I Became an Academy Genius Swordsman

Episode 13. Lightning King (4)

Episode 13

One

“How many times? Is it the 12th?”

Siwoo was scratching his head with the tip of his knife while counting the number of attacks. I was so used to it that I used it like a real hand.

“It’s because of you, kid.”

Siwoo, who had been angry at the monster for no reason, immediately charged at the Minotaur.

I wish I could go out of my way now… He muttered a small wish and swung his sword.

However, the 16th attack failed to work this time as well.

expected result. It’s not a probability gacha game, and there’s no way that an attack that hasn’t happened before will suddenly happen.

“Ha, f*ck. Why is this kid so calm? said to be exploding. Didn’t you break the system?”

He tried to disparage the system, but the system couldn’t answer. There’s no way to hit the gura.

I tried to stimulate the Minotaur to go into a runaway state, but it failed.

As the system says, you never know when it will explode. Only half of the energy he had saved was left.

Now, a hasty attack is prohibited.

No, since I was careful from the beginning, there was no hasty attack. It’s because that small head was stronger than expected, and none of Siwoo’s blows were in vain.

Siwoo stopped the attack to recover his energy and check the attack route. The Minotaur could not easily attack him because of his contempt, so after about 30 minutes of fighting, he finally entered a lull.

Siwoo slumped down in his seat and thought.

How should I cut up that calf with mad cow disease, or should I trick my eyes with weeds? Or do I really have to make a one-hit kill with the mindset that if you don’t search, I’ll search?

when I was so worried.

One of the cadets who had fallen behind came up to him.

While shivering, he approached Siwoo little by little. Rather than overcoming fear, it seemed that he had become accustomed to being exposed for a long time.

He couldn’t come very close because he was currently showing a sense of intimidation, but a few students certainly gathered near him.

“I will help you too.”

A cadet suddenly said so.

Siwoo blinked and looked at them.

I can’t even make eye contact and my legs are shaking. In the meantime, I’m keeping an eye on it. It was clear what the intention was.

It wouldn’t be a lie to say that I would help, but… , it would not be purely to help.

Siwoo’s performance was strong, so he must have said it to look good. In extreme situations, humans tend to find someone to protect them.

The desire to buy favor was expressed urgently.

I’ll help you in moderation, so fight on your behalf, isn’t that the hidden word behind the text that says help?

However, Siu did not refuse the offer.

“Then, take a picture of the body of the cow head and come back.”

“Uh, uh, uh? what?”

The cadet’s eyes widened to the size of a lantern.

Baby, what are you asking? Listening straight, the guy’s reaction was a laugh, but he didn’t show it. The guy even took a step backwards as if he was very embarrassed. The children in the back are also restless as if they heard that.

Siu was cold. He was sincere in his own way and told how to help himself. I swear I have no intention of getting the cadets into trouble.

Rather, it is for him. Being hit and knocked out now was much better than getting swept away and being retired while running amok.

I never told him to run because he felt like he was the only one suffering.

“What are you doing? Let’s go.”

“… … ”

Siwoo nodded at the monster, and the boy hesitated.

This is all for you, but you don’t know your heart like this.

Siwoo said while fiddling with the knife with a sad heart.

“Let’s go.”

“Ah Okay.”

The boy took a deep breath and ran away screaming.

“aaa!”

I thought you were rushing

I thought that was the case until I turned around just before entering the range of the Minotaur.

“uh.”

Shiu made a blank sound.

He told the beast not to turn his back. What about monsters?

A bad future was seen, and it soon became a reality.

The Minotaur lightly flicked a small tile shard with his foot and threw it away.

It’s a small thing for a Minotaur, but it’s a rock the size of a human body.

bang-!

The cadet, who had been hit directly, collapsed without a sound. The extent of his injuries must have been serious, and before his body touched the ground, a wormhole formed beneath him and he disappeared.

“I’m glad.”

Parr, it’s convulsive, but well… … .

Wouldn’t a spinal fracture or paralysis be better than dying?

There is room for controversy from the point of view of happiness, but Siwoo’s idea is that Lee Seung-gi is better even if he rolls in dog poop.

Since he is alive, excellent healers will treat him well.

It worked just as he intended. If he had attacked them when they ran out of control, they might have died. If it’s just the dough, it’s cheap.

Siwoo immediately looked at the other cadets. As soon as his gaze met, the flinching cadets slipped back.

Siwoo quickly stood up after seeing them.

I brushed my ass, brushed my knees, and slung the knife over my shoulder.

He frowns and says.

“Hey, everyone run.”

Siu pointed the sword at the Minotaur. No one was running.

This is all for you… … . Siwoo clicked his tongue in disappointment.

If he pretended to wield a sword, wouldn’t the kids force themselves to run? Shall we try it? I gave up after thinking about it.

Even a mouse kid bites a cat when cornered. There is no need to pretend to be a villain.

He thought he had done enough for the cadets. I don’t know if you know because the method is pretty rough, but anyway.

rested enough

“Keep-!”

Siwoo warmed up and prepared to attack again. The cadets looked at him with shaking eyes.

also? or how? seemed to say I should check the status bar, but I think I got some mind reading.

I was doing it for a quest, but looking at it with those eyes, I felt a little uncomfortable.

I don’t want to do it. And if it weren’t for my traits, I’d be no different from you, the words that lingered in my mouth.

Seeing their eyes, Siwoo did not feel any pride, pride, or superiority.

“If you’re not going to fight, get out there.”

I would do it if it were me, I pointed to one side thinking that.

It would be hard to live if you were suddenly swept away by the rampaging Minotaur.

Yu Ji-min and Jin Hyeon-min would die first, but who would be next?

He gave me a way to live. In a society where everyone lives on their own, I think this is enough to really do.

It was then.

“… … Are you going to fight?”

A girl asked me that.

As you can see, he shrugged his shoulders.

“I will help you.”

The answer was given a while ago. It’s no different than now.

Siwoo ignored it and warmed up.

“I will fight too.”

Then, this time, a slightly different answer came. Glancing at her, unlike the boy before, she is quite resolute. It was seen that he genuinely wanted to add strength.

What kind of wind suddenly blew in my heart… … I guess. I don’t know if it’s because I’m young, but I can clearly see my emotions.

He became a cadet in order to become a hero, but he must be ashamed of himself for being intimidated by a monster.

Siwoo, who actually made me feel that way, is in the position that he might be a bit scared by the monster. Siwoo thought that if it wasn’t for his characteristic, he would have peed and retired a long time ago.

I can’t tell you these inner thoughts and circumstances.

So, I didn’t answer this time either.

If you want to fight, you fight.

Frankly, he thinks it’s great that he’s willing to fight against that savage monster. Even if it doesn’t help you as a result.

Siu, who had warmed up, looked at the girl.

The bloody momentum was directed at the moment, so I hiccuped hiccups.

… … I looked at it with an admirable heart, but I was a little sorry.

He tapped the girl on the shoulder a couple of times.

The will to fight itself is great, it means I respect you, did you understand?

I don’t know.

thud-!

Siwoo kicked off the ground and charged at the Minotaur.

2

bang-!

bang-!

bang-!

how much time has passed

At some point, the concept of time was paralyzed.

All you can know is what you can feel through your body. Pain, choking, dizziness, things like that.

“Heo-eok, hee-eok.”

Among them, the arm was especially numb.

It’s a natural result, as I’ve bumped into hundreds of times even in the weight class.

bang-!

Kwakwang-!!

There was a pretty big change in those hundreds of bumps. There were bad things and there were good things.

First of all, the bad thing is that the Minotaur started attacking slowly.

Not counterattack followed by defense, but containment and preemptive strike. Every time the huge double-edged ax brushes through your hair, a chill runs down your spine.

He had slowly adapted to the contempt.

The enemy’s attack, which gave pressure with a chilling force, was insignificant… … , it was natural.

It won’t be long before the full-scale attack will begin once you fully understand your skills.

“Suck!”

Siwoo, who failed to attack the horn, was about to land on the floor, but his right foot moved slightly.

Siwoo stared at his legs all the way, then somersaulted according to the timing to increase his flight time.

thud-!!

Soon, his footsteps caused a huge vibration on the floor.

After the impact, Siwoo, who landed safely, took his stance.

“Now slowly… .”

A good change is that, like this, his attack patterns are starting to be read.

Just as the Minotaur adapts to being scorned, Siwoo was also adapting to its attack. The gap between the data accumulated while dealing with him over the monitor and reality narrowed.

And Siwoo, who finished calculating his attack pattern and phase, suddenly raised his momentum. This attack should produce quite significant results.

“Whoup!”

Siwoo charged in a low position. phut-! The gray tiles pushed by leg force scatter. It could be said to be fast, but it couldn’t get out of the Minotaur’s torn pupil.

He slightly twists the double-edged ax and strikes it down exactly in his expected path.

Even so, as if it didn’t matter, Siwoo jumped at him. And the moment I got into his range, I suddenly slowed down.

Whoa-!!

A strong wind blew her hair. Wind pressure was generated when the Minotaur cut his ax horizontally.

10 cm.

Had it been that deep, the face would have been split horizontally.

Even so, Siu was extremely expressionless. His heightened senses through repeated battles made him bold, and [Purity] calmed his excitement and sharpened reason and composure.

It moved like a wild beast, guided by its instincts and senses, but rather it was based on precise calculations.

Hot blood spurts from a cold heart.

However, the level of concentration has already been far exceeded, and the movement of the body has exceeded the limit. Exceeding the limits of concentration and exaltation, overheating and overloading, his body and brain were under increasing pressure.

He should have stopped moving and rested right away, but he rather overloaded his body by turning his energy into his whole body.

The moment your brain gets hotter and your vision is about to blur for an instant.

thump- thump- thump-

It feels slow to become a heartbeat that must be beating fast. Is there something wrong with his senses?

‘I’ll follow you.’

No, this is because the senses are activated beyond the permissible range because the brain is activated to the limit, right before it really ripens.

Normally, the transcendence of the senses is short-lived and the brain starts to burn immediately, but Siwoo stopped the overload right before the brain burned.

An extremely activated sense, a state of awakening commonly referred to as overclocking or transcendence in games.

Because it was a forced awakening, its duration was close to an instant, but that instant was enough for him.

His eyes flashed the defenseless side of the creature and the optimal route to move there, and at that moment his new model stretched out.

thump-!!

Kwajijik-!!

The first sound you hear comes from your body.

The rapid change in speed was a burden that the body had to deal with. My heart is screaming and my knee and leg muscles are begging.

Siwoo ignored the screams of his body for a moment.

It’s an opportunity that may never come again. I didn’t want to waste an attack that could change the game, worrying about my own self-defense.

And if it was something to think about, I wouldn’t have awakened.

thump thump-!

A beating heart, a shiver extending, a hearing receding.

The pain disappears, but only the image of the monster in the retina is clear.

cut cut cut

It was just that thought.

Reached out.

The word “slash” to swing a sword is awkward at this moment. The sword was already a part of him.

The heightened senses further strengthened the ambiguity of the sword and body. It is even confusing whether the sword is connected to him or he is connected to the sword.

Between the ambiguity between the sword and the self, Siwoo thought that the sword would be better at this moment.

Siwoo, who had become a single sword, touched him.

Cheak-

cut

It was the first word that came to his mind when he passed him.

It’s a monumental effective hit, but there’s no time to rejoice.

One of the lessons learned from this battle is that you should never show a gap. Siwoo braked suddenly with his foot and looked at the Minotaur again.

Chijijijik-!!

Smoke billowed from his feet, leaving black skids on the floor.

The blood spurted from the torn skin floated in the air and dripped down. The Minotaur screamed and looked back at himself.

⋮

Belatedly, a plum blossom lightly lands on his knife.

All of that came at once as the heightened senses returned to their places.

blood spilled out

“Kurrr!”

Siwoo wiped his lips and looked at him.

“Baby, are you a little upset now?”

The corners of his mouth went up.

“Kuuu!!”

It grew in size, and magical energy gathered around its horns, sparks like lightning. Its fur wags and emits a ferocious spirit.

The figure of the Thunder King is faintly visible.

And this is the precursor of the runaway that Siwoo has been waiting for so long.

The end of this ignorant fight was not far away.

Now all you have to do is parry the attack with all your might.

Feeling a bit of joy and fear, Siwoo rushed at the Minotaur again.

3

The fight, which was the Minotaur’s advantage, was completely reversed at one point.

A single word came to mind at the same time in the heads of the cadets who watched the whole process.

‘no way?’

-Only a cadet can subdue an upper-middle level monster one-on-one.

No cadet who was called the greatest genius of all time has ever overpowered a monster in the first class of the giant monster combat training.

There weren’t any cadets who overcame fear and attacked the monster, but there was no one who showed the same aspect as Siwoo.

The Minotaur Solo Raid, which is said to be the strongest of the mid-level monsters, is not an easy task even for seasoned active heroes.

The fear that suppressed instincts was transformed into incomprehensibility by a single cadet.

At the same time, they were uncomfortable.

He entered the school with a sense of longing to become a hero and a sense of mission to protect the people from monsters.

But, now… What are you doing?

-If you’re not going to fight, stay away from me.

Siwoo’s words became a dagger stuck in his chest and constantly reproduced.

I read an article about a hero who risked his life to save someone and thought it was great.

He expected that he could become such a hero.

I’ve always thought that’s what a hero should be.

By the way, but… … why are you standing still

they realized He didn’t want to be a hero, he just wanted to be respected.

Facing the hideous self-portrait, the cadets chewed their lips.

The heroes in many internet articles were not great because they were heroes.

It’s just that he was great.

That is why they are called heroes.

“Heuk-!”

There is a man who flew through the air.

The man falls down rolling on the floor, but gets back up and fights.

A man whose clothes were torn and the blood soaking his face clung to his beard. … A man who looks like a maniac.

Their eyes didn’t fall off the idiot man.

what is a hero

someone who saves people? Who fights monsters? So, who is honorable?

well.

Before facing the ugliness, they would have said so, but now it was a question that was not easily answered.

However, the cadets who aspire to become heroes will not be able to write a blank answer sheet, so they will say this after thinking about it.

someone who doesn’t give up.

A person who does not break.

A man fighting the Minotaur alone created a small spark in their hearts.

visor-!!

someone pulled out a sword

starting with it

Someone put a window in front.

Someone pointed a bow.

Another person memorized a chant while making a decision.

“aaa!!”

The cadet who was the first to draw his sword screamed and charged. The cadets followed.

The attack of the cadets rushed at the Minotaur.

And seeing them, Siwoo was stunned.

“Oh, f*ck.”

“Quoooooooo!!!”

Because the Minotaur ran out of control.