chapter 11
11. The special thing
“Master.”
I was trying to watch the match between Garam and Master from a distance when Iris approached me.
“Can I ask you one question?”
“Since when did you say you asked for my permission?”
“Because it is related to Master Tae.”
After staring at Iris for a moment, I nodded her head in agreement.
“Master Tae, how old are you exactly?”
“… Was that what you were curious about?”
“Ooh! Master really! Honestly, I can’t help but wonder about this! Look at that! Grand Master Garam is much more like an older sister, and Teacher Tae is so young that I don’t even know if he is an adult or not!”
“There is a reason for that. What is certain is that there are more than you, Garam, and me.”
“How the hell did you take care of it, that’s why it’s so beautiful. I’ll have to ask you another question later.”
“….”
I assure you, if you ask about it, I wonder if the master will separate the flesh from the bones, saying, ‘If it’s false, I’ll personally give you a complete metamorphosis.’
… Ah, come to think of it, it’s not a round bone metamorphosis, but a round root implantation?
Anyway, I wonder when this guy will wake up to the serious part of being a hero.
Other disciples seem to have accepted their fate and matured a little.
My maknae is also the maknae, so he is the last to grow up.
“Shh. Start. You’d better pay attention too.”
“I see…. Ambassador Garam will be fine, right?”
Is it because I witnessed the true strength of the Heavenly Demon?
There was a little fear and worry on his face.
It’s nothing else, it’s not unreasonable since I had to receive the Heavenly Demon Art from the front.
“It must be because Master was overly excited earlier. I don’t know why….”
“I guess he just doesn’t like me.”
“….”
Like me, Iris seems to be bothered by that part.
He’s a master who doesn’t show his emotions well at all.
It was really the first time I had ever been so angry.
Looking at him, I think of what Master said.
A scavenger hunt, a guy who preys on people around him.
Iris is born with a fate that can never be denied.
It can’t be, and it can’t be.
Tae-aeng!-
I remember keeping enough distance.
At some point, Garam narrowed the distance and terribly rushed at me.
Master is still holding his right hand behind his waist.
He didn’t even hold the sword in his left hand, but the master blocked Garam’s sword so lightly.
“Mae, did you block the sword with your bare arms?”
“I strengthened my body with the technique Master used. It’s a strong body from the beginning, but since it’s been reinforced with energy, it’s probably harder than most steel.”
“Wow….”
“Wow, what come? I taught you too.”
“To me? When?”
“The mana practice method I taught you was derived from there, you damn student.”
It was difficult to apply the Heavenly Demon Art to the disciples as it is.
So I modified it a little for each student and taught them to fit well.
My desperate struggle to make it stronger in a short period of time.
Thanks to that, everyone, from Garam to the former disciple before Iris, benefited from it.
However, this disciple has learned it at best and behaves as if he is seeing it for the first time.
Chang! Chae Chaeng!!-
The sound is the sound of sword against sword, blade against blade.
The visible scene was a clash between a sword and a human hand.
Master blocked Garam’s sword with his left blade without moving his right hand at all.
That’s right!-
Have you decided that this fight is meaningless anymore?
Ga-ram stepped back and slightly twisted his sword.
At the same time, mana began to gather all around him.
‘… Is it that skill?’
Garam’s ultimate skill, Wolha, was the reason he had no choice but to nurture even though he was a water body.
A fraudulent skill that inflicts massive damage over the entire range without any reduction.
If a skill with a single skill level of damage is a wide area skill, there should be another penalty.
Garam didn’t have anything like that to replace the penalty with the body of water.
Geugguk!-
Unlike Garam’s surroundings become dark, only the sword he is holding glows.
Until now, Master has not interfered or checked, just watched.
Perhaps you want to see Garam’s power.
“Ha!”
Finally, the moonlight began to dance in Garam’s arms.
The first thing that flew in was not a cluster of lights, but a gust of wind.
At first glance from a distance, it may be just the level of wind.
Looking at the energy inside it, it was absolutely not at the level of just wind.
Kooung!- Kung!-
I hear the sound of something heavy hitting Master’s arm.
I was greeted by the blowing wind, and there was such a roar.
After that, sword spirits with chilly spirits fly in.
As if taking in the moonlight under a huge full moon.
Dozens or hundreds of blades of swords poured into Master.
“Ah!”
Seeing Garam’s ultimate for the first time, Iris sighed and couldn’t keep her mouth shut.
The cold anticipation felt even from afar, a beautiful yet life-filled sight.
A technique that literally erases everything under the moonlight.
Looking at how strong Garam, who was taught by me, is so strong.
I earnestly pray that Iris will feel something.
What… To be honest, I don’t expect much.
Coo goo goo….
The dazzling moonlight is gradually fading away.
The wide open space is full of ugly marks, as if a monster had run through it.
If there had been someone who wasn’t this or that, there wouldn’t have even been a piece left, let alone a corpse.
“… The student must have taught you well.”
But the opponent is my teacher, and my disciples’ great master, every thousand.
Although Garam is my first disciple and a swordsman who has reached the pinnacle of strength.
It could be said that there is still a long way to go before reaching Master.
“It’s hot. How long will it take to see blood?”
Blood?
If you look closely, you can see that blood is flowing on Master’s hand.
It’s not a deep wound, it’s just a slight cut.
It is definitely a great thing to hurt the body of the Heavenly Demon, not someone else.
“Mandible, mandible…. hahahaha….”
On the contrary, Garam, who used the ultimate, looked worse than the master who was hit with it.
Somehow he covered his weak point, the body of water, with bone-breaking training.
Still, perhaps it was still the limit of the glass cannon, but his stamina was a bit weak compared to the other disciples.
“I will admit the power. If it hurts me this much, there’s nothing in this world that I can’t cut through with that skill. However, if If you can’t cut it with that.”
Master kicks the ground lightly.
It was a very light step, as if going for a walk.
With that single step, the distance between Master and Garam was instantly narrowed.
“Isn’t the next obvious?”
Two kwang!-
… Hey, wait a minute.
What Master just did to Garam was just a light night?
Why perfect! It’s not a sound, it’s a boom! I hear the sound of cannon fire.
Has Garam, who should have just snatched his forehead and struggled, gone far away?
“… Master.”
“… Why.”
“… I will listen to you in the future.”
“… Okay.”
As a bonus, I also thought that I should be good to my teacher.
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Click-.
“How are you?”
“It’s nothing special. Just fell asleep Shock is also shocking, but the technique is quite difficult.”
“I’m glad.”
Iris glanced at the room where Garam was lying.
Before, we seemed to be on good terms, but I wonder if we became worried about each other.
It’s a pretty good picture for me, who is best at getting along with my students.
“Master.”
“Yes.”
“I… You know. I was suddenly curious about it.”
“What? If it’s a strange question again, I’ll get scolded, Iris.”
“… Master’s Master. That’s why Taesabu is so strong, right?”
“Yes.”
“The teacher who was taught by Taesabu is also very strong.”
“That too.”
“But why does Master keep telling us, ‘You are our only hope’?”
I knew that a question like that would come out of Iris’ mouth one day.
Because the other students did it at least once.
To be honest, the students have no choice but to tilt their heads.
You are so much stronger than they are, so why do they say you are the hero who will calm the chaos of the world?
Even though he had the skills to comfortably subdue those warriors.
It would be much better if you guys stepped up, so why not?
‘It’s not that I don’t, it’s that I can’t.’
Garam, Iris, and other disciples too.
All of them are destined to be ‘heroes’.
And only those warriors can save this world.
You can deal with the ‘Devil’s Fragment’, which can be said to be a true boss that is incomparable to monsters.
No matter how strong my master, the Heavenly Demon is.
Even if I am a competent teacher who taught my students.
You can’t inflict any critical hits against the fragments of that demon.
Only those who are destined to be warriors can inflict effective damage.
That was the rule that existed in this world and in this game.
‘That would be true, Master is an NPC, but I am a stranger. Because the disciples are the characters who really fought in that game. In the end, the outcome of the fight is up to them.’
That’s why I tried to be their teacher.
The goal is not simply to carry the disciples’ light on their backs.
To keep the people who can save this world by my side.
It was a way for me to live in a world that became an apocalypse itself as we entered season 2.
“… Iris.”
However, I can’t explain it directly.
Actually, this is a game world, and you are just game characters.
How can you say that only you can defeat the bosses in that game?
I’m not even sure now that all of this is really a game.
“Yes, Master.”
That’s why I decided to properly mix the facts with the lies.
“I must have told you. Neither I nor my teacher are from this world. He said he came from a very far away place. I told you some time ago Do you remember?”
“Yes. He said that somehow he came all the way here.”
“Yes. So Master and I cannot get involved in the affairs of this world. It is you who belong here who protect this world. I just teach you how to be faster and stronger.”
“… Does that mean that Master and Teacher Tae are all special beings, not ordinary people?”
I shook my head at Iris’s question.
From her point of view, Master and I must be special beings.
In fact, the opposite could be said.
“No.”
“So what?”
“The special beings are you, Garam, and the rest of my disciples. Rather, me and my teacher are ordinary people. You are the most special in this world That’s why, you guys are the warriors.”