"start!"
"Wow!"
At the same time that Mr. Mendez gave the signal, Jasper raised his wooden sword and rushed forward.
I took half a step back with my right leg and stood there holding the stick, but he swung down the wooden sword.
When Jasper was within range, I thrust into his torso while turning my body to the left to avoid the wooden sword.
"One! Until then!"
Jasper stopped moving and turned his back to me.
"I mean, it's too slow, too slow."
Although the physical enhancement was canceled before the game started, my walking speed and sword speed were so slow that I thought I was being laughed at.
Even though I knew it was wrong to compare myself to Mr. Zeol, the excitement I felt before starting disappeared instantly.
"You two, return to the starting line."
Upon hearing Mr. Mendez's signal, Jasper turned around, held his torso with his right hand, and looked at me in disbelief.
"No, I can't believe it. Where did you get your confidence?"
After watching my magic trick, I heard sneers and laughter from the people who followed me to the training ground.
"Anyway, I came out confident, but I wasn't cool."
A girl's voice came from somewhere, and Jasper's face turned red as he returned to the starting line, and his whole body started to tremble.
His physique appears to be more mobile than Miguel's, but he appears to be a "comrade" without much difference, including personality.
"Second round, begin!"
"Ahhh! Uriah! Taaaah!"
I thought the first blow was too late, but the waving wooden sword made my blood rush to the top of my head, but I didn't feel the slightest sharpness.
The wooden sword moved only half a step before it cut through the air and lightly hit Jasper's head, who was off balance.
"One! Until then!"
Jasper stomped on Tartar, knelt down on one knee, gritted his teeth, and glared at me.
"Even if you stare at me like this, your weakness is not my fault."
"You two, return to the starting line."
Jasper guided me with a resentful look, and the moment he passed me to the left, he slammed the wooden sword in the opposite horizontal direction with his right hand.
The cowardly attack that launched a surprise attack without waiting for the first signal was repulsed by the prepared natural magic shield with a thirsty sound.
I allowed Ms. Layla to approach me in the guild's tavern, but in this case, I will not let down my guard.
A cowardly surprise attack is also within the realm of possibility.
"No..."
"Until then! Winner, Hua Wuming. Jasper, you are a complete loser!"
"No, because I only took two, and that was just a simple blow."
"You mean I have pimples under my eyes?"
The tone of Mr. Mendez's words was lower than before, causing not only Jasper but also the students watching to hold their breath and fall into silence.
Professor Mendez stretched out his right hand and took the wooden sword from Jasper's hand, then asked him to put away his armor and return to his room.
"Hua Wuming, our students are so rude."
"No, it's not that serious, so please don't worry."
"I'm sorry if I'm just making you a charm for the students, though. I don't know, why don't you try it with me?"
Professor Mendez spoke with a smile, but he looked at me with the eyes of a wild animal hunting its prey.
The excitement before meeting Jasper came back violently, and I couldn't help but let go of my mouth.
"It's okay to be soft but that's okay. Thank you very much."
Looking at me with a smile on my face, Professor Mendez also smiled like a grinning warrior.
When they separated from the starting line and faced each other, all the sounds on the martial arts field disappeared and everything became silent.
There is no need to signal the start, the game has already begun the moment the eyes are exchanged.
As usual, I stepped back half a step with my right leg to hold the stick, but Mr. Mendez held the wooden sword in his right hand and put it down.
"It looked like he was licking me, but I couldn't feel any slit."
"She is on the same level as Zeor, even stronger, and definitely better than me."
"In that case, there is no need to use clumsy means."
Breathe out quietly and inhale slowly to limit your distractions.
In the moment I held my breath, I imagined myself turning into a spear, rapidly closing the distance between me and Mr. Mendez.
The wooden sword collided with the wooden stick, making a dry sound.
More than half of the reason why I was able to hit the wooden sword that jumped up from the blind spot of my left eye was due to my intuition.
I was eager to distance myself, but Professor Mendez was approaching me so fast that I thought I was teleporting.
Avoiding Ksar's slash, flipping the sweep backward, jumping backward, and finally gained some distance.
To be more precise, Professor Mendez did not follow up, so I was allowed to keep my distance.
"It's nice that at that age, being a cat person, and having that move is more of a thing than I thought it would be."
The more Mendes smiled, the more pressure he felt.
It was so powerful that the hairs on my back stood up and my legs almost trembled, but I gritted my teeth and smiled.
If you're scared, your body will freeze and you won't be able to move, and the situation will get worse.
I learned this from being chased by goblins, attacking kobolds, and participating in conquests of orcs and bronze wolves.
"let's go"
Teacher Mendes held the wooden sword in his right hand as usual and walked over as if nothing had happened.
He forced his body not to succumb to the pressure and was about to rush forward, timing his steps well.
When people of the same build fight with swords and sticks, the distance between the sticks will be longer, but Mr. Mendez and I, although we use sticks, the distance between us is shorter.
"Unless you dodge Professor Mendez's powerful blow and jump into his arms, you have no chance of winning."
As soon as Mr. Mendez intervened, I prepared to "fall behind," but what I unleashed was a jab.
I immediately opened my body to avoid it, but the tip of the wooden sword grazed the armor, and the smell of burning filled the air.
I launched a counter thrust, but was easily repelled by the pulled back wooden sword.
The sweep came faster than I could return the stick, but I fell to the floor to avoid it as it swept past Mr. Mendez's shin.
As soon as I stepped back to dodge, the attacks came one after another, but when I used my stick to deflect Mendes' back stab, I felt a jolt in my stomach.
"Forgia!"
As I rolled on the floor, I saw Professor Mendez thrust out my upside-down wooden sword and approach me from behind.
Seeing the empty back, I thought I had won, but it seemed I had fallen into a trap.
"Sure enough, Mr. Mendez and Mr. Zeol are the same type of person."
Even so, the moment I was hit, I jumped back myself, and thanks to my armor, I didn't take unbearable damage.
"Thank you so much"
"Aren't you going to continue?"
"Yes, I have an appointment with Professor Rembolt today."
"Too bad I'm here most of the time. You can come to me anytime and I'll talk to the receptionist."
"Thanks.
When Mr. Mendez and I shook hands, the students watching burst into applause.
After bowing to the onlookers, Mr. Lembert and I left the martial arts practice ground together.
Olivier and others were about to follow, but Professor Mendes asked them to wait.
He seems to be using this opportunity to instruct the adventurers not to challenge them to a duel.
According to Mr. Rumbold, several students go to the guild training ground to sign up for competitions every year and are beaten and injured.
Even if he is the strongest person in school or in his grade, his level is different from the adventurers at the crusade.
"Well, to be honest, I thought it would be difficult with Hua Wuming's physique, but since I participated in the campaign to defeat the Bronze Wolf, my level is naturally different."
"There was an adventurer in the village who trained me, but since I only met him once, I don't know what his level was."
"I am a martial arts enthusiast, but it can be seen that the competition with Mr. Mendes just now was of a very high level."
"My specialty is magic, but there's nothing to lose by learning martial arts."
"Yes, I need you to explain the magic just now. Now, let's return to the research building quickly."
"Yes, let's do it"
After returning to the research building, he explained the flame gun, including a demonstration of the wind magic weapon.
It seems that the idea of stacking hollow structures stimulated Mr. Lundborg.
We talked until the evening, and that day I learned about temperature control and the lightning magic circle.
