24 – Training (2)

One of the biggest turning points in Soul World and the episode that cuts the overall difficulty, the academy collapses.

The demons have been working hard for a long time to overthrow the academy, and one of the processes is the colorless magic circle.

A colorless magic circle can only be seen as a colorful pattern on the outside. Even if I find it by chance, I tend to skip it easily.

Only one person, the main character, can instantly identify a colorless magic circle.

‘It was the setting that I received special eyes from the gods.’

Through it, you can know the grade and effect of the item in advance.

However, it is not unconditional, and you need to have some information to understand it properly.

By now, even if you find a colorless magic circle, you will only know that it is the work of the devil, and it will be difficult to figure out what it is used for.

‘The main use is communication jamming and magic manifestation.’

Originally, the monument would block all magic. This is the main reason why the monument was erected.

So the demons neutralize the monument first. After that, there’s a crazy party going on.

To prevent it as much as possible, you must destroy the magic circles installed throughout the academy.

‘Does Luna notice?’

When I look at my watch and see the hardened face, I’m half sure.

From now on, she will be busy searching for the colorless magic circle. But she will be hard to find.

In particular, one of the magic circles is installed in an unexpected place. I was a little talkative because of this.

“Martial arts, including boxing and wrestling, are technical skills, but they are optimized to increase overall ‘movement’. Even if a dog fight happens, it’s great if you have these two.”

Anyway, let’s skip the magic circle.

Kara, who decided to teach me the basics of fighting and wrestling, explained the theory.

By the way, Luna is working on her swordsmanship next to him. She had rejected her teachings, just as she had said earlier.

But I couldn’t help but be concerned about this side. Sometimes they looked at us from the corner of their eyes.

“Even if I explain it like this, it will be difficult to understand. Let me give you an example. Suppose someone punches you like this.”

Kara held her fist out towards me very slowly. I stepped back without thinking.

Even when hunting in the wild, if an opponent attacked, they would avoid it by widening their distance. Because this is the safest.

Stand up-

Before long, Kara’s fist stopped right in front of my nose.

After hunting animals and monsters of various weight classes, he mastered distance measurement.

Kara smiled and nodded her head, as if she was satisfied with my actions.

“You can avoid it by measuring the distance well like you. That’s also one way. But you can’t just avoid it forever, right?

It seems that the throwing of the sword left an impression. It’s clear when you watch your words.

Sug-

Once I slowly stretched out my fist at her request.

So instead of stepping back like I did, Kara avoided it by moving her head slightly.

“And right here, baang!”

Then she shouted, slowly putting her fist on my side.

A counterattack made with evasion. It is a commonly used counter.

“How is it? Do you understand?”

“f*ck.”

“You can just nod your head for this. If you don’t know, just shake your head from side to side.”

I nodded in understanding. Enough understanding.

Kara smiled at my response and continued with an excited voice.

“You can combine this with the movement of the feet, i.E. Footwork or gait. As simple as it may seem, it will be difficult to master.”

It is as she said. Those things aren’t classified as ‘skills’ even in Soul World.

Because it is the basic of the basics, the scale is different depending on the player’s skill.

Martial arts support them greatly, and the basic skills themselves are inevitably different from person to person.

“It takes constant practice to do this instinctively without being conscious of it. Maybe you can learn it quickly. I saw you doing well in sparring.”

“f*ck.”

“You mean thank you? Now that you know the basics, let’s dig a little deeper.”

Kara also taught me how to fight with all her heart.

Instead, priority was given to defense and avoidance rather than offensive techniques such as punches, kicks, and grappling.

I’ll only teach you the basics anyway, so they say that defense is more important than attack.

Besides, the physicals were already complete, so it was possible to teach only the skills without having to train separately.

“It’s probably better to use a weapon. Don’t stick with your bare hands like a pervert. Why would a person use a weapon for nothing?”

I did not forget to worry that I might get stuck in some strange common sense.

As she said, unless you aspire to be a fighter, it’s good to use a weapon.

‘After all, fighting is nothing more than a tool when a fight breaks out.’

In Soul World, the skill of the player is the most important because of the uncomfortable control feeling.

Even if you acquire various skills, you have to use them in the right place to clear them more easily.

The reason I try to acquire skills is to broaden my options. Then it will be more comfortable.

This is a reality, so not only technology, but also individual skills will be more important.

“Using the waist······ That’s right. You’re good at it. My sister emphasizes it, but the waist and feet are the most important. Shall we go to a more advanced course?”

Just when I seemed to be gaining some ground, Kara brought out one of her training swords.

Hooung!

She stabs her towards my face at high speed.

It was an attack without any warning, but it was easily dodged with quick reflexes.

If it had been before, I would have avoided it by stepping back. Now only her face moved.

Shhh! Hiss! Booung!

I gently dodged the attack as Kara swung or stabbed her sword with her random strokes.

As I learned, while using my waist as much as possible, moving my feet lightly.

Finally, with wild instincts, I was able to avoid all of them without any fuss.

“Hey! You’re really good at it? Is it because you live in the wild?”

Kara wielded her sword for 10 minutes and admired it sincerely. Her dark green eyes shone brightly.

I can’t help but admire it from the point of view of a teacher because he applies what he taught me straight away.

Honestly, it wasn’t that difficult. Living in the wild, avoidance has become familiar.

What Kara taught me is a kind of ‘efficiency’. Not only to evade, but also to counterattack right away.

This alone is a huge benefit to me. You must repay me later.

“There are still some areas where I am lacking, but since this is an advanced course, I will move on. Now, all that remains is the attack skill…”

Kara looked at Luna, holding her back for a moment.

Luna was engrossed in her personal training, as if she had never cared about this side.

She holds her training sword in her hand and repeats her slash. Judging from the beads of sweat, it must have been for quite some time.

“It’s a bit too much to ask him. Umm…”

Kara looked elsewhere, perhaps not wanting to break her concentration.

She then, just in time, she’s a good game.

“There’s blonde hair!”

Her cry resounds like an echo.

The training ground was structured like a gym, so it was especially loud.

“Blonde? Aren’t you?”

“Well?”

“Me? Why is he calling me? There’s no reason?”

At that cry, Luna and her blonde hair looked at Kara. There should be one or two blondes.

Kara also put on a sorry expression as if she realized her own mistake belatedly.

As such, she has a dodgy side. If it’s attractive, it must be attractive.

Kara was shy for a moment, and then corrected herself and shouted.

“Shivar Protector!”

“··· ···”

At that, the expression on her blonde hair, which she designated, hardened slightly.

It was Alvin who entered the training center at just the right time. As she walked by, she seemed to catch Kara’s eye.

Alvin walked toward us countless times as the eyes around her gathered.

A look of dissatisfaction. But seeing as she wasn’t ignoring her, she didn’t just walk out.

“······What’s the matter?”

Alvin approached us, gave me a glance and asked about her business.

I don’t know why Kara called him. She said she teaches attack skills, but why would she need Elvin.

“I was going to ask for some help, nothing else. I was teaching him how to fight.”

“Fighting?”

When she said that she was teaching him how to fight, she gave Erwin a puzzled expression.

Looking at me while doing that seems to be a feeling that cannot be expressed in words.

“You know that it takes two experts to do this, right? You’re a noble, so you know the basics of fighting.”

“······I know, but can’t we ask Luna?”

“I don’t know. He said he didn’t learn grappling, let alone fighting.”

At that, Elvin opened her eyes wide and looked at Luna. Luna tried to turn her head away and pretended not to know.

Elvin gave her a surprised look, then she muttered softly.

“Unexpectedly. He’s the top of the admissions team, but he doesn’t know basic fighting skills…”

“You must have the skills to cover that. So will you help me?”

“······Since I am also a guardian, I will help.”

Alvin reluctantly accepted. Even if you sneakily miss lunch, it will be hard to miss this one.

Anyway, a good assistant (?) Must have come in, Kara handed over the mitt she had found somewhere to Alvin.

As if the current situation was absurd, Elvin choked while putting the mitt on her hand. Her pitfalls were progressing like a wall.

“I’ll start with the most basic punch. Make a fist like this.”

Kara showed me her clenched fist.

I simply clenched my fists, but I can feel the hardness of steel.

I stared at her well-trained fist and slowly closed it.

Maybe my hands are quite big, but they look really big even when I just clenched them into a fist.

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“Wow. If that one gets hit properly, it will go to the goal. It’s definitely different from the face.”

“I’m glad I didn’t fit that.”

To the point where even Kara admires it. Alvin, who sparred with me, seemed relieved.

‘Come to think of it, I’ve hardly ever held her fist.’

When I lived in the forest, I used a stone ax or a stone spear, and I didn’t clenched my fist even when I fought with my bare hands.

Because it was better to use mana rather than clenching fists. Wouldn’t it be shown when you sparring with Kara sooner or later?

“Look closely. Rotation of the waist and shoulders is important when punching. Like this.”

Twoong!

Kara rotates both her back and shoulders to deliver a powerful punch.

At the same time, Alvin’s arm, which had put the mitt near her face, went over her back.

It looks like she pulled her arm out a little to absorb her shock, but judging from the crumpled impression, it doesn’t look like it’s going well.

“You can throw a hard punch like this, or you can hit it for a check. Take a good look.”

“Please be gentler.”

“Okay.”

Kara accepted Alvin’s request and hit her mitt at a slower speed than before.

She seems to take a light tap, then punches hard as she twists her back.

Perhaps it is because he is an expert in this field, it seems very easy just by looking at it.

“Attacks with fists are roughly like this? Although the fighting style is different for each style, the use of the waist and shoulders is the same.”

“What type of fighting do the Tatars teach?”

“There won’t be much difference from your empire, right? It’s just real fighting.”

That’s not wrong. It just changes the track a bit.

Tatar is a fairly tough country, so most martial arts are specialized in actual combat.

Each warrior is a combat specialist and knows how to use their skills in the right place.

‘It’s not just the high level section.’

Levels are also levels, but the patterns are damn good.

It’s insanely difficult when fighting people, let alone monsters.

Especially Kara’s father and the king of Tatar… Let’s not talk. It’s better to just run away.

“Now, try hitting yourself. Just like I did earlier.”

“Could it be that I’m wearing the mitt?”

“It’s annoying to take off and put on and take off. Just do it. You’re a guardian too.”

“Umm…”

Alvin was dissatisfied, but she obediently complied with her request.

Is this correct? Judging by the look on his face, it seems that he hasn’t come to his senses yet.

I had to go through several incidents to regenerate in the game, so it’s better to suffer now.

‘I twisted my back and shoulders…’

I copied Kara’s behavior before hitting the mitt.

It’s so awkward to move your body while thinking while fighting according to your instincts.

It sure seems easy, but it’s easy because Kara does it, but it’s difficult because you move yourself.

‘I swing my fist as it is.’

Anyway, I’m a beginner who couldn’t even brush the basics. So it’s okay to make mistakes.

I looked at the mitt slanted near Elvin’s head and pulled her arm back.

With a note, she gently rotated her waist and shoulders, and struck the mitt with her fist.

“Uh. Hold on. I told you to take it easy…”

Kara sighed and stopped her from behind, but it was already too late.

Still, there won’t be any problems because I’ve been using my own strength.

Quaang!

An explosion sounded from the mitt that was hit by my fist.

Jumping!

Until Alvin’s arm snapped off and made an ominous sound.

It happened so quickly that even Elvin didn’t realize what had happened.

Deolleong- Doolleong-

“······· Huh?”

Alvin blinked her eyes and looked at his right arm.

She makes a pendulum movement, his arm dangling like a pendulum.

With just one attack, Erwin’s arm was dislocated. Even with the power adjustment.

“··· ···”

I wonder if it happened so quickly that I don’t know the pain. Or is it because they are so neatly drawn that they don’t feel the pain?

Alvin made a fool of her handsome face and then blinked at her.

One of his weaknesses, situational awareness, was properly exposed.

“······Mr. Alvin?”

“······· Huh?”

“That… I lost my arm…?”

Luna, who stopped training after hearing the heavy drinking, quietly pointed out.

Alvin looked down blankly at his arm as he found himself dazed by that point.

“······So?”

“··· ···”

“Why is this missing?”

It seems that you still can’t figure out the situation.

*****

Elvin, who dislocated his shoulder from Shivar’s punch, was immediately taken to the hospital.

How absurd he was. He had a dumbfounded expression even while being transported.

However, thanks to the neatly (?) Dislocation of the bone, it would not be too difficult to put it on.

However, depending on her condition, there is a possibility that she will not be able to attend the upcoming Dalian. This would be a bit lethal

“Ha ha.”

Luna let out a deep sigh. Sivar had two accidents today alone.

The first one and the second one happened because I didn’t say anything in advance.

It is the moment when you realize that being able to communicate to a certain extent and being able to communicate are two different things.

‘Still, she seems to know what she did wrong.’

She looked at Sivar, who was standing there.

She is still expressionless, but her bright red eyes are rolling. She’s sure to keep an eye on it.

She seems to be aware of what she has done wrong. That alone is a great development.

“Don’t look too hard. These are usually called accidents, okay?”

At that time, Kara patted Shivar on the shoulder and comforted him.

Luna saw that figure and narrowed her fine eyebrows. So what if you accept the wrong common sense?

We must prevent Sivar from using that power at will.

If you do it wrong, you can wield it in the name of an ‘accident’.

“Mr. Kara. Before that, I have to apologize. I hurt someone before it was an accident.”

“Ah. That’s right. Did you hear that?”

“··· ···”

Sivar didn’t answer and just smirked. She has an expression of seemingly incomprehension.

At that expression, Kara made a strange expression, and then she asked in an unexpected voice.

“You don’t know what an apple is, do you?”

Shivar shook his head. Fortunately, that doesn’t seem to be the case.

“Then you can apologize later. Do you realize what you did wrong?”

Sivar nodded. Luna smiled in satisfaction at that response.

Anyway, it seems that Ellie did a good job of educating her. There is still a long way to go, but this alone is a great achievement…

“Okay. That’s it. It looks like you can’t control your strength well, so I’ll help you from now on.”

“·······?”

Something is strange. Luna blinked her eyes, then looked at Kara.

Doesn’t that sound like saying that I will stay with Sivar forever?

“Hey. Number of admissions… No. Luna.”

It was when Luna was confused. Kara took her gaze away from her Sivar and looked at her.

Then she smiled so that her white teeth were exposed and asked a favor.

“Could I be his guardian too?”

“··· ···”

“It’s convenient to help with training as well as a side job. I think you’ll stick around a lot in the future, right?”

Her Luna’s head tightened at those words.

A combination of a savage and a wild man. If it fits, it’s a really good combination.

However, Kara’s behavior is a problem. She wields from her violence the moment she insults her.

If Shivar follows Kara’s behavior…

‘That’s absolutely not possible!’

That’s a disaster. After seeing Sivar’s power just now, I couldn’t help but feel that way even more.

The moment Shivar resorts to violence because he insulted him, it is not violence, but murder.

As I have consistently stated, violence should not be taken too lightly.

Because this place was a ‘civilization’, not a wilderness where the law of the jungle was applied.

“No.”

“Ah. Why?”

“Mr. Kara uses violence too easily. Imagine that Sivar imitates it.”

“··· ···”

Kara scratched her cheek at Luna’s reasonable words.

But perhaps she had some regrets, so she came up with an excuse that wasn’t an excuse.

“I don’t like using power either. They insulted me in the first place.”

“It is wrong to throw your fists first just because you insulted someone.”

“To be picky. But when I think about it…”

Kara pretended to accept, but then she laughed. It’s only natural that you’ll become ominous with that smile.

In the meantime, Kara baffled Luna by bringing out her words that stabbed her to the core.

“Why do I need your permission?”

“Yes?”

“It’s enough if you get permission from the president.”

“··· ···”

Luna opened her mouth. It is a word that penetrates the core.

The person who appointed Sivar’s guardian is the president, Lord. With his permission, Kara can also become a guardian.

In addition, if you use training as a justification like today, there is a high possibility that Road will be happy to allow it.

“Take him to the president on the weekend, okay? In the meantime, I’ll teach him diligently.”

“··· ···”

Kara patted Luna on her stone shoulder and walked back towards Shivar.

There was a brief disturbance, but the training was not over. In response, Kara began to guide Sivar again.

Luna staring blankly at her. Her head is already complicated, and there’s only things left to do to make it more complicated.

‘······Dogish.’

She was a woman who was very far from her usual curse words.

‘Nothing works.’

She couldn’t help but curse at least inwardly.

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