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Cooke struggled to come to his senses in the shaking cockpit of the giant soldier. When the shaking finally stopped, I was relieved that I had not lost my mind and quickly raised the giant soldier.

What on earth happened?

Cooke gritted his teeth and glared at Gilbert’s colossal soldier who had shown a ridiculous maneuver.

Cooke, who was talented, never once thought that he was losing out to Gilbert.

Cooke, who stayed behind to defend the base in the entrance mock battle, did not get to face Gilbert directly with the Giant God Soldier, but he thought that if they had a proper fight, he would never be defeated by his piloting skills.

The reason we nominated Gilbert for this practice and made it a 1:1 structure was because of that confidence.

In fact, just a moment ago, Cooke was pushing ‘that bastard Gilbert’.

The surprise attack carried out while hiding in a structure at the beginning of the training worked well, and Gilbert’s giant soldier repeatedly failed to match Cooke’s own piloting skills.

As expected, Stupid Gilbert’s skills were poor, and he was unable to properly respond to his furious attacks.

Even though he stood out in the entrance mock battle with his excellent piloting skills and out-of-the-box strategy, he was definitely not his opponent.

Gilbert, who gave up the victory, ultimately chose to run away. The appearance was so shabby and unsightly that it was just Gilbert himself.

It was so bad that even he, a baron, thought that he would have such thoughts towards a nobleman of the count family.

Cooke, who had been excitedly following Gilbert as he ran away with the heavy giant soldier, tried to end the practice on a high note by stabbing him with his iron sword.

After practice, he had the illusion that all the attention and glory would come back to him.

However, for some reason, Gilbert, who was running away, suddenly turned around and showed off a three-dimensional maneuver that was jaw-dropping just by looking at it.

At best, I was wondering how he could pull off such a move using a general-purpose giant god soldier, but there was no time to think about such things.

Gilbert, who had just woken up and approached him at high speed, hit him with his shoulder.

Cooke, who was unable to respond properly to the sudden headbutt, fell helplessly once again.

I hit my head on the cockpit and lost the control stick. I somehow managed to collect my dizzy mind and looked ahead to see Gilbert’s giant soldier standing vaguely in front of me.

Damn you bastard!

On the other hand, the person rolling on the floor was no one but Cooke himself.

He slammed down on the control stick, clenched his teeth so hard, and roughly grabbed the control stick and raised the giant soldier.

I rationalized that I was just letting my guard down, but I could not hide the sense of shame and humiliation that rose up from the bottom of my heart.

[This is ridiculous!]

With an angry cry, Cook began swinging his iron sword. Perhaps because he lost his temper due to anger, it was not a formal swordsmanship.

As if venting his anger, vertical, horizontal, and diagonal cuts attacked Gilbert irregularly.

However, Gilbert was not the kind of person who would fall victim to such random swordsmanship.

It was not difficult to avoid the diagonal slash from left to right by stepping back.

Gilbert, who moved only as much as necessary with fine control, did not miss the gaps created by Teacher Yan’s large movements.

bang!

The giant soldier struck the side near the empty cockpit with his large fist. Teacher Yan’s giant spirit soldier fell again with a louder sound than if it had hit him with his shoulder.

Judging by the fact that he was unable to get up easily this time, it appears that he hit his head hard against the inner wall of the cockpit.

As Gilbert looked at Teacher Yan lying motionless, he realized that it was time to finish. It must have been about ten minutes since the practice began, but there were many cadets waiting for the practice.

The stolen goods were already in his hands, and the opponent’s giant soldier was neutralized. If he left this place, the practice would naturally end.

Gilbert, who thought there was no need to waste time, returned to his seat where he had started practicing, leaving the collapsed Teacher Yan alone.

[End of practice. Both cadets did a good job.]

With the announcement announcing the end of practice, I saw Teacher Yan, who had collapsed, get up.

Gilbert returned to the hangar after saying a small thank you to him for being such a great teaching aid this time.

When I came out of the giant bottle with the deodorization items that had been placed in one corner of the cockpit, I saw Professor Alexander with a satisfied expression on his face.

“It was great. Cadet Gilbert. The capture of the target using the Colossus’ autonomous functions was impressive.”

“That’s too much praise.”

Although it could be said that it was his first boss battle, he was not so soft that he lost to Teacher Yan. At that point, it was possible to win even without unlocking the characteristic skills.

“Cadets, keep in mind the practice that Cadet Gilbert just showed. In fact, there are people who do dangerous things like Cadet Gilbert on the battlefield.”

One such person was Professor Alexander himself, but he did not make it known.

“Do the cadets remember what this professor said in the first lecture?”

“You said that the Colossus is not all-powerful.”

“That’s right. The reason why Professor Bon said such a thing must have been confirmed through the eyes of the cadets a moment ago. Cadet Gilbert acquired the stolen items without boarding the Colossus. It is safe to say that this is a strategy that takes advantage of psychological weaknesses.”

Gilbert bravely faced the pouring gaze of the cadets.

It was just that Lily’s tearful gaze seemed a little painful. I scrapped my plan to have her as a colleague, but I couldn’t help but feel bitter.

Afterwards, Cooke, dead and black-eyed, appeared in the hangar.

As Gilbert expected, he hit his head hard against the cockpit wall and, embarrassingly, lost consciousness for a moment. Although it lasted less than a minute, the practice ended in that time, and the victory went to Gilbert.

He chewed his lip as he realized that all the attention he deserved was on Gilbert.

I was so angry and resentful that I wanted to curse out loud, but when this situation came up, my mind actually calmed down.

Inside Demeia Academy, identity was not officially asked. The principle was to treat each other as equal cadets, and on the surface, everyone was following that rule.

However, they were just like representatives of the family. Completely ignoring one’s status was something that a high-ranking noble family could do, but not something that a baron with moderate power like Cooke could do.

Cooke, who had somehow suppressed his negative emotions, quietly stood behind the cadets aligned with Oh.

“Cook.”

I turned my head when I heard his name being called.

“Can I help you?”

Cooke looked at him blankly as he smiled softly just by looking at him. I felt like I knew what he meant without even asking.

As Cooke’s head slowly nodded, the man’s smile became a little deeper.

***

After getting off to a good start in the main story, Gilbert was able to obtain a pretty sweet reward with the help of Teacher Yan.

Thanks to the continuous activation of the three-dimensional mobility skill, Somersault Kick was added to the binding skill, and the authority ability increased slightly.

In addition, his reputation value also increased slightly, but it was not a significant figure because he was so infamous.

Still, it was welcome that I had acquired one more binding skill and that my authority stat had increased. Because it was very important to obtain general skills in a situation where it was difficult to unlock characteristic skills.

After roughly confirming what he had achieved, the place he headed to was, of course, the training room.

It’s a place I usually go when I have time, but this time it had a purpose.

It was to put into practice the thoughts I had before going to obtain the Lion King’s Mana Practice.

That was what it was like to become Brianna Tefeo Malchirav’s immediate disciple.

Becoming Professor Brianna’s previous student was a kind of sub-quest, and in order to receive this sub-quest, you had to meet quite stringent conditions.

First of all, you had to achieve the minimum ability level required by Professor Brianna, known as a sword genius, to be able to do at least a few weeks of side quests.

The values were a force stat of 50 or more, a physical stat of 70 or more, and a magic stat of 50 or more. Usually, even if you consider the specifications of the protagonist in the early part, none of the abilities exceeded 50, so this was a quest created with the mid-to-late part in mind.

The problem is that even if you achieve the required ability level, you can still receive the quest, but when you actually perform the quest, you will be amazed at the level of difficulty.

First of all, the first obstacle was getting permission from Princess Knight Seraphina. Although Professor Brianna is a professor at the academy, she was originally the princess’s swordsmanship teacher.

Accepting anyone’s previous disciple could be an insult to the princess, who was an alumnus, so Seraphina’s permission was needed first.

In fact, it would have been easy to obtain Seraphina’s permission if she had been impressed by her greed for talent, but that was the next problem. Her recognition through sparring with Professor Brianna was the core and most difficult part of this quest.

When Gilbert was a newbie, he had tried to become her previous student as many as a thousand times.

He was rejected 300 times because he looked perfect but had no talent for the sword, 500 times he was rejected because he looked talented but not outstanding, and 200 times he was rejected because he was lacking something.

It was a notorious side quest that bothered Gilbert in the beginning to the point that if he hadn’t tried it because he was really tempted, he would have done it long ago.

However, now that it has become rotten, raising the ability level through hard work has become a problem. When it comes to efficiency, the sooner she becomes her student, the better, so she always works hard on her abilities when doing tactical combat.

Fortunately, Gilbert has now achieved the minimum abilities required by the quest, except for magical abilities.

Even his mana level, which was still below that level, was 49 due to the intense training he had done so far.

A situation where you can achieve the sub-quest conditions by just raising it by 1.

Gilbert practiced mana using Lionheart and demonstrated a high degree of concentration.

I felt like the last remaining number of 1 was going to rise, so I was working harder and harder than ever.

Eventually, with the feeling that what had been blocked was being pierced, mana began to rush through my body.

[Magic power has increased.]

Gilbert smiled at his ability level that had finally increased.