The Only Swordsman of the Magic Academy

8 – The Seeker

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The only things I’ve killed since I was born were miscellaneous bugs from the house. There was no sense of killing anything, just the feeling of getting rid of a nuisance?

I think people who feel guilty about killing bugs in the first place are a bit too weak. However, the goblin in front of me was different.

Small ones range from 120 to 180 for large ones. It has a size close to a human, walks on two legs, and even holds a weapon in its hand.

The color of the skin changes, the intelligence decreases, and it even looks like a human with an excessively protruding chin. I don’t know how others will feel, but that’s how I felt.

However, goblins used humans as breeders or stallions, and humans who could no longer be used as seeds or stallions were cruel monsters that were fed to young goblins.

An enemy of mankind unworthy of pity.

With the sound of my pounding heart, I drew my sword towards them. Goblins are good at counting. If I thought I was an existence that could never be defeated, it would never have appeared in front of me.

If I had followed them, they might have come out reluctantly, but the fact that they appeared in front of me at the moment I just entered meant that they were starving, but also that I looked easygoing.

A body without a single armor, no party, and no reverberations of magic enough to be judged to be strong. The only thing he was holding in his hand was a single sword, so he looked formidable.

And since my face, the back of my hand, and my ankles are in very neat condition, you might think that I am a kid full of confidence who has never had a real fight.

The moment the formation was formed to surround me like this, the four goblins were charging at me at the same time.

About three adult male goblins who could cook lightly came attacking with weapons, and the pressure wasn’t great because there were four of them.

“Slow.”

There is no need to strengthen the senses with super senses. Their attacks were slower than the arrows I caught in the F-class wizard qualification test, and my strength far exceeded those of the goblins.

In addition, I felt that their attacks were very crude, as if the weapon skill proficiency increase (LvM) trait had an effect on this kind of combat situation.

‘I think I could use it better.’

[Skill: Acquire spearmanship (Lv1).]

[Skill: Obtain Dagger Skill (Lv1).]

Those who have wielded only that weapon their entire lives are no better than me who wielded the sword for only three days.

After breaking the spearheads of two goblins with a single swing, he continued spinning and cut the remaining two goblins’ bodies in half with a single blow.

[You have defeated the F-class monster Goblin.]

[You have defeated the F-class monster Goblin.]

First, after smashing two long-range spears, I thought it would be a success if I just made them retreat, but the sword, which was accelerated by my strength, was faster than I thought.

It would have been difficult to show this level of performance if he had not awakened the descendant of the King of Knights, but his super strength, including transcendental strength, made this situation possible.

‘Vulkan’s iron sword is also fraudulent.’

No matter how hard it was, I didn’t expect the bones to be cut without any resistance. Dealing with the other two was easier. It seemed like he hadn’t fully recognized the situation yet.

I lightly slashed the heads of the two goblins who were staring at the missing spearhead and the comrade who had been slashed in half by a single blow.

[You have defeated the F-class monster Goblin.]

[You have defeated the F-class monster Goblin.]

It was only after I saw the message announcing their certain death that I relaxed a bit. Of course, I didn’t solve all of them because I didn’t know when and where monsters would pop out.

“I don’t feel much.”

For the first time in my life, I killed a proper creature. I still vividly remember the feeling of cutting the goblin at the tip of my sword. The blood-soaked sword admits that I killed a life.

Still, at first I thought it might be something like a physiological aversion, but strangely I didn’t feel anything. It may be because of the relatively high mental power.

‘Maybe he was originally like this.’

It could be someone who has no sense of resistance to killing. Seeing his heart race as soon as he found someone to kill, he might rather enjoy it.

In the future, I have to kill villains who are not as good as monsters, but if there is no resistance to killing humans, I will be able to solve the cases without any problems.

‘Let’s go.’

To stop worrying and find the location of the dungeon, which was only listed in text, I headed to the center of the mountain where low-level monsters were infested.

While defeating numerous monsters that are rushing at you.

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“Whoa… I finally found it…”

If the day got a little darker, I could have given up today, settled in a nearby inn, and come back tomorrow to find it, but luckily I found the dungeon before it became too dangerous.

‘Because there are monsters that get stronger at night.’

First of all, most wolf-type monsters were like that, and there were a variety of other monsters.

It’s no big deal even if it becomes 50% stronger for an F-class monster.

Because I’m a newbie who hasn’t learned how to practice mana yet.

On the contrary, it made no sense that a guy who couldn’t handle magical powers was defeating E-class monsters individually with only physical ability and sword skills.

‘If you look at the current level, it’s better than the best wizard character I’ve ever created.’

Even a character with 11 Intelligence, Magical Power, and Spirit talents couldn’t show these abilities on the third day.

“It’s open.”

It takes some time for the first dungeon you discover to open its entrance. I immediately checked the information of the opened dungeon.

[Tomb of a trainee without talent: The grudge of a trainee who couldn’t even reach a sword expert even after training for the rest of his life continues training until he dies. Defeat him who doesn’t stop training even in death and give him peace.

Compensation▽

Secretary of Yeokcheon (Hero), Mukryonghwan (Advanced)x4]

The dungeon I knew was right. A dungeon where the secretary of Yeokcheon, which is essential to me, and the Mukryonghwan, a tool that will help me in my future training, are dropped as rewards.

I immediately moved my feet into it.

Koo Goong-

The door to the dungeon closed 10 seconds after I entered. Now this dungeon has become a place where no one can enter until at least 10 days have passed.

Of course I couldn’t go out either, but since I had no intention of going out anyway, it wasn’t going to be a problem.

‘It’s dark.’

The sky exists even in a dungeon. However, the sky here was very cloudy and gloomy, as if representing the mind of a practitioner without talent. The thunder that strikes between them seems to express his heart.

And in front of me was a skeleton that continued to wield a sword while wearing Ink Dragon Rings on both arms and legs. Even in death, he cannot let go of his sword and tries to overcome the limits of his talent.

“Teacher.”

A skeleton that stopped swinging its sword after hearing my voice.

“How about sparring with me?”

The key to clearing this dungeon was sparring. According to the setting, the level of the skeleton was a sword expert level, continuing training to reach the level of a sword master.

Despite having trained for 1000 years, he is a hopeless talent who has not reached the highest level, which is called the upper level of sword expert or the last wall to become a sword master.

However, it was a disappointing difference to me now. It is absurd that I, who had not reached the level of a mere beginner, beat an advanced sword expert, who is considered to be on the same level as an A-class wizard.

However, Dalian was different.

Because the skeleton in front of you is a seeker advancing toward an unreachable sky.

Even though he has become a monster, he overcomes his desire to kill humans with one of his transcendent mental powers and strives only for training. It only walks to the extent that it is not witchcraft.

If he had a body like that, he could have tried to overcome the wall of the realm by using special means, but even now, 1000 years ago, he is wielding only one sword.

“On the condition that we use only the same physical abilities without using each other’s magical powers.”

Do not avoid sparring on foot. He endures irrationality for the sake of a higher realm.

They know that if they don’t use magical powers and use the same physical abilities, they’re in a worse condition, but the skeleton nods knowingly.

I hope this sparring will make me take a step forward.

So the strategy for dungeons is simple. If you throw a bomb that does not use magic while continuing sparring without using magic, it will end.

The skeleton, a person from 1000 years ago, thinks it is a kind of memorization because it does not know the existence of a bomb that does not have magical movement, and cuts down the bomb without question and melts without a chance to react.

‘Because he’s bringing his physical abilities down to the same level as mine.’

Of course, I bought a bomb to use in this attack in my pocket with all the money I didn’t have.

‘I couldn’t even buy armor to buy this.’

“Let’s get started.”

He also raised a sword, and I also raised a sword.

My sparring with a non-talented practitioner has begun.