Chapter 51 – The Hero of the Fantasy World
The hero in the fantasy world has a significantly higher limit as his ability level increases, especially when he rises from the middle to the top.
Roughly calculated, it would take about twice as much, and that was enough to say that even if you ate a full amount of the highest quality elixir, it was not enough.
‘And that’s the hardest ability to raise…’
I got a fraudulent skill, but I couldn’t use it properly, so I went back to the village because I didn’t have the motivation to find the elixir anymore.
“One! Two! Run!”
When we arrived at the village, we heard the sound of villagers training, so let’s go there out of curiosity.
The men of the village were training under the guidance of Uncle Arkan, who had returned from hunting early.
“Sting!”
“Hey!”
“Furigi!”
“Ouch!”
All the men gathered in the center were holding spears made of wood, and they were all moving according to Arkan’s commands.
‘Certainly, a spear is the most convenient for beginners to defeat monsters.’
If it was a sword, it would not be able to pierce the skin of monsters if it lacked power, but since a spear is a weapon that can concentrate power on stabbing, it could do more damage than a sword when applied with the same power.
When Lee Jin-seok was thinking alone and watching people’s movements, Arkan looked at Lee Jin-seok and thought.
‘I didn’t even poke my nose during training, but today he showed up.’
Arkan, who was worried because Lee Jin-seok, a young man from the same village as Woody, was always out of sight, gestured to him and said, “Come here.”
“It just went well, I was worried because Jin-seok always didn’t see you when you were training, but let’s do it together today.”
“Ah…I’m fine.”
I rejected Arkhan’s proposal, thinking that it was useless because I had a body that could defeat weak monsters with my bare hands without a weapon.
“If you’re a man, you should be able to protect yourself when monsters attack, so you thought you would just run away like a coward?”
At my refusal, Arkhan looked at me with a disappointed look and sarcastically, and I didn’t like that, so I replied bluntly.
“I am strong even without training.”
“Hoo? You who have never been trained by me are stronger than those who have been trained?”
“Because training isn’t the only way to become stronger.”
“If you’re that confident, let’s make a bet somewhere.”
When I said that there was no need for training, Arkhan stroked his beard for a moment and said let’s make a bet.
“Which bet?”
“From now on, if you fight against the person I point out and win, I won’t interfere even if you don’t attend training.”
Pretending to be troubled by Arkhan’s words, I accepted the bet, delighted with this situation as a new event came to my mind.
‘It’s a good situation because if you buy Arkhan’s affinity, you can go outside the boundary.’
“Woody, come out!”
“Me, me?”
“Yes! Come out and pick up a spear and sparr with Lee Jin-seok.”
Woody, who was gazing across the river as if seeing a strange sight, answered in surprise, as if he did not know if he would be pointed out.
“If it were you, you would be able to beat Lee Jin-seok.”
Arkhan spoke out loud, but the reaction of the people around him was quite skeptical.
Think about it, no matter how much you are trained, it is not professional training, but in a state where you have just learned the basics
If Woody, who is skinny in his early 170s, and me, who is 185cm tall and full of muscles, were to fight, who would win?
“I-Can’t anyone else besides me…?”
“No, be confident, Woody. If you train hard enough, it will be possible.”
“Really?!”
“Fighting with bare hands with nothing and fighting with a weapon are on a different level, so you can win.”
“All right!”
Woody, who fell for Arkhan’s flattering words, walked to the center with a face full of confidence. I smiled at his face and slowly walked to the center.
“You don’t need a weapon?”
“It’s okay even if you don’t have it.”
Knowing that I couldn’t hurt myself with such a crude spear anyway, I planned to subdue Woody with my bare body.
“Now then, let’s avoid each other’s attacks aiming at vital points as much as possible. Start!”
When Arkhan announced the start, Woody held out his spear and waited for me to approach.
Seeing Woody like that, he slowly approached him, thinking about how to subdue him.
Woody, who was very nervous when I made a move, gulped and recalled the strength of Lee Jin-seok, whom he had seen before when he was digging firewood.
‘I split a tree that I couldn’t even scratch, and if it sticks, I will always be at a disadvantage…’
Thinking so, Woody prepared to stab Lee Jin-seok as soon as he came within range of his spear, and immediately threw out his spear as soon as he came within range.
Shuuk!
The spear, which moved forward with a pleasant sound of cutting the wind, was accurately shot at Lee Jin-seok, who came within range, but as he took a step to the side, it pierced the empty air.
‘If you fail to damage the enemy with the spear, he said it’s the opponent’s turn next. Let’s run back.’
Woody, who stepped back to retreat after one attack as Arkhan had taught him, regretted how complacent he had been.
‘No, even though I’ve been trained, is this enough?’
As I deliberately slowly entered the range of the spear, as expected, Woody immediately threw the spear out.
The speed of that spear was so slow that I yawned in my eyes, as all my physical abilities had improved with my evolved body.
Without a sense of danger, just move to the side once to easily avoid it and then approach to blow the counter.
Woody tried to retreat backwards, withdrawing his spear, as if he had learned the basics from Arkhan.
‘No matter how much I learn something, it’s useless in front of overwhelming power.’
When Woody tried to retreat complacently without seeing the opponent’s reaction, I sprinted off the ground and accelerated, punching him in the stomach.
Puck!
“Oops…!!”
Woody, who was hit in the abdomen by a fist that stretched out in an instant in a state of collapse while retreating backwards, grabbed his stomach on the spot and collapsed without even uttering a proper scream.
“Stop it!”
As soon as I saw Woody knocked down after being hit in the stomach by me, Arkhan ran over and stopped the sparring.
Arkhan, who looked at Woody’s condition, looked at me after helping him, who was suffering from shortness of breath for a while.
“Can’t I just skip training now?”
“Yes, no training is required. But I have a favor to ask of you.”
“What is your request?”
“Let’s have a sparring with me.”
Looking at Arkhan asking me to fight, I laughed out loud inwardly.
‘The best tutorial event is out!’
The commoners said that if they beat the strongest player in the village, they would receive a fairly generous reward that was not suitable in the beginning, but they thanked Arkhan for opening such an event.
“With your bare mouth?”
“… I will give you one of the weapons I have.”
“You say you don’t really need a weapon?”
“Then I will give you the most precious thing I have.”
“How valuable is it?”
“It is a very valuable item that cannot be received by anyone.”
“Okay then”
First of all, it was clear that it was the best reward among the tutorials, so I accepted his offer.
As soon as Arkhan heard my acceptance, he took out the longsword he was wearing from his waist.
“You’re not going to fight with that, are you?”
“Ah, sorry.”
At my words, Arkhan put the sword back into the scabbard and stood in front of me again with a wooden sword roughly carved from a tree in his hand.
“Can we start now?”
“Yeah.”
As soon as the words were finished, Arkhan, who rushed in in an instant, threw a sword at my waist, but already with excellent dynamic vision
Anticipating the sword’s trajectory, I took a step back, evaded, and landed a low kick on Arkan’s lower body, which was empty in a horizontal slash.
‘Are they blocking this?’
I thought it was a counter that was perfectly aiming for an opening, but Arkhan immediately lifted his leg and defended my low kick, probably because he had been rolling on the battlefield as a mercenary for years.
It was a low kick with a weak sense of restraint, so I was able to get into my stance right away, and before Arkhan swung his sword again, I moved forward and got close to him.
Unfazed by my movements, Arkhan tried to hit my side with the pommel of his sword to knock me off.
If you ignore it and push forward, you can finish it in one shot, but I don’t want to be hit unnecessarily, so I stepped back for a while, and there was a gap, and Arkhan, who stepped back with me, corrected his stance and said.
“You’re really amazing at your age.”
“What?”
“It’s the timing to aim for a counter, and it’s quite good to find the opponent’s gap right away.”
Arkhan, who saw my movement once, was amazed and praised it, but it was not very difficult for me, who could see all the movements of my opponent due to my evolved body.
‘Of course no one is happy with something they can do.’
“This time, Jin-seok, try attacking yourself.”
Arkhan, who complimented me, spoke out while waiting to see if he wanted to see my attack.
I tensed the muscles of my upper body so that I could stretch out my arms at any time with my lower body full of strength.
I stepped on the ground as hard as I could and ran, and after only two steps, I reached the range where I could extend my fist and threw my fist at the wooden sword.
Arkhan, who was thinking of counterattacking to attack after shedding that power while watching Lee Jin-seok’s fist extending toward his wooden sword, was able to quickly realize that his thinking was wrong.
“Cuck!”
‘What power…!’
The fist extended with explosive power was not enough to break the wooden sword, and gave a huge blow to his stomach, and Arkhan, who was hit by my fist with all his might, collapsed far away in agony.
Arkhan, who rolled on the ground, came to his senses and thought of Lee Jin-seok’s movement just before.
‘It seemed like a large monster was jumping.’
Lee Jin-seok, who ran without any technique and just using his physical abilities, stretched out his fist toward the wooden sword he was holding.
He intended to simply let go of the attack, but his wrists didn’t budge the moment they touched the strength of his fists.
“Did I win?”
While I was reviewing the battle like that, I approached him and said that Arkhan, who was lying on the ground, was careless and the battle was also over.
As if he was ashamed of being beaten by a young man he didn’t know, he threw down a broken wooden sword and said,
“Yeah, that’s a really great body, I wish I could train with that body…”
“If you need me later, I can ask you. So what about the reward?”
“Hu… Here it is.”
Arkhan, who was still about to talk about training, sighed when I asked about the reward, and took something out of his arms.
‘Teoheop! No, why is the weak man holding this?
It was a silver ring engraved with the shape of the wind that Arkhan took out of his chest. Knowing what the ring meant, I tried not to show surprise.
