episode_0067

Erdi leaves the room. I got up from lying down.

Because it was too painful to stay still.

I put on the mask I had thrown around and came out of Erdi’s room.

When I left the room, I saw Vieron, the head deacon.

Vieron lowered his head as soon as he saw me.

“Duke Mertain. How have you been?”

“Okay.”

Vieron.

He was a person who had looked after Erdi since he was young and was one of the people who followed him with deep loyalty.

‘Now that I think about it, Vieron knows about the relationship between me and Erdi.’

It’s been so long since I came here that I forgot about it.

That means there is only one person who knows the relationship between me and Erdi.

That was Vieron.

It hadn’t occurred to me until just now, but it came to mind when I encountered it in person.

I asked, slightly relaxed.

“It’s been 2 years. How have you been?”

“Yes. Thanks to Duke Mertain, I had a good time.”

“I did something.”

This is not an empty remark, I sincerely don’t know what I did.

I can’t believe you’re doing well thanks to me.

Vieron chuckled as I tilted my head at the incomprehensible words.

“There is such a thing. By the way, may I ask where you are going?”

“It’s boring to sit still. Erdi also went somewhere.”

“Then, would you like to go to the training center? If you go there, you will see some pretty interesting sights.”

“Then let’s go there sometime.”

There’s nothing to do.

If Vieron said that, it wasn’t a bad idea to go there to kill time.

“Then let’s go.”

“Have a good time.”

Vieron bowed his head.

I nodded my head and walked towards the training ground.

‘Anyway, it’s nice to be back after a long time.’

I burst into laughter as I saw that the scenery had not changed from what I saw two years ago.

The current scenery was as if I was seeing Erdi now.

I was so lost in nostalgia for the past that I kept walking and eventually arrived at the training ground.

As I arrived at the training ground, I heard the sound of weapons clashing.

Looking inside the training hall from the outside, I saw a woman and a group of people who appeared to be knights fighting each other.

As I was examining the woman, I let out a laugh.

‘Was it like this?’

I could understand why Vieron had told me that I could see interesting sights if I went here. The reason was in the woman’s sword.

‘That’s unusual.’

Usually, people have their own swordsmanship or have it taught to them by someone else.

Of course, there are some who don’t have it, but excluding those, each swordsmanship has its own flow and rhythm.

The rhythm and flow come from the movement of magical power.

That meant that each sword technique had a different method of moving magical power.

‘That’s why if you learn one swordsmanship, you won’t be able to learn another swordsmanship.’

Learning swordsmanship, which is a completely different movement, when you have already learned swordsmanship?

This is no different from just wasting time on the ground.

Not only can you not learn, you can’t even try.

Because the body’s muscles and magical power have already accepted the movements of swordsmanship, they cannot accept other swordsmanship techniques.

But the woman in the training hall now seems to be mocking that common sense.

They showed off completely different sword techniques.

It’s not like he was exposed to various sword techniques and developed them into his own form.

They were showing two completely different sword techniques.

It was a situation where I had no choice but to let out a laugh.

Anyone with a knack for swords would be surprised by what the woman saw.

But if there is a problem.

‘It’s so useless.’

Learning several sword techniques does not make you stronger.

Originally, swordsmanship had its own flow. But what would happen if swordsmanship with a different trend suddenly intervened?

The answer was simple.

The sword skills you already had become completely worthless.

In a way, swordsmanship can be said to embody a person’s life.

Will it work properly if foreign matter gets in it?

The woman in front of me looked exactly like that.

‘Well, it’s not as bad as I thought.’

Only then did the limits become clear.

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could refer to someone else’s swordsmanship and mix it with your own?

Since I just use both, there is no answer.

As I click my tongue, the woman’s eyes suddenly turn to me.

Does he know what I’m looking at?

A bit of hostility appeared in the woman’s eyes.

‘If it were any other guys, they would have blown the head off right away.’

The dukes are not fools, and they do not know the meaning of such a woman’s gaze.

Erdi and I are far from ordinary dukes, but they are so cold-blooded that they would have tried to cut off my head just by glaring at me like that.

‘It’s a shame because I’m nice.’

Otherwise, that woman probably wouldn’t exist in this world.

I smiled and made eye contact with the woman.

In that state, I delivered the words with my mouth.

‘Do you want to play a round? ‘It looks like you know who I am.’

The woman nodded as if she understood clearly.

I stepped into the training hall, and the eyes of other knights turned to me.

They looked puzzled at first, but immediately became astonished and visibly stiffened, as if they had sensed my identity.

One of the knights quickly approached me.

He asked me cautiously.

“Are you Duke Mertain?”

“Okay.”

“This is Knight Commander Pluto. May I ask why you came?”

“Because that woman is interesting. The way he glared at me just now was also impressive.”

At those words, the expressions of the knight commander and the surrounding knights turned pale.

Some even passed out.

Only then will they know the extent of the duke’s power and have no choice but to react in that way.

Especially if you know that I can kill a woman right away if I want to.

There was no way the woman knew this either, but she was filled with a desire to be with me, as if none of that mattered. I didn’t hate that kind of woman.

“Duke Mertain. It’s my fault for not being able to educate my subordinates. So please have mercy… ”

“You’re making strange noises. I have no intention of doing something. It’s just that the woman in front of me seems to want to clash swords with me, so I’m just trying to oblige.”

Pluto’s murderous gaze fell on the woman.

The woman quietly averted her gaze at the gaze that seemed to tell her to shut up right now.

However, I chuckled at the sight of him glancing at me as if he still wanted to confront me.

“I have no intention of holding any responsibility or fault, Leader Pluto. You have nothing to worry about.”

“… ”

Looking back at Pluto, who was quite worried, I asked the woman.

“What do you think?”

I would like to “… ”

The knights’ faces showed resignation.

Pluto, too, barely manages to swallow a sigh as he sees that he can’t stop him and retreats.

I said facing the woman.

“Then, raise your sword.”

A woman holds a sword.

Instead of a sword, I picked up something that looked like a stick.

“… ”

The woman’s expression hardened in an instant.

It’s probably an act of ignoring me, but that’s just because I don’t know myself.

In fact, one finger was enough to deal with a woman.

I just picked up a stick because I was worried that if I did that, I would lose my mentality and eventually die.

The woman seemed quite humiliated by that alone.

“… Are you not carrying a sword?”

the woman asked.

I laughed at the woman’s question.

“It should be at that level. I have no intention of raising a sword against a guy who is just busy showing off to others and showing off his sword skills.”

The situation was such that the woman’s expression went from rotten to ugly.

“You will regret it.

At the next word, the knights around him covered their faces and lamented.

However, I actually burst out laughing at the woman’s words.

“Regret? That’s funny. Those words are usually said by the powerful. It doesn’t touch me at all because it’s being said by a weak being.”

It’s possible that she didn’t know my strength, but even so, from my point of view, it was a really funny statement. This is why a guy who can’t even figure out the path he’s taking brings up the word regret.

The woman took a stance without saying any more, as if she would no longer be provoked.

I like his spirit, but he lacks objectification of himself.

In this case, the best way is to tell them your location.

‘It looks like he’s a new member of the Knights Templar.’

That’s what my dear friend Erdi’s article says?

I couldn’t watch this.

Of course, if Erdi saw this scene now, he would get all excited and say something to me.

‘whatever?’

Saying it’s for Erdi’s sake is just an excuse.

The only reason I was acting like this right now was because of boredom and interest in women.

I smiled and snapped my fingers.

“Come at me.”

The woman couldn’t hold back any longer and rushed at me.