Abandoned by my Childhood Friend, I Became a War Hero chapter 80

80 – Grand Master

Generally, it is said that rigid body art is only for the talented, and the master class is only for those who have been chosen by the gods.

Then how do you call those who go beyond the chosen ones and walk the unique path no one has ever walked?

People call them grand masters.

If a rigid body practitioner is limited to simply using mana, and a master class can sharpen mana through will.

The Grand Master can use magic to turn his image into reality. Such images twist this real world according to the user’s will.

For example, I once saw a swordsman cutting a mountain with a single sword.

It didn’t happen because the sword was powerful enough to cut down a mountain.

Since the sword was a ‘mountain-cutting sword’, the mountain was cut as a result.

You may think it’s ridiculous, but the level that made such seemingly impossible things possible was the Grand Master.

The only image that a talented person has reached after decades of constant effort and agony in his field. The power of will to unfold it into reality.

The skills that only Grand Masters can do are usually referred to with these words.

“Wu Geuk… !”

Sylvia, who was watching the game, said, unable to hide her surprised expression. She had known and watched me for a long time, so she knew right away what I had just done.

A sword that can cut anything. A flame that burns anything. This combination of words may sound like child’s play, but in the hands of a grand master it becomes a reality.

My image as a martial art is Myeonggyeongsu(明鏡止水).

It is an image of absolute defense that nullifies all attacks, just as a lake quickly becomes calm again even if a stone falls on the calm water and causes ripples.

Although I became a body unable to use magical powers due to circumstances, that didn’t mean that even the images inside me disappeared.

That’s why it was possible to use martial arts even with bare hands, even though it might be less effective.

“Keuhuk, keuhuh heuk… !”

Frida clutched her broken nose in her hand and twisted her body painfully, dripping her blood on her dirt floor.

Her face, which was originally beautiful, is now hard to find her original beauty due to her blood and wounds.

But she wasn’t blind to the fact that her true identity was Frieda von Sternrikt, the iron-blooded knight. Several people in the audience who had seen her face at least once, even from afar, gasped in horror.

“You really are an iron-blooded knight….”

“The true identity of the blood-loving Frey was the vice-captain of the Royal Guard?”

At the whispers in the crowd, Frieda opened her mouth, clutching her broken nose and stopping the bleeding. She probably had a few broken teeth as I could hear the air blowing in her muffled pronunciation.

“Hey, hey, hey… ! Hopefully, that’s… No polarity?”

Even so, it seemed like she had eyes to see what had ruined her skills in her master class.

Frieda looked at me with an expression of disbelief that she couldn’t believe her words even though she herself said them, and started talking gibberish.

“Nonsense, no way… The Grand Master… !? Swordsmen and warriors do not come out of the holy land and the court, and other grand masters are not as young as you… Omg!”

Frieda opened her eyes wide.

“No way, you, you… you’re ugly-“

I kicked her hard in the stomach. This time, Frieda couldn’t even scream and rolled miserably on her floor.

She was as if she had already collapsed, and the impact of the kick in her abdomen made her roll on the floor more and more like her trash, and vomited up all the contents of her stomach.

“Oooh ah!”

The audience’s silence deepened at the scene where a member of the warrior’s party and the vice-captain of the Royal Guard was suffering one-sidedly. Did he even feel the fear of seeing a scene he shouldn’t have seen?

I didn’t like this silence. So, he reached out his right hand high toward the audience.

The audience’s attention was focused on me with the triumphant pose. Then, the heat rose again in the eyes of the spectators, who were stained with bewilderment and astonishment.

The winners and the losers of the arena were forgotten, and only that came into their sight. The fact that a member of the warrior’s party had been defeated had already disappeared from their memory.

No, that fact might have made the audience even more excited. People often feel joy when they see someone in a high position being brought down to the bottom.

“Oh, oh oh oh!!!”

“Tekken! Tekken! Tekken!!”

“That b*tch! I’ve never liked it! Strike and kill me, Tekken!!”

It brought back the heat of the arena that Frieda wanted, but she showed no signs of enjoying it.

She vomited up all the contents of her stomach and continued to vomit, as if she hadn’t had enough, then she stammered out her words with a face full of pain and humiliation.

“Why, why come now… why? I’ve been quiet for the last 5 years… Living quietly like a dead person! Come now, I, I… Did we even become resentful?”

“Don’t get me wrong.”

“What, what… ?”

“The reason I am leaving you alone is not because I forgave you. Because you made a promise.”

“Promise… ?”

Instead of continuing my conversation with her, I punched her in the face and punched her in the room.

Broken teeth rolled on the arena floor, soaked in blood.

“Keep it off… !! That, that-“

I beat her mercilessly at her, making her unable to utter a word. It was because it was not enough to end with surrender.

I thought I left everything behind.

No anger, no hatred, no sadness, no remorse.

I thought I had left all the emotions burning in my heart on that hellish battlefield.

It wasn’t. It was just an illusion.

In the end, looking at myself looking for Ella like this, I could clearly see it.

I should have made this woman like this a long time ago.

The anger inside me still remained this great.

“Keep it… ….”

Frida’s face had collapsed to such an extent that her original appearance was now unrecognizable. She was breathing heavily, as if she would stop breathing at any moment.

I raised her right hand firmly.

Red blood flowed from her fist and ran clearly down her forearm.

The crowd was cheering like crazy.

***

After the confrontation with Frieda, only Sylvia and I were left.

Sylvia, disguised as a girl with freckles, gave me a worried look.

“Are you okay?”

“What do you mean?”

“Oh, yes! Pretend you don’t even know! Of course that b*tch… Kuhm, you mean Frieda.”

Sylvia was once a member of the warrior party. Our first meeting was also the fate of that time, and the relationship of that time has been somewhat fed up until now.

Sylvia didn’t get along with Frieda, who was always overbearing even during her warrior party. Even if she pretended not to be her, it was clear that she despised and despised him for being from the underworld.

Her slightly violent expression of her towards Frida showed that her ill-feelings from those days still lingered within her.

I calmly nodded.

“It will be fine. Because of that woman’s pride, she can’t openly talk about this with her mouth.”

That’s why I didn’t kill Frieda on purpose and kept her alive.

If they killed her here, the Imperial Family and Royal Guard would have messed up her underworld for her investigation.

But if Frieda were still alive, she wouldn’t make this incident public, even for the sake of her own face.

If the vice-captain of the Royal Guard was killed in an arena, it would be a loss to the authority of the imperial family.

Of course I could do some secret action behind the scenes, but it would be impossible to deploy a large force. And in that kind of situation, Sylvia’s ability and skill would be sufficient to cope with it.

Sylvia nodded as if she understood what I was saying.

“Well, yes… Embarrassed by her personality, what can I say? Even if the vice-captain of the Royal Guard entered with his back, not his skills, if rumors spread to his subordinates that he came in after breaking somewhere… Eww! If you’re like me, you won’t even be able to see your face outside.”

“f*ck.”

It wasn’t even funny that this woman, whose specialty is carrying a steel plate over her face, said that. Because she, who tried to kill me on her first meeting, now speaks to me in such a friendly way.

Of course there is a deeper reason for her change of heart.

Sylvia smiled softly and spoke leisurely with her legs crossed.

“Thank you, darling. To be honest, I couldn’t touch her because I couldn’t handle it. I saw it broken horribly in the arena in front of so many people, so I’ll never be able to come in here again. Personally, did my speed improve?”

“Prepare information properly.”

“Of course it should. Oh, you worked really hard today. As a reward for performing beyond expectations… How is it? I can give Changgwan’s VIP room all day for you tonight.”

Sylvia smiled strangely as she licked her lower lip with her tongue.

However, having to make a provocative expression on the face of a country girl like that only made the sense of separation worse.

Sylvia giggled mischievously at her disgusted expression.

“Just kidding. Its character remains the same. Anyway! Thanks to that, I don’t think she will have to go to the arena in the future. Because you’ve already been active enough.”

“I see.”

“Of course, you are always welcome if you want to make money, right?”

Instead of answering, I just shrugged and left the room. As for Sylvia, she didn’t think it was a sincere proposal, so she kindly waved her hand and let me go.

She was lost in thought for a moment as she walked through the darkened exit of the underworld.

“… ….”

I wonder if this would have made them feel a little better.

As the captain of the special lease left alone, I buried the faces of my now absent comrades in my heart.