Episode 10.
I stood in front of the club room door and organized my thoughts for a while.
‘Can I say that I have been interested in mythical magic since I have read many fairy tales since the old days?’
When I opened the door to the club room, I saw a familiar face. It was Ea Kirton.
Ea Kirton glared at me and said.
“What business did you come here for?”
“ah… that… .”
I was speechless at Ea Kirton’s momentum. This only made me look suspicious.
“I’m here because I’m interested in myth magic!”
“Myth magic… ?”
Ea Kirton tilted his head and made a puzzled expression. Just when I thought I might have come to the wrong place, Ea Kirton seemed to notice something.
“Oh right. This was the Mythical Magic Club!”
“yes… ?”
“Actually, the Mythical Magic Club has disappeared for quite some time.”
“Then, what are you doing here?”
“This is the Ancient Curse Research Club.”
A study group refers to a meeting that did not become a club due to insufficient number of people.
“Can’t you learn about myth magic here?”
“what… That said, I think the same about ancient magic, ancient curses, and mythical magic. So you can sign up and do your own research.”
“Oh, I see.”
Ea Kirton seen up close was much more beautiful than seen from afar. As if possessed by something, I handed over the membership application form to Ea Kirton without realizing it.
Upon receiving the membership application form, Ea Kirton held out her hand to me and smiled.
“nice to meet you. My name is Ea Kirton. You can call me Ea!”
Ea Kirton held out her hand and said.
“Yes, my name is Suhar Caldert. Please call me Suhar.”
Hearing my name, Ea Kirton looked at me with interest.
“You are Suhar Caldert.”
“Do you know me?”
“Of course, I’m in my 3rd year at the academy, but it’s the first time I’ve seen Sword Master call a student separately.”
Come to think of it, it was strange that the academy didn’t know my name. That’s what happened in the auditorium.
“Okay, once you’ve received the application form, if you have kids around you who are interested in ancient magic, ancient curses, or mythic magic, please introduce them to this place.”
“Why is that?”
“We haven’t been recognized as a club yet, so we haven’t been able to receive support. Things related to ancient times are a bit expensive to cover with private expenses.”
“all right.”
I said goodbye to Ea Kirton and left the club room. I went to the club member recruitment bulletin board and took off the recruitment poster for the Mythical Magic Club.
And, as requested by Ea Kirton, he put up a new recruitment poster.
[If you are interested in ancient magic, ancient curses, and mythical magic, please join the Ancient Curse Research Society.]
It was roughly scribbled. Actually, it was true that Ea Kirton roughly wrote it before I left the club room.
Leaving the clubhouse, I thought.
‘Even if it’s a club, it’s better to attend hard, right?’
Absolutely not because of Ea Kirton.
***
The weekend passed and the weekdays came again. If there was a difference from last week, it was that I had learned the mana breathing method.
The physical training to wield the sword was easily done, and the training of the swordsman was better than before.
I was able to barely avoid the sword that the swordsman was wielding, but I still couldn’t find the swordsman.
said the swordsman.
“What did you do over the weekend to improve your physical abilities?”
“I learned how to breathe mana.”
“You mean the family mana breathing method?”
“The family’s mana breathing method isn’t very good, so I got it anew.”
The swordsman was silent.
“Sword Master… ?”
“hmm… I’m worried that you haven’t mastered the strange mana breathing method.”
The Sword Master, who had beaten me to death every time, was worried about me, so I was a little moved.
“I can assure you that the mana breathing method I have learned is better than any other mana breathing method. Absolutely nothing strange.”
“That is understandable. If it was a trashy mana breathing method, my physical abilities wouldn’t have improved so much in a few days.”
“That’s right!”
“by the way… .”
The swordsman spat out his horse’s tail. A feeling of uneasiness crept in.
“Since my physical abilities have improved, I must treat them differently than before.”
“yes… ?”
“Wielding it like before will make you feel better. You have to swing faster and stronger than before.”
“Wait!”
I wanted to say that there was a threat to my life, but the Sword Master’s sword was faster than that.
“evil!”
The Sword Master’s sword struck my arm. The pain, stronger than before, made me dizzy. I had to live for the time being, so I just rolled.
Just like when I faced the Hobgoblin in the ruins, I just rolled.
“evil! evil! evil!”
Every time I rolled and got up, I was hit in the head by the Sword Master’s sword. It was never efficient.
“It’s fun. You keep hitting me on the head, so I have no choice but to hit you on the head!”
Stopped rolling right away. And I focused all my attention on it. As I turned to the mana breathing method, my senses became more sensitive. And I felt that the Sword Saint was aiming for my shoulder.
I twisted my body to avoid the Sword Master’s sword. A pitch-black sword came into sight in front of my eyes.
“found!”
“What are you looking for!”
The pitch-black sword in front of me swung toward my forehead. I closed my eyes tightly, and soon I covered my forehead with the pain I felt in my forehead.
I shouted into the air.
“Sword Master, why are you hitting me when I found it!”
“Who told you to find the sword, they told you to find me.”
“No, the person holding the sword must be the sword saint, but if you find the sword, you found the sword saint.”
“No, I told you from the beginning of training to find me.”
I wanted to swear, but I held back. The moment I curse, I will be beaten to death that day. Last week, I was beaten to death when swearing came out without me knowing.
“All right… .”
I started to have useless come, and I made a promise.
‘Until I graduate from the academy, I’m going to give Sword Saint a shot!’
It was a resolution not only to discover the Sword Saint, but also to hit the Sword Saint’s head once.
Time at the academy passed quickly. One semester was already over.
“The test was harder than I thought.”
It would be nice if everything you learned would come out on the exam, but the difficulty of the exam was quite high because of the professors who wanted more than that.
I heard that the reason why the professors wanted more than that was that they raised the difficulty of the test to avoid creating a situation like Ea Kirton, who had a perfect score in the previous section.
However, Ea Kirton still maintained a perfect score on the exam.
Even as the semester went by, I couldn’t find any clue about the regression.
“In the first place, I don’t even know if mythic magic actually exists.”
He eagerly searched for information on mythical magic, but could only read the contents of fairy tales. There wasn’t too much data.
Also, there was no progress in the training with the Swordsman during the semester. Of course, that progress told me the situation where I scolded the Sword Saint.
I started training with the intention of giving the swordsman a shot, and I reached the intermediate level of sword expert.
Those who have just picked up a sword are called sword users. The next stage was those who had mastered mana, so they were sword mana users.
And as a minimum condition for the knights, the level of putting mana on a sword was called a sword expert. Sword experts were classified from lowest to highest according to the ratio of mana contained in the sword.
And if the mana contained in the sword could be freely taken out of the sword and used, it was a sword master who was at the level of a superhuman.
I’ve grown up, but I haven’t found a single sword star.
“What level have you decided?”
The Sword Master raised the level of difficulty according to my growth. I’ve heard that it’s up to 10 levels, but I’m only on level 5 yet.
“The time to hit the sword saint’s head is getting farther and farther away… .”
I’m sorry, but there was something more urgent than that. At the end of this semester, there was a one-month sabbatical.
During this period, students reviewed what they had learned or took a break.
“Because I don’t want to go home.”
I was thinking of making money. My mercenary card is now approaching the silver promotion match. Only three of the five missions had to be completed.
Besides, I heard that if you become a silver-class mercenary, you will be able to earn well.
“And I have to go to the ruins too.”
Orcs and ruins will be waiting for me. Orcs were able to catch even skilled sword users to some extent. If you were a sword mana user, it was an orc to catch lightly.
If it was the same as the first floor of the ruins, there was a high probability that the guy who would appear in the reward was a high orc.
High Orcs are legendary beings, on the same level as Sword Experts, but I thought that they would be weaker than the legends, just like the hobgoblins on the first floor.
The high orc itself is also a simple guy, so if you have an intermediate level of sword expert, you can easily defeat it.
“Then, first.”
Before the academy’s sabbatical, I headed to the club room.
Thanks to being in the same club as Ea Kirton, I was able to become quite friendly. I don’t know where to go during the sabbatical, but I thought it would be better to say goodbye.
As always in the club room, Ea Kirton was reading a book related to ancient curses.
Ea Kirton glanced at me as I entered the club room.
“Are you here?”
Ea Kirton was seventeen, two years older than me. That’s why when I called Ea Kirton, I added a senior.
“Yes, Senior Ea. What will you do during your sabbatical?”
Ea Kirton made a disapproving expression.
“hmm… Maybe I should go home sometime.”
“Ah, you’re going to the Mycenaean Empire.”
“To be honest, I want to study more ancient curses here, but my father is so polarized… .”
I understood Ea Kirton’s heart. Because my father is also polar. That’s why I was able to stay at the academy with an excuse that wasn’t an excuse.
“I was also told to come to the family, but I was able to stay at the academy with the excuse that the Sword Saint taught me about swords separately during my sabbatical.”
“what? What if I get caught?”
“Actually, Sword Saint-nim decided to teach me during the sabbatical… .”
Ea Kirton looked at me pitifully. Ea Kirton knew how arduous the swordsman’s training was because he saw me every weekend.
“ah… have a hard time It might be better to go home.”
“hahahahaha, I’ll just go.”
“Okay, see you again after the sabbatical.”
I decided to leave the club room and visit the sword castle.
Fortunately, the Sword Saint was drinking tea in the middle of the garden.
“Sword Saint!”
“Oh, are you here?”
There was one reason I went to the sword castle.
“When do you train during that sabbatical?”
“I’ll tell you about swordsmanship in the morning. And when the day gets dark after having free time, it’s the same as before. I rest the same on the weekends, so think of it as swordsmanship only added in the morning.”
“yes!”
“Of course you said you would do it in the morning, but you will come out early in the morning and run around the gym until you collapse from exhaustion.”
To be honest, I didn’t complain because I liked running until my body was tired. I said goodbye to the Sword Saint and returned to the dormitory.