When Tyria suddenly fainted, Elric unconsciously picked her up.
“Ugh… !”
The load on the knee increases and pain occurs.
Lutton, surprised by his frown, stretched out his hand, but Elric shook his head.
“I will carry you. “Please guide me quickly.”
“Leader! But my knees… .”
“It’s okay. “Let’s go now.”
Lutton gritted his teeth, but soon began to move ahead with a look of impatience.
Elric carried her on one shoulder and walked, barely able to keep his balance with his cane.
The snow gets thicker and visibility narrows. Therefore, more effort is put into detecting space using mana.
It was in the meantime.
“Leader! I found it!”
Lutton, who had been ahead for a while, found the cabin.
Elric narrowed his eyes and looked at where he was.
‘there is… !’
The cabin that only existed in memories was still there in its original form.
There is no sense of life at all, and it seems that the teacher has not returned even once since the day he left.
Anyway, it wasn’t important right now.
Elric walked straight to the cabin and opened the door.
It’s a profit –
The interior view is obscured by an unpleasant noise.
“Cough! “Cough!”
Lutton coughed, waving his hand in the flying dust.
According to his reaction, the inside was full of whitish dust, making it difficult to breathe.
“Let’s ventilate first. “Look, you guys, please turn off the light over there.”
Elric ordered the hunters to light the pyre and laid Tyria down on the wooden bed.
Even though he is dressed like this, his body shaking looks pitiful.
‘how… .’
Why did I come along with a body like this?
It was a point where I felt like she was being mean.
*
“First, I’ll go down to the village and come back. “I don’t know how long it will snow, so I have to ask for help.”
“Please.”
“Uh, guys, follow me.”
It was the moment to roughly shake off the dust and light a fire in the fireplace.
The inside of the cabin had definitely become warmer, and as a result, Tyria also began to fall asleep more stably than before.
Lutten left the cabin with the hunters to seek outside help.
Elric then sighed and sat down in the cabin where they were alone.
‘What kind of trouble is this? .’
Suddenly, a burst of laughter came out.
Was it a problem that I came out hunting in an immature body?
No, it was an accident.
Why would heavy snow suddenly fall under such a clear sky?
Elric shook off his random thoughts and warmed himself by the wood fire.
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The expression wasn’t very good.
‘It’s difficult.’
I had long since passed the point where I was affected by heat or cold, so I didn’t have to worry about getting sick, but the problem was my knees.
I guess I overexerted myself while the injury was progressing and extended the recovery period.
It’s very difficult, but at the same time, fortunately… .
‘… Relief?’
Why am I fortunate?
Elric rubbed the back of his neck while making a ‘kkeuuuuuuuck’ sound.
‘If the teacher had heard, he would have been amazed.’
He is a person who taught that taking care of one’s body is a virtue that a knight should value more than anything else.
As I sit in the hut where my teacher lived, my thoughts become even more intense.
Elric looked around the inside of the cabin.
Everything is the same.
The wooden sword hanging on the wall, the quill and scribbled paper on the desk, the fireplace and that ugly wooden bed.
Even when he left, he was a person who only took his sword with him, so was it natural?
‘Where are you and what are you doing?’
When I feel at ease, my thoughts go elsewhere.
Facing his traces, Elric suddenly remembered his first meeting with his teacher.
*
It was already 18 years ago.
At that time, Elric was a six-year-old boy who had just made a name for himself in the village as a troublemaker, and that day was a winter day with snow like today.
Elric, who was immersed in playing knights at the time, led the village children towards the mountain behind.
Hunting demonic beasts.
A group of kids who didn’t know anything went on a journey that risked their lives.
In fact, until then, children often played in the mountains behind them in the name of hunting demonic beasts, so no child was particularly aware that it was dangerous.
Isn’t it time for adults’ words to be considered nagging?
Several friends whose faces are now blurred, including Lutten and Bart.
Elric climbed the mountain together with his friends.
“Grrrr-”
By chance, I met the demon beast that day.
Jet black body and yellow eyes.
Elric’s last memory was of encountering it.
What happened after that was still foggy and hazy and I couldn’t remember it well.
All I can be sure of is that I met the demon beast that day and suffered a large wound on the nape of my neck, and the scar still remains under my earlobe.
The teacher was the person I met that day.
“Are you awake?”
Elric came to his senses on the bed in the cabin.
With his gray hair slicked out, his beard grown haphazardly, and his clothes woven from animal skins, he looked like a bandit living in the middle of the mountains.
Nevertheless, he was a mysterious man whose strange power was felt somewhere in his old, grayish voice.
“The spirit of confronting a demonic beast is good.”
The teacher was a benefactor who saved Elric from his confrontation with the demonic beast.
According to what he said, he was holding on to a tree branch in front of the demon beast.
It was only later that Elric heard that if the magician had not played and if the teacher had not discovered it, he would have died at any moment.
What happened after that is still vivid to this day.
Elric expressed his gratitude with bandages wrapped around his neck and chin.
The teacher had made such a suggestion.
“Thank you… .”
“There is no reason to be thankful. “I didn’t save your life for free.”
“yes?”
“Little one, learn the sword from me.”
Thinking back, it was kind of funny.
“Who is your uncle?”
Elric felt so disgusted with his past self.
And I once again felt that the teacher who endured such things was amazing.
The teacher said just one thing.
With that one word, Elric was fascinated.
“article.”
Those beautiful golden eyes are still vivid.
“I am a knight.”
That was my first meeting with my teacher.
*
Crackle, crackle-
The firewood in the stove screams.
Elric cracked firewood with a skewer and smiled bitterly.
‘He was such a strange person.’
When I think back to what happened with my teacher, there were so many strange things that I can now feel.
First of all, Elric still didn’t know his identity and what his teacher was doing.
He was a man who made his living by hunting on this dangerous mountainside without any relationship with the village people.
One day, when I was asked why I didn’t go to the village, the answer I received was, “I only interact with humans.”
That wasn’t the only strange thing.
‘If you think about it, the training method was really strange.’
Although he called himself a knight and had deep expertise in swordsmanship, his training methods had many strange aspects, looking back now.
Elric, who has lived on the battlefield, now knows that a strong body and refined mana are essential to becoming a knight.
For that, he needed to train his body, and he also needed to control his mana through mental training.
But his training was different.
-Open the realm of swords.
He only uttered that one word and repeated the sparring.
No, the word sparring is ridiculous.
What he did was expose Elric to constant living.
-Stand up. Humans don’t die like that.
Didn’t he just repeat the words and swing the sword with a black blade?
Of course, I taught mana practice, but it was quite far from the practice of becoming stronger through mental training.
Elric still didn’t know the name of the mana practice he taught.
I just borrowed the words of my teacher and called it ‘Sword Realm (劍界)’ for convenience.
The funny thing is, did the training actually work?
A swordsmanship focused solely on attack without even thinking about defense. And a strange mana practice that radiates stronger power as the life becomes stronger.
Even he himself could not deny that they had a huge influence on Elric’s rise to the top 7 on the continent at the age of 19.
As Elric continued his thoughts, a question came to mind.
‘Is he still alive?’
He left this cabin the day Elric turned 12.
He only said that it was time to leave, and even Elric did not know his whereabouts.
Since he was a very strong person, it is unlikely that he would have died from a sword attack, but if you think about it, he was already an old man.
It is unknown whether he may have passed away due to old age.
‘hmm… ‘I guess not.’
Even thinking about him dying from old age and cancer, Elric couldn’t imagine such a scene.
It was a moment of laughter.
Startle-
Elric’s body trembled.
My head suddenly lifted up.
The direction your eyes are directed towards is the village.
The presence was caught in the widely spread mana net.
“this… !”
Elric suddenly stood up.
What was caught was an entity clad in mana as strong as a blade wolf.
‘Not one!’
They were in groups.
Five.
The thing in the middle of the display that spreads out like a siege is,
“Lutton!”
It was Lutton.
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