After Roxy left the Greyrat house, it went back to its usual quiet days.
Of course, compared to before, Roxy had brought many changes to the Greyrat house.
The biggest change was probably Shirou and Rudeus' magic training. They had both learned a lot of magic knowledge from Roxy and showed some magic talent.
Rudeus especially had been recognized by Roxy and become a water saint-level magician.
But, level are just titles. Even though Rudeus had the title of water saint-level, that didn't mean he had saint-level fighting ability or was stronger than Paul, who was an upper-level swordsman.
After all, besides levels, real fighting experience also greatly affects the outcome of a fight.
If someone with a lot of real fighting experience is up against a saint-level person with little experience, the person with more experience is more likely to win.
So even though Rudeus was already a water saint-level magician, Paul still made Rudeus practice swordsmanship every day to have ways to defend himself.
On the other hand, after receiving Roxy's magic training, Shirou had also become an advanced-level magician.
However, his magic was clearly not as outstanding as Rudeus'. Plus, because of his personality, his main ability was still mainly swordsmanship.
Shirou spent half of his time each day training in swordsmanship and half training in magic.
His swordsmanship was still middle-level Sword God Style, but that didn't mean he hadn't improved at all since then.
In fact, Shirou's swordsmanship had been steadily improving. He was more than twice as strong as when he first became middle-level. The reason he was still only intermediate-level was that Shirou hadn't yet mastered the special skill used by upper-level Sword God Style swordsmen – the Silent Flash.
This skill uses special techniques to make the speed of the slash go beyond the speed of sound, even to the point where the naked eye cannot see it.
Clearly, such swordsmanship cannot be achieved easily.
Shirou also knew that his Sword God Style talent wasn't that great, so he wasn't worried. He just steadily improved his strength.
Also, because Shirou was already a middle-level Sword God Style swordsman, he took part in the monster hunts that took place in the whole Buena village almost every month.
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In the big forest of Buena village.
The monster hunting team that Paul, the noble knight, had formed set out again to hunt dangerous monsters in the forest.
In the monster hunting team, which was mostly made up of adults, a red-haired boy of about ten years old stood out a lot.
This was Shirou, who had come with Paul to get rid of the monsters.
Shirou had a long sword and a longbow on his back, with a quiver hanging on his waist. Because he hadn't fully grown yet, he was easily hidden by the others in the hunting team.
However, no one there dared to look down on Shirou. The villagers of Buena village who had come to hunt monsters all had great respect for this boy, even as much as they respected Paul.
"Over there!"
When they entered a certain part of the forest, Shirou suddenly stopped and noticed something in the shadows far away with incredibly sharp eyes.
At the same time, he took the longbow from his back almost without thinking and took an arrow from the quiver on his waist, drew the bow, and shot it with great accuracy!
"Snap!"
The arrow crossed space and hit the enemy in the shadows!
"Roar!!"
A roar rang out, and everyone realized that there was a leopard lying in ambush in the dark shadows. The leopard had a clear build-up of magic power on its body, forming very clear magic patterns.
Although Shirou's arrow hit his target, it couldn't break through the monster's skin at all and only caused a small wound.
"Everyone, form a line!!"
Paul then realized what was happening and told the people of Buena village to form a formation in time.
But even so, he was still one step too late.
The monster leopard was faster than expected. It moved suddenly in the shadows and pounced on a villager who didn't have time to react in the blink of an eye!
"Careful!"
Paul shouted in alarm, but didn't have time to defend.
The villager, who was being targeted by the monster, looked desperate. In the panic, he didn't even know what to do and completely forgot to defend himself.
In this chaotic moment, a flash of sword light flew from afar.
Shirou, like Paul, didn't have time to react because of the distance, but he didn't sit still and wait for death. Instead, he threw the long sword on his back, using a throwing skill to throw the blade in front of the leopard!
"!!!"
The leopard didn't expect the human to give up his weapon. After dodging the attack, it simply went ahead and pounced towards Shirou's location on its own.
As a monster, it had some intelligence and had even fought against human adventurers to some extent in the past.
So it knew very well that as long as a human swordsman lost his weapon, he would become helpless and could be easily killed.
That's what it thought, and that's what it did...
The people of Buena village and Paul also looked flustered when they saw this, and they couldn't imagine how Shirou, who had lost his weapon, would fight against such a monster.
However, in this desperate moment, Shirou's expression didn't change at all.
He looked at the leopard rushing towards him and opened his right hand with a burning gaze –
"Trace, On!"
In an instant, the soil on the ground quickly formed into the shape of a sword blade, and the temperature of the fire suddenly scorched the earth.
A long sword giving off a burning sensation appeared in his hand!
Although the long sword was much worse than a carefully forged weapon, the fragile sword body was quickly strengthened when Shirou activated strengthening magic, and it began to have a material that was no worse than a fine weapon!
Shirou then grabbed the long sword in his hand and focused his entire attention on the monster attacking him!
"Mind's Eye – Cut!"
As Shirou gathered all his attention and used his Sword God Style skills that he had honed for so long to their peak, his body suddenly crossed paths with the monster!
"Crack!"
The next moment, as dark green blood splattered out, Shirou's blade easily tore through the monster's body, drawing a clear flash of sword light in the air!
Like a moonlight dance!
"This..."
Everything that had just happened was too fast and too surprising.
For a moment, everyone in Buena village, including Paul, was shocked by Shirou's unbelievable fighting skills and couldn't say anything.
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