I Became the Golden Sun That Steals the Academy’s Aircraft

049. Competition

The waiting room of the 3rd training hall was full of cadets preparing for the preliminary round.

A total of 30 people from 1st to 3rd grade who had to participate in the preliminary round were waiting with all kinds of faces.

Some cadets looked very nervous, as if they were worried about the upcoming battle royale, while others thought it was a golden opportunity to show off their skills. Also, some cadets were laughing as if they were happy about the whole situation, and on the other hand, there were some who were crying.

Each person had a different face, but what they wanted was the same.

Go through this preliminary round and advance to the finals.

For the honor of the family or to show off one’s worth, one had to advance to the finals first.

[Notify the cadets waiting in the waiting room. The preliminaries will begin in about five minutes. All cadets are requested to board the prepared Giant Goddess.]

Finally, an announcement was made in the hall announcing the start of the preliminary round that the cadets had been waiting for. The cadets who had been waiting for the broadcast for a long time moved to board the giant soldier.

The cadets who arrived at the place where the giant soldiers were located began to board the giant soldiers lined up on one side one by one. The cadets who had been laughing and chatting in the waiting room also felt tense at the thought that this was just the beginning.

They watched the cadets boarding the giant soldier, quickly forming a strategy in their heads and then deleting it repeatedly.

And when it was a cadet’s turn, their eyes focused on him.

Red face with blonde hair. It was Gilbert.

– This is Gilbert.

– I heard you were awarded a knighthood this time?

– No, why am I in the same group as Gilbert…

– Shouldn’t we deal with that guy first?

– Will that work? Didn’t you see it when we dealt with the resistance last time?

The quiet cadets whispered to each other.

The second and third years who did not participate in the preliminary round looked at Gilbert, who had received a knighthood as a cadet, in amazement.

On the other hand, the first-year cadets who took part in the preliminary round had their faces stiff. It was already a famous story that he defeated seven giant warriors single-handedly.

The preliminary round was a battle royale format between a total of ten cadets. If it were Gilbert who had already taken down seven giant gods, he might easily have taken down nine giant gods.

Wasn’t he even recognized by the Empire for his skills and received a 6th grade knighthood?

A shadow fell on the faces of the cadets who had to compete with Gilbert in the preliminary round. This is because I couldn’t decide whether it was right to take him down with a combined attack. In the end, without even being able to talk about what he was going to do, he was assigned to the Geoshinbyeong because everyone was in danger of death.

Meanwhile, Gilbert, aware of the cadets’ vigilance, activated the Giant God Soldier with a calm face. He had no clear goal of winning, and he intended to fall in a decent ranking. Some people may have thought that was strange, but there were excuses prepared.

As a knight, I cannot fight with the cadets with all my heart. If you put some medicine on it so that you can’t step on the growing sprouts, you can’t help but nod your head even if you don’t like it. Even though he was a new cadet, there was no change in the fact that he was awarded a knighthood.

‘Or should I give Ian some training? Let’s take a look at your current skills.’

As he was heading to the training ground where the battle royale would take place following the announcement on the inside, a thought occurred to him. He had confirmed his skills during the entrance mock competition, but now a lot of time had passed.

It was necessary to check how much Ian had developed his skills so far. He is. Well, since the main quest was the academy attack part, I also thought that it was a necessary task.

In the end, he decided that his goal was to face Ian and quietly waited for the preliminaries to begin.

Soon, the long-awaited broadcast came out.

[Preliminary match for Group 3 of the competition begins. As explained earlier, the rules are that only the last three players will advance to the finals. I wish the cadets good luck.]

After the short preliminaries start announcement, the cadets began to look at each other. They were implicitly reluctant to touch Gilbert. I instinctively realized that the one who goes first will definitely start and stop.

Anyway, the preliminaries were structured so that a total of three people advanced, not just one person. In that case, it was a good choice to send Gilbert up and take the remaining two positions.

The moment the remaining nine cadets, excluding Gilbert, thought that, they started running toward each other.

I don’t have anything to say.

Gilbert, who had been assuming a situation where all nine students were attacking him, felt defeated when he saw the cadets starting to fight among themselves.

Their intentions were clearly visible. It seemed like there was a tacit agreement not to touch him, as if there was no need to pick a beehive.

I was definitely going to stop the guy who attacked first, so in a way, it could be said to be the right decision. Anyway, there were a total of three people who advanced to the preliminaries.

Even as Gilbert, it was comfortable to go up like this without doing anything. There was no need for him to relax, so all he had to do was just watch.

However, the academy attack incident literally occurred simultaneously throughout Demeia Academy. Even in Tactical Combat, this main quest was a random event, so there were many instances of named characters dying, except for Professor Brianna, who always died. There was nothing to say about ordinary cadets.

Gilbert decided to save Professor Brianna, but that didn’t mean he wanted to save only her. I also had the idea of saving innocent ordinary cadets attending this place.

So, it might be a good idea to make everyone who participated in this competition feel the wall at least once. A person becomes toxic only when he or she steps on miserable emotions.

If that happens, wouldn’t at least one more person be able to survive the attack on the academy?

The moment that thought occurred to him, Gilbert’s original plan to stay in a decent rank was abandoned.

Instead, there was only one thing that took its place.

An overwhelming win. It was just one thing.

He was relaxed with his arms crossed, then uncrossed them and grabbed the control stick. The cadets were so busy fighting with each other that they didn’t even notice that Gilbert was moving.

Gilbert decided that this was a golden opportunity and pulled out the iron sword from its sheath. He maneuvered at high speed and slashed the first giant soldier he saw diagonally.

Winter Sword – Northern Wind

Magic power traveled through the sword and created a sharp wind of blades. As if a chill descended, magical power began to flutter in golden light.

[It’s Gilbert!]

[Gilbert took action! We have to stop Gilbert first!]

The noble cadets in the same class as Gilbert opened a common communication magic channel and shouted. However, Gilbert, who exquisitely caught the opportunity, began to wander among the cadets.

It was the moment when his specialty, melee, shined. In particular, the winter sword he mainly mastered was a sword technique that used the whole body, so it added wings to Gilbert’s giant sword.

In addition, Gilbert’s sword wrestling, which uses the guard and handle of the sword to break the wrist of a giant soldier, had become even sharper through training with Brianna.

He partially stopped the arm of the giant soldier in front of him and threw it forward. The two giant soldiers that were running towards Gilbert were unable to avoid them, so they were hit and fell backwards.

For a moment, a hole was opened in the siege, and they escaped the siege by maneuvering at high speed. The time it took to get to this point was at most a minute or so. As the three giant soldiers fell in an instant, the cadets who participated in the preliminary round were hasty in not rushing to Gilbert.

What they felt at this moment was a wall. A wall that seems impossible to overcome.

[Go for it.]

Gilbert, who opened a public magic channel, made provocative comments without hesitation. However, no cadets attacked first as intended. They were just standing face to face in a semicircle with Gilbert’s giant soldier at the center.

It’s good not to be biased by emotions, but…

I felt a sense of regret. Being swayed by emotions is the worst, but being confrontational like this wasn’t the best. If you give a choice when the opponent has overwhelming skills, they will continue to be dragged along.

Like right now.

Gilbert approached the nearest giant soldier at high speed. The targeted cadet was frightened when he saw the suddenly charging Giant God Soldier and tried to move back, but his movements were slow because the Giant God Soldier was in heavy armor.

In a short period of time, several attack routes passed through my mind. Excluding the commonly used shoulder slap. Since the opponent was a heavy armored giant soldier, there was a high possibility that the strike would not work properly.

The best thing was, of course, stabbing with a sword.

Winter Sword – Icicle

With the cockpit as the striking point, a heavy iron sword was extended with a spiral twist. Golden magic swirled around the tip of the sword, stopping the Giant God Soldier in a single blow.

He was the first eliminated after the preliminaries started.

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When the first dropout appeared, a stir spread among the cadets. The sight of the magic barrier being depleted with a single blow somehow seemed like nothing special.

[Everyone attack at once! If you continue like this, you won’t be able to do anything and you will be eliminated!]

Someone shouted and ran towards me. The cadets, who were risking their lives in the competition, were finally instilled with a sense of crisis that they should not sit still.

Gilbert grinned as he saw the cadets all rushing towards him as intended. He knocked down the first giant soldier who ran towards him with a shoulder strike and then kicked him near the cock pick. Normally, when you throw a kick with a giant spirit soldier, your balance often collapses, but there was nothing like that with Goinmul.

He immediately regained his balance and struck down the iron swords coming at him from all directions. At that moment, a very small gap appeared, and there were cadets who skillfully penetrated the gap. It was sharp timing as talented people from all over the continent gathered together.

Gilbert nodded inwardly and raised his eyes sharply. There was no way he couldn’t get away with it, no matter how good the timing was.

An acrobatic evasive maneuver was performed using back tumbling, which is registered as a sub-skill of three-dimensional maneuver. The short delay that occurred while parrying the attack could be overcome by activating the forced skill of 3D Maneuver.

Chaeeng!

The iron swords gathered where Gilbert was and made a sound. The cadets were impressed by his dynamic evasion, which they had seen for the first time since the entrance mock battle.

Defeat a monster like that? The cadets’ minds became infinitely more complicated. I wondered if this is what it would feel like to face a sheer cliff. Still, it was impossible to get eliminated from the preliminary round like this.

He knew that he was no match for him anyway. In that case, I have no choice but to struggle to come as best as I can.

A poison began to appear in the eyes of the cadets, and that poison soon appeared in the movements of the Giant God Soldier.

There were no cadets who tried to save themselves. He had read Gilbert’s pattern of attacking him like a ghost when he showed signs of weakness.

From then on, it was the beginning of a truly fierce battle. The iron sword and the giant soldier were entangled. The repetition of blocking, blocking, and falling down.

Even outsiders who were observing the preliminaries were impressed by their desperate struggle. They thought that the preliminaries were a way to filter out rough diamonds, but they highly praised them for not backing down even when facing overwhelmingly strong opponents.

Boom!

Finally, with a loud noise, the final three were decided. The main characters were two cadets with traces of a fierce battle and Gilbert’s giant soldier standing proudly without any wounds.