Chapter 258
‘…It was a luxury.’
Complaining was a luxury to the talentless. Realizing that fact, Baek Geon-Woo made an effort to grind during the time he wanted to resent the world. He didn’t intend to give up. He wanted to find the fiend who had killed his family and get revenge.
‘I tried.’
He tried like crazy. On rainy days, snowy days, and hot days that made him not want to go outside. He tightened his shoelaces, went outside to train, and hunted monsters.
‘…’
Long after that, he once again had another epiphany. It was that effort and results were not directly proportional. For things people understood after seeing them once, he would only get the hang of them after seeing them three or four times.
‘Indeed.’
Baek Geon-Woo nodded slowly. He realized perfectly what his master was trying to say to him.
‘Was that what he meant by telling me to watch?’
His eyes turned to Seo Jun-Ho again. His view was filled with the man walking forward and resisting the thunderbolts.
‘I see. Those are the people I’m going to face in the future.’
They weren’t the small fries he had met so far. In the future, if he lived as the disciple of the Thunder God, they were the lumps of talent he would have to face, even if he hated it. His master had been trying to ask him whether he was okay with that or not.
“Hmm.”
Baek Geon-Woo asked himself a question: am I prepared to face people with more talent than that?
‘…I am a stronger person than I thought.’
He had an indomitable mind that would not be swayed by any impulse.
Baek Geon-Woo was surprised by his own heart, which remained placid even in the face of Seo Jun-Ho’s talent. At the same time, he had also found the answer to the Thunder God’s question.
‘No matter how great the talent I will face in the future, I will not be defeated.’
The Thunder God sitting on the rock glanced at him and smiled. It seemed his disciple had found the last piece of the puzzle he was lacking.
‘Hmm, I’m training you to this extent, so I need to get something back, too.’
The Thunder God was surprisingly a man who held his profits and losses with importance.
***
It had already been thirty minutes since Seo Jun-Ho started the test. In the meantime, he had only crossed the 50-meter mark.
“Ya walk well. Then how about this?”
The murmuring Thunder God changed his attack pattern once again.
Ruuummmble!
A thunderbolt struck.
‘This time, it’s overhead…’
The moment Seo Jun-Ho reached out and tried to use the power to freeze—
Rumble! Rumble!
The thunderbolt turned twice in the air and easily avoided the Frost energy.
‘What?!’
It was too late to avoid it.
Craaackle!
Seo Jun-Ho instantly created an ice wall and covered his body perfectly.
Booooom!
The thunderbolt struck the ice wall and shattered it, scattering ice crystals into the air. At that moment, the back of Seo Jun-Ho’s head tingled.
‘Behind!’
Seo Jun-Ho turned around and built a wall of ice in the back.
Booom!
When he saw the ice wall collapsing like a sand castle, the alarm in his head rang loudly.
‘Damn, I can’t use the power to freeze if he keeps turning the direction like that.’
So far, the reason why he was able to use the power to freeze against the thunderbolts was simple. It was because the trajectory of the thunderbolts was easy to gauge. Therefore, even the relatively slow Frost energy could slow down the thunderbolt. But now, the thunderbolts were turning madly like a living creature.
“Ugh!”
Seo Jun-Ho’s legs stopped all of a sudden. He didn’t even have the mind to keep walking forward. He had no way to block all the thunderbolts wriggling toward him from every direction.
‘How do I use the power to freeze against enemies who can move faster than the Frost energy itself?’
Seo Jun-Ho fell into a serious dilemma over the problem the Thunder God had thrown at him. It was then when the Frost Queen watching from behind clicked her tongue.
“Tsk, tsk, tsk… The Frost energy is not the Watchguard of Darkness. Do not think about targeting each and every individual thing.”
“What?”
“Winter winds do not blow, aiming only at your body. You are only standing in front of the winter winds, but even then, are you not cold?”
What kind of nonsense was she talking about? The moment Seo Jun-Ho’s face was about to get distorted, he muttered, “Oh? Come to think of it, that’s true.”
“I do not like most things about you, but there is one thing I like—you are quick on the uptake.”
“Quiet…”
As he replied sourly, a vast amount of magic gathered around him.