Seira led to the place where Elmia held her swordsmanship training.
I took a peek and —
“Co on, hurry up and stand up! This shouldn’t be enough to wear you out!!”
A few dozen boys were lying on the ground around Elmia,
Every single one of them were totally battered.
W-What kind of training were they doing?!
“Tsk…You all charged at at the sa ti, but nobody even landed a single blow!”
Apparently, their set-up was a one-to-many actual combat, with Elmia fighting against those students at the sa ti.
By the way, Elmia was using a wooden sword, while the rest of them were using real ones.
And yet, they didn’t even land a single blow on her, and got beaten instead with a single wooden sword. That ant her combat skill wasn’t sothing to scoff at.
As expected of a Holy Knight, a tertiary occupation, huh.
Oh, wait, it’s also possible that the students were just way too weak.
They passed the academy entrance examination, so they should definitely be quite proficient with magic.
However, even if Elmia’s training was open to all those who wanted to participate, it’s unlikely that there would be anyone among them with a natural talent for swordsmanship.
This is an academy of magic, after all.
“Oh, Seira, you ca! Halt, too.”
Elmia noticed Seira and while we’re observing near the entrance of the training hall.
“Elmia, good work.”
“Good work. So you’re also working here at the academy, huh, Elmia.”
“Eh, yeah, that’s right, but…Didn’t I tell you?”
“Nope, didn’t hear about it.”
“R-Really. Sorry ‘bout that. Should’ve asked for permission first from m-my h-husband, right…”
Elmia turned beet red while calling husband, even though she’s the one who brought it up.
Seed like Elmia was still unused to a lot of things.
Well, that innocence of hers was quite good.
“I’m pretty sure it’s boring to stay cooped in the mansion even with the chores, so it’s totally fine even if you work at the Academy. Tina knows Elmia is working, right?”
“Yeah, I told Tina-sama. I need her letter of recomndation to work here, in the first place.”
Elmia used honorifics for Tina and the others in our family, but she completely dropped them when she’s talking about .
It wasn’t a bad thing, though.
According to Seira, it was Elmia’s attempt to hide her embarrassnt, and it was quite adorable.
“I see, then there’s no problem.”
If Tina’s aware about everything, then that’s okay.
That overly talented exclusive maid of mine could handle almost anything even if I leave it to her.
“T-Teacher Elmia…who are they?”
One of the guys stood up while propping himself on his sword.
“Oh, you’re finally awake. Okay. lem introduce you. This guy here is none other than the man I’m always talking about — the guy who can easily win against , a Level 160, without even using magic, a genuine Bakemono through and through.”
“—What!? T-That guy? But based on his robe, he’s just a second year, isn’t he?”
The student looked at , totally flabbergasted.
H-Hey! What’s with that introduction, huh?!
Wait, are you always referring to as Bakemono, huh?!
“Ah, right! You all co at him, and if anyone of you managed to land a blow on Halt, then I’ll accept that al affair that you’re babbling about.”
“I-Is that true!?” (All students)
All the guys that fell on the ground lifted their heads.
“...Elmia, what’s this about a al?”
“These guys were pestering and inviting out to eat. I said I’ll agree if they can hit . Even just a single blow is fine. It’s just that nobody managed to do that even up to this day.”
Hey, wasn’t that a given, since their opponent was a Level 160?
“We just have to land a blow on him, right?”
“Whoooo! We got this!”
“I-I didn’t want to hit Teacher Elmia with a real sword, but… i-if it’s a guy, then —”
“Hihihi, let’s do him in. We'll definitely do him in! For the sake of a date with Teacher Elmia!!”
Oh, all the students seed all fired-up.
Ah, no, they’re eager to kill off.
I didn’t say I’d do it, though…
Hmm, the idea of Elmia, my wife, dating sobody other than didn’t sit well with , and there’s also the possibility of these guys shadowing her around, so let’s just go along with it.
“Halt-sama, are you really going to fight against them?”
“Yup. I’m also curious about how strong the students here are.”
I had never clashed swords with the students from other classes before, so I think it’s a good opportunity.
“Seira, I’m leaving the healing of these guys to you.”
“Eh…I-Is it really alright?”
“Yeah. I want to experience all they got for myself.”
Elmia had beaten them black and blue, and they were standing out of sheer will, so it wouldn’t amount to anything if I win against them as they were.
“I understand. Then —”
Seira released Divine Bless within the training hall just like she did back at the first-aid clinic.
“W-Whoa, this is!”
“Amazing…I’ve totally recovered my strength.”
“We’ll be able to do it with this!!”
“Thank you, miss!”
Everyone was fired up more than before.
“Seira, thanks for healing those students. Alright, I’ll explain the rules. First, those who will participate in my training are free to use body-strengthening magic. All other attack spells are prohibited other than that. And Halt, you’re not allowed to use body-strengthening magic at all, either.”
It was not a normal rule, but there’s no point in doing body-strengthening magic anyway.
“Got it. That’s fine with .”
I agreed to Elmia’s rule and took the wooden sword from her.
This was my weapon of choice.
Elmia’s students didn’t have any qualms about the rule, and they started casting body-strengthening magic on themselves and their comrades.
Afterward, seventeen boys took their weapons and surrounded , ready to go any ti.
It seed that they were ready.
I let Elmia know that I was ready, too.
“Begin!”
“Take this!!”
The mont Elmia gave her signal, one of the students standing diagonally right from ca charging at while shouting.
However, this was just a decoy.
Sounds of swords slashing at from the left rang in my ears.
“Oopsie.”
I bent down a little to avoid the student attacking from behind .
“What?! Ugh!!”
The student was so dumbfounded that I evaded his attack, so I kicked him in the stomach while he was standing stupefied.
One down.
The others were wielding their swords with no hesitation whatsoever, so this must be a result of Elmia’s training too.
They didn’t hold back even for a bit.
Their coordination was pretty good, too.
Perhaps they turned out this way after training with Elmia, given the overwhelming difference in ability between her and them.
Such thoughts crossed my mind while I beat the arms and ankles of the guy who was first to charge at .
Using his montum when he jumped on was enough even for a Level 1 guy like to get enough power.
I didn’t have to hold back either, since Seira, the walking hospital, was nearby.
A dull sound of sothing breaking rang out.
The student sank to the ground, unable to move anymore.
Okay, two down.
Fifteen left.
My combat experience and skills all ca back along with my mories of my ti as the Guardian Hero.
I already fought against more than 10,000 demons, and that experience had taught two techniques.
I fought against swarms of more than a hundred monsters back when I was the Guardian Hero. There was no way I could last fighting against that many monsters, my stamina would definitely be unable to keep up if I fought using my own power.
That’s the reason why I developed a technique that would help use the montum and power of the monsters attacking against them.
Let the attack slide past and use that to hit another foe.
Else, I would deliberately accept the attack and use that power to retaliate using my sword.
Because of this, I managed to defeat my enemies while using the minimum amount of power I could.
This was one of the two techniques — [Channel] power.
The second was to [Discernnt].
It was the ability to predict the enemies’ next move based on the center of gravity and their muscle and eye movents.
Discerning their next move would make it possible to channel their attack.
The stronger the enemies’ attack, the stronger mine would be.
Moreover, since I could see through the weaknesses that the enemies would subconsciously defend and use their attack power to my advantage, I could kill most of my enemies with just a single blow.
I already annihilated a wide plethora of monsters
These students currently surrounding were all humans. The body structure of humans were generally the sa among almost all individuals, so of course their vital points also had the sa locations.
This was different from the troubleso monsters, where each individual had different weaknesses even within the sa species.
Stopping the movents of these students were easy as pie.
“What’s wrong? You wanted to date Elmia, right? Co at .”
It’d be better if you just attack .
I could use your power as my own.
I repeatedly taunted them and easily defeated them one after the other.
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