novelraw Chapter 120 : Chapter 120
Chapter 120 : Chapter 120
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Cassian's sword moved heavily.
It was a sword that was neither fast nor slow.
A sword that could be sufficiently seen and reacted to.
Werner tried to dodge.
He didn't move.
‘What?’
His mind went blank about where to go or how to move.
The will to move his body was abundant, but his body didn't move.
It was the very sword that Rozalin once said cut off even her will to dodge.
‘I must dodge.’
He gritted his teeth, grit.
As he poured his will to move enough to crush his molars, it seemed his sword and body barely moved.
In that interval, Cassian's sword was harboring Aura.
A technique that cuts everything the moment it touches.
If it moved according to the current trajectory, even though it was simply a wooden sword, his body would surely be cut in half.
‘Lie down.’
He tried to throw his body backward and roll on the ground to dodge.
However, in that interval.
Cassian's sword ‘cut’ something.
‘Damn magic user!’
He knew instinctively.
That insidious Vice Tower Master guy had interfered in a sacred sparring match and used magic.
And that the magic disappeared by that sword before it could even activate properly.
‘Damn it, if you're going to do it, do it properly!’
And that the magic had no effect whatsoever.
Cassian's sword flew towards him at the same speed without even the small resistance seen when cutting something.
“Uaaah!”
For the first time, he struck up his sword with a loud shout.
From bottom to top, the sword creating a huge wind pressure bounced up aiming for Cassian's wrist.
However, as if he had expected even that, Cassian stealthily rotated his wrist.
With a small rebound, the trajectory of the sword changed, drawing a smooth arc as if it had originally intended to go there.
The sword clashed directly with Werner's sword.
Swish―.
It cut the sword in half as if a well-forged sword cut paper.
It was cut so smoothly that Werner's arms went up into the air futilely without any resistance.
And that was truly a fatal opening.
Thud.
Cassian's smooth and plain movement changed.
Stomping heavily with his right foot, he took a cutting stance as he was.
Aura still hovered on his sword.
‘I'll die.’
In an instant, his life flashed before Werner's eyes.
Like this, futilely, just like this?
When numerous emotions were swirling.
“Cough.”
Cassian's body collapsed downwards in the very stance of the stomp.
Blood poured like a waterfall from his mouth.
And in that moment.
[Bark!]
A wolf's howl resonated throughout the auditorium, and a huge phantom soared from his back.
It was a wolf made of leaves.
Its eyes were cherry fruits, its claws were wide white leaves, and its entire body was covered with vines and grass.
However, the aura exuding from that wolf was real.
‘Did the hag of the Great Forest already reach out this far?’
Ban's eyes narrowed upon seeing the wolf.
From the moment it appeared, the wolf was wary of him, not Werner.
As if it knew he had done something.
However, from Ban's perspective, it was unfair.
‘Nothing happened, I say.’
The magic disappeared before he could even do anything properly.
It must have been cut by that Aura or whatever.
He had seen the Aura Pan wielded, but he didn't know it could exert such powerful force.
It was a technique of a completely different nature from the Aura he knew.
Anyway, it was impossible to use magic again while being kept in check like this.
He stealthily used magic to hide his traces.
Although the Imperial Grandson would surely say something.
‘He's a guy who will become a corpse in a few months anyway.’
He didn't care in the first place.
The reason he came here was only one.
Because of the name Akarind Academy and Aura.
“What are you doing! Handle it! Isn't that guy doing something bizarre in a sacred swordsmanship match! Get rid of that despicable fellow!”
Only Leferil, who hadn't properly grasped the situation, was jumping up and down in rage.
Werner, bewildered by the sudden situation, gripped the halved dull sword strongly again.
Although Ban was the one who acted cowardly first.
Although the opponent lost the will to fight to the point he could no longer fight.
And although the outcome was decided in a situation where his own sword was already cut.
‘I must kill him.’
He didn't know what the consequences would be if he let this person live here.
Fire lit in his eyes.
Noticing the atmosphere, students on the second floor jumped down one after another.
However, there was an existence that moved first.
[Bark!]
The wolf, which seemed like it would be nothing more than a phantom, suddenly rushed at Werner as if exploding, bit Werner's arm, and threw him as he was.
“Keuk?!”
Powerful pain was felt in the arm, enough for a groan to flow out involuntarily.
From the bitten arm, bizarre sprouts and moss sprouted in rust color and squeezed the arm like a rag.
It was enough for a crunching sound to resonate in the auditorium.
A mere wolf.
Thinking so, the moment Werner grabbed the wolf with his other hand to tear it off.
Sizzle―!
As if he had grabbed an acidic solution, Werner's other hand quickly started burning along with the glove.
However, he couldn't leave the wolf like this.
With a face flushed red, Werner barely tore off the wolf, but.
“Teacher!”
Before he knew it, a few of Akarind Academy students were standing beside Cassian, holding swords and aiming at him.
‘Failure.’
Apart from Leferil running wild, if he swung the sword more in this situation, it wouldn't be seen as a sparring issue anymore.
Because it would really be attacking an opponent, and an unconscious one at that.
‘Damn it, I have to retreat like this…….’
He had no choice but to settle the situation well and retreat.
Just when Werner took a step back to put away his sword.
He felt a touch tapping his head with a tap.
Before he could even think, 'Who deceived my senses and got this close,'
His body felt like floating in the air, and soon a powerful shock battered his whole body.
Kwaaaang!
It was pain he felt for the first time since joining the knights.
But what was scarier was the fact that the pain hadn't ended yet.
With a whoosh feeling, he felt a force grabbing and shaking his ankle.
It was a grip strength comparable to the ability the wolf had released earlier.
His body moved with a swish, and Werner instinctively curled his body and defended his head and heart area with his hands and arms.
Kwang! Kwang!
His body was swung here and there.
The shock continued, and every time his body hit something, along with the sound of bones dislocating inside his body, his vision turned pitch black, then faded to white repeatedly.
“Keu, uh…….”
Will this pain ever end?
Just as such a thought occurred, his body floated in the air with a hung.
His body, trained for a long time, barely performed a breakfall even in an unconscious state.
His body rolled over and over.
When his body barely stopped, he raised himself while handling the dizzyingly swaying vision.
Far away, in front of him, a girl was looking down at him.
“Hey.”
She was a woman wearing a white uniform symbolizing Akarind Academy.
Age about 15~16 years old.
Perhaps because she had moved violently until just now, her long hair of pale blue color like washed-out water swayed dizzily in the air.
A beautiful but seemingly somewhat misaligned girl wearing a bizarre hat and armband unlike other students.
Such a girl's icy cold eyes look down at him.
Intense anger resided in those eyes.
“You, right now, to our teacher, what were you trying to do?”
She clenched her molars and spat out each letter as if chewing them.
If she didn't do even this, it seemed she would vomit things that weren't language and slaughter the guy right away.
“If it was just sparring, it wouldn't have mattered. He could lose. Right. Since he's the teacher. Who am I to say.”
Although she was from a mercenary background roaming the streets, she knew everything there was to know.
How long had she watched that damn politics while sitting in the position of Grand General.
How dirty The Empire, the Imperial Family, and the Imperial Knights and Academy are.
She was the person who knew better than anyone else.
So, regarding the result of sparring close to such a formality, she could laugh it off.
Even if the teacher lost, she could have smiled and bragged, saying, "See, isn't Teacher incredibly weak? That's why I have to help him."
“But this is out.”
Kill him?
She barely managed to keep him alive until now.
The second demon hasn't even come out yet.
Now she started having fun conversations about Aura with the teacher.
She gave the remaining Fantasy after defeating the demon and took care of everything.
Despite coming all the way to the Imperial Capital where the Imperial Academy is, instead of sightseeing the capital, she was roaming around gathering talents and collecting elixirs while going on treasure hunts.
B u t n o w w h a t a r e y o u
t r y i n g t o
d o
Y o u.
“…….”
Emotions that made her wonder if she had such feelings in her heart began to melt and flow stickily.
There was one way to resolve this emotion.
Let's kill.
Rozalin drew her sword.
Unlike the swords Werner or the students here had, it was a real sword with a very sharp edge.
“No!”
“Senior, calm down!”
“Rozalin!”
However, there were people blocking such Rozalin.
It was the surrounding students.
Dozens of students who had come down together rushed in a crowd, grabbing Rozalin's limbs, neck, shoulders, waist, etc., and stopped her.
“I'm gonna kill him. Let go. Him, kill, make an example, huh? Weird guys. Won't come again. Right?”
With eyes rolling back, Rozalin laughed and took one step, one step forward.
Her body, awakened to Aura, exerted energy far exceeding that of an ordinary person.
“Damn it, block with Aura!”
And the students also raised mana and blocked Rozalin.
“Oh my god…….”
Seen from the second floor, the scenery was chaos to the extent it should rather be called a comedy.
The pride of The Empire, the Chief Knight of the Lionheart Knights called the pinnacle of Imperial martial power, was rolling on the floor.
He was lying prone with his arms supported to somehow raise his body, but his arms trembled as if they would break off at any moment.
A girl was walking like a monster even with dozens of people hanging on her, and the students blocking her were emitting Aura from their hands, shoulders, arms, etc.
Even at a glance, the number was over thirty.
Aura users, who would be considered amazing even if there was just one, were overflowing.
“Kill her! You must kill her!”
Only Leferil was shouting through gritted teeth.
Now he knew too.
This wasn't simply a story about his prestige and honor.
Akarind Academy presented a greater shock through this chaos just now than the commotion of the past two days.
The world he knew was broken.
That fear encroached upon him.
A touch-and-go situation where catastrophe seemed imminent.
[Tsk tsk.]
With the sound of clicking a tongue, a woman lightly descended from above Rozalin's head.
Neither presence nor momentum was felt, but the power was formidable.
Kong.
The staff she swung lightly tapped the crown of Rozalin's head, and instantly Rozalin's vision blurred and her body slowly sank downwards.
A short top barely covering her chest and short pants revealing all of her thighs.
And a woman in her 20s appeared fluttering a thick and huge white fur coat that didn't match such attire.
“Ulf!”
Hearing that the professor collapsed, the graduate student teaching assistant appeared to solve the problem.