Episode 10
An hour has passed since the children started running in the gym.
Burren and Runan still ran at the front, and behind them were collaterals, vassal families, and recommended students.
Of course, not all 160 people were running.
The children who were weak had already given up a long time ago and sat down in the corner of the gymnasium, and even now, there were a lot of people who gave up.
“Huh.”
Limer lay on the podium and yawned, but her eyes moved quickly from side to side.
‘The 61st guy gave up faster than he had stamina. The 62nd one lasted longer than my stamina.’
With sleepy eyes, he could see 160 children at a glance.
However, what Limer saw was not the physical strength the children had.
‘It’s meaningless to look at your stamina.’
Children have different physical strengths depending on the environment in which they grow up. To be honest, with the exception of two direct members and about 20 people from the top group, everything is there.
Even with similar stamina, some gave up as soon as they ran out of breath, while others ran to the end while pinching their chests or crying.
‘The difference is more important than anything else.’
Some give up easily, and some never give up. The difference in mental power that seems small now will widen enormously in the future.
You can increase your stamina. You can also develop your talents.
But it is very difficult to develop such persistence.
A child who does not give up from a young age will not give up in the future, and a child who is accustomed to giving up will give up easily as an adult.
Of course, there are children who realize a great deal and change, but that is not as easy as finding a needle on a sandy beach.
It was much more convenient to choose a child with excellent mental strength and tenacity from the beginning.
‘Something has been decided.’
Rimer laughed. More than half of the children had already given up, and the rest were getting tired and slowing down.
As Rimer was preparing for the end of the exam, a blonde child from the subgroup entered his eyes.
‘Raon Sieghard.’
He was the only child out of his expectations today. Limer’s eyes twinkled like starlight.
‘I don’t understand.’
Raon’s stamina had run out a while ago. Even though he had to stand still in the cold and suffocating breath that weighed on his body, he did not disturb his posture and moved his feet constantly.
‘It’s not about persistence. Is it poison?’
He has seen the brilliant talents of many battlefields.
Among them, there was a swordsman who would stand tall on the continent with his sword, and a wizard who would change the world with magic. But none of them will survive like Raon.
Do you keep running with exhausted stamina? A 12-year-old born with a terrible constitution?
That is the mental power that can only be acquired after dozens of battles that involve life and death. I don’t know how the poison developed in that finely grown child.
‘Well… .’
The entire dance hall fell on Limer’s eyes.
Even though they were saving their strength, Runan and Beren, who were at the forefront, were also amazing, but they couldn’t compare with Raon, who had run out of stamina so far.
The children of the vassal and vassal families who had been ignoring Raon were also running drooling because they did not want to lose to him.
“Fufu.”
The corners of Limer’s lips drew a soft arc.
“It tastes good to teach.”
* * *
“Uh… .”
Berren Sieghardt could not concentrate on the run and looked back once in a while, and each time he frowned.
‘Why? How did he survive!’
Raon Sieghard. The cheeky guy who talked back to the headmaster didn’t come off as expected. It was slow, but it was running until the end while maintaining a constant speed.
‘I wouldn’t be able to run… .’
He knew what Raon was in. I’ve been told that I can’t move properly, and my growth is slow because of the cold in my body since I was born.
In fact, the one I saw was more pathetic than the one I had heard. He was short in stature, and there was no sign of training.
‘By the way… .’
The guy didn’t give up.
Even the children of the vassal family, the children of the vassal family, and the recommended students who were recognized for their talent gave up and left, panting as if they were going to die soon, but they did not stop their feet.
‘The guy next to me is annoying as well.’
The only Runan following him, and Raon, who of course had to leave, was annoying.
‘good night. I’ll show you a clear difference.’
Burren, determined to break the hearts of both Runan and Raon, stomped wildly.
Whoops!
The muscles of the thighs and calves were amplified by operating the auror. I ran at a speed that made my vision narrow and looked back.
‘These guys?’
Even Luna and Raon, who thought they were rivals, did not react.
The two ran while maintaining their own speed, but only those of the collegiate and vassal families rushed to pursue them.
“Twitch!”
Burren clicked his tongue and accelerated a little. Runan, who was running similarly, went ahead to the point where there was a big difference, and Raon overtook him a long time ago.
Still, the speed of Runan and Raon remains the same. They maintained their powers as if they were not interested in themselves.
‘Ouch!’
When I thought that I had been ignored by guys behind me, my stomach swelled.
‘Let’s see where we can end up like that.’
* * *
“Woo-wook!”
Raon sighed heavily and smiled.
‘The power keeps coming.’
His stamina was not enough as the bottom had been exposed a long time ago, and it was empty like a dried up well.
I felt dizzy as if I was going to pass out, but I was able to barely stand it thanks to the rain-like vitality that the ring of fire in the 3 stars gave me.
‘It’s heaven compared to those days.’
When I was raised as an assassin in my previous life, I was chased by wild dogs at a younger age than I am now. I was running down the mountain, clutching my heart that was about to explode.
In the end, he was caught up and fought a bloody battle with a wild dog for his life. Compared to that hellish life, now it was nothing more than a game.
“Whew… .”
Raon sighed and looked ahead. It is a talent that is hard to find anywhere else with the children who still maintain their power, but Runan and Beren were special. The two ran stably from start to finish, maintaining the slightest constant speed.
When he thought that he wasn’t called a genius for nothing, Burren suddenly speeded up. He overtook Runan to take the lead.
“uh?”
“Bur, Burren?”
“run! You must not be left behind!”
Other collaborators and recommended students who saw him rushed up the pace.
“huh!”
Burren rolled her eyes as she looked at Runan and herself as if to catch up.
– What are you doing? Are you still going to taunt me? Catch up and crush those eyeballs.
Lars glared at Burren and sharply sharpened his teeth, but Raon did not respond.
‘As I said before, this is not a competition.’
Today’s running is not a competition, but a test that shows your physical strength and mental strength. And there was only one other person who knew that.
‘Lunan Sleon.’
The silver-haired girl who ran second maintained her own pace as if she had no interest in Burren’s solo.
‘This is rather a step ahead.’
I thought it was similar, but it seemed that Runan was a little higher mentally than Burren.
Burren is pretending to be a grown-up, but she is still a child at her age. If you go out on the battlefield like that, you will die soon.
‘I don’t care.’
Raon ran through the gym, chasing Runan’s back, not Beren.
“La, Raon?”
“how… .”
“Gee, have you been running until now?”
The collaborators who had been chasing Burren began to fall behind. These guys were sarcastic before the test started.
“Heh heh, heh heh! Whoa, what did you do?”
“Ouch, that’s absurd… .”
When they were overtaken by Raon, the collaborators who were gasping for breath stopped walking and fell to the ground.
Raon used their astonished eyes as momentum and ran forward.
‘I’m sorry.’
Guys who talk only wherever they go are not real. Since I wasn’t interested in the beginning, I forgot about it and kept running.
“Whew… .”
Raon rotated the ring of fire endlessly through slow breathing.
‘The growth of the ring is fast.’
Although it did not run for a long time, the ductility of the ring was achieved quickly. Again, the Ring of Fire was a practice method in which you had to work with all your might to show your abilities.
‘Still, it’s terribly difficult.’
Even if the ring of fire rotates, the pain does not go away. The heart and lungs tightened as if they were crushed, and the sides ache like a dagger.
– It’s so pathetic.
As he was running with all his might, Lars clicked his tongue.
– It is unacceptable to lose the one who will become the possessed body of the main king. hand over your body I’ll chase you down right now and freeze that blue-haired kid.
‘Noisy.’
This is not a test for catching up. It was a fight with myself.
– As long as the main king has his eyes open, he cannot see the loss.
‘Then close your eyes. Running like this is a miracle.’
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Not a lie.
Even with Lars’ system, it still cannot remove the cold inside the mana circuit. Thanks to the miracle of the Ring of Fire, I was able to run until now.
-Then hand over your body to the main king.
It turned into the blue flame that Lars saw yesterday. His anger stirred his emotions, making his stomach churn.
‘At times like this… .’
Raon bit his lip. When Lars’ stimulation was delivered in a tired state, nearly twice as much pain as yesterday came.
‘Still, I can’t show my weakness.’
If you show a tired appearance here, Lars may have a weakness. I ran as calmly as possible.
‘Do not be fooled and go back to sleep.’
He operated the ring of fire with all his power and maintained a dull expression. He pretended to be okay and rolled his legs.
-Ugh, why the hell doesn’t the power of the main king work on you?
Lars did not give up, and continued to provoke feelings of anger.
“Whew… .”
Raon forcibly pulled up his exhausted stamina to withstand Lars’ mental attack.
‘I’m going to die… .’
A cold sweat ran down my back. To be honest, I felt like I was going to go backwards right away.
Thanks to the balance between the experience of a previous life that had crossed countless deadly lines and the ring of fire, I was able to barely survive.
– You damn bastard!
‘Give up and get out.’
“Ugh!”
When Raon pushed Las’s energy away, Limer, who was lying on the podium, jumped up.
“Come on, stop!”
The children running in the gym stopped at his cool cry.
“Huh! Whoops!”
“Shut up!”
“Ouch!”
The children sat down with their eyes wide open, or grabbed their knees and panted.
“Whew… .”
Raon, too, breathed in as if he was about to die.
– A monster.
Lars gritted his teeth and went back into the bracelet.
‘You said No.’
I wiped the cold sweat running down my forehead. The test was difficult, but it was more difficult to withstand Lars’ attack. If I had run a little longer, I would have almost died.
‘This life is not normal… Well?’
A new message came up while I was dipping my dry lips.
ding!
[He showed extreme movements beyond his physical strength.]
[Ability increases.]