Challenge is the mother of growth. (2)

“Are you taking it easy?”

“It’s easy if I do it, but my group member said he doesn’t want to take the bus.”

“Hoohhhh!!”

Today, my beloved disciple who had been falling behind as if she would not take on the challenge, and the princess who was sticking close to her like a rice cake, stepped forward as the last group to take on the challenge, I opened my mouth while stroking my chin.

“Then, if your princess is trying to penetrate the Death Knight, it’s okay if she fails to hit the target, right?”

“Well, that’s… “

“But that’s okay! I’m confident that the girl will definitely pass!”

The confident princess, who has just gained some kind of enlightenment, and her disciple, who is smiling awkwardly and nodding to me next to her.

Although it was a rather twisted appearance, he swallowed his irritation at the sight of his disciple’s face, which looked better than when he was in the kingdom.

“As you may have seen in the previous Yujeongrans, the time limit is 10 minutes. Or, if your magic runs out in that time, it’s over.”

“Net!”

“Okay.”

“Then, let’s start!”

At my signal, the Death Knight raises his shield and takes a defensive stance, facing the two men.

It’s a monster that doesn’t wield a sword, and has slightly downgraded its natural movements under my control. But even so, it’s a monster with enough defense and agility to take on three veteran adventurers on its own.

Even if this were a disciple I had trained since I was young, I wouldn’t be a monster that would fall to a superficial princess who only learned black magic superficially and spent more time watching than other students.

I watched the movements of the two people, especially the princess, and began to anticipate a little how the guy who was clinging to my disciple would cry.

‘Hmm. Are you planning on making Rudis take the spotlight while you aim for the blind spot? Ordinary.’

First, Rudis stepped forward and caught the Death Knight’s attention, and then the princess began to chant magic to match his gaze.

However, that tactic is a meaningless tactic that has already been challenged and destroyed by several people in the previous group.

Even if, contrary to my expectations, the princess uses magic to draw the Death Knight’s attention, and Rudis, a magician of our Black Tower with excellent martial arts skills, rushes in and destroys the target, it is still considered a failure because it is not the princess who destroyed the target.

How could I tease the princess, who seemed completely unaware that what I had just said would come back to bite her? Now that I was starting to think like that.

“[Black Magic] [Lv. 1] [Sword of Darkness]!”

“?”

A princess who casts magic into the sky with a slightly slower speed than an average student.

Since he said he wasn’t a guy who studied much in the first place, I can understand that part and move on.

But what made me tilt my head was the size of the sword that was created.

‘Surely you’re not thinking of competing based on speed or power, but on size?’

Usually, the Dark Sword is literally the average size of a normal sword.

Of course, there are cases where you can increase the size and power of the spell by squeezing more magic power before casting it, but the advantage of level 1 magic is that it is easy to handle and can be cast continuously.

But the princess gave up all those advantages and even created a sword that was ‘smaller’ than normal.

As if he was practicing with a dagger-sized sword floating in his hand in the corner a while ago.

“Shooong!”

The princess, who had a strange posture and spoke onomatopoeia, as if she were a boy flying a paper airplane with her mouth.

I nodded my head slightly at that sight.

Yesterday, Chunsik said that girl was talented, and it seems like he wasn’t lying.

‘But, it’s awkward.’

-Thud!

“Eww?!”

The black knight, Death Knight, who was looking at Rudis, sensed the small sword coming back behind him and immediately swung his shield to blow it out of the sky, then looked at Rudis again.

And the princess hesitates, her eyes wide open in surprise as if the magic that her magical power was connected to has exploded.

It is true that if it is a magic that makes the size smaller, it is easier to control and it is also difficult for the Death Knight to detect, but if a monster that is equivalent to a ‘knight’s level’ is hit by something like that, then in this world, knight-level monsters would not be considered a threat.

Her ideas and use of magical power are certainly outstanding, but if that’s the end of it, she won’t be able to shake off Death Knight’s target today.

When you reach that conclusion and look at it leisurely.

“Ooooh… Your detection ability is better than when I was watching. But I’m sure of it with this magic. I can hit the target next time.”

The princess who once again cast the sword of darkness This time she made a small sword and aimed at the Death Knight from behind in the same way, and the Death Knight swung his shield again as if it was really nothing because the same attack was coming.

-Boooosh!!

“?”

But this time, instead of the sound of clashing iron, there is only a strong wind blowing.

The sword aimed at the Death Knight was bent into the sky just before entering the detection range.

The monster took a step back as if preparing for another attack at the sight, putting some distance between itself and Rudis and the sword, and the small dark sword continued to circle around the monster, continuing its precarious tightrope walk.

‘… You have considerable operational skills. It’s hard to believe you learned it yesterday. If you’re not careful… you might even have talents greater than Nora’s.’

A small dark sword that completely draws Death Knight’s surroundings. And it doesn’t end there. Rudis approaches Death Knight again to complete his role as bait.

I know that I, Rudis, the host of this exercise, won’t be doing anything special there, but the monster can’t help but be aware of both the people nearby and the small knife due to the ‘Protect the Target’ command I’ve instilled in it.

The princess, who has certainly been practicing tactics no worse than any other student she has ever trained with, is still true to her words, but the problem is what happens after this.

Rudis and the Sword of Darkness. Death Knight is a bit difficult to defend against due to the two things, but that’s about it.

Unless there is a decisive attack, the training will end in 10 minutes.

-Whew! Boom! Wheeze!

And just as I thought, the princess’s dark sword cannot reach the Death Knight, and Rudis maintains an appropriate distance, only distracting the Death Knight’s gaze.

1 minute left.

It didn’t seem like the princess’s magical power would run out, but I was starting to think that the training would end like this anyway.

-Whew! Boom!!

“?!”

“Wow… “

The Death Knight appears startled and slams away an attack coming from a different direction with his empty hand instead of his shield.

And even I was slightly surprised and let out a gasp, as the silver-haired princess was controlling a small dagger with one hand while firing an additional sword of darkness that she had previously chanted with the other.

“Profit! Damn!! But not yet!!”

-Whew whoosh!! Cancancan!!

‘That’s ridiculous. I thought what Chunsik said wasn’t nonsense, but was he really that talented?’

It is a very advanced skill for a magician to move while chanting magic. Of course, I immediately noticed that she was not running while chanting, but was storing the magic she had learned yesterday and then shooting it in a straight line. However, the fact that she was able to reach that judgment proved that her talent was at least as great as Nora’s.

Even now, when Nora is told to run and chant, she often chews her tongue or uses excessive magic power.

“This is right! That’s right! I didn’t see other students being this organized before!!”

-Kaang!! Kaang!!

The remaining time was about 30 seconds, and the dagger floating above the Death Knight’s head was probably a double decoy to focus his attention and tension.

She runs and shoots magic, Rudis appears at any moment and pounces, and the dagger hovering overhead just outside the shooting range.

Death Knight is probably feeling quite frustrated right now.

‘But the princess must be feeling frustrated too. The ultimate attack that I thought would definitely hit was blocked, so now my magic power consumption has increased significantly. If this continues, my magic power will run out in a few seconds.’

The silver princess was breathing heavily even though she hadn’t run very far. And the Death Knight was trying to block the princess’s attacks by somehow keeping distance from Rudis and Dagger.

In fact, the fierce battle that was practically the answer to today’s actual training continued for several seconds, and in the end, the princess who had been running fell to her knees and put her hands on the ground like a horse-drawn carriage with its batteries dead.

“Whoa! Whoa! What the heck! What if this doesn’t work?! I thought it would definitely work… !”

“Huh. Practice is over… !”

-Kaang!! Thud thud thud!

“?!”

“Ohhh… “

“… Huh?”

“Whoaaah! It didn’t work, so I had to use my finishing move!”

The moment I was about to declare the end of the training after seeing the fallen princess, I opened my eyes wide at the sight of the target attached to the Death Knight’s waist, near the core, being shattered and falling to the ground.

It wasn’t the elastic Ludis. And it wasn’t the dagger on top of the Death Knight’s head. Not even the attack from the fallen princess, but the attack from a completely different direction. Seeing the Death Knight’s surprised appearance, I let out a hollow laugh, raised the corners of my mouth, and muttered to myself.

“That crazy talent… He installed the magic in the same location as before the training started?”

A small dark sword flying from a completely different direction.

The dagger that flew from under the tree where the two were watching the training of other students, rather than the dagger that had been persistently following Death Knight’s head, was clearly the princess’s magic.

Perhaps he used the magic he learned yesterday to make it fly in ‘time-limited’.

And, since the direction was set in advance to the direction of the small dagger that he had launched for the third time, he was trying hard not to have that dagger destroyed.

I couldn’t help but admit that the princess had set up three, no, four traps and was actually able to single-handedly defeat the Death Knight.

“… Phew! You passed! Princess.”

“”””… … “”””

I couldn’t help but burst out laughing as I looked at the princess who was the only one to have passed the exam today and the students who were wide-eyed in surprise at her appearance.

‘It’s ridiculous. Whether it’s Nora, the disciple, or that foolish princess, where on earth do they find such talented black magicians?’

In the end, I decided that I had to give it my all today, and as I turned my back, I made up my mind to do so.

“Hehehe! Girl, you did it… !”

-thud!

“Huh… ?”

“?”

“Huh?!”

“”””?””””

A huge sound of feet, as if trying to drown out the princess’s joyous voice.

And then there was the anxious sound of Chunshik’s voice and the students’ murmuring.

If you feel something starting to go wrong and immediately turn your back, you’re in luck.

The Death Knight was approaching the fallen princess.

“Chunshik!!”

“Ah, it won’t stop!! T, what’s wrong with this?!”

Chunsik, who had the magic tool of monster taming, screamed, and I immediately drew my magic power and pointed my palm at the Death Knight who was starting to feel the life force.

‘Shit! It’s too much!!’

If it was a blow that could wipe out the Death Knight, it could have been easily shot at any time, but the guy who suddenly started acting strangely had already gotten right in front of the princess.

If we attack now, there is a 100% chance that the princess will be involved, but there is no time to ambiguously adjust the power.

I was starting to not know what the hell was going on, and I realized that I should have used the Black Hand, a binding magic, instead of an attack. 0. I regretted it in a few seconds and ran away kicking the ground…!

-Kwagagagagak!!

“Haha. Thank you for your hard work, Princess.”

“Woong… ? Th, this just now… “

“Huh? What are you talking about? I don’t know.”

-Crap!!

When trying to do it.

Rudis, who approached the princess with light movements as if taking a walk, held a catalyst in one hand, took out several huge black hands, grabbed the Death Knight, and used the spear of darkness to pierce its core.

“Oh, Master. I’m sorry. I thought this was bad, so I just broke it. Is that okay? “

“… Ha, okay. Good job.”

Seriously, today is one of those days where things happen that strangely exceed my expectations.