-Your fame increases!
-The proficiency of Sleeping Dragon’s Sight has greatly increased!
-As the proficiency of Sleeping Dragon’s Sight reaches a certain level, Sleeping Dragon’s Sight is enhanced.
-A new skill, Sleeping Dragon’s Foresight, has been unlocked.
‘Sleeping Dragon’s Foresight?’
Ethan immediately tried using Sleeping Dragon’s Foresight on Regia.
‘Oh.’
For a moment, he could see Regia’s movements. But this wasn’t the movement Regia was currently making.
It was as if the movements of the current Regia and the future Regia were overlapping.
The viewing ability of Sleeping Dragon’s Sight had been greatly enhanced, allowing him to see the target’s next movement as if predicting the future.
Ethan then tried using Bullet Time.
‘This is insane.’
Regia moving slowly.
He could foresee exactly what action Regia would take next. The foreseen movements also appeared slow due to the effect of Bullet Time.
It was a very short foresight, but using this seemed like it could give an advantage in any fight.
Of course, it couldn’t be said that it would give an absolute advantage against a strong opponent, but…
‘Still, I could catch them off guard. Against someone weaker than me, I could gain a perfect advantage.’
Ethan smiled inwardly.
‘It’s a skill that targets one person. It can’t see multiple people at once.’
While Bullet Time was a skill that targeted all nearby people, this Sleeping Dragon’s Foresight was a skill that targeted only one person.
‘Come to think of it, there was a legend like that, wasn’t there?’
It was the legend that Zhuge Liang had predicted the southeast wind.
‘Anyway, I’ve gained another weapon.’
“But how on earth did you come up with this?”
Regia, now completely free of suspicion, posed a question to Ethan.
Having received direct instruction from Ethan, he had developed considerable curiosity, so Regia bombarded him with questions, starting with this first one.
“This is done in this way…”
Ethan told Regia exactly what he had learned from Regia in MePan.
“Huh.”
Regia mixed admiration and groans as he showed a satisfied expression at Ethan’s answer.
“We both had similar approaches. We just had different solutions to the big problem. The main framework of the method is similar. Hmm. You, I quite like you.”
He took something out from his chest and handed it to Ethan.
“Separate from the invitation to the imperial palace, this is a gift I’m giving you personally.”
What Regia took out was a badge made of gold.
‘Holy shit.’
Ethan was startled as he looked at the badge.
“W-What is this?”
He pretended not to know, but Ethan knew very well what this was.
This badge, filled with red color, was called the Red Silver Round Badge, and those who possessed this badge were treated as Regia’s benefactors and could freely roam various parts of the imperial palace.
‘You can enter the imperial library and the imperial treasure vault too.’
But there was something even more important than that.
‘It’s proof that I’ve been acknowledged by Regia. It gives me authority.’
Regia’s benefactor.
One acknowledged by Regia.
It gave him the authority of being publicly recognized by Regia, who could be called a master and the best teacher.
‘It’s equivalent to great fame.’
As soon as Ethan received the badge, a notification window popped up.
-Your fame greatly increases!
‘This much…’
“This is called the Red Silver Round Badge. It’s a very special item that I only give to people I want to maintain a relationship with. With this…”
Regia explained at quite some length what the Red Silver Round Badge meant.
“Regia, sir.”
“Don’t think about refusing. It’s better to have it.”
“I have no intention of refusing at all. You gave me this item out of consideration for me. I will cherish it dearly.”
“Good, that’s how it should be.”
Regia smiled with satisfaction.
Ethan looked at Regia and was certain.
‘Given that he gave me the Silver Round Badge, he must trust me quite a bit.’
“I have one thing to ask.”
“Ask anything.”
“Do you happen to know where the Saintess of the Holylight Order is?”
When Ethan asked about the Saintess, Regia’s expression hardened.
“Why do you ask that?”
Regia’s expression, which had been looking at Ethan with trusting eyes until just now, hardened.
But he couldn’t back down here. Regia was a very important figure in solving Ethan’s biggest problem.
Extinction.
It was because of Regia that he had learned about this extreme disease.
“It’s because I’m suffering from an illness.”
In that moment, Regia grabbed Ethan’s hand. Ethan let his hand be held. This was okay to be discovered.
No, rather, it needed to be discovered.
“…!”
Regia’s eyes widened to the point of tearing.
“Teacher Ethan…!”
It was a look of shock.
“Carrying Extinction… how, how could you become this strong!”
He shook his head violently.
“No, how on earth… how are you even alive right now?”
He couldn’t believe it. To Regia, Ethan was no different from a living corpse right now.
It was amazing enough that he was alive while carrying this historic disease, but to have become this strong?
“Then with this Extinction… you came all this way?”
Ethan didn’t answer and just smiled.
“I think you now know why I’m looking for the Saintess.”
“…”
Regia fell silent.
After about a minute of silence, Regia sighed and opened his mouth.
“Yes, you’re trying to find the Saintess to cure that Extinction. I don’t know how you look so normal that I couldn’t even notice while carrying that disease… but that must be just on the surface. Once you catch that disease called the king of curses, it doesn’t disappear until you die.”
Regia said this as he slowly sat down.
Perhaps in the entire continent, there was no one who knew about Extinction as well as Regia.
“A teaching method similar to mine… and Extinction that my son had.”
What kind of joke of fate was this?
Regia looked at Ethan with great pity. His gaze was on Ethan but didn’t stay on him.
“I didn’t know the details. I just heard that you met the Saintess and broke the curse called Extinction.”
He knew this from hearing it from Regia in MePan. The fact that his son had been cured of Extinction.
After being cured of Extinction, Regia’s son became an Archmage. It was thanks to the release of his talent and mana heart that had been suppressed by Extinction.
‘I don’t know the exact timing. But judging by his expression, it must have already been cured.’
“That’s right, I met the Saintess. To cure my son’s Extinction. And I succeeded. My son is no longer sick. The Saintess performed a miracle.”
“Then where is that Saintess now?”
Ethan asked expectantly.
“I don’t know.”
Regia shook his head.
“My meeting with the Saintess wasn’t of my own will. The Saintess came to me first and cured him. The Saintess said she could cure Extinction. Something that no healer had been able to cure until now.”
His head became complicated for a moment, but he soon erased that thought.
‘I didn’t think it would be easy to meet her.’
“But I know a way to meet her. Although the probability is low.”
“What is it?”
“This is a secret. You must not disclose this to anyone. Can you keep it?”
Ordinarily, Regia would have kept his mouth shut too.
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“Yes.”
“The Silver Mountain in the Demon Empire. I hear she’s training there. It’s to establish a Holylight church in the Demon Empire. If you want to meet the Saintess, go to the Demon Empire. But you’ll need to have definite fame.”
‘I had wondered why there was a Holylight church in the Demon Empire.’
To think it was the power of the Saintess.
Ethan had been continuously increasing his fame to meet the Saintess.
In addition, he was in the process of building good relationships with the Holylight Order to increase the routes to meet her.
‘And one more has been added. The Silver Mountain.’
It was quite a good harvest.
This was as good as taking one step closer to the Saintess.
‘It’s time.’
It was time to attend the afternoon class now.
“I’ll see you at the last class of the afternoon, Sir Regia. Thank you for the conversation.”
***
The first class of the afternoon was the Sword Saint’s class.
The Sword Saint was a person who had spent his entire life wielding only the sword and knew nothing but the sword.
However, the classroom was filled with all the teachers participating in this new teacher training seminar, regardless of whether they were from the Knight Department or the Magic Department.
This was a class by the Sword Saint, called the star of swords. The teachers from the Magic Department were hoping to learn about the overall strength that the Sword Saint possessed, rather than learning swordsmanship.
The academy’s teachers couldn’t teach students with theory alone.
To teach students full of talent from noble families, they had to prove their own skills based on their theories.
They hoped to get a clue about that strength from the Sword Saint’s class.
And above all, what was most anticipated was that this class was essentially the Sword Saint’s first class for outsiders.
“I’ve never heard of it. That the Sword Saint would give such a class.”
“As far as I know, too. I heard he only teaches his direct bloodline or disciples.”
“I heard even the disciples weren’t formal disciples, but people he liked and taught.”
Moreover, that wasn’t even a formal class.
So this class was essentially the Sword Saint’s first formal class.
Ciron, who was sitting, was also sparkling his eyes.
Although Ciron had learned a lot from the Sword Saint, he knew that there were still countless things to learn from the Sword Saint.
That bottomless potential.
Knowledge and sense.
Ciron was certain that he would be able to gain fragments of that in today’s class.
Creaaak-.
Amidst everyone’s expectations, the door opened.
The Sword Saint entered the classroom with his characteristic crackling aura. Although he was dressed quite lightly, he was carrying his favorite sword at his waist.
“He usually carries Goldspirit around.”
The Sword Saint had numerous swords, among which Goldspirit was the sword he carried in various situations.
But what he brought today wasn’t Goldspirit.
“Nightfall?”
Nightfall was the sword that the Sword Saint mainly used in the early stages of the Holy Empire’s founding war. At the time, it had no name, but after the war ended, this sword was named Nightfall.
“He must have put a lot of effort into this class.”
The fact that he brought out Nightfall meant that the Sword Saint was that serious.
Ciron whispered to the Ivecar teachers around him.
“New talents who will lead the continent, welcome.”
Although he spoke softly, his voice imbued with mana echoed loudly in the classroom. The Sword Saint immediately got to the point with his greeting.
“I came in to teach on the topic you want.”
Then he grinned.
“You want to become strong, right?”
The Sword Saint had very simply pierced through what they wanted.
“I don’t have eloquent speech. I don’t have the ability to teach in an easily understandable way either. That’s why I respect teachers. You all know, right? That the Principal of Ivecar Academy, Ghost Sword, is my friend. He doesn’t have a single respectable aspect, but I respect that one ability that made him rise to the position of Principal.”
The Sword Saint said this as he drew the sword at his waist.
Shing-.
With a heavy sound, the pitch-black blade revealed itself.
“So I won’t use words. I’ll make you strong. Follow me.”
***
Normally, they wouldn’t be allowed to go outside the lord’s castle, but since this was a class led by the Sword Saint himself, such rules could be changed easily.
“The first step to strength. Whether you’re a knight or a mage, the most important thing is stamina. If you lack stamina, you can’t do anything. On the other hand, if you have enough stamina, you can swing your sword one more time or draw one more magic circle.”
The Sword Saint said this as he raised Nightfall upwards.
“But I don’t just think stamina is the first step to strength. I think it’s both the first step and the last step. Stamina is everything. The reason I could become strong was thanks to the stamina I’ve endlessly trained.”
Gulp.
Someone swallowed dry saliva.
The Sword Saint lined up the new teachers in front of the mountain behind the lord’s castle.
“This is stamina training. Make it to the top.”
Saying this, the Sword Saint started running ahead.
With each step he took, the Sword Saint’s figure grew distant. Soon, only the voice of the Sword Saint, who had become a dot, remained behind.
“To the academy of the first person to reach the top, I’ll give Ramsdale’s secret elixir. It’s a potion that can greatly enhance stamina!”
If it’s Ramsdale’s secret elixir, it must be referring to the keeper potion.
Its price alone was in the tens of millions of gold, and it was a potion that even if you wanted to obtain it, you couldn’t because Ramsdale had reduced the amount they produced.
In that moment, the academy teachers with widened eyes hurriedly started running forward.
“Teacher Ethan?”
“We need to go quickly now!”
Iris made an urgent expression as she looked at the teachers who had already gone far ahead. But Ethan was just standing still in his place.
“No.”
Ethan shook his head.
“There’s a trap.”
As soon as Ethan said this, screams were heard from the front.
“…!”
“Now, let’s go.”
Ethan grinned.
This Sword Saint’s class was optimized for Ethan, who had Sleeping Dragon’s Sight and Eye of Horus.
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