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Before competing in swordsmanship, I first repaired the broken grimoire. Because magic power builds up to its limit and can explode.

He stood in the center of the preparation room holding a wooden sword. Do Yu-geon also stood a little away.

If you can attack the guy with his eyes closed and land a valid hit within the time limit, you win, but if you can’t land a good hit, that guy wins. The rules themselves are unfavorable to him, but it was Do Yoo-geon who set these rules, not him.

He says he can win just by blocking or something. This guy may really be that conceited, or he may be just stretching it out because it’s difficult to attack with his eyes closed. Whatever the intention, it was true that this side was advantageous, so I accepted it without any hesitation.

I did some stretching, took out my smartphone, and set an alarm. The time limit is 10 minutes.

“Now close your eyes.”

The guy closed his eyes. He looks so defenseless as he stands there holding the wooden sword loosely. Is it really okay to rush in?

“What are you doing? Come quickly. Time is still passing. You won’t have time, will you?”

“Why can’t I afford it?”

First, I took off my shoes. Then he ran up with a wooden sword and struck it lightly towards his shoulder. I cut through the air with the wooden sword of the black guy that had been thrown down.

It’s really preventable. Then, from now on, I will do it without hesitation.

I grabbed the disheveled sword again and stabbed it straight away. The guy dodged by moving to the side.

“Where is the avoidance?”

I took a step and cut it horizontally. The guy quickly stepped back and dodged.

“I never said I wouldn’t avoid it.”

If you look at the way he avoids talking, he seems very relaxed. That’s because the strides on this side are narrower, so even if he steps backwards, he can avoid it.

If he escapes like this, he will be able to avoid it for not only 10 minutes, but all day.

Then let’s make sure they can’t escape.

I used my magic power to grab the guy’s feet. The guy must have noticed and quickly moved his feet to avoid the magic, but caught it again. I can’t run away now.

“Hey! You’re not using magic!”

The guy shouted in panic. In the meantime, my eyes don’t open.

“You just don’t have to attack with magic.”

Cut diagonally from above. When the guy leaned down to block, the sword grazed the top of his head.

Got this.

I took a stance and started kicking. With this in mind, I took off my shoes. The guy grabbed my foot with both hands.

“Do you even kick me?”

The guy said while holding his ankle.

“The rule was to hit effectively, so it’s okay if it’s not a sword, right?”

I pull to take my foot out, but it won’t let go.

“I decided to take my shoes off and win.”

“Just put your foot down instead.”

Since one foot is lifted, it is difficult to maintain balance.

The guy smiled suspiciously and tickled the soles of my feet. A tickling sensation came from the soles of my feet. It’s not a painful tickle, but it’s a nerve-wracking tickle.

“Why is this happening all of a sudden?”

“I’ll let you go if you promise not to use magic or kick me.”

I swung the wooden sword, but perhaps because of his awkward posture, he was able to dodge it well and tickled me. I tried my best to hold on, but my strength wasn’t enough and I couldn’t get out.

“I understand. I understand, stop.”

“Without even swinging a fist?”

“huh.”

The guy let go of his feet. OMG… … . It’s shameful to see such disgrace. If I had just a little more strength, I could have gotten out. I do need some exercise.

I took a breath and stretched. My arms are sore and tired, perhaps because I swung the sword with a bad posture. Maybe it’s just because I’m tickled.

I checked the alarm and there were still about 4 minutes left. Since I’m tired, it would be better to finish it quickly without even having to fill 10 minutes.

“I’ll finish it with the next blow.”

Right now, I plan to use magic to win the attack. I promised I wouldn’t use magic, but I didn’t even promise to keep it.

“Is 10 minutes up?”

“It hasn’t even been 10 minutes, but I’m exhausted. What do you think?”

“I like it. Close your eyes—”

While the guy was talking, he rushed at me and stabbed me with his sword. The guy dodged to the side, but the wooden sword he was stabbing at was rerouted with magic and cut horizontally.

Instead of dodging, I blocked it with my sword. This much was expected. He drew his sword with magic, dodged Do Yu-geon’s sword, and stabbed him again. The guy changed his stance and blocked the sword with his sword face.

Stop this.

The guy opened his eyes.

“Hahaha! I won!”

“Yeah, you’re handsome.”

He carried the wooden sword towards the weapon and placed it in the appropriate position. I even used magic, but losing makes me dizzy. As expected, he doesn’t seem to have any talent with a sword.

The guy also came over to put down the wooden sword.

“But didn’t you just use magic?”

“I didn’t write it.”

“I’m sure it moved in a way that’s impossible for a wooden sword and I could feel the magic?”

“I think I’m mistaken. Are you tired? You’d better get some rest.”

“No, I could definitely feel it through my magic sense.”

“It’s because I lack magical talent.”

The guy shook his head.

“No, no. You used magic. I’m sure.”

“Do we really need to do that after winning?”

“The world of competition is cruel. You wrote it, right?”

“so?”

“If you break your promise, you have to pay the price.”

A lot is expected from a match where there is no stake.

“Then what do you want in return?”

“Something like a wish.”

“…….”

Several thoughts crossed my mind for a moment. Is this guy trying to ask for money under the pretext of friendship? Or are you trying to test it now to see how long it will last? How much is the right amount to give?

The more I think about it, the worse I feel. It really can’t happen anyway, so let’s stop thinking about it.

When I saw him, he was clearing his throat as if he was embarrassed. If you know it’s embarrassing, why say something like that?

“I’ll listen to it first. What is your wish?”

“I failed my midterm exam. That’s why my mom cut my allowance.”

“I didn’t know. But?”

“I’m saying that I’m running low on money for food during my appointment this weekend… so buy it for me then.”

Is that what you’ve been struggling with?

Sometimes I don’t know what this guy is thinking.

* * *

As I hunted on a daily basis, by mid-June my level had already reached level 4. Do Yoo-geon wanted to take level 5 at this point, but he couldn’t do it because the final exam was approaching. Even if it wasn’t for the final exam, I would have gotten tired of hunting and refused to take level 5.

He started studying two weeks before the final exam, putting his regrets aside, wondering if he was really going to keep his promise to study. Is it that you don’t want to go to academy that much? Then, let’s study a little earlier. I wonder how much I can study in two weeks.

In the meantime, many cases of magic have been posted on the Internet. Looking at the level of wizards, most of them seem to have a magic sense skill range of about 3m, there are some talented wizards with a range of 4~5m, and a very small number of wizards with a range of about 10m.

… … what? Isn’t it too narrow?

Thanks to this, the more I browsed the Internet, the more puzzled I became. I haven’t measured it, but I can easily do hundreds of meters and more if I concentrate, but Internet examples are confusing because the skill range is so narrow.

Is it the difference between skill and sense that does not require skill? Is that so? That’s it, right? It’s not like you’re the only one who’s strangely a few hundred meters away, right? Like Do Yoo-geon said, isn’t it true that he is an unexalted genius?

What’s even more puzzling is that if you watch videos of genius 10m magicians, they move their magic with great difficulty. Even the leading wizard who has worked hard ever since he developed the skill can only create wind rather than shoot magic.

The problem is how to utilize the magic power, not how to move the magic power, right? Why can’t I just use magic power? Why are they like this?

Most recently, a video was uploaded of creating a small rainbow by spraying water and creating wind using magic, and it became a hot topic of conversation across magic-related websites. This is quite a fun use. Earth science is amazing, allowing you to create rainbows through magic… … .

Meanwhile, a new wizard bulletin board was created on the Exploration League website. Still, since it was the Exploration League, I thought that news about other wizards would come out in earnest, so I looked at the bulletin board.

▷Title: Isn’t the magic swordsman bulletin board better than the wizard bulletin board?

▷Author: 3.14159m Wizard

This is the rank table according to skill range.

10m: Top 0.1%

5m: Top 1%

4m: Top 10%

3m: Top 30%

2m: the rest

Anything under 2m is a magic swordsman.

There are so many magic swordsmen, this is a bulletin board for magic swordsmen.

▷Comment

Engineering Captain 15: How about a fan bulletin board instead of a magic swordsman bulletin board? Although magic is useless in battle, the wind is cool.

└Author: One day, wizards will take revenge.

└Tech Leader 15: ‘Someday’. But now all wizards are prosecutors, so what kind of wizard is this? These days, even an electric fan is called a wizard.

└Author: Wizards will take revenge.

3.999m: Why is 3m excluded from the magic test? 3m is also a magic swordsman

└Author: I took it because I am 3m tall.

Chaangjabi: Why are you a magic swordsman? Ignoring the magician?

└Author: Who uses a spear in the forest these days? They don’t even accept parties.

└Chaangjabi: No friends?

Looking for 4m party: Isn’t it wrong to call him a magic swordsman now? If you have the talent to use magic during battle, you would probably be able to use magic by now, but would someone like that really need to use a sword? On the other hand, all of us who don’t have that talent are swordsmen who can’t use magic.

└Author: Self-proclaimed magic swordsmen with romantic dreams.

After looking at it, I realized there was nothing special about it. It’s not much different from the stories spread around the Internet because it’s full of articles like this. It’s the same here and there. It’s at the level of the Exploration League, but you guys shouldn’t do this too, it’s embarrassing.

Are people really talented in magic the type of people who don’t use the Internet? Although it is a speculation with weak basis, it seems more reasonable than the speculation that he is an unexalted genius.

I spent the day distraught as Do Yu-geon, who claimed to be a genius, made ignorant comments. So, a person with talent exceeding 10m uploaded a video.

It’s just 20m. The 20m wizard even uploaded a video of himself shooting magical power beyond the maximum range certification. Although the power is not enough to knock over a beer can, it is a positive sign. This is proof that there are more geniuses hidden than Internet authentication.

It must be somewhere. Geniuses who are better than you. Geniuses who will solve the problem whether a fantasy incident or a cosmic horror incident occurs.

All you have to do is trust them and just sit back and watch. No matter what happens, you can just go to school and go about your daily life as usual.

Yes, that’s right. You are not responsible for solving future problems. Even if you have talent, there are many people who are better at it, so the responsibility lies with them.

* * *

Do Yu-gun, who started studying two weeks before the final exam, did well on the exam. Although my grades are not objectively good, I can say that I did well because my grades have improved from before and I was given a deferment from going to the academy. It was a haircut that could be done.

As soon as the exam was over, he made an appointment and accelerated his leveling up. The goal is 5 laps. This is because there was a rumor on the Internet that not only goblins but also slimes would be added as mobs at level 5. It is said to be a different slime than the one you caught first.

[Level Up]

4 → 5

“Then I’ll check.”

I held the grimoire I was carrying with my magic in my arms and closed my eyes. The range of feeling magical power increases as you become more skilled, and can now cover the entire forest. This virtual space itself is not very large.

I felt hundreds of goblins, and in the midst of them, I felt a slime. It was easy to find the slime because it looked different and had strong magical powers. The rumor that the more goblins you catch, the more slimes appear, the more frequent the slime appears. There is only one.

When the direction was pointed out, Do Yu-geon took the lead.

“It’s been a while since I’ve had slime.”

Slime has stopped appearing in the city for a long time, so I haven’t seen it in a while.

“So it’s been two months since I caught slime in the city?”

“Hmm. The first discovery was April 30th and the last hunting was May 4th, so it’s been a little over two months.”

I don’t think the slime I’m going to catch now will be as weak as the slime I caught before. If you overestimate it, you may die and have to be resurrected, or you may be injured enough to go to the hospital.

Many dangers keep coming to mind, but I still go to catch them. You can approach slowly and run away if you think it’s really dangerous.

Is this too optimistic?