The Hero Disciple Is Back

EP.23 – 22. The disciple picked up another family priest (?)?

What people do doesn’t always go as expected.

So, what about doing it on a national level?

Of course, all kinds of accidents happen.

The same was true of the Empire’s warrior candidate plan.

“Master, I will try my best today.”

Boy Leo, he was selected as a candidate for the hero and entered the apprenticeship of Drew Mace, the ‘Cliff Sword’, who is at the level of a superman. But the problem is, of course, not all of them have great personalities because they are superhuman, and in that sense, Drew Mays was among the worst.

-Hey! Go to town and bring a drink!

-Did you bring this for snacks!

Drew Mays had no intention of teaching his swordsmanship in the first place. He was living the worst of his life, looking for alcohol every day, even though he had reached the level of a superman that anyone could become, and there was no way he could live properly even if he had a disciple.

The reason he was so broken was because of his swordsmanship. Mace’s swordsmanship, his family’s swordsmanship, was called ‘boundary swordsmanship’ and had a high reputation enough to shake an era. But it was literally past tense. Mace swordsmanship was obviously a swordsmanship with many advantages, but unfortunately the strongest was never born with that swordsmanship. Of course, with just a certain amount of excellent swordsmanship, I could have done well as a swordsman… . Unfortunately, the Mace family, including Drew Mace, couldn’t stop their desire for the best swordsmanship.

As a result, the family began to walk the path of downfall, and as they began to go out one by one to find their own way, they collapsed more quickly, and in the end, only Drew Mays remained. Drew Mace has risen to the level of a superman to prove that he can somehow become the strongest with his family’s swordsmanship… . The only thing that became clear from that was that mace swordsmanship could not reach the strongest.

Eventually he let go of his sword and took up a bottle of wine instead.

That was the beginning of the worst life ever.

Hero candidate Leo didn’t learn anything properly under Drew Mace, and he had to spend each day struggling to take care of the last teacher suddenly created by the empire. However, Leo did not complain once and always smiled and took care of the last teacher. To a teacher who had never taught him anything properly.

Did that sincerity see the light?

Drew Mace took up a wooden sword, not a bottle, and taught Leo how to use Mace’s sword.

it was for just one day

Leo was able to spend that day thinking that it was the most rewarding day.

And I went to sleep believing that the day would last.

the next day

‘Cliffsword’ Drew Mays never opened his eyes again.

Did Drew Mays spend the day because he felt his death intuition and wanted to leave something for his student, or did he just feel that way by chance, or did he try to live a new life, but he died so suddenly because of bad luck… . No one knows the truth. In the end, whatever it was, Leo learned properly for just one day and was left alone.

If this happens, the empire should have sought a new teacher for the candidate who was left alone… . The Empire didn’t even know that Drew Mace was dead, and it wasn’t even competent enough to get things done so quickly in the first place… . In the end, Leo was left alone.

Left alone, Leo raised a wooden sword.

it’s only one day

During that single day, he wielded it over and over again in order to perfectly master what Master had taught him. I swung, swung, and swung with all my might in front of Master’s tomb.

Since he had no teacher, he had no idea if he was doing it right, but Leo continued to wield it without a break.

Leo thought these days would never change.

“It is miserable.”

That is, until a girl started talking to him.

The girl had beautiful silver hair and mysterious and beautiful eyes like jewels. At first glance, she wasn’t the kind of girl you would find in a rural area like this. It is clear that he must have lived in a huge family under the care of attendants. Leo didn’t know much about that, but he knew for sure that the girl in front of him must be a special person.

“That… . Who are you?”

“You must be Leo, the candidate for the hero, right?”

“… to? ah! you’re right!”

He said he was a candidate for the hero and became a disciple of Drew Mays, but as much as he had never been treated properly, Leo said ‘Ah! I was a candidate for the hero!’

“You must have had a lot of trouble under such rubbish.”

The moment Leo heard those words, he cried.

“Master is not trash.”

“… … ? If Drew Mays isn’t trash, what the hell is trash?”

“Master is not scum!”

Leo was an orphan. For such a Leo, it was Drew Mays who became his first protector. He is definitely a person who has not done anything properly as a guardian. It wasn’t that Leo was ignoring that fact.

But… .

Even if it was just one day… .

The day before Master passed away… .

The time he spent with himself was real and true no matter what anyone said.

That day for Leo

It was a precious memory that I will never forget for the rest of my life.

That alone was enough for Leo. will be satisfied So, no matter what anyone said, Leo did not think of his teacher as trash.

But as if she doesn’t know that, the girl just repeats the same thing.

“Trash. Didn’t you leave nothing behind when you were called a disciple? I must have run errands or drunkenly. If that’s not crap, then what is?”

“Master has left something for me!”

“A sloppy swordsmanship with no foundation? If that’s all Drew Mays has left, it’s trash, right?”

At that moment, Leo’s eyes caught the sword that the girl was wearing at her waist.

“I ask for sparring! I will definitely show you what Master has left for me!”

♧♧♧

Sera was so fascinated by the hero candidate Leo in front of her.

That’s because Sera was like a ‘princess’ to him. In numerous return, he served various teachers, and one of them was Drew Mays. Of course, Sera also had to go through all sorts of hardships under him. At that time, if she hadn’t aimed to learn various sword techniques, she wouldn’t have been able to endure that much. However, the only thing he gained from such perseverance was the futile death of Drew Mays.

Usually, a superhuman level has a long lifespan, but in the case of Drew Mace, despite being a superhuman level, he completely abandoned his sword and lived completely as a dead end… . It was like cutting his own lifespan. In the end, Sera had to learn mace swordsmanship through someone else. It was only possible because the name mace was abandoned, and mace swordsmanship did not completely disappear from this world.

There was work around here, so I thought, ‘There must be a hero candidate who is suffering similarly to me?’ . After that it was like this.

At first, I was just going to introduce myself to the place where I taught myself mace swordsmanship… .

‘How did this happen… .’

Since Drew Mays was garbage, I naturally thought that if I talked about it, a consensus would arise and things would work out. Unlike himself, it seems that Drew Mace wasn’t such a trash for Leo, a candidate for the hero.

‘It’s definitely sloppy and messy, but I’ve learned the basics.’

Can’t believe that trash Drew Mace taught someone the basics of mace swordsmanship. From the point of view of Sarah, who is a sister-in-law, it was inevitable. Because he searched without teaching Sera anything. Even though I exercised patience and did everything I was told to do… .

‘what… . I didn’t really follow him like that. A person’s sincerity can change a person… Is it roughly like that?’

I have no interest. ‘Teach him, why not me?’ There were no complaints about the same unfairness. For her, all the teachers except Jade were beings who no longer gave rise to any emotions. I was just going to do it.

‘By the way… . When will it end?’

“Cool! Cool!”

Leo’s body was already stained with dirt. It was the result of trying to attack and then flying away, trying to defend and then flying away, trying to respond calmly and then flying away, running to look for an opening and then flying away, staying still and flying away, and just flying without rest. All of them were the result of Sera blowing them away with the sword wind.

“Are you going to give up?”

“ah. yet! Not yet!”

‘I don’t understand.’

I didn’t learn that well… . It was literally just something I learned as an attribute. So, with ‘that swordsmanship’, he would attempt such a sloppy attack.

‘Hero Candidate Leora… . It’s a name I can’t remember.’

The hero candidate plan was so sloppy… . There were only a handful of warrior candidates who made their talent bloom properly and gained fame, and there were many cases where most of the warrior candidates lost in vain. Leo, the candidate for the hero, must have been one of them.

‘Originally, he must have been one of the warrior candidates who went to the front line and died after being forced to go to the ranks of masters and to be under a suitable teacher and not learn anything properly. However, because I, who should have had one of the superhuman levels as my teacher, went under Master, who is in the ranks of the masters, the opportunity for one to serve the superhuman level master has returned. In this lifetime, is that just about being Leo, the candidate for the hero? The problem is that the master who attained that level of superhuman skill was, of course, Drew Mace.’

Sera couldn’t help but comment that he seemed like a very unlucky guy.

“aaa!”

Although he himself was busy running towards Sera in front of him without knowing how unlucky he was.

“Sigh”

Sera let out a sigh of annoyance and swung her sword.

Wheein!

swarm!

Leo, who was properly hit by the sword wind, rolled on the ground again in vain.

“How about we end it now?”

“Not yet!!”

Leo woke up again. No matter how much Sera is looking after her, considering her already young body, she has exceeded her limits. Despite this, Leo’s eyes did not die at all.

“Whoa. Whoa. Whoop!”

At the same time, the momentum felt by Leo also changed.

“Hoo.”

Sarah looked at Leo with interest.

The reason why mace swordsmanship is called ‘barrier swordsmanship’ and Drew Mace is called ‘cliff sword’ is because mace swordsmanship itself creates its own territory and cuts down enemies that enter it.

But that’s why mace swordsmanship couldn’t be the strongest. If the strongest spear collided with the strongest shield, the outcome would be unknown, but it was only natural that the strongest swordsmanship would win when the strongest swordsmanship collided with the best swordsmanship. In the first place, a sword is a means to surely kill an opponent, and if the strongest swordsmanship is added to it, it will boast of ignorant destructive power, but if the best defense is added, the story will change. If that’s the case in the first place, I’d rather have a shield.

In other words, mace swordsmanship itself basically has contradictions as a swordsmanship. But that doesn’t mean that mace swordsmanship is trash. If it was trash swordsmanship in the first place, he wouldn’t have been able to build a reputation that would shake the era.

Mace swordsmanship could not be the strongest swordsmanship, but it could be the best swordsmanship. If there is a master or a superman who has learned mace swordsmanship on the battlefield, the battlefield will literally become a ‘slaughter play’. There was no barrier sword that created an area that could be cut by creating one’s air power, and there was no best swordsmanship that was as powerful as this on the battlefield.

It was not for nothing that Drew Mace was feared and called the ‘cliff sword’. However, Drew Mays was discouraged saying that he did not become the strongest.

and at this moment

The edge of that cliff sword

reached Sarah.

Tuduk!

A few strands of Sara’s hair danced to the ground. To be precise, Sarah allowed it. That feeble power was so weak that it would never have reached it originally, but Sera deliberately made it so by completely reducing her defense to zero. What the boy had done was great enough to deserve such an award. It was because he made Leo’s unique mace swordsmanship plausible by imitating the ‘Sera’s sword style’ that tormented him so much.

Of course, there was no way that Leo, who had neither the basics nor the basics properly, would be able to reach the realm of the sword style, but with the logic of mace swordsmanship and pure Leo’s mental power, he had briefly touched that realm, albeit for a moment.

“great. Hero candidate Leo.”

It was the kind of thing that even those who had all sorts of experiences with infinite recurrence could not help but admire. That’s why I still think Drew Mays is garbage, but I decided to admit that boy’s stubbornness.

“Drew Mays left something to the world. I will retract my remarks and apologize.”

Because it was a sloppy combination of Mace’s swordsmanship taught sloppily by Drew Mace and the swordplay he experienced while being attacked by Sera (even if it was sloppy, it was accomplished by a boy who didn’t even know swordsmanship, so it was amazing). Candidate Leo’s credit, but… . Knowing that Leo would not like it if he said such a thing, Sera chose a nice lie.

“hehehehe… .”

dump!

Leo, the candidate for the hero, laughed innocently, and collapsed for a moment.

It was a natural result as it had already broken through the limits.

“What a boy you are.”

“You’re quite a human kid!”

Archmage William and Elf Riel, who had been secretly watching, appeared.

“William”

“Yes, lord.”

“Take care.”

“Yes?”

“It is a talent that is difficult to recognize at a glance, so if you entrust it to someone else, you will not be able to develop your talent and die. I have no choice but to watch.”

“… … .”

William said, ‘Uh…’ for this boy. . Master is busy, so wouldn’t it be better to just leave it to someone else?’ It was because he knew very well that it was not a good thing for Sera to take care of the training. However, he had no choice but to keep his mouth shut because he was on the level of a master of social vitality and knew that he shouldn’t say such things.

“Hey! Are you going to kill this human boy!”

As an elf who had nothing to do with social life, Riel, who had already seen Sera’s incredibly ignorant yet effective training method, was frightening nonetheless, and she had no choice but to scream and stop it.

the problem is… .

“let’s go.”

There was no way Sarah would bend her will.

“Hey! Stop chewing on my words!”

Riel stuck next to Sera and started complaining. Riel, who had already rebelled, also seemed to consider Leo’s work confirmed. It was no exaggeration to say that it was the moment when Leo’s only hope disappeared. … It was unreasonable for Riel to thwart Sera’s will anyway, although it was William’s impression that there was no hope there in the first place.

“… Be strong.”

William couldn’t help but mutter that while looking sadly at the boy who was unconscious and smiling brightly. It won’t be the first and last time you see that innocent smile, right? William thought for a moment, then felt a chill run down his spine.

“Eh… .”

I’m sure I’m helping the hero, but why do I have to spend days feeling so guilty… . William couldn’t help but feel confused.