Chapter 219 – Practice
#219.
“Then I will go.”
“Yes, honey.”
Side!
After lightly kissing, Gaon left Priscilla behind and headed to the Kritika Guild.
After returning to the capital, Gaon went straight to the Barrymore estate and spent a few days of happiness with Priscilla and Silion.
Even though he wasn’t even a year old, Ira, who was still looking for her mother, couldn’t share her love as a couple.
Anyway, there is no doubt that it was a worthwhile and fulfilling time.
Gaon arrived at the guild and went up the elevator as usual and entered the guild leader’s office.
“Long time no see. How are you?”
“Yes. It feels good to see everything going smoothly.”
Sat down on the sofa across from her, Cain asked after drinking her prepared coffee.
“So what happened?”
“Haha… , Would you like to take a look at this?”
Gaon held out the Elixir research journal because there was no need to drag on useless words.
Upon receiving it, Cain read it with a puzzled expression, then fell in love with it in an instant and read it from beginning to end without uttering a breath.
Then she closed her eyes and was silent as if thinking about something, then opened her mouth with a sigh.
“It’s an elixir recipe. That’s great. Where did you get this from?”
“This is the Republic of Elbrancia. I had a chance to go this time. But what about it? Can you make it?”
No matter how many recipes there are, unless you have a fair amount of manual dexterity and alchemy knowledge, you can’t even think about making an elixir.
When she asked anxiously, Cain smiled and replied, as if it hurt her pride.
“Of course you can. Aren’t you underestimating me? Certainly, it might have been a bit unreasonable when we first met, but now my alchemy has improved considerably. You are not the only one growing up.”
“Okay. Sorry. Would you mind taking over? We pay a hefty fee.”
“But there is one problem. Everything else is fine, but it’s the part that infuses this life force. I will have to borrow the power of the Healing Church, is that okay?”
The more entangled forces become, the more difficult it is to maintain security. If anything about the Elixir goes out, all kinds of powerful people will press on it, so it’s better to keep it as secret as possible.
Cain is worried about that.
“Don’t worry about that. I’m not going to drag the church. Isn’t there someone else who can do that? You know Cain, right?”
“… It was. I forgot. Then can you just leave? I mean, I had to start manufacturing right away. It will take about a week, then come back.”
“All right. Then, in the meantime, we need to let the children experience it in real life.”
“… Gently.”
“Haha! Of course.”
Gaon laughed out loud at the sight of her worrying about whether Hazel had accumulated a lot of affection while teaching Hazel, and left her office and headed for her training room where she would be.
‘There won’t be any problems, right?’
The possibility of Cain running away with the elixir is not completely zero. She needs to leave her surveillance by asking Lucipheon’s side.
It’s not that she doesn’t trust him, but rather that she doesn’t allow the slightest bit of space to trust him.
After a while, Gaon was able to keep Hazel in his eyes.
“Suck! Haap!”
Hazel was sparring with one of the Kritika guild members in the training room.
It is quite rough to attack without a break with the double-dagger technique that makes use of the small body. The opponent had no choice but to respond defensively, being pushed by waves of attacks.
Kang! Cagan! Kagagak!
However, since he was pushed back in absolute physicality, it was impossible to break through the defense and deliver an effective hit, even though he was able to attack threateningly.
In the end, if things go on like this, they will only eat away at their own stamina, and then collapse from exhaustion.
Hazel must have known that as well, crossing the daggers in an X shape and swinging them away, then stowed the daggers and held out his left hand.
Then, the device on my wrist instantly turned into a palace. Shortly thereafter, she aimed the pin that had been holding her chest down at her string and fired.
Fish Shu Shoot!
The sound was also unusual because it had a different appearance from an ordinary arrow. Due to an optical illusion, Finn gave the illusion of splitting into several pieces and attacked the target as it was.
“This… I lost.”
The opponent shook his head as if he couldn’t help it.
The pin, which vibrated finely and constantly changed its trajectory, idly collided with the self-defense device and bounced off.
Currently, Hazel’s level is 5 stars. Opponent is 6 stars. It was continuing under the condition that only equal abilities would be used in a fight that was originally impossible to establish. Having violated that, it can be said that Hazel’s victory.
Hazel, who was stiffening her body with a nervous expression, jumped up and down, clenching her fists.
“Oh yea!”
“Good job. I didn’t know that I would link the attack right there. Will you catch up soon?”
“No. It’s still a long way off. You have to become much stronger to be helpful to the guild leader.”
Haha! Well He seems to be getting stronger even now. Cheer up.”
The guild leader here is likely to be Gaon, not Cain.
Gaon, who had been secretly watching from one side of her training room, trembled when he heard his story, then approached him with a big chuckle.
“Kuhm! Hazel.”
“Uh? Guild leader?”
“Yes, it is me. Good fight Was it great?”
“Really?”
“I don’t lie.”
Hazel smiled brightly. She is said to be precocious, but as she is only 13 years old, Gaon’s praise is bound to make her happy.
From the moment she was saved from the hands of robbers, her goal was Gaon.
“But what are you doing here?”
“I came to Cain because he had something to do, and she stopped by. More than anything, this time, because of urgent work, the real battle was delayed. She came to talk about it.”
“Does that mean you are leaving now?”
“Okay. We plan to explore the dungeon in a few days.”
Hazel, who had both a high level of aggression and a spirit of improvement, had no fear of dungeons. She could only gain realization by experiencing her actual combat.
Burning her will, she vigorously nodded her head and turned to the entrance of her training room.
“Then I’ll go and get ready right away!”
“Oh, hey! Hazel!”
Despite Gaon’s call, Hazel left her training room without hesitation.
Unexpectedly, Gaon, who was left alone with a guild member, was silent for a while, then exchanged greetings with him and left the guild.
“The personality is also impatient. I’ll have to tell Raoul the rest.”
She said that she and her brother meet several times a day to have meals and talk, so it seemed better to tell Raul about the dungeon exploration.
Gaon shook his head and turned to Raul.
***
The morning of the week since I returned from the Republic of Elbrancia. Gaon led the siblings Raul and arrived in front of a dungeon.
“Are you both ready?”
“Yes! Brother.”
“I don’t have any problem.”
Thinking that this was an opportunity to be acknowledged, the two of them responded with a loud shout.
Gaon smiled and stepped back and stood side by side with Chorin.
“Then, Mr. Please. I would appreciate it if you would focus only on defense. We follow from behind.”
“All right. Leave it to me Let’s go guys!”
If this exploration is successfully completed, Shim Young, Raoul, and Hazel. In this way, I plan to have the three of us act as Savior’s 2nd Army.
As such, the rest of the party, excluding them, intends to watch without intervening as much as possible.
Cho-rin was brought in in case an unexpected situation occurs and Ha-yeon remains in the guild building and is in the midst of training.
Apparently, after meeting my brother, he seems to be quite friendly. Even though she was directly taught by Gaon, she is disintegrating because she can’t get ahead.
If it goes beyond the limit and causes anger, it will be a problem, but right now it’s not at a serious level, so I’m just paying close attention.
Gaon, who briefly thought of Ha-yeon, saw the siblings entering the dungeon, starting with Shim-young, and followed her leisurely.
The dungeon was a maze-shaped underground building made of bricks, but fortunately, it was not dark because magic lights were installed at certain distances.
However, it was not so wide that an adult man stretched out his arms and almost filled it.
This is the hideout of an ancient mage. It is said that the living armor protects this place, so there are a lot of armor that traps the soul and makes it move on its own.
Since the body made of special metal does not work even with auras, it is a fairly difficult dungeon for Raoul and Hazel.
With Shim-yeong, she won’t be pushed back, but at least it will be an opportunity for her to objectively grasp her own powerlessness.
As I went a little further, the aisle seemed to widen a little, and then a wide space appeared. In front of it stood two living armor guarding the old gate.
“Stop. Prepare for battle, both of you.”
At Simyeong’s signal, Raoul summoned a spirit so that he could use spiritism at any time.
In that state, as they approached each other while maintaining their respective positions, a blue light flashed in the empty eyes of the Living Armor, and they attacked at the same time.
Quaang!
A huge halberd hit the floor.
After Shim-young avoided the attack with simple movements, she stopped the remaining living armor from rushing towards Raul.
The one wielding a greatsword staggered when Shim-yeong touched her forearm, retracted the weapon, and retreated.
Thanks to this, Raul and Hazel can attack without worry.
[Waterball!]
With Raul’s cry, Undain, who was floating above his head, reached out his hand, and in an instant, the water compressed into a circle and shot forward fiercely.
Paaang!
Then, hitting the side of the Living Armor, it explodes violently and shakes off the sound of the blast.
It was a bloody attack to the extent that ordinary people would lose their lives as the impact area exploded the moment they hit it.
Although the water spirits are said to have less aggressive abilities compared to other attributes, they have minimal power as long as they are intermediate level spirits.
Of course, the Living Armor wasn’t even scratched that much. He only flinched for a second. But that gap was enough for him.
Wedge liquid!
In the meantime, Hazel’s arrow, which had finished aiming, was shot with a deep brown aura similar to her hair color, and lodged in the living armor’s eye socket.
Kwajik! With the sound of her whine, her head is thrown back violently and she stumbles uneasy.
The moment I wonder if one has been killed like this,
“Have you done it?”
Hazel murmured.
‘This!’
As a result, as if to prove her words that even the dead somehow revived, the Living Armor casually caught the arrow stuck in her eye socket and broke it.
She didn’t look like she was hit at all.
“Hazel! The guys we’re fighting right now are Living Armor! There must be a magic stone somewhere in her body that contains her soul. Go for it!”
“Why didn’t you tell me in advance!’
“Honestly, I thought it would be in your eyes.”
Hazel, speechless at Shim-young’s shameless answer, hesitated for a moment and then said, Chit! She did and pulled the string again.
And Raul listened to the conversation beside her and laughed awkwardly, but also exercised Spiritual Art to prevent the Living Armor from approaching.
Even after that, Hazel’s arrows continued to target the gaps in the Living Armor, and she was able to stop her Living Armor after using 7 arrows.
It was only after firing 10 rounds that the remaining one was knocked down.
