Chapter 17 – The Giraffe’s Nest (3)
I led Ha-rin Kim and Ji-ah Lee, who were persuaded by my words.
“Then I’ll cast a spell.”
Jiah Lee chanted a spell, and I felt something like a force field spreading around us. She touched the force field lightly, and a bolt of lightning crackled.
I reached for the wall. The wall passed through my hand. There is no feeling of heterogeneity. Feeling strange for some reason, I went through the wall.
After passing through the wall, a passageway large enough to allow five people to pass through appeared. The inside was strangely bright. About 20m in front seemed unremarkable.
“This is the hidden stage…”
Jiah Lee looked around the aisle, her eyes twinkling. I walked behind Harin Kim.
“I explained it earlier… But if it’s this much magical power. In fact, it’s either one of two. Either it’s on the verge of dying, or it’s extremely weak.”
“…No way?”
“Probably due to the nature of this dungeon, it’s likely the former. So Harin deploys his light wing in advance and blocks it from the front.”
“…”
For a moment, Harin Kim glanced at me. Then she changed her expression in an instant and nodded her head with a distrustful expression.
“Don’t worry. Harin’s light wing is enough to block it. If you can’t stop Harin’s light wing anyway, you’ll be wiped out. Would I have come here?”
He pushed her with a good smile on her face. She sighed and stepped in front of her.
Did you walk about 10m? It felt like something was caught in my senses. Harin Kim and Ji-ah Lee also hardened their expressions to see if it was only me who felt it.
“Harin, please.”
At my words, Harin Kim closed her eyes.
Dig!
A halo of light took over the field of vision for an instant. Wings woven with light appeared behind Kim Harin’s back.
One, two, three. Three pairs of light wings were made. That’s her unique trait. It was like an angel descending.
Flutter.
The wings made of light radiated light and spread wide.
“Wow, is that Gwangik?
Lee Ji-ah’s eyes twinkled as she looked at Gwang-Ik, published by Harin Kim. Harin Kim’s Gwangik was definitely pretty. It was so popular that all the female characters showed interest even in the game.
“Yes.”
Kim Ha-rin answered Lee Ji-ah’s words with embarrassment.
It was then.
Flash!
“Uh?”
Lee Ji-ah muttered blankly. I also stared blankly at it for a moment.
At the end of the field of view.
A lizard-like entity with yellow horns was shooting lightning from its horn. A flash of light erupted.
Wow!
Correspondingly, Harin Kim’s light wing began to emit light. The light shimmered brightly, creating something like a barrier. A barrier surrounds us and begins to absorb the lightning as it is.
“Uh, uhhh… Shi, Siuya, bar, that’s just…”
Ji-ah Lee fell into a panic. However, Lee Ji-ah also built a shield of the earth to cover us.
Even though she was in a panic, she erected a shield with reverse properties, and she was also one of the human rights fighters.
I knew I was safe, but the fact that she could die in an instant almost panicked her. I quickly donned the Serenity Mask.
‘It’s just a joke…’
The anxiety that soared in an instant subsided in an instant.
I was anxious nonetheless.
The Mask of Tranquility forcibly draws out negative or positive emotions and makes them calm, but if the emotions are too rampant, it is impossible to completely calm them down.
Above all, the moment you take off the mask of serenity, your emotions run wild.
While wearing the Mask of Tranquility, I put on the Spearman’s Mask. Overlap the mask
This significantly reduces holding time. It was a method that was not used well because the time was rapidly reduced from tens of minutes to the point that it was difficult to maintain even one minute.
… However, it was unclear whether he would remain sane if he wore the spearman’s mask. His strength rose, and his senses became sharper.
I took a stick out of my bag and infused it with magic power.
When magical power was blown into it, a blade rose from the stick with a click, and the stick part lengthened. I blew the spear, blowing most of my mana into it.
Fu-wook!
Accompanied by an unpleasant sound, the spear is inserted as if being sucked into the lizard’s mouth. The spear pierced the thunder lizard from its mouth to its tail. Seeing that scene, Lee Ji-ah started to memorize magic. Kim Ha-rin spread her wings and rushed at the lizard like a shotgun.
The lizard seemed to have exhausted all its strength with the previous blow, but when Harin Kim’s sword struck, the lizard could not resist and its neck rose into the air.
“Heo-eok. Heo-eok.”
Harin Kim gasped for her breath.
I blankly recalled the situation just before.
It was a strategy that was only mentioned as a theory in the game. It was impossible to actually write it due to overlapping schedules, but the deceased users also cited it as one of the fastest growth routes if everyone could do it.
In fact, Harin Kim endured the blow of the thunder lizard, so the theory was correct. He felt the crisis of his life… I realized that theory and reality are quite different.
‘But the attack was done.’
I let out a sigh of relief in my heart. I swept his hair once, and it dripped with sweat. It was a cold sweat.
I approached Jiah Lee. Lee Ji-ah was still in a panic. I held Lee Ji-ah’s hand with my non-sweaty hand. This is because I have heard that holding the hand of a panicked person can give them a sense of stability.
“It’s okay?”
“Uh, yes. Uh, I’m a little better now.
Perhaps thanks to my holding her hand, Lee Ji-ah fortunately came to her senses. Then she took a deep breath, catching her breath and calming herself down. She was calm, uncharacteristic of a high school student. Jiah Lee and I slowly made our way to the end of the aisle.
At the end of the aisle, a spacious space appeared. To exaggerate a little, it’s an area that would be okay to play soccer. In the center was an altar, and on the altar were chests.
And beneath it was the Thunder Lizard, which had just been unleashed and decapitated.
I confirmed the reward with Jiah Lee and Harin Kim.
Among the rewards were jewels and gold coins, but these were not very important.
I looked away.
A thick book and a dagger that shines blue. And a magic stone the size of my fist. Judging by the concentration of magical power felt, it would be worth about 1 billion won.
I looked at both items using the Knowledge View.
[Mark of Lightning]
A dagger imbued with the power of lightning.
-Spell: Lightning Shock
-Increased lightning attribute dominance.
[Thunder Spirit Art]
The four spirits, martial arts modeled after a giraffe.
It consists of brain light examination, brain spirit method, and wind strike stock.
I tried it, but it all seemed like a game.
All are great rewards. The Mark of Lightning is a very good weapon in the early stages and a good weapon in the middle, according to users’ reviews, and the renewal method belonging to the thunder spirit magic, and the wind strike stock are martial arts books that are evaluated as the fastest renewal method in the game.
All others are not needed. What I want is Thunder Spirit Art. It is good to have money, but that was an item that could not be obtained even with a billion dollars.
“How will the reward be divided?”
“Let’s share it among the three of us. Jia made an earth shield to block the attack.”
Harin Kim spoke and I answered. At my answer, Lee Ji-ah widened her eyes. However, Harin Kim also nodded her head as if agreeing with my opinion.
“Huh? But I haven’t done anything.”
Jiah Lee opened her eyes and said.
“If you’re sorry, can you make something like a magic tool later?”
“Yeah, make one later.”
At my words, Harin Kim nodded her head in affirmation.
“Then how would you split the reward? Does everyone want something?”
“I’ll choose the dagger.”
Kim Ha-rin said coldly to my words.
“Then I’ll choose a book.”
I also quickly picked up the book. The weight was substantial. I put the book in my bag. Naturally, Lee Ji-ah picked up the magic stone. The gold coins and jewels were to be taken separately and distributed later.
After collecting all the rewards, we returned to the hotel without any regrets.
***
Upon returning to the hotel, I read the martial arts book. It wasn’t difficult to put a book in my head, whether it was the effect of entering the world in the game, the effect of the perk, or because I was young.
However, it was thick, so it took two full days. One day was enough, but it was because they moved to search for the Thunderbird in the middle.
They asked soldiers and people around them to find out whereabouts of the Thunderbird, but they said the Thunderbird hadn’t been seen for several days.
‘It seems like I was caught first.’
I thought, recalling the thunderbird corpse at the entrance of the cave. I said my thoughts at the end of the search today, and Lee Ji-ah and Kim Harin also agreed.
-Is that so?
-I thought this mission would be the hardest in my school life, but it turned out to be the easiest and sweetest mission.
This mission seemed too raw. Like the giraffe’s nest, and the mission. The rewards are already sweet, but since the mission is around the time of defeating the Thunderbird, I wonder if the principal will give me something good.
Thinking so, I opened the book of martial arts.
‘It’s much harder than I thought.’
To be honest, there was a tendency to see it easily. The mana practice method I learned from my parents was very easy, so I looked at it easily, but the Thunder Spirit Art was difficult.
It will take quite a bit of work to master this. But don’t worry. Because there is a privilege of reading knowledge.
I activated knowledge browsing. Strange and abstruse words have been transformed to make them easier for me to understand. I wrote them down one by one in the notebook I had taken out beforehand.
Computers are not used. This is because in an era where supernatural powers and modern culture are combined, there are people with unique characteristics related to ‘hacking’. There’s nothing wrong with being careful, just in case.
