* * *

Surprisingly, there was no tension whatsoever.

That was natural.

Philip was like a pitcher who knew how to throw all the breaking pitches alone in a baseball game where the only pitch was a fastball.

‘I even thought about it for a while.’

He thought he could be defeated by the Silver Knight Knight, but only if he concealed himself thoroughly.

The story of a case where only the common sense of this world was fought.

If he decided to deviate from common sense, he could fight and defeat everyone except Emil Panoy and Faeon Blusset in this spot.

“… .”

Philip looked at Joshua Praline across from him, wearing only the breastplate.

He was observing Philip with a calm gaze even at the moment of putting on his armor.

Judging from the small movements of her lips, she seemed to be muttering self-suggestive words.

Can a person who tries to confront his past with such a serious expression be deceived just because of his circumstances?

‘Actually, I think it might be possible. No, that’s not it.’

Philip, who had a bad heart for a moment, scolded himself.

I had to reveal myself anyway.

That’s right now, of course, it wouldn’t be so bad even in front of that young man.

Wearing a breastplate, gauntlets, and boots, Philip stepped forward first.

And Joshua Praline also stood in front of Philip with a firm expression.

“… i will win Philip Oswald. I endured two years in that terrible hell on the northern front.”

“That is great. Joshua Praline. I admire and respect you. If I hadn’t felt that way, I might have thought of losing to you.”

At Philip’s words, Joshua narrowed his brows and gnashed his teeth.

“You say you lose? Are you still laughing at me?”

As the atmosphere became overheated, Fian Blasset restrained him by pushing Joshua’s chest with his hand.

“Stop small talk and earnestly engage in sparring.”

Philip nodded and took a few steps back.

“You said that. If you were funny, I would have just lost. But I’m sorry I can’t really do my best.”

He said as he pulled out Neria.

A start signal was not required.

It was because Joshua Praline drew his sword like lightning and rushed at Philip.

Joshua’s swordsmanship, raised to its maximum, flew at Philip like a beast’s claws.

“Suck!”

Spitting out the air in his lungs, Philip drew up the aura and spun it as fast as he could.

In the aura clash that followed, Joshua sensed something was wrong.

‘… Why is this… ?’

Philip’s spinning sword instantly shattered Joshua’s sword and clawed at his sword. It felt like taking the blows of more than ten swordsmen at once.

‘No, f*ck.’

The sword, which had been gripped tightly enough to cause convulsions, became light in an instant.

Soon, fragments of Joshua’s severed sword rolled across the ground with a loud noise.

“… ?”

“What did you do?”

Few of the swordsmen watching the match knew what Philip had done.

Only the two Aura Masters with a sensitive sense of humor, Felicia who learned the spinning sword from Philip, and Diana.

Fayian Blusset looked at Head Professor Emil with a stiff expression.

‘The Auror rotates at that speed? That monstrous old man… ?’

He naturally assumed that it was the work of Emile Panoy, but that guess was soon dismissed.

The head professor’s expression was not too different from his.

If that expression wasn’t acting, it would be a story that an instructor named Philip Oswald himself pioneered the operation method of rotating that aura.

‘That kind of thing was possible?’

To him who had reached the level of an aura master, it might be nothing more than a trick. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t pierce the sword.

However, the Faeon Bluset felt it.

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The infinite possibilities of that technology.

Philip stood still, thinking.

‘The swordsmanship of this land is abnormally developed.’

he couldn’t understand

There are far more things that an unformed aura can do than a human body can do, so why do swordsmen here study swordsmanship and not aura?

What they’ve experienced so far is just a kind of phenomenon that occurs in the process of honing their swordsmanship.

‘Why are people so ignorant about this infinite potential energy?’

Phillip thought so and opened his mouth.

“Joshua Praline. Please leave your seat for the next person.”

“… .”

Joshua opened his mouth to say something, but suddenly looked around. No one in this room looked at him.

And he soon realized

“okay… I lost.”

It would be more accurate to say that it was removed rather than lost.

It was such a one-sided and concise defeat that I was not even angry.

‘What have I been doing?’

He stood here to jump over the wall called Philip. However, what was in front of my eyes was not like a wall, but like a vast, endless ocean.

“Are you going to keep doing that? Or are you going to go back and work on a way to beat me?”

Philip pushed him. Joshua Praline laughed weakly.

“… I don’t know.”

As he stepped back, Philip said while looking at Fairon Blusset.

“As you can see, it was sparring without even warming up. If it’s okay, I’d like to deal with the other two as well. Are you in trouble?”

“Hey, are you in trouble? You’re asking something obvious.”

Faeon Blusset spat out a laugh. It was rude, but he thought Philip was rather modest.

“Joshua was the strongest among the rookies. Even those who were a few years above me couldn’t stand it. If he loses like that, there’s no need for another sparring. Let’s pretend you won.”

If he sent out a captain to win, but if he were to lose, there would be no disgrace. Even if Philip struggled to some extent, it was a loss to Silver Knight.

There was no reason to continue sparring any longer.

In the case of Felicia Oswald, it didn’t matter because she had the title of professor at the academy, but in the case of Philip, it was a little different.

The old knight made up his mind and declared surrender.

“Dalian is the defeat of the Silver Knight. and get this I never imagined that I would offer this to anyone other than the Silver Knights.”

Faeon Blusset put his hand into the knight’s conquest pocket and pulled out something. Head Professor Emil, who saw the object, turned his head disapprovingly with a sigh.

“… The old man was very impatient. Do you covet the skills of a young bastard that much?”

Phillip held out his hand and accepted the object Faeon held out.

Small and thin, it was a badge in the shape of a sword. Philip knew what that meant.

It was an item obtained over ten times in the game.

The name of this badge is ‘Sharp Invitation’. If you take this to the headquarters of the organization called ‘Sword God’, you can become a member of it after taking several tests.

“A genius like you deserves it. As one of the honorable thrones of the Temple of Swords, I, the leader of the Silver Knights, Faion Bluset, will invite you to the Temple of Swords.”

It wasn’t Philip who was surprised by those words, but the Silver Knight’s knights and the faculty at the academy.

Sword Goddess, an organization created by Solvein, the first Aura Master who wanted to reach divine status with a sword.

The intention of the establishment was to promote friendship so that his disciples would not fight each other, but in modern times, it has become a group of the best swordsmen on the continent.

Just by being a member of it, you could be treated as an honored guest in any country, and the family to which a member of the Sword Goddess belonged was such that even the royal family could not carelessly ignore its influence, needless to say.

‘… Sword Temple?’

Philip was momentarily taken aback. I never expected to hear an offer like this.

But what he will do has already been decided. Philip said, holding the badge back to Fairon Blusset.

“Sorry, but I hate it. Don’t you want to be friends with me anyway? If so, please give me the ‘Dragon Horn’ among the artifacts owned by Silver Knight. In return, I will hand over the document documenting the use of the technique I just showed you, the ‘Swivel Blade’.”

At Phillip’s counter-proposal, Fayian widened his eyes in disbelief.

“Becoming a member of the Temple of Swords is an irreplaceable honor for young swordsmen, so you refuse to do so and trade that skill for something that is merely an artifact like the ‘Dragon’s Horn’?”

Philip nodded and replied.

“How can I do something I don’t like? So, is it okay?”

“Can it be? I’ll send you the ‘Dragon Horn’ right away.”

“thank you.”

After completing a satisfactory deal, Faeon Blusset led the knights and returned.

“… You guys, look at me for a second.”

Philip, Felicia, and Diana had to be taken to the head professor’s lab.

* * *

It was the head professor’s lab.

Philip, Felicia, and Diana sat on the sofa and waited for the head professor to open his mouth.

“Head Professor Vaughn is very disappointed in you guys.”

Head Professor Emil Panoy acted like a tight-fisted company commander. Philip was puzzled by his reaction.

‘… Why are you like that?’

“Why didn’t anyone tell me that if you’ve mastered the art of trumping, victory is the same as winning? I couldn’t sleep for two weeks because I thought I was going to lose to that f*cking bastard.”

He began to express his regret as if he had no interest in the spinning sword itself.

“Are you protesting that you were forced to send me to Dalian? Say something.”

It was Felicia who answered that. She put her hands on her waist and glared at the head professor.

“I didn’t lose, I won, so why are you like that? Had I known this was going to happen, I would have told Philip to surrender. Also, if you thought you would lose anyway, why did you send us out?”

At the rebellion of her granddaughter, Felicia, the head professor smiled and waved her hand.

“The joke ends here. Philip Oswald. Don’t you have something to say to me?”

It was Felicia who was fooled by his change of attitude. She clenched her fists and stamped her feet.

“Profit!”

Philip felt an affinity for the head professor. He also seemed to know the taste of making fun of Felicia.

But I had to say something.

“First of all, don’t let me do this again. I would do anything to guide and protect the students, but if the day comes when I fight on behalf of the academy again, I will be defeated as ugly and servile as possible.”

“… Instructor?”

Diana Frenhal, who was standing next to her, called out to Philip in surprise.

Fortunately, the head professor did not lose his smile. Rather, he urged Philip as if he was having fun.

“So, what next?”

Philip answered without hesitation.

“You worked hard for two weeks, so please take a break.”

The head professor shrugged and giggled.

“Lastly, give us some money so we can have a drink together.”

The head professor immediately threw the small pouch to Philip. Philip took it and opened it. It contained a few yellow gold coins and quite a few silver coins.

“Use everything in it and drink until your nose is crooked. Write a vacation plan and report it.”

Seeing the reaction, Philip was convinced.

The head professor would no longer touch him. He bowed his head and left the lab first.

“uh… Philip?”

Felicia looked at the head professor for a moment, then grabbed Diana’s hand and followed Philip.

In the lab where the young people left, Professor Emil put a pipe in his mouth. It’s been years since I smoked.

‘Where did a guy like that come from?’

He had just realized that his numbers were all being read to Philip.

“okay… Do not touch the temperament hair. You can definitely bite.”

The reason I sent Philip to the AC Dalian was to test him.

No matter how much Philip is a genius, the Silver Knights are knights active on the northernmost frontline.

It was just enough to confirm the fragments of his talent.

However, Philip overturned his expectations by killing the knight of the Silver Knight.

And in the action that followed, Émile Panoy felt that Philip was making a political protest.

Refusing the invitation to the sword temple.

A trade with Silver Knight with a revolving sword.

And that he asked for vacation and dinner expenses for himself.

‘… I want to teach the kids quietly, so don’t touch them. Taking money and vacation is a sign that I’m going to let it go this once. No one at that age knows how to do something like that.’

It was an ability that only those who had met many people who were not allies for a long time had. The head professor decided not to touch Philip for a while.

It looked like it would bite pretty hard if I touched it wrong.

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