THE DRAGON CHAIN EMPEROR

Chp 5: Practice Tanding

The next day the school schedule again started early in the morning, actually my class schedule today is not too much, just political lessons, combat tactics, and sword training.

For political lessons and combat tactics was not too difficult for me because it was an oral lesson, because I often visited the academy library so I could go through both lessons easily.

People's attitude towards me was still as bad as the day before, but having gotten used to it I didn't pay much heed to their ridicule.

It's just that I was a little upset when they started using physical violence on me, but what could I do?

I'm just a farm boy with a fishing line in my hand...

Forget about that.

The first and second lessons are over, and now is the third lesson of sword practice.

Actually I am a little unhappy with this exercise, instead of me being weak in swordsmanship I am quite proficient in this lesson because it does not require mana.

The reason why I don't like this lesson is because the teacher who teaches the sword lesson seems to hate me so much....

"Now march all of you!"

The teacher told us to line up neatly, we are currently in one of the special rooms of the sword lesson.

It was a large room like a battle arena with many of the longest swords by its side.

The teacher looked at us all with an irritating face.

"Well, today I'm going to hold a battle drill for all of you!"

His words left us all a little surprised.

"But teacher, isn't this too arriving?"

One of the male students protested, but was only responded with annoyance by the teacher.

"You should all always be prepared for the lessons you are taking, so there is no reason for any activity to arrive!"

I knew this was gonna happen.

Cedric Brooks, that's the name of our swordsmanship teacher. He was famous for his obnoxious and reckless attitude towards his students.

You could say not only did I hate that teacher but many students hated him as well.

"Asher Dean go ahead."

Asher was chosen to be the first participant in this match practice, he advanced and entered the place that had been provided with confidence as if he would be the winner.

"And your opponent is....."

Teacher Cedric's eyes traced our lines and stopped right at me and grinned meaningfully.

I know what he wants to do...

"River Addeson, you'll be Asher's opponent!"

I've guessed.

It's not wrong if this match practice is just an excuse to embarrass me. I don't know why, but for sure that guy seems to hate me when I never did him wrong.

"What are you waiting for River? go ahead!" his orders are cunning.

I couldn't dodge this, so I decided to go ahead and enter the arena.

"Looks like you're unlucky today yeah .. alright I'll finish this quickly!"

Asher looked at me with his arrogant face, I can understand if he feels he can defeat me easily.

I'm not too sure I can win in this fight, the point is that as long as he fights with pure swordsmanship without relying on magic then I can definitely compensate for it.

When viewed from the weapons we use, it is clear that he is superior when it comes to strength, he uses a large sword or Greet Sword while I use a long sword or Long Sword.

But even though his sword force was stronger than mine, but he would definitely have trouble swinging such a large sword, whereas I could swing my sword agilely.

"Hey, why are you just quiet? do you want to fight or just be quiet?"

He seems to be getting upset. I don't think there's any point in responding to it so I shut up.

"Enough talk, now the fight begins!"

Aba aba has been given by teacher Cedric. Asher immediately shot towards me quickly, he jumped up while raising his greatsword above his head and smashed it right at me.

Fending it off would only break my sword, so I jumped back to avoid it.

* BOOOM! *

* CRACK! *

The cracked floor formed a spider web with Asher as the center, a good idea to avoid such a deadly attack.

* SWOOOSH! *

I ran and darted towards Asher whose sword was still sinking as it was on the surface of the floor.

Asher still looked calm, he raised the hilt of his sword and to fend off my sword slash, after my attack was parried Asher raised his sword and came back to attack me in succession.

I repelled all his attacks with great difficulty so that my body was thrown and lying on the ground.

"Come, Uhuk!"

I coughed a few times.

This was so strange, how could he lift such a huge sword and swing it so quickly? And I also feel tired very quickly.

It should not be possible for a child of his age.

"!!!"

Now I realize it.

'It's not wrong anymore, he used Buffed's magic!' my inner.

Buffed and Nerffed, those are two types of magic that are useful for increasing or reducing fighting strength for a few minutes.

Buffed has several types of uses such as Buff Magic which is useful for strengthening magic, Buff Power which is useful for strengthening physical strength, Buff Energy which is useful for increasing stamina, and so on.

Contrary to Buffed, Nerffed was a magic to reduce the power of his enemy.

In Asher's case it seems he used Buff Power to himself and Nerf Energy to me, which is the reason why I get tired so quickly.

I was obviously greatly harmed in this fight.

"What are you doing down there? Stand up and face me!" shout Asher.

My breathing was still breathless, I never expected that Nerf Energy could have such an impact on my body.

But I'm sure if these bad effects will disappear in a few minutes, I just need to hold on until the effects disappear.

I stood up with great difficulty, wiped my mouth and then held my sword tightly back.

Asher smiled arrogantly as if he was already confident of winning the fight.

"Good .. lest you lose quickly!" he then ran back to me.

Slash after slash was launched at me, I repelled all of his attacks quite well despite the slight difficulty due to my rapidly draining stamina.

But even so he managed to hurt me a few times while I had not hurt him at all.

Master Cedric and the students watching our fight let out expressions of disbelief. They all didn't think I could defend well enough against Asher who had already used Buffed.

A few minutes had passed and the Nerffed Energy effect I had on me had disappeared, my stamina had returned to normal so that I could counterattack Asher.

The look of disbelief was clearly visible on Asher's arrogant face, he must have felt very annoyed at being almost cornered by me.

"Basic of the lowest rank!" his screams were full of emotion.

He then jumped back a few meters from me, stuck his sword in and said with great irritation.

"I'll show you who's the strongest among us!"

Highlight his eyes sharp, he then pointed his right hand at me.

I know very well what he wants to do, he wants to use his magic on me!

「Earth Magic: Sandstrom Vortex」

"Feel this!"

His right hand shone brightly, small grains of sand began to form around him, it darted and submerged my body in the whirlpool of sandstorms.

I could not breathe, grains of sand entered my lungs through my nose, some also scratched my body to the point of being injured and bleeding.

I dropped my sword and held my neck for breathing difficulties, I could not see anyone because of the thick sandstorm that surrounded me.

My body fell on the floor that was already filled with sand while my consciousness began to fade.

Before I completely lost consciousness, I could hear the shriek of teacher Fanela who sounded loudly outside the whirlpool of sandstorms.

"What did you do to my students!!!"

...ΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩΩ...

...𝐿𝑖𝑘𝑒, 𝑉𝑜𝑡𝑒, 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑈𝑛𝑡𝑢𝑘 𝑀𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑢𝑘𝑢𝑛𝑔 𝐴𝑢𝑡𝒉𝑜𝑟 𝐷𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑚 𝐵𝑒𝑟𝑘𝑎𝑟𝑦𝑎...

...~Chp 5 :1238 kata~...