Chapter 27 – 027. ‘Extra’ Offers ‘Hope’ to the ‘Protagonist’ (3)
“What is all this… ?”
Erin couldn’t keep her mouth shut as she looked inside the basement of the ordinary house she followed Eunhyeon into.
She was brightly lit by magic lights installed on the ceiling in the interior where sunlight did not enter.
She said that the sealed basement provided fresh air and a pleasant atmosphere rather than the outside, rather than making it feel stuffy and stuffy.
The size of the space was comparable to that of Aether’s training ground.
Considering that a facility used by hundreds of people for public use was so neatly and wonderfully maintained for personal use, I couldn’t imagine how much money had gone into it.
“It’s a training ground that will train you in the future.”
“A training ground?”
“Huh. From now on, you will stay in this house, eat three meals a day, and devote all your time to training.”
“…”
Erin had a gut feeling that something was wrong with her.
She recalled what she had said, saying that she would show her way to him.
– It will be very difficult. You can be hungry, cold, tired, and very sick.
In other words, it is said that a difficult and difficult road opened before her own path.
But she said that she would give me food and let me sleep, so why did she say this?
Erin didn’t quite get it, but she knew intuition that ‘deadly hard training’ awaited her.
“On the first day, I will start with a simple explanation. Sit down.”
“Huh.”
Once Erin and Eunhyun sat down and talked about her, she followed him and sat down.
“The last thing I will teach you is swordsmanship and magic.”
“Swordsmanship and magic… ? Don’t you usually teach just one?”
“At first, I was thinking of only teaching swords. But I thought I could use magic somehow.”
“But I said that my brother has no talent for magic?”
Elvin, a commoner genius wizard who joined the Magus, naturally recognized that her sister, Erin, had no talent for magic.
She said that was true, but she also wanted Elvin to not walk the path of swords or magic when she entered Aether.
As she, a commoner, showed herself superior in magical abilities to other nobles, she joined the Magus, the court mage corps, but all he received was envy and jealousy.
Erwin was worried that Erin would have a hard time if she joined the aristocratic society like he did.
“It must have been then. Not now.”
“Um… ?”
Erin tilted her head at Eunhyun’s ambiguous explanation, but Eunhyun did not explain in detail to such Erin.
“You know there is a concept called ‘number of digits’ among wizards, right?”
“Digit?”
“Didn’t you learn it in Aether?”
“Uh, that… I just received basic education, etiquette, and simple education…”
“Oh right. You were at the bottom of your grades.”
“I-I really didn’t teach you that at school!”
As if an arrow had been lodged in her chest, he grabbed her own breast and blushed as if embarrassed.
“Know. Know.”
Descendants of noble families who are already aiming to become wizards or knights receive a certain degree of education before entering school, and enter school when they reach the age.
That is to say, there really is a big difference between Erin and her other noble children from the start.
Erin, who had just entered the school naked, would not have been able to keep up with the progress of the proper classes, let alone really basic education on magic.
It was easy to guess because Eun-hyeon had already checked her report card at her school.
“The expression that understands everything… Really unlucky.”
“The ‘number of digits’ is divided into 10 grades ranging from ‘single digit’ to ‘ten digit’. This rank is established as a common concept not only in the Kingdom of Pernias, but throughout the continent.”
“You’re talking naturally!”
Erin pursed her lips as if she didn’t like Eun-hyeon’s behavior, but Eun-hyeon smiled and continued to talk to her.
“Let’s say one to four digits are ‘regular digit wizards’, five to six digits are called ‘high digit wizards’, and seven to ten digits are called ‘high digit wizards’. The reason why the range of digits is divided into 4, 2, 4 ranges is because the number of wizards in the range of 1 to 4 digits is the highest. The reason why the range of high-digit wizards is only two divisions is that there are very few wizards who go from four-digit to the next.”
“Is the difference in the number of people that big?”
“In general, the number of high-order wizards is only 10% of the total number of wizards on the continent. There are only 10 high-order wizards on all continents.”
“… So this house is the home of one of only 10 high-ranking wizards in the world?”
“Many wizards say that moving from common digits to higher digits requires ‘realm of talent’, and moving from higher digits to higher digits is called ‘realm of enlightenment’.”
“You’re talking again!”
“In this kingdom, Pernias, there are two high-ranking wizards. One is the owner of this house, and the other is Simon Magius, the wizard leader of ‘Magus,’ where your brother worked.”
“My brother, you are in such a wonderful place…”
Erin was once again realizing what a great older brother Elvin had been.
“If you fight that Simon Magius, that nobleman and our witch, our witch will win unconditionally.”
“I didn’t ask. I wonder!”
Erin was dumbfounded and shouted at Eunhyun, who boasted of her Illyana.
The anecdote that even Simon, who is a seven-digit high-ranking wizard and an old man in his 60s, who leads all the court wizards, broke into a cold sweat during the magic battle with Illyana and asked for instruction is a famous anecdote within the kingdom. Is one of
Eunhyun boasted of Illyana and her laughter continued as if she was having fun.
‘Of course. Who raised you?’
Unable to erase her proud feelings, Eun-hyeon spoke a lot to her Erin like a mother proud of her child.
Erin said in the middle she realized that something was going to go to the mountain and she said she should keep listening to this but she had a very worried look on her face.
“I’m not talking about learning magic with the goal of reaching high digits. It’s enough to just learn magic that can be used in battle. With the mindset that swordsmanship is the main thing, and magic is a supplement to it. Understand.”
“Huh.”
Erin said she had no talent, she was not sure how far she could learn her magic. .
“Then, are you going to teach swordsmanship in the future?”
“Rather than swordsmanship, I have to build my body first.”
“Body?”
Seeing Erin tilt her head, Eunhyun stretched out her hand in the air and suddenly created a sword.
Erin was quite amazed at the sight, but she did not ask Eunhyeon about the secret.
He was a man with many strange secrets.
Now I’m tired of doubting, so I’m going to have a good time, and I’m going to have a good time.
Eun-hyeon held out the handle of the sword summoned by her authority to Erin.
“Hold it.”
“Huh. What!”
As soon as Eun-hyeon removed her hand from her handle, Erin almost dropped her sword unknowingly, feeling her heavy weight.
“First of all, you have to build up your strength and stamina enough to wield it, right?”
No way.
“Let’s start with a simple exercise.”
Erin couldn’t erase the ominous feeling at Eunhyun’s words as she spoke with a broad smile.
In that way, Erin stayed at Illyana’s house, and in the evening, through Eunhyun’s intervention, Erin exchanged greetings with her landlord, Illyana.
It was very funny to see her living in her lover’s house, and out of the blue, bringing a child of her own and notifying her landlord that he would feed and sleep for her, but Illyana didn’t care.
Illyana, who knew all about her circumstances, looked at Erin with a nasal voice, ‘Huh,’ and when she told Eunhyun that she was going to be trained from tomorrow, she twitched her eyebrows.
“Okay? Training him… Try hard.”
Seeing Illyana’s gaze of sympathy, Erin couldn’t understand why she was looking at her with that kind of look, so she became even more anxious.
Next day.
Erin was running around the huge underground training ground, 120m long and 90m wide.
The task given by Eunhyun was to run non-stop for a distance of 1km, the number of times was 5 times, and each time was limited to 8 minutes.
After each 1 km she completed, she gave her a 10-minute break, and she constantly sipped water to replenish her hydration between each break.
The first lap was difficult for Erin, who was far from her workout, but she struggled to finish and as soon as she finished her first lap, she lay flat on the floor.
“Now, water.”
Erin, whose thirst in her throat was so severe, gulped down the water bottle that Eunhyeon had given her to replenish her moisture, and finally she exhaled her breath and looked as if she was about to live.
“Ten minutes later, the second wheel goes.”
“…”
Erin had no choice but to follow Eunhyeon’s words.
The reason is that if Eun-hyeon fails to complete 1 km in 8 minutes, she adds a vicious condition that she has to do one more lap.
Not wanting to add to this hellish run, Erin ran all four laps of her life-or-death.
Although she wanted to ask Eun-hyeon what the hell you were doing when she made her run like this.
Unlike Ja-si, who was panting and breathing heavily, seeing Eun-hyeon chasing after her with a calm expression and without shedding a single drop of sweat, the desire to complain completely disappeared.
When the death-like run was over, Erin’s stomach groaned loudly.
“I don’t even have the energy to move…”
Erin, who had become one with the floor, showed no sign of waking up despite the cries of her stomach that sounded the signal of an empty stomach.
Eun-hyeon carried the limp Erin in her arms and climbed her stairs.
Upon arriving in the kitchen, her heady smell was tickling her Erin’s nose.
“This…”
Erin, who had been in a daze while being hugged by her Eunhyeon and letting go of her mind, was gradually stimulating Erin’s appetite with the smell of food passing through her nose.
When Eun-hyeon removed her chair and sat her down, Erin saw the food on her table and picked up her fork impatiently.
“Can I eat it?”
Eunhyun smiled and nodded her head at the difference, so severe that she wondered if her expectant face with sparkling eyes matched the slime-like face that was dying from earlier.
“Wow!”
Excited, Erin ate the food on her table prepared by Eunhyun.
“Eat slowly. If you eat like that and exercise again, you will get sick.”
Erin was eating a piece of food, and when she heard that, her expression hardened.
“No way, run again… ?”
“No, don’t run.”
“That… Rum?”
Are you finally taking a break?!
“I will do something else.”
When she saw Eunhyun’s wide smile, Erin’s appetite dropped.
“You have to go to the gym. Member.”
Erin frowned and glared at Eun-hyeon, who was talking incomprehensible words.
[Hey. You’re having such a hard time, do you really have to do that? I feel sorry for all I see…]
‘Absolutely not.’
Eun-hyeon refused her goddess’ request with her single sword.
‘Don’t worry. Because he won’t die.’
[Whoa…]
Belldandy let out a sigh and looked at Erin with her already dead eyes as she ate her bread and soup, and put on her pitiful expression.
The first start of the road ahead, led by Eun-hyeon, was the hellish PT training.
After eating lunch and having time to digest for about an hour, Eunhyun lifted Erin’s limp body on her shoulders and returned to the underground training ground.
“What’s this?”
“It’s a dumbbell.”
Erin sent a suspicious glance at the oddly shaped object with metal rods attached to both ends of her iron rod.
“Hold one in each of her hands.”
“Eww…”
At first, she was lighter than her sword that Eunhyeon had given her, but it felt a bit too much for Erin, who was a weak girl with almost no muscles at all.
Suddenly, Eunhyun grabbed Erin’s hands, and Erin trembled in surprise.
“I will help you. Give strength and slowly lift in the direction I am guiding.”
“Turn it off!”
Gritting her teeth, Erin, with Eunhyun’s help, lifted her arms holding her dumbbells by her side.
It’s better to lift it up as hard as you can and then lower it again.
“Ten times like this.”
“Ten times? I should be able to do that much…”
“A total of 3 sets.”
“…”
Erin was sure.
“You really are the devil!”
“In this field, those words are no different from compliments.”
Normally, it would have been a very insulting remark, but seeing Erin shouting with a resentful expression on her face, she laughed for nothing.
