In the middle of the night in the ancient city of Manya, in a sparsely wooded urban forest in the city, there is a loud sound of metal hitting the stones from time to time, and the orc residents who live in the outskirts of this forest will have sad faces every night, why should they be sad? Because the sound of metal hitting the rocks resounded intermittently in the "barren forest" of this city forest every day.

The sound had been ringing intermittently in that forest for two days, and tonight was destined to be a sleepless night... The orc inhabitants who live in the settlements on the edge of the forest thought so......

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Bang!

There was another heavy sound of metal hitting the rocks, and a crisp sound resounded from this forest!!

"It's too slow. ”

(Shhhhhh

Hearing Gavey's voice coming from behind me, I threw my fist at the boulder at a subconscious speed, punch after punch hitting the surface of the round boulder endlessly.

"Not enough strength!"

Even as I threw my fists at the round boulder faster, the sound of Gavey pointing out my inadequacy came from behind me again.

(Damn!!)

When I heard Gavey's voice again, I couldn't help but feel irritated inside, and the force of my fists subconsciously increased.

Bang, bang!!bang!!bang!!!bang!!!! bang-

When I swung my fists and threw the sixth punch at the round boulder with all my might, the metal fist gloves on my hands hit the round boulder and shattered like crystals, and in an instant, the metal fist gloves turned into dozens of metal shards and fell to the ground.

As the gloves shattered, my bloody hands were uncovered, and some metal fragments were deeply embedded in the flesh of my hands, and the crimson blood was dripping to the ground.

The bones in both hands were also broken, and with a movement of my mind, the green light from the mid-level healing magic wrapped up all the injuries on my hands......

"Oh~ You've broken your third pair of gloves this time, Tut. At that moment, Gavey walked up to me, looked at the injury on my hand, and said with a calm face.

"I can't help it...... Gavey's boulder is too hard, isn't it?!" I apologized at first when I heard what Gavi said, and then I told him that I had a question about the round boulder.

"Heh~"

Gavi smiled at me, then walked over to the round boulder and touched the slightly rough surface with his left hand.

"It's one thing whether it's hard or not, you've been hitting this boulder for almost two days, haven't you? Why haven't you been able to make a crack in this boulder? it's because you haven't found a way to hit this boulder......" Garvey didn't look back at Tut who was standing behind him.

"How to hit the boulder?"

I asked Gavi in confusion as I endured the pain and used the fingers of my right hand to pull out the metal fragments that had been 'inserted' into the flesh of my left hand one by one.

"No matter how strong an object is, there will be a weak point, as long as you hit that weak place with all your strength, you will get twice the result with half the effort!"

As soon as Gavey's words fell, he used his right hand to aim at a position of the round boulder in front of him and threw a punch, and when Gavi's fist hit the surface of the round boulder, countless cracks visible to the naked eye spread from the center of his right fist touching the rock surface.

Click!

With this crisp sound, the round boulder instantly turned into countless small stones, shattered and fell to the ground, stirring up a puff of dust......

"It's amazing!" I said with a heartfelt emotion as I watched the shocking scene in front of me.

"Understood, right?" I wonder if Gavi heard my adoring voice, but he turned to me and asked.

"Got it!" I said, looking at Garvey and nodding affirmatively.

"Then go ahead!"

After hearing my reply, Gavey looked at me with a smile on his face, and then without warning appeared on his left hand, a cloud of earthy yellow magic element, when he shouted the spell to cast the magic, the round boulder that had been shattered into countless stones floated in the air, and in the next second it returned to its original state.

Looking at this unbelievable scene in front of me, my face instantly became serious......

(Gavey...) Does he still use magic?)

"Here you go, don't break it again,......" Garvey said to me, half-jokingly, as he gave me a brand new pair of metal gloves.

"Okay!" I took the metal gloves, and when the injuries on my hands were healed and healed, I put them on.

I walked over to the boulder and clenched my fists in a fist-ready stance, and in an instant I tentatively threw a punch at the boulder.

Bang! A calm voice came out.

(The sound is not right...... ）

Bang!

Another punch hit the other side of the round boulder, and the sound was heard again.

(Still no, it's not the way to go...... ）

Thinking about this, I struck a circle around the round boulder with my fists, and the metal fists slammed into the rough surface of the boulder with a series of crashing sounds.

Bang!bang!!knock!!

(Huh?)

When my left fist hit the side of the surface of the round boulder, a strange sound came out, as if it were coming from some weak spot.

"Is this it......"

I stopped waving my fists and gently tapped my left hand on the place where the strange sound was made, and boom, another strange sound came out, and it seemed that this was the right place!

I clenched my fists and used all my strength to punch after punch at the strange place, and the moment the fist in metal gloves hit the surface of the round boulder, tiny cracks that were impossible to detect without looking closely spread out from that place.

Click!

After I kept hitting the round boulder, countless cobweb-like cracks finally spread out, and I couldn't help but be overjoyed to see them appear.

"Drink!!"

I used all my strength with both fists to hit the cracked surface of the round boulder at the same time, and tham!

Almost in the next second, the round boulder in front of me shattered under my blow, and Gavey, who was standing not far behind me, smiled knowingly when he saw the scene.

To Gavey, he was pleased with the way Tut had just broken the boulder, but more with emotion... He had never seen a goblin smash such a large stone with his bare hands.

(Finally... It worked...... ）

I couldn't help but feel proud after watching the round boulder in front of me shatter into countless small pieces, but when I thought about it, my body almost couldn't stand on my feet and fell to the ground due to physical exhaustion.

(so tired...... ）

Just when I was about to fall to the ground with exhaustion, a pair of strong hands supported my body, and the person who supported me was Gavey, who was looking at me with a smile on his face.

"First of all, Tut, I congratulate you on successfully passing the second stage of your martial arts training...... Gavi said to me congratulatorily.

"yes... That's great. I replied wearily to Gavey as he held my body.

"Tut have a good night's rest, tomorrow awaits you in the final phase of martial arts training. With a serious face, Gavi said to me, who looked tired, about the final martial arts training that followed.

"Great... Gavi, I'm finally able to finish the martial arts you've taught me......"

Tired, I barely spoke to Gavi about my desire to learn the final fight, but before I could finish speaking, I closed my eyes in weariness......

Looking at me, who had fainted from exertion, Garvey smiled with relief, and he helped me to the chair under the wooden shed and sat me down on the wooden chair with armrests.

"Tut... You're really doing a great job, and in my opinion the most important thing about you is not the talent but the spirit of determination...... This spirit makes you very obsessed with anything, and it seems to me that you are indeed a goblin unlike any other goblin. ”

Gavi looked at Tut who was sleeping in his armchair, and after a few moments he spoke with emotion about the goblin......