I Was Mistaken as a Genius Mage in a Game

Tauros's huge spear drew a straight line toward Lir's slender neck.

Tauros's huge arm, holding the spear covered in deep rust, had hideous burn marks.

Even at the moment when its own life was on the line of life and death, the monster stomped its hooves and swung its arms, following its instinct to kill.

To Lir's eyes, facing death, everything except herself seemed to move slowly.

Raindrops fell before her eyes. The raindrops refracted the light, making Tauros's huge spear seem even more threatening.

Tauros' hideous roar flew through the humid air and shook her slender body. Her master, hurriedly gathering electricity with his fingertips, appeared in the corner of her vision.

Countless emotions filled the young elf's heart, and images flashed through her mind.

It was a futile and unjust death.

This was the battlefield.

A moment of carelessness drags a genius into hell.

The moment the fear of death belatedly caressed her spine.

Kkirik!

The sound of mechanical devices meshing descended upon the chaotic battlefield.

Bang!

A crimson light instantly filled her vision. The light appeared for a moment and quickly disappeared. Only a faint afterimage remained in her eyes.

Right away. Tauros's body was enveloped in crimson light, and the spear that had been flying toward her neck rose high into the sky.

“... ... .”

Lir stared at Tauros' corpse with blank eyes.

The upper body of Tauros, which had been running towards her with all its might, had completely disappeared.

Tauros' lower body, which had lost its brain and heart, lost its strength in its lumpy muscles and soon lost its balance and staggered.

Bang!

With the sound of the spear tip covered in rust and blood hitting the floor, her time returned to normal.

Taurus's lower body, which had been running with an eerie hooves, could not overcome inertia and began to roll on the floor, brushing past her robe.

"Uh, uh... ... ."

Lir belatedly looked at Taurus' lower body that had fallen behind her.

The lower body of the monster, covered in mud, was trembling due to rigor mortis.

"Are you okay?"

Only then did the voices of the platoon leader and the soldiers enter Lir's dazed mind.

Her body lost its strength and she unknowingly collapsed into the mud.

Her robes were quickly soaked black, and her large-brimmed hat slipped down. Her blonde hair became damp from the rain.

"Hoo... ... ."

She was alive.

The senses in her hands and feet that had been numb returned to normal, and the fear of death that had filled her head was replaced by joy at survival.

Adrenaline bursts in belatedly.

Her hands and feet tremble, her legs feel numb... ... She takes a deep breath belatedly.

The young elf began to wet her large eyes with tears. Fortunately, it was raining, so no one would know that she was holding back tears.

“You guys, let your guard down, didn’t you?”

“... ... That.”

Bin.

The cold voice of the frail boy cut through the sound of the rain and settled on the battlefield.

She looked up at the boy with white hair. His expression was filled with disappointment and anger.

“Because of the trees, we couldn’t even see properly, and it was raining! Did you really think that all those Tauros were annihilated by a single ‘Bolt’? I really didn’t expect even one of them to be alive!”

Then, Alter Heindel’s voice filled with anger resonated throughout the area. The fact that his beloved disciple, whom he had raised with great care, almost lost his life in a moment of carelessness angered even the wise man who had grown calm after living for many years.

“Please get up.”

The boy quietly grabbed Lir’s arm next to Alter, who was shouting loudly.

She was unable to properly perceive the situation around her, drunk on the adrenaline that was continuously gushing out.

She grabbed the boy’s hand and got up, but her legs quickly gave out and she collapsed on the spot again.

“... ... Did Bin-nim save you?”

Lir looked up at the boy while sitting on the ground and asked.

From the small crystal floating above the boy’s shoulder, she could faintly hear the mechanical mechanism she had heard.

“Lir, you too! Didn’t I emphasize that the battlefield is a dangerous place, and that you shouldn’t let your guard down no matter what happens! But what is this! Don’t make me regret bringing you out!”

Before the boy could answer Lir’s question, Alter’s scolding came down.

“... ... .”

The young elf shrugged her shoulders and bit her lips. She unconsciously felt strength rise in her hand as she held the boy’s hand, and something inside her began to rise.

Oh, this.

Finally, the tears that had been holding back began to flow. She had just escaped the fear of death, but now that she was being scolded by her master, she couldn’t control her emotions.

The emotional ups and downs that were as unpredictable as those of a manic-depressive patient shook her heart. Since this was the first time she had experienced something like this in her life, she didn’t know how to control this huge whirlwind of emotions, so she couldn’t say anything.

If I opened my mouth carelessly now, only a terrible cry would come out.

“... ... .”

The white-haired boy with a cold face and dark circles carefully placed the wide-brimmed hat he was wearing on Lir’s head.

The pitch-black hat didn’t really suit her with her pale skin and blond hair, but now was not the time to be concerned about that.

The boy quietly picked up Lir’s blue hat that had flown away when she fell, and carefully opened his mouth while shaking off the mud that had seeped in.

“People die on the battlefield. Don’t let your guard down.”

“This is driving me crazy... ... This is unbelievable.”

Alter confirmed that the boy was taking care of his disciple and began walking to the center of the battlefield.

“Aren’t you all elite soldiers? You must have at least four years [N O V E L I G H T] of military experience, and of course, you have a lot of actual combat experience... ... You’re veterans!”

The white-haired boy quietly watched Alter, who was shouting at the soldiers surrounding him with a loud voice.

“Wizards and soldiers are in a symbiotic relationship! Wizards eliminate enemies with magic, and soldiers protect wizards from various threats with their physical abilities and combat experience, isn’t that their role?”

The old man’s voice penetrated the sound of the rain and dug deep into the soldiers’ hearts. The more he shouted, the more his voice became like a squeak, but no one dared point it out or laugh at it.

“... ... .”

The white-haired boy, Bin, couldn’t take his eyes off Alter, who was yelling at his subordinates.

Surviving on the battlefield, and even more so, achieving victory, wasn’t something that could be achieved simply by being strong.

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He had to know how to encourage his subordinates and comrades, and when they made a mistake, he had to be able to scold them harshly and warn them not to make the same mistake again.

“... ... I’m disappointed.”

The boy said that while looking at Alter’s back.

It was not natural for him to be disappointed in Alter, nor was he disappointed in the soldiers who made a mistake.

He was disappointed that he was not the one who was yelling at his subordinates in that place, who had the title of general.

“I’m sorry!”

The soldiers must have heard Bin’s soft words even in the midst of the heavy rain, and they all bowed their heads and apologized.

“Well, that’s okay.”

The boy answered his subordinates’ apologies with a cold expression and curtly, and then lifted Lir up from the mud once again.

“Let’s go.”

She stood up with her trembling legs, barely stepping on the mud. The boy’s arms were barely strong enough to help him keep his balance, but that small amount of help was quite a big deal to Lir now.

Lir grabbed Bin’s hand and led him on his trembling legs into the makeshift barracks.

Kirik.

As the boy entered the barracks, the sound of mechanical devices meshing was heard again.

And as if it had done its job, the crystal split into numerous pieces and dug into the boy’s chest.

Lir was certain after seeing that scene. Since he was saved with the strange mechanical meshing sound, it was Bin who had saved him, not someone else.

“Bin, Bin, you saved me... ... right?”

“Well, calm down first. Would you like some leftover bread?”

Bin spoke as if he was comforting a crying child.

“Thank you, Hee-bap... ... Thank you... ... .”

... ... In the end, tears welled up and his tongue began to twist. Lir felt so embarrassed that he could die from showing such a shameful appearance.

How should he repay the boy who saved him? The young elf could not find the answer to that question on his own.

“Is this your first time on a battlefield?”

Bin roughly wiped the mud and rainwater on Lir’s robe with a handkerchief and asked Alter, who had followed him into the barracks late.

“I entered the Magic Tower when I was four, and I’ve trained in the Magic Tower my whole life... ... This is my first time on a battlefield, let alone out in the world.”

“Then shouldn’t you have been a little more careful? Even if it’s your first time on a battlefield, Lir, you might make mistakes, but Alter, you know what a battlefield is like.”

“Honestly, I didn’t expect something like this to happen. In the past... ... When the two of us went around hunting monsters that appeared near our Magic Tower, I thought we would be able to deal with them without any problems... ... If Lir was a nuisance to the expedition, I apologize.”

Alter apologized to Bin in a hoarse voice. The boy shook his head as if he didn’t mean to.

“I’m not saying I was a nuisance. Everyone has a first time... ... You have to gain experience on the battlefield little by little. In an era where people are dying every day, what’s the point of being a wizard who can’t even protect himself?”

Bin put the handkerchief soaked in mud on the floor and wiped the tears and raindrops on Lir’s face with a clean handkerchief.

.

“Just, well... ... I don’t really want to see people die, so I should have been more careful, something like that... ... .”

The moment the boy’s slender fingers and soft handkerchief wiped away most of the moisture on the elf’s cheek, the boy’s vision suddenly shook violently.

“Ugh... ... Thank you! Thank you, really... ... ! It was really scary... ... .”

Lir wiped all the tears off Bin’s face, but... ... he burst into tears again and ran towards him.

The hat Bin had put on her fell off, revealing her blonde hair, messed up by dirt and rain.

The boy’s body, which boasted strength level 1, didn’t even have the strength to withstand the elf’s sudden charge.

Bin fell to the floor of the barracks with Lir, and at the same time, a sigh burst out of his throat that had been strained.

The young elf never found a way to repay this debt to the boy. Other than endlessly repeating his gratitude, there was nothing he could do for the white-haired boy right away.

“I’m sorry, I was a nuisance! But thank you, thank you... ...!”

The socially awkward elf repeated the same words over and over again until they were stuck in his ears.

Then he buried his face in Bin’s chest and continued to shed tears. Bin sighed at his childish appearance and managed to force out a single word.

“... ... It’s heavy.”

The boy tried to push the elf who was pressing against his chest and blocking his breathing to the side with his arms.

But she didn’t budge.

When he was tired, his fingers would tremble even when holding a cup full of tea. For the boy with his devastating strength, it was nearly impossible to remove a woman’s body from his body, no matter how delicate.

Because of that, Bin quickly gave up on pushing Lir aside and carefully brushed away the dirt and water from his hair with his delicate hands.

It took two hours for Lir to stop crying and for his stormy emotions to calm down.

“... ... I’m sorry.”

Lir, who came to his senses late, apologized to Bin while kneeling.

“Let’s go to sleep. What is this... ... I have plans for tomorrow.”

Bin spoke in a tired voice, as if he was tired, and then laid down on the floor of the makeshift barracks, clutching his ribs, and took a short nap.

Unlike Bin and Alter, who fell asleep quickly, Lir had to stay up all night.

... ... What he had done must have been so shameful.