027 – Test
The man said as if he knew it.
“It was too. Were you descended from a dragonslayer?”
The Welf family was famous for hunting dragons.
The dragon that died at the hands of the Welf family is ‘Grantis’, called the dragon of the west.
In recognition of his contribution to slaying Grantis, he rose to the rank of count, and there was a time when he reigned like a king who ruled the western part of the empire.
However, after the dragon disappeared, all the honor and glory began to disappear like a mouse gnawing cheese, and when the Welf family was destroyed in a bloodbath, no family offered a hand.
“The Welf family knows that there are other swordsmanships using the Bastard Sword as well as the Greatsword. Is there any reason to insist on using the Greatsword?
“I have personal circumstances.”
“The former owner of this sword is…”
“Please go there.”
It was a voice telling him not to go deep into himself anymore.
“I see. I’ll fix this sword first.”
“Then the price is…”
“Nine silver.”
Linia took out the check Tigris had given her and handed it to the man.
The man opened his mouth when he saw Tigris’ signature and the family seal on the check.
“Tigris of the Norberd family. Are you familiar with this person?”
“You are the instructor of the Imperial University.”
“Hmm···.”
The man thought for a moment, then returned the check.
“Don’t do this. I’ll fix the great sword for free.”
“···yes? Why?”
“Instead, bring Instructor Tigris here once.”
“Are you asking me to introduce you to this blacksmith?”
“right. I have a question for him personally.”
Irene tilted her head.
“Has Instructor Tigris never come here?”
“Is that so?”
“I came here because Instructor Tigris recommended it. Instructor Tigris knew this place well, so I thought he recommended it.”
“her···. Heh heh heh…”
The man laughed out loud as if it was funny.
“Did I already know?”
“yes?”
“No. stop go The sword will be fixed by the day after tomorrow, so it’s okay to go.”
“Then the price is…”
“No need. Just use this place often. It looks like you will be coming here a lot.”
Irene shook her head.
“no. It cannot be.”
“Aren’t you going to take it?”
“I will.”
“no. A little···!”
Irene placed the check on the bayonet.
“I won’t take any change. Instead, use the remaining money to make a scabbard that fits the greatsword. I’m just…”
Irene left the forge.
The man sighed as he looked at Irene’s back face as she rushed out.
“Awesome…. A girl who is more stubborn than a Dwarf.”
“Then you can’t take it. Chubby uncle.”
The man looked up at the ceiling with a dissatisfied expression.
On the ceiling, a woman with cat ears was sitting on a girder and wet her feet.
The woman was smiling at what was so funny.
“It’s not that I don’t understand how the child is feeling. You are a wounded child.”
“But if it were me, I gave it to you. I know it is hard to live, but how do you get such a large amount of money?”
“If you look at the talent of that child, you can make any amount of money. But the heartache lasts a lifetime. That’s the kind of wound I can’t touch.”
“I think my uncle has become more human because he works with people. In a good sense, of course.”
“Stop the bullshit. conch.”
Sora jumped off the crossbeam.
There was no noise at all.
“Well, that’s okay, isn’t this an emergency? Do you think that Tigris knows who you are?”
“I don’t know how you got to know me. The Elder’s spell would be perfect.”
“Isn’t that just the height? Just looking at cancer, a dwarf like you is rare among humans.”
“Shut up if you’re going to play with words, Sora.”
“Yep. Chubby uncle.”
When the man picks up a hammer and tries to throw it at her, she’s a bum! He screamed and climbed back up the girder.
“mister. Then shall I dig behind the Tigris?”
“Arthur. Then, if you get caught, big things can happen. No matter how you look at it, he’s not just a four-star knight.”
“No, not that. It’s because it’s more fun to watch a handsome guy like Tigris than a sweaty dwarf like Uncle. That person has a funny face just by looking at him…
The man eventually picked up the hammer and threw it.
* * *
A twilight evening.
The remiola gymnasium was full of people.
“It’s been a long time since we cut the number of students for a test.”
“Well, if there are a lot of people like this, it’s worth selecting them for a test.”
It is not common to select the number of students for a test, but it did happen often.
“By the way, did you tell me to bring a paper and pen for a swordsmanship class? Is there a written test?”
“What kind of written test is there in swordsmanship? There must be a special reason. ‘Cut the paper with the pen tip!’ Could it be this kind of test?”
As the sun went down, the streetlights were turned on, illuminating the parade ground.
And Tigris appeared on the platform.
“…does that person have a halo on his face?”
“It’s because of the streetlight, you asshole.”
“Oh, I see.”
Tigris looked around the students.
Irene, Charlotte and Rakan were immediately found among over 300 people.
Irene was looking up at Tigris with a blank expression.
The sword had a neat appearance, as if it had been completely repaired with the previous daegeum.
And Charlotte, as always, was looking at him with a dissatisfied expression, and Rakan was looking at Tigris proudly with a bandage on his head.
‘Everyone is there.’
Tigris decided to start testing immediately.
“We will start testing as stated in the announcement. Let’s empty the middle of the power ballroom.”
At Tigris’ words, the students emptied the center of the dance hall.
Looking up from the sky, it would look like a donut with a hole in the middle.
Tigris went into the middle and drew his sword.
“I don’t hire anyone. I will only teach people who are willing and talented to follow my lectures.”
Tigris’ words contained magical power, so even people from a distance could hear them.
“The criteria are simple. From now on, I will repeat the sword strike for a total of 15 minutes. All you have to do is leave a comment with the paper and pen you brought after watching my slap.”
People were bewildered when they told me to leave a review.
“The method of inquiry is free. It can be expressed in pictures or in writing. It just needs to be written so badly that I can’t read it.”
“Instructor!”
Then a student raised his hand.
“Say it.”
“Are you saying that this is not a humanities lecture and that you write a review? Can you explain more to help me understand?”
Tigris thought that it was better to show once than to say a hundred times.
“What is your name?”
“My name is Limar von Cairn.”
“Now that you have a sword, try any swordsmanship.”
Limar was a little perplexed, but knowing that the opportunity to demonstrate his swordsmanship to Tigris, who is called a rare genius, was rare, he drew his sword without hesitation.
Limar exhaled and drew his sword once.
Uh-!
Then, when he tried to raise it again, Tigris stopped him.
“It has been stop.”
“Ah… yes.”
“If I were to write an impression on your swordsmanship, I would write it like this. It looks like a simple hit, but as the axis of the stepping foot is shifted to the left, there will definitely be a continuous movement. The sequence of motions is divided into three derivative motions: uplifting, bottom-up stabbing, and finally digging in. As a countermeasure against this, the first two attacks are from the bottom up, so they will dodge sideways and then counterattack with a side slash. However, in the case of digging in, the position of the sword is not visible, so after watching the sword to the end, it will block and then engage in psychological warfare. And in view of the flow of the Aurors…”
Tigris analyzed, appreciated, evaluated, and even destroyed Lima’s strike over the course of three minutes.
Limar was so startled that he dropped his sword.
Tigris was now perfectly explaining the first form of cairn-style swordsmanship, ‘collecting river water’.
The cairn-style swordsmanship was weak at first, but the more the sword was swung, the more power and speed the sword was swung.
The first type of river water collection was a sword ceremony that marked the beginning of such cairn-style swordsmanship.
Tigris understood all of the Auror’s maneuvers and power distribution in gathering rivers, but he didn’t say anything because it was nothing more than announcing the family’s vision.
“Just like I just figured out Limar’s slap, you can also watch my slap and write your impressions. The deadline for submissions is by noon tomorrow. Did you understand?”
The students nodded their heads in confusion.
“I will start now.”
Tigris struck down his sword.
Hung-!
A heavy and strong wind blew in all directions.
The wind was so strong that it could not be considered a simple sword wind, and some students missed the paper.
As the students panicked, Tigris slashed his sword again.
–!
This time there was no sound from the sword.
It was so quiet that I couldn’t even tell if the sword had been struck.
again struck the sword
This time, the sword became faster and then slower.
Finally, instead of striking the sword, he cut it to the side and drew it horizontally.
Tigris repeated these four types of strikes.
heavy drop.
silent slap.
A slap with a change in speed.
A strike with a change to the sword.
Some students started writing down what they saw on paper, but most people noticed that there were changes in the four types of swordsmanship and could not write anything else.
On the other hand, it was only Charlotte and Irene who did not write anything down from the beginning.
Irene and Charlotte kept their eyes on Tigris’ swordsmanship with the thought that they would never lose sight of it.
They were both thinking the same thing.
‘…is this a swordsmanship that one person can demonstrate?’
Ordinary people have habits.
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Just as the hand used is different, the magic circuit mainly used to move the Auror is different, the muscles used are different, and the breathing pattern is also different.However, Tigris did not show such a habit.
Each time the swordsmanship changed, it seemed as if four completely different people were wielding their swords.
Charlotte bit her lips.
‘How do you beat that?’
When you reach a certain area, the number of Aurors, strength, and agility are meaningless.
Because the human body has limits, the higher you go up, the more boiling it becomes.
But victory and defeat are always different.
There are two main factors that determine victory or defeat.
It’s a match between swordsmanship and psychological warfare.
The compatibility of swordsmanship begins when a knight learns swordsmanship, so there is nothing to be done, but psychological warfare is different.
Even if it’s an unfavorable swordsmanship, if you play psychological warfare well, you can win.
And it is the habit that has the greatest influence on psychological warfare.
This means that the one who understands the other’s habits and destroys them first wins.
However, Tigris did not have such a habit, so he could neither engage in psychological warfare nor destroy it.
The 15 minutes that Tigris promised have passed.
Tigris put the sword in.
The students sighed.
It was obvious that he was using a great swordsmanship, but it was because he couldn’t figure it all out.
“Then submit it by noon tomorrow.”
* * *
Tigris was examining the test papers submitted by the students one by one.
The form was free, but most of it was written.
“…it’s difficult.”
It was very easy to select successful candidates.
There are a total of three people who wrote Tigris to fit his heart.
It was Charlotte, Irene and Aiden.
“Charlotte de Fryharden”
It can be divided into a total of four knock-downs.
The first heavy hit is a hit that focuses more on muscle strength by intentionally giving resistance to the muscles using an auror.
The reason the sword wind blows seriously is because of ‘divergence’, which is one of the basics of Auror operation, and by putting the power of divergence in the sword…
Charlotte’s handwriting was very elegant like a noble.
The content was well-matched and it was very easy to read.
Most of all, it was wonderful to be able to accurately describe what I saw in writing.
Usually, when knights teach swordsmanship, they describe it bluntly, such as ‘the feeling of cutting a giant tree’ or ‘the feeling of riding the wind’.
That’s not to say it’s wrong.
Talents like Charlotte and Irene can learn more quickly if they explain it that way.
However, it was meaningless to mention such a poetic sense to ordinary knights.
Because they don’t understand the sensation that geniuses feel.
However, Charlotte did a good job of explaining in detail and analytically the four types of blows Tigris used.
Charlotte scored 100 out of 100.
Next is Irene.
Irene explained more with pictures rather than words.
By drawing the structure of the human body, it was easy to understand where the auror was concentrated and which muscles were used during the strike.
The reason I explained this with these pictures was because Irene did not know the exact terminology for swordsmanship yet.
‘I’m still 19 years old and the academy hasn’t come out, so it’s okay.’
Irene learned swordsmanship alone because of her family circumstances.
The Welf family completely collapsed after the Blood Demon incident, so no one taught them swordsmanship.
But she got a score of 90 because she explained it very well with pictures.
Finally, Aiden saw a little less than Charlotte, but he seemed to have an eye.
So, it seemed that when Charlotte and Tigris were dueling, there was a witness.
Rather than focusing on the structure of swordsmanship, he focused on the subsequent movements.
If Charlotte and Irene were analysts, Aiden felt like a strategist.
Aiden wrote down in detail where to use Tigris’ swordsmanship.
He scored 80 out of 100.
Now, the task remains to choose the good ones from among the unsuccessful ones.
Since Tigris gave a score by checking each one, they started to arrange them in order, starting with those with the highest scores.
‘Rakan also failed.’
The total score for Rakan is zero.
There was no understanding of swordsmanship at all.
Moreover, the handwriting was so bad that it was much better for a blind person to write.
‘But how was he able to perform such a high-level swordsmanship?’
Rakan was a really weird guy.
He didn’t seem like he was training hard, and he was a strange guy with a difference when he confessed to women, but he grew up rapidly from a certain moment.
His swordsmanship was as hard as a machine, but it wasn’t wrong, and one magic casting was so fast that even the Archmage couldn’t beat it.
‘Kim Yushin, status window, system…. It is clear that these three are the secrets of his growth.’
smart-
Then someone knocked on the door of Tigris’ office.
“Come in.”
The door opened and a man entered.
“You called me and I came to you.”
The man who opened the office door and entered was Rakan.
Tigris said, pointing to an empty chair in the office.
“Bring a chair and sit in front of me.”
“yes.”
Rakan proudly pulled a chair and sat down in front of Tigris.
He was full of confidence, as if there was a corner where he believed in something.
Tigris did not remember Rakan well in those days.
Because Rakan’s level was so poor that Tigris couldn’t see it.
I just remembered that he was a guy who lived like a king despite being a commoner.
I couldn’t remember exactly when Rakan changed, but I knew it right after the first year final exam was over.
‘I think it was after the Hwangdao Massacre…’
Since then, Rakan has been transformed into the prudent and stingy fellow Tigris knew.
“Can you tell me what you called me for?”
Tigris first scanned Rakan’s body.
His muscles were not well developed, his hands had no calluses, and his neck was bent and his back was slightly bent.
It was not enough to be considered a prosecutor’s body.
It made no sense at all to have completed 6 Auror rings and 6 circles in 7 years with such a body.
“Ask me straight up.”
“yes. Please tell me.”
“Kim Yushin, the status window, what is the system?”
Rakan’s confident expression broke for the first time.
His face turned white as if he was so startled that his heart stopped.
Rakan shouted, shaking his hands.
“Are you also from Earth?!”