Genius Is Taught by Geniuses

032 – Mismatched Sword (1)

Today was the day of Tigris’ first lecture.

Charlotte looked at Tigris as she stood on the podium.

I expected that it would be very humiliating to learn a sword from Tigris, but is it because I admit that there is a huge skill gap?

I didn’t feel any rejection as I expected.

Rather, I began to wonder what I was going to learn.

‘Calm down. I’m the one who has to beat him.’

Charlotte glared at Tigris with a smirk.

It seemed that his will to fight would surge if he had to catch even a small flaw.

However, Tigris’ uniform was not wrinkled, his shoes were polished enough to slip even when insects flew in, and his face was objectively good-looking.

‘Well···. Is your hair a little messy?’

Ephrin, who was standing next to him, tapped Charlotte’s arm and said.

“Charlotte. Instructor Tigris, doesn’t the uniform look good on you? When I saw other instructors, it was just that, but I guess the hanger is also important.”

“Is that important now? How well you can teach matters.”

“Isn’t he probably good at teaching as well? You are a genius.”

“It is a misunderstanding to say that everyone is a genius and teaches well. I can’t teach you more because I’m a genius, right?”

Charlotte admits that Tigris is a swordsman genius.

If you don’t call the person who made the four rings at the age of 19 a genius, you’re wrong.

But that’s why Tigris was sure he wouldn’t be able to properly teach ordinary people.

The difference between a genius and a criminal is, to put it bluntly, that of an apes and a human.

Geniuses see what ordinary people cannot see, hear what they cannot hear, and feel what they cannot feel.

This was an experience, not a delusion in Charlotte’s head.

When my classmates and juniors asked how Tigris did the heavy slash that Tigris showed me before, he replied that it was okay to think of it as cutting down a giant tree.

None of them understood Charlotte’s words.

As always, he just laughed and said, ‘As expected, a genius, a genius.’

This was the reason why 90% of the knights could not escape from the 3-star knights even if they trained for their entire lives.

Charlotte had the sense and sense to make the floating cloud-like images and sensations in her head into reality, but they didn’t.

So, no matter how climactic it was, it would look like a long poem to a criminal, but to a genius, it was something that could tell the exquisite depths contained in it.

Charlotte called his own ‘intuition’, the ability to grasp and express sensations and images that cannot be described in words, and he thought that the difference between having intuition or not was the difference between a genius and a criminal.

It is very difficult for a genius with intuition to teach swordsmanship to ordinary people who do not have intuition.

Is it as difficult as telling someone who has never had a left arm to move their left arm?

Will Tigris be able to verbally explain and teach the realm of intuition that criminals do not feel?

Charlotte didn’t think it would be easy.

Tigris opened his mouth.

“I will start the lecture from now on.”

Tigris grabbed the chalk, not the sword, first.

When I asked why there was a blackboard on the podium, it seemed that he brought it for the purpose of taking notes.

Tigris was embroidered on the blackboard with clean and neat handwriting, as if it had been drawn from a telegram printer.

“Today, this time, you will learn a total of four types of strikes.”

heavy drop.

silent slap.

A slap with a change in speed.

A strike with a change to the sword.

“All slaps in this world do not deviate significantly from these four categories. For example, in Norberde’s swordsmanship, slicing a giant tree belongs to a ‘heavy strike’, and in the Tienny family’s swordsmanship, swallowing belongs to a ‘silent strike’. Swordsmanship, where technique is more important than strength and speed, falls into the third and fourth categories.”

Tigris began to write down the names of his family’s swordsmanship in each category.

Whether it was the swordsmanship of the mercenaries or the swordsmanship of the nobles, he wrote at least 10 of them.

The students were surprised that Tigris knew so many swordsmanship.

“Swordsmanship that uses a heavy strike and a quick strike with a simple sword and little change were made for the purpose of opposing monsters. This is because most monsters are harder or faster than humans, but less intelligent than humans.”

Charlotte realized that she was unwittingly concentrating on Tigris’ class.

Tigris was teaching swordsmanship in detail by raising it to the realm of learning.

He was leading the lecture with an easy-to-understand description and word choice.

‘···Are you doing something?’

As it was the first class, he seemed to have prepared hard.

“On the other hand, slashing with a change in speed and slashing with a change in sword path are swordsmanship made against humans. The swordsmanships of the Schwein, Safia, Monohar, Dogma, Fern, and Vinsmoke families listed here are typical. In battle with humans, strength and speed are of course important, but psychological warfare is more important to ships, so the swordsmanship of these families is very anomalous.”

Tigris put down the chalk.

“The four swordsmanships I have shown are not deep and the difficulty is not that high. It’s just a cheap swordsmanship that I improvised to give examples of these four categories.”

Charlotte was absurd.

Most of the people who couldn’t even follow that cheap swordsmanship now.

In Charlotte’s eyes, the swordsmanship made by Tigris was twice as high as the swordsmanship that most mercenaries were learning.

“However, if you fully understand these four types of slaps, your perspective on slaps will be completely different. And you’ll learn how to break that blow. So we need to learn these four types of slamming within this week.”

A shadow began to appear on the faces of the students.

All the students tried to master all four types of slamming before participating in this class, but they couldn’t follow it.

Tichrist knew, of course, that except for Charlotte and Irene, he had not mastered all four types of slamming.

So Tigris was going to tell them step by step according to their level.

Tigris pointed to Ephrin, who was next to Charlotte.

“Ephrin. Come forward and do a heavy blow.”

“Yes? yes! All right.”

Ephrin drew her sword and stepped forward.

A look of tension was evident.

Ephrin took a deep breath and slashed the sword.

It was an ordinary slap that did not feel even heavy.

Ephrin’s face turned red like an apple from embarrassment.

“Wrong.”

“···sorry.”

“You don’t seem to know yet how to use Aurors to give resistance to muscles.”

“···Yes.”

“I will give you the trick. Unfold the first second of the Imperial Swordsmanship.”

He was confident in his imperial swordsmanship.

It was because it was the sword that Ephrin had trained the most among all the swordsmanship that Ephrin had learned.

Ephrin slashed his sword.

Uh-!

The sword did not waver, and the wind blew through the sword with precision.

Ephrin’s slamming was the norm among the norms.

It was a bit of a pity to say it was good, but it was an ambiguous level of hitting that couldn’t be said that it wasn’t good.

Therefore, it was suitable as a sample.

Most of the students here are on the same level as Ephrin.

“Just stop.”

Ephrin maintained the posture after the sword had been completely slashed.

The weight was shifted forward, the steps were firmly fixed and the sword pointed downwards.

“Now, unfold the first second of the Imperial Swordsmanship in the reverse direction again.”

“Yes? What is that…”

Tigris took the same pose as Ephrin and slowly raised his sword.

“It literally means moving in the opposite direction. Then feel which muscles relax and contract.”

Ephrin once again unfolded it in the reverse direction as Tigris had instructed.

It was awkward because I wasn’t used to it, but it wasn’t that difficult because it was moving along the sword as it is.

“You don’t have to remember every muscle movement. Just remember the movements of the large muscles in your stomach, shoulders, and arms. Try repeating it a few times until you fully remember it.”

Ephrin tried a few times.

And he completely remembered the movements of the muscles.

It is difficult to remember all the detailed muscles, but it was not so difficult to remember only the movements of the large muscles.

“Put in the auror one last time and move it back in the opposite direction.”

Then the tip of the sword shook and moved unstable.

It trembled like the legs of a child who was about to walk for the first time.

“It doesn’t matter if the sword shakes a lot, so just focus on remembering the direction and movement of the auror through the muscles. And while maintaining that sense, unfold the first second of the Imperial Swordsmanship again.”

Ephrin closed her eyes and thought for a moment.

‘Put the auror in the reverse direction….’

He performed the first second of the Imperial Swordsmanship.

When Ephrin’s muscles and Auror’s directions crossed, Ephrin’s body stopped.

It was like a train with brakes on.

“uh?”

“Good job. Try reducing the output of the auror this time. Even a tenth is fine.”

“yes.”

Ephrin completely reduced the Auror’s output and drew his sword.

Despite the fact that he was cutting through the air with a sense of pride, he felt a strong sense of resistance.

Hung!

Then it was awkward, but Ephrin’s sword had a sword wind, and he was able to do a heavy blow.

Ephrin was so surprised that she had done a heavy blow, and widened her eyes.

“uh?! uh?”

The students looked at Ephrin as if it were ridiculous.

Tigris only coached for 5 minutes, but he was able to hit a heavy blow.

Of course, the level of perfection was much lower than that of Tigris.

But with a little more practice, it seemed that it could get better.

“What was your feeling?”

“that is···. Feeling like hitting your body with a rubber band…? No, should I say it feels like I’m tied up with sandbags? No, it was more like slowly slicing a huge, thick slime.”

‘Nonsense···.’

Charlotte kept her mouth wide open.

Charlotte taught Ephrin for over an hour to do a heavy hit, but Ephrin never succeeded.

‘I forcibly awakened the senses by subdividing the movements of the muscles and aurors, rather than explaining the sensations.’

Why are all the secret swordsmanships written in esoteric and poetic sentences?

It was because it was difficult for even the creator of swordsmanship to express that feeling in words.

However, Tigris boldly omitted the verbal expression of the swordsmanship he had created, and suggested only a way to get that sense.

This was the same as using magic as an artifact, even though I didn’t know how magic works.

“It seems that the senses are not established yet. Ephrin, by this time next week, write a report on how you feel about heavy hitting and submit it.”

“A sense report?”

“It’s also important to put your feelings into words. It will be helpful for your swordsmanship training if you calmly write down what you felt.”

Tigris also told others.

“Among these, except for Irene and Charlotte, no one fully understands the heavy hit, the silent hit, the speed change, and the sword strike. I will teach you all four types of swordsmanship today, so that everyone can submit a report like Ephrin by next week.”

“Yes!”

It was the first time I had heard that there was a report in a swordsmanship lecture, but no one was betting on it.

That was because the teachings of Tigris were shocking.

Tigris pointed to Charlotte and Irene.

“For the rest of us, practice heavy slamming in the way I told you, and let Charlotte and Irene come forward for a moment.”

Charlotte and Irene each came out with their swords.

“You two have nothing to teach today.”

“…what does that mean? Do you have anything to teach me?”

“Today’s lesson is to fully understand the four types of hitting. But they both understand, so there’s no need to waste time here.”

“Then what can we do?”

“It’s Dalian.”

Tigris gave the two artifacts one by one.

It was a brooch-type artifact with barrier magic on it.

“Winning or losing is determined by the side in which the barrier is activated first. Both of them have two rings each, so the level will be just right.”

Charlotte looked at Irene with surprised eyes.

I knew Irene was quite talented, but I didn’t know that there were two rings.

“After the match, we will conclude by pointing out each other’s shortcomings. Then put on your brooch and keep them apart.”

Charlotte and Irene wore brooches and fell a reasonable distance from each other.

“I will be teaching students. When the match is over, report it to me. And Charlotte.”

“yes?”

“I believe.”

Tigris went back to the students after saying that one word.

Charlotte could get a glimpse of why Tigris had told him he believed.

Charlotte looked at Irene.

Irene was holding a large sword from its sheath.

Irene’s greatsword was completely new.

This is because the blacksmith of the dwarf’s forge not only filled the swords, but also took care of the old pommels and guards.

Thanks to that, the subtle balance of the great sword came into perfect harmony.

But it seemed too heavy for Irene to lift.

“I’ve seen it before, but isn’t that great sword heavy? It’s made of black iron.”

Heuksteel had high durability, but was 1.5 times heavier than other steels.

It’s just that steel is heavy, but since I made such a big sword out of black iron, the weight wouldn’t be a joke.

“It’s not heavy.”

“Hmm···. okay?”

Charlotte drew her long sword.

The sword, as clean as a mirror, glistened in the sunlight.

“When I attacked Instructor Tigris a few days ago, it looked a little heavy, didn’t it?”

“…you must be mistaken.”

Charlotte glanced at Tigris.

Tigris was teaching students.

He wasn’t even interested in this.

‘Believe in Dara….’

Tigris seemed to already know the end of this battle.

In fact, Charlotte knew it too.

Charlotte’s one-sided victory.

As long as he was fighting with a great sword, Irene could not defeat Charlotte even after waking up from death.

Charlotte thought that Tigris had asked Irene to reveal the cold reality.

Charlotte sighed.

“I think that person is good at making people bad.”

Reluctantly, Charlotte decided to accept Tigris’ request.

In fact, Charlotte felt a little sorry for Irene as well.

Irene’s movement and the sense of operating Auror itself were not lacking enough to be called a genius, but the choice of the sword was too wrong.

If you give up the sword, you can fly, but for some reason, Irene did not let go of the sword.

Charlotte could roughly guess why Irene insisted on using a great sword.

‘It must have something to do with the downfall of the Welf family.’

The fall of the Welf family was a famous event that shook the whole empire.

So, in front of Irene, no one talked about the ‘blood demon incident’.

However, whether Irene was trying to get revenge on the blood demon or to re-establish the family, it was obvious that she would not be able to achieve anything using the great sword.

Just as a tree is wounded by pruning to grow properly, I thought that I had to inevitably injure it so that Irene could grow up in the right way and achieve her dream.

and···

‘Like Tigris… no, I can teach others better than Tigris.’

Tigris battled Irene, but did not change Irene.

But Charlotte will be different.

Charlotte will help Irene let go of the sword she is insisting on and help her move in the right direction.

In doing so, he will prove that he is better than Tigris.

Charlotte took a coin out of her pocket.

“I’ll start as soon as the coins run out.”

Irene responded by throwing a sword away instead of a horse.

Charlotte took a small deep breath.

Ting-!

The coin from Charlotte’s hand soared high into the sky.

fell to the ground

At the same time, Charlotte and Irene rushed towards each other at the same time.