Chapter 876 – 876. Recognition of Knights (2)
Kaaang!
A clear metallic sound created by the collision of the two sharp blades resonated throughout the training ground.
“Ugh, ugh… !”
At the same time, they swung their swords and collided, but it was Cha Han-seong who was pushed back.
Cha Han-seong, who groaned and bit his teeth, immediately corrected his posture.
The moment I struggled to put my strength back on my staggered legs and firmly fix the lower body on the ground.
It was a short moment, less than a second, but Riot’s attack like a raging continued.
Cha Han-seong, who had been pushed back, quickly closed the distance, and Riod’s sword shot flew toward his head.
“… Breath!?”
A neat bell slash that flies towards the crown of its own head.
The artistic swordsmanship without any superfluities was so natural that it was half a beat too late to notice it.
Cha Hanseong was shocked and hurriedly twisted his body.
Using one of his legs as an axis, he rotated his entire body to get out of the line of fire, and Leo’s blade missed Cha Han-seong’s chest at a narrow distance and cut through the air.
‘Bah, just… !’
It was sincere.
If you couldn’t avoid it
No. If he hadn’t noticed the sword attack a little too late, his head would have been split in two.
The moment he realized that, various emotions raged through Cha Han-sung’s heart like a storm.
Astonishment, fear, absurdity.
It was an absurdity that he couldn’t understand why he had to go through this ordeal.
However, it was not allowed to even breathe properly, let alone the realistic time to ask.
It was because Riod’s chain attack, like a raging sword, did not allow him any room to think realistically.
The first sword attack they met head-on.
While Cha Han-seong, who had been pushed back, was agitated and urgently turned his nerves to correct his posture, the second sword attack came down to cut off the head by closing the distance.
And because he focused on avoiding the attack, the third sword attack aimed at the gap in the balance that had completely collapsed.
Cha Hanseong recognized with his own two eyes the heartfelt third sword attack from Riode, who was swinging to slash his own throat.
“Shit… !”
Cha Han-seong gnashed his teeth.
The irrationality of the current situation caused the extremely accumulated stress to unknowingly cause nausea.
It was rudeness that he might have even forgotten that his opponent is his boss at work and the leader of the knights who lead the knights.
Cha Hanseong put strength into his hand holding the sword.
Then, he swung his sword from the bottom up and raised the blade of Riod, who was aiming for his throat.
Kaaang!
Riod’s blade was lifted up from the bottom and rose into the air by Cha Hanseong’s sword strike.
“Ha!”
With a sound of spirit, Cha Hanseong counterattacked by swinging his tightly clenched sword at Riod’s open abdomen.
Whether his opponent was his boss or Eira’s father, he had no time to worry about such things.
Before being a member of the Artia Knights, before being the father of a lover, and as a swordsman and swordsman, if he was sincere, wouldn’t it be right if he did his best with all his heart?
His fierce counterattack that changed his mind threatened Riod.
“Joy.”
Rather, when he saw Cha Han-sung’s rough and aggressive appearance, he sneered.
Rather than showing a confused appearance while avoiding attacks, it wasn’t too bad to see him wielding a sword as a swordsman to confront him.
The fierce sword attack that cuts through his own gaps with the guard open, and the attack itself without hesitation, are commendable enough to be praised.
Of course, Riod had no intention of accepting his attack without hesitation.
Riod immediately retrieved the sword that bounced upwards.
It is said that he immediately retrieved it, but it is physically impossible to completely block Cha Han-seong’s sword.
‘If it’s impossible with the blade, then with the hilt.’
Caang!
“Ah… !”
Cha Hanseong unknowingly let out a sigh.
I thought it was a counterattack aimed at the perfect timing, but Riod blocked the blade of Cha Han-seong exactly with the tip of the hilt.
If he was even a little late or got the timing wrong, it would have led to fatal injuries such as torn hands or cuts to the abdomen.
However, there was no other way to explain that the reason why he was able to block it with the tip of the sword was because Riod’s innate sense and wit were fully displayed.
“Nice… !”
Cha Han-seong was a powerful swordsman, but he retrieved the sword with an expression of resentment at being blocked in vain.
This time, it is said that Cha Han-seong bravely took a counterattack and stabbed a loophole, but as expected, it was not enough to push Riod with strength alone.
He didn’t get pushed back like before, but he couldn’t push Riod away either.
Riod, who directly clashed the swords, evaluated his sword with sincere pressure on Cha Han-sung.
‘You’ve grown.’
The most recent competition was a training session held on a spiritual mountain where the power of the World Tree, guarded by the elves, resides.
The training at Yeongsan (靈山) with Eunhyeon or Erin dramatically improved Cha Hanseong’s physical abilities and swordsmanship.
And now I have grown more than then.
The most notable thing is the phenomenal physical ability that can hardly be considered human.
Strength, speed, and reflexes have all changed beyond recognition compared to before.
‘Perhaps it’s because the vampire transformation has progressed half way.’
Since it was a story he had heard directly from Eun-hyeon, Riod was able to accept it quite easily after experiencing his astounding physical ability.
‘But still, it seems that growth is holding back my ankles.’
Kaaang!
“Kuk!”
When Riod cut off Cha Han-sung’s sword, Cha Han-seong’s body was once again pushed back.
‘Why?’
Cha Han-seong had no choice but to question.
Although it was said that it was not intentional, because his body had partially become a vampire, he obtained physical abilities comparable to those of a vampire while maintaining a human body.
Strength, speed, and reflexes will not be compared to before.
However, in a confrontation between prosecutors who have not properly strengthened their bodies, they cannot defeat him even with the advantageous condition of having a body specification that exceeds that of humans.
Why?
Cha Han-seong felt doubts and frustration about it.
‘I have to find it.’
He had to find out why.
That would be the way and the way for him to become a ‘knight’ following Riod’s footsteps.
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“You don’t know how to use it properly yet.”
“Huh? What do you mean?”
Erin, who was holding her breath as they watched the match, tilted her head and asked Eunhyun, who was watching the match beside her.
“You are not using your improved physical abilities properly. Perhaps he himself is unaware.”
“Um… Is it like that? I’m not sure…”
Erin just tilted her head, as if she wasn’t sure yet.
“Let’s say she’s sprinting with all her might, with Erin looking in front of her.”
“Huh? Huh.”
“But if there’s a sharp curve, a U-turn, or a situation where you have to stop, can Erin do it without any problems?”
“Umm… She’s honestly not confident…”
Whether it is a sharp curve or a U-turn, as well as stopping, it is close to impossible to change direction or turn right there.
It would be impossible for anyone, let alone Erin, to resist the physical law of inertia.
“Ah, you’ve grown so rapidly that even you can’t adapt properly.”
Ju-hong, who was watching the match beside Erin, murmured as if she understood.
“That’s it.”
Now, Cha Han-seong himself was unable to properly adapt to his rapidly growing physical abilities.
Because it was too strong and too fast, it was causing disharmony.
“If a person’s mind is still a 6-year-old baby, but his body is a 26-year-old adult, can he move his body normally?”
“… It will be hard Oh, I see.”
Belatedly, Erin also made her expression of understanding.
Cha Han-seong’s current situation was similar to what Eun-hyeon had heard as an example.
In the early days when he was able to control mana by himself, how much trouble he had to maintain his greatly increased physical abilities and adapt to his movements.
It was like that.
“That’s why his attacks and movements have become monotonous. Even if the gap between the physical abilities of that level widens, if you can understand the flow and trajectory of the attack, it will not be a problem for Riod to block that level of attack.”
Even if the difference in physical abilities widened, it was too easy to respond to the monotonous attack, not to mention the sophistication and sharpness of the skill of wielding the sword.
“Oh, then Cha Han-seong. Aren’t you not being recognized by Leo-sama?”
“Well. He seems not to be self-aware yet, but he will soon be.”
Even Cha Han-seong was sometimes frustrated with his foolish judgment, but he was no fool in the field of swordsmanship.
He has a good eye and is very talented at seeing, learning, and reproducing the swordsmanship of others.
The more talented the person who teaches you is, the more you can show excellent growth in accepting and catching up.
It was also because of this that Eunhyeon said that the compatibility was not good in teaching Cha Hanseong.
You can learn from someone with 100 talent and catch up with 80 talent, but if you learn from someone with 10 talent, you will only be able to catch up with 8 talent.
Even though he didn’t have a good relationship with Eun-hyeon, who made up for the difference in talent by putting in tens or hundreds of times more effort than others, it wasn’t too good.
“Maybe you’ll realize soon and get used to it.”
It would be from then that Cha Han-sung starts to grow one step further.
“Wait, is it okay… ?”
On the other hand, Eira was watching the battle between Riode and Cha Hanseong with excitement.
In fact, it was called sparring, but it was really close to a bloody fight threatening each other’s lives.
In the first place, aiming at each other’s vital points with real swords cannot be called sparring.
“I wonder if Hanseong won’t get hurt…”
I never thought that Leo would ever get hurt.
The number of cases Ayra can think of is that Cha Han-seong feels impatient under the constant pressure of Riod and gets injured while overdoing it.
“Are you okay. That’s why I’m here for that.”
Erin and Ju-hong said they came because they were curious about how the relationship with Cha Han-seong had changed since Eira broke up with them, but Eun-hyeon was now taking on the role of mediator.
In order to prevent a situation from crossing the line and injuring one of the two, if there was any sign of that, he would step in between the two without hesitation and stop the bloody sparring.
The reason why Liode was aiming for Cha Han-seong’s vitals without hesitation and using a terrifying combination of rage attacks was because he was convinced that if the moment came when Cha Han-sung was unable to block it, Eun-hyeon would step forward without hesitation.
Kaaang!
“Uh?”
Erin wondered for a moment and tilted her head.
At some point, Cha Han-seong, who had been pushed back, began to fight against Riod little by little.
Dodge, shed, block, and counterattack Riod’s fierce swordsmanship and fight against Leod’s sword with fierce swordsmanship.
Cha Han-seong began to adapt to his body, which had risen dramatically.
