Hunting Ground (4)
Inside the cabin, a generous old man greeted me.
“Oh~ I said it was noisy outside, but a guest has already arrived.”
A forest keeper who manages this forest. Mr. Harris came up to me, fiddling with his mustache.
“This is Corinne Locke.”
“Student Corinne Locke. Hmm, two blue epaulettes! This is… what a great student.”
“I was lucky.”
“Let’s see, the score is… 117 points! It’s amazing! It’s been a while since I’ve had a score like this!”
A natural result. It was because I caught two of the 2nd grade students who had the highest score in this forest, and I came here while thoroughly avoiding the haunts of the 2nd year seniors.
“May I choose a product?”
“I see. With points allowed, you can pick anything.”
“Hahaha…”
Mr. Harris showed the exhibits on the walls of the cabin.
There are things like Matt Bohr’s molar knife and a 3rd grade leather protective coat, but the real thing here is Sharkbear’s bile.
It takes 50 points, but it gives you a skill called Shark Bear Hide, which increases your strength by 20 points and makes your skin tough.
but i don’t need this
“Hoo?”
Mr. Harris admired my choice. The furthest corner of the sample. It was a small seed that was not very noticeable.
“This is true. Do you have eyes to see? You pick out the seeds of Mandragora.”
This seed is the reason why deceased people collect 100 points unconditionally even if they retell infinitely.
Mandragora is a powerful elixir. Gives powerful reinforcements to early players with low levels.
And that’s not all. If you don’t grow this seed right away, you can get a special hidden piece by going to the ‘Lake’ outside the Hunting Ground.
It’s noisy today, so I’ll sneak into this forest tomorrow.
“17 points left… Hmm, this. Please give me this.”
What I received was plant nutrients for 6 points and ear plugs for 10 points.
Hey. do you know that snakes are bald?
Nutrients are medicines for the growth of mandragora. If you plant this in a pot, it will grow, but it can greatly shorten the growth of mandragora, which takes more than a year.
The earplugs are made from the fur of northern silver foxes, and can greatly reduce Mandragora’s screams, which can cause a person to die instantly the moment they are pulled out.
At this point, this is the final goal of this exercise.
In the previous episode, I had to use all sorts of magical barriers and tools, but now without Park Si-hoo, I have to do it by myself.
‘You did a good job shopping.’
After leaving the cabin, Cranel Luden was looking for a broken core among the golem wreckage.
“Shall we find it together?”
“······it’s okay.”
“At times like this, I say thank you.”
“·······.”
The Wood Golem, which was created by absorbing the soil and trees of the forest, was so large that it was difficult to find the core.
Still, I can’t just throw it away because I’ll have to get the remains of that core to repair it.
By the time they searched the wreckage for a long time to find the core, students arrived one after another.
“Ahhhh! We’ve arrived!”
“Heo-eok… heo-eok…!”
2nd and 3rd place are unexpected people. Jaeger with a large mace and Lark panting while holding a heavy leather hardcover magic book.
“What is it… Corinne, have you been here already?”
“How many times…? Huh Eok… so many seniors in the 2nd year…”
“I’m in first place. You guys are in second or third place.”
“·······.”
“·······.”
Two people staring at each other. Needless to say, everyone hurriedly ran to the cabin. Of course, the knight Jaeger was much faster than the wizard Lark.
“Wahhaha! 19 points!”
Did you know that seagulls are just beach chickens?
Yeager stretches out of the cabin. It seems that he caught quite a few kids in the 3rd and 4th grade.
“What about Lark?”
“15 points.”
“Looks like you two got along well?”
“Uh, he summoned some kind of ghost knight and he was good at controlling it. But why did you come so quickly?”
“It’s a long story.”
“Really? Hey, today’s meeting room call?”
“Cole. How are you Cranell?”
“······ Huh? Me?”
“This is also a relationship, so it would be nice if we could eat and sweat together.”
“Uh… is that so?”
In the previous episode, I collaborated quite a bit with Cranel Louden.
In fact, even if it was a weakling, it was only in a person-to-person battle. There are not many aggro tankers and dealers that are as good as golems in semi-large monster battles.
“Today’s Kimchi Udon…”
– Kwak!
In an instant, the forest shuddered.
“Oh······.”
“It’s gorgeous… is it another 2nd grade?”
“······There’s no way that could be.”
Contrary to what Ye or other freshmen thought, I denied that possibility.
I made 3 of the 1st year names incapacitated.
With Arisha Arden, Doron Warsky, and Cranel Luden rendered incapacitated, the only thing left is Yuel, but Yuel must have already been defeated by Marie.
Can the current UEL hold out against Marie for more than 3 minutes?
‘There’s no way Marie would waste her energy like that against students below level 3?’
Did dozens of people attack at once? At that level, even beginner magic can amplify firepower a little…
A huge wall of ice that destroyed part of the forest soared. Marie’s frozen alchemy… that’s also an advanced level.
“The monsters run away…”
‘Until the monster?’
Demons are fearless. What defines their ecosystem is not strength, but the rank of those with the same demonic nature.
Hey. do you know that snakes are bald?
No matter how strong a human is, they will recklessly attack them.
“·······.”
Marie uses the advanced magic
“Stop, can’t you?”
A huge mass rising towards the sky.
The compressed and bursting ghosts and traces of destruction were showing off their presence.
* * * *
Marie Dunareff is a genius wizard.
Born as the eldest daughter of a farming family, she walked the path of magic and was praised as a genius by those around her.
A lively and naive country girl has walked the gentle uphill path of life, far from setbacks, failures, and despair.
This did not change even after entering the Guardian Academy.
Innate ability to interpret spells, blessed amount of mana.
If you learn one, you apply heat, and it was a lumber to follow the head professor Josephine, who is said to be the greatest genius of all time.
Being a girl like that, what was in front of her was the fear of denying herself entirely.
“Heo-eok… heo-eok…!”
The ripped off neck is hot. My brain stopped thinking at the unrealistic pain.
‘Analysis… I have to analyze…’
But does it make sense?
I saw it with my own eyes. I felt it through my skin. Even so, the brain denies reality.
The seomseomoksu (纖纖玉手), thin fingers become poisonous birds of evil spirits and cut through the space they were in.
The red lips and white teeth are twisted like those of a mad dog, and the bloody eyes are bright red as if they had pierced the heart.
Its skin, soft and white like finely ground flour, is tough enough to ignore the explosion of magical power.
It’s not like a whole body defense using an aura or a sharp blade forged with a characteristic.
Chickens invented the chicken dance. They’re just too embarrassed to admit it.
Just an overwhelming body. A disaster created by self-defense skills that have reached the point of immortality and an innate demonic energy that seems to cut down even a single iron in one’s later years.
“No, it’s not possible with just super, beginner magic…!”
There were so many of them that they ignored the head professor’s warning that offensive magic of intermediate level or higher was not allowed.
He had already deployed a lot of advanced defensive magic, and at this point broke the rules… but even the advanced freezing alchemy could not stop the demon.
– Quaang!
“Kyaat…!”
The shattered barrier and the shock wave hit Marie’s small body.
thud!
The body is impaled on a giant tree. Whether it was a nosebleed or a trauma to the nape of the neck, hot blood dripped.
scary.
His eyes were spinning, and he was dazed as if everything had stopped.
I couldn’t hear the noise that echoed in my cochlea, and I couldn’t even see the mess around me.
-Kreung…!
The beast is approaching.
“Oh, don’t come…”
Hey. do you know that snakes are bald?
Neither a knight nor a wizard. it’s just violence A natural disaster compressed to human size. Defense alone is not enough to stop that!
“Do not come···!”
“There.”
In a fleeting moment, what stopped the two was the sharp voice of the head professor.
“Stop it, Hwaran.”
Oh, I lived.
Didn’t die.
Upon realizing this, the relieved Marie passed out and collapsed.
* * * *
The practice that took place at the Hunting Ground produced unexpected results.
First of all, the student who received the highest score in 1st place is a country in 5th grade. And the clash between first year ace Hwaran and second year ace Marie Dunarev.
Clash between level 1 and level 1. The aftermath was witnessed by everyone at the Hunting Grounds.
A different fight. Who would guess that even that isn’t power?
Who would dare to predict that two people who are now rated as first class, will eventually rise to the top class?
‘For now, the Dutch judgment approval.’
The present Hwaran, sealed by the golden gyre, is a suppressed beast.
It is said that the original is asleep now, but its essence is a monster. If you stimulate it more than necessary, a special monster will wake up.
That’s why it’s not very good news that Marie bumped into Hwaran. It’s the same as igniting the timer of the bomb called Bicheon Yacha.
“Who are you?”
“1 Grade?”
In front of the hallway of the infirmary, several seniors who were waiting restlessly stopped me.
“I’m Corinne Locke, first year. Marie-senpai, I’m here to see you.”
Marie’s classmates back off when she shows them candy and a bouquet. Isabel, a brown-haired girl, probably Marie’s friend and first victim… took my bouquet instead.
“Ha… they say you need to rest now. Only the doctor and head professor can enter. I’ll take care of it, so give it to me.”
“Then, thank you. Please say hello to Marie-senpai.”
I left Isabelle and the second years behind and left the infirmary building.
The opportunity for Marie to awaken on the special express is her encounter with John Doe, the murderer of the Fog City, on a real-life mission that will take place a month later.
I don’t know how the demon factor inside Marie awakens, but there’s still plenty of time.
If you increase your specs through weekend missions and get the cooperation of the first graders, who are named party members in the early stages, you can attack as much as you like.
Only 3 phases, not the final 4 phases. If you go there, you can somehow solve it with the preparations you have made so far.
‘If you follow the rules, you can cope enough. I can solve it without a player.’
This was also the reason why he showed off his power against second-class bosses.
Even if the weak 5th-class knight Naburaeng asked me to fight with them, there was no way they would help.
They first take an interest in the player because of the player’s innate talent and strength.
This practice is like a self-PR that appealed to the level 2 students that I am not at the level of being ignored.
‘In the next week, the names will be able to restore power. At that time, I propose to form a party.’
The final boss of Act 1 of
This time, I walked the pavement of the academy, hoping that the ending would not end badly.
* * * *
Marie woke up in the middle of the morning when the cuckoo was crying.
“ah······.”
familiar ceiling. In the infirmary where the lights were off, Marie raised her upper body.
“Eh… Marie?”
Isabelle, who had been sleeping on the bed in the infirmary, woke up with a rustle.
“Marie! Are you okay? Is your neck okay?”
Isabelle looked at Marie’s condition, not paying attention to the messy hair.
I wiped off the bloodstained hair, but the powdered blood powder dripped off, and blood oozes from the bandaged shoulder.
“That 1st year… I should have done as much as I could! This was limited to beginner magic…!”
The enraged girl chewed on the first year who was quarantined by Head Professor Josephine. He even said that it wasn’t fair, and that there was no need to be discouraged by Marie.
But whether Isabelle did it or not, Marie only slowly moved her empty gaze.
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Moonlight penetrating the window.
The nape of my friend’s neck exposed to that brilliant light.
“······ Thirsty.”
It tasted like ripe fruit.
[Act 1 Final Boss – Marie Dunareff]
Aura Level: Severe (9,400)
Horsepower Rating: Superior (66,700)
Attributes: Magical Amplification, Blood, Summon Beasts, Domain of Blood
Comprehensive evaluation: first class
[Main Quest: Marie Dunareff]
※ Difficulty: S
※ Deadline: Failure when Marie Dunareff dies.
※ compensation : ?????
Doesn’t look like he’ll get much time to prepare