The experience of the banquet was, to put it mildly, boring.
Aside from the fact that laughing and talking with people he had never met did not suit Elric’s nature, the biggest reason was that his mind was immediately preoccupied elsewhere.
If you go up behind the Weibin family mansion, there is a mountain range.
And there will be a teacher in the hut on the second peak of the mountain range.
Just thinking about that made me out of breath.
A glimmer of reason, including the need to save face as a lord, held him back, but those moments eventually came to an end.
The banquet is over.
“Ma’am, I’m going to come outside and get some fresh air.”
“… “Do you want to do that?”
“Go back to the mansion first. “I felt stuffy after being around people all day.”
I didn’t see Elric making excuses because he was in a hurry.
Tyria’s expression is becoming stiffer than usual.
“I’ll come back.”
Elric turned around and walked away.
*
Rustling-
The spring mountain range was in full bloom.
Even though it was late at night, the swaying bushes under the moonlight were clearly visible.
Elric thought every moment he walked up that path.
Why did the teacher come here? Was he still interested in his future?
Then why did he never come to see me?
Even though it was a question that would soon be resolved, the reason for asking myself was no different.
It was a bit of excitement.
Just in case, just in case, the teacher might give me the answer to my currently frustrated heart.
I was wondering if he might have been worried because he expected me to be so upset.
You could have just said it was a positive guess.
However, Elric still wanted to believe in his memories with his teacher.
During the days when I was so sad due to the discord with my father, it was my teacher who took on part of that role.
He was a quiet person who rarely shared his opinions with others, but in other words, his teacher was better than anyone else at listening to what he had to say.
I guess I can at least complain.
A young heart began to fill Elric’s heart.
That was the moment we arrived at the cabin.
“Are you here?”
There was a large old man cooking a bonfire in front of a small hut.
The copper-colored skin catches the light and shines. The shape of the bulging tendons and engraved wrinkles, the thick white hair and beard, and even the empty eyes that completely capture the bonfire in their sunken state.
He looked just like Elric remembered.
Has time passed him by?
Or is he using his power to block the coming years?
In any case, his appearance remained unchanged, and a small smile appeared on Elric’s lips.
“Master, were you really there?”
I’m glad I didn’t see it wrong.
Feeling so happy, Elric took a step closer to him.
I didn’t say anything else.
I just sat across from him and waited for my teacher to speak.
The teacher remained silent for a long time and then suddenly spoke.
“You’re back.”
“You mean Wibin? Yes, I was gone for about 10 years. But how… .”
“Are you not going back?”
“yes… ?”
“I’m not going back to the battlefield.”
“… !”
Elric sighed.
The smile became crooked.
My eyes wavered.
‘how?’
That question comes to mind first.
Heading to the battlefield was something no one knew about.
To that extent, the processing of identity in the West was certain, and personal information protection was maintained so thoroughly that background investigation was impossible.
After all, didn’t even the seven powerful powers and Elbers of that continent know his identity until he returned to Wibin?
But how does the teacher know that fact?
The only way for him to know this is to see himself on the battlefields of the West… .
‘… ‘There won’t be any?’
The moment I reached that conclusion, the teacher sitting across from me raised his head.
That was the moment when we looked at each other.
“Your eyes are dead.”
The teacher spoke in a low voice.
He slowly got up and threw one of the two iron swords leaning next to Elric.
Suddenly I accepted him, and soon,
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“Unsheath your sword.”
Woe!
A red air current began to extend from the teacher’s body.
What happened next was far beyond Elric’s expectations.
Cheaeng!
Elric’s body reacted to the attack before he thought.
*
It was a battle that had to be called because it happened in an instant.
And the result was a clear crushing defeat for Elric.
Suddenly, Elric fell to his knees.
Each and every one of them gritted their teeth and accepted the attack as deadly weeds were fired, but even so, they were unable to completely prevent the damage.
Let alone a counterattack, he couldn’t even deal with the damage properly, so his whole body was cut to pieces.
“Ugh… !”
I was breathing hard and my chin was shaking.
The difference in skills was a problem, but there was a bigger cause.
‘Living.’
Above all, living was the problem.
The teacher who taught him the world of swords had already ascended to a place far beyond where Elric had come.
That difference was what led to this result.
“You’ve regressed. “More than when I was a child.”
He spoke with a stern look on his face.
Elric had to look up at him blankly while kneeling on the floor.
“why?”
Are they attacking me so suddenly?
What is the meaning of what I said just before that?
What on earth do they know about you and why are you doing this?
It was a question that implied such a question, but the desired answer was not received.
The teacher just started saying something incomprehensible.
“I reached the sword realm early. “Only I could reach that level.”
His sword caught on the tip of Elric’s jaw.
“There are very few people on this continent who have the talent to reach the realm of swords. There were two more before you, but they were too old to progress further. Rather, the problem was that he was drunk on fame. “I stopped training.”
His eyes sank deeper.
“It was a deplorable thing. It was such a thing that there was no one who could climb to this level and see the same scenery. So I lived every moment in terrible loneliness. Also, there was something else that was more frightening. “I lost my sword because I had no one to prove to it that it could grow any further.”
“What is that… .”
“It means that we have reached the end of what we can climb alone. “Even though I know there is another landscape beyond this, I can’t reach out for it.”
Saaa-
The wind blew.
At that moment, the shape of the wrinkles on his face changed completely.
Also, his words came into focus.
“So he started a war. “If it doesn’t sprout, the soil needs to be compacted.”
“… !”
“By building up a huge poison, we opened up a place for fierce clashes within it. “We provided nourishment for three years, but no one was able to grow to a satisfactory level.”
Stuttering, Elric’s lips softened.
What he was admitting was coming across quite clearly.
It was that moment.
“I wandered the continent in sorrow. Meanwhile, I found you.”
For some reason, the voice sounded like it was being chewed.
“You had the talent to enter the sword world. “You had the talent to reach that level on your own if you gave me a little support.”
Distorting his face.
“So I would have passed on everything about me to you.”
He said.
“Why are you taking a step back?”
“Ugh!”
With a thud, Elric’s body was pressed down by the teacher’s killing blow.
As if that wasn’t enough, he began to press down on Elric with even more deadly force.
“I lived every moment waiting. If you can reach the sword realm, we can definitely reach a higher level. By transcending the limitations imposed on humans and becoming a superior species, by throwing off the limitations imposed upon us by life and by our immortal will. “That’s how I was able to live.”
Cough! Elric coughed up blood.
“You are the last. The era in which swords are allowed is coming to an end. But why!”
For the first time, he let anger into his voice.
“You guys are so careless!”
“Keuuuuu… !”
The teacher’s foot pressed down on Elric’s left shoulder.
Elric could not resist.
There was such a drastic gap.
“I thought about it many times. Should I get rid of you and find another seed? Otherwise, should we find a way to reach transcendence on our own?”
The teacher took a deep breath and instantly erased his emotions.
However, it was only a precursor to an outcome that was not at all good for Elric.
“I came to this conclusion because nothing was uncertain.”
Couuuuuuuuck!
There was a loud noise.
Quite a distance away, and in a place where you shouldn’t be heard.
Elric’s head lifted up.
The direction from which the sound came was none other than the land where all his things were located.
‘Weebin!’
It was a moment of astonishment.
Phew!
The sword was stuck in Elric’s stomach.
Elric’s breath stopped for an instant as a tingling pain went up his spine.
The gaze turned creaky and turned towards the teacher.
He spoke in a calm tone.
As if all this was nothing.
“All you have to do is get rid of the things that make you careless.”
The sword slides out.
Elric felt like he was losing control of his body.
Meanwhile, I felt a fire rising inside me.
My emotions started to fluctuate like crazy.
“Throw away everything you are carrying. Walk with only murderous intent. Come, I will wait on the throne.”
Suddenly, the teacher who had pushed Elric away with his foot turned around and disappeared.
Elric exhaled and looked behind him.
Information floods my mind.
What is the identity of the teacher, what process did he go through to find himself, why was he so strong and why was he able to become strong on the battlefield?
Those things flashed in my mind like sparks for a moment, then subsided.
This is because there was a fact that was engraved bigger than that.
Elric turned over, clutching his stomach.
My head was raised.
The gaze turned towards Wibin’s direction.
As my thoughts narrowed to one point, only one thought came to mind.
‘ma’am… !’
Tyria is dangerous.
We have to go to Wibin quickly.
Elric began to stand up, trembling.
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