Chapter 32 – Swordsman Guild

As soon as the personal swordsmanship instruction, which is not very long, is finished, I train my physical strength at the parade ground.

That was the routine

“Physical training is really fucking important. Originally, the strong and physically strong guy wins. Isn’t that obvious? Why don’t people who know that don’t exercise?”

Apparently, this swordsman’s guild also served as a gym. Karin said that, emphasizing the importance of muscles and exercise, and I paid for it, so I trained my body with all my might.

Exercise makes you stronger. Exercising improves your stamina. And become damn healthy. It’s common sense that everyone knows, but there weren’t that many people who spent more time and energy on physical training than I thought. Because it’s annoying All the true strongmen meant those who broke the barriers of these movements.

I took off my top and ran on the parade ground. Running is stamina and endurance. It is an all-around exercise that allows you to fight for a longer time by increasing your lung capacity and increases your lower body muscle strength to give you more solid strength for cutting.

“Whoa, whoo! Whoo!”
“Good, good. That’s the momentum. Shall we run one more lap?”
“That, hehe! That’s evil!”
“Is it a good spirit? Now, we can run! Our maknae is doing well!”

Karin was also running next to me.

I was slowly going beyond Runner’s High (a symptom in which endorphins are secreted during intense running and feeling pleasure) and approaching a state of Runner’s Dead (a symptom in which people fall behind during intense running), but Karin had a brake I didn’ don’t know how to stop like a broken car. She didn’t know how many times she had already said to run one more lap.

“Hey, hey. I said my posture was wrong. Then my back went out.”

When I came to my senses, at some point I was lifting a log and training my muscles.

Did you just lose your consciousness for a moment? It was unbelievable hell training. To think I crawled on my own feet to do something like this with my money. Beyond the outrageous lies, it was clear that some unrecognizable being intervened and caused me pain.

“Okay. I really like you because you follow the map well. You have the guts. I like you. The way you look and the guts. Why do I like you so much?”

I began to wonder if he was indulging his sadistic tastes by overworking me. The more I struggled in pain, the more Karin seemed to be delighted. She says that she feels a great sense of fulfillment when she sees the people she has taught become stronger, but she sounds like bullshit.

Anyway, while I was doing her strength training, Karin endlessly wandered around, guiding others and watching the postures of those practicing at the parade ground. She seemed sincere.

“Have you done your physical training? Next is close combat.”

Having reached my limit halfway, the last thing left for me was close combat, which can be said to be an extension of swordsmanship. In a sword fight, you don’t just use a sword. If you stick with the other person while cutting each other, there may come a situation where you have to hit the other person with your arms or legs, or there may be a situation where you have to suppress them with jujutsu or joint techniques.

I taught it this time.

“The skill I’m going to teach you today… Is crushing balls with your knees.”

I was stunned at the vicious joke-like name.

“What, what?”
“It’s a technique to crush the opponent’s balls with your knees. Now, stop spreading and get up quickly.”
“What are you mashing?”
“Wake up. Are you going to lie down all the time? Or what. Do you want me to crush your balls?”

Frightened once again, I stood up faster than the arrow that had been shot. Unsavory men with a certain kind of achievement that I wouldn’t highly recommend would certainly be thrilled at the chance to have their balls crushed by a beauty, but I certainly wasn’t.

But crushing my enemy’s balls isn’t bad. Any capable warrior must know how to aim for the opponent’s vitals without mercy.

Roughly in this way, I grew up feeling like I was getting stronger to the point of being cowardly every day. The technique of crushing balls with a knee was too anti-human, so let’s omit the explanation.

“Then, guild leader. Good job.”

After taking a quick shower at the shower well in the guild, I greeted Karin while holding on to my trembling legs her.

“Goodbye. Come early tomorrow too.”
“…”

After replacing the morning with a bucket, he left the guild. This has been my standardized routine these days. Wake up early in the morning, go to the guild, go through hellish training, and get off work around noon. It was not enough to become a morning person, and the life of working so hard to exercise was so sincere that it was fatal.

Can I go home and sleep now? Is it okay to wake up from a good night’s sleep and recover the damaged muscles? Is it okay if I lay in bed, slowly recall stronger in my head what I have learned today, and imagine a future?

Unfortunately, sir, it was like a dream.

As I said, I am basically poor, and this world is not an easy place for poor people to sleep comfortably just because they did a little exercise.

“I have no money, Mr.”

How can I be lazy after spending 5 silver? It’s time to go to work from now on. Damn it. I trudged along while chewing hard on the beef jerky I had brought for protein supplementation. In other words, he forcibly moved his body his, which was tired and heavy from training, and headed to work.

I can’t even imagine a 5-day week or something like that.

“Mommy, I can smell it. Really.”

The destination was the city’s underground aqueduct.

Do you know the importance of water supply facilities? Water supply is a very important facility that makes the greatest contribution to the existence of mankind, bringing water to the city and making relatively clean water available for convenient use. As dirty stagnant water is not used, the city is naturally clean, so the disease rate is reduced and people are healthy. Mortality rates also decrease, resulting in an increase in population.

All sorts of trash and filth flowed into the underground waterways, and the smell was overwhelming. With the introduction of the guild, he was able to find a so-called ‘part-time job’ in the city, so he came here.

Due to time constraints, going out of the city from lunch to hunt or clearing quests was unreasonable. There is no one to go out with, and there is not much to do in that short time until the sun goes down. If I knew the geography around here, I would have gone out to gather herbs, but I couldn’t because I hadn’t been here for a while.

Inevitably, I had no choice but to find work in the city.

And patrolling this groundwater is just that. It was a part-time job worth 5 Cooper per day that E-class or higher adventurers could do. It’s literally a day job that disappears after eating, washing, and sleeping.

This was the only thing that started around noon, so I couldn’t help it.

“Are you here?”
“Yes. Thank you for your hard work.”

I said hello to Mr. Merman, who was on patrol together. The underground aqueduct was an important facility in its own right, so a guard or patrol was needed. This is because it is necessary to crack down on people who dump illegal garbage, or to rescue monsters hiding in waterways.

“Then let’s go in.”
“Yes.”

A disgusting smell stung my nostrils. I covered my nose with a rag wrapped around my neck. Working hours are from lunchtime to dinnertime. I think I can survive because the rice has already been served with beef jerky.

Anyway, during working hours, you can go around the canal with Mr. Merman and find out about unusual things.

The inside of the dark canal was maintained at an appropriate brightness by the occasional sunlight coming down from the gaps in the holes in the ground. However, this ray of light also disappears if you go down one more floor. You need a lantern

Before going down to the second basement floor, Mr. Merman lit a lantern. Relying on that light, I searched the waterway again.

“Wow, this is oversized garbage.”
“Hmm… This location is…”

I found a large piece of trash that had flowed in. It must have been originally brown, but now it has turned to a slippery black. It looked so soft that I didn’t even want to touch it. Make a note of the location so that cleaners can come and clean it up later.

“There’s nothing worth the money.”
“Because there is no one who would be lazy to make money.”
“Wow, that’s a fucking persuasive statement. That’s it.”
“A little rest here.”
Hehe, you know something.”

In fact, how can a person just patrol for such a long time? You have to take breaks in between, and you have to take it easy when you work. In that sense, Mr. Merman was a very good person. Mr. Merman took a suitable seat and lay down on his mantle. I lay down next to him with my cloak on.

“Sleep well.”

He hadn’t done this once or twice before.
Indeed, there is jjambab.

“Good night.”

It was not a good environment to sleep in because of the unpleasant smell, but it was okay because I covered my nose with a towel and got used to it to some extent. Most of all, it seemed like I could fall asleep even if I closed my eyes, probably because I was so damn tired from intense training. If you wake up like this and show that you worked a little more, you get 5 copper per day.

I’m sorry for the adventurer guild who believed in me and gave me a job, but I was a dog bulal chewy who originally broke his conscience.

That was when I was sleeping.
My eyes widened at the sudden terrifying sensation.

“Ah… The fire.”

Even in the dark, I calmly found a lantern and lit it.

Then the unfolding scene.

“Uh, uh!”

A scream erupts!

It was slimes! There were so many slimes…! To put it simply, it looked like an army of slimes was coming! I don’t know what to do if there are a lot of slime puppies who are nothing more than fuck-up monsters, but if there are more than that, it’s a different story.

Guys slow down And at twenty-twenty they crawled to us.

“What are these 10 bastards! Mr. Murman! These bastards!”

On the floor, on the walls, on the ceiling…! Seeing so many of those gelatinous creatures gathered gave me goosebumps as if I were looking at a collection of frog eggs. Only then did Murman wake up, rubbing his eyes and speaking leisurely.

“Ah, they’re waterway slimes. Seeing them purple, they’re dangerous. They’re poisonous. Let’s make them bounce quickly.”
“Oh, but there are so many of them?”
“It doesn’t happen once or twice. Calmly. It’s toxic, but as long as it doesn’t come into contact with bare skin.”

Indeed, as befits a senior member of the reconnaissance team, Merman was calm. He moved his feet to avoid the slimes on the floor. In the first place, slimes are beings that eat things like corpses or rotten plants, so they are not very fast, and they are extremely dull monsters. They probably came thinking we were corpses.

“Hmm… Looks like you slept a lot more than you thought. It would be better to catch a few and report, ‘There was a lot of slime in the canal, so we couldn’t go any further. We finally got out after a fierce battle.'”
“That’s a damn good idea. Isn’t Merman just too smart?”
“This is what happens when you do this for years.”

So we slaughtered the slimes. Indeed, they were slow to escape, so they just looked for translucent cores, inserted a knife, sliced ​​them out, and then lost their elasticity and turned into liquid and disappeared.

After struggling for a long time, we achieved satisfactory results and came up to the surface. Merman calmly reported with a serious expression, and I took my daily wages and left.

1 cooper for the bath, 3 cooper for the inn, and 1 cooper for the meal. Wow, I’m just a day old, me. I had to wake up early tomorrow and go to the guild.