'Shatton Drake?'
It was also shocking that the first person to create the Aura training method was Shatton.
But I never thought for a moment that the noble knight Shatton might be a blood relative of Draker.
'Why was this fact never made known to later generations?'
Until now, the origin of the Aura training method itself has been unclear.
I just thought that it was a method of training that was passed down from each family and developed further.
It was the moment when the secret of the origin of the Aura training method was revealed.
After recovering from the shock, Zeke calmed down the excited and wild Kaiser.
And then, while gently coaxing him, he began to extract information about the Elemental Sword.
* * *
Caesar was a rough-mouthed man, but he tried to share as much as he could about what he knew.
"Hmm, but you're a little better than the other guys. You understand what I'm saying."
In that way, I was able to learn the theory of the Elemental Swords from Kaiser for several weeks.
What was surprising was that the Elemental Sword was a much more systematic swordsmanship than expected, and that much of the feat of Caesar known through legend was reduced.
"Your Majesty, you captured the Gorgon by yourself? The legend says that all twelve knights of the Clock Tower rushed in and combined their strength to capture it."
"The Clock Tower Knight? I don't know what it is, but I went and wiped it out in one go. The others probably just cleaned up after themselves."
Listening to his words, which contained detailed knowledge of the untold history of the past, Zeke could not help but believe that what he was seeing before him was Caesar himself, transformed into a spirit.
Once you leave your physical body and go to the spirit world where the fairies live, it is impossible to return to the physical world.
However, he had arranged the ruins to place restrictions on being able to stay only here in a spirit state.
"How is that possible?"
Caesar said in a nonchalant tone.
"Well, it was possible because the dragons helped."
"Huh? A dragon?"
Caesar was even more surprised at seeing the surprised Zig.
"Why did the dragon help you?"
"That's right. Dragons are the enemies of humans."
"What are you talking about? Why are dragons the enemy of humans? There is no being that cares for humans as much as dragons."
Caesar said, pointing to Zeke's sword.
"Isn't that sword and heart something that Bahamut gave you?"
Zeke's eyes shook violently.
"Yeah, that's right."
If I said the wrong thing here and provoked Caesar, all my efforts to appease him could go down the drain.
Zeke asked Caesar cautiously.
"Your Majesty. Have you ever heard of… the Dragon Slayer?"
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Caesar ground his teeth at those words.
"You mean those damned seeds who call themselves dragon slayers or something? They sneak into the lair and capture precious hatchlings, and then go around bragging about hunting dragons, so I remember going to find them and beheading them all."
Zeke kept his mouth shut.
If he had told him that his ancestor had decapitated Bahamut and put his teeth and heart on display, he would have done the same thing he had done to the dragon slayer before.
Caesar, whose anger quickly subsided at Zeke's silence, suddenly looked at Zeke and asked him in a curious manner.
"By the way, how did you get the teeth and heart from that nasty Bahamut? He's the most ill-tempered dragon I've ever seen."
Zeke lied without even wiping his mouth shut.
"Our Murray family has been close to Lord Bahamut for generations. As you can see, his constitution is quite unique. He gave me his teeth and heart for fun."
Caesar nodded after hearing that.
"Well, he was really interested in things that looked particularly fun. That's why he got scolded by Kronos a lot."
'Chronos?'
From the context, it seemed like that was also the name of a dragon.
It was a name that did not appear in the records of the dragon slayer.
Zeke asked Caesar briefly.
"Is the Kingdom of Kronos named after Kronos?"
"I guess so. Since I am a contractor for Kronos, I received a lot of help when establishing the kingdom. When I was thinking about naming the kingdom, I felt it was a bit bothersome and since Kronos was hanging around in front, I decided to just name it Kronos. That's how it came to be."
It was disappointing to learn that the name of the legendary kingdom was given for such an absurd reason.
'But you're a contractor for Kronos? Can a dragon make a contract with a human?'
Zeke wanted to ask many questions because he had so many questions, but he was worried that if he asked too many questions, it would be revealed that he was a blood relative of the Dragon Slayer family, so he asked questions as carefully as possible and pretended to be mildly curious.
After a rather long conversation, if we summarize what Caesar said, it seems that in his time, humans and dragons were very friendly and the dragons helped the less civilized humans a lot.
It is said that at that time, dragons were not able to provide unconditional help to the phenomenal world because they acted as 'coordinators of the world'.
He said that after making a contract with a human and then polymorphing into a human form, he could only help the contractee while limiting himself.
Otherwise, the balance of the world would be broken and the phenomenal world would be in danger.
'It's so different from what I know.'
There is a lot of history left after Terracan Draker killed the evil dragon Bahamut and saved the continent from crisis, but most of the history before that was lost.
Because so little is known, some scholars have argued that ancient civilizations were much more advanced than they are today.
And listening to Caesar's words, I felt once again how little information we have about ancient times.
At the time, dragon contractors were everywhere, and polymorphic dragons seemed to have helped greatly in influencing human history.
Among the ancient items discovered at the ancient ruins, there were some that could not be deciphered with current magical knowledge, and I thought that they were probably created with the help of dragons.
Zeke wondered why the relationship between humans and dragons, which had been so close, had become distant.
'I guess I'll have to watch all the chronicle footage that Caesar left behind later.'
After organizing his thoughts to that point, Zeke decided to first focus on completely acquiring the Elemental Sword.
There wouldn't be any major problems since he came to Argos to take a vacation and avoid the eyes of his family, but he had to return to Atlas before the Valhalla semester started.
Acquiring the Elemental Sword was smoother than expected.
But at a completely unexpected stage, Zeke started having trouble.
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"Hey, that's not it. You're good at everything else, so why do you keep getting this wrong?"
It was impossible to keep up with the 'hydraulic field' that deals with the power of water among the four elements.
Zeke swung his sword again, drawing on the power of the water.
A strong force swept through the surroundings, as if a waterfall was crashing down.
Then Caesar struck Zigg's head with his sword.
"Human! Is this the power of water or the power of a waterfall? The core of the power of water is softness. Don't you know the saying that softness overcomes hardness?"
"This is the first time I've heard of it."
"Kid, this. It seems like you just don't know all the disadvantages. Anyway, the power of water isn't something that can be achieved just by applying force. Look."
Caesar took up his sword and drew upon the power of the water.
His sword flowed calmly, as if it were a still sleep.
Sometimes it flows leisurely like a flowing river, sometimes it goes slowly like a calm lake, and sometimes it hits hard like a waterfall.
Caesar said, putting away his sword.
"All four elements are important, but the most important of them all is water. Life began with water, and more than 70% of our bodies are made of water. Do you understand, you idiot?"
In his previous life, Zeke had been pursuing only extreme strength with the will to become strong in order to survive somehow.
It was impossible for him to be used to swordsmanship that allowed him to deal with his opponents gently and without using too much force.
My head and body knew the movements, but my heart couldn't quite grasp the content.
Caesar had no choice but to start over from the basics.
Because of this, Zeke had to meditate for several hours a day, crossing his legs like Caesar.
I needed to quickly obtain the Elemental Sword and go to Valhalla, but sitting around for hours was killing me.
puck!
In the meantime, if you have any idle thoughts, Caesar's scabbard will cut your head off.
"Put aside your idle thoughts and look deep into your heart."
It was Caesar who spoke in a priestly manner, which was out of place.
A month passed by like that.
Yet Zeke had no understanding of the power of water.
Rather, because of my impatience, my mind became more distracted, and I ended up getting hit in the back of the head twice by Caesar.
Eventually, Caesar decided to take another approach.
"I can't believe the only one who can continue my progress is this idiot."
"Isn't there something wrong with Your Majesty's educational methods?"
"Shut up. This isn't going to work. You're going to have to learn another way."
"Was there another way? You should have taught me earlier. It was just a waste of time."
"I'll make you regret what you just said."
Caesar's method was no different.
The power of water is all about 'freedom of movement'.
In other words, it was important to relieve one's strength, and Caesar's method was to force one's strength out of one's body by making it difficult for oneself and injecting weakness into it.
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Zeke snickered at Caesar's words.
He had the infinite stamina passive skill, so he never felt tired.
But that was Zeke's mistake.
"Gasp! Gasp!"
The intense training that cannot be filled even with infinite stamina has begun.
It was an endless duel with Caesar.
Without eating or sleeping, he had to fight Caesar with his sword, over and over again.
There, Caesar used the 'Field of Golden Power' to apply ten times the gravity to Zeke's body.
Even though my body was heavy, I had to somehow dodge or block Caesar's attacks.
"Move faster!"
Kwakwakwa!
A storm sword using the wind field swept over Zigg.
Zeke also unleashed a field of wind energy to block the Storm Sword.
However, it was not enough to block Caesar's power with Zeke's elemental power.
He was swept away and slammed into the wall.
Fortunately, I didn't faint, as I had grown since the first time.
And Caesar did not leave such a Zig alone.
He got me up again and beat my whole body with new techniques.
After learning that he had a healing factor and infinite stamina, and that most wounds would just heal, he started beating them up even more excitedly.
"Oh my, this is fun! This is a stimulation that is hard to feel in the boring spirit world!"
Zeke was tormented by Caesar for an entire month, having his body forcibly infused with weakness.
At a moment when it seemed like he couldn't move even a single fingertip, Zig swung his sword and stepped on the technique with all his strength in his body relaxed.
As I swung my sword in a state of utter exhaustion, I couldn't tell if I was the sword or the sword was me.
It was a feeling I had never felt in my previous life.
Zig swung his sword in a state of ecstasy.
Letting go of all the strength in your body, the sword found its way gently or gently.
Now I understand why the herbivore was able to form a 'hydraulic field' that could not be achieved no matter what.
At that moment, a realization came to Zeke.
Woohoo!
Having realized the secret of weakness, Zeke swung his sword in a different way than usual.
I used the Elemental Sword, then the Whirlwind, and then I raised my aura to use the Dragon Slayer technique.
Unconsciously, I moved my hands wherever they went.
The energy that had been enveloping Zeke's body for a while was absorbed into his body.
It was a break through the wall of the red knight, beyond the blue knight.
Zeke opened his eyes.
[You have succeeded in the sudden link mission.] [You will receive the Fairy King's Tears as a reward.] [You will receive 500 Karma Points as a reward.] [You have succeeded in the main quest mission.] [Your system administrator authority will be promoted to intermediate administrator authority as a reward.] [Intermediate administrator system authority will be activated.] [The system's functions will be unlocked upon promotion to intermediate administrator.] [The beginner quest book will be changed to the intermediate quest book.] [The system link function will be activated.] [The skill shortcut slot will be unlocked. (Only active skills can be used.)] [The item shortcut slot will be unlocked. (Automatic equipment and potion consumption are possible.)] [The portal movement system on the minimap will be activated.] [You will receive 500 Karma Points as a reward.] [Three random skill cards and three random boxes will be granted as a reward.]
Then, messages began to flood into my mind.
[You have acquired the Elemental Sword of the Hero King Kaiser.] [Elemental Sword (S-rank) is added to the special skill.] [The user's soul has grown.] [The power of the unique authority becomes stronger.] [The seal on Bahamut's heart is partially released due to the soul's growth. The current compression seal level is 90%.]
'This is awesome.'