The confrontation between Regina and Soyo, which was a simple bet, was known throughout the Dragon Palace through King Woojang.
So, on the last day when the mine discriminator was scheduled to be completed, a large number of people gathered at the site of the bet.
“I spread rumors as Prince Noah asked, but can I really win?”
“That’s it, I don’t know.”
“What do you mean?”
Noah shrugged his shoulders at King Woojang’s question.
“It taught me to win. But in the end, it’s not me who’s fighting, it’s Hanbyeol. No matter what I say next to you, winning or losing is a byeol.”
It may sound like a statement of avoidance of responsibility, but this was a very important part.
At least in this bet, Hanbyeol’s victory should not be Noah’s.
Hanbyeol’s victory must belong to Hanbyeol.
‘As long as this bet represents the fight between the beastmen who want to go out and the beastmen who want to stay in the Dragon Palace, Hanbyul must win with her own hands.’
If Noah won because he was good, then only Noah would become a good guy.
It shouldn’t be.
The moment Noah taught, it becomes the victory of Noah or Enya, not Hanbyeol’s victory.
In order to show the beastmen that there is another way, they had to win by their own choice.
“I hope you will become a good teacher in the future.”
“Anyway, aside from that, how long are you going to call me public?”
“The number of steps in Seonsul Baduk is proportional to the rank of the Seonju. Since you, a 7-star 7-dan, have been destroyed so horribly, shouldn’t you be treated like that great 8-star, 8-dan?”
That is to say, just because he won Go, Noah would be treated as a Dragon King on the same level as Master Knight.
Of course, it was half a joke, but on the other hand, it was also half serious.
As much as that, the prisoners were serious about Seonsul Baduk.
“… … I heard that King Woojang is from the same generation as my grandfather.”
“I was born on the same day as the Grand Priestess of the archipelago, so if you look at my age, that would be it. Age is just one of many factors that a person has.”
“Just call me comfortably. Aren’t we Go friends?”
“Is that okay?”
At Noah’s words, King Woojang laughed.
After the defeat that day, King Woojang visited Noah whenever he had free time and asked for a great kingdom.
Noah, too, did not refuse to play the game of Go because it was a great help for him to study Jinbeop.
The odds of winning are half.
Noah had the upper hand in improvisation, but there were many things that King Woojang could use without calculating directly through experience.
It was only during the bet that the player changed midway through, so improvisation was important, but starting from the beginning, Noah had a lot to learn.
After seeing each other face-to-face for a couple of hours every day for several days, even if we didn’t talk to each other, we built up a bond of our own.
“If things go well and the walls of the Dragon Palace are torn down, I will visit you often to play Go.”
“That’s it.”
King Woojang finished his story appropriately and withdrew from Noah.
Just then, Soyo was coming out with Shinsan.
‘What kind of hat?’
Soyo, who was holding a bowl of divine mountain, was wearing a wide-brimmed hat for some reason.
Although the sunlight was not going to be a problem for the dragon king, he was puzzled, but it wasn’t that he couldn’t use it, so Noah moderated his mind.
In the meantime, Soyo faced Regina.
“This is the Mine Discriminator.”
“stamp?”
Soyo gave Regina the magic discriminator, which was in the form of a large seal like a jade chain.
“Considering the use, I think it would be better if it could be mass-produced. It is simple to use.”
Soyo demonstrated in front of Regina, who was puzzled.
I put an aura on the seal and stamped it on a stone I picked up appropriately.
Then, the injected aura formed a kind of simple binary and was engraved.
“If you take a picture with an aura in this way, the amulet is complete. If you put this amulet on a demon or beast, the aura will burn.”
A talisman that doesn’t hurt when touched by ordinary people, but reacts when touched by demons or monsters.
The seal made in Yonggung was a tool for printing such amulets.
“There are many knights in the Empire who deal with Auras, so if you have these, you can mass-produce a lot of talismans.”
“You are truly Shinsan-nim. To be honest, I was dubious, but I never thought you would make something this convenient.”
Regina bowed politely to the acid in the basin.
“I will take responsibility for this and bring it to Stellarium. Your Majesty will not forget the contribution of the Dragon Palace.”
If it was Emperor Gwanghwi who was thorough in the relationship between Eun-Won and Won-Won, he would know how to repay the debt without receiving a separate promise.
Yonggung was well aware of this fact, so the Mine Discrimination Device was quickly concluded.
“So is it a bet now? There are a lot of people who come to see it because there are few customers.”
Saying so, Soyo sat down on a suitable rock around the plaza.
As she set the basin aside, the surrounding prisoners all politely withdrew.
“Two cute students face each other, so I don’t know which one to root for.”
At those words, everyone’s eyes shifted to Naru and Hanbyeol, the participants in the confrontation.
Naru was immersed in meditation, and Hanbyeol was stretching and warming up.
“Looks like you’re both ready.”
When the time came, Hanbyeol and Naru stood in the center of the plaza.
Both bare hands.
“Are you trying to learn swordsmanship and not use a sword?”
“I use swordsmanship, but I have no intention of fighting with the power of a sword.”
Saying that, Hanbyeol produced an intangible sword and held it in his hand.
“If both sides are ready, let’s begin.”
At the same time as the declaration of turmoil, the battle began.
Hanbyeol rushed at the opponent without increasing the intangible sword.
Regina and Soyo reacted to that appearance.
“Are you aiming for close combat?”
“Raising a sword does not give you an advantage in close combat.”
At the same time as the start, Naru emitted an aura and formed a formation.
Aura that was so dense that it could be seen like sword energy formed the shape of a mandala.
A total of 6 layers of mandala unfolded behind Naru’s back.
It means that a total of 6 effects were activated on one’s own body.
The moment Naru took a stance and leaped,
Paaang!
The air burst and dust flew everywhere.
overwhelming speed.
“Unlike rigid body art, which ends in simply strengthening the body by manipulating the true body, it can produce various effects. Of course, even if it is limited to strengthening the body, the stance is better.”
Soyo, who knew the students’ skills better than anyone else, said as if the difference was natural.
“It’s surprising that he even taught an intangible sword in less than a week, but that’s just a sword. He probably isn’t even skilled in swordsmanship using that sword skill.”
It was as it was said.
“Great!”
Hanbyeol, who collided with Naru, managed to survive without being blown away, but that was all.
There was a big difference between Naru, who could use seonjutsu, and Hanbyeol, who couldn’t.
“That one learned the same way, so he knew how to block the opponent’s attack. I didn’t just see and react, I predicted it and hit it.”
Regina was also reading the situation accurately.
“Hanbyeol had never learned swordsmanship, but his aura control had been trained. Forming a sword technique itself is a matter of grasping the senses, but the skill of swordsmanship that utilizes it is another matter.”
It was also impossible to pour a large amount of intangible swords like Ophelia did.
Since he hadn’t learned how to throw a sword, his efficiency was low, and the amount of Aura wasn’t that great.
“But Noah, you probably didn’t do it without any odds. Isn’t it?”
Of course.
snap!
The moment when Naru, who was pressuring Hanbyul with superior physical strength, took the intangible sword in her hand.
“Ughgagagagagat!”
Hanbyeol changed the attributes of the intangible sword with an ambiguous scream, whether it was a scream or a spirit.
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“A property conversion?”
“You made it that far in that short amount of time?”
This time, even Regina and Soyo were surprised.
Hanbyeol was the first to use attribute transformation.
Soyo, the Dragon King, could also use the skill corresponding to the sword, but he could not use attribute conversion.
That’s why I never thought that I would have mastered the property conversion with just a week of training.
“You two didn’t even know. Surprisingly, it was difficult to see through because of the unprecedented state of a combination of sword and sword techniques.”
“What the hell did you do? Attribute conversion in a week?”
“Surprisingly, swordsmanship suits me better than I thought.”
It was purely coincidental that I realized that the aura from the sword spell is more advantageous for attribute conversion than the aura obtained from the rigid body technique.
Noah, who directly moved Hanbyul’s aura through Seung to explain his sword skills, realized that attribute conversion was possible with a really simple operation.
“Surprisingly, no one among the beastmen has learned swordsmanship to that level, right?”
He said it as if there had never been such a person in history, but Soyo subtly hardened his expression at those words.
Anyway, with this, Hanbyeol seized the opportunity.
“Now it is my turn!”
Naru, whose muscles were paralyzed by the electric shock, stared at Hanbyeol while holding on to the intangible sword.
* * *
While the confrontation between Hanbyeol and Naru unfolded outside, Tiu was immersed in meditation inside the Dragon King’s Palace.
Although her ears and tail were still the same, Tiu was able to control Sangun’s blood to some extent through training.
On the last day, So-yo told her about Sangun and went to watch the disciples fight.
The story that started with ‘Once upon a time when tigers smoked cigarettes’ is not a fairy tale, but a true story with 100% purity.
And Tiu was the descendant of Sangun in the story.
“After telling a nonsensical story, ‘Practice hard until you go’. If it wasn’t for the dragon king, I would have hit him once.”
Of course, since he is the dragon king, if he wants to beat him, he must bring a sword.
Being weak is so sad
“ha… … .”
The tiger clan refused to ascend to heaven and fought against the dragons until they eventually killed the dragon king and escaped.
According to Soyo, as long as Tiu inherited the blood, it was certain that they would come into contact someday.
“What’s this. If that’s the case, it’s better if you don’t know.”
The fate of blood was suddenly added to the shoulders that were all about supporting the family.
Needless to say, his classmate was swept away in a national disaster because of his bloodline, but usually it was normal to hold back his neck even if it was this much.
“It’s disturbing, so I can’t concentrate, and I think it’s unreasonable to put the ears and tail in before going back. I’m just going to bet.”
After tidying up his troubled mind, Tiu stood up from his seat.
There was no one to guide me, but it seemed like it wouldn’t be difficult to get out as I had been coming here for several days.
“It must have been this way… … .”
However, the situation was complicated for three reasons.
The fact that all the doors and corridors inside the Yongwanggung Palace are connected by the Jinbeop and mixed with Chukjisul.
The fact that Tiu tried to go towards the square according to the direction he felt the aura.
And the point that Cain’s subordinate, Jack, broke through the camp to get the lunar eclipse by taking advantage of the gap in the Dragon Palace.
“Ugh, Suin? Why is there a prisoner remaining in the Dragon King’s palace… … !”
“yes? Oh, I’m not a prisoner… … .”
Still, isn’t it not a beastman if it’s a light beastman mixed blood?
For a moment, Tiu was confused about his identity.
Because of that, she was unable to respond to the trick that followed.
“There’s nothing we can do about it now that it’s like this!”
Jack drew his sword,
Due to that sword skill, the precise formation of the dragon palace began to run wild.