The Warrior’s Former Companion (1)
The story of the seven companions of the warrior is told as a folktale all over the world.
Natalen and Kadalem of the Flower Tower, who can be called his teachers.
The warrior tribe Gertollen and the high elf spirit archer Senian, known for always being at the forefront of battle and considering Kaladan their rival.
The Red Blade and the strongest barrier magician, Pichiel, who is in charge of the team’s information and assassinates the enemy’s main force.
Lastly… …Celaine, the strongest priest in humanity, known as the Saint and Sword Master.
She is the first holy knight in the history of the continent of Astera to be able to wield both divine power and aura, and it is said that the holy sword book written by Celain still serves as a model for all holy knights to this day.
Nowadays, it is common for a knight to use divine powers, including aura, but at the time, it was a truly groundbreaking idea. No one had ever thought of training aura and divine powers at the same time!
She possessed a natural talent for both divine power and swordsmanship, so much so that it was said that if Kaladan had not existed, Chelain would have been the ‘best in the world’ at the time.
Of course, every time he heard that story, the warrior Gertollen would jump up and down, but it was said that he had never once defeated Celain in a one-on-one duel.
‘That kind of opponent is right in front of me.’
I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t nervous.
Of course, it wouldn’t be the same Chelain from back then. His skills would have rusted due to not having fought for a long time, and he was even possessed by someone else’s body instead of his own.
The body she used was that of a sorcerer who had not trained at all and even had little aura within its body.
however.
Even though her physical abilities are just those of an ordinary girl.
Even though the aura is only as small as a speck of dust.
Harang couldn’t easily guarantee victory. The spirit he felt from Chelain was like that of a prosecutor who had reached the peak.
“What are you doing? Aren’t you going to attack me? It’s not manly to wait for a lady to approach you.”
As Chelain smiled with her eyes while spinning the magic sword, Harang lowered her posture.
‘If I use all my power, I can definitely win.’
But Harang didn’t want to do that. He had so many different strategies, including magic, dragon language, spirit magic, and divine power. But he didn’t want to do that.
‘This is an opportunity. A chance to cross swords with a 10-star master.’
The nine-star barrier erected high in front of Harang showed no sign of breaking through. In such a situation, sparring with a master could be of great help to him.
As time seemed to pass slowly, Harang’s vision became narrow and concave.
‘simulation.’
One of the unique special skills that Harang had in her previous life!
Harang, who instantly raised the synchronization rate by over 40%, was able to predict hundreds of Chelain’s movements per second.
In other words,
There were so many predictable cases!
‘How on earth are you planning to move?’
Body shape, muscles, aura.
There was not a single variable. If a normal human were to enter another person’s body, they would have to learn how to walk all over again. Everything was different from the body they had used before! However, she walked around the inside of the room as if she was used to it, and smiled brightly.
“You’re not coming? Then… … .”
Wow!
The sound of cutting through the wind.
Harang could not feel anything else, but before he knew it, Celine had come within arm’s reach of him.
“Should I go first?”
Wow-!!
“… … !”
He raised his sword and blocked it without giving him time to transform, and he retreated several steps back. Even though his opponent didn’t have an aura, he was overwhelming him with brute force!
Whirlirik! Celine jumped up while spinning in the air. Harang, who was trying to take advantage of the gap since it was impossible to maneuver in the air with a body without an aura, thought the gap was intentional and took the best possible defensive stance.
“Aren’t you going to attack?”
Whoosh! Celain shoots a magic sword in the air. Harang hurriedly deflects it, but the magic sword is already in Celain’s hand again.
‘At this moment… … !’
Harang could have predicted the moment she would grab the sword, so he quickly stabbed her with his sword.
[Non-contact sword!]
The most basic of moves was activated in less than 0.1 seconds and he shot his sword at her, but Celain tilted the side of her sword and dodged Harang’s thrust.
As he playfully waved his sword, the sorcerer’s sword flew towards Harang’s neck in an instant.
‘Ugh…!’
I quickly tilted my head back and did a backflip with one hand on the floor to get up, and Chelain was right in front of me.
“Gap~!”
Phew!
The sorcerer’s sword passed by his shoulder. Blood flew into the air, but Harang’s expression slightly crumpled and he stepped back. If he hadn’t hurriedly twisted his body, his arm would have been torn off.
‘It’s fierce. I can’t predict when the attack will come. It feels like they’re always watching for my weaknesses… … .’
Harang felt goosebumps all over his body. He tried to avoid leaving any openings as much as possible, alternating between defense and offense based on what he had learned so far.
However, as if to mock such efforts, Chelain deflected the attacks and aimed for the neck, and pierced the defense and struck the vital points.
It felt like I had to run away with my arms tied behind my back.
The sword I wield is merely for fun.
The sword she wielded was no different from a huge weapon.
‘The difference in experience is overwhelming… … .’
As Harang stepped back, Chelain placed one hand on her waist and ran around spinning her magic sword.
“Hmm~ Indeed, that’s how you feel! It’s definitely different from Kaladan! It’s amazing. It’s so different from a similar swordsmanship.”
As soon as she finished speaking, Chelain stomped her feet. Harang expected her to run at full speed and prepared for defense.
Wedge! As expected, Celine’s figure disappeared from sight. I quickly raised my sword, but…
“Where do you look?”
“… … Ugh!”
Chelain suddenly appeared from the side, not in the expected direction!
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‘how……!’
Even as he blocked the attack, Harang couldn’t help but express his doubts.
The frontal view he sees is fan-shaped. If Celine had not moved at high speed straight ahead, he would have been able to observe and respond to her afterimages moving to either side.
So he only stared straight ahead. Moving to the sides would only leave an afterimage, and it would only take longer for it to approach him, so he thought he had plenty of room to react.
‘Could it be that the speed is much faster than I imagined…?’
Chaeng! Chaeng! Chaeng!!
Every time Celine swung her sword, a shockwave would fly, easily surpassing the speed of sound.
Boom! Bam!
The floor split and the ceiling shook as waves of air spread.
Swish! Swish swish swish!
Then suddenly, the sorcerer’s sword split into dozens of pieces in the air and spun around.
No, it was a mistake.
She did not use the unusual technique of splitting the sword into several handles.
It just looks like that because you’re swinging your sword so fast!
Just like Emblitz’s quick sword technique…
Even though I was blocking the sword strikes that were coming in dozens of times per second, the sound of metal scraping against a blackboard rang out.
After one impact, the gap between the sound and the next impact is too long to keep up, so the noise spreads continuously like scratching on a blackboard!
Harang opened his eyes wide and tried to take in each of Chelain’s swords. No matter how fast the sword is swung, I can block it if I strengthen my body with aura and move accordingly!
‘Pattern, we have to find the pattern!’
There must be a pattern to human swordsmanship. Especially in such a fast swordsmanship, there had to be certain rules.
Even though they had only divided the sum by about 3 seconds, Harang’s eyes began to see Chelain’s pattern.
‘Found it!’
He squinted his eyes.
The continuous sword strikes that are swung according to a certain rule are bound to cause a great collapse of posture the moment the flow is broken.
‘now!’
Harang quickly stabs his sword into the gap that has opened up slightly within Chelain’s rules.
Phew!
The knife pierced the flesh and blood spurted out.
“Oh my? That was sharp?”
“… … Cool!”
However, it was not Chelain but Harang who had splashed blood. His sword had simply entered between Chelain’s armpits with a surprising force, while the sword she had been swinging had accurately stabbed Harang in the abdomen.
As he stepped back and tried to draw his sword, Celine smiled playfully and took a step closer, trying to stop him from drawing his sword.
“It’s my first time swinging a sorcery sword, but it doesn’t seem to be very useful for stabbing or cutting things. Otherwise, it would have cut you in half.”
“… … .”
As she said, Harang was protecting her abdomen with an intense aura.
So I couldn’t cut it by shaking it up and down.
Phew! Harang kicked Chelain’s stomach, who kept following him, and pulled out his sword. He then jumped back a few steps and grabbed his own stomach.
“Hmm, indeed. For an 8-star, it’s amazing. You showed me an opening on purpose so that I could attack you. Normally, when you find an opening like that, you focus on attacking. But, in the midst of all that, you anticipated my attack and surrounded me with an aura… Indeed! What a talent I’m jealous of.”
Instead of chasing after Harang, who was spitting out blood, Chelain walked around the room as if dancing.
The idea is to wait until he gets up again and gets into position.
“Divine power, aren’t you using it?”
“… … .”
Harang grabbed the lower sword with both hands again. He could have recovered with divine power if he wanted to, but he didn’t want to.
“You can defeat him with just swordsmanship.”
“Am I being too proud? Well, I’m not using any divine powers either… … .”
If you don’t use it, it’s useless.
Harang could be sure.
‘As expected, I can’t use Aura.’
Chelain possesses incredible strength and speed. Her physical abilities are so fast and powerful that Harang can’t keep up!
That’s why I expected that he would draw mana from somewhere and use it. It wasn’t that strange for a master to draw mana from the air and use it.
But that wasn’t the case at all.
‘An attack that doesn’t use auras. I was sure of it when I got stabbed in the stomach.’
If she had even a little bit of magic power in her body, she could have pierced Harang’s aura and swung her sword, chopping up his body.
She didn’t. At first he thought she was just being mean, but he was sure of it.
‘That couldn’t be done. There was no Aura.’
I thought it was strange.
Drawing mana from the air only works if you have some magical power remaining in your body.
At present, there was almost no magical power left in that body. It was not even recovering.
Perhaps… …she had somehow adapted to moving her body, but it would not have been easy for her to suddenly take on the challenge of using mana in someone else’s body.
Every body has a different mana sensitivity. While there are people like Harang who are born with monstrous mana sensitivity, there are also civilians who do not have mana sensitivity.
If you recklessly bring mana into your body without paying attention to each person’s different mana sensitivity, even the most powerful of them will end up vomiting blood.
therefore.
In a word.
‘All those monstrous movements are an illusion.’
A one-man magic show for the relatively inexperienced Harang!
I had expected that she would not insist on a frontal charge using her super-fast movement. She was using her tricks, footwork, and dexterity to make it seem like she was strong and fast.
This is a feat that only those who have reached the pinnacle of swordsmanship can perform.
‘Yeah… … It was something like this.’
The corners of Harang’s mouth went up. Even though he was in a life-threatening battle, he couldn’t help but smile.
A thrill runs through me.
Goosebumps run through my whole body.
Things that were previously invisible become visible.
Realize things you didn’t know before.
“… … Thank you, Celine. I mean it.”
“Huh? Really? Well, I’m grateful too! Thanks to you, my life from now on will be fun. Now I’m starting to get tired, so why don’t you just collapse?”
Chelain smiled brightly and walked away with a cute, bouncy gait, before suddenly disappearing from sight.
Wedge! The sound of cutting through the air brushed Harang’s ears.
‘… … Every time I’ve used that technique so far, there’s never been a sonic boom!’
If she had made a movement that Harang couldn’t detect, she would have definitely been traveling at the speed of sound. Taniya’s body wouldn’t have been able to withstand that, so she was moving at a speed much slower than the speed of sound.
therefore.
Kaang-!!
“… … Huh?”
It was as if stopping it was a piece of cake, once you figured out how it moved.
‘What’s this, kid?’
He moved in a zigzag pattern from side to side, entering an absolutely unpredictable square and stabbing with his sword, but Harang was guarding as if he had already known about this and was looking at this place in advance.
‘No way… … In that brief moment, you saw through my movements?’
That can’t be. Even though her body has lost its aura, she is a swordsman who has reached the level of a 10-star, and her skills cannot be compared to those of an 8-star.
So then, what on earth is that boy in front of me?
‘This might be a little difficult… … ?’
A cold sweat ran down Chelain’s smiling cheek.
