NOVEL NEXT chapter 16
16 – training
A gymnasium located next to Academy Hall 2.
“Damn… I got beaten up today…”
In front of me was a golden sun moaning, pinned to the ground in a funny way.
A single mace was lying beside him.
It was the weapon he used.
“Keuk… ugh…”
He caressed the stomach that had been kicked by me and wriggled.
“Ugh… are you a f*cking psychopath…? What the hell are you doing to me… what did I do wrong…?”
I cleaned up the wooden sword I used without answering.
He looked at me with anxious eyes and asked.
“You can’t… you’re not coming tomorrow, are you…?”
“……”
“Why didn’t you answer me…”
“I will come.”
I got hit in the end, so I didn’t get the title.
“This crazy…”
Geumtaeyang was moved by my answer and shed tears.
“Why are you doing this to me…”
“Resent your strength.”
If I was moderately strong, I wouldn’t have won the title all at once.
Taeyang Geum said with her body trembling.
There was suppressed anger in his voice.
“You… damn, you’re trying to steal dinner from me through a duel…! A guy who just exists does more!! The guy called the eldest son of a duke!!”
“You’re talking bullsh*t. Even if you lose in a duel, in the end, you never bought a meal, did you?”
On the subject of never keeping the meal bread that I bet on while losing 8 times…
Geumtaeyang clapped his hands as if he remembered it only then.
“Oh, yes.”
Hehe! Golden Taeyang pretending to hit his head while doing so.
……What is that.
i want to kill
I wiped the sweat from my face while restraining my hand from pulling out the sword of sorrow.
– Jjirit
“……?”
I felt a tingling sensation in my arm, and when I rolled up my sleeve, I saw a blue bruise on my elbow.
It seemed to have been caused by the last attack that he couldn’t avoid before.
‘Yesterday, the day before yesterday, if you look at how they feed you one shot at a time… your skills are pretty good…’
I muttered to myself, and took out the healing potion from the cross bag.
As I was applying the potion to the bruised area, the golden sun crept to my side.
“what?”
“I’ll give you some potions too…”
“Buy it with your own money and apply it.”
When I said it coldly, Taeyang Geum made an expression of regret.
“No…! This is because you were beaten and injured…!!”
“Well.”
Come to think of it, yes.
I took out a potion from my cross bag and threw it.
“Whoa… only this time…”
“thank you sir.”
He caught the flying potion and smiled.
Wow… he looks really dumb when he smiles.
While I was admiring it inwardly, Golden Sun applied a potion and spoke to me.
“By the way, are you really the guy who was last in the rankings last year?”
“Why are you asking that?”
“No… I don’t believe it… How could a kid who was last last year beat me, who was in the top 10 last year’s ranking match, so easily…”
You’re not very well…
– I tried to answer, but I swallowed it again.
“Besides, you said you also painted all the other top 10 kids?”
“……”
“There are a lot of rumors saying, ‘I won without getting hit by anything, I won in 3 seconds’, but honestly, I think this is a bit exaggerated…”
no, that’s true
“Still, I think it’s true that you beat everyone else. You’re really strong.”
“okay.”
I got up from my seat, answering him roughly with excitement.
Then he stopped talking and looked at me.
“Uh, are you going?”
“Okay, business is over. I’ll come tomorrow.”
“Don’t f*cking come. Never come.”
“Shut up, and get ready to receive a duel challenge tomorrow.”
“Don’t come!!”
Without replying, I packed my bag and left the arena.
I think I heard someone screaming behind my back… Let’s just put it on whim.
I checked my watch and thought of my next schedule.
‘The next training… was magic practice…’
busy, busy
I quickly moved towards the carriage stop.
.
.
.
The magic training room in Hall 1 arrived by riding an academy-only wagon.
I walked down the aisle, rubbing my shoulder, which had been sore from riding the rattling carriage.
All the academies are good, but they are so large that it’s inconvenient to have to take a carriage to go anywhere…
Should I change the wagon to something more advanced?
Because we use cheap carriages, our shoulders hurt every time we ride.
I grumbled inwardly and opened the door to the training room.
-Kiik…
The door opened with a slight hinge sound.
Inside, there was a gigantic magic training ground that boasted the same size as the gymnasium in Building 2.
“Fire Spear!!”
“Ice Field!!”
“Lightning Arrow!!”
-Kwaguawang! Quadd Deuk!
As soon as you enter the training ground, you can hear the sound of chanting and magic manifesting loudly.
‘It’s bloody…’
I looked at them for a while, then started walking past them.
Then, the echoes around me died down for a moment, and I felt that my eyes were drawn to me.
I could hear the girls next to me whispering.
“Hey, hey. Look over there. That crazy Gongja…!”
“That pervert who collects s*x slaves…?”
“I really hate it…”
f*ck. There are no s*x slaves, so what kind of collection is that?
“Be careful, don’t make eye contact…! These days, he fights kids who make eye contact with him…!”
“Last week, James was broken by him, too.”
This time, the boys standing in the back.
“Crazy… but he was last in the rankings last year? How did he beat James…?”
“That’s it… He suddenly got stronger, but the others said he made a pact with the devil…”
“Mi-crazy! A contract with the devil…?!”
“How could someone do that…!”
do real sh*t
They played drums and janggu with each other and made a fuss.
That’s how rumors spread.
– The other kids told me… he…
– Huh… Really?
-I guess so… It gives me goosebumps…
Are all places where people live the same?
How is it so similar to when I was in school?
Even back then, when I passed by, the kids talked like that.
“Whoa… Whoa…”
I could feel my breathing getting a little rough.
I massaged the tightness of my neck and relieved the tension in my neck.
I always feel it, but this feeling of tightness in my neck is really f*cked up.
“Haa… what the f*ck…”
When my breathing stabilized, I rummaged through my cross bag and pulled out my earplugs.
Earplugs with magic treatment.
It was an ear plug that blocked out ambient noise and sent calm music into your ears when you put it on your ears.
More like earphones than earplugs.
I took a deep breath and put it on my ear.
-🎵~~
The sound is cut off, and the music in a calm atmosphere flows into your ears.
The whispering sounds around disappear, and only the quiet notes remain in your ears.
“ha…”
The fast beating of the heart calmed down, and the rough breathing returned.
After all, I can’t hear the sound of whispering in my ears, so it’s a little better.
‘I used to use earphones for this in my previous life…’
I never thought I’d be dependent on something like this until I came to the fantasy world.
I laughed at myself and started moving again.
The place I headed was the magic dummy practice field.
It was a training ground where magically treated dolls constantly popped out, dealing with the piles and surviving as long as possible.
As I stand on the training ground, the students around me begin to sneak away.
……
…I’m fine. Because you can use more space.
I comforted myself like that and picked up a wooden sword.
Then, I felt a trembling in the sword of sorrow that was stuffed around my waist.
– Woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo woo
The sword of grief shaking my body like a cell phone’s vibration mode.
It’s like, ‘Why don’t you get me and use me?’ He seemed to be complaining.
I tapped the handle to calm the vibration.
Be still, you’ll only use it in the worst-case scenario.
Arms containing the power of a god are extremely rare in this world.
Even in the original work, except for Alan’s ‘Night Slayer’, the principal of Reynolds Academy, and Coron Logesia’s ‘Frozen Saber’, there were no relics of God that appeared separately.
In the original story, as it became known that Alan had obtained the god’s artifact, people began to target him.
Although the Sword of Lamentation is not of the level of a Night Slayer, it is a weapon containing the power of God.
It is also the weapon of one of the three gods of emotion, said to be the highest level.
If the fact that I possess the Sword of Grief becomes known, there will surely be people who target me.
‘So, I should refrain from using the Sword of Lamentation as much as possible.’
Thinking so, I turned my gaze back to the training ground.
A red button placed in the center of the training ground.
-click
When the button was pressed, training began.
-Turtle, charreureuk!
Dummies started popping up from the training ground floor.
From a dummy with a sword, to a dummy with a spear, to a dummy with a shield, to a dummy with bare fists.
The dummies looked at me, then started running towards me.
– Moolgreok, Moolgreok!
Piles running with a loud noise.
I looked at them and closed my eyes.
“Whoa…”
Control your breathing.
Stop thinking and focus on the sensations in your fingertips.
Sight, hearing, taste, and smell are all erased.
Let’s erase all senses, and only touch remains.
The trembling of the sword is felt through the sensitive fingers.
I tightened my grip even more to suppress the trembling.
The feeling that the sword and the hand holding the sword become one.
After a while, the trembling at the tip of the sword stopped.
Open your eyes.
As soon as my eyelids rise, what I see is two piles running right in front of me.
It’s a fairly close distance, but the sword moves without shaking.
-Suddenly!
The piles were oozing out at the same time with a single blow.
Between the splitting piles, other piles come crashing in.
Rotate the sword gently and swing it again.
-Seo-seop, seo-seop, seo-seop!
The sense of carving out piles is vividly conveyed through the fingertips.
– Hairy gruck! Hair gruck!
When ten piles are cut out, twenty piles are added.
The number is twice as high as before.
However, he steps on the step without shrinking.
-Suddenly!
more, more.
faster.
As efficiently as possible, as quickly as possible.
Black dances, and the remains of the piles scatter on the floor.
Consciousness gradually fades, and the body moves reflexively.
It has passed into the realm of selflessness.
-Suddenly!
As they carve out the heads of the two dummy, they see shadows on the floor.
I turned around and saw a dummy holding a sword.
It was too late to avoid it.
I thought so and quickly memorized the chant with my mouth.
“Blink”
-Titling!
[Short distance teleportation (Blink) is activated!]
As soon as the text on the small status window appears, my body blinks.
-bang!
The dummy hits the spot where I was with a sword.
However, no one was there.
I’m 1 meter ahead.
So, I moved behind the dummy that was just targeting me.
-Suddenly!
My sword cuts the confused dummy’s body in two.
1 meter teleportation.
It’s definitely a trashy ability, but it’s not like there’s no way to use it at all.
In dramatic moments like this, you can use it as an escape, or move behind your opponent to catch them off guard.
Of course, you have to be aware of the distance between yourself and your opponent, and the level of difficulty is insanely high because you need excellent martial arts skills.
This is why Raiden couldn’t use 1 meter blink.
There was no way that Raiden, who had no talent in martial arts or magic, could use such a high-difficulty technique.
However, I am not Raiden.
I am Naru Kim.
Naru Kim has an intuition for measuring distance and overwhelming ability in martial arts.
In a word, this 1 meter teleportation,
– Clap clap!
It sounds like you can create good synergy with me.
-Titling!
[The skill ‘Blink’ can be used. The number of times has been exhausted!]
[Remaining number of uses (0/10)]
[2 hours 37 minutes 19 seconds until next mana charge]
Of course, the mana barrel is small and the efficiency is so bad that I can’t use it much, but…
Well, it’s still better than nothing.
I thought so and moved my sword again.