The Hero Disciple Is Back - Chapter 80



79. The Master Had to Take Up His Sword

“Haa. Haa. Haa.”

My whole body was soaked with sweat.

But I kept swinging my sword.

Abusing your body doesn’t make you stronger.

I know it well.

But I couldn’t help but swing my sword.

Because he felt that swinging his sword would at least slightly diminish the flames burning inside his heart.

‘I was prepared for this.’

That’s what war is like.

Even in everyday life, you never know when or where the Grim Reaper’s scythe will swing, but it’s especially so in war. No matter how great a warrior you are, you could die from a blind arrow on the battlefield. That’s the battlefield. It doesn’t discriminate. It just kills. No matter how precious someone is, no matter how fervently you pray, the Grim Reaper’s scythe ignores all of that and just swings around cruelly and madly.

What a great status

How strong a person is

What a pitiful person

How sad a person

Don’t care

Just die, die, die.

That’s why war is hell.

There was no way I, a mercenary living in that world, could not know.

Even in the wars of mankind, it is like that.

It is a war with the Demon King’s army.

It is natural that sacrifices are made.

It is natural that there will be deaths.

Even people I don’t know

People I used to know

The scythe of the Grim Reaper will swing its blade with the utmost cruelty, more thoroughly and harshly than on the battlefields of humanity.

So it’s not surprising.

Something like someone who had a connection with you being killed by the Demon King… .

Because you’re going to hear something surprising in the future.

In the worst case scenario… .

Even his own precious disciples… .

Phew!

Boom!

Chorus!

A huge rock breaks apart and crumbles, sending up dust.

Being able to imitate something might mean reaching the realm of the real thing. So I tried to increase my power by imitating the Aura Blade over and over again. But it wasn’t easy.

‘Because the fact that it could be imitated in the first place was unprecedented.’

He found a shortcut that others could not find.

Until now, I just thought it was luck.

But is that really true?

Could such a result be achieved simply by luck?

Isn’t it an illusion and pride to think that you know yourself well? Wasn’t that the case for me too? I thought that my talent wasn’t that great. It’s not that I didn’t have any talent at all, but I thought that it wasn’t that great. But now, at this moment, I’m thinking like that. Can I really say that I know my own talent with certainty?

A person who never truly wanted to become strong… .

Can I confidently say that I have ever directly encountered and hit the wall that others call the limits of talent?

Am I really qualified to use the indulgence of ‘I am weak’?

-You have a dark face again.

-It’s dark! It’s dark!

-The hardships of life?

I was able to wake up from my time of reflection by a voice that I suddenly heard at that time.

“You came.”

-Here~!

-I’m here~ I’m here~

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-Return instinct

It was the three spirits of the wind who fought so fiercely with Leah. The three spirits came to me from time to time. If Leah was in an urgent situation, it would be different, but if too many spirits came, the natural energy would gather too much and it would be bad, so I allowed only the three representative spirits to move around freely.

Since we can’t call them ‘Hey’ or ‘Spirit’, we gave names to the three spirits to facilitate communication.

The spirit who was a bit bigger and always spoke first was named “Rin”, the spirit who always spoke second was named “Ran”, and the spirit who always spoke last and was smaller and looked exactly like the youngest was named “Run”.

Fortunately, the spirits liked those names.

-Are you going to swing your sword today too?

I nodded to Lin’s question.

“Is it boring for you guys?”

Then Lin, Lan, and Rune shook their heads.

-No. It’s fun to watch Jade swing her sword.

-That’s right~ That’s right~

-A rare experience

“There’s probably nothing special….”

Because there really wasn’t anything special.

It was just a man struggling to become stronger after missing out on his prime in his early 20s.

-No~ No~ Something that is full of earnestness has meaning in itself.

-That’s right~ I like watching emotions being carried by the wind!

-A different feeling

If I were to interpret it… .

It seemed to mean that the changes in the wind created by my sword were quite interesting to the spirits.

If so, that’s good.

If you can feel something interesting rather than boring while watching me, then wouldn’t that be a good thing?

Perhaps a different perspective from the perspective of a spirit could be of great help to me.

That’s when I had that thought.

-damage?!

Suddenly, Lin shouted at me. And then, just a little later, I felt an eerie feeling and moved.

Chae-Ang!

Suddenly, a pitch-black sword appeared in the air and was aiming after me.

‘Magi?!’

There was no way I could have mistaken that horrible aura that had once tried to end my own life. Feeling that horrible aura from that sword, I drew on my natural mana.

At that moment, the world changed.

♤♤♤

“…are you okay?”

-Of course, I’m fine!

-All right! All right!

-Nothing more

Fortunately, Lin, Lan, and Rune were all unharmed.

I looked around.

It was very different from where I had been just a moment ago. It didn’t feel like I had been moved by some kind of teleportation magic… . It was literally like this world I was in was completely different from the world I had originally been in. It was like I had been forcibly dragged to another world. That was the feeling.

It was clear then that the being who had made this completely ungrateful invitation would soon show up.

“I’m sorry to invite you like this.”

As expected, the violent tyrant who made this completely unwelcome invitation showed up.

What a terrible magic… .

It was clear that the demons who had crossed over to the human world now would be weakened since it was not yet the time, but… . Even so, it was enormous. It was incomparable to the second stone I had faced. The black knight standing in front of me now, fully armed with dark armor, made me think, ‘Could he be the demon lord?’ But he couldn’t be the demon lord. There was no basis for it. It was just a feeling. The being in front of me was clearly incredibly strong, but… . My feeling was telling me.

The being before my eyes is not the Demon King, the symbol of absolute destruction.

“I am ‘Escenderos, the Four Heavenly Kings.’”

As expected, it wasn’t the Demon King.

However, it was the Four Heavenly Kings who held the most power in the Demon King’s army, second only to the Demon King. An enormous being, so great that there could not possibly be another such giant, had appeared before me.

“Jade”

“I know, Master of the Warriors.”

“So it’s kidnapping?”

There was no way I could think of a single person, the Four Heavenly Kings, to appear before me like this, other than to kidnap them and exploit them as a weakness.

“no.”

… But contrary to my expectations, the Four Heavenly Kings simply shook their heads and denied it. Of course, since it was a demonic statement, I couldn’t believe it. Is it more likely that the truth will come out of a demon’s mouth? Is it more likely that a lie will come out? Of course, it would be a lie.

So that statement must be false. It would be reasonable to think so… .

My feelings took it differently.

I’m saying there’s no lie in those words.

“Then what is the purpose?”

“Our heaven has given us an order. It has told us to spar with you.”

“Daria?”

“Don’t kill me, but divide my sword. Humans call this a duel. Heaven has said that you must not be killed. It would be appropriate to explain what I intend to do to you as a duel.”

“… … .”

Suddenly, a big shot like the Four Heavenly Kings came and asked to have a duel instead of kidnapping or assassination… I couldn’t help but have suspicions like, ‘Is this a dream?’

But you soon realize that.

The overwhelming presence I felt before my eyes, and the trembling of my soul because of it, gave me the confidence that this could not be a dream.

‘… What on earth is the Demon King thinking?’

I don’t understand.

When he sent the Four Heavenly Kings to the warrior’s teacher, he ordered them to spar, not to kidnap or assassinate him…

“… Okay, I understand. Let’s do it.”

Unfortunately, I had no choice. After all, I was not the one who could control this situation and decide the flow. In addition, behind me were the wind spirits Rin, Lan, and Rune. Originally, spirits could not be killed, but if they were demons… . Among them, if they were the Four Heavenly Kings, who were the highest-level demons, they could kill spirits. Complete annihilation would be possible.

If the guy doesn’t join me in this incomprehensible sparring, I might get angry at those kids. That’s why I couldn’t help but take up my sword.

At that moment, a huge dark wall appeared.

Never break through… .

It seems like there is absolutely nothing that can be done… .

Against that dark wall, I gripped my sword tightly.