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    Episode 22 – Performance Evaluation 4 -​

    This deadly, yellow (gold) shield has the power to deny any attack to all beings below the royal family.

    Of course, because it is salty, there is no legal problem if it attacks differently from the steamed golden shield in the middle soup.

    As I said, in an aristocratic society, there are times when even an idiotic cause becomes a weapon.

    For this reason, if there is a political opponent, there will inevitably be those who claim [they tried to assassinate His Majesty!].

    So my opponent, Isaac Evan, couldn’t help but be embarrassed when he saw this technique.

    “Do you want to be arrested for impersonating the royal family?”

    “Me? At what point did you impersonate the imperial family?”

    “Didn’t you insult His Majesty!”

    “I don’t know which part is an insult?”

    “If damaging His Majesty’s portrait is treason, then wearing it is also an insult. Same level of logic.”

    Ohh. He is a guy who knows how to make his own claims.

    But that guy can’t attack me.

    Even if you know it’s a problem, it’s hard to do the same thing as the other person.

    Even though I know someone is trying to kill me.

    It is similar to the fact that it is rare to find someone who can equally kill an opponent without any prerequisites.

    “That’s right. The person evaluating the case is someone other than the parties involved. Therefore, someone will say that I have insulted His Majesty the Emperor, and that Mr. Isaac has shown treasonous intentions if he hurts this man. But that doesn’t matter one bit.”

    “What is that… ?”

    “Because I’m already dressed.”

    I already committed it. I was in a position to listen to slander that insulted His Majesty the Emperor.

    But not him. This point is important.

    Even if it is the same action, nothing changes. I already did it, and if my opponent wants to beat me, he has to be the same guy.

    It’s his choice.

    Did he suffer from accusations that he was trying to harm the emperor? Or maybe you just lose to me.

    And in case you hadn’t remembered this choice, I told you about it myself.

    “Jeong Then, I will attack you just once. Then that’s enough, right?”

    “What… !”

    “Let’s attack. If you can.”

    As you can see, his attacks are very powerful.

    And if you think about the fact that the advantage of a surprise attack comes from the fact that you can start by hitting first, it is virtually the same as allowing a surprise attack.

    Even if we are not on the same level and have a significant advantage, it is a limitation that can be overturned.

    Fortunately, Isaac Evan seemed to have thought of something after hearing my suggestion.

    What choice will you make?

    If you attack differently than I do, there will be various political slander. And on the other hand, the benefit of hitting me once is only to go up 1st place.

    If you fight me and win, you won’t win.

    Among the many cadets still remaining, only first place has moved up.

    Conclusion: The profit margin calculation is not correct.

    ‘There’s no way I could take that much of a risk just to win.’

    Under normal circumstances, there was no way he would take such a risk just to defeat me.

    This is a certain fact.

    But there was something I overlooked.

    As can be seen by looking at stocks or coins, humans are not a species that makes rational choices.

    I felt a strange feeling in his eyes. It felt like some kind of life-threatening danger was lurking just around the corner.

    The aura was immediately infused into the central nervous system, rapidly increasing the reaction speed.

    I was placed in the illusion that the world had slowed down for a moment.

    And as if my premonition was not wrong, a fist came out from his hand and headed towards me.

    And at an unbelievable speed.

    Even though it definitely felt like time had slowed down.

    The fist came towards me faster than the fist I had extended.

    Like ignoring time alone.

    Of course, I’m not ignoring time, it’s just that it’s fast.

    Pangㅡ

    I heard a sound that I shouldn’t have heard.

    The sound of air bursting.

    The sound heard when an object with mass escapes Mach, the speed of sound.

    Sonic Boom.

    The repulsive force created through the eruption of aura made my body instantly go faster than sound.

    Hungㅡ

    I lowered my body in an instant and dodged his fist.

    Not long after I lowered myself, his fist grazed my stomach.

    But my body was no longer in good condition.

    I was shocked once because I had to move so quickly due to the aura erupting.

    I was shocked a second time by the tremendous speed of the blow and the resulting wind pressure.

    Even if you just saw it, it is difficult to understand what happened.

    If anything, I think it was a similar feeling when the ship’s main gun fired during the military parade.

    Of course, if I was close, I might get punched repeatedly, so I immediately moved away from him.

    This is not a sparring hall. There are no space restrictions.

    Chak-

    I look at Isaac’s face from afar. A perplexed expression.

    He muttered to himself when he saw me catching my breath from afar.

    “avoided… ! My skills weren’t average.”

    It’s more that he didn’t intend to let me be attacked.

    I was noticing that I dodged the attack.

    When I saw a fist of such shocking power, I immediately questioned him.

    “No! If you hit that, it will just be a piece of meat! Are you planning to replace the emperor of the empire? If that had been hit squarely, I would have died!”

    “Didn’t you say you would get it right? Why did you avoid it?”

    “No! Who can fulfill an unrestricted contract with the enemy? When the empire goes to war with another country, they say they treat their prisoners like gentlemen!”

    One thing Isaac overlooked. If one were to be stigmatized for insulting the emperor, there was no honor that could be damaged by not keeping a promise made to an ‘enemy’.

    My reputation is so low that it doesn’t matter if I use informal language with some professors.

    The female students have some strange delusions, though.

    The fame I created was just about that level.

    ‘No, Elijah and Sylvia defeated that guy?’

    Elijah, you’re faster than me, so I guess you won.

    I wonder how on earth Sylvia won.

    Even if it’s a long-distance attack, I don’t think I’ll be able to block it if it’s attacked by that guy’s body.

    Because of her strength, I think her speed is faster than Silvia Rennen.

    ‘Whether he didn’t show his skills properly or he was defeated in the end, I have to attack him.’

    He is the one who was ultimately defeated by Sylvia and Elijah. I might be able to too.

    When I was analyzing Isaac.

    Other cadets were unable to recover from the shock.

    “What on earth did we just see?”

    “Hey… If we got together, could we have defeated those two?”

    “Abraxas Era… Looking at it now, it looks like we’ll at least win easily, right?”

    “Then why on earth is that like that?”

    “I don’t know. I guess there really is something like what the girls said.”

    “But. If it were me, I don’t think I would be able to wear that outfit even if I were told to wear it.”

    “I said it with my own mouth. He said he would probably be slandered too.”

    “I don’t think it’s particularly slanderous… ?”

    They speak while everyone can hear each other. But I immediately stopped paying attention.

    Because Isaac Evan started to approach.

    “They can’t give me an effective hit. But you might be different.”

    It wasn’t really wrong. Even when I saw his body durability, it was extraordinary.

    Even now that I think about it, the idea that a sword cuts clothes rather than flesh is absurd.

    Pangㅡ

    Isaac runs faster than Maximilian during sparring.

    Because of its massive size, it felt like a bear was approaching.

    And the strategy I chose was simple. Plan B in case I fail and someone attacks me appears.

    “Everyone. Goodbye.”

    Plan B: Chuno.

    It’s just a way to escape.

    It’s a way to throw away fame, but I don’t need honor.

    Honor can be built with skills and things like that, but life cannot be built with that.

    If you get hit by that fist, it looks like you’ll just run away, so let’s run away.

    “Wherever you go.”

    Isaac is approaching me at incredible speed.

    Of course he was faster than me.

    ‘Wait a minute… If you do this.’

    I use Aura support to momentarily secure my body to the ground.

    Calms inertia with aura eruption.

    And when my body stopped for a moment, I sprinted as fast as I could in the opposite direction from where I had rushed.

    Puck~

    “!!!”

    And my fist hit his face.

    He is running towards me at high speed. Humans are not wild boars and are not particularly slow at changing direction, so they will eventually catch up.

    However, if you can’t avoid it, use it.

    I brake hard and punch him at my own speed.

    The effect is that the fist hits at the combined speed of his speed and mine.

    This attack will be enough to deal a significant hit to him.

    Tangㅡ

    In response to the counter attack, he was kicked again.

    The destination is his face.

    Puck~

    Tangㅡ

    Pangㅡ

    Continue to attack only the face. The reason is simple. Because the chin is on the face.

    No matter how hard your body is, it doesn’t mean that shock can’t be transmitted.

    It wasn’t.

    “No. What kind of body is it that my fist hurts more?”

    If it is a target that cannot be cut, striking is more useful.

    Sword and hammer when damaging rocks. It comes down to thinking about which of the two is more efficient.

    But it’s different if it’s some kind of armored vehicle armor. Then it’s just a loss for both of us.

    And here is a being who consumed vibranium and became a vibranium human.

    ‘Is there no way?’

    My Auror Awakening is like a counter to this guy.

    This is because this guy can withstand my awakening period of winning games with overwhelming quick attacks.

    Of course, if you use it as if it were not an awakening for no reason, you will win.

    This is because you can cut something abstract.

    That doesn’t mean you can write it though.

    Let’s think about it. Elijah Adonis and Silvia Rennen won against this guy.

    How did they win?

    Elijah would have used his unique quick attack to attack slowly without getting hit even once.

    Sylvia probably broke through the defense with firepower.

    But my speed is slower than Isaac.

    Firepower is also lower than Silvia.

    If I want to win, I ultimately have to find my own way.

    ‘My own way. ‘What do I have strengths in?’

    Except for Auror Awakening. Advantages I have.

    Advantages that I can boast about to others.

    That’s just psychological warfare. Whether it is an opponent that can be defeated or an opponent that cannot be defeated, it moves as intended and ultimately induces action.

    I can make the other person take the action I want.

    If you fail, you lose. Even if you wear the clothes of an emperor, you may be buried without being noticed.

    Let’s do it though.

    Because you can’t discuss it without trying it.

    “Whaaa!!”

    Cast Flee from a greater distance once again.

    Naturally, Isaac, who was briefly groaning in pain, started chasing me as soon as he saw me running away.

    Climbing through the vines and passing through the trees, I somehow widen the distance.

    But his pace was still fast, so I quickly caught up.

    His fist is aimed at me. A tremendous blow, including running speed, rushes at me.

    can not avoid.

    Puck~

    That fist touched me.

    The emperor’s picture written on his face is removed. I vomited blood from my mouth. The face was completely ruined.

    Red light flows from the magic tool mounted on my right wrist, and a barrier unfolds.

    Anyone can see that I am eliminated.

    Isaac, who saw this, left a greeting.

    “I’m sorry, but I can’t control my strength. If it were possible, it wouldn’t have been ruined so horribly.”

    After leaving those words, Isaac walks away from me.

    But at that moment he was defeated.

    “Sleep… Why is the broadcast… ?”

    And then.

    The vines scattered around him grabbed his back with a strong grip. As if using Auror Jiji.

    “… ? What is this… !”

    The Aurors suddenly begin to be surrounded by vines that have gathered together strongly with Isaac Evan.

    Then the vine began to spin around something and lifted Isaac Evan high into the sky.

    “!!!!”

    The vine was spinning around something, so Isaac instinctively looked at the axis.

    There I was, smiling and twirling him around.

    “You… Wasn’t he dead?”

    “So, you should have thought it through thoroughly. It turns red and develops a barrier. But that was just Mr. Isaac’s judgment.

    Maybe it didn’t really ring. If you create a red light and fakely deploy the barrier, only for a little while. Because I can fool you for a while.”

    The reason I came up with this method is simple.

    This is because in this world, strengthening Auras is not a way to increase mass.

    Aura enhancement is physical enhancement. However, it only improves strength and durability and does not increase mass.

    The only reason knights are not easily pushed aside by powerful forces is because of their Auror support.

    By entrusting your body to the material, you increase friction and endure.

    So, unless you can use air support like Elijah, even a knight cannot change direction in the air.

    I may be able to make some adjustments with aura eruption, but I am an aura enhancement user. That level of backlash is hard to swallow.

    “Of course, it’s only possible because it’s you, it wouldn’t have worked for the rest of us. Isaac’s muscles are so developed that part of his back cannot be reached.”

    Of course, if it were other people, they would somehow grab the rotating shaft and come down to the ground.

    However, some bodybuilders cannot reach certain places with their arms.

    This is because muscles are developed and it is difficult to narrow the arms.

    That’s why I was able to come up with this tactic.

    “Sleep… So what about my attack… ”

    Simple.

    “I just endured the beating. At least people who can’t use auror enhancement still have their form, so if they don’t get hit without pain and invest all their energy, they will survive.”

    Run to reduce the relative speed and get hit less painfully.

    Strengthens the body with aura reinforcement to reduce damage.

    Using aura eruption, the speed of the fist itself is also reduced.

    Somehow, it hits the soft side of the cheek and absorbs some of the impact.

    And as a result, Isaac Evan is being shaken out of my hands.

    However, this is just a war of attrition.

    “So what should we do if we turn it around like this? You probably don’t have the means to hit me effectively, right?”

    That is correct. I have no means of harming him.

    If he and I had had a life-or-death fight, he would have won in the end.

    But then what? This isn’t life or death.

    This is not a fight to kill or die.

    It’s a battle royale.

    If you don’t gather in a specific area, you’ll be eliminated.

    He moved carefully to avoid touching the surrounding features and stood at the edge of the cliff.

    It was such a beautiful scenery, with a wide ocean view and the setting sun on the other side.

    And when he came to this place, he seemed embarrassed as if he realized something.

    I smiled at him to let him know that his guess was correct.

    He got cold and spoke quickly.

    “No way… ! Completely outside the venue… !”

    I said my final goodbye to him.

    “Goodbye. Isaac Evan. You were the second most powerful being I’ve ever met.

    You are a really strong person. I just did my strategy a little better. I hope you are stronger the next time we meet.”

    After saying all the greetings, I threw him towards the sea.

    If you throw him into the sea and leave the island, he will naturally float far away.

    So much so that I can never come back.

    And we were clear that this performance evaluation was taking place on the island.

    So he will be eliminated.

    As he flew away, he glared at me and promised what would happen next.

    “Next time, you will have to truly fight with me and win.”

    “I’ll be looking forward to it.

    Just like that, Isaac Evan, the formidable enemy who gave me the most trouble, eventually left for the distant ocean.

    Only a slight gust of wind from where he passed tickled my face.

    When his doll disappeared completely and I could no longer recognize him.

    [Cadet No. 6, Cadet Isaac Evan, was eliminated.]

    Isaac Evan, his elimination has been confirmed.

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