Chapter 30 – Dungeon Practice (1)
Hero Academy is built on an island. Calling it an island is an understatement. This is because the fairy king brought a part of the other world with the land where the fairies and the world tree would live in a world that had already been destroyed.
Starting from the mountainous area, there are cave dungeons, hilly areas, volcanic areas, and parts of Antarctica with a cold climate have been reproduced, and even jungles exist.
There are currently 19 confirmed dungeons in Hero Academy. Four dungeons, excluding those for practice, were naturally generated by the academy’s environment, but these four dungeons were so dangerous that only professors could use them.
‘And there is one unconfirmed dungeon.’
In fact, it was ambiguous to call it a dungeon. It’s because it’s just a bunch of training dungeons.
It is also called a training ground among users.
It is a dungeon that helps you acquire the skills of Eyesight and Intuition, and in addition to that, it also slightly raises your stats or raises some characteristics depending on your characteristics.
If I use a few tricks, I could raise my eyesight, intuition, and related attributes and stats with my current stats, but those tricks didn’t seem to work. The trick only worked in the game, and this is reality.
“Today, as planned, we will start practicing the dungeon.”
The meeting place was crowded with students besides our class. The number is about 200 people. There were about 100 people in each class, so if you add our class heading to the meeting place now, there were a total of 3 groups gathered here alone.
“This dungeon is inhabited by rock golems. That’s all we’ll tell you. Let everyone do the rest. The class ends when you get the mark we set at the end of the dungeon. We’ll announce the team composition. Each team has 6 members. Made up.”
Usually, if you use a playable character, the team composition consists of 3 front linemen, 1 rearguard such as an archer or wizard, and 2 lieutenants who can move quickly or have a long-reaching weapon.
“Team assignments were distributed as fairly as possible, taking into account overall grades. Higher ranking students will be with lower ranking students.”
Ugh.
The cell phone rang. I looked at my cell phone and sent a group text message.
I checked my team.
[12 teams]
[Yoon Seung-ha/Ayane/Jamie/Lee Si-woo/Kim Chang-seop/Jake]
Seungha Yoon.
I was a team with Yoon Seung-ha. Why I hate this game even though I love it.
I looked towards Yoon Seung-ha and he looked at me too. Bored expression. Silver hair that goes down to the nape of the neck. Blue eyes like sapphire shining blue turned to me.
“Hi.”
“…Yes, bye.”
He gave me a small smile and held out his hand to me. It was Yoon Seung-ha’s expression of asking for good things. He didn’t like most of the students, so he passed them off moderately, but if there was someone he liked, he would express it in this way.
“Please take good care of me. I’m glad I became a member of the group.”
“Yeah. I’m strong too. You’re in the same group.”
At my words, he raised the corner of his mouth slightly as if he was in a good mood. You look awfully handsome.
“Hello, this is Jake.”
An awkward Korean voice came from behind.
A boy with blond hair and blue eyes appeared. Besides the boy, there was also a girl with a round look next to him.
“Hello.”
The girl greeted cheerfully. After looking at her for a moment, her name came to mind. Ayane A girl called Hope in Japan who is good at swordsmanship. I was able to remember it because it had its own weight until the middle.
“Hi-hi.”
A red-haired, freckled girl with a bow on her back and a man taller than me with a round shield and a halberd also came. It was as if he was saying, “I’m a avant-garde,” Just by looking at the enormously pumped up muscles.
“Hello. I’m Kim Chang-seop.”
“I’m Jamie. Please take care of me.”
Six people gathered. Yoon Seung-ha opened his mouth after sneaking a quick look at them one by one.
“Then let’s each introduce ourselves.”
“Yes! My name is Jake. As you can see, my specialty is a greatsword.”
Jake said in broken Korean. When Jake opened his mouth, Kim Chang-seop also opened his mouth.
“My name is Kim Chang-seop. As you can see, I use a shield and a halberd. Leave the vanguard to me.”
“My name is Ayane. My specialty is this.”
Ayane tapped the hilt of her sword and smiled slightly.
“Hey, our team is strong because we have a lot of avant-gardes. I’m Jamie. My position is an archer, but I’m actually not good at shooting a bow. But I’m good at searching and searching, so just leave it to me.”
“I’m Yoon Seung-ha. Please take good care of me. I can do most of what I can do from the rear to the middle line.”
Everyone clapped and cheered at Yoon Seung-ha’s drowsy words.
“I’m Siwoo Lee. My physical abilities are a bit low, but I tend to do a lot of fighting.”
“Ooh, pretend to be humble!”
Jamie playfully booed at my introduction. After introducing ourselves, we talked about how we would divide our positions.
“Let’s split the position, in the most basic formation.”
“Then I’ll stand at the front.”
Kim Chang-seop raised his round shield and spoke arrogantly. Everyone, including me, nodded in agreement with that opinion.
“After that, Jake handles the great sword. After that, Ayane. Shiwoo will use the spear, right?”
“Yes.”
“Then Siwoo is behind Ayane. Me and Siwoo are in the middle row, and Jamie is in the back row. Let’s do this.”
Everyone nodded at Yoon Seung-ha’s words. And after a while, a text message came to my cell phone.
“Each of you sent the location of the dungeon entrance to your smartphone. Everyone leave immediately.”
Composed of 1 group of 6 people, 50 teams scattered in all directions and headed for the entrance. Of course, it’s practice, but the sooner you finish, the higher the bonus points, so everyone was moving quickly.
Seeing that, Yoon Seung-ha said languidly.
“Let’s go too.”
***
We entered the dungeon entrance. When I took a step into the cave, the space changed. Black rocks were visible here and there.
“Wow, it’s amazing. I didn’t expect much because it’s an artificial dungeon.”
At Jamie’s murmur, Kim Chang-seop nodded.
Looking at them, I recalled information about the rock golem for a moment.
A rock golem is a golem made of rock based on magic stones. Of course, the magic crystals corresponding to the heart are protected the most safely, and the vanguards focus on breaking the magic stones by shocking them with a blunt weapon rather than a sword.
“Then, shall we go? Just in case, Jamie searches for Changseob right behind him.”
“Okay. Don’t worry about surprise.”
Everyone nodded at Yoon Seung-ha’s drowsy tone and started climbing the rocky mountain. The rock golem assimilated with the rock mountain and took on a protective color, so we had to be careful.
“Come to think of it, what hasn’t Chaerin said lately?”
“Chaerin Yoon?”
Yoon Seung-ha spoke to me. Why does he suddenly come out anxiously?
“No, I didn’t say anything. It was the first time we’d ever met.”
“Yes?”
Yoon Seung-ha said as if he was slightly puzzled.
“Why is Chaerin Yoon?”
“When was it. I remembered that you secretly said it after you and Kang Kang-nam got together.”
“…What?”
“The technique is so great that I want to try it once.”
I don’t like it. Even if the technique is excellent, if there is a difference between Yoon Chae-rin and my specs, the technique is meaningless. What are you going to do if you parry? If I just press down with overwhelming force, I can’t do anything.
“What, what. What are you two talking about?”
Jamie smirked and told us.
“Are you two friends?”
Ayane asked us in broken Korean. It was over after exchanging a few words, but I nodded my head, afraid that shaking my head would make things weird.
“Well, if you’re close, you’re close, right?”
As we slipped onto Yun Seung-ha’s shoulder, Ayane looked at us with her eyes shining. He’s a man, but his skin is so soft. I’m just going to get upset.
“Oh my gosh.”
Ayane blushed slightly and covered her mouth and smiled. She said she likes to be with men. I peeked and saw that Jamie was also looking in our direction, her eyes shining.
“Wow, two really beautiful men like this, so it’s art.”
“Yes. Every time I see men in my house, I want to kick them.”
“Heehee, actually, I thought I was lucky because I came here and saw Siwoo and Seungha. It’s really hard to find a man whose eyes are happy just by looking at him like that.”
“That’s right. Oh, can I take a picture of you two later?”
At Ayane’s words, I smiled awkwardly and nodded my head. Yoon Seung-ha was silent and quiet, so when I peeked at him, his face turned red.
The milky skin was dyed red. Do you dislike shoulder straps that much? You don’t have to hate it that much though.
I grumbled inwardly and gently let go of my shoulder.
As if feeling sorry for Ayane and Gemini, he sighed a little.
“Five stone golems ahead!”
Saying that, Gemini came towards us. In an instant, the atmosphere changed. The drowsy expression on Yoon Seung-ha’s face disappeared and he began to chant incantations while watching the front.
Kim Chang-seop made a hard face and raised his round shield to the center of his body, taking a defensive stance. Jake stretched out his greatsword from behind, preparing to jump out at any time, while Ayane drew the sword with a cool expression.
“Come!”
A rock golem rushed towards Kim Chang-seop.
Thud!
Kim Chang-seop blocked the rock golem’s charge with a stable posture. Jake, who had been preparing behind Kim Chang-seop, jumped forward and swung his great sword.
Puck!
‘I need to learn the blunt technique quickly.’
I thought as I watched Jake slam the rock golem’s arm with his greatsword and Jake slap it with the side of the halberd’s ax blade. Watching the rock golem approaching me, I put on my mask. Feeling the unpleasant sensation of something covering his face, he swung his spear at the rock golem.
Blank.
But lightly blocked.
It’s a rock golem that’s weaker to impact than slashing, so me and Ayane won’t be able to do much. I swung my spear around, concentrating on impeding the rock golem’s movement.
“Synthesis!”
It was then. Ayane sliced the rock golem’s torso exactly in half. Come to think of it, Ayane’s unique characteristic was disconnection. It was a characteristic that specialized in cutting something.
… I’m the only one who can’t perform. I glanced sideways. Jamie focused on searching the surroundings to see if there were more rock golems rather than shooting a bow, and Yoon Seung-ha was dealing with three rock golems alone.
Beside him were flames and a swaying wind. I looked at him for a moment with a puzzled look. His trait is the fate of the world. It was a crazy trait that all sorts of talents rose just by breathing.
So what Yun Seung-ha as a playable character symbolized was all-round. He is a warrior, wizard, elementalist, and archer. The standard of a solo player who is in charge of the vanguard alone and also serves as the rearguard with spirits or magic.
Her power is lower than Chaerin Yoon’s, but she covers it with magic and spirits. He is less destructive than Eunsoo-ah’s seven colors, but other than that, he has an edge over her in everything she does.
‘Come to think of it, the two came out as twins.’
That’s why he was exceptional in his magic skills compared to the game, but he had nothing special about him physically. He simply evades the rock golem’s attack and casts magic.
[Wind Crush]
[Earth Beat]
[Gravity Force]
Three magics exploded in succession. He blasted a vacuum wave toward the rock golems, causing dozens of small rock crystals to rise and head towards the rock golems. And the purple ball of gravity exploded.
The battle fell into a lull for a while in the splendid feast of magic. I saw Jake and Kim Chang-seop with bewildered expressions. All but one of the rock golems you encountered earlier were dried up and destroyed.
“It’s really no joke.”
I nodded in affirmation at Jamie’s murmur. In the meantime, Ayane cuts the rock golem’s body. The stone golem didn’t move anymore, probably because the magic crystal was cut as well.
Hmmm, this wouldn’t be a very good score. I sighed inwardly.
“Is everyone okay?”
“Yes, yes. It’s okay.”
“Let’s go.”
Jake said in surprise, and Kim Chang-seop spoke politely. That guy had been condescending until just a moment ago. Ayane also nodded her head as she put her sword in the scabbard.
Our group moved forward at a moderately fast pace. It is said that I go forward while hunting, but it is because I also had a physical problem. I need to eat the elixir quickly and raise my stats.
I thought about it for a while then. Is there really no way for me to shock the rock golem? Is there really no way to efficiently attack the inside of a golem with a spear?
‘There is one, but.’
Penetrating mirror. It is a type of fa-kyung, a method of inflicting internal blows.
An attack method that focuses on internal injuries rather than external injuries by using the transcendental power of skills and mana that are not originally available in reality.
‘Let’s try it.’
I raised my spear, watching the stone golem approaching us.
