Kubei was just an ordinary pencil and button pusher working a day job, hating his boss and making horrible speeches when one day he fell asleep after pushing an all-nighter. When he woke up, he was bound to a chair, facing three creepy robed women and in a body way too young and way too weak to be his own. As he slowly came to, he realized that he was no longer in the same universe as he was before. He had teleported to the Kingdom of Helius, where an all-powerful church rules its lands and wages war against the elusive group known only as Mages. Armed with an incredibly cocky neural interface that just won’t shut up and his own sheer wit, our MC will find himself not just fighting to survive, but maybe even something bigger than himself.
Benjamin listened, cleared his throat, then spoke slowly, "Here I thought... even if the enemy deployed hundreds of Cannons of Holy Light, if we can hold our defenses, it’s not to say that we can’t withstand it."
"Hundreds of Cannons of Holy Light firing simultaneously, what do we use to shield against it?" Someone immediately asked in return.
"Through the use of Defense Runes." Benjamin explained, "There are the fruits of labor from the Academy of Magic, it bears unbelievable defense capabilities. When the queen first assaulted the academy, this was what we relied on, in order to repel their attacks in a situation where we were overwhelmed by military numbers."
— Since it had come to this, there was no reason to hide anything further. Besides, this was something the small rune research team discovered early on, it made no difference whether it was revealed now.
However, as everyone listened, doubts gradually spread through their faces.