Chapter 3 - Wise Academy Life
Chapter 3 - Wise Academy Life
Devil of the South, hero of the Continental War, Commander Klaus.
When Cecily first encountered him, the emotions she felt could be described as awe, admiration, and ecstasy.
He was exactly as she had imagined; he was a man who deserved to be called arrogant.
When not just humans, but beastkin and elves couldn't even properly defend their own lands, he displayed the sheer power to hold the Southern Front, which the humans had already given up on.
His performance was so incredible that even among the demons, there were those who came to admire him.
This tendency was particularly strong among those who had fought Klaus directly, and among them were several demons from the Leblanc family.
'I want to meet him. I want to find out why the people in my family speak so highly of him!'
When she first sparred with Klaus, that was exactly the thought she had.
He was a human acknowledged even by the most prominent demons; she wanted to face that greatness in person!
And the result was, as expected, a defeat that was nothing short of miserable.
Ttaak!-
"Ouch!"
The burning sensation pouring onto her back made it feel as if she were seeing stars.
The moment she let her mind wander, Klaus, who hadn't missed that timing, lightly swung his wooden sword and struck Cecily's back.
"Ugh...."
It hurts, it hurts, it hurts so much. She didn't even know how many times she had been hit by now.
Her legs trembled from the pain that made her whole body tingle.
There was no possibility of winning. No, from the very beginning, such a thing as a chance to win didn't exist.
An insurmountable difference in skill and combat experience lay between the two.
Just look at him now, smashing all her magic with nothing but a wooden sword infused with a bit of mana.
Even though he was just swinging a wooden sword without using a mana core like last time, Cecily had already had to experience death several times.
"You've died once again, Cadet Cecily."
The demon woman shivered slightly at the cold sensation of the wooden sword against her neck.
Klaus had never once checked her using combat magic.
He simply approached her while swinging his wooden sword, and despite Cecily starting the sparring match with that distance advantage, she had already been defeated several times.
"A-again! I'll go again! This time, this time!"
Her mana was already bottomed out; she only had two mana arrows she could generate right now.
Even those had become so weak in mana concentration that the arrows, which used to be a deep blue, were now almost translucent.
Shuaaak!-
The mana arrow flew, cutting through the wind as if burning its final flame.
The mana concentration was incomparably lower than before, but the speed was much faster.
'She's improved a little bit while fighting. She really isn't a bad woman after all.'
It would have been better if not for her weird sexual preferences.
Klaus muttered that to himself and decided to crush Cecily's final attack miserably.
Since it was the final attack that woman was firing, a direct parry would be better than evasion.
He lightly threw his body and stared at the mana arrow flying precisely toward him.
- Skill, 'Compound Eye' has been activated. -
He could block it easily with his experience and intuition so far, but it was better to end the very last moment with more flair and impact.
Looking around, the cadets who were sparring in various places were almost finished.
Since eyes were gradually gathering here, it was much more beneficial to show an overwhelming difference.
As the skill activated, the movement of the mana arrow, which had been flying at quite a high speed, slowed down significantly.
All the information—which direction it would move, what kind of trick she was trying to use—entered his eyes.
Klaus, having adjusted his grip on the wooden sword, struck from bottom to top, splitting it exactly in two before Cecily could even react.
At the same time, he put strength into his feet, leaped into the air, and closed the distance in an instant.
'Aah?!'
Cecily was greatly surprised.
Klaus's movements were so fast that she couldn't even grasp when her attack had been parried.
He swung his wooden sword with such concise movements, as if he knew exactly how she would move.
Thanks to that, Cecily had lost one mana arrow before she could even realize it.
The moment she hurriedly tried to fire the last remaining arrow.
Cecily, who was chasing Klaus as he suddenly disappeared from her field of vision, was greatly surprised to realize he was flying right in front of her.
Whiririk!-
Klaus rolled his body greatly and easily took her back.
Then, he put a little strength into his hand and struck the woman's luscious buttocks hard with the wooden sword.
Jjaaak!!!-
"Hiiiing!"
The woman's scream. No, to be honest, it was a sound that could easily be considered a moan of pleasure.
Cecily collapsed forward, clutching her buttocks at Klaus's final blow.
Naturally, the last remaining mana arrow shattered on the spot.
'...Look at that posture, just look at it.'
If the place where Cecily was currently sprawled out had been a bed, it would have been enough to be mistaken for a posture begging a man, 'Please put it in! Please f*** me!'
The woman, with her face buried in the grass and her buttocks held high, was trembling.
The fact that she kept moaning, 'Hauu! Heuung!', meant that it was definitely painful, but also felt good.
"...."
Klaus glanced at the panties visible inside Cecily's skirt and let out a groan.
As expected, it was turning black; she seemed to have climaxed without even realizing it and was leaking love juice.
She was supposed to show this side only to him, but she was a woman who, in any case, never changed when it came to climaxing without knowing the time or place.
"Ha-euk! Heuung...."
Cecily had a completely slack expression, fumbling with her own buttocks.
If someone who didn't know the situation saw this, it might look like a scene where she was groaning due to the pain of Klaus hitting her too hard, but in reality, she was in a state where she couldn't even control her body properly due to the extreme pleasure she had never experienced before.
Tsking, he pushed her body with his wooden sword to make her collapse onto the grass, lest others see Cecily's shameful behavior.
After that, he didn't even offer his hand, which he would have normally extended as a minimum courtesy as a professor.
Since he had already decided to have this woman, it was much better to start training her from now on.
"How long are you going to lie there like that?"
"Ah, aah! Hiik!"
Klaus deliberately poked Cecily's body with the tip of his wooden sword.
It was a movement that looked like he was threatening his opponent, but in reality, he was poking only Cecily's sensitive areas—for example, a certain spot on her back, her calves, or her ankles—just enough to be appropriately painful.
Thanks to that, Cecily trembled at the electric sensation she was tasting for the first time.
Eventually, only after receiving all of Klaus's pokes while lying on the ground did she come to her senses.
"Keu, keuuu...."
She hurriedly stood up and looked at Klaus.
A red flush was rising on her face; at a glance, it could be taken as her feeling shame over being defeated again, but in reality, she was flustered because of her body that had become aroused without her knowing.
"Just being good at handling magic like you are now doesn't make you invincible. Combat magic was created to suit such situations. Whether you're wielding spears and swords, firing arrows, or using hidden weapons, a momentary opening is bound to occur. Combat magic, unlike original magic, is operated by condensing mana to directly strike, slash, or pierce the enemy to fill exactly that gap."
"...."
Having said that, Klaus pointed to a certain place to divert the gazes that had been pouring toward him.
There, Yulia and Natasha were locked in a frantic exchange of attacks and defenses, as if they didn't care about the gazes of others.
Chaenggang! Chaeng!-
Originally, the elves' main weapon is the bow.
Since the region they inhabit is mainly forests, it was taken for granted that they would prefer weapons that could attack stealthily and inflict fatal wounds, and the bow was the best weapon for them.
To that, Klaus added one more setting: the fact that the bows they use are not longbows, but composite bows made of various materials.
A bow much smaller than what normal people think of, yet its destructive power is far higher.
A race that was originally accustomed to using bows, plus the synergy effect of handling composite bows.
Therefore, even the demons were extremely wary of and feared the elves' archery skills.
Chaeng! Chaeng! Chae-chaeng!-
However, the sound being heard now was not the sound of Yulia blocking arrows.
Even though Natasha was an elf, she wasn't particularly close with the bow; rather, the area she was confident in was close-quarters combat.
In particular, she handled longswords and spears well, which could be said to be quite an unusual case in elf society.
"I've never seen such a belligerent elf."
"Exactly. It's like watching our beastkin."
Looking at the attack situation, about 70 percent was Natasha's, and the remaining 30 percent or so was Yulia's.
Natasha's attacks, which came in aiming for vital points in an instant while frantically pushing Yulia, were enough to make onlookers' spines chill.
Everyone watched the confrontation between the elf and the demon, the woman of the Belarus family and the Demon King, with great interest.
The demons, who never lose anywhere when it comes to fighting, and the elves, who are said to have the highest pride.
The two were now engaged in a great bloody battle, taking on an aspect similar to a battle of pride.
'Natasha looks advantageous at a glance.'
Natasha has double the number of attacks going in compared to Yulia.
Yulia was concentrating on defense rather than attack, sometimes launching sharp counterattacks to make Natasha step back or attacking first when she saw an opening.
'But it's not enough. This isn't a pure martial arts sparring match.'
Shwiit!-
The moment Natasha was about to attack again, an arrow filled with purple light flew from behind her.
Because it was a strike imbued with Yulia's unique mana color, Natasha bit her lip and twisted her body.
Not missing that very opening, Yulia struck the opponent's shoulder with the sword she was holding.
Ttaak!-
"Keuk!"
Originally, she should have countered Yulia's magic with her own magic and gone in.
However, Natasha is a woman who is not close with operating mana, that is, magic.
She is truly excellent at handling weapons, but she came into the combat magic lecture because she lacked that magic.
Yulia quickly grasped such a weakness of hers and adopted a method of deliberately inducing Natasha's attacks, creating openings, and then either firing mana arrows to inflict damage or striking with her wooden sword if the opponent reacted to that.
Natasha, gritting her teeth, twirled and adjusted the wooden staff she was holding.
Yulia, realizing that she was preparing her final blow, also prepared reserve magic in the back and entered a defensive stance, raising her wooden sword.
It was the moment the two women were about to entangle and fight a decisive battle.
Ttaak!-
Tak!
A wooden sword flew and hit Natasha's wooden staff, and she stopped Yulia's sword with her hand.
Klaus, who had intervened between them, shook his head while looking at the two women as if to say that was enough.
"...."
"...."
There was no shouting that they could fight more or that they would decide the winner.
It was because Klaus had stepped in appropriately before the fight overheated, and the two women were by no means foolish, so they knew well that if they fought with all their might like this, one of them would be seriously injured, which could cause another commotion inside the academy.
In addition, both women already knew who the winner and who the loser was.
It was a situation where it was obvious that if they had continued sparring like this, Natasha, who was clearly at a disadvantage in the magic department, would have eventually lost, and she was trying to go all out because she couldn't accept that.
"Haa."
Natasha and Yulia lowered their weapons almost at the same time, as if they had promised to do so.
As two women with strong pride, they stepped back because they knew well that being pathetic here was a moronic thing to do.
Klaus, having stopped all the sparring between the cadets, opened his mouth while looking at them.
"Exactly one month from today, I will have you spar again with the opponent you faced today. Through today's sparring, you must have learned what the other person's strengths are and what your own strengths are. What your weaknesses are and what the other person's weaknesses are. While listening to my lectures, find ways to defeat that opponent and practice. The side that wins the sparring a month from now will receive extra points."
After saying that, Klaus turned his body.
And then he said to Cecily, who was staring at him.
"Cadet Cecily, see me for a moment."
"Yes? Ah, yes. Yes!"
Cecily was nodding her head eagerly with a red flush on her face.