8 – Request(1)
The students quickly changed into their gym uniforms and gathered in the training field.
I gave them a quick once-over.
Most of their eyes were sparkling.
Apparently, my lecture yesterday seemed to have significantly altered their perceptions.
‘Hmm?’
At that moment, Maria, in stark contrast to the others, wore a gloomy expression on her face.
What’s with her? Why is she making that face?
An odd thing to notice, but not very important right now.
What’s more important is to check if all the students from our class are here.
‘I already checked Maria.’
Eleane, Ellie, Row, Daph, and Ray.
The rest of them were also gathered in the training field, looking in our direction.
‘They have the same expressions as yesterday.’
While everyone’s gaze at me seemed to have changed, they looked no different from yesterday.
For example, Eleane, as usual, had her eyes sparkling.
Ellie was looking this way with a meaningful smile on her face.
‘The other three…’
Completely expressionless.
Anyway, now that I’ve made sure everyone is here, it’s time to start the lecture.
Right then.
“Professor! What are we doing today?”
Eleane eagerly asked, raising her hand.
Her ears were twitching, brimming with anticipation.
“Hmm, typically, when we say practical, what might that be?”
“Uh, what?”
My counter-question seemed to bewilder the students; they tilted their heads, looking puzzled.
They probably weren’t expecting me to answer a question with another question.
The next moment, Daph, banging on his chest, replies, “Practical means a fight!”
“Well, you’re not wrong. But what I’m talking about is a different kind of fight.”
“Uhm?”
“Dav, what kind of fight are you thinking about?”
“I mean a fair fight.”
Huh, just as expected.
People from the Ilaoi continent typically think that way about combat.
‘They always decide fights with a 1-on-1 duel.’
I immediately disagreed with him.
“No, combat means a kill or be killed kind of war.”
“You …”
“Therefore, let’s go to war. Everyone here, charge at me.”
The next moment, all the students looked surprised.
They probably never expected that I would suddenly urge them to charge at me.
“Why? You couldn’t think because I suddenly said to charge? In real combat, surprise attacks and tricks are abundant. So, charge at me right now.”
The students looked bewildered at my words.
It seems they are not going to rush at me in this way.
“If you manage to land a hit on me, I’ll grant credits to everyone.”
At that moment, their expressions hardened.
And then, without any hesitation, they charged at me.
***
Maria smiled wryly at the situation she was currently experiencing.
All the students were taken aback when he first told them to charge.
Who would have guessed that he would conduct the combat training like this?
But the students were so eager to charge at him when he said he would give credits.
She figured that if this many people charged at him, he wouldn’t allow a single hit.
However, they were too careless.
-Kaang!
“What?!”
Two students collided into each other as they were both trying to attack, tangling up their strikes.
The momentary opening this created between the students.
“If you charge without coordinating your attacks, you can’t even beat an easy opponent.”
While giving feedback, Cael punched both individuals in their abdomen.
– Ughh!
After all, it’s a punch thrown by a wizard.
But, the two swordsmen, hit by his attack, keel over in sheer shock, eyes rolling back in their heads.
Upon closer look, there’s a blue magical aura shimmering around his hand.
– I really can’t tell if he’s a wizard or a martial artist.
Maria’s brief remark flashed across my mind.
Just as Maria had said.
Is he really a wizard?
I’ve heard rumors, but he’s currently bashing every student with his magic-infused punches.
What’s more, it’s astonishing how proficient he is, as none of the students have any visible injuries.
“Holding a sword like that just unnecessarily drains your strength.”
In the midst of this, he provides another piece of awe-inspiring feedback.
‘Anyway, this isn’t right.’
Maria shook her head back and forth, slapping both her cheeks.
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If it’s come to a fight with him.
I can’t land a meaningful hit like this.
‘I first need to somehow cooperate with our classmates…’
Just as I was mulling over this,
“A warrior should face his opponent fair and square!”
Dav roared as he charged straight at Cael.
He certainly possesses exceptional physical abilities.
He’s moving much faster than any swordsman who has charged at him so far.
However,
“No matter how physically superior you are, if you rush in like that, it’s pointless.”
Cael caught his face.
Simultaneously,
“Guh!”
– Boom!
He completely smashes him into the ground.
Before long, Cariel leaves feedback while looking at him lying on the floor.
“Try not to scream or anything when you’re attacking. Next is…”
At that moment, Rowe swung his sword, exuding an aura of sanctity.
Indeed, Rowe also showed an extraordinary power.
Isn’t it different from what he’s done so far? It seems like he’s really pushing.
However.
“Hmm.”
That’s all there is to it.
Sure, his aura is impressive, but I’ve seen plenty like it before.
On top of that.
“He’s a complete role model.”
Rowe, using the same sword technique as the conventional paladins.
Cariel preemptively moved, bending his waist at a right angle.
Then, Rowe’s sword sliced through nothing but air.
“?!”
“Even if you are a paladin, attacking only with a sword gets you points off, Rowe.”
“Cough!”
Cariel drove his elbow into his midsection.
The next moment, Rowe ended up flying into a tree on the opposite side.
In the midst of all this.
-Whooom!!
Someone cast a surprise spell aiming at Cariel’s back.
Without even looking back, Cariel ducked his head.
Before long, he grabbed her wrist and threw her onto the ground.
“Your ambush was a good idea, but you need to hide your intent more… Hm?”
Suddenly, he felt a dark power filled with negative energy from his palm.
‘What’s this?’
It’s such little power that others wouldn’t notice.
However, Cariel immediately realized.
That this power wasn’t ordinary.
He quietly looked at Ray.
“So that’s it.”
He had wondered why a magic of shadows suddenly appeared in his hand. There was a reason for everything.
It seemed necessary to have a serious consultation about this later.
-Crash!!
Suddenly, an arrow made of magic was rushing towards him.
Kael casually dodged the arrow by turning his head.
The person who shot the arrow was none other than Elaine.
Seeing her serious expression, it seemed that she was taking the lecture seriously.
“Eh, Eh?! It missed?!”
Seeing her ask Eli with a flustered face, it seemed she was mistaken.
But in that moment.
“It’s okay. I expected you to avoid it anyway.”
Eli spoke with a meaningful smile, slowly summoning her magic.
The golden magic shimmering from Eli’s body.
Indeed, it’s the same magic as Jane’s; you would think they are siblings to the hero.
Just when Kael was observing Eli’s magic and thought so,
“Now.”
Eli takes advantage of the brief gap he created.
The next moment, a countless number of spells from Maria, spells she was preparing until now, were rushing towards Kael.
At the same time.
-Whaack!!
Maria’s spells were enhanced by Eli’s magic.
Clearly, when enhanced by Eli’s magic, they displayed formidable power.
Guess even decent mages wouldn’t be able to stop this.
However.
“Using that spell on me will bring you down. Maria.”
Saying so, Kael without any hesitation, interfered with Maria’s magic circuit.
And then…
-Roar!!
“Huh, what?”
Suddenly the circuit spins around and the magic that was flying at us disappears.
These are familiar spells that we’ve seen far too many times.
Because of this, for Kael, interfering with these spells is as easy as pie.
“I told you yesterday. Create your own magic through shape transformation.”
If they had, it would have been impossible to interfere so easily.
Kael adds as he immediately moves behind the three.
Seeing him, the three raise their hands.
“Ha, I surrender!”
“We surrender!”
“I surrender, Professor.”
“That’s right. Surrendering to a stronger opponent is not a bad judgment. However…”
“?” “?” “? “
Question marks appear above the heads of the three.
Kael pronounces sentence in a cold tone.
“Accepting surrender is also decided by the winner.”
With that said, all three are stuck flat on the ground.
Thus, all the students equally fell to Kael.
Kael, looking at these students, opens his mouth.
“You’re worse off than I thought, do correct everything according to the feedback given before the next lesson.”
“Um, Professor?”
“?
“”They’re all passed out and can’t hear you?” This statement was true, excluding S-rank students,
everyone was completely unconscious.
“In that case, Maria, you can relay as is when the students wake up.”
With those words, Kael leaves the training field.
The S-rank students had the same thought, looking at Kael’s retreating figure.
‘He’s a real devil.’
Meanwhile, the professors watching this situation were sweating cold bullets.
The one who was sweating the most was none other than Veron.
The deed he committed yesterday flickered in his brain.
‘This is serious.’
While Baron was thinking as so, Nell was displaying a gloomy demeanor towards such appearance of Kael.
And it’s said that his reputation was changed in a single day.
***
After finishing the morning lecture, he moved on.
Usually, he would have headed to the lab, but now, he had something else to do.
That was to find traces of Riza.
It’s somehow absurd to look for them now, but there’s nothing wrong with trying once more, he thought.
Thinking so, he headed towards the back alley.
Then, moments later.
“Hmm? What are you up to now?”
The hoodlum in the back alley approached me, frowning and tilting his head.
I opened my mouth looking at him.
“Guide me to where Sariel is.”
“What? Is Sariel your buddy?”
The next moment, he reached out his hand, frowning more fiercely.
I grabbed his wrist and put some power into it.
The very next moment.
“Ah, aaah!!?”
The guy’s eyes popped out, and he let out a shriek.
If it were a crowded street, people would have watched.
However, this is an empty back alley.
That is why, it doesn’t matter if one acts so brazenly.
“Lead the way.”
“aaah, ah, okay! Big bro!”
At the end of his words, the guy nods his head and takes the lead.
Indeed, these guys only listen when forced into submission.
So, as I followed his leading, I arrived at the destination before I knew it.
‘So this is the Umji Club…’
So he retired from active duty and conquered the underworld, to run a place like this?
That’s what I was thinking then.
“What the? Who is this guy?”
“Ga-rin, who’s this weirdo you brought?”
“From the looks of his clothes, he doesn’t seem to be a noble?”
The bouncers in front of the club eye me up with a ferocious gaze.
If she’s the woman I know, she should have already shown herself by now.
However, contrary to expectations, she hasn’t appeared.
“Sigh, maybe I’ll have to tear this place down to get her to come out.”