I Surrendered My Sword for a New Life as a Mage: Volume 4 [Parts 1 to 2] by Shin Kouduki

Author:Shin Kouduki
Language: eng
Format: epub

５

Now that she had somehow managed to make it to the practice area on time, Sylvia exhaled and looked around.

It was a different practice area from the one they used after school and the one they’d used for the entrance ceremony, but it was more similar to the one they used after school. The floor was tightly-packed dirt and the space within the walls was empty and open to the sky overhead.

It was just about identical to the practice area they used after school, in fact, except for its size. That one was about twice as wide, since it was intended for magic use.

But it didn’t feel cramped here because there were fewer people than there were in the practice room after school. There were only ten people here, actually, so of course there were more in the practice room.

But this was more than usual for swordsmanship class. Usually only a few people chose martial arts other than unarmed combat.

As Sylvia had mentioned during sorcery class earlier, most mages didn’t think you could use a weapon and magic at the same time. Carine’s response to her had honestly been enlightening...although Sylvia couldn’t say she would have changed her choice of weapon if she’d known she could use magic while wielding it.

The reason for that was simple: for mages, the only purpose of learning the martial arts was self-defense. They didn’t use them unless an enemy got too close, and they could use spells to preclude that possibility. It was only in true emergencies that they fought physically, and they wouldn’t necessarily have a weapon ready at a time like that, so learning unarmed combat meant that they were prepared to fight back without one.

Unarmed combat was the most popular choice because it didn’t affect their magic like using a weapon would, and because they could use it instantly whenever they needed to. Even absent the first reason, the second reason alone would still have made it the logical choice.

Incidentally, swordsmanship was the second most popular because the sword was the weapon that the most students were familiar with. Spearmanship was the third most popular for similar reasons, and the others were more or less tied.

That meant that if Sylvia had chosen axemanship, she would have had only one or two other students in her class, so Camilla could have given her one-on-one instruction...

“Well, no use saying that now.”

She should just be glad she’d gotten Soma to agree to introduce her to Camilla, she thought to herself as she looked beside her.

Soma seemed somewhat excited, probably because he intended to try using magic while wielding a sword as he’d mentioned before.

During swordsmanship class, most students either did practice swings as if they were obligated to or read books, so it was unusual to see someone excited. Sylvia felt like this was normal, though, considering that this was Soma faced with something related to magic.

Possibly thinking the same thing, Aina was watching Soma with a fed-up look.

Helen, though, had split up with them once they’d reached the practice area, because she’d chosen unarmed combat.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.