Shadow (3)
Jae-Yoo Hong and I, and fortunately there was a paladin with a shield, so these three took the line and an archer named Hyun-Chul Kim attacked the dungeon from the rear. However, the battle did not go as expected.
As the centaur rushed through the line, the two who fell behind had to fight to protect the four wounded.
“This time it’s four!”
Kim Hyun-cheol, who recognized the number by sound, raised his bow and shouted. plague. more than before Hong Jae-yu ran into the darkness and shouted.
“Lee Un-ho! Jaemin Kim! Send one there!”
“Uh, uh…! Okay!”
Jae-Yoo Hong. He can be killed alone, so we’ll have two of them. Me and the paladin would stop them one by one, and the shooter would gnaw at them.
‘If you keep doing that, your stamina can’t stand it.’
It’s already been four encounters, so a short decisive battle is needed. I spoke to the paladin holding a giant shield next to me.
“That. What was your name?”
Then, of course, a cold reply came back.
“…Yupia Grand. It seems that you still haven’t memorized the name of your classmate.”
Is this guy also a member of Gran? I could tell when I saw that the last name was ‘Gran’.
“sorry. Anyway, Yufia Grand, can you stop these two rushing by yourself? It can be done once.”
She tilted her head, staring straight ahead. The black hair tied to her side shakes.
“Well, I didn’t. If yes, what would you do?”
“In the meantime, to kill one.”
“okay? Then I have to do something…ji!”
Koo! As Yufia lowered her shield to the ground, a white light flickered around her. And the body strengthened by her divine power was attached to the shield and used as a support.
“come!”
Three centaurs ran through the darkness. The shield is already erected in the middle of the two dash paths.
Aww! When Yupia receives two lance charges, they are pushed back. However, the recoil bounced off the centaurs for a while.
“Kim Hyun-chul! Guess who I stabbed!”
“Kek…!”
I kicked Yufia on the back and jumped up. Then he pulled his back as hard as he could with a bow, and with the recoil, he slammed the spear in reverse.
Whoops! He pierced it towards his cheek, but he couldn’t penetrate it completely due to lack of strength. But enough. When the arrow from behind hit me right in the forehead, I rolled my eyes.
[────$@#!]
As the centaur collapsed with a shriek, I also fell to the floor. He hurriedly tried to pull the spear out, but another spear was already shooting right in front of him.
When I gave up on retrieving it and rolled back, the spear stuck where I was.
‘done.’
At the same time, I ran forward and leaped forward with that momentum.
“—It’s a body blow. You bastard!”
wow! He slammed the centaur with his shoulder. The centaur’s body staggered, and one after another, Yupia ran and stabbed the sharp edge of his shield into his body.
“Grand!”
When she shouted the name of the god she believed in, a white flame broke out. Whoa! The centaur became ashes of sighs in an instant.
Without a moment to catch his breath, he immediately helped the rear, dispose of the remaining one, and even cleaned up the body so that it would never come back to life.
“shit. When the hell is it going to end?”
Everyone was exhausted and slumped in their seats. After suffering four battles in a row, all the signs of exhaustion were evident. Even if they wanted to avoid battle, they could not escape because of the wounded and had to fight back.
“That’s it…”
“I don’t see any other guys.”
All have minor injuries. I also forcibly bumped my body, so I felt pain whenever I moved, probably because my shoulder was sprained.
‘Twok, there is no recovery privilege during the battle.’
I can’t sleep in this situation, so I can’t even use ‘folk remedies’. There are paladins, but their level is low and they can only heal themselves. I’m sure there will be no priests out of these ten…
Yufia, who was resting next to me, quietly approached me and asked.
“Seo Ji-han. Is this really the way to go?”
I thought this sound would come out soon. I smiled bitterly and nodded my head.
“I understand you don’t believe me, but this is the right way.”
“I didn’t say I didn’t believe it.”
I looked around. Some of them looked at me with suspicious eyes, even if they didn’t say a word.
“If I can’t leave sooner, I think you’ll start resenting me.”
“If you have a conscience, you won’t be.”
“Hong Jae-yu, even so, they wouldn’t even know that without you, they would have already been annihilated. And.”
tuk. Yupia slapped my shoulder with his fist and spoke his words.
“It’s surprisingly believable when a guy who normally falls behind is suddenly taking responsibility.”
This is a compliment, it’s a slap.
As I was contemplating an answer, Jaemin Kim muttered, wiping away his sweat.
“I think it will get better if I join the other kids.”
“Isn’t everyone already dead?”
A moment of silence came. It’s time to start talking negative thoughts. Why don’t you whine and be quiet?
Someone said with their head down.
“Aren’t we all going to die from this?”
Then, some glanced at the wounded, especially the guys named Ho-yeon and Lee-su from the 1st group. I feel an uneasy feeling. However, not everyone was able to spit their thoughts out of their mouths.
“you. Don’t rest, come quickly.”
Just then, Jae-Yoo Hong walked by from afar. It came at a good time. There was blood all over his body, but it looked as if it wasn’t his own. I got up from my seat and accepted the word.
“It’s a dead end space.”
Then everyone got up in a hurry and followed Hong Jae-yu.
“Oh, really?!”
As Hong Jae-yu said, the end of the passage is visible in the distance. The blue light flowing from the wall stops here. It meant that we had reached the end of the dungeon.
“by the way···.”
“There is no portal…?”
The problem is that there is no exit out of the dungeon even though it is a dead end space. Knowing this, Jae-Yoo Hong asked calmly.
“Seo Ji-han. The road itself seems to be right, what do you plan to do now?”
“What should I do?”
I pulled out my gun and stepped forward. A blue light that ran through his arms began to form on the barrel. Raise the output to the maximum so that mana flows out of the muzzle.
Then, he aimed at the core of the magic trick I could see and muttered.
“You can only break it.”
With the explosion and the destruction of the magic core, the structure of the dungeon gradually collapsed, and the original appearance of the auditorium gradually appeared.
Inside, ten aspiring heroes, including myself, began to be vigilant. Since there was no holy place for everyone, it was dangerous if another battle occurred.
pair. Then, there was a sound of applause as if waiting somewhere. Instructor Choi Ye-chan was watching this with a blank expression and applauding.
“The training is over. Good work. Jae-Yoo Hong, Ji-Han Seo, and Ufia Grand. These three will give you high points and injuries.”
As I looked around, the students who had been watching the training began to applaud. Judging by this uncomfortable atmosphere, they seemed to be quite embarrassed by the level of training as they watched.
I threw the shattered gun on the floor, unrecognizable. The explosion caused the hand to burn and become hot.
‘I thought it wasn’t because it was an incident that was never mentioned in the game, but…
It was also real training.
I’ve endured it with stamina so far, so the feeling of weakness is no joke. As I sat down, everyone, except me, sat down to see if their strength had loosened.
“what. Was this training?”
When someone mumbled, Instructor Choi Ye-chan answered.
“okay. training. practical training. So that the wounded can fall to the side and receive treatment.”
“What is this, this.”
Hong Jae-yu, who understood the situation for a moment, staggered and barely got up and grabbed Choi Ye-chan by the neck.
“Training? People are dying…!”
“die? who?”
“there! ······uh?”
Hong Jae-yu pointed back and his expression distorted. It was because the body of the first group, who suffered the most serious injuries, was somehow melting.
“Ugh, ahhh!”
Lee Woon-ho and Kim Jae-min, who were supporting them by their side, were startled and surprised. The melted black liquid was sucked into Choi Ye-chan’s shadow.
‘···Magic?’
I looked closely at Choi Ye-chan’s shadow. The wriggling felt alive.
“group 1. Those guys have been retiring from the start and being treated. Traveling with you all was magic. Wasn’t it strange that he was still alive with those injuries? And Hong Jae-yu.”
Choi Ye-chan laughed and grabbed Hong Jae-yu’s wrist, who was holding him by the neck.
“Did you know that you can be disciplined for this act itself?”
“It’s a word…”
“Me, just.”
I thought Hong Jae-yu was going to do something, so I grabbed his back and pulled him back.
“···Seojihan!”
“May I ask you some questions.”
He screamed at me, but I ignored him. When she raised her hand and asked, Ye-chan Choi nodded her head with a funny face.
“I don’t allow it.”
“What the hell were you training for? No joke, I almost died.”
“It was originally a simple coping exercise. It was about escaping a dungeon while learning how to avoid or respond to a strong enemy. But you guys caught it so easily.”
The instructor looked at me and Hong Jae-yu alternately. She was Hongjae Yuya, knowing that she was capable of catching even by herself, so it must have been her intention to balance her by putting her in the same group on a day when her ability was low.
“So when the direction changed, I changed the training content on my own.”
be alone As she said, looking around her, Jenna Walkers was nowhere to be seen. Did you just create a dungeon and disappear?
“······how.”
“I switched to survival and cooperation, and added a little more monsters, and the dead monsters were controlled by my magic.”
Choi Ye-chan’s shadow moved as if responding to those words.
“I think you guys were at a level that you could endure. It’s thanks to you, Jae-Yoo Hong, and Grande Ufia, who endured it well. Oh, by the way, don’t worry, the other five groups have already escaped.”
Instructor Choi Ye-chan said to me with a proud expression.
“More than that. Unlike usual, I was very impressed with the way they cooperated in a crisis situation and their performance. I didn’t know you had that kind of power.”
Point your eyes and smile. I’m talking about reading the flow of mana. There is a sense of ugliness in that smile.
“Would you like to say something about your feelings?”
it’s a feeling I smiled and said to him.
“You speak well.”
“…what do you mean?”
“It doesn’t make any sense.”
He smirked and clasped his hot hands and turned around.
‘Attack of Necromancers.’
It was only my speculation that the corpse of the reanimated centaur might have been related to the event. I didn’t even know who was involved, and it could have been something really unrelated.
But after seeing Choi Ye-chan’s abilities, my guess was confirmed.
Choi Ye-chan.
That bastard is a middle-boss cub who annoyed me during ‘Attack of the Necromancer’.
“So how was it?”
“That’s great.”
Choi Ye-chan said while freely scattering her shadow around her.
“I didn’t expect it to be this much because my magic has a harmony of personality.”
The shadows wandering through the spacious room seemed to act with their own will rather than being controlled by someone. Originally, Choi Ye-chan’s magic was not at this high level. It was at a level where he could barely move his shadow by splitting it in two.
This development was possible thanks to the use of the ‘Gaeseong Stone’ excavated from the tower.
Ye-chan Choi smiled and said to Ellen Aiden, who was sitting in front of her.
“Tell me thank you, Master.”
“…I get it. But that’s not what I asked.”
Aiden crossed his arms and added.
“I asked about Seo-Han.”
“Oh, you mean that guy?”
While training, Choi Ye-chan explained to Aiden what she had seen. Seo Ji-han guiding the way and showing movements and activities that cannot be done with recorded abilities.
“Jenna Walkers. I almost couldn’t check it because of that person, but as I continued to invite him, he vacated the seat.
Aiden listened to the story, sparking sparks from his fingers. And when Choi Ye-chan finished speaking, she turned off the lights and murmured.
“Seojihan. That’s good enough.”
“Is it true? There are probably better guys out there, but I’m not sure why you prefer those underdogs.”
“There must be a lot of better people out there, but I like things that are a little crooked.”
Aiden’s desk is full of documents containing information about Seo-Han. Not only his career and grades, but also personal information such as his anecdote and family history have been known for a long time.
The motive was ‘realization’, but I was more interested in seeing the life Seo Ji-han had lived up to now.
“People who listen to me obediently aren’t interesting and they won’t show more than I expected… but I don’t think this guy will act as I expected.
“Well, I’ll quietly obey the lady’s wishes. Anyway, then I’ll just go away.”
“Oh, and.”
Hwareuk. Flames rose from Aiden’s fingers. This time, unlike before, it’s a ‘blue flame’. When Choi Ye-chan saw the blue flame, she was taken aback for a moment and then stopped.
‘Blue sores? Since when did that…”
Aiden said calmly, feeling the warmth of the flame he had ignited.
“You seem to be working behind the scenes these days, so please don’t slander your teacher’s name.”
The red-eyed blue flame glared at Choi Ye-chan quietly. Choi Ye-chan tried to ignore her cold sweat and forced her to smile.
“What do you mean well…”
“I’m sure you know what I’m talking about.”
Aiden got up and went to the window. In the distance, the ‘103rd Tower’, a black pillar that appeared in the moonlight, was visible.
“He’s coming soon.”
Aiden unconsciously bit his molars.
“If things go wrong because of something useless, you’ll have to be prepared.”
