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“Then, shall we try it in earnest now?”
After defeating Carlos, Noah relaxed his shoulders and looked back at Veronica.
He looked like a child who saved the most delicious side dishes, but Thiu stopped him.
“I’m curious to see the two of you together, but you know we have our next class, right?”
“oh.”
I didn’t know.
“Then, let’s put off fighting with you until later. I just want to go back.”
“Ah, I’m sorry. Let’s stick together next time.”
As long as they go to the same school, there will be plenty of opportunities.
After sending Veronica back, Noah and Thiu went to the next classroom.
“Is this lecture practical? I am confident with this.”
“The next lecture is about weapons techniques from around the world. I heard that you actually learn the weapon technique from an instructor invited from abroad?”
“Are you looking forward to hearing the words? Literally, it will give you experiences that are difficult to come across normally.”
Carlos once again stopped the two of them from leaving.
“What are you? Surely it doesn’t mean that you won’t admit it even after losing like that?”
“No, I knew you were stronger than me. At least ‘now’!”
“… … ?”
“Because I lost to you, it didn’t break my heart to defeat you and make your name known. Rather, more than before! The stronger the opponent, the higher the honor when you win!”
At that, Noah nodded.
“That’s right. So even though I beat you, nothing has changed.”
“Cool! Certainly I lost terribly! It will be different next time, so wait and see!”
Carlos left those words and ran away.
Noah muttered as he looked at his back.
“He was a brighter guy than I thought.”
“I was very weak, but I mean.”
“Then why are you running away like that, as if you’ve said everything? I’m sure you’ll be attending the next lecture anyway.”
“I know.”
* * *
As expected, the two ran into Carlos again in the classroom.
However, in this class, there was no time to care about each other.
“nice to meet. I am Oren, an overseas weapons technology professor.”
As soon as the class started, the instructor lined up numerous weapons on the podium and started explaining.
It was full of all sorts of unique weapons, such as a fan made of iron, iron wire, chakrams, sabok swords, gungongwon, amiza, chain scythes, and more.
Since the students already had their own swordsmanship, most of them took classes lightly based on interest.
“I guess it’s to the point of learning how to deal with each other anyway.”
“I can’t make it big with a weapon like that. The swordsmanship that belongs to the degree is the correct path that has already been proven.”
“Seeing that you are researching non-mainstream weapons like that, it seems that the professor is quite non-mainstream as well.”
Among them, there was even a guy who looked down on the professor.
Noah and Tiu had their eyes lit up in learning new things.
“more. The use of these weapons has been explained. Then let’s start now.”
“yes? What do you mean?”
“Oh, I forgot to explain. In my class, you will be divided into two teams and one will face off with the weapons I brought, and the other will use their original weapons.”
“So there’s no way you can beat the one who uses your own sword with the weapon you just learned, right?”
“No, I will still have to win. First of all, whoever beats the opposing team with these weapons passes. All the rest will be given a failing grade.”
“Yes?”
“I can’t!”
Until then, the students who had been taking classes with a light heart had no choice but to be frightened.
“By the way, if a winning team doesn’t come out, everyone will fail.”
bang!
“Isn’t that too much! All failed!”
The students who were ignoring Oren did not hesitate to rebel against the teaching method.
Even so, it was not something one would do to a professor, but he was a foreign professor.
It means that he is looked down upon as a descendant of an imperial aristocratic family that is an absolute hegemon.
However, Oren did not panic and responded as if he knew that.
“Aren’t you guys talking that way about a weak subject that’s too much?”
At the same time, dozens of rings of light appeared on the bodies of the students who jumped up from their seats.
“This… … An intangible sword?”
If the 2nd stage sword skill is to make the aura rise outside the sword, the 3rd stage sword skill is to maintain the aura even if it is separated from the sword.
It was the third-level sword skill, the intangible sword, that allowed him to perform swordsmanship, such as sending his sword away or expressing his sword in the air.
When it reached the 3rd stage sword skill, even if those who stayed at the lower stage attacked by dozens, they could easily subdue them.
Oren was handling such a third-level swordsman in the form of a chakram, a non-mainstream weapon, freely enough to entwine dozens of students at the same time.
“I’m indebted to Regina, so I’m teaching in this country for a while. For other actions, the body is free. To insult a knight means that you are prepared to fight a duel, right?”
“… … !”
“I’m sorry!”
If Oren tightens his sword skills, he will be cut to pieces without even using his hands.
The students who had spoken arrogantly begged for forgiveness in a hurry.
Oren sighed at the sight.
“ha. You guys seem to put character education first, but I can’t say anything about this school’s policy regarding salaried professors. But until you satisfy me, I’m going to assume you don’t get credit for this class.”
He then nailed the lecture method.
“Now that it’s like this, can’t we just lose each other?”
“You fool! When the passing team comes out, all the other teams fail! Where are the guys who would lose in such a situation!”
“Ahh, then what should I do!”
Amidst the panicked students crying out, Noah calmly stepped forward and picked up his weapon.
Oren looked at Noah as if he was having fun.
“Still, there are some guys who can be used.”
Noah picked up a throwing shuriken among many weapons and applied the sword technique to it.
Even though it was the first weapon to hold, the sword was stably applied. Noah showed it to Thiu and asked for his opinion.
“If it’s a throwing knife, I’ve used it when hunting. I think I can use this enough. How about it?”
“If there is a weapon you are familiar with, you must choose it first. If it’s a Glaive, you’ll be able to learn how to use it to some extent from Ophelia-senpai, so I guess it’s advantageous?”
The number of weapons Oren brought was fixed, so if it was late, even the few options could be blown away.
It wasn’t just Noah and Tiu who noticed this.
chin!
“It’s a plain sword. For me, who normally handles soft swords, this is no different from a table set up.”
The girl with pigtails responded to the gaze of the two with a plain clothes sword and a wink.
“Hello, my name is Miho. You guys seem to be able to communicate much better than those stupid guys. How is it? Would you like to be on the same team as me?”
This class is basically a team battle.
Of course, the same team member could also be an important option as much as the weapon, no, more than that.
“Am I free to form a team?”
“I was going to share it, but it would be fun for you guys to weave it yourself.”
When Oren’s permission was granted, other students who were in a panic rushed out to pick up weapons.
Noah, who had already chosen his weapon, looked around to gather his teammates.
If the two teams were going to take turns with the weapon they chose this time, it was also important which weapon they chose to team up with.
“First of all, wouldn’t it be better to have the weapons chosen for diversity?”
“Can’t it be that simple? Look, as soon as we held hands, the staff split up.”
At that, Noah turned to the other students.
“You, Thiu, and I belong to the so-called Apostles. Thanks to that, the 8th family and those who learned swordsmanship to the extent derived from it ate sides among themselves.”
The 899 students were divided into Jeongdo and Apostle as if they had promised.
The Sado side gathered around Noah and Miho, who came out first, and the Jeongdo side gathered around the dark-haired boy.
“That guy… … ?”
“Felix Meyer. He is a child of the Mayer family, one of the 8th generation.”
“There was a guy from the 8th generation of the 899th family like us?”
“What, did you really not know anything?”
Aside from that, Carlos also belonged to Jeong-do’s team.
For Noah, who was new to all other swordsmanships, it was not easy to tell them apart, but Carlos’ swordsmanship was definitely the swordsmanship of the 8th family.
“Is it going to be a showdown between Jeongdo and the Apostle? Will it be fun?”
I thought I would be able to taste the swordsmanship of the 8th family long after due to the ranking match rules.
Apparently, we didn’t have to wait that long.
“If I win right away, even today, I can skip one class this semester, right? Let’s try it!”
* * *
Of course, it was not easy to defeat an opponent who used a familiar sword while holding a weapon he had never seen in his life.
Overseas weapons skills classes did not end easily and continued.
If this continues, there will be no decision until the end of the semester, and all students will fail.
In the face of a crisis, the 899 students were divided into Jeong Do and Apostle and ended up sticking together only by themselves.
This division was repeated in other classes as well.
Even in the midst of that, Noah did not hesitate to walk through the ranks and won all of them, breaking through the wall of 9,000th place and entering the 8,000th place.
“Noah wins again! Now it’s 8,999th!”
“Did you flatten the noses of the thugs again?”
“I don’t really cover anything like that. You guys should also bet me on a ranking match.”
“no. You are too strong.”
As the situation turned out, most of the students who bet on Noah for a ranking match were average students.
Thanks to this, Noah, who was on a winning streak against the students of Jeongdo, was gradually becoming known among the apostle students.
A month passed like that.
After class today, Ursula spoke to Noah, who was in the middle of fighting in the Black Moon Dormitory.
“Oh, my cuties, next week will be Hell Week, right?”
“Hell week?”
“Didn’t you explain at school? Maybe it’s the medicine you don’t know. Then I won’t tell you either.”
“No, wait. What makes people curious and just goes!”
Noah managed to catch Ursula, who was trying to run away after a while.
“Do you feel that Nightray isn’t just a place to teach swordsmanship?”
“That’s what I felt when I received the textbook.”
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“Nightray is a school established to train knights, but that doesn’t mean it only turns the entrants into knights and sends them out.”
“sure?”
“As a knight, you must possess not only skills and culture, but also character and loyalty. Therefore, among the school curriculum, there are things that correspond to the ‘selection process’ rather than the ‘training process’.”
“A screening process?”
It was the first time Noah had heard it.
“Hell Week is the first screening process for freshmen who have been accustomed to school life for a month. Usually a third, no, even half of the freshmen drop out at this stage.”
“… … !”
Not just one or two, but the fact that the number of people suddenly fell in half was something that even Noah, who was confident in his skills, could not take lightly.
“That’s why the entrance exam is usually a bit generous, but if the two of you got passed by the princess, it would be fine.”
“What the hell are you doing?”
“I don’t know how. every year is different But one thing is certain.”
Ursula came nose to nose to Noah and said.
“Hell Week is the process of pushing humans to their limits and confirming their true nature. Knowing the contents does not change whether or not you pass.”
gulp!
‘It’s not the end just because I entered the school!’
Even the moment they graduate, the device to filter students continues.
The reason why the number of enrolled students was absurdly low compared to the current students is because ‘new students are accepted several times a year to filter out the best gemstones’.
“I came to the Black Moon at most, but can’t I get away from here? Try hard, youngest ones.”
* * *
smart!
“principal. Yes, this is a record of that student.”
“great job. Leave it and go.”
“yes!”
Regina checked the documents brought by her subordinate.
All of Noah’s class grades and ranking records were recorded there.
“It seems like you’ve taught me enough not to get beaten up anywhere.”
Noah’s initial grades were comparable to those of the 8th generation family.
Although weak in the written subject, the evaluation continued to rise for a month.
“He said he would never have disciples again.”
I never imagined that he would send someone in the name of a grandson rather than a disciple.
Attached to the documents were records of Noah as well as other students related to Noah.
“I’ve had enemies since then. Frank Ribery? Is he from the 8th generation? It’s been fun.”
After checking the contents, Regina called the waiting subordinate.
“I will add a special reward for this Hell Week.”
“What kind of special reward… … .”
“Something that can bring about a change in the stagnant ranking system. Yes, something like the nomination for a higher ranker would be nice.”
“A higher ranker nomination?”
“okay. If a higher ranker uses that position to harass a lower ranker, shouldn’t the lower ranker also have a chance to attack?”