Episode 309
Episode 105. Former grandmaster Mantu (6)
Chewy….
The sound of Mantu chewing food was barely noticeable. Yuma smoked a pipe for a while, watching him eat.
“What is your master’s name?”
“Duran Jacques. He is an old man called the King of Knights.”
“He taught me a great meditation. Duran Zakra…
So he’s the fourth grandmaster?”
“no. The fourth is a warrior named Brienne, known as the Queen of the Dawn. I heard she was also the owner of Nightmare.”
“Brienne? Is this a person after my death? If you’re a grandmaster, you don’t fall in rank to wear a nightmare. Unlike you, I mean. Then the fifth?”
“The fifth is a half-dragon named Pidgin Carta. A woman of misfortune.”
Mantu stopped chewing and stared at Yuma.
“You mean the sixth?”
“Yes.”
“…I thought the grandmaster wouldn’t appear for at least a thousand years after I died, but there are many.”
“At the same time, there was also a person who became the Grand Master for the seventh time.
Hugo, who killed an ogre one-on-one. Master and Hugo are both still alive.”
“How many grandmasters in one era. two Even ogres one-on-one? It’s hard for me to say either. I want to see you both.
What a nice world.”
Truly shocked, Mantu’s jaw showed no signs of moving again.
“What are you so surprised about? When I first met you, you said you had two more grandmasters to fuck you with.”
“I thought it was bullshit. I thought I was the greatest genius since Shugar… I still can’t believe it. Especially that Hugo character.”
“He is also the leader of the Black Wolves.”
“Oh, those dark western mercenaries!
Looks like you haven’t ruined it yet. I remember dressing up and fighting them for two days before becoming Grand Master.”
Mantu let out a big laugh.
It was because it was funny that he, who had already died, felt jealous and competitive with genius juniors he had never seen before.
Mantu, who started tearing the jerky again, asked Yuma about Hugo for a while.
“What special ability does he have?”
“Forgive me.”
“As expected, I must have defeated the ogre. Depending on which dragon’s eye it is, it may be more valuable than my own.”
Yuma remembered what Mantu had said of a grandmaster as “a level that ordinary people can never reach.”
“I thought it was the eye of a black dragon.
But does Mantoo have to have that kind of ability to become a grandmaster?”
“Yes. My former grandmaster, Rizol, had the ability to travel through time, and Shugar had a heart made of auras.
It is known to the world as the heart of ice.”
“If it was an aura, it could have looked like ice.”
“And I, too, couldn’t cross the border before I got Hwa-an. It’s a fact that I found out after getting it. You can’t become a grandmaster without relying on this special power.”
“Why?”
“Because there are restrictions.
All beings, including humans, have limits to what they can reach.
If Cheonjae and Dunjae could equally train for a million years, they would end up in the same place.”
“So you’re saying it can only be done if you have an ability or tool to lift that restriction?”
“Accurate. Such is the realm of transcendence. A grandmaster is no different than a god in itself. If I had made up my mind in my prime, conquering the world would have been ridiculous.”
Yuma couldn’t take those words as bluffing.
As a eunuch, Yuma thought that the only reason Kyle couldn’t conquer Magican was because of Hugo. Not only Yuma, but everyone in the Imperial Castle regarded it that way.
It was like, if you want to, you can make it a vassal state at any time, but as long as Hugo is holding on, there are more losses than gains, so just leave it alone.
However, after returning, after meeting Hugo in person and experiencing his powerlessness, Yuma realized this.
If the same grandmaster, Duran, hadn’t been there, and if Hugo had the ambition of a war of conquest.
Kyle would have had to be prepared to give up his position as an ’empire’ at any time.
When Yuma showed signs of distress, Mantu hit his knee as if he knew something.
“Did you ask because you wanted to become a grandmaster? You have a demon sword, so if you work hard, you’ll probably be able to reach that level. Even though it has a strong evil energy, it is as treasured as the Hwa-an or Yong-an.”
“No, not because of that.”
“Then what?”
“My teacher, Duran Jacques, the old man is an ordinary human being.”
“Haha, there must be something you don’t know. It can’t be. It is impossible.”
“No, he is definitely a normal human being.
There is no foresight, no heart made of aura, no dragon eyes, no angry eyes.”
“It can’t be… is there something wrong with it?”
“If there was, you wouldn’t be a nobleman to hide it from me.”
Mantu looked at Yuma’s serious eyes. It didn’t seem like he was lying.
“Then you wouldn’t be a grandmaster. It must be an incredibly strong warrior.”
“The Hugo you are curious about also recognizes my teacher as the same grandmaster. My master even tried to fight me several times, but I even avoided it.”
“hey! are you a grandmaster? Have you ever become that landmaster? It can’t be! Absolutely impossible!”
Suddenly, Mantu shouted.
Apparently, he couldn’t accept a person who became a grandmaster without relying on special powers.
Mantu held his breath like an angry monkey for a while before opening his mouth again.
Seeing Yuma’s pitiful gaze, as if he was treating a small child, made my heart ache.
“Huh Yuma. If so, show me some of the skills your master passed on to you. If it was a level that even an ordinary human could reach, I would never have attained Hwa-an!”
this is won I’m not a kid who’s three and my older brother is bigger…
Mantu is doing useless comebacks, but Yuma is the one to be ashamed of.
‘I can’t help it. That must be his pride.’
There is always one thing that no one can admit. Yuma decided to understand Mantu’s actions that way.
Mantu was pounding the sand with his fists, asking him to show his skills.
“I will not admit that I borrowed the power of the demonic sword!”
“i get it. I will show you the best of what my master passed on.”
Yuma didn’t add the fact that he hadn’t been fully taught yet.
As he closed his eyes and focused his mind, large aura spheres began to rotate around Yuma’s body.
The aura sphere unraveled like a ball of thread, creating thousands of solid lines. Until then, Mantu had been snorting as if nothing was wrong.
Just until then.
“her•…?”
If the wind could be seen, would it look like this?
After a while, the threads of the aura formed a film and gathered on the palm of Yuma’s hand.
And it was so blue that it emitted a bright light that made it look pure white.
Mantu’s glow was so beautiful that I almost reached out to see it without realizing it.
No matter how you look at it, it didn’t look like a powerful technique to break anything.
However, as the cross-shaped aura in Yuma’s eyes grew thicker, the curtain of the aura that made you cry instantly changed.
The calm wind caused by the aura instantly turned into a storm. The floor in the vicinity was overturned, and pillars of sand rose up, and grains of sand with aura swayed fiercely.
Mantu, who was already standing up, dropped the jerky he was holding with his mouth open.
He thought he had seen the end of the power of ‘Auror’ before he got Hwa-an, but it was arrogance.
As much as I know anything, I have no choice but to see it.
From a general point of view, ‘Storm’ was just a decisive battle of tremendous power, but in Mantu’s eyes, it was God’s play.
“It’s nonsense.”
Up to this point, Mantu could believe that Duran had become a grandmaster as an ordinary human being.
But the storm wasn’t over yet, and Mantu continued to be surprised.
Yuma slowly brought the storm that had gathered on his palm to his chest.
Then, the storm engulfed Yuma, and the next moment, Yuma’s body was covered with a soft blue light as if it were covered with aura.
‘It seems that the fight with Gude has been of great help.’
It was much more stable than when it was unfolded before.
Mantu was on the verge of bursting into anger, but Yuma was still not satisfied.
Compared to what my teacher showed me, it would be only 50 percent crazy. or below it.
Mantu slumped to his knees.
That one scene alone was enough to convey. The despair and hopelessness he must have felt.
For some reason, Yuma felt uncomfortable seeing Mantu like that.
So, with a storm wrapped around him, he punched out with all his might.
Even the imperial sword of the past, Haze Roll Mandira, was a power that could not be fully received in a defenseless state.
Quarreuk!
Pillars of sand surged relentlessly far behind Mantu. It was a phenomenon that occurred when the shockwave caused by Yuma’s fist passed through the ground.
Mantu, who was drooping his shoulders, showed a strange movement and avoided Yuma’s attack.
Yuma couldn’t help but be startled because Mantu had completely disappeared from sight.
I had never imagined missing the opponent’s movement while Sword Eye and Storm were active.
Even Mantu was behind him.
“Cock!”
Yuma hurriedly turned around and tried to strike him in the head with her elbow.
Because of the force of the storm, the slightest movement overturned the sandy bottom in all directions.
Again, I felt no resistance in my elbows. Also, Mantu’s movements could not be read.
Mantu’s shock at seeing the storm did not negate the fact that he was a grandmaster.
He was clearly stronger than Yuma.
Destructive speed coping experience. There was nothing inferior to Yuma.
It would be terribly surprising that a grandmaster was at a level that could only be reached with pure human strength! Wow!
Mantu’s fist fell one beat faster than the sound of sparks.
Yuma, who had been hit on the back, flew away for a long time, causing a sandstorm, and Mantu was already in position to fall.
“Cuck!”
All martial arts have an extreme dependence on the ground. Without bright ground, it was easy to become defenseless.
Of course, Yuma was blown away by Mantu’s fist, so there was no way he could set his feet on the ground.
Therefore, Mantu, who was already on the spot, had to hit the kick with a diagonal line.
thud! When Mantu’s shin and Nightmare collided, a heavy impact sounded. Yuma let out a moan as he sank into the sand.
‘Damn it… isn’t it too strong even if it’s strong?’
Obviously, he was able to attack and drive Yuma several more times.
However, Mantu approached slowly and still had a dazed look on his face.
“If I had known it would be like this, I would have lived longer instead of dying then. People praised me as a grandmaster, but I was a frog in a well…
“Que! He made a noise like a frog and sat down. How the hell does a madman move?”
“You are depressed.”
The roundabout kick that immediately flew with the flame wind was by no means a gloomy human gesture.
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