4. Practice Training – 04

Come on.

The ultimate realm that only those who have reached the extreme of nothingness can obtain.

The product of insanity given to those who, after endlessly practicing nothingness while possessing a human body, eventually surpassed human limits.

The power of Aura was the result of some warriors who had reached the pinnacle of nothingness, feeling the magical energy in the air, controlling it, and accepting it into their bodies, sublimating it into the light of absolute destruction.

He was not born with the power to feel magical powers and deal with them, but after performing martial arts, he became a terminal capable of accepting parts of the world and communicating with it, so it was a power that couldn’t be helped.

The mana training method that each martial artist is learning makes them feel the magic floating in the air and allows them to control it, but in the end, there is a limit.

This is because humans, with very few exceptions, are not very friendly with magical powers, and in the process of reducing magical energy in the air to ‘mana’ that humans can handle, too much loss of power occurs.

However, the story is different if you realize your aura and can use it, rather than simply adjusting your mana.

As the body accepts the power of nature itself and is able to wield it directly, it possesses powerful power that is incomparable to that of an ordinary warrior.

Therefore, in the world, those who have realized the Aura are called sword masters with awe, or masters when they do not use a sword.

Officially, there are no more than 20 people who have risen to the level of Master, even across all continents. The continent is very large and there are many people who practice martial arts, but among them, one out of 10,000 people, no, one out of 100,000 people will reach the stage of realizing Aura.

There are a total of eight Aura users in the current empire. And just because it had only eight members, the Empire was able to reign as the strongest force on the continent.

The fighting power of Aura users is not enough to say that it is one hundred, or even one thousand. Because there were only ignorant ways to deal with Aura users, such as counterattacking with the same Aura user, mobilizing a wizard, or pushing ahead with humane tactics until the Aura user’s stamina was exhausted.

Those who have an influence that can shake the war situation as well as the continent itself with just one existence, they are what we call Aura users.

And now, Jin was quietly watching as another Aura user was born right in front of his eyes.

ugh-

A flash of light explodes from the training sword Altina is holding. Although still vague and feeble, the aura of destruction lingering on the sword was an unmistakable aura.

‘Oh My God.’

For a moment, Jin couldn’t hide his absurdity.

As far as he knows, it was around her early twenties when Altina awakened her aura in the past. And for that alone, she was praised immensely as a genius unprecedented in the history of the empire.

However, Altina’s current age is no more than a child in her late teens. But already awakening the aura, does this make sense from common sense?

– … No wonder. Awakening your aura at the age of just a teenager. No matter how wide the world is and how many geniuses there are, I never thought there would be two people with the same talent as me.

Erekaya also muttered that, sticking out her tongue, as if it were absurd.

… no, wait. I think there was something I just couldn’t get out of my head.

‘A talent like yours? Could it be that you also awakened your Aura in your teens?’

– Yes. If you’re a genius like me, wouldn’t it be natural for you to awaken your aura in your teens? Actually, even teenagers are a little late. But I was a very humble person, so I didn’t talk about it publicly.

‘…..’

That wasn’t surprising anymore. Now Jin was confident that he wouldn’t be surprised at all if Erekaya revealed that she could actually use magic.

By the way, in fact, rather than the fact that Altina had awakened her Aura at the age of a teenager, Jin was surprised by the fact that she had awakened her Aura ‘at this point’.

‘Was this enough to distort history?’

It was not the first time that the history of the world itself was twisted due to Jin’s actions while returning repeatedly.

There is no need to grandiosely mention the butterfly effect or the theory of chaos, and every time Jin goes around the continent saying that he will prevent the end of the world, and he trembles all over the continent, isn’t it even more strange that history does not change?

However, there was a history that never changed no matter how hard Jin tried.

For example, the fact that humanity is on the genocide route that will face the end in 10 years, or that Lysithea von Edelstein is quietly serving as the chairman of the board in Nineve until the end strikes, or that he is currently hiding somewhere. The fact that the seven heroes never show up until the end, and so on.

Although it is a very trivial element, it is a factor that helps this world to be smoothly modified with the ending of the end.

Jin referred to such unnatural and artificial elements as ‘unchangeable history’.

And Altina’s Aura awakening in her early twenties was also a fact that has never changed in the past nine regressions.

But it has changed. History was reversed, and Altina awakened to her Aura in her teens. How?

‘It’s because of me.’

There was only one variable. Just yesterday, what else could there be besides the fact that Jin was furious with Altina’s words and gave a few words of advice?

I learned a new fact that even unchanging history can be reversed when certain factors and situations overlap. But now, that fact was not important.

‘… Shit.’

Yesterday, Jin gave Altina a lesson, but Jin himself did not attach much importance to that fact.

At best, it is a trivial advice to move your stride to the side. And it was just a small flaw that Altina could realize on her own in the near future.

Jin just hoped that his instruction would be a clue to jump over the wall blocking Altina’s way, but he never imagined that he would realize the Aura like this.

‘I haven’t realized my aura for over a hundred years!’

Some say that even after training to the bone for over a hundred years, they cannot even see what an auror is, while someone awakens an auror just by slightly turning their foot to the side. Does this make sense?

Frankly, from a macro perspective, it was clear that it was something to celebrate. However, it was his ex-girlfriend, Nabal, and Jin’s heart was bubbling with jealousy.

– It’s really ugly. You are feeling something gooey in your heart.

‘Shut up.’

Just as Jin was struggling to suppress his face from being distorted by jealousy, Altina took the aura from her training sword and asked him with a serious face.

“Who are you?”

Same question as before. However, it was easy to guess that the meaning contained in them was different.

… Well. If so, what should I answer?

The easiest answer to that question is to confess that I am actually a regressor, that this is the 10th time I have been regressing, and that I have had a passionate romance with you in the past.

‘Of course I don’t intend to answer like that.’

But don’t say that.

There is no guarantee that Altina will easily believe the fact about the regression, and if someone else finds out that Jin is a regressor from the beginning of the regression, the variables beyond his control will become too large.

The biggest reason was the anxiety that after hearing the truth about the return, Altina might deny everything she had done before the return.

… Yes, for example, the fact that she was in a relationship with Jin and that they loved each other.

With Altina’s own mouth, she might deny everything.

that, i don’t like it I hate just thinking about it. If that’s the case, now I’m going to go to the middle of the day.

Not telling the truth, not lying, giving Altina enough room to let her imagination run wild.

“Who is who? He is a classmate in the same class as you.”

As Jin shrugs and pretends to be as relaxed as possible, Altina’s eyes glaring at him narrow even more.

“… That’s right, I don’t mean to teach you easily. Well, I fully expected that to happen. And, in fact, I wasn’t too eager to find out.”

“Why?”

“Whatever the reason, your advice helped me to realize the aura. If that’s the case, it’s like I’ve given you a favor that can’t be easily repaid. Isn’t it an act that can’t be called polite to carelessly dig up your identity, who can be called a benefactor to me?”

Altina said that as if it were natural. And Jin stared blankly at Altina.

Neither one-sided favor nor one-sided resentment is left behind. Favor is returned tenfold, and won is returned a hundredfold.

A woman who is like a mirror who does not blindly like or dislike others, but changes herself according to the actions of others like clear water reflected on the surface of the water.

‘Altina.’

You are still shining brightly. So beautiful that I dare not look at you carelessly.

“I will make sure to repay this favor sometime. And, and-”

Altina hesitates about what she wants to say and cannot bear to speak.

Seeing her appearance, Jin tilted his head involuntarily.

“what’s the matter? What are you taking so long to say?”

“… Thank you.”

“what? I can’t hear you well, can you speak a little louder?”

It was a very small voice, so I couldn’t hear it very well. If you’re going to talk to other people, why on earth do you put so much effort into saying it out loud?

“Ah, thank you! thanks! Are you done now?”

Altina suddenly jumped out of nowhere and screamed, then whimpered and turned her body away from Jin.

And she left the gymnasium without looking back, leaving Jin alone.

“… Why are you suddenly losing your temper?”

When Jin, who couldn’t understand Altina’s actions at all, muttered that, Erekaya, who had been silent all along, clicked her tongue and gave him a bruise.

– Tsk, it’s like an asshole. Now that I see it, there was no reason why you couldn’t be in a relationship.

“Ah, why are you quarreling again?”