16 – Training [EPISODE – 1]
I thought about the warrior skill for a moment.
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[Peak of Humanity: Hero]
Rank: EX
Effect: As a hero who defeated the demon lord, the following abilities are granted to the owner of the skill.
1. All physical abilities are greatly increased overall.
2. Immune to all status ailments.
3. Immune to all diseases.
4. All growth rates are tripled.
5. All growth limits are removed.
6. A goddess watches over you.
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One skill with a total of 6 effects.
This was the EX level skill [Hero] skill I had now.
About 3 days have passed since I acquired the warrior skill.
And now, at the dawn of the 4th day, I have been relying on the [Hero] skill, whether I like it or not, and I have been thinking a lot about the Hero skill.
And in doing so, I naturally realized one thing about the warrior skill.
That is, the more difficult battles I experienced, the stronger I became.
After acquiring the hero skill, I practiced swinging my sword every day and doing muscle training.
As a simple training to become stronger, the effect was not bad.
However, while doing such training, I felt like I was getting stronger, but I realized this while experiencing the gate accident.
It means that I become much stronger when I fight directly and cross-over, rather than training methods such as muscle training.
It’s a situation similar to the phenomenon where I was able to constantly think about how to wield a sword better and find improvements when I wielded a sword before.
It was like my combat algorithm gradually improved the more I battled.
Attack evasion, defense, accuracy, power, strategy, combat sense, etc.
Every time I experienced a battle, I felt that the necessary abilities rose rapidly.
And that was even more so in the toughest battles.
I felt much stronger against a party of robbers at the gate than when I took down King Poison Snake.
So, the conclusion is very simple.
In order for me to be strong, I had to roll as hard as I could against the most difficult opponents.
“Hmm…”
I turned on my smartphone. And opened the official app of the Hunter Association.
I looked at the gates around me.
It could be seen that there are gates of various difficulties such as C, B, and A levels around.
Among them, originally, I would have looked for C- or B-ranks in order to place importance on stability…
Today is different. Today, I made up my mind and came out to practice.
I excluded Class C and Class B and narrowed the search scope to Class A gates.
Tring!
Coincidentally, there is a single A-class gate nearby.
It was close to my house, very close to Park Jin-su’s guild, and to the [Hunter S] guild I’m currently attending.
There was no need to hesitate. I headed straight there.
It didn’t take that long.
I arrived at my destination and faced a class A gate I hadn’t seen in a long time.
“It’s been a while… It’s been three years.”
When I was an A-class hunter in the past, I faced a lot of A-class gates, but I hadn’t encountered them for three years.
For some reason, I felt a welcome feeling, but the feeling I felt more than that was the chilling feeling of intimidation I hadn’t felt in a long time.
The rank and number of gates are the same as the rank and number of hunters.
A level 1 single gate is difficult enough for one level A hunter to subdue it.
The B-rank 5-man gate is so difficult that 5 B-rank 5 people can subdue it.
In that sense, the gate I’m standing at now was as difficult as one A-rank person could subdue.
gulp…
Is it because of expectations for the first A-level gate in three years?
Or was it just worry about what I was about to do?
I swallowed dry saliva once.
Right now, I know my strength as a Hunter best.
I didn’t know it at first, but as I repeated the battle, my skills became clearer.
Right now, I’m at the top of the B rank, otherwise I’m at the bottom of the A rank.
So, originally, I shouldn’t have challenged this gate.
The chances of me breaking it are extremely low.
Trying to do this would probably be close to stupid.
“I have to…”
I muttered softly, holding my trembling body.
As I said, I have to challenge this gate now.
Actually, after I acquired the [Hero] skill, I realized one more thing. It seems that the [Hero] skill has various additional abilities other than the description of the skill.
[One. I don’t know if it’s an extension of the item “All physical abilities increase greatly overall.”, but my ability called intuition has greatly increased these days.
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Just like what happened in the raid I went with Park Jin-soo before, I somehow intuited that they had other ulterior motives, and even now I can intuit one thing.
‘If I don’t become strong, I will die.’ It is an intuition that
As I was thinking at home tonight, one more intuition struck me.
That’s the intuition that if I don’t get stronger quickly, I will die unconditionally.
There is no basis for this intuition. In the first place, the word intuition itself is nothing more than an unfounded feeling.
However, I’m sure it won’t just end with intuition.
I didn’t have time.
time to wait patiently.
“Whoa…”
After taking a deep breath, I entered the gate.
I entered and looked around. It was all dark around me, so I couldn’t see very well, but my eyes soon got used to it and I knew where I was.
It was such a room where medieval European knights and usable armor and helmets were displayed.
[You have entered the Hall of the Fallen Paladin.]
A message was heard.
The name of this dungeon seems to be the Paladin’s Hall.
“Where is it?”
This is inside the gate, now it’s my battlefield.
So from now on, you shouldn’t be vigilant at all.
You must be prepared for your life.
I quickly looked around.
And the boundaries were sharpened.
And I started looking. enemies I have to defeat.
“ha…”
At first I was taken aback as my enemy was nowhere to be seen.
But now I know who my enemy is.
Upon learning the identity of my enemy, I could only sigh.
Iron gruck.
The sound of metal clashing with iron could be heard from the helmets and armors on display.
And with that sound, the armor joined together to form the shape of a knight.
It seems these knights are now my enemies.
“Around 100 people…”
There were so many that I couldn’t even count them on my fingers.
I made a rough estimate and just settled on 100 people.
“It must be difficult…”
I couldn’t help but let out a low grumble.
The gate I’m at right now is an A-class gate.
Even the trash mobs are comparable to B ranks one by one.
It feels different from the trivial C-level B-level gates I usually go to.
If it felt like going to training then, now it feels like going to war.
However.
Kwak!
“Once, one guy.”
War is what I hoped for.
This war will make me stronger.
I had to become much stronger.
visor!
visor!
I cut down the knights in armor one by one.
The dull sound of iron rubbing against iron resonates as if it were echoing inside the gate.
And each time the echo rang, the knights fell one by one.
“Keugh…”
But, eventually, the power started to wear off.
As the cycle of echoes grew longer, the knights began to counterattack me.
It seems that I don’t have the skills to defeat 100 B-ranked dimension species without difficulty yet.
However, if you overdo it, you can get rid of it.
visor!
visor!
Fatigue is not felt.
It’s just that the body doesn’t move well.
I couldn’t feel the pain, but the feeling of accumulating damage was clear.
This was an ordeal for me.
I had to overcome this ordeal.
I had to be strong to overcome this ordeal.
“Ugh…uhh…”
After about an hour of such an ordeal, I was finally relieved.
It seemed that all the knights in front of him had been defeated.
I started to catch my breath for a moment.
And I calmed down my overheated body.
Iron gruck. Iron gruck.
“I don’t even give you time to rest…”
Now, while I was taking a brief honey-like rest, there was a being approaching me with a cold iron sound.
A different level of pressure from the knights I had defeated spread throughout my body, making me nervous.
“Is it the boss?”
A knight in black armor stood in front of him.
When the black knight saw me, he began to emit red eyes.
This guy is the owner of the gate, and it was a real ordeal.
[The death knight appears.]
“ha…”
I got up.
Then he grabbed his sword and took a stance.
Before I came, I had checked the dungeon boss on my smartphone.
Rank A, name Death Knight.
It was an enemy I had to defeat alone now.
“…”
As I gripped my sword, the death knight stanced to greet me as well.
[Gg gg gg gg gg gg gg gg gg gg gg gg gg gg gg]
The earth began to shake.
The real battle begins now.