Lord of Training - Chapter 89



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89. If you don’t know, ask.

Late at night.

It was when Ensign Franco was on guard duty.

I approached him quietly.

“Chief, can’t you sleep?”

“just.”

There were many more things I wanted to ask earlier, but I couldn’t because of the other members.

He sat down next to the rock on which he was sitting.

“Why did you come into our group?”

“yes?”

“You’re the top of the aviation magic training unit. With your skills, you should join the 7th Mobile Corps’ aviation magic unit. That way, you’ll get promoted faster, and you’ll learn a lot from the named magic knights. And I heard your older brothers are there too.”

Ensign Franco chuckled.

“Honestly, I applied here because of you, Captain.”

“because of me?”

“Thanks to that, I was able to awaken my flying technique and safely return from the labyrinth gate.”

“The flying technique is something you worked hard for. It was my job to bring all the trainees anyway.”

“And I felt like I would grow faster if I was with General Alain. As proof, I have already awakened five spells.”

That’s true.

Who would risk their lives for their subordinates and re-enter the S-rank labyrinth gate?

He even pushed me hard to catch a Class A dimensional monster.

“Do you want to become strong quickly like Lieutenant Colonel Nicole?”

“That was my reason at first. As you know, my father is the Lord of Rioden, and I am the youngest son. I have four older brothers.”

“There were four of you? You must be strong since you have so many older brothers.”

“No. Ever since I was little, I was often beaten by my older brothers.”

“what?”

“I’m the only half-brother.”

Ensign Franco frowned.

“Are you an illegitimate child?”

“It’s similar. The Countess passed away, and she remarried my mother later.”

Is it domestic discord······.

“Shouldn’t you have told your parents?”

“I did tell my mother, but she told me to hold back. My maternal family was a fallen noble family and had no power. And since my eldest brother had already been chosen as the successor, my mother and I had no place in the land.”

You rotten bastards! There must be a big age gap between you two, so take good care of your youngest sibling.

“Still, as soon as I turned 16, my father sent me to the aviation training center.”

“So you want to quickly become strong and take revenge on your brothers?”

“At first, I had such strong feelings, but not anymore. When the commander led us to the southern continent. We were outnumbered and there were even a few Imperial and Republic forces, but the commander did not give up. And through difficult times, he finally led us to the Labyrinth Gate and awakened us all. When I saw such a fierce situation, what should I say? Taking revenge on my brothers seemed trivial and a bit ridiculous.”

You’re an adult now.

He gave me a sly smile.

“Thank you.”

“huh?”

“Didn’t you attack the monster and save my life when I was in danger earlier this afternoon?”

“Well, it’s my duty to save you all.”

“Look at that. There’s a commander who trains his subordinates to survive and complete their missions, so if you don’t come to this unit, you’re an idiot.”

“Haha! I see! That’s true.”

Son, you speak so well.

It overlapped with my early behavior and appearance toward my superiors and corps commanders.

And before I knew it, I was a general giving orders.

“How did you do that earlier? You were able to avoid the trees in the forest like a fish.”

“It’s a mana field. It’s a skill that allows you to concentrate your mind and spread mana around you to detect terrain or the movements of monsters.”

“Ah! So that’s why you were able to avoid the trees while flying backwards.”

“yes.”

As expected, it was a guy with incredible mana affinity.

“But how did you awaken the back fly skill?”

I asked the question I was most curious about.

Then Franco snickered.

It was as if he had sensed that I had come to ask this.

Where is there class in learning, where is there high or low status?

If you don’t know, you should ask.

“After returning from the Labyrinth Gate expedition, His Highness the Duke Harry helped me learn the high-speed flight skill. At that time, I thought that if I could ride the flow of mana, I could fly lying down or flying backwards. From then on, whenever I had time, I practiced lying down and letting the flow of mana take over my body. And before I knew it, I had the skill to fly backwards.”

“From now on, if I use a skill, I’ll immediately turn my back and fly?”

“Yes. And since this is a linked skill, if you stand still and use the skill or use the skill in the opposite direction, the speed will decrease significantly. So when I tried it, I found that if I flew to one side at a constant speed and then turned my body and used the back fly skill, I could naturally maintain that speed.”

“Oh! You even gave me a good tip.”

I took his words to heart.

Once you awaken the skill that only moves backwards, it is applied immediately.

The problem is awakening.

“Don’t sleep and stay up all night.”

“Where are you going?”

As I used my skill to rise slightly into the air, Franco asked.

“Even a genius like me needs practice.”

Paaaaang!

Soared into the night sky.

Flying backwards while shooting a rifle is a really attractive skill.

When an aerial magic knight is caught, the only way to shake him off is to either increase his speed or use a flashy evasion technique.

Or you could climb to the limit and have a bet to see who can last longer.

But imagine if you were chasing someone and they suddenly turned around and started shooting you with their rifle!

How embarrassing it would be.

Up until now, the best I could do was fly, aim my rifle backwards, and shoot.

I couldn’t even see the enemy, so I couldn’t get hit properly, and I just lost focus and got hit.

‘Back then, even the named-class aerial magic knights who hunted the S-class scorpion monsters didn’t have the skill to fly backwards!’

If I learn the back fly skill, it will be a very good weapon.

WHEEK! WHEEK!

is not it?

The problem is that if you turn around while flying well, it stops right there.

Slow flight is literally flying slowly. It is a concept of moving only forward.

In fact, it couldn’t even stop completely in midair.

It’s just moving forward very slowly.

I practiced it over and over again, dozens, hundreds, thousands of times.

But it keeps failing.

It wasn’t easy, of course, because I was learning the skill, but I was starting to get tired.

I guess I’ll just go to sleep and try again tomorrow.

***

The sun has set in the jungle.

“Everyone worked hard today.”

“Thank you for your hard work, Captain Jeon.”

I came into the rock cave that I had seen during the day with my teammates.

Today we caught an A-class monster and everyone leveled up.

I’ve hunted four Class A monsters with my crew over the past week.

Everyone’s High-Speed ​​Flight (lv. 3) skill level has been raised to the max, so they are already at the level of ace, and their mana amount has also increased tremendously.

In addition, since the level of my newly awakened firepower skill had also increased, I was planning on hunting S-rank monsters starting tomorrow.

And my skill level also went up.

While the agents were hunting, they constantly used the body vision skill to check for any possible dangers in the surrounding area, and it went up to level 2.

Now I could detect even the most subtle movements.

I spoke to Lieutenant Colonel Audrey by radio yesterday.

Fortunately, the front lines are still quiet.

A dozen Atlan bombers had secretly entered Rowald Island, but they were not yet large enough to bomb the industrial complex, naval base, or royal palace in the capital city of Waples.

So there was still time for me to become a named-class aerial magic knight.

After eating canned food for dinner, I soared into the air again today.

And then I practiced to learn the skill.

Paaaaang!

Ensign Franco came flying in at high speed.

“What’s going on?”

“No. My night shift is over, and I was wondering if I could help you out a little.”

“······?”

“I will tell you where the flow of mana is strong.”

“ah!”

Why didn’t I think of that?

Franco can see the flow of mana.

But I worked hard during the day to catch monsters and train, so I feel bad about asking for help.

still.

“Then, let me help you just a little.”

I didn’t refuse help.

Chi-chik!

– There it is! Mana flows north from there.

Surrender yourself to the flow of mana.

I’ve been advised that it’s more important to feel like you’re going with the flow of mana than to feel like you’re flying.

But it kept failing.

Of course I didn’t give up.

Lie down again and lie down again.

How many hours have passed?

We were both getting a little tired.

What happens if you don’t use any flying techniques at all?

One time I even stopped my low-speed flight skills in the air.

Of course, it just fell down.

‘I wish I could feel the flow of mana······.’

Franco was giving instructions through the walkie-talkie from the side, but the flow of mana was irregular and sometimes changed as the mana merged with each other in the air.

And it wasn’t easy for me to ride the flow of mana because it split and scattered in real time when affected by strong winds.

‘Wait a minute! Can’t I see the flow of mana directly?’

Mana had the property of clumping together.

That’s why when small mana is combined with large mana, a mana wind is created.

Then, when it encountered a strong wind, it split into pieces and scattered in all directions.

That’s why there was always a tiny amount of mana in the air.

I took out a handful of mana powder from the alchemist’s workshop.

And then it started to fly slowly around.

Chi-chik!

– A mana wind that flows from east to west has occurred just below.

[Uses the skill Dynamic Vision (lv.2).]

I just sprinkled mana powder underneath.

Paa!

A fine but pure mana dust was seen flowing in one direction.

I quickly surrendered myself to the flow of mana and lay back.

But unfortunately, this time my body stopped and I flew forward again due to my low-speed flight skills.

‘No! You can do it!’

Still, there was hope since I was able to see the flow of mana a little bit.

So I tried again.

It was a precious mana powder that could create any number of mana rings with just one sprinkle, but it was used without sparing anything.

This is the alchemist’s flex.

This was repeated about ten times.

“uh?”

I surrendered to the flow of mana, and now I’m flying backwards?

[Awakened the flying technique (A).]

[Back Fly (lv.1) skill has been created.]

[Use the Back Fly (lv.1) skill.]

‘done!’

In that moment, I felt an indescribable joy.

Hard work never betrays genius.

It meant that a genius cannot fail if he puts in effort.

Paaaaang!

As I started to fly backwards, Franco flew right in.

“Wow! You’ve mastered the back fly skill.”

“Thank you. You were a great help.”

“Actually, it took me three months to learn this skill. But Commander, you did it in a week. That’s amazing. No, I really respect you.”

It was a combination of Franco’s help, the Alchemist’s Flex, and my own efforts.

Now I had a good weapon to deal with the named level enemies.

“Let’s go down and rest. Starting tomorrow, we have to catch some really tough guys.”

“yes!”

***

The next day, I caught an S-class dimensional monster!

To be honest, it was a hassle.

Because S-class monsters have such good health and defense, it took too long to catch one.

However, once they succeeded, the agents gained new skills and increased their firepower, so by the time they had caught six of them, they were killing the monsters in just one hour.

The good news is that Major Phelps, Lieutenant John Carter, and Ensign Franco have become Class A Magic Knights.

The three of them have now entered the elite ranks of magic knights.

And I’m only two levels away from becoming an S-rank Magic Knight.

“From now on, we will cross the desert.”

“Are you talking about the desert we passed through?”

“Yes. Everyone, you better prepare well. That’s the territory of an S-class dimensional dragon.”

“Dimensional Dragon?”

The expressions on the agents’ faces hardened.

Up until now, we’ve only dealt with monsters on the ground, so we were able to catch S-class dimensional monsters.

But the dimensional dragon flies in the sky.

And it spews out a terrifying breath from its mouth.

I heard that even Enhart, the Empire’s best named aerial magic knight, ran away after seeing that guy.

It’s a 150 meter long S-rank dimensional dragon, much larger than the 100 meter long dimensional dragon I caught.

To get to the real named level, I had to catch that guy.

Paaaaang!

Cross the desert at top speed.

The giant jungle has arrived again.

This is the area where Enhart, who awakened the nine spells, fell.

As this was the area where the strongest human among the magic knights who had entered the S-class labyrinth gate had lived, it was the most dangerous place, so they could not let their guard down.

I led the men down to the ground.

If we meet that guy in the sky without any preparation, we’re dead.

You die if you get touched by its breath, or if you get touched by its teeth, claws, or tail.

So I had to search its territory and find out everything I could about its habits and little customs.

It was really dangerous, but my heart was pounding like crazy.

It’s not fear, it’s excitement when you meet your most powerful prey.

I felt like a hunter again.

I took out my dimension detector.

And we searched the jungle with a range of up to 3km.

This detector can also detect approaching dimensional dragons.

and······.

‘found!’

There was another rule at the Labyrinth Gate.

In each area where the Magic Knights had fallen, there was a secret laboratory. And the more dangerous the area, the stronger and better the elven heritage was hidden.

While the Orbital Gigant found a Bishop-class Gigant in the secret desert base, the one found in the less dangerous area was a Knight-class Gigant.

And now my dimension detector is flashing red.

After we searched the area thoroughly for two days, we discovered a secret passage in the flowing river.

End