Chapter 103
Chapter 103
Episode 103:
The knights’ attention was focused.
It is extremely rare to have the opportunity to see a sword master spar during one’s lifetime.
Each of the Sword Master’s actions can be a great insight for them as knights.
“Are you here?”
“Wow... I never thought a day like this would come in my life.”
“Don’t even blink. “I don’t know when a day like this will come again.”
Perhaps that was why all the knights in the count’s house gathered in one place.
More than 100 knights gathered at the training center, which can accommodate up to 50 people.
Fortunately, because it is a magic family, the number of knights is small.
A typical count family would have over 200 knights.
Because Millennium was a family with overwhelmingly more wizards than knights.
“come in.”
The Mercenary King smiled fiercely and waved his hand.
And then he turns his back.
I felt like they were watching over me and telling me not to worry and to attack as much as I wanted.
He raised his sword at an angle and looked at the mercenary king.
Even though it seemed to be standing roughly, there was no gap visible at all.
“I need to know your skills so I can tell you the right training method. So, come in first.”
He told me to come in, but I couldn’t.
I don’t know where to attack.
His body looked like Mount Tai.
“Aren’t you coming in?”
The mercenary king kept smiling and urged me to attack him quickly.
I tried to go in without any prompting.
I took a step forward and lightly swung my sword.
Tooung.
The sword bounced off the mercenary king’s fist.
“Hmph!”
Paaang –
The Mercenary King’s fist hit the air and made the sound of an exploding firecracker.
Paang Paaang –
The Mercenary King swung his fist without stopping as if he had been waiting.
My vision was covered with fists.
It felt like a wave crashing in.
But what was even more surprising was that he was doing the fist pumping at such an incredible speed with one hand.
Quaaaang!
I realized this after blocking just one attack.
His attacks should never be blocked.
I almost lost my sword just by glancing over it.
It was the strongest force I have ever felt.
Maybe even more than Ahar.
“Is this it? “Then I’m a bit disappointed!”
I was being made fun of.
Even though I am a sword master, I never thought I would be pushed this far.
Still, he also fought against Taurean, the sword master of the North.
The Mercenary King seemed like a person of a different class.
“Where has the image from back then gone?!”
As soon as I stepped back to get away from him, he quickly clung to me.
It seemed like he only walked a few steps, but he was already catching up to me a short distance away.
He gritted his teeth and swung his sword.
Boom!
It kept making a sound like hitting a bouncy ball with a stick.
There was no time to marvel at the fact that such a sound could be made when it collided with bare skin.
The mercenary king’s fist swings became faster and faster.
I can’t even remember how I’m holding on right now.
“Do it right! “I can’t even digest what I ate yesterday!”
It was my first time being pushed this far, so I felt pretty bad.
If I lose cleanly, I feel less dirty.
But this was literally a joke.
They deliberately kept me in a tight spot.
I could see that he was confident that I would not be the first to shout surrender.
If it had been before, out of pride and all, I would have shouted surrender right away.
I didn’t think of myself as being great enough to take care of my pride.
‘I’m going to go up and turn around.’
It’s different now.
I can see that they are openly making fun of me, but I don’t want to shout about surrender.
I want to hit him at least once.
“Oh, are you smiling now? “Are you a pervert?”
He trembled when he saw me.
He was looking at me like I was crazy, laughing as I kept getting hit.
There were tears in her eyes, as if she was about to cry.
I looked at her quietly.
‘If you see me playing around with this, I’m sure he fainted when he saw me in the North.’
I woke up with a small laugh at the foolish thought.
For a moment, my head started spinning and my vision became blurry.
“Are you okay?”
The mercenary king looked embarrassed for the first time.
“I didn’t mean to do this. “Did I hit you too hard?”
Was he embarrassed because he couldn’t control his strength?
If that’s the case, it doesn’t really matter.
In fact, I felt better. Because I brought out his true feelings to some extent.
“Are you going to continue?”
“yes.”
But from earlier, the princess was very clingy.
It was quite annoying and strange, perhaps because he was doing something he didn’t normally do.
“Would you please come out? “The sparring is not over yet.”
After speaking to her as politely as possible, I looked back at the knights.
“What are you guys doing now? “Shouldn’t we stop anyone from entering the sparring hall?”
“I’m sorry!”
“Mahol, you too. Are you coming in with me just because I’m a little hurt? “At least you should have stopped the princess.”
“sorry.”
The knights and Mahol bowed their heads.
Entering the sparring hall where sparring has not yet finished is an action that must be taken with extreme caution.
Coming in and interrupting someone before the sparring had even finished was like ignoring them.
It is not strange to cut off the head of an interfering person on the spot.
“As a knight, shouldn’t you know and act in advance before I tell you?”
“....”
The knights bowed their heads without saying anything.
I can’t make excuses because there’s nothing wrong with what I said.
Even when the knights spar, they are on guard so that there is no interference.
Moreover, it is a sword master’s sparring.
They were more alert than when they sparred, not less.
“If the princess wants to live here in the future, she must know. “During a sparring match, you must not invade even if one of you dies.”
“...yes.”
The princess nodded.
I looked at her and let out a small sigh.
Even though she was a princess who didn’t know much about the world, I didn’t expect her to know something like this.
Still, since there are palace knights and faction fights, he must have the necessary knowledge.
‘I lost my nerve.’
My body, which had been heated up by her and Mahol’s intrusion, cooled down.
The Mercenary King was also scratching the back of his head.
It was difficult to spar again in this atmosphere.
The knights stiffened and bowed their heads to me, and the princess left the place with red eyes.
“It’s difficult.”
I sympathized with the mercenary king’s words.
They can’t spar properly and the princess seems to be in a very bad mood.
“I’m in a bad mood, so let’s spar again.”
“what?”
To relieve this irritating feeling, it is best to exercise vigorously so that you don’t have to think about it.
And there is nothing like sparring among those intense exercises.
“Let’s spar now?”
“yes.”
The Mercenary King’s thoughts were different from mine, and he was quite taken aback by my words.
“Is there something wrong?”
“...No. “There is no problem.”
He shook his head and moved back to the center.
Then, as he did the first time, he took his stance and waved his hand at me.
After sparring, I went back to my room and rested.
I was tired.
The Mercenary King was an opponent I couldn’t beat no matter what I did, so I was able to do my best.
Maybe that’s why I was quite tired after sparring.
Knock knock knock.
As I was rolling over in bed, there was a knocking sound on the window.
It was a sound like being struck with a hard wooden stick.
When I headed to the window, I saw Jeon Seo-gu tapping on the window with his beak.
‘Who is it?’
I unwrapped the note tied to Jeon Seo-gu’s leg and read it.
-Preparations are complete.
It was a very rude message that did not even reveal who he was.
“It’s William.”
The pattern of a wild dog’s head drawn at the bottom of the note.
That alone was enough to guess who sent this note.
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