There Are Too Many Bugs in the Academy

Episode 8

3. Opening Ceremony (2)

“Oh, what to do! I didn’t know you were going to fight right away.”

Unlike Camilla, who floundered, my heart was as peaceful as a calm lake. No, it even made my heart pound.

Because I already knew that if I started my first year at Arthur, there would always be a Dalian event.

It may be difficult to expect good grades, but… … maybe you don’t know

Will my abilities suddenly bloom?

“Use weapons freely! However, only use the training weapons provided by our faculty! And in the case of the Tarkans, the use of claws is restricted!”

As soon as the dean finished speaking, the control of the faculty began. They divided the students into 10 teams, and competed in a pre-designated area.

“So that you can choose a weapon first.”

There were various weapons hanging from the mobile weapon display case, but the weapon I chose was a wooden sword.

All of them are non-lethal weapons. In the end, it’s a duel where the issue is who hits the most. Even if the reach is shorter than the stick, if you stick to it, you will definitely have an advantage.

But is there no Aidan? I’ve been looking for Aidan, the main character of the story, but I can’t find her characteristic tail.

Did you choose Arrin or Ortana as your first grader instead of Arthur?

‘I’m just going down the hard road. Still, you will grow up well by getting the main character corrected.’

I also started with Arin during the 3rd play. No matter what choice you make, it will not deviate much from the flow of the story.

“Then I will call the first runner. Baek Sanwoo of the Eastern Federation, and George of the Grand Duchy of Capet. So that we can come forward.”

As my name was called, I came forward. I didn’t know it was going to be the first runner, but maybe this one is better.

I also thought that seeing how other kids fight would make them feel a little dazed.

Besides, the opponent is George of the Grand Duchy of Carpet. Seeing what I can’t even remember, it’s probably not a very important or strong character.

“go for it.”

He flew a stick to Camila, who quietly threw a message of support, then came forward and stood in front of the guy who didn’t know if it was George or Juji.

The weapon he held in his hand was a thin wooden sword with a blunt tip. Does it feel like a rapier?

“First, before Dalian, mutual greetings.”

At the referee’s words, he bowed his head politely first, but George just shook his head.

“Then, let’s start the match!”

At the same time as the whistle that signaled the start of the match, I jumped forward and swung my sword. No, I should have swung it.

However.

“Kuh-huh!?”

A tremendous pain rages in my stomach.

Before I even stumbled, the sword of the guy I couldn’t even follow with my own eyes was stuck in my stomach.

I tried to pull myself back, but George’s sword caught up immediately. There were no gaps at all.

The sword was sharp and deep.

In the meantime, I dodge every attack I wield.

The gap is enough to shake the will of the war with just one sum.

What the hell is this bastard so strong?

But I couldn’t give up here. I picked up my breath and grabbed my sword again.

“profit!!”

He was aiming for the head, but George simply swung the sword away and pierced the wooden sword in the same spot again.

suffocating pain.

“Foot.”

I’m in pain, so he shrugs and scoffs.

“What’s with all these kids? None of them are basic?”

The moment I heard those words, I felt like I had been hit in the back of the head.

This is Arthur’s school.

Basically, it is an educational institution where only those who have mastered swordsmanship can enter.

but me?

Being a deceased person in Paradise Academia was a story outside of the game to the last, and it was not something that could be accepted when entering the game.

Because in reality, I was a raw novice who had never held a sword properly.

In the military, I improved my stamina and went to the gym, but I guess that’s what it is like to be a normal person.

There is inevitably a gap between those who have learned swordsmanship professionally.

However, it does not mean that he possesses a plausible supporting role and that his physical ability is overwhelmingly good or that he has excellent characteristics.

All they have is an extravagant Sanwoo Baek, whose improvised identity is all they have, and George, a student entering Nakwon School.

Naturally, the level of understanding and experience of swordsmanship is overwhelmingly different.

I slowly turned my head to look at the face of the professor who was playing the role of Dalian’s judge.

He didn’t even look at me, as if he were sure that I had no chance of winning at all.

Whoops!

“Can you afford an eye? Or are you going to surrender?”

“Ugh…!!”

George’s attack hits the abdomen once more.

‘X feet, you only hit the same place cowardly… … !’

I managed to calm down the sour water that ran up my throat.

I was lucky enough to have breakfast with an apple. If you had filled it to the brim, you would have already vomited and flustered by this point.

I was getting annoyed by the continuous provocation, but at the same time, a sense of helplessness also flooded in.

Is there really no way?

In the first place, I have never seen the premise of losing in this battle. Because this was also an extension of the tutorial.

It is a kind of measure that shows the characteristics of each faculty and what the academy life will be like in the future.

If you lose here… … .

The figure of the ‘failed’ wizard who was making a fuss at the pier was dazzling.

It wasn’t even that we lost after an equal and equal fight.

It was obvious without looking at how the professors would treat the candidates who had been fiercely beaten from the first match.

In the beginning, even in the game, falling below the intermediate level was considered out of the question.

“It’s a little boring. Give up now.”

George said with an annoyed look on his face. He even swung his sword as if teasing me.

‘But wait… … Come to think of it, he’s a rapier prosecutor.’

With a sudden thought, I carefully observed the shape of the sword he was holding. It’s definitely a different design from the wooden sword.

If that weapon also falls into the ‘rapier’ category.

‘Worth a test.’

I clenched my sword again and took a stance. The right foot is forward, and the sword is twisted at a 45 degree angle.

“Huh? What kind of posture is that?”

“Don’t talk, come in, you bastard!!”

“God X? You bastard! Do you know who I am? George the speedy, famed in the Grand Duchy of Carpet!”

The way he chattered was just an extra.

Besides, the quick Juji? He’s a comedian from the beginning of his nickname, but he’s being hit on a kid like this. The title of the deceased will cry!

Whether the provocation was successful, the guy quickly narrowed the distance. The speed of digging through. To be honest, I couldn’t keep up with the movement of the sword.

However.

damn!!

The sword bounced off with the sound of the sword collided with the sword. At the same time, George’s posture, which received the recoil intact, is twisted.

My palms tingled at the heavy shock transmitted through my wrists, but I couldn’t miss the opportunity I had at the most.

I slapped him on the shoulder. George screamed with a shuddering sensation.

tight!!!

“Aww!!”

George jumped straight back and widened the distance, but he didn’t seem to understand what had just happened.

‘Okay, it works!’

I smiled and clenched my sword even tighter.

There were two things he overlooked in this Dalian.

One was that I was a mature character when it came to the game Paradise Academia.

Another thing is that this game is a game full of bugs and design flaws.

‘Rapier.’

A weapon whose strength is to pierce through armor with a thin blade and a single point of stabbing.

However, at the time of development (I don’t know if it was a mistake or design again this time), the development team did not set the rapier’s attack range separately, but set it the same as a normal one-handed sword.

In the aftermath of this, the rapier was often blocked by the defense even though the angle was sufficient to penetrate the defense-

As it is, it was killed as a representative of fringe weapons.

There’s no way the Juji of Rapids knew about this. My swordsmanship skills may be out of date, but the in-game technique is at the SSS level, right?

“Ha, haha…! Well, it doesn’t look like you’re learning too much! It’s the first time I’ve seen a defensive posture, so I’m just confused.”

bluffing to the end. I smiled lightly towards the boy’s face.

“Hey, are you quick to make excuses?”

It was quite an interesting sight to see George’s face, which had been so strong, twisted in a funny way.

* * *

‘It’s amazing. I didn’t expect it at all.’

Arthur Faculty’s associate professor, Kehlyn Morris, watched with great interest the bizarre situation unfolding before her eyes.

In fact, Dalian, which is held together with the welcome party for new students, is a kind of filtering.

‘The strong win.’

In keeping with the slogan of the Arthur Faculty, although in the name of identifying each candidate’s potential and ability, and providing an education that is commensurate with it.

In fact, it is a device to filter out those who have no talent and no possibility.

The curriculum is divided into beginner, intermediate, advanced, and advanced classes. And the only classes that are actually meaningful here are the advanced level and the limited level.

Intermediate is a little better, but in the case of beginner, they teach only things that can be learned no matter where they go to any apprenticeship on the continent, not Paradise School.

In other words, even if you enter Paradise School, you will learn an education that is not of much value.

Those who came to Paradise Island without learning the basics or having a proper posture.

For the ignorant people who have only been pushed into the honor and wealth of their parents, the faculty makes no investment.

However, it was not completely abandoned. If you try hard enough, you have a foothold on which you can climb.

Even if they enter the beginner’s class at first, those who pursue a higher place with individual effort are willing to embrace the effort in the undergraduate school.

That’s Arthur.

Because it is the path of a strong warrior.

However, most of the beginner class students often did not even make an effort.

Souls too weak to become warriors.

In that sense, Sanwoo Baek was a person who deserved entry into the beginner class. No, to be honest, even the beginner class wasn’t good enough.

until just a little while ago.

The way he held the sword was also wrong. His posture was wrong, and his gaze processing was inaccurate.

‘Damn. Is Paradise School gone now?’

It was a guy who would never have held a sword in his entire life. Why did such a guy apply to Arthur’s Faculty, and the fact itself didn’t like that student, Kehlin.

George Madeleine, on the other hand, was quite different. He had a great understanding of the weapon he was holding. He also has an excellent view of where to attack and catches that short gap.

Well, it was a flaw that he wasn’t serious and spoke out his mouth at speed, but… … .

Still, it was much better than garbage like Baeksan-woo. He was competent enough to enter the advanced class.

However, in an instant, the situation changed.

“Damn! I don’t know what kind of trick he was doing!

George drew his sword again. Baek Sanwoo pressed his body inward as much as possible, and deflected George’s sword again.

The high-speed sword strikes are all offset by the action that merely changes the trajectory of the sword to match George’s movement.

A rapier is a sword designed to pierce. The thin blade makes it easy to penetrate the opponent’s loopholes, and its advantage is maximized when the opponent is holding a one-handed sword with similar rapier and lice.

Therefore, Baeksan-woo’s wooden sword and George’s wooden rapier were a starkly different combination.

However, after Baeksanwoo entered the defensive stance in earnest, George was unable to make even a single effective hit.

Is it George’s fault? It wasn’t.

His rapier skills were quite polished. Even Kehlin, who doesn’t use rapiers, was able to figure out how much skill and proficiency a student had with a weapon just by looking at them.

‘It’s weird.’

Kehlin crossed her arms and watched their battle closely.

“Ahhh!!!”

George’s eyes, which had looked down on the white mountain cow, were now tinged with impatience. Breathing becomes rapid, movement becomes slow, and posture begins to collapse.

right! Follow!!

The more it happened, the more the flow of Dalian would flow toward Baek San-woo, not George, who was far superior in terms of skill.

After receiving George’s sword attack with ease, Baek San-woo hit the waist with a wooden sword strongly.

“Cuckoo!”

subsequent linked attacks. His posture was unstable and he still had no basis for swordsmanship, and it was just a swing, but George was helpless against Baeksanwoo’s attack.

‘Maybe it was too typical to think that there was no foundation? If you are from the Eastern Federation, where there are many strangely talented people, there must be a unique swordsmanship training method that is completely different from the existing method.’

Kehlin’s gaze on Baeksanwoo begins to change gradually.

‘I guess I’m old now. How can your judgment be so clouded? Is it because he emphasized only the basics too much?’

Meanwhile, George continued to be beaten with a wooden sword. It seemed that I had completely lost my pace.

‘The victory is definitely leaning, so now I have to move on to the next Dalian.’

Kehlin thought so and stepped forward to stop the fight.

That moment.

Astonishingly fast, George’s sword flew towards the white mountain cow. It was a very fleeting moment, but at such a speed that even Kehlin could not easily capture it.

On the other hand, Baek Sanwoo released the defense and switched to the offensive, so all the vital points were exposed.

It’s something that can never be stopped.

With a devastating blow, Kehlin bit her lips bitterly.

Was he really waiting for the last one?

A rapier is a weapon that accurately targets the vital points of the opponent. Only the swordsman who stays focused until the very end at any time will eventually survive.

He fought well, but his skills were still lacking.

The moment he allowed that blow, it was obvious that Baek San-woo would be defeated.

Even if it was a wooden sword with no lethal power, if it was hit accurately at a vital point, it could be stunned or life-threatening.

The moment when George’s sword that was so fast and flexible at the same time penetrated into the sword of Sanwoo Baek.

Kehlin doubted her own eyes.

George Madeleine drew his sword with all his might. It was a bitter blow aimed at an empty space.

However, Baek San-woo’s sword moved finely and softly, as if mocking even his own eyes standing as the director.

It was as if time passed slowly. No, I really didn’t know it was.

And finish it.

damn!!

A wooden sword that instantly filled the empty space.

As if an invisible sword drew a trajectory, George’s attack was completely missed.

‘Oh My God!!!’

Kehlin was surprised, too, but George’s reaction increased.

The guy who failed the conversion blow, his eyes wide open, lost his balance and collapsed.

No matter how much I thought of a case where such a thing was possible, there was only one.

empty sword.

The speed, trajectory and direction of the sword.

A state that can only be experienced by a swordsman who has reached the end of countless battles and sword training.

A technique that controls everything within the reach of his sword is being used by a freshman freshman who has just entered Paradise School.

‘Crazy. I feel like I can see why the dean told me to keep an eye on this school year.’

The reason for his sloppy appearance in the beginning was to gauge his opponent’s skills and learn the sense of the sword.

Kehlin, purely admiring the craftsmanship, intervened between George and Baeksan-woo.

“Stop the match over! The winner of the first match is Baek San Woo!”