The 9Th Class Swordmaster: Blade Of Truth [EN]: Chapter 114

95. Serica Lauren

Serica Lauren.

Kayl recalled her name after a long time and chuckled without realizing it.

‘Well, her personality isn’t ordinary. It must be hard for Mikhail to handle.’

The first human to establish the Supreme system of combat magic.

She reached the realm of the 7th class, which could be called a grand mage, and at the same time, she possessed the skills of a Sword Expert.

‘She is as great as Serga in magic. But she probably doesn’t realize it herself yet. If it’s her now, she’ll probably throw a punch before using magic.’

Kayl recalled a story she had told him in the past.

-Magic? Well… I don’t know when it started. Honestly, I never imagined I would have any talent. All I learned was my dad’s spearmanship.

Her father, a retired mercenary, spent his remaining years in a small village far from Korb.

It was just one of the less famous supply spearmanship techniques called Halgard Spearmanship, but it was all he could leave to his only daughter.

-Besides, the only time I used spearmanship was when I picked up a broom to deal with the drunks at the tavern.

Serica said, sitting on a hill in the battlefield with a bonfire.

But no one could have imagined that the supply spearmanship would lead her to the realm of Supreme.

-So, you wield the staff well.

When Kayl first met her.

She was already building her own system of combat magic.

-Well… then my father died, and one day I suddenly thought. What’s the best way to use spearmanship more powerfully?

-Most people think of mana blades at that time.

A way to coat magic power on weapons.

-That’s right. But I trained my magic. It was a sloppy spearmanship anyway. Even if I pulled it up further, I wouldn’t be able to beat the spearmanship of nobles or knights.

-A change of perspective… That’s when your talent exploded. Honestly, only a handful of people can come up with such an idea. Leaving the safe path that is visible and going the path that others do not go.

-It’s the same with you, isn’t it? Well, the conditions are different from mine, but you made your body and swordsmanship sharper as a way to make swordsmanship stronger. I didn’t use magic power as a tool, but I trained magic itself.

Kayl smiled bitterly at her words.

She independently transformed her ice magic and Halgard spearmanship to create a new spearmanship.

Freezing Spear.

Instead of coating magic power on the blade, she used water-based magic as an attack method and Halgard spearmanship for defense, breaking the prejudice that mages are weak in the front.

Only.

Only she could use this spearmanship, so everyone envied her power, but no mage challenged the realm of Supreme.

Even Serga, who was praised as the reincarnation of Kaie Essir.

-And look. Can’t you see the attribute stone embedded in the end here? I’m a proper mage. Kayl, you always say useless things, so other people call me a ghost with strange words.

She looked at the three sharp blades made of blue cradle stone on her long staff, which was much taller than her.

The blades, elaborately crafted by the gnome craftsman Kalipso, were sharp and further enhanced her water attribute magic.

But the long bar of the staff she showed was covered with bloodstains.

You can tell that the day has taken the lives of countless enemies without having to explain it.

-I think those words come from a problem with your personality, not my fault after seeing that…

Kayl’s colleagues nodded, avoiding eye contact with his words.

He touched his forehead as he thought of her.

For some reason, the forehead he was hit by her in return for nonsense that day felt throbbing for no reason.

But the slight pain was just a pleasant memory for him.

‘She is essential for Tatur to grow. The mages gathered in Azor’s Ulkas Guild are far from enough. Besides…….’

Serga was already a mage belonging to the Empire. Kayl knew his skills better than anyone else.

‘He in the Academy will eventually become an enemy. Then, I have to set up a plan to deal with him. A mage who can keep up with his growth.’

That was Serica Lauren.

With the memories of his previous life, the two people’s combat skills were equal.

But Kayl added one more variable to tilt the outcome of the match in his favor.

Right.

Mikhail.

He was a man with outstanding magical talent, no less than the two of them.

‘Unlike in my previous life, the war of mages will now be a three-way battle between Serica Lauren, Serga, and even Mikhail.’

If he could hold two of those cards in his hand, the battlefield would naturally be in his favor.

‘But I can’t step in. It will be difficult for Mikhail, but his magical talent must make her curious about magic.’

Ironically, he has now achieved higher achievements in magic than Serica.

If Mikhail puts his mind to it, he can never win with Halgard’s spearmanship.

‘Given her personality, she’ll end up fighting anyway. She has a strong sense of pride, so after losing, she’ll try hard to learn magic from Mikhail.’

Kayl remembers.

The reason why Serica Lauren devoted herself to magic rather than spearmanship was not simply to strengthen spearmanship.

‘Her father was killed by a mage. Maybe… by now, she’ll be disgusted just by seeing you, a mage.’

He said quietly.

“Well, if you can make her follow you even after seeing that note, that would be fate.”

Kayl smiled quietly as he thought of Mikhail far away.

‘Hang in there. Still, you were the guy in my knighthood who got along best with Serica Lauren. In many ways.’

* * *

“Um… excuse me…!!”

Kwaang—!!!!!

Mikhail, who was thrown out of the door and rolled down the stairs to the floor, knocked on the closed door without feeling any pain.

“Please, just listen to me!”

But the firmly closed door had no intention of opening.

Instead, the answer he heard was the same for a month.

“How many times do I have to say it? Get lost.”

Mikhail frowned at the words and shouted.

“Aww…!!!”

Unable to do anything with his trembling fist, he stomped his feet.

‘What kind of kid is that?’

“Heuk?!”

He was about to look inside from outside the window, but he stepped back in surprise at her glaring eyes from inside, as if he had expected it.

‘Ah, I’ve never seen such a prickly kid in my life. What’s wrong with being a mage? She rushes at me like she’s going to kill me as soon as I say something… How am I supposed to bring a kid like that…’

Mikhail sat leaning against the stairs and sighed.

‘No, even if I bring her, it’s a problem. How can a kid like that be my teacher, Master?’

He didn’t doubt Kayl’s words, but after being turned away for a month, he ended up staying here without even following Kamma and Suan to the White Bunker.

“What the heck is written on the note that Master gave me that makes her so angry?”

All he did for a month was give her the note Kayl gave her at their first meeting.

“Sigh……”

It was the first time he had been turned away like this in his life.

“I’ll have to come again tomorrow.”

Mikhail got up and looked at Serica through the window.

All the lights were off.

He didn’t know why, so he was frustrated, but there was no other way.

Maybe if it was Aidan or Suan, they would have broken into the house right away.

“……”

But Mikhail couldn’t do that.

The scattered furniture, the broken fences, and the neglected equipment…

It looked like they had been attacked by anyone.

He remembered a memory he didn’t want to think about.

When trolls attacked his village.

And when he was rescued by Gordon Fabian and returned after taking revenge on them, it resembled his house.

‘But…….’

This place is a little far away, but the village was fine.

It wasn’t a monster attack.

‘Maybe it’s the work of people.’

Mikhail slowly turned around.

The girl inside was similar to him.

Whether it was a monster or a person…

In the end, it was the same that the family was killed by someone.

“Damn……”

Because he knew that feeling better than anyone else.

“Let’s go back.”

Mikhail took a step.

But…….

For some reason, the vicious look that glared at him kept lingering in his head strangely.

Light purple hair and big eyes without double eyelids.

Is it because I’ve seen her almost every day for a month?

Every time Mikhail recalled the vicious face of the young girl who was only fifteen years old, he laughed without realizing it.

“Ugh, crazy……”

Mikhail shook his head in surprise at his appearance and moved his steps.

* * *

“Master! Preparation for departure is complete!! We can leave right away tomorrow. I also got permission to leave from the port.”

“Good job, Karl. After looking through it, it seems like you did a good job with what I asked you to do for the past two weeks.”

Karl tapped the thick ledger and said.

“Hehe, no.”

The work Kayl asked Karl to do was nothing special.

He just wanted him to think about the specialties of Korb and the products that would make a profit when brought from Tatur and sold.

It may be Karl Mack’s first market research in his life. But Kayl, who already knew his talent, fully supported his ideas.

“When you return to Tatur, buy these items immediately and return to Korb. By then, we will have a branch in the White Bunker. Then you go back there and finish the market research.”

“M, me?”

“Yes. After that, it’s Istria’s Three Kingdoms. You don’t have to set up a separate branch there; it will already be over by the time you move.”

“It’s over? What kind of……”

Kayl smiled and said.

“Look at it later. First, we will develop a route connecting the Empire, Tatur, and the Principality. Can you do it?”

Karl Mack looked embarrassed at Kayl’s unexpected words.