Became an Academy Spearman - Chapter 624



624. Expectations

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I can feel the cool texture of iron.

I stood still, staring at the red window.

A training hall located on one side of the inn.

Now that I was standing there alone, holding the spear, it felt like my mind was slowly disappearing.

It’s complicated and dizzy.

The easiest way to calm my unorganized mind due to too many thoughts, I chose to hold the window.

“… … “Good.”

Even though I said it softly, I found myself like this funny.

What I am worried about right now is by no means a light matter. It’s a really important issue, and as such, I have to think more deeply and make a clear decision. I couldn’t come up with an answer, so I ended up running away from the problem without realizing it.

By holding the spear, by stopping to think at all.

I chose an extremely simple method of moving my body and not using my head.

Sreuk.

He nodded while gently stroking the red spear with his hand.

From noble mtl dot come

The cold Changsin delivers a chill from his fingertips.

‘Drakaris.’

I particularly liked the spear I received from Kali. Is it because it was a gift from her, or is it because the Ishtar family’s special weapon is an excellent spear?

Although I thought it might be both, I lightly swung my spear.

Swish!

The red spear blade lightly tore through the air and crossed the space without the slightest resistance.

The wind that tore in all directions through the trajectory of the spear blade seemed to strangely hit me.

“… … “Next 5 days.”

I moved my body in a daze while mumbling something.

Considering that it is deep at night, it is not possible to accurately say that it is the 5th. Right now, I only have that much time left.

Afterwards, you have to face Azazel in the stadium.

As I continued to swing the spear, my eyes were always focused on the tip of the spear.

Just by making a light decision, a spiral airflow appeared on the blade of the spear as if it were natural. Now, even though I was using my strength like breathing, I was laughing emptyly.

‘I really want to win.’

No, more precisely, I wanted to trample on Azazel. Because I wanted to give back to Darsha even more than what happened to her.

However, I was faced with a reality that I could not ignore. Before she even had her match with her, she deliberately didn’t even watch her Azazel’s match. I felt it today.

A fragment of Azazel’s power.

Even as a light breath escaped his mouth, the hand wielding the spear did not stop at all.

ㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡㅡ!

Soon, countless winds burst out along the blade of a spear, blowing up the air like a gale.

My body was in perfect condition, moving as if it was flying along with my heart. Even if I played the game like this, there was no problem showing my full potential.

However, little by little, hesitation appears in the hand wielding the spear.

The hand holding the spear gained strength while the corners of his eyes narrowed.

Whenever I held the spear and moved it like this, my heart felt infinitely lighter.

But that wasn’t the case today.

It was heavy.

The movement gradually slowed down, and the hand holding the spear no longer felt sharp.

More than anything, there was something that bothered me.

Even though I tried to erase my anguish by swinging the spear and putting my heart into the blade, I couldn’t understand one thing.

“Why did he show his power on purpose?”

Tuk.

When I stopped my body, the hand holding the spear naturally stopped as well.

Slurp… … .

As the spiral airflow slowly disappeared, the remnants of the wind that swept through the space disturbed my hair and even blurred my vision.

‘I knew you had your doubts.’

Azazel knew it early on.

That I am suspicious of her. And yet she acted calmly and spoke to me. It was like that the whole time.

I found out the reason today. Considering the power she possesses, she is not even the slightest threat to the power I possess.

So, I thought Azazel treated me like nothing.

But when I thought about it a little more, I realized that it was different again.

“Why not?”

Was there a need to reveal my strength and turn my doubts into ‘certainty’? Moreover, she was strangely enjoying the fact that I was antagonizing her.

I don’t know what he was aiming for, but if he had been a little more secretive and was looking for an opportunity, Azazel would have had the right moment.

Swish!

Even as I swung the stopped spear blade again, my eyes turned to my spear blade.

“Opening.”

As I deployed my power, my vision immediately turned golden. As the transcendental feeling filled my whole body, I focused my consciousness and focused my eyes on the spear I was swinging.

Sreuk.

The spear that left my hand was still floating in the air.

As if it was not affected by anything, it was completely stained with gold from the red spear to the blade, giving off a splendid presence and intensely capturing my attention.

“It was as if I was expecting it.”

Those words slipped out inadvertently.

Just today, I thought of Azazel dozens or hundreds of times and tried to find the meaning in her words and actions. What I came up with was just bizarre.

“I feel like Azazel is clearly expecting something from me.”

Even as I spoke, I clenched my hand without realizing it.

ㅡ!

As the golden-stained spear leaped through space and appeared in my hand, I held on to it tightly.

Sreuk!

Just as the transcendental sensation of opening throughout my body gave me unprecedented power, my hand holding the spear contained infinitely stronger power.

And Changshin, who was affected by the opening, was withstanding the force without any problem.

“It’s not enough.”

Even though I was feeling such a huge force right now, I was aware of it.

My power cannot reach the level that Azazel is at, or rather, her hidden power.

I already found out before I even played the game. Azazel is currently participating in this Colosseum while hiding his true power.

‘It’s not just something like level 7 characteristics.’

There was a strange power in her body that was enough to fool everyone. Still, she told me.

He clearly stated in a tone as if he was expecting something from me, that I was the only one in this Grand Colosseum who would receive his expectations.

“… … And she knows something about me.”

Her purpose is not to kill me, and there is something strange about sealing me.

And if the goal is really to seal me, then what on earth does Azazel expect?

What was she seeing in me that made her approach me in such a strange manner and say such strange things? And today she showed some signs of strength and said something strange to me.

Something to expect from me.

It was the only thing apart from anything else.

‘The power that opposed the apostles of the beginning.’

The accident unfolded naturally that way.

Otherwise she wouldn’t be interested in me.

This power I grew from the being that is the origin of my current power. Even the power of the opening I completed was a very special opening.

Then maybe there’s still something more to me.

So, Azazel showed such behavior. If you think about it that way, she was right.

If she is one of the nine apostles, she also has a purpose of sealing me, and expects something from me. What I expect is my strength.

The power reflected by the being that became the origin of my power against the apostle of the beginning.

“This was it… … .”

It felt like all my complicated thoughts suddenly came together.

Azazel was deliberately trying to face my power. I want to see with my own eyes how much power I can manifest.

To Azazel, sealing me didn’t seem like a high priority.

So she expressed her interest in me by revealing her power to me.

“… … .”

But a strange thought occurred to me, as if the questions kept coming back to me.

Suddenly, the previous weekend came to mind.

In the last game, I showed off my strength against Leonhard. They used the already revealed openings and pushed Leonhard all the way.

At the end of the game, I tried to completely finish off Leonhard by using skills in an open state.

There is no lie in that moment.

however… … .

Still, I had the energy at that time. The ability to exert more power than was seen.

“I know Azazel, but there’s something I don’t know.”

What is that?

And something to expect from me.

I had to see it as my strength, but also a strength I didn’t know about.

Even though I have achieved this level of growth, it is something that I cannot reach now.

“… … .”

As I gazed at the window scattering gorgeous golden light, I unconsciously remembered it.

A spear magician who stood up to the original apostle. The strange movements he showed that could be said to be the origin of my strength. I have been reminded of this spear technique of extreme skill many times since I first saw it.

It was still like that now.

I would momentarily overlap myself with him, recalling the almost mystical skill of the spear that now seemed to have been engraved in my mind.

A spear technique that reached its peak by endlessly burning its will against the divine power shown by the apostle of the beginning. When I tried to substitute myself for the movement that had burned my own soul against the apostle for a long time, a discordant sound occurred as if all the images that came to mind were shattering.

“Tsk… … .”

I shook my head unconsciously and held my head.

My head felt like it was going to explode.

For a moment, it felt like I was trying to put something absurd into my hands, and my body was immediately rejecting it.

I tried to suppress the pain and slowly took a deep breath.

It is still not enough to recreate something that has reached its peak with my body. Nonetheless, there were a few moves I could implement.

It was also different from the Surachil Yeon that I miraculously completed.

“There is something that goes beyond even Surachilyeon… … .”

I mumbled and thought in a daze.

It is impossible to know Azazel’s heart. Fundamentally, it wasn’t enough to understand why she was expecting me and why she was behaving so strangely.

But if she had such high expectations of me that she wouldn’t seal me away, I had to think she was seeing something more in me.

“I need to know that.”

When I think about it, I guess I didn’t know too much about the origin of my power.

Rather than vaguely assuming that he was an entity that opposed the Apostles of the beginning, there was a need to dig deeper.

Then, one person naturally came to mind.

‘Ariya Schupelent.’