Chapter 269: Preliminary Match for the Magic Combat Competition (3)

“Wh-What are you saying, Julian!”

Rosette was startled. It was a natural reaction since I suddenly told her to take off her clothes. But I said shamelessly.

“Oh, dear. I said something that could be misunderstood. I’m not trying to tease you, but I want you to try on this dress.”

I took out a dress from a box that I had left on one side of the atelier.

“A dress? What is this?”
“It’s nothing special. Since two student representatives have to have a preliminary match because of the Magic Combat Competition. As a facilitator, I decided on the method of that match.”

I continued to explain to Rosette. The method I thought of was a 1:1 match between Rosette and Chloe. Of course, it wasn’t a battle or a duel.

“Take a magic portrait and vote on who is prettier?”
“How about it? Isn’t it a very peaceful method? Of course, excluding the Alchemy Order and the Magic Order.”

Naturally, each order would give all their votes to the student representatives of their order. If the votes of the students of the other orders, excluding those two, were cast, it would be quite fair.

“But it doesn’t make sense. Th-That… Chloe always wears fancy clothes. And her body… is lewd.”

Perhaps Rosette was jealous of Chloe’s body. Rosette was on the short side.

But I thought Rosette was only short in height. Her body was not bad at all.

A small and cute face that fit perfectly in a witch’s hat. And she had long legs, so her body proportions were very good.

As can be seen from her usual attire, she had a body that suited clothes well.

‘Her breasts aren’t that small either.’

I had already seen Rosette’s naked body in a wet dream. The feeling of her breasts in my palm was not small.

No matter what clothes she wore, she looked good in them.

‘It’s a different feeling from Chloe, who insists on classic aristocratic attire.’

Rather, if it was the Imperial City, which was sensitive to fashion. Rosette’s fashion sense, which was close to modern sensibilities, could work well.

I emphasized that point to Rosette.

“R-Really?”
“That’s right. And it’s important to wear clothes that suit you and to create a good magic portrait. Or do you not have the confidence to beat Chloe?”
“That’s absolutely not true!”

Rosette had a strong sense of rivalry with Chloe. When I subtly stimulated that, she quickly came over to my persuasion.

“So that’s why you told me to take off my clothes. That dress?”
“I have well-known tailors. They are very famous people in Essenmunt. You won’t have any complaints either.”

At my words, Rosette checked the clothes.

“… It’s pretty…”

Of course, it was. The clothes prepared for Rosette. It was the Otto father and son who were in charge of the clothes I was wearing now, as well as the military parade.

‘Especially that son’s sense is good.’

So I asked the father and son for a design of a bright look that young women of modern Earth, especially freshmen in college, would wear.

‘If it’s a vote. It’s better to make a big impression with this new fashion.’

And it was important for Rosette to win in this preliminary match. The advantageous side in a siege-style Magic Combat Competition was, of course, the defending side.

If Rosette lost in the preliminary match, she would become the attacker. In Demon Survival, the Magic Order caused a big problem on the attacker’s side.

There was already a member of the Witch Cross Society hidden in the Magic Order. They would attempt an attack on Pantheon disguised as a siege.

‘So I have to make the Magic Order choose the defending side unconditionally.’

If I found the member of the Witch Cross Society who had secretly infiltrated. The damage of the predicted attack could be minimized.

I said to Rosette.

“Anyway, will you try on this dress? Take off that witch’s hat and robe.”
“But… I’m embarrassed to wear clothes and… take a magic portrait…”

As expected, Rosette, even though she was a true-blood witch, was very shy. But I already expected her to react like that.

“Really? Then there’s nothing I can do. I have to provide the newly prepared clothes to Chloe…”
“That’s not allowed!”

Rosette immediately denied it. As expected, she didn’t want to lose to Chloe.

“Then it’s decided. Shall we try it on?”

Rosette gently picked up the clothes.

“Ah… Okay. I’ll go over there and change.”

Rosette, who hurriedly entered the bedroom of the atelier. She changed her clothes there and came out.

‘It suits her very well.’

She was very embarrassed because she took off her witch’s hat and robe. But like a fresh college freshman look. That tennis skirt and white blouse. It suited her very well.

“Then the magic portrait is when… now?”
“No. It won’t be over soon. And Chloe will hire a very expensive magic portrait artist. It needs some preparation.”

I promised to meet Rosette again in the atelier in the evening.

In the afternoon, I participated in the training of the Combat Order.

As expected, the atmosphere of the Combat Order was also different from before.

“All the 3rd graders were deployed to the outskirts of the Imperial City?”
“They seem to think of them as the power of the Imperial Guard, not the reserve force. There is a shortage of manpower.”

I could hear the whispers of the students. As they said. The only place in Iceland that was safe from the Chaos Gate was the center. And it was the Imperial City.

But now the seal of that gate was about to collapse. The demonic power leaking from it was said to be continuously creating dungeons not far from the Old Imperial City, but also on the outskirts of the Imperial City.

‘Until now, even 3rd-grade students were a reserve force. But now they are being deployed to actual combat.’

And if the current trend continued. As soon as the summer vacation was over, even the 2nd-grade reserve force might be deployed to that actual combat. Especially since it was the Combat Order, they were sensitive to that atmosphere.

‘Well, in the worst case, let alone preparing for monsters. It would be chaos due to civil war.’

Rumors that the movements of the South were unusual were already spreading among the nobles.

Casseres in the South, ruled by the Orhain family, was already like an independent kingdom. The imperial rule did not reach there.

‘And there is a possibility that a commoner rebellion will occur in the Imperial City.’

I unintentionally swung the Lionheart Swordsmanship intensely at Lucia. The air-splitting sound. At the same time, a powerful blow followed.

But as expected, Lucia lightly avoided that blow and instead counterattacked me.

“Your movements are good.”

I barely stepped back and avoided that attack. Of course, it was a very natural action for me.

I saw the eyes of the other students who were sparring. They were all looking at me and Lucia for a moment.

“Did you… see that movement?”
“No. My eyes could barely hear the sound.”
“It doesn’t make sense. How can there be such a difference in skill even though we are the same students?”
“It’s understandable that Count, who is a member of the Reinhardt family, is like that. But even Lucia has become so strong. It doesn’t make sense.”

And Sylph carried their whispers.

‘Well. Both of them are already not at the student level.’

With a pure mana heart alone, I was already at the 5th rank. Whether it was a swordsman, a wizard, or an alchemist. A new realm unfolded after entering the 5th rank.

Swordsmen used aura. Wizards and alchemists used a specially refined mana called rising mana.

There were still many students who had not reached the 4th rank, let alone the 5th rank. And in that gaze of envy, I found Leif.

‘Leif. He must be the most anxious right now.’

He was a student representative of the Combat Order in the 1st grade. But a swordsman whose title became meaningless because of me and Lucia.

‘He was also overwhelmingly defeated by me in the midterm exam.’

In fact, there were many students who felt inferior to me and the heroines. But Leif had to be careful.

‘He could turn into a villain if things go wrong.’

He was pushed aside by me and Lucia. But he was a talented person who could reach the 5th rank with pure talent.

He was not a special bloodline like my Reinhardt or Lucia’s Orhain. But a talented commoner who reached a high level with his will alone.

In addition, he had leadership enough to receive the support of commoner students.

So he was a very desirable talent for the Witch Cross Society, which was dreaming of a commoner rebellion.

‘The Witch Cross Society knows about the voice. So they already have a way to create demon-possessed.’

It was the demon-possessed that I saw in the primeval forest a while ago.

Of course, the Witch Cross Society was a separate group from the Orhain family.

So those witches were not only aiming for witches like Rosette, but also for talented commoners like Leif, and they had a plan to turn them into demon-possessed.

‘If it goes according to Demon Survival.’

And I had confirmed that movement to some extent through Carmen.

Soon, I felt Leif’s shoulders droop. The despair he felt in front of my overwhelming talent. That despair was the most coveted food for demonic power.

‘Well. I’ve already thought of a way to make Leif my ally.’

But I wasn’t worried. Fabian, who was in the same Combat Order. That guy was a noble from the South. But I could prevent Leif from becoming demon-possessed through that guy.

As expected. Fabian, who was sparring with Leif, shouted casually.

“Hey, Leif! You have to practice more! Don’t you? A guy with a dick doesn’t need to be intimidated!”

He was a Southern golden boy who liked women a lot. But other than that, he was a decent guy who didn’t have the sense of entitlement of a noble.

‘And the lewd party that Fabian mentioned. I’m thinking of inviting Leif to that party as well.’

That lewd party. It would make Leif forget the despair he felt.

And I looked at Lucia in front of me. Another player. And in Demon Survival, a tragic protagonist whose ruin was confirmed.

But Lucia, who was looking at me with gentle eyes in front of me. She had already escaped that fate quite a bit.

‘Originally, she should have been entangled with the Vireia mercenary group, the Extermination Squad, and gone to a complicated fate.’

Cardinal Klaus’s banquet. If I hadn’t participated in it. In Demon Survival, there was also a route where she joined the Extermination Squad.

‘Or it was the Witch Cross Society.’

Now all those ruin routes were gone. Since she already had a womb tattoo through me. Lucia could not escape my will.

No, in the first place, the womb tattoo itself was evidence that the heroines’ desires were fully satisfied.

So the current Lucia was in a stable state that could not be compared to Demon Survival.

In fact, her pink eyes were round and were only chasing me in front of her.

“Co… Count! How was the counter just now!”
“It was very good. Lucia.”

And at my praise, she made a very happy expression. It was far from ruin in many ways.

I finished training in the Combat Order like that. I headed back to the atelier.

It was getting dark beyond the window of the atelier.

Originally, it was time for all the students of Pantheon to go home.

But since the Magic Combat Competition was only 2 weeks away. There were many students who stayed at Pantheon until late in the evening.

‘The Magic Combat Competition is a festival not only for the two orders. But also for other orders.’

Just as I took on the role of facilitator for the Magic Combat Competition. Students from other orders could also participate in the Magic Combat Competition in their respective roles.

So the atmosphere of Pantheon was quite excited. Unfortunately, the 3rd graders could not participate because of the reserve squad mission.

I, who knew the future through Demon Survival. I knew very well that this excited atmosphere was a peaceful moment that was not left for the students.

‘So I have to make it the best Magic Combat Competition.’

And the first semester, the last quest left for me. The best student selected by integrating all orders. That quest was as important as the revival of Ciertia.

I was going to be in that student’s place.

It was a gift I gave them as a prospective best student.

When I was immersed in such sentiments for a moment. Rosette entered through the open window.

I mentally organized what I had to do tonight again. Tonight, I was going to create a womb tattoo on Rosette.