The Difference Is Like Between a Dog and a Cow

7 – Abandoned Platoon, Assemble (4)

Flame Buster.

I had knowledge about that magic. It wasn’t something I had seen in the book, but it was magic that appeared all the time in the main game.

As its name suggests, ‘Buster’ is an offensive magic with excellent penetrating power.

But why did it come out of nowhere?

I just used a fireball.

I looked at Lumia in disbelief, and she pointed to the neatly dislodged remains of her wall.

“Without the magic shield, the building would collapse!”

A magic shield?

Listening to that, I was able to confirm the pattern left on the wreckage. It is a trace of the ‘defense magic’ that I saw in the magic book.

I could actually feel the mana clearly.

So that means I broke the magic barrier on this building with a fireball.

A rough assessment of the situation is over. Except for one question that just popped into my head.

‘Is it possible to pierce defense magic with a fireball?’

I am a 10,000-hour Hearts of General player. Infantry, artillery, cavalry, and even magicians.

As I had almost conquered all classes, I knew how powerful building protection magic was.

It’s not enough to be incapacitated by a blind fireball. Even the most basic defense magic can easily block fireballs.

“What is this!!”

At that time, Lieutenant Colonel Lockhart Cromwell stormed in, contemplating.

Now that I’ve witnessed everything, even the battalion commander, now the only way is to drive the grenade without asking or arguing…….

“Platoon Leader Enoch Levandel!”

“I’m sorry, battalion commander.”

I apologized sincerely, almost putting my head on the ground. There was nothing to say even with ten mouths right now.

“What happened?”

“Personally, I tried to demonstrate my magic, but the control failed. Sorry.”

“Magic Demonstration?! Why do you do that in a normal inn…… !!”

Lt. Col. Lockhart bit his lip. At first glance, it was a face full of anger.

“Come to the battalion commander’s office immediately!”

The battalion commander turns around and runs out of the scene. I was completely taken aback by looking at it.

hahahaha, that sucks.

***

“Damn it.”

Facilities Officer Debra Bennett frowned.

She was taking a nap after finishing her morning work, but when she heard the news that the outer wall of the building had collapsed, she had to be taken out by force.

At first, I thought the external warehouse that was roughly drilled last week had collapsed, but…… What collapsed was the (old) official residence next to the headquarters.

“How did this place collapse? The building is old, but it passed the facility safety inspection last month, right?”

“Oh, that. The building isn’t the problem, it’s the magic.”

Debra Bennett touched her forehead to her chin. Because there was only one great man in the entire battalion who could destroy the outer walls of a building with magic.

“Is it Bell again?”

Bell Meyer of the 5th Platoon. Debra and she coincidentally came from the same city as children.

They were close at one time, but when they were 15 years old, they both moved to different places, so naturally they drifted apart.

The two people who thought they would never see each other joined the army and reunited again. As an elite magician officer and a troubled magician sergeant.

“Did you break through the double defense magic this time? How far in the world are you planning to go, what about him?”

Still, it was Debra who put magic shields on the entire unit building because she had affection as a friend.

Double protection magic.

I was confident that even if Bell Mayer caused a runaway, the building would be safe amid countless magical bombardments…….

Was this not enough?

However, what I heard from a soldier in the facility management department was unexpected.

“Sergeant Bell didn’t do it. The platoon commander did it.”

“What?”

“The newly appointed 5th Platoon Commander.”

Debra quickly looked back at her memory.

A blonde-haired officer that I’ve been seeing often in the military recently. Was he the 5th platoon leader?

As if she had finally remembered, Debra clapped her hands, and immediately a word from one of her subordinates came flying.

“You seem like a completely different unit? It’s the hottest thing in our unit right now.”

“You know best that I am busy.”

Due to the nature of the facility management job, Debra Bennett had to travel a lot outside of her office rather than in her department’s office.

That’s why she didn’t have a chance to listen to the topic that was heard from inside the unit.

“Well, but it must be hot. She even caused a mana runaway. As far as I can remember, the face seems to have been smooth.”

“Ool~ What is it? I like that touch…… Kak!?”

Debra hammered her fist hammer into the crown of the soldier making a fuss. The soldier who had been beaten out of nowhere was knocked over.

“Ah- write!! Chief! Don’t you have a lump on your head!!”

“Even if it’s right, it’s cheap dude. What’s good about feeling good? Don’t you feel it too? I was handsome, but…… It’s a bit unpleasant.”

“Oh! I know. Isn’t something a bit odd? I guess I wasn’t the only one who felt that way?”

Cold and hard.

It wasn’t a style I wanted to get close to just by passing by for a moment.

What can I say? As a subordinate, it seems to be straight, but as a supervisor or motive, it feels very uncomfortable?

“Well, since we had such a big accident, it must be broken by the battalion commander.”

“As expected, I was taken right away.”

“hehehehe, I knew that.”

Debra shrugged her shoulders and ran her hand through the broken pieces of her body. In that moment, she sensed something strange about her.

“Wait.”

“Did I hear that wrong?”

“Did you hear what magic the platoon leader used?”

“I couldn’t hear you properly. Sergeant Rumia says it’s a flame buster…….”

“What?! Nonsense! What a flame buster!”

Even though she has the title of Facility Management Manager, Debra is also a full-fledged mage. She was also a person who was about to be promoted to captain.

That’s why she knows how powerful the flame buster is.

If she was a real flame buster, she would have collapsed her building without even neutralizing the double protection magic she had around her.

“This is not a flame buster.”

“So what?”

Debra carefully inspected her collapsed remains. Among the five attributes, she was a ‘red’ wizard specializing in red.

In other words, if it was magic related to fire, she couldn’t be ignorant.

The flow of magical power, the color of the remaining mana, the delivery method of the explosion, and the shape of the wreckage that was thrown out of the impact.

Summarizing everything, the magic used by the platoon commander in question was of the fire attribute.

“But this mana pattern… ….”

No matter how many times you check it, there is only one answer. The pattern is very similar to Flame Buster, but the power and difficulty of implementation are unmatched.

Fireball.

It is the lowest class basic magic among red magic.

This is why Sergeant Rumia Bluet could have been mistaken for a Flame Buster.

But the problem is.

‘Did you break through my double barrier with that? Just a fireball?’

Impossible. But other than that, there was no way to explain it.

If you really break through the double protection magic with a fireball…… It means at least a 1st class red magician.

A first-class red wizard.

At the very least, a normal mage’s bottom line that can be compared even a little with a great mage.

‘A lieutenant who just graduated from the military academy?’

Debra jumped up from her seat and hurried to the headquarters. Her soldier, who was clearing the wreckage of her main island, called her urgently.

“Manager?!”

“Try to clean up by yourself. I’ll be back soon.”

“Where are you going?”

Debra’s eyes twinkled.

“The battalion commander’s office.”

***

“Can you make any excuses?”

“Sorry. At least I have no intention of making excuses. It is entirely my responsibility.”

“Ha…… ! I trusted you as much as the 2nd company commander evaluated me well and was motivated!!”

Colonel Lockhart shouted, tapping his desk with his fingers. It was the moment when the tower he had been working hard on for a week collapsed with just one fireball.

Now, it didn’t matter much that the walls had defensive magic. It’s true that you couldn’t control magic, and it’s true that you broke down the walls of the official residence.

“This is facility damage! Do you know how wicked the crime is!!”

“Sorry.”

Isn’t it the battalion commander who really cared about the landscaping of the unit? Of course, I touched on the sensitive part of the collapse of the building.

“I know this because I will directly refer this matter to the disciplinary committee!”

“Yes, I understand.”

“Damn it! I knew it would be like this. There was no difference in the evaluation of the discipline officer.”

My heart was pounding. Is it arrhythmia? No, I was stressing right now.

If you think about it, isn’t it a big mistake? No one was hurt, the building didn’t collapse, and the building was completely neglected in the first place.

Something sucks.

I’m dying of being helpless just being dragged into the game right now, but being assigned to a platoon is completely trash.

I’ve been staying for a week, and the unit hasn’t made any special arrangements. I took care of all the paperwork.

Even that wasn’t my original job. Why do I have to clean up what the former platoon commander didn’t handle properly?

『Hey, Kim Jin-hyeok, you asshole. Do it right? Even if I don’t tell you, you have to do it quickly.”

An intrusive voice lingers in my head.

The battalion commander looked at me and started pointing. Suddenly, I heard tinnitus, and I couldn’t make out what he was saying.

Ah, it’s like nicotine.

I want to smoke.

I wiggled my hand and put it in my pocket.

At that moment, my head was spinning. My eyes suddenly went white, and my legs gave out.

“Keah…… !”

I was out of breath. My mind goes blank. I tried to cough out, but my mouth wouldn’t open.

“What, go, why are you doing this all of a sudden?”

“Glory to the motherland! Battalion commander, I am the head of the facility management department!”

Bulky.

In the distance of my vision, I heard the voice of someone other than the battalion commander.

“Eh?”

“5Th Platoon Leader? 5Th platoon leader!!”

The last world was turned upside down when I saw the face of the battalion commander rushing at me.