Abandoned by my Childhood Friend, I Became a War Hero

20 – Combat Practice Lesson #2

Aeon’s atmosphere has changed.

Ion didn’t do anything and just stood still in place, but everyone in the room instinctively sensed that his atmosphere was unusual.

An intangible force that constricts, oppresses, and oppresses the surroundings with just one glance.

The thing called living stuck to the nape of the students’ necks.

“Heo Eok… !”

“Keep it off!”

Most of the students froze, unable to breathe properly.

Some students, including Gwynn and Batar, reflexively pulled out their swords. Only a handful of students who have experienced life have barely responded.

Marian was also one of the frozen students. Goosebumps ran through her whole body, and her intuition set off alarm bells. Even a single step made her feel as though she would be in big trouble if she made the wrong move.

“Think of me as an enemy from now on.”

Ion moved slowly, like taking a walk in the rain.

Gwynn was able to follow his movements with his eyes this time, but he did not dare to rush at them. It was because he was just walking and he couldn’t see any gaps.

“You can attack with the determination to kill.”

That meant that no matter what you guys did, you would never kill me.

Ion walked slowly toward the three brothers, Cornelius, Lucius, and Zaius.

Overpowered by Ion’s intangible force, the three students were frozen in place, unable to do anything except watch Ion walk right in front of him.

Ion calmly opened his mouth like a teacher giving instructions to his students.

“Provocation is a very effective method in actual combat. An excited opponent will be able to attack more easily. The stronger the enemy, the more the reason must be disturbed so that at least a small possibility exists for the weak. That one thing is commendable.”

The three brothers felt death approaching them.

If you think about it calmly, you know that it can never happen. It is absurd for an instructor to kill a student inside the academy.

However, the cool energy felt from the nape of the neck made the brain of Cornelius, one of the three brothers, misunderstand this moment as a crisis of death.

If you don’t want to die, you have to do something.

“aaa!!”

Cornelius swung his sword wide.

The trajectory disturbed by fear was caught by Ion’s fingers with absurd ease.

“Uh… ?”

“However, it is easy to be targeted first by an excited enemy. Regardless of whether the enemy is excited or not, if it is a strong enemy that can knock you out in one second, you should refrain from needless provocations. There will be no more mercy for wild beasts who have lost their reason.”

Ion swung his arm like a whip.

Tung! Cornelius, who had been hit right in the chest, flew several meters without even screaming and tumbled across the rain-soaked dirt floor.

Stuck in the mud, Cornelius did not move.

Most of the students panicked at the sight of people flying like toys.

“aaagh!”

“Do, run!!”

Marian saw the scene and her mind went blank for a moment.

‘No, is it okay for a student to do that? A person flew away! It doesn’t move, so he’s not dead, right?’

Contrary to Marian’s concerns, the situation was not as serious as it seemed.

Thanks to Ion’s exquisite strength, Cornelius’ impact was distributed throughout his body, so there was no special trauma such as broken bones or bleeding. It was a skill close to a feat.

So don’t die. It would be painful enough to cause you to faint.

But the students didn’t recognize that fact. All they saw was a motionless figure, dead when the instructor hit the student.

At that moment, the fear of the students became real. This was also the result of Ion’s aim.

“When faced with a formidable foe that cannot be dealt with, fleeing is a great method.”

Ion did not rush to pursue the runaway student. Rather, he took a step more slowly, as if giving him time to escape.

“Don’t blame yourself for being a coward. Sometimes surviving and planning for the future is the best way to win. Of course, whether or not the other person will let you go is another matter entirely.”

Gwynn drew his sword and took a slow breath.

I killed the presence while crouching in the bush. The secret of the stone sword that suppresses the body’s metabolism at the level of inanimate objects. At this moment, Gwynn’s heart rate was beating slowly at one-third of its normal rate.

The moment Ion passes by without noticing the hidden Gwynn.

Gwynn’s body moved like lightning.

“Excellent. You learned it right.”

“Kuh… !?”

A surprise attack that seemed so perfect cut through the air.

The cost of the surprise attack was high. Ion hit Gwynn’s back with his fist.

“Damn it!”

Gwynn was just like Cornelius, even rolling on the floor, but he didn’t let go of his sword or lose his mind.

“Surprise is also a good option. It’s foolish to dare to confront an opponent stronger than you. It is not for nothing that there is no business in surprise attacks. Chivalry does not save lives.”

Ion trudged over to Gwynn, who staggered to his feet, and punched him.

It seemed to be swinging roughly, but one shot made a sound cutting through the air.

“It was also very good that the geographical features were saved. This kind of weather is perfect for raiding. Because the falling rain erases the sound of footsteps. Your mistake is only one, that the opponent was aware of the surprise from the beginning.”

“Gup! Oops!”

Gwynn could only receive Ion’s fist. No matter how much he allowed blows, even if his body wasn’t normal, he learned the stone sword, whose counterattack was an advantage, he couldn’t take a single knife and was just busy blocking it.

If it stays like this, I will get hurt. The moment he thought so, his deafening scream rang out loudly.

“Oohhhhh!! Holy Mother of Heaven, watch over me!!”

Baatar kicked off the ground and jumped like a wild boar. Where the hell did he throw the sword? The power of his fist, which he sprinted with his bare hands and hit with all his strength, was comparable to that of a siege weapon.

Ion chose to drain that ignorant power rather than face it head on. Ion’s hand traced a very gentle trajectory, grabbing Batar’s arm and pulling it.

“Khut… !?”

The next moment, Batar was thrown into the air, unable to overcome his own strength.

It was the secret of Saryangbalcheongeun, which uses the opponent’s power to twist the direction of the force.

Gwynn couldn’t avoid the batar flying towards him. The two got entangled together and rolled on the dirt floor, never getting up again. Gwynn couldn’t stand the cumulative impact, and Batar’s head was violently shaken, causing a concussion.

Ion said, shaking his hands.

“Haggong is also a good way. But if you don’t get along with each other, you can’t fight alone.”

In the first year of close combat, two people who couldn’t be defeated were defeated in an instant. So it was obvious without looking at the results of other students.

Every student who ran away or hid in a tree was caught by Ion without fail.

While the students screamed and started the game, Ion handled it calmly from start to finish. As if this was part of the class, he even added evaluation and advice to each person he caught.

When Ion approached Elizabeth after beating Zaius and Lucius, she raised both of her hands without hesitation.

“I will surrender.”

“Leaning on the mercy of others is one of the ways to survive.”

Ion nodded her head and left her seat as if declaring her acceptance.

Somehow, Marian was the last one left.

She gulped her dry saliva as she watched the approaching ion.

Ion The idea was to make her instructor see her again by getting her high marks in all of her classes. So, even for the sake of that plan, she didn’t want to give up like this in vain.

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But….

Marian looked at Ion’s fist.

If you get hit by that, it will hurt a lot, right?

Yes. Me bunch

“I will surrender too.”

Marian quickly surrendered.

It was fortunate to see that Elizabeth surrendered first. Because if it wasn’t for that, she wouldn’t have thought of surrendering.

Except for Marian and Elizabeth, the rest of the students were still rolling on the dirt floor.

Ion calmly opened his mouth after confirming that all the students had been captured.

“You must have felt unreasonable while taking class today. You guys and I would have thought it was only natural that we couldn’t compete because there would be a marked difference in level between you and me.”

“That is natural. Because the battlefield is always unreasonable. Humans are weak. Even the goblins, who were considered the weakest, were only adult male standards, and compared to children of a similar physique, they were much stronger. At the level of an Orc, even a trained veteran soldier had to risk his life. Not to mention the trolls.”

“In real combat, you will always be forced to fight unreasonably. The battle doesn’t happen only when I want it. If it wasn’t for obesity, if it wasn’t worse than usual, if it was one-on-one… On the battlefield, all such assumptions are useless.”

“In future combat training classes, I will teach you how to survive such absurdities.”

Elizabeth, who was quietly listening to the explanation, carefully raised her hand.

“Me, Instructor.”

“What happened?”

“Everyone passed out.”

“… ….”

It was nice to have a lengthy explanation, but except for Marian and Elizabeth, all of them passed out without hearing Instructor Ion’s explanation.

Ion let out a short sigh as he brushed his rain-soaked hair.

“… I’ll have to call the healer.”

Marian deeply regretted her own decision that day, that she had taken this class.