Villainess and Grimoire - Chapter 92 – General Aurora Arc

Year 5009 after the system day 3 of the sun season in the middle of Tonne village.

“Hello, we’ve been looking for an old man beggar for a while, he’s known for using swords, do you happen to know where I could find him?”

An old woman replies, “Ah… that old drunken bastard, he lives down that road in an old wooden house, but I don’t recommend going there you might lose your life, and you’re both still young…”

“Thank you ma’am we’ll be careful,” the two of them continued their walk all the way to the wooden house eventually reaching it.

As they got to it the sound of swords hitting one another fiercely could be heard, and a neighbor who saw the two of them passing by said,” day and night, day and night, clack clack clack, the swords they don’t stop, the swords they scream, the swords oh the swords they feel the despair of being used and abused by the two of them.

Ming bowed lightly to the man without saying anything and approached the entrance of the little dojo where he saw the two of them fighting alongside Momo.

The two of them sat on the wooden floor without making noise and assisted their sparring.

Old man Ray sword coated with thunder would go straight to Iris weak points one after another which she’d dodge with all her speed and agility while covering her body parts with ice, he was currently teaching her to defend herself by fast producing small parts of ice instead of using an entire set of ice armor while increasing her reaction speed to his attacks which were insane.

This went on for two more hours till Iris finally fell on the wooden floor completely exhausted both physically and magically.

The old man then sheathed his sword and passed by the two who had been sitting at the entrance for a while without saying anything as he didn’t felt hostility and left as they didn’t say anything to him.

‘That kid fishing rod has golden letters… must be one of those summoned weapons from the goddess Aria,’ Ray thought not paying it much mind as it wasn’t a sword.

Momo entered the dojo and Ming waited outside closing the door so no one outside would see his sister’s unique appearance.

She then took out her hood and looked at me opening her mouth and saying,” Hello Iris, I’ve come from far away to meet you, I’m Momo a cursed human.”

Without having an inch of energy left I stared at her for a while appreciating her unique appearance from the beautiful white hair to the white eyebrows lastly those glittering ruby eyes, and said,” your hair and eyes are beautiful Momo, I’m Iris also a cursed human,” I smile kindly at her.

Momo opens her mouth while blushing almost tearing up from being praised by someone else that wasn’t her brother, and then said with a trembling voice,” since… birth, I’ve had a cursed skill called soul whisper, it causes fear upon me, but in exchange, it tells me important things and ever since this war started it has asked me to aide your sister Aurora, but at the same time it has warned me countless times about how dangerous you will become in the future that is to come.”

Upon hearing her words I whisper softly,” so? Have you come to kill me?” My green eyes reflect her red ones who stare intently at me as if trying to see through in search of something.

Year 5009 after the system day 3 of the sun season in one of the training grounds of the southern outpost.

Harmin smiled and then took a step forward waving his hammer horizontally moderately which Alicia jumped backward and then as the hammer passed she dashed forward enhancing her physic with the wind and natural elemental skills.

The man started laughing at how fast the little girl is and held the hammer with both hands shouting,” flash bang,” with an even faster speed the muscular and strength of the body allowed him to wave his hammer to where it came from forcing Alicia to take a direct hit on her body being blown away off the field.

After Alicia body rolled a couple of times on the ground she got up and said,” natural healing,” as a green light healed the bruise in her body she said,” I didn’t expect that insane speed for such a heavy weapon like that, you’re not all talk after all,” she dashed right after him and he waved the hammer while laughing, this time being parried by Alicia who held her ground.

‘This person is way stronger than Ange, my fingers are going numb from just parrying, time to try one of my mother’s techniques,’ Alicia lowers her body and turns the sword handle slightly allowing the sword to slip through, and dashes forward closing the distance.

Noticing this, he figured that if he allowed his hammer to do the same, the sword would hit him first, as such, he rotated the hammer pushing forward with the long handle killing Alicia momentum then kicking her feet at the end making her trip, and then lifted the hammer in the air creating a shadow right on her face, and as it went down, it was stopped halfway by the sword of Alfred who blocked it peerlessly.

The soldiers around started clapping surprised by the old man’s skills and how easily he maneuvered the hammer that looked extremely heavy, some of them would even later try to do the same, unable to lift it from the ground.

The old man lifted the hammer positioning it on top of his shoulder while Alfred regained the distance between them while he was stared at, leaving Harmin quite intrigued by the swift sword movement just now.

Once Alicia got up, she dusted her dress by slapping it a few times, and then returned to her father’s side, on the way there the old man behind her said loudly,” with some more growth and experience in battle you’ll surely surpass me one day.”

She looks behind meeting a happy man memorizing his face and weapon then turning back to Alfred who accompanied her out.

“Would you have beaten him, father?”

As naturally as breathing he replies calmly and confidently, “of course, I have yet to meet someone I can’t.”

“Iris teacher seemed interesting too, I can’t wait to become strong enough to be on par with such people.”

“That one had an interesting trick, however, don’t rush things, and keep working on your basics, if the opponent was slightly less powerful you would’ve cut his head off.”

Alicia stared at her father who walked gallantly, while she smiled happily on the rare praise he did, grabbing his hand and walking back to one of the tents.

‘Even with the knowledge I got from Rizia, my body is far from being able to keep up with her swordsmanship, after this war I’ll go back to train with my parents, and once I grow up some more, I’ll surpass the first hero memories, in a few years I’ll become one with the sword.’

‘First, all those rumors about the blonde general I heard from the different taverns I passed by, at how peerless and magnificent she was, and now this Alicia girl…’

‘For a young lady that was surely an interesting sword thrust, I bet she didn’t notice the slight cut on my chin, seems like the new generation is showing some promise, let’s hope they don’t die in war.’

He looked at those around who remained and spoke.

“Well then, I have my blood boiling from fighting that little gal, which of you would like to spar with this old man next? If anyone beats me I’ll pay them some beer and a date with a woman at that!”

The soldiers excited by the man’s promise and with the will to improve themselves started making a line to challenge him, and so till the next war they’d be fighting him every day improving greatly.

Some hours passed and Harmin was already acting like a leader for the 10 soldiers he beat in the duels, he was currently telling them stories of his past achievements.

“And you guys know what?”

“What Harmin?” One of them voices happily still a bit sore from the duel.

“There was this one time where I fought a minotaur in one of my travels beyond the sea! A big creature with two horns and a fierce appearance, he fought with a long club.”

“What!? You’ve been beyond the sea? The sea is said to be filled with insanely strong monsters like the legendary octopussy!”

“Well, I guess I was just lucky to not have found any peculiar sea monster aside from some annoying kappa monsters that would jump inside the ship, they had these big shells on their back and were light green with hands that reminded me of frogs.”

“Kappas? I’ve never heard of that one…”

“I suppose the sea must have a lot of interesting sea monsters, maybe even kingdoms like we have here!” A different soldier shouted happily.

“After this war, you guys should explore overseas, who knows what you might find!” Harmin laughed loudly patting the back of one of them.

All sorts of stories went on, eventually ending up in all of them joining up to farm the fields, and of course, Harmin not only joined them in it but also joined their squad.

Some hours went by and he started feeling his statuses growing as he received all sorts of titles.

“How come the general put you guys, ah I mean all of us farming?”

“One of the reasons the general gave us is that if we want to eat our fill we must help to create the food for it, the other is that we’ll receive titles that will increase mostly our stamina and strength which will help against the goblins who excel in both.”

“That blonde brat was it? Seems like an interesting one indeed.”

“The holes are ready Harmin try using some of those seeds now then close the holes with the hoe.”

“Uh? Sure.”

Once he was done he shouted,” oh another title! I can feel myself growing stronger,” he started laughing loudly again making everyone around cheerful and happy to have him around.

“Alright Harmin, let’s go water the fields next, it’ll grant us another title too!”

“What!? Does everything we do give us titles? That’s way too easy!”

“Yeah, some of us who came from peasant families already had some but apparently they can be improved by doing this for a long time, so a lot of us get to improve that way.”

“Interesting… I have my share of titles too but I was never into this type of work before, I’ll work extra hard as it’ll make me more powerful!”

“We won’t fall behind!” The men shouted inciting rivalry between one another.

Harming upon walking near the river saw Alfred and Alicia also filling their watering cans.

‘It seems like even the most prestigious nobles are also doing this sort of tasks, just how did a peasant gain all that authority? This Aurora girl… from what the soldiers told me she was a peasant who became a noble, a general and was even blessed by the Saintess.’

‘A series of lucky chances? Perhaps… fate?’

‘Be it whatever it is I have yet to see how she leads the men during the war, that’ll be the most essential, and the only thing that’ll matter, if she sucks, I’ll just have to replace her, for now, I’ll climb the ranks all the way up to…’

“What was the highest rank again of the leading type?”

“Major Harmin, you get to lead a thousand soldiers if you get that far.”

“Major… I like the ring of that! Alright, I’ll start by grabbing that rank for myself,” he once again started laughing loudly attracting Alicia’s attention who overhead his conversation due to his loud voice.

She points at him and yells,” I’ll get that rank before you Harmin!”

The man surprised by that sudden commentary laughed out even louder and then said,” bring it on little lady!”

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