055. Experiment (1)
While the countess and the three girls were having an exciting conversation, Berris was swinging her sword vigorously.
What I wanted was simple. Thousand Swordsmanship. To reacquire the swordsmanship of the past that he had given up on himself.
It’s a f*cking world. There’s nothing more important than reinforcing her strength to survive in it.
─ Awesome!
“… ….”
A scarecrow made of straw was crumbled by Berris’ light blow.
It’s not just cut or broken, it’s literally turned into powder.
Overwhelming power. It wasn’t a skill, but it was a bizarre level of attack power to call it an ordinary basic attack.
“I think I did it like this.”
The way Veris has fought so far has been simple.
I do not use swordsmanship with a certain form, but simply wield a sword containing overwhelming mana with overwhelming power.
She has never been able to stop that simple gesture. In the first place, she didn’t even have the strength to defend against the existence of ordinary royalties.
Anyway, if you get her swordsmanship and register her on the Sword Mastery list, you’re saying that Berith can now wield a sword that takes shape.
Craving for stronger power always accompanies a strange interest. That’s why Veris was training with a serious attitude, not his usual playful appearance or cold expressionless face.
─Poof!
“Did you do this?”
There was no system message, so Veris could only tilt her head.
I feel like this is the reason why the difficulty of getting it increases. When she practiced the celestial sword ceremony in the past, she knew she was on the right track thanks to system notifications that arrived at the right time in each situation.
“It’s frustrating.”
Eventually, Veris escaped her training ground.
Veris felt the need to step in to make sure she was on the right track.
It’s about selling one’s feet with words, but in reality, it was just experiencing the actual battle. She thought that a positive signal would appear if she roughly cut down bandits or monsters near the territory.
…… Of course, asking for guidance from her father, Count Verden, was another way, but thanks to the past, where she gave up her swordsmanship herself, it was a difficult task.
“Then the answer is fixed.”
Veris muttered to herself and jumped over the fence of her mansion with her mana.
The sun is still in the middle of the sky. I needed to hurry if I didn’t want to be late for dinner.
* * *
“What a strange place.”
“That’s right. The situation here is very different from other estates.”
“Different? If?”
“Yes. It is hard to find bandits or monsters in this Wittelsbach estate.”
“Huh! How is that possible?”
“This is something that the Church has not been able to clearly understand. I just have a feeling that it might be something similar to a natural disaster.”
“…… You mean you couldn’t get your bearings even with the information power of the church?”
“I can only suspect something similar to a secret research facility that disappeared from the map a long time ago.”
In response to his colleague’s opinion, the middle-aged man nodded with a firm face.
Even though he was a newbie, he was already well aware of the rumors.
In the past, on the border of this Wittelsbach territory, there was a secret research facility of the Church. However, for some reason, I had to fight with the investigation team of the Holy Kingdom who came to the nearby area…… In the end, all members of the church died.
It was not something that could be understood purely at first glance. Even if they are the lowest combatants of the church, they are strong enough to be equal to combat priests.
In addition, since there must have been a number of people who learned forbidden secret techniques placed in the secret research facility, it is literally absurd to be destroyed by the investigation team of the Holy Kingdom.
But something beyond common sense has already happened. That too a long time ago.
“I thought that the Twelve Black Seats would give me access to special information.”
At the middle-aged man’s voice, the other man laughed.
Of course, it is true that the twelve knights, who are the leaders of the church, have access to vast and confidential information compared to other members.
However, even if they are, how can they access information that does not exist in this world?
The evaporation of the Wittelsbach secret research facility was roughly of that sort of thing.
“Don’t be too sorry. There are so many secrets in this world that even we don’t know.”
“You are right.”
That ended the conversation. They continued to move towards the target point.
They are heading to the middle of the empire. Now that they had safely crossed the eastern border, they could arrange a wagon and move comfortably.
While walking for a while, a middle-aged man asked a question.
“Senior, how do you think the headmaster summoned all the Twelve Black Seats?”
“Well, I don’t know. I just expect it to be out of the ordinary.”
“I heard that it is very unusual for all the Twelve Black Seats to be summoned.”
“That’s right. Even with the immediate evaporation of the research facility, only one of the twelve knights was dispatched to investigate.”
“Academy at most in the middle of the Empire…… Hmm?”
The middle-aged man stopped talking. The reason was simple. It was thanks to his keen senses that he could feel the noise of battle in the distance.
It was the same as the man he called his senior. After exchanging glances, they began to move toward the scene of noise with faces full of interest.
“Whoa.”
The cause of the noise was, as they expected, the battle. However, there was a unique thing, and it was the fact that the one who fought the battle with the pitiful men who looked like bandits was a young man.
What about the clothes? Anyone could see that he looked like an aristocrat. A student at the academy, dressed in a classy school uniform.
“This isn’t it.”
This is the self-talk of a student who coolly cut down a bandit. The two men couldn’t even figure out what he was trying to do.
The bandits were trembling with fear, probably because they were sitting on the threshold of death. But even so, he has no thought of fighting or running away.
It was a landscape that even they could not have predicted what kind of harmony this was.
“Heh heh.”
In the end, the two middle-aged men decided to appear in front of the academy students. If you are a promising student right now, you will definitely become their enemy in the future.
I was going to kill him without even thinking about it.
“What a cruel sight in the eyes of this article, young man.”
“Who are you meddling with?”
The two middle-aged people laughed at the confident young man’s answer.
They are strong. That’s why I’ve risen to the 12 seats in the church, but isn’t it just now that I don’t know how to be afraid of a one-day dog?
Even at a glance, the blue hair and red eyes gave off a feeling of being far away from the ordinary. Therefore, the two middle-aged people were rather glad that they met him here.
Kill future enemies in advance. What could be more reasonable than this, they think. Original color circle. That’s what they follow…… It was also the teaching of the Demon Church.
“You are arrogant. Considering that you didn’t even know we were watching you.”
The blue-haired student snorted after hearing the middle-aged man’s words. Naturally, the two middle-aged men looked at him with absurd faces.
“…… Why don’t I know what you guys were watching? Did you know that you are a demonic cult?”
The two middle-aged faces were shocked at the voice of Veris, a calm student.
It was also something that did not make sense with common sense. It meant Veris was listening to their presence, even conversations, a step earlier than the bandits were detected by their presence.
“What… ….”
It is an absurdly absurd ability. I wondered if they were trusting their handsome faces and kicking around, but now that they’re here, aren’t they two middle-aged people who don’t know fear?
“What a scary man.”
Sureureung!
The leader among the middle-aged, the one called the senior quietly drew his sword.
As long as the opponent found out their terrible secret, there was no option to retreat. The only option was to kill those who knew the secret or they would die.
“Strangely, the experience points keep coming in.”
It was Veris’ voice dripping with arrogance as she looked at the two middle-aged people. But for some reason, the two middle-aged people who thought they looked good together with Veris had tension on their faces.
Evaluated objectively, they are strong.
These are the two men who have risen to the position of the Twelve Black Seats, given to the twelve knights of the Great Demon Church. If you’re a normal academy kid, it means you can’t even touch their hair.
But…… For some reason, their opponent has a strangely laid-back attitude.
What that means is simple.
I don’t think that student from that academy has the confidence to cut down two of the Twelve Black Seats of the Demon Church.
“I can’t believe it.”
In fact, they are the protagonists of fear running across the continent.
Who would have imagined that we would encounter something like this while we were on the move thanks to a sudden call order from the central part of the Empire.
“Let’s try the Cheongeomsik.”
Whether or not the two middle-aged men did, Veris was in a good mood.
It was thanks to the two lab rats who fearlessly set foot in the Berris Lab on their own.