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Chapter 25
Chapter 25
Silence flowed.
Not only Dominic and the expeditionary force knights, but even the vassals who had been watching the situation from afar held their breath.
“‘Please cross swords with me,’ huh.”
Dominic muttered, repeating Semer’s words.
Ӗ n̆ ù m̃a
As far as he knew, Semer was an outstanding knight who had entered the early stages of the first-rate realm, a composed man who never spoke carelessly.
As proof, unlike the other expeditionary knights whose gazes held suspicion and faint hostility toward Dominic, Semer’s eyes were plain. What filled them was nothing but curiosity.
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Dominic had originally thought about ignoring the expeditionary knights’ request, but even his mind changed when he saw Semer’s eyes.
‘Besides, there’s something I want to experiment with.’
It was something he had been thinking about since he woke up that morning, and Semer happened to look like a more suitable test subject than anyone else.
“Very well.”
Е̄ ṅ u m̂а́
Having finished his thoughts, Dominic answered briskly.
“What did you say?”
“Did I hear that wrong?”
“Then does that mean all of that story was true?”
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“Now we’ll have to see it with our own eyes!”
The expeditionary knights buzzed noisily, as if they could not believe that Dominic had accepted Semer’s request.
W̊е́ b̌ n̆ о̀ v̊ е l̀ Е̇ ñ u mа
But the vassals were different.
Those who had previously seen the duels and sparring between Dominic and Bread, and between Dominic and Duke Anika, looked at Dominic with eyes that were somehow fearful.
‘What kind of weapon has the young master prepared this time?’
The exact same thought was swirling through all of the vassals’ minds.
“A duel would not suit the difference between your skill and mine, so let us make it a sparring match.”
“……What do you mean by our skills not matching?”
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“Sir Semer has entered the early stage of the first-rate realm, whereas am I not below third-rate?”
At those words, Semer flinched.
“You weren’t thinking it was the other way around, were you?”
Dominic made a joke uncharacteristic of him.
Semer looked at Dominic and thought about something for a long while before opening his mouth.
“To be honest…… I thought it might be the opposite.”
É n u m а̌. і̌d̄
“Why is that?”
“I heard that during your sparring with the Head of the family, young master, you released explosive Aura.”
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“Ah.”
Dominic let out a small exclamation.
‘So that spread as Aura.’
Since Duke Anika and Selina, who knew the truth, kept their mouths shut, and Dominic himself focused on stabilizing himself, it was only natural.
En ü m̌a
‘Someday I’ll have to reveal that it was Mana. But now is not the time.’
Dominic recalled Duke Anika’s advice to first solidify his standing before revealing anything about magic.
‘But I can’t just let them misunderstand it as Aura, either.’
Thinking that, Dominic opened his mouth.
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“That wasn’t Aura.”
“Yes? But…….”
Е̂nŭm̌a
“In this sparring match, you’ll be able to tell yourself that it wasn’t Aura, Sir Semer.”
At Dominic’s words, the curiosity on Semer’s face deepened further.
“Shall we schedule the sparring for ten days later, as per custom?”
“Hm.”
Dominic pondered. After running through various plans in his head, he spoke again.
“This time I don’t have that much time, and I’d like to do it quickly. How about tomorrow.”
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In an instant, Semer’s face stiffened.
‘Damn.’
Dominic realized that Semer had misunderstood his words.
He truly had suggested sparring the next day because he lacked time, but Semer had taken it as Dominic not giving sufficient consideration to their sparring.
‘Misunderstandings…… are better resolved by crossing swords directly than by words.’
Since neither Dominic nor Semer were the type to unravel misunderstandings with long explanations, their conversation that day ended just like that.
W̌ е̇b̆n оv̂ е̊ľ Е ṅum̃ á
Dominic postponed his visit to Natasha, which had been scheduled to research the Lich King’s bracelet, and trained the techniques he had newly mastered in the clearing until that night.
Then, before it got too late, he ate dinner, lay down on his bed, and replenished his strength.
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The next day, amid the vassals’ fervent attention, Dominic and Semer faced each other at the training ground of the Anika Knight Order.
‘Russell is here.’
Because the sparring schedule had been arranged hastily, Selina and Duke Anika could not attend, yet for some reason Russell—who should have been the busiest person after Duke Anika—was visible among the spectators.
With his characteristic expressionless face that revealed nothing of his thoughts, Russell nodded along to the surrounding vassals’ chatter.
W ё b̆ñ о v еl̈ Е̊ n̂u̇m̆ а
And among the vassals speaking to Russell was Orphe.
The very Orphe who had sent Dominic a handwritten letter inviting him to the expedition report meeting.
‘Did Orphe bring him?’
If so, it made sense. Orphe would have wanted, no matter what, to put Russell and Dominic in the same place and compare them.
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Perhaps because he had been staring too intently, Russell noticed Dominic’s gaze and turned his head toward him.
Dominic, unable to bring himself to deliberately avert his eyes, quietly met Russell’s gaze, whereupon Russell subtly clenched his fist and raised it into the air.
Enůṁ а̂.і̃d
It looked just like a gesture inviting a fist bump.
‘Is he encouraging me.’
Dominic let out a small snort of laughter and raised his fist back toward Russell.
“Young Master Dominic and Sir Semer, please step forward.”
As the two brothers exchanged signals like that, the voice of Gale, who was in charge of overseeing this sparring match, rang out.
Dominic lowered his fist, returned with a stiff expression, and stood facing Semer.
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He could feel Semer’s sharp gaze sweeping over Dominic’s body, especially the hand resting atop the scabbard.
“Ready.”
When Semer saw Dominic grasp the sword’s hilt, his eyes flashed with interest.
‘Did he notice the memories of my previous life flowing inside my body?’
Dominic was curious.
Duke Anika had only spoken about Mana and had never mentioned the mysterious power that corrected the pathways within Dominic’s body.
E n̆ u ma
Because of that, Dominic had no idea what that force truly was, nor how noticeable it might be.
‘Either way, once we cross swords, everything will become clear.’
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Thinking that, Dominic lowered his stance.
“Sparring, begin!”
At Gale’s voice, Dominic and Semer drew their swords almost simultaneously.
“Huh, as expected, the difference is enormous.”
Е ň u m á.ï d
A mutter drifted from the spectator seats.
“From the sword-drawing alone, Sir Semer is completely ahead.”
There’s a difference, he’s lagging behind…….
Words Dominic had heard often enough in the past to make his ears ring.
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But the words reaching him today were a little different from before.
“Still, we don’t know the outcome yet.”
Wе̄ b̆n öv̂ e̊l Е n̂ûm̀ ä
“That’s right. Young Master Dominic’s momentum is anything but ordinary.”
People no longer easily assumed Dominic’s defeat.
“That level of focus—I never realized before, but it’s truly remarkable.”
And above all, what was encouraging was that they had begun to notice Dominic’s assets one by one.
Previously, buried beneath his terrible Swordsmanship, few people realized how sharp his concentration was or how strong his competitive drive could be.
But now it was different.
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As Dominic achieved results twice, those who had discarded their prejudice against him began, little by little, to acknowledge that he was genuinely outstanding in certain aspects.
‘This feeling is really…… strange.’
To think that the qualities which had never been acknowledged—never even recognized as existing—when he tried so desperately, were now being revealed the moment he let go of his inferiority complex and desperation.
The irony was so amusing that Dominic almost smiled.
‘Focus.’
Since he was in the middle of a sparring match, Dominic consciously shut out the surrounding sounds instead of smiling and poured all of his attention into Semer.
Е ṅ um̊ â. ĭd
Then, slowly, he began to infuse Mana into his body, into the sword he held in his hand.
Physical enhancement technique and physical extension technique now flowed as naturally as running water.
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Dominic vividly felt his body hardening, the sword in his grasp and his hand naturally linking through Mana, and the sensation of wind brushing past the tip of the blade.
“I will yield the opening strike.”
Semer spoke, and Dominic did not bother to refuse.
For testing the ‘Dominic version’ of the physical extension technique, taking the opening strike was perfect.
Ŵ еb n о̊ v̂ е̄ l E̊ n̆ u m̆à
Dominic cautiously stepped forward with one foot.
He tried to feel the ground that was firmly supporting his feet.
And when the sensation of the ground touching his foot became sufficiently familiar, he focused Mana into his foot.
It was not to kick off the ground.
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It was to infuse Mana into the ground.
‘If I can infuse Mana into familiar objects, then not just swords, but even everyday things I come into contact with could hold Mana.’
Е̃ nu m̌_а
A theory regarding the physical extension technique unfolded in Dominic’s mind.
‘Then what reason is there that those objects cannot become the ground, water, wind, or air?’
Everyone breathes air, faces the wind, drinks water, and lives upon the ground.
‘Perhaps the ground, water, and air are objects even more familiar to me than a sword.’
If he could truly feel the ground, water, and air as familiar, infuse Mana into them, and control them as delicately as his own body, then that would be…….
‘Something incredible. It would mean controlling space itself.’
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Since yesterday, Dominic had spent his time experimenting with this ‘physical extension technique, Dominic version.’
And while air and water were still beyond him, he had grasped how to infuse Mana into the ground.
Air and water were difficult, but infusing Mana into the ground was simpler than expected.
Perhaps it was because, unlike air, the ground could be touched, and unlike flowing water, the ground was fixed.
‘Right now, like this.’
Dominic smiled in satisfaction as he looked at his Mana making the ground quiver with a crackling sound.
W̊ е̇ b̈ṅӧv́ӗ l Ӗ nū m̊ a
“……What is happening right now?”
In contrast, Semer’s eyes widened as if he had seen a ghost.
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“Did I see wrong? It looked like the ground moved.”
“No, you didn’t see it wrong. I saw it too.”
“Didn’t you hear a crackling sound as well?”
The spectators watching Dominic were the same.
Ӗ ñ u m а̃ . ï d
“Infusing Aura into the ground—this is unheard of…….”
“I told you. It isn’t Aura.”
Dominic replied to Semer’s mutter and took another step forward.
At that, the ground stretched like rubber to follow Dominic’s foot and then literally ‘folded.’
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‘Ugh, I’m still unskilled at controlling the ground by infusing Mana. It keeps following my body.’
What Dominic had originally intended was to infuse Mana into the air between the ground and his foot as well, placing all space as an extension of his body.
W ē b̃n о́ ṽе l̂ È ṅu m̃ а
But his level of training had not yet reached that point.
‘It can’t be helped. Then for now, I’ll use this method to subdue Sir Semer.’
Dominic put strength into his right foot that was planted on the ground—or more precisely, connected to the ground.
Then the earth beneath his right foot shuddered, wriggling and swelling upward like a slime, said to be one of the heterogeneous races.
“Sir Semer, raise your sword! This is my opening strike!”
Dominic warned him, and Semer reflexively raised his sword. At that moment, the soil that had surged up like a slime shot forward like an arrow and attacked Semer.
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Thud!
Semer’s sword collided head-on with the incoming earth.
Having lost its connection to Dominic during its flight, the soil could no longer maintain its form and scattered into fragments.
“What is this……!”
Just as Semer cried out at the truly unimaginable attack—
“Looks like the match is over.”
Е̊n ū m ă
Dominic, who had somehow walked straight over and was now holding his sword to Semer’s neck, said with a broad grin.
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