Chapter 401 – At the Gate (4)
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“Guys like bugs..”
Yang Ji-seok climbed a tree and glared at the cadets below.
The guys who whispered about themselves the other day.
I could see the faces of the guys who slandered me without any skills.
There was no one here. Even if an accident happens here, will he know that he is the culprit?
Anyway, the guys over there were the guys at the bottom, and they were opponents that he could handle as much as he could on his own.
Even now, even though you are so close, you don’t notice it.
“Now… “
Wouldn’t it be okay if I looked at your hands once in a while? Yang Ji-seok, who was raising his mana like that, canceled his casting before his magic was completed.
“Tsk..”
Suddenly someone’s face came to mind.
Did he say he might get over the wall? When was the last time you heard someone say that?
‘Ha.. I guess it’s better to act like an adult now.’
After all, these guys will live like that for the rest of their lives.
Without great ability, I will just crawl on the bottom and gossip about someone.
You want to believe that if you bring others down like that, you will become greater and more valuable.
Reality is in place, no, it’s just self-hypnosis.
Rather, you will lose the way to work hard, and you will fall to the bottom.
“If you go up again, that’s it. Because rankings aren’t everything.”
If the lack of magic power was the problem, it would be enough to practice using magic more efficiently.
Fighting in an optimal state that is neither insufficient nor excessive, that is probably the direction you should pursue.
“Kim Si-woo.. I will jump over you someday.”
Yang Ji-seok gnashed his teeth and came down from the tree using fly magic.
He could already feel the sweat dripping down his face in the hot weather, but he couldn’t waste his mana uselessly.
Although he may have fallen in rank, he himself was Yang Ji-seok. Yes, everyone makes mistakes.
“I need to find a magic stone to use as an assistant.”
Various monsters lived in the vast forest.
It wasn’t too difficult to deal with the guys with lower ratings alone.
If there is a problem, is it that his knowledge of survival is poor except for hunting?
It was quite difficult for him, who hadn’t done much physical training, to be active in an environment like this.
“… ?”
I felt that someone with an incomparable amount of magic power was coming this way.
Yang Ji-seok unknowingly raised his magic power and put him on alert. He was on the verge of casting his magic right away, when he heard a familiar voice.
“Isn’t there anything difficult?”
Yang Ji-seok, who identified the owner of the voice, felt his body lose strength.
Instructor Kim Si-young and Professor Kang Min-ah came to him sweating profusely.
Perhaps the environment here was also difficult for Kim Si-young, as she was wet with sweat, and her inner skin was reflected.
Ji-seok Yang could feel the heat rise on her face without even realizing it.
“Are you traveling alone?”
“That…Yes.”
“You know I can’t help you right here, right? I don’t really recommend going alone.”
“It’s okay… It’s okay. Not too dangerous… “
Yang Ji-seok always spoke with a confident attitude as if he looked down on others, but when he stood in front of instructor Kim Si-young, his mouth felt frozen.
When Kim Si-young saw Yang Ji-seok like that, she tried to say something, but she just laughed. A cadet who has risen to the top 10 even though she may have fallen in rank now.
Why don’t you know how to do it well?
“Okay. You know what you’ll do well If you ever need help, don’t be lazy and run away right away.”
“Ah… I see.”
She just stared silently at Instructor Kim Si-young’s back as she spoke in an attitude that seemed to acknowledge herself and then disappeared.
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“What are you doing?”
“What do you mean?”
“Cadet Yang Ji-seok. The atmosphere seemed unusual.”
“I don’t know what’s not serious. I am just correcting it so that it does not go astray.”
Kang Min-ah recalled Yang Ji-seok’s gaze earlier and made a meaningful expression.
They might be reluctant because of the fierce atmosphere on the outside, but weren’t there quite a few guys who liked them because of their easy-going and cool personalities?
Well, he rejected all of them because he couldn’t be seen as a man if he was weaker than himself, but in Kang Min-ah’s eyes, Yang Ji-seok felt like he was also attracted to her.
“Why do you think the two of you look good together?”
“Ha? What nonsense are you talking about, Kang Min-ah?”
“Why? Not good?”
“What else is there to do? A cadet is just an object to be guided. Like you so… “
“Uhm~ Why does he seem to be interested in you too?”
“Is that part of it? I’m sorry, but I’m not interested in cadets at all. How could you have such feelings for an immature cadet? If you’re an adult, you shouldn’t do that.”
“Are you asking me to listen? I said no!”
She responded as if in a fit of anger to Si-young Kim’s remarks, which seemed to be aimed at Min-a Kang, who was infatuated with Si-woo Kim, a cadet.
“So who are you?”
“I said no.”
“Then is it true that you have a man?”
“What… That’s…”
Kang Min-ah, who turned into a woman’s face as if she fell in love with her when she thought of Kim Si-woo, and Kim Si-young, who became curious about what a great human being she was, perhaps because it was the first time she had seen such a face while living with Kang Min-ah.
That Kang Min-ah has a man.
She was the one who thought it was okay to be alone, but when she saw Kang Min-ah’s expression, she felt her teeth grinding.
“Siyoung, isn’t it about time for you to meet a man?”
“What. Won’t we meet when the time comes? There is nothing wrong with living alone.”
“What. If you are, that’s it.”
“Didn’t you say that too?”
“Well, it’s definitely different.”
“Are you aware of the annoyed look on your face?”
I look at myself with a smile on my face, but why do I feel so annoyed?
When the other guys asked her to meet a guy, she didn’t think much of it, but when Kang Min-ah was doing that, she felt her annoyance surge.
“I would rather live and die than touch a cadet who has no blood on his head. I don’t want to live without a conscience like you.”
“Who says there is no conscience!. How dependable, mature, and manly Mr. Seo is.”
“Under. I don’t know when Kang Min-ah became so gross.”
Kang Min-ah with her face, who fell in love with her with her sincerity, why does my stomach feel so bubbling?
“If you’re envious, tell me you’re envious. Old Maid Instructor.”
“Shut up, Shotacon.”
“Shotacon…? Ha, what nonsense bullshit!”
“You are like a child to me!”
To Kim Si-young, the cadets were no different from children, only their bodies were big. She looked at Kang Min-ah, who had touched her cadet, with her contempt.
The two of them huffed and puffed at each other, feeling ashamed of each other, as if this was a conversation that grown-ups would have.
“Whoa.. I feel weird because of you.”
“That’s what I’m going to say, but it’s your taste, so I won’t say it specifically, but don’t get caught and cause trouble.”
“Who… Who causes trouble.”
She thinks she’s a child, but she’s not an adult considering her age.
It didn’t matter that the two met, but considering Kang Min-ah’s status, it could be noisy in many ways.
“Because I’m not meeting a new student!”
“Put spit in her mouth and lie to her. Um, is the last one over there?”
Kim Si-young, who thought that the conversation on this topic would not end like a hamster wheel, shut her mouth first.
On the shore side, which is quite far from the entrance, when I came near it, a huge rock that could be seen from afar caught my eye.
Quite a heterogeneous landscape to be seen from the shore, blocks of ice and stones that have a strong artificial feeling.
“I made a very good living. Was it made of magic?”
“It wouldn’t have been easy to make if it was that big.”
When I got closer, everything seemed to be there, from the entrance to the window.
In addition, there is even a shade curtain made of palm leaves at the entrance. Do you think you came here for camping, not for survival?
Seeing how they managed to reach that level in such a short amount of time, they must be quite confident in their skills.
The bigger the size, the worse the consumption of magic attribute, but a normal cadet wouldn’t be able to dare to dare even half that size.
It’s enough to live like this openly on the empty field that doesn’t seem to have any defensive advantage.
‘Let’s go see how great they are.’
Kim Si-young and Kang Min-ah, who went near the rock house, had no choice but to agree after seeing the members.
“This is where all the celebrities are gathered.”
“Uh. Instructor Siyoung Kim and Professor Mina Kang?”
Cadet Lee Da-eun stood up from her seat as if embarrassed.
It looks like a simple chair, but seeing that it is cut more elaborately than I thought, it is indeed a sophisticated mana operation.
“Who is this..? Siu..?”
“Oh, I think the instructor and the professor came to check.”
“Hello..”
“No wonder. I saw a large piece of ice.”
In addition, Yoon Seo-ah and Su-ah, who seem to have been sleeping until just now, are inside.
‘It’s a combination you can be proud of. It looks cool there.’
I don’t know if it’s because of the ice, but it was a place that made me feel like I didn’t want to leave because the temperature was significantly lower than the surroundings.
It’s a combination of senior and secondary seats. If it’s just the two of us, we can make anything like this.
“We’re going to have lunch now, but would you two like to have some too..?”
“It happened. What are you going to do by stealing food from the cadets?”
“It’s the meat of a golden king pig.”
“Golden King Pig?”
Despite being a monster, he was famous for his good taste. A special monster that is said to be comparable to the finest Korean beef.
Maybe that’s why the scent wasn’t too strong. He couldn’t even recognize his favorite meat.
In a situation where I had already consumed a lot of energy because of the continued forced march, as soon as I heard that it was a golden king pig, I suddenly came up.
‘The rank is C, but it must not have been easy to hunt because they are so sensitive monsters.’
A monster that is said to detect danger from 1km away due to its magic detection range being so large.
It was not a monster that ordinary cadets could hunt.
“It must have been hard to catch, but who caught this?”
“Ah.. That’s Siwoo. Oh, here it is! Siwoo!”
In the distance, Siwoo Kim, Minji Kang, and Hyeji Park could be seen dragging several more Golden King Pigs.
“Siwoo is really… I think if I catch that many, I’ll be able to stay.. What will you do?”
“… “
