197 – Patience Training-2
The reason Leonardo has been able to endure so far does not come from absolute strength.
In terms of firepower, she was beaten by Eileen, the strongest magician of the time,
In Divinity, he could not surpass Lumine, the best priest of the time.
There was no choice but to be pushed back by the new youngsters in terms of physical ability.
That’s why Leonardo was number two.
But at the same time, Leo was able to survive endlessly because he was unable to stand at the pinnacle of being number one.
World’s No. 2
That contradiction was the only nickname that could express Leonardo.
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“…Hwacheong.”
Avoiding the flames of Hwacheong, Leonardo called the name of the sword quietly as if lost in his old thoughts.
After Reinhardt was destroyed, he couldn’t even count how many times he saved his life and defeated his enemies thanks to that sword.
Because the fire that burned red and blue did not quench his cooling anger.
Roaring!
The flames were now directed at him. Like a pillar, the flames flew straight ahead. It was not an unavoidable attack.
On the contrary, I had no choice but to dodge because the trajectory to avoid was clearly visible.
“Be consistent.”
Classic fighting methods seen by veterans with sufficient experience, and Leonardo was always a rebel against the standard.
Even in the face of the oncoming fire, Leo did not move a single step. He just flaps his black divine cloak.
Hwaruk…!
“…What…?”
Leo swallowed the flames.
I consciously doubted my eyes, but nothing changed.
As if by magic, the flames were hidden.
“…It must be some sort of sacred art!”
Gladio, the head of the house, raised his shield and stood at the forefront so that the party would not hesitate.
If you use shield technique to rush, avoid or counterattack prematurely, you will be pushed back by the shield and get counterattacked by Gladio’s one-handed sword.
Even if that fails, others from the rear and on both sides will launch a pincer attack.
“That’s right.”
But
“About 50 points.”
For Leo, who evaporated the flames, it was just that level.
Roar!!
And the disappearing flames came out of the cloak again like magic. The compressed flame returned to Gladio like a cannonball.
Quaaang!!
“Oops…!”
The complacency of not being able to use dull heat, explosions, and magic cost a lot.
The smoke following the explosion becomes a smoke screen. Gladio, pushed back by the impact, is unable to counterattack.
Paaang!!
Leonardo fluttering through the smoke screen, rushed like fire, and in his hand, an ax of explosion was wielded.
“Writing this is disgusting, but…!”
The shield that blocked the impact of the ax’s explosion fell out of balance and bounced off.
Despite being cornered on the defensive, Gladio immediately dug in with a one-handed sword. Chris, who had penetrated the smoke screen like a shadow, also swung his twin swords at Leo with a bucket.
In an instant, a pincer attack, a sword blade that can tear the body three times, cuts through Leo’s form.
“…How can I get my afterimage…!”
It was only the shape that was cut, not Leo himself. The afterimage Cristina formed with her aura and footsteps deceived their eyes as Leo’s.
“It is a basic skill.”
It was a little overdone, but Leo didn’t take it seriously. Because he understands best that the impact of using his private plane simply is not light.
“God of pure love! Please forgive this weak apostle’s rudeness!!”
Even in the melee that had already turned into chaos, Rios sincerely apologized to his idol and unleashed his magic.
Thin blades of ice swarmed in like a storm, gathering smoke. Instead of weapons, pieces of ice with the whole body stamped on it are inserted to prevent it from being grabbed and wielded.
“What the f*ck?”
Ignoring nonsense, I concentrated the divinity and aura of the legs. Mana gathered in each of her muscles and raised her leg strength in an instant.
“…Afterimages…?!”
I didn’t use Chris’s afterimage footwork this time. It was just an optical illusion caused by speed.
Leo bounced off the ground and plunged into the center of the storm.
I sat on Gladio’s shield floating in the air, holding a spear, stepping on ice on every step and causing an afterimage.
“Exciting?”
Starting with a light provocation, the blade of Fulgor’s spear flashed with lightning and divinity. At the moment when the flash exploded, already Leo spurred his shield and charged back to the ground.
“…Lumine-sama!!”
It was towards Lumine. Like a thunderbolt falling from a dry sky, Leo fell to the ground covered in lightning.
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Quaaang!!
“Didn’t you just kill something? Sediment?”
“…I’m thinking of doing that anyway!”
Lightning and flames collided, overheating the heat. Along with Marken’s anger, an explosion as heavy as his voice was swung.
“It’s scary~”
From behind, Chris’ onslaught continues. The blades of the twin swords, sharp like saw blades, were aimed at Leo.
A diversionary strategy that is difficult to avoid for Leo, who was lifted into the air by an explosion.
‘…Then it’s okay if I don’t avoid it.’
Leo swung the explosion ax in a square direction. Right now, my five senses were aware that there were no enemies in that area, but I didn’t care and triggered them.
“Chehehe…!! How do you know…!”
There was another Chris in the third direction.
First of all, Chris, who wielded the twin swords, was an alter ego.
“…Chris…!”
“Chris!!”
Lumine treated Chris, and Gladio narrowed the distance with Leo. Then he stretched out his hand towards his shield and blew an aura.
At the obvious countermeasure, Leo showed an exaggerated sneer.
“Can I hold it? It must sting a lot?”
“It stings…?! aaagh!!”
A high-voltage current flowed through the shield. Feeling the voltage, Gladio was able to recall the source of this electric shock.
‘It was when I used it as a stepping stone earlier…!’
When he stepped on the platform, he absorbed Fulgor’s electric shock into his shield and stored it. It was already within the range of Leo’s assumption that Gladio would get the shield back.
“Blizzard…!!”
“Rios…! If it’s not raining, you’re the biggest hole!!”
Rios couldn’t even finish the first line of the chant, and was knocked out helplessly by Leo’s protection-like charge.
There was no way Rios could handle the monster’s fist, which leaped 100m faster than 1 second.
“So disappointing? I hope this isn’t power. Otherwise, I feel so sorry for having to cooperate with you guys.”
Despite the ridicule that stung me as if there was a dagger attached to my tongue, the warrior’s family and colleagues couldn’t properly refute.
Contrary to his confident start, Leo didn’t even have a scratch on his body other than a little sweating and breathing a lot.
In comparison, Reinhardt’s party suffered minor injuries from exhaustion.
Considering that it was 1v5, it was a disastrous result, even if it wasn’t a defeat, it was more than a humiliating achievement.
“It’s not over yet…!”
Although he was already exhausted, Marken used Hwacheong as a staff to stand up. His flame is not yet extinguished.
“There will be no time limit…!”
Rather, the flame was fueled by anger to punish the bastard who molested his granddaughter and the desire to flatten the arrogant Leo’s nose.
“Your grit is acceptable, but your temper is too impatient. Furthermore…”
Leonardo pointed a finger at the representative of the clergy who healed the fatigue and injury of others.
Because that transvestite hasn’t gone through that kind of training yet.
“Should I also think about Lumine’s training? Is not it?”
“My training is…”
“Today, there is something ahead, so let’s start lightly with the fingers.”
“A finger…?”
Leo tore off his four fingers at once in front of Lumine, who was embarrassed. He didn’t even use a knife, he grabbed his knuckles into his fist and tore them apart.
“Heal me. Do not connect the plucked parts, but in a way that causes them to sprout.”
Even though he had torn off his own finger, Leo held out the severed part of his hand to Lumine without changing the color of his expression.
As if to prove that the condition to tear off the neck is not joke, but sincerity.
Leo didn’t even scream or groan even though his blood was overflowing and his bones were visible through the flesh.
“…Ah, I see.”
Wanting to be detached from such an attitude, Lumine touched Leo’s hand with a trembling hand.
Lumine sprouted Leo’s finger and healed it in such detail and neatness that it was a waste of his severed finger.
After only about 5 minutes, the fingers took shape again. Leo clenched his fist a few times and couldn’t help but admire the result.
“…It’s over. How are you?”
“As expected, you are a master of healing. It’s amazing to see and see.”
Get it…!
And with the healed hand, Leo slashed Lumine’s weak head.
“Evil…!”
“So you got an F grade.”
It was admiration in the sense of disappointment. Then, with the cured finger, he pointed at Reinhardt and the others in turn.
“Marken got a D grade, and the rest are all F’s. It’s very strange that the old nobleman, who will not be able to grow the most, has shown signs of growth.”
“…Suddenly something…”
“Don’t you know if you feed or feed the problem?”
Leo stretched out the severed finger on one of his hands, then gestured at the tattoo on his neck.
“The reason for the deduction is that everyone just stared blankly during treatment.”
If one of them had ambush while Lumine was healing, it might have been successful, and if Lumine was healing, it would have been a surprise.
But they didn’t.
No, saying “I couldn’t” Is more appropriate.
Because I didn’t even think about it.
“Even if I hate being a villain, I have no choice but to know how to be a hero.”
Heroes are always in the sun and under the light to be seen clearly, so anyone has no choice but to see them well.
That’s why the wicked who sneak in the dark know the way well. In one form or another, you will have no choice but to know.
Because that’s what light is.
“But I don’t know if you guys know how the back alley villains fight. Doesn’t that just look at what you’re doing now?”
Evil knows good, but good knows no evil.
Darkness knows where light is, but light doesn’t know where darkness is. Even if it is the darkness hidden in your own shadow.
“If you want to kill me, study well first. No matter the means.”
And briefly, Leo additionally presented the remaining conditions.
“By the way, if you don’t succeed within a week, you will be disqualified.”
The hero faced the most complicated ordeal.
Even for Leo, there will be no more comfortable nights every day. You’ll have to prepare for an ambush every hour.
[But that’s your hand…]
“Ainah.”
“Yes, I understand.”
Kwajik…!
Including the sage.
* * *
The training went smoothly. At least it felt that way to Leo, the teacher.
Although Ariasviel got a better estimate than expected, he transcended even that and was learning bloody combat.
The other party members were also sluggish compared to Aria, but each of them did their own ‘evil’ in their own way to pass Leo’s training.
“By the way, Mr. Reynald…?”
Wedge juice!! The blade was swung at Leo as it was. The answer came out well as I leaned back.
“Why?”
“…Hey, is it okay to train like this?”
Quaaa!! This time, liquid bullets rained down. Leo was busy concentrating on dodging against the sharp, acrobatic bullets.
“Because those people look so impatient. And I have to show you how to use bloody combat like this.”
And the sniping of the water drops is mixed with the veins of blood spurting from the wrist.
“…Huh…Huh…!”
Perhaps it was because they had been raiding and ambushing for over 14 hours, the inferior students of Leo, the pillar of Reinhardt, gasped for breath in exhaustion.
Because even before training with Arya, they had already launched various surprise attacks on Leo, attempted strategies, and laid traps.
And the results could be known just by looking at Leo in good shape.
“Heo-eok…! How…! Why…!”
“No, but oppa, can’t you succeed in tidying up a room?”
It was an unacceptable hardship for Ariaspil. She was the one who had successfully landed several effective hits on Leo, so she was not easily convinced of the hardships of her family and colleagues.
“…Easy to say…! Brother…! Do you know what we’ve done?!”
Three days have passed, and now they have come to mobilize all kinds of means, regardless of fire or recklessness.
Starting with a surprise attack at mealtime, entering the bathroom or using the bathroom, and even attacking after confirming that he was asleep, Leo avoided or blocked them all.
“Even while sleeping, he moved like narcolepsy…! That is…! Does that make sense?!”
“It makes no sense. And I can only defend myself instead.”
It wasn’t that Leo was just overwhelmingly strong, so his attacks didn’t work.
Leo shows off an iron wall of defense by giving up attacks altogether.
By choosing additional defense, evasion, and flight instead of attack, this training could be dragged into a long battle up to the 5th.
“Even if I want to praise you for doing well, you guys will be disqualified if you go on like this. Get excited.”
“…That’s…! I didn’t ask…!”
Chris, who now even respects Leo, didn’t hesitate to ask questions without hesitation.
“…What happens if I fail?”
“Hmm… well… I haven’t quite figured it out yet.”
Soon Leo came up with a simple but brutal punishment. To a human being, something of equivalent value to life is lost.
“Let’s shave off all the hair on the body. If you cut off your finger, Lumine will attach it to you.”
It was shaved.
[Demon child.]
“I will not deny it.”
Everyone in this room shot Leo a fierce look of hatred and scolding.
If they couldn’t pass this test, everyone except Arya, Ain, and Silica had to come out bald.
“If you don’t like it, young people have a chance.”
“…If it’s a chance…”
“If you find a partner within a year, get married and give birth to a child, I will exempt you.”
It was half a joke. However, there were also those who wished that if at least one of them married and gave birth to an heir, it would be helpful in some form.
“…Well, wait a minute.”
But Rios, who stayed up all night for several days, was nowhere to be seen.
Leo expected Rios to be angry, but…
“”
For some reason, Rios went to a corner of the gymnasium and began muttering telepathically several times.
From the viewer’s point of view, I had no choice but to doubt whether Rios had gone mad due to hardships.
“”
It seems that the telepathy ended soon after, Rios returned to his seat with a tear-stained expression on his face.
“…What? What? You can’t believe…!”
“What should I do…?”
“…No, it’s common sense to say that to the other person right away…”
Rios shook his head and shouted while looking at the sage and Leo.
“The magic tower lords will come to Reinhardt…! Even Eileen joined us!”
“…Wait, why?”
Leo’s expression turned blue when he heard the name Eileen.
[What…? Why? Why are you looking at me?]
Rios had tears in his eyes as he looked at the wise man.
The reason for coming to the notorious Eileen was at the beginning of the magic world that Rios was looking at.
“I want to see the wise man…!”
The sage had a history of revealing his true identity right in front of the tower masters.
And I didn’t even properly explain it.
“Amerido…!! Why did you hide it, even to me… Uhhhhh…!”
Rios, who always smiled with his eyes wide open, had to shed sad tears as he groaned that day.