F-class adventurer of suspicious rumors
“We will wash and arrange the clothes and weapons you were wearing.”
“yes. thank you.”
After eating, Hyeon-jun went out to the garden. A lady-in-waiting followed her, but she was not in the room, and wandered around the mansion, saying that she couldn’t get away from her because it was uncomfortable. The gardens were manicured with green lawns and colorful flowers, and delicately carved stone statues stood majestically. However, because the garden was so large, I couldn’t keep looking at it. I’m not well versed in this field, so I quickly lost interest.
“Is it okay if I go to the back of the mansion?”
“yes.”
With the maid’s permission, Hyeon-jun moved.
“What is behind it?”
“There is a training ground and stables for soldiers.”
“Is it okay if I go to the training ground?”
“There is no place in this mansion that His Excellency’s guests cannot go.”
Probably within common sense. If you break into the Marquis’s room, Guihern and the knight will be very happy. Go to the back of the mansion and see soldiers wearing armor and training. While sparring, everyone is hitting, stabbing, and fighting fiercely like a real fight. It seems to be a training halberd with a blade cut, but no matter how many blades are cut, the shock cannot be small even if the long weapon strikes it. The properly hit soldier’s face was distorted and his arms were hanging down, but he still did not let go of his weapon and back down.
“It’s an incredibly strong army.”
“They are the strength of Bentinga, the soldiers.”
At Hyeonjun’s words, Anton approached and said. He was also sweating and covered in dust, as if he was in charge of training the soldiers. Since knights are in charge of training soldiers, of course they have no choice but to become strong soldiers.
“I can’t even compare to the guards.”
The guards faced the giants in the sewer with a sense of duty, but they would not dare to compare with them. Considering the level of the guards I saw at that time, I think it would be easy for these 8 people to become 30 guards.
“of course. Although they are here on vacation now, they are all members of the elite guarding the mountain range.”
mountain range? Are you referring to the mountains in the northeast of the Southern Kingdom? That seems to be the location of Bentinga.
“It’s really reassuring. I’ve never seen a force this strong.”
Naturally. The soldiers he saw were all guards. Anton smiled proudly and held out his hand to Hyeonjun.
“Greetings again. I am Anton, a knight from Bentinga.”
“It’s Jun.”
After shaking hands with his thick hand wearing a gauntlet, Hyeon-jun finally realized that Anton was looking at him properly. Until then, if he had just treated him in a businesslike way, now he is looking straight at Hyeon-joon.
“I heard Jun-nim’s story. After a while, my body felt hot.”
“It is greatly exaggerated.”
Anton grinned meaningfully. Hyeon-joon felt an uneasiness run up his spine.
“If you don’t mind, would you like to try sparring?”
‘sh*t.’
I don’t know if it’s a fight between knights and sparring. Suddenly, Shosanna passed through his mind.
‘Sorry Shosanna. This is how you feel.’
When he received Luke’s request, he suddenly felt sorry for Shosanna, who had to fight with him. No wait, didn’t Shosanna almost beat him after beating him with the hidden hand of wrestling? Feeling apologetic, Hyeonjun, who regained his senses, smiled and said.
“It’s an honor for me to fight against a knight.”
“ha ha ha! great!”
When Anton raised his hand with a big smile, the soldiers who were frantically beating and beating stopped as if it were a lie. In the meantime, it means that he was paying attention to his superior, Anton. Anton said something to the soldier and with the help of another soldier removed his armor and put on only the arming doublet he was wearing underneath and picked up his training longsword. In the meantime, a soldier brought a Gambison and put it on Hyeon-jun politely.
“Choose your weapon here.”
Hyeonjun followed Anton’s words and picked out a longsword from among the weapons on display. Now I can tell if it will fit my hand just by looking at it, so I chose it at once.
“Take a good look. I’ll ask when it’s over.”
“yes!”
‘Damn it!’
Hearing the soldiers reply loudly to Anton’s words, Hyeon-jun couldn’t stand it and shouted curse words inwardly. I’m really afraid of what will happen if I lose like this. However, when he took a deep breath, exhaled slowly, and raised his sword, the mood changed in an instant. The tension disappeared and Hyeon-jun, who took a stance with a calm expression, gave off a cool energy that made him feel like a different person. Anton’s eyebrows twitched.
‘It’s like facing a knight.’
Anton’s face, which seemed calm and calm, was distorted and he couldn’t hide his excitement. For him, who spent every moment in battle at the forefront of the mountain range, spending time in such a secluded city was rather frustrating to the point of turning his stomach. Anyway, it was a vacation given by the Marquis, and it was going back in order, so I had no choice but to come down and roll the soldiers to soothe my boredom, but standing in front of a proper prosecutor like this, my expectations rise to the top of my neck. As Anton raised his sword, Hyeon-jun’s sword moved slightly.
“hehehehe…”
Anton let out a laugh. Hyeon-jun’s sword moves exquisitely according to his posture and breathing. He’s not someone who wields a sword clumsily. He’s a well-learned guy. Anton’s body kicked off the ground and was shot at once. Hyeonjun also rushed at him.
Chaejaeng!
As the swords intertwined, the three sums came and went in an instant. Neither side dug too deep into each other, so both sides withdrew unscathed.
“hahahaha!”
Anton ran again. Laughing out of joy! The swords intertwined again, and this time neither of them backed down. The moment the swords collided, Anton’s sword swung around, squeezing Hyeon-jun’s cross guard and swinging it toward his head. However, when Hyeon-jun twisted his wrist, the cross guard became entangled and Anton’s sword came to a stop next to his temple. Hyeonjun moved calmly with Anton’s face distorted by excitement and cold eyes in contrast. In a situation where the cross guards were intertwined, Hyeon-jun kicked up his knee and hit Anton’s stomach. Anton tightened his stomach and twisted his body to deliver the shock, then tried to push Hyeon-jun with one leg floating like a bulldozer.
“Suck!”
Hyeon-jun leaned back as lightly as a feather, lowered his stance, raised his hand high, pressed Anton’s sword and pushed it aside to open the distance again. The two faced each other again and rushed after reading each other’s movements. In no time, the training ground was filled with the sharp sound of clashing swords.
‘He’s a creepy guy.’
Even when Anton was full of excitement, he thought on the one hand. Anton is maintaining the offensive, but Hyun-jun is not allowing a single attack. Of course, if you put your mind to it, you can take it down at once, but it’s not unusual to say that you’re just good at swordsmanship.
‘Every moment sucks my swordsmanship.’
At first, he just wanted to have some fun with his solid swordsmanship, but Hyun-jun was developing at a terrifying pace every time his swords collided and moved away. A sword seen once does not work twice. And to my horror, even the first sword I see is blocked!
Anton made up his mind, and the swords clashed again.
Shirling.
“Oh.”
Anton’s sword stopped right in front of Hyeonjun’s neck. Even though Hyeon-jun’s sword obviously blocked Anton’s sword, it was pointed towards the floor before he knew it.
“hahahahaha, I don’t even know how I got hit.”
“I will believe you even if you say this is a knight.”
With smiles on each other’s faces, they drew back their swords and retreated. At the same time, Anton clearly witnessed Hyeon-jun’s wrist wriggling and the sword shaking.
‘Something like a monster.’
It was the trajectory that Hyeon-jun’s sword was swept down by his swordsmanship. To someone else’s eyes, it would just look like a trembling wrist, but Anton’s eyes couldn’t be fooled. It’s not that great, but it’s not that easy to figure out from the victim’s point of view. A human’s field of vision is narrow and limited, and in particular, it is swordsmanship that the victim cannot even grasp what has happened. After experiencing it once, he understood exactly how he suffered. It was as if the sword had already been stolen.
Anton raised his sword again. If you think soberly, you shouldn’t cross swords anymore. Swordsmanship is only valuable when it is tightly hidden. If you use it on an opponent who already knows how to move, it will only give you a gap. But I just can’t stand it!
“Mmm!”
Hyeon-jun tried to block Anton’s offensive somehow, but he had no choice but to allow the attack to continue. It was because Anton had suddenly and violently attacked. The power of long sword 1 cannot cope with it. You can’t even go on the offensive. There is too big a gap between the two, so they keep giving up the first attack, and the situation where they are rushed to the defensive is repeated.
‘It’s an opportunity.’
Hyunjoon gritted his teeth and continued to run. Anton’s swordsmanship is not something to be shown to mere adventurers. Seize this opportunity and steal as much as you can. However, it should not be shown to be too blatantly imitative. Even if you go over it, you can cut your neck the moment you copy it. Hyun-Jun had already grasped some techniques and their essentials, and was confident that he could not only follow them but also apply them, but he was only coping with them and showing only the swordsmanship he had learned through Longsword 1.
“Whoop, whoop.”
Hyeonjun’s breathing became rough and sweat flowed like rain. The sparring with Anton was so hot that even his superhuman concentration wasn’t enough, so his mind got tired before his body, and soon his body was also getting tired quickly. Anton also has his hair and beard drooping from sweat and his breathing becomes rough, but he seems more relaxed than Hyun-joon. Hyeon-jun aimed his sword and took a stance, but Anton put the sword down. The moment the sword was lowered, Hyeonjun, who was about to rush in thinking it was an opening, flinched and stopped, then lowered the sword.
“It’s not good to overdo it.”
“Huh, whoa… yes. thank you.”
It was a situation where he had already gone, but at Anton’s words, Hyeon-jun calmed down and agreed. In my heart, I want to share the sword even if I stay up all night, but I can’t. It’s too much to the point that it’s hard to turn back even now. When I lost my concentration and faced the reality, I saw a lot of things, and I saw a lot of things to the point where I was terrified. And Hyeonjun, realizing that he didn’t cross the line thanks to Anton’s consideration, politely bowed his head to him. Anton did not hesitate this time and only nodded. It was because it was a greeting exchanged between knight Anton and swordsman Hyeon-jun, not as a guest and a knight of the Marquis.
The face of the lady-in-waiting, who had been standing still for hours watching him from behind, wriggled at the rudeness, but didn’t say anything. The knight’s realm and the maid’s realm only overlapped in a very small area. Neither the maid nor the knight could treat each other carelessly. Even if it was a maid who was an insignificant commoner, the lady-in-waiting was also an aristocrat. Hyeon-jun knows that maids and maids are only slightly different in name and clothes, but they are clearly of a different class. This lady-in-waiting was just wearing a simple dress, and, like Gwihern and Anton, she had to be very careful. In this case, he was able to pass without any problems because he was polite to everyone.
“The sun is about to set. How about going in?”
“Oops, I interrupted the training. sorry.”
“hahahaha, no. Tomorrow’s training can be done as much as today’s rest.”
At those words, the soldiers’ faces turned pale. Anton is a true knight who has continued rigorous training while protecting the mountain range, unlike those who are stuck in the city, going to social churches and spraying perfume. Hyunjoon looked at them pitifully. But I wasn’t sorry. Didn’t you rest today?
“Then I’ll just go in.”
“yes. See you next time.”
After swinging the sword, Hyeonjun felt light and walked briskly. The lady-in-waiting at the back handed Hyeon-jun a towel.
“Oops, I completely forgot. Were you still here?”
“yes.”
“sorry.”
“no. It is what I have to do.”
Hyunjoon wiped his sweat with a towel. I was sweating so much that my towels were wet. Hyeon-jun couldn’t bear to hand the towel to the maid, so he just hung it around his neck and entered the mansion. Then the maid came over and stood beside him.
“You can give her a towel.”
“Ah, yes.”
I hesitate to hand the towel I wiped my sweat off to the woman, but is there anything I can do to give it to her? After receiving the towel Hyeon-jun gave her, the maid left.
“I’m going to wash up in my room, but you don’t have to stand in front of the room this time.”
“yes. All right.”
Hyeon-jun, not knowing that the person talking to him was a lady-in-waiting, strode into the room. The lady-in-waiting stared at him, then quickly left the seat.