Have Magic - Chapter 104



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Embrace the Magic (104)

Rodin cast a familiar spell on one of the birds. A familiar spell is a spell that allows the animal to share its senses.

Rodin watched Larry all day long through the animals he had built.

Phew!

“You haven’t given up yet?”

“I told you you have no talent.”

“Anyway, there are some people who don’t understand the topic. I thought you were from a prestigious school because you were wearing nice clothes.”

Rodin watched Larry being bullied silently. He didn’t even get angry. He seemed like a person without emotions.

But actually, Rodin was pretty angry. That Larry was being bullied? That was true, but he was even more angry because there was no way to fix it.

‘Whew, what should I do?’

There were several reasons why Larry was bullied.

One is that he comes from a family that has nothing to do with swordsmanship.

The Marquisate of Richmond had an overly sword-worshiping atmosphere, so those who were not swordsmen tended to be looked down on.

Another thing is that Larry’s auror talents are ambiguous.

An atmosphere was created where people thought that since they were not special, it was okay to bully them.

Larry’s Auror talent was pretty decent compared to the average person. If he had been born into a decent family, he would have grown up without being criticized much and receiving decent treatment.

However, the Cardos Inspectorate was one of the three major Inspectors’ Offices within the Marquisate of Richmond.

Because so many talented people gathered, there were so many people with outstanding Auror talent. Among them, Larry’s Auror talent was clearly at the bottom.

‘Who is to blame?’

If you want to find the swordsman’s apprentices and scold them, there are too many of them. There are about 130 swordsman apprentices in Cardos, and most of them beat and harassed Larry.

No matter how angry I was, I couldn’t bring them all together and scold them.

It wasn’t that he didn’t have the confidence to fight. The only person within the Marquisate of Richmond that Rodin found difficult to deal with was the lord himself, the Marquis of Richmond. He was confident that he could defeat anyone who attacked him.

But if he fought like that, he would have to give up his stay in the Marquisate of Richmond. Naturally, Larry would also not be able to stay in the Kardos Inspectorate.

‘But you can’t blame the prosecutor.’

The trainees are responsible for solving their own problems.

It was the rule of the Kardos censors.

Unless the damage was so great that the opponent could no longer hold the sword, the Kardos swordmaster would never directly punish the trainees.

‘The inspector is not at fault, but there are too many practitioners. How do we resolve this?’

Would it be okay to go and try to persuade him? It wouldn’t work. It would just further torment Larry, who had brought his guardian because he had been beaten up.

‘I started swordsmanship too late.’

Neither Bianca nor Larry were particularly talented. They could barely pass for a position as a swordsman or a wizard if they tried hard enough.

However, Bianca started learning magic at a young age, two years younger than Larry. From this point on, it could be said that she was already one step ahead of Larry.

Another person who taught Bianca was Rodin. He was a genius whose knowledge of magic was second to none, so he had no shortage of teaching skills.

In contrast, Larry was introduced to Auror two years later than Bianca, already a step behind.

Also, the teachings of the Kardos Inspector were too uniform. They did not take into account the individual characteristics at all, so it was difficult for the practitioners who were behind to catch up with those who were ahead.

“Should I tell him to stop?”

“Me? Why? Should I not study today?”

“I didn’t say that to you. Study hard.”

“Yeah, brother.”

After giving Bianca a quick review, Rodin thought about it again.

No matter how much I thought about it, it didn’t seem like continuing to learn from the Kardos Inspectorate would be of much help to Larry. If time continued to pass like this, it was clear that he would never be able to escape the status of a mere trainee.

‘Send it to another inspector?’

If that were to happen, he would have to leave the Marquisate of Richmond. The rumor that he had been transferred to another censorship because he couldn’t adapt while learning from the Cardos censorship would have been the worst experience for Larry.

‘Swordsmanship… … , swordsmanship… … ‘

Rodin got up from his seat and went down to the training room. Bianca shouted something behind him, but he just waved.

After entering the training room, Rodin manipulated the pocket watch. The hand pointed to 11 o’clock. It was the last step before the pocket watch lesson.

The pocket watch had no relation to time or difficulty, except for 1 and 2 o’clock. The 11 o’clock class wasn’t particularly more difficult than the 3 o’clock class. The subjects taught were just different.

“The 11 o’clock class is fencing.”

I couldn’t give Larry the pocket watch and the ring containing the textbook knowledge. Proval’s pocket watch and ring were too precious treasures to give to someone else.

I feel sorry for Larry, but I still don’t have that much faith in my two younger brothers. It’s not that I don’t love them, but it took me a while to have a firm faith in them.

“Swordsmanship… I never thought I would be taking a class like this.”

I didn’t hate sweating. I’ve been working hard to build up my stamina since I was young, and even now, I’m working out for more than an hour every day.

However, I wasn’t interested in swordsmanship. I didn’t really like fighting enemies up close.

The talent points I received from the special forces training center also differed greatly. There were more efficient ways to become stronger, but I didn’t want to spend a lot of time on swordsmanship, where I had a low talent.

“It’s enough to replace my daily exercise.”

I attended Proval’s 11 o’clock welcome class. This time, too, a familiar teacher came out and taught the class.

I couldn’t take all the swordsmanship lessons in one day. It took three days just to teach the swordsmanship forms and listen to the explanations.

“Hmm, that’s some strange swordsmanship.”

The movements of swordsmanship. There were 63 sword forms in total. It was quite a lot, but it wasn’t difficult to memorize them.

However, the swordsmanship shown in Proval’s welcome class was extremely extreme.

Of the 63 sword types, only 7, or about a tenth, had any attacking power, while 56 sword types were focused on defense.

“Blocking, spilling, dodging, and striking. That’s 56 of them… This is a sword technique that is only for protecting the wizard.”

In particular, there were 32 movements that involved striking and pushing away the opponent, more than half of the total. These were movements that inspectors usually did not use often.

Pushing your opponent away meant restarting the fight on equal terms. Not the kind of approach the inspector would prefer.

It would have been more advantageous to slightly shake the balance or hit it hard to break the weapon.

But if you’re protecting a wizard, it’s a different story. By pushing them away and creating distance, you create space for the wizard to use his magic freely.

“Want to hang out with Larry?”

It was an overly extreme and completely unbalanced swordsmanship.

I was reluctant to tell Larry right away. I was worried that teaching him this would only ruin him.

“It’s not my part.”

The choice is Larry’s. It would have been enough to just tell him, ‘There’s this kind of swordsmanship, do you want to learn it?’

That night, Larry returned from the Kardos coroner’s office. He looked fine on the outside, but he had bruises all over his body again today.

“Larry.”

“Hey, bro? What’s going on?”

“Let’s talk.”

“is it so.”

Larry sat down in the living room chair. He looked calm on the outside. He seemed like he had no problems.

Rodin pointed to the door without sitting down on the chair.

“Let’s go out and talk.”

“Huh? Oh, yeah. I’ll go out.”

I took Larry out to the garden.

Although it was called a ‘garden’, there was hardly any grass to be seen. There were only trees planted along the perimeter, and the entire center was covered with fine soil. The soil was about a span thick, so it felt slightly soft when you stepped on it.

“What’s going on?”

“Give me a knife.”

“My sword?”

Larry hesitated for a moment and then handed over the sword.

In the Kardos swordsmanship, they teach you not to trust your sword to anyone else. They tell you to always keep it with you like a lover, except when you take it to the blacksmith for repairs.

The Kardos Swordsman even punished him for briefly entrusting his sword to someone else. Larry also got in trouble in the beginning for unknowingly handing his sword over to someone else.

But it was okay for Rodin. He was not the type of person who would become the Kardos Inspector, and even if he did, he was willing to take the risk.

“There is one sword technique I know.”

“Does your brother practice swordsmanship?”

“No. I can’t. I just know. But this swordsmanship.”

Rodin hesitated for a moment, then demonstrated the swordsmanship he had learned from the Proval Welcome.

It was slow, but there was no frills, and there was not a single error in the sword form learned through the welcome.

widely!

Finally, the sword was unfurled and Rodin handed the sword to Larry. Larry instinctively grabbed the sword and stared blankly at Rodin.

“Th, that… what was it?”

“Extreme?”

“Yes. It’s defensive. It’s like a sword technique that tells you not to attack.”

Although there were sword types that were offensive, they were far fewer in number than sword types that were defensive.

It clearly shows what kind of swordsmanship he has.

“Similar. From what I see, in this swordsmanship, offense is only used against weaker enemies. When facing a similar or stronger enemy, defense is always the way to go. Blocking, dodging, deflecting, pushing back.”

“I saw it that way too. But why the swordsmanship all of a sudden?”

“I don’t know how it looked to your eyes. The swordsmanship I just showed you… was quite a high-level swordsmanship. It’s a swordsmanship that doesn’t care about balance, but if you just look at the level of the swordsmanship itself, it’s probably higher than what’s taught at the Cardos Sword Academy.”

This was expected, but I was also half sure of it.

The contents of the 2 o’clock welcome class at Proval included ‘Kingship’. The educational curriculum contained in the pocket watch meant that it was an education that trained leaders.

Not everyone in the world is gifted in magic. No matter how great a bloodline a person is born with, there are still cases where a mutant descendant is born without any talent.

The swordsmanship included in the welcome class was for such people. Even leaders without any talent for magic should be able to fight. Naturally, the level could not be low.

“Brother. Did you hear?”

“I didn’t hear it, I saw it. I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to investigate you with bad intentions.”

“Ha. What do you want me to do, hyung?”

“My opinion doesn’t matter. What matters is what you want to do. If you want to continue attending the Kardos Kenkan, that’s fine. If you want to learn the swordsmanship I teach here, that’s fine too. It’s your choice.”

Larry couldn’t answer easily. He just kept sighing with a complicated expression.

Rodin didn’t press for an answer. He just looked at the sky and gave her time to think calmly.

Larry opened his mouth after a long time.

“brother!”

“Yeah. Tell me.”

“The moment I first saw you. Do you remember?”

“Of course I remember.”

At that time, Larry and Bianca were waiting for death with their heads out, crying. Many of the children who had moved with them were already dead with their throats cut off, and their severed heads were rolling on the floor as Larry and Bianca looked.

A moment when I was much closer to death than to life.

At that moment, when I would have blinked a few times and fallen into eternal darkness, Rodin appeared.

When the real power appeared, the marauders who were thought to be death and predators were reduced to insignificant insects.

He was killed by magic in an instant, and Larry and Bianca were saved just before death.

“I never wanted to go through that again. Those moments of waiting miserably for death were really… really… so hard.”

“Yeah, I know. A life of helplessness is horrible.”

“So I held it in. I held it in and swung the sword. But I… It was too hard for me.”

“That’s enough. You did your best. You’ll keep doing your best. That’s the kind of person you are.”

Rodin hugged Larry tightly. Larry was trembling in her arms.

“Brother. Am I qualified? Can I learn your swordsmanship?”

“As I said before, this isn’t my swordsmanship. I just happened to learn it. If you want to learn this swordsmanship, I’ll learn it too.”

“I will learn. I will study really hard. I really want to protect my brother and Bianca.”

“You can do it.”

The next day, Larry immediately quit his job as a Cardos inspector. Perhaps because there were so many trainees, no one tried to stop him.

Rodin only trained with Larry in fencing at dawn, replacing his usual exercise with fencing.

Larry spent most of his time practicing swordsmanship from dawn until late at night. That was everything except for sleep, meals, and Auror training time.

Three months passed like that.