Chapter 27: Everyday Life (2)
pKb6ylIt was April – about a month had gone by after the admission into Merkarva Academy.mC0ceVo
vJKAlicia Arden was having the time of her life.ALFhZf
lMUuqgNAlthough the freshmen lessons were a bit complex in Merkarva Academy, that was nothing in comparison to the training schedules of Arden, the renowned swordsmanship household.lZAW
wywvHere, she didn’t have to swing her sword ten thousand times a day, get her swordplay constantly checked by others, or have to duel with fierce and sweaty brothers and sisters of the dojo.q3IQH
9iG58Most importantly, she didn’t have to meet her older sister who occasionally returned home!QrfJ
LdOntAll she had to do was listen to a few of the mandatory subjects, eat and have a light exercise to keep her weight in check, and have fun with her new friends!m5Nil
7484hAs a direct descendent of the renowned Arden household, she was at the top of the campus hierarchy and was a target of admiration. It was extremely easy for her to make friends.r1QWYO
e2HyqRight. Alicia Arden was by nature lazy, lacked the desire for improvement and did not have any deep concerns about swordsmanship.5KNU
ZHp9mHer talents as a swordsman were unprecedented, but her mindset was that of an infinitely under-achieving student. That was who Alicia Arden was.KnpzA
2ZoOy“Tomorrow’s a weekend so let’s do a few missions and go on a walk around the city~.”E67i
peN6I“Where are you going?”ahVfcZv
eKvN“Hugeek…!”lDue
RI0hNGAlicia was startled by the voice that suddenly echoed from behind.ZIqx
l8O6ZhP“Mr….K, Korin.”AOZvOi
0Li“You’re not coming to the training rooms these days, are you?”IsbAmYt
Eo3jY“Oh, that’s… because I have too many things to do these days. There are assignments and… I also have to take missions.”IdQF8Fg
6MQ“Hmm~.”OYOt
nSpuOhxSeeing the unimpressed look on his face, Alicia felt rather guilty for no reason.a3TX
UFUxABAfter unconsciously looking down on him for being a Grade 5 Knight and realizing that he wasn’t someone to mess around with, Korin became a difficult person to deal with for Alicia.iAR
RqZDgYWhen she was in front of him, she felt like her laziness, lack of practice and over-dependence on her talents were being exposed.SVNVpZt
RrxjQjThe granddaughter of the Sword Emperor, Alicia Arden – the true face of the genius who acquired a Grade 2 Knight Guardian Licence at a young age was on full display whenever she was with him.0fhF8ra
3lLwLeShe did consider his ability to overwhelm her talents to be amazing and she also did go with him a few times when he asked if she wanted to train together at the training rooms but…j1n
RuqrDo0‘He’s a maniac! His training methods are way too inhumane!’snRF
BYqNuKorin Lork put great emphasis on training the fundamentals.7PgkdsT
11fLbrStab, slash and block. Unlike the other knights of his age who were immersed in killing moves, he was someone who placed a great amount of importance on the stability of the fundamental skills.fRuDpD
IMa6NOdHis point was that you had to train the basics before anything else.SYU7
IqTHearing that from someone who was physically a lot weaker than herself was slightly odd, but seeing him increasingly becoming stronger in the span of just a few days made her realize all the more how lazy she was.csb
eBHAF4But even so, it was way too bothersome.nbrTc
41VnThere was no way it would be fun to be stuck in the training rooms immediately after the lessons were over.PbCs
sM54WLGEven his friends like Jaeger and Lark didn’t look like they were able to keep up with his insanely maniac routine.bn3
DNgeSometimes, even the other peers like the scary former-mercenary, the druid with a mysterious atmosphere and the golem user, who looked a bit too gloomy to strike a conversation with, joined in Korin’s training routine.wWjwh
xtWQpk9What was it about this person that was attracting so many other people?siX
GHx“Well, I have no plans on dragging an unwilling person into it. You’re going to take a mission on the weekend right?”JuOP60E
ADdQJCo“Ah… yes. There is a patrol mission and a bodyguard mission so…”odQpBc
AP6mThey were both simple missions with little danger. It was to be expected of Alicia who wanted to avoid tedious and exhausting missions.gaTW
cQD“Are you still short on money?”PQ5waS
O8CEjo“Sorry? Umm… Actually, I recently bought some clothes…”S9PK
KofSNow that she was able to adorn herself with worldly clothes that she couldn’t have even dreamed of back when she was at her home, she had gone slightly over the top and her purse was running low on money. These days, she only had the option of having food at the academy cafeteria.WKE
es6“I know a mission that pays quite well. Do you want to form a party?”SEt
qG9w“Hutt…! How much?”tuHvN
c0QU“2 gold coins per head. The difficulty is around Grade 2.”WLR3n
Hwy“I will go!”pT1rG
dpHOThe reason she couldn’t just run away from this boy, who was a bit difficult to deal with, was because he tended to give great pieces of information like this. If not for his maniac training routine, Alicia would have been glad to see this boy every time.giquQ
41bljz“We’ll depart some time next week, so save some money this weekend. Buying food and borrowing things like tents are all going to cost money.”xVf2hxZ
siTMZml“Yes. Mr. Korin!”Vdn76p
UsTP9WWhile feeling slightly glad that the boy wasn’t even asking her to go to the training rooms together anymore, Alicia bid him farewell.Y2QTV
0WNEL****OCtfeG
c4wGrBmMy daily routine was rather simple and desolate. It was lesson, lunch, lesson, training rooms, dinner and training rooms.VAz5TIa
MC0DEven though we were in a guardian academy, I do admit the fact that my schedule was more challenging than average.XhMPcbQ
O8UNbnHowever, I had to get stronger. Although I did manage to save Marie, that was only the tip of the iceberg.I7Xr
qfxThe scenario would continue throwing challenging trials at me.Myv
ZbeGathering peers to stand up against those trials was very important but, one of the key members of the group – Alicia Arden – was lazier and more of a… normal girl than I expected.2cgh
88hst3JIt was understandable though because she had just been a normal student until recently let alone a successor candidate.ocZ
gvEAlicia wasn’t the type of person to follow through just because I stimulated or pushed it onto her.SbbC
iHcNXKThere was only one person in the world who could prompt her – her older sister, who Alicia both feared and admired. Only with the prompt of her sister would Alicia admit her true nature and her talents.Uem1Iix
44dQt‘It’s about time for her to arrive in this city.’RhC4dG6
iNNsRThe fastest way to see Lunia Arden without triggering the death event of Alicia Arden was in an emergency quest that popped up in the middle of a patrol mission.dSm06TD
IP77There was still some time left until that point, so I had to do what I could do until then.efjys
DdyA normal player would use the system window to make several things and be introduced to how crafting worked in this time frame.yqBqiT
IXtwHXPark would have gone around the whole city looking for hidden pieces.TZlLK
CKAS0But as for me, I couldn’t craft because I didn’t have the system window and obtaining the hidden pieces was also quite iffy.xmQU
SAMYDMost of them were quite useless for the time being and I had no use for them.xLj
tB7QKj“Huu…!”ia6K
1cWThe Six Ways of the Spear was accompanied by the befitting levels of enlightenment as one proceeded down the derivative skills.be8
MwRWCompared to the simple styles, they were more complicated and difficult. They were hard to learn so I wasn’t even able to master half of them in the previous iteration.87Icc7P
VJz5WkBack in the game, those abilities, attacks and spells were usable by just pressing Q, W, E and R… and the player could just read the names of the abilities to use them, but that didn’t apply to me.bNWEbhd
CkToIn order to master the techniques of this world that I hadn’t even bothered to remember back when I was busy playing the game, I had to focus and imagine tremendously.08w4b
eHI2v4They weren’t simple skills that I could learn by hitting the level requirements and allocating skill points.Grn0WQ
J9h5s4xBecause I wasn’t the player, I couldn’t use a wide range of martial arts and magic, and there was only one thing I could do.uud
moT7Imagine, focus and enact.HTUp
CW4U6Ominous Snake.7ruM1
GX1IfA dazzling stab – a foreboding snake that slithered and deceived the eyes of the enemy.zXfkKWy
2Q6BkOminous Snake: Secret Arts – Distorted March.CGeoJ
idMmdGjA stab that blocked the paths of the enemy with the help of aura – the remains of aura left behind the traces of the stab would disturb the vision of the enemy and take control of the area.HbLTPO
D4CR——rFszEUU
6IWkIn complete darkness, the only thing I could perceive was what was on the other side of the veil of darkness – the halted space that could even be considered the gap between dimensions.MAIQz7
CgYUDuI fixed my posture and stabbed forward with the spear. It was the fastest stab and the strongest hidden move of the Ominous Snake.MMJ1s
0sF｢Ominous Snake: Extreme Arts｣2yyK
hSEcGUt｢Soaring Snake, Rearing Head of the Venomous Dragon｣Wq8nxGL
JbcxzJ— Kwang!QMU4ABm
lZl1JaA short yet heavy thud filled the training room. Was that a success?U0usjKG
JSqsWPp“Wahh…!”SH2D
iqp7— Clap clap clap!0GbZF15
vGm2PThere was a chair inside the training room, on which was a bright girl clapping in admiration. She was the mage with water-coloured hair who often came for a visit.xqYSB
WP3“That’s amazing, Korin!”rrTN
8u0kIda“…Did you see that?”Pg0am
QWFYfAY“Nn! It was super fast!”wMq
0Ay7OVg“So it was a failure.”9WO7
GoMr50“Nn?”dYxwPib
xtCGB5Marie tilted her head with a puzzled look on her face.p1zODem
EohYPpIThe fact that she was able to see the fastest stab meant that it was a fail. Because the true Rearing Head of the Venomous Dragon wasn’t simply in the realms of being ‘fast’.1Akynjc
4K8p“You accelerated twice in the middle, right?”GdNX
4oRCn0u“Uhh… You saw that as well?”Swxmtd
nQ6b484Although I failed at using the skill inside the Domain, it did still reach the boundaries of the Domain. It should have caused an illusion of the dimension of time being contorted, so how the heck did she see that?KPrtjkp
V6mShe did awaken as a vampire but that was still very impressive.HpXtLo
CLGw“Senior Marie. Do you really have no plans on learning swords or spears?”TgMHA4z
qexuDMy eyes told me that Marie would also have great success as a knight. It was to be expected of a girl with the physical abilities of a boss character.LHFihI
dd3igY“Nnn… I can use hoes and sickles, but not swords. You see, I actually tried going to a dojo when I was young.”Bjj7sTh
EyaWas she the type who had no talent at understanding ‘martial arts’ despite having impressive physical abilities?I3v
YseHQqZ“But that’s when you were young, right? If you try consistently then… no. Forget it. It’s probably best to focus on one thing instead.”Uir
NeIThat stupid Park was the prime example. He learned all sorts of spells and secret arts but had too many skills to make proper use of them.7bO
N0gnyQYNo matter how gluttonous one was, there was a limit to how much they could digest.gc4Ahb
jAYmInstead of doing a sloppy job at learning everything, it was generally better to focus on one thing instead.VA4
bBa“How’s your magic practice going these days?”ircB
SXEw“Nn… I’m learning from Professor Josephine.”E5fosNa
a59tA one-on-one lesson from the Dimensional Witch, Lady Josephine… Marie had gotten herself a great teacher so she should be able to learn how to control her abilities very soon.OuIBrwP
r1s8zxOnce again, I realized that something that we couldn’t even try in the previous iteration due to her being unable to retrieve her rationality until the end had been changed due to my decisions.kvP
d7b“Do you want potatoes?”JNdxa
kJinN8yMarie took out sandwiches and meat pies as well as steamed potatoes which must have taken her a long time to prepare.AYNgpq
6cY“It’s not a lot, but there you go!”ssExdU
Km47How was this not a lot?uJL
o4EvVDrIn any case, I started having the extravagant meal as Marie started stealing a glance at the bandage around my right hand. My palm had been ripped while I was practicing the move. Even though it should recover very soon, I had to wrap it with a bandage in order to have the meal.JHcV
68wSeyt“Are your… wounds not being healed?”JK7
UvRjNdp“It’s not good to have blood everywhere while having the meal right? I have to absorb the blood back anyway.”Ozj
PHY5Q3“…That’s a pity.”470oC
vPl“Huh?”rEZ
XgIkdgg“Eh?”aAC9UGs
pndAfter unknowingly letting out a comment, her circular eyes started to tremble as if there was an earthquake in her eyes.hynT
gl89E7“N, no!”hyYfb
UzTdtxM“What is…”bSL1
w0XV“No! Just no! That is not what I was trying to say!”Iy42I
8PPkvD“…”VoKm3
ljbEver since that incident, her atmosphere often tended to change in the blink of an eye. I wasn’t sure about the reason but it seemed that I was somehow affecting this girl.Kg9s
NtcDFS“Anyway, you’re still having blood, right?”zRsKS
WAkf“Nn… This thing.”s9F
EtLSw4She started carrying around packs of blood ever since she awakened into a vampire. The packs were designed to be able to suck after opening the lid.2whnIbh
yMVPGGg“Is there a lot of difference between fresh blood and blood packs?”MRU9zA
TrkH“There is… a bit. The freshness? Or maybe the flavor. Your blood was especially more delici… Wait, that’s making me sound like a strange person!”kaw
hvXFPOg“It’s normal for eating habits to change over time. Let’s just say that.”Hbiki
iCMIoY“Uhk…”4T2Gwbg
w0D“Is it like the difference between normal vegetables with pesticides and organic vegetables?”00FKhV7
qAIB1nNMarie showed her whole-hearted agreement to my words.89dToS
dZ6cUtT“Nn nn! That’s it! And it’s similar to frozen meat and fresh meat that was butchered just recently!”aFcv6
qbHTOTvThat was very easy to understand. The difference between fresh meat and frozen meat was indeed quite big.3JQeopj
y9SOMdKThe cafeteria in Merkarva Academy received meat at once using magic freezers so it was rare to have raw meat.l86dVV
q89AWe did sometimes get raw meat, but that was only because we were getting actual livestock. It was seriously questionable which supplier it was that was supplying the Academy with live animals… regularly at that.OPtRV
YXVUBmThe transportation and infrastructure of this world weren’t even at the level of the one in modern Earth. Supplying live animals would be extremely difficult unless they were an extremely big company…ggZSmiW
TKd3fF7Wait, did that mean Marie had to eat frozen meat her entire life?AQpN02
Etk…Xqkn
y1yoQ0Thinking about it like that made her seem even more pitiful. How could someone live the rest of their life while only having frozen meat?Ib4XZ
Pf94Yh“Senior Marie.”p0ODetU
QZMpHC“Nn?”4eSM
UcO“It’s fine to have mine sometimes.”TJnxA
wWO“W, what are you talking about?”Jq7
qkH3“I can recover anyways so feel free to come to me when you’re fed up with the blood packs. I can let you have my blood at least.”hdc
1ZFhnH“Ah…”vOEQ
rZVq5nHer chin dropped in an instant and didn’t show any signs of closing back up. Her white skin turned deep red as she clenched onto her sleeves.qvPI4
RzC“D, don’t say things like that even as a joke.”Nkt13cO
C609EP“Sorry?”htoQ5A
uYGQzQ“I’ll have to turn your offer down! Because I don’t want to cause any trouble!”NMYuk
fV3She sounded resolute but her face was burning with passion. I could hear the coarse pants leaving from the gap between her clenched teeth.lFd
Sxt“More importantly, Korin!”Eqc
z4kMarie immediately changed the topic and took out a pretty jar of glass from her basket.e3YZ8n
AiBpe2It was a glass bottle with a pinkish liquid inside.U5SYs
cPdQib“What is this?”KfYnA2
kPB“Umm… Korin, are you bad with any food? Like beef tartare, sashimi or pig intestines…”5MClnk
AIutver“I can have everything. Talking about pig intestines reminds me of blood sausage soup. A warm meal with the soup just heals your soul, does it not?”mDSGEkE
kd2igBack when I was in Korea, I loved having blood sausages. In fact, I would have had even more if only there were more places that sold them.8P0hN
paq9VLiBeing a Korean game, Korean cuisine was quite commonplace in so there were quite a lot of traditional Korean restaurants in the city.FyC93nR
xWxNLL“Reeally? Umm. T, this…”upj
DAsB6it“Is this perhaps blood?”y5Apudj
7s0“Nnn? Y, yeah… it’s not 100% blood though and… I added the powders of white lizard tail and a few other ingredients… into my blood…”r5yD
7RiHer voice shrunk over time. She must be aware of it herself that the ingredients sounded fairly iffy despite her goodwill.gdcHc2D
NbiW3d“It might be a bit… disgusting but it’s good for your body. The blood of a vampire is one of the best ingredients out there…”6lm
u1Hc“Isn’t this, like, priceless? Is this really for me?”uDVt
OeH“If you don’t mind, Korin…”kO87BMC
kuOwCh“Ehew. Of course not. Thank you very much.”vGedD
PH63aWhat Marie made was a potion created with her own blood and a bunch of other ingredients. In this world, potions were usually for the recovery of vitality, mana and aura but there were more.7qTQx
XXLa“Thanks for the treat.”hHCy
pku– Gulp gulp!4BHSF
usDk5『You have consumed a Grade 2 Potion of Vitality』
※ It has been made with special ingredients.NAnt
g7XEP– Your Aura Rank has increased by 1 rank.TRMiz
uYkS– Your Aura Capacity increases by 500.FjvYY
i8oQex– 10 points will be equally distributed.Ffh
jnJHoly…Cxw37Ub
BSLyI was finally seeing the unfriendly system window again, and most importantly, my Aura Rank had gone up.bQ2UDF
ayHjIn Heroic Legends of Arhan, increasing the total capacity of aura and mana was relatively easy but raising the ‘Quality’ was extremely difficult.yup
4RDndpConsidering how the final Aura Rank I had in the previous iteration was Lower Medium, it was evident that what just happened was exceptionally remarkable.0TcxP
Zw3GLMy Aura Rank and Mana Rank had barely gone up by 1 after Marie’s incident where I completed a Precept with the difficulty rank of S and yet… it went up yet again from just a potion.YntSBxl
YA2hA7“That’s amazing.”pEyhTj
FyT“Was it tasty?”2hSq
g4IW0“Tasty? It’s not for the taste is it?”YAWQG5f
4A9lILH“R, right! I’ll try to make it better next time!”fm80J
KFn“Next time?”R4OX7N
JNoPO9EWas she going to make another potion for me in the future?u0bwMP
fxVK8Well, a repeated use of the same elixir did drop the effect by a lot but there was nothing bad for me if she was going to make another one. Besides, even if the core ingredient was the same, the effect would change depending on how she brewed it, and what sorts of other ingredients she added inside.eyqX
SkO1J“Oh right, Senior Marie. Do you know any blacksmiths?”NtVSPt
UviB“A blacksmith? Are you trying to make a weapon?”YpwAr
j9IK9lZ“Yes. The chairman said he will provide the funds no matter how expensive it is.”GQb
1SfHhf“I heard that too! I’ll introduce you to the one that made my staff!”RXLg
SQvHVcMarie said while showing me her staff with a blue gem inside.zSi
m8hHYLooking back, Marie’s staff was an extremely amazing weapon which was even stored personally by that crazy Park. It must have been tremendously expensive so the blacksmith that made the weapon couldn’t have been a nobody.acRlx6
54cyQ“What is the blacksmith’s name?”G8Vmmt
ftU“It’s Ferghus! Ferghus the Weapon Breaker!”LIwpR
JyVeYL7“No thanks.”OMs7
DXN“Uuun?”Ulk
XnFEGH1Her eyes blinked like that of a baby.Pyc9
0Bs3r7f『Korin Lork’s current status』
Aura Rank: Lower Medium (4,530) – 5001y9
v3DfPdjMana Rank: Low (2,470) – 200PSPD
1vcyKNy『Mana and Aura Rank』
Very Low -> Low -> Upper Low
100 -> 200 -> 300lDmP
PgNdoLower Medium -> Medium -> Upper Medium
500 -> 1,000 -> 1,500KsAKf
rTFo5jLower High -> High -> Very High
2,000 -> 3,000 -> 4,000ghGEyB
mUXpKeFLower Unique -> Unique -> Upper Unique
5,000 -> 7,500 -> Above 10,000Lrr
cEYoao『3rd Precept』
Strength: 592ou
ty7SJvSAgility: 589LPJf
dd2RYVitality: 60NX2pTQw
mNVEh1UAura: 56E9khlgl
o9OMana: 56gbfjaw
gzG『Regeneration of the Tenacious Warrior』
– When your HP falls below a certain level during a fight, your HP Regeneration speed will increase tremendously.i3YLE
P3B+ 50% Regenerationkdqu
Uje7e『Pain Tolerance』
– Gain tolerance against attacks deemed lower than [Grade 4]. Significantly lowers the chance of having a stat debuff from poison or contamination.kEsSvF
ixQMak2– Gain increased tolerance against the same attacks.9Pt
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