
Chapter Seven: Test of plum and ground golem.
A breeze blew one by one strand of white hair perched on the chin of a short-bodied old man. The man was sitting in the backyard of the Mansion.
Her eyes closed as her mouth sipped a cup of chrysanthemum tea, held the tea water for a moment in her mouth, allowed the distinctive taste of chrysanthemum flowers to roam every corner of her tongue, then let it fall into her esophagus.
When he opened his eyes, the shady view of plum trees along with flowers and other vines spoiled his vision.
"Good Morning, Mr. Franz. Arthur's coming, ready to train today." A little boy with a wooden sword in his hand came, he put his right hand on his chest. The left hand that held the sword he hid behind his back, then bowed respectfully.
An old man named Franz looked at the white-haired little boy who was none other than Arthur from top to bottom.
"You're young but how many times have you corrupted time, hm?"
As in the previous class meeting, Arthur would reply, "I just did what my body needs—like when we lack energy, our body needs to eat, blame the sun that is too fast to show itself." with his innocent face.
This was not the first time Arthur was late for Franz's class.
Franz is a self-defense teacher who asked Shandechz to teach Arthur, whether it's learning swordsmanship or martial arts—because Arthur has no mana.
Franz laughed, "Ohoho.. Bad boy, you always underestimate me huh."
"Arthur whichever might underestimate Mr. Franz, Mr. Franz is a teacher with great fighting ability that I respect." Arthur showed a sweet smile that was certainly made up.
"Hoho.. If you respect me so much, just give me one plum."
Arthur's face changed alarmingly at Franz's request. Arthur believes Franz's request is another form of punishment for him.
Arthur looked back, looking for the whereabouts of the requested plum. From a distance Arthur could see there were many plums hanging on his tree.
Arthur breathed a sigh of relief.
The plum tree is not very tall, I can climb it.
Let alone one, I can pluck 5 at a time!
"It would be my pleasure to collect a lot of plums for Mr Franz—"
But wait a minute... That old grandfather couldn't possibly give such an easy punishment.
"Hm? Do it if you can." Right after speaking, Franz formed a magic circle on the ground, a radiance appearing along with an earth golem larger than Arthur.
True to his abilities, Franz was from the Gnome Race. The Gnome race had a dwarf body like the Dwarf Race (dwarf), only in contrast to the Dwarf Race which was famous as forging, the Gnome Race was famous as a destroyer.
Yes, they were able to destroy anything due to their powerful earth element magic. A lump of sword iron could even be destroyed against the earth element magic of the Gnome Race.
"I hope my cute magie doesn't get in your way." Franz sipped his tea back relaxed. For information, Franz gave the name of the land golem Magie creation.
For information, Franz named his land golem Magie.
Goodbye! I guessed!
Franz's Magie takes the stance ready against Arthur.
"Lord Franz isn't this an exaggeration? I just practiced the basics of swinging a sword. Better give me the punishment of swinging the sword up to a hundred times like before."
"No. Swinging a sword is too easy. Let's say it's a test of practice. I'll give you one hourglass. Good luck." Franz said firmly.
Haa... Old grandpa sucks.
Arthur took a deep breath, then threw it away slowly.
Alright, let's avoid this golem!
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Swoooom!!
Pyasssh!!
"Good!"
A black-haired boy who was none other than Killian smiled happily when he saw the nominal number of his magic ability increase.
His training today was to strengthen his Mana by focusing on attacking the magic circle attached to the chest of a mannequin.
The magic circle serves to measure how much mana point a person. If likened, the magic circle is like a boxing machine in the arcade game. The more often we attack, the greater the value of our attack power points.
"Where your point has increased to 100, I think now young master Killian can learn another elemental magic."
Zein, the teacher whom Shandechz had commissioned trained Killian's self-defense, casts fire element magic. "Since young master Killian can already cast water element magic, now young Master Killian can try to cast fire element magic."
Killian did what Zein asked. But because Killian still could not control his Mana, the fire magic that was released actually caused a huge explosion.
BOOOM!!
Luckily during the exercise Zein put up a protective barrier and a repellent. Zein had expected such a thing to happen, especially the child who became his disciple was a descendant of the Arthan race.
At the same time, Arthur, who was running away from the reach of the golem, fell off his balance due to the vibrations that arise with the sound of an explosion.
"Yeah!"
Killian's crazy!
The explosion must have been him. How big is his power to explode so great, huh.
Arthur got up, continued running away from the golem.
Sucks.
If only I had a great magic power like Killian, I wouldn't have had to run away from that golem!
"When will you run? Time goes on." Franz standing. His stooped body noticed Arthur running around the plum tree along with Magie behind him, then glancing towards the hourglass. The upper sand is left a little, signifying that Arthur's punishment time is coming to an end.
Back to Arthur, actually Arthur could have climbed a plum tree and plucked the fruit. Franz's Magie quickly blocks Arthur by pulling him away from the plum tree.
That's why Arthur just ran away while circling the plum tree. Arthur is trying to figure out a way.
The golem did not attack me, but it was very annoying, always dragging me away from the plum tree!
Then why didn't Arthur just attack Magie? Of course Arthur had tried it, but he was unable to attack Magie without magic power. Just imagine, a lump of sword iron could even be broken to attack Magie, let alone Arthur's small wooden sword.
Wait, why don't I just try my martial skills?
This time Arthur again ran up to the plum tree, allowing himself to be caught by Magie.
Three times Magie's capture makes Arthur realize one thing,
The golem will always be on foot.
I don't know if all the golems were aiming for the foot, or because the golem was already at Mr. Franz's command just aiming for the foot to make it difficult for me to move.
As Arthur had guessed, when Arthur was near and intending to climb a tree, Magie stomped both her hands to the ground. Magie's hands that had fused together with the ground quickly extended straight after Arthur's feet.
Now!
Arthur jumped up, his body spinning backward in the air.
Magie seems confused because of Arthur's position that is difficult to catch.
Without giving Magie time, Arthur throws his wooden sword, striking Magie's right eye. After that open his right leg wide, prepare to do a kick.
"Feel my air kick!!"
Kraaac!
"Oh?" Both Franz's eyelids were raised, his eyes were rounded in gasps.
Although it did not succeed in making Magie fall, but Arthur managed to make part of Magie's head destroyed.
"Yosh, I did it!" Arthur exclaimed in spirit.
Not wanting to waste a chance, Arthur quickly climbed a plum tree. Just as Arthur was about to pluck Plum, Franz shouted,
"TIME'S UP!"
...
God fucking.
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"Hm..." Franz watched his Magie state closely.
"It's weird. My magic is notoriously impenetrable to an iron sword, unless it is accompanied by magic power. But this little wooden sword could pierce through it.."
Arthur was silent, not caring. His face was bent in annoyance.
In exchange for failing to pick plums, Arthur was asked to swing the sword two hundred times.
Cih, why did I try so hard if I was finally told to swing the sword. Better to sit until the time is up.
Franz pulls out a wooden sword that strikes Magie's eye. His face was again surprised. At the tip of the pointed part of the wooden sword was seen coated in earth element magic.
The moment the earth element magic meets its fellow will clash. So when the sword coated with earth element magic entered the Magie, the inside of the Magie became unbalanced. At the time of the imbalance that is what makes Magie so easily destroyed.
"Hey bad boy. I heard the Melvielle race has no magic power, but what is this? On your sword there's a trace of you using magic. Earth element magic like mine."
Hearing the word magic made Arthur interested in responding. "What does Mr Franz mean? I can't use magic. If I could, I would have destroyed the golem from the start."
"Hm..." Franz looked at Arthur while thinking about something. "Is it possible you've learned [where's sense ]?"
"There is one difficult ability to gain from learning [where sense], which is [where authority]. But you can't use magic... I've also never heard of Melvielle race being able to learn [where sense ]." Franz continued muttering which Arthur could hear.
Arthur frowned, not understanding Franz's conversation. "What's that [where's sense ] Mr Franz?"
"[where sense] is a person's ability to sense the power of mana. Whether that's where other people are, monsters or things." Franz explained.
Franz closed his eyes, focusing on sensing the flow of mana in his body. Then let the flow of mana of his spread out into where the aura was. When his aura came into contact with another person's aura, Franz was able to sense the person's mana strength.
Franz tries to do [where sense ] to Arthur, the result is nil. Arthur has no magic power. It's just that Franz felt something different that Franz couldn't explain.
Franz opened his eyes.
"Bad kid, are you interested in learning [where's sense ]? You just don't have magic powers, doesn't mean you can't feel magic."
"If I don't know if you can learn it—because you yourself don't have any mana aura, but there's no harm in trying."
Arthur's gloomy face was beaming, he stopped the sword swinging activity. "Sure! Teach me [where sense ] Mr Franz!"
Fufu, my feeling is that I will soon be able to use magic.
The training between Franz and Arthur continued until the echoes of the bell of the daytime sign rang out.
"Alright, our lesson is enough to get here. I'll wait how you develop next bad boy." Franz said with a smile typical of old grandfather. Franz's moving hand took out a portal paper from under his cloak, then tore it apart.
"Don't forget to continue swinging the sword two hundred times."
"Thank you for today's lesson, Mr. Franz." Arthur bowed respectfully, as soon as Arthur straightened his body Franz had already disappeared.
Old grandpa sucks.
Although often cursed, Arthur is actually a submissive child. The proof is that he again swung the sword as Franz ruled.
"Arthur!"
Feeling called, Arthur turned to look for the source of the voice. He found Killian running towards him.
Until a distance of one meter remained between them, Killian took a position to prepare to attack.
Arthur's eyes glared, "He-hey, why—"
"Let's fight! Arthur can't leave until he wins against me!"
"What are you talking about? Hey wait—"
Arthur had not been able to avoid, Killian had already released steamy water magic like geysers under Arthur's feet.
"YYYAAAA!! KILLIAN BR*NGSEEEKKK!!"
Arthur's body bounced far away to get caught by one of the other trees in the backyard.
"Hmph! I won!"
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