Shin Sang Legend
Golems

So, Shin needed to demonstrate a certain amount of competency, but he also could not show too much. At the same time, he also needed to hide many of his own skills in order not to reveal his secrets.

‘I really trouble.’

Shin complained in his mind.

But the golem would not understand the kind of feeling Shin had, Shin could only throw various thoughts in his mind, gather his focus, and stare at the golem in front of him.

In the next moment, the attacking golem just before Shin raised his heavy hand and swung his stone like a fist towards Shin.

The [Devading] skill was automatically activated, controlling Shin's body, and making him dodge.

However, for the sake of not exposing his skill, Shin could only do his best to control it. Only until the golem fist came close to hitting him did he finally make a move, and deliberately showed some inexperienced moves to avoid the blow.

In an instant, a gust of pressure exploded all over Shin's body.

“Boooooom!”

With a thunderous bang, the heavy fist of the golem hit the ground. The ground shook along with the rising dust cloud.

At that moment, Shin who dodged to the side finally moved. He accurately showed the golem's stunned moment after his attack to close the distance.

“Tringg!”

With a clashing sound, the sharp sword swung arched in the air and ruthlessly struck one of the golem legs, forcing it to kneel.

This has to be said. Shin used that one punch very well.

Due to the fact that the weapon in his hand was a normal two-handed sword. It was not even a magic weapon, let alone comparing it to a Holy Sword. Plus, due to the fact that he needed to hide a lot of his skills, Shin used tricks and hit the joints where the Golem kneecap would damage his balance and force him to kneel.

If he used the holy sword, Shin could easily tear the golem into pieces in a single strike.

However, in order not to show too much, Shin restrained his strength and deliberately performed an action where he defeated this opponent through a trick.

That way, Shin could hide many of his skills while at the same time showing enough ability for him to pass the adventurer examination.

So, after the golem fell, Shin started attacking ferociously.

“Tringg!” “Tringg!”

Along with the sound of several loud collisions, Shin repeatedly stuck the knee joint of the golem with great force, sending debris flying in all directions where he was trapped.

The falling golem swung its hand in an attempt to attack Shin, but Shin instead shifted to the back of the golem and did not let the swinging arm hit it. He continued to slash at the golem joint and prevent it from waking up.

“Boooooom! ”

After some sort of attack, the golem's knee finally shattered into pieces and scattered on the ground in a pile of gravel.

The golem that lost one leg fell to the ground with a violent impact.

Shin acted as if he was waiting for that moment for a while now and jumped onto the back of the golem. Then, he aimed at the head of the golem that had fallen to the ground, and with an exaggerated movement like he used all his strength, raised his sword into the air and swung it down with a powerful slash.

“Boooom”

With the sound of the impact of the explosion, the head of the golem split apart, breaking into countless pieces of debris.

‘There should be no problem in this way, right?’

Shin wiped his forehead as if he was wiping away sweat and, while acting like he was exhausted, gave himself a sign of victory.

Then, when Shin turned around to look back, what he saw was instead a number of surprised expressions.

“Haaaaa..”

“That power..”.

Diere, Lumia, and Melika showed their shock.

Not just the three of them. Vivian also showed the same expression.

“I never thought that you would actually win. Looks like your true strength is much higher than I thought, Shin.”

Vivian spoke in a tone full of surprise.

The corner of Shin's mouth twitched as he looked at the sight.

“Um... Is that weird..?” Shin asked Vivian weakly, “Didn't you say that, to me, this golem shouldn't be a dangerous opponent?”

Hearing that, Vivian's face showed a strange expression.

“I did say that, yes.” Vivian smiled bitterly, “Because of the fact that the golems are famous as slow and clumsy creatures, indicating cases where the level difference is too high, even beginners should be able to avoid golem attacks. Since they will not be exposed, then of course there will be no danger, but if you want to defeat them, it is also not something that a novice adventurer around the 10.” level can do

Hearing that, Shin's expression froze.

Seeing Shin's reaction, Vivian continued while maintaining her strange expression, “If it was a matter of that, the golems might be clumsy and slow, and they had trouble hitting their opponent, but due to the fact that their whole body is made of stone and other minerals, their defense is notoriously high. To defeat it, you should at least prepare a destructive-type weapon like a heavenly hammer or heavenly axe. However, I have never heard of a case where someone of a lower level slashed at him with just a sword.”

That is, Vivian's goal was not for Shin to beat the golem, either, but to use this opportunity to see how Shin would behave in a situation where “dia could not beat a golem who at the same time was harmless.for him.”

However, the end result was that Shin who did not know Vivian's intentions but tried to pass Vivian's exam through the show “beat the golem after much effort.”

“Your level is only 10, and you have not learned any skills. And, your weapon is just a new weapon. It had no special advantage beyond its sharpness and could not even be compared to magic weapons. However, under such conditions, you managed to win against golems that were of a higher level than you and were a very difficult type to beat. With all that in mind, do you really think we wouldn't feel this weird?”

Vivian's statement completely shattered Shin's mood.

Seeing Diere, Lumia, and Melika still staring at him with shocked expressions, and even Vivian's gaze became very deep, Shin started to laugh flatly.

“That means, my strength is at least decent. I didn't let you down, did I?”

Shin had no choice but to continue the conversation.

“Hmm.... Although unexpected, this is actually a good thing.” Vivian gave a deep and meaningful look again and continued, “Since you can defeat a golem that is almost 10 levels higher than you, you should be able to learn the skill quite quickly. Or rather, given what you have shown, the fact that you don't have any skills is strange here. However, this also means that your growth rate in all directions is quite high right?”

“Growth rate in all directions?” Shin asked, “What does that mean?”

“What? You don't know?” Vivian paused and spoke with more asking, “Based on the difference between the way of practice and everyone's natural talent, everyone will eventually have different growth rates in various statistics. That's common sense, right?”

… Common sense, right?

To Shin, these so-called common sense were things that not only had nothing to do with him, but were also things that were most likely to create trouble for them.

However, Shin more or less understood what Vivian was trying to convey.

“When someone raises their level, although they will definitely become stronger, it is not like it will strengthen every part of them.” Vivian explained, “When someone levels up, based on the way they practice and their different natural tendencies, the way their strength increases will also be different.”

So, the advantages that everyone gets when they level up are all different.

“Taking me as an example, because I am the defense type, when I level up, my endurance and defense get the most growth, while my other abilities show no almost noticeable changes.” Vivian continued her explanation, “And for someone like Melika, when she leveled up, her magic power increase was the biggest. As for her physical abilities, she was no different from a normal girl even now.”

Such is.