26 – Masters Class (3)

Based on Vice Principal Elizabeth, the masked examiners were standing on the left, and Gael was standing on the right. And Silverin watched Arena from a distance from them.

Gael walked over and stood in front of Damian.

She briefly explained the rules of the judging.

“All you have to do is break through the Planteras’ defense and cut down the flag. Judging time is ten minutes. There is a long hourglass next to the judges, so check the remaining time on the scale.”

“All right.”

Gael returned to his original position.

Damian entered the arena slowly.

There was no fear on his face. Even with a gigantic wooden doll nearly twice his height, he just looks at it with a calm expression.

Before he started, he got down on one knee for a moment and closed his eyes. As if meditating, I stayed still for about 30 seconds, then stood up and looked at the judges.

Damian seemed ready.

When Gael gave the signal, the four escort knights simultaneously blew the horns announcing the start.

An ear-piercing sound echoed through the arena.

examination has begun.

Planteras reacted to this and aimed wooden swords at Damian.

Damian also drew a sword from his waist.

Total Fissure Plantera.

With two Planteras per defensive line, Damian had to break through to a total of five lines like that.

Thanks to the huge difference in weight class, even a single direct hit could have been fatal.

Step by step, he sped up and lunged at the nearest Plantera, brandishing his sword.

kang!

Damian’s blow hit Plantera’s hip joint exactly. It seemed that he had swung it with all his might, but it left no scratches, as if he had hit steel.

Plantera immediately counterattacked.

Directly from bottom to top, drawing a semicircle, he slashed Damian.

It was quite a reflex for a massive body.

With a pop, he floated up and landed where he started.

When the judges saw this, they sighed slightly.

Gael murmured softly.

“That’s ridiculous.”

From her point of view, Damian swung the sword in a way that did not know whether it was a sword or a club.

Even the basic skills themselves are not complete.

Silverin’s intentions were questionable.

Damian immediately got up. Thanks to the moment when the sword was turned toward the body to block the blow, the injury was avoided.

He ran again without shaking off the dirt.

The two Planteras in the first line struck a wooden sword toward the top of Damian’s head, who came within range.

Damian dodged it and thrust his sword into Plantera’s knee joint on the left and twisted it.

Plantera, who lost control of her knees at the moment, lost her balance and collapsed.

Plantera, who was in the second line, clings to it and immediately plunges her sword into Damian.

As if he had waited, he took a step back and avoided it.

Kwajik!

The rushing wooden sword hit and broke Plantera’s right arm as it was.

Another Plantera from the second line joined Damian to help.

Then he lowered his body, jumped, and slid between Plantera’s legs on the third line.

The 2nd and 3rd lines that were following each other got tangled and fell together due to inertia.

It was a clever use of the fact that the center of gravity was concentrated on the upper body due to its large size.

When they realized that their swords didn’t work, they changed their strategies to get tangled up in each other.

“Hmm.”

Gael had no choice but to admit that part. His concise and efficient footwork and his fighting sense of quickly taking advantageous strategies were excellent.

The remaining Plantera from the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd line simultaneously attacked Damian.

Damian used his relatively small size to dodge attacks from all directions like a circus. It was a move close to divine.

A small exclamation of exclamation broke out among the judges who saw this.

But that wasn’t enough.

In the meantime, the three-line Plantera’s wooden sword, which rose up, hit Damian’s abdomen.

kang!

Damian’s body, barely blocking it with his sword, was pushed back.

Because the blow was so powerful, even if the sword was blocked, the damage seemed considerable. Taking advantage of Grogi for a moment, Plantera, whose arm was cut off, kicked him.

Damian’s body flew in a parabola and landed at the starting point.

6 minutes left.

Damian stood up again.

“Cheuk.”

Blood dripped from his mouth.

The Planteras lined up again.

Except for cutting off one arm, everything is back to square one. Moreover, Plantera does not discriminate between right and left hands. If one arm is cut off, you can pick up the sword with the other hand.

As time goes by, Plantera’s aggression gets stronger. Those who have been stimulated a lot will try to kill them completely, not subdue them as they do now.

Gael, feeling intuition that the judging would be trivial, shook his head.

‘I can’t even get close to Flynn and it’ll end’

It might have been better to give up earlier than to suffer serious injuries and suffer from major aftereffects. Even if he managed to break through the Plantera gap with his remaining skills, he would have to face Flynn’s sword skill at the end anyway.

Damian took a deep breath for a moment.

Suddenly, small changes began to occur in his body.

Gael narrowed his eyes.

‘Eyelight?’

His eyes were gleaming golden.

It was unclear whether it was an interaction with an artifact or a special potion, but Gael thought it was not enough to achieve great results.

Damian grabbed his sword and threw himself back into the ranks of Plantera.

Immediately, wooden swords rushed towards his shoulder.

And Gael’s expectations were spectacularly wrong.

He lightly twisted his body to avoid the wooden sword.

Damian’s movements were noticeably improved.

Plantera’s aggression increased and he became more active in battle, but Damian became faster and more skillful than him.

Unlike the previous attempt, which was in a hurry to evade, it began to attack aggressively.

While sending the wooden swords to the side of his head and shoulders, he stamped the sword into the joint of a plantera’s ankle joint.

Then, to evade again, I pulled my body back, and again, I clench my teeth and drive the sword into the same area.

As the same attack continued three times, Plantera’s ankle was broken with a thundering sound.

It focused on the weakest part with the most load.

He went deeper and did the same with Plantera in the 3rd line. Then, after Plantera fell due to a broken ankle, she stepped on her body and induced an attack.

The attack that missed Damian hit the lying Plantera directly.

Kwajik, Plantera, who lay down with the sound, had his limbs smashed and became incapacitated.

Damien ran straight to the fourth line. The Planteras behind them immediately pursued Damian.

Gael swallowed.

After three attempts, I found a strategy. No matter how much swordsmanship training a student received, if the power difference was that much, he would give up and put down his sword.

However, that boy was breaking through by finding a way out.

It was only then that Gael was able to understand it to some extent.

Silverin didn’t bring it for nothing.

There were a lot of students who stood out in the academy for swordsmanship itself. Because in the first place, unless you are a genius, you cannot enter.

What that boy proved was not his swordsmanship, but his innate sense for combat itself.

Although he will fail in this screening due to lack of time, he will be able to maintain his top rank in Eternia if he is trained in swordsmanship properly.

That’s just it.

It was not a skill to reach the masters class.

Damian had difficulties before even entering the fourth line. It was because the Planteras in the back line were attacking Damian one by one.

No matter how agile the body was, it was impossible to dodge all of this tremendous attack.

The remaining time is 3 minutes and 30 seconds.

Considering the engagement with Flynn, it was virtually eliminated. If you want to pierce Flynn, you have to overwhelm him with a ‘sword’, not your residual skills.

Demian must have sensed his limits as well, so he immediately rushed at the 4th Plantera. Then he ducked to avoid the wooden sword once, stepped on the thigh of a Plantera, and leaped forward.

Due to the large movement, Damian was momentarily exposed to the attack.

A nearby 4-line Plantera’s hand extends toward his leg.

And before his legs were caught, Damian delivered the final blow.

He tossed the sword at Flynn.

The sword spun rapidly and rushed into Flynn’s body, and Flynn struck it hard.

Kang!

Damien’s sword flew away and stuck in a place far away without being able to pick it up.

Damian’s legs were caught in the air, and he was thrown as if he was being slapped with a stone, and landed obliquely on the floor.

The place where he was thrown after breaking through to the 4th line was where the 1st line Plantera was.

3 minutes left.

Was that the final blow thrown after intuition about the limit?

The sword had completely left his hand, so there was nothing more to look at.

The Planteras, whose aggression had risen due to a series of battles, began approaching Damian. If you leave him alone, he will turn him into a porridge.

The judges all fell silent.

“It’s over.”

Gael said a word and was about to step forward, but Vice Principal Elizabeth raised her hand to stop it.

“Not yet.”

When Gael looked at Elizabeth with a puzzled face, she grinned.

“… ?”

Damian pushed off the ground with his arms and slowly raised himself. After that, he knelt down on one knee and watched the approaching Planteras.

As if meeting a magician, the appearance of the Planteras following Damian was quite ferocious.

Even with that menacing appearance, Damian didn’t seem to have any intention of running away or avoiding the attack.

Gael, watching this, could not understand.

‘What the hell are you doing?’

Damian didn’t take any action, just closed his eyes like he did at the beginning.

Planteras surrounded him in an instant.

Soon after, they raised a wooden sword. And the moment they try to strike down all at once.

A light arose.