chapter 23
Episode 23. If you were born as a human, you should know how to throw.
In the past, when I was on the battlefield, this happened a lot.
When I was leading a unit, recruits came to me.
‘Chu, loyalty. Greetings to the captain of the Red Cross unit!!’
‘Your body is too stiff. If anyone sees it, they’ll know I’m eating it.’
‘Sorry!!!’
And all recruits are young and cute.
In particular, I wondered if the kid I faced that day was more clumsy.
‘Nothing, you have to be moderately nervous. First of all, it’s an army, but it can’t be without discipline.’
But isn’t the most important thing is the passion to learn?
Since it is a unit that always suffers from a lack of manpower, if you listen carefully and work hard, you can see anything good.
People from other units would say something about lack of discipline, but at least I thought it was good to lead my unit that way.
If you keep in mind just one thing.
‘But, if possible, I want the situation to feel that tension rather than the advanced person.’
‘Situation, huh?’
‘Yes, even our recruit friend knows what this unit is doing in general?’
‘Ah, yes. I heard that they are a unit that saves people on the battlefield.’
‘A unit dying like dogs to save people dying like dogs on the front lines. By the way, as soon as I came here, I became captain within a year, but if I die and the children who become captain after me die one after another, the day may come when you become captain.’
‘Yes, yes? That, that…….’
‘That’s how dangerous it is. What our unit does.’
I don’t really like to scare you, but unfortunately this was a hazing ceremony passed down from my predecessor.
In the sense that if you’d succumb to this level of threat, you shouldn’t even come in in the first place.
Go, I am prepared! The level of determination to risk one’s life to save people…….’
Of course, our unit is known to some extent in the Imperial Army.
The friends who came to hear of the reputation and cause used to show the same appearance as one.
As if he was very frightened, he stiffened his body, but he raised his eyes to somehow establish his conviction.
Other units would have complimented me on my mind, but it didn’t look very good to me.
‘No no, that’s not it.’
If the world was going to get better just because one person suffered enough to die, war wouldn’t have happened in the first place.
‘If you’ve applied for our unit, you know what I’m talking about right now, right?’
‘Yes? What is that…….’
‘Come on, sing it again. A Red Cross creed.’
‘Poetry, credo one! The one who saves people must never die on the battlefield!!’
‘No matter what, you shouldn’t neglect your own life. It’s tantamount to throwing away the lives of the people you’re supposed to save in the future.’
Yes, no matter what the intention is, it doesn’t matter at all in the world.
The reason why he is trying to do something by saying that he only liked the purpose is because he wants to end the crisis by getting sympathy votes.
‘Then let me ask you one more question here. What do you think our recruits need to uphold that first creed?’
‘Yes? That’s… ….’
‘It’s strength.’
That’s why I didn’t feel any hesitation in asserting my current words.
‘If I want to survive in this harsh world, I must at least have enough strength to let you know that if you touch me, you’ll be f*cked too.’
True peace comes from balance.
That it can only be established when we are in a situation where we can keep each other in check.
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“… Five for this.”
– Patter.
I threw the guys who rushed at me to the middle of the forest, and moved on to the rest of them.
It’s a bit annoying that the head that’s still standing up is overheated.
Is it because it’s been a long time since I played directly on the field?
“Whoa.”
I took a sip of the cigarette in my mouth and moved my feet towards them.
The sensation of a spicy scent piercing your lungs.
Every time you hold it, your vision becomes clearer and your drowsy mind is corrected, and the movement of mana vibrating in your grip also gradually changes to become more stable.
The moment when the routine repeated countless times on the battlefield gradually corrects the body that has been dulled by the two years of peace.
“Keugh.”
As I proceeded to control that feeling, the attackers confronting me all began to tense up and shake their bodies.
All covered in black cloth, all holding hideous weapons in their hands.
“Damn it, what the hell is that girl!”
“Calm down. What can I do if I run at once!”
The typical bad guys who recite obvious lines like one.
But I don’t rush right away when I’m excited.
Current shouting is just a ploy to focus attention on shouting.
-Busseuk.
Even in the midst of this, the sound of someone moving can be heard from the surrounding bushes.
Pretending to attack them all at once, they must be planning to leave the final blow to those who will turn around.
And I have to deal with it all by myself.
“Come on!!”
The two narrowed the distance right after that.
The moment I saw daggers aiming at the head and chest, my hands stretched out to their daggers.
And rotate your feet in that state.
– Whiririk!!
The daggers that could not pierce the mana wrapped around their palms deflected as they were, and their posture widened in line with the twisted trajectory.
Elbows and knees moving together at the moment hit their bodies hard.
Even if it’s light taijutsu, if you can’t protect your body, the impact will not be small.
“I’ll borrow it for a while.”
“Keah!”
Those who stagger at the feeling of being out of breath.
After giving them a final blow with my fist, I grabbed the dagger they dropped with precision.
-Hwiririk, kaang!
Embers that burst out the moment two daggers collided.
The refreshing sound that burst out along with it taught me that it was made by a good craftsman using good metal.
“Die!!!”
The back row runners approach with shouts.
I immediately responded to the rapier approaching from the front, and slashed the legs of the guy approaching from the rear, passing the blade as if passing by.
Stupid! Blood streams bursting out with the sound of flesh being cut.
The tendons were cut and he danced, but even so, he could feel the terrible miasma from the guy who clenched his teeth and rushed at him.
Anyway, the other side must be desperate too.
-Kaang!
But why didn’t it go wrong just because I was upset?
“Oops… Evil!!”
As soon as I threw the dagger, the guy fell out of his shoulder with blood spattering.
After taking my eyes off him, I aimed my fist at the face of the guy who was approaching after him.
Gather enough mana to create a circle.
-Kwaaang!!!
A single youngster falling out with a roar.
Using the repulsive force that came from it as a driving force, I charged at the guy behind me, struck him in the chin, and robbed him of the helmet he was holding.
-Kakang!
Immediately after that, swords and spears rushing in from all directions collided with Pyeongon.
Even in the midst of this, the blunt weapon attached to the chain was moved arbitrarily by mana, striking their heads and knees.
“aaah!!!”
“Be quiet!!”
-Boom!
A young boy who falls down when he squeezes his chestnut short and feeds him chestnuts.
After kicking that body, I looked around the surroundings, which had become quiet at some point, and then walked slowly through the dark forest in pursuit of people.
Whoa, look at these.
Are you going to engage in guerrilla warfare now that you can’t push with numbers anymore?
But this one is too good to catch an ambush. It didn’t take long to find them hiding.
“Why don’t you just come out? Hiding behind cover makes it difficult to control your strength.”
The back of the thick tree right in front of me.
Perhaps he intended to pass the time by crossing obstacles, but isn’t that acceptable only when he can turn around obstacles?
“Strength control, what…”
“Let me know if you have any questions.”
It was said that it was a sight without a hundred questions. He concentrated his strength on his outstretched hand.
Concentrate enough mana to create a circle in your left hand, then use the mana to sharpen the blade of your open hand.
A technique that has been modified for combat using the ‘dissection’ that claims to be a medical scalpel.
Durability is guaranteed by using blades instead of fingers, so it is possible to directly receive even a sword with an aura.
-Suddenly!!!
Yes, it is actually an Aura Blade implemented using the blades of the hands.
Its power is only a hand slash, but it can slaughter wood at once.
“What, what! What just happened… Kahak!!”
Our assassin friend who kicks after clearing cover and falls terribly.
Anyway, he seemed surprised that I split the tree without a weapon, but that would only be a waste of time in the end.
Even at this moment, the light shimmers slightly at a distance.
The light that rises due to the operation of mana must be a penetrating spell using heat.
If activated, it would lightly pierce a barrier created by simply hardening mana.
“But who will wait for that?”
I immediately picked up a nearby stone and prepared to throw it at their location.
Concentrates mana in every corner of the body to reinforce the joints, and overlays mana on the muscles to amplify the power from tightening.
And throw it.
-Quaang!!
A roar reverberating in the right place.
The bodies of the guys who were preparing to shoot magic at me along with him also fell away.
A guy who groans and groans.
Even those who guarded the caster on both sides could not block the stones I threw.
“Why are you so surprised? If you were born as a human, you should know how to throw.”
“Damn it! Intercept quickly!”
Assassins cast and throw prepared magic belatedly.
Perhaps it was cast as quickly as possible, and relatively low-level projectiles such as ice fragments and fireballs flew in.
The power is weak, but it is quite costly to block it without any special armament.
I hid myself in the bush to avoid the attack, then grabbed a stone in my hand and prepared to aim again.
The preparation for the attack is over.
However, it takes time for the opponent to reload the next shot.
Of course. After all, magic can only be established through ‘manipulation of phenomena’ that control surrounding objects with pure physical force.
On the other hand, the helmet I am currently using does not go through such application, and uses only pure physical force to reinforce the necessary parts.
-Kwaaang!!
In other words, in speed battles, techniques using pure physical power, which do not go through application rather than magic, have an overwhelming advantage.
“Cheer, heouk… ….”
“What the hell, what is it? Just a stone, what…….”
Children complaining after being hit by stones as if they couldn’t understand.
You might be surprised to find that the guard is not even affected by throwing, which is not magic, but considering the principle, it’s not very impossible.
What is the reason humans can stand at the top of the ecosystem in the first place?
Not by intelligence, not by accidental discovery of fire, not by building a herd society.
Because its endurance is the best among all living things, and its body structure is uniquely designed to enable throwing.
Making use of such characteristics, humans have laid the foundation for growth by chasing runaway prey, throwing stones from a distance where teeth and claws do not work, and killing those stronger than themselves.
Wouldn’t it be natural for me to step out into the battlefield naked in such a yard to raise the ability that humans can best utilize to a ‘level equivalent to attack-type bombardment magic’?
“Anyway, the pitcher is the position that makes the best use of human characteristics.”
Come to think of it, it was training and I played catch with the corps members.
I wonder if the survivors are all on their own by now?
-Quaang!!
As I was happily throwing stones while recalling my feelings at the time, the survivors on the other side started screaming and running away.
Oh no, you can’t run away. I’m just starting to feel better……. Well?
“Damn it!! Well, that’s not what we’re going to do!”
“For now, step back and do some maintenance… …. Whoops!”
A huge shadow blocked their way at that moment.
The fugitives, noticing the presence, panicked and began to tremble.
“I, Your Highness… ? How come here…….”
It was as if he had faced something he was afraid of.