Hello, PolterGlast here.
Based on the voting results on discord, Ch 4 Part 9 will be released early
So, here you go :)
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"Hey Kevin, is it really alright?"
One of Kevin's party members calls out to him.
They go through the forest. Their purpose is to subdue Mad Bear.
Mad Bear, as the name implies, is a big bear demon beast, a monster equivalent to Rank C, but his worries are not about Mad Bear.
"Ah?"
"It's about our conversation at the guild. You said that the Triclopes are wandering around."
He was worried about the Triclopes that were recently seen in the forest. An extremely dangerous demon beast of rank A and it might be near them. If we look closely, we can see that the eyes of the other members are shaking and they feel anxious.
"Oh, it will be alright. They are usually in the depths of the forest, and the adventurer probably saw a stray one out of their flock. Because I'm here, No matter how strong the Triclopes are, if there is only one, it won't be a problem."
"…… Well ... that's true……"
However, unlike his worried members, Kevin doesn't seem to be worried. Certainly, he is one of the most talented students in the school. He is confident in his own ability. His demeanor was sometimes seen as arrogant, but his appearance did not change as usual, so his party members interpreted it as unnecessary worries.
"Hey! What's wrong? You can go home if you're scared."
"I, I'm not scared! I, I'm alright!"
"Hmm! All right then."
Kevin moves forward while sneering at the members who are still feeling uneasy. Kevin never changes his arrogant behavior, but in a sense, he is a powerful and strong leader. He is the only one who can become a spiritual pillar of his party members.
"Hmm?"
Kevin, who was walking ahead, suddenly stopped and began to squint his eyes and look around. His silver-haired ears, which are characteristic of the Silver Wolf tribe, are moving restlessly, and his nose seems to be drawn by something.
"What happened? Kevin?"
"Something is coming........."
When one of the members who was skeptical about the situation asked, Kevin announced that someone was approaching.
At that time, soldiers in armor appeared with a rustling sound from the bush in front of them.
The Arcazam crests is engraved on their shields and armor. Definitely, they are Arcazam Guards.
"Are you Solminati students?... Haven't you heard the report from the guild? It's dangerous here. Go back to the city right away."
"Huh! Why do I have to listen to what you say?"
When the guards caught Kevin's figure, they urged him to return to the city, but Kevin, the party leader, dismissed the guards' warning.
His arrogant attitude may have offended the guards, and the guards' tone changed to a harsh one.
"We are in charge of this matter. The enemy is that Triclopes. It is not the one that students can manage."
"That's the story for those trashes. It has nothing to do with me."
The soldier warned with a stronger tone than before, but Kevin's attitude did not change. It further turned the nerves of the guards for the worst.
"Even if you are there, you'll just die in vain. Leave this place to us and go home for today!"
"Huh! There's no reason for me to listen to someone who can't get stronger without a group."
"Cut it out! If you want to say your childish selfishness anymore, I'll detain you and put you in prison !! "
"That's interesting! Just try it.....”
"That's as far as you go ... "
“!!”
"Jihad-dono ..."
When he finally thought he was going to scuffle with the guards, a warrior carrying a sword larger than his height on his back broke in between the two. Black hair mixed with white and traces of scars deeply carved on his face.
Although he is about 40 years old, the body visible under the silver armor is further covered with muscles, and his sharply piercing eyes full of vitality of a youthful man like in his twenties.
Jihad Roundel.
A knight who belongs to the Silver Rainbow Chivalric Order, and is one of the leading swordsmen on the continent, and has the title of "Jaw Drop".
He also teaches at Solminati Academy and is the strongest knight in Arcazam.
This time, the Silver Rainbow Chivalric Order, who received information from the guild that they saw Triclopes, sent him to support the Arcazam Guards in consideration of the danger.
"I'm sorry, Mauzu-dono. My student caused such an inconvenience."
"N, no. It's not Jihad-dono's responsibility ..."
"The mischief of the students is the mischief of the teacher. I will be responsible for supervising these students, so please forgive me."
Jihad bows deeply to the captain of the guards, Mauzu, and states that he will be responsible for whatever happens.
Captain Mauzu, who was active during the great invasion 10 years ago, is terrified, because the swordsman, who was making his name famous on the continent, is bowing to him now.
They are free to enter the forest, but even if they die there, they are at their own risk. It doesn't matter whether it's students or ordinary people.
Nevertheless, if someone like Jihad went that far, even Mauzu couldn't help but yield.
"... I understand. I'll leave them to Jihad-dono."
"Thank you. .... you guys. I don't mind if you follow me, but in case of emergency, follow my instructions. Do you understand?"
After Jihad thanked Mauzu, he turned to Kevin and others and reminded them again.
The students nodded obediently and no one shook their heads, perhaps because they understood their current situation.
"Kevin, you understand, right?"
"Oh ... well, that's fine."
Jihad asks Kevin to remind him once more.
Kevin admits that Jihad is a much stronger man than himself, and listens honestly to what Jihad says.
"It's good then. Let's go ..."
Kevin obediently follow the instructions, there is nothing more to say. Jihad begins to walk toward the depth of the forest, followed by Kevin, Mauzu, and the others.
Into the pitch-black darkness, the darkness that seemed to continue forever.
***
The three-eyed and one-eyed giants rush towards the boy.
The walls of meat that lined up shake the earth, rushing in like a tsunami.
A huge cluster of mayhem rushes in such a number that can cover one's field of vision.
Even a high-ranking influential person may be stunned by the intensity and bloodlust of the incoming giants.
However, Nozomu looked at the scene with cold eyes.
The fury that was smoldering within him until now, was like lava.
Nozomu's emotions that had been pushed exploded.
Moreover, now that he already knew more about the giants before his eyes, he is no longer scared with that level of mayhem and bloodlust.
"... 3, 4, 5 vanguards. The rest are three on the right, two on the left, and three Cyclopes at the rear ..."
Nozomu calmly ascertains the huge wall that is approaching him. Even though he can be turned into minced meat in a few seconds, his head thinks at high speed how to slash the giants in front of him.
Now that his remaining hesitation has completely disappeared and his power has been completely released, his extreme concentration has accelerated even his thoughts and extended his experience time infinitely.
In a thought-accelerated world, Nozomu devised in his head a number of ways to slaughter the giants. Only a few seconds passed in the real world.
A huge amount of Qi has already been sent to his katana, extremely compressed it, and a beam of light is clinging to the blade.
The distance between Nozomu and the giants is only a few meters. It is a distance that giants with doubled physical strength can traverse in less than a second.
The giants are just around the corner. Nozomu's death was imminent.
However, in an instant, Nozomu moved.
The ground at his feet was blown away. He accelerated, traversing a distance of several meters in an instant, less than a second. He appeared in front of the giants on the left side.
The Cyclops was surprised by Nozomu who suddenly appeared in front of it. The Cyclops hurriedly swings down the club it had in its hand.
Its muscles doubled by the "Demon Eye of Madness" squeaked, and the club growled and swung downwards.
Although it is inferior compared to the Triclopes, its club's strength could be said to be excessive to kill one person.
However, it was instantly knocked down by Nozomu.
The club that was supposed to crush Nozomu's skull was knocked down by the katana that Nozomu casually shook with only one hand, and was vainly driven into the ground.
Nozomu didn't even look at the club that he had knocked down. This time, he reinforced the scabbard in his other hand with Qi and launch it.
The swung-up scabbard accurately hits the elbow of the Cyclops, crushes the giant's joints into pieces, and the impact bends the log-like arm into a dogleg.
Furthermore, the top part of the arm that lost its support of the joint bounced up, and Nozomu slashed the defenseless torso. The katana's blade with *Phantom -Clad-* cut the giant's body into two parts, the upper part, and the lower part. Then he cut the other giants' body into two pieces together with its club.
Nozomu puts his foot into action without a pause and activates his Instant Move. Rush towards the 5 Cyclopes in the center.
The five giants in the center slammed their clubs one after another in an attempt to kill Nozomu, but Nozomu exerted a high-speed curve movement when he changed his *Instant Move* into *Instant Move -Curve Dance-*. He effortlessly dodges the clubs and runs past the giants.
Nozomu's purpose is to use the physical disparity between his opponent and himself to set up maneuver warfare and defeat each individual.
Living things are unlikely to fight head-on with creatures larger than themselves.
But that doesn't mean that the smaller ones can't beat the bigger ones. That's because the smaller ones can use something more effectively than the bigger ones.
The physical disparity between him and the giant is certainly large, but on the contrary, if the body is too large and a maneuver battle is set up against an opponent who excels in mobility and reaction speed at close range, the reaction of the giants’ bodies and thoughts can't keep up with it.
Nozomu's current movement, which accelerates thinking with extreme concentration and manifests physical ability that surpasses even giants, can't be caught by the giants.
Nozomu left the five giants behind. With that momentum, he rushed towards the three Cyclopes to his right.
The giants were still unable to react to Nozomu who appeared in front of them in an instant.
Nozomu cuts the two giants that are completely defenseless standing in front of him with two slashes of bisection and plunges into the one remaining giant.
The giant tries to shake off and drive away Nozomu with its club, but Nozomu sees the club's trajectory abnormally slow, and Nozomu opens his mouth at a slow speed that seems to teach a child carefully.
He read the trajectory of the club, and when it completely passed his shoulder, he rushed towards the giant.
The giant stops the rushing Nozomu with its giant body.
Nozomu collided with a giant with tremendous charging power.
With just the momentum of his rush, Nozomu managed to push the giant who boasts an overwhelming weight compared to himself.
The giant's feet like a big tree, make 2 traces along the ground.
However, the overwhelming weight difference eventually stopped the rushing Nozomu.
The Cyclops, who stopped Nozomu's rush, tried to shoot his rock-like fist down in an attempt to turn Nozomu into minced meat, but ... the next moment, the giant lost its consciousness due to the shock wave that punched into it.
The giant's body was blown away with a bursting sound like an airburst. Nozomu was stopped by the giant and was supposed to be crushed by its fist, but he was there unscathed. The giant's chest, which was blown, sunk as if it had been hit by a hammer hitting a metal plate.
*Vibration Discharge*
An internal destruction technique similar to the Qi technique *Breaking Strike*. A physical technique that strikes using the perfect synergy of legs, hip, and torso movements.
Concentrate all one's power to the torso and strike a blow in an instant. The blow became a shock wave and penetrated the opponent's body. The internal organs were destroyed by the shock wave.
It is purely a physical technique, not a Qi technique, and does not need to care about the activation unlike the *Breaking Strike*. Moreover, it is a technique that is difficult to defend as it is released in perfect synergy.
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