Before I finished my word, the image of Kael slipped out of my sight.
I instinctively lifted my sword since I felt something strange and took a defensive posture.
“Ahhhh”
A powerful shock from the sword soon followed!
The impact was so powerful that it was hard to believe that the opponent’s weapon was a wooden stick.
Unlike me, who blocked the blow by groaning, Kael had a relaxed expression.
“Ho ho? It’s not as bad as I thought it would be. I don’t think my grandson taught you in vain.”
“Ugh…”
“I think we can push it a little harder.”
At the end of those words, a series of really hellish attacks poured on me.
At first, I managed to stop the attack with all my might, but as time passed the number of attacks that could be stopped started decreasing, and the wooden stick began to land all over my body.
While training with Alfred, he often attacked me unilaterally like this, however, Kael’s attack and Alfred’s attack felt different in nature.
No matter how fierce Alfred’s attack was, I could read the flow little by little but that doesn’t seem to be possible with Kael’s.
If you naturally adjust to the opponent’s unique breathing and movement, you can expect the opponent’s attack to some extent according to the flow.
But Kael’s attack isn’t like that at all.
One attack is completely different from the other.
I couldn’t read the flow at all.
It was as if a ghost suddenly came out of nowhere and started attacking.
Is this what he meant when he said avoiding death?
It was completely different from sword training, which fostered skill and experience.
Every time the wooden stick hit my body, I felt a great pain rising throughout my body.
Naturally, the senses and nerves became as sharp as possible to avoid the attack somehow.
The attack, which felt like a ghost’s prank, slowly became visible little by little.
Kael, who soon noticed my change, said with a smile.
“Good. But that’s not enough… ”
The wooden stick became blurry for a moment and then thrust deep into my side the next moment.
There was no gap for me to stop the attack since I noticed it late.
“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!”
I felt like my ribs broke.
At the same time, the pain that was being suppressed all over my body came rushing.
I fell down on the floor.
Looking at me groaning and breathing heavily, Kael relaxedly talked to me.
“You held out better than I thought. But you can never win a duel if you don’t quickly bring out the sharp sense you just felt.”
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, okay.”
“Okay, just focus on getting that sensation out, for now, so you can move on to the next level.”
Kael, who was looking down at me for a moment, tapped his leg with the wooden stick.
“How long are you going to lie down and make an old man wait? UP.”
“What? I just started to rest…”
“I don’t know how things work in your world, but death doesn’t wait in the Demon World.”
Again, the stick became blurry.
I twisted my body for a moment and rolled in the opposite direction.
“Ahhhhhhhhh”
The wooden stick stopped in front of me while piercing the air with a gruesome sound.
If it hadn’t been stopped, I would have really experienced death.
I quickly got up and grabbed my sword.
In front of me, Kael posed with a wooden stick.
“Well… you’ve got the hang of it. I should raise the intensity a little more. Try to stop it with all your might.”
“…gulp.”
I swallowed my saliva and looked at the blurring image of Kael again.
He no longer looked like a child.
He was like a little reaper from hell who came for my life.
It has been three days since I started learning how to avoid death from Kael.
Still, training with him was painfully difficult.
The only thing that has changed is that his movement, which felt blurred, began to feel clearer little by little.
Of course, just looking at it clearly doesn’t mean I could stop the attacks.
This time the attack landed on my thigh.
The tremendous pain felt on the side of the leg shook my whole body, but I couldn’t relax.
This was one of the things I learned in the past three days. If I ease my senses even for a second because of the pain, then soon a greater pain will follow.
‘Ugh… why isn’t that stick broken?!’
It must be an ordinary wooden stick, but every time he swung it, it smashed the surrounding area with a tremendous sound – like a thunderbolt.
Also, it hurts so much every time I get hit by that wooden stick.
It was clear that in the Verdi family, the secret of beating an opponent painfully was handed down from one generation to another.
At first, I could only defend myself because of the hectic attack and terrible pain.
However, maybe because I got used to this dying pain, I gradually developed a sense of reluctance.
It would be strange if I hadn’t, from getting beaten by the wooden stick for the whole three days.
I looked at Kael’s movements with a keen eye while sharpening my senses.
It was still impossible to grasp the flow of his movement, but I tried to anticipate his movement in a very short span.
A series of ghostly attacks followed.
The pain was killing me.
But, my eyes never missed the movement of Kael.
‘ ….now!’
After only defending for three days, I tried to attack in line with Kael’s movements for the first time.
A half-hearted attack with a feeling of uncertainty followed Kael’s movements.
The moment I was excited that I had got him,
Kael’s figure got slightly distorted like a blurring image and completely avoided my attack.
There was a whisper from Kael in my ear.
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