021 – Relic
Charlotte was shocked when Tigris finished first in the Young Blood Tournament.
I couldn’t believe it.
It’s not a shock that he won first place, but I couldn’t believe his ability.
Tigris was second to none in skill, strength, and speed, and was perfectly victorious.
Especially when he faced Gordon Daker, who was a finalist, he opened his mouth wide without knowing it.
What Charlotte couldn’t understand was how Tigris, who was only 19, had become so strong.
He had four rings and was as skilled as if he had fought many battles with many people, and he was not embarrassed by the swordsmanship of various noble families that Gordon showed, and he accepted them all.
If Charlotte and Gordon had fought with pure swordsmanship, they would have lost 100%, Gordon was so amazing.
I couldn’t decide what to call Tigris, who defeated Gordon.
Charlotte fell ill for more than a month from the frustration that she could not get over the Tigris for the rest of her life.
It seemed that the long years of his efforts were denied.
Tigris reached that level at the age of 19, so why does he still have two rings?
Tigris I thought I was going to win over that guy, so I slept less for the past year and a half and swung my sword, but why am I the only one with this?
He was engulfed and dying at the thought that he might not be able to defeat Tigris forever.
Even after the end of the class, he did not return to his hometown, and his friends were worried when he lay still in bed in the dormitory.
– Please go somewhere. shallot!
As there is a saying that time is medicine, after the new year has passed, Charlotte decided to go outside.
A chilly river breeze blew past Charlotte, and I woke up a little.
‘okay. Tigris is a genius but a hard worker.’
T-Christ must have wielded his sword hard until now.
Although he may be unlucky, when I saw him at Schubert last year, he woke up every morning like a sword madman and swung his sword until late at night.
I thought that the reason he reached that level was not because he was a genius, but because of his hard work.
‘It doesn’t happen just because I practice swords a lot. It’s important to train more time than him.’
Charlotte thought Tigris was still wielding the sword.
I really hated being left behind for the rest of my life.
I promised myself that someday I would make his nose bridge flat, but I didn’t want to give up like this.
Charlotte is still young.
There was plenty of time left to catch up with him.
‘okay. Let’s start again.’
I decided to face the cold river flowing slowly and left the Gold Bridge.
Then I found Tigris sitting on a riverside park bench.
“Tigris?”
Tigris looked at him.
And I noticed that there was a very pretty woman next to Tigris.
In her hand was an eating crepe.
Tigris smiled a little.
Charlotte simmered inside.
What is this guy doing now?
dating now?
I thought he only swings his sword day and night, but are you dating now?
I guess this guy did everything he could to get to that point?
Thinking like that, I felt like I was going crazy.
Charlotte suddenly realized that she was standing in front of Tigris.
Without thinking, the body moved on its own.
What should I say?
To be honest, I wanted to cry in front of this guy right now.
It seems that Charlotte’s own efforts are being denied.
It seems that there is a wall that can never be crossed.
I didn’t want to admit it, but the reality was in a ruthless way when I presented the phenomenon.
“Brother. Who is this…?”
what? Brother?
Do you have a taste for calling me bro rather than bro?
Originally, genius bastards had a lot of weird brains, so I didn’t know they would like this.
“Charlotte di Friedharden. Heir to Count Friharden.”
“ah!”
The woman quickly got up and bowed her head.
“I’m sorry I couldn’t see you. My name is Linia di Norberd. I am Tigris’ brother’s younger sister.”
“···younger sister?”
younger sister? younger sister?? younger sister???!!!
Charlotte’s head turned into chaos in an instant.
I had no idea he had a sister.
“You… did you have a sister? You weren’t at Schubert last year, right?”
Linia answered instead.
“I couldn’t come out of Schubert because of my personal circumstances.”
“under···! under!”
Charlotte laughed stupidly.
It was then that he realized how ugly he had been delusional.
It was as if he had been hit hard in the back of the head with a hammer.
“Then why are you two here…? Aren’t you in Norverd?”
“I came because I had to go to the Imperial University in two days, and my younger sister was going to enter the Raman Swordsmanship Academy this year, so I came down in advance.”
“ah···. Did you really become a swordsmanship instructor?”
“You don’t look worthy?”
Charlotte bit her lips.
No matter your age, you won’t even recognize a person with a whopping 4 rings who even wins a young blood tournament?
That didn’t make sense.
But my pride did not allow me to admit it.
“Because teaching is different from being able to handle a sword well. I don’t know.”
“My older brother is also good at teaching swords. Thanks to that, my skills have improved a lot.”
“Tigris will teach you the sword?”
“You teach me about an hour or two every morning.”
“Then what about personal training?”
“In the afternoon, meditate without wielding a sword, and after dinner, practice your sword until late. Hwamokto trains his sword from the afternoon until late at night.”
“Well… then what about Sunday?”
“Sunday seems to fill in the gaps. Still, start training at 5 am every day and keep training until 9 pm.”
If you exclude lunch and dinner time, isn’t it almost 13 to 15 hours of continuous training?
Charlotte also has a class in the middle, so the time she spends purely on the sword is about 10 hours.
By the way, this guy was training 3 to 5 hours longer than himself.
“…Since when have you been doing that?”
“It’s from the time I started holding the sword… Ever since I was 10 years old.”
“…Then you’ve been following that schedule for almost 10 years?”
“yes. Right. Yes? Brother.”
Tigris nodded his head with a trembling expression on his face.
“It is, but…. Linia: Since when did you know my training schedule so well?”
“I do not know···. I do not know. Since I was very young, I don’t know. Hehe.”
Listening to Linia’s words, it seemed like she knew the color of the underwear she was wearing today.
Tigris unwittingly fell apart with Linia.
“Then why didn’t you train today?”
“Today is my first time in the capital. Tigris older brother is very concerned about me. He told me not to panic when I was out in the city with my friends I had made at the Lehman Swordsmanship Academy later.”
“That… that’s right. The two are very good.”
Tigris did not have any special swordsmanship training today.
He was strong because he put in a lot more effort than he did.
‘Then, when he goes to work, doesn’t he run out of time for swordsmanship training?’
Charlotte was strangely relieved.
While Tigris was wasting his time as an instructor, he thought that if he worked harder, he might be able to overtake him.
It seemed too ugly to think like this, but Charlotte decided to admit it coolly.
‘okay. I’m a jealous bitch But someday, this guy will have to win.’
A heart full of ashes burned brightly.
Charlotte looked at Linia and smiled brightly.
“Linia. Have you ever seen a play?”
“yes? no.”
“Ah, did you say that you came to Victoria for the first time today? There are a lot of fun plays here in Middletown. Would you two come to see me?”
Charlotte took her wallet out of her pocket and took out a ten-silver coin.
“no. Until you do this…”
“It’s because you’re so pretty and it’s so nice to meet you like this. VIP seats are about 4 or 5 silver, so this should be enough.”
Charlotte held the silver coin in Linia’s hand.
“See you today. Oh, see you tomorrow if it’s fun. It’s good to see another play the day after tomorrow. got it?”
“Charlotte-sama…”
Linia held Charlotte’s hand tightly and her eyes twinkled.
“Charlotte was a very nice person.”
“What are you Just call me sister.”
“yes! sister!”
Charlotte looked at Tigris and said.
“You must have just come to Victoria, so you probably haven’t seen a play before. So take a look Because this older sister lives.”
Tigris furrowed his eyebrows in an unknown sense of reluctance, but Linia liked it, so he decided to move on.
“Then I’m busy. I have work to do.”
Charlotte vanished like the wind.
Linia looked at the 10-silver coin and smiled.
“Brother, would you like to go see a play today?”
“···Hmm.”
Originally, I was going to do swordsmanship training in the evening.
But Linia liked her so much, so she couldn’t refuse.
Tigris nodded.
“Hurray!”
Seeing Linia’s fondness like a child, Tigris smiled a little.
* * *
The next day, Tigris headed to the Imperial Castle.
The Imperial Castle was surrounded by a wall that was high enough to be reminiscent of the Norbert Wall.
Since there was a decree stating that no buildings higher than the wall could be built within 1km of the imperial palace, the area around the wall consisted of a park and a walking trail.
If you look down from the wall, you can see everything at a glance within 1km in all directions.
In addition, although invisible to the naked eye, a mysterious shield emanating from the ‘Dragon’s Orb’, which is constantly managed by the Iron-Blood Magic Corps, surrounded the entire Imperial Palace.
As it is a place that pays a lot of attention to security, even Tigris, the successor of the Marquis, could not carry a sword into the Imperial Palace.
Tigris handed over the sword to the Golden Knights along with his identity card.
“Get your visitor’s plaque here. You must wear it on your chest at all times.”
Tigris wore the visitor’s patch on his chest.
On the visitor’s plaque was a large drawing of the number 3, which meant that only buildings within the Level 3 security level were allowed to enter.
You could never enter the second-class building, the National Assembly Hall, or the first-class building, the Palace of Spring, where the royal family lived.
“I see.”
“Then go in.”
Tigris walked through the entrance.
I could feel a strange air current passing through Tigris’ body.
It was the last procedure to check whether the artifacts, relics, or steel were secretly hidden.
As soon as he entered, the open plain greeted Tigris.
Even though it was the middle of winter, the plains were full of colorful flowers.
The statues of the five heroes who built the empire stood majestic in the front, and the golden buildings were beautifully arranged behind the statues.
And when I moved my gaze to the back, there was Mount Dracorequiem, a symbol of the imperial castle and a rare gold dragon in the past.
Although this imperial castle is not a mysterious land, it was a space where mysterious phenomena were always active.
Because of this, I was able to feel the warm spring season all year round.
It was only known to the public that this mysterious phenomenon was emanating from Dracorequiem, and no one knew exactly why this spring continued.
Only the Imperial Family, Guardian Knights, and Black Meisters, who could read 0-level information, knew about it.
Naturally, Tigris knew the reason.
It was because there was a gold dragon sealed in Mount Dracorequiem.
The reason Tigris knew about it was simple.
This was because Arphem unsealed the Gold Dragon and forcibly turned it into a chimera, and the Imperial Castle was devastated.
‘Before Arphem approaches the gold dragon, you must either kill the gold dragon or send it to the mysterious land.’
Even Tigris could not withstand the power of the chimerized gold dragon.
At that time, if Tigris had not endured until the large-scale teleportation magic was used by the Iron-Blood Magic Corps, mankind would have been destroyed sooner.
As I was walking around with miscellaneous thoughts, I suddenly stopped in front of the Treasury of the Hwangseong (寶庫).
The report of Hwangseong was divided into three floors.
The first floor was divided into 3rd place reporting, the 2nd floor was divided into 2nd place, and the last 3rd floor was divided into 1st place reporting.
Tigris was going to go straight to the second floor because he had the right to go to the second-class report.
A man who appeared to be a manager stood at the front door of the report.
The man bowed his head politely, following the royal court etiquette.
“I was waiting for the news. My name is Reporter Matteo de Gram.”
“Nice to meet you.”
The Baron Gram family is a family that has served the imperial family from generation to generation, just like the Baron Grandria family.
While the Grandria family was a family that mainly produced court ladies and eunuchs of the royal family, the Gram family was originally a family that managed treasures and funds.
“Tigris-sama is only allowed to enter the 2nd class report on the 2nd floor. If you would like the treasure on the first floor, please let me know, and I will take care of it after His Majesty’s permission.”
“There’s no need to do that because we plan to only read the second-class reports.”
“All right. Then follow me.”
Mateo took a lamp and headed towards the front door.
The Golden Knights, who were waiting at the main gate, saw Matteo and opened the door.
hey-
At the same time as the heavy door opened, sticky darkness covered my eyes.
The darkness devoured the light, even though the sunlight had entered the treasury.
Only Matteo’s lamp drove out the darkness.
“Follow me well. If you miss me, don’t walk and wait. I will find you.”
Tigris nodded and followed Matteo.
The inside was very complicated.
It was meandering like a labyrinth, and when I moved my eyes from side to side, there was only pitch-black darkness.
Then the stairs appeared.
Among the stairs going up and down, Matteo went down strangely.
But Tigris was not puzzled.
The Treasury of the Imperial Palace was a special magical space created by Archmage Pate of the 8th circle among the five heroes of the founding of the country.
Tigris knew that there are also special stairs that go up when you go down and go down when you go up.
Eventually, as he descended the deep stairs, Matteo hung the lamp on the wall.
Pot-!
A bright light came in from the ceiling, and the entire view of the second-class treasury came into view.
There was nothing missing in the second report.
Starting with books, there were hundreds of wands, necklaces, swords, spears, axes, and more.
Mateo bowed politely and said.
“May I know what you want?”
The answer was fixed.
“I want to see the sword.”
“All right.”
Mateo led Tigris to the place where the swords were gathered.
“These are artifacts and this is a relic. Please take a look around and if you have any questions, please call me or bring them to me and I will answer them.”
“I see.”
Tigris moved toward the relic.
Artifacts didn’t even need to be looked at.
The difference between relics and artifacts was simple.
Artifacts were created by intelligent bodies such as humans and dwarves, while relics were made by stars.
Artifacts were made with enchantment magic, and there were always flaws.
For example, if it is a sword with ‘complete recovery’ magic applied, the blade is automatically raised and it can be restored quickly even if it is cracked.
However, enchantments are also a type of magic.
If you met a high-level wizard who can dispel the security magic of the enchantment, you could turn the artifact into a lump of scrap metal.
But the holy things were different.
It was an object made by attaching special powers to the stars floating high in the sky, weaving them into constellations and giving them names.
The objects that received the power of the constellation had special functions like magic, but it was impossible for any wizard to remove or extract the power of the holy things.
Although it is not clear why this is the case, some scholars have predicted that the holy relics are influenced by laws beyond the universe, not the laws of this earth.
Tigris raised a sword in front of him.
Like a sword made of stars, the center of gravity was gripped so well that it was sharp enough to cut right away when you touched the paper.
Tigris did not use a separate sword.
It was because they handled everything with swords such as great swords, long swords, bastard swords, and daggers.
But there was a taste.
Tigris searched for the long sword.
The blade was not wide and the black was straight, and the length of the blade was slightly longer than Tigris’ arm length.
Among them, there was one sword that caught the eye of Tigris.
It was a longsword that was nothing special except for its slightly reddish blade and the handle that looked like the scales of a lizard.
Even the red sword body was actually quite ordinary on the outside, as it was only visible to the point of being able to tell.
But Tigris focused on mediocrity.
The other longswords had a lot of strong assertions, such as ten brilliant jewels embedded in their guards, black swords, and strange eyeballs embedded in pommels.
Those swords are all relics made by an unknown constellation.
The reason for this has not been clarified yet, but the more common it looked statistically, the less unsightly, or the older it looked, the more famous the holy relics were made.
In fact, Dwin’s sword possessed by the Norberd family was an ordinary long sword, except that the pommel had emerald-colored jewels embedded in it. .
However, those treasures were all swords made by the famous constellations of ‘Witchcatcher’ and ‘Dragon Hunter’.
“What is the name of this sword?”
“A sword made by Red Lizard. It is the sword of the Salamander.”
As expected, it was the sword of the famous constellation.
Red Lizard was the constellation representing June and the constellation pointing to the south.