308 – 296.The only bad elf is a weak elf-5
“Lord… “I feel like I’m dying!”
“Ugh! My waist… !”
“Wait a minute! If you suddenly lose strength… Wow!!”
The elves cannot bear the weight of the log and fall forward.
On the other hand, there are squads that collapse due to lack of strength and willpower.
There were also those who held on and did whatever they could to carry the logs.
“The side is a mess, a mess.”
“Compared to that, we are stable.”
“I guess it’s because only excellent people gather together… “Aya!”
“What is it? The instructor’s vine is in this squirrel’s hand… Apod!”
Slap! Slap!
A squirrel that climbs on a log and swings the vine as hard as it can towards the elves.
It left red marks on their pure white skin and caused them pain.
But since squirrels never hit without any reason, I approached them.
“Instructor Yoon?”
“What is this suspicious flower clinging to my shoulder?”
I took off the flowers that weren’t there when I left and looked around.
When I touched the stamen, the petals suddenly swelled up like a balloon.
Using the buoyancy of the large flower petals will reduce the burden on your shoulders and arms.
My thoughts reached that point and I found myself laughing without realizing it.
“Instructor! “I will explain everything!”
“Okay, let’s find out why.”
“This is the bare minimum protective equipment. If you lose strength in your arms for a moment, the log will fall on your shoulder and you will inevitably get injured! We train to become stronger, not to harm ourselves, right? So, to avoid getting hurt, I put a floating flower on my shoulder!”
“So it was all for safety?”
“That’s it!”
It was quite a plausible story.
Because I was not a devil, I could easily get away with it.
What if other elves besides them had also used floating flowers?
“Lavender Trainee.”
“Did you call me, instructor?”
“Are there changes to floating flowers depending on the number of uses?”
“Freshly picked floating flowers are bright red and have the property of gradually turning brown as they are used.”
The color of the flower taken from the elf is light brown.
It was used constantly during log carrying training.
I thought they were holding on tenaciously, but they were holding on using vicious tactics.
“hehehe… !”
“Instructor, instructor?”
I placed a flower on the shoulder of the elf who used a shortcut.
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The squad that used the floating flower sighed in relief, while the squad that did not use it bit their lips tightly.
I guess they thought I was admitting to a shortcut. But unfortunately, it was a pleasant miscalculation.
I made eye contact with the squirrel that taught me how to whip.
Without saying anything, he made a gesture of scratching his neck with his thumb.
Then the squirrel smiled evilly and lifted up his vine. It was a smile that made your mouth water.
“There was a brief commotion, but everyone continued as usual. “If you miss a log, you’ll have to start again from the beginning.”
“Aya! Wait a minute! Please stop this squirrel… “Ugh!”
“Dahhh…” !”
The forest quickly became filled with the sound of crackling whips and the screams of elves.
After one round of hell was over, there was no squad to be found who tried to use a shortcut like the floating flower.
And the bond between me and the squirrel strangely increased.
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“Huh… ! Huh… ! “I can’t do it anymore!”
“A vicious human being! “It’s clear that they want to kill us painfully!”
“They made me carry only logs for three hours!”
“This is abuse! Even if you are a person recommended by a saint, this training is a blast! “You must bite and hang on!”
Dissatisfaction begins to arise from all over the intense training.
The target of the elves’ resentment was, of course, Yoon Geon-woo.
Even though it was my first time, I treated the trainee so harshly that I thought it was harsh, so I couldn’t help but feel angry.
“Afternoon training ends here. “So that you can rest well and come back to the meeting place after dinner.”
“Instructor!”
“Why?”
“… ….”
A well-behaved elf screamed, thinking that things couldn’t go on like this.
But she soon had no choice but to keep her mouth shut.
Yun Geon-woo lifts the six logs that the elves had been carrying with difficulty, carrying them on both shoulders.
His grave expression gave quite a shock to the elves.
There were five people in each group, carelessly carrying the logs that were clinging and whining.
Even if body strengthening magic was used, it was absolutely impossible with ordinary strength, so the training was justified to the elves.
“Oh, it’s nothing.”
“It’s bland… ….”
No elf could continue speaking as they looked at his back as he placed the log in the forest.
All the dissatisfaction that had built up so far went away at once, and the hope that if I worked hard, I could become like that was established.
Perhaps because of this, not a single person was left out at the meeting time scheduled after dinner.
‘It’s amazing. I expected at least a few people to escape…….’
Not only were all of them gathered together, but Yoon Geon-woo was quite taken aback by the sight of everyone’s eyes being lively, unlike during the day.
Female warriors who are full of will despite being treated harshly.
‘Could it be that the racial characteristics of the elves are Majo?’
I was even thinking that I would have been criticized if I had said it in front of them.
But fortunately, Yoon Geon-woo was not that foolish, so such an unfortunate incident did not occur.
“I had a hard time rolling around during the day. “In the evening, let’s spend time training our mental strength through meditation rather than physical training.”
“Instructor, meditation is an action to respond to natural mana. How does it relate to mental power?”
“Elves are loved by Mana, so they know that Mana will come to them on their own even without meditation. However, meditation requires considerable concentration because it has the effect of binding the body and mana. “When concentration is lost, the bond is broken.”
“In other words, you want to see our ability to manipulate mana?”
“Wrong. What we are focusing on in this training is the mental strength to maintain meditation in any environment. “If your will is weak, your meditation will become distracted more quickly.”
“What is the passing score?”
“1 Hour. Normally, I would ask them to hold out for at least 2 hours, but I guess everyone would die from the muscle pain they get from the log, right? So the first day there was a significant decrease.”
Even if it is said to be significant, it is only reduced by half.
There were many elves who were puzzled by this, but it didn’t take long to realize what a great mercy it was to shorten the time by one hour.
Yoon Geon-woo smiled meaningfully and instructed everyone to sit 1 meter apart.
The elves sitting on the dirt floor sat cross-legged and quietly closed their eyes.
“Take slow, deep breaths and focus on the mana inherent in your body.”
Following the instructions, they kept their breathing steady and concentrated their minds.
As the surroundings became quiet, all kinds of sounds came to distract them.
Crickets, owls and owls, and even the sound of water from a stream coming down from afar.
Unexpectedly, sounds that I normally didn’t pay much attention to were heard close by.
Furthermore, the overworked elves began to complain of more severe pain in their arms and legs.
The deeper the meditation, the more sensitive the five senses became.
“From now on, we will recreate extreme situations through magic. “Concentrate until the end.”
Taaak!
When Yoon Geon-woo snapped his fingers, the environment changed.
The forest, which had always maintained a comfortable temperature and was comfortable, was suddenly turning into a snowy mountain in the far north.
The elves were engulfed in a swirling blizzard and bone-chilling cold.
I was breathing hard to generate heat, my whole body was shaking, and my teeth were chattering.
It was an absolutely unsuitable environment for calm meditation.
Eventually, elves began to appear one by one, losing their concentration and even breaking their bond with Mana.
“Chu, it’s cold!”
“Instructor, I’m sorry! “I just can’t do it!”
“Ugh… ! “I need warm clothes!”
The personnel who could not maintain concentration turned away and watched the survivors.
About half of the elves were enduring the extreme cold.
While admiring their mental strength, Yoon Geon-woo raised his finger again.
“How about this if it is resistant to cold?”
Taaak!
The sun had already gone over the mountains, but the sunlight that burned their skin surrounded the bodies of the elves.
The sun beating down on you, the thirst gradually drying up your throat, and even the sandy breeze tickling your nose.
If we had previously left for the snowy mountains, now we have come to the western desert.
“Ugh… !”
“I can see that he has lost concentration. “Don’t be so stubborn and come out.”
“Ah… ! “I can’t stand the heat.”
“It felt like I was in a real desert, my throat all dry!”
“Is it possible to create such a vibrant environment through magic?”
If the level was low, it was obviously an impossible area.
However, Yoon Geon-woo was once a great wizard who had reached a high level in the body of Bern.
What he lacked was mana quantity and mana control, so he could not exceed the limit like Bern.
However, thanks to Breeze’s Dragon Heart, part of the problem was solved, so he could be said to be the best among veteran wizards.
“It’s holding up pretty well.”
The first 15 minutes are an ordeal for the senses.
The next 15 minutes are an ordeal in the bitter cold.
Next was an ordeal that felt like being dropped into the middle of the desert.
And until the last 15 minutes, about 10 elves were concentrating.
Yoon Geon-woo, who looked at this with satisfaction, nodded his head and took out a bouquet of flowers from space.
“Oh my? “What bouquet?”
“Who are you trying to confess to?”
“I don’t think it’s a good idea to confess in a training situation like now.”
“Isn’t it romantic in its own way to see a bouquet of flowers when you open your eyes after meditation?”
“Then, of course, the opponent is a saint, right? Oh! Oh!”
The elves who had previously been left out were cackling at the bouquet that Yoon Geon-woo brought out.
But they failed to see the important point.
The fact that the bouquet he brought out contained only one type of flower, and it was moonflower, which is mainly used as a painkiller.
‘Queu! Let’s see if you can focus your mind even on the powder you’re crazy about… !’
A truly heinous idea.
It was Yoon Geon-woo’s pure malice directed at the elves who did not get distracted even though he did his best to interfere.
As a result, not a single successful candidate showed up in the first meditation training.
And for the first time, the elves realized that moonlight flowers had hallucinogenic properties.