I am Gilgamesh, the King of Heroes.

A corner of the academy city to which the Aresia Elf Academy belongs.

On the café's balcony, which stretches outwards dramatically, sat a group of odd-looking customers.

One of them was a boy with black hair as hard as steel, a not-too-thin build, and slightly dark skin.

The boy's features were quite regular, but his red eyes were so bright and piercing that they could only be described as eerie.

The other was a person whose true face was unknown, dressed in a jet-black robe and whose head was covered by a black hood.

In this location, the two were quite eye-catching, but the surrounding crowd didn't even glance at them, let alone notice their presence.

"--Anyway, all we need to do is take that sealed document from the academy library, right?"

"Well, because that man is there, and his senses are too sharp, I can't get close to the academy."

"Tsk, what a hassle. Why do we even need that thing?"

The boy spat on the ground, but no one condemned his behavior.

"That thing slumbering in the mining city is extremely precious; it's been sealed with several layers of first-class seals by the Austrian army. Awakening it will take several months just for the liberation ceremony alone—"

"Hmph, abandoned military elves, huh—what exactly are you trying to do with collecting these things?"

“Gio, you have no right to know what she’s thinking.”

The man in black quietly shook his head.

The boy clicked his tongue in amazement. "It's all because you treated the Imperial Capital's military spirits like toys that things have become so complicated. Shouldn't the original order have been to take the spirits away?"

"That's just because you don't know that man's true strength. That's why you're fearless."

"I hope so. But killing useless guys isn't very satisfying."

"Oh? You're so confident you can beat him?"

"Of course. I will prove that I, your great Gio Inzat, am the true descendant of the Demon King and the one who can truly achieve victory."

The boy's blood-red lips twisted in agony. His slightly dark skin shimmered with countless elven markings.

Like the Demon King Solomon, it is an inscription that houses seventy-two spirits.

……

"Ugh..." Jill clutched her head, "It hurts so much..."

In that golden space, all the damage Jill suffers will be converted into mental damage—if the Wise King so desires.

After all, the Wise King possessed absolute control over that space...

"If you continue to misuse my class cards to deal with some boring guys, it won't be a simple stone attack anymore."

Gil still remembers clearly what the Wise King said when he kicked Gil out of the golden space.

"Tsk...Isn't it just borrowing your power for a bit?" Gil picked up the card pouch on his thigh, took out the Caster class card, and sighed.

Currently, I have five class cards available: Saber, Caster, Archer, Berserker, and Ruler.

Since he doesn't want to use the power of other Servants too much, he usually only uses the power of Archer or Caster.

However, the wise king is now forbidding him from using this power at will.

Therefore, I have no choice but to make more use of Archer's class cards.

……

A moment later, Lian returned, and...

He also brought back another girl.

Gil was lounging on the table, leisurely playing with his class cards with his fingers. Claire was nowhere to be found in the dormitory, and even Esther had been taken away by Enkidu.

So all that was left was Jill, who was too lazy to move, lying on the table playing with cards.

"Master? Are you alone? Where are Claire and the others?" Lian asked, seeing that Gil was all alone.

"I don't know, I just woke up not long ago..." Gil flicked her Class card, letting one corner rest on her finger, and then slowly rotated it. "What, aren't you going to introduce yourself?"

Gil's crimson eyes were fixed on the girl Lian brought back, and the girl took a slight step back under his gaze, which carried a substantial sense of pressure.

“I am the second princess of the Austrian Empire—Fiana Ray Austrian.”

“Austria?” Jill raised an eyebrow. “The princess of the empire, why has she returned here?”

The Academy of Aresia, which trains elves, has many genuine noble ladies.

This is because the imperial family and nobility of the empire often maintained the bloodline of the elves through intermarriage that lasted for several generations, which resulted in this outcome.

Of course, there are exceptions, but when it comes to elf users, most of them are still of noble birth.

The school houses both the Frangelto family, who lead the fighting, and the historically significant Lauren Frost family.

Even Claire's Elstein family, whose territory had been confiscated, was a prominent family.

However—the girl before them was the second princess of the Austrian Empire.

This is no longer at the level of a noblewoman.

She was a genuine princess.

However, all princesses born into the Austroasiatic royal family must undergo necessary training at the Divine Ritual Academy, the institution that trains Elf Princesses, as candidates to serve the five Elf Kings. This is the origin of Gil's later question.

However, Fiana simply shook her head quietly.

"Although I am still the second princess, I have become a lost elf princess, and no one takes me seriously anymore."

"The lost fairy princess... ah."

P.S.: I had a lot of fun today... and forgot to bring my phone, so there will only be one update today. I'll make up for it tomorrow. That's all, and I'm very sorry!

Chapter 189 Mission

"The lost fairy princess... Oh, I remember now."

Jill raised an eyebrow.

Four years ago, an accident occurred in which the Fire Spirit Princess, Rubia Elstein, suddenly disappeared.

Upon learning of Rubia's betrayal, the fire spirit was enraged, plunging the empire into extreme chaos.

In order to quell the Elf King's anger, the Divine Ritual Academy decided to nominate another person to be the next Elf Princess.

The candidate who will replace Rubia, as recommended by everyone, is the second princess of the empire, namely Fiana.

However, she did not become the Elf Princess. For some unknown reason, this second princess announced that she was relinquishing her right to be the Elf Princess's successor, and was eventually even removed from the royal family.

The reason why the girl refused to become an elf princess has not been revealed to this day.

After that, the second princess completely disappeared from the stage.

That lost fairy princess is the girl before me.

Jill looked him up and down and nodded. "I see. You must be skilled in magic or something similar, right?"

“…!” Fiana was somewhat surprised.

"Don't worry about Fiana... Master just has a very good eye for people..." Lian squeezed Fiana's hand and comforted her.

“That’s about it… I do know someone who trained a king… well, you could say I know him.” Gil stroked his chin and said.

"...Haha...Master...I have a feeling you've mentioned someone very remarkable..." So Lian laughed and changed the subject, "Actually, it's that witch who said she has a mission for us to complete."

"Hmm? Do you mean the mission system?" Jill stopped spinning the cards and asked.

"...Yes, because the witch said we had to participate in the Elf Sword Dance Festival, so she specially arranged this task."

Task system.

The task system and the formulaic competition among students are the same, both being systems for evaluating campus rankings.

The tasks assigned are varied, including sword dances, suppressing runaway spirits, discovering and investigating sealed spirits, or defeating misguided spirit users, and so on.

If students complete tasks categorized by risk level, they can improve their team's ranking, just like winning in a regular competition.

"The task we need to complete is the most difficult S-rank mission." Lian sighed deeply. "I really don't want to follow that old woman's script."

“I don’t want to either.” Jill nodded in agreement. “But whatever, Grevas is really going all out to achieve that goal. Tell me, what are the mission requirements?”

Fiana looked at Lian and Gil beside her with a somewhat incredulous expression.

She knew very well that the person standing next to her was Lian Ashbell.

What horrified her even more was that the strongest sword dancer actually called the boy in front of her, who looked only four or five years older than her, "master."

"Ah... okay, it's like this, Master, do you know the mining city of Gade?"

"Gade? Is it an abandoned mining city?"

The mining city of Gade was once a major source of elven ores, but it was completely depleted during the Second Lambar War, and the mines have been left idle ever since.

Now, Gade should have become a ghost town filled with ruins.

"We heard that earthquakes are frequent in the mines there. We were asked to go there to investigate."

"Just an incident of this magnitude? It can't be that simple." Jill raised an eyebrow.

The investigation needs to be assisted by Aresia Academy; this must not be an ordinary earthquake.

It is not uncommon for earth-elemental spirits that govern the land to cause earthquakes.

If the elves become angry or riot, a sword dance ritual can be used to appease them, or an elven knight squad can be dispatched to subdue them, depending on the situation.

In terms of content, it is indeed a fairly normal task, however—

"This mission can't be that simple, can it? What's the mission level?" Jill yawned and asked.

"It's the highest S-class."

"Hmph... There's definitely something strange about this. Can you be more specific?" Gil put away his Class card and asked.

If it were just a regular earth spirit survey, it shouldn't be this dangerous; at most, it would be a B-rank mission.

However, this is an S-level mission, meaning it's extremely dangerous. In terms of risk, the danger level is set way too high.

"Yes, that's right. I heard there's a strategic-level military elf that was sealed away by the old Austrian Knights and is sleeping in that mine."

"A strategic-grade military-grade sprite?"