Episode 379
Episode 124. Cobble Free Country (5)
* * * There is only one week left until the Cobble Free Country.
So far, the three of them have been showing results far exceeding Ariel’s expectations. He was able to repel the counterattack in the fog step several times.
Out of ten check attacks, Yuma was able to ‘see’ and block six, Marlon five, and Zecca twice.
“Aren’t humans usually as good at learning as you are?”
“You’re saying it for granted.”
When Yuma answered, Ariel shook her head as if it were absurd.
‘It took me 70 years to block all of my older brother’s checks in the fog…. You said you managed to achieve close to half of that in 2 weeks?’
The first time Yuma parried off a single attack, he thought it was a coincidence. I was dumbfounded when Marlon parried the attack a day later, and angry when Zecca succeeded three days later.
It took an incomparable amount of time for her to reach that level.
Of course, Orlando’s spearmanship was much better than hers, but even taking that into account, it still made me feel sick.
But I wasn’t even angry anymore. The more he had an unfair mind, the more he was the one who suffered the loss.
“Lord has said this before. Unlike us, the time given to humans is like an instant, so dragons do miracles from time to time. You are what I see now.”
said Ariel in a rather weak voice. And the three of them didn’t dare say that the miracle hadn’t even started yet.
One thing she doesn’t know.
It is said that Yuma reproduced part of the ‘storm’ in three weeks just before he went to punish Hayes Rollmandy. In addition, Marlon and Zecca also had a history of rapid growth after enduring the harsh training of the two grandmasters.
Compared to him, the level of achievement Ariel was reaping from training them was medicine.
“Baron Drake will soon be arriving in the Free Land of the Nose, so why don’t you take a break from your training until then?”
After Milina followed Yuma, she had to live with full of worries.
Even the party members who went to take off the blue dagger felt strange, but it was frustrating to see them training while spilling a bar of blood every day on the way.
During the day, Yuma uses Tulka as a bed to sleep, and in the meantime, a demon named Rakir and a man named Igor, who seem to be somewhat lacking, do foolish things.
Then, Milina was always conscious of Ariel walking behind her, and prepared to camp at night.
This kind of trip has been going on for over 3 weeks already.
“Since the enemy’s stronghold is near, we don’t know when a battle will unfold. I would like to ask what you are doing if you are attacked by an enemy while you are tired from continuing training like that.”
“What’s wrong with you? There is also Rakir and there is Igor. It’s pretty strong even if the ash looks a little off.”
“Of course, I will risk my life to protect the baron in the event of an emergency. Right now, it’s just being straight. But if you order me to stop talking straight, I will.”
Milina answered in a light, joking tone, but Milina was stiff.
Perhaps because of Juan’s education policy, it is unknown whether this was her natural temperament, but Yuma often felt like she was a stone statue.
“What kind of pleasure do you live by, Milina Spaser?”
“joy? Why did that happen all of a sudden…
“Answer me once. I’m curious.”
And Milina pondered for an hour before answering.
“There is nothing. I am a sword dedicated to the one I swore allegiance to. Until recently, the target was the imperial family, and now it has been changed to a baron.
Nothing will ever change.”
“No pleasure? really?”
“When I meet a strong martial artist, the desire to compete with him or the desire to be more diligent arises strongly, but I cannot see that as my pleasure. I just live as someone’s sword.”
What’s wrong with this woman?
In a way, Yuma was more shocked than when he experienced Ariel’s darkness stab.
Beyond being naive, she had a desolate personality to the point of comparing herself to an object.
“That does not mean that I have no feelings. Sometimes I feel anger, I hate someone, and sometimes I feel friendship. There was even a time when I started to accompany the baron and was disappointed.”
“That is fortunate.”
“But that’s all. When it comes to loyalty, my feelings don’t matter, and when I ask the baron something, even if I get an answer that doesn’t live up to my expectations, I won’t rebel.”
“Sounds like I will die if I die.”
“I can, maybe.”
“why? I honestly didn’t expect you to think that much when you said you would swear allegiance.”
“Because it is comfortable. Anyway, do you intend to continue training?”
“Yes, being strong is a great pleasure for me. I don’t think I’ll have much free time when I go back to the Empire, so I have to train even at times like this. It’s also a skill I wanted to master before.”
“Okay. Then I won’t disturb you any more. And let me be more vigilant so that the baron can concentrate.”
It was possible to know without using the ‘insight’ of the enemy who fully possessed the power of the demon god. Milina had a strangely blind loyalty.
This type of human being was the first. Rakir, another symbol of loyalty, was attracted to the demon’s power and Yuma’s distribution, and there was a reason that Igor was beaten.
In addition, all the other characters who had a heart that could be ‘loyalty’ to Yuma had grounds.
As if against his abilities, or at his mercy, or fought alongside him.
But Milina had none of those elements. She is simply giving her allegiance to Yuma to Juan Spaser’s words.
‘You’re a dangerous girl. When I go back, I’ll have to think about Huan’s thoughts one more time.’
A person like Milina could be either the best ally or the worst burden depending on the point of view of ‘using’ her.
As Milina said, she is a sword. It was a weapon that could cut both enemies and allies.
However, Yuma did not want to use Milina.
The only people Yuma used or used were those he wouldn’t keep near.
The companions he sought were to stand side by side and form a bond, not a one-sided relationship.
“You have to change your personality a bit to get close to me.”
“If it’s Myeong…
“No, I won’t give you any orders from now on.
I’ll ask you instead.”
“ask?”
“okay.”
“If the baron asks me for a favor, I won’t refuse anything. There is no difference between a command and only a different word. At least for me.”
Yuma didn’t answer and smiled awkwardly. And suddenly, he wondered if he had put too much trust in the person named Juan Spaser.
At least a sane human wouldn’t have raised her daughter like this no matter what her nature was.
In any case, it wasn’t something to worry about right now. Yuma went back to sleep for the evening training.
During the remaining week, Ariel changed her training routine.
The form of three people blocking a check attack is now not only less efficient, but also because it is necessary to adjust the condition before arriving in a free country.
Instead of physical training, Ariel started taking theory classes.
“The fog walk is not a power that you can learn in the first place, so I will only explain how to stab the darkness.”
“Why the fog walk? Heize seems to be doing well.”
“What you guys went through is only half of it. It must have been an unfinished technique that was only developed with aura without magic. If that Haze had been able to use the real mist walk, you guys would never have met me.”
Mist Walk was a skill that could only be performed by using 70% magic power and 30% Aura.
Even that is an area that can only be operated with dragon words, not the way humans operate with ‘hort’. It is an impossible skill for three people to master.
At least from Ariel’s point of view.
“Unless you become a dragon like me, it is impossible to learn that. Using magical powers with dragon words means the same as needing authority.”
“Hmm, then why did you train in the fog?”
“It was rather to protect you guys. I would have been a little more careful if I gave it to you even in such an extreme situation.”
As Marlon continued to show curiosity, Ariel continued by briefly explaining how to use the mist walk.
Unlike Aura, magic power exists in nature like air.
Magic was the act of drawing and using the power of nature.
‘Hort’ is a similar concept to fish gills, and it is necessary to breathe with magical power.
“That’s why sorcerers draw gins or formulas to gather mana and sometimes explode them. However, beings who use dragon words or powers do not need such methods or jin.”
“Hmm.”
“Marlon, can you turn water into fire?”
“How do you turn water into fire? I am not a wizard.”
“It is impossible even for a human wizard to change water into fire. A dragon like me…
At that moment, water droplets the size of a fist formed on Ariel’s palm.
It was a real drop of water made by granting the power of dragon words to magical power, not illusion magic.
“It’s a realm that only gods or beings equivalent to him can do.”
Hwareuk!
As soon as she finished speaking, sparks rose where the water droplets had been, like a lie. A silver dragon’s eye enveloped the flame.
“Oh oh! Interesting?”
“It takes a lot of power to give nature this much distortion.
And authority is power that cannot be cultivated with food or gin.”
Fog walk was a technique based on that kind of ‘natural distortion’.
After forcibly distorting the wide range of mana spread around the caster into fog, he completely controls the space.
The meaning of dominating is not simply the meaning of freely dealing with the fog that spreads over that range.
“The stage at which the weight of the fog can be adjusted at will is the pole of the fog walk. Of course, the caster is not affected. If the fog gets heavy, you won’t be able to use your body properly as if you were fighting in the water, right?”
“Ummm… I still don’t know what you mean, but I can at least understand that we can’t learn.”
“Yes, there is a principle similar to stabbing darkness, but it doesn’t require as much magical power as walking in fog, so if you train for 100 years, it will be about 50%
…
Her eyes were on Yuma.
“uh…? Now hold on. You bastard…
what?”
What she was looking at was the palm of Yuma’s hand. To be precise, it was an aura sphere placed on the palm of his hand.
The sphere was on fire.
“I wondered if it would be possible to do something like that, so I tried it once, but it works…?”
Yuma herself was also confused, as if embarrassed.
it was power Yuma, who once obtained the power of a demon god.
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