, which he did not know when would happen, his life was progressing like a squirrel’s treadmill within a tight schedule.

‘Phew. Has the mana level increased a bit?’

Gilbert let out a long breath in the private room of the training room and slowly began to relax his stiff body. After attending a full-scale magic lecture and learning the training method accurately, he was increasing his magic power using basic mana training methods.

It was only a few days ago that he was upset about not being able to progress through the side story as he wanted, but it was encouraging to know that he was able to raise his magic power level by attending the lectures properly.

In fact, if he had not been talented in mana training, the situation would have been different, but since his physical talent was comparable to that of anyone on the continent, the idea that he might not have talent was just unfounded.

No, in his honest heart, he breathed a sigh of relief. If what was needed to move the giant soldier like a body was the manipulative ability, the magic ability served as an intermediate bridge connecting it.

The basic mechanism of the Giant God Soldier was to make a contract with an artificial spirit using magic power and have that spirit act as the brain to make the Giant God Soldier move according to the knight’s will.

In other words, if the control ability was motor nerve ability, the magic ability was the same as sensory nerve ability. The mana battery was like the motor nervous system.

If the magical power is insufficient, the artificial spirit that acts as AI will not be able to properly control the system called the Giant God Soldier, and no matter how excellent the piloting ability is, it may not even be able to walk properly and collapses.

Usually, when indicating the mobility limit of a giant soldier, it appears in two ways. The first refers to the magic power battery of the giant soldier itself, and the second refers to the knight’s mana core that must pour magic power into the artificial spirit. For example, it falls into a situation where the hardware is working but the software is not running.

In order to prevent such a situation, the magic power level had to be raised somehow, and that was why the knights were so passionate about mana training. Of course, focusing only on mana training was a common shortcut to becoming a failure, but this did not apply to Gilbert.

Gilbert felt the mana core sleeping calmly, and felt that he had to carry out the work he had been putting off since his admission.

It wasn’t that the mana practice passed down from the Hart family was bad. Even when measured by the game’s grade, the Mana Practice, which was Grade A, was a secret to the family and a secret that should not be leaked out.

However, sleeping in his head was a way to obtain the best mana practice in the world.

There was never a time when he did not obtain the mana technique while playing the game, except when he was trying to beat the achievement, which was a piece of cake to clear with the basic mana technique.

If he obtains that which boasts the highest efficiency, there will be no one but a giant god soldier who can follow him. If I had to be specific, there was Ian as the main character, but since I didn’t plan on touching the giant god soldier that he was going to get, there was a high possibility that the weight would be similar.

He said he would raise the main character party, but he needed a means to protect his own life. One of them was the Mana Practice. He had no intention of monopolizing, but he also had no intention of giving everything to the protagonist.

The reason was simple.

If there are many cards that can be used, he should use them all. Going all-in did not suit his temperament. Besides, he didn’t think Ian was an unshakable blue chip. The protagonist’s creation of a myth of invincibility was possible because it was a game, and because he was the one playing it.

And this was not a virtual reality game.

A cruel world where you can die if you make a mistake.

In other words, it was reality.

***

A long time ago, there was a legendary knight.

Before the Giant God Soldier was revealed to the world, it was the sharpest sword on the continent, used as a single sword to run across the continent.

With a single stroke of the sword, it split the land and split the river.

Wherever he was, there was always victory, and glory as brilliant as his golden hair.

He was a knight, but he was also a king and a great ruler.

He who rose up to unify the confused continent was a sword and shield that criticized the continent.

The magistrates did not hesitate to call him the King of Knights or the King of Conquerors.

The sun that didn’t seem like it would go out.

The golden knight king.

However, he, who he thought would always shine, also went downhill, and the cause was the treason of his trusted vassals.

Hanged to the edge of a cliff by his trusted vassals, he was still a knight-king at the last moment, and the sun set after the final struggle.

I hope it will be described in future history.

He who does not bend even if broken a hundred times is a hero and is like a lion.

He was called Therodamas, the Lion King.

***

Gilbert, who had skimmed through Demeia Academy’s biography of the Lion King, closed the book.

There were countless heroes who shone brightly throughout the continent’s long history. Gilbert, who was not very interested in this worldview, did not know much about it, but if he had to choose the only person he knew, he would choose Therodamas, the Lion King.

Even in the final struggle, he was a great hero king who is said to have made one-third of the rebels his companions on the way to the afterlife, and at the end of it, he freely gave his head to a general who had once taken an arrow in his place on the battlefield.

He was a king who never bowed down like a lion and lived an exciting life.

That was Therodamas, the Lion King.

The reason Gilbert knew this story, even though he was not Seoldeokdo, was because it was deeply related to the sub-quest he was going to do in the future. He was a person who could be called the Lion King, but there was a title that came right after it, and that was none other than the title of Knight of Knights and the Greatest Sword of the Continent.

Historians have described that his swordsmanship, known to be able to split the land and rivers with a single sword, was said to be in line with the laws of heaven, and that the mana exercises he compiled could encompass the entire world. Nowadays, it is said that it was a material left as a courtesy to the great Lion King, but Gilbert did not disagree that the statement was true.

In fact, if you play Tactical Combat, you can obtain the Lion King’s legacy through sub-quests, and representative examples include the Lion King’s swordsmanship, the Lion King’s mana training method, and the Lion King’s sword.

The sub-quest that Gilbert will be doing this time is the Lion King’s Mana Practice, one of the Lion King’s legacies. It was a quest about Lionheart.

If I were to choose the best mana training method in the world of Tactical Combat, I would choose Lion Heart. This practice, also called the Lion King’s Mana Core in the community, was unrivaled in stability, mana compression ability, and speed.

It showed a performance worthy of its title as the most outstanding practice method in history, and at the same time as obtaining this, it was a practice technique that matched the characteristic skills of the main character and served as a good example of standing tall as the best knight.

Gilbert had come to the library in search of a book called The Life of the Lion King, with the intention of completing a sub-quest that would give him something incredible as a reward.

It was clear that it would be a hassle as it consisted of a linked quest, and unlike the game, it was doubtful whether activating the trigger would proceed properly, but he had to obtain the Lionheart.

Although his magical abilities were better than expected, they were on the low side compared to the academy average. Although he did not memorize all the magical power values of the characters, he knew the values of the main S-class characters.

Currently, among the Demeia Academy cadets, the one who reached the highest level was Princess Knight Serapima Rector Infractus, and by this time, that number would definitely be 50, equivalent to a level 5 knight.

Considering that his level was 35 as a result of training hard for the past month, he was still below the lowest level, a level 6 knight.

The fact that he was able to display manipulation skills that were close to an art in the entrance mock battle was the product of his abnormally high manipulation skills and the naturally accumulated experience of becoming a rotten person. Even if someone other than him had achieved the theoretical limit of 100 control ability, it might not have been possible.

Gilbert borrowed the biography of the Lion King he was holding and visited a history professor who gave him a clue to the sub-quest.