Chapter 466: Continental Joint Training (1)

“Then… are all troops in the continent gathering?”

“It would be quite difficult to do that. It will only be the large clans and guilds. So, in terms of the State, it would be the three guilds of Lindel, the eight seats of the State, Yozora, led by Yuno Kasugano in Celia, and a guild run jointly by the Mist Summoner Cheon Gwan-wi and the long-range sniper Wi-Ran in Dawan. The Republic, the United Kingdom, and other small and medium-sized countries will also send in some of their own powerful people.”

“I think this is actually bigger than I thought.”

“Deokgu, it will be much bigger than you think.”

“Hmm.”

“If the large guilds try to take everything for themselves, it can cause a backlash. Even if they are not at the top level, we should also go with some large-sized clans and guilds. We also have to pay attention to the armed groups handled by the province.”

“So, that’s the reason we’ve been so busy lately.”

In fact, although the other reasons also accounted for a significant portion, the total proportion of the joint continental training couldn’t be considered small.

It wasn’t that easy to select people.

Originally, it was a matter that had to be decided by the State members, including Oscar, but it was hard for someone with my influence, which maintained a close relationship with the powerful people of the current State, not to be involved.

All the list of medium-sized clans that the State could use and those with pro-Blue tendencies were selected. Although it made our conscience heavy to make others use their skills, I honestly thought that this situation was unavoidable.

If people with similar abilities and similar size had come up as candidates, we would prefer the one that was easier to handle.

That meeting, which took too much time to say that it was just a training session, was actually an opportunity to gain a great advantage just by participating in it.

It was to dispel the complaint that only the clans friendly to the three guilds were selected. It wasn’t an exaggeration to say that all of them were Lee Kiyoung’s people except for one clan with no connection.

‘We should go about this comfortably.’

As I looked outward, I saw Cho Hyejin escorting a carriage while riding a unicorn.

She was talking with Kim Hyunsung, who had been riding a griffon next to her.

I was a bit relieved that they didn’t look as awkward as I thought.

I was worried that the bad end would have affected her mentality, but she already looked like she’s back to her normal self.

It wasn’t only Cho Hyejin, after all. Kim Hyunsung also looked the same, but it seemed like they had an unspoken agreement to pretend that nothing happened.

‘I like it because they don’t hold a grudge.’

In fact, I liked it even more when I recalled that I had often seen the two go together after I saw Cho Hyejin in a slump.

After all, the biggest achievement was that she had abandoned her blue armor after that incident.

I was worried about seeing her return to the old days as if she had regressed after being dumped, but this didn’t seem to be the case at all.

‘It’s all fine.’

It wasn’t the best result, but it wasn’t the worst, either. I was able to gain achievements worth appreciating. I also made Kim Hyunsung take a break, which was my purpose in the first place.

After he got the enlightenment or something that came out in chivalrous novels, he seemed to be more focused on putting his mind to rest than before.

Park Deokgu, who stood next to me, spoke as I nodded with a satisfactory face.

“Hyungnim, aren’t Hyejin and our hyung-ssi acting strange these days?”

‘You demon.’

“I don’t know what to say, but it feels like something big happened between them. I don’t know why. It’s just my guts. Just when the two were going out often… my sense of smell didn’t trigger, but the atmosphere has been strange since the day that you and Hyejin came in after drinking.”

‘Fuck… shouldn’t I have given him this task in the first place?’

It was enough to make me think it was possible to tie them up if I had instinctively left it to him.

I didn’t have a sense of trust in him because he muttered nonsense as if he was the love doctor in Gangwon-do, but I think he could do anything, seeing him smell well like this.

Actually, he was the one who had fixed me with Jung Hayan in the first place. I felt like I wanted to attach this guy to Cho Hyejin in that instant, but…

‘It isn’t the time to be doing this.’

I didn’t want to mess up Kim Hyunsung and Cho Hyejin once more. Both of them were still trying to find stability.

“Don’t think of anything useless and focus on training, Deokgu. I think you know better than anyone that you have improved a lot more than before, but it’s still not enough.”

“…”

‘Don’t make that face.’

Even though I had only glanced at him for a moment, he looked like a dog abandoned by its owner. In the end, there was no choice but to make him feel better.

“So. How is it going these days?”

“Ahem. Er… well, I’m always, ahem. Always working hard, but…”

“But?”

“I feel like I’m stuck on a wall recently. Whatever I do, my ability doesn’t seem to change very much… I’ve asked people for advice, but I don’t feel like I’ve been growing.”

“How is your knowledge of advanced magic power management? I think you can still afford to grow a little more there.”

“That one is really hard to practice… Even when I ask Hyejin or Ye-ri, they only said incomprehensible things, and it’s a little bit hard to say this, but it seems that I lack the sense for dealing with magic. Still, I’ve been working hard.”

‘That’s obvious.’

Unlike Kim Hyunsung and Kim Ye-ri, he had already almost fully filled his growth.

Even at that moment, he was good enough as a legendary-grade tank, but I thought it would be difficult to show more dramatic growth from thereon.

Since his magic power level was low, there was a limit to handling the advanced magic power management knowledge. The limit of that ability was enough to say that it was the limit of an advanced adventurer.

In Park Deokgu’s case, I felt that it was better to combine items or other things than his own abilities.

It was a little disappointing, but it wasn’t all that bad.

Since he had established himself as a legendary-grade tank, he deserved admiration. I didn’t hope for a role like Kim Hyunsung or Kim Ye-ri from him.

“Recently, our hyung-ssi has changed a lot. So I asked how he could do that, but it was just things that I couldn’t understand. It’s really uncanny. We’re in the same position where we swing swords, but our attitude toward the sword is different. In my case, there is no sense of understanding. But he was different.”

“What?”

“He has a strong feeling that he understands his own sword. It would best suit the example that he made the knowledge he gained when he changed classes or acquired an attribute his own.”

“I understand what you’re saying.”

It seemed to be the same difference between Jung Hayan and me.

It was the difference between using magic as if using it as a skill and properly understanding and using it.

‘This is the realm of talent.’

What did modern people know about swords or magic?

Cases like Jung Hayan and Kim Hyunsung were unusual.

However, I felt curious. What if Jung Hayan also had enlightenment?

“How about you, Hayan?”

“Yes, yes?”

I spoke to Jung Hayan, who stuck to me without hesitation.

“Did you ever feel like you jumped a stair?”

“Oh! Yes… yes. O-Of course. It’s definitely difficult to explain exactly what it feels like… It felt like it was tickling in the bottom and then popping up to the top of the head. Poof! Poof! Puffer! My mind went blank, and my hands and toes trembled… my pupils seemed to keep going up too… and momentarily, no, for hours I felt like I became a fool… since then, I have grasped the magic power and increased it.”

“That’s interesting.”

Perhaps that was something that I would never feel. Something like that couldn’t possibly be attained in the realm of commoners.

“And Elena…”

“In my case, it seems a little different from Hayan. It was only after meeting God that I felt like I had climbed a stair. After the thrilling feeling of being hit by lightning, I could immediately see the gods. It was a feeling that put a loving divine power directly within me.”

‘Even though I actually met Benignore, I didn’t have any enlightenment or whatever. No, I indeed received divine power…’

I was able to realize that the class called Alchemist was called noncombatant for a reason.

An alchemist was a production worker in the first place.

Unlike Yoo Ahyoung, the Blue’s blacksmith who could wield a hammer, there was really nothing that could be produced.

The alchemy summoning magic wasn’t magic that didn’t require the great word of enlightenment but rather was a technique gained with gold. The effects of the series of potions that made my living weren’t affected if I increased my magic power.

‘I’m glad that at least my class is a semi-mythic-grade…’

Or perhaps I would only be making potions among those monsters.

Just as I was looking at Elena and Jung Hayan sitting in the carriage while lost in thoughts, the wagon that was heading in the right direction suddenly stopped.

Han Sora and Sun Hee-young, who were spending time on one side, also quietly looked at us.

‘It’s not the time to arrive yet.’

“Deokgu, look at what’s going on…”

“Okay.”

Even Park Deokgu, who had been in the wagon with us to protect the rear, stepped outside to grasp the situation, and Sun Hee-young carefully opened her mouth.

‘Why is she getting so pretty?’

The memory of the black world suddenly came to mind, and I blushed.

“Is there any problem?”

“No. I don’t really think so… there must’ve been an accident in front of us.”

“Wouldn’t it be better to chant a protection spell?”

“That won’t be necessary.”

It was then that Park Deokgu, who had gone outside, knocked on the inside of the carriage again.

“Hyung-nim.”

“Did any monsters appear?”

“No, it’s not that. It seems that traffic isn’t being organized because of the people that came from other countries and cities. They can’t come in all at once because the entrance is narrow. It seems that wagons from a large guild in the United Kingdom and a large guild in the north collided against each other.”

“…”

“…”

“If we wait a bit, it will probably be solved.”

“What do you mean, wait?”

“Huh?”

“There’s no need to wait.”

“Then…”

“Just raise a flag and just push it out.”

“That’s not possible because the entrance is clogged up right now…”

“Forget it. I will go out myself. Let’s go outside. I think it would be better to get off the carriage from here.”

“Yes, yes, oppa.”

“I will do that, Vice Guild Master.”

It was getting suffocating to be in the carriage anyway. Our surroundings were definitely getting noisier.

The soldiers tried to check the front to see what was going on, and Kim Hyunsung and Cho Hyejin were chatting.

Putting Kim Hyunsung aside, I couldn’t have imagined that even Cho Hyejin would be a member of the Eastern Branch of Courtesy, where they lived with the virtue of concession.

“Deokgu, raise the flag.”

At this point, eyes had begun to gather from all sides.