Chapter 8 – Preparing for a Duel #04

After the consultation with Artin Ludwig, Senia was praising herself with her proud heart her.

“Huh, I looked good when I went out, and I think I got a little closer to Artin, so maybe I’ve progressed one step further as a teacher?”

She was so proud of herself for neatly solving her troubles her. When she was in school, when she had to appease a senior in her club whose lover had cheated on her, the method she used is still valid today.

Holding her hand her warmly and conveying warmth while looking into her eyes her, the tribe’s method taught by Lena, a tiger beast, was effective this time as well.

“She was different from the broken hearted senior, but she was hurt when she saw Violet intentionally avoiding her, so I wondered if she might be similar!”

Violet is a woman, she is as white and pretty as a doll even in her own eyes, so Artin may have had a crush on her Violet her.

Senia pulled out her own student roster and decided to paste it on Artin’s page her saying that she had a crush on her Violet her. She is a teacher who cares about students’ broken hearts. It was also the moment when she realized that her enormous talent was not limited to her alchemy.

“Oops, come to think of it, did I forget to ask something important?”

She said that Artin made her regeneration potion and mana activating potion that she had asked her to fill, but she forgot to ask where to put them.

If she used it normally, she would ask for a healing potion or a mana potion, but Artin wrote down exactly how to mix it, and the fact that she asked for a regeneration potion and a mana activation potion must have had a specific purpose.

“Besides, the formula I wrote down was not at the level of a textbook, but was so sophisticated that it was published in a thesis somewhere… I don’t know the formula, but where did you see it in the thesis?”

Her student list her lists her as just a wizard, but she may have been tutored by her learned alchemist in her family’s estate her.

It is common sense to be recognized as an authoritative alchemist by submitting a thesis to the academic world, but there are scholars and occultists in the world who do not like to reveal their wealth to others and go into seclusion or inform their value only to a few. .

“I’m going to have my teaching assistants look for some papers later!”

It’s not just running errands, it’s sure to be of great help to teaching assistants who are graduate students!

As I was laughing and admiring myself for how caring I was, a figure with a pale blue face approached me from behind.

“What… What good… Are you doing, Mr. Lee, Mr. Reeves?”

Senia turned her head at the familiar sound of her stuttering her, and there was Urdan Helic, the head of first-year students, whose face was paler than usual.

She looks very intrusive and stutters because of her thin face and high prescription glasses, but like the seniors say that she is a better and better person than she looks, she is a good teacher who helps herself quite enthusiastically, even serving as a homeroom teacher . .

“Ah, it’s just that Artin student and her counseling her ended well. I was very depressed, but after I consulted with you, my mood was greatly relieved!”

When Senia brought up Artin’s name, Miss Helic’s expression her, which had already turned blue, turned sour. If it gets a little worse, I’m going to collapse from anemia right away, so I wonder if I should make a nutritional supplement.

“Ah, student Artin, hey, have you been here?”
“Yes! Just now Is something wrong with Artin?”

Miss Helic held out a piece of paper without a word. Looking closely, it was a rental application for the second practice room.

“Why is the rental application form, Mr. Helic? Doesn’t it look like there’s a problem with what’s written? Is it a problem that it’s not a training sparring, but a formal duel?”
“God, take good care of the applicant. It’s on the verge of fuss, fuss right now.”

Senia, who looked into the problem, jumped up from her chair in surprise when she saw the list of users in the conference room. Her large breasts were visibly swaying over her robes her, but Professor Helic, nervous about her situation her, focused only on Senia’s expression her.

“Wow, this is the official, great, confrontation book between Rexton and Artin Ludwig of the Wise family. Besides, the Weiss family is said to send an escort from knights of the Empire as agents to the duel.”

Senia felt like her eyes her were going dark. Making a fuss at her entrance ceremony, and this time formally Dalian? An agent duel, too?

“Ah, Artin will also send out an agent, right? Artin is also a nobleman, right?”

Senia tried to press her pounding her chest with her palms, but instead she only transferred Miss Helic’s stuttering vocabulary to her. Is she from a knight?

However, there was no way for Miss Helic to calm Senia’s worried eyes in her. It was because the reality was more terrible than the teachers thought.

“Oh, no. Artin Ludwig did not apply for an agent. Oh, no.”
“Are you a wizard?! And how can a wizard who has just entered the beginning fight against a knight of the empire?!”

The skinny Urdan Helic in front of him is now in his mid-40s and has become a man who worries about hair loss and the length of his children’s skirts.

The reason why Helic is a first-year swordsmanship professor is that he is also the academy’s consideration to teach politeness to young swordsman geniuses who don’t know how to do it.

“First of all, I, we cannot stop the duel itself. I have to persuade or convince the students, but I, from the Kingdom, will ask the disciples.”

If it was simply a sparring for the purpose of training, it would be possible to prevent it from the line of the student dean, Helic, but if it was a formal sparring involving the relationship between nobles, the story was different.

From the academy’s point of view, which must remain neutral to each faction, there are not many justifications to forcibly stop the discord between nobles. In particular, a duel that is formally requested according to the rules is even less effective if there is no deterrence at the level of an emergency, as long as both sides agree.

In particular, it can be said that there is nothing that Senia, who is a burden at the beginning of this year, can do nothing.

‘Couldn’t it be that the requested potion was prepared to drink in preparation for a duel?’

It is not known exactly, but looking at the manufacturing method and ingredients, there is an increase in excellent natural healing power and some activation of physical abilities. However, it was close to a miracle if a student who didn’t even know the truth of the actual battle could beat a former knight.

‘Please Artin! Please don’t do anything reckless!’

***

If what supports the empire is a mighty army led by knights, then the pride of the republic is its undefeated golden fleet.

In charge of protecting the coastline of the continent, the trade routes of the ocean, and the archipelago and city-states, they boasted of their steadfastness in successfully stopping the invasion of demons for 300 years, and are also one of the biggest reasons why the academy is located on the southern island.

However, if one were to choose the military power of the empire, just as they would pick the Three Swordsmen among the knights, if one were to pick the military power of the Republic of Korea, they would pick five people rather than a large ship , and people would call them Five Masters.

Of course, depending on who picks one or two members, it is said that the strongest of the day is the strongest of the time, but if we were to pick the strongest among the current Five Masters, everyone would pick Lin Xiaopeng as the strongest without disagreement.

His military power his, recognized by the gods of the Southern Church, single-handedly stopped the Wild Hunt of the Devil Army that attacked the islands of the Republic of Korea 7 years ago.

Lin Shao-Mei is the youngest daughter whom Lin Xiao-Peng cherishes dearly. Because of this, Lin Xiao-Mei usually spends her time at the top of Felcas, her father’s close friend her, but when winter comes, she spends her New Year with her family her. I used to go back to my hometown to send it off.

The young Xiao-Mei did not like the family because it was always noisy. She said that she would become the disciple of her father, the daughter of a fool called the grandiose title of warrior, and the sweaty disciples who devoted themselves to training all year round never had a quiet day.

Suddenly, Xiao Mei thought of those stupid disciples who were training at her home her, saying that they practice footwork even when hail falls. The scenery I see right in front of me was no different from that.

“How many minutes has that been? Hasn’t it already been over an hour?”
“To be exact, less than 30 minutes left in two hours…”

Hearing that Artin would do martial arts, Xiaomei and Zorba couldn’t help but be very surprised. Even when Zorba asked her to go on an outing with her aristocratic ladies, and when Shao Mei went to the beach at her parents’ house her in the summer to sleep and sleep, Artin was a hermit among hermits who did not want to go out.

Because of this, Xiaomei was tempted by the thought that this decision might turn out to be a three-day affair.

Quite a few martial artists prepared a terrible training schedule for Artin that would make even the trainees from his hometown, who were suffering from introductory exams, stick out their tongues.

Of course, there is no way that Artin could endure even two minutes of this hard training, which is close to circuit training, which was created by combining dozens of hard training. In addition to that, it took a terrible time for Xiaomei to get used to the training equipment that Artin was wearing right now.

The training restraints that were requested from the parents’ home and just arrived today are precisely tuned to the wearer’s body and torture the human body as if they had taken dozens of steps while walking one step.

Shao Mei puts on her training gear and unlocks it for Artin, who says it’s impossible in five steps. And he recommends the real training he prepared hard as if he is patronizing Artin, who gives up after a few minutes of hard training again.

It was a strategy called door in the face in psychology, and if it was used to boost Artin’s motivation and add his own encouragement to his, Artin would be able to have fun in martial arts.

After hearing Xiao Mei’s plan, Zorba canceled the date he had promised with a girl from another class, saying that he would have fun watching after a long time, and came to visit her personal training room her, which Xiao Mei rented as one of her gold dormitory privileges her.

“Whoop, whoop, 3 minutes, past, seems like, Xiaomei!”
“Yes!? Oh, one minute has passed! Now you can just roll the cart!”

At Xiao Mei’s words, Artin threw down the pole he had just been wielding and went to the front of the wooden wagon wheel that came up to his chest, gritted his teeth and lifted her wheel.

Originally, these were exercises that would have been impossible for Artin. Nevertheless, Artin increases his stamina with a potion prepared somewhere and adapts his body to training. As of now, the training that absolutely lacks strength lifts her to the limit with her own power, then raises her mana and forcibly digests it as if she had her auxiliary equipment on.

“This is too ignorant! I don’t know how good that potion is, but it’s a training method that I won’t be able to wake up tomorrow morning due to excessive mana consumption and muscle pain!”
“…Rather than that, was it possible to manage mana so delicately at the level of Artin?”

At those words, Xiaomei shook her head. If anyone could digest hard training in that way, there would be no one in the world who would be embarrassed by low-level demons.

“Martial artists, swordsmen, and magicians also use mana, but… Using mana as strength to support physical abilities is more like a swordsman, but using mana like a body is more like a martial artist or warrior, and on top of that , low output and The delicacy of controlling the direction is close to that of a wizard.”

Either way, it is not a skill that Artin, who has just entered the beginning of the mage, can do. Even Xiao Mei, who is said to be a martial arts genius who succeeded her father her, would not be able to follow such an ignorant yet delicate method.

“Isn’t it strange too?”
“…What, what?”

Zorba, who was looking at Artin, who was suspected of dehydration due to sweat, suddenly looked at Xiaomei.

“Are you feeling it too? Immediately after her admission of her, Artin told me that she had changed so much.”
“…”

The two remember Artin, who was smarter and more confident than anyone else when they were young, but at the same time, she also remembers how Artin was ruined.

Years of bullying by Rexton Weiss and Sion Idris, and near-abuse neglect followed by the connivance of Artin’s grandfather, who feared that Artin’s brilliance would threaten his beloved eldest daughter, resulted in a boy named Artin Ludwig confined to a corner room in the mansion .

However, right after entering the academy, Artin changed beyond recognition. It’s as if he wouldn’t be like this if he hadn’t been abused and bullied as a child.

Of course, they often try to show themselves the image of the old artin, and they answer the question that they didn’t know unless they deliberately brought it up.

However, that was definitely different from the Artine he knew. And if Zorba Pelcas noticed it, there’s no way Lin Xiaomei wouldn’t notice it. Unlike herself, who gets along well with others, she is Xiao Mei. She has no interest in others. She only considers herself and Artin as friends.

“Isn’t it okay if Brother Artin changes, young man?”

The fact that Xiao Mei’s tone has changed is proof that her nerves are quite sharp. In the first place, you should see that funny tone as a kind of acting that you show only to your close acquaintances.

Artin seems to recognize her as her naive little brother her, but her Shao Mei’s eyes her looking at herself now, her her merchant Zorba, dealing with her people her as a merchant. It’s hard even to notice her depth of her. She’s acting, and she doesn’t know how much she’s serious.

“My brother Artin suffered more than he could handle. Can she call it selfish now that she lives for herself?”
“…I’m not saying that. Isn’t that like selling your soul to the devil? You should be suspicious even for Artin’s sake. She told Rexton that she couldn’t even look her in the eye and thought she was weird from the time she started messing around.”

The way she spoke, her eyes her, and her behavior her all changed. Zorba was impatient that she might have to take her to the saintess of the church who is her senior her in Erado right now.

However, Xiao Mei’s gaze at Zorba was that she was more like a fox than a bear. The reason why there is no displeasure in her gaze is probably because Xiao Mei cares for Zorba Felcas very much, with a different feeling than Artin.

“Brother Zorba, you don’t know yet.”
“I? What do you mean you don’t know?”

To Zorba, Artin now is too unfamiliar. However, Xiao-Mei felt a strange sense of unfamiliarity and familiarity coexisting. Even so, the reason she doesn’t feel uncomfortable is because she grasped and accepted the situation so quickly.

“I don’t call trivial things like Rexton pain. Brother Artin, she endured more pain and sorrow than that. For us. And for everyone.”

Xiaomei’s words made Zorba feel even more confused. Is she saying there’s something she doesn’t know about Artin?

“Don’t worry, it’s not the situation you think.”

Shao Mei, who was looking at Artin while saying that, started to pack the towel and the potion she had prepared when her last routine was over. All of a sudden, Xiao Mei’s expression was the bright expression of her younger sister and her Xiao Mei, who was usually naive older brother.

“I just have to let my brother Artin enjoy himself. Did you know, Bocchan?”

Xiao Mei, who jumped out at the same time as her brother her, was carefully wiping away the sweat of Artin, who had fallen on her floor her.

Zorba, who crinkled her brow at Xiao Mei’s last words of her, decided to watch her as usual. She is obviously in a strange situation, but she thinks that Xiao Mei, who has always been watching Art Tin, knows this situation better than she does.