Sardin Rundel.
Born as the youngest member of the duchy holding the greatest power in the empire, he has lived his entire life without envy.
With just one word, he could have anything he wanted.
A noble being from birth.
that was himself
A beautiful appearance, genius talent, and natural lineage like a picture.
My sister is the Imperial Knight Commander, and my father is the strongest sword representing the Empire.
He himself had no doubt that he would become a sword master like his father, whom he admired.
-no.
He was confident that he would surpass his father and become the continent’s strongest sword master, not the empire’s strongest.
Because I am such a great person.
But something was strange. As time passed, the rate of growth slowed noticeably.
‘why? I said I have the best talent? You said it was one of the most outstanding talents in the history of the empire? My father is the best sword master in the empire?’
He kept repeating himself, believing in himself, and continuing his training.
Then one day, I saw a boy named ‘Fray Caligo’.
He was the son of a countess who was always followed when speaking of his own family.
It was always disapproving to be mentioned together on the subject of lowly people with short history and nothing.
Deep down, he thought that even though he was the same sword master, his father was stronger.
However, I couldn’t understand my father who always avoided confrontation with ‘Halton Caligo’.
That’s why he thought that even he, as a son, should fulfill his duty.
I have to educate the scumbags who don’t even know my subject and run amok.
At the age of 12, ‘Sardine Lundell’ applied for sparring with ‘Fray Caligo’. and was defeated
very overwhelming.
At the time, Sadin was 12 years old. Frey was 10 years old.
“It was a good fight. Confucius”
Looking at him smiling brightly and extending his hand, Sadin felt an indescribable sense of helplessness and shame.
Shockingly, his sword didn’t touch even once.
Fortunately, no one was watching because it was an informal confrontation, not a formal one.
In other words, it was something that no one knew except the parties involved.
However, it was only the thoughts of the parties involved, and the head of each family already knew the outcome of the sparring.
I felt it was a wall of talent. I felt an impenetrable wall.
If he was a gravel, Frey was a mountain.
Just looking at it is overwhelming. He wasn’t a ‘genius’.
A stupid genius who just imitates something like a ‘genius’.
I also understood why my father had been avoiding confrontation until now.
Maybe he also felt this feeling while looking at the father of ‘Fray Caligo’.
Wasn’t it because he didn’t want his son to be like him?
Did he dare to dream of becoming the best on the continent with just this much talent?
A wave of inferiority complex covered his whole body.
Everything he believed in, the basis of his beliefs were denied. But the father said.
“I haven’t lost yet. Rundel survives to the end. That is our strength.”
magic words. sweet whispers.
“You just have to trust me. You just have to trust your father, not yourself.”
――A miracle happened.
… Maybe it was thanks to the elixir his father gave him. I ate an unknown elixir once a month.
Crimson viscous liquid. The taste was disgusting enough to make you feel sick, but I didn’t doubt it because I decided to trust my father.
I just thought that it was manufactured with a huge amount of money and manpower and that it was made for me.
The barriers to growth that had been blocked suddenly collapsed like a mirage.
Every time he was immersed in contemplation, he gained enlightenment, and each time he swung his sword, he became explosively stronger.
It was as if the seeds of talent that had been possessed had germinated and bloomed.
He became the youngest 4th class swordsman in the history of the Empire.
My father won the match against ‘Halton Caligo’.
Because of that, his father was the strongest sword master in the Empire and was called the title of ‘Sword Saint’, and Halton Caligo was injured to such an extent that he could never hold a sword again.
It was the beginning of the downfall. All kinds of nasty rumors about Caligo simmered.
“The reputation of Halton Caligo, the youngest sword master in the history of the Empire, is all inflated. He got to where he is now because of all sorts of dirty things, even though he had no skills. His children are illegitimate children. There are hundreds of corpses in the basement of his mansion. He is a demon worshiper.”
etc. Unspeakably shameless scandals relentlessly harassed him, which eventually brought him to the point where he was stripped of even the title of Sword Master.
It was a reward for daring to stick the teeth of the Duke of Rundel. It didn’t end there.
He is said to be a toothless beast, but his children are also beasts.
Sadin once again challenged Frey to fight.
This time in front of many people. For the sake of his father’s honor, Frey had no choice but to accept sparring, and the result… .
It was Sadin’s victory.
thoroughly trampled. in front of everyone.
Admit it honestly. Even now, when the flower of talent is in full bloom, it was difficult to deal with him. However, the reason why I was able to win so overwhelmingly.
Book of Dantalion.
I wrote my name in blood on the first page of this mysterious book I received from my father,
The next day, I got the power to see the future.
Although it was a fragmentary knowledge lasting less than 5 seconds, it devastated human reason.
It is truly the power of a god, worthy of the name of a miracle.
It no longer mattered which being gifted me these things.
The important thing is that you are “chosen”.
He still felt an indescribable pleasure when he remembered the image of Frey Caligo lying miserably at his feet that day.
I realized that that is why I am alive.
Humans go up to trample someone.
As time passed, Sardine took the entrance exam to the Salomon Academy, the best educational institution in the empire.
No one will stop you now that you have fully developed your talents.
The chief, of course, entered the exam hall with confidence that it was his own.
However, the test site was very noisy due to the story of the test taker.
Seil Sieghart.
It is said that he is the heir of the fallen count family. I’ve heard of it.
It is a family name that appears in a fairy tale that my nanny read to me when I was a child. A commoner who faced off against a dragon single-handedly.
In recognition of his merits, he received titles and estates.
The lowly regard him as of heroic blood, but in Sardin’s eyes he was nothing more or less than an ignorant, rampaging worm drunk on an old halo.
A bug that doesn’t even need attention. It was naturally filtered out anyway.
As expected, he was accused of heresy in the aptitude test and surrounded by instructors.
It was a fitting ending for a bug.
However, a change occurred. ‘Ashtar’, the head of the board of directors of the academy and a great mage who has risen to the ranks of transcendentalists, appeared and protected him directly.
It was annoying. If he gets dirty, he will exit gracefully like a bug, but it was disgusting to see him screaming.
So, I approached it intentionally. In order to trample on the hopes that are held to the dust.
It wasn’t too bad to see him having a conversation with the first victim he had trampled on.
When he found himself, he was satisfied to see Frey shuddering and anxious.
okay. It is the right thing to react like this. Fear imprinted in the brain.
He is such a being. However, the bug-like guy next to him was not shaken even when he saw him.
Just look at it with calm, calm eyes.
That’s why it was provocation. To cut off the buds and cut out the roots so that even the flower buds do not bloom.
-great.
Stupidly, I smiled at him who had passed over the provocation. I savored the wait, knowing that soon his face would be stained with despair, fear, and helplessness.
As if his self-confidence wasn’t groundless confidence, he won three consecutive victories in an instant.
Admit it. As if to prove that he was Sieghart’s bloodline, his body was hard and strong.
However, that was all. There was no frame in his movements.
Monotonous, erratic, and driven by instinct. It is just a beast that believes only in its own body and goes on rampage.
“Are you flirting with just this much skill?!”
At the same time as the start, it spurred on the ground. This is what is often referred to as an exploratory game.
The one who couldn’t wake up to the constantly digging sword grass was in a hurry to avoid it.
It had a better reaction speed than expected, but it didn’t mean anything in front of me anyway.
Five seconds later, the future pictured in my head.
‘Turn to the left to evade.’
I turned my sword path in the air and attacked the left side.
Despite allowing a straight hit, he minimized the damage in that short moment.
He swung it with the determination to cut off his arm itself, but all it did was cause a crack in the bone.
‘Is this the source of your confidence?’
He boiled the mana in his heart. Through the blood vessels of the whole body, mana saturated with coldness circulates.
Eventually, the surrounding area slowly begins to freeze.
“How long are you going to just avoid it!”
this time to the right. I thought it went in properly, but unfortunately I ended up cutting a little bit of flesh.
Blood dripped from his side. Seeing the scene, I smiled spontaneously.
“That proud mouth is surprisingly quiet. Why, did you finally realize the level difference between you and me?”
But why? He was amazingly calm. Her purple jewel-like eyes were bizarrely calm, and she felt as if she were looking at the middle of the sea, dyed pitch-black.
Then, the guy suddenly smiled. I started to feel an unknown feeling of anxiety.
“What is funny? Did you even go crazy?”
-Somehow, I thought it was strange.
“What do you mean?”
How can you be so confident?
Obviously I, this body is in an overwhelming situation, but why is that guy looking at himself with such a calm face?
Those eyes filled with confidence were very disturbing.
– Those eyes… . Does it seem a bit special?
He looked straight into my eyes and said. Did you notice? Or are you just floating around?
No, no need to panic. Even if you knew, what would you do?
Nothing changed. What could the heir of a fallen county do?
“Are you using your tongue when you are in danger? Don’t worry. I will torment you relentlessly until you beg for help.”
– You will regret those words.
I snorted inwardly. At that moment, the man’s mouth moved.
The voice was so low I couldn’t hear what he was saying. However, the atmosphere around the area changed rapidly.
Instinctively, I realized that something was wrong.
‘First, we must attack first!’
muscles twitch I kicked off the ground and quickly swung my sword.
I tried to activate the authority afterwards, but… .
uh… … ? something was strange… .
“——!”
Ribs shattered with a crunching sound.
‘How did this happen… ? Why is authority… .’
However, there was not much time to think. Then the flying kick.
I only blinked once, and before I knew it, his feet were standing in front of my head.
I managed to turn my head with reflexes close to instinct, but what he was aiming for was the second blow.
It was blown away by an unexpected blow.
Shortness of breath, and excruciating pain as if organs were being ripped apart. I barely managed to drag the floor and prevent it from going outside.
“ha… . ha… . what the heck is this… .”
I didn’t understand.
what is happening to me now
… I.
this body.
lose?
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Sardin rose slowly. My whole body trembled.
Cool, he spat on the floor. It was dark red blood.
The right arm didn’t listen. It looked like it was broken when I saw it swaying freely.
Looking straight ahead, he was walking slowly towards him.
that buck that buck
The sound of those footsteps squeezed my heart.
He knows very well the identity of this feeling he feels after a long time.
fear.
“Yes, you bastard… . What have you done… .”
The boy raised both corners of his mouth and sneered.
“Wouldn’t it be like that because I couldn’t even see the front?”
Then, I remembered my father’s words.
[Not yet. Rundel survives to the end. That is our strength.]
“… I haven’t lost yet.”
“Is that so?”
Sardin left his wobbly right arm behind his back and fixed the sword with his left arm.
He still had something left. I never even imagined that it would be used against a bug like this.
It is a festival that is like the symbol of the Lundell family, and a direct martial art passed down only to the heads of families.
「The Frozen Earth of the Sword」
Although his body condition was no different from that of a mop, and he hadn’t finished it yet, it would be possible to imitate it somehow if he poured out the remaining mana.
‘I don’t give up. i don’t support I never lose.’
A will close to madness. Tenacity to overcome even fear.
At that time, words that no one expected came out of Seil Sieghart’s mouth.
“Then I can’t. I lost.”
He raises his hands with a face that says he can’t help it. Everyone around him looked at him with puzzled faces.
“I felt a wall. In fact, even standing right now is difficult. It’s clearly my defeat. Instructor? Please tell me the result.”
He admitted defeat with a sly face. Only then did the instructor announce the results.
“This, the winner of this sparring is exam number 3, Sardin Rundel!”
Sardin shouted as if he could not tolerate it, and Seil Sieghardt approached him and smiled and extended his hand.
“What nonsense is this… !”
“It was a good match, Prince Sadin.”
I wanted to crush my head right away, but everyone around me was watching this place.
If he went on a rampage here, his status would only fall further.
Sardine held his hand and whispered, holding his face close.
– I will definitely kill you. You will regret today.
-If you want to commit suicide that much, do as you wish.
Sadin, biting his lip, walked out of the arena.
Seile shrugged, spotted Frey Caligo in the stands, and smiled.
Charlotte, who was next to Frey, shook her head in disgust.
“That guy is completely insane. What are you doing? tsk”
Frey looked blankly at Seil and muttered as if possessed.
“… Iknow, right. What a crazy person… .”
pounding. pounding.
she didn’t know The fact that his heart is beating very irregularly right now.