#5 Beast Hunt (4)
At Tyria’s sudden fainting, Elric inadvertently hugged her.
“Keuk… !”
It adds a load to the knee and causes pain.
Surprised by his frown, Lutten reached out his hand, but Elric shook his head.
“I will carry it. Hurry up and ask for guidance.”
“Leader! But my knees… .”
“It’s okay. Go ahead.”
Rutton gritted his teeth, but soon began to lead with an impatient look.
Elric carried her on one shoulder and moved on, barely balancing herself with her cane.
The snow becomes thick and the field of view narrows. That’s why I put more effort into space detection using mana.
It was then.
“Leader! I found it!”
Lutten, who had been ahead for a long time, found the cabin.
Elric narrowed his eyes to see where he was.
‘there is… !’
The cabin, which existed only in memories, was still there.
It seems that the teacher has not returned even once since the day he left.
Anyway, it didn’t matter now.
Elric walked straight to the cabin and opened the door.
Kiki-Ik-
The inside view is overshadowed by noises that you do not want to hear.
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“Coke! Coke!”
Lutten coughed, waving his hands at the flying dust.
As he responded, the inside was full of white dust, making it difficult to breathe.
“First, let’s ventilate. Hey guys, you guys, turn off the lights over there.”
Elric ordered the hunters to light a fire and put Tyria on a wooden bed.
Even wearing this, it looks pitiful to see her body trembling.
‘how… .’
Why did you come out with a body like this?
It was at a point where she only felt savage.
*
“I’ll go down to the village for now. We don’t know how long the snow will come, so we should ask for help.”
“Please.”
“Uh, guys, come with me.”
It was the moment when he roughly scattered the dust and even lit a fire in the fireplace.
The inside of the cabin was definitely warm, and Tyria began to sleep more peacefully than before.
Lutten left the cabin with the hunters to seek outside help.
Elric sighed and sat down in the hut where only the two of them were left.
‘What kind of trouble is this… .’
Suddenly, a laugh came out.
Was it a problem that he came out of the hunt with an immature body?
No, this was an accident.
What else is there to suddenly snow under such a clear sky?
Elric shook off his thoughts and warmed himself by the wood fire.
The look wasn’t very good.
‘It’s difficult.’
The level of being affected by heat or cold had already been surpassed a long time ago, so there was nothing to worry about the disease that followed, but the problem was the knee.
Wasn’t it because the injury was in the middle of the day, and the recovery period was extended by overdoing it?
It’s very difficult, but fortunately… .
‘… Relief?’
why are you happy
Elric scratched the back of his neck with a ‘no’ sound.
‘If Master had heard it, he would have played the sutra.’
He was the one who taught that taking care of one’s body is the virtue that a knight should value above all else.
Of course, sitting in the hut where the teacher lived, his thoughts rise even more.
Elric looked around the cabin.
Everything is as it is.
The wooden sword hanging on the wall, the quill and yellow paper on the desk, the fireplace and that ugly wooden bed.
Even when I left, I was a person who only took a sword with me, so if it was natural, would it be natural?
‘Where are you and what are you doing?’
When you feel comfortable, then your thoughts move to other places.
Facing his traces, Elric suddenly remembered his first meeting with his master.
*
It was already 18 years ago.
At that time, Elric was a six-year-old boy who had just made a name for himself in the village with a troublemaker, and it was a winter day with snow just like today.
At the time, Elric, who was immersed in knight play, led the village children to the back mountain.
witch hunt.
I set out on a journey of risking my life among children who did not know anything.
In fact, there were many times before that when they played in the back mountain in the name of monster hunting, so there was no child who recognized that it was particularly dangerous.
Isn’t it time for adults to say something like nagging?
Many friends whose faces are now blurry, plus Lutten and Bart.
Elric climbed the mountain in a row with his friends,
“Grrrrr—”
All of a sudden, I met the magician that day.
Black body with yellow eyes.
Elric’s memories of encountering it were the last.
What happened after that, until now, was hazy like a fog, and I couldn’t recall it well.
The only thing I can be sure of is that I met the Witchbeast that day and received a big scar on the nape of my neck, and the scar still remains under the lobe of my ear.
The teacher was the person I met that day.
“Are you awake?”
The place where Elric came to his senses was on the bed of the cabin.
He looked like a bandit living in the middle of the mountain, with his gray hair, his beard grown carelessly, and his clothes tangled from animal hides.
Even so, he was a mysterious man with a strange power somewhere in his aged voice.
“The spirit of confrontation with the Witchbeast is good.”
The teacher was a benefactor who saved Elric from confrontation with the Witchbeast.
According to him, he was holding a tree branch in front of the Witchbeast and holding out.
It was only later that Elric was told that he would have been in a situation where he would have died if the witch hadn’t been playing, and if the master hadn’t discovered it.
What happened after that is still clear to this day.
Elric expressed his gratitude with bandages wrapped around his neck and chin.
To that, the master had made such a suggestion.
“Go, thank you… .”
“There is no reason to be grateful. Didn’t he let you live for free?”
“yes?”
“Little boy, learn the sword from me.”
Looking back, it was kind of funny.
“Who is the uncle?”
So bubbly, Elric felt really gross about his past self.
And the teacher who endured such a thing felt amazing again.
The master only said one word.
That word fascinated Elric.
“article.”
The golden eyes that were molded are still clear.
“I am a knight.”
That was the first meeting with the master.
*
Tap, tap—
The firewood in the stove screams.
Elric grinned as he shoveled through the firewood with a skewer.
‘He was such a strange person.’
There were so many strange things that I felt now when I thought of my work with my teacher.
First of all, his identity, Elric, still did not know what the teacher was.
He was a man who made a living hunting on this dangerous mountainside, having no relationship with the villagers.
One day, when asked why he did not go to the village, the answer that came back was “I only interact with humans.”
Strangely, that wasn’t the only thing.
‘Coming to think of it, the training method was also very strange.’
He called himself a knight and was a person with deep knowledge of swordsmanship, but looking back now, his training methods had many strange corners.
Elric, who has lived on and off the battlefield, now knows that a strong body and refined mana are essential to becoming a knight.
For him, physical training was required, and mana control through mental training was also required.
But his training was different.
-Open the sword realm.
He threw out that one word and only repeated sparring.
No, the word Dalian is ridiculous.
What he did was expose Elric to constant living.
– Stand up. Humans don’t die that way.
Wasn’t he just repeating the word and swinging a black-edged sword?
Of course, they taught mana practice, but it was quite far from the practice of strengthening through mental training.
Elric still did not know the name of the mana technique he taught.
I just borrowed the words of my teacher and just called it ‘Sword World’ for convenience.
The funny thing is, did the training actually work?
A swordsmanship with a focus on attack that doesn’t even think about defense. And the bizarre mana technique that emits stronger power the darker the life.
Even he himself could not deny that they had a great influence on Elric’s rise to the top 7 on the continent at the age of 19.
Continuing his thoughts, Elric came up with a question.
‘Is he still alive?’
He left this cabin the day Elric was just 12 years old.
He only said that it was time to leave, and even Elric did not know his whereabouts.
He was a very strong man, so there’s no way he would have died from being hit by a knife, but if you think about it, he was already an old man.
It is unknown whether he changed his name due to old age.
‘hmm… That’s not it.’
He died of old age, Elric couldn’t draw such a scene even thinking about cancer.
It was a moment of laughter or laughter.
Startle-
Elric’s body trembled.
My head flashed.
The direction of the gaze is towards the village.
Presence was caught in the wide mana net.
“this… !”
Elric jumped to his feet.
What was caught was an entity wrapped in mana that was as strong as Blade Wolf.
‘Not one!’
They were in groups.
five horses.
The thing in the middle that spreads out like an encirclement and forms an array,
“Luten!”
It was Lutton.