Fisherman
Leon changed his armament and entered the forest once again with Tina.
Leon had already passed through the forest once without missing a single Morgan Lizardmen he encountered, but the forest was still infested with many Lizardmen.
It’s just that they aren’t breathing anymore.
“…it is true that this is the realm of immortality.”
The lizardmen that Leon had cut running through the forest were revived from death by forcibly fitting the fragmented bodies.
Tina swung her sword at them as they crawled out of the bushes, but they didn’t seem to feel pain or fear anymore.
“Ugh!”
Tina reflexively groaned at the sight of the Morg Lizardman wielding a weapon imbued with an Auror, even though it had clearly pierced her heart.
But soon after realizing that there was nothing wrong with her body, she swung her sword again and blew off their heads.
Only after confirming that the enemy was not moving any longer, Tina was able to confirm by swiping the area attacked by the Lizardman with her hand.
“…the armor that the master made for sure is excellent.”
Thought he had been attacked, he made a sound of pain, but the armor that received the Lizardman’s aura did not leave a single scratch.
“Of course. Who made the armor?”
After several actual battles, Leon was realizing that his defense was low.
It was a means prepared as a response to that, so it would be impossible to make an absurd thing.
Leon believed in the armor’s defense and ran towards the rushing undead lizardmen.
Its movement was incomparably smoother than it had been seven months ago.
Previously, it was just a violent movement as if it was a runaway run by just surrendering to the speed.
In the process, Leon evaded all of the Lizardmen’s attacks by a single sheet of paper, and slashed them with the arc blade protruding from his right hand.
Even before testing the performance of the armor, there was no enemy that could hit Leon’s body with an attack in the first place.
Leon’s swordsmanship seemed to have surpassed Tina Maple’s level in just 7 months.
The martial art that Leon had learned, Breath of the Sun, was still stagnant at the level of 6 stars, but the strength and agility displayed by it were beyond the level of 6 stars.
In the process of energy metabolism that creates bioenergy through cellular respiration, more than half of the energy is necessarily lost as heat energy.
This method not only lowers energy efficiency, but also limits the production of bioenergy because if the body temperature rises too much, brain cells sensitive to temperature may die.
On the other hand, the photosynthetic energy efficiency of plants exceeds 90%.
The conversion rate of magical energy and bioenergy is excellent, and the change in body temperature is small, so more bioenergy can be produced without any restrictions.
The result was explosive strength and endurance.
Although Leon was inferior to Tina in swordsmanship proficiency, Leon was overwhelming Tina in terms of physical performance.
But looking back, Leon’s martial arts were inherited from Tina.
Tina Maple also used Breath of the Sun, a martial art that uses the principle of photosynthesis, but she didn’t seem to have a deep understanding of the martial art she had learned yet.
In hindsight, Tina can be said to be Leon’s first subject.
Leon looked at her like that and provoked her.
“Aren’t you my escort? Can you protect me with just that level of skill?”
Tina frowned and slashed the Lizardmen nervously, as if her pride was hurt by Leon’s provocation.
“I am not a genius like you. The master is just weird, but there is nothing wrong with my skills!”
“no? I think there is a problem? Obviously, you are learning the same martial arts as me. He even reached the level of 7 stars, one step higher than me. But why are you weaker than me?”
At Leon’s continued provocations, Tina did not speak any more.
In order to prove that Leon’s words were wrong with actions rather than words, her steps and sword attack speeded up by one tempo and began to massacre the Lizardmen.
That sword movement was drawing a very sophisticated trajectory.
If Leon’s swordplay was able to grasp the opponent’s movements in advance with the help of the transcendental reflexes of Hatch and Thunder and subdue them with a single blow, then Tina’s sword was wielded at a speed that would make it difficult for the opponent to respond to all of them, but each and every sword strike was They were aiming for the vital point of the enemy and stabbing them in.
However, the sword attack was blocked by a large Lizardman who appeared soon.
As even humans do not all have the same fighting ability, the Lizardmen who have mastered the martial arts are bound to have some level of difference in their level.
As if the opponent had been practicing martial arts for a long time, he used a powerful aura to clear Tina’s sword attack.
“Wow!”
Seeing Tina backing away with a moan, Leon raised a finger and aimed at the head of the large Lizardman.
“Halo Blast!”
Kwagwagwang!
The electric current that poured out of his fingertips swept through his head at the speed of lightning, and the man whose brain had been burned as it was, fell bluntly like a felled tree.
Looking at it, Leon frowned.
“Why are you suppressing your power?”
“…that’s a natural thing to say. Martial arts is the art of controlling one’s own power. If you can’t control your own power and run wild, it’s no different from an animal.”
Only then did Leon realize.
Tina Maple is a mixed race.
Although she was learning Reeves’ martial art called Breath of the Sun, the ‘swordsmanship’ she was learning was human.
Even because of the efficiency of cellular respiration, humans are taboo from running out of their power.
This is because if you do it wrong, you can lose your reason or even die due to necrosis of brain cells, and in the first place, martial arts was a technique that was created to resist the strong power of monsters with a weak human body.
But Tina is different from humans.
“Are you not confident?”
“···Yes?”
“It means that he doubts his ability to practice swordsmanship for many years.”
Leon knows.
The fact that she will achieve radical growth in the next six years.
All she needed was someone to push her back.
“Then I will admit it. Your swordsmanship is excellent. But over the years, you have become accustomed to suppressing your own power through the habit of controlling your sword. Now is the time for you to believe in yourself. Forget all the swordsmanship you’ve been practicing until now. Your body has already remembered the swordsmanship you have learned, so now it’s time to explode it.”
“However······!”
Tina was an escort.
A position to protect Leon, the master of the family.
How could she let Leon be by her side and let her mind run wild?
However, Leon made eye contact with her and smiled.
“Trust me.”
Looking at that confident smile, Tina unconsciously recalled a faint smile on her lips.
Seriously, who is there to harm Leon Farostel?
And he nodded his head, resolute.
“I’ll do it.”
From then on, Tina began to try to forget her swordsmanship.
What was needed in this process was to help her forget her swordsmanship, forget herself, and focus only on wielding her sword in a state of selflessness.
Tina Maple was a knight who had been practicing swordsmanship for at least 30 years.
However, the sword she wielded was no longer flashy.
As simple as possible, basic swordsmanship that was faithful only to slashing enemies with a sword began to unfold in her hands.
However, no matter how consciously she tried to forget the swordsmanship she had wielded for over 30 years, her body remembered the swordsmanship, and in the process of cutting down the enemies, her subconscious mind began to bring out the swordsmanship imprinted on her body one by one.
At that time, hundreds of Lizardman troops blocked their way.
If there is one downside to Leon’s magic, it’s too loud.
The thunder that sounded non-stop had summoned the Lizardmen from all directions to one place.
In front of them, Leon smiled as if welcoming them.
“This is a great opportunity to show off your skills. I will be able to follow along.”
“I will follow you wherever you go.”
Leon, who heard Tina’s answer, did not hesitate any longer, and threw lightning bolts at them and jumped head-on.
While sticking her tongue out at the dizzying sight, Tina could not contain her heart pounding with excitement and followed her.
Leon’s lightning and halo blast pierced through the Lizardmen’s horde, and dozens of Lizardmen who were out of their trajectory also electrocuted them, creating a huge rift in their line.
Leon did not miss the gap, pierced through the cracks and swung the arc blade to cut off the breath of the Lizardmen who had been stiff from electric shock.
Auror blades raised by Lizardmen from all directions flew toward Leon, but he was able to avoid them all with minimal movement.
Leon had been training for more than 7 months with Tina, who had already reached the level of 7 stars, and was competing against each other, and compared to Tina’s attack, the Lizardmen’s attack felt like a joke.
He pointed at the sky with his left hand as he counterattacked with the arc blade he wielded again.
“Thunder Strike.”
A four-circle thunderbolt magic that charged the enemy by forming a thundercloud in the sky exploded.
Kwagwagwang!
It looks like a storm that drives lightning.
Leon swept through them like a natural disaster that no single living thing could resist.
However, the Lizardmen who had died like that also got up again soon after, so the ones whose limbs were blown away by Leon’s lightning without a trace took their left arm and right leg from another corpse nearby and got up by attaching them to each other.
At that moment, a magical baptism flew from the sky.
Dozens of Lizardman shamans worked together and the magic that was unfolded at once was pouring out the sky without gaps.
The opponent who was clinging to Leon and tying his feet was a lizardman who had already become an undead, so he was doing his best to develop magic without paying attention to his comrades getting caught in the magic.
While Leon was preparing for him, he saw a light blocking his way.
“Tina?”
“Leave it to me.”
She swung her sword towards the pouring magic.
It’s like standing in a rain shower with a sword instead of an umbrella.
However, all the magical baptisms pouring down like showers were cut and collapsed in front of the thin blade she held up, and they were dismantled one by one.
The auror who dwelt in that sword left a mark on its trajectory and bloomed colorful petals,
Neither sharp arrows, nor hot flames, nor intense explosions could break the flower.
Leon could recognize the sword at a glance.
“The fortress of the flower garden…….”
It is a beautiful sight like a flower garden, but no enemy can overcome it without damage.
It was the same swordsmanship that Tina, who had reached the level of 9 stars in the past, showed on the battlefield.
“I like that name.”
Tina answered Leon’s self-talk with a smile on her face.
At this moment, Tina surpassed the limits of the swordsmanship that suppressed her and succeeded in reaching the level of 8 stars.
“great. Then we go straight through it like this.”
The opponent was an army of undead that revived allies indefinitely.
Tina had not yet fully adapted to the new swordsmanship, and Leon’s hatching and thunderbolts were also inappropriate magic for a long-term battle, so she had no choice but to go the shortest distance towards their base.
However, there were no more Lizardmen who could block the path of Leon and Tina.
Leon continued to go deeper into the jungle like that.
If there was one thing that surprised me, it was the sound of fighting with explosions coming from all directions other than Leon in the jungle.
A common strategy for direct dungeons is to set up a base camp in front of the exit first, then expand the area around the camp and gradually reduce the number of monsters.
However, it seems that the noble children realized that their opponent was using the power of immortality and immediately changed their strategy.
‘You’re daring.’
It was never a good result for Leon.
If there’s only two people, Leon and Tina, that’s better than them, it’s because the number of people is small, so they can move freely.
It was calculated that if he used that quick mobility, he would be able to find out the main base of the Lizardmen before anyone else, but the nobles also seemed to have decided to compete rather than cooperate.
Now that the situation was like this, it was no wonder whoever visited the base first.
“But I have a way.”
Leon found a totem hidden in the bushes.
“young master? Is it okay to touch something like that?”
Usually, the Totem of the Radiant Continent has a magical meaning.
It was erected as a warning to the hostile forces not to approach this area as it is our territory, but it was also possible to impose a curse of negative effect on those who actually invaded the area.
It was especially effective against those who directly touched the totem and destroyed it.
It wasn’t Leon who didn’t know it, but there was no problem.
“Because I have this.”
Because the artifact Leon wore on his left hand, with horns resembling a trident, was an artifact made by grinding the essence of enchantment technology that Leon had accumulated over the years.
“Noise canceller.”
At Leon’s starter, the horns on the wristbands vibrated and trembled, resonating with it, and the totem cracked and collapsed.
The horns attached to the wristbands were not a trident, but a kind of tuning fork that sensed mental waves.
The material is the horn of the mage killer that Leon defeated in the past.
He used the power of destructive interference, the power of the shadows in his horns, to nullify the function of the totem.
The function of the totem was simple.
An object with the power of immortality, obviously, was playing a role in amplifying and expanding the mental wave of the boss monster that was guarding the core of this dungeon.
Usually, in order to revive a corpse from death, it was necessary for the priest who was given the power of immortality to directly touch the corpse, but the totems installed throughout the dungeon amplified and expanded the priest’s mental wave, so he was able to raise a number of undead without moving from a seated position. will be.
Leon held the part of the totem that served as the antenna in his hand.
The low-level demon, Morg Lizardman’s horns were cut and the antenna was still interacting with the boss monster’s mental wave somewhere in the dungeon.
Leon used the noise canceller’s tuning fork to find the place where the mental wave was being sent.
“This is it.”
Leon began to cross the forest again, and soon after that, he was able to find the base of the Morg Lizardmen.
Two giant lizardmen guarding them.
They were the High Priest Morg Lizardman who wore a skull and used a spear-shaped staff, and the Lizardman who used a huge shield as a weapon.
However, the Lizardman armed with armor and shield did not feel any vitality at all, so it is probably the undead commanded by the High Priest Morg Lizardman.
And against the two boss monsters, 16 wizards were engaged in a fierce battle.
It was Nvidia Farostel and Arya Rosbane, and the wizards who followed them.
Leon looked at the scene and thought.
‘Now is your chance.’
Leon’s purpose was not to increase his reputation by attacking the dungeon.
The elixir in Lizardman’s base was Leon’s purpose.
Originally, the boss monsters here would be guarding it, so I thought I couldn’t get it without subjugating them.
Leon sprinted past them as fast as he could.
Nvidia, who found such Leon, shouted something, but it did not reach Leon’s ears as he raced with thunder.
Leon arrived at a place where he could feel vast magical power.
It is an old tree that does not bear fruit called a non-fruit tree.
But strangely, there was a single fruit on the top of the tree in full bloom, which was the elixir that Leon was looking for so much.
Tianhuahua (千花果).
The fruit of a radish tree that blooms once a year, blooms a thousand times, and finally bears fruit when it dies.
Leon jumped over a hundred meters high in one month, and was able to pick the nectarine and swallowed the fruit in one bite.
Crispy!