Joint Combat Practice (1)
1st and 2nd graders’ joint combat class is a passing event, but it’s actually pretty important for the whole scenario. This is because it is the first event that the main character, Taylor, grabs a sword.
Previously, Taylor, who had been learning martial arts according to the combat club curriculum, suddenly grabbed the sword and cut off the lightning of ‘lazy Lucy’.
Taylor is a gifted swordsman. It was a turning point in his life for Taylor, who did not realize his talent and was only practicing martial arts with his bare hands.
Of course, there is no way that Lucy Mayryl can compete with her talent that hasn’t blossomed yet. He succeeds in slicing Lucy’s lightning once, but is overpowered by the intermediate lightning magic thrown by Lucy, who was momentarily embarrassed, and falls out.
Thanks to this, Lucy’s disqualification for breaking the rule of using only basic elemental magic.
With that as an opportunity, he confirmed his talent as a swordsman, and his name began to circulate among first-year students in earnest. It was true that he received that terrifying blow from Lucy Meryl, and even though he was disqualified, he defeated Lucy Meirl.
“There haven’t been any major variables yet, so it’s going to go according to the truth, right?”
It was an elusive weekend. During the week of class, it was an opportunity to get things done that I couldn’t handle.
As for food, I have more leeway than I expected. After becoming skilled at hunting to a certain extent, the efficiency of hunting has improved, but it was the most decisive thing to have the knack for setting up hunting traps.
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noose trap
A trap installed by tying a rope obtained from the construction site of the Ollen tube to an elastic tree trunk. It is effective at catching small animals.
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It was improvised as shown in the survival guide book borrowed from the student library, but it was made better than I expected. Crafting proficiency went up all at once, and his woodworking proficiency was about to reach level 10.
Above all, it is time-efficient. The trap I set up doesn’t go away just because I go to school and take classes, so I can use my time much more efficiently.
After returning home from class, it was enough to go to the place where the trap was set up and collect the wild animals hanging from the trees.
Starting with small creatures such as squirrels and rabbits, when the jackpot really hit, something like a raccoon was hung. Of course, there are more times when the line is broken or because only the jerky left as bait disappears.
Still, the benefits are even greater when you consider the fact that once you set the traps, very little labor is required.
When the dual food procurement system of direct hunting + trap hunting was established, the amount of meat itself was sufficient to procure for myself. Rather than hunting itself as a problem, the labor involved in grooming the game was at a level that would be more burdensome. Well, that’s a happy problem.
Except for hunting, after school started, I was able to increase the standard of living quite a bit.
There was a limit to the level of production only with the materials procured only from the forest right now, but by picking up discarded items from the construction site of the Sylvania Academy or various classrooms, various materials that were not available in the forest could be procured.
In particular, at this time, several buildings are being expanded under the auspices of ‘Golden Daughter Lortel’ within the Academy. Because of that, there are quite a few construction sites on the outskirts of the academy, and if you sneak around there, you can get various construction materials.
Thanks to this, I was able to obtain a lot of leftover timbers from the original uses, shabby and rusted nails, and ropes whose lengths were left vaguely. Nevertheless, if we were to pick the biggest harvest, it was the hatchet.
– Percussion! percussion!
The sound of smashing firewood resounded through the forest.
I was cutting firewood using the stump I had cut as a workbench. The hand ax that the construction workers handed over as it was now obsolete was the best harvest this month.
thank you! Rebels of labor! Tears are flowing…!
“Huh… it’s hard…”
After cutting the logs into chunks with a wind blade, the process of splitting them vertically using a hatchet was repeated.
In the first place, with the basic wind magic, Wind Blade, it couldn’t produce enough power to cut down a whole tree.
So, when lighting bonfires, I used thin trunks of trees that were randomly cut from the forest. They were of different sizes, and there were many cases where they held water, so the efficiency was not good.
However, if proper ‘firewood’ can be used, a tremendous increase in efficiency can be achieved in terms of unmanagement.
His bonfire management was really, really, really painful. When sleeping, the heat was needed, and access to the surrounding wild animals was also blocked, so the fire had to be maintained.
However, the fire did not last long with poor sparkers, and there were many instances where the fire was extinguished in the middle and a strong smoke suddenly entered the shelter. Still, it is difficult to secure four or four hours of sleep a day, but at least you end up falling asleep in the middle.
“After stacking it up, it can’t be this strong.”
Roughly fifty pieces of wood firewood were dried next to the camp. I struggled to wake up with the axe, but I was proud when I was done. I wish I could have split them all with a wind blade instead of using an axe like this… Well, I’d run out of magic before I even finished half of it.
Still… After the remaining moisture in the firewood is blown away, it will be an efficient and good fuel.
“Uh-huh, look at the sweat…”
His casual clothes were already soaked in sweat.
In the case of the weekend, I washed my casual clothes twice a day.
When you go to gather herbs and edible grass, when you go hunting, when you trim daily necessities like now, when you check out the camp, etc… Just every moment of your life was a series of aerobic exercise, so the day when you sweat from your body there was no
I went back to the stream to wash off any sweat. It was only a few tens of meters away, but when I saw the camp, my heart felt warm. Seeing the appearance of the camp that is getting more and more lively day by day makes me proud.
“…”
However, in recent times, uninvited guests are often seen.
When Lucy, sleeping in a drowsy pose on a flat rock near the stream, caught my eye, I took another deep breath.
After meeting Lucy Meryl at camp, he would often come to my camp and take a nap.
There is no such thing as a regularity of visiting times, and it seems that whenever you think of it while wandering around the academy, it seems that you stop by once.
– ‘hi.’
Even though we weren’t very acquainted, if we just ran into each other, they naturally greeted us, slept in my living room and naturally disappeared when I woke up.
I didn’t want to get as close as possible to a person of interest like Lucy Meirl, but after a few days I’ve stopped thinking about it.
In the first place, Lucy Merrill’s visit was like a natural disaster.
I am busy with work that has been delayed for the long weekend. He could not have wasted his labor just trying to get rid of a stray cat.
It doesn’t do any great harm. I just spread it out on my own, sleep, often eat a couple of dried jerky, and when the time comes, I’ll take care of it.
I thought it was just a background, a folding screen, and left it alone, but now I have widened the radius of action in my camp and I am sleeping in the sun on a nearby tree or on a rock by a stream. To me, it seemed that he liked this river quite a bit.
Recently, I dried marten or squirrel skins caught using hunting traps and laid them out in my shelter, and I am more fussy because they are so soft.
…it really feels like I have a stray cat…?
“Zzz…. Zzz….”
Passing by Lucy, who was sleeping comfortably on the flat stone, I went to the river to wash my face.
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My face was reflected in the water. He looks completely exhausted from chopping firewood. It was the moment I was about to dip my hand in cool water to wet my face even once.
Then I thought that I hadn’t checked the stats recently.
….
“Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh!!!!!!”
“Uh-huh?!”
Lucy awoke from my sudden screaming journey and rolled down the rock.
*
[ Name : Ed Roth Taylor ]
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Grade: 2
Race: human
Achievements: None
stamina 5
intellect 5
ash week 9
will power 7
luck 6
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“Hello, Ed! You look good today! Did anything feel good?”
Cancer, every now and then.
After steadily accumulating woodworking skills and practicing magic, his talent stats and intelligence stats went up one by one. But actually that’s not important.
His stamina stats had risen by a whopping two levels.
What does this mean?
It was a story that the path of training was finally opened in this damn body, which was not born with any physical ability.
In fact, if you think about it from a general point of view, it’s strange that your stamina stats don’t go up even though you’ve been doing so much physical work this month.
However, this body was not born with any strength, agility, or endurance. No matter how much training, there was no change in stats, so my heart was about to break. In the meantime, it’s two steps up.
The wall of training that had been persistently blocking me had been torn down, and it was as if I had entered the next stage. From now on, we could have hope that the growth would be quite good.
How could you not be happy!
“What? So…”
Of course, there is no way to express it outwardly.
After Professor Hella’s introductory class on elemental science was over, it was time for the students to leave the lecture hall one by one.
I replied as coldly as possible to Yenika, who spoke naturally as usual, but she was still talking to me with a broad smile.
“Yeah, Ed. Combat practice class tomorrow. You were with the first graders. The same group has been decided. Aren’t you excited to see the faces of your juniors? I’m a senior, so I’m not used to it. Ehehe.”
Is it already time for a practice class? As it was a required course, I had to participate.
Joint combat training is literally a one-on-one simulated combat training. Of course, they don’t actually use weapons or magic with great lethality.
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Most of the students of the Combat Department use imitation weapons, the students of the Department of Magic are allowed only basic elemental magic, and the students of the Alchemy Department are also prohibited from overly powerful drugs or spirits.
Well, just because we were in the same group, we didn’t do anything by collaborating with each other, but in reality it was just close to a draw.
The gist of this is to conduct one-on-one practical battles according to a randomly-planned match-up by mixing grades. Of course, it takes place while everyone is watching.
Thanks to the completely randomly placed confrontations, a variety of compositions emerge.
1st year vs. 1st year is a great opportunity for first-year students who are not yet inexperienced in magic or combat to show their skills to their seniors and receive advice.
1st year vs 2nd year is a great opportunity to experience combat skills and magic that have been mastered through direct battles between seniors and juniors.
And the 2nd year vs. 2nd year is an opportunity to confirm the level of combat that the first year you are watching should aim for right now.
In short, the key is to watch the battle together.
As far as I know, this observation class involves all the big and big people who are heavily involved in the scenario. In the first place, the class was so large that everyone, regardless of whether it was the combat department, the magic department, or the pension department, was supposed to participate.
Fenia, the princess of charity, Lortel, the golden daughter, Ziggs, the spear of vegetation, Yenika the spirits, Emilla the hard worker, Lucy the indolent, Clevius the sullen, Adele the romantic…. There is no end to picking one by one.
Still, the most important person is… Failing swordsman Taylor.
Daejin knows everything. Of course, he knows all the wins and losses. It’s a really frustrating fact, but in almost all Dalian, the first-year students all win.
The purpose of the class, let’s learn directly from the sophomores, is overshadowed, and there is a scene where the first-year students with all kinds of giants massacre the second-year students… Professor Glast, applauding with a satisfied face, was a real spectacle.
What should I do… If I screwed up, I should have been the main character…
Still, there is only one sophomore who takes victory against the first-year heavyweight lead.
Yenica Palerover shows a complete overwhelm against Golden Daughter Lortel.
As mentioned, this is the final boss of Act 1, and the moment he first appears in the scenario is this practice class.
“Ed, would you like to see me?”
With a smile, Yenika handed me the draw.
No, I’ll check it out later… I thought about keeping a distance, but suddenly I wondered who my opponent was.
In any case, I am the person who should not exist in this scenario. I was worried about what would happen if there was a big change in the bracket due to my intervention.
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Most of the first-year students attending this class are those with a large proportion of scenarios. My basic course of action is to keep some distance from such main characters, but for this time alone, even if I become a direct opponent, there is nothing I can do about it.
How do you make a class like that in the first place?
So, no matter who your opponent is, keep calm.
“Let’s see…”
“Come on, here! Here it is! look!”
It seemed like he was very happy to react in earnest to his words, so Yenica cheerfully handed him the match.
As for the conclusion, there were no major changes. Most of it was the Daejin as I knew it. Except for one.
‘Article 13 – Ed Roth Taylor vs Fenia Elias Chloel’
That name was familiar.
“…”
Oh… my God…
“……”
Still, he’s not a little…
*
There was a buzz among the users of the imperial residence. Apparently, the new outfits were in vogue at the clothing store in the living quarters on the southwest side of the island.
Logistics distributed by Elte Trading Co., Ltd. are all sold out. For Princess Fenia, that fact was not very pleasant.
“The foxy merchant’s plans are… clear to the eye…”
For Princess Fenia, who was born with an insight to judge humans, the golden daughter Lortel’s snarky inner feelings were very dear to her.
One of three Class A students recognized by Professor Glast in the placement test. The only daughter of the continental colossus Elte Keheln, she is a girl born with a smirk as much as her father.
On the inside of the outward appearance, which is always polite and equitable, hides the essence of putting everything in the world on the scales of profit.
In the private room of the royal family’s dormitory, the princess took a deep breath as she sat on the extravagantly sized bed.
For Lortel, even this sacred ground of learning is nothing more than a means of earning money. He doesn’t use his magical talent and his brilliant brain to memorize books he’s read once in a while for learning.
I could feel the princess’s sixth sense. The actions of Elte Company, which are gradually taking over the logistics of Sylvania, are also not entirely unrelated to her.
“I don’t really like her, but… I don’t think it’s okay to treat her only with personal feelings…”
All kinds of magic books, papers, bags, etc., were buried in the bed as if collapsed.
“Again, again… you are thinking about the government and the situation.
No matter how grandiose the imperial residence is, it is very different from the real imperial family anyway.
At least in the imperial family, it is not possible to bury oneself in a bed like this without dignity, or to lay reference books or documents on the bed.
Although a sense of self-help arose in the situation where he felt deviating from such unsightly behavior, it was the human creature that nevertheless felt a strange sense of satisfaction.
Even with a bitter smile, the princess stretched out again.
“Shut up! Whoops… Yeah… The most important thing is, first of all, honing me through learning.”
With that in mind, I checked the notice distributed to the first-year students. Because I had to carefully check the facts that were announced in relation to the class.
And after seeing the group formation of the joint combat training, the princess buried herself in bed again.
“It’s like this again… It’s a strange affair…”
After three days and three nights of deliberation on whether or not to encourage him to expulsion, he finally put it on hold. Instead, he had asked Claire, the head of the escort team, and McDowell, the head of the Ministry of Magic, to keep an eye on him. Because he was an exceptional being who could not see through the inside even with the insight of the princess.
As the school year started and she was caught up in all sorts of accidents, she was pushed to the back.
“There is nothing difficult to think about…”
I laid myself on the soft bed and decided to go to sleep. I didn’t even take off my school uniform properly, and I didn’t organize the books that were scattered around, but the first thing to do is to relieve my body fatigue. Of course, it was an act that was unimaginable in the imperial family.
He was a man with a lot of unknowns, but he did not seem to have outstanding magical talents. It seemed like he could win without any major surprises.
Anyway, Princess Fenia had too many things to worry about right now.
Emperor Chloël probably wanted her to just put everything down and just enjoy the joy of learning to the fullest. All you have to do is put aside the complicated government and political situation and enjoy life as a student.
But for this young monarch, that simple thing was too difficult.
In a way, that was the monarch’s fate.