Chapter 103 – 103. Camp Training (2)
“””One!”””
Beep! Beep~ Beep!
“””Dooul!”””
While lying on the floor, arms spread out to both sides and both legs erected vertically to form an L shape, the legs tilt to the left and then to the right in sync with the beat of Eunhyun’s whistle, repeating.
“””Seet!”””
Despite the low number of movements, YuRia’s body, which is on the verge of running out of stamina due to the many previous movements, is shouting slogans while gritting its teeth in pain that feels as if her back is about to break.
Beep! Beep~ Beep!
“””Yes!”””
No matter how much she continued to train and receive knight lessons, it was an undeniable fact that the current training was difficult even for Erin and Eira, who were still just teenage girls.
The reason why her muscles were screaming and struggling with a constantly hoarse voice was that she had to start all over again if one of them fell out before completing the set number of reps.
As a so-called joint responsibility, if even one of the six people excluding Eleanor failed to meet the set conditions, they used a devilish tactic of trapping the others and giving them a penalty at the same time.
But, it was even worse than that.
“Five! Ah! I’m really sorry!”
“Now, here comes the last slogan.”
“Ah…”
The corners of her mouth rise, and the two girls stare at Eun-hyeon’s grinning face with desperate eyes, and one woman with a look that really wants to kill her.
Not only does the number reset every time the last slogan comes out, but it must pass twice as many times as the previous number?
No.
It was that they planted a spy among themselves.
As Yuria looked at Aisha, who had put her last slogan in her mouth, with her resentful gaze, Aisha, who flinched, avoided her gaze and blew her whistle.
The fact that Alex and Merdin, including Aisha, were taking turns deliberately putting her last slogan in her mouth and forcibly imposing a penalty made Yuria even more angry.
In fact, it was impossible from the beginning to prevent everyone from coming together in unison.
If YuRia, Erin, and Eira’s eyes were so desperate, Alex and the others couldn’t hold their faces up properly due to guilt, and couldn’t even make eye contact with them.
After doing various gymnastics such as bending, squatting, bending, jumping, etc., Yuria, who had the most resistance to exercise and had low stamina, was the first to show her limits.
“This… What kind of training… This bitch is cold…”
From YuRia’s point of view, she just felt it was a vicious way of constantly harassing people she didn’t like.
She eventually reached her limit, fell to the floor and cursed at her current state. She was showing rudeness that was difficult to see as a princess of a country, but no one could blame her.
Merdin and Aisha, including Alex, were like accomplices in discharging Yuria’s physical strength, and Erin and Eira were also exhausted, bowing their heads and breathing hard, not able to afford to care about others. The absence of it was a major cause.
“One person has reached the limit. There are other people who are very tired, so let’s take a break. Lady Gong.”
“… Yes.”
Among them, she, the only one in charge of recovery, was excluded from training.
From the beginning to the end, she looked at Eun-hyeon, who had left each person in a state of disrepair, without lifting a single hand.
Eunhyun lifted one girl on her back in her arms and followed Eleanor as she moved towards the entrance, supporting Yuria.
“Couldn’t you be gentle with me? My brother and the members of Krasir are fine, but the princess and these children are still weak. What if something really big happens…”
“People don’t die that easily. Besides, since the princess is here now, we pushed it this far. Knowing your limits is really important.”
“I don’t really like that you think of me as a walking potion.”
“That is the original fate of a priest.”
“… Joy!”
Eleanor glared at Eun-hyun, who picked out her nasty words, and turned her head away with an angry expression.
Carefully putting the two girls in her arms down on the floor, Eun-hyeon leaned them against the wall and checked her condition by examining the complexion on her face.
“It just seems exhausted. It doesn’t seem like a big problem. I’m taking a break here while drinking water.”
“Huh…”
“Persimmon… Sahab… Is…”
The two girls, who accepted the mineral water bottle Eunhyeon had given them, immediately drank the water in gulps with an expression that they had found an oasis in the desert.
Seeing this, Eunhyeon turned around and returned to the training ground.
“Whoah! I think I will finally live!”
“Haaa…”
As the moisture entered her body, she felt Eira’s body languish and she slumped.
“Erin…”
“Yes?”
“Eunhyeon-nim… People change all of a sudden when you train them… ?”
“Ah, ahaha, it’s only because Hyuni is so obsessed with training a little…”
Erin smiled awkwardly and defended her Eunhyun.
“Still… Have you been undergoing such rigorous training ever since?”
“Um, um, yes.”
She said that her education she had received was frankly much more medicinal than this, but Erin at the time didn’t know anything and she was just like an ordinary girl who had never held a sword.
The reason Eunhyeon pushed this far was because she had the belief that if she was the current Erin, she would be able to endure it to some extent, Erin believed.
“What her father said was true…”
“Uh… Are you the Marquis?”
“Eunhyeon-nim’s training is really hard and it’s a series of hellish hours, but she said that if she endured the training, she would really be able to take on the shape of a knight. However… I didn’t expect it to be like this.”
“Uh… Would you like to quit?”
“No, I am more motivated. After this training, I will definitely challenge her father with swordsmanship and get recognized.”
Eira’s figure as she leaned against the wall with her limp body was very ungainly, but she thought it was very dazzling that her fists were clenched and her determined eyes were not lost.
“Cheer up together! Ayra-sama!”
“Huh.”
Impressed by her appearance, Erin held her Eira’s hand tightly, strengthening her resolve.
Meanwhile, Eun-hyeon, who returned after taking her girls, opened her mouth to Alex.
“Is it still worth doing?”
“Of course.”
At the same time as Alex answered, Merdin and Aisha also nodded in affirmation.
It seems that only the best knights in the kingdom can join the kingdom guards, and their ability to join the kingdom was not their form, but they had been steadily training their basic stamina.
However, looking at their overheated bodies and clothes soaked in sweat, it was undeniable that their stamina had been consumed to some extent.
“In fact, there is nothing I can teach you. Aren’t they already members of Krasir, a place where the best among the top ranks gather? It’s funny that I teach something. I mean.”
Eunhyun activated the magical power inside her body and continued.
“Why don’t we fight to the death for once?”
The high-density magic power released from Eun-hyeon’s body instantly hit the inside of the training ground, and everyone who felt Eun-hyeon’s magic immediately went into battle with a chilling feeling.
The three of them hurriedly raised their weapons in response to the danger signal in their heads, and as soon as they were alert, Eun-hyeon dug into the arms of Merdin, who was closest to them.
“This… !”
The moment when he couldn’t be alert and showed loopholes was very short, but it was a very leisurely time for Eunhyeon.
Pulling back in an instant, Merdin tried to distance himself from Eun-hyeon, but as if he had expected that he would fall back, Eun-hyeon bent down and dug deeper.
Before he had time to respond, Eunhyun’s right fist hit Merdin’s left side hard.
“Keuuugh!”
Merdin’s body, which was hit by Eunhyun’s powerful body blow, staggered and even bent in the shape of ‘〈’, but he put strength on his lower body to prevent it from collapsing and correct the staggering balance of the body.
“Oh.”
Eunhyun was genuinely impressed.
If he hadn’t reacted at all, he would have broken several of his ribs with the current blow, so he was thinking of calling Eleanor right away, but seeing Eunhyeon’s attack with his own eyes, Merdin concentrated his magic on his side to maximize his defensive power. I withstood Eunhyun’s attack with a .
It wasn’t a blow with the usual power, but a small amount of mana and a blow with minimal power, but Merdin coped with it admirably.
It may have been the result of being accustomed to the role of a tanker, a position that always stands at the forefront and protects his teammates.
Even so, the pain felt in his side was real, and as Merdin’s impression frowned at once, he raised his greatsword while looking at Eun-hyeon, the culprit.
I tried to slash the greatsword at Eunhyeon with all my might, but Eunhyeon wasn’t the one to stand still against the slow attack that came from the big movement.
By lifting the greatsword, Merdin’s abdomen was exposed.
“Huh!”
The moment Merdin, who had been gathering strength while holding his breath, was about to slash his greatsword down, Eun-hyeon did not choose to dodge, and put his fist into Merdin’s abdomen, where the guard was lax.
“Ah!”
As Merdin’s body was pushed back, the greatsword’s downward stabbing attack failed without even attempting, and this time, he concentrated his magic and failed to defend properly, so he poured out the gastric juices in his stomach.
“Uweak!”
“Merdin!”
In a hurry, Alex ran over and checked his condition.
“The advantage of the great sword is that it has destructive power from your strength and has a longer reach than other weapons.”
“…”
“The first time, when I ambushed me into your arms, Merdin-nim, you were startled and distanced yourself, trying to keep your distance from me and create an advantageous situation for you. But I read it and dug deeper and got a good hit. From there, it was really great to block my attack in an instant and minimize the damage. But at the end, why did you choose to attack with a greatsword?”
“… I have nothing to say.”
In a close-quarters fight in a narrow street, the use of a greatsword rather acts as a disadvantage.
On the other hand, it is common knowledge that it acts as a relatively advantageous point from the point of view of using bare fists like Eunhyun or using weapons with a short reach.
Until Merdin endured Eun-hyeon’s attack, it was the result of his instinctive actions.
Even if Eun-hyeon persisted in following her, Merdin had to keep making efforts to increase the distance or find other means suitable for the situation.
Merdin, realizing that she had made a mistake in trying to attack by insisting on a greatsword, let her drool.
“My physical condition is in perfect condition. What is lacking is experience, judgment and skill.”
Knights from the Kingdom of Pernias have very high basic physical specifications.
The reason for this is that most of those who enrolled in Aether and, upon graduation, naturally walked the path of apprentice knights and took the elite course to join the knights belonging to the kingdom.
Aither graduates who were influenced by the ‘Sacred Tree of Fernias’ in Aether possess overwhelming magical power even before becoming knights, and a blessed environment in which excellent bodies based on that magical power are naturally created without effort. What was inside was, on the contrary, holding the ankle.
Alex and Merdin are 24 years old this year.
Considering when he graduated from Aether at the age of 20 and joined Krasir, he was roughly 21-22 years old.
Aisha, who is younger than them, is the same, and all of them are knights who have just finished their apprenticeship and have only been knights for one or two years.
It is true that the basic blessed body has become more perfect through steady training, but the ‘experience’ of the owner who uses the body is overwhelmingly lacking, and the ‘judgment’ is not properly equipped.
Also, there is no ‘technology’ that allows the blessed body to exert its full power.
“For three weeks from today, I’ll hit it as much as possible.”
