Chapter 49 – 049. Swordsmanship Dalian (1)
Erin’s education was largely divided into three categories.
The first is basic physical strength training to improve physical ability.
The second is swordsmanship training based on improving physical abilities.
The last third was magic training that could be used in battle.
Widely!
In the vast underground training ground, the sound of trees colliding echoed.
Eunhyeon and Erin were sparring, attacking each other with wooden swords.
Even if it is a wooden sword with no lethal power, the situation is very different if the person who handles it is a user who knows how to use magic.
Fain!
The two wooden swords shimmering in blue energy cross each other and begin to resonate inside the training ground with a powerful gong sound.
Erin’s body, which had been receiving Eunhyeon’s attack, was pushed back little by little.
“The mana that strengthens the body is disturbed again.”
“Eww.”
It was a training that was too simple to explain in words, such as seeing and blocking Eun-hyeon’s attack while maintaining the magic power that strengthened the body, and taking a counterattack again.
For Erin, who had never even held a sword before, it was an extremely difficult training that brought not only physical but also mental fatigue.
Even so, Erin didn’t say anything, and started to maintain the strength of her body again by raising her magic power again at Eunhyun’s point, gritting her teeth.
Erin rushed towards Eunhyeon in order to close the gap and attack.
“Ha!”
Erin’s seed slash, which accelerated with a shout, was drawn toward Eun-hyeon, but Eun-hyeon cut off Erin’s wooden sword, which was close to an obvious attack, with a wooden sword, then clenched a fist with his free hand and slammed his fist into Erin’s abdomen. Plugged in
“Cuck!”
Her breath bursts from Erin’s mouth, and her body rises into the air from the blow to her abdomen.
Erin’s body floated in the air and began to fly, crashing into the wall of her training ground.
As Erin’s limp body collapsed on the floor, Erin crouched over her stomach with both arms wrapped around her stomach, feeling the pain in her stomach that belatedly came to her.
“Uh, ooh…”
Perhaps it was because her blow was so strong, Eunhyeon said to Erin, who even looked like she was gagging.
“Don’t just look at the opponent’s sword, look at the opponent’s entire action to the end. The enemy always misses the gap you see. The moment you show that gap, you are dead.”
Whether it was attacking or defending, it was an absolute truth in any situation.
If she tries to attack but is blocked and shows an opening, the enemy does not miss the moment and takes her life.
“Egg… I did.”
She replied as she endured the pain that did not diminish her in the slightest, and Erin, clenching her teeth, regained her grip on her wooden sword that had slipped from her hand and barely got up, using it as her staff.
The sparring between the two resumed again.
In the first three months of her training, Erin’s physical abilities improved markedly.
It is because the training that made her muscles stick little by little through running and various weight training, which she has been steadily paralleling every day without a break, has finally begun to show results.
Based on her rapidly improved physical abilities and her stamina, Erin was diligently wielding her wooden sword and was being trained by Eunhyun.
However, no matter how much she attacked, she couldn’t stand the attack of a beginner who had only learned her swordsmanship for less than half a year.
There is no restraint in Eun-hyeon’s actions, where she blocks all of Erin’s attacks while standing comfortably without moving a single step, and each and every action is as smooth as flowing water.
Nevertheless, Eun-hyeon’s counterattack, always aiming for Erin’s gap, is sharper and faster than lightning, and unmatched in intensity.
As Eunhyeon raised his arm holding his wooden sword to the sky, Erin reflexively looked up, raised his sword, and took a defensive posture.
However, immediately after, taking advantage of the gap where the gaze was directed upward, Eun-hyeon kicked Erin’s foot and slashed it, and Erin’s body began to float in the air.
“Kyaaaaagh?!”
Erin, who was in a defensive posture and prepared for Eunhyeon’s attack, lifted herself up in the air without knowing why, then fell to the floor and, sure enough, her butt landed on the hard stone floor.
“Ouch…”
“Don’t think that just because the opponent raises his weapon, he will attack you with his weapon.”
“Oh, it hurts…”
The pain from the blow to the abdomen still lingered, but when the hip was hit, the pain throughout the body that I had endured until now appeals to my head.
Finally, Erin wept.
“Didn’t I tell you to think and move while looking at the opponent’s whole, rather than just looking at the opponent’s sword?”
Even though I gave you advice, I got hit twice because I didn’t pay attention properly.
It seems to say
“Ugh…”
Erin glared at Eunhyun with her resentful eyes and stood up from her seat.
In this way, she hoped to get counterattacked by Eun-hyeon five or six times, and there was probably no place in her body that did not get stabbed.
But even so, she stood up again like that and pointed her wooden sword at her. Erin’s behavior was so admirable that it made her laugh.
“Once more!”
“However much.”
The sparring between the two, which must have continued several times, was repeated again.
The two siblings who were watching the scene each had a complicated expression on their faces.
“At least the level is higher than Aether.”
It is true that the level of Erin under her training is still insignificant.
However, Eun-hyeon, who is training him, is at a different level.
Accurately estimating the girl’s limits, she uses only counterattacks consisting of blows that do not put too much strain on her body.
Still, she pokes the girl’s gaps, reminds her of direct pain, and induces her to grow as a lesson.
It is often said, ‘If you don’t know, you have to learn while being beaten.’ It’s a rough way, but the girl grits her teeth at such rough training and continues to follow her training even while crying at her pain.
“Even so… Do you really need to push it that hard?”
Armitas’ brother and sister looked at Eunhyeon and Erin’s map sparring, and both of them were making subtle expressions.
The expressions of the two were similar, but each had a point of view as a ‘knight’ and a ‘noble lady’, so the thoughts between the two were inevitably different.
“I am a child who is not even twenty yet. The need to go through such hard training while being hit like that…”
“At the same time, he is also a child who went through a difficult experience where no one protected him.”
“…”
Alex and Eleanor knew Erin’s past, so they understood why she was so desperate to train.
“That training is also a training that started with that child’s will and determination. It’s not our problem. More than that, as expected, that man is amazing.”
Even if Erin’s skills were not up to the level of a beginner who had just picked up a sword, she couldn’t grow beyond what she could have achieved in three months.
If she continued to train like this, she might soon be on a level comparable to the other male students in Aether who are currently enrolled in training as knights.
Considering that in general, children of aristocratic families enter Aether after receiving 2 or 3 years of education through private tutors invited by their families before entering Aether as trainee knights.
It was safe to say that Eun-hyeon’s talent, which made her able to compete with them in just three months, was exceptional.
The thing I was most interested in was the mental strength to endure the pain of being counterattacked five or six times and almost fainting and continuing to fight.
That firm determination and gaze made me feel a strong will that was rare even within the knights.
She was a girl with potential that convinced Erin that if she continued to grow like this, she would be able to become a great knight.
“Kyaaaaagh!”
“If an attempted attack is blocked, immediately predict the opponent’s next move. And make a decision whether to defend or evade.”
Erin, who flew through the air again, was pointed out by her Eun Hyun.
“Okay, today’s training ends here.”
“Oooh… I haven’t hit you once today…”
“Miss Eleanor.”
Eunhyun, who was looking at Erin’s condition as if she was muttering indignation, called Eleanor, who was watching her training from afar.
“Yes.”
Eleanor, who responded to his call, looked at Erin, who was sprawled on her floor.
‘It has changed so much that I can’t even recognize it…’
She had been exercising and training steadily for three months, and Erin, who had been fed only good things like a mother bird feeds her baby birds, looked completely different from three months ago when she was very skinny and weak.
Perhaps thanks to her proper eating habits and exercise, she began to gain weight, and Erin’s body, which was in the midst of growing up, was transforming into a properly mature woman.
Her robust thighs and forearms, her visibly enlarged chest and forearms, her clean skin without any blemishes due to the effect of her magical training, and many other factors combine to create her beautiful healthy beauty. Was showing off
‘What the hell did you do, like this in 3 months…’
It was the thought that came to my mind when I looked at the body of Erin, who had changed beyond recognition, as she looked at her condition and healed her body with bruises here and there with her divine magic.
It was an undeniable fact that she felt envy and curiosity when she saw a young girl who was becoming remarkably prettier as a woman.
Eleanor glanced at her silver, which was the cause of her Erin’s change.
“Would you like to compete with me next time?”
“… No, Gongja. Aren’t you busy?”
Eunhyun made a plain expression with a blatantly troublesome expression.
Alex, whose attitude is so different from the way she treats Erin, who is kind but vicious in training, puts on a funny face.
“Because the guards are basically on duty. Today is a holiday. I came here because I was personally interested.”
Three months ago, Eun-hyeon accepted Eleanor’s rescue request to the Great Labyrinth of Archis, and the condition she demanded from Eleanor was simple.
– I’m going to train my kid, so come every day and heal me with divine magic.
Eleanor was quite dissatisfied with the fact that her request to the daughter of the Duke of Armitas, who had all military authority in the Kingdom of Pernias, was a ‘recovery shuttle’ that visited this place every day and showered a girl with divine magic.
– Yes? Are you not listening? Really? What? Really? That wouldn’t be the case.
Seeing Eun-hyeon openly revealing her own bad personality with her despicable laugh, Eleanor, whose enthusiasm stretched out, had no choice but to accept Eun-hyeon’s request.
In any case, it was true that he had asked for help first, and it was also true that Eun-hyeon had made a great contribution to rescuing her brother and the princess of her country.
If he had known in advance that he was such a bad-tempered person, he would have thought about asking Eun-hyeon for help at least once or thrice.
“Whoa, that’s good.”
“Looks like you’re after something too?”
“Well, it’s nothing.”
Eunhyun glanced at Erin and accepted Alex’s request.
“And I hope you don’t do that respect. I don’t think I’m more valuable and respectable than you. Besides, I have a desire to live with you purely as close friends, leaving behind things like social status.”
“I don’t mind the obscure favor.”
Eun-hyeon narrows his eyes and looks at the blond handsome man who still has a refreshing smile on his face.
It was so burdensome to see that gaze that was strangely favoring him.
“Anyway, isn’t it just polite to show respect to me? I want you to get rid of the pretense of showing respect through words when you don’t respect them.”
In fact, the attitude itself was rude, even though it was only verbally respectful.
But why does Alex have favor with Eun-hyeon?
There was no special point of contact, but it was strange, to the point of questioning.
“Brother, you choose to make friends…”
“There, please be quiet on the recovery shuttle.”
“Oh really!”
Eleanor, who was indignant, glared at Eun-hyeon, but Eun-hyeon was looking at Alex without even giving her a look, as if he was laughing.
There was certainly no respect or consideration in the way he treated Eleanor.
“Well, okay. If you want that, there’s nothing you can’t do.”
“After.”
Alex nodded her head and picked up the wooden sword that Erin was holding until earlier, then held it in her hand and swung it around to assess the condition of her wooden sword.
Alex, who had completed some estimation, pointed the wooden sword at Eun-hyeon and asked.
“I’ll let the first gong do it.”
“Okay.”
As soon as Eun-hyeon finishes her words, Alex breaks into Eun-hyeon’s arms.
At the same time, the wooden sword he was holding aimed at Eun-hyeon’s chest and stabbed him.
Percussion!
Alex’s wooden sword was simply thrown away, and a sparring between the two began.
