17. It wasn’t like flimsy swordsmanship. (2)

“… … .”

Even so.

I don’t know if I can use this sword straight away.

I know better than anyone that this world in front of me is not real.

That guess won’t guarantee survival.

Fortunately in that sense.

The sword she had received from Elhermina was still sitting on her waist.

What should I do.

… Let’s judge rationally.

The straight sword was hung from the waist as if it was roughly woven.

I took out Elhermina’s sword.

far away

Between those who stopped in formation.

Several savage warriors were walking this way.

The closer you get to them, the more you feel it.

Each one was huge and heavy enough to be treated as a small child.

Even the tendons that seemed to be bursting between the arm muscles were wriggling ferociously.

Everything is thick and solid, just like that of a well-developed giant beast.

Before the Berg kingdom, there was a great empire.

Names vary.

bell. Vera. Ber. Bellow.

If you look closely at the Berg kingdom, it was a kingdom that was born while claiming to be a descendant of such a great empire.

A great empire that conquered continents and even across continents as a military powerhouse, through military discipline and military law rather than individual skills, and systematized and strengthened military power.

Defeating, kneeling, and slaughtering countless enemies tactically, strategically, and mobilizing strategy and military strategy.

have been subdued all along.

The reason why such a great empire eventually collapsed was because of the uprising of the savage tribes.

Starting with the dethronement of the emperor and usurpation of the throne by the great chieftain of the barbarians.

everything collapsed

And they are the ones who announced the beginning of the downfall of such a great empire.

their distant descendants.

In the far west, southwest, and northwest continents, including Berg, if you think that they have developed a harmonious handling of weapons by honing their skills and practicing mana.

Those snooping everywhere, including the East, believe only in a strong body.

There are pros and cons of each, of course.

random assault.

hand-to-hand combat.

melee, etc.

In all of this they have always been ahead.

In order to compensate for that, long-range weapons, to gain an advantage in close combat, weapon smelting and armor, as well as developing and optimizing armor, armor and armor.

In a sense, it was a natural process.

The growth of magic tool manufacturing technology, the exchange with other races, and the effort in diplomacy.

Even though he rejected magic, he eventually began to implicitly accept it.

… The attitude of acknowledging that weakness served as an opportunity to establish the current Berg Empire’s harmony and free-spirited system.

From the perspective of the time, it was the desperate resistance of the weak.

It must have been nothing more than a struggle.

Because even hundreds, sometimes dozens, of invasions cannot be completely countered.

The days when, like a frightened child, the only preparation was to run into the castle walls.

“… … .”

And on the contrary, those who came and went even in the territory of other countries, those who made plunder their main industry and purpose.

For example, peace and harmony are impossible for them.

It is natural for the weak to be taken away by the strong.

It is natural for the weak to work for the strong and even die.

So, I called them barbarians with fear and hatred.

“… … .”

and.

No matter who it is, if you think about the presence of rumors and notoriety right in front of you.

It’s like facing a wild bear in the middle of a forest.

If you face that stupid giant and see with your own eyes that the weapon they are holding is the size of their upper body.

I lost my senses, and even the courage I tried to raise waned.

Even helplessly losing the will to fight.

… Even that would be unavoidable.

Because that was soon to be a reality.

“Are you ready?”

even though there are only three

A thick shadow fell over my head as if the sky was blocked.

“… … .”

However, even so.

That is no reason to admit defeat.

And Kariel.

In the process of protruding countless times in the demon king’s malicious trials.

… Anything bigger than that.

Because I’ve seen it, and I’ve seen it myself.

Even the number of deaths.

There were more ships than that.

“If you can afford that name! I will try it!”

A huge ax soars vertically.

Although it seemed dull, the fact that it had a different momentum was enough to touch me.

At first glance, it seems slow because he wants to squeeze his muscles.

the moment it hits you.

The moment the weapon in your hand strikes down.

Like that of a beast rushing towards its prey.

There would be no hesitation in that action.

Like splitting the skin and bones of an animal.

With the momentum to split and split even a whole tree at once.

cooong!

It’s an outrageous binge to say that it hit soft ground.

It’s not about using mana to instantaneously strengthen the whole body.

To them, the use of mana is like a kind of bomb that is used to hit and beat enemies.

If he responded without understanding his temperament, he would soon be caught up in the aftermath and his body would be shattered in shock, or even shattered.

The strengthening of the body is to be steadily equipped from childhood through regular training.

Although it is a completely different method and composition from the old Berg, which focused on systematizing mana management and equipping vessels for refilling, and the current ethos of the Empire.

“Ha-ha!”

The man on the left approached quickly, brandishing a round shield.

He lowered his stance to avoid it, and struck the bottom of the shield as if scratching it with a pommel.

“Hut!”

The gigantic warrior flinched, albeit weakly, and took a backward step.

It’s because the center is off.

Aiming at that moment, he pulled himself out and narrowly let go of the spear that had been aiming behind his back.

“Look at this! right! It is this technology!”

The warrior of the shield expresses unknown joy.

“It was like that then too! For some reason, it was hard to use my strength when I touched it! Even if you give me strength, what! I didn’t even get over it!”

“Didn’t you say that you learned the same swordsmanship! No wonder!”

“Are you here to play?! Can’t you do it right?!”

Stay alert.

It was an opportunity they had longed for and longed for, so they never let this moment go unnoticed.

Even so, the rest who can’t control the cheers.

Cheers like shouts, exclamations like screams, and laughter like deathbed burst out.

All of that roars, tearing through the atmosphere.

“… … .”

sure thing.

That’s a lot harder than expected.

If the weapon was clumsily joined together, the force would hit it and this side would fall out first.

I just confirmed that it interferes with the flow of latent mana inside the opponent’s body.

Uneasy.

It’s like trying to force a river to flow out of a river by breaking down a dam.

Because it really wasn’t too hard.

At the same time, it is a rock, and no matter how much you associate it with a tree, you turn around and understand it.

It looks like it will break.

It looks like it’s about to break.

‘yet.’

because i’m not perfect

Because you are not prepared or prepared.

The gap between the body and consciousness remains.

The body was still immature, and the consciousness and mind were infinitely disturbed.

Even so, it must have been the power of will that was able to force these two together.

However, no matter how sincere the will and earnestness may be.

That doesn’t mean omnipotence.

For example, everything is relative.

And now, because I met a relatively infinitely daunting opponent.

Also, because they are facing unreasonable people in terms of compatibility.

Because even the numerical inferiority overlapped.

… Being pushed away is a very natural thing.

so that.

taking for granted

Even the fact that you have to make a path that doesn’t exist and move forward.

It must be part of the promise.

“How long are you going to run away!”

“You look like a squirrel!”

“The name Kariel will make you cry! He didn’t back down even a single step from us!”

me and he are different

Even the reality we are in is different.

It is not a matter of who is right and who is wrong.

It is not a matter of who is better or not.

It’s just a completely different person.

The swordsmanship he had learned from Grandeus was, in fact, completely different.

What Grandeus taught him was basic, but how to wield it.

Whereas me?

Rather, taking a stance, swinging, cutting and stabbing… It was only at an incidental and additional level.

Still, I hadn’t perfectly mastered swordsmanship.

He has realized some reason, but even that is to the extent that he is just out of place.

Rather, the body does not follow its will.

Even if you understand it with your head, you understand it with your senses.

The body can’t do it.

It’s a matter of time.

Training requires the podium of time.

No matter how great a blacksmith you are.

If not given enough time, no matter how good the material and tools are.

I will not be able to fully complete anything.

“Ha-hi-hot!”

A warrior rushes forward, shaking the earth with an incomprehensible scream.

-?!!!

Blocking it wasn’t enough.

Pushed by the weight and inertia, the body soared into the air.

At least this is because I responded properly.

If he took that power straight away, beyond the concept of the body being destroyed, it would have been broken in one way or another, whether it be the whole body or a specific part.

That means it’s over at that point.

“—!!”

The ground gets closer.

Right before reaching the floor, correct your posture as much as possible so that your body rolls smoothly.

Also, make sure that you do not get stabbed or cut yourself by the weapon you are holding.

Even the placement is taken care of, and the shock is dispelled by continuing the fall.

Even though I struggled to get into my posture, I was still dragged by inertia, dragging my body as if it were hitting the ground.

“… … .”

It’s an odd situation.

Still, the resistance hadn’t even started properly.

It’s already like this.

I saw St. Cariel’s memories.

However, how they fought against the barbaric warriors.

couldn’t see that

Because I came back to reality just before that.

But, what would have changed just because I saw it?

“okay! this is normal! It should be like this, but it’s normal!”

The savage warrior who sent it flying shouted loudly, encouraging himself.

“But then it wasn’t like this! Even though it was different back then, it was completely different!”

“You don’t deserve to mention that name!”

“Look after all the rants! Just look at that weakling who is giving us trouble!”

… … Everything was true, so I didn’t have much to say.

As for excuses, if they don’t work, they’ll only get ugly.

At the point of discussing excuses, it was too late at the latest.

“… … .”

Even so, the sword did not break or bend.

The sword endured because the sword was great, not because I was great.

For example, I am weak.

Even if what he was holding was the holy sword his father used.

I probably won’t be much different from now.

Even if there were some holy relics.

Whether it was a great magic tool or whatever.

Because it was sowed and lacked the foundation.

I worry about breaking and breaking.

… It must be that they are now afraid of being uprooted.

“… … .”

Walk out.

Don’t expect someone to push your back.

I might dream that someone would stand in my way and give it to me.

Even the vague belief that I, being weak, would exert power like a miracle.

I don’t wish, I don’t dream, I don’t expect.

The point is that the reality given to me is a problem to be solved with the fruits I have accumulated so far.

If you can’t do it here and now.

There is no next.

there is no later

clinging to what doesn’t work?

Challenging the impossible?

Who decided the impossible, and who cried out the conviction that it couldn’t be done?

Is it all me

My weakness, my fear, my ease.

… It must be because I thought so and accepted it.

“Have you not come to your senses yet?!”

“Will you come! Come!”

“Little human! Show your strength! Do you think we can be satisfied with something like this?! This is not even an offering to God! So I will kill you! I will kill everyone else too! Glory be to the Giver!”

The ax slices through the air and flies ferociously.

“?!”

As he moved forward, he straightened his posture and forcibly grasped the sword with both hands and managed to slash it.

Quaang!

Somehow, a sound that could only be heard when a siege weapon struck the wall hit my ears.

The shock caused both arms to soar into the air.

In an instant, the sword crossed the arms and shoulders.

The shock runs all the way to the ankle.

Even this couldn’t flow properly, so the posture collapsed as it was.

thud! thud! thud!

“Uhhhhh!”

A warrior who rushes in in an instant, hitting the ground.

Like a bear running with all its might.

No, in an even more heinous form, it came running.

“Ahhhh!”

A dagger pulled out of nowhere.

Even that is quite large when viewed from this side.

I managed to catch it coming straight down.

shed

At the same time, he dug deep inside and moved the sword he was holding with both hands to his left hand.

He cut his forearm as if he had been struck with a sword.

Fighting!

not beige

As if you had bumped into steel.

“Where!”

A warrior with a snort strikes his arm as if it were not the same.

However, it does not reach.

In the middle of the forearm passing exquisitely as if brushing the face.

“uh?!”

The warrior’s steps are intertwined.

in the first place.

I knew long ago that it wouldn’t be cut.

Something like my swordsmanship without borrowing the power of others.

If there is someone who can handle mana even a little.

Not to mention, it’s not a threat even to children.

Even when I was in the academy, it was a terrible part that had been pointed out all the time.

Then and now, the body I was carrying was still the same.

The only thing that has changed is the mastery of skills, skills, and necessary skills.

It’s just that the knowledge related to him was forcibly beaten.

And what’s more important than that.

Changed will and mindset.

… However, the sad hope that such things will randomly bring a miracle.

There’s no way I can have it easily.

don’t even expect

Therefore, it is not enough to crave and wish.

In the end, making it happen is a cool-headed reason and realization based on it.

For example, fruition

“uh?!”

Climbing up his staggering body, holding on to the uncut, knotted ends of his hair as if hanging on.

grab the back

left hand raised.

The sword held there.

He corrected it once and held it in reverse.

With that intact, into the other person’s eyes.

toward the inside of the eyelid.

Like slashing, stabbing.

Kwajik!

“Quaaak!”

It’s not over until it’s over.

As if clinging to the sword he was holding, he even used the recoil to slash and slash his body.

The warrior screams.

I barely escaped the arm that was swinging recklessly and fell to the floor.

“Cool!”

After clearing his twisted breath with a light cough, he immediately widens his distance and observes his opponent.

The warrior struggled with blood pouring out of his eye sockets.

yet.

cooong!

… … It only repeats the collapse and wriggling.

“… … .”

only one

Even that was a counterattack using half-carelessness.

Perhaps, after witnessing this, a different approach will be needed next time.

does it matter

Even the opponent in front of me can’t do anything, promise the next one and hide the best move?

Of course, that is also a necessary process.

In other words, the next story beyond the barriers in front of you.

“… … .”

I walk past a corpse that is not a squirming corpse.

“It’s pretty!”

“You really handled it like a squirrel! Bold boy!”

Don’t be agitated.

Death is only the process of proving courage.

“… … .”

Without a word, with the sword hanging down.

choose to breathe

I feel like my arm muscles are going to break because I gave too much strength.

Maybe I just sprained my ankle a little. even cool

When I fixed the sword, I wonder if there was a strain on my fingers, and that part also felt cold.

I wonder if the shock I got from being blown away is the same.

If you are a little vigilant, your vision will shake as if the world is tilting.

It is clear that it has not been reached.

Seeing blood pouring from his nose, it might have been too early to feel relieved even with a simple evasion.

“Certainly the three of them are fighting, so it’s a bit daunting.”

But now.

“There are two of you?”

“Don’t be arrogant, kid.”

“This, just because I knocked down one idiot, I drank in vain and fell asleep. Then you die, you bastard.”

“You talk a lot.”

In the end, I have to use even this.

I took out the straight sword that was forcibly hung halfway from my waist.

“How about this?”

each in both hands.

Grab a sword one at a time.

There must have been a lot of times when I’ve been like this just for play, for fun, even if it’s superficial.

But seriously, I never thought that I would be able to go into combat in this state.

One is too heavy, but you can handle two?

If you don’t have excellent dexterity and senses, it’s impossible by nature.

Even if you practice steadily, if your innate aptitude doesn’t follow.

If the sword handling skill is not outstanding.

… This is nothing more than an act of self-important suicide.

“This idiot?”

“Don’t make me regret it.”

So change your thinking.

Even now, I’m not handling a sword.

this is just

… just a tool

Immediately after walking slowly and closing the distance as much as possible.

He threw the sword he had just drawn out toward the warrior on his right.

The body, on the other hand, to the left.

As if the shield had been waiting for it, it attacked the body like a castle wall.