The Difference Is Like Between a Dog and a Cow

54 – Platoon Assessment (1)

“What? Chief Debra Bennett…….”

“Huh?”

Rumia and Bell, who followed, were also taken aback by the unexpected guest. She smirkingly snatched my luggage and carried it into the room herself.

“Are you tired from the long journey? Now, by the way, is there something the lieutenant needs to see right now?”

“I am no longer a so called.”

“Huh?”

At that, Debra’s eyes turned to my epaulettes. She looked back and forth between the two diamonds on her shoulder and my face.

“What!?!”

I jumped up and down as if I had seen a ghost. I could see his pupils trembling.

“Lieutenant Enoch Levandel! Lord, Lieutenant!? Lieutenant after one month of commission—!?”

“Didn’t you hear from the HR manager? He wouldn’t have been the only one who knew about his personality.”

“I didn’t go out at all for five days and only studied… ….”

“Thank you for your hard work.”

I gave Debra Bennett a word of comfort.

“Then how should I call you? Mutual respect? Cow…… No, can the lieutenant speak plainly to me…… Yo. This?”

“Why are you doing this all of a sudden? You’re far ahead of me in terms of ridership. You can treat me comfortably as usual.”

He probably wouldn’t have known from the start, but since the second lieutenant, who had been a newbie until just a few days ago, appeared in the same rank as himself, it was understandable.

“Oh, yes! Yes, yes there is a jockey!”

“By the way, what do I need to see? If it’s related to the magic barrier you mentioned last time, tomorrow morning…….”

“Ugh! I’m a little embarrassed to say things like that. You can’t just think of it as a magical barrier. If you actually look at it once, you won’t be able to say that?”

Debra Bennet grabbed me by the arm and reluctantly tried to lead me out of the barracks.

“Manager, you can’t do this here.”

“What’s wrong! Okay!”

Debra Bennett speeds past Rumia and Belle before they can do anything.

“Sorry for the late hour~ I’ll borrow the platoon commander for a while and return it to you~! You worked hard today~!”

I didn’t even have the strength to resist as I had exhausted my stamina from sitting in the wagon for a long time.

Please leave me alone…….

***

“Tada~!”

The place Debra Bennet dragged me to was a solitary cell in the basement of the Facility Management Department. Originally, the 3rd Battalion building itself was an extension of a fortress that had been built a long time ago, so there were quite a few underground facilities.

Didn’t our platoon live in the basement before moving their dorms to Gugwansa where I am?

“What are you doing here?”

“It used to be a torture chamber.”

“… ….”

Debra casually spits bloody words. She casually touched the magic stone embedded in the wall and added.

“But now it’s my private lab.”

Tuk, tuk, tuk.

The lights turn on one after another, dispelling the darkness that had hung over the room. The light radiating from the red magic stone shimmered softly.

“My main magic is defense, not offense. If you want to go higher, you have to find a place where supply is low but demand is high.”

“Ah…… So.”

It is a mistake to think that in war there will always be only attacks. Right now, in the case of the Ukrnians, they only focus on blocking, let alone attacking, and then the front line collapses and perishes.

It is the result of focusing on attack and neglecting defense on the subject of a weak country.

In that respect, Lieutenant Debra Bennett’s choice was quite wise, but it could be seen as a future-oriented direction.

If only there were dozens of officers like this in Ukraine, the doctrine of defensive tactics would not be inferior to that of the 3rd Baltor.

“Anyway, I did some reverse engineering with the idea the platoon commander told me.”

“Yes.”

“The method of deliberately concentrating mana density on the upper part after opening a barrier at a 45 degree angle is sufficiently efficient, but it has one fatal flaw.”

“What are the disadvantages?”

“The top is too thin. If you come in with a curved arrow rather than a direct fire, or even a small increase in the penetration of attack magic, it will penetrate right away.”

I nodded at her explanation. If this is really a concept like ‘sloping armor’ applied to modern tanks, it was natural that it was not close to being perfect all-around.

If it was that efficient, wouldn’t a tank with sloped armor on all four sides have been developed?

Of course, such monstrous things did not exist in reality.

Because it’s f*cking inefficient.

“That said, when I tried to increase the mana density of the upper part, the mana efficiency was lower than when it was spread flat.”

“I guess so.”

Of course.

The advantage of sloped armor is that it boasts superior defense power over flat armor even with a thin thickness.

So, if you increase the density of mana and increase the thickness of the barrier, in the end, it will only continue to increase the thickness- that is, increase the density of the magic barrier itself.

In the end, it means that the essential part is the same.

Rather, in the process of finely adjusting mana at a 45 degree angle, it will consume more concentration and mana.

If that’s the case, it’s better to deploy the magic barrier on a flat surface and build a double barrier.

In the end, the sorcery ‘sloping armor’ theory in this world meant that it had no more value than a ‘one-time shield’ that brought out the maximum efficiency with the minimum amount of mana.

However, this alone is enough to be used, and if it is improved a little more, it will be of great help in the development of the complex magic barrier that will be unlocked in the second half.

I thought as I looked at Debra Bennett’s 3rd grade magic barrier.

“But wouldn’t this be enough for platoon evaluation?”

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You have to evaluate the platoon.

No matter how vicious the evaluators may be, they will be able to receive considerable incentives just because it is a barrier developed in a different way rather than the existing magic barrier.

However, Debra Bennett drew the line firmly.

“No, this is not enough.”

“Are you fresh enough already?”

“The opponent is Colonel Viktor Zelensky. I’m saying this because you don’t know, but I’m not a gentleman at all.”

How the hell does Debra Bennet react to such a craving?

“Do you know how bad it was during the next battalion evaluation last month? It was a response situation against the cavalry, but you’ve built up squares and successfully blocked them numerically?”

Debra Bennett trembled as if imagining the situation at the time.

“From my point of view, it was really perfect. That’s quite a blow for officers who don’t care much about defense doctrine. But that Viktor man is suddenly saying what to do if the opponent is not just a cavalryman, but a magician cavalryman!”

Magic cavalry…… ?

So, you mean the mage on the horse?

When I put on a puzzled expression, she explained herself.

“Anyway, a sorceress who approaches at high speed like a cavalry. Where in the world is that? I don’t know if I’m riding a carriage.”

…… What?

Unlike Debra Bennett, who shrugged her shoulders in a funny way, I couldn’t be quick to laugh.

5 Years later, the magic tank actually appeared.

It’s not like a modern tank padded with iron plates, but it’s a chariot-like vehicle that was used in ancient times.

A ‘cavalry unit’ that can be unlocked and produced by improving the stability of the wheel and raising the mechanical research tree.

Although it is easily killed with the advent of real tanks, it is used for countering enemy magicians protected by infantry by maximizing its unique breakthrough power before that.

‘Have you read the future? Or is it just a coincidence that I was caught doing something stupid?’

I was a little intrigued by what Debra Bennett said about Colonel Viktor Zelensky.

“…… 3 Points deducted mercilessly for not being able to answer—!”

“I know roughly how the evaluator feels. So how can we develop further from here?”

When I cut off the lieutenant’s chatter, she cleared her throat and returned to the main topic.

“Kheum-hum, there is no need to develop it. She’s already made a prototype.”

“Eh?”

“Look carefully.”

Debra Bennett snapped her fingers. Then, on her palm, a single flame the size of a baseball opens up.

Beginner Red Magic, Fire Ball.

It’s a magic that I’m tired of getting used to.

“I said it was a level 3 barrier.”

“Isn’t it easy to block this much?”

“Yes. But what if you get hit by fireballs 5 times in a row?”

“The density of mana is disturbed and it will be destroyed.”

“Yes. The law of destruction was simpler than I thought. If you can’t stand it, you can’t get hit.”

“????”

What kind of sophistry?

“I tried to change my way of thinking. Right before the magic collided with the magic barrier, what if we use anti-elemental magic to reduce the power of attack magic?”

“Wait a minute, Debra Bennett…… I hope that…… !!!”

“Let’s take a look.”

As she said that, she threw a fireball at the barrier.

The fireball that cut through the air reached the surface of the barrier in the blink of an eye. The moment the fireball’s flame exploded and tried to spread the fire,

Isn’t the magic circle slightly protruding from the top deploying and firing magic missiles?

Bang—!!!

The noise from mana colliding with mana rang in my eardrums.

I completely froze on the spot.

This is a defense-dispel magic that appeared around the time airships were developed. That is to say, it was a technology comparable to the active defense system in this world.

From sloped armor to active defense system.

In just 5 days, you’ve made technological advances that would skip years on your own?

“Oops, this is a spell that hasn’t been firmly established yet, so the activation is a little late!”

“Debra Bennett, Facility Manager… ….”

“Huh?”

“What is true identity?”

I had to ponder whether or not she was seriously possessed as she scratched her head casually.