Tsuki – Chapter 366: The path has been opened

A strategy that specializes in ritual magic.

Many people would see it as a big gamble rather than a blind spot. 

I at first thought that that wasn’t like Rembrandt-san. I thought that he would choose a fighting style that doesn’t rely on chance. 

But combined with the many plans that he gave to the adventurers and the seasoned mercenaries of PRG like Vivi-san and Noma-san, and listening to the explanations of it, it really did sound like quite the realistic approach… It made me rethink it. That despite it being a gamble, it was a gamble with quite the high probabilities of winning. 

In the first place, in terms of numbers and resources, Tsige was at an overwhelming disadvantage compared to the Aion Kingdom.

In other words, the very action of declaring independence and separating from the country was reckless to begin with.

When thinking about it in that way…it might be better to see ritual magic not as a gamble, but hitting the blind spot of the world.

In terms of covering the overwhelming difference in numbers with firepower, it certainly does look appealing after all.

Well, I am on the side of Rembrandt-san, so it can’t be helped that my thoughts might be biased here. 

Rembrandt-san and the merchants of Tsige had already begun moving by the time the Aion Kingdom was deciding when to dispatch their forces. 

First they sent winks at the people who were affiliated to the kingdom but had lost their trust and hopes for that very kingdom already.

In order to have the opponent not detect the candidates for this, they were careful, and also spread them out widely and boldly, using the full power of their noses as merchants to choose them.

At the same time, even though the mages in charge of the ritual magic were an important factor to decide the fate of the war, they also negotiated with people that had an almost assured chance of being found out, and if that didn’t work, they would use that as bait to divide their forces deep inside their ranks. 

“The result was that they didn’t manage to make the ritual mages turn, but managed to accomplish their objective by incapacitating them by having their bodyguards betray them.” 

That’s crazy.

Even though their lives would be in danger if they did so, it seems Rembrandt-san managed to push it through. 

‘Pushing it through’ for merchants basically means money. 

He said that he threw them a straight barrage of money offers to match their desires. 

“Money isn’t everything in the world, and there’s certainly special cases like you who wouldn’t be shaken by money no matter what, but…the reality is that there aren’t that many convictions that can’t be bought with money…” (Vivi) 

“Umu. House, land, work, family and friend situations. People have many different circumstances. For this one, it was whether the loyalty to their nation was high or not. Well, the result speaks for itself.” (Noma) 

Vivi-san and Noma-san said this meekly. 

Their loyalty for their country was already shaking. In other words, it is basically like dropping a tree that’s on the verge of falling, so brute forcing it was a valid method. 

The corresponding unit was told beforehand about the ritual magic that would be shot, and were given first class equipment (that was made in the exact same appearance as that provided by Aion).

It seems some of them died after executing the plan, but a number of them managed to escape thanks to the chaos, and reached the side of Tsige.

As expected of the equipment from the meisters of the Bronzeman Company that function well even in the wasteland. 

Equipment that allows knights on the level of a mid rank adventurer to endure one direct hit of ritual magic is way too amusing. 

“And so…the total of people who defected from Aion were around 30,000. An army of more than 100,000 with more than 200,000 merchants in charge of resupplying, coming all the way to Tsige…and 30,000 defected, coupled with a hail of ritual spells… It makes me tear up. The tacticians and the person that was the General will most likely not be able to get back up from this in their whole life.” 

That’s if they are still alive. 

From what I heard, the people and units that got invitations from Tsige didn’t reach the 30,000.

The reality was that there were people who couldn’t reach a decision even when receiving the letter, people who barely didn’t make it in time despite reaching a decision, and people who chose to stay loyal to Aion.

Tsige accepted the people who defected by crossing a dangerous bridge like leaving holes in the wall and using illusion magic to fake it temporarily, and there were people who didn’t get a invitation but saw this, and there were those who judged the future of this war and decided on running away and emigrating to Tsige.

It seems like they also accepted those irregulars while testing them. 

The holes in the walls were not left as they were, and they mostly used skills and magic to create barriers so that people can’t pass through them anymore. 

“There were apparently a lot of escapees at night, but…they would have to escape through the wasteland monsters moving at night. You wouldn’t be able to manage that unless you do so desperately. I heard that there were also a few spies mixed in the groups.” 

They thought it would be the usual custom of stopping the battle at night and resting, but Tsige bought wasteland monsters at extravagant prices from adventurers with special jobs, and threw them into the enemy lines. 

There’re many powerful monsters living in the wasteland, and it is pretty difficult to reach the state where they can control them. 

That’s why those special jobs like summoners and tamers find it pretty hard to function in the wasteland, and are pretty low ranked in terms of demand. 

But it looks like they profited quite a lot in this war, and they have shown their usefulness, so their evaluation will most likely change from now on. 

Cause it is okay to not be able to control them at all. 

Now you can just sell them once you manage to capture one. A completely new system that hasn’t been thought of before has been put in place. 

By adding special materials into the outer walls of Tsige (the jewel wool that we deal with is apparently a part of that), they managed to make a wall that monsters don’t want to get close to unless they are quite the powerful ones.

With those kinds of conditions, Tsige can just shoot out the rocks that have sealed monsters in it, and take a good rest, while the enemies get exhausted on the other side.

Underhanded.

Truly the act of sly underhanded people.

Well, there were actually a variety of accidents. 

I don’t know what kind of miracle was at work here, but there was a captured bear of Asora mixed within those, and when I thought it was just the mid stages of the war, Tomoe and Ema ended up getting injured, and the dealing of the Goddess’s Apostle that I was asked of ended up being a lot sooner than expected. 

I personally felt like it was a complete mess.

I thought that maybe that lightning would work like an electric massage and bring good effects to my body the next day, but it instead changed into pain and the ultimate muscle cramps.

I returned quickly because I was worried about the two, and it was a complete ruckus with Ema having several abnormal status effects on her, but for Tomoe, she seemed to be excited and was feeling decently well… A part of that ultimate muscle pain might have been because of her. 

“I don’t know if it is to hide the tragic state of the other side, or to provoke them, but it is like a festival every single night. The main objective may be for the healing effects it has, but they even do live performances on stage.”

The performance of Rembrandt-san actually had a lot of hidden code words, so it had a lot of meaning apparently. 

But using the same amount of technique for live performances is questionable. 

It has gotten popular in Tsige too, and bars now have stages for dancing and singing that continue endlessly from day to night. 

I have only read it from reports, but it seems like there’s men, women, and bands formed to dance and sing; there’s variety.

Healing, magic power recovery, buffing…they apparently were divided by their effects.

But what’s with this idol division?

“In the current population of Tsige, it doesn’t have that much effect, but with the scale that I estimate will have in the future, they will be playing an important role in serving as advertisement towers to sell things. It is still in its infancy, but they are a type of performer, so I am thinking about  how to drive them first.” (Rembrandt) 

Is what the wealthy merchant…no, invincible merchant Rembrandt-san said.

There’s a number of actors, musicians, and artists in this world… This may not be nice thing to say, but as long as they don’t find a wealthy patron, they themselves don’t have any worth in existing. 

Cause they have no production value. 

It is the same as athletes. It is only when the world has developed to a certain degree and there’s leeway in money that artists end up having more limelight. 

Even if a city were to increase in population and get bigger…

…?

Now that I think about it, why is it that the public entertainers hold the image of having a ton of money? 

Hm?

Hmmm?

This world doesn’t have the concept of idols yet, so I think it is plausible to say they are not seen as necessary. 

But…then, since when and what served as the trigger to make that kind of job viable? 

…Honestly speaking, it is a genre that I had no interest in, so I don’t know at all.

In that case…will the entertainment industry actually be born from Tsige?! 

No no no, advertisement?

As advertisement towers…

I have heard of major companies being sponsors of ace class adventurer parties though…

I am kinda feeling chills down my back.

If things like idols, talents, and singers were to begin to pop out from Tsige… Just how does this person see the structure of society? 

“That’s dangerous. That’s more horrifying than Alte. From where is that person seeing things?” 

About her, well, I felt I got some good hits in while I was shooting, and managed to kill her. 

I don’t know if she used teleportation or she simply moved faster with lightning, and I don’t know where she died, but she is dead.

I almost completely destroyed the cores of her body and magic power, and I also turned her soul into nothing without letting it escape. 

We won’t be meeting anymore.

Don’t go calling Ema a pig. Redo your life from the atomic level. 

With the acquisition of 3 more ritual spells on top of the already 7 existing ones, Rembrandt-san said that he has drawn the whole picture. I don’t know how much meaning those words had. 

The outer wall that was made so that the mages could be posted at a distance that their ritual magic won’t interfere with each other…

No, it also served the purpose of delineating the ends of the city, and to accept the deserters. 

“That just ain’t fair! I heard nothing ‘bout mashing up a wall full of holes! If I knew, I woulda gone full steam instead of ‘em getting ahead by 3 days!” 

“Aniki, it is showing. That weird dialect of yours is showing. The distance on our side was smaller, so let’s just say it was the win of that side through their hard work. Aren’t we being treated on the drinks today as well? Just calm down.” 

“I ain’t accepting it!” 

It seems like they had a bet concerning the wall building, and the Aniki-san team of PRG apparently lost, and they drowned in alcohol splendidly. 

They were drinking to a terrifying extent, but they didn’t drop from it, and were eating and drinking endlessly. 

It was only a few days ago that I learned that his way of talking turned into a peculiar dialect and chuckled at the fact that he turned rowdy when he got drunk.

And yet, he was drinking real good. There were a lot of people around, and yet, he didn’t crash into any things or people.

Is that also because he is a first class mercenary?

And it was also thanks to their work that the construction for the long wall was finished. They managed to secure ritual magic, set teams of 3 people at each spot, had their hands on powerful magic power healing potions which made it possible to shoot ritual magic endlessly. 

Tsige may not have the numbers of the enemy, but if it is about getting ritual mages and spare soldiers, they can get as many as they want since other countries just employ the minimum required ritual mages. 

The ritual mages that couldn’t get employed by a country or an organization are treated as just outliers that don’t get much attention, which is pretty sad. 

This world has a job that’s basically a gamble where they only get the minimum they need and the others are not necessary, so it could be said that a situation like that can’t be helped. 

The other countries will most likely desperately begin gathering the jobless ritual mages after receiving the results of this war. 

It might even be added in the future career paths at the Rotsgard Academy. 

It seems like the conditions were pretty loose this time around because the ritual mages had no interest in that loyalty business.

On this point alone, Tsige overwhelmed Aion.

Gathering every single ritual mage in the area meaned that even if the enemy tried to urgently replenish their forces, they can’t.

Having their first move hit for sure with a betrayal, taking out the enemy’s ritual mages, and then using 10 types of ritual spells – including ones that have never been seen before- to eliminate the mages they have in order to reduce their methods of going against ritual magic even more. 

It looks as if Tsige is being reckless, and it is by no means the best of methods, but there’s logic to it. 

“This is a move that was made possible because it is against a country that has a coup d’etat happening and the loyalty towards their king was shaking. I am a beginner when it comes to battles after all. But there’s times when the novel thoughts of a newcomer can bring out satisfactory conclusions in decisive moments. Especially in big moments…” (Rembrandt) 

Is what Rembrandt-san said while laughing, but…I feel like he would be able to win even if he were to fight once more. 

While doing things like accepting or finishing enemy soldiers who were surrendering depending on the situation, they shot ritual magic at the merchants that were sticking tenaciously.

By this point, I think the victor was already decided.

At daytime it is unblockable ritual magic and the giant walls. 

At night it is a battle against the monsters of the wasteland.

And then, once morning comes, it is a barrage of ritual magic again, hitting both the Aion Army and the wasteland monsters.

The Aion Army eventually broke into a run, and battles at the outer wall of Tsige stopped happening on the 7th day.

A messenger and a letter came from the Aion Kingdom.

Yes.

Tsige had gained independence. 

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115 thoughts on “Tsuki – Chapter 366: The path has been opened

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  2. Found some typos.

    [ritual] mages and spare soldiers, they can get as many as they want since other countries just employ the minimum required ritual mages.

    Gathering every single ritual mage in the area [means] that even if the enemy tried to urgently replenish their forces, they can’t.

    So Makoto doesn’t know where Alte died and he was mad that she called Ema a pig. At least Tsige gained independence.

  3. “Tomoe, she seemed to be excited and was feeling decently well… A part of that ultimate muscle pain might have been because of her. ”
    ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

    1. They’ve been doing it almost every night! And that night seems to be especially….special?

      Now i’m wondering if the author will suddenly drop a super surprise pregnancy chapter for either Tomoe or Mio….

      I mean, i doubt they got protection in that world.

    1. Likely little choice aion likely decided its not worth fighting given the apostle was destroyed. Someone that can kill a supposedly unkillable person isn’t someone you want to mess with.

  4. a little typo reigo-san
    Tsige may not have the numbers of the enemy, but if it is about getting rital mages and spare soldiers, they can get as many as they want since other countries just
    rital -> ritual

  5. Ah so they finally clarified that they had left holes in the wall disguised with illusion magic so the defectors could use them. I wondered how they had been able to get through.

    Heh Makoto is terrified about the advent of idols and the person who came up with it.

    Oh no Tomoe got excited because of the lightning and contributed to Makoto’s “ultimate muscle pain”… That better not develop into a kink of hers.

    Welp now Tsige has gained independence. Will the other countries decide to carve up Aion now? None of the other countries like Aion because of all the blatant spying they do and how little help and reinforcements they actually provided against the demons. Now that they’ve lost such a huge army, it would be the perfect time for the other countries to invade.

  6. Good work on Alte; think we all know when Makoto kills someone, he expects them to stay dead, not show up 3 arcs later with no memories acting all friendly.

        1. Sofia actually wasn’t dead, she was able to escape Makoto’s attack by teleporting to a sword outside her special space. The one who ‘finished’ her was Root. It may be a hint of Makoto’s growth since that time. If I am not wrong, that time, he hasn’t develop his sure-hit technique he use against Hibiki and Alte.

  7. Thanks for the chapter.
    I surprised it was a weekend, the should have given up on the third day.

    But fun to constate that for the two novels I read here at the moment, there is a Makoto participating in a war during a week in each of them.

  8. Thanks for the chapter!

    Tsige’s going full on that idol industry

    [Don’t go calling Ema a pig. Redo your life from the atomic level.]
    Damn, Makoto’s harsh. She well deserved that though.

    Hooray for Tsige’s independence.

  9. … consider meant vs meaned.

    And thus the Seven day war of independence would become a topic for strategists to study on Rodsgard.

    Thanks for the chapter.

  10. “Don’t go calling Ema a pig. Redo your life from the atomic level.” – Protagonist-kun defending the honor of his first otherworldly friend.

    I want Makoto to open up a new trade route from Tsige to … (checks notes) … Lorel’s Kannaoi! Just have Makoto unreasonably drill a road through the mountains between Tsige and Lorel with brute magical strength. Make a new Golden Highway. A better one. One that doesn’t depend on passing through Aion and Limia. One that might connect with mountain dwarf settlements. Tsige -> Dwarfs -> Forest towns -> Kannaoi -> other Lorel cities -> Gritonia -> Kaleneon -> … Demons.

  11. Wait. After the first day they still fought 6 more days? With countermeasures against ritual magic or night raids? That’s too stupid even for a web novel.

  12. thanks for chap
    lol a summary of the battle
    but tbh why shoot the merchants in the end?it would be more worth it to shoot at the start(destroy supplies and threaten them) or not shoot at all (dying soldiers see merchants selling products to them happily )

    well with alte gone aion had no hopes and the mystery of the asora bear continues

  13. “but for Tomoe, she seemed to be excited and was feeling decently well… A part of that ultimate muscle pain might have been because of her.”… I guess they celebrated

  14. So if that apostle is Astrape will the other be Bronte? or some other lesser diety minion from classic roma-greco

  15. I almost completely destroyed the cores of her body and magic power, and I also turned her soul into nothing without letting it escape.

    Oi Makoto,how can you expect her to redo her life when she can’t reincarnate because her souls turned to nothingness?

  16. Its amazing that Tsige kept doing the same thing for 7 days and Aion didn’t decide to…idk retreat and regroup??? Why are they a bunch of idiots. I feel like seasoned generals should be able to come with a counter measure against this. Using the spies fot example

  17. That Moon Grizzly…what happened to it? Did it survive to get back into Asora? It was the star of the show for a night.

        1. Well Makoto brought several Wasteland Species into Asora and the local wildlife erased them. Invasive Species are terrifying, but seems it only works one way in this scenerio.

          1. this statement reminds me of a paleontology fun fact

            when north america and south america got connected, species exchange happens

            terrorbird goes from south to north, can’t compete and then got annihilated til they’re extinct

            lions and big cats goes from north to south and had a big success, resulting in rich diversity

        2. Animal and human from origin world ( our world) is crazily strong compare with brach worlds (like Bug’s world) bcs our world dont have magic at all. As you can see Makoto and 2 trash heroes who just your normal high school student already overwhelming strong than this world’s hyumans. And we have a real deal Grizzly which can pretty much one-slap-your-face-is-gone an adult male human (one of the biggest predator on land, just slightly behind Polar bear). Even a brach world’s dragon is cute compare with Origin world’s bear

          1. The difference in strength is so significant that farming cows and goats require the strength of gorgons to control which just a couple gorgons working together can bring down a small country

          2. Asora animal pretty much based on Earth’s animal – Makoto’s birthplace – a.k.a our world.

          3. Based on yes, but the ones from asora are massive, if you’ve seen the anime, the bear is probably the size of that crab mamono tomoe defeated.

          4. well,it”s becuz of the divine energy(the latent power of tsukuyomi’s blessing that goes to tomoe/shen’s ”Asora” space that turned it into a bountiful land) that was the source behind their creation that makes them strong as fuck

          5. Also the world was basically created based on how he thinks the world is. So you can say Asora is his imaginative world.

  18. I feel we are missing the funniest line, “a part of the ultimate muscle pain might have come from her”. She jumped his bones HARD

  19. Tomoe went hard on Makoto that night XD Also, I’m amazed those idiots had the balls that get wiped out for 7 straight days XD

  20. Idols in the Middle Ages… Same shit as in the Death Mage.
    And where will so many performers with such a level of cultural development come from? It’s surreal.

  21. I returned quickly because I was worried about the two, and it was a
    complete ruckus with Ema having several abnormal status effects on her,
    but for Tomoe, she seemed to be excited and was feeling decently well… A part of that ultimate muscle pain might have been because of her.
    Tomoe was really breaking bed that night.hahaha

  22. 1. Rembrandt has balls of titanium for that gamble.
    2. Those Aion soldiers are retarded die hard to think they could win.
    & 3. The most important part Tomoe was a running faucet in Asora with Makoto acting like a hero in front her. And by the sound of it almost put him out with all that “bed rocking”.

  23. Lol he got electrode all over his body, have to enter ‘zone mode’ and pull dozens of abysmal arrow-on day
    also got intensely attcked by devout mom-cadidate tomoe-on night. What a day 😅

  24. This is great. Hibiki thinks she will make Limia Kingdom grow by introducing new concepts and inventions from her world after the end of war but Rembrandt is seeing 100 years into the future as if he already saw that world.

    1. I know right? Its like the guy took a shortcut to the industrial revolution. I think that hot spring Makoto took him to did more than just a refreshing bath.

  25. Will he give Makoto those ritual spells? Or should he buy them? He can use them by his own, no doubt, an better, so I want him to study them. I always felt some irritation that his time in Rotsgard was focused on teaching, not learning the basics of magic and all those languages. Perhaps he did that, but I don’t remember reading that he spent much time on his original goal there, or anything regarding his magic except for his Magic Armour, and some other times. But elements and spells in general, I wanted that 😀 I got some nice porcupine though, good stuff

    1. Again, you don’t realize that’s basically what he did during that time he was learning and improving, just because he finishes fights quickly with brid it doesn’t mean he never studied other magics.

    2. He did study but realized he already has the understanding of all things. Also he has more mana than he can use so there was no reason for him to go for more efficient magics. All he needed was to find ways to improve what he already has and create an ability which will use more of his mana. So he ended up creating a magic armor which can also cast any spell he wants.

  26. Rip the mcs hips. lol I guess Tomoe welcomed the mc back a lot. XD Now a new country has been born. Should be interesting to what the other countries think of this. Also glad ema is doing better. 🙂

  27. I almost completely destroyed the cores of her body and magic power, and I also turned her soul into nothing without letting it escape.

    We won’t be meeting anymore.

    Don’t go calling Ema a pig. Redo your life from the atomic level.

    goddang,the guy was pissed as fuck…i like it

  28. not to mention Mokoto is vastly more powerful then when he made that lake and likely has a huge stock pile of improved Draupnir rings to use if needed as ammo.

  29. About her, well, I felt I got some good hits in while I was shooting, and managed to kill her.

    I don’t know if she used teleportation or she simply moved faster with lightning, and I don’t know where she died, but she is dead.

    I almost completely destroyed the cores of her body and magic power, and I also turned her soul into nothing without letting it escape.

    We won’t be meeting anymore.

    Don’t go calling Ema a pig. Redo your life from the atomic level.

    THERES NO REDOING ANYTHING☠

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