As soon as I saw Allen’s body, I was amazed.
‘I thought Felix was also worth it, but this… … .’
Rigid bodybuilding improves physical abilities.
Naturally, at the same level of rigid body technique, the one with a more trained base body is stronger.
However, it was a bad idea to just blindly increase muscles.
Excessive muscles reduce the range of motion of joints and hinder movement.
The best physical condition was separate, and maintaining it perfectly required self-management close to asceticism.
“nice to meet. My name is Allen.”
“Ah, I… … .”
“Know. Are you Noah?”
It was the second after Schiff.
‘I feel like everyone I meet today recognizes me.’
“Anyway, if you are in the position of managing the students, you will hear rumors even if you stay still. Like my sister hanging out with the apostle students.”
“So you don’t like it?”
Noah and Allen stared at each other.
On the battlefield, there was no opponent who looked down on me just because my clothes came off.
Since ancient times, if you were a knight, and if you were aiming for a knight, you had to be ready to face your opponent with a sword at any time.
‘Can I win if I fight?’
When he first saw Veronica, Noah knew she was strong.
The Wild Sense shouted that it was dangerous to fight her.
Aslan, on the other hand, was different.
During the first meeting with Aslan, he suddenly appeared behind his back.
Nevertheless, I did not feel that he was a dangerous figure.
Because Veronica is stronger than Aslan?
‘no. This is proof that I didn’t understand my opponent’s skills.’
While feeling the tension against 11th place Veronica, 1st place Aslan doesn’t feel like a big deal?
This meant that Noah couldn’t accurately gauge his opponent’s skill.
‘This person is the same as senior Aslan.’
Noah didn’t feel anything from Allen in front of him.
In my head, I knew that my opponent was strong.
But his instincts were to regard this man as an ordinary civilian.
The gap between thinking and feeling.
Allen was the first to speak in an atmosphere that was about to explode at any moment.
“No way. Felix was also a man from the Mayer family. There is no need for me to interfere with making friends.”
“older brother… … .”
“More than that, I was worried that he might be nervous about dealing with Veronica. You look pretty relaxed.”
Allen turned his arrow toward Felix.
“Being too nervous is a problem, but on the other hand, being relaxed is also a problem. Veronica is the owner of the Mystic Eye, which is likely to be the next successor to the throne.”
“Are you crazy?”
“It’s famous, but you don’t notice?”
“Before I came here, I lived stuck in a valley.”
When Noah smiled awkwardly and said, Allen kindly explained about the Mystic Eye.
“Mystic Eye is an eye that can see through all auras. Even the dark knight’s aura concealment through attribute conversion doesn’t work in front of the demon’s eye.”
“yes? where is that That’s a scam!”
“okay. It’s different from simply having an excellent sense of reading aura. Auras are driven by human will. Being able to see through those auras is like being able to read the other person’s thoughts.”
It wasn’t just about reading how many auras the opponent had left.
Cannot be concealed in any way.
The moment the opponent decides to move, he sees everything before he actually moves.
In a knight’s fight, that was an ability close to foreknowledge.
The reason why Noah was able to beat Veronica in the entrance exam was thanks to his success in performing unreasonable techniques that made him want to be real even while watching everything.
It was the first meeting without knowing each other’s tendencies, so it had to be seen as possible.
“His Majesty the Emperor is said to have awakened his aura with the power of this demonic eye. Also, the fact that the royal family has been able to continue until now can be attributed to the owner of the magical eye that is born periodically.”
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“If you have eyes like that, you can’t be weak.”
It was like he understood Aurors from birth.
Learning swordsmanship must be incomparably faster than others.
“Excluding His Majesty the Emperor, Veronica is the only person who possesses the Mystic Eye in the current era. That’s why he’s in a strong position as the next heir to the throne. Felix, your next opponent is just such a person.”
The opponent is so powerful, are you relaxing here enjoying a bath?
Depending on what you hear, it could be interpreted this way.
But Felix was not intimidated.
“To be honest, it is a burden.”
“however?”
“My swordsmanship is made from the efforts I have accumulated so far. Rest and recovery will be more helpful than improving your skills with a day of training.”
Being here right now is not about giving up or giving up the game.
At Felix’s confident words, Allen smiled kindly.
“I asked just in case, and it was as expected. It would have been fine if it hadn’t stretched out without thinking. It’s a rare opportunity, so don’t leave any regrets.”
Allen simply washed himself and left without saying that.
Felix bowed his head and looked lost in thought.
‘I was surprised even after he said that.’
Allen was officially recognized as the next head of the Mayer family.
Considering Felix’s personality, it must have taken quite a bit of courage to speak out against such a person.
“Are you having a hard time? They are brothers though.”
“huh? Oh, you mean brother.”
“Unlike other direct relatives, you and Allen-senpai are real brothers.”
Felix and Allen are Mayer’s bloodlines.
As the child of the current family head, he had a different status from other direct descendants.
In fact, Allen spoke as if he was taking care of Felix because he was his younger brother.
“is not it? Is it more awkward because they are siblings?”
Even if there are no siblings, I have heard through the stories around me that siblings often quarrel with each other.
Even if it wasn’t that, there were many things that were difficult to understand in the rich family culture, so I could justify it.
“With my brother… … I didn’t have much to talk about since childhood. Because Allen-nim was trained as a successor early on.”
Ophelia had already heard about those who belonged to the Immovable Fifteen.
Allen was the one who reigned at the pinnacle of the Mayer family of this generation.
Considering Felix’s personality, it wasn’t strange that he felt pressured.
‘No, he said he was at the peak of the students of this generation.’
“Still, my brother is the one who always shows me the way to go. You are like my role model.”
“Hmm.”
There was a time when Noah also longed for his grandfather who protected people from the beast.
It was not difficult to understand Felix’s words, as his thoughts had not changed much even now.
“We want to stay a little longer.”
“Shouldn’t Tiu and Miho have washed up too?”
“no. I know because I’m in the same dormitory as Thiu, but they have to wait another hour before it’s over.”
The remaining two passed the time in the bath, then joined the women’s team and regained the calories burned in the day’s game with meat.
* * *
A cafe located on campus.
During the break leading up to the Round of 16 match, Noah met Schiff, his Round of 32 opponent.
Sif’s own skills were far inferior to those of Ophelia and Roserina twins, but she did not lag behind in pure swordsmanship.
Rather, depending on the point of view, he was a person who could be said to be more than that.
“I tried interpreting the swordsmanship you showed me all night. I couldn’t recognize everything in one night, but I could tell that it wasn’t normal swordsmanship in just one night.”
“Did you find out anything?”
“Before explaining that, Noah, what do you think is the best swordsmanship?”
“It’s the best swordsmanship… … .”
There was no way that Noah, who was aiming for the strongest, would not have thought about the best swordsmanship.
Even if it wasn’t Noah.
Most rigid body techniques had their own aura operation.
If you learn this, it is not compatible with other swordsmanship, and you can learn only the swordsmanship that suits him.
In other words, once you choose between swordsmanship and martial arts, you cannot change them again.
Naturally, everyone wanted to start with the best swordsmanship.
“Even with the same sword, the power varies greatly depending on who uses it. In that sense, isn’t His Majesty the Emperor’s swordsmanship the best swordsmanship?”
“Then, will I become stronger than I am now if I learn His Majesty’s swordsmanship?”
“hmm… … Maybe.”
Sif shook his head at Noah’s answer.
“The correct answer is ‘rather weak’.”
“Are you getting weak?”
“Even a swordsmanship that seems superior at first glance is meaningless if it doesn’t suit me. The best swordsmanship is different for each person.”
It was an understandable statement.
No matter how powerful the twin swordsmanship was, he wouldn’t be able to use it if he was one-armed.
“This is the same for the swordsmanship of the 8th family. Members of each family all learn the same swordsmanship, but when they reach a certain level, they move on to breaking.”
“Break it?”
“At first, keep the fixed form and learn the swordsmanship. When you reach the stage of understanding the learned form, you break the original form by making a form that suits you better. That’s breaking it.”
“Then I haven’t reached breaking yet.”
Although Noah skillfully handled the swordsmanship he had learned, he did not fully understand it.
The reason why he couldn’t use the intangible sword and the reason why he could change attributes only when he followed the same technique was because of that reason.
“In the end, she throws off even the broken form and reaches the state of intangibility. The intangible sword requires a similar realization. The reason you can’t use the intangible sword is because you lack understanding of the swordsmanship you use.”
Sif accurately saw through Noah’s problems.
“The reason you skipped the intangible sword is largely because of two issues. First of all, the swordsmanship you learn is unusually wide.”
“uh… … Why does that matter?”
“Normally, no matter how complex a swordsmanship is, it is not that difficult to learn the form if you have enough talent to enter the nightray. When you’ve finished your brother, what’s next?”
“Break it.”
“okay. When ordinary people spend 10 or 20 years completing a mold, geniuses start by taking it off and breaking it all within a year. But even with your tremendous talent, you still haven’t completed your brother.”
‘Certainly, I’m not sure I can copy all of my grandfather’s rituals yet.’
My older brother, who first learns things first, couldn’t learn them all.
“In the first place, I hadn’t even heard of a swordsmanship with elemental transformation in the basic form. At what age did you start learning this swordsmanship?”
“Four years old.”
“Then you taught a 4-year-old a swordsmanship that requires attribute transformation. How did you learn it?”
It was a swordsmanship in which the priorities of learning were reversed.
From Sif’s point of view, Noah, who had mastered swordsmanship to the current level with this, was just a monster.
However, it wasn’t just because Noah was a genius that he was able to learn it.
“This is directly related to the second reason. This swordsmanship fits just right, as if it were made for you. It is probably for this reason that you can learn it.”
“It suits me perfectly… … Well, since I was suitable in the first place, my grandfather must have brought me in and raised me.”
“Wasn’t that your paternal grandfather?”
“yes. For now.”
“Didn’t he say he deliberately didn’t teach me how to do it? If you don’t learn all the forms, there’s no way you can move on to breaking them. He is right when he says the time is not right.”
It meant that we needed to gain enough experience before moving on to the next step.
The problem was that Noah had no way of determining whether or not he was good enough.
“First of all, it would be better to hang out with other people as Grandpa intended.”
“For now, that would be the best. I’ll learn more about your swordsmanship on my own. Just focus on your school life.”
* * *
After reflecting on his current condition through a conversation with Sif, Noah changed his practice method.
Rather than simple repetitive practice, the worry of thinking about one’s skills once again, and the importance of sparring practice rather than worrying increased.
If necessary, I brought other people’s skills and used them, but I gave up on that.
Now, the priority was to fully digest what he had.
“Winner, Noah!”
“Whoa. Thank you for your effort.”
So the Round of 16.
Noah defeated his opponent with basic deception.
“It’s twice as hard to deal with only the standard way by enduring the gaps you can aim for.”
In the round of 16, there was a spectacular match between the princess Veronica and Mayer’s enemy, Felix.
Thanks to this, Noah’s stadium is empty of spectators.
At most, Carlos came to see it out of loyalty.
“Since the other matches are so flashy, there are actually fewer spectators than the round of 32. I have to go see it soon.”
“Wait, then I’ll go with you!”
Noah carried Carlos to Veronica and Felix’s arena.
It took a long time to win even though there was a difference in skill because the style was changed back to the original.
Perhaps that situation has already ended.
“Keep it off! The spine folds!”
There was no time to wash and go.
“It’s okay.”
Noah, who climbed a tree and crossed the road, entered the stadium through a window on the second floor.
Then, he stood still in the sight unfolding in front of his eyes.
“eye… … ?”
White snowflakes fluttering all over the stadium.
frozen floor.
The exhaled breath became breath.
An iceberg rose from the center of the arena and surrounded the two in a circle.
“These snowflakes seem to have been blown by grinding the ice created by property conversion.”
“The princess who can transform attributes on this scale is amazing, but Felix is enduring this… … ?”
When Noah and Carlos arrive, the game is already nearing its end.