The waiting room for the cadets ahead of Dalian was spacious and comfortable.
The reason why I, who was only a temporary student council member, was able to enter with a professor in the name of administration was only possible because of their goodwill.
It was because the professor, who noticed that he was quite close with Choi Hyun-woo, who was scheduled for Dalian today, gladly offered to accompany him.
Since I had no reason to refuse, I gratefully accepted his offer.
And a little while ago, I was able to talk with Choi Hyun-woo under the pretext of checking the readiness of the cadets ahead of Dalian.
Choi Hyun-woo, who was talking and laughing, hardened his face as he saw the old man sitting next to Han Su-yeong caught on the camera that randomly illuminates the audience, and then he murmured in a small voice.
that you can never
And seeing Choi Hyun-woo like that, I could tell that the old man was the teacher of Choi Hyun-woo and Han Soo-young.
… I couldn’t remember, so the set book I took out was telling me that the old man’s name was Nam Hyeon-hwa.
‘You mean that you will come out in a younger form later on?’
Her unique skill is none other than the metamorphosis of bones, sometimes appearing as an unknown person who helps Han Soo-young or Choi Hyeon-woo when they are in danger, appearing young and helping them with their training.
And I vaguely remembered that Nam Hyeon-hwa, who was young, had the strength that would not be pushed back even if he competed with Sipgang.
Beep profit!
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On the screen where the situation in the dungeon is being broadcast, a loud whistle resounds.
At the same time, Hyun-woo Choi and Do-hoon Ahn, who looks like they are watching a train, run towards each other… … .
“bread.”
Then, I heard the voice of a young girl next to me.
It was a familiar voice.
When I turned my head, she, one of the Ten Rivers, was pointing her hand in the shape of a gun.
“See you again, brother.”
“… Only officials can enter here.”
With those words, I quickly looked around.
A professor who was with me and two people who appeared to be the operation staff looked blankly.
She opened her mouth, staring at me with playful eyes until I looked around and figured out the situation.
“Are you aware of who I am?”
Every time her eyes blinked, the pattern of six reticulated stars flickered.
I just kept silent and she gave me an uninteresting look, then sniffed against my body.
“Oh, the smell… ?”
Then she looked at the ring on my little finger.
She opened her eyes wide for a moment, and then showed a look full of interest to anyone who saw it.
“Where and how did you get this?”
“Hey, if you don’t have anything to say, can I stop now?”
“no.”
She smiled and held out her hand.
It looked like a young girl’s slender arms, but the power it contained could never be ignored.
“Your name is Yoo Ji-hyuk, right? The boy who was often associated with Myung-jun.”
I nodded my head, thinking that it would be no use to grab it.
Then she got up and grabbed me and said,
“Would you like to go somewhere with me?”
And she added in a serious voice.
“I don’t know the details, but Myung-jun secretly asked me to call you. It seemed like something really important.”
At her words, I nodded and stood up.
Then she gently reached out and grabbed my sleeve.
I was hesitant and asked her carefully.
“If possible, could you please return to the original form?”
“yes?”
“If you go together like that, I guess I’m a little… … .”
She snapped her fingers at my words, which seemed to be in trouble.
Then her appearance changed to a similar age to mine.
Unaware, she put on the clothes of the Orge Academy cadets and shook her head as if it was over.
“Yeah, then let’s go.”
“Thank you for following me without asking for details.”
After saying that, she walked forward.
I knew Lee Myung-joon and her well, and I just assumed that it would not be normal if Lee Myung-jun asked her to bring me in secretly.
Probably because of an attack or something like that.
What I couldn’t guess was the fact that he needed me anyway.
“… … .”
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One last time before leaving the waiting room, he turned his head and looked at the screen where the dungeon was broadcast.
A fierce battle was still taking place on the screen.
And finally convinced that there is no need to worry, I moved on.
* * *
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Of the two, the one that moved the faster was, ironically, the heavier one.
The lance pulled back is thrust forward with as much force as possible with a unique rotation.
It was an attack full of will to kill with one blow.
However, Choi Hyeon-woo easily avoided the threat by twisting his foot a little.
The hem of his clothes fluttered as if being sucked in by a passing lance.
Hyeonu Choi hurriedly blew his body away and stepped back, and he could see that a peculiar pattern was carved like a groove in the lance’s spear.
It sucks like a whirlpool.
Choi Hyeon-woo made the attack interval of Ahn Do-hoon, which he had anticipated in the first place, half a step wider.
“Ugh!”
Ahn Do-hoon swung his lance wildly as if he didn’t mind taking damage.
Hyeonu Choi carefully took it with his sword and let it flow gently.
Then, the blade was caught in the small groove that had been dug and made an unpleasant noise.
“Shit!”
Ahn Do-hoon exhaled as if chewing.
It was because Choi Hyun-woo’s sword stuck to the lance as if it had been glued on and didn’t think it would fall off.
It was the time when his sword, which was clinging to his wrist, moving the same as if he had already known it, even though he violently shook his hand.
“Hey!”
Suddenly, Ahn Do-hoon spat at the corner of Choi Hyun-woo’s eyes.
The use of memorization is disqualification, but there is no provision that acupuncture is disqualification.
The referee, who actually saw it, paused for a moment, but continued the match.
There was also the fact that Choi Hyeon-woo avoided it as if he knew it, but before that, Ahn Do-hoon threw the handle of the lance aside and stepped back to widen the distance.
Without even exhaling his spirit, he pulled out the hanging greatsword.
Big enough to be ignorant, it was more like a blunt weapon than a sword.
Most people would rather be swayed by the weight, but Ahn Do-hoon was already one of the few who knew how to handle it perfectly.
Even with both hands, Ahn Do-hoon swung it without difficulty with one hand.
Choi Hyun-woo didn’t bother to block it.
It was because he assumed that the sword would not be able to withstand it, not him.
Choi Hyun-woo continued to step back and back again.
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On the way, a shriek broke out from the audience.
Choi Hyun-woo, who barely escapes, was sure that he did not cut it, but it was not from the point of view of ordinary people watching it.
In their eyes, Choi Hyun-woo had already been crushed or his neck had been blown off, or one of the two endings was coming.
But he continues to move without a single wound.
When the situation became like this, it was Ahn Do-hoon who felt the pressure despite the push.
Shaking off those feelings, he snorted and opened his mouth as if mockingly.
“Why is this guy trying to get tired and fall out?”
The most unrealistic defeat for Ahn Do-hoon was self-destruction due to exhaustion of physical strength.
He was born with everything he was born with.
The talent of the sword and spear, of course, the tremendous strength and stamina that did not run out were no exceptions.
As if to prove it, the floor of the dagger that Ahn Do-hoon struck was shattered.
Before the two of them fought, it was a dungeon where the 17 teams who had gone before did not even get scratched no matter what they did.
Choi Hyun-woo, who witnessed the strength beyond imagination, hurriedly flew back.
Even the broken fragments were a threat.
For a moment, Ahn Do-hoon let out a breath.
It was the unique exhalation of a person who sensed victory.
He put his foot between the handle and the guard part of the lance, which was momentarily off the ground, and kicked it up with all his might.
The lance aims at Choi Hyun-woo’s head and is shot like an arrow.
But it just flew through the air like the wind.
Ahn Do-hoon was not surprised as he watched Choi Hyeon-woo dodge with his body folded forward in the air.
Rather, as if the target was this way, he only swung his sword to guess where he would fall.
It’s over.
Ahn Do-hoon smiled with a sense of victory, but it soon turned into a cry of astonishment.
“What?!”
It feels like hitting iron.
A sensation that should not be felt, he reflexively tightened his hand.
At the same time, the anti-elasticity seemed to tear his grip, but thanks to the quickness of his hands, he was able to barely miss the sword.
what the hell
An unbelievable scene unfolded in the eyes of Ahn Do-hoon, who had been thinking like that.
“… … .”
It was clear that he had put the sword upside down on the ground and jumped again using the handle as a footing.
As if to prove that fact, the mana flowed and remained on the blade of the sword that Hyun-woo Choi was holding a while ago.
Yes, so far I can understand.
What Ahn Do-hoon couldn’t understand was the fact that Choi Hyun-woo couldn’t cut the sword with mana in it, even the sword that had left his hand.
He had only had this experience twice.
his father.
And it was only when I was a kid that I was competing with my uncle.
They said it often happens when the skill gap between the two is overwhelming.
A bloody sound came from the corner of Ahn Do-hoon’s mouth, who had gone crazy with his thoughts.
It was the two people who considered their goals on the other side of their consciousness.
Even for a moment with these two people, the fact that he overlapped with Choi Hyun-woo seemed to roll his eyes in anger.
From his mouth, which was opened as if to disprove him, a shout that was nothing more than a scream erupted.
And the greatsword, which had already been cut and swung once, was forcibly traversed and swung again.
It was as if his wrists and elbows were misaligned in the act of self-harm, but the pain was enough to suppress with anger.
Choi Hyun-woo was still floating in the air.
What, still?
A small voice whispered quietly from the other side of Ahn Do-hoon’s consciousness, saying that it felt as if several minutes had already passed.
It was only the timer and a few people engraved on the billboard that knew that less than five minutes had passed since the two started the match.
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Once again, the clamor erupts.
It was because Choi Hyeon-woo trampled on the sword face of Ahn Do-hoon’s sword and slammed it to the ground.
The people in the audience admired the movement, which was like a feat, but Ahn Do-hoon couldn’t do that.
Rather, he pulled out the sword he had brought as a spare and had to throw away the great sword and retreat to the action of swinging it lightly.
The feeling of humiliation travels through the heart, through the blood vessels, and spreads to every corner of the body.
To lose a weapon in front of an enemy and become defenseless, where else is this humiliation?
Ahn Do-hoon picked up the lance that had been thrown on the ground before he could even think.
And when he twisted his body and took a vigilant posture, he could see Choi Hyun-woo lowering his sword as if he was waiting for this side to be ready.
“this… !”
It was the time when Ahn Do-hoon was about to shout in indescribable fury.
Choi Hyun-woo, who had not said anything throughout the match, suddenly opened his mouth and cut off his words.
“What is this?”
“… What?”
Choi Hyun-woo turned the sword lightly and measured the weight.
It definitely feels lighter than before.
It reminds me of the words of my master who told me to swing the sword according to the will and the will.
It was a feeling that had been lingering in my mind ever since that day.
No matter who my opponent is, the thought that I will never lose will never leave my mind.
From the time I saw Ahn Do-hoon with an overbearing appearance, it was a thought that I never left.
It was a thought that I had never thought of when I was competing with Yoo Ji-hyuk.
“I didn’t do this when fighting Jihyuk.”
Without realizing it, Ahn Do-hoon began to breathe heavily at the slurred words.
He knows who Yoo Ji-hyuk is.
And I could see well that Hyun-woo Choi evaluated himself as inferior to Yoo Ji-hyuk.
S-class me, lower than E-class.
“Hey, baby… !”
Ahn Do-hoon muttered as if chewing and spitting, raising his lance.
Choi Hyun-woo just looked at it indifferently.
Why Ivan said he had no respect for his opponent and that he didn’t want to fight him was something he had already experienced.
Because in the first place, this was a rant.
A match between him and Ahn Do-hoon that ended in a draw a few days ago.
It was good that he mocked and ridiculed himself and said that time saved you, that you were lucky.
In fact, he was in a situation where he was pushed.
However, Choi Hyun-woo did not forget that he insulted Han Soo-young and Yoo Ji-hyuk.
It was impossible to forget that each of them laughed quietly as if whispering about the conditions and limitations of their talents that the two of them did not have.
“okay.”
Choi Hyun-woo made such a conclusion and slowly walked towards Ahn Do-hoon.
Then, Ahn Do-hoon was also wary of this, and he felt that he was refining his magic.
At some point, Hyeon-woo Choi did not try to avoid it even though he was bursting with momentum.
yes, I admit
Choi Hyun-woo admitted that Ahn Do-hoon has more talent than he is arrogant.
He was clearly more talented than himself, more than Han Soo-young, and more talented than Yoo Ji-hyuk.
Therefore, Choi Hyun-woo could not understand Ahn Do-hoon.
“Ahhh!!!”
Choi Hyeon-woo muttered to Ahn Do-hoon, who rushed to him with his breath.
Why the hell didn’t he hone his talent even though he had that kind of talent?
Could it have been an answer to that?
The lance, which was filled with Ahn Do-hoon’s refined magic, collided with Choi Hyun-woo’s sword and split in two with a loud noise.
Beep profit!
At the same time, the whistle to announce the victory rang out.
It was a loud noise, as if trying to fill the gap between the two people that could not be filled.