chapter 10
Chapter 3 Destiny Manipulation (1)
“Today’s class is about ‘Auror’.”
Basic combat skills lessons.
The teacher in charge, Alex, looked around everyone and said.
The students lined up in the outdoor training center and listened to Alex’s explanation.
Combat-related classes are usually held here. Or rent an auditorium or field.
“Human muscles are limited. It goes without saying that you need to grow enough, but too much muscle will interfere with movement, and as you know, muscles are inherently heavy. In the end, a fighter needs a body with an appropriate balance of flexibility, strength, and agility. In other words, you can’t just build muscle for strength.”
After saying that, Alex looked around. His gaze turned to Aster.
“Hmm, Aster. Come forward.”
“Yes.”
Aster stood next to Alex.
Alex put his hands on Aster’s shoulders.
“A body like this is a good balance. Muscles increase reflexes when appropriate, and both decrease reflexes when insufficient or excessive. In the case of Aster, he has the right balance. Everyone wants to think of muscle training as a model.”
Aster had a somewhat embarrassed expression on his face.
Well, when it comes to Aster’s body balance, I strongly agree with Alex.
However, since Teacher Alex was on the side of the common people from the beginning. When you deal with Aster, the representative, you are dripping with honey.
“So, to increase strength, it is not a good idea to build muscles blindly. We have to use other human powers. You have to effectively increase your attack power while maintaining the balance of your body. That ‘strength’ is Aura.”
Alex stood in front of a huge stone pre-placed in front of the students.
and picked up a sword.
“It is impossible to cut these rocks with a sword using only muscles. There’s also the issue of strength, but before that, the sword breaks. However, an attack from a prepared posture through repeated training can carry an auror.”
Alex took a stance.
Hold the sword with both hands, vertically in front of him, his gaze straight ahead, and the tip of the sword coincides with his gaze. It’s like drawing a picture.
Alex raised his sword upward and slashed it downward towards the rock. A blue light flashed at the tip of the blade.
With a spatula and a sound, the blade cut the rock cleanly.
Oh, the admiration of the students.
Alex had an expressionless expression on his face.
I would have shown it to you in every lecture.
“A warrior will be able to mount an Auror on his sword after tens of thousands of training. At first, you can do it for a moment, and that’s only one move, but later you’ll be able to use the auror for a variety of moves.”
“I, sir.”
Then someone raised a hand.
Looking back, I don’t know who it is.
Am I an extra for something I don’t know well?
“Then, if I keep training, will I be able to always have an Auror in my weapon?”
Well.
Seeing you ask such a question, I think the extra is right.
Alex smiled and nodded as if it was a very good question.
“Of course. And you can do more than that.”
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“More?”
“Once you reach the extreme of Aurors, you can weaponize Aurors with bare hands without weapons.”
ooh, the eyes of the students twinkle.
“Of course I can’t. It is still.”
A light laugh arose at Alex’s joke.
“Today’s lesson is to attack this rock with your weapon.”
Alex pointed to the other half of the rock he had cut.
“Some of these students may have already been able to put Aurors into their weapons through practice and skill before entering Constell. But cutting down this rock will not be easy. This is no ordinary stone. It was specially crafted through the magic of the professors.”
Even if it can contain an auror, the difference in the auror is also very different.
Although you can scratch a rock, it is very difficult to cut it. If it’s just a rock, it’s a specially crafted stone.
A look of disappointment appeared in the eyes of the students.
Knowing that from the beginning, Alex raised his voice.
“If you can cut or destroy this rock with a weapon without using divine power, a party of 5 will be allowed to enter the lower dungeon once. But there must be at least one third grader and one teacher out of five in the party.”
At those words, the students’ eyes lit up.
Dungeons are precious places where you can get materials and goods from various monsters. The principle of its creation has not yet been clarified, but it has in common that it is created in a place where mana accumulates.
A dungeon attack is not just about finding an exit and exiting.
Defeating the dungeon boss, unlocking the password, and activating the hidden device can also be methods of attack.
So, as the difficulty of the dungeon increases, not only the monsters become stronger, but the traps and devices also become more vicious.
Still, the dungeon is a place of opportunity to earn money and accumulate experience and items.
In addition, unexpected treasures may pop up. Just like the ‘Mystyltain’ that even appeared on the news a while ago.
Of course it was fake, but no one believed it was 100% fake until I proved it. Because there was a small chance that it was real.
In any dungeon, you never know what items will come out.
“Then shall we begin?”
At Alex’s words, the students in front came out in turn. Everyone was full of enthusiasm whether they coveted the dungeon ticket.
But honestly, I wasn’t interested in cutting that rock.
‘If you weave Gram, you can cut it.’
However, the dungeon ticket is not important to me enough to show Gram.
Weaving is my only weapon.
I’m not in a situation where I can afford to fight while showing all of my hands.
Actually, what I’m interested in right now is not what I do without cutting rocks.
Finding a student who cuts rocks.
As far as I know, there is only one here.
“Ugh!”
The turn turned around and it was Aster’s turn.
The blade he wielded made a fairly large scratch on the rock. But it didn’t cut.
“profit.”
Aster’s clothes swelled up as if eaten by the wind. Soon after, his eyes glowed white, and the white light even dyed his hair.
Oh, that one.
“stop. Aster. Divinity is forbidden.”
“Ah, ah. sorry.”
Aster nodded and went back to his seat.
Hey, if you borrow Baldur’s power, that rock.
However, the enthusiasm of the students was somewhat dampened there.
A rock that even Aster cannot cut. That fact was quite a shock to the students.
And a few turns turn around.
spatula-
“Oh?”
rocks were cut
Standing with a sword thinner than her arm, the woman herself looked embarrassed.
Looking at the cleanly cracked rocks, I could not do this or numb.
It was only natural that the eyes of the others, including Alex, were rounded.
──I found it.
Pink hair, green eyes.
“Hey! professor! Look! I made it!”
Her hair dances and her exhilarating shoulders draw elegant lines.
Each gesture is lively and bewitching, and the expression is pure, the end of the ingenuity that seems to be impeccable.
From head to toe, everything looks exquisite as if it were made by God.
“… … Cybel, you have passed.”
Alex said with a trembling expression.
Cybel Forte.
A woman loved by fate,
One of Etius’s ‘main villains’.
‘Cybel Forte… … .’
If this world is not really a result of the movement of the world, but if there is an element called ‘luck’ that resides in the individual.
The guy who seems to have been born with that luck is Cybel Forte.
Cybel was not originally a villain because of her evil nature. Basically, he’s just an optimist and a convenienceist. Do what you want to do, and don’t do it if you don’t want to. If you get bored along the way, quit.
But her fate is always tailored to the direction of her will.
“Cybel, have you been able to use Aurors before?”
“no! First time!”
Cybel speaks cheerfully. That’s not a lie.
Others may look like a nerd, but Cybel had never learned the auror until recently.
The reason why she was able to cut that rock now is simple.
because I wanted to
Because I wanted to have the ‘dungeon use ticket’ that Professor Alex said.
Not everything you want will always come true.
But if it’s possible for her, she does it. If what she wishes for is not realistically impossible, it will happen.
While someone builds knowledge and skills over and over again by training, Cybel skips the whole process.
… … So she is a villain.
When an enemy that neither one’s own strength nor one’s luck can fight against appears, it immediately collapses.
Because I have no experience of getting up from such difficulties.
A person who is scheduled to be ‘corrupted’ or ‘exit’.
Therefore, the player trusts Cybel because of her good stats and simplicity during the first play, but only at the end is he severely beaten in the back of the head.
If you recklessly push Cybel, Cybel will rise to a very, very high position with talent and luck that does not know how high in the sky.
It rolls up the soldiers, regions, and, at most, the country it deals with in that position.
Then, he quietly survives alone and goes missing.
However, even if she tried to make Cybel grow mentally by giving her difficulties from the beginning, her fate would not allow it.
No character can beat Cybel’s ‘luck’.
Even Aster can’t fight it.
So, in the end, the player must focus on his or her growth without helping or hindering Cybel and surpassing Cybel by itself.
There are very few villains that are this annoying.
“Teacher, the dungeon ticket. Do I need to accompany you?”
“Well. You have to fill five. We have to include a third grader and a teacher, so if you want a classmate, you can add two more.”
It can be said that dungeon exploration with senior students and professors is very safe.
Besides, most of the people here have never experienced dungeons. Even for a proper experience, an experienced person is essential.
I know from the start who Cybel wants to go with.
Cybel, who opened her mouth slowly, as I expected,
“Aster.”
I call Aster’s name.
I nodded my head quietly, satisfied.
Actually I have nothing to gain from the dungeon.
Rather, what Astor Evans gets in this dungeon is more important. Because Aster is as important as my growth to break this game.
‘It’s not a difficult dungeon, and if it’s Aster and Cybel, it’s easy to break. The teacher will also go.’
It’s a party no worries.
In the meantime, I’ll just focus on my training.
“Come with me, okay?”
Cybel’s tone seemed to be seducing.
A fresh smile and a gesture with a slightly tilted head.
Pink hair glistens.
“Yeah, good.”
Aster readily answered.
Cybel was delighted to even clap her hands in an easy to understand way.
Wow, I can see the eyes of the male students around me getting cold.
How can you feel the popularity of Cybel so easily?
“But there’s only one classmate left. Can I pick that one?”
But Aster said something strange.
As far as I know, Aster wouldn’t say something like this.
Later, ‘Lunia Freecell’, who is no different from the game’s official heroine, joined Cybel because she was jealous.
Aster wouldn’t make an offer to anyone first.
“yes? okay.”
At Cybel’s answer, Aster’s eyes focused on him.
In the midst of paying attention to who Aster is talking about.
“Frondie.”
he called me
“… … ok?”
I listened and then shook my head.
What is it that suddenly calls me here?
Weren’t you looking for someone to go to the dungeon with?
“Do you want to go to the dungeon?”
That was me.
I kept my composure in spite of Aster’s sudden designation.
As a proud gamer in Korea, and who is obsessed with this game, I can keep my composure in any situation.
With such a contemplative mind, I grasped the true meaning of Aster’s words, and after completing my understanding, I answered.
“… … ok?”