Chapter 106: Ah… These former giants (1/2)
Chapter 106: Ah… These former giants
“Swish.” “Swish.” “Swish.” …
Inside the Iron Thorn Forest in Holy Dawn Academy’s secret training field, a human figure moved quick like a ghost, producing shrill sounds as it tore through the air.
Carter and Minlur stood on the edge of these woods, watching with faces filled with emotion.
“Do you still remember, back when you had one open gate like him, how long you trained before you managed to cross these woods in one minute?”
Carter said, “I probably spent around two months.”
“But this guy only used ten days,” Minlur said. “Would you have thought that possible before?”
“I remember the great master Giravel say in his introduction to ‘Matching Arcane Skills’ that the fearsome thing under the starry skies isn’t an opponent with a greater talent than you, but an opponent more talented than you and still more hardworking. Right now, Ayrin is precisely that guy with a greater natural talent than others, and yet still working harder.” Carter glanced at Minlur, adding, “I heard that Stingham was the total opposite. We had to send Rui and Ciaran to make him train?”
“Liszt and the others especially requested Ciaran to come forward.” Minlur’s voice subconsciously became gloomier. “They feel that if they can make her spend more time with these young people, she might feel happier and grieve less.”
“I heard the Evil Dragon follower who killed Ashur hasn’t been caught yet?” Carter sighed softly.
“Last time, that arcane master appeared in the southern territories. Chester was the captain of the arcane team clan Tyrell dispatched to catch him. That guy’s probably even stronger than either of us.”
“Chester, the one who grained the approval from the emissary of the Water God?” Carter nodded. Before he had time to add anything further, a black shadow appeared not far away beside him and Minlur. Rui emerged suddenly, as if he grew out of the shadows.
Carter and Minlur didn’t seem to be surprised in the least, merely asking, “Why did you come as well?”
“Since he already reached such a level, then let me be in charge of his training in the coming days.” Always thrifty with his words, Rui watched Ayrin’s figure inside the woods and said, “It’ll be a good opportunity to have him and Stingham boost each other.”
…
With single-minded devotion, Ayrin shuttled back and forth through the Iron Thorn Forest.
His body was covered in tiny scratches, but he’d already discovered from the very first day of training how much of a stimulating effect this training had on his body.
The instant the extremely sharp wooden thorns pricked his skin, his palpitations would give his body a faster reaction than usual. Especially, as soon as he had a lapse of attention and almost crashed head-on on these thorns, when he saw the sharp thorns coming closer and closer to his eyes, the most vulnerable part of his body, his body’s reactions far surpassed the limits he could reach in ordinary times when dashing.
All these sharp thorns were just like countless teachers correcting his minute movements, giving him a scratch every time they noticed he did something wrong.
His body was covered everywhere in stabs and scratches, and with the ointment he smeared on them, he looked frightening enough that even Moss and Belo couldn’t immediately recognize him. Yet, even he himself could perceive the giant strides forward he made.
He really felt his body getting lighter and lighter, felt as if he could slip through any crack in the exact posture he wanted to take. Every movement of his body became swifter and swifter.
“Swish!”
The instant he went through the forest, the moment all the sharp thorns’ black shadows flashing with eerie cold gloss vanished, he immediate shouted out loud, “Teacher Carter, how much time did I spend this time?”
“About fifty-two seconds.” Carter glanced at the scales on the hourglass chronograph to the side, and said, “Probably six seconds faster than yesterday.”
“Eh, why is teacher Rui also here?” Only now did Ayrin notice there was someone else.
“I’ll be training you for the next ten days,” Rui said very simply.
…
Stingham lay on a hammock inside the forest of giant trees, dispirited. He was even eating from a bag of salty pine nuts he bought from somewhere.
Seeing Rui flash and appear in front of him all of a sudden, he shouted gloomily, “Don’t you try fooling me today, I won’t go chasing after teacher Ciaran no matter what you say. I can’t touch her no matter what I try.”
“I didn’t come here to have you chase after Ciaran today,” Rui said with a shake of the head.
“Then what did you come for?” Stingham watched him, full of suspicion.