119 – Disgusting Smell
There is no hunter who doesn’t know that moving with magical energy in your legs is much faster. It’s because that’s one of the first things I think of and try when I wake up and use my mana to some extent. However, it doesn’t take long to realize that the most difficult part of the body to strengthen with magical power is the legs.
This is because it is the farthest part from the head and heart, which governs magical power, and one reason may be that, unlike the hands, which have lived a lifetime playing freely, the work of the feet was limited.
Remember the movements of Arin Baek.
I concentrated and watched the video in my head, and instead of pushing the ground, it moved as if creating a small explosion on the ground. Did you do that every single step?
‘Crazy… How the hell do you balance it?’
Again, how is it possible to release such an enormous amount of energy from the end of the bridge? It’s not an easy task to put a layer of magic on a hand-held weapon. Is the Ilseom Guild passing on its know-how? Hmm…
Innumerable questions came to my mind, but I couldn’t figure out a technique that could be called a special move at once.
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‘Skills are expressed at the tips of the feet…’
It was a movement that was difficult to understand right now, but I believe that the day will not be too far off if you follow it even if it is clumsy.
Imitate Arin’s lightning steps, dodge, block, and slash the wolves’ attacks from all directions, and continue counterattacks without hesitation.
She can’t pull off her ghostly moves like she does, but scrambling to do something with her feet, looking down at her, has the effect of opening her eyes a little more than usual.
‘Pang a fireball with your feet! And if it explodes…’
But it couldn’t be done just by thinking.
It’s hot…
In a very fleeting moment, it seemed as if a spark the size of a tickle was rising from the tip of her toe, but that was all.
‘Huh… The dog is hard. It’s leaking mana.’
Kwajik-!
– Use daggers to defeat them while stealthed.
– (58/10,000)
– (72/10,000)
– (91/10,000)
While training, the number of quests cleared is quickly counted, which at least boosts my excitement. All I see is the wolf’s claws, fangs, and splattering blood. Before I knew it, I was engrossed in only one thought: to kill the enemy.
Then my senses gradually expanded and the surroundings began to blur. A familiar feeling that often comes after entering the space of nothingness.
I can’t see it right now, but I felt the circuits that were engraved the moment I switched jobs for a moment.
– Slight freedom of movement.
The message told me that I had made a small achievement. I remember seeing similar phrases often in my life. Things like my senses expanded, I became more agile, and my ability to grasp illusions slightly increased.
I do remember that it always came to me at an unexpected moment and surprised me, but I don’t think I’ve ever grown up with such a conscious effort.
And the liberation was literally so minor that I didn’t immediately notice any improvement.
‘Can’t we show that insignificant level in numbers?’
I was hungry for growth, and I felt the system’s encouragement wasn’t enough to satisfy my hunger.
I swung the dagger sideways lightly and cut the wolf’s neck.
――
An honest straight line drawn by me.
Arin Baek’s movements were drawn mainly with beautiful curves close to sword dance, but I was a series of straight lines that were extremely crude.
However, I was not in a hurry because it was different. Anyway, if I imitate, my personality will inevitably be reflected.
The straight line was a projected line of my wish to reach the enemy in the shortest distance, and I really liked the straight line I created.
Standing!
After being swung by me, I cut off the thick front paws of the Dire Wolf at once, then stabbed him in the face with the thorns on his shoulder.
Pu-wook!
– The enemy is in ‘Bleeding’ state.
The [Rough Claw] Obtained from Dire Wolf was continuously being activated as the number of charges with the torso increased during battle. Even at a cursory glance, the wolf was showing unusual bleeding, and because of that, rather than moving forward toward me, the wolf’s center of gravity was concentrated behind it.
Dumb-!!
As I was trying to finish off the guy who was stepping back and looking at the angle of retreat, there were as many as four guys from behind who were persistently biting my arms and legs and trying to knock me over.
Kreurreung-!
‘Good. Let’s see who gets out.’
I attached them and activated [Reckless Charge] And ran recklessly to the place where other guys were concentrated.
Kwaang-!
Wolves bouncing in all directions as if a 15-pound bowling ball hit pins 1 through 3 precisely.
But the ugly wolves fill right in front of me as if they couldn’t stand the empty space.
For a moment, I felt that I was fed up with that persistence, and I grabbed the sharp fangs in front of my eyes with both hands and tossed them away with all my might.
Puff-!
He hit the wall, his head exploded, and he couldn’t even scream in agony. He felt that sometimes he should relieve stress by killing in this way. You shouldn’t lose interest in the battle itself by being too buried in quests.
Chwaaak-!
Kieeng-!
Slime acid is also effective when used appropriately on critical areas such as the eyes. It feels refreshing to see a wolf that was hit by acid and not knowing what to do.
Let’s take that feeling and shout out loud.
“Tick tock tock!!”
– The warrior’s shout gives strength to allies!
– Strength +3
I happened to be around me. The eyes of the hunters who received the [Warrior’s Cry] Buff became round. One of them even nodded at me, who was out of hiding for a while.
‘Um- you’ve become a child. If you get help, you have to say hello.’
I don’t remember the face of the man who greeted me because it’s not distinctive, but he personally likes that kind of straight personality. As my subordinate, of course.
Only seven active skills were used after entering the cave. It had been a long time since the use of magical power exceeded the speed of recovery after using so many skills. The mana would soon reach the bottom, but he had no intention of stopping.
I can see the wolves wandering around in the cave. Addiction and paralysis slowly take effect.
[Fireball]
Puruuong-!!
And after using a fireball to distance himself from the wolves around him, he jumped into the air while grabbing his gliding cloak, which had been soaked in water before the battle and was slightly damp.
mana: 9/161 (+10)
No matter how many times you wear two magic runes that restore magic when you kill monsters, it is difficult to avoid draining magic unless the killing speed is faster than the skill usage speed.
‘I can’t eat it because I’m crazy rather than lack of magic. It’s the first time since the orc invasion has been such a promiscuous fight.’
– Enter the first level of gliding.
– Cognitive impairment effect is activated.
– ＜00:09:59＞
The eyes of the wolves, who had been biting me tenaciously like a dog with rabies, were transferred to other hunters due to the Perception Impairment Magic triggered by the gliding effect.
Wheeying―
Pupper pu pp ppong—!!
I floated in the air with the cloak effect and threw ten skull bombs at the bottom at once, and the wolves exploded in all directions in the explosion that boasted tremendous power.
– Defeat 10,000 enemies with skills with attributes. (84/10,000)
‘Huh… Let’s rest for a while.’
It seems like we fought for almost 20 minutes without a break. As if I had fallen asleep, I was so focused that there was a gap in my memory, so my mental power seems to have declined quite a bit.
If I were a complete skeleton, I would still be happily slashing wolves without such difficulties, right?
– Irmana’s blessing disappears after a while.
The message that I had been thinking about for a while has reappeared.
Eventually, Irmana’s blessing disappeared when her body completely dried up.
I took out an ancient teapot from my inventory.
Immediately, the water from the other world was poured on his body, and his cloak was soaked to the point of being wet. It’s like standing on your back alone during battle, which is annoying, but it’s not much to keep Irmana’s blessing.
mana: 66/161 (+10)
(* Incompletely applying Irmana’s blessing:
Looking down, the number of wolves was still well over 7-8 times the number of hunters. Looking at the numbers, it wasn’t much different from when the wave first started, but it was absurd. No matter how bossy it is, this is… Too many? Really why?
I think I killed over 70 by myself, but before I knew it, another one was added. I hoped that a lot would come, but when I actually experienced it, I thought this was not a little. I’m fine, but other people have a hard time with-
“Keuhiiik!! Jebaal! Hey, guys!! I did something wrong!! Please! Please! Save me!! Arms! aaagh! Don’t wave your arms!!”
I heard the voice of a woman approaching the edge of death from a distance away from me. It was a voice that she squeezed out as if pouring it out towards her comrades for the last time just before her death.
But.
Kwajik-!!
The woman, bitten on her arms and legs by four wolves, is eventually taken into a cave, separated into five pieces. I don’t know how much that woman can fill the stomachs of huge wolves, but it would be a headache if any of those who ingested humans were mutated.
She eventually leaned forward and flew to the other side like a flying squirrel. Then he dropped several bombs on the heads of the wolves who were dragging the woman in pieces with the light in her eyes gone.
Kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa kwaa!!
The flesh of the wolves, which is broken into much smaller pieces than the five pieces of a woman, and scattered in all directions.
As I left them behind and flew back to the original location, I glanced at the hunters in the place where the woman had just been.
‘Tsk… What are those bastards doing?’
The woman’s colleagues were obvious. It was a party that stood out from the beginning because there was a bear beast.
However, they turned away from the dead woman for some reason.
As I watched it, I smelled something like a disgusting sewage smell to my sense of smell.
Surely, they must have their own circumstances, and it was unclear who was at fault, but it was not a very pleasant sight to see.
However, as I was a hunter, I went through similar situations several times, so I soon blocked my sight. Caring about it doesn’t mean that the woman will come back alive.
Thanks to that, I was floating in the air with my mind slightly polluted, thinking about the meddling battle just now.
‘A blow…’
It was still absurdly insufficient to cut down monsters at once.
There are things like that because the weapon you have is a dagger, but even if you had a great sword, it wasn’t easy to kill monsters with one blow.
Though it was a fairly sharp attack when using Flame Slash, it was a skill with a sense of weight to use consecutively. In a word, there are many loopholes after using it.
If you want to kill in one hit with a normal hit, making a good weapon will be faster than improving your skills.
‘I’ll have to order a greatsword soon. I need to ask Ran to deliver the words.’
I wonder if it’s right for the summoned owner to hand over the material and ask him to buy some weapons, but if I go through each of those things, the next job change will only be possible in the summer, and that shouldn’t be the case.