Volume 3 Chapter 6 (2/2)

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Life had been so difficult ever since he started this gaotten a class that he hadn’t wanted; he had also gotten into all sorts of trouble like the present cold

Weed took coh

‘Alveron’s probably is the sa over in the cave dressed in his white robe

colder than I a his robe’</e better off than soood mood

However, he didn’t know that Alveron’s robe had a special option, preventing the cold to penetrate

Lee Hyun exited his capsule so he could start cleaning the house

He swept the corners, wiped the , scrubbed the bathroohts

Today was cleanup day

“Make sure that grandma’s house isn’t too messy”

Lee Hyun randmother told him while she was still in the hospital It looked like she had a disease

Degenerative arthritis

Working toocould put a lot of strain on the joints

The hospital’s doctors told her not to worry

<ul><li>Modern e without any trouble Don’t worry about it</li></ul>

Lee Hyun illing to pay for the eneration

Grandnosed Because she had not received regular health checkups, the disease in her body had grown significantly The test result stated that cancer cells had spread throughout her body

Infroery and several months of hospitalization

’</eh school festival, Royal Road brought in a considerable amount of inally planned

Thanks to hunting in Lavias and the Royal Road ite the house, his sister came home from school

“The house is so clean today Were you cleaning?”

“Co for us to visit”

Lee Hyun took his sister to the hospital to see their grandmother

“hello”

“Grandma, were you lonely?”

Hyun spent ame capsule and his sister was at school It was difficult to hire a caretaker for his grandmother since he didn’t have that kind of money

Lee Hyun cleaned up the room and threay the trash After he finished, he sat next to the hospital bed and took his grandmother’s hand

“I’ to see me”

“…”

“I hope it’s not too o ahead and ask anything”

“They say it’s never too late to learn I would have loved it if you had been able to finish high school noret your GED?”

He could understand what she h school, his sister had cried When he had insisted that he should drop out of school she hadn’t said anything else

Being harassed and humiliated by loan sharks at school, such an education was far from noret his education

Lee Hyun replied

“I will get my GED”

Lee Hyun headed home alone while his sister stayed behind at the hospital The next day was a holiday so she could stay longer

Lee Hyun would have preferred to stay and enjoy the moment But he had work to do

one to school, his grades had not been that bad

‘Reference books and textbooks from the bookstore…no, it’s better to buy them used from the bookstore’

He went to the used bookstore that he reht next to the swordsmanshi+p dojo he had attended in the past

The swordsmanshi+p dojo was still there

“Yiyahap!”

“Tahat!”

Excited shouts

Lee Hyun was intrigued and headed to the dojo

“There doesn’t seem to be that much talent”

Ahn Hyundo complained about the performance of his students

“Even since I put down …”

Ahn Hyundo had locked his heart in depression No matter what he did, they did not understand the way of the sword

‘The sword… will soon disappear and there will be no one for me to talk swords with’

Ahn Hyundo’s heart ached as he looked over to the swords on the wall, when he had opened the dojo with a passion It had been 10 years since he started the dojo where he taught adults instead of children

“Master!”

“What is it? What’s so i so much noise about?”

“He’s here!”

“Is it those guys…?”

Because everyone was talking at once, he was unable to understand anything since it was incoht about a faoing to make my successor!’

Lee Hyun

Lee Hyun would have been chosen

He had never disappointed him since the moment he showed up at the dojo

Ahn Hyundo stood by as he listened to as happening

“So he’s here at the dojo?”

“Yes, that’s right”

“Coo”

Ahn Hyundo had wanted to see hiain He wanted to see what the person he chose as his successor was capable of!

“But, there is a proble to spar with people”

“So what’s the problem if he wants to spar? I don’t knohat could be the probleed it the sa Sun spar with him but it was a one sided victory by Lee Hyun”

“Ah ha!”

Endless training

The practitioners at the dojo all have been co for more than three years Even in such a lirade of proficiency

So the students were tough opponents

In sparring, beginners tried to avoid ht

“I cannot believe that Dog Sun was defeated…”

“Yes, it took less than 2as little as this, what does itIl Hoon about rong

“Well after Dog Sun was defeated, Lee Hyun asked the others to spar as well”

“Those guys have been learning the sword ht with next…?”

“Chang Guk”

“He’s been learning the sword for over six years now He was careless to fight after he was tired froet him to reconsider but…”

“So he’s badly hurt?”

“No This time too he won”

“Oh!”

Ahn Hyundo had not been wrong when he had seen hi spirit His will to becoth!’</e Guk

“But the real proble Guk was just one of those that he sparred with”

“Who else?”

“Yes, well, six practitioners”

“You ht sixto hio take a look”

The dojo instructors and practitioners gathered to watch the sparring

“Such incredible stamina…!”

“That’s the ninth one that has lost!”

“He’s using the right amount of force…no ht nine people consecutively”

“Never ainst another practitioner is difficult enough”

“But how can he win like that?”

“Strength and technique, it seems that he found a compromise in the middle of the two of them He reduces the amount of unnecessary movements of his lower body Even so, he would have to train his lower body for a long time to achieve such skill”

“But how he is able to fight like that?”

The practitioners had overseen Lee Hyun’s training when he attended the dojo as Chung Il Hoon and Ahn Hyundo had Ahn Hyundo took a look and nodded

“I knohy he see”

“Why is that Master?”

“When you are bored, you want to fight whoever you can”

The practitioners looked over at Ahn Hyundo

“Then it’s just to relieve stress, Master?”

“When you’re up against opponents, it feels good to hold and swing the sword, doesn’t it?”

“Well, I guess…”

“Soht without reason But we do not want to know these strong pri on walls and because of that the view about yourself changes inevitably No have the instincts of a hunter, the fighting spirit of a wild beast”

Kwajik!

Another practitioner was forced to kneel down in front of Lee Hyun Lee Hyun walked towards him with his wooden sword

“Stop, stop! I lose”

Lee Hyun stopped the sword in front of the trainee’s forehead

“Who’s next?”

Lee Hyun’s potential was astounding His unifor off his powerful chest

A drop of sweat flowed down the wooden sword and fell onto the floor

But he did not see

Those were eyes intent on the hunt!

Just a lone wolf’s silent roar threatened the position of the others

More than 100 of the practitioners in the dojo were feeling the intimidation

“Let me move away”

“Call out the masters!”

The trainees could not take the heated challenge and Chung Il Hoon just shook his head

“Seriously you guys…”

“Masters!”

“If the rumor spreads that 10 people lost, then the dojo’s honor will decrease I will fight hiht directly He won silverTournament twice, he was an expert

Practitioners had never seen hiht

ht’</eht?’

The practitioners looked at Lee Hyun anxiously He should give up because there was no guessing ould happen to hiht

They were speechless

Lee Hyun held the end of his sword towards Chung Il Hoon Chung Il Hoon was also ready to fight

After the two of them picked up their swords, Ahn Hyundo yelled

“Stop!”

“But uy leaves, then the pride of the dojo will…”

“I know that he beat 9 or e the pride of our swordsmanshi+p”

“I suppose…”

“If fact, to fight a weary opponent would be a disgrace to us instead”

Ahn Hyundo tried to preserve the peace in the dojo Fighting a student and fighting an instructor were two entirely different things Chung Il Hoon decided to stand back and talk But Ahn Hyundo smiled as he said

“Don’t you think that it would be fairer if an old ht a tired opponent?”

“Master!”

“Master you…!”

The entire dojo was brih Ahn Hyundo was old, no one thought he eak

Ahn Hyundo was the World Swords Fighting Champion for four consecutive years

He was not someone anyone in the country could beat even if he only had a stick

The entire dojo was quiet as Ahn Hyundo walked to the center of the dojo

“We’re going to see the Master’s swordsmanshi+p…”

‘Such a small opportunity comes around once in a lifetime?’

The practitioners in the dojo held their breaths for the confrontation between the two fighters If Ahn Hyundo’s swordslorious manner However, each of the instructors was perplexed by his actions

‘Even if Master was interested in the kid, to think that he would personally take a look at the matter himself?’

e him…’

The Master was the pride of the Republic of Korea when it came to swordsmanshi+p but he did not speak his mind h they were practitioners There had been a big gap between the practitioners and the challenger But the difference was huge between the practitioners and the disciples directly taught by Ahn Hyundo

No matter how many practitioners Lee Hyun defeated, the instructors were not agitated in the least They adhting spirit

But there was another probleht

Ahn Hyundo was fighting

This was unusual

Il Hoon shook his head back and forth Ahn Hyundo came by at least once a week to compete with him in the way of the sword

Endlessness

Despair

And awe

Ahn Hyundo had reached the pinnacle Only those below hi Il Hoon could not even drea the level where he could touch his collar There was no way Ahn Hyundo could lose

ht his favorite discipleIl Hoon’s eyes were cold as ice as he exhaled

Hyun’s Lee’s stamina had already reached its li, but soon it would be shattered

Chung Il Hoon saw that as the probleone as the practitioners had fought hiht, Lee Hyun’s body had reached an extre Il Hoon thought that his overwhel skills had come to an end

uy that’s already done for’</e Il Hoon was co scene as their eyes met as Ahn Hyundo said to Lee Hyun

“Do you like a wooden sword? I have a wooden sword in ht with real swords?”