Academy Genius Craftsman

Chapter 22

01. The sword for you (22)

A brilliant golden lightning bolt wrapped around Yoon Seo-hee’s sword.

The frightened voices of the people shook the inside of the stadium.

“Aura Sword… !”

Director Park Min-seok, who was watching the game from the bleachers, also jumped up from his seat with his eyes wide open.

In the ecstasy and excitement of witnessing the absurd scene, he unknowingly clenches his fists.

Park Min-seok swallowed and quickly passed the list of first-year students delivered from the academy using the device alone.

‘Yoon Seo-hee, Yoon Seo-hee, Yoon Seo-hee… Here it is!’

Yoon Seo-hee’s profile appears on the hologram screen reflected on the retina. Upon checking the contents, Park Min-seok’s expression became even more astonished.

‘A rank for both agility and magic, average stats above B rank… Less than three months have passed since you awakened?!’

Considering that most of the late awakeners show poor grades due to late awakening, this is ridiculous.

If you look at the stats alone, you can already see the qualities of a top-notch hunter, but at the young age of 17, he manifested his aura sword himself.

The majority of the top hunters on active duty couldn’t cross the wall of Aura and Sword, so I could only say that it was a tremendous talent.

‘Crazy… Great. This is awesome! I have to report it to the president of the association right now!’

Director Park Min-seok wasn’t the only one who thought that way. After witnessing the sight in front of their eyes, team leader Lee Ji-hyeon and other guilds and working-level staff were busy contacting superiors.

“Yes, sir. Undoubtedly. Yes, yes I am a first year Auror Sword user.”

“You must catch it, guild leader? Now that no guild has contacted them yet! They say you have to seize it quickly!”

Even though the game wasn’t over yet, their contact continued without hesitation.

Even if a trick of probability happens in this match and Yoon Seo-hee loses, the fact that she manifested her aura sword with her own power will not change.

If it manifests once, it can happen twice. If you are a melee hunter who can stably manifest an aura sword and even change attributes using your skills, you can aim for an S rank after graduation.

Its value was completely different from Lee Hyeon-woo, who only relied on equipment with high stats.

Of course, the reality was a little different from what they thought.

Yoon Seo-hee stared at Kim Yi-jin under the arena with her thunderbolt wrapped around her, in a heightened mood. Her eyes were drawn to her like a magnet, even though she knew that she couldn’t direct her attention elsewhere during the game.

‘Lee Jin-ah.’

I vowed not to be disappointed no matter what sword was made, but he brought me results far beyond what I had imagined.

Her weight, length, and overall balance of her sword were designed exclusively for her. You can tell by holding a sword. How much Kim Yi-jin thought of Yoon Seo-hee when he made this sword.

The sincerity and sincerity of the person who made the sword comes through.

That’s why Yoon Seo-hee was able to believe in this sword 100% and fall into her inner world, and as a result, she manifested the Aura Sword.

‘Kim Yi-jin.’

How should I repay this gratitude? I’ve received so much from him that I can’t even figure out how to give it back.

One thing was certain. As long as she holds this sword, Yoon Seo-hee can never lose, even to repay Kim Yi-jin’s heart.

I will show you that the sword he made is far more powerful than that heavy piece of steel.

‘I’ll prove that your sword is amazing!’

I wanted to tell you that it was great, that it was amazing, and that it was fortunate that I entrusted it to you.

Not through words, but through the sword he forged. Direct.

“What is this… To come? An aura sword?”

Lee Hyeon-woo looked at the brilliant brain machine made of magic in awe.

No matter how much you deny reality, you cannot deny that the golden lightning surrounded by Yoon Seo-hee’s sword is coming. The realm of true talent that you could never reach no matter how hard you tried.

The moment he understood that, Lee Hyun-woo’s hair turned white with anger.

I couldn’t admit it. He just didn’t want to admit it.

“No… no!!”

Raise the greatsword above your head and take a powerful leap. It circulates his mana throughout his body and temporarily boosts his physical abilities. That’s all I’ve been allowed to do!

“Haaa! Die!!”

A powerful downward slash from top to bottom. A sharp sound that rips through the air resounds, and a greatsword with tremendous power is slashed at Yoon Seo-hee.

A decent student would not even be able to figure out a bone if hit properly.

Yoon Seo-hee stared at the attack silently and raised her sword.

A single bolt of lightning rises fiercely through the heart. She put all that power into her sword and it shot out like a flash.

Kwurlung! A thunderclap echoes through the dry sky.

When Yoon Seo-hee passed Lee Hyeon-woo at a speed that was difficult for her eyes to perceive, he was darkly tanned and her moon was breathing only.

“Gp… Heck!”

Something happened in an instant. In that moment, he stabbed her in three places: her shoulder, chest, and side.

The area pierced by the sword was scorched black, as if it had been struck by lightning, and white smoke was rising.

If it wasn’t for the A-rank armor, she would have been eliminated in one blow. The only reason Lee Hyeon-woo was still standing at the stadium was the equipment his family supported.

Lee Hyun-woo’s expression is distorted with shame and anger. He glares at Yoon Seo-hee with eyes bloodshot with unbearable rage despite the tingling shock that runs through his body.

“Why… why the hell Does it make sense for me to be pushed?!”

Ever since he was young, he wouldn’t eat anything other than food containing abundant magic power.

He frequently took elixirs made in the house, strengthened his physical abilities and skills with enormous equipment, received instruction from active hunters, and received equipment worth billions of won.

However, his talent is not something money can buy. The teacher who shakes his head, saying that his talent is weak, and the bruises of his father who asks if he is not worth the money passed through his mind.

I should be the main character. I need to be noticed and recognized more than anyone else. What was that talent that wasn’t given to me?

‘Talent… talent, talent! Damn talent!!’

Yoon Seo-hee was jealous of her talent. So he stole her sword and insulted her. She wanted to prove the superiority of money and power over meager talent.

He used a despicable method of aiming for a by-win by not allowing him to enter the test site at all, and he even borrowed equipment from his father to make sure he won even though he knew it was a deduction factor!

Even though you tried everything, you’re still getting pushed back here? Are you saying that a girl without foundation is superior to Lee Hyeon-woo, the eldest son of Serim Group?

Accepting her young expression of hatred calmly, Yoon Seo-hee opened her mouth with a displeased expression.

“That is absurd. Why do you look so sad?”

“… What?”

“When you bully others, you act without fear, didn’t you think you would get hurt?”

Until now, Lee Hyeon-woo’s gang has suffered greatly. She didn’t show it, but if Yoon Seo-hee and Kim I-jin hadn’t met, it would have been difficult for her to endure.

For the perpetrator who instigated such bullying, Yoon Seo-hee was not a good person enough to generously understand that you would have circumstances too.

“It’s natural when you do it, and it’s unfair if you do it? It’s a childish way of thinking.”

She didn’t want to listen to every detail. She points a straight sword at Lee Hyun-woo and takes a stance. His face, which had been so disgusting, now looked infinitely ridiculous.

“Lee Hyun-woo, you were smaller than I thought, right?”

Fishik. Yoon Seo-hee’s lips twitch in a nasty way.

At that moment, Lee Hyeon-woo’s reason, which he hadn’t had much left, completely disappeared.

I couldn’t bear it with my sober mind at the height of humiliation.

“Me… Don’t look at me that way!!”

How dare you look at me like that? With his gaze looking at the lower one, Lee Hyun-woo decided to use the last bastion he had left.

Even though I knew I shouldn’t have used this, I no longer had reason to judge it.

“Skill—!!”

Kidduk. Breaks the small capsule placed between the molars.

The powerful magical energy concentrated in the elixir travels through the esophagus and evenly spreads through Lee Hyun-woo’s magical circuit, injecting tremendous vitality.

“[Rigid Body]!!!”

Calling one by one when using a skill is proof of immaturity.

A beginner’s level where skills cannot be expressed naturally unless a clear image is given through pronunciation.

However, the sight seen by the eyes was too overwhelming to call it such an immature stage.

Kudeuk! Whoops! Lee Hyun-woo’s skeleton and muscles become hypertrophic. His armor could not withstand the internal pressure and cracked from the inside, and Lee Hyun-woo’s body, visible through the gaps in the fallen pieces, was not normal at first glance.

Black veins and thick protruding veins. Every time the heart beats loudly, powerful magic power comes out.

An ominous black aura shimmers over Lee Hyeon-woo’s shoulder, despite how powerful that mana is, even though he is just circulating his magic circuit.

Chairman Lee Kang-hoo, who witnessed the scene, stood up in surprise.

“W-When did that guy do that!”

An enhanced elixir for awakened people that is being secretly tested by the Serim Group. It has not been publicly announced because illegal materials have been airlifted secretly, and it is an item that is being tested in the laboratory in utmost secrecy.

It supplies powerful magical power to the user to temporarily increase the power of all stats and skills, but it has the side effect of sharpening the user’s temper and shortening the user’s lifespan.

Above all, it was an item related to ‘the existence’, so it was intended to be sold on the black market after going through stabilization work.

‘Crazy, such a madman… ! Have you ever seen a bastard like that… !’

If it turns out that the Serim Group is making something like that, the group can never be safe.

But that immature guy stole the elixir secretly and it wasn’t enough, so he used it without thinking in a public place like this.

Hyeonu Lee, completely unaware of his father’s feelings, was intoxicated by the mighty magic that swirled inside his body.

“Kuh, hahahaha! Awesome!?”

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General rigidification only has the effect of hardening the body.

But now, his size has swelled to 1.5 Times more than usual, and his magic power has increased by more than double.

I feel like I can do anything now.

Intoxicated with the omnipotence caused by the drug, Lee Hyun-woo poured all his mana into the greatsword.

“aaa!!”

Black magic swayed greatly from the greatsword. It’s not as visibly clear as Yoon Seo-hee’s, but that shimmering magic surrounding the great sword.

Although imperfect, it was definitely an aura sword.

“Wow, my God. Did Lee Hyeon-woo also bring out his sword? Was the level of first graders this high these days?”

“That’s true, but… No matter how you look at it, it doesn’t look normal.”

Director Min-seok Park, who was on the bleachers, was also concentrating on the game after finishing the phone call with the president of the association.

However, even through his eyes as an incumbent hunter, Lee Hyun-woo’s condition was unusual.

‘Doping with drugs? Aside from whether it’s permitted by the academy’s rules, even that drug doesn’t seem legal.’

No enhancement drug on the market had such an effect. Director Park Min-seok felt the need to investigate this.

“Look, my aura sword! Now I am stronger than you!”

Undoubtedly, Lee Hyun-woo’s aura sword looked larger and stronger from the outside, as the mana flowed like a wave.

However, that was evidence that Lee Hyun-woo’s aura was more incomplete than Yoon Seo-hee’s aura, which was refined without waste.

However, Hyunwoo Lee did not have the eye to judge that.

Boom! The greatsword swings strongly. Viscount-! Yoon Seo-hee also swung a golden aura.

Quaaang! Auras collided with each other, and a strong scream rang through the air.

“Big!”

Slightly, Yoon Seo-hee was pushed back. An auror was an auror even though it was imperfect.

I was pushing with such strong force, but if I collided head-on, of course I had no choice but to be pushed.

“Die! Die! Die!!”

Boom! Boom! Quaang! Every time the greatsword wrapped in aura was swung, the ground was dented and the floor cracked.

There will be no stadium left at this rate. Besides, he didn’t know how long he could keep his aura.

Yoon Seo-hee felt that she had to decide her game quickly.

‘Can I do it?’

Lee Hyun-woo, whose body is well over 2m and wields a huge sword at will, was more like a walking chariot.

Can I really beat something like that?

Actually, I had to. Otherwise, I would have no face seeing Kim Yi-jin, who trusted me and made the sword.

‘Let’s do it.’

She focused her consciousness again and fell into a state of questioning.

The stage where the body sinks to the deepest part of the inner world and responds to external stimuli faster than expected.

But this wasn’t enough. The state of one body may be advantageous for defense, but it cannot make a decisive blow.

“… ….”

A decisive blow.

Every Awakener dreams of his own special move once in a while. Like the heroes in the cartoon movies we saw as children, having our own skills is something that every Awoken person thinks about.

Even if you’re not an Awakener. Second-generation children have a childish thought once at the age of becoming an Awakener.

What if I become an Awoken? Can I use this skill? A natural fantasy that any child would do.

I’m too shy to tell anyone, but Yoon Seo-hee also had those days.

If I were an Awoken… When I woke up, I used to imagine the technique I wanted to use.

I hate and resent it more than anyone else, but even so, I admire the skill of that person.

How would it feel if you changed it in your own way?

After clearing her mind, Yoon Seo-hee stepped behind her and distanced her as quickly as a thunderbolt.

“How long are you going to run away!”

I am not running away. It just needed time to prepare.

A massive beast screams and rushes at you. It took about 2 seconds for the sword he swung to touch his body after he jumped in with all his might.

That was enough. She slid her torso down, put her left foot in front of her, then tucked her right foot behind her, pulled it into her position against her black chest, and pulled it straight. It was as if her bowstring had been pulled taut.

A golden current bounced from Yoon Seo-hee’s feet.

Flash! Her body shoots forward like lightning, and her afterimage continues to elongate. Her thunderbolts, which had branched out in a hundred directions, converged on the sword again and concentrated on a single point.

“Haaah!”

Yoon Seo-hee’s unique season.

Baekreo (百雷).

A tremendous roar of a hundred bolts of lightning. People gathered in the stadium covered their ears to the violent noise.

The words that her hardness can cut through iron when her mind is put together pass through Yoon Seo-hee’s head. Indeed, she was right.

Lee Hyeon-woo looked at his sword, which had been cut in half, in vain.

“Kkeok, Kkeukheop… !”

I fell to her knees with her body burnt black.

The faint scent of orchids wafted through the smoke from the lightning.

At that moment, a red signal appeared on Park Jin-hoo’s holo device. It meant that the defense field was activated and protected Lee Hyun-woo’s body.

The signal represents only one meaning.

“Game over. Winner, Yoon Seo-hee!”