The God-Possessed Swordsmanship Genius - Chapter 10

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Chapter 10 of “The Sword Genius Blessed by God”

The reason Pedrok had wept so bitterly.
It was because Allen had, for a long time, been buying Spirit Pills from all over the place in an effort to solve Bima’s Curse.
Among them were several that were nearly impossible to obtain with gold alone.
Who could have imagined that the energy of those Spirit Pills, which he’d assumed had long been digested and gone, was still lingering inside his body?

There was only one reason he could guess at.
It was Bima’s Curse, once again.
His body couldn’t store Mana, but at the same time, the Mana that had entered his body couldn’t escape outward either.
Thud-
Allen felt his heart begin to pound.

‘If I melt all of this down, how much Mana could I gain?’

Even though his count had risen by one, the massive lump of Mana looked exactly the same as it had at the start.

Ten? Twenty?
Either way, he was certain he could gain at least several dozen points of Mana.

‘I shouldn’t be celebrating just because I can swing a sword now.’

For the time being, I need to focus on making this enormous Mana my own.

‘I can do this.’

Allen’s lips curled into a deeper smile as a surge of exhilaration swept through him.
He closed his eyes and resumed his cultivation. Little by little, the way one melts ice, Allen repeated the process of turning the clumped Mana into something that belonged to him.

[Mana has increased by 1.]
[Mana has increased by 1.]
[Mana has…….]
[…….]

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For four days, Allen all but lived at the Training Ground. Those hours were spent making the Mana inside his body his own.
He cut back even on sleep, yet he didn’t feel the slightest bit tired.
If anything, he felt like he could fly.

[Mana: 17]

In total, his Mana had risen by fifteen.
It wasn’t just the number going up. As his Mana grew, Allen felt a refreshing fullness he had never known before.
Strengthening his body with Mana had become much easier now, and the power it produced was beyond question.
Even so, a great deal of the Mana lump still remained.

‘I’m absolutely thrilled with myself.’

Who was?
The me from the past.
Thanks to the System and the Spirit Pills he’d taken in the past, his Mana was building up at an astonishing pace. Without any exaggeration, the Allen of today was a different person from the one of four days ago.
On the last day, Allen slept soundly, then gathered his packed belongings and left the Annex.
Before leaving the Main Estate, Allen went to see someone.

“Have you eaten yet?”

Axion, who had been reviewing documents in the Clan Head’s Hall, looked up at Allen’s arrival with a puzzled expression.

“A meal?”
“Yes. Isn’t it past mealtime?”
“I ate something. But you didn’t come all this way just to ask that, did you?”

Axion let out a short, dry laugh. He had asked whether I’d eaten before, too, and now it seemed he had come back to ask the same thing.

“No. I have some business outside for a while, so I came to let you know. I’ll be back before it gets too late, so please don’t worry.”
“Worry? Hardly. But why are you telling me this?”
“You’re my father, aren’t you?”

At Allen’s answer, Axion’s brow twitched.
Before he could say anything, Allen hurried to add,

“This isn’t a formal setting, after all.”

He was recalling the lecture about addressing him properly whenever they were in an official setting.
Right now, there were only two people in the Clan Head’s Hall: Axion and Allen.

“Fine. Titles hardly matter to me. So where exactly are you off to?”
“Somewhere a fair distance from the clan. Think of it as a training trip.”

At the word “training trip,” Axion studied Allen’s aura.

“You’ve changed a bit in just a few days.”
“You noticed?”
“You weren’t exactly trying to hide it, were you?”
“Others might not know, but what secrets could I possibly keep from you, Father?”

With an intrigued look, Axion rose from his seat. Descending the steps, he walked toward Allen.
As the distance between him and his father closed, Allen’s eyes trembled.
The last time they had met, they hadn’t really spoken, and they had been standing much farther apart.
Just then.

Swish!

Axion’s sword came flying at him with terrifying speed. Sensing a threat to his life, Allen moved on pure instinct.
It was fast enough that he could hardly have dodged it without using mana.
Had his father truly meant to kill him, he would have been cut down in a single stroke, yet it didn’t feel as though he was being spared, either.

Several times, he faced moments of real danger. Each time, though, Allen felt a strange sensation, as if someone were helping him.
It was mana.

‘So this is what it feels like.’

Even now, dodging his father’s blade, Allen felt a thrill.
To evade what could not be evaded, and to see what could not be seen. The mystery of mana was nothing short of magic.

Having dodged the blows one after another, Allen leapt back with a long stride. He had succeeded in slipping out of Axion’s onslaught.
Only after stepping back did Allen realize, belatedly, how startled he was.

‘No sword?’

He could have sworn there had been a blade, yet Axion’s hands were empty. He wasn’t even wearing a sword at his waist.

“You’re all right.”
“Did you attack suddenly just to test my skill?”
“Attack? You call this an attack?”

Axion scoffed. It was shameless, but Allen could hardly argue with him.
Then again, if his father had truly meant to attack in earnest, Allen’s body would already be sliced into dozens of pieces.

“Your progress is remarkable. Is the Spirit Pill you took while under Bima’s Curse only now taking effect? A change like this in just a few days.”

Without waiting for an explanation, Axion seemed to have grasped at once where Allen’s advancement had come from.
Still, being told “adequate” was nothing short of high praise. Allen had never once received even a hint of compliment from Axion in his life.
Forgetting his embarrassment, Allen quickly perked up and began to gush.

“Do I finally look like a proper Heir Apparent?”
“Don’t get cocky. What you’ve achieved is a kind of Fortuitous Encounter. Don’t mistake it for your own ability.”
“Is that so?”

He had come in so tense, but the private audience with his father was far less frightening or awkward than he’d expected. The fear he’d felt toward his father had been a misunderstanding conjured up by his past self.
The greatest swordsman on the continent, the Clan Head of Bishuken.
It was that thick, glittering shell that had made him so difficult to approach.

“Have you finally come to your senses?”

To his father, at that time, he had been nothing but a man sunk in the curse and wallowing in despair.
It was a question that made perfect sense.

“Yes. I’ll stop giving you so much trouble from now on.”
“You’re being so cocky that now you’re even thinking about what goes on inside me.”
“Did I really seem that cocky to you?”
“You seemed rather pleased that the curse was lifted.”
“I am pleased. I’ve finally finished a homework assignment I’ve carried my whole life.”
“A whole life, my foot. You’re just a green boy.”

At his father’s sharp rebuke, Allen gave a sheepish smile.
His father would never know. Never know what kind of life he had lived, or how many decades he had traced back to return to this place.
If he did know, then even a man as stingy with praise as his father might at least offer a single word: “You’ve suffered.”

“Let’s walk for a bit.”
“Excuse me?”
“I’ve been sitting too long and my legs are itching to move.”

At Axion’s words, Allen started in surprise.
A walk? Just the two of us, with his father?
Whether or not he had bothered to ask for agreement, Axion was already striding out of the Clan Head’s Hall.
Allen hurried after him. When the two of them emerged from the Clan Head’s Hall together, Iorga and the other swordsmen were taken aback.

“Clan Head!”
“No need to follow. I’ll just take a short walk.”

At Axion’s command, Iorga hesitated before bowing his head. His gaze flicked over to Allen one last time.
The Clan Head was going out for a stroll with the Second Heir?
No, this was closer to a send-off. The Second Heir had said he’d come to see the Clan Head briefly before leaving the Main Estate.

“I’m lucky today. Father’s even seeing me off.”

While Allen beamed, Axion was not walking without a reason.

“Our business with the Steel Castle Lord isn’t finished yet.”

Axion brought up the Steel Castle Lord.
He had interfered with Allen’s mission, and he knew full well that Allen had given the Steel Castle Lord’s disciple a thorough beating over it.

“He won’t let this go. He cares for his eldest far more than you think.”
“Was that why you suggested the walk?”
“Did you think I’d do it just because I fancy you?”

Father’s reason for walking with me wasn’t simply to spend time with his son.
This send-off was a kind of protection.
A warning that since he was keeping such a close eye on his son, no one should lay a finger on him.
Knowing this was time with a purpose, Allen felt regret and gratitude at once.

‘Right. I doubt he saw me off because he couldn’t bear to part with me for even a minute longer.’

That was as far as his relationship with his father went.
Rather than dwelling on the regret, Allen tried hard to feel the gratitude more keenly. If his father truly didn’t care for him, there would have been no send-off like this at all.

In front of the Main Estate, Allen asked,

“Are you going to buy me a souvenir?”
“Stop wasting words and get going. If you think you’ll be late, contact me through the family’s messenger network in that region.”
“I’m not a child anymore.”
“A whelp, that’s what you are.”

With a scoff, Axion took a single Platinum Coin from his robes and held it out.
A Platinum Coin worth a full 100 Gold. Travel funds were already tight, so this was a timely gift.

“Pocket money?”
“Now, who was it that just said he wasn’t a child?”
“Then what is it?”
“A mission.”

Allen was taken aback.
He had heard that a mission would come soon, but he never expected a new one to be handed down so quickly.
Axion explained the details of the mission.

“North of the Owen Kingdom is a group called the Chainbreak Society. Under the pretext of debts, they enslave commoners, violate women and even children, and sell them beyond the kingdom’s borders. Scum, the lot of them.”
“Bastards. So all I have to do is catch them?”
“Simply catching them won’t be enough.”

Axion said it with resolve.

“Your mission is the elimination of the Chainbreak Society’s leader.”

Elimination.
It meant to make certain he didn’t leave this world alive.

“I hear you let all the bandits go.”

It seemed Lucas had reported back, and this was the assignment that followed.
Both his brother and his father must have judged him to be rather soft.
And so his father showed two faces.
One was the father who stepped out of the Clan Head’s Hall to see his son off, shielding him; the other was the lion who hurled him over a cliff into danger.

Just then,

Ding!

[Mission registered.]
[Category: Mission]
[You have received the Clan Head’s errand. Eliminate the leader of the Chainbreak Society.]
[Deadline: ∞]
[Reward: All Stats +2]

A message appeared out of nowhere.
There was no need to read it closely; its contents entered Allen’s mind at once.

‘A mission?’

It seemed that completing Father’s errand would earn a reward from the System.
All Stats +2.
It was no small reward. Considering how hard he had trained over the past few days just to gain a single Stat point, this was nothing less than obtaining a rare Spirit Pill.
Above all, if it was Father’s mission, he would have to carry it out regardless.

“It’s a family mission, not some trivial matter. Leave it to me.”
“If you need anything, go to the family’s branch office.”
“Understood. Then, I’ll take my leave.”

Allen bowed his head briefly and left the Main Estate.

‘It’s a misunderstanding, Father.’

The elimination of the Chainbreak Society’s leader.
As he recalled the mission, Allen’s eyes gleamed with a fierce light.

‘I’ve killed plenty of men who weren’t really men, you know.’

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