A Secretly Capable Child Is Seeking For Her Dad (Novel) - Chapter 141
Chapter 141
“Waa.”
Only Lucarion alone responded without a soul.
Selina and Ppuppu each clapped with their hands and nose.
“Ahem!”
Looking proudly at that sight, Tie turned around with a solemn expression and took something out of her bag.
A little while earlier.
It was a circular timetable he had diligently drawn on paper.
“This is the timetable, and first, nine in the morning! Everyone wakes up together and washes their face and brushes their teeth!”
The company members exchanged looks.
“Then from ten o’clock to four in the afternoon is free time!”
Veil frowned.
“Wait a second. Why is the free time that long? That’s practically the whole day.”
As though she had expected that kind of question, Tie straightened her shoulders.
“This means it’s only free time for the company members! Tie goes to the academy during this time.”
Basto’s lips parted.
Come to think of it.
The present Grand Commander of House Luminen was investigating whether there was an academy suitable for Tie to attend.
If they only found a way for her to come and go without people’s eyes on her, Tie was supposed to start attending right away as well.
‘But isn’t the schedule too tight.’
Going to the academy during the day and besieging magic stones at night.
Tie was only four years old to do all that in one day.
After thinking about it, Basto raised his hand.
“Tie. If you do that, your schedule seems like it will be too much.”
Raul and Veil added to that.
“I think the same. Won’t you be too tired?”
“That’s right, kid. For children, the most important things are sleeping and resting and eating.”
But Tie stubbornly shook her head.
“No, becoming the number one mercenary company is more important to Tie!”
Then he went on speaking in a voice overflowing with passion.
“Look, Tie is a king. The Necromancer King! But for Tie’s mercenary company not to be number one is too much shame thing.”
“Shame thing?”
“Yeah!”
Shame was a word Tie had just newly picked up from Selina a little while earlier.
While explaining noble society to him, Selina had taught him the words shame and disgrace.
“Tie thinks if it’s not number one then it’s all shame and disgrace. So I’m going to quickly besiege magic stones and become the strongest legend-class mercenary.”
Veil roughly ran a hand through his hair as though he had a headache.
Then he stood from his seat and said,
“Yeah, well. It’s true we should slowly start doing our actual work too.”
Because they had been caught up in this and that incident, Agabert had not been besieging magic stones for a while.
“Let’s at least try it. It would be good for us if our rank goes up.”
He looked around at the company members.
“With that in mind, should we start with the small ones on the outskirts of the imperial capital? The ones around here all fall under the jurisdiction of the holy knights anyway.”
Tie tilted her head.
“Brother Veil, what are you talking about? We have to get rid of the small ones and the medium ones too. That way we’ll become the number one mercenaries quickly.”
Veil gave a hollow laugh and stared at Tie.
“Kid. Do you think medium magic stones are easy? Why are you so obsessed with being number one?”
Instead of answering, Tie rolled her eyes.
That was because he could not tell Veil, ‘Because I have to become number one quickly so I can cut off Dad’s livelihood!’
The child deliberately looked at the timetable and changed the subject.
“Buuut, when we were in Pearl City, we besieged a medium magic stone. It came out in the sea, but it wasn’t that hard……”
“That was because you were summoning things like shipwrecks.”
Veil added in a strange voice.
“Of course, with our current level of forces, it’s true that medium ones are manageable too……”
“If we’re going to besiege them anyway, then besieging medium magic stones is more efficient than small ones.”
Basto cut in.
He was stroking his beard and lost in thought.
“If, as Tie said, our goal is to raise our ranking, then instead of spending time on trivial small magic stones, it is a better strategy to go straight for medium ones.”
A bright smile spread across Tie’s face.
“Right? Waa, as expected, Mister Basto is the best!”
The child ran over pattering and hugged Basto tight.
But at that moment, Nordix, who had been silent the whole time, opened his mouth.
“Then how do you intend to travel, Tie?”
Tie hurried back to the table where the teleportation circles were piled up.
“For travel, Selina’s mommy and daddy gave us a whole lot of teleportation circles, so let’s use these!”
Nordix nodded as though he had expected that.
Then he said,
“Tie. There is a limit to approaching magic stones with teleportation circles.”
Tie’s eyes widened.
Meanwhile, Nordix folded both hands on his lap and calmly explained.
“That is because there is something called a mana wavelength around every magic stone.”
“Wavelength……?”
“Yes.”
Nordix came over and picked up one teleportation circle.
Then she showed Tie in detail the back side engraved with a complex magic circle.
“Within the magic circle and runes engraved here, mana extracted from the cores of monsters basically flows. That is the principle by which it can move a target.”
“……”
“But the mana wavelength emitted by a medium magic stone interferes with the starting of a teleportation circle. More precisely, because of the wavelength, the strands of mana flowing inside the teleportation circle become tangled.”
Tie’s lips slowly parted.
“If that were not the case, why do you think everyone has not approached magic stones by teleportation circle until now? If only the travel time were shortened, the difficulty of besieging them would have become far easier. The truth is not that they did not do it, but that they could not.”
“……”
“Because due to the wavelength, they cannot directly use a teleportation circle near a magic stone.”
Tie had been so focused that she almost drooled without realizing it.
But thinking about it, he felt as though he had already heard a similar story.
The day he had first met Edmund.
In the conversation between him and his adjutant.
‘Back then Mister Edmund wasn’t able to send supplies either.’
Because there were too many magic stones where the supplies had to be sent, the teleportation circle had not worked.
So had Tie not taught her a good method.
To hang the supplies from lanterns and send them.
In the end, after thinking about it, Tie looked at Nordix.
“Th-then what do we do……?”
The child’s eyebrows were drooping like short little birds.
Nordix lightly stroked Tie’s head.
“Well now. There is no choice but to move to a zone as adjacent as possible, though not right near the magic stone itself, and then approach on foot.”
“How far do we have to walk?”
“For a small magic stone, you would probably be able to use a teleportation circle while leaving about 20 daio remaining. If it is 20 daio, that is a distance that takes about four hours to walk.”
“Four hours……?!”
Tie opened her mouth wide.
To think they would still have to walk four hours even after using a teleportation circle!
The important thing was that even this was the time required to approach a small magic stone.
“Th-then to go to a medium one?”
“To move safely, you would have to leave about 100 daio of distance. If you push it beyond that, an accident could happen.”
Tie also already knew well about teleportation circle accidents, having overheard things here and there.
If one entered coordinates that did not exist into a teleportation circle, or if it was interrupted while starting……
‘Did you hear that? They say Baron Matthias got his hand cut off.’
‘Yeah, I heard. They said that bastard ended up like that while using a teleportation circle.’
‘Exactly. To think there is still someone who causes an accident like that.’
‘Seriously, why use a teleportation circle while drunk. Or at least enter the coordinates properly. On top of that, it was because he tried to get somewhere faster when it was only a twenty-minute carriage ride…… ack! Kid! Why are you under the stairs!’
Tie heard Veil’s and Raul’s conversation while playing hibernating bear under the stairs.
And he received a very great shock.
‘If you use a teleportation circle near a magic stone, your hand……!’
Tie quietly wriggled her fingers and shut her mouth.
If they had to walk four hours even after using a teleportation circle, and as much as twenty hours, then all of Tie’s plan would turn into nothing.
First, the problem was that he would not be able to cut off Dad’s livelihood quickly, and second,
“Tie won’t be able to do two jobs……?”
The problem was that the schedule he had planned, academy during the day and besieging magic stones at night, would completely collapse.
“What do I do……?”
But at that moment.
Into Tie’s eyes as she worried came Marbas standing some distance away.