chapter 23
23 – Impersonality and Individuality
A busy time passed every day.
“What the f*ck are you doing inside to make that noise?”
Innumerable traces of magic bullets were left on the container at the training ground, and Dayman was still beating Seria today. But both the beaten side and the hitting side were enjoying each other.
“Looks like you’ve gotten used to being beaten every day.”
“But you’re getting hit less and less every day. By the way, how was your day? Just that fight. Pretty good right?”
“It was nice to aim for the legs to stop moving. Knights wouldn’t be able to move properly even if one leg was broken. I can feel it becoming more sensitive as the days go by. The growth rate is insignificant. However, there is one thing that I feel the more I practice sparring.”
“What?”
Break time. The student and master were both sitting on the sofa, covered in sweat. Dayman looks at Seria quietly.
“Circle 11. And you said class 7, right?”
“Yes. That’s right.”
“How old are you now?”
“It’s the same 5th grader. 17 Years old. Instead, you’re paid twice, so you’re 19, two years older than me.”
“Hmm……”
Daman looks at Seria in silence. Seeing a serious expression, Seria corrects her posture and looks at Dayman.
“Is something wrong? I’ll fix it right away.”
“No. It’s not that kind of problem. Just what I feel empty somewhere while sparring with you.”
“Empty?”
“There were also people who achieved high circles and high classes at a young age. They were so-called geniuses. But at 17, no one has achieved your level of achievement. At your level of achievement, in my time, it was common for people, no matter how smart and talented, to achieve it in their 30s or 40s.”
Daman looks at Seria quietly.
“7 Classes in 11 circles. It’s definitely a magic skill worthy of it. These days, there are so many ridiculous things like cell phones and cars, so I wondered if there were as many geniuses as that, but the more I fight, the more strange it is.”
“Oh what? Don’t turn around and say What part is the problem?”
“To put it bluntly, it feels like the 4th circle mage takes over the body of the 11th circle mage and fights. The manifestation of magic itself is from the 11th circle, but I think the person who operates it is at the level of the 4th circle.”
Seria made a surprised expression at the sharp words. She wasn’t shocked by Dayman’s words.
“That’s it……isn’t it obvious?”
It was because she talked about it as if she had discovered something obvious for the first time.
“Huh? Is it normal? What do you mean by that?”
“Cadidas treatment. These days, children who are gifted or blessed in magic or martial arts start receiving this procedure from childhood. Get it by the age of 7 at the latest. Of course, there is a difference between the level of magic in the body and the level of magic in the mind.”
“Cadidas treatment? What is it? Didn’t the lectures I’m learning teach you that?”
“I guess so. It’s not something that will come out of the basic course you’re taking.”
“What are you doing? That?”
“Ummm…… what should I say about this? It is forcibly pumping the circle and class of the body through surgery. Immediately to the limit that the body can handle.”
Dayman’s eyes widen in astonishment.
“That, is that possible?”
“Yes. Is it possible. The same goes for the warriors of the Jinyong Empire and the students of the Knights Faculty. Even students, basically, all of them have bodies of the highest level. When I was young, I had to forcefully activate the Imdok veins and start. It is natural that the body is strong, but the mind cannot keep up with it.”
“What, what kind of absurd……”
“The Jinyong Empire or the Sorcerer Empire. Basically, the direction of education has changed a lot from the past. In the past, the body and mind grew together, but these days, they tend to teach students to follow their spirit to the level of their body. Didn’t you know about this?”
I didn’t know that Dayman’s eyes would go down. Way unheard of. It was the moment when he felt the shockingly different state of technological development from his time.
“Wait a minute. Let’s stay still then…”
And then he opened his eyes wide.
Dayman, who got up from his seat, started to think deeply about something as he went back and forth for a while. And after thinking for a while, he burst into laughter and approached Seria.
“Seria.”
“Why?”
“Octavia and Rigel. It can be done surprisingly simply.”
“What? What are you talking about.”
“Didn’t I say it was a process of adjusting the mind to the growth of the body? This is definitely efficient. But at the same time, it has a big downside.”
“A disadvantage?”
“Let me ask you something. Octavia and Rigel. Have you ever been defeated?”
“No. They are one of the strongest lineups in the Faculty of Engineering. You have to be a professor to be able to defeat it?”
“Isn’t it? I knew that too! Do you know what swords they use?”
“Octavia heard that she uses a divination spear swordsmanship. Rigel learned the traditional martial arts of her knightly family.”
“Point Changpa! Then you must have used the four-day sword method as a basis!”
Dayman suddenly stands up from his seat and looks drunk with a beam saber.
“Let me show you something interesting. Didn’t Octavia swing her sword like this?”
Dayman starts cutting. And Seria’s eyes start to widen.
It was the same.
Daman was replicating her swordsmanship to the point where it could be said that it was a direct copy of Octavia.
“You! You!! How is that!……..”
Seeing Seria wake up from her surprise, Dayman bursts into laughter at her once again.
“As expected. Ceria. That’s the downside I was talking about. The extinction of her own individuality.”
“Disappearance of individuality?”
“This wouldn’t have happened if I had been trained the old, boring way. At that time, it took a lot of time to raise one level of skill. In the meantime, there are a lot of failures. So at first glance it seems inefficient. But instead. From the beginning, her own unique personality is created.”
“What about individuality?”
“It’s a simple story. Wizards are 1 circle, 1 class, and in the case of unmanned soldiers, they try all kinds of ways to raise their level of inaction, and then gradually learn magic and martial arts in a way that suits them. Even the same sword technique is used differently depending on the user.”
Dayman grins.
“By the way, there was no difference between the sword technique I showed you and Octavia’s, right?”
“No, that’s right. It’s copy-paste level…… It means it’s exactly the same.”
“Unlike before, the body has already been strengthened to the final level, so there is no need to improve. Are you already strong? Why am I going to modify the sword type to suit me? That’s how it goes. It is said that only the stereotypical sword patterns in textbooks remain.”
“Ah.”
Seria looks like she was hit by her hammer.
“Of course, don’t misunderstand. An imbalance in the growth of the body and mind created by the development of technology! This isn’t necessarily bad. Rather, it is very efficient. I mean in the past It was very difficult to explain to the disciple what it takes to rise to a higher level.”
“Really?”
“Think about it. Since the master is in a different dimension both mentally and physically, it was difficult to accurately explain his condition to his disciple in the lower dimension.”
Dayman explains with the height of both hands different, and then adjusts the position of both hands equally.
“But it is different now. It’s just the body, but aren’t the students also reaching a high level? It must be that the eye level of the master and the disciple is aligned. That’s why I said it’s efficient. A word of advice from a teacher is much easier to understand.”
“I see. I hadn’t thought of it that way…”
“However, in the process, ‘Huh? If you just follow the rules, you will get results?’ If you become complacent, you will lose your individuality, and if you accept the advice of your mentor and steadily develop a method that suits you, you will grow rapidly compared to the previous method. In short. Octavia is cursed with her talent.”
“Is she so brilliant that she doesn’t feel the need to develop her own style?”
“That’s it. And you may be somewhat inferior to Octavia in terms of talent, but it seems that your shortcomings have benefited you!”
“What do you mean by that?”
Dayman looks at Seria proudly.
“I felt it from the first time I saw it, but you have your own unique style.”
“……Really?”
“Even before I told you about it, you fought with a wand and a staff when fighting in a karaoke room. It’s clumsy, but that’s your style. It’s something that can’t come out without a lot of research and effort. It’s an ability I would never have had if it wasn’t for the endless defeats I suffered from Octavia. That.”
Seria’s eyes widen. Everyone dismissed her endless challenges and attempts as stupid idiots.
But for the first time.
One of the golden-star bullies was acknowledging that.
She was heartbroken again, but Seria could barely hold back her tears.
“Thank you.”
“I was just telling the truth. Anyway, you have your own style like that. That’s why my bizarre combat training is quickly understood and followed. Due to the gap between the body and mind, the operation is inexperienced for a 7th class archmage in the 11th circle, but well……. Depending on how hard you try, you will quickly catch up. But Octavia is different.”
Dayman shrugged her shoulders.
“Didn’t I say that the movements are copy-pasting? There’s a good chance she won’t get out of her rut even after a defeat. I’ve already had too much success with it. If that’s the case, she won’t easily reflect on herself once she’s been defeated. Her excessive success and talent are sometimes poison.”
Seria was silent for a moment at Dayman’s words. She noticed what Dayman was trying to say, and it was Seria.
“Do you know the four-day sword method? Did you just see that they were very similar?”
“I know that.”
“Then, if I learn the weak point or strategy point of the four-day sword method from you… you’re saying that Octavia can’t deal with it in real combat, right? Because her sword type is fixed as it is.”
An evil smile forms on Seria’s lips. Dayman laughs too.
“Good point. Seria.”
“Tell me. The weakness of the four-day sword method.”
“I’ll pick it up with tweezers and give you a quick tutorial. Ah. By the way, the guy named Rigel. Did you use a shield and a hammer?”
“Yes. That’s right.”
“Do you know which family you are from? That guy named Rigel?”
“I know you are from the family of Count Fagenhau.”
“Oh. He also knows the martial arts of his family. I’ll also pass on its weakness! Seria!”
“Yes!”
Dayman points straight at her with her serious expression.
“Your own personality. As you can see, once this is gone, it becomes easier to be attacked. You are doing great. Do not rest, and continue to discover and polish your own individuality.”
“I’ll keep that in mind.”
“Come on! I’ll tell you the four-day sword method! It’s a swordsman who mainly focuses on stabbing, so you can attack this part! Firstly……….”
The moment I was about to start the lecture.
Suddenly, a loud shout! Loud shouts and screams begin to be heard from outside the training ground.
Dayman’s eyebrows are furrowed.
“You John. I’m telling you to control the thugs, so loud again! Hey! Hey!!! What the hell are you doing!…”
Daman had to keep his mouth shut the moment he left the training ground in a fit of irritability.
“Tongue, brother. Sin, sorry.”
John crumpled on the floor with a bowl of jelly. The gangster gangsters of the 4 major crews flew here and there.
Then the figures who created this mess began to appear in the distance.
“I was always watching you secretly wherever you went, but I never thought you would be in such a disgusting place.”
Eight students wearing school uniforms from Romelln Academy standing tall with canes.
Seven of them were familiar faces.
The 7 students from the Faculty of Engineering who went wild at the karaoke room last time.
These were the guys that Octavia commanded.
And one was a woman he had never seen before.
Red hair. An arrogant and arrogant impression. A neatly dressed school uniform with extravagant ornaments for some reason.
Seria’s eyes widen.
“Lady Polomona? How the hell is this…”
“Lady Seria! Are you hiding from Grand Central Hotel like a rat because you’re scared of Octavia? She was reluctant to do it, but did what she called tailing! And don’t worry too much. Our business today is not you.”
Lady Polomona licked her lips with her tongue and looked at Dayman, who was making a sad expression.
“That bastard you hang out with often. I have something to do with that bastard.”
A sadistic smile appears on her face.
“I came because I was told to look a little rough today.”