Chapter 57
57 – How to win
What is Nongeom?
Nongeom is a virtual duel in which each other’s images collide and confront each other. It’s not just a fight of words where the loudest person wins, it’s a real duel where each other agrees.
Lir was a master of the non-sword. It’s a natural story. The ‘parring swordsmanship’ she learned from her master is a swordsmanship with her counter as the basic framework. The basis of the counter is ‘count fight’, which reads the opponent’s play.
Before moving the body, it is necessary to overwhelm the opponent with the head, and for that, you must overcome the enemy with your thoughts. Structurally, a master of parring swordsmanship has no choice but to become a master of non-sword swordsmanship.
In other words, this confrontation was actually a tilted playing field in Lire’s favor. There was only one reason why Lire applied for such sparring.
To provoke the opponent.
If you lose to yourself in the Non-Geom, you will heat up your head and say, ‘This kind of pun is not sparring! Let’s have a real sparring!’ All you have to do is pretend you can’t win there and accept it.
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Thinking back, it was a perfect plan. Lire smiled at her secretly, satisfied with her own grand plan.
“Mmm. I am a pioneer. Great.”
John opened his mouth in a sonorous voice. If you have a woman’s heart, that handsome appearance that anyone would fall for, plus a deceitful voice.
However, in the eyes of Lire, who was crazy about her sword, it wasn’t that special.
After clearing his voice, Yohan opened his mouth slowly.
“I will raise my dagger and distance myself from Ms. Lire.”
“Hmm. I gave up the first attack, are you passing it on? Great. Well, I’ll go first. I will advance to five paces ahead of John.”
“I will attack Miss Lire’s left side with the shadow chain.”
“I will take one step forward, and at the same time I will bounce off Johan-kun’s chain.”
“There is not one shadow chain. Attack the right side with the remaining chain.”
“I’ll tilt my upper body to avoid it.”
“I will charge Miss Lire who is out of balance.”
“I will take one step back with a speed step. Oops, it looks like Yohan is about to throw a dagger. Then….”
We talk to each other.
If Yohan makes a move, Lire makes a corresponding move. As if playing roto chess, each other throws the countermeasure according to each other’s play.
The scene of the battle naturally unfolded in Lire’s head. It was an image battle that he had done hundreds or thousands of times while training his parrying swordsmanship. I’ve never won an image battle with Master, but this time is different.
‘Here, let’s attack with a side step….’
In the image, Lire moved according to her own will. And John also moved according to his will. He proves that he reads all of John’s numbers.
‘If this is the case, I’m sure I’ll avoid it by going to the top left.’
“I will evade to the top left.”
When John returned the same answer as his own, Lire smiled. Whether or not he knows that the current of the fight has completely turned this way, Yohan smiles as usual and looks at himself. No matter how hard John tried, the situation was a complete victory that he had to admit.
Lir was drawing such a situation.
“Move half a step to the right, I will deflect Yohan-kun’s chain. This is the 13th.”
“I see. Then, my remaining mana is about 10%.”
Based on current information, future scenarios have been furiously drawn. Nongeum is like a turn-based game. There are about 11 moves left until Lire wins.
Leir waited for John’s next words, expecting the remaining 11-year-old John to act.
“Then I will use the knife shot here. One is on either side of the lire, the other is 5m to the right of the amount of lire, and the other is 1m from the top.”
“Hmm. Is it okay to use a valuable skill so carelessly? Great. Then I turn left…”
Lir’s mouth stopped as he tried to continue.
‘Wait. Here is the last remaining Shadow Chain.’
I closed my eyes and entered the battle of images.
The ensuing onslaught makes breathing difficult. Her tiny clothes are ripped to show the intensity of the battle. The one who fires a dagger as if desperate from the front is Johann Baker.
Following the trajectory of his dagger, Lire searches for a space to evade.
‘Right maneuver? No, the short maneuver will be eaten by Yohan-kun’s next attack. The deep maneuver is caught by Yohan-kun’s knife shot.’
The number you thought you threw without thinking is surprisingly complex. Throwing a knife shot upwards to block the aerial maneuver was a trump card.
‘Then parry the front first…’
“Ms. Lire parries the front.”
Before Lire could put her thoughts into her mouth, John answered her number first.
“What?”
A word from Lire that came out because he was dumbfounded.
John doesn’t care about him and moves his words.
“I take two steps forward, reducing the distance between Miss Lire to half a step.”
As John said, Lire’s thoughts unfold. The imaginary John strides in front of him.
‘This is a mana slash to defeat….’
“Miss Lire uses mana slash. However, I avoid her with my head down.”
As if to completely see through his own thoughts, John developed his story without listening to Lire’s answer. Lire’s face began to grow pale.
“Miss Lire retrieves her sword again.”
‘No. Too close At the intersection of daggers….’
“I extend my dagger towards Ms. Lire.”
“No, it’s impossible. I’m Spi…”
“Retreat two spaces back with a speed step.”
The imaginary lire retreats two spaces back. Here, if she continues to attack, she is pushed back with a heavy load. She has to come up with a twist somehow.
“After strengthening her agility with Hashes, I rushed at Miss Lire.”
I picture an urgent situation in my head. John crept into his arms before swinging her sword.
It is a desperate crisis.
“Bare handed parrying! I’ll parry with my bare hands! I will parry Yohan’s attack!”
Rir exclaimed urgently. If I don’t speak quickly, I think that man will read my thoughts again.
“hahahaha! Really, that’s great. Mr John. But, I still have a parring left! My ‘parring swordsmanship’ isn’t just parrying with a sword! A true swordsman can even use his five fingers as a sword! Yohan-kun’s mana is low with this…”
“Left metacarpal bone.”
A word from Yohan to the relieved Lire.
At that word, Lire’s pupils widened greatly.
“Yes, yes?”
“Change the trajectory of the dagger by 5mm to attack Miss Lire’s left metacarpal bone.”
John’s words reminded Lire of his sparring with his teacher. It’s not an image sparring, it’s a real sparring. The condition of the sparring was to win by touching the hem of Master’s clothes even once.
‘I have mana left to parry just once!’
Master’s intense thrusting attack.
To prevent this, Lire used the ‘bare hand parrying’ practiced without Master’s knowledge. However.
-Aww!
A skill that scatters with a scream.
Master’s wooden sword, which struck Lire’s metacarpal bone, completely shattered her parrying. Kalden smiled blankly at Lire, who was tumbling backwards vigorously.
-It was a fairly imaginary number fight. However, parrying is not invincible. All skills have weaknesses. Our parrying swordsmanship is no exception. Keep in mind. Parrying without the use of a real sword is particularly incomplete.
I felt like I could hear Master’s voice. The situation in the image is drawn in the mind.
‘I lost.’
My parring broke and I hit my butt on the ground.
John aims a cool dagger at the nape of his neck.
The number 11 that Lire originally thought was a downhill road to defeat, not a stairway to glory.
“How the hell… ?”
All I can say is how. It wasn’t really a sword fight, it was just a horse fight. However, this man named John read everything about himself. Even the weakness of ‘parring swordsmanship’.
Is this really a story?
My body is shaking.
The unexpected defeat of Nongeom.
That fact clouded Lire’s judgment.
Originally, after defeating Yohan in a spectacular way, I was planning to apply for a real sparring, but everything went wrong.
“How is it?”
Yohan shrugged his shoulders and asked Lire. At that, Lire’s face turned peach-red….
“Wow! I’ll go!”
He turns around and runs away towards the dormitory.
He confidently applied for the sword and was defeated because of his shame. Yohan smiled sweetly as he looked at Lire from behind. But suddenly, Lire turns to her side again and returns. Then, he pulled out an envelope from his chest and handed it to himself.
“I definitely gave it to you!”
Lirre said those words of unknown meaning and ran back to the dormitory.
It was a very interesting reaction.
“It’s interesting~ As expected, I’m glad I entered the academy.”
With such a satisfied look on his face, John turned and looked towards the bush and shouted.
“There, don’t hide and come out. I know.”
A male student emerges from behind a bush with a rustle at John’s words.
A male student in the shape of a pale snake. His name is Geo Strandal, and he is a spearmanship student.
“Oh no, I didn’t mean to peep. I happened to take a walk and found something interesting…. It was like an unintentional peek. Sorry.”
Gio Strandal bowed his head in a respectful tone.
To that, John crossed his arms and answered.
“I guess so.”
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“It’s an image battle. It was a spectacle not often seen. Indeed, John. It was great workmanship befitting the head of the academy. If you don’t mind, could you compete with me? I am dreaming of revenge for being defeated by Yohan the other day.”
The defeat in the previous battle is the story of an exchange battle between the thieves department and the spearmanship department. Yohan nodded his head at Geo’s challenge.
“Good.”
Gio didn’t know at this time.
Community The late John has gone through so many chaos.