-You have achieved an achievent!
-You have gained likes for achieving the [Victory Lead] achievent.
-You have gained ‘4’ likes!
At the Sword Saint’s words that they were in first place, Iris smiled brightly and hugged Har and Nadia tightly. The two relatively shorter people were enveloped in Iris’s embrace.
Ciron also couldn’t contain his smile and clenched his fist.
Ethan looked at the teachers with contentnt.
‘They can’t help but feel a sense of achievent.’
On the way to the top, Ethan didn’t handle everything alone. When moving as a group, doing everything alone is absolutely sothing to be avoided.
‘We need to rember we’re a team.’
And he knew their personalities well too. They trusted Ethan, but they didn’t want to leave everything to him.
That’s why Ethan only used Sleeping Dragon’s Sight until they reached the top.
He avoided what could be avoided and blocked what couldn’t be avoided with the help of his fellow teachers.
That’s how they reached the top. It was natural to feel a sense of achievent.
The Sword Saint looked at Ethan and then at the Ivecar teachers.
“What happened to our branch family kids?”
As Ethan expected, the Sword Saint seed most curious about the safety of the branch family.
Traps could be identified and avoided easily with the power of Sleeping Dragon’s Sight.
But the Ramsdale branch family mbers weren’t opponents that could be avoided just because you wanted to.
“A head-on confrontation would have taken too long, so we ambushed them.”
“What?”
The Sword Saint made a bewildered expression. An ambush?
“You’re saying you ambushed the kids who were hiding to ambush you?”
The Sword Saint asked again with a dumbfounded expression, wondering if he had heard wrong.
“Yes.”
But Ethan nodded calmly.
Since he could see all the places where they were hiding, it wasn’t that difficult to ambush them in reverse.
Moreover, Ciron’s swordsmanship skills and the magic skills of the three Magic Departnt teachers were excellent.
No matter how strong the Ramsdale branch was, there was no way they could handle the Ivecar teachers attacking according to Ethan’s timing.
That’s how Ethan brought out the best in his fellow teachers, and they were able to easily handle the Ramsdale branch family mbers who were hiding in a row all the way to the top.
“Huhu, huhuhuhuh-!”
The Sword Saint felt caught off guard. He never thought they could reach the top by making the first move in this way.
“To think you’d ambush them. I never even considered it. Excellent, excellent. I suppose Ethan was the guide?”
“Yes, he was really amazing!”
Ciron answered with an elated expression.
“And the other teachers must have excellently carried out Ethan’s instructions. Hmm, you’re certainly worthy of first place.”
He had so inner concerns since they had climbed to the top via a different route than the set one. But the Sword Saint actually valued that point highly.
“If you think a path is right, then that’s the right path. You’ve worked hard climbing to the top.”
The Sword Saint gestured behind him. Behind were makeshift tents and food prepared for comfortable rest.
Having climbed up quite breathlessly, the teachers, including Ethan, went to the tents to rest.
The Sword Saint looked at the artifacts again.
“Second place has been decided too.”
***
“Huff… Huff…”
Freya Academy, having overco various traps, was fighting with the Ramsdale branch family mbers.
When they first encountered them, they weren’t too worried.
They were mbers of the Ramsdale branch, not the main family.
In contrast, they were Freya’s elite teachers.
Moreover, they thought the other side wouldn’t try to inflict wounds unless absolutely necessary. That’s why they planned to quickly subdue them and move up.
There was even no pursuit from behind.
Goode and Covington would obviously be beaten, and the problem was Ivecar Academy. But there was no sense of movent from that Ivecar.
Luthe, a Freya Academy teacher, thought they had fallen for this illusion magic.
It was certainly a tricky magic. To think it could stimulate trauma in an instant.
But Luthe wasn’t soone who would fall for such ntal magic. He broke free in an instant, and Kai and Heris also broke free from the illusion magic simultaneously.
Thanks to that, they were able to widen the gap with other academies even more.
In that state, they thought they would quickly overco these people and climb to the top.
They thought they might even be able to surprise the Sword Saint.
But it wasn’t easy. They were just uninjured, but their stamina was severely depleted.
The Ramsdale branch wasn’t sothing to be ignored.
These were people who had accumulated a lot of practical experience and worked together for a long ti.
No matter how elite the Freya teachers were, being outnumbered and outexperienced, they couldn’t see a way to break through.
That’s when Kai stepped forward.
“Teacher Kai.”
“I’ll break through. I’ll create an opening, so follow behind .”
But unlike Luthe and Heris, Kai Felix had quite a bit of energy left.
As Kai gripped his sword, the Ramsdale branch mbers tensed.
In fact, they hadn’t intended to press this hard.
Originally, they planned to deplete their stamina moderately, raise the tension, and then retreat, but the situation changed oddly due to Kai Felix stepping forward.
“If we go easy, we’ll get hurt. We need to be thorough.”
The branch team leader said.
The rumored Kai Felix was a mber of the Twelve Stars Families and Freya’s great elite teacher.
But those who had seen him directly in this training session said his skills were lacking compared to the rumors.
They said he had an overwhelmingly lethargic feeling, and although he clearly had skills, there was sothing unsettling about him.
But Kai’s skills when directly confronted were extrely excellent.
Skills lacking compared to the rumors?
If these were lacking skills, just how much more excellent did they have to be to be considered great skills?
Kai Felix’s sword was so rough that even the branch mbers couldn’t handle him carelessly.
As the leader said, if they went easy, they’d get badly hurt.
“……”
anwhile, his two colleague teachers were greatly surprised by Kai’s sword, which was clearly different from before.
The two teachers had experience observing Kai’s classes a few tis.
Also, since Freya had several separate trainings for new teachers, they had seen Kai Felix’s sword up close quite a few tis.
Even then, Kai Felix had displayed highly refined swordsmanship.
Of course, Luthe wasn’t a swordsman, so he couldn’t tell how great Kai’s swordsmanship was. But even at a glance, he could feel a different quality from other swordsn.
But the sword Kai was wielding now was completely different from then.
“……”
Why was that? It clearly looked much rougher than before, but now it seed stronger.
Kai suddenly stepped strongly on the ground and plunged between the Ramsdale branch mbers.
It was an action the previous Kai would never have taken.
Clang-!
Kai instantly sent the sword of the branch mber in front flying and broke through.
“Run!”
As Kai took the lead and ran, the two teachers followed. This was the right ti. The Ramsdale branch mbers who had just let the three teachers go stared blankly at them.
“This is completely different from what we were reported?”
“What! We could have gotten hurt if we weren’t careful!”
“Seems like there’s been so change of heart… Beyond being different from what we were told, it felt like… he was venting so frustration.”
***
“Huff… Huff…”
The Freya Academy teachers arrived at the top, breathing heavily.
“We, we must be first.”
“We’re first!”
Unlike the two teachers who were completely sprawled out, Kai frowned slightly as he looked ahead.
“I don’t think so.”
“What?”
“We’re not!?”
The two shocked teachers hastily got up. Kai pointed as if telling them to look behind.
“Yes, there’s an academy that arrived before us.”
Kai wore a sour expression as if he had expected this.
Behind, under the makeshift tent, the Ivecar Academy teachers were resting.
Ciron Ramsdale was grinning at the late-arriving Freya teachers.
“You arrived faster than expected?”
“H-How…”
“We clearly weren’t being chased from behind…!”
Luthe gritted his teeth in frustration.
Seeing this, the Ivecar teachers smiled slightly.
For a mont, Kai and Ethan’s eyes t.
‘His eyes look better. Seems like he’s made up his mind.’
It was clear that the things that had been suppressing him for a long ti were breaking.
“Rest in that tent over there. Let’s wait for the remaining academies.”
After quite so ti had passed, Goode Academy and Covington Academy arrived.
Goode was third, Covington fourth.
“Huff… Huff…”
The two academies were completely ragged, but their eyes were alive. It seed they had beco rivals and competed while climbing up.
“With this, everyone has excellently climbed to the top.”
The teachers of the two academies also wore puzzled expressions. Ivecar Academy clearly hadn’t overtaken them.
“Could it be…”
“The first place in this physical training class is Ivecar Academy. They arrived much faster than Freya Academy, who ca in second.”
Everyone seed curious about how exactly Ivecar had taken first place.
“Ivecar ca by their own path.”
“B-But that’s…”
“I told you guys to reach the top.”
The Sword Saint looked at the academy teachers.
“And Ivecar reached the top. Faster than anyone else. There were no unfair thods. I was watching everything from the top.”
“……”
At the Sword Saint’s words, everyone had to close their mouths.
“As promised, I’ll give the prize to Ivecar Academy, who ca in first in this class.”
As he said this, the Sword Saint stomped his foot strongly.
“First, let’s thank our Ramsdale knights who worked hard for this class.”
The Ramsdale branch mbers, who had been sowhere, suddenly appeared and lined up behind the Sword Saint.
About twenty of them were glaring at the Ivecar Academy side.
These were the ones who had been thoroughly caught off guard by Ethan’s ambush.
In fact, so of them couldn’t even properly rember the situation.
They had fainted before they could even recognize what was happening.
“Thank you very much!”
“Thank you!”
The Ramsdale branch mbers all bowed their heads at once.
“With this, the first class is over.”
The Sword Saint said.
“Let’s start the second class. The second class will be sparring. Through sparring, I’ll check your practical sense and correct your problems. I’ll make sure swordsn learn how to deal with mages, and mages learn how to deal with swordsn.”
As the Ramsdale branch mbers moved busily, a match table was quickly created.
“You’re most curious about one thing, right? Who will be the strongest in this training session?”
The Sword Saint looked at Ethan and Kai.
“Teacher Ethan Whiskers, and Teacher Kai Felix. Please co forward.”
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