Master of the brave.

"Well, let me start by saying congratulations on your admission"

Knights School outdoor training ground.

This school, which in vain uses this vast former palace, has a training ground built by renovating several gardens.

It is partitioned from the surroundings by stone walls, and along the walls is built Tsuyamako for training purposes made of oak trees.

In addition, training swords and spears were always provided in the cabins, which were built in several places.

corner of that training ground.

Twenty of the students enrolled there this year were gathered.

A giant man standing surrounded by them opens his mouth.

"You introduce yourself first. I'm Aldo, the instructor who's been working you guys out for the past year. It doesn't matter where you are or who you are. I'll work you out till you lose your ankles, so be prepared."

Aldo looks around at the students.

There stood twenty of the boys and girls he was in charge, from sixteen on top to twelve on the bottom, surrounding him with a tense look.

It's my first class for freshmen, so I was telling them today that I was only going to lecture them to the extent that I saw their strength, but apparently they're all swallowed by the atmosphere.

Look through the roster in your left hand.

The roster contained the names of twenty students in his charge, in full names.

We are not allowed to name our families within the Knights School, and unless we know each other facially, we have no way of knowing where or who the students are.

However, that was not possible for faculty and staff only, and rosters were available.

As far as that roster is concerned, two of the students for whom Aldo is in charge deserve attention.

I lift my eyes from the roster and look around at the students again.

"Let me see the skill first. Split up into two pairs each."

In the words the students quickly divide themselves into pairs by greeting those who stand next to each other.

- After all, did this happen?

Watching the process, Aldo nodded small.

Because, as expected, there were two students left to watch out for until the end.

Each of those two stood in absentia at the corner on the right and left edges, but when they started pairing up, they all just avoided talking to the other students and didn't seem to get anyone to put them together after all.

One of the students is a Win candidate.

For the fourth time this year in school, a rare boyfriend of civilian origin.

And the other one - a female student named Candidate Cornelia.

Their presence was particularly floating among the students gathered.

One reason for this is the age of two.

Both of them are sixteen years old who are too eligible for school this year.

Among freshmen with a large number of pupils between the ages of twelve and fourteen, the difference in that age is still significant.

I can't help but be repelled by other students.

Most importantly, when it comes to winning candidates, it may have affected my reputation as a fourth time.

In the meantime, it was going to be as grouped as Aldo expected.

"All right, once we split into groups, as I mentioned earlier, let me see each skill. I'm going to look at both martial arts and magic. Divide and distance each group."

Each of the students scatters to the training ground.

Among them, Aldo put his arms together, especially as he watched a pair of Winn and Cornelia.

Well, I hope those two are inspiring to the other noble candidates, in a good or a bad way.

Confirming that each pair has distance enough, Aldo raises a voice that often passes even on the battlefield where he was forged as a knight, giving instructions to the students.

"Okay, first of all -"

Thus began the first classes of the candidates at the Cavalier School.

The left edge of the students spread fan-shaped around Aldo, the instructor - where Wynn stood.

All the students who are surrounding classmates are about a head or two shorter than they are.

And naturally, because they were all two or more years younger than themselves.

"Let me see the skill first. Split up into two pairs each."

So the students moved to make a pair in Aldo's words, so I started speaking up myself -.

"Um..."

And even if I call my neighbor's students, they get away with it, and they get organized by calling the other students.

Sometimes they are avoided because of their age, but some of them were whispering at each other looking at this one more than that.

It is probably known that Winn is in his fourth year or that he is of civilian origin because his gaze does not contain anything favourable.

- Shit.

The number of students will be twenty, or ten sets of calculations.

So there shouldn't be any blurring.

If so, I wish I could find a student wandering around alone - at this rate I don't know if they would really do their thing, even if they could pair up.

Nevertheless, we can't even talk about not organizing, so for now, we look for students in the same situation as ourselves - there was.

About the same age as myself?

I found a girl looking around like Winn was in trouble.

A man would have been nice if he could, but he had no choice.

"Um, excuse me"

I'll try to get close to her and speak up.

"If you're alone, why don't you pair up with me?

"Ah, yes. I'd be happy to."

Girl smiling as if relieved somewhere.

"Good. My name is Wynn."

"It's Cornelia. Best regards,"

The girl who named Cornelia apparently doesn't know about Winn.

Instead, where Wynn was watching, she herself seemed to have been shunned from the other students.

Her face is not bad.

A girl with thin blonde hair stretched out to her shoulders and a neat face, but rather than a beauty, she looks good in the description of being cute.

That's why it seemed strange to Winn that she couldn't speak up.

In her case, the reason she was avoided might be something that comes from her age, unlike herself.

That figure, which follows the instruction of the instructor to Wynn, who moves the place, somehow wears the old Leticia figure and decides not to care if it's okay.

- Letty.

As I walk, I remember when I broke up with Leticia this morning.

I'm sure you were angry, and you were sad.

I have a sense that I've done terrible things.

It was on her own, and she never changed her attitude when she revealed herself to be a brave man.

But still...

Given Leticia's coming up, it would never be good for her to be with Wynn.

"The Brave" and "The Third Duchess"

She must have a partner who deserves that title.

You can't be stuck with yourself forever.

"Um..."

Speaking of which, I left Locke on that spot, too, but I have to apologize when I get back to my room tonight.

"Um!"

"Wow."

Looking back, Cornelia was pulling Winn's right sleeve.

"I think we've come a long way."

While we were thinking, it seemed we could get a lot of distance from the other pair.

Looking at it, it looks like we've been in formation the furthest from the instructor Aldo.

"Oh, yeah."

When the two of us waited in line for the instructor's instructions, Aldo raised his right hand in no time.

"Okay, try a pair of mock fights first!

Despite all this distance, Aldo's voice reaches where the Wins stand.

"I don't have any particular restrictions today. Try it freely. However, don't let them suffer serious injuries! Okay, here we go!

Winn also pulls out his sword with the words of the instructor's initiation.

It's a sword that crushed a training blade.

Seeing Cornelia as she made sure of her grip, she was also pulling out her sword and casting magic.

"Give me strength!

For a moment, a pale light envelops her.

The magic of self-enhancement, which is the most foundational of grant-enhancement system magic.

Students scattered throughout the training ground, not just Cornelia, were simultaneously engulfed in light.

The only one - except for Winn.

"Magic, don't you use it?

Cornelia was surprised to see Winn, who never spoke magic, with her sword in place.

The magic of self-strengthening, which improves speed and muscle strength, is fundamental in a knight's battle.

Nonetheless, Winn, who invited himself to a pair, just left his sword hanging out.

"Yeah. You don't have to worry about me. Anytime."

"Then...!

I won't hesitate.

Kicking the ground at the same time as the words, Cornelia jumped to pack the time at once.

There is a difference in muscle strength between adults and children between those who are magically strengthening and those who are not.

Stuff up an intermission with an overwhelming speed difference and end with a sword poking at Winn.

But...

At the same time Cornelia jumped, Winn also kicked on the ground again to pack up time.

Liar!? Fast!

Almost simultaneously - no, even though Cornelia kicked the ground at a slightly faster time, the rate of packing the time was faster for Winn.

Cornelia gets stuffed in time faster than she thought, and Winn takes the lead.

He manages to take his sword, which has been attacked by the horizontal raven, and he becomes a companion.

but gradually Cornelia was better able to push in the win when she could put her strength into it.

Apparently, it doesn't mean Cornelia used the magic of self-enhancement where she wasn't looking.

That means that speed in local power.

Did you decide that the force would push you off, Winn pulls out the force once and recieves Cornelia's sword?

Winn flew backwards into that gap where Cornelia lost her physical balance for a moment.

Cornelia also immediately attempted to get in shape and take a stand to intercept, but at the next moment, Winn packed his time and shot him in.

Cornelia can't handle that speed.

"Ah..."

He was flying his sword to the ground.

Surprisingly Cornelia stares at Winn.

Winn, one step, two steps behind, gently waves the sword of his right hand and delivers it to his sheath.

I don't believe it.

Cornelia never thinks she's better than the rest of the students.

No, I rather thought I'd give up a step to the other students when it comes to combat.

But still, I didn't expect to lose to anyone who didn't even use the magic of self-enhancement.

Especially the last - the last slaughter that knocked Cornelia's sword off.

Instead of reacting, I couldn't even see the trajectory of that sword.

- Why, is someone like this at the candidate level? Maybe you're actually one of the instructors?

I inadvertently look at Winn with suspicious eyes.

"Oh, uh, sorry. I only aimed at the sword, did it hurt?

Winn asks me somewhere worried if I misunderstood that gaze.

Sure, my hands were paralyzed by a strong blow, but I can't do it in this school with the sound up to this extent.

Without answering Winn's question, Cornelia picks up a flying sword.

Asking around while picking it up, the other students were still in a meeting.

Or it seemed that only Cornelia and Winn's group ended in an instant.

"Um, if you don't mind, why don't we go over it again?

The other students are still fighting.

We still have time.

- Overwhelming difference in strength.

Without a doubt, Winn is not a candidate level strength.

Then I want to see if my powers work.

"Right. Because of this, and again, please."

Winn sets up his sword again.

Seeing as it doesn't move from there, apparently Cornelia is waiting for me to cast enhanced magic.

Then...

"Give me strength!

Reinforce yourself again.

That's not all.

"I, knowing the reason of fire and the reason of the sword, show up on the blade!

Red flames envelop the sword body.

"Enchanted Magic!?"

Winn shouts his surprise at the rare magic in the Knights School.

Not yet!

"I unleash a chain of bondage that knows man's reason and commands his people!

"Gu......!

Now he should suddenly feel like his body is moving heavily.

Grant Magic (Enchant) is a type of magic that is seeded in Grant-Enhanced Magic.

Grant enhancement system magic, as its name suggests, enhancement magic that strengthens itself, and grant magic that confers magic on goods and others, are classified into this system.

However, when it comes to grant magic, it is not much liked by the knights.

First, the effect of grant magic is short.

Long enough.

Whatever magic weapon was carving magic letters into the sword body and perpetuating the effect time, the effect time was fatally too short for use on the battlefield.

Grant magic can also exert enhanced magic on others, but there are difficulties with this as well.

That means that when applied to others, the effect can only be about 30% to 50% compared to the enhancement magic that the effect hangs on itself.

It is believed that this is because a subject who is enchanted will unconsciously resist, no matter how much he tries to accept its magical effects.

There are quite a few wizards who use grant magic among city well adventurers because they can't afford to learn either, like neither swords nor magic, but grant magic was less beneficial and less user-friendly for aristocratic and wealthy knights.

That's why...

Even though it cannot be used on the battlefield, it becomes effective in these one-on-one situations.

Waving the blazing sword, Cornelia slashed straight to Winn again.