71. Swordsmanship Exchange Meeting
As soon as the exchange meeting started, the atmosphere in the waiting room at the Clover Academy became a row portrait.
The two consecutive losses they had hoped for, and the opponent did not even raise a weapon and defeated them with a single finger.
I don’t want to admit it, but I’ve reached a situation where I can’t help it from the moment the vanguard, who went out to take the initiative, collapsed with just one finger.
I want to take measures, but I can’t.
I don’t see any weakness, the opponent just avoids the attack from my side and stabs me with a counter at the same time, because the bout is over each time.
The students who went out to the vanguard and chabong were touching the area where Atlas’ finger had been hit.
Because of the buffs inside the arena, there were no wounds, but the unstoppable pain made people mistakenly think they were hurt when in reality they weren’t.
They couldn’t even raise their heads.
I gritted my teeth like a high-risk criminal and was crushed like a garbage bag in an invisible place.
“It can’t go on like this..!!”
At this terrible sight, the hands of Margaret Alban, who had been selected as the captain of the Clover Academy side, were shaking.
She clearly remembers the small people who came out as the vanguard of the academy.
I’m sure he was a student with the Sword Saint’s fiancée… Simoa yesterday.
How could such a thing be possible with just one finger if it wasn’t some trick?
There was anger at those dwarfs who ignored them, saying that her trembling could be won with a single finger… But more than anything, she was afraid that she was disappointing the person who was waiting for their natural victory.
She’s not afraid of being defeated simply out of hand.
This exchange meeting was a place they could never lose.
It is a position that does not end simply by experiencing shame.
Because it was he, not anyone else, who led this exchange meeting.
At that time, a low voice was heard outside.
“Excuse me.”
“?!”
Without time to react, I opened it and someone suddenly came in.
I could see the red cloak fluttering.
It was Adolphe Rohan, the swordsman who should have had a VIP room.
“Sword Master?!”
“No no, take it easy. Don’t stand up.”
As soon as we confirmed that the Sword Saint had entered, everyone jumped up and tried to salute, but were stopped.
Students who were about to stand up fell to their knees.
Seeing that, the Sword Saint was pleased.
But I wasn’t happy.
Entering the waiting room, Geomseong touched his beard with the same friendly smile he saw from the outside.
“Yes, that’s how it is. When you stand up, the smell of garbage comes up and it’s unpleasant.”
The Clover Academy students broke into a cold sweat at his words with a friendly smile.
It would be very shocking for the students of the academy to hear his scathing criticism.
No one would have imagined that the Sword Master, who had always shown himself as a moral, gentle, and cool gentleman since arriving at the academy, would say such a thing.
“What is that ugly match? Is it to test my endurance?”
“Sorry…”
“No no… I’m not here to ask for an apology. You know that much… Or do you have nothing to say other than an apology?”
I couldn’t even come up with a countermeasure, so what can I say?
The general manager, Margaret, couldn’t say anything and was just sweating profusely.
“I’m sure the dwarfs are playing tricks…! If not, we’ll be knocked down with one finger…!!!”
Margaret felt sorry for her.
“Don’t make excuses.”
As soon as the captain’s words were spoken, knives were driven into their bodies.
“?!!!”
It wasn’t actually a knife stuck in his body.
I was mistaken for that after being hit by the breathless killing blow from the Sword Saint.
“Keep…Up…”
Some of them could not stand it and collapsed.
Margaret foresaw this situation, so she just kept her mouth shut.
The Sword Saint was looking down at the students with very cold eyes.
Seeing the students frothing at her mouth, the swordsman smiled again.
“Hu… I’m so weak that I’m defeated by something like that… Don’t disappoint me. Don’t forget that I personally led you to this exchange meeting.
I trust you won’t tarnish my face any more.”
The swordsman put his hand on Margaret’s shoulder, who had endured his death in silence.
“I’m expecting a lot from you, Alban… You won’t disappoint me… Will you?”
“I will… Live up to your expectations.”
“Yes… I believe in you.”
Leaving those words behind, the sword castle disappeared again.
Yes… I can’t lose like this.
“… It’s really dangerous to lose any more, you know?”
When Margaret spoke after the sword star disappeared, a deep silence lingered in the waiting room.
“You just have to win, right?”
At that moment, someone jumped up.
It was a python with a snake-like appearance that served as the center of the exchange meeting.
“Yes.”
“That guy seems to be doing some tricks too… No need to show mercy. I’ll use ‘that’.”
Upon hearing Python’s words, Margaret clenched her fists.
The one he declared to use is a self-reinforcing item secretly passed down from the Clover Kingdom.
If you use it, your body will definitely become stronger… But if you do it wrong, it’s a double-edged sword that can ruin you.
It was only used in life-or-death situations, but it was absolutely not something that could be used at an exchange like this.
“…If you use it, it won’t end without incident. Can you handle it?”
“I can’t look good if I lose like this, so wouldn’t it be worth running?”
Margaret could not refute the words of the python, who flashed brightly and sharp eyes.
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The midfielder, suspected of being a demon, confidently jumped out and raised his sword.
“The sin of insulting the Clover Kingdom…!! I can’t forgive you guys!”
I am not directly using the power of demons. If that was the case, it would be caught by the principal watching the exchange meeting from above.
If I’m not paying attention, few people will notice here as it leaks out so slightly that it’s hard to detect.
‘… No. It’s too weak to be called a demon… Is it something different?’
Of course, it is possible for a demon who has contracted with a demon to hide its demonic energy, but it is strange that it leaks out so feebly.
It is normal to not feel it at all or to feel it a little stronger, but this vague feeling is something strange.
“Your guy uses his fingers as a weapon, so the range is very short… So I waited for the opponent to come close, and then I countered in line with the attack.”
As soon as he swung the sword once, the blade fragmented, turning into a long whip.
It is more accurate to call it a whip rather than a sword.
“I don’t fall for that..!!!”
The middle class brandished a plainclothes sword.
The plain sword, which has a sharp blade attached to a strong steel wire, flew at me like a snake with a sharp sound.
I tried to step back and avoid it, but I don’t know what the structure was, but as soon as I started moving back, the plain sword became slightly longer than it seemed.
A wire originally housed in a sword that wasn’t that long.
The length can be increased arbitrarily, and that state is not even the maximum length.
– Wedge juice!
I immediately change direction and turn sharply in the opposite direction, and a sharp puncture sound resonates at the place where I was standing a moment ago, and dust blows.
As it appears, it has tremendous destructive power.
“How is it? You can’t even come close..!! This is not all!”
The wire of the plain clothes sword that had been stretched all the way to where I was was suddenly shrunk again.
The blade of the plain sword… That is, the blade fragments began to glow, and blue flames burned.
I used Aura Blade.
“Now take it..!!!”
The plain clothes sword was swung once again.
The onslaught of plainclothes swords swung in all directions to the point where it was hard to avoid.
The flamboyantly moving Plain Sword raised dust all over the arena and avoided the onslaught of the Plain Sword moving swiftly within a limited field of view.
I heard cheers from Clover Academy after seeing that I couldn’t finish as soon as I started, unlike before.
A nuisance attack.
It’s hard to give it away because it’s a blade wrapped in an aura, and it’s hard to respond to a normal swordsman because it twists its trajectory halfway through.
But I’m no ordinary prosecutor.
‘I got used to it.’
Once again, the plain clothes sword flies fiercely.
When he showed a movement to avoid the frontal strike to the left, the aura surrounding the sword flashed and the trajectory of the attack shifted to the left as well.
But my body wasn’t facing left.
The plain clothes sword, deceived by the basic paint using footwork, only hit the floor.
While I was narrowing the wire again, I had already reached the front of the middle dog.
-Fuck!!
The midfielders did not immediately drop out as soon as they were attacked.
With a grin, the black smoke passed by, and he opened his eyes and smiled at me.
“It’s a trivial attack…”
“Are you sure you don’t have a hole in your head?”
But it doesn’t seem to be visible to him.
My fingers pierced through the magic and stuck in his head.
“Uh.. Uh uh uh???”
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The magic hasn’t been dispelled.
The hologram shows his head as orange.
It’s working normally.
After confirming that my finger had been dug in, the middle-aged man’s face began to deteriorate rapidly.
“The place I stabbed now is called Devil’s Blood, so only the Heretic Inquisitors know about it.”
“Heretic… Inquisitor?”
When I mentioned the Heretic Inquisitors, who had excellent ability to hunt out demons, he became restless.
There wasn’t much fuss from the crowd… It seems that it was covered by the body, so it didn’t look like the finger was stuck in the temple.
The buff is on, but he didn’t even imagine that the attack would go in.
“The effect is very simple. When I twist my finger in this state, nothing happens to a normal person.
But if you’re a dirty demon with demonic energy inside, you’re a bloody place to die immediately, spewing blood from the pores in his body.”
“It’s a lie..!!! There’s no way something so convenient could exist!”
The middle school denies it, but its efficacy is true.
It’s a very delicate skill, so few people can use it even among the Heretic Inquisitors… But I learned it because I had hunted demons together before.
Ah, dying is different depending on the time.
If it was a strong demon, there were quite a few objects that survived even after spurting blood like that.
“That’s right. Nothing would happen if you were a normal person, right?”
What will happen to you if you twist this finger?
I was very curious.