Like Hanzo, Ben Gibraltar was checking the brackets.
Third Round of the Round of 32.
Hanzo VS Ben Gibraltar.
The corners of his mouth curled upward as he checked the match schedule.
We took the practical exam together, but after entering the school, we hadn’t had a single conversation.
“Good opportunity.”
However, he has been worried about Hanzo ever since he entered school.
Starting with passing Chun Yu-ran’s test in the entrance exam and getting a perfect score on practical skills.
On the first day of admission, at OT, after defeating Yoo Hyeon-hwa, who had similar skills to him.
‘It’s not clear, but there is a saying that he alone solved the problem caused by the school’s mistake.’
I’m talking about the devil worshiper case that happened because of the insider’s betrayal and negligence.
The school minimized and concealed the contents related to the incident as much as possible, but could not completely erase the traces.
If you were good at information warfare like his family, it wasn’t difficult to follow the traces and uncover the whole story.
“My specialty is close combat. His fighting style is a Trickster who leads the fight with an out-of-the-box anomaly.”
Ben Gibraltar recalled Hanzo’s fighting methods known so far.
Hanzo uses a tricky fighting method that breaks the opponent’s flow and forces him to fight according to his own flow.
A fighting style that is the exact opposite of Ben Gibraltar, who standardizes what he has learned as a knight.
That’s why he thought that today’s fight would be more valuable.
‘Come to think of it, he didn’t even show his gratitude for recommending the elixir to me on the first day of admission.’
Inside the treasury, the elixir he recommended, as if passing by, was the Frost Giant’s Naedan.
It wasn’t just the selection based on Hanzo’s recommendation, but it’s also true that it helped.
“The third round game begins. Players, please prepare.”
After checking his armament, Ben Gibraltar entered the main tournament.
The equipment he wore was a sword, shield, and armor set made of Seongeungang, which can be obtained with a low probability in high-grade dungeons.
The arms bestowed on the chief knights of the House of Gibraltar are proof that he is a one-person knight.
His flawless, pure, and pure solar eclipse was his pride.
Likewise, Hanzo was entering from the opposite entrance.
“Both of you to the center.”
Unlike the preliminaries, where the fight started immediately upon entry.
The referee gathered the two men in the middle and shook hands.
said Ben Gibraltar, holding Hanzo’s hand.
“It’s too late to thank you for your work at the vault.”
“Ah, that. I’m glad I could help.”
“Today, I will fight with the feeling that I am learning a trick.”
“I wish I could learn a lesson too.”
Hanzo’s inorganic dark eyes made his heart tremble for a moment.
He quickly made up his mind.
After shaking hands, the two walked away.
Unlike the heavily armed Ben Gibraltar, Hanzo was not equipped with separate armor.
The distance between the two has grown so far that it cannot be shortened with just one or two steps.
‘With my bare hands… . No, it might lure me out by keeping me in check with memorization.’
On the first day of admission, during the fight with Yoo Hyeon-hwa, I used to take out and use a number of memorized things that I didn’t know how I had hidden them all.
He was thinking of making his own fight honest without being swayed by Hanzo in any way.
“Then the third round begins!”
After confirming that the two had left enough distance, the referee called out the start signal.
And with the start signal, Hanzo’s body disappeared.
Nameless Chejutsu – Chukji.
Ben Gibraltar could have been taken aback by the sudden disappearance of Hanzo out of sight.
Undaunted, he drew out his aura and launched an all-round defense.
Aura Shield.
Originally, it was standard to use it as if it were overlaid on the surface of an armor or shield.
His aura shield spread out to a width of about one step, drawing concentric circles starting from his body.
snap-
The aura shield shattered with a sharp rupture from behind the diagonal to the right.
Ben Gibraltar immediately twisted his body and held out his shield at the point where the sound came from.
Hanzo’s attack, which broke his aura shield, hit the shield hard.
A series of similar impacts followed, pounding on his shield.
A few words of memorization passed through his armor, not his shield, leaving shallow traces.
‘Memorization.’
I don’t know how Hanzo, who must have been right in front of me, went back behind him.
However, the memorization he used was out of the realm of containment.
It wouldn’t be fatal, but if the attack had just hit you head-on, a considerable amount of mental strength would have been consumed.
‘Even though it’s memorized, it feels this much weight.’
If he hadn’t reached the level of Intermediate Sword Expert with the help of the elixir, he would have been defeated by the attack just now.
‘And the check was just enough.’
Hanzo didn’t throw any more memorized words, but narrowed the distance and came right in front of him.
Ben Gibraltar’s Aura Sword. Although he swung his sword with an aura that had reached the realm of sword skill.
Hanzo stopped walking, dodged the attack with a gap of half a step, and then closed the distance again to swing his fist.
Ben Gibraltar held out his shield in time to block Hanzo’s fist.
“Ugh… .”
A shallow moan escaped from his mouth.
The impact pierced the shield.
It was a big shock that wouldn’t have been strange even if his arm had cracked.
Thanks to the physical shock converted into a psychological shock, his arm holding the shield moved normally.
‘I can’t give it a gap.’
Close enough to breathe each other.
Fighting on this street is against him as he is heavily armed with armor and shield.
To shake off Hanzo, he put an aura on his shield and attacked.
And as if he had expected this, Hanzo threw himself to reduce the shock and widen the distance.
“… About the same as the original. It is neither good nor bad.”
Hanzo’s self-talk that followed immediately afterward was incomprehensible to him.
* * *
Ben Gibraltar was helpless against Hanzo’s attack.
‘Even if an attack is blocked, it penetrates.’
Even though the defense was solidified by thickly layering the aura on the shield as well as the armor.
Ignoring this, Hanzo’s fist pounded his body.
‘On the contrary, all of my attacks are avoided with a half-step difference.’
Hanzo’s attack was unilaterally taking down Ben Gibraltar.
If the physical shock had not been replaced by the psychological shock, the hand holding the shield would have been broken by now.
In a situation close to absurd, Ben Gibraltar complained.
“I knew there was an attack that penetrated and ignored defense, but I never thought it would be this tricky.”
It wasn’t that there was no way to block Hanzo’s attack.
It was possible to block it by raising the aura in line with Hanzo’s mana that invaded the inside of the body and counterattacking it.
However, it wasn’t easy to get the timing to raise the aura right.
‘I want to stop it once. I didn’t expect to burst mana in a row.’
I also thought about ignoring Hanzo’s attacks by continuously maxing out his aura during the fight.
Even if he was prepared for a short-term battle and fought, the chances of winning were not very high.
‘There were a few times when the attack hit even shallowly, but that’s all. Hanzo reads my movements perfectly.’
With the synesthesia amplified by ＜Eye of the Mind＞, Hanzo reads the subtle movements of his eyes and trembles in his muscles and responds to his movements.
As for him, he had to deceive Hanzo’s senses with deception or falsehood, or make an attack that he couldn’t react to even if he read it.
Neither has been easy for Ben Gibralur now.
“In the current situation, it would be better to throw away the shield.”
Ben Gibraltar let go of his shield and gripped his sword with both hands.
If it doesn’t make sense to block it, don’t block it.
Ben Gibraltar, who switched to the offensive, ran toward Hanzo.
The auras contained in the sword were firmly united, forming the aura sword.
* * *
It has been confirmed that Ben Gibraltar’s current level is similar to the original.
Sword Expert Intermediate.
Aura quantity and quality. I’m also used to how to use it.
At a slightly earlier point than the original, it was possible to guess that it had reached its present state.
‘Probably the tea from the elixir.’
The frost giant’s inner end.
It was a minor error caused by taking the most suitable elixir instead of another elixir.
‘by the way. I never thought I’d ignore defense and run.’
It was no longer possible to unilaterally beat up at close range using the foot mirror.
He showed me the determination to face my attack and the determination to return more than what was hit.
‘In that state, instead of engaging in close combat, it would be more effective to widen the distance and slowly gnaw through memorization.’
Six daggers, drawn from the inside of his sleeves, struck Ben Gibraltar’s armor.
There was still a lot of memorization left.
‘It’s good that I brought more than usual.’
Little by little scars began to appear on his white armor.
It’s because his aura, wrapped around his armor, is shaking.
Although the defense power of the armor itself could not be ignored.
If it wasn’t for the situation where the aura was properly wrapped, it was no better than half.
‘It looks like he lost a lot of concentration.’
I was attacked one-sidedly, and my mental strength would continue to be cut.
It was natural.
I distance myself from Ben Gibraltar, who rushes at me.
A chase and chase ensued.
‘Fortunately, the third door was sufficient.’
The first use of Chukji, of course, was a large amount of mana consumption due to the continuous use of Balkyung.
I was thinking of using about half of it from the beginning.
I didn’t expect to use up half of what I was supposed to allocate in the first round.
If we repeat the war of attrition like this, we will be able to defeat him without difficulty.
‘I don’t think the audience’s reaction will be very good.’
There was something like a curtain, blocking the players from seeing the reaction of the audience.
Even if you couldn’t see it, it was predictable enough.
It wasn’t that there was a lot of flashy technology, and only a modest war of attrition continued.
It’s good if you don’t yawn.
and.
‘I unilaterally beat up a knight in pure white armor. Anyone can see that I’m the villain.’
If you give up your defense and get knocked down by Ben Gibraltar’s blade, who showed you the will to attack.
It will make a pretty good picture though.
‘I don’t intend to lose a fight that I’ve won in vain.’