Crimson and golden light covered the entire area and ran wild. Soil and blades of grass were whipped up high in the sky, and the clouds split and swirled. It was truly a walking natural disaster.
Russ clicked his tongue as he frantically dodged the aftermath of destruction.
It was truly admirable that a single individual could display such enormous destructive power.
‘It’s really amazing… … .’
It’s definitely awesome… … .
“No, how can two of the strongest warriors of the time fight together and not study like this!”
Russ muttered in exasperation. If it were a duel between the greatest swordsman of the time and the Emperor of Fist, shouldn’t it be a golden opportunity to reach new heights just by looking at it? To be honest, it was Russ that I had high expectations for.
However, one guy only ignorantly increased his Auror capacity and the other guy only trained his body ignorantly, so there really is nothing to learn. In both cases, the Auror operation itself is extremely simple. Since Gerard is compared to Vanatel, he appears to be quite an artificer, but even so, it is still a simple usage in the eyes of Russ, who is a true artificer swordsman.
‘This is truly an incredible and unstoppable fight.’
With a bitter smile, Russ continued to watch the two duel. Well, it was a duel where he was worthy of being the strongest man of his time, but at the same time was not like the strongest man at all.
As the distance became closer, the momentum between the two gradually increased.
The intense killing power is carried by the aura and resounds in the sky. The nearby hill splits apart, revealing the bare skin of the land. Trees in the forest are uprooted and fall down. Parts of Baekwangseong Fortress are collapsing, spires are collapsing, and parts of the castle are collapsing.
With every step, everything nearby was being devastated.
Rumbling!
Soon, the two people stopped walking. In the swirling realm of Aurors, Vanatel and Gerard looked at each other and suddenly smiled.
“You’re still stupidly just doing the basics, Vanatel!”
“You’re still ignorantly growing up, Gerard!”
The two people laughed cheerfully at the same time.
“Hahaha!”
“Hahaha!”
Vanatel aimed his sword and took a formal stance. The only sword technique he learned was the imperial sword training method.
“I heard you have to be as good as you to be good at it, Gerard.”
Gerard also spread his legs and slightly bent both knees with his fists outstretched. It was a massive yet stable posture, reminiscent of an unwavering giant.
“Is this enough of a greeting for the past time, Vanatel?”
The two people’s eyes lit up as they aimed their swords and fists at each other. Vanatel’s Blade Aura began to shine more and more strongly.
Banatel shouted loudly.
“Then let’s stop joking around and get serious!”
At that moment, everyone in Baekwangseong opened their mouths in shock. joke? A joke? Now Baekwangseong has been forcibly demolished because of that prank!
“… … .”
Asrail blinked his eyes blankly. It was the first time in my life that I felt the proverb that a shrimp’s back explodes in a whale fight so keenly.
Gerard responded by shouting.
“I’ll kill you!”
Quaaaang!
The two kicked the ground at the same time. An explosion column several meters high rose up where Banatel and Gerard were standing. The shadows of the two people suddenly narrowed the distance and overlapped each other.
2
Vanatel was a commoner from a small fiefdom in the southern part of the Vastalon Empire.
Born as the son of a self-employed farmer, he did not live in luxury like an aristocrat, but he still spent his childhood making a decent living. Because he had money at home, he was able to learn swordsmanship at a small military academy within the estate.
The attaché was not established by a proper prosecutor. It was just a small place where a retired veteran from the Imperial Army taught children to make a living. Therefore, the only swordsmanship taught was the Imperial Swordsmanship, which was the official swordsmanship of the Vastalon Empire Army.
Imperial swordsmanship is a general-purpose swordsmanship that all imperial soldiers must learn, and as such, there are no mysterious techniques or secrets. It’s really just simple slashing and thrusting in all directions and basic steps.
That is not to say that the imperial sword is by any means a mess of swordsmanship. As it had great versatility, the imperial sword method was very faithful to its basics. It was a systematic swordsmanship that anyone could buy and master the basics as long as they were healthy.
In fact, among the empire’s famous knights and martial arts swordsmen, there were many who chose the imperial sword as the basic sword technique for children. It has been an unspoken saying for a long time that you can only reach great heights if your fundamentals are strong.
Young Vanatel, who learned the imperial sword, learned the sword more sincerely and honestly than anyone else. And he showed amazing skills, becoming not only a military officer but also an unrivaled force in the area.
Even if Vanatel has no sense, it is only compared to geniuses who can awaken Aurors. Among the worms of such a rural estate, his physical strength alone made him unrivaled.
When Vanatel became confident in his sword skills, he left home and headed to the islands when he was 20 years old.
In order to become a knight, you must have a natural bloodline, and in a country estate like that, no matter how strong you are, being a captain commanding the soldiers is the limit to success. If a commoner wants to get ahead with just a sword, he has no choice but to make a name for himself as a mercenary in the system. Famous mercenaries were sometimes hired by local nobles as knights despite their lowly status.
After arriving in the Islands, Vanatel joined the Yulon Mercenary Group, which was a famous mercenary group at the time, and began his career as a prosecutor. At first, he was a fledgling mercenary, but as time went by and he experienced various battles, he gradually began to make a name for himself as a ‘swordsman using the imperial sword’.
Not only mercenaries, but also those who wield swords and there is no one who does not know about the imperial sword. It is a formal swordsmanship taught in the military, so it is very easy to learn. However, the imperial sword is only basic and is not a sword technique that can be used in actual combat.
It was common for mercenaries who had not learned proper swordsmanship to use imperial swords, but even these people did not simply use imperial swords. Normally, it was common sense to use the imperial sword as a base and create your own sword technique by adding the anomalous weapons obtained while working as a mercenary.
But Banatel was different.
With only the simple skill of the Imperial Sword itself, Vanatel was a renowned mercenary and even cut down knights. His sword was so fast and powerful that even though everyone could clearly see its trajectory, they were unable to dodge or block it.
Not only is he skilled, but because of his uniqueness, Banatel has become quite famous.
However, this did not mean that Banatel became strong enough to overcome the wall of social status. The basics were certainly solid, but the world was not easy enough to overcome everything with just the basics. Sometimes I had to overcome defeat, injury, and even the risk of death.
Every time, people around me gave advice.
Don’t just stick to the basics.
Please apply.
The story of a warrior who became the best in the world by honing only one skill is literally just a story and cannot happen in reality.
Of course, Banatel agreed with that.
He wasn’t stupid. The story that you can become a truly powerful person by mastering only one stab perfectly is just a story that was used before magic was developed like in the past, and when information about the martial artist could not be stored.
This is an era where wizards are common and all kinds of magic tools are created in magic towers. Now that recording has become possible with video magic crystals, we cannot continue to overcome with just absolute technology. Even if you can beat one or two people, it’s over as soon as the technique becomes known. Once the opponent is fully prepared for that technique, there is no other way to counter it, so they have no choice but to be attacked right away.
Yes, I know.
It was a story that Banatel could understand well.
But I can’t apply it, so what should I do?
Banatel doesn’t just teach the basics because it’s fun. He also tried various things. But I couldn’t quite get it. Of course, you can follow along clumsily, but as soon as you disrupt the sword path even a little, both power and speed are reduced to the level of a single soldier. Even mercenaries who were much weaker than him could learn something and apply it well, but he was unable to do that.
But Banatel was never frustrated. He was too determined to be discouraged.
If you practice, you will improve.
It will be okay if you practice it.
If you practice for 10 days, a month, and a year while others only practice for one day, how can it not be possible since you are all human beings with the same eyes, nose, mouth, and limbs?
… … But it didn’t work.
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Is there really something innate in humans? No matter how hard I try, my senses haven’t improved to the point where it’s surprising.
But Banatel was not disappointed. Obviously, my senses didn’t improve at all, but I was able to gain transcendent power.
Since ancient times, a person who only digs one well quenches his thirst more quickly.
Despite still using only simple imperial swordsmanship, Vanatel was able to awaken his Auror status relatively early, in his mid-30s.
Everyone around was shocked. Vanatel, who was one of the leaders of the Yuron mercenaries, suddenly became an Auror user, known as the superman of superhumans. A swordsman of the same level as him, who had been shoulder to shoulder with him until yesterday, suddenly rose high into the sky.
The world’s perspective on Banatel has also changed. He sent letters from all the powerful nobles of the empire, saying they would like to invite him. In other countries, there were many kings who promised the title of earl.
My childhood dream has finally come true. Banatel was satisfied. As expected, his beliefs were not wrong. He said there was nothing in the world that could not be achieved through effort.
Among numerous invitations, the one Vanatel chose was the position of captain of the Knights of the Vastalon Empire.
Although he may feel a bit inadequate compared to the title and territory offered by other countries, he was a member of the Vashtalon Empire, no matter what anyone said, and was a person who had learned the imperial swordsmanship. He did not want to leave his country and go to another country.
There was also a reason why Banatel had no particular desire for worldly power. When he was young, he wanted to become successful, but after becoming an Auror, his desire to reach even higher heights as a warrior became stronger.
In that respect, the position of captain of the Imperial Knights was a very good position to practice swordsmanship.
The Vastalon Empire provided maximum convenience to Auror users who were loyal to the Emperor. All the complicated work was done by others. It did not stop him from leaving the knights and wandering the continent to train like a free warrior. They are treated well and can focus solely on swordsmanship.
Throughout its long history, the Empire was well aware that the more severe the restrictions, the more difficult it would be to raise the level of Auror users. There were already quite a few commoner Auror users like Vanatel in the Imperial Knights, so I felt quite at ease.
Even after becoming an enemy of the Imperial Knights, Vanatel still did what he could honestly. He didn’t care at all when others clicked their tongues and said that there was really no progress for an Auror user.
He had already experienced first-hand the consequences of his honesty. He had no reason to waver.
Five years have passed like that.
Although he mostly practiced within the empire, there were times when he had to go outside. He did it because of the empire’s orders, and also to help other nobles who received patronage. He says that no matter how important practice is, if you stay away from actual practice, you will only become a master of the closet. Banatel, who knew this well, did not bother to refuse the incoming request for cooperation.
One spring day when I was just over 40.
At that time, Vanatel was fighting against a noble family on the outskirts of the Principality of Rastil, helping a merchant from Chatan. The power of Auror user Vanatel was so overwhelming that knights and soldiers from noble families could never be his opponent.
In the end, the noble family asked for help from a famous Auror user who was staying in the principality at the time, spending an amount that was enough to stagger the family.
At that time, Banatel met ‘him’ for the first time.
A rugged man with a body like a steel tower and a bulky body that doesn’t look like a human.
It was King Gerard, who had already been renowned as an Auror user for nearly 20 years.
☆ ☆ ☆
Rushing towards Gerard, Vanatel drew his sword and swung it.
Flash!
There was a flash of light, and the bright red Blade Aura instantly hit Gerard’s chest. It was a slash with terrifying speed that seemed to have completely omitted the intermediate process. Until now, I had only made leisurely attacks based on my overflowing amount of Aurors, but now that I had met Gerard, I needed to give my all in earnest.
Russ and Tashid opened their mouths in surprise.
‘Fast, fast!’
If that slash had been thrown at them earlier, their heads would have fallen off in one go without even knowing what happened. Banatel really took care of me a lot. It was a sword so fast that even the visual acuity of Auror users could not distinguish it.
But at that time, Gerard had already raised his Auror guard all over his body.
“Hmph, there’s no need to use a spiral guard at this level!”
It was a slash that reached its peak of maturity, but even so, the movement itself was no different from a basic horizontal slash. If it’s at Gerrard’s level, it’s predictable enough.
Gerard opened his chest wide. Golden flames blazed and clashed with the bright red aura.
Quack!
The two colored auras collided with each other and screamed.
In the battle between the two Aurors, Vanatel had the upper hand. The bright red aura penetrated the golden light and penetrated into Gerard’s body. An explosion sounded, and a huge ripple erupted behind Gerard’s back. The shock wave stretched out like a fan, leaving a picture of destruction on the ground.
Vanatel exclaimed in admiration as he withdrew his sword.
“You’ve gotten stronger, Gerard!”
Clearly, his Blade Aura pierced Gerard’s Aura Guard. However, that piece of metal wearing a human mask could easily block the remaining power with its body alone, even without an Auror guard.
“Haha! “You haven’t become sharp at all!”
Of course, the power contained in the Blade Aura was powerful, but the cutting power contained therein was not that great. Gerard chuckled triumphantly.
Vanatel frowned.
“okay! “I don’t know how to do that anyway!”
Usually, experienced auror users increase penetrating power or cutting power by vibrating or rotating the auror, but sadly, even though he is a sword master, Vanatel is not capable of such things. but… … .
“If you don’t get over it after taking one shot, you can take it 10 times!”
Vanatel, holding the sword, increased his speed and cut eight times with his sword in an instant. It was a basic slash in all directions, the basis of imperial swordsmanship.
The all-round slash is not an advanced move like other Auror users, where you use your sword in a subtle way to cut eight times in a row. First, cut once, take a stance again, cut again, take a stance again. This is a really basic movement that is repeated eight times.
However, Vanatel, who moved his entire torso, was actually faster than other swordsmen who only swung their arms!
The movement is so fast that the entire body becomes blurred, and eight slashes fly at the same time as if they were originally one technique. Gerard stuck out his tongue in exasperation.
‘Ah, that bastard is still as strong as an asshole.’
You can’t do 8 consecutive attacks that everyone else does, but you can do ‘simultaneous use of 8 single strikes’ that no one can do? Although Banatel clearly had no sense, at least the movements he knew how to do were faster, more powerful, and more perfect than anyone else in the world.
It is a truly amazing yet extremely inefficient attack. Gerard grumbled inwardly as he watched Banatel’s simple and ignorant swordsmanship.
‘Oh my gosh, I don’t know why the world is calling me ignorant and leaving that guy alone?’
Meanwhile, Banatel’s slashes were targeting Gerrard’s vital points, thoroughly covering all sides. In fact, it was such an honest technique that I was able to avoid it. To others, it may seem like a slash that unfolded in a split second, but it was a speed that was manageable for Emperor Gerard, who was at the same level.
