chapter 23
23. Seori Highlands
After class, Professor Durahan called L. It seems that the preparations mentioned earlier have been completed.
Heading with light steps, Ladia cautiously added her words.
“El, what are you doing after class?”
“Professor Durrahan will find it and go there.”
“Ah, the professor… Is trying to apply again.”
“Similar.”
If swordsmanship lectures are support, it’s support.
As if it wasn’t a simple question, Ladia didn’t leave and continued to hesitate.
“Uh… Can I go too? I want to go out to dinner with you after I finish talking with the professor.”
For the first time in her life, Ladia did the act of inviting someone.
‘De, I finally said it!’
Her heart races and her face turns red.
I didn’t know that her relationship as a friend was so erotic.
When El took her hand and went down to her stream.
She said when Elle fed her leftovers.
The happy memories of her were constantly reminded of her night and morning, even during her class.
But there was something I regretted.
It just wasn’t a perfect date.
She secretly overheard the girls talking at the academy.
– Wow, so how far did you go? Could it be that you haven’t drained all the gin?
– Huhuhu… This is why children. Originally, the beginning is difficult, but once you start, everything is over! Especially how simple the boys are. If you let me touch your chest once, you’ll die of love?
‘It lets you touch your breasts?!’
Such a manly man!
Ladia was shocked.
But Ladia and her female students, against her, exclaimed in admiration and made a fuss.
– Boyfriend makes it like that…
– I realized now too.
Boyfriend. It would normally refer to a dating relationship, but Ladia had no idea what that meant.
Simply thinking about it, doesn’t it make sense as a man + a friend?
Thanks to that, Radia realized it easily.
‘That kind of relationship can be called a friend. I wasn’t even friends with El.’
Ladia held her hand and kissed her indirectly!
She hasn’t done anything since then.
‘This time, I’ll make sure to let El’s hand touch my chest. Boyfriend… I can do it!’
Aka. The El Zapatrigi Plan.
A strange operation began as rain.
“Sorry. It’s probably going to take a long time.”
But that plan fell apart in seconds.
The frost sword is not a simple swordsmanship.
A skill powerful enough to freeze a dragon cannot be acquired in a day or two.
Besides, Professor Durahan took time to prepare, but there won’t be time to eat with Ladia.
“Ah… Ok…”
Ladia bowed her head.
I planned about 10 children, but it fell through.
She was about to stalk Chuck Elle back to the dorm.
“If I have a chance, I’ll call you first. Is that okay?”
“…Huh? Ah, yes! Of course it’s fine! I’ll wait!”
She was fortunate to enjoy this feeling rather than stalking.
***
Professor Durahan invited me to a different space this time, not a lab.
“Welcome, Student El.”
The professor, wearing black armor and a helmet over his armpit, welcomed me with a shriek.
“Isn’t this a twisted space?”
“That’s right. I couldn’t find an environment to learn the Frostbite at the academy, so I’ll have no choice but to use the twisted space.”
It is an environment that makes you vomit just by looking at it.
Water drops fall and rise upwards.
When you go down the stairs, you are on the ceiling before you know it, or you fall into an endless pit.
It is a place called ‘Twisted Space’ where various buildings are mixed and mixed.
– It’s been a while since I’ve been here. A wizard friend I was with told me to research time magic, so I made it to this point and bounced around. Looking at it now, it’s a really beautiful environment.
Grandel looked around and was satisfied.
Why?
I didn’t understand, so I looked at him with a puzzled expression.
– Hmm? Oh well, humans don’t understand. We, the Druid race, love a space without roots like this. Doesn’t nature also have a structured framework? Understand that they are similar.
I didn’t understand, but I nodded.
“Come this way. If you take even one wrong step from here, you can be sucked into the twisted space.”
“Okay.”
Professor Dyurahan handed over his hand that was not holding his helmet.
The twisted space is a place where only the skilled can walk.
‘Only those who have achieved 7 or higher swordsmanship can read the flow of mana here.’
Swordsmanship 7 is not the name of a doghouse.
If you were a Dunjae, you wouldn’t have to work hard all your life, and if you were a criminal, it would only be possible if you had luck close to a miracle.
‘I can see it.’
However, even though El was not a 7 star, he read the flow of mana.
The road to the monster-infested jungle and the road to the academy’s dormitory looked like cloudy paint.
It was all thanks to the Earth Dragon’s soul.
“It might be a little cold.”
The snow started to fall as we went deeper. The sky was not visible.
As soon as I hit her in the snow, I don’t know where it came from, the snow began to pile up on her armor.
Professor Dyurahan lifted it with his fingers as if he missed those eyes.
“Student L. You’ve come this far, but I’ll ask you one more time. Is it really okay for you to learn the sword from me?”
“It’s okay.”
As I answered without hesitation, Professor Dyurahan hesitated as if he was in trouble.
“It’s going to be very cold. If you don’t have resistance to the cold, you’ll suffer enough to die. In severe cases, you’ll get frostbite every day.”
“It was something I was determined to do.”
Aside from Professor Dyurahan’s worries, El had no fear of her.
‘Would it be colder than the cold heart?’
Cold tolerance? I can say that I am already at the top level.
Do you know the feeling when icicles form in your veins when you fall asleep?
Do you know the embarrassing situation when you turn on the water to wash your face and it freezes?
The friend who was about to sit next to L rubbed her arm and said, ‘Mr. There was a time when I ran away saying, ‘What’s going on here?’
“…Okay. I’ll do my best not to lose L student’s resolve.”
Professor Dyurahan let go of El’s hand for a while.
Then he took a deep breath…
Boom!!!
‘???’
I pressed the floor as it is.
Unbelievable strength for hitting it with one hand.
The floor was broken and chaos came to the twisted space.
‘This crazy professor!’
I resisted the moment of swearing.
Fall!
The countless paints below opened her mouth wide and tried to swallow El.
In a situation where you can’t even figure out what kind of space you’ll fall into.
Professor Durrahan moved.
Damn it.
The air froze and formed a sword.
The frost sword, which looked more beautiful than glass and harder than diamonds, easily cut through ‘Twisted Space’.
“Take my hand!”
I grabbed the hand of Professor Dyurahan, who got rid of the sword before I knew it.
In front of my eyes was a huge mountain peak covered with snow in a blurry paint.
***
Kulleong ㅡ
Two!
The portal shook and spit out Professor El and Dyurahan.
The bodies of Professor El and Dyurahan are buried in the snow.
El quickly came to her senses and looked around her.
“This is…”
“Seori Highlands. It was once a place I used as a training ground.”
Seori Highlands.
It is a place very far from the academy, and it is a place that can never be found by ordinary means.
When G.Gren was alive, it was called the ‘Stairway to Glory that can be climbed once you die’.
‘Wide. It’s empty.’
It’s like looking at a huge ice rink. What would it look like if the lake were frozen?
I was curious about what kind of training they do here.
“As I said before, the El student will learn the Gren family’s Frostbite from now on. This is a one-person tradition, and teaching it to others is of course prohibited.”
“I’ll keep that in mind.”
It was also the reason G.Gren worked as a professor at Orion Academy.
One-man tradition.
Its weight is too great to be explained. Because if you die, the Frost Stalker will disappear.
It was all because of the frost sword that she kept her life as a Dyurahan.
‘That’s not enough power to handle. The process was full of hardships and adversity, and swordsmanship that only a genius could understand. I’ll let you take over.’
“First of all, the Frostbite… Wait a minute. Aren’t you cold right now?”
Professor Dyurahan took out the hot pack hidden inside her armor as if she had forgotten.
Of course, it was useless as it froze as soon as I took it out.
El shook her head.
“It’s more tolerable than I thought. It’s resistant to the cold.”
Professor Dyurahan couldn’t hide his surprise.
The notoriety of the seori highlands was really famous. Even the Gren family, who were learning the Frost Slasher, often died in the Frost Highlands.
It was also a good place to develop resistance to the cold.
She was thinking of covering her whole body with an aura if El was having a hard time…
‘You look really good, don’t you? How could that be?’
Even if they had resistance to the cold, this was almost at the level of the locals of the Seorey Highlands.
‘This is enough to pass the minimum requirements to learn the Frost Slasher. Besides, his swordsmanship is also a genius.’
Is there such a perfect talent?
Red eyes came out of G-Gren’s helmet. It was an unconcealable anticipation.
‘Maybe I can surpass my prime. No, this is unconditionally surpassed.’
Meanwhile, L was to die for.
‘It’s much colder than I thought.’
Being resistant to cold doesn’t mean you won’t be cold even if you get hit.
I said it with the expectation that it would be able to withstand a tolerable cold thanks to the breathlessness!
If I had known it was this cold, I would have worried a little.
El shed tears of blood in her frozen chill.
***
“Continuing what I said earlier, I was going to say that you need to develop resistance to the cold before learning the Frost Slasher. It’s called Frost, so the caster shouldn’t shiver. But it looks like El student already has perfect immunity. … You can say that the first step has been passed perfectly!”
Professor Durrahan was more delighted than El.
While carrying the heavy mission of one-person transmission, she couldn’t help but look so pretty when El appeared like a savior.
“Then this is next.”
“This?”
“Suck!”
Boom!!!
Professor Dyurahan again violently lowered his arm!
The ground cracked and split into halves.
As if not satisfied with this, Professor Durahan said, ‘Um… Is it not enough?’ After thinking about it, he started to lower his arm violently again.
Boom, bang!
“Wait a minute! Professor?!”
“Why, call, do you!”
“What the hell is this!”
“In a moment, it’s done! Soon, it’s over!”
The moment when he was about to curse at the sudden acceleration.
Damn it.
A hidden space appeared in the cracked and perfectly cracked ground.
Without time to resist, he slipped inside.
As soon as you put your eyes on the mysterious space, you will be amazed at its beauty.
A place made of ice in a round room like a fish tank.
It was as if the blue light was reflected, shining like jewels everywhere.
El easily guessed where this place was.
“…A lake?”
“Yes. It’s a lake.”
The sound of flowing water.
Fish and grass overcame the cold.
Each one was an elixir filled with yin energy and was a supreme treasure.