70 – World 11. New sword union (3)
After failing to get the new sword union, I kept trying because I had a mistake.
Karina didn’t stop it, as she thought she had some room because she handled the hatchery.
My companions also spent every day practicing skills, thinking that I couldn’t just play while I got the new sword union.
The problem was that there was no progress even after that day.
‘······Why can’t it be like this?’
The feeling that would be evident when I disconnected and left was not felt at all here, so I even felt stuffy.
Of course I know why.
‘The ninth world is where my swordsmanship skills have improved dramatically.’
In addition to the [Swordsmanship] skill obtained there, the [Concentration], [Sensation], [Intuition], and [Physical] skills were all integrated and naturally led to the realm of the unification of the new sword.
But here, all of those skills were gone, so it was the same situation as now.
Fortunately, the experience itself hadn’t disappeared anywhere, so I could vaguely feel the sense of the new sword union, but seeing it now, that was the problem.
‘It looks like it will work because of that gap, but it’s not working.’
Thanks to that, I let out a long sigh and looked around with my sword hanging down for a while.
Everyone was diligently training their skills with the game equipment I gave them to raise their intelligence stats.
He even drank an MP recovery potion when he felt his magic power was low after training like that.
For reference, the training targets of the party were the soldiers I summoned.
Chae-chaeng!- Chae-chaeng!-
“Definitely killing fire!”
Carina and Ren used their skills to their heart’s content while sparring with the soldiers, and Muel fired flames at the soldiers who gathered and formed a square.
As an aside, everyone in the party liked it, saying that the skill level went up dramatically.
This is another use of soldiers.
‘Well, it’s nice to be able to raise the skill level without having to kill the beast.’
I thought and looked at Karina and Ren for a while.
Karina moved her body, clashing her swords nonstop against the four soldiers.
As if something had been pre-determined, I saw Karina moving smoothly without interruption, and then I looked at Ren.
Ren moved in a straight line to the point of being simple and swung his ax in the same way, but instead launched attacks that seemed powerful one by one.
‘In a way, it seems to make good use of the axe’s strengths.’
At first, they dealt with the soldier’s sword by slashing it or avoiding it.
Then, as soon as a gap is seen, it uses the weight and centrifugal force of the ax to strike it down.
At first glance, it seemed like an attack with no backs, but when the ax was lowered down, a strong wind came from Ren’s body like an explosion and pushed the surroundings away.
‘Was Ren’s occupation a storm axe?’
There was no way the current wind could have just arisen, so it seemed to be the power of the profession.
After defeating all four soldiers, Karina approached me with a very refreshed expression.
“Are you resting?”
“I was resting.”
Karina said as if comforting, as if she had guessed the situation based on my answer.
“Don’t be in too much of a hurry. You have to proceed with the feeling that you are taking one step at a time.”
“Step by step?”
“Yes. From my point of view, Lee Seong-min seems to be trying to reach the new sword union at once. But it shouldn’t be like that.”
It seemed like he was saying that I should proceed step by step, just as Karina is now dealing with soldiers and raising her skill level step by step.
‘I have no idea what to do.’
After that, I swung the sword a few more times and ended up disconnecting to have lunch without getting the new sword union.
* * *
For lunch, I decided on a simple beef bowl.
“This is pork rice bowl? It’s so delicious!”
Now Muel, like everyone else, showed a liking for anything I made.
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Did you say that you eat one multi stick or something a day before?
I was curious, so I ate it, and it was a survival food that was only focused on nutrition.
‘But it seems to be better than the food from the second world I’ve been through.’
The second world, where machines dominated humans, lived by eating something called ‘nutritional jelly’.
By the way, the taste was not bad.
Compared to that nutritious jelly, I wondered if the multi stick was a little better.
Hayden, who finished the meat bowl with him, said.
“Well. Are you still training to get the divine sword union?”
“Yes.”
“Looks like it’s not easy for you either. I think it’s been 3 or 4 days today.”
Heiden questioned why I hadn’t gotten a new sword union even after several days.
It must have been strange that someone with my level of skill hadn’t been able to get it for several days.
“It wasn’t as simple as I thought.”
“It seems that it is rather difficult for you to learn the new swordsmanship because it is too low level for you.”
“…”
What the hell does Hayden think of me?
Of course, I was able to win even if hundreds or thousands of people who had mastered the art of combining swordsmen attacked me.
Heiden’s words weren’t so wrong if it was simply measured by the capacity of power…
‘That’s not why it’s hard to learn.’
It was just because of my own lack of training and enlightenment.
“Now that I’ve started, I have to fill it up for a week and move on again.”
“but. I heard that being too attached is not good.”
“…?”
Obsession······?
‘Is it an obsession?’
Hearing the word obsession, I wondered if it was an obsession that I was trying to learn.
No, looking back, it seemed like an obsession.
‘But I can’t become a sword master if I don’t learn the art of combining divine swords.’
While thinking about it, I cleaned up all the bowls the group ate.
beep-
Inside the building, I heard someone ring the doorbell.
“Looks like a guest.”
Hayden casually opened the hologram monitor installed on one of the tables to check who was outside.
“Well.”
Then, as soon as I checked the person, I briefly fell asleep.
“An unexpected person has come.”
“Someone?”
“The substitute ruler of this city.”
If it’s a proxy ruler…
‘Ayla?’
While thinking, Hayden opened the steel shutters, and soon after, someone opened the door and came inside.
A woman with faded blonde hair and a naive impression, neatly trimmed with fancy hairpins.
As expected, it was Ayla.
However, it was also a slightly haggard impression that made him look 2-3 years older than the last time I saw him.
Also, two women followed behind Ayla.
‘uh?’
One was, at first glance, a woman in her mid-late 20s with a pretty and beautiful appearance with short short hair that looked good on her.
The other was a woman in her early to mid-twenties, a little under 150 tall, with the appearance of a small and pretty doll.
Of course, they were all familiar.
‘They both came together.’
Well, no matter how much I entrusted it to District 1, I thought it would come someday since it was in the same city.
Rather, it might be too late to come now.
At that time, as soon as a woman with short, short hair saw me, she smiled brightly and waved her hand with her unique bright atmosphere.
“Were you staying here?”
It was ‘Lee Si-yeon’, the first colleague I’ve been with for the first time in the 8th world.
Next to Lee Si-yeon was a woman named ‘Shin Ji-ae’, who was also accepted as the second colleague in the 8th world.
I checked to see if there were any other colleagues besides the two of them, but they didn’t look unexpected.
Still, I asked just in case.
“What about the other kids?”
“I am connecting hard. It’s because it’s gone to another world.”
Lee Si-yeon replied as if not to worry and looked around.
Conversely, Shin Ji-ae, a small build, had an expressionless face, but with slightly protruding lips, she approached me with a gun and hugged me tightly, burying her face in my chest.
Incidentally, he looks like he’s in his early to mid-twenties, but he’s actually a lot older than that.
‘The things I do are still childish.’
Anyway, I stroked Shin Ji-ae’s head and patted her back as she hugged me.
So soothing Shin Ji-ae, I briefly asked Si-yeon Lee how it was.
“How are you doing?”
“maybe? You’re doing just fine.”
Lee Si-yeon said that she was doing well, but when the answer was over, Ayla’s expression in front of her turned darker.
‘Looking at Ayla’s expression, I don’t think so.’
Are you bothering me?
Hayden, who was watching with him, came out with strange eyes and looked at Lee Si-yeon and asked.
“Are these the colleagues you mentioned before?”
“Ah, yes. This is Siyeon Lee. The child I am holding right now is Shin Ji-ae.”
“The reason I went to District 1 before was because of my colleagues.”
“Yes.”
Hayden finished with a calm nod, but Karina looked at Lee Si-yeon and Shin Ji-ae with a slightly surprised face.
Ren and Muel also looked at the two, but I wondered if it was because of their looks.
Along with the metamorphosis of the body, the two of them were far beyond human limits and were pretty to the point of being almost perfect in appearance.
It seemed unexpected that these two were my colleagues.
“My name is Siyeon Lee.”
In the meantime, Siyeon Lee also greeted Hayden and looked at the group here, fixing her eyes on Ren and Muel.
Both of them, like Shin Ji-ae, have a relatively young appearance and small body.
Lee Si-yeon looked at the two and said to me.
“Have your tastes changed in the meantime?”
“…”
Instead of answering, I sighed.