Marcille

[Code Name] Marcille

[Gender] Female

[Dungeoneering Experience] 2 years

[Place of Birth] Northern Continent (Self-declared)

[Date of Birth] Apr 19

[Race] Elf

[Height] 160cm

[Infection Status]

Medical tests have confirmed that no infection is present.

[Physical Strength] Normal

[Mobility] Normal

[Physical Resilience] Normal

[Tactical Acumen] Standard

[Combat Skill] Excellent

[Originium Arts Assimilation] ■■

Marcille, the mage of Laios's party.

She claims to have unexpectedly arrived on Terra while trying to rescue her friend Falin in a dungeon. Now on Rhodes Island seeking a way home while providing medical and magic assistance.

Imaging tests reveal clear, normal outlines of internal organs, and no abnormal shadows have been detected. Originium granules have not been detected in the circulatory system and there is no sign of infection. At this time, this operator is believed to be uninfected.

[Cell-Originium Assimilation] 0%

Marcille shows no sign of Originium infection.

[Blood Originium-Crystal Density] Undisclosed

The Medical Department has agreed not to disclose the relevant data.

Marcille is a mage from Laios's party. Terra is home to many adventurers, but we are curious about these few calling themselves 'dungeon adventurers'. She herself makes it clear that a strong physique is not a requirement: Marcille often tires herself out before the others when on long field missions, and has barely passed most of our physical exams. By contrast, the 'magic' she uses (which could be understood as a form of Originium Arts) is quite powerful, and during missions, no matter what the task requires, she will often raise her hand, saying 'I can do this! Let me do it!' before beautifully casting a suitable magic spell.

Compared to most operators who specialize only in one type of Arts, Marcille's repertoire of magic is quite diverse. Explosions or blinding light spells for offense, healing or barriers for support, summoning 'familiars', the ability to walk on water, and so on. In comparison, her lack of physical strength seems trivial.

However, we must add a strange asterisk to this: while she is well known for her poor physical fitness, operators fond of hanging out or exercising on the streets have recently reported sightings of Marcille executing difficult-to-perform maneuvers while shouting things like 'Not eating that! No way!' Aciddrop has evaluated her to 'possibly have a talent for street dancing' and has invited her to join in street events, so perhaps we will see a new side of Marcille in the near future.

The Rhodes Island library boasts a huge range of books, and operators who enjoy reading spend lots of time there, Marcille included. In just a few weeks, she seems to have already finished every theoretical work on Originium Arts, compiling a thick collection of personal notes. Operator Skyfire, who was substitute teaching a class for reserve operators, was shown her notes and commented that 'they're so easy to understand that everyone in class ought to read them too.'

Marcille only smiled at this evaluation and said: 'I did pretty good back in my magic school after all.' She also mentioned that she strove not only to advance healing magic, but has also studied the creation of harmless dungeons. Every spell she uses in the dungeon was something she studied, and it is a pity that no one in her party understands the vast knowledge required for such a feat, or realizes how powerful she actually is. Regardless, she is currently very excited at the prospect of studying a new system of magic, and is happy to share her notes on dungeon magic with our operators, hoping that everyone can learn from each other and find their own breakthroughs. Naturally, her notes were also recommended to the reserve operators as reference materials.

Soon after, the 'Marcille's drafts incident' was all everyone talked about.

A reserve operator reportedly found a page crammed with dense writing among Marcille's notes, and thought it could help her understand Arts, but after scrutinizing it she handed it to her teacher Skyfire, red-faced. Skyfire read it, then brought it to Orchid, who called over Midnight and the rest of Team A6 to discuss it until the sun rose. What exactly did Midnight do that could have informed Marcille of his past identity as the 'Devil of the Eastern Night' in Higashi, and also caused her to weave him and more than a dozen operators, including the Doctor, into a complex web of relationships, full of jealousy, hope, respect, control, exploitation, as well as love and hate?

Regardless, Marcille's desire for knowledge and her skills at both theory and practice make her a role model for all operators.

For some reason, Marcille has recently immersed herself in hobbies one could say are completely unrelated to returning to the dungeon.

For example, she has joined the handicraft club and learned to weave grasshoppers from straw, followed veteran operators into the wilderness to identify various fruits on Terra while gathering all kinds of berries for everyone, and learned to use a camera as she spent a whole day sitting beside Scene and capturing the sights while out on field missions, ultimately taking group shots of Laios's party along with other operators.

When an operator from HR brought her recommendation letters from Leithanian universities and Columbian research institutes, they found her on the deck carefully weaving a grasshopper from straw, next to a small plate of raspberries and a bunch of previous grasshoppers that weren't quite as good as the one in her hands. She gladly accepted HR's suggestion to rely on her 'mage' identity and her outstanding abilities to enter those institutes and receive more help on their quest to return home, and explained to the somewhat puzzled operator that her recent obsession with these unrelated hobbies was because she wanted to share what she encountered on Terra with Falin. When they finally rescue her, she intends to present them all one by one and talk about what they experienced here.

'Laios is actually more anxious than he looks. And Chilchuck won't say it, but he's already planned and optimized all our routes for the dungeon... So instead of being depressed and worried, I'm hoping to make some beautiful plans for our future too.'

Marcille checks her freshly weaved grasshopper as she speaks, and then shows the HR operator her progress. 'The first attempt was totally unrecognizable, but now it really looks like a grasshopper. I can teach Falin how to make one too, when the day comes... I can't wait to see her again!'

Joining the Rhodes Island Medical Department requires not only ample physiological know-how, but more importantly, a kind heart. Marcille passed this strict test and became one of the department's cooperating operators. She's also conducted comparative studies on her own healing magic and Terra's restorative Arts, to both enrich her knowledge of medical theory and help our Medic operators reach breakthroughs in curing various ailments.

This has taken quite a lot of her time.

We are extremely grateful to her for proactively participating in our tests and using the time she could have spent finding a way home instead assisting us in our research of various diseases. We are grateful to her for creating all kinds of adorable familiars to cheer up the children's ward, while paying special attention to Ceobe's condition.

We once asked her why she does all this, and she replied simply that she had already been studying diseases and trauma in her magic school and was used to developing new healing techniques. As Rhodes Island is helping them find a way home, she wants to return the favor by helping our patients.

That said, what she does for us goes far beyond 'returning the favor'.

Our guess is that, when Laios's party first met Ceobe in the wastes, perhaps Marcille was not yet aware of Oripathy and its consequences. And once she was, she chose to help us as much as she could, even making us a promise: If we could find a way for them to travel to and from Terra, she would definitely return to continue helping us study Oripathy. She wishes to see Ceobe and the other patients on Rhodes Island for as long as she can.

The fortune teller at the Sami market took Marcille's hand and said a lot of baffling things, before discovering she had no money on her and turning to the next tourist. Chilchuck scoffed at this and mocked her for being an easy mark.

Later that night, Laios's party decides to huddle up for the warmth to sleep through the freezing cold. Half-awake, Marcille seems to see a figure under the moonlight, appearing to be foolishly digging up the soil, with a filthy face, leaves stuck in their hair, and a small pile of berries picked from the Myrkwood on hand, as if right about to taste them.

Marcille was about to quickly shout a reminder not to eat unknown fruits found in the forest, only to realize that there is nothing there but her companions fast asleep, the figure from before nowhere to be found.

A gust of cold wind blows into the tree hollow and Marcille wraps her blanket tightly around her as she prepares to return to sleep. A small snowflake appears before her, carried by the wind, and it stays for a long time before melting.

She suddenly recalls something the fortune teller said, in-between their wild ramblings: if you see a snowflake in Sami that does not melt, it is the person you wanted to see the most, talking to you.