Overpowered Sword Chapter 212

Level up with swords (212)

However, the sparring did not start right away.

Unlike Cedric, who was only a leader, Lian was in a position similar to the commander of the revolutionary army, and he could not act alone with 10,000 troops standing behind him.

Leon was like that too.

Standing here on behalf of Grania was the same as representing Portroy’s position. As a representative of one power, there was no way he could fight or do anything he wanted.

“… “Then, please wait a moment.”

Through Leon’s story, Lian learned that the gateway city was currently unable to handle 10,000 people, and decided to take his army to the foot of the mountain and camp there.

No matter how charismatic the commander is, there are a whopping 10,000 people.

If you bring them into a city where security and order are unstable, problems will inevitably arise.

I could have unintentionally collided with Leon and his group.

“Karen, can you convey this news to Grania?”

“okay. “I’ll be back soon!”

Shortly after Lian walked away, when the cavalry was seen retreating, Leon also sent Karen inside the castle.

Otherwise, I wouldn’t know how Grania would accept this move. Moreover, although my loyalty to the Clyde Imperial Family is not deep, if I knew that a legitimate heir to the imperial throne who could challenge the ‘Light Emperor’ had appeared before my eyes—

‘It might give my precarious spirit a little more motivation.’

Grania’s wounds were more serious than her body.

Being betrayed by his best disciple Edgar was not simply a loss of relationship with an acquaintance. It was as if the connection between the knowledge and wisdom she had accumulated throughout her life had been lost.

To recover him, his mind had to be treated before his body.

There was a limit to negative emotions such as hatred and revenge. If meeting Rian can help him stand up, that’s fine.

“I didn’t expect the hero to agree so easily.”

Then, Ellahan said.

“huh? why?”

“Isn’t what the person named Lian asked for, in fact, not a sparring match but an agreement to give a lesson? “It is a shameless request for a military officer.”

“Well, I guess so.”

Leon scratched the back of his head, looking a little embarrassed.

It was because he remembered himself from his academy days.

Explaining it from beginning to end to Ellahan, who doesn’t know it, would take a lot of time, both for my reputation and for my own sake.

“But I was much more shameless than him. “You can think of this as repaying her debt from back then.”

“yes? What are you saying… ”

“It’s an old story. “It’s not something worth talking about.”

Come to think of it, he owed a lot to Rian during his academy days. He demands to spar every single day, and keeps taking it without giving anything to the other person.

It was Lian, not anyone else, who made him what he is today.

[That’s not wrong. It was a repeat of an ugly defeat, but it was he who trained your spirit.]

‘yes?’

Leon agreed to El Cid’s words.

The skills I learned from Lian or the physical strength I gained in the process were nothing special. What Leon truly achieved while competing with him was mental strength.

Like physical strength and skills, mental strength is not something you are born with, but is something you cultivate your innate nature and train through experience.

What if Leon couldn’t meet or compete with Lian, so he trained alone and became satisfied with his limitations? He can confidently say that he would never have achieved such ‘indomitable will’ as he does now.

Mental strength can become stronger only when there is determination, faith, and the presence of trials to strengthen it.

[I guess it’s because I brooded over my feelings of defeat every single day for three years, and even used that sense of inferiority as my own fertilizer. I wonder if he entered the basic stage of ‘telekinesis’ from the time when he couldn’t even use an auror.]

Even El Cid didn’t expect that.

Repetition of basic skills to the point of meaninglessness.

Who would have thought that that honest training method would create a spirit that transcends the body in the body of a boy that not even an Auror could handle.

[There is a proverb called ‘Wugongyi Mountain (愚公移山).’]

‘Ugong Yisan?’

[It means that what a wise person realizes is reckless and impossible and does not try, a foolish person endlessly tries and succeeds with his honesty.]

In a way, it was a maxim that was perfect for Leon.

It is nearly impossible to surpass Roderick. That’s why many geniuses did not dare to honor that name, and all they did was leave it as an object of reverence.

Even though they can never fly if they only look up to the sky, the wise only worship on the ground.

Only fools, through countless trials and errors, could eventually unfold their wax wings.

“… “Hero.”

How long had I been thinking about it there?

Before we knew it, the 10,000-strong army had retreated to the foot of the mountain, and no dust could be seen beyond the horizon.

And I saw Ryan coming back.

Accompanying Chloe and Gilbert, an old idol approaches.

“Okay, shall we change seats?”

I don’t know how many years it’s been.

At Leon’s words, Lian, who became the challenger, nodded once.

* * *

It was some time later.

They moved to a place that could not be seen from either Port Roy or the revolutionary army’s camp and soon stood facing each other.

Karen, who had returned to the castle briefly, also returned and was watching the sparring between the two next to Ellahan. Behind Lian’s back were Gilbert and Chloe, and behind Leon’s back were Ellahan and Karen as inductees.

“Shall we begin?”

“yes.”

The two men drew their swords almost simultaneously.

Lian’s eyes stayed on Leon’s sword for a moment, but then he looked away as if he had given up on it.

Holy sword El Cid.

A symbol of a warrior that I had no doubt he would hold for nearly 20 years. Although he couldn’t believe that the person holding it was Leon, who had been defeated by him countless times, he was a little angry.

On the contrary, Leon was already concentrating on sparring.

‘I can’t use <Auror Blade>. If the sun sword appears, I will burn Lian along with the surrounding area.’

The Aura Master’s wall was ridiculously high.

It cannot be surpassed beyond that level. The outcome of this sparring was predetermined from the beginning. Ryan loses. In the end, it was a matter of how the process went.

As Rian and Leon’s gazes, shaking off distracting thoughts, become intertwined at the midpoint, the tense air is pulled further like a rubber band.

Why?

“under.”

An inexplicable feeling of déjà vu tickled the corners of each other’s mouths, and the two of them burst out laughing without anyone saying anything first.

And right after that, he became expressionless.

“-going.”

It was Ryan who took the lead.

As soon as he took a single step, he narrowed the gap, reappeared before Leon’s eyes, and swung his sword straight down.

As the blade slashed down like a thunderbolt, Leon thrust the holy sword forward without any hesitation and delivered a slashing blow.

Kigi geek! And as the metal rubs, sparks fly.

Even though they didn’t say anything, the two people didn’t display auras to each other, as if they had made an agreement in advance.

‘Winning with sword skills, good!’

Leon’s specialty was to press down with output, but there was no need to go that far in sparring where the superiority and inferiority were already clearly divided.

If only he could compete with his skills as a swordsman.

Even Rian could hold out against him for a while.

Kaang! Kang! Let’s go!

Two swords howl.

The only ones that did not manifest were the aurors, and the physical abilities of the two people had long since surpassed those of humans. They move one step at a time, leaving behind an afterimage, swinging their swords aiming at various vital points, and clashing with each other.

The stab aimed at the neck is blocked by a slash on the wrist, and the moment he takes a step back, the blade sinks into his side. It was indeed a near-perfect Parry&Reposte.

Because the aura was not activated, it could not pierce the armor, but the impact was still felt, so Lian gasped! And she let out her breath.

Leon stopped his sword for a moment at that sight and spoke.

“This won’t be the end, right?”

Rian, who stumbled but did not fall down, rushed forward once again with his eyes wide open.

“Sounds obvious!”

“Yes, it should come out like that!”

As if he was seeing himself in the past, Leon willingly responded to that will.

Rian decided that thrusting wouldn’t do.

Even without using Aurors, the difference in capabilities between the two is large.

You cannot defeat a stronger swordsman than yourself with a stab that immediately delivers a fatal counterattack when the point of attack is read. In that case, the cutting will be done more cleverly, in a form that blocks the opponent’s moves –

[As expected, you are a talented person. It’s quick to come to a conclusion.]

It was just as El Cid said.

When Lian began swinging the sword in earnest, the sloppy parts were instantly filled in and a sense of anticipation emerged.

If their physical abilities are at a similar level, they cannot be easily destroyed. Nevertheless, Leon did not hesitate at all and threw himself into the whirlpool of swords.

“What!?”

“Don’t panic just like this.”

Leon gave a word of advice in a dry voice and nonchalantly flicked away the sword that fell on his shoulder.

It’s a lot better than the first time, but Leon also experienced this level of ingenuity a few years ago. Enemies stronger than oneself, enemies more cunning, etc. were literally everywhere.

A battle of numbers is ultimately just a prediction.

If it was not possible to calculate the infinite number of cases, one had to respond to the variables while keeping in mind the possibility of going astray.

Ryan lacked that improvisation.

“Ugh!”

He thoroughly reads Rian’s fight, and increases the number of sword strikes aimed at places he does not expect.

Leon didn’t think about it too complicatedly.

Even if the other person’s calculations were a little messed up, they would automatically open a gap and break through that point. He graduated from the academy, gained various experiences, and even commanded a rebel army, so I thought he would be somewhat familiar with actual combat.

“Clumsy!”

Leon’s sword ran in a straight line.

Stabbing the heart with one step.

Rian was a beat late as his previous attacking posture collapsed, and his ability to bring his sword to the sword play was his limit. As a result, the sword aimed at his heart turned and hit his collarbone.

There was a popping sound.

The impact, which even the armor could not prevent, broke his bones.

“Tsk—!”

Lian bit her lip hard.

At the same time, my left arm went limp.

If your clavicle bone is broken, it is difficult to move that shoulder.

“Elahan, treatment.”

“yes.”

Just as Chloe and Gilbert were about to panic over the injury, Leon ordered them to treat him with one word.

Holy light pours down and restores Lian to his original state.

A few seconds is enough to break a bone.

However, as if all the pain had disappeared, Lian, whose forehead was wet with cold sweat, took a deep breath.

‘No, it’s not just the pain.’

Leon saw his expression and realized.

What is bothering Rian is not physical pain.

I had no choice but to know.

The expressions and emotions that are currently engulfing Rihanna’s face. Because that’s what he saw in the mirror every day in the past. He had that look on his face that made him feel so ugly and pathetic that he couldn’t raise his head.

That’s why Leon opened his mouth.

“Does it hurt?”

At the seemingly obvious question, others looked at him, but Leon only looked at Lian.

Ryan seemed to sense something from that question.

Toward the silent man, Leon continued to speak.

“That pain is the piece you lack. I didn’t know it then, but I think I know a little bit now. “Rian, as a warrior, you have one fatal weakness.”

“It’s a fatal weakness… “What is that?”

“Not knowing weakness.”

Leon declared.

“What you use is the sword of the strong. So, you can’t win against me.”