Except when I encounter HammerTrent, I don't run into large monsters, and the outdoor exercises are digested without delay, especially without any problems like this.

The majority of the final exams are against monsters. And the fighting monsters are predetermined taking into account the strength required for recruits.

The main thing is a monster that can be destroyed alone, from small to medium sized, using collaboration to defeat.

But there's no way you can count with a conveniently targeted monster, and in that case, it's not uncommon to stick it in the habitat for a few days. In it, not only combat abilities, but also physical strength, patience, and ability to work with peers are identified.

The progress rate is fairly good since Harold is the only one who comes to the final exam on an exceptional basis this time, but it was nevertheless unavoidable to wait or be time taken by the opponents.

In the end, the entire itinerary of the final study was completed three days after the start of the study. The last time I defeated Basilisk, the sun was falling.

As Harold and the others prepare for the night camp along the river, Sacriss looks back at the events of the last three days.

The final exam of the basic training course, organized as a rapid one, its only participant was the boy in question, Harold.

Even at the age of 13, but most of all, it was the battle with Hammer Trent that surprised me. If we were to defeat such a large monster with only recruits, it would be difficult if we didn't put together at least four or more.

That's why Sacriss put platoon leaders Lucas and Selim on support, but Harold lightly defeated Hammer Trent without the help of the two.

I assure you, even Sacriss is impossible to slaughter Hammer Trent at that speed.

Ability to fight until abnormal. I was reminded of what a delicacy would be to mark the history of the Knights.

If you got all that strength at Harold's age, maybe it's natural to grow. Sacriss thought it was because of words that were full of confidence, stabbing, and looked down on people.

But that leads to unsolicited solitary action if you return the back. Because the more confident they are in strength, like Harold, the less they tend to work with their peers.

There are limits to what you can do alone, no matter how strong you are. I could not easily pass if I did not understand there - and only for a few moments did I breathe.

Harold would have let him do it if it had been an occasion when he needed to work with the Cody squad.

At first, there were places where we didn't breathe in each other's breath, but every time we multiplied the numbers, that part improved as well. Even on the third day, we reached the point of showing a stable combination.

And that's only possible because it matches the face of the Cody squad from Harold.

Harold is better than the Robinsons, in terms of personal strength alone. It'll only be in your luggage if they try to match Harold's skill.

Harold's suppression of his power has allowed him to work together smoothly.

Though always a poisonous tongue, he stands around trying to exploit his fellow strengths and erase his weaknesses. He is also good at respecting and utilizing such opponents, even though he has outstanding strengths and sees others low.

What a boy whose words and deeds do not engage.

You wouldn't be able to work so brilliantly together if you were looking down on being really short of companionship.

On the other hand, I also think that Harold is strong enough to do just that, regardless of his true intentions.

Harold's essence could not be determined through the exam. Even if it is wrong, it leaves undeserving results.

However, Sacriss remembered the uncertain discomfort.

With such a scratch, the exam was over and the next morning he began his journey to return to the King's Capital. I left early in the morning at 6: 00 and if nothing happens, I will be able to arrive by the end of the day.

Line up just like you're going, and walk along the way without stopping for lunch.

Eventually, when the journey to the Wang capital was halfway through, it happened.

"What is that?

It was Lucas who first noticed and raised his voice. Everyone looks forward to that voice.

A few hundred meters away from the Sacris, there was a potpourri and something red and black.

"... smoke? No, color and movement aren't normal for that."

"Something's mocking me, though."

"Maybe a new kind of monster or something?

Each says things by speculation, but there's no way they'll find out who they are. As it existed on the path, I first decided to come closer and check it out, in which Harold's face had become more rugged than usual.

It was Sacriss and the other who sensed it.

"Harold, do you know what that is?

That's what Cody asks whispering. Only Harold and Sacriss would have heard it.

"I don't know. But if you don't feel anything about it, you're pretty burned."

Harold, questioned, replied so without distracting himself from something red and black. I didn't see why he felt so dangerous about that one.

But you'll soon find out that Harold's investigation was in the middle.

Close and clear, but red and black. That was foggy. The shape is close to the cylinder, as if rising from the ground to a height of about 150 cm with a jitter springs, it becomes foggy.

Except for that, I don't get any clues as to who this red and black fog is.

"Are you burying something?

The moment Sid broke his knee and tried to bend, the fog rocked heavily. Part of it deforms like it was willing.

At the same time Harold's sharp voice flew.

"Back off!"

"Huh? Whoa!

A shaped sharp sickle becomes like a whip and strikes Sid.

It was Harold who was popping out screaming, pulling Sid's collar neck that couldn't handle the sudden.

Exactly one hair at a time. A misty sickle would have ripped Sid's neck off if he had been delayed for just a moment.

He was cut by a misty sickle. His forehead was scattered with harrassment.

Understanding what had happened, Sid thanked Harold with some blues on his face.

"Oh, thank you... thank you, Harold"

"I don't care about that. Just stand up, Noroma."

What a harsh thing to say to a man who was about to lose his life right now, but that was all that was persecuting.

Because at some point a number of red and black fogs appeared.

"Surrounded!

"What the hell is this?

Something foggy that appeared to surround the Sacris. Six fogs, which also appear newly, begin to move to form a sickle uniformly and draw a circle.

Everyone steps on a different sight from reality.

One person can't shake in front of such a disgusting sight.

Harold launched an attack on the fog without any cowardice after vacating it for a breath. The speed I didn't show during the test.

I'm stunned by the strength that may still be bottomless, but in the meantime, Harold uses his unstoppable speed to chop up his enemies.

The fog that was attacked looked as if it had been fogged...... but will soon come back to normal. Repeating it several times, Harold turned back here.

"Physical attacks don't work. Even with the blade together, the sword slipped through. You won't even be able to defend yourself."

"On top of that, the attack over there is effective..."

Even if I saw Sid's hair cut, that's for sure.

The opponent is exposed to unprotected attacks without passing through them.

"Oh, you can't win like that..."

"Shouldn't you run away!?

Robinson and Irene, who are inexperienced in unforeseen circumstances, are disturbed. Sid hasn't recovered from fear either.

I can't fight in this state. Once I tried to lower them down, Harold flaunts them like that.

"If you have time to be a wolf, turn your head. Put up your sword if you don't want to die." Voltrance ""

A giant spear of thunder emitted along with bursting and airborne sounds. You'd be powerful enough to kill your opponent. That spear hits directly into one of the fogs.

This will scatter the fog, but it will soon return to its original state. Harold unleashes magic in a row without worrying about it.

"'Flame Column', 'Aqua Slash'"

The effect immediately appeared. The mist swallowed by the flame column regained its original shape without anything, but the one subjected to the aqua slash was fogged and disappeared as it drifted into the air.

"Does the magic of water attributes work?

Harold with a series of aqua slashes toward the fog. I hit it all directly but only one disappeared by it.

The other four were alive and well. The answer to be derived from this is -.

"Only the magic of certain attributes is effective."

"It's troublesome to say that valid attributes vary from individual to individual."

"Are you woodworkers? Beat the magic in from one end before you complain."

"That's best for you."

Three people, Harold, Cody and Sacriss, face a magical shooting simultaneously.

Thunder pours, flames roll backwards, winds blow. The meadow, where the green was visible, turned into scorched earth while we saw it.

Erasing all the red and black fog, Sacriss, who managed to take off the crisis, will alert his surroundings shortly to make sure they are safe.

Apparently, there's no reinforcements, so I calmed down.

"Has anyone been injured?

"Yes, I'm fine..."

Everyone was intact. Sacris stroking his chest down on that, but also thanks to Harold for instantly judging and grabbing the thread that breaks the situation.

Would I have been able to cut through so quickly and accurately, even under my own command, and without getting the wounded out?

It's hard, I have to say. At least Sid's fatality was inevitable.

Exactly what Harold said.

"If you don't feel anything about it, you're pretty baked."

I'm pretty sure it's my downfall being entrusted with captaining this squad that didn't stop me from approaching inadvertently, even though I was warned so. I almost let one missouri lose his life.

Sacriss bows his head to Harold.

"Thank you, Mr. Stokes. And I'm sorry. My current predicament is the result of my mistakes."

"Don't count this degree in distress. But don't make the same mistake."

Now I don't know which one is the person in the upper position. Still, Sacriss replied this way by seeping her determination as she engraved the word into her chest.

"Let's order the liver. Never."

Sacriss's gratitude had not reached Harold's ear. Because I was so upset that I just had to respond mechanically.

The honest Harold's mood when he figured it out far-sightedly and understood it was real was, "Why is he here?!?".

Red and black fog, the official name in the original is Early Cloud. Physical attack disabled, enemy that damage cannot pass without random, defined magic.

There's nothing to highlight about attack, health, or endurance, but the trouble is that the attack of the Early Cloud is undefendable. Anyway, we just have to dodge and punch in the magic.

That's why I fought in front of Cody and the others, explaining everything.

If it's a game, there's an item that can identify the health and weaknesses of an enemy called 'Search Glass', but somehow it doesn't exist in this world.

I threw away the idea of the same as the game from what to how long ago, but it was the disappearance of the search glass that helped.

But that's not what matters.

The Early Cloud is a monster that is closely related to story progression and originally appears around the middle to the end of the game.

More clearly, it is also proof of the steady progress of the plan that Justus, the Las Bosses, called earth erosion.

That was five years before the original, and it showed up at this stage. No matter what you think, it's too soon.

I just couldn't appear without digesting the story to a certain point as a performance of the game, and there's no chance that it actually existed from the beginning.

But assuming the worst, it is also possible that Justus' plan is faster than the original. If that happens, there will be an advance on the original event, and it will be a development that Harold doesn't know about.

It's not the same as the game from what to what. Even though I was thinking that, why was I so worried that the story would go according to the game?

Join your own Knights for spreading antibodies drugs on Smeragi territory.

If you say those too, it's a foreclosure to the original. Harold's deadly alarm that he had taken lightly the risk of the original progressing faster.

(Wait, wait, calm down. I haven't decided yet......)

Breathe quietly and manage to stay calm.

The idea now is only the worst assumption. The story isn't necessarily speeding up.

But we need to make sure of that.

Justus Freund.

Scientists who are ostensibly called geniuses. But its essence is a madman who tolerated the demise of the world to fulfill his own ambitions.

And he is also Teng himself, who led the original Harold to death.

If you're going to trample on the original, you have to make contact, but someone dangerous enough to have accounted for it being inevitable somehow.

You won't get information unless you get close to that other person yourself. It was too late when I realized, what a risk I have to take in order not to let it unfold.

Harold's final exam came down the curtain as new and oversized anxiety elements sprout.