At Zeke's words, Jaken's eyes became sharper.
"Are you insulting me now?"
Zeke nodded at his words.
"Oh, right. It's insulting."
Jaken clenched his fists and trembled.
Zeke said.
"What are you going to do? If you want to do it, do it. If not, I'm leaving."
Jaken tried to suppress his anger and looked at his instructor, Pan.
"Is everything alright, Instructor?"
Pan nodded after thinking about it for a while.
"It doesn't matter if Zeke himself is okay."
As soon as permission was granted, Jaken and Liam came up to the training ground together.
Zeke stood opposite Jaken and Liam with a relaxed expression.
He looked at Liam standing next to Jaken.
'It's a new feeling to see that guy here again.'
Liam Stone.
In the future, he was one of the famous people of the Central Continent.
'Liam, the Mercenary King.'
Unlike Konrad and Waldeck, who were members of the Draker bloodline, Liam was a very distant relative even among the Draker collateral branches.
However, the reason he is in the cradle is because he was chosen to be Jacken Waldeck's attendant.
The Liam Zeke remembers receives Auror's blessing here and enters the Academy, but is unable to enter Valhalla, a higher educational institution.
He was abandoned in the middle because his family background was not good to begin with.
Liam, who had been wandering around as a freelance knight, was able to join the knighthood of Baranaon, a small country in the western region.
He could have ended his life peacefully as an ordinary member of the Knights Templar, but when Baranaon was destroyed by the Empire, the Knights Templar that Liam was a part of disappeared.
With nowhere to go, he becomes a mercenary and wanders the continent, where he gains enlightenment by chance and becomes a Red Knight.
People gather around the strong.
Moreover, because it was such a chaotic time, mercenaries were plentiful.
In this way, the Stone Mercenary Group, a large mercenary group, was formed with Liam, the Red Knight, at the center, and a few years later, he united the three major mercenary groups on the continent and earned the title of Mercenary King in the Central Continent.
It felt strange to Zeke that the taciturn boy standing next to Jaken was the future mercenary king.
'We were enemies in our past lives, but this life might be different.'
Then the board blew its horn.
"Game start!"
Jacken approached Zeke, taking a stance.
But Liam behind him didn't move and just stayed still.
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Zeke spoke to Jaken with a frown.
"I'm sure he told them to both attack together."
Then Jaken snorted.
"I was just playing along with your childish games earlier."
Jacken quickly advanced and delivered a powerful upper kick towards Zigg.
puck!
It was a powerful kick that was hard to believe was coming from a twelve-year-old.
Everyone thought that one kick from Jaken would knock Zeke down.
"Ugh… … ."
But contrary to expectations, the attacking Jaken groaned and retreated.
Jaken's ankle, where he had kicked, was swollen.
"Zeke said, lowering his left elbow.
"Why are you coming and hitting my elbow?"
Jaken tried to keep his balance, but his ankle was completely broken and he had difficulty standing.
'Damn, if this is the case, I'll have to drag it to the mounting... ... .'
Just as Jaken was about to rush in, Zigg stepped forward first.
Whoosh!
Ziggy kicked Jaken's injured leg.
Wood crack!
"Huh!"
Jacken's face twisted in pain as he was hit on the injured leg, and his balance was disrupted.
That was when.
Whoosh!
Zeke turned sideways, rotating his entire body, and then stabbed Jaken in the side with his fist.
bang!
[Skill One-Hit Kill has been activated.]
A powerful, one-hit strike shattered all of Jaken's ribs.
"Ugh… … ."
Jaken fell to his knees, gasping for breath.
Zeke gasped and shouted to Liam behind him.
"Are you just going to keep standing there?"
Liam glanced at Jaken, who was gasping for breath.
Jacken shouted, his face turning pale.
"Keuk… … Liam! Kill that bastard!"
Liam stepped forward as Jaken shouted.
As Liam stepped forward, Zeke took up his guard properly for the first time.
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'But... ...Is that guy really twelve years old?'
He looked five years older than his peers, with significantly longer limbs and a reserved appearance.
Zeke was bothered by Liam's long arms.
'Even when we fought in my previous life, I was troubled by the reach of those long arms.'
If Liam had stolen the player, the flow could have just flowed over.
Shhh!
Ziggy quickly lunged forward and threw a jab.
Bam!
He circled around Liam's body and hit his guard with jabs.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
A sharp jab like an awl dug into Liam's guard.
Zik's quick steps and back and forth jabs were not typical of the pankration technique.
"What is that?"
The other trainees were in an uproar at the technology they were seeing for the first time.
Instructor Pan was also surprised to see Zig's skills.
'Isn't that a boxing technique that the Northern Rangers practice?'
In the Central Continent, where swordsmanship was the main focus, it was rare to see fighting techniques from the Northern Continent.
Thud! Thud! Thud! Thud!
Even as the onlookers murmured, Liam crouched down and silently blocked Zeke's jabs.
At that moment, Zeke's steps were slightly off and the jab missed.
Liam's eyes sparkled.
Whirlyrick!
In an instant, Liam stretched out his long arm and snatched Zeke's jab.
"Come on!"
In an instant, Liam had his arms wrapped around Zeke and was about to lift him up into a throwing stance.
This was possible because of the large weight difference between Zeke and Liam.
Zeke, who was in danger of falling backwards as he was wrapped around Liam's arm, quickly twisted his body in the air.
Then, using his small body, he wrapped his legs around Liam's arms and broke his joints.
Kkwaduk!
Before Liam could do anything, his shoulder gave out and his elbow turned.
"Kwaaah!"
Liam, his joints broken, fell to the floor of the training ground.
Zeke didn't stop at breaking Liam's arm.
She released her legs that had been wrapping her arms around Liam's neck and strangled him.
"Ugh!"
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Zeke's leg clamped down on Liam's carotid artery.
Liam didn't tap out until the end.
Because in the Draker family, tapping out was a dishonor worse than death or injury.
Eventually, Liam just passed out.
"Phew… … ."
Zeke released the unconscious Liam's neck and stood up.
All eyes were on Zeke, who was playing with Jacken and Liam as if he was knocking them down.
And under that gaze, Zeke pointed to one of the more than a hundred trainees.
"Owen Siemens."
A brown-haired, mature-looking boy looked at Zeke with calm eyes.
Zeke turned his gaze and pointed in the other direction.
"Raina Tourn."
A girl with sharp eyes and a shaved head was glaring at Zeke.
Zeke turned his gaze and pointed at the fallen Jaken.
"Jaken Waldeck, Leon Conrad… … are not there, so let's skip that."
Zig said to the trainees.
"Tell your family well. They say that Zeke Draker has changed from his former self."
After saying those words, Zeke came down from the training ground.
Owen and Rayna watched Zeke walk out in silence, and Zeke clicked his tongue at them.
'Are those the eyes of a twelve-year-old?'
Zig, who came down from the training ground, leisurely left while receiving all the attention of the other trainees.
Pan, who had been blankly staring at Zeke's back, finally came to his senses and made a decision.
"Zeke! Victory!"
The collapsed Jaken and Liam were taken to the recovery room, and the year-end evaluation continued.
* * *
"Whew… … ."
Returning to his room, Zeke took off his clothes and fell down on the bed.
I moved my body too much and my whole body ached.
"Kids. You're going to have a headache from thinking too much."
In his life before returning, he was unable to awaken his Aura, so he was treated as an outcast in the cradle and academy, and was abandoned by his family.
Zeke, who clearly remembers the misery of that time, clenched his molars.
'By now, my cousins will be busy reporting.'
There are four cousins who came in with Zeke as classmates.
Among them, there were those who directly pressured Zeke like Leon, but most of them just watched him from afar.
But it would have been difficult for the cousins who had been watching Zig's changed appearance today to sit still.
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Because it was obvious that the order would come from the family they belonged to.
'You can't just sit still and let it happen. You have to strike first and steal their attention.'
Moderately dirty water is easier to hide than water that is too clean.
That was the reason why I showed my strength in today's year-end evaluation.
There was no problem revealing this much since martial arts were only a small part of his abilities.
Zeke sat up in bed and sat up.
"While those guys are distracted, we can slowly build up our strength."
I had no intention of just quietly taking it like I did in my last life.
In this life, on the contrary, he planned to chew up the Drake family bone by bone.
Zeke opened his mouth quietly.
"Open status window."
[Subordinate Manager Status Window]
Name: Zeek Draker
Class: Healer (Rare Grade)
Title: Blessed by the Dragon
Skills held: Healing / Calm Mind / Stamina Recovery / Sense Focus
Active Skills: Stab the Vital Point [E-rank (Beginner)] / Slash [E-rank (Expert)] / One-hit Kill [D-rank (Beginner)]
Dragon Skill: (Unavailable - 10 Karma points required to unlock)
Karma Points Held: 0
'Your chopping skills have changed from beginner to expert.'
I don't know the exact principle, but it seemed like the skill's level changed the more I used it.
Zig, who was looking at the status window, tilted his head at Karma.
'Hmm... ... What on earth are karma points?'
In order to unlock the inaccessible dragon skills, I needed karma points. But karma was a word I had never heard of before.
Zeke pressed the karma point just in case.
―Karma Points―
You can earn karma points by killing monsters with magical powers.
"You have to kill monsters to get points?"
The first thing Zeke did when he was kicked out of his family was work as a porter in a dungeon.
I used to follow lower-level adventurers and go through dungeons filled with dangerous monsters.
Zeke read the explanation again.
'A monster with magical powers.'
The monsters inside the dungeon live in groups, so to hunt them alone, you had to be at least a purple knight who could control the aura.
Zig closed the status window and fell into thought.
'You need to have at least Purple Knight level skill to get karma points.'
Currently, Zig's status is such that he can be classified as a Yellow Inspector, which is above the White Inspector, because the Interruption is open.
When you awaken your aura and open your lower abdomen to the point where you can breathe aura into your sword, you can be promoted to a purple knight.
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From this stage onwards, you will be referred to as a knight rather than an inspector.
When you train in Aura and create an Aura Blade from your sword, you will be promoted to Blue and recognized as a true knight, and you will be given a title.
Among these blue knights, the ones who broke through the wall and advanced to the next stage are the red knights.
In the case of large kingdoms or empires, the knightly orders are led by a red knight of the rank of grand master.
This is why the fighting power between nations is sometimes measured by the number of red and blue knights.
But there is someone who breaks this common sense.
A superhuman being who transcends the human realm and is one of the few on the continent.
These are the black knights, called the One-Man Army.
The number of black knights throughout the entire continent was so small that they could be counted one by one.
Surprisingly, the Draker family has five such black knights.
With five black knights, each of whom could wipe out a small kingdom, no one could stand against the Draker family.
Even the emperor of the empire.
'There's a reason they say it's the 3rd generation transcendent family.'
The Drakers, a family of dragon slayers.
Ishtar, a family of mystics.
Nirvana, a family of magicians.
They do not belong to any nation, their family's independence is recognized, and no law can bind them.
However, in the future that Zeke saw, a major change occurred in this three-power structure.
'It was probably about 10 years from now.'
We had to build up our strength and prepare before the time of change.
'I don't know why I went back to the past, or what this system is, but... ... .'
Zeke's eyes sparkled.
'I'll use anything to become stronger.'
That was when.
dripping.
Zeke shouted at the door.
"Come in."
The door opened and Decker, a servant who looked more like a knight than a knight, came in.