“But why are we heading to the World Tree Forest?”
While moving, Sarah was curious and asked ro who was walking ahead of her. He answered back looking puzzled,
“You didn’t hear?”
“Yes. I was just told that we will leave in the morning.”
“It seems like the High King forgot to tell you sothing important.”
Well, if it was Hasyath it wouldn’t be shocking. He always had the bad habit of skipping over the important parts of the information.
Most of the Ran warriors and even ro had experienced it, so there were quite a lot of tis when Karlovan, who was acting as the lieutenant, had a hard ti.
“Escort.”
“Escort?”
Who? Escort who?
Surely, it didn’t an that they would escort the High Elves guarding the tree.
Weren’t they the strongest ones? Joining their forces made sense, but escorting them didn’t.
ro realized what Sarah was thinking and said,
“We aren’t escorting the High Elves. Why would they even want us to escort them?”
“Then. Who could it be?”
“I don’t know exactly, but they will join us in the middle of the journey. In fact, I wonder whether it is even appropriate for us to escort them.….”
ro blurted out those words.
No matter how much he thought about it, it seed unnecessary. The Ran race, on the other hand, was a skilled group of warriors.
Simply put, it was baseless.
There was no reason for them to be there. And it was also the reason why Isis, their King, left at the sa ti.
To a free-spirited woman like her, it was just frustrating.
‘Even though I’m the sa.’
ro also didn’t fit in well, especially in the world of the warriors. If he had the strength, he would have run away like Isis.
The problem was that he wasn’t as skilled as Isis.
“You an to say we will et up with soone?”
“At our pace, it will take a week.”
They were walking at the sa pace as when they moved to the Rotomo Strait.
It wasn’t on the other side of the world, so it should be fine.
So how far was the World Tree?
Sarah thought hard about it but there was sothing she couldn’t understand, so she asked,
“Can’t we ask Mayatrey?”
“Wouldn’t we be more comfortable?”
“So why are we running like this?”
Right.
They had been running nonstop, with Hasyath in the lead.
“Why are we not taking the efficient way and doing this instead?”
“Well.”
ro shrugged his shoulders and said,
“Because the more inefficient, the better the effect?”
“….”
Sarah just stopped talking after hearing that.
ro smiled, and sohow, his expression looked ominous.
“You are following pretty well this ti. At first, you looked like you’d die any minute. Did your intensive training work? Should we speed up a little?”
“Uh? No, wait….”
Sensing sothing strange, Sarah tried to stop ro from speaking but he put his hand up and said,
“Sarah wants to run a little faster!”
“Oh? Sarah, are you okay?”
“She thinks we are moving too slowly and hopes we can speed up a bit!”
“Front! Get the ssage to Sir! We can speed up a little bit!”
“W-Wait!”
Sarah shouted in panic, but her voice didn’t reach any of them. Sarah glared at ro in anger.
“You fool!!!”
Five days passed.
Because they sped up, their arrival ti was shortened by two days.
Sarah was too scared to tell them to stop the entire ti, and she fell headfirst onto the ground.
It was a hellish journey.
Even though she took breaks in between, following behind the Ran warriors was never easy.
Rather, she experienced the sa pain she felt on their way to the Rotomo Strait.
“Ah, I will feed you.”
Sarah turned her dirt-stained face to the side and looked at ro, who was smiling.
She wanted to spit at him.
“Spit!”
“Why?”
Of course, she wasn’t able to aim correctly, and Sarah looked like an angry cat.
“I don’t know if you are a cat or a dog.”
As he said that, ro snapped his fingers and put the special pill down her throat.
And after a while, Sarah jumped up, looking fine. And she aid for ro’s head with her feet.
It was a fairly sharp kick, so it seed like it would work, but he raised his hand and grabbed her foot.
“Eh! No. No.”
“You jerk! I thought I was going to die for a week!”
“It is all just physical training, training. You need to accept it.”
“You just want to annoy .”
“Haha. Maybe around six points, right?”
“Eik!”
Sarah punched again, but ro easily dodged it. Seeing that, Sarah trembled in anger.
Actually, if it was just about them going a little faster, she wouldn’t have been angry.
But ro never stopped teasing her.
It was hard to move when the guy continued to scratch her nerves.
“I will not talk to you anymore.”
Sarah turned around and walked away.
“Are you really mad?”
ro was a bit shocked.
He asked for them to speed up to tease her, but he didn’t think she would be pissed. The warriors wouldn’t let go of this if rumors went around saying he bullied a young child.
ro had an awkward smile and went to appease Sarah.
“Ah! It is just a joke. Was it a bit harsh? Haha… let off… kuak!”
When ro approached Sarah’s back and moved his head close to her, Sarah’s eyes shone, and she hit him in the stomach with her elbow.
ro was shocked at the surprise attack, and he grabbed his stomach as he knelt down on the ground. No matter how skilled he was, getting ambushed like that would hurt.
Furthermore, Sarah was not just a normal person but a swordsman who had reached a fairly high level as an expert.
When ro wasn’t smiling anymore, he heard a triumphant laugh.
“Hehehe. I knew it would work.”
Sarah said as she was turning back.
“I waited until you approached .”
“W-Wait… I’m out of breath…”
“No questions and answers. Didn’t you do this too? Father used to tell that when I receive sothing…….”
……the words Count Welton said to her when she was young.
“I’ll make sure to pay it back!”
“Yah, Yah!”
Sarah’s fist hit ro’s face hard.
“You pitiful bastard. Were you beaten by a little kid? And you bullied her first?”
“… yes.”
“If I were beaten, I would have left my position.”
ro was making excuses for no reason and decided to stay silent.
Actually, to so extent, so of them were right.
Even if he thought about it, he allowed her to do it.
‘When did her fist move so quickly?’
If she had used aura, he wouldn’t be alive now.
But he wouldn’t have let her hit him, nor did she have any intention to do that.
Anyway, when he felt a pain in his stomach, sothing felt wrong.
And then a fist aid at his face followed. As if to show that geniuses are different, Sarah’s punching skills improved in a month.
From the point of view of soone who was hit by a fist trying to relieve one’s resentnt, he had to admit it.
“She improved a lot.”
“Did you get hit like this because you wanted to experience it firsthand?”
Gen looked at ro pitifully.
Gen, who was straightforward, had always watched ro and his stupid actions, but lately, he thought ro was becoming more stupid.
Still, he knew the guy was nice, so he didn’t say anything further.
“Tease Sarah in moderation. You and I both know that you get along with her, but I’ve realized that you aren’t that bright. Because you are nasty, you don’t know your limit. Do it in moderation.”
“So much nagging.”
“When did this bastard start to talk back so much?”
Pak!
In the end, his forehead was flicked by Gen.
And he knew for sure that it would hurt more than Sarah’s fist.
Sarah was resting on one side with a relieved face. She had always wanted to punish ro, and she finally put her plan into action.
Of course, she knew that he did it on purpose. No matter how hard she tried to attack him at the start, he managed to avoid her.
So she beat him more.
“So refreshing.”
Her stress has been released. Otherwise, she would have accumulated ntal strain.
“Phew.”
She realized it when she hit ro in the face—she thought that her fists felt lighter. Could it be that her movents were now sharper?
During her training, she didn’t feel it because she was continuously beaten by her opponent, but she clearly feels it now.
“Sword Master. It might happen.”
“Probably.”
“Ah!”
As Sara clenched her fists and talked to herself, she heard Harshath’s voice from behind.
Surprised, Sarah jumped up and bowed her head. And she asked with an awkward expression,
“You heard it?”
“I have good ears.”
Hasyath smiled and perched on a nearby rock.
As Sarah awkwardly stood there, he pointed to the other side.
And she walked over and sat down.
“You have been through a lot traveling with him for five days.”
“No.”
“ro isn’t bad, so try and understand him.”
“I do.”
Sarah smiled, touching her fist, and Hasyath smiled too.
She rarely saw this man smile, so it made her look at him more. And then she rembered sothing and asked,
“But, when I was telling myself that, you said probably, right?”
“Yes.”
“You really think so?”
It was hard to move on after hearing sothing like that since she wanted to be strong.
Hasyath spoke in a normal tone.
“All you need is one step.”
“One step?”
“Right. No matter how much you swing your sword and no matter how swiftly your body moves, even when you fight while getting beat up, you won’t get any better than now.”
Of course, she could train more physically and improve her senses, but at her current level, the difference wouldn’t be much.
“You just need one thing, and that is enlightennt.”
Enlightennt.
At that, Sarah looked dumbfounded.
She achieved enlightennt by practicing the sword a couple of tis, and there were tis she felt drastic growth. The problem was that it continued to change over the years.
She wasn’t stagnant yet.
“Mistakes are made.”
But Hasyath dismissed her thoughts.
“Am I mistaken?”
“I will ask you one thing. Do you believe your strength has increased dramatically since a month ago?”
“That….”
Obviously, her body was lighter and her movents more natural. She was definitely stronger than a month ago.
However, it couldn’t be called a drastic developnt.
“Getting strong doesn’t happen easily.”
“That is why normally the experts and the Masters are different.”
Even if there was a difference in skill between experts, there were cases where the weak defeated the strong due to various factors.
However, between a Master and the top expert, the Master had the advantage, unless he was an idiot.
“That is what being a superhuman is. It is just one step, but just going over it will allow you to wield in your hand the strength that is different from before.”
Ability was secondary.
If one turns into a Master, their body evolves, so their body grows more.
“Just like your brother.”
Her brother, who was now the Demon King, was now a full Master.
He worked so hard to the point where he beca unrivaled, and no one could land an effective hit on him.
So he was able to reach the Master class and beco superhuman.
“However, you need to keep this in mind. You have one step left, but that one step is the one that you may never reach.”
“I will make sure to keep that in mind.”
Sarah nodded, as if she really wanted to rember it.
At that ti, a sound ca from the barracks, signaling that the al was ready to be served.
Sarah had to help with the al distribution, so she got up first.
“I will help them get it ready.”
“Yes.”
“Thank you.”
Like a polite child, Sarah bowed and ran to the barracks.
Alone, Hasyath watched her and mumbled,
“It isn’t too far for you.”
Like what he said the first ti.
For so, one step to becoming a Master was endless, while for others, it was a road that they had to take the next mont.
And Sarah was the latter.
“I am looking forward to the day she ets her brother.”
A talent with the sword that surpasses even her older brother’s. How would he react?
‘He might not show any reactions.’
Hasyath stood up. And a series of carriages arrived.
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