Chapter 35 – Growth
In the mountains, clothes are starting to change to red.
Jumping and jumping
A rabbit runs around the mountain to stock up on food before hibernating.
Then, quite by chance, I stepped into the human realm.
Chang!
I was so startled by the sharp sound that struck my sensitive eardrums that I hid in the grass.
After that, he peeked his head out from the grass to see what was going on.
Visor! Chang!
Sharp sounds were heard one after another, as if warning.
In the end, the rabbit got over her fear and decided to rest for today and headed home.
Whether they know it or not, the people responsible for the sound
Visor! Visor! SGENG! Visor! It continued to produce that sound.
“”Surp!”” Chaeng!
Two blades clashing once again with the sound of cheers.
Red sparks bloomed, but the owners of the blades paid it no heed and calmly glared at each other with sunken eyes.
“When dealing with an opponent of greater size and strength”
Robin, one of the masters of the blade, rushed forward, holding the hilt of the sword in both hands tightly.
Pot!
Then, the owner of the other sword, Jun’s new form, disappeared in an instant.
“Yes, it’s best to avoid it without going against it like that. “Inhale!”
Chang! Chang!
Robin, who was nodding his head in satisfaction, turned around as soon as he finished speaking and struck down the two big swords aimed at his back with his sword.
And then he ran towards the direction from which Bigeom had come.
At the end was Jun, who had disappeared.
‘What should I do?’
Jun imagined as he saw Robin quickly closing the distance.
Myself holding a spear in check, myself flinging a sword to widen the distance, myself holding a shield and charging towards him.
The moment the best result came out of those imaginations, he drew his weapon in space.
Wedge!
A spear extending through the air.
A neat and uncluttered stab at first glance.
Robin twisted the corner of his mouth with pride and disgust, and placed the sword that had been drawn behind him in front of him.
The moment the tip of his spear came within his defense range, he planned to strike it off with his sword.
For safety’s sake, it is right to avoid one’s body, but if you do so, you will end up suffering from the checks that will follow.
Whisk!
‘Monster.’
He must have sensed his intention early on, and even before he could finish preparing to strike the spear, the tip of the spear that was stabbing towards his chest strangely changed its trajectory and changed its target to the lower body.
Robin had no choice but to stop his charge and throw his body to the side to avoid Jun’s attack.
He tried to close the distance again, but was completely defeated by the accurate yet exquisite combo.
‘I’m going crazy.’
It was frustrating. It felt like my every action was being read.
No, it will actually be read. Information collection through space and information processing through thinking would have made it possible.
Robin’s prediction was exactly right.
‘How will they react now?’
Jun collected all information about Robin’s subtle movements, gaze, and even breathing through space.
He then put that information into the mannequin in his head and derived the expected movements.
‘The body is slightly twisted to the left. It looks like you’re going to turn left and rush, but the center of gravity is actually to the right, so it’s just a feint. So, the actual dash is about 70% to the right and 30% to the front.’
The moment Jun drew a conclusion, Robin’s body moved.
His body, which seemed to be moving to the left, disappeared from sight in an instant.
Since it was quite a familiar occurrence by now, Jun did not panic and aimed his spear towards the right as the space indicated.
“Tsk!”
Robin, who was about to dig into the side, clicked his tongue and leaned back.
No, he pretended to do so and stepped on the ‘vision staff’ from before and charged head-on.
Jun, who had expected that the information obtained through space was a precursor to his body being thrown back, did not expect that rush,
“Wow!”
In the end, he allowed a blow to the ship.
“Jun!”
Fortuna, who was watching the sparring, flew towards Jun, screaming something close to a scream.
Then he cried and lifted his jacket.
There was a thin red line on his uncharacteristically childlike abs.
Seongbeop-Great Hill
Fortuna, who moved her bright white hand to Jun’s stomach, immediately glared at Robin, who was standing quietly near her, and shouted.
“What if you hit our Jun with such an ugly object?”
“… No, this is a bladeless weapon. Isn’t that too much of a fuss? “You can’t believe I used such a high-ranking holy technique on nothing more than a bruise.”
“What! At best! That’s just it!”
Fortuna turns on the light in her eyes and scolds Robin. And Robin doesn’t know what to do about her bruises.
Jun watched the scene with narrowed eyes, and stopped Fortuna only after the anger inside him eased.
“Por, I’m fine, so just leave it at that and continue with your weak hands.”
“Huh! Formaman’s hand is the weak hand, it’s our lord, so let all the pain go away.”
“Hehe, big.”
Jun almost let out an ugly sound when the soft touch tickled his stomach, but he cleared his throat and barely held it back.
“Why? Make a happy noise. Huh? Huh?”
Fortuna didn’t seem to like it and began to blatantly tickle Jun’s stomach.
Jun laughed and rolled around on the ground.
Then their eyes met Fortuna’s, and soon the two were hugging each other tightly and rolling around on the ground laughing.
Robin looked at them with a vague smile as if she couldn’t stop them, and when she thought it was enough, she helped them up.
He then pointed out to Jun the problems that emerged in sparring.
“Jun, understanding through space”
“Just say ‘radar.'”
“Radar? Well, okay, I got it. Anyway, don’t be too overconfident with your radar. Because like I did earlier, an enemy may appear who can even use your movements as a trick.”
“All right. But are there many people like that?”
“There are different types, such as clairvoyance, intuition, and waves, but people like you who can predict the other person’s movements through this ability are not very rare. So, there are quite a few ways to deal with such abilities.”
“I see…”
Jun was disappointed to hear that the weapon he thought was special was not rare and that a countermeasure existed.
Then Robin patted his shoulder as if to comfort him.
“Don’t be so disappointed. Because you have ‘this’ to support the radar.”
Robin continued, tapping his head with his other hand.
“Learn, and think. All possible countermeasures that the enemy may deploy. “Even if it’s difficult for other people, isn’t it possible for you?”
“… Yes! “I will.”
Jun answers energetically.
Robin smiled as if he was amazed and patted his head, then looked around the training hall where traces of sparring were still intact.
“In just 3 months, I can’t believe I learned not one, but 8 weapon techniques and used them so skillfully. “If other people hear about this, they will definitely curse at me and tell me to lie in moderation.”
“It’s thanks to the superpower of thinking. “It’s not that my talent is great.”
“Superpower is also your talent. Don’t try to separate it. Anyway, now I have to move on to the next step. “I thought it would take at least a year to get over it.”
“Is that so?”
“Yes, in order to proceed to the next level, you need to be able to handle weapons like hands and feet. For reference, it takes an average person about a year to master a weapon that well. “Do you realize how abnormal you are?”
Jun nodded his head obediently.
I’d like to say that it was also thanks to his various special abilities, but since he didn’t receive the special ability as a talent, refutating it like that would only hurt his mouth.
“So what’s the next training?”
“It is external reinforcement through aurors.”
“As expected.”
Jun, who was roughly anticipating the next training at the point where weapons should be handled like hands and feet, picked up a spear lying nearby and put it in the space, and instead took out a small dagger and held it in his hand.
Robin also took out the dagger from his waist and plopped down in front of Jun.
“The strengthening of the body through auras is called internal strengthening, and the strengthening of equipment through auras is called external strengthening. Although the part of strengthening something through aura is the same, there is a huge difference in difficulty between the two strengthening methods. Do you know what the reason is?”
“The presence or absence of a mana circuit. “Thanks to the mana circuit created when the auror core blooms, it is very easy to circulate the auror within the body, but I heard that it is very difficult to circulate the auror because the equipment does not have a mana circuit.”
“Right. Apart from that, it is also due to the nature of Aurors. Unlike magical power, which tends to scatter around and is easily discharged out of the body, aurors have the property of condensing into the core, so they are not easily discharged out of the body.”
As soon as Robin finished speaking, he lifted the dagger in his hand into view.
At the same time
Jiing~
A driving sound was heard as the core was driven in the dagger.
The fact that the blue blade of the dagger appears to have become sharper may not simply be due to mood.
“For that reason, external reinforcement requires an enormous amount of mental energy. You have to force the auras that don’t want to come out of the body, and you have to unite the auras to create a pseudo-core. Once you create a pseudo-core, there is no major difficulty in maintaining it, but making it itself is very difficult.”
“How do you make a pseudocore?”
“Compress the aura as much as possible at a location judged to be the center of the equipment, then rotate the aura. Then, the aura’s agglomeration properties will be concentrated inward due to the rotational force, and the aura will naturally come together. It’s called pseudocore. This is the end of the method, so give it a try.”
Jiing~
“… You really…”
What? Why? What!
