The Academy's Barbarian-Chapter 4
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1.
It's been half a year since I returned to the past.
The meadow was covered with snow and turned white. It means winter has come. No one was walking around, probably because of the strong snowstorm..
Except for one thing, Ulan..
He strode forward, carrying a black-edged axe. He was heading towards the deep forest beyond the meadow..
‘I have work to do today.’
one of the regrets of a past life.
It was the end of winter and the dawn of the third day when the sun did not rise. A certain 'beast' living in the forest once attacked the village..
Ulan was out hunting at the time..
So the remaining warriors in the village joined forces to face the beast. It was successful in narrowly stopping the beast, but the village became a mess..
and in this process.
Ulan's older brother, Alc, has died..
‘I can't let my brother die again.’
Alc is his only real brother.
He had a reason to live unconditionally.
Because he had to take over as chief of the clan instead of Ulan. Then the uhlan can naturally free himself from the chieftain's responsibilities and act to achieve his goal with peace of mind..
Soon after reaching the depths of the forest.
I deliberately walked without hiding my presence.
I broke trees to provoke him. When he was wielding an axe and rampaging.
I could feel the gaze from afar.
A powerful enemy hidden within.
I looked straight away.
thud! cooong! thud!
land resounding.
I could feel the fishy smell of blood in the swaying wind. Ulan stared straight ahead with unwavering eyes..
it was a huge beast.
It was as large as a rock, with two pairs of horns sprouting from its head and six legs..
‘Guardian deity of the forest, Gtuh.’
A spirit that has lived for a long time.
However, his current appearance was far from being a guardian deity or a spiritual creature..
Eyes overflowing with hostility.
His mouth was stained with blood and flesh, as if he had greedily devoured something. Even the evil energy that rises from the whole body.
There is another word to call such a beast.
‘demon).’
A monster is a beast whose original magical power runs out of control for some reason or is swallowed up by evil power..
And there is no way to restore the beast that has become a demon like this. The only thing I can do is to kill him as soon as possible and make him feel comfortable.
The moment I silently grabbed the axe.
“Krrr! Aaaaaaaa!”
With a scream, he rushed first.
A raucous rush. Crushing every obstacle in his way with his horns, he was right in front of Uhlan in an instant..
But it's not a uhlan to be taken lightly.
He jumped up and down the tree like a flying squirrel. Then, holding on to its horns, he immediately swung his axe..
Kaaaang! carduk!
hard. It's a bit stuck, but that's not enough. Then the boy struggled like crazy. It is probably intended to drop Ulan..
However, Ulan was immovable..
Still holding on by the horns, Uhlan drew his axe. Then she tightened his hand on her axe, his eyes flashing red..
Then at that moment.
ugh ugh!
The ax rattled wildly..
The ax turned red in an instant.
‘spirit.’
A technique used only by those who have proven themselves as warriors. After raising the will to kill and fighting spirit, infuse the inner mental power into the weapon to enhance durability and cutting power..
If you listen to this far, it may feel like a special power, but in fact, spirit is not much different from the power called 'mana' outside the meadow..
In other words, the reddish light of Ulan's ax was also strengthened with mana. Like the mana sword used by knights outside the plains.
‘at this level······.’
Enough to rip his skin off.
Ulan slashed the red ax straight down..
Kwagak! support!
Tough leather cuts softly.
The blade of the ax that had torn through the flesh and dug into it boiled the neck bone at once. Then the head of the tukh quickly fell from his torso and dangled..
completely detached head.
Still, Gtukh did not die..
“haaaaaa!”
I saw a grotesque sight of a fallen head screaming. Her headless torso thrashed to drop the uhlan again..
‘The demon will die only when the nucleus is removed..’
source of power and source of magical power.
Only when a nucleus is found somewhere in the torso and cut out or destroyed with certainty is the demonic beast facing its end..
So, in a battle against a demon, a witch, shaman, or wizard is essential. Because in order to find out the location of the core, we must sense the flow of magical power..
However, Ulan's method was different..
no wizard needed There is no need for witches or sorcerers. All you need is a weapon to split skin and break bones.
‘Is it enough to cut out until the nucleus comes out?.’
right after making an ignorant decision.
Ulan swung his ax like a madman..
puck! Kwadeuk! kudeudeuk!
A scene reminiscent of a slaughterhouse.
The Witchbeast, once called a spiritual creature, began to disintegrate like a piece of meat. I screamed and struggled, but to no avail..
some time after that.
After the beast's body was split into hundreds of pieces. Ulan, covered in blood, stood up..
“found.”
It was with a blunt answer.
The core was on the demon beast's fifth leg..
To be precise, it was embedded in the thick thigh meat as if hiding. Grabbing it and tearing it apart, the Witchbeast immediately stopped moving..
‘now with this······.’
Alc will not die.
Ulan smiled contentedly..
After that, I looked at the core of the demon in my hand..
A bright red chunk of meat that wriggles and pulsates like a living heart. Ulan took it to her mouth..
and chewed.
Wow! munching!
A ravenous meal has begun.
If a wizard outside the meadow saw such a scene, he would most likely be stunned..
Because the monster's core was a mass of magical energy that ran amok. If you absorb it without refining it, you should be able to gain a lot more power, but the chance of running out of control is much higher..
‘If you can't calm the storm······.’
one of two outcomes. Either the body bleeds out and dies, or it is engulfed in the monster's core and a new monster is born..
I mean that's crazy anyway.
Of course, Ulan ate all the demons' cores, but.
gulp!
After a ravenous meal.
My whole body heated up quickly..
Passes! Puss!
A body that emits heat so strong that it melts as soon as it touches the snow. The unstable mana that had entered his body started running out of control like a madman..
Ulan, on the other hand, was expressionless..
He skillfully suppressed his magical powers..
Not with any grabbing, but only with force, suppressing the mana..
In the process, the pain of tearing the skin of the whole body came, but Ulan calmly endured it..
how long has it been like that?
The mana that had run rampant like a mad colt slowly subsided. Eventually, after absorbing all of his mana, Ulan let out a breath he had been holding back..
“······Whoa.”
his eyes grew deeper.
For the past half year, Ulan has been hunting the monsters near the grasslands and absorbing their cores in this way. As a result, Ulan's spirit became very powerful..
To put it bluntly, he was barely on the verge of becoming a great warrior. These fields are called by these names outside the grasslands..
‘master's realm.’
Monsters that transcend ordinary humans.
Ulan of the past life stepped on the master's threshold at the age of twenty-six. On the other hand, the current uhlan achieved equal achievement at the end of sixteen..
10 years faster.
This was possible thanks to the steady build-up of spirit by not neglecting training and utilizing seasoned experience..
After a brief recollection.
Ulan opened his closed eyes.
“anyway what about that.”
His gaze turned to the remnants of the Demonic Beast scattered across the floor..
Devil's teeth, horns, claws, etc..
Although it is hard, it is not suitable for smelting as a weapon. In other words, it's something that warriors don't really need..
But with a shaman, it's different..
Those who deal with mana used to be crazy about the by-products from the demons..
“I'll have to give it to Ajuh..”
soon after making a decision.
Ulan turned around as it was..
2.
After washing off the blood and flesh from his body, Ulan headed to Azuh's cabin. As usual, it was to seek instruction..
‘I've learned a lot in the last half year.’
It is to Ulan to seek knowledge, unknown territory that has never been experienced before..
Is that why? Ulan put fun in learning academics. In the belated eagerness for learning, he burned his eager eyes..
‘what will i learn today?’
I want to learn the knowledge necessary to enter Arsene Academy. It was Ulan's personal goal to enter the academy before he turned 20 at the latest..
When I was thinking about this and that.
I arrived at the cabin before I knew it..
smart!
after knocking on the door.
As always, I went inside..
But today, for some reason, the atmosphere was strange..
“are you coming uhlan.”
A very sad face and voice.
The outfit was different from usual. A figure covered in the skin of a giant snake. Azuh wears it only for important occasions or ceremonies..
So when I was about to ask why.
“huh? but what is it?”
Azuh spoke first.
It seemed that he was interested in the teeth and horns of the beast that Ulan had brought. Since he intended to give it anyway, Ulan handed over the gift in a calm manner..
“I picked it up on the way.”
“No, what the hell did you pick up?······.”
Can you feel the scent of such a dense magical power? Ajuh picked up his teeth. Then I was immediately startled..
“this, this!”
I was just surprised.
It was because I had never seen teeth with such strong magical reverberation. Also, the giant horns were by no means a by-product that could be obtained from ordinary demon beasts..
Every monster has a grade.
It's a grade arbitrarily set by humans outside the plains, but it matches surprisingly well, so Azuh remembers it..
1Ratings from 1 star to 9 stars.
The higher the number, the stronger the magic beast. And when it reaches 9 stars, it is said that it is almost like a monster from legends..
‘Taking that into account, these horns······.’
Even if you estimate it, it is a five-star beast.
Outside the grassland, it is a monster that can only be caught by knights and magic troops..
“For this, where the hell······?”
“I found it deep in the forest. If left unattended, it would attack the clan, so I killed it in advance..”
“Ho, you mean alone?”
“Both of them were unnecessary opponents..”
Ulan answers indifferently.
Ajuh, on the other hand, was speechless..
It was because no matter how powerful the shaman Azuh was, there was no guarantee of victory against a 5-star witch beast..
But I caught this by myself?
and without a single wound?
‘such a monster!’
Azuh shuddered..
I recognized him from the time he passed the hero's ordeal, but this guy is by no means ordinary..
‘······I guess this is the best way.’
Azuh's eyes shone once..
Eyes with unspoken determination.
After a while, she gestured toward Ulan..
He was told to come and sit down. Ulan sat down without saying anything, and Ajuh handed over a clean envelope..
“is it a letter?”
“Yes, it's a letter requesting a letter of recommendation..”
immediately after answering.
Ajuh continued to speak..
“Give this to Count Dermore..”
“what? count?”
My eyebrows twitched at the word count..
This was a term referring to the title of nobles outside the meadow..
“Please take me out of the meadow······.”
“now is the time.”
right after I cut him off.
Azuh said in a serious tone..
“Go to Arsene Academy, Ulan. I have nothing more to teach you. Go wherever you want and learn various knowledge..”
I'm afraid the words will end.
Ulan's eyes flashed momentarily..
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