"Hello, Mr. Zeol."
"Here you are, Hua Wuming. Oh, isn't that a red-billed duck? Did you kill it?"
"I'm always grateful for you, so this is a gift."
"I see, it just so happens. I made noodles this morning. After training, let's make soup with this guy."
"sounds good"
Mr Zeol's training continued after the New Year.
It’s been a month since I started taking the first step, and I still haven’t paid attention once, and haven’t even taken a single step forward.
"Hua Wuming, it's difficult to walk in the snow, so I want to lift the ban on magic for making scaffolding."
"Thank you. But I don't know if I'll regret it."
"Haha, it's quite interesting. Let's have some fun."
When meeting Mr. Zeol, the use of attribute magic and physical enhancement magic is prohibited.
This is purely to improve his stick skills and physical strength, but he also uses natural magic when he swings it.
This is training to increase magic power, and it is also assumed to be an actual battle.
During last year's riot, I discovered that even I could defeat a kobold in a one-on-one situation if I was caught off guard.
I want to eat the hearts of monsters that are said to enhance magic power, so I want to conquer goblins or kobolds one day.
Of course, defeating them won't be easy, and even if you do, you'll have to finish dismantling them before your comrades arrive.
Therefore, he trained himself to be able to make the most of the means available to him.
Today, I was allowed to use only these steps, so I wanted to give Mr. Zeol a little surprise.
"go"
As always, use the springs in your knees to step forward and hit the ball.
Mr. Zeol also raised my cane casually as usual.
What's different here from usual is that I use the momentum of being bounced to jump high and swing the stick.
"What are you doing, you idiot!"
Aiming at my stomach in mid-air, Mr. Zeol's expression turned surprised the next moment, and he stabbed me unceremoniously.
He took advantage of this move, jumped to his right, avoided the thrust, and swung the stick at Mr. Zeol's shoulder.
With a dry sound, my typing was rejected, but Mr. Zeol pulled his left leg and turned to face me.
"This guy didn't expect it to be so troublesome."
"Finally, I can finally take a half-step."
"Interesting, interesting Hua Wuming!"
Mr. Zeol smiled, showing his fangs, and raised his cane for the first time.
To put it bluntly, it is a feeling of fighting spirit gushing out of the body. If it were me a year ago, I would have been incontinent long ago.
"Come on! Hua Wuming!"
"woo woo woo woo!"
I originally planned to fully display the three-dimensional moves I had been training, but when Zeol-san started using footwork, it didn't work at all.
You can create scaffolding freely in the air, but if the legs of the scaffold you create are chopped down, you have no choice but to fly up or fall back.
If I fly backwards, my Reebok will crush the distance, and if I fly upwards, my attacks won't reach due to the difference in distance.
Finally, he was knocked down, pushed away, rolled around, and covered in mud.
“Okay, that’s all for today.
"Thanks"
I expected to be covered in mud, so I wore just shorts while we worked.
When your body is rinsed, take a shower to wash off the dirt and rinse your shorts.
After draining myself and squeezing my tail, I entered the private room and a large towel flew towards me.
"Wipe your body clean and don't catch a cold."
"I got it"
After wiping off the water with a towel, wring it out and wipe it to make the coat smooth.
While I was bathing, Mr. Zeol started preparing the soup and cleaning the duck.
I put the slaughtered red-headed duck neck and bones in a large pot and put it on the fire.
This time of year, red-tailed turtles store nutrients in their subcutaneous fat, making them very tasty, but they are very wary and difficult to catch unless you are a skilled archer.
“The soup takes a while to come out.
"Thank you. Ah, it tastes good."
"correct"
When Zeol first made me tea, I thought it tasted like medicine, but was bitter in my mouth.
“Is there ginger in it too?”
"Hou, you also noticed that, yes, it warms your body up."
The amount of ginger isn't enough to ruin the flavor of the tea either, and the aroma comes right through your nose when you put it in your mouth.
"Even so, I didn't expect you to have such a high degree of mastery of natural magic."
"But it just surprised me at first, and then I was helpless."
"Hahahaha, of course. Even though I'm gentle, I'm the one ready to swing the stick."
"Well, even if Mr. Zeol just takes a stand, today is a step forward."
"Originally, you can only use stick magic to improve your skills, but for Hua Wuming, I will also allow you to use scaffolding magic in the future.
For Mr. Zeol, teaching me fighting was a way to relieve the boredom of rural life, but I have no complaints since I was taught by a skilled ex-adventurer.
"It seems you've gotten used to one eye."
"Well?"
"What, didn't you notice? During the meeting, you reacted normally to the attack on your left side, right?"
"ah"
"I didn't notice it at all."
Speaking of which, Mr. Zeol has been expanding his attack range little by little since he stood up.
"I'm still far from a master, but my face tilts slightly to the left, which naturally covers my blind spots."
“I was always so focused on myself that I didn’t realize it.”
"If you keep training like you are now, you should be fine in most one-on-one fights.
"Yes, the shield I showed you earlier has increased in strength, so I'm considering using my shield to cover my blind spots."
"I get it, even if you have two eyes, you can't completely eliminate your blind spots. I'm confused."
"Indeed, even if you had eyes, you wouldn't be able to see the back of your head."
With normal magic attributes, it is difficult to use magic to cover blind spots.
Thinking about it, being able to use the sky attribute seems to have a great advantage over adventurers with ordinary attributes.
"Well, the soup should be ready soon, let's cook the noodles?"
Mr. Zeol makes noodles similar to Chinese noodles.
Pour the cooked soup into a pot separately, add potatoes, carrots, green onions and other vegetables, as well as sliced red otter meat, and finally throw in the uncooked noodles.
The flour used to make the noodles thickens the soup.
The seasoning is very simple, just salt and ginger.
"Okay, okay, let's eat it before it gets cold."
This is a style where you put the big pot on the table and eat whatever you want.
“It’s very hot, very hot, but it’s delicious.”
"Yes, yes, it's so hot!"
Although it is freshly made, I have cat tongues for Zeor the Khajiit and Catman, so I can’t eat them without fu-fu.
The taste was perfect but it took me a long time to finish it.
