A Narrow-Eyed Nobleman Is Always Misunderstood

Episode 26 – Dawn Training

Open your eyes and check the time.

It is 3 am now.

It’s still time for everyone to go to sleep.

If anyone asks why it happened so early, I will answer like this.

‘Because it’s best to practice at dawn.’

The time of dawn is a static time, not a dynamic time.

The word “Quiet time” Is what the magicians insisted on.

Among the very talented wizards, he could see the flow of mana with his own eyes.

It is said that the wizard came out at dawn one day to catch his breath, and saw that mana was just standing still on the ground without any flow.

Mana, which normally flowed like rough water, at dawn she showed no movement like the surface of a calm lake.

Seeing that, the wizard said he knew why warriors train at dawn.

In the past, the warriors who woke up at dawn and practiced seemed crazy, but not anymore.

The warriors learned through their instincts and training what time they should train so that their bodies could receive the most mana.

Well, from that day on, the wizard became an outstanding wizard and earned a reputation.

That’s why I woke up at dawn.

Because it’s the best time to gather the mana distributed in the air and make it your own.

“Keep it off.”

I stretched out, got up, washed my face, and changed into my clothes for training.

When I opened the closet, I was greeted with clothes properly organized according to type and purpose.

Perhaps it was something Nina had put together.

I took out a sweatshirt, changed clothes, and put the clothes in the laundry basket.

The color of the sweatshirt was gray.

Who said that, the reason why the color of the sweatshirt is gray is to let you know how much you sweat or something.

“If I am sweating enough, I will have to train to the point where there is no answer.”

Until a month ago, when I became a Sword Expert Master, I didn’t get tired and didn’t sweat even with tolerable training.

“Then, let’s try hard starting today.”

Training, training, and only training is the way to live.

Couples’ acts of affection cannot be endured with the spirit of a sword master.

Like the words of Tarun, who was a sword master in the old days, I will try to see the end of the path of the sword beyond the level of a sword master.

When you get to that level, maybe then you can go to the dessert shop without worrying about the couple’s affection.

I just wished that day would come as soon as possible.

I came out of my room, went down the stairs, left the dormitory, and arrived at the gymnasium, but no one was there.

Hey, it’s 3:00 in the morning, how many crazy people come out to practice?

If you push your body to its limit through hard training, the limit gradually increases as your body recovers through rest periods.

This was perfectly normal common sense.

So, everyone goes to bed at a time when the body can recover.

However, since I had not trained at all after coming to the Royal Academy, there was no reason for me to recover.

So, now I was planning to start rigorous training at the training ground.

I rented a wooden sword for practice from an unmanned rental machine at the entrance of the gymnasium and moved to a corner where people do not come.

“Whoa… ….”

I held the wooden sword firmly with both hands and straightened the wooden sword vertically so that it looked like it was one.

And I closed my eyes.

The most important thing to me right now is neither physical training nor gaining any kind of enlightenment.

The reason I stood there and closed my eyes was to fully accept the mana distributed in the air as mine.

Magic and martial arts.

Mana and aura.

The two are similar, but different.

They have something in common in that they process mana, the energy of nature.

However, there is a difference between magic using mana itself and martial arts building up mana in the body and manifesting it as the power to come back.

A wizard trains his brain to calculate magic and his body to support mana, and a warrior trains his body to use martial arts and his mind to gain enlightenment.

So they are different yet similar.

There is nothing wrong with that.

It’s different.

“Huh!”

Take a deep breath and hold your breath.

As the warrior inhales and exhales like this, he receives the mana flowing in the air.

And when you exhale again, a very small amount of mana enters your body, and most of it goes out.

Some wizards saw this and asked if we were choosing too inefficient training, but that’s because the wizard only saw fragments.

This is something only I know because I can use both magic and swordsmanship at the same time.

The mana distributed in the air seems to have a single nature, but in reality it is composed of many things.

There, our samurai absorb only the mana of the nature that can become an aura, and discharge the rest to the outside.

This is why most mages experience stagnation in improving their skills.

My magic level isn’t that high yet, so I can’t explain in detail.

To conclude, the nature of mana that wizards need and the nature of mana that warriors like me need are completely different.

“Whoa.”

I exhale again.

There was no mana left in the breath I exhaled.

What I was doing was absorbing all the mana distributed in the air.

In fact, it is a world only I can walk on, a world only I can understand, and a state that no one but myself has yet reached.

Even if I ask my father, a pure warrior, and even if I ask my mother, a wizard, there is no one on earth who can give me definite advice about my realm.

Is there really someone in this world other than me who can use swordsmanship and magic at the same time?

“Whoop, whoop.”

If there is such a being, do they really know the answer I need?

“Hot, haap!”

As I repeat the inhalation and exhalation movements, I begin to refine the swordsmanship I have accumulated so far one by one.

Refine stabbing, horizontal cutting, and vertical cutting, which are the basics of all swordsmanship.

I don’t force movements to follow, so that all movements become as natural as a flowing river.

Swing the sword while feeling the movement of the muscles and the subtle reactions of the aura and mana.

To some, it might look like I’m joking as I wield the sword slowly, but this isn’t a joke.

If you simply want to swing your sword quickly, you need to train your muscles hard.

However, the motion of swinging the sword in the exact location in the desired direction at the desired speed cannot be achieved by training the muscles.

In line with the swordsmanship he is using, he has to allow his muscles to perform the action naturally.

If you are attacked by someone, it will be too late to try to figure out the situation and move after seeing it with your own eyes.

The only way to block an attack is to move your body and extend your sword at the same time as you see it with your eyes.

As I looked at my swordsmanship one by one, I realized that I was still lacking a lot.

Thanks to my talent, I reached the rank of sword master at an early age, but my skills were still lacking.

I can feel the difference between the motion I performed just a minute ago and the motion I am performing now.

Those subtle differences that others don’t notice are completely felt by me now.

“Anyway, I don’t think I should just swing the sword.”

At times like this, you have to correct the difference through sparring.

I would ask my father if it were my family’s territory, but there were no people here who were skilled enough to fight with me.

“I can’t. I have no choice but to summon a battle golem.”

In the end, I decided to summon a battle golem.

A battle golem is a training golem created by the Royal Academy.

Sparing is necessary to evaluate the skill you have created, but it is difficult to evaluate a skill that is dangerous enough to cause the opponent to die.

So, to test this technology, the Royal Academy created a battle golem with self-healing capabilities.

Thanks to the Battle Golem, which recovers and rises again even if it is broken, many people say that they were able to hone their skills.

And now, it’s time for me to use that battle golem.

Approach the rental machine at the entrance of the gymnasium and put the magic bracelet on to recognize your identity.

[Why are you here?]

“I want to rent a battle golem.”

[Sorry. New students are restricted from renting battle golems until after the banquet.]

However, my status as a freshman put restrictions on me.

“Haa… ….”

The banquet starts in two days.

In other words, you can rent a battle golem only after two days.

Can we properly train in this situation?

I couldn’t help it, so I went back to the place where I was training and was building up mana in my body while repeating the inhaling and exhaling motions.

After a certain amount of time, he swings his sword again and checks his movements.

“Excellent. He looks like a freshman, but his posture is perfect.”

“Who are you?”

At that time, there was a voice coming from behind me as I was breathing for a while after training.

Turning her body to look in the direction of the sound, I saw a female cadet with her long hair neatly tied in a braid, looking at me.

“You mean me? Oh, yes. If you’re a freshman, you might not know. I am Catarina Rumon Elcatein, President of the Royal Academy Student Council.”

The person standing in front of me was the student president.

What’s the president of the student council, an organization involved in big and small matters within the Royal Academy, to do with me?

“Thank you for the compliment. There are still many areas missing.”

“You don’t have to be too humble. In my opinion, your swordsmanship is perfect on its own. By the way, to come out at such an early hour and practice swordsmanship. Any reason?”

The student council president asked me why I was practicing swordsmanship at this time.

“Well? Maybe it’s because I couldn’t protect what I wanted to protect while staying here?”

I told my honest feelings.

To feel the true taste of dessert even in the love barrage of couples, you have to grow more than you do now.

I’m going to enjoy dessert, not to see couples flirting.

“It is something that must be protected… ….”

After that, the student council president left the gym without a word.

Hmm, maybe you didn’t like my answer?

I don’t know.

I’ll have to fill up my training time or more before leaving the gym.

–

Catarina Rumon Elkatain, a woman just coming out of the arena, was lost in her thoughts.

The head of the student council, she came down to the gymnasium a little earlier than usual.

And there, she encountered a rumored new cadet.

He was a man with golden hair that suited him very well.

His swordsmanship movements were perfect.

He himself is also a swordsman, but his swordsmanship was perfect.

Katarina talked to him while he stopped training for a while.

“Excellent. He looks like a freshman, but his posture is perfect.”

“Who are you?”

He asked Katarina who she was.

Since she is a new cadet, of course it was her reaction because she did not know who she was.

“You mean me? Oh, yes. If you’re a freshman, you might not know. I am Catarina Rumon Elcatein, President of the Royal Academy Student Council.”

“Thank you for the compliment. There are still many areas missing.”

“You don’t have to be too humble. In my opinion, your swordsmanship is perfect on its own. By the way, to come out at such an early hour and practice swordsmanship. Any reason?”

Katarina exchanged her greetings with him, and she asked him questions.

It was about why he, who had near-perfect swordsmanship skills, was training at this time.

“Well? Maybe it’s because I couldn’t protect what I wanted to protect while staying here?”

“It is something that must be protected… ….”

Katarina found enlightenment here.

You can’t be complacent in order to protect what you need to protect.

And she could remember why she held the sword.

‘Sister. I will be strong like my sister someday!’

A precious little brother who won’t hurt even if you put it in your eyes.

Aren’t you trying to become this strong in order to protect that younger brother?

“Thank you. Alberto. I’ll pay you back later.”

Catarina went back to her dorm, thanking Alberto for reminding her why she held her sword.

So, there was one person at the Royal Academy who would be on Alberto’s side.