Became an Academy Spearman - Chapter 632



632. The power of Shinchang Eustea

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The next day, Tuesday.

Cheonseong was blinking in his bed.

“Strange.”

A deep sigh escaped along with the words. Since I met Azazel yesterday, nothing has entered my mind. Even though I wanted to focus on something, my mind kept wavering.

Azazel’s strange attitude and strange reactions, and even the unexpected conditions he demanded from me.

-I’m looking at you like this right now.

More than anything, the words Azazel said along the way shook my heart.

I thought Azazel would have a meaningful reaction if I brought up something about Shinchang Eustea. Since I showed everything, Azazel will also ask for something about the Shinchang Eustea that he wanted from me.

But my thoughts were wrong.

“He’s looking at me… … .”

I was muttering absentmindedly, but my vision was blurry.

I once thought that the reason Azazel didn’t seal me was definitely related to Shinchang Eustea. And based on that thought, I approached Azazel, and overall tried to approach Azazel to appease him.

But I felt blocked from the beginning.

As expected, Azazel didn’t ask me anything related to Eustea.

Even though I said out loud that I had memories of Eustea, Azazel actually regained his composure and treated me lightly.

‘And he was even seeing through my emotions.’

Looking at the situation as a whole, it was definitely not the worst. Rather, if we only look at the reality that was achieved, it would not be an exaggeration to say that it was probably the closest outcome to the best.

Because Azazel didn’t show me a threatening attitude or cause concern to me, and he didn’t make unreasonable demands on me.

“rather… … .”

She suggested spending time with me.

Actually, that was what I hoped for too. If you want to appease her, her basic premise is to increase the time you spend together.

Sreuk.

I slowly raised my upper body.

Then, my gaze naturally went to my hands. There, without my knowledge, I saw a hand clenched into a fist.

Clutching your hands excessively.

It’s been like this since yesterday. If I relax just a little, my body becomes overly tense and tries to exert strength just by thinking about Azazel.

Slurp.

A laugh escaped me as I gently relaxed the strength in my hands.

“… … “I hate my body like this.”

Even as I spoke, my mind was confused. It was my first time experiencing such conflicting emotions coexisting in my heart.

Just thinking about Azazel causes my body to react like it does now. However, when I think deeply and look at reality rationally, I clearly recognize the reason why I need to meet Azazel.

That was funny to me.

I feel like my body and mind have been playing separately since yesterday.

And a faint smile escaped me as I thought about Eustea’s influence, which could be said to be the reason.

“Eusea. I will be different from you… … .”

The absolute and strong will he had was something I had no choice but to acknowledge because I had thought of it countless times. I don’t think I’m wrong as he showed such a wonderful will that it can be said to have surpassed human will.

however.

The path he took against the original apostle and the path I take are a bit different.

I had already made up my mind that way.

After finishing my thoughts, I straightened up. After eating breakfast and looking back at myself while holding the spear, I felt like I had to go see Azazel again.

… … .

Grand Colosseum Stadium.

On non-game days, access is usually restricted. But even so, there were people who were free to come and go.

Like me, for example, who made it to the top round.

Jerk.

After having a light breakfast, I left the inn and entered the Colosseum. What came into my sight was an empty interior. I took a deep breath alone in a space that would normally be crowded with people, and then slowly took out the spear I was carrying on my back.

As soon as I felt the cool touch of the window, my troubled mind instantly became lighter.

I lightly threw out the window.

Shoo!

The blade of the spear quickly cut through the air, immediately marking a dot in the air.

sting.

While executing the basic movements, it was just as I expected.

‘As I thought… … .’

I haven’t changed much in terms of physical ability. To put it bluntly, his physical abilities were almost unchanged from before.

Even when checking the status window, the ability stats barely increased, so perhaps it was only natural.

Shoo! Swish!

Even as I swung the spear a few more times, I felt it intuitively. It should be said that nothing has changed physically.

Afterwards, while slowly retrieving the spear, I naturally had other thoughts.

“… … Shinchang Eustea.”

He clearly gained a slice of his power.

But if there is no physical change, what kind of change should I accept in his power? If you really look at it simply, I was able to focus my attention due to internal changes.

However, even if I lightly checked it once, as if checking my body, the total amount of mana did not change.

Then something more fundamental changed.

Then, without even realizing it, my eyes turned to the hand holding the spear.

“… … .”

I looked carefully at the window while concentrating my mind.

The power of Eustea.

And the reason I felt how powerful he was was, to put it mildly, his spear skills.

As I watched his memories indirectly out of strong will, I had to experience surprise at every moment.

In front of the power that could create heaven and earth, seen by the apostle of the beginning, Eustea fought them all with just her spear. It was close to a power that surpassed the limitations of a spear.

At every moment, he performed feats and acrobatic movements, and even the attacks that were unavoidable or unblockable, he blocked or dodged them all, resisting the primordial apostle for a very long time.

At the end, the image of one’s will being displayed as if burning one’s own soul came to mind even more clearly now.

“ah… … .”

And suddenly I realized.

What is the biggest change that has happened to me right now? Why do I think so much has changed even though there is no physical change?

gulp.

Even as I swallowed my saliva without realizing it, my gaze that was looking at the window began to focus.

Suddenly, I felt like I had goosebumps all over my body.

“I can understand… … .”

The unnaturalness that had always felt when I thought of Eustea’s movements was no longer felt at all. His movements, techniques that were almost magical, movements that I would never have dared to imitate before felt natural now.

It’s not that I don’t think I can’t try, but I feel like I understand the basics of how to do it.

Slurp.

Slowly, he takes a step back with his left foot and even changes the posture of holding the spear. As he reached level 6 and grew physically, the posture he held the spear changed and now it has changed again.

While pulling the right hand holding the spear at an angle, he also slowly twisted his waist. Yet my eyes are fixed straight on the spear blade facing straight ahead. The hand holding the spear trembled slightly as the Eustea in her memory assumed the battle stance she had taken.

‘It’s unstable.’

With the left foot put back, the right hand holding the spear is pulled back in a ready stance as if it is thrust forward. There was a tension in my body as if I was pulling an arrow on a bowstring and pulling it with force.

But it was strange.

If you throw the spear like this, you will obviously pull your left foot back and twist your waist, so the moment you throw the spear, more strength will be applied to your hand.

However, moving like this and throwing out the window is bound to be unnatural.

“… … “What’s different?”

When I thought of Eustea again for a moment, I immediately realized something strange.

Eustea assumes this posture as naturally as breathing. Yet there is not even a moment’s pause.

It seemed as if there was no need for any preparatory movements. Anyone who wants to swing a sword or, like me, throw a spear, needs to be prepared.

That’s to add more power to your weapon. It was such a basic principle.

As I recalled the moment, strongly recalling Eustea’s appearance, the corners of my eyes began to wrinkle.

Movements and techniques that I couldn’t even think of imitating before don’t feel unnatural anymore. So now you can follow along and imitate it.

however.

Rather, I felt like my mind was fuller of the unknown than before I understood it.

“This… … .”

What on earth is Eustea doing?

Rather, as I understood it, I felt like I had reached an unknown territory that was even harder to understand.

For example, it was like that.

I knew that adding one and one makes two. It felt like a strange formula had suddenly emerged where adding one and one makes six.

And I learned the formula, but there is an absurd gap in reaching the answer of six.

Slurp.

As I slowly relaxed my posture, I thought about it in a daze.

“… … .”

It was nothing more than a moment of skill shown by Eustea to resist the mighty power of the original apostle.

ㅡ!

Following the light hand swung by the primordial apostle, the entire atmosphere in front violently shakes, as if being crushed. In a space where there was no way to escape anywhere, Eustea suddenly lifted off the ground and flew into the air.

Even though it is not something that can be avoided by jumping into the atmosphere, the oscillation of the atmosphere disappears along with the spear he lightly swings.

A strange technique that seems to have created a way out.

And the scene that followed was like the core of the power I was imagining.

ㅡ!

Eustea turned her body as if spinning and suddenly threw her spear with all her might.

And that soon burst forth a power that could be said to be the origin of my openness. With the spear that Eustea threw, Eustea jumped through space and existed in front of the apostle along with her spear.

and… … .

“I made it in one go.”

The image that came to mind as I muttered absently was shattered.

It was a moment.

Immediately after reaching the primordial apostle, Eustea adopted the attitude I had taken a moment ago and without any preparatory movements, threw out her spear.

The apostle from the beginning did not try to accept or block that move with force like before.

I avoided it.

As if trying not to encounter the power of the moment contained in the window.

“…”

As I lowered my head and looked at the window, only questions filled my head.

‘How does that work?’

In that split-second moment, it would have been very difficult to calculate how to throw out the spear, transfer space, and even correct one’s posture.

Was Eustea able to strike a spear in a near-deadly stance in one go?

Sreuk.

Even as I resumed the posture I had relaxed, I quickly fell into a trance.

Now that I understand something I couldn’t even attempt before, I see something incomparable.

And there is an answer to that. Just the smallest clue I can reach.

So, there was only one way left for me now.

‘Until you fully understand… … .’

The only thing left to do was to act on it over and over again.