Probably about a year passed since the time Ryo lost consciousness in the sea.

Till today, he has not had success with 『Blood Freeze』.

That said, it would be impossible to succeed in just a year or so ...

Nevertheless, he did not skip any of his daily magic control training.

Incidentally, he could now thaw the frozen meat prepared by Michael (pseudonym) in an instant.

And that Ryo, for the past few months, has been visiting a certain location every night.

It was the shores of a lake in the central part of the large wetlands, beyond the Northern Forest.

When the moon reaches the highest point in the night sky, it would appear.

A headless horse ridden by a headless knight, an existence called a Dullahan.

That Dullahan was not holding onto his head with his right hand.

Why was there a headless knight in the Rondo Forest?

Perhaps there was a prospering nation in the past where Rondo Forest currently stood.

That said, he had not seen any signs of past human life and he had not found any man-made objects.

In Earth’s mythology, Dullahans are Ireland fairies and are not a knight’s apparition ....

With that in mind, Ryo casually changed his assumption from there were humans here in the past to it might be a fairy or something that traveled into Rondo Forest.

To Ryo, the value of that Dullahan’s existence was to be his sword mentor.

Of course, since it was missing its head, it couldn’t speak.

However, when Ryo holds up his sword ... he calls it a sword but it is just a carved out wooden sword coated with ice on the surface to improve its durability ... the Dullahan would hold up its sword too.

Somewhat along with the feeling of ‘Again? ... this troublesome fellow’.

Of course, it didn’t have a head so this was entirely imagined by Ryo.

And so the sword fight began.

In the first place, the Dullahan was not recorded in the 『Monster Encyclopedia Beginner’s Edition』.

In other words, it was either ‘Not a monster’ or ‘Not at beginner level’.

Looking at it from the standpoint of whether he could defeat it, the current Ryo was probably still incapable of that.

It didn’t use magic. So Ryo didn’t use magic either. He only wore 『Ice Armor』 that protected his body.

But it was considerably strong in terms of just sword technique.

Furthermore, he had to look up at it.

“I’ll act as your training partner.”

He felt it convey that intent ... naturally, it didn’t have a head so it was all in his imagination.

The Dullahan would turn away once it dealt three successful attacks that would cause fatal damage to Ryo.

“Come again whenever you wish.”

It seemed to convey something along that line.

Conversely, Ryo didn’t know what would happen if he dealt three fatal blows to it.

In the first place, he had never even dealt damage to it even once ...

Recently, their battle duration had increased considerably.

In the beginning, it was an instantaneous kill but nowadays, the battle would continue for about an hour.

Of course, he still had a lot of discontents.

In the first place, there was no other way to improve interpersonal battle, whether it is martial arts, wushu, or even in games, than to have repeated interpersonal combat over and over until your body personally gathers the experience, knowledge, and movements.

In that sense, that was an extremely valuable experience for Ryo who always performed practice swings on his own ... but his opponent was a Dullahan.

To some extent, 『Breathing』 was crucial in understanding interpersonal combat.

Although it is important to adjust one’s breathing, it is also important to read the opponent’s breathing.

But the Dullahan doesn’t breathe ... in fact, it doesn’t have anything above its neck!

As such, Ryo could not accumulate experience in 『Reading your opponent’s breathing』.

In addition, there is also something called footwork, or footsteps.

Footwork is important in any battle.

In interpersonal combat, one could obtain important information with footwork and use it to predict the opponent’s movements.

That is the reason why kendo and kenjitsu practitioners wear hakama.

By wearing a hakama, the opponent will not see your footsteps and will not be able to gain an advantage from it.

The Dullahan doesn’t wear a hakama so Ryo wanted to learn that too ... but due to the overwhelming difference in combat ability, the Dullahan hardly moved from its spot ...

It looked as though a kendo master parrying children without moving at all.

Probably about a year passed since the time Ryo lost consciousness in the sea.

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Till today, he has not had success with 『Blood Freeze』.

That said, it would be impossible to succeed in just a year or so ...

Nevertheless, he did not skip any of his daily magic control training.

Incidentally, he could now thaw the frozen meat prepared by Michael (pseudonym) in an instant.

And that Ryo, for the past few months, has been visiting a certain location every night.

It was the shores of a lake in the central part of the large wetlands, beyond the Northern Forest.

When the moon reaches the highest point in the night sky, it would appear.

A headless horse ridden by a headless knight, an existence called a Dullahan.

That Dullahan was not holding onto his head with his right hand.

Why was there a headless knight in the Rondo Forest?

Perhaps there was a prospering nation in the past where Rondo Forest currently stood.

That said, he had not seen any signs of past human life and he had not found any man-made objects.

In Earth’s mythology, Dullahans are Ireland fairies and are not a knight’s apparition ....

With that in mind, Ryo casually changed his assumption from there were humans here in the past to it might be a fairy or something that traveled into Rondo Forest.

To Ryo, the value of that Dullahan’s existence was to be his sword mentor.

Of course, since it was missing its head, it couldn’t speak.

However, when Ryo holds up his sword ... he calls it a sword but it is just a carved out wooden sword coated with ice on the surface to improve its durability ... the Dullahan would hold up its sword too.

Somewhat along with the feeling of ‘Again? ... this troublesome fellow’.

Of course, it didn’t have a head so this was entirely imagined by Ryo.

And so the sword fight began.

In the first place, the Dullahan was not recorded in the 『Monster Encyclopedia Beginner’s Edition』.

In other words, it was either ‘Not a monster’ or ‘Not at beginner level’.

Looking at it from the standpoint of whether he could defeat it, the current Ryo was probably still incapable of that.

It didn’t use magic. So Ryo didn’t use magic either. He only wore 『Ice Armor』 that protected his body.

But it was considerably strong in terms of just sword technique.

Furthermore, he had to look up at it.

“I’ll act as your training partner.”

He felt it convey that intent ... naturally, it didn’t have ◈ Nоvеlіgһт ◈ (Continue reading) a head so it was all in his imagination.

The Dullahan would turn away once it dealt three successful attacks that would cause fatal damage to Ryo.

“Come again whenever you wish.”

It seemed to convey something along that line.

Conversely, Ryo didn’t know what would happen if he dealt three fatal blows to it.

In the first place, he had never even dealt damage to it even once ...

Recently, their battle duration had increased considerably.

In the beginning, it was an instantaneous kill but nowadays, the battle would continue for about an hour.

Of course, he still had a lot of discontents.

In the first place, there was no other way to improve interpersonal battle, whether it is martial arts, wushu, or even in games, than to have repeated interpersonal combat over and over until your body personally gathers the experience, knowledge, and movements.

In that sense, that was an extremely valuable experience for Ryo who always performed practice swings on his own ... but his opponent was a Dullahan.

To some extent, 『Breathing』 was crucial in understanding interpersonal combat.

Although it is important to adjust one’s breathing, it is also important to read the opponent’s breathing.

But the Dullahan doesn’t breathe ... in fact, it doesn’t have anything above its neck!

As such, Ryo could not accumulate experience in 『Reading your opponent’s breathing』.

In addition, there is also something called footwork, or footsteps.

Footwork is important in any battle.

In interpersonal combat, one could obtain important information with footwork and use it to predict the opponent’s movements. 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

That is the reason why kendo and kenjitsu practitioners wear hakama.

By wearing a hakama, the opponent will not see your footsteps and will not be able to gain an advantage from it.

The Dullahan doesn’t wear a hakama so Ryo wanted to learn that too ... but due to the overwhelming difference in combat ability, the Dullahan hardly moved from its spot ...

It looked as though a kendo master parrying children without moving at all.