A six-legged beast reminiscent of a large cat attacked Ardis.
"Shit!"
While avoiding a heavy blow from the opponent's forelimbs, Ardis shook through the sword.
Fuchsia!
If that beast had a look on his face, he would be mocking Ardis now.
A knocked shot can be obstructed by a hard sound.
I was hit by a physical barrier developed by a beast.
The name of a beast with dark blue fur is Neduro.
It is a beast with a very high breeding capacity that inhabits every part of every country.
Each of the six legs was searching for an optimal position while supporting a body as large as a lid circumference.
Neduro slowly tightens his distance from Aldis with a motion that gives him room.
Shah!
Neduro, who shouted a voice of intimidation and lowered his posture, attacked the ground like this.
With Neduro's fingernails pointed again, Ardis uses his sword as a shield to parry.
But Neduro's offensive will not end there.
A piece of the middle limb (cucumber) chases him.
Kh!
Did you decide that you couldn't defend yourself with the sword in time? Aldis leans down and kicks the ground and leans back to the side.
Neduro turned and attacked three times faster than the thrilling Ardis rose.
But it must have been Ardis's prediction.
Reading Neduro's easy flying movements, he stood up and swore out.
At the next moment, Neduro's orbit changes unnaturally in the air.
He kicked an invisible scaffold built with magic and dodged Ardis's counterattack.
Nedulo landed about ten steps from Ardis.
The two meet at a distance from each other.
Aldis is already breathing on his shoulders and can't afford to be flat compared to Neduro.
I'm sure Neduro is well aware of that.
It is a inferior beast who does not have what can be called intelligence, but it is well known that he has the habit of playing with weaker prey than himself.
For Nedulo, who is clearly looking down at Ardis, this battle is like a play.
Neduro moves faster than Aldis breathes.
Once again, both approaches, and swords and nails attack and defend.
Aldis's sword was never able to catch Neduro.
Speed, effort, and hit weight.
In addition to Neduro's superiority in any case, it was his scaffolding who was tormenting Ardis above all else.
There is too much difference between Aldis, who still cannot deploy the scaffold, and Neduro, who can use the scaffold even though it cannot deploy continuously.
If we can't catch up quickly, we'll have to predict the movement and attack, but Ardis lacks the experience and leeway to do so.
Fushaaa!
The balance that barely kept it in equilibrium slowly leans.
Tired and slow-moving, Ardis's sword never catches up with Neduro's speed.
On the other hand, Neduro's nails were gradually beginning to hunt down Ardis.
Ugh!
At last, Neduro's forelimbs capture Ardis.
A sharp, pointed nail scratched Ardis' shoulder.
It was Ardis with his face covered in pain, but only the nails of his inner limbs that followed were not eaten.
The nails of the middle limbs are weak but paralytic.
Even if Aldis suffers from paralysis poisoning under unfavourable circumstances, his chances of winning will be completely lost.
The battle between Ardis and Neduro continues.
Aldis barely stopped Neduro's attack, which was jerking off without inflicting a fatal wound.
But the disadvantage is obvious.
Ardis has not suffered any fatal injuries so far, but his body is gradually getting more minor injuries.
Neduro, on the other hand, clearly seemed to have room.
I'm sure you're underestimating Aldis as a weak prey.
They're playing with you, huh?
Darwat, who was watching the battle between Ardis and Neduro a little further away, was dismayed.
"Don't you have to stop it, Grace?"
I asked Grace, who stood on his back with his neck facing away.
"Not yet."
"But, Commander, the boy is at his limit."
Now Lexie talks to Grace from the other side.
Aldis's eyes are not dead yet.
As he watched the battle, Grace said with his face forward.
A small sigh spilled from the left and right at the same time.
"I know that, Grace.Isn't that a little too much for a kid?Sure, that boy has a good sense of age, but he's still a kid? "
"Commander, if anything happens to that boy, Lou will be sad.If it's another apprenticeship, how come you only let the kid take the promotion exam so early after two or three years of training? "
I'm sure it's because he wants it.
Grace answers a blamed question from the left and right.
"Don't worry about it.Viktor agrees with me on this one.In the past six months, Ardis has also acquired the ability to win as much as Neduro.I haven't even used my back hand yet. "
Until now, Aldis has fought Neduro with only a sword.
It's the way Ardis chose to fight to alarm Neduro, and the results are steadily coming.
In fact, Neduro sees Ardis not as a dangerous enemy, but as a plaything.
There is not enough intelligence to understand that it was induced by Aldis.
Despite the fact that Grace and his mercenaries are watching at this distance, the most important proof is that they are passionate about becoming Ardis.
If you are quite intelligent, you will be alert to Grace's entry into the fight, and if you have excellent crisis detection capabilities without intelligence, you will feel its strength and choose to flee quickly.
Neduro is at the bottom of the carnivore because of his low intelligence and slow crisis detection.
It was also the first wall to be crossed for those who at the same time wanted to fight for their livelihood.
People who can't beat Neduro on a one-on-one basis won't do anything on the battlefield.
The victory over Neduro is also a testament to being a soldier, and it is actually used by the Westeria Mercenary Corps as an examiner to promote from an apprentice to a regular mercenary.
Six months after the Westeria Mercenaries picked up Aldis and Luchel.
In the end, the two of them were walking around the battlefields with the mercenaries.
Nevertheless, we cannot let two people work as mercenaries without strength.
He continued his training while doing chores and brushed his arms until he was recognized as a mercenary.
After six months of training, Aldis' growth has been remarkable, challenging Neduro in a short period of time that is not comparable to a typical apprenticeship.
"Well, look at that."
Darwat and Lexie certainly have doubts, but the Aldis wanted it, and both Grace and Victor would win.
Neduro is mistaken about the power of Ardis.
Ardis' victory was there.
That's why Grace keeps watching, no matter what Darwin and Lexie say.
Meanwhile, there was a change in the battle that could be waged in front of my eyes.
Tired of playing, Neduro's movements clearly change from before.
They must be trying to stab the weak Ardis.
Shah!
Six dark blue legs jumped unattended.
"Now."
Bosley and Grace had a crush.
You may not have heard the crush, but Aldis's movements increase in sharpness.
The way Ardis fought, holding his back and enduring even a fatal blow to his disadvantage, created alarm and a gap for Neduro.
In order to turn that moment into a victory, Ardis held the sword in one hand and pointed his free hand towards Neduro.
Neduro opens his mouth as he tries to rip off his arm without any vigilance.
When sharp teeth tried to pinch Ardis's stretched arms, Ardis activated magic.
Suddenly a rock mass is poured into Neduro's mouth, which is wide open.
Hugh!?
It is not aimed at the damage caused by the blow, it is simply a rock mass that has appeared there.
It's just like Neduro's open mouth and a lid.
The magic that Ardis has kept alive until now is still awkward and doesn't fit Neduro's opponent from the front.
That's why Ardis decided to use it as a hidden tag at a time like this.
Suddenly Neduro was confronted with a blocked mouth and tried to spit out the rock.
However, the mouth that is tightly blocked with a large open state does not have any force, nor can it be bitten, and the mouth does not spread any further to spit it out.
A small amount of time before Neduro's consciousness goes into the clumped rock.
But that was enough for Aldis.
Immediately circle around Neduro's side and chop off one leg.
Nedulo screams with his mouth shut and seems quite confused, and he can't afford to deploy physical barriers to prevent Ardis from attacking.
Didn't you think your life would be threatened by the other person you've been trying to beat up before? Without choosing to escape, you're desperately about to shake your head and spit out a rock mass.
While doing so, Aldis chopped off the second, third and Neduro's legs.
No matter how many legs you have, losing half of them will slow you down.
The situation was no longer completely reversed.
Ardis pointed his sword deep behind Neduro's slow-moving head.
It's a complete fatal wound.
With his mouth shut, Neduro fell down and stopped moving as he screamed.
Ardis sat down to drop his hips on the spot to see if Neduro's death had finally broken his thread of tension.
Ok!
I did it!
Darwat and Lexie rushed to Aldis from both sides of Grace.
Grace walks slowly after it.
When Grace approached Aldis, Lexie was already taking care of the wound.
Darwat brutally strokes Ardis' head, which is being treated for the wound, saying, "Now the boy is finally alone."
"If it's just one person, would you stop being a kid?"
"Oh? Oh, yeah - Aldis."
When Darwat finally called me by name, Ardis smiled instead of answering.
Neduro is one of the weakest of the big predators, but he can't fight unless he's trained to fight.
Aldis should have been treated as a warrior, a mercenary, rather than an apprentice boy, after having crushed Neduro alone.
On the contrary, after today, Ardis will be counted as one of the forces of war.
If there is a battle, you will be expected to enter the battlefield, and you will be able to make a strong change from being defended to being defended.
"Aldis"
Grace shouted as he walked to the three of them.
To Aldis as a member of the Regiment and as a subordinate, not to the boy who picked it up by chance.
"Now you are a member of the Westeria Mercenary Corps."
I can't treat you like this because you work as a member of the team.
I give orders to kill that enemy, and sometimes I have to take him to the dead.
Although there is some resistance to dragging a child into battle, it was Ardis who chose it.
"I'll get you out of the next fight.I won't spoil you as much as before, so be prepared.Well, this is how I won against Neduro, and I don't think he's going to die soon. "
That's why Aldis shows a complicated look to Grace, pointing it in words.
"What's with that face? Aren't you happy?You're the one who beat me and Victor to death for wanting to be recognized as a human being.You're not afraid to stand on the battlefield by now, are you? "
"No, it's just..."
Ardis continued with a grumpy look on Grace's words.
"Just?"
"Swordsmanship alone couldn't win....."
Apparently, Grace broke his face knowing that Aldis wanted to beat Neduro with only a sword.
"Hahaha, you're still a kid.It's ten years early to focus on how to win. "
Darwat and Lexie laughed at Grace.
Ardis was the only one who looked uncomfortable.
With such a bitter smile on Aldis, Grace said comfortingly, "You don't have to worry about that right now."
"We are mercenaries. Think about winning before you focus on how to win.Few people in the regiment fight with swordsmanship alone.You were able to use magic.I used my powers to beat Neduro.That's fine. It's your power, including magic. "
Grace continued, hitting Aldis lightly on the head.
"Of course, that's why it's not good to rely too much on magic.Either way, you're better at swordsmanship.It is certainly not bad to hide magic as a trump card this time, and usually fight only with swordsmanship.It would be more useful than hitting attacking magic from the front.That's why I don't take care of losers by giving up and paying attention to the way they fight.Keep that in mind. "
No one knows the exact age of Aldis, who doesn't have his own memory.
As far as body growth is concerned, it is in the first half of teenage.
Grace is probably about fourteen or five.
Of course, it is not uncommon for a child of that age to come out on the battlefield.
Unlike the Westeria Mercenaries, however, most of the other children who come out to the battlefield are amateurs who have little or no training.
As a result, more than 90% of them scatter their lives in the first place.
It is unusual in this world to set up apprenticeships like the Westeria Mercenaries and raise them without going to the battlefield until they are alone.
A strange mercenary group, such as raising a wasting child, would probably be at Grace's.
Most children who became mercenaries or had to become mercenaries were in a situation where they had to choose between dying or becoming mercenaries.
That's why the mercenaries only think of their children as shields and consumables.
Only surviving children can become adult mercenaries.
Only a handful of these children will be able to defeat Neduro.
With that in mind, it won't be easy to beat Neduro at the age of Ardis.
Grace was beginning to wonder how much light would shine if this raw stone, which was still rough, were polished.