Translator: Wan ED/PR: Personal Ghost
48. First practice (7)
The area where the three, Hwang-ho, Song Daeseok and Mok Uram were.
Unlike other children who were engaged in a battle for a while, their surrounding alone was quiet.
That was because the number of Enemies which approached them was small, and each one which appeared was vanquished at Hwang-ho’s hands.
The first Enemy appeared in the middle of Hwang-ho and Song Daeseok’s conversation, but Hwang-ho’s one-hits continued as if he was venting, perhaps in a chaotic mood because the conversation was cut off.
Paa…!
Between Enemy’s vanquishing effect, Hwang-ho swung the bō in a circle with a face agonizing over something.
As the bō moved lightly at his fingertips, it seemed it was a pretty usage of bō martial art, and not even a sleight of hand using magic.
‘They don’t seem physically weak, so how can they be finished with one hit?… Is the item’s rarity that high? No, it seems like an item provided by school!’
Song Daeseok, who observed Hwang-ho’s movements, was amazed.
What Hwang-ho was using was an R rank item provided by school, the ‘Beginner Bō Martial Artist’s Iron Bō’.
It seemed that the iron bō was wrapped in a golden superpower wave to raise its strength, but if that was the case, it was some outrageous ability to control superpower wave.
‘The previous time, during the training camp, he at once dealt with Enemies, which the other class’ homeroom teacher had trouble dealing with, and then even operated mana to move the kids. What the hell is that lunatic?!’
Song Daeseok recalled the red-eyed Jin, Ok Toyeon.
Ok Toyeon, who was revealed to be a To affiliated with a Moon Palace, tried to desperately cover up the comment about ‘benefactor’, but it couldn’t be erased from his head.
‘… is that lunatic really a Jin? Ok Toyeon-ssi and that lunatic’s benefactor is in our class and… Hang on, why is a Jin in the 1st year Player special Highschool’s idiot class?!’
Song Daeseok thought so as a person belonging to that 1st year idiot class.
If Min Geurin knew, she would think ‘what nonsense am I hearing again’, while glaring at Hwang-ho.
“You’re extremely strong, eh! That’s a big trouble. If it goes on like this, I’m going to have 0 contributions and get 0 reward money!”
Mok Uram originally seemed to have a screw loose in his brain, and even now didn’t seem quite in the right mind, but Mok Uram, who was panicking, somehow calmed down.
Seeing the activities of the kid from the same class, he concluded that ‘The class 0’s standard is high, eh! If so, Lena-nim will also be safe!’.
Thanks to the performance of Hwang-ho, who didn’t think of hiding his power, Mok Uram and Song Daeseok found stability.
As the time to join with others was reduced, and an overwhelmingly powerful ally was in front of their eyes, the two were relieved
However, Song Daeseok’s feeling of relief didn’t last long.
“I organized my thoughts, while moving. I was trying to guess where did you obtain a clue, considering your current connections.”
Hwang-ho showed no smile unlike usual.
“It was that damn Moon Rabbit, who spilled a clue, right?”
Before Song Daeseok replied, the conversation was halted again.
… Kwang, dum-dum-boom!
They sensed a powerful force together with the sound of the maze’s wall breaking.
It was a power great enough that even Song Daeseok and Mok Uram could sense it.
Something was moving through the maze in a straight line.
Hwang-ho shut his mouth and ran in the direction the power was felt, and Song Daeseok and Mok Uram followed behind him.
* * *
The Floor Master Enemy and the Enemies, who appeared under its guidance, couldn’t approach Hongryong.
When one of the Enemies, who just approached closer, took a step forward, Hongryong blew a breath mixed with flames while showing its teeth.
Hwiss!
When the flames were about to touch its feet, the Enemy hurriedly stepped back.
The Enemies didn’t dare to attack Hongryong, but its sense of presence was gradually growing noticeably weaker.
Kiiiiik!
The Floor Master Enemy raised a trident and slashed the floor, producing a sharp sound.
Drawn by that sound Enemies started to increase one after one.
It seemed that instead of escaping, they decided to gather Enemies and look for an opportunity to attack.
As if the Enemies around were told to gather, the number of newly appeared Enemies quickly exceeded five.
“Uh, what to do? We’re surrounded…!”
“S-So, what They said we have to do in such a situation….”
As the chances of victory were close to 0, the two had to move with a goal of escaping.
But the two couldn’t even think of it.
Escape using Hongryong as a shield.
Use the emergency escape item.
As the two couldn’t think of those choices straight away, they were flustered.
“Ri-right. The emergency escape item!”
In this world there existed an ‘emergency escape item’ to let Players escape outside an otherworld.
Ham Geun-hyeong stressed a few times not to forget about its existence, but the two completely forgot and remembered only now.
As they used the emergency escape item at the same time, they also recalled that the escape wasn’t immediate, but the item effect needed time to appear.
The emergency escape item was made into a necklace type, so it could be used even in a situation where one couldn’t use their arms and legs or they were completely cut off, and hung around the neck.
The two immediately put superpower waves into the items on their necks.
Pat!
A gauge bar floated up in front of their eyes, indicating the time remaining to the activation of the escape item.
It felt as if the gauge was decreasing at an infinitely slow speed.
And before the remaining time reached 0, Hongryong disappeared first.
“Red Dragon disappeared!”
Bang, baang….
At the same time, the noise, the two kept hearing in their ears, gradually grew louder.
As the two couldn’t figure out if it was the sound of their racing hearts or a sound made by an Enemy, they fell into a state of panic.
Bang, bang! Baang…!
When the Floor Master Enemy raised its trident and charged, the other Enemies followed after it and rushed at Kwon Lena and Sawol Seeum in unison.
Sawol Seeum made a wind wall to tie their feet, but because the Floor Master Enemy used its skill, the last defense disappeared in an instant.
Seeing the gauge bar had still more than half way left, the two tightly shut their eyes.
Bang!
But at the loud sound of destruction heard just at their side, the two opened their eyes wide.
“I thought that somehow the number of Enemies was small compared to the raised difficulty. I guess they were all here.”
Between the maze’s wall that turned into powder, someone appeared and flicked his finger.
Tak!
Pat, paaat! Pat!
Shining jade spaces exploded, the maze, which was dark, lit up brightly.
In the light emitted by exploding spaces, they saw the appearance of the being that just appeared.
It was Yong Jegeon, who unlike usual, had his eyes wide open, and revealed his long cyan hair.
Yong Jegeon was smiling with a face that seemed seriously excited and ecstatic.
“This Floor Master is a bit hard compared to its rarity. It seems it’s receiving a floor buff.”
Three Enemies at the front lines were annihilated, but the Floor Master and the Enemies behind it were still in good health.
The Floor Master Enemy’s armor was damaged, but the density of the superpower wave gathered at the tip of the trident was the same as before.
“I’ll take care of it. Please deal with the other Enemies for a bit.”
“Yes!”
Behind Yong Jegeon, Maeng Hyodon, Han Yi and Min Geurin appeared.
As if they moved in a straight line, destroying the maze’s walls to get to this place until a moment ago, they saw them cross over the debris.
‘The sound that kept echoing… It wasn’t an Enemy, but the sound of teacher Yong Jegeon-nim destroying the walls?’
As if he was still overflowing with energy even after destroying all the maze’s walls, Yong Jegeon seemed relaxed.
As he sealed Floor Master’s movements with the Space Art, Yong Jegeon swiftly looked around, and then made a face of extreme disappointment.
Yong Jegeon spoke up to Kwon Lena and Sawol Seeum.
“Kids-ah, didn’t you see a dragon here a moment ago?”
Teacher Yong Jegeon-nim sensed Hongryong’s energy and came running here, huh!
The two thought like this.
They immediately recalled how furious the Red Lion and Yong tribe members were, when Yeom Junyeol was involved during the Fantasy Auction Incident.
The two, who hurriedly canceled the activation of the emergency escape item, replied in unison as if they agreed beforehand.
“No! A dragon? What are You talking about?”
“No, a dragon? There was nothing but Fishman Enemies here!”
Kwon Lena and Sawol Seeum’s tones were seriously showing they were making it up.
The two looked at each other and smiled awkwardly.
“Really? There are scorch marks here, but your abilities are unrelated to fire.”
“Uh, uh, that’s because… the Floor Master Enemy shot light from the trident, it seems to be remains of that!”
“Right! That’s right!”
“…. Okay? The Floor Master Enemy attacked its own subordinates? There are burn traces on some of the Enemies”
“That’s because, that…”
The conversation was cut off in the middle.
Because Hwang-ho appeared, leading Song Daeseok and Mok Uram.
“Geurin-ah! Are you okay?”
“Lena-nim! Are You safe?!”
Kwon Lena was embarrassed by being called ‘Lena-nim’, but perhaps she was thankful for cutting off the conversation, she replied with a bright face.
At that moment, the otherworld started to lose its material form and change into lights.
“It’s the effect that appears when the simulation ends! What, then was it conquered? Did the guy that vice homeroom teacher-nim took down was a boss?”
“No. The boss controls the otherworld from the boss room. We didn’t enter the boss room yet.”
“Then someone caught the boss? Ah… thinking about it now, that bastard isn’t here.”
“Yeah. The person who isn’t here probably took it down.”
While Maeng Hyodon and Han Yi were conversing, the communication was restored.
Each device received messages informing about the end of the otherworld conquest at the corresponding coordinates.
— PlayerSAT-K successfully accessed the recording devices in the corresponding area.
— PlayerSAT-K is analyzing the content of the otherworld conquest.
— Conquest’s biggest contributor: Unknown Supernova
The children, who saw the holographic notice, made understandable faces.
“As vice president was doing something, I guess he went to capture the boss alone.”
“… I wasn’t able to catch even one Enemy yet, but it ended?”
“Diligently work part-time. And don’t buy strange things.”
“Yes? I never bought anything strange.”
Hearing the nonsense of Mok Uram, whose contribution and rewards were 0, everyone’s situation was confirmed.
The only ones injured were Kwon Lena and Sawol Seeum, but they were only minor wounds.
‘Even though Uisin was subjugating the boss, He was protecting us, eh! As expected, He is great!’
Sawol Seeum looked at the hologram with the lone conquest completion notice again and fell into thoughts.
‘But did Lena meet with the Red Wall Thief-nim? Then when and where did they meet?… the only place Red Wall Thief-nim used Hongryong at which I know of is the Fantasy Auction.’
Sawol Seeum’s doubts deepened.
On the other side, Yong Jegeon, who stopped the questioning, saw the alias written as the conquest’s biggest contributor and made a subtle face, mixing disappointment and ecstasy.
Yong Jegeon looked at the hologram, then at the openly lying Kwon Lena and Sawol Seeum, and made a face of complete ecstasy.
But some of the class children, who saw that face, made frightened expressions and distanced themselves from Yong Jegeon.
* * *
After I confirmed that the boss Enemy collapsed.
I put the Nine Iron Teeth Rake into the item window again and healed myself with a recovery item.
The moment I entered the boss room, I thought of using Forking and ending it straight away, but the Boss Enemy had higher agility than expected, and because my mental power and concentration dropped pretty significantly, the Fork ended up missing.
— …. That’s an amazing mental power, eh? I didn’t expect you would maintain Hongryong for 10 seconds, even after entering the boss room.
I couldn’t display my power with Hongryong operating in the distance.
There was no guarantee that I could deal with the Floor Master Enemy and perfectly protect the kids, and if I poured my power there, there was a high chance that it would impend on my dealing with the Boss Enemy.
So rather than Hongryong by itself, I decided to bet on the other being that Hongryong would call.
That being was Yong Jegeon.
‘Yong Jegeon tried to take off my mask by infiltrating the old school, where I had a lesson with Yeom Junyeol. Based on Yong Jegeon’s personality, he was certain to come.’
As expected, after I summoned Hongryong, Yong Jegeon sensed it straight away and ran in a straight line, while destroying the maze’s walls.
Yong Jegeon wanted to see my face borrowing the appearance of Yeom Junyeol, and the version of Hongryong I was using.
But because Yong Jegeon was far away, so the time was still necessary even after entering the boss room, and I had to forcibly maintain Hongryong.
“When will You make a deal? You won’t be able to receive an item card with that appearance.”
— Sooner or later.
Sooner or later?
No way, wasn’t I risking my life to make a deal for such a word play?
— It’s difficult to take actions in the Ho tribe’s divine realm. Before season changes, you will meet with my contractor as a proxy sooner or later.
Right now was fall.
If it was before the season changes, there would be enough time until the Demon World scenario.
After I nodded, Sillentium’s silhouette gradually turned blurry.
— I permit you to speak comfortably. Didn’t you let your words slip when accepting my conditions? [1]
Did I?
Thinking about it, it seemed that I spoke shortly when commenting on conditions.
Almost transparent Sillentium raised his finger and pointed at my sleeve.
— Lastly, I’ll give you one piece of advice. It would be better to prepare an excuse.
Excuse? What are you talking about?
Before I could express my doubts, Sillentium completely disappeared.
‘Ah, perhaps he was talking about that?’
It completely healed thanks to the recovery item, but the sleeve was soaked in blood.
But as the shirt was black, it wasn’t particularly visible, so instead of preparing an excuse, I rolled up the sleeve.
After that, the otherworld crumbled down and I returned to reality.
And I ended up regretting I didn’t prepare an excuse.
“… I smell blood, eh?”
The damn geezer had a sharp sense of smell, worthy of a tiger.
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[1] Didn’t you let your words slip when accepting my conditions? — Jo Uisin used a casual tone when saying ‘I accept your conditions’.
Translator’s note: Jo Uisin, why would you ever think you don’t need a good excuse after running into danger head first and getting hurt, huh?
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