Ruler Vol 1 Chapter 5
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Author: Anit666
【Sam’s POV】
The lesson continued after my little stunt, with Reygus teaching us about the various ways of using mana to cast magic spells. I also explained them how I could cast Eternal Flame on my first try, which was that I had imagined the entire process instead of just the result. However, I was the only one who succeeded in casting a magic spell: Jack and Chloe could only feel mana. By the time we were let go, it was already noon so we had lunch.
It was now 2 in the afternoon, the time for our martial arts lessons. Although I say martial arts but according to Alicia, this would include all possible ways of fighting physically. We were once again led to that training room, with Alicia again taking her position beside the wall on a chair.
She sure is having fun, huh.
This time our teacher was a woman in her thirties. She had blood-red hair and eyes, and slightly tanned skin. But her eyes held the sharpness of a predator. It seemed that she would kill me if I were to make a mistake during her lessons.
She looked over us intently, and finally spoke in a condescending tone.
“So, you three are the heroes huh. I am Liera Von Vetto. I’m in charge of teaching you martial arts. And let me say this right from the beginning, but this training will be so hard that you’ll cry tears of blood.” (Liera)
Tears of blood? Exactly what do you plan to teach us, Ms. Liera? This woman seems to be troublesome. And wait, did she just say Liera Von Vetto? The same Von Vetto as in Alicia’s, the second princess, name?
Perhaps my confusion was apparent on my face, as Liera proceeded to give an explanation.
“Yes, you heard it correct. I’m also royalty. I was once the first princess of this nation.” (Liera)
So even royalties would fight with us huh. That’s good, as it shows that the Kingdom is serious about defeating the demons.
“Now enough with the pleasantries. Let’s start the training right now. First of all, has any one of you previously trained in martial arts?” (Liera)
Since I had trained in using weapons and martial arts I raised my hand. Liera whistled, as if I amused. I’m getting a bad feeling from this.
“So you have trained huh. What did you train in?” (Liera)
“Swordsmanship and Vale Tudo.” (Sam)
I named two specific arts. Saying just weapons and martial arts would be too vague after all.
“Vale Tudo? What’s that? Let’s keep it aside for now. You also know Swordsmanship right. Then show me your skills. Fight me.” (Liera)
Eh? A 5000 years old lady who’s also the first Hero’s former companion wants to fight the newly summoned hero?
“Uhhh…. isn’t that a bit extreme? Can’t I just show you a few swings from my sword and have you judge just how much I know?” (Sam)
“Shut up! I said fight so we’ll fight. We’ll fight like our lives depend on it!”(Liera)
She shouted.
Things have escalated too quickly. I looked towards Alicia with a pleading face to ask for help but………. she looked amused! The same goes for Jack and Chloe!
Why! Were we not friends!? Is this revenge for learning magic before you guys!?
Without heeding my pleas, Liera produced two swords out of nowhere and passed one to me. It was a one handed-sword. Before I could try to refuse once again Liera lunged at me and swung the sword downwards. I hurriedly tried dodged to side, but the sword followed me like a snake following its prey.
This woman, she’s actually fighting with the intention to kill me.
I parried that sword strike and jumped backwards to take some distance. Liera ran after me and thrusted straight at my chest. I somehow dodged. This exchange went on for some time. Liera finally stopped, and shouted angrily.
“You bastard…… you aren’t even fighting seriously, are you? I just said to fight as if your life depended on it! And yet you’re holding back?! You’re looking down on me, punk?!” (Liera)
And now she’s pissed off. What an unreasonable woman. Fine, if she wants me to fight seriously, then I will do it.
I took a deep breath to calm myself. Reygus had told us that we can also use magic to strengthen our body. He said something about taking mana from the surroundings and imbuing it in our muscles. This would drastically improve your physical capabilities. But there is a limit to how much you can strengthen your body. Go over that limit and you might suffer a severe backlash. There have been people who lost their lives due to that backlash.
Yepp, time to use it. I gathered mana and used it to strengthen my whole body.
Although I make it sound so simple but it actually took the whole of my concentration to achieve this. If Liera had attacked me during that time then it would have been game over. But fortunately, she didn’t. Maybe she wants to see what I’m capable of?
After strengthening my body, I ran towards her, and swung my sword diagonally but she easily parried it. I used the momentum of that sword strike to rotate my whole body and deliver a roundhouse kick to her face, but she simply ducked and evaded. She used that opening and swung her sword towards me, but I parried it and jumped backwards and somehow saved myself. I tried again, but no matter how many times I swung my sword, it always met her sword. Just as I was about to start again, she spoke.
“Ok this is enough. I have seen what you’re capable of.” (Liera)
Whew, I somehow saved my ass. If we’re talking just about swordsmanship, she is so better than me that it’s not even funny. Maybe that’s what you get after you train for 5000 years?
I returned the sword to her, and went back to Alicia and the others. Alicia passed me a towel to wipe my sweat off, but….. she’s making an expression as if she had seen something very impressive.
Don’t tell me it’s my fault again. And Chloe is looking towards Liera with stars in her eyes, as if Liera were a hero. Seeing the state she is in, I won’t be too surprised if she were to tread down the forbidden path. Only Jack had an expressionless face.
Learn to show your emotions, Jack. I’m not in a position to say that to him though, given how I fake my expressions.
After that, Liera turned into a P.T. teacher and made us do things like running, exercises etc. ‘This is just warm-up’, she said. A lot of people would have died with just this warmup. My future looks bleak.
We were allowed some rest after that, and finally it was time to meet the person who’s supposed to teach us about this world. Frankly speaking, this is the one thing that I look forward to. Learning new things is one of my very few passions. And this is supposed to be a fantasy world where we have been summoned as heroes. I wonder what I’ll learn.
This time, we were taken to a room inside the castle. Unlike the other rooms, this room wasn’t decorated. It looked like a classroom, and it had only three desks. So maybe we three are the only ones who would be taught by him? Alicia left us alone this time. After she left, another woman came into the classroom. This woman was also a beauty. She had silver hair and black eyes, and her skin was white. She looked to be in her early 20s.
“Good evening, students. I am Olivia, the one in charge of teaching you everything about this world.” (Olivia)
She introduced herself politely. Her actions were just like a normal elementary school teacher.
But… she had a displeased looking expression on her face. Why? Did we do something to offend her?
“I just greeted you three, didn’t I? Isn’t it only natural that you greet me back, no?” (Olivia)
She said in a displeased tone. Wow.
She’s also a lost cause. Looks like she wants us to behave like proper students. And I thought that I was finally free from the school system. God damnit!
We three then greeted her and introduced ourselves. She then started her lecture. Today she told us about the basics of this world. From what I’ve been able to understand, this world has 2 major species: The humans and the elves. The elves, as expected have long pointy ears, and live for a very long time. Some even live up to 2000 years.
Don’t they get tired of living? I definitely would.
The elves also have created their own kingdom, The Elven Empire. Both the humans and the elves together are counted as mankind in this world.
Besides these two, there are the monsters, beings made of mana that threaten the denizens of this world. And the demon race. According to Olivia, the demon race has only one objective: To kill all of the mankind and rule this world. Geez how violent. And every 1000 years, a demon king is born among them. Demon King is not a title or a class, it’s a race itself. And we have to defeat that Demon King. The last species that inhabit this world is, as expected our good old dragons.
Dragons, the very epitome of power and intelligence. There are not many dragons in this world, but their number is enough that they can destroy this world if they band together and launch a full-scale attack. And the one who commands over them is The Ancient Dragon Shiggurath. He is the most powerful one among all the dragons, so much so that even all the dragon combined cannot win against him.
According to Olivia, when the first Hero and the first Demon King were having their final battle, they somehow managed to anger Shiggurath. In rage, Shiggurath killed them both. That, is the power of the strongest dragon. So cool.
Since I also wanted learn the native language of this world, I asked Olivia to teach me. But since Jack and Chloe didn’t want to learn it, it got arranged into private lessons in my room. What is this development? After that our day ended and we had dinner and went to sleep.
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