The Only Swordsman of the Magic Academy

7 – The real story

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“This is…”

In Pangenia, it is an ego weapon, and on Earth, it is called a growth artifact.

In the beginning, it had the performance of a regular artifact, but after the engraving process, it was a fraudulent artifact that greatly improved its performance whenever the growth value exceeded a certain value.

As it grows with its owner, it has a very high probability of awakening special abilities only to its owner, so it can be said to be a valuable item that cannot be judged simply by its grade.

Vulkan kept begging me to check it out, so I approached the sword and raised his hand.

[???(0%): A masterpiece and Ego Sword made by Vulkan, the best artisan of Pangenia, by burning the craftsman’s soul to the limit for a true knight. There are a total of 5 stages of growth.

Stats▽

Strength +0.5, Sense +0.5, Stamina +0.5

Shin Gum Il ▽

The sword does not break until the heart is broken.

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Open after engraving

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Open after reaching 20% growth rate]

‘What did I see…?’

The first stage of growth, or even the imprinting process, hadn’t been completed yet, but it raised the stats to the level of a rare weapon artifact, and was already in the state of blooming a special ability.

Even the growth type artifacts I’ve seen so far are mostly composed of 2nd to 3rd stages, and the highest one was at the end of the 4th stage, but this one is said to have up to the 5th stage.

The basic performance and future growth potential were overwhelmingly higher than any growth artifacts I knew. To the extent that it would be good to pick this one as a growth artifact that can only be contracted.

“I can’t take this…”

“Who said you would?”

‘Dead..?’

Certainly he said he would show me the sword, but never said he would give it to me. He didn’t even think of a rice cake vendor, but he was drinking kimchi soup alone.

“I was thinking of giving a sword as a gift if a decent knight comes along. However, isn’t a sword that is too good for its skill to cause a decrease in skill level?”

“That’s right.”

Can an F-class wizard improve his skills by acquiring a wand that can use Hellfire?

‘Impossible.’

Even if you can defeat enemies you would never normally be able to defeat thanks to the staff you deserve, it won’t improve your skills.

Rather, you forget about improving your skills and think about how to handle the weapon better, and it is only natural to rely on the weapon.

Having a good handle on that weapon can be called an improvement in one’s own skill, but if you lose that weapon, you’ll be back in almost the same condition as before you got it.

So, it is most desirable to use weapons according to one’s level. Even if you use a good weapon, the bottom line is that your growth won’t be eaten up.

“This weapon is too much for your level right now.”

“To be honest…”

It’s only a pattern, but I haven’t even properly laid the basics of mana practice yet. Even the weapon before I grew up was too much for me.

“If you haven’t reached the level of a beginner yet with that body and swordsmanship skills, then there must be a problem with magic.”

Vulkan, who has lived three digit years and met countless swordsmen, was able to pinpoint my problems.

“If you solve the magical problem within a month and reach the level of a beginner, I will give you this weapon. In return, I will give you this weapon on the condition that you only obtain weapons from my workshop from now on.”

In any case, Vulcan is the only person in the world who makes things for knights. It was a proposal without any penalty since I would never go to any other workshop except this one.

‘I must have said that way to lighten my heart.’

Hopefully he won’t be burdened with receiving his masterpiece for free. Of course, the conditions I put forward would have been sincere words.

This means that if I don’t reach Beginner within a month, they will consider me a friend but not a single knight.

“Okay. I’ll be back in a month as a beginner, so I’m taking good care of ‘my sword’.”

I also used the expression my sword to mean that I would not have any burden.

“Hmm… Ok. I’m looking forward to it.”

Vulcan answered with a small smile. But he put the iron sword I used earlier into the scabbard and threw it at me. Through his improved physical ability, he receives it without difficulty.

“Isn’t a knight going to need a sword to train? There’s no such thing as a proper sword at home anyway, so use it as a training sword. Throw it away if it’s broken.”

After throwing a sword at me, Vulcan turns around and enters the workshop. I bowed down even though he wasn’t looking.

“I’ll write well!”

“Come.”

I really don’t look back until the end. Acting as if nothing was wrong to this extent was the Vulcan I knew. I turned around and left the studio entrance.

The next time we meet, he thought that he would proudly become a sword beginner and receive a growth-type artifact.

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“Whoa… I’m finally here.”

Sitting on a chair in the studio, Vulkan let out a long sigh.

“I didn’t know there was a madman who actually learned how to train the Hurons…”

The largest part of the reason why he mistook Hajun for a Pangenian was the training method of the Hurons.

Because it was very difficult to inseminate, the number gradually decreased, and then the Hurons disappeared leaving only mixed races behind.

And people went crazy when the secretary with the training method of the strongest race, the Hurons, was released to the world. It must contain the secret of the deformed strength of the Hurons.

After a fierce fight, a knight got his hands on the secretary, and after confirming the contents, the knight in despair revealed the contents of the training method written on the secretary to everyone.

People didn’t believe the fact that he disclosed it, or praised his chivalry, but after the content was fully spread, I could understand why the article spread the training method.

‘Because it’s not something that people can learn.’

Since it was confirmed that the secretary was real, countless people have tried to learn how to train the Hurons. He thought that if he trained the strongest race, he could become the strongest himself.

However, most of them died of shock or excessive blood loss, and for many other reasons, the world overflowed with people who died or were crippled while learning the Huron training method.

Ever since the sword master of the empire died learning the Huron training method, no one has touched the Huron training method.

Everyone in the world can easily know, but it has become the only training method that is not challenged by everyone in the world.

Vulcan, who had been familiar with the movement of magical power over 100 years of creating numerous masterpieces, knew that the magical power moving in Hajun’s body was the same as that of the Huron tribe training method.

As much as it was a very famous training method, he had been interested in it, so there was no way he was confused with the magical flow of other training methods.

But seeing that he didn’t say anything after learning the famous training method, it was clear that he was an Earthling, not a Pangenian.

So he asked me a naughty question about why he pretended to be a Pangenian and didn’t think of taking advantage of him, never expecting an answer like that.

“You don’t want to take advantage of someone who misses something to the point of shedding tears… It’s a real story that’s hard to find even in our world.”

He opens another can of beer and pours it into his mouth. I had never seen a guy who could be called a real knight since ‘The Hero’, so he had a desire to get closer.

‘Still, it looked like there was work to be done…’

Only those with goals and convictions can have such shining eyes. Anything that stood in the way of such a person had been extinguished early on, but the craftsman’s soul did not allow it.

He thought it was right to let him go today since there would be plenty of opportunities to drink in the future.

‘I wouldn’t have accepted the sword if I just gave it to you.’

Actually, there was no problem even if I gave that Ego Sword to that child who was the only knight in a world without knights. Rather than continue to rot in the workshop, it would be better for a real knight to listen.

“I can’t get something like this…?”

It would be nice to just accept it, but he is a guy who lives a very tiring life. That’s why I liked it more, and after making the Ego Sword, the craftsman’s soul that had been off for a long time was ignited once again.

Since he went out with such a confident appearance, he will appear confidently within a month in the form of a sword beginner, having resolved the magic problem right away.

‘First of all, I should make a scabbard suitable for that sword.’

I was just pleasantly drunk. Enough to do everything in my power.

*

I came out of the house early in the morning, so I ate pudding with Suna, took the wizard qualification test, and talked for several hours at the steel workshop, but it wasn’t even 5 o’clock yet.

Hidden Peace is absolutely necessary to continue the training from tomorrow. So I stamped my wizard’s license at the entrance of Bongsan Mountain and passed the barrier.

-It has been confirmed that Ha-joon Choi is an F-class wizard.

The mountain is far behind the gate priority treatment area, so the probability of monsters appearing is very high.

Of course, there are no very dangerous monsters because they deal with dangerous things that are larger than medium-sized gates right away, but small gates were often overlooked.

Because monsters with a lower level cannot penetrate the barrier that surrounds the entire mountain, the probability of harming ordinary people is 0% anyway.

If a medium-sized gate appears later, you can deal with the monsters in the small gate at once, so why divide the work?

‘There are people like me.’

There were also those who went into the barrier with a wizard license and gained subjugation experience in this way, as it was not possible to go to the gate formally.

Since there are many new hunters who are reducing the number of monsters like that, it was good to say that there was no problem with monsters accumulating in the first place.

I’m here to find the dungeon where Hidden Peace is hidden.

The moment I entered the barrier and tried to search for the hidden coordinates of Hidden Peace… The green-skinned monsters and I met eyes.

‘Goblin…’

Kung. Thud.

For the first time in my life, the moment I faced many monsters without any safety device, my hand naturally went to the sword and my heart started pounding…