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Episode 211. Legia’s Way
Legia’s room was much larger than the rooms assigned to new teachers. It had ornate decorations and antique-looking furniture.
Among them was a small, dark brown table and chair.
Compared to other fancy furniture, the design was so simple that it felt like an odd feeling.
Legia was sitting on the chair, her gaze fixed on the table.
A glimpse of his snow-white hair and jet-black beard from his side profile.
I’ve seen it countless times in the Mepan, but it was the first time I’d seen it in this world.
“That’s funny. I didn’t expect you to come first.”
Legia put down the quill she was holding and slowly turned towards Ethan.
‘You’re young.’
Squinty eyes, a big nose, and deep nasolabial folds.
The old man before his eyes was clearly Legia Malcher, although he looked much younger than Ethan remembered.
It was really nice to see it in person. However, I wasn’t that happy about the situation I was in.
‘I can tell just by looking at your eyes. You don’t like me at all.’
As expected, Legia didn’t seem to have very positive feelings towards Ethan.
‘It seems like the palace is very busy with various matters since you brought your own table and chair. But you came all the way here to see me… ‘
It means that I intend to deal with it here and then leave.
‘I almost got into big trouble if I just glossed over this.’
Ethan then observed Legia from the Waryongshi.
Legia had a peculiar way of moving. He always seemed to move in a swaying manner, as if he had no weight. Before, I just thought it was a high level, but I didn’t know how high he had actually reached.
‘… … It’s much higher level than the Legia I saw in Mepan? No, I didn’t know about it.’
Now, Ethan’s body was weak due to extinction, but his ability to discern the level of his opponents was better than ever.
That’s why I started seeing things I hadn’t seen before on the main page, one by one.
The heights that Legia had reached were much higher than Ethan had imagined.
If you think about it, it was only natural.
‘It would be difficult to survive with mediocre power among the many powerful people in the palace. No matter how strong your support is, if you yourself are powerless, you won’t be able to deal with sudden danger.’
Although he was momentarily nervous, Ethan remained calm.
Anyway, the Legia in front of him is young, but he is the same Legia that Ethan knows very well.
So, if you handle yourself well, you will never die to Legia.
“Hello, Legia. My name is Ethan Wickers.”
Ethan greeted me with a bright smile as if he knew nothing.
“Among my classmates, there is a teacher named Siron Ramsdale. He is the grandson of the head of the Ramsdale family, Geumseongnim. Through him, I heard that Legia-nim attended this new teacher training to meet me!”
At those words, one of Legia’s eyebrows twitched.
“What an honor. I am amazed that my story has spread to the palace, and my heart is pounding with excitement that Lady Legia came all the way here to meet me. That is why I thought it would be polite for me to come and greet you first.”
His speech and attitude were truly that of a new teacher.
Legia must be thinking of Ethan as an unidentified man.
At least the new teachers at Ibeka Academy are probably suspicious that this isn’t their real identity.
If so, the first thing to do was to clear up that doubt.
Ethan started off naturally with compliments.
“Lord Legia, I really wanted to see you.”
Complimenting someone with an obvious story can actually have the opposite effect.
“There are librarians at the library who compile Legia’s achievements into books. I have been dreaming of becoming a teacher while reading those books containing Legia’s achievements. As you may know, I was very sick not long ago.”
What is the core reason why Legia doubts herself now?
Legia thought that her teaching methods had been leaked, and that Ethan was stealing them and using them as he pleased.
As expected, Ethan is thought to be a follower of the moon or a spy of the Magic Empire.
Surely, you must have gathered all the information about Ethan when you came here. So, you mixed some lies with the obvious truth.
“Still, I managed to get hold of Legia’s books and read them. In one of them, it was written that Legia really liked meat pies. So I went to Anbury Village and tried the meat pies that Legia had praised so highly.”
“… … You went to Anbury?”
“Yes, I went there myself and had a meat pie with lots of spices.”
“……hmm.”
Anbury was a small town with a famous restaurant.
Legia would sometimes go to that restaurant and buy meat pies.
It wasn’t just any ordinary meat pie, it was a meat pie loaded with spices, and it was a flavor that was definitely divisive, so much so that Ethan thought he would never want to eat it again.
“Everyone told me not to eat it because I wasn’t feeling well. But I tried it because I thought it was something Lady Legia would like… … .”
Ethan smiled and gave a thumbs up.
“It was really delicious.”
“Yeah, the meat pies there are really good. I don’t know who wrote that book, but he sure knows my tastes.”
Ethan, who had once worked under Legia as his errand boy, knew a great deal about his tastes.
‘And this level of information isn’t even a secret within the palace.’
Thanks to the sympathy created to suit Legia’s taste, Legia’s lock felt a little loosened.
Ethan continued.
“I also visited Tunlin, where Legia grew up as a child! It has now become a completely tourist town. I went to a tea house near the lake, and the tea there tasted really good. I heard Legia visited there often.”
“Was that in the book too?”
“No, I just found out about it by accident.”
“Hmm.”
The corners of Legia’s mouth began to rise slightly.
‘One more time.’
But that was only for a moment. Legia’s expression hardened again.
“Enough small talk. Actually, we were trying to find you first.”
“Actually, I came to ask that too, Legia. I heard that you came to this new teacher training session looking for me. Do you happen to know why you came to see me?”
Just a moment ago, Ethan seemed like a huge fan of Legia. But now, the atmosphere had completely changed.
Legia didn’t beat around the bush.
“Let me get straight to the point, Mr. Ethan Wickers. Who taught you your teaching methods?”
I clearly stated why I came.
“I didn’t learn it from anyone.”
Ethan answered right away.
“You didn’t learn it from anyone?”
“Yes, that’s the way I came up with it myself.”
“That’s interesting.”
Legia smiled, revealing her teeth.
“You were born into a noble family in the provinces, and you were sick until recently, and you came up with that kind of educational method yourself?”
No matter how much I thought about it, it was something I couldn’t understand.
“I don’t think it’s impossible.”
“It’s impossible.”
But Legia was firm.
“Lord Legia, I don’t quite understand why you would suddenly say something like that.”
When Ethan said that, Legia frowned.
“Did I do something wrong? If not, I find Legia-sama’s attitude a bit unpleasant.”
Legia’s eyebrows twitched, as if she had not expected him to come out so confidently.
“I heard through your mouth that Mr. Ethan’s teaching style is similar to mine.”
As he spoke, Legia unfurled the parchment he had been writing on. It was a long piece of parchment that was about half Legia’s height and was densely covered with writing.
“I was just organizing my teaching method. I have never taught this method to anyone. This is clearly my own method.”
Legia said forcefully.
‘I guess you can’t admit it.’
Ethan wasn’t flustered. It was as expected.
‘Legia’s educational method is a unique method that he created through trial and error over a long period of time. I was surprised when I first saw it. Until then, no one in the entire continent had shown an educational method like Legia.’
It was such a unique educational method that no one outside of the palace knew about Legia’s educational method.
Only his direct disciples, who had received his teachings, knew of Legia’s ways.
‘That’s why he thinks that the technology he created has been leaked. He probably thinks that it’s the only educational method he uses on the continent.’
It was an enormous confidence. In some ways, it could be seen as endless arrogance.
But no one can refute Legia’s claim.
‘What I’m saying is that no one but Legia himself could have thought of this method or put it into action.’
So, I came here to question Ethan with confidence.
‘If there is an educational method in the world that is identical to yours, then unless it is a leak, it is ultimately a story of something you came up with yourself like Legia.’
It would be hard to believe that Ethan Wickers, who was so young and had been bedridden until recently, could have accomplished something like that on his own.
In fact, it was natural to think that way. No matter how much of a genius he was, it would be impossible for him to create the educational method that Legia had developed over a long period of time in such a short period of time.
Legia’s educational method was a synthesis of his life, and it was a method that could not have been conceived without accumulating that much experience.
“So you’re saying that I stole Legia-sama’s teaching methods?”
Legia has authority. Authority gives him the power to argue, but it also allows him to suppress his opponents.
At the same time, my body felt a tingling sensation because of the aura he was emitting.
Anyone who is in such a situation would be in pain and try to ask for forgiveness without even being able to protest.
But Ethan was not overwhelmed by his authority or his aura.
Legia looked slightly surprised at Ethan’s appearance. It was the first time she had seen such a reaction.
“Then I guess I should show you myself. To see if I really followed Legia-sama’s teaching methods.”
As soon as Ethan said that, he pulled out his wooden sword.
Seeing that confident attitude, Legia seemed rather pleased and took out a piece of parchment and started writing something down.
Swish-. Swish-. Swish-.
“If you are truly a genius, if you have created the educational method I have devoted my life to with your weak body and meager experience.”
Legia handed Ethan a parchment containing the theory of swordsmanship.
“You can understand this much and teach me, right?”
Ethan’s expression hardened as he looked at the parchment. Legia snickered at his hardened expression.
-Your chances of survival are temporarily reduced!
Legia already didn’t trust Ethan.
‘This annoying old man… … .’
Ethan almost swore without realizing it.
I never thought you would ask me to teach you this.
The sword technique written on the parchment was one of the sword techniques that Legia mainly taught in the palace.
It is one of the swordsmanship styles that is extremely difficult to learn, and Ethan also had the experience of giving up learning it because it was difficult and inefficient.
‘This is something you can’t understand right away after seeing it once. And on top of that, it’s even magically transformed? This is crazy.’
This magical transformation was something even Ethan had never seen before.
‘Is this the standard of genius that Legia thinks of? Is this something that you can understand after seeing it at once?’
Legia seemed to think that only at this level could he create an educational method identical to the one he had devoted his entire life to.
Ethan stared at the parchment, frowning.
Looking at Ethan like that, Legia was convinced. He was not a genius.
However, there was something Legia didn’t know: the Waryongsi had already been activated.
With the addition of the Waryongsi, which understands and grasps the essence of the basic knowledge he had already acquired, Ethan was able to penetrate the swordsmanship inside the parchment.
‘see.’
And at the same time, it started to make sense.
“Impossible, right? Of course. How can you understand this just by looking at it? It’s the same thing. Your teaching method is something that you can’t come up with on your own… … .”
Ethan cut off Legia’s words midway.
“let’s begin.”
“……what?”
Ethan’s sword extended straight out.
“I understand everything.”
The power of a dragon was in those eyes.
fantasy,
