I Just Want A Peaceful Life Chapter 41
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"Hey, could you get out from my 'friend's' place?" asked Angus.
"Huh?! Just who do you think you are?" said of the bully student.
They found that Angus is rather familiar. Still they could not remember him yet.
"I am just a guy who wants to eat with his friend." said Angus calmly.
Hearing this, "Hahaha… very funny." the others also laughing and mock Angus
Looking at the group bully mocked him, "I think you should leave before it's too late." said Angus expressionlessly.
"And what if I don't want to? What are you gonna do? Cry to your mom?! Hahaha..." Mocked one of the bullies.
At this moment, Henry appeared out of nowhere and grabbed the bully's head. "You truly have the nerve to mock young master Victory, huh?!"
Feeling the mana pressure that Henry releases the others immediately look at their location. Hearing about Victory's name, more students come to take a look.
Noticing that the situation became more troublesome, "Oi.. Henry." said Angus expressionlessly.
"Y-Yes, Young Master?" Replied Henry nervously.
"Could you do it somewhere else? You know I need to eat my lunch now." asked Angus nonchalantly.
Hearing this, "Certainly, young master." Replied Henry before smiling evilly towards the bully.
"Brats, follow me!!" said Henry towards the bullies group.
Feeling the mana pressure from Henry, the bullies could only nod their head and follow Henry. As for Angus himself, he didn't care about them and the surrounding before sitting and eating his lunch.
Looking at the event already over, the surroundings also start to disperse. While the bullied student was feeling nervous and didn't know what to do with how the situation proceeds.
Noticing the nervous bullied student, "Don't worry I will not chase you away. Just eat your lunch already." said Angus before he went back to eating his meal.
"Ahh.. yes.. I mean t-thank you, young master Victory." But rather than eat, the student kept staring at Angus.
Feeling weird from the stare while he is eating, "Is there something wrong?" asked Angus nonchalantly.
"Ah.. Sorry, I didn't mean to.. I mean.." the student becomes more nervous and keeps stuttering.
Hearing the nervous student, "Haaa… Just calm down first. I am not going to bite you." [Angus]
After taking a few deep breaths to calm himself, "T-Thank you for before. Also I have already finished the book." said the bullied student.
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"Book??" asked Angus confusedly.
"Yes, the book you want to read before you give it to me first." as the bullied student sounds diminishing at the end of his sentence.
"Hmm… Ahh… you are him. What's your name again? James?" As Angus starts to remember the bullied student.
'Ehh… I thought he already recognized me before helping me. Haa…' Thought the kid.
"Err.. No, young master Victory. My name is Johnny Fester." introduce Johnny once again.
"Oh yeah, Johnny. Sorry about that, I am quite forgetful about person names. Anyway, quit with the young master thing, just call me Angus. We are the same age anyway." Said Angus before back to eating his lunch.
"Y-Yes.. Young mas.. I mean Angus." Before Johnny tries to eat his lunch.
After that they are eating in silence, Angus finally finished eating his meal. "Alright, I will go first, you can take your time to eat your lunch slowly. See ya, Johnny." Said Angus while leaving Johnny alone.
As Johnny left alone, 'What a remarkable person, He also has upperclassmen as bodyguards. As expected of the son of Duke Victory. He is really beyond me.' Thought Johnny alone.
Meanwhile, Angus didn't care about the small event that happened during his lunch and went towards one of his side courses.
Today he is going to have a Smithing side course. Before the break, all he ever learned is only pure theoretical about metallurgy and look how the senior year does the smithing.
However, since the monster overlord incident the workload for smithing seems to increase. Even the royal academy smithing course was also affected by this. Because of this, Angus got a chance to do some practical job.
Nothing too dangerous and complicated like making a real weapon but only doing some grinding and sharpening a few small practice daggers. Meanwhile the senior and professional teacher is busy by themself doing their own smithing.
Although Angus only did sharpening weapons, he could also see the work of senior making weapons. The more he observed, the more he found that smithing work is truly a hard complicated job.
Because of the presence of mana, there are few differences in the way of smithing compared to Earth's way of smithing. However, one thing important in smithing is the importance of controlling mana.
Smithing in Firuman also uses many equipment similar to earth. However, these equipment use mana as a power source. The better the user's mana control over the equipment, the better its performance.
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Although it could be substituted with mana crystal or monster core, in terms of performance it's better to be directly controlled by the user's mana.
In Firuman, there are a lot of products and technology that is powered with mana. Some of them also could be substituted with mana crystal and monster core for the convenience.
Because of this, monsters's core could also be said to be a source of energy, money, and currency in some kingdom.
Angus also found that in this world, there is also a high tech weapon beside the cold weapon. However, the cold weapon is more popular than the high tech one.
It's because the cold weapon is easy to use and more durable to use for a graded person. Cold weapons could be imbued by mana and become stronger and durable according to its user's power.
As for high tech weapons such as guns, they have slow development since they seem like a lower version of spells in most cases.
Moreover, they are also very expensive to build. Although they are easy to use and faster than spells, they still lose in the case of its versatility.
Beside that high grade person also could instacast lower level spells that could produce a similar effect to machine gun rate of firing on earth.
Moreover, because of the increased strength of the monster. This kind of weapon is usually useless as it could never penetrate the graded monster's skin.
Still for lower grade people with high background such as noble, they often have few these kinds of weapons in case of emergency to overcome their grade weakness.
Though it's useless for monsters and high grade people, it's still useful for others lower grade people. The majority of civilians still consist of lower graded and ungraded persons.
The reason there are a lot of graded students here is because the royal academy is among the top academies within the human race. Most of the students that study here have a high background be it wealthy merchants or high noble from other allied kingdoms.
As for Angus himself, despite hiding his strength, he is still reluctant to use high tech weapons other than weapons that do not contact directly to his body or fist.
Although it seems kind of hypocritical since the cold weapon is the product of technology, he still doesn't really like to use guns and similar weapons to it.
Even though he disliked it, nobody ever belittled Angus mastery in gun fighting. In his past life, he even hailed as a prodigy in marksmanship using guns.
He even created a sort of close range gun fighting style. Normally, the gun's minimum effective range is around 3-5 meters. Bellow that guns could easily be counter attacked with hand to hand combat technique.
However, he could make a fighting style by combining martial arts with guns and erase the weakness of guns effective range.
Remembering all of his past fighting style, Angus only shook his head, 'I hope I never truly use those styles again.' Thought Angus before back to concentrate on sharpening a practice dagger.
Although it looks simple, sharpening is also kind of art itself. Some weapon artists even said that the art of sharpening is the art of emphasization.
If making weapons is akin to shaping the weapon, then sharpening is akin to emphasize and bringing out the true nature of the weapon itself.
Angus's marveolus concentration for each stroke of sharpening begins to be noticed by passerby and the dwarf teacher. Most of them only nodded at Angus's skill.
As for Angus himself, he didn't notice the stare and kept his concentration in sharpening the dagger. Angus entered some kind of trance state and forgot about the surrounding.
This kind of focus is rare and hard to find especially for young kids like Angus. The moment Angus is done with his work, a brute hand immediately takes the sharpening dagger from him.
"Hoo… it's perfectly balanced on both sides." said the old dwarf.
Suddenly, he threw the dagger towards the armor nearby. *Clang* The dagger managed to be embedded into the iron armor while some part of it penetrated it.
"Kahaha… Good work, Lad. Hmm… What the hell are you looking for?! Did you want me to smite your ass?! GET BACK TO WORK!!" Shout the old dwarf to disperse the others.
"Ah.. Yes, Bail, give this kid some real works!!" Before the old dwarf walked away inspecting others.
Then, another dwarf younger than the previous one approaches Angus, "Alright, Brat. Consider you are lucky to get noticed by the boss. Now, Follow me."
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