chapter 15
15 – 4-The Waterwalker and the Stable Keeper
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As mentioned earlier, it is strictly forbidden to injure one another during the entrance exam.
However, a duel is a different story.
Dueling was the most sacred duty of nobles and the last resort to protect honor.
If you were a noble, you couldn’t escape under the rule of a duel.
It was the same even with the Humanity Lighthouse.
A mere entrance exam could not stop the nobles from their duties.
Of course, if the two candidates had to talk about the next duel, it would have ended after being beaten by the instructor knight.
In fact, the instructor who came running after hearing the sound was at a loss when he saw my face.
I formally sought a witness.
Originally, a witness had to be looked after by an elder.
I was thinking of entrusting this role to an instructor engineer, but I had an interesting idea and recommended Barton Wigner as a witness.
“What? I’m a commoner who doesn’t know a thing about dueling rules!”
Barton, who had recovered from the injury before he knew it, hated it and refused.
Of course, Amber didn’t respond well either.
“You’re really cunning. If you entrust the witness to your sycophants and change your words, I’m not going to be able to deal with you.”
The reaction of the two was probably natural.
However, at my words, both of them could not help but nod their heads.
“Wouldn’t it be possible to get the desired result if I entrusted the witness to the instructor engineer?”
The role of the witness was to prove the duel, but just as important was the arbitration regarding the punishment.
Recovering as much as the lost honor, and removing excesses if any.
A few words of insult will only reward you with a few words of honor, even if you win the duel.
That wasn’t what neither Amber nor I wanted.
“Okay, then I understand. But if you play a joke, I will surely take your life and that flatterer’s life.”
“Hey!”
At Amber’s words, Barton started a match.
Wow, it shouldn’t have hit that hard, so why am I surprised.
I shrugged my shoulders, telling them to do whatever they want.
“Then it’s decided. The duel is originally decided by the person who received the duel request, but in this case, I’ll hand it over to you. That’s right, a duel with a sword is too trivial. I’d rather do something like 10 minutes of ejaculation. How about it? Let me go and you’ll win.”
“Then, on the other hand, I think my side is too insignificant. The kid is sending it. It doesn’t even take 10 minutes. And I’m sorry, but there’s no way I can restore my honor with something like that? The duel will be with a sword.”
sh*t, I was in trouble so I tried to look at his slightly reddened face.
It was this side that was rather embarrassed because he responded so casually.
“Okay. The duel method has been decided. Now, if you win the duel, tell us what you want.”
At the right point, Barton hit and came out.
Actually, this was also the most important part.
Amber said as if she had been waiting for that.
“If I win, give up the entrance exam and pack up and go to your parents’ house right away. That’s my condition.”
“I’ll accept that condition.”
There was nothing difficult.
I readily accepted Amber’s terms.
On the contrary, it was so simple that I almost lost steam.
“What are your terms?”
“It’s no big deal. If I win, give me your body and mind. This is my condition.”
As if shocked by my words, neither Amber nor Barton spoke for a while.
Jin reacted the fastest.
[Trash! Transformation! Bugs! Human bastard! How can you put something like that as a condition and say it’s nothing?!]
I was watching with interest, and Jin scolded me for doing something absurd.
‘Well, watch.’
[What are you watching, you human slut! I should have known from the time I was talking about jizz!]
Following Jin’s scathing criticism, Barton opened his mouth.
“Aren’t the conditions too asymmetrical? How about balancing them?”
“Asymmetrical? Where is it?”
“Even if you think about it, isn’t it equivalent to giving up the entrance exam and giving up your body and mind?”
“No, they’re equal enough. Is it too much to ask that you spend your remaining life on me instead of sparing me in a duel?”
In a duel, it doesn’t matter if you take your life.
It’s extreme, and it’s extremely rare to go that far today, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be beaten.
As soon as I finished speaking, Amber seemed to have made up her mind.
“Taunt, taunt, taunt. There’s no end to that. All right. I’ll make sure you pay for your pride.”
It’s not a provocation.
I really intend to steal your body and mind.
Amber accepted the condition whether she knew my dark heart or not.
Not knowing that Ji fell into the mud.
I laughed at that appearance.
If my smile had a smell, it must have been fishy.
The duel took place at the Lighthouse Castle Swordsmanship Training Center.
I wonder when the rumor spread, the knights of the lighthouse also showed up one by one to take a look.
Even if the candidates fight each other, it’s a stimulating sight in the boring lighthouse village. One of the candidates is Bjorn de Yeezz, who is rumored to be a genius?
I can’t stand this.
A large crowd was also what I wanted.
Because there is an unbridled gap between rumors of genius and seeing it with your own eyes.
There is an opportunity to prove the value of my existence, but there is no reason to reject it.
[No matter how you think about it, it’s strange.]
‘What.’
[Amber found out who you are. Then you should know that you are a sword expert. Even if you say that you couldn’t make a rational decision because your head was bleeding until you applied for a duel, isn’t it a one-sided fight that is too unfavorable considering the duel method and conditions?]
‘Because it’s just rumors. I could have guessed that he was at most an advanced sword user.’
Of course it can’t be.
Amber is not an idiot.
It is a more accurate judgment to figure out that there is a corner to believe than that.
I thought even Jin would notice at this point, so I waited for him to ask me, but it’s strange.
Did Jin’s power weaken and he couldn’t see?
Or is it that the things that dwell in Amber are so feeble that her existence is faint?
You’ll find out soon.
Barton Wigner, who stood in the center, looked at me and Amber, who stood on both sides, with a troubled look.
Barton’s hand raised toward the black sky.
The blades of each other’s swords pointed toward the direction the hands pointed.
When the hands parted, the swords that had been raised pointed at each other.
Amber’s sword shook.
Wrapping a sword with mana was called Pinjiram here.
‘Pin’ means to fluctuate, and ‘Jiram’ means the tip of the blade.
The fluctuating edge of the blade, to be substituted in the manner of a mass market, is a sword aura.
It was also the most representative difference between ordinary people and articles.
The stable keeper’s daughter, Amber.
A person who learned the swordsmanship of knights who visit the stable over his shoulder, and became a sword user with the psychic method he learned alone.
The last knight of the Lighthouse of Humanity and the schemer who saved thirteen-year-old humanity with wit and wisdom.
The name of her, who will leave a big mark on history in the future, started to spread from the small lighthouse village.
“I heard that there are sword users, but I can’t believe they are intermediate level.”
“Is this jockey in good condition?”
A fair was held here and there while looking at Amber’s sword aura.
Ember’s sword aura was excellent even for a sword user.
However, at most he was only a sword user.
Sword users lack the concentration of mana and lack of precision, so at most the only thing left to do is wrap the outside of the sword in a lump.
The reason why the aura shimmers on the surface of the sword is because of its immaturity.
Of course, the fluctuation of mana causes unnecessary consumption.
Saving her mana is a fatal weakness for a knight whose destiny is to save her magic.
That’s why the stronger the knight gets over the wall, the stronger the knight maintains his sword aura in a less exhausting way.
I slowly injected magic into the sword.
The sword aura flowing along the surface of the sword took a blue shape to match its shape.
I couldn’t find any shimmering.
It was as smooth as if it had stuck to the surface of the sword.
The audience, which had been buzzing even during Amber’s sword aura, shut their mouths all at once.
He seemed surprised that the rumors were true.
Well, the feat of being a sword expert at the age of 14 is amazing.
This is what it takes to cut the Sword Saint’s head.
Praise more, revere more, exalt my name all the more.
“I guessed roughly, but you really were a sword expert.”
“But you know that you can’t cancel the duel now, right?”
“Didn’t I tell you I just guessed?”
Amber wasn’t too surprised by my sword aura, as she said.
Rather, as if he had waited, he struck first and came out.
Aura and aura collided.
As soon as her shimmering aura touched my aura, it felt as if it would be cut like a piece of paper.
“Hey!”
Ember poured more of her magic into the aura, barely preventing her sword from being cut.
This is the reason why advanced players have an overwhelming advantage when fighting knights.
This is because in order to block the master’s sword, more magic power must be projected according to the aura.
If you don’t, the sword will be cut off.
The longer the battle, the lower ranks are forced to make one-sided sacrifices just by blocking the swords of the higher ranks.
The reason she came out was rather to end it with her short fight because she was in a disadvantageous position.
The fact that I was moaning even after predicting that must mean that I had to extract more magic power than expected to block my sword.
“Shall we lower the output of the aura?”
There was no answer.
I wouldn’t be able to afford an exact answer.
Ember turned her axis to the right to swing her sword right away.
She knew what to do to have a good chance of winning.
Do not cross swords as much as possible, stick close together and deal with swordsmanship quickly.
No matter how mana-enhanced your body is, you can’t block the sword aura with your bare body.
Even tough leather eventually gets pierced by an awl.
Her sword dug into the empty space tenaciously.
Indeed, it was a fierce offensive.
Her swordsmanship had no fundamentals.
Because I didn’t exactly learn from the system, there were parts that didn’t fit the grammar.
If you deal with it calmly, it is rather full of loopholes, but the discrepancy induces embarrassment to the other party.
If I had been an ordinary low-level sword expert, I could have been eaten.
But I’m already an intermediate level, and the setting itself is a genius of the century?
No one in this century can beat me, at least swordsmanship.
I’m sorry if you tried to deal with me that way.
I could hit as many times as I wanted to.
If it was aimed at the neck, Amber would die countless times.
But he didn’t.
She tells her that in order to bring her ‘it’ out she has to be provoked.
I only use my sword for defense, and I use martial arts for attacks.
It was a way of completely ignoring the duel.
“You really end up!”
I could see Amber’s emotions fluctuate as she greeted her with her fists at every empty spot.
It was because her mana, which she had to conserve, was consumed unnecessarily.
“Yeah, it’s no fun if it ends too soon. Would I like to see you moaning a bit more?”
“You trash bastard.”
“Your body and mind will soon be mine. Is moaning a big deal?”
Hmm, the dialogue just now was so messed up that it seemed like an aristocrat.
I hope the lighthouse knights didn’t hear about it.
Still, it’s a provocation that’s calculated after everything.
Anyway, we have to induce Amber to draw out that power.
I just hope to achieve my goal by stimulating the overwhelming difference in skill and the trauma I suffered from the nobility.
“Okay. Let’s stop playing tricks at this point. It’s going to be fun from now on.”