Chapter 395 – Embracing, Indwelling, and Being Born (11)
─Puppuppuppuppup!!
The mana that bloomed at the tip of her sword poured down like arrows of the wind.
Dark green’s mana was incredibly thick, and it felt like an ogre pulling out a tree and throwing it away.
A few knights, who had been so focused that they forgot to even breathe, bent their backs, even going so far as to hear them.
He was engrossed in sparring to the point where he felt as if he was standing there instead of Gaius, and when his prediction was completely wrong, he swallowed his breath in amazement and was taken away. It was proof that he was still lacking in training compared to his innate talent and concentration.
However, the senior knights who escaped such a pitiable situation with the cool-headedness gained after rigorous training were in a similar situation.
‘Nonsense!!’
‘It must have been the posture of leaping, which is a rushing technique… !!’
It was obviously a skill that came from family swordsmanship, but it was the first swordsman the knights had ever seen.
They had never thought that the thrust could develop in such a way. Beyond the level of collapsing stereotypes, it was shocking enough to make the back of your head tingle.
To be honest, they thought they knew better than the Nords when it came to the family swordsmanship.
So, until a few tens of seconds ago, I was furious when I saw him try to use the family swordsmanship against the knight commander. That anger soon led to a heart that looked down on the sword-wielding Nord.
The senior knights noticed it belatedly that they were careless. If it had been a real battle, he would have already died.
It was the price of wrongly measuring the enemy’s skill. Hearing the sound of their vain pride collapsing, the knights bit their lips.
‘I even knew in advance that he was a better person than me, but he lost his focus and was careless because of superficial assumptions… !’
‘You pitiful bastard! Have you become lax after becoming a high-ranking knight?’
‘I don’t think that person dares to use a weapon that we are not familiar with in order to teach us this kind of teaching… ?’
There was a possibility. The Nords changed their weapons after they gathered to steal and learn without shame. Didn’t he originally ask for a spear?
Dealing with Gaius, who is on a par with him, and giving lessons to uninvited guests?
All of the knights were at a loss for words at that broad generosity and the master’s ability to put it into practice.
‘That person must have been trying to hit our pitiful minds!’
‘Even if you’re shy, raise your head! Even if I don’t learn something, I can’t turn my eyes away from his teachings!’
The knights believed and looked straight.
Regardless of whether it is true or not.
─Tah!!
Gaius escaped the arrows of the wind in the arena where all kinds of emotions and all kinds of gazes passed by.
The thick arrow flew far even after losing its target. The arrow had the power to do so.
Fortunately, due to the nature of swordsmanship, the family’s sparring grounds were installed higher than the human head. If not, some of the knights who were idly watching would have had a hole in their head today.
– Chuck! Gaius, dodging the attack, stopped his feet.
〈… You’ve mastered the art of rushing on your arm.〉
He trembled with emotion. Joy overflowed in my heart that I hadn’t felt even when I saw dozens of works of art owned by the householder.
Gaius, who did not fully understand the power of swordsmanship, asked impatiently. A genius like Nord would have understood just by looking, but he did not.
The reason why the swordsmanship of the Armials family was named ‘secret sword’ is because of the slash that expels and explodes condensed mana. This was also the origin of the name of the Knights of the Dark Sword.
However, even though Gaius fired a slash following the pattern of swordsmanship and attempted to graft it into another skill, he had never thought of using that slash as a thrust.
The secret of the secret sword developed from stabbing was a completely different form from that shown by Nord.
〈… I took some spells from wind-type magic and mixed them into dashes and stabs.〉
Nord answered a bit late this time as he had to turn Odin’s eyes on and off.
So, Nord dismantled some magic spells with Odin’s eyes, and mixed spells that changed the mana in his body into wind mana with his swordsmanship.
It was the stab from before that was born like that.
Upon hearing the story, Gaius was stunned, saying that it would not have been as easy as said, and that was true to some extent. Because Nords lacked sense, they had a hard time separating swordsmanship and magic in the process of converting mana. It would have been much easier if he had used magic, but couldn’t he say to the knight commander, ‘Would you like to learn some magic?’ Although he had suffered so much, in the end, Nord succeeded in making it possible for even ignorant people to understand magic to put their hope into swordsmanship if they were skilled. 〈If you mix it into a dash, it will speed up a little bit, and if you mix it into a thrust, you get a slash as you saw. It was a concise explanation, but further understanding was impossible with Nord’s brain. There was also a vocabulary problem. And, to be honest, Nord couldn’t see much value in this swordsmanship. Wouldn’t it be more effective to just enchant and use it? It is difficult to mix wind mana with dash or other skills.
Even Nord himself—a technique he developed himself—was barely able to apply it to his own. He could apply ranged attacks with stabbing, but if you mix it with magic, you could apply it to spearmanship, but that was it.
His personal assessment was that it was difficult and useless.
〈To this in just a few days…〉
However, no matter how much Nord’s evaluation went downhill, Gaius, who was gifted with swordsmanship, saw through even parts that Nord didn’t realize.
In Gaius’ eyes, the development of that technology was truly limitless.
It is a martial art used by humans. There is no way you can mix any mana. If that was possible, wouldn’t any swordsmanship in the world spew fire or lightning?
Nord will leave a name in the history of the Knights of the Dark Sword by discovering and proving that only one of the numerous mana, wind mana, matches the family’s swordsmanship.
‘Of course, it’s a technology that you wouldn’t be able to understand and use if you weren’t a genius like Nord-sama.’
But what if the technique of putting wind into a sword was properly systematized and improved so that anyone could learn it with effort?
In the future, the wind will dwell in the secret sword of Armials, and a new swordsmanship will be born.
“It feels like my eyes are wide open. Today, in this brief sparring, you give me a great realization…〉
Stab and slash.
Gaius selflessly shuddered at his genius, which started from the same foundation and reached a completely different direction.
After hundreds of years of development, a new way of escape was opened to the family’s swordsmanship, which seemed to be stagnating without further development.
And it seemed as if the wind was blowing against the wall that blocked his way.
Gaius forgot that he was in sparring and looked up at the sky.
〈… Yes? I’m that… Did he say that… ?〉
〈The wind in the sword blows far away, but I myself was too busy settling for my position. I have no regrets about giving my allegiance to the family lord, but at some point I must have been trapped in vain pride and arrogance of being the leader of the knights and the mithril class.〉
Gaius closed his eyes and smiled at the realization at his fingertips.
If he does not miss this realization and walks with it as a lifeline, he will arrive at a master class someday. The Nords gave a new direction to the family swordsmanship and breathed a fresh breeze into his heart.
“Because he gave me this kind of realization… I have to repay you.”
Gaius raised his sword and raised his mana.
Chae Ae-Aeng——!!
Nord opened his mouth and tried to say something, perhaps taken aback by his enthusiasm, but he blocked Gaius’s sword and from then on stood up with his eyes shining and his mouth closed, and he didn’t even look at it.
Did he say that if you concentrate, the number of words decreases?
Judging from the fact that from the middle of the fight the magic on the sword was lifted and even spearmanship was used, he must have been sincerely immersed in sparring.
If so, his genius must have given Nord something to realize through his superhuman concentration.
‘I hope my lack of swordsmanship can help him grow.’
Gaius swung his sword vigorously as he prayed.
