Lee Hyun tried to reach for the oars and Choi Sang-jung grabbed hold of them first.
“Hyeong, let me do this.”
“Are you sure?”
“Yea, you get some rest. You can take over once I’m weary.”
Choi Sang-jung was feeling sorry about having left Lee Hyun to endure alone until now.
While the other groups suffered, it was all thanks to Lee Hyun that their current lifestyle was comfortable.
“Kkeungcha!” (exerting force)
Choi Sang-jung rowed.
Kkulreong.
“Huh?”
Kkulreongkkulreong.
With each row, the boat staggered aimlessly. Fortunately, the boat was surprisingly sturdier than it looked.
“Left, go left!”
“Ah! The waves are coming this way!”
The waves were pushing against them at the opposite flow instead of their intended one lap around the island.
Every time the waves came, it rocked the boat back and forth and slowing their speed to a crawl.
Choi Sang-jung and Park Sunjo alternately rowed the boat for more than 40 minutes.
Suddenly, their backs were drenched in sweats.
“Wanna switch to me?”
“Yes, hyeong.”
Park Sunjo got up from the seat and switched to Lee Hyun.
Lee Hyun gripped the oar in both hands tightly. And stirred.
Kkulreong!
The distortion between the forces he exerted and that of Choi Sang-jung was too much!
The boat skewed for a bit before realigned itself.
It was difficult due to the fact one had to take into account of the incoming waves as they row.
‘Not easy.’
Lee Hyun relaxed himself.
He figured it’d cost more power if he had try to force against the flow. He adjusted his strength accordingly so he wouldn’t get tired quickly.
After all, the paddle was simply an extension of the arms.
‘It’s like brandishing the sword to a flow. No point to go against that.’
Lee Hyun rowed the oar as he felt the pushing force against the water.
He accepted the oncoming waves fully and allowed it to slip by.
After which he once again puts reasonable force into each paddle.
Seureureureureureong.
While not a too overwhelming row, the ship moved forward with ease.
Without distorting the boat, it wasn’t being pushed back.
It was nothing comparable to the experienced fishermen, but the boat’s advancement was in a different dimension comparing to when Choi Sang-jung and Park Sunjo did it.
Choi Sang-Jung curiously asked.
“Hyeong, have you done sailing before?”
Of course, Lee Hyun had never been on another boat before. They were something beyond his reach.
Though there is a possibility if it was a shrimping boat. Though it’s kind of like the worse case scenario of a job.
“I have the feel of the paddle.”
“Huh?”
To Lee Hyun it was an easy answer; but since that philosophical sentence was built off of his numerous experiences as he suffered, it wasn’t for others.
If you don’t endure physical labor then you’ll suffer when experiencing it.
Such as working hard shoveling. After a period of tremendous effort, it becomes easier as one get well accustom to it.
The boat moved along soothingly whenever Lee Hyun paddled.
This island of unspoiled nature and wide blue sea!
While doing the lap, they were able to take in the scenery Silmido had to offer.
Afterward, it was lunch. Then followed by the sport competition.
The students were still tired and exhausted, but the heat from the sun remained strong.
Due to the view of the sea and the taste of fresh air, unexpected vitality arose from within all the students.
A gift from nature.
Lee Hyun too, played without regret.
Football(soccer), wrestling, and log boxing.
Even at the moderate level with the subtracted power, the totaled score represented his overwhelming vitality.
Thanks to his performance, it naturally attracted the attention of others.
A female student, Park Sumin, seemed to have realized something and clapped.
“That’s right! I’m sure I’ve seen him somewhere.”
Lee Hyun heard from corner of his ear ad his heart thumped.
‘Is it the fact that I’m Weed?’
Until now it was unlikely that they could recognize him.
His face wasn’t exposed from Continent of Magic back in the day, and the time he was Karichwi the Orc was when he was an Orc.
No matter how good or keen eyes anyone had, there was no way for any of them to call Lee Hyun out from the Orc.
Then the dragon hunt was also not possible.
In this case he was a skeleton. Only showed a skeleton body and a face without flesh.
The truth was never publicized.
Recently KMC Media started a program named ‘Weed.’
But it was never disclosed whether it was Jeonshin Weed of CoM or not.
It was due to the judgment of the broadcasters to deliberately conceal his identity.
The content of the Kingdom of Vampires Todeum was a major broadcast.
An emerging hero of Versailles continent, Weed, to challenge the incomprehensible.
To intentionally keeping the mystery of Weed, they edited parts of him out or excluded him as a whole.
And Weed the Sculptor did not have that extent of popularity!
While it had only been two weeks since it started.
Being at the bottom ratings, there was a positive spin that the mysteriousness was kept.
Because Weed the Sculptor wasn’t a completely unknown being.
The Lord of Morata, the Earl of Morata!
Scouts from guilds had constantly made offers to the one known as the best Sculptor of the Versailles continent.
Lee Hyun knew he once again became famous through his sculptures.
But while the Sculptor’s popularity was nowhere near that of the Jeonshin Weed, only few knew that the two were one and the same in Royal Road.
All in all, in reality, there were very few people that can make the correlation between Lee Hyun and them.
Park Sumin pointed her finger toward Lee Hyun.
“I’ve seen him before! Once 2 years ago!”
All the faculty members presented and the students all focused their gaze at no one else but him!
Lee Hyun face contorted.
“2 years ago?”
He rocked his head to one side but nothing came to mind.
“What, where did you see me?”
“Don’t you remember the event long ago?”
Everyone pondered in search for the reason why Park Sumin spoke with such confident tone.
“Princess Knight, right?”
Princess Knight.
He visited his sister and attended three events at the school.
Among them was one event called the ‘Princess Set.’
Then, Park Sumin tried to recollect the video she came across on the internet and recited it to see who else also remembered.
During that time, Lee Hyun’s movements were very incredible.
He dashed across the obstacles in a flurry, and defeated the water balloons using his fists and legs. Then used a leap and jumped past the wall.
Due to the fact that the event attracted a lot of participants because of the prize money, the video widespread further on the internet as there were a lot of viewers.
“Pr…Princess Knight?”
“Ah, then you’re that person from the festival.”
From Park Sumin recollection of the story, people began to recall such event.
Lee Hyun face frowned. To him, having a nickname as the ‘Princess Knight’ was nothing flattering at all.
“You have the wrong guy. I’m not that person at all.”
A lie!
But Park Sumin nodded her head.
“Of course you’re the Princess Knight. Although the video was just a clip, you still have the same face, now and then.”
“Well, don’t be too sure.”
“The countenance you used to deny that wasn’t trustworthy at all.”