Chapter Chapter 88: 11. Not a myth, but a legend (1) (2/2)

For the sake of providing quality commentary, I, too, had watched his footage over and over, analyzed him, and had a rough estimation of his maximum and average abilities.

But he had changed. Overwhelmingly so.

In the span of just a single year, no less!

[Just what happened at Yugrasia?]

That was what I said after I gathered my thoughts.

Just one year. Each and every one of their individual skills had improved so drastically in just a single year.

Up till now, we’d thought that Lady Aris had just been an overwhelming genius.

Even from a young age, she was known as a female general among the empire’s nobility.

And although I wasn’t really one to talk because I had never even come close to the realm of a swordsmaster even at my peak, because I was a knight, I knew that the beings called swordsmasters had something that surpassed mere talent.

The same went for Yugrasia’s other students.

I had thought that the addition of the ex-military teachers had created enough hardship and critical situations for them to surpass their limits.

Because in reality, the majority of them were of similar levels to the students of the other academies, and that all they did was simply defeat opponents stronger than they were through overwhelming grit and determination.

Things that were only possible because they were still growing students.

But all of us realised through the Yugrasia student council president that that was all a giant misconception.

He had surpassed the limits of individual talent.

By single-handedly defeating, no, overwhelming a hundred enemies by himself, he had proven to everyone watching that Yugrasia itself had changed at a fundamental level!

And an even more shocking truth came from the Yugrasia student council president’s mouth.

[I, really did get strong.]

[Are… are you mocking us!]

[No, I seriously didn’t know. Because even with our entire academy combined, we still couldn’t beat Professor Nicerwin’s single summon, we all thought we were hella weak.]

[What?!]

Nerkia had just annihilated a hundred of Arucia’s students without even allowing them to get close.

And moreover, Yugrasia even had a swordsmaster in Lady Aris.

Those two alone could slaughter an ordinary knight brigade by themselves

Was that all they had? Their vice-presidents, Loki’s contractor, the Trickster Risen, and the woman judged the strongest in aerial dominance in the entire imperial festival, the Empress of the Skies, Karen. Each and every one of their student council were powerhouses in their own rights.

And among the first years, even excluding Lady Aris, there were still a whopping four other god-class summoners.

And even the ordinary students who had undergone tremendous growth, so much so that you couldn’t even call them ordinary anymore!

If it were them, they could probably face off against an entire division of the imperial army.

And in contrast, just what was Professor Nicerwin’s evaluation!

An honorary professor of the Summoner’s Association, and in theory alone, he had no equal.

But due to his overwhelmingly weak constitution from the moment he was born, he was frail enough that rumours had it he lived in the elven forest to recuperate.

And right now, Nerkia, the student council president of Yugrasia, was saying that that person could defeat a contractor of a Spirit King, a swordsmaster and numerous other summoners all by himself.

[Hm? I’m serious, Kiir. Why do you think we got so desperately stronger to survive? Of course, not that I think we could win no matter how much stronger we got.]

[Just… just what the hell is Professor Nicerwin’s summon! Is it a god or archdevil as the rumours say? Or is it a Spirit King?!]

Such rumours did exist.

Due to his overwhelmingly superior knowledge of summons, rumours had it that he was contracted to a god of knowledge, or that he obtained that knowledge by offering his soul to an archdevil.

That or that he’d made a contract with the Akashic Records, an existence that recorded everything in the world. Beginning with rumours such as those, to rumours that he had personally contracted all of the summons he was knowledgeable about previously in the past!

The Summoner’s Association denied all those rumours due to how outlandish they were, but when you heard that not even all of Yugrasia’s student body together could defeat him, not having a secret like that made it all the more suspicious.

[Idiot, think about it. I contracted a Spirit King, Lady Aris is a god-class summoner. Risen’s also a god-class, and we’ve also got four other god-class summoners out of the first years. If it was an ordinary god, archdevil or Spirit King, do you think we couldn’t have beaten it with sheer numbers?]

[Then, just what is Professor Nicerwin’s summon, that you can’t defeat him even with your insane fighting abilities!]

[That’s…]

[That’s?]

Let alone the Arucia student council president, Merrell and I also swallowed reflexively.

That was probably something that everyone watching the broadcast right now would be doing.

The summon that note even a Spirit King, swordsmaster, six god-class summoners and a thousand other students all working together could defeat! There was no one that wouldn’t be curious as to the identity of that summon!

To the question that everyone wanted the answer to, after a brief moment of thought, the Yugrasia student council president, Nerkia, smiled brightly and…

[That’s, a secret.]

Didn’t tell us!

[Are you making fun of me?!]

[No no, we don’t exactly know either. She calls herself a metal elemental, but that’s definitely not the case, she calls herself a goddess, but none of the other gods know a goddess by that name. But we do have a nickname for her.]

[Being?]

[If I say it I think I’ll get hit. I don’t wanna. I’d rather kill myself instead, I don’t wann get hit.]

At those teasing words, the Arucia student council president scowled.

[Are you… are you still mocking us! With just… just that kind of a threat…]

[Just? Threat?]

[Kugh!]

But at the Arucia student council president’s words, the Yugrasia student council president, Nerkia’s face turned stone cold as he pressured his opponent.

[Just, just! Do you know what we experienced ‘just’ because of that?]

[Kuhuuk!]

The Spirit King of Lightning exerted more power as if to match Nerkia’s anger.

[For someone who hasn’t even experienced it himself, you dare call it ‘just that?’ Do you know what resolve we came into this imperial festival to avoid ‘just’ that? ‘Just’ because of that, Lady Aris became a swordsmaster, and I contracted a Spirit King. Because of ‘just’ that, we despaired, and because of ‘just’ that, we became stronger!]

The bright sky began to darken.

Those dark clouds were all thunderclouds.

The shattered earth and heavens sparking lightning gave the impression of the end of the world, and standing in the middle of it, the Yugrasia student council president screamed.

[If you haven’t experienced ‘just’ that, don’t even put those words to your mouth, you little brat!]

With those words, not a single Arucia student was left on the field.