C25: Sword Saint Visit (2)
In fact, the first feeling that the Sword Saint felt was surprise.
The reason is none other than the bluish sphere reflected in his eyes and the dumb guy holding the ball.
It was not difficult to know that he was the student Seo-yoon selected this time but the problem was the sphere he was holding in his hand.
If the Sword Saint senses were not wrong, it was a mana sphere formed by lumping mana together.
undefined‘He can do that?’
It was easy to shape mana. Of course, this standard of “easy” is the standard of the Sword Saint.
Anyone could put manna in the frame of a weapon and shape it with a little talent. That’s what people call Sword Aura however it was a little different to shape it in the air without any framework.
Mana is scattered in nature like the air and it was not easy to shape things without shape.
For Sword Saint ‘not easy’ was seen as impossible unless one had exceptional talent. But why was a guy with such exceptional talent here?
In the end Sword Saint could only think of one reason why he entered Dream Academy.
“You punk…”
As his thoughts reached this point, the Sword Saint surprise subsided, and resentment and anger began to settle in it.
“What are you doing?”
The Sword Saint asked Seo-joon while unleashing his aura that even an S-rank hunter would be affected by. Mercy was not needed for a man who wanted to use his only granddaughter.
“Aren’t you the Sword Saint? It’s a great pleasure to meet you. My name is Kim Seo-joon. I’ve only seen you on the Internet, but it’s great to see you in person like this.”
For some reason, Seo-joon didn’t seem to care and he was more surprised to see the Sword Saint.
“But what brings you here…”
He showed no reaction.
“Oh, are you here to see Seo-yoon? What should I do? Seo-yoon left earlier because she had something to do…”
Seo-joon thought that the Sword Saint was looking for his granddaughter.
“What? Seo-yoon?”
The Sword Saint was dumbfounded perhaps that’s why he twisted his face without realizing it.
Seo-joon asked carefully because he thought he had made a mistake after seeing the Sword Saint expression.
“Aren’t you here to see Seo-yoon?”
Sword Saint looked at Seo-joon but no matter how much he looked he couldn’t find any outstanding aspect. To be honest he thought the image of him creating a mana sphere was a mirage.
“How come you don’t care?”
Sword Saint had no choice but to ask since Seo-joon wasn’t affected by his momentum that would even make S-rank hunters suffer.
However, the man was not an S-rank hunter no matter how Sword Saint looked at him. If so, there was no reason to be here, and if he had hidden his skills in the first place, the Sword Saint would have recognized him.
“What? What are you talking about?”
Seo-joon wouldn’t know until later that it was because Shakyamuni lecture progress has exceeded 10%.
In any case, Seo-joon was uncomfortable because of Sword Saint attitude.
“Tell me the truth. What is the purpose here?”
Therefore, the suspicion of Sword Saint continued to deepen.
“What? What are you talking about all of a sudden?”
“You have so much talent that you’ll be welcomed anywhere you go. Why did you approach Seo-yoon? You’d better be honest.”
In the meantime Sword Saint kept asking questions.
It was only then that Seo-joon realized that the Sword Saint had a big misunderstanding about him so Seo-joon hurriedly waved his hands and said,
“No, no. It seems you have misunderstood me…”
“I didn’t think you’d open your mouth easily.”
‘Danger!’
At the end of Sword Saint words alarms rang in Seo-joon’s head and he rolled on the floor desperately without having time to think further.
Then, the sword of the Sword Saint passed through the air in the place where Seo-joon was just now.
“All of a sudden…!”
Seo-joon hurriedly straightened up and looked at the Sword Saint. However, the tip of the sword that the Sword Saint was holding seemed blunt. Upon closer inspection, it appeared that he had used the entire scabbard rather than the sword.
It seemed that he was trying to subdue Seo-joon, not to kill him.
The problem is that once the Sword Saint wields a scabbard, it can no longer be called a scabbard.
On the other hand,
‘He reacted to that?’
Sword Saint was quite surprised. Of course, he did not intend to kill Seo-joon but only subdue him and had only wielded his sword lightly.
However, just because it was light to the Sword Saint, it was not light to others. That’s why the Sword Saint had no doubt that Seo-joon would be subdued with just one blow.
But now Seo-joon was looking at him from afar.
While avoiding, Seo-joon’s hand held the spear that he picked up firmly.
“You bastard. What is your identity?”
“I don’t know why you’re doing this all of a sudden, but it’s a misunderstanding.”
“It’s not enough to embody mana, but you just showed such a movement, what misunderstanding…”
“You talk nonsense!”
“Keugh!”
In the blink of an eye the Sword Saint attack approached Seo-joon. This sword attack, which he did not even know how to stop, was totally different from Lee Jun-hwan’s.
He didn’t know what was wrong with the Sword Saint all of a sudden but he had to calm him down.
“I don’t know what Seo-yoon said, but please calm down…”
“You punk!!!”
However, the Sword Saint became more angry and pressured Seo-joon.
Anyway, it seems like he made a mistake, but Seo-joon didn’t know what it was no matter how much he thought about it and it seemed that the Sword Saint had no intention of resolving this situation through dialogue.
According to the media, he heard that the Sword Saint personality was not to this extent.
‘I don’t know.’
Seo-joon prepared himself for the battle, squeezing the spear he was holding tightly. It was unlikely that the Sword Saint would listen to him, and in fact, he might even kill Seo-joon even if he tried to explain himself.
If the Sword Saint really wanted to kill him he would’ve been dead before even sensing the Sword Saint existence. He had enough skill to do that.
He was the idol of even S-rank hunters, the Celestial Sword Saint.
Suddenly Seo-joon thought how he would face him and his heart started pounding.
‘That guy…his momentum has changed.’
Sword Saint looked at Seo-joon with changed eyes since he showed fighting spirit even though he was against him, the Sword Saint.
He remembered looking at the professional hunters these days and being disappointed. If those people would be brought back to the era of cataclysm they would die in less than three days.
Professional hunters who are raised in peace and awakeners who fought in cataclysmic situations where survival was a luxury were different.
The current professional hunters couldn’t catch the eye of the Sword Saint but that did not mean that word Saint denied the trend of the times.
First of all, the Sword Saint wanted this kind of peace, so he struggled for decades.
He didn’t hate it, but it was regrettable. Of course, there were some outstanding people among them. However, there has been only one person who looked at him like that.
‘What are you hiding?’
Thus his doubts deepened.
The Sword Saint put a little sincerity into the sword he wielded.
“Kuk!”
Seo-joon let out a moan without even realizing it. It was simply blocking the flying sword, but he didn’t feel any sensation in his hand holding the spear.
Seo-joon repeated the attack in his mind. On the surface, it was just a straight attack, but Seo-joon felt like a huge mountain was approaching.
‘I can’t even see it.’
Seo-joon was able to gauge the level of the Sword Saint with just one clash. It was such a distant sky that he couldn’t approach for now so Seo-joon changed his goal.
‘How far can I reach now?’
He wanted to see how big the difference between the current him and the Sword Saint was.
Seo-joon tightly curled the spear he was holding. It was his first time using it, but a familiar sensation flowed through his fingertips.
Seo-joon closed his mind since thoughts were not necessary when he focused on his five senses.
Seo-joon thrust his spear at the Sword Saint. However, Seo-joon’s attack is lightly blocked and he immediately responded by retrieving the spear but the Sword Saint didn’t just watch it.
“Guah!”
Seo-joon rolled around the floor with the terrible pain felt from his side. It was hard to tell whether he was stabbed or hit by a blunt instrument.
He suddenly thought that he might have broken his ribs but in that dizzying pain, Seo-joon was able to realize.
‘This… isn’t it.’
Something was missing.
He knew that he couldn’t reach the Sword Saint but that wasn’t it.
Seo-joon rose from the floor but the Sword Saint didn’t give him time to breathe.
The Sword Saint wasn’t using any tricks and that gave Seo-joon time to think about how to hit him once but just then Merlin’s words appeared in his mind.
[They use mana to deceive the world with their will and bring things that are mere imaginations of individuals into reality as if they were the laws of the world.]
Merlin described it as ‘deceiving the world’.
The twisted reality was created by strong faith and now Seo-joon twisted his whole body with all his might.
The sound of muscles twisting and bursting was heard but Seo-joon endured the pain by clenching his teeth. Then, a sword passed by the tip of his nose.
Seo-joon immediately bounced his back to straighten his posture and at the same time he was able to see a gap. He didn’t know if it was really a crack however he threw a spear at the sword without any hesitation while recalling the sensation of creating the mana sphere and drew it.
‘Cut it down.’
At that moment he imagined cutting down the sword of the Sword Saint and a bluish energy began to circulate on Seo-joon’s spear. It was difficult to notice but at the same time enormous power began to circulate through Seo-joon’s entire body.
He felt an unfamiliar sensation for the first time.
“Cough!”
But Seo-joon collapsed, vomiting blood.
In the end, his spear failed to reach the Sword Saint.
The Sword Saint looked at his right hand where his sleeve was cut, then he turned his gaze to Seo-joon.
“…It hurts.”
Even though he was properly hit by the attack, he did not fall down for some reason. This was not a student at all.
“You… you’re finally showing your true colors!”
Seo-joon was dumbfounded by the appearance of the Sword Saint.
“What do you mean by nature? You were the one who attacked me out of the blue!”
‘When the hell is Seo-yoon coming?’
The reason of the Sword Saint was cut off momentarily.
“Come on… If you want that, I’ll give you a special life-and-death decision.”
The Sword Saint suddenly exuded a thicker life force and Seo-joon looked as he was approaching him.
‘I’m doomed…’
He prayed earnestly for Seo-yoon to come back soon but Seo-yoon who left the academy was heading home to talk with her grandfather and the reason is none other than Seo-joon.
She wanted to keep hiding him if she could, but now that he participated in the academy competition, she couldn’t hide Seo-joon’s existence anymore.
Seo-yoon arrived at her parents’ house.
“My lady, the old master, is out now.”
“…May I know when he’ll be back?”
“I think Seo would know. Should I contact him?”
“No. I’ll come back another time.”
Seo-yoon came out of her parents’ house with the thought of regret and relief at the same time and headed back to the academy.
‘Is Seo-joon still training?’
Seo-yoon entered the academy but what greeted her was a huge explosion and Seo-joon lying on the floor.
“What are you doing now?”
Seo-yoon tilted her head and asked Seo-joon.
Of course, from his appearance Seo-joon did not seem to be training. However, Seo-yoon thought that he could be considering Seo-joon’s character.
However, the answer received was far from Seo-yoon’s idea.
“Seo-yoon, you’re just in time! Stop him!”
“Who?”
Seo-yoon tilted her head once again at Seo-joon’s strange words and when she was about to open her mouth and ask what he meant.
“You punk! Can’t you tell me the truth?”
A familiar voice came from somewhere and Seo-yoon turned her head in the direction the voice came from.
At the same time, Seo-joon shouted.
“No! I’m not lying. What do you want me to tell you? If I have something to say, I’ll tell you!”
“This punk is still!!!”
“Argh! Stop hitting me, seriously!”
Seo-yoon, who was looking at the whole scene.
“Grandfather?”
Was able to grasp the situation.
