I Parry Everything

Noor has one dream, to become an adventurer who matters. The problem is that he cannot do what every teacher expects. He trains for years and still fails to learn the offensive techniques that would make him look competent on paper. Anyone judging him quickly would call him hopeless. What nobody notices is what all that failure is doing to the one thing he can actually perform. Noor keeps practicing parrying and deflecting until it becomes unnatural. He is not flashy, he is not confident, and he does not understand how strong he has become. Then a real crisis hits. A high-level threat targets the local princess, and Noor is the only person close enough and stubborn enough to step in. He stops a monstrous minotaur through pure defense, so casually that he mistakes it for something far less serious. That single moment pulls him out of obscurity and into national danger. With neighboring forces eyeing the kingdom, Noor heads toward the royal capital chasing his dream, unaware that his «useless» skill is turning him into a walking disaster for anyone who underestimates him. His biggest battles are not only against monsters, but also against misunderstandings, because people keep reading his honest insecurity as calm, elite confidence.