Episode 52. trap(1)
One.
“Phew, it was a long day.”
After finishing work and returning to the room assigned to the Sword God Guild, I lay down on the bed and opened the status window.
I got beaten up a lot by girls because I didn’t dodge Tae Ji-hyuk’s attack.
The kids, who said it was their first time using a sword, used it so well that their hands felt numb when they blocked it with a wooden sword.
“But at this rate, there’s no need to worry about tomorrow’s actual training.”
Transferred Talent
-Buff (1/1)
-Hwaryeong (1/1)
-Summon (1/1)
-Fast (1/1)
-New Sword (0/1)
-Ghost Spear (1/1)
- Anger (1/1)
I looked at the transferred talents with a happy expression.
Since I was constantly being attacked by the kids anyway, I combined the talents I had as I saw fit and filled them up again.
Since he was also attacked by Ban Hye-jin, ‘Baktu’ was deleted and Ban Hye-jin’s talent, ‘Anger’, was filled in the slot.
Since I previously combined the buff and Hwaryeong, this time I combined Hwaryeong and speed, and then speed and anger.
The newly acquired combination talent was as follows.
[Combined Talent]
- Path of Fire
-Ice Age
-Earth Spirit
-Gravity control
Since I was able to use up to three combinations per day, the talents I gained totaled four, including the existing Path of Fire.
You don’t know how much trouble it took to select useful talents from five cards.
Among the cards that came out by combining the buff and Hwaryeong, I chose ‘Ice Age’.
Among the cards that came out by combining fire spirit and speed, I chose ‘Earth Spirit’.
And among the cards that came out with a combination of speed and fury, I chose ‘Gravity Control’.
If it weren’t for the fact that I was able to identify and select useful talents with my magic eye, I might have ended up with strange talents altogether.
What kind of strange talents did you have?
There were things like ‘Minesweeper’, ‘Spider’, ‘Freecell’, and ‘Titans’.
Just looking at their names, they seemed like useless talents.
“Anyway, preparations are complete.”
There was also the S-class talent and ‘ear singing’ that I got from senior Tae Ji-hyuk, and there was also the ‘anger’ that I got from Ban Hye-jin.
At this level, it seemed like there would be no problem clearing one gate.
-Hmm, no matter how I think about it, you’re a fraud.
While getting beaten up by the kids, I was able to have quite a bit of conversation with Gutterkal. He was nagging me, asking me why he was getting hit by a guy who could do Shin-sword Unification, so I explained my talent to Gutterkal.
I burst out laughing at Godterkal’s words.
“What about fraud? It’s difficult to be surprised at this level.”
After this training, I was planning to move on to get stronger in a different way.
These are the skills that the main character, Yoon Mir, was originally supposed to have. I was thinking of intercepting some of them.
Rebellions began to move in earnest sooner than expected.
I had to meet Choi Kang sooner than I had planned, and in order to please him, I needed to become a little stronger than I am now.
But for now. Achieving good results in practical training came first.
“I’m sorry, my friend.”
Geomshin and Ban Isu, who had apologized to Won Tae-jin, who was leading the students in the Geomshin Guild, had entered the gate in the basement of Awakening High School.
A gate in the basement of Awakening High School.
Ban Isu came to look for a legendary item hidden here.
That item was Ban Isu’s last hope.
Since his job was to save his daughter, Ban Isu entered the last room to clear the gate, the boss room, thinking that Won Tae-jin would also understand.
That’s how Ban Isu faced the boss monster.
Key profit!!
“Yes, you are Awakening High School’s guardian monster, a gargoyle. “I’m sorry, but I guess I’ll have to cut you down and take the legendary items here.”
As the swordsman said that, he pulled out the sword he was wearing at his waist.
2.
“Now, is everyone ready?”
The next day, we gathered in front of the gate provided by the Sword God Guild.
“yes!”
“Then, from now on, I will tell you each team. There are three teams that will participate in the actual training, and the team leaders are Tae Ji-hyuk, Choi Min-ji, and Lee Si-woo.”
Afterwards, team placement began in the order in which teacher Kang Joo-hyuk called the names. So we split up into teams taught by teacher Joo-Hyuk Kang.
“Teacher, why is Lee Si-woo the team leader?”
Teacher Joo-Hyuk Kang answered the question of Ha-Rin Kang, who was assigned to Team 3.
“The leader of each team was the top student in each grade. They are assigned strictly in order of grades. If you have any complaints, do well on the test!”
The leaders of each team were first place in their respective grades. The team leader of team 1 was senior Tae Ji-hyuk, a third-year student, and the team leader of team 2 was senior Min-ji Choi, a sophomore.
And I took on the role of team leader of three teams.
This is the result of taking first place in the midterm exam, beating Yoon Mir and Hwang Da-bin.
I looked at the members assigned to my team.
“nice to meet. “I didn’t know that we would be assigned to a place where a first-year student is the team leader.”
I responded with a shy smile to the words of senior Kim Min-seok, who had magic talent and lost to senior Min-ji Choi during the class match.
“hello.”
Senior Kim Min-seok looked pleased with my polite greeting.
“I really don’t like it.”
Next to him, Kang Ha-rin was irritated.
“Don’t worry too much. “He’s a kid who complains a lot by nature.”
Hwang Da-bin, who was standing next to me, said while looking at Kang Ha-rin like that.
“Uh, Kang Ha-rin is okay… … .”
I looked at the guy standing next to Ha-rin Kang.
“I’m counting on you. Team Leader.”
The main character of the original work, Yun Mir.
This kid also became one of my teammates.
To sum up, senior Kim Min-seok, Hwang Da-bin, Yoon Mir, Kang Ha-rin, Ji Tae-hoon, and Yeo Tae-woo.
Plus me.
A total of seven people made up three teams.
I felt my bones ache at the thought of having a real battle with these members.
It would have been a little more comfortable if there had been at least one more person among Selina, Yoo Ah-ram, and Jeong Ju-won.
“If you’re ready, go in.”
Teams 1 and 2 entered the gate first under teacher Kang Joo-hyuk’s instructions, and I sighed inwardly and took the lead.
Still, since I was given the position of team leader, I had to move to fit that role.
Since it was a gate in the Sword God Guild, nothing major would have happened, but since gates are places with many variables, it was best to be as careful as possible.
‘The combination isn’t bad.’
He was a member who could easily clear a gate without me.
The important thing was whether these members would follow what I said.
“Then I’ll go in.”
I said this and entered the gate, and my teammates followed behind me.
3.
The gate located inside the Geomshin guild was closed by Geomshin and Ban Isu.
This is a fact that ordinary people do not know, but each guild had its own closed gate.
Each guild was guarding the gate in case it opened again.
However, as peace continued, the guild began to use the gate, perhaps forgetting its original purpose.
Even if the gate was closed, a monster appeared inside the gate, and the monster was used as a training target to train the awakened members of the guild.
“Haha, it’s no big deal!”
Upon entering the gate, senior Kim Min-seok took the lead and started dealing with the monsters.
The sight of multiple magics being used at the same time was overwhelming.
“Maybe it’s because they’re monsters I’ve seen on a regular basis, so they’re easy to deal with.”
“I know.”
While watching Kim Min-seok cast magic on goblins and orcs, I talked to Hwang Da-bin.
“Are you going to leave it like that?”
At that time, Ji Tae-hoon came up to me and said. At those words, Yeo Tae-woo, who was standing next to Ji Tae-hoon, helped out.
“If you do this, you won’t be able to train.”
Clearly, if things continued like this, actual combat training could not be conducted properly.
This is because senior Kim Min-seok was ready to subdue all the monsters by himself.
“I think now is the time for you, Tim, to step forward?”
Perhaps because he was very upset about not being able to become the team leader, Mir Yoon spoke to me with an accent on the team leader.
As Yunmir said, such arbitrary behavior could not be tolerated.
I was about to step forward, thinking that I should talk to senior Kim Min-seok, but I stopped.
“what’s the matter?”
“Get ready. “I think we should step up too.”
“How are you treating me so well?”
At Harin Kang’s words, I looked back at my teammates.
“Listen carefully. “Monsters will pop out from everywhere.”
“what?”
“If Senior Kim Min-seok had been able to clear the gate alone, there is no way he would have formed a team of seven people.”
“New team leader! “I can hear everything!”
It was quite a distance, but senior Kim Min-seok heard me and shouted.
It seemed like a voice amplification spell had been cast in this direction.
I said this without even blinking at the shouts of senior Kim Min-seok.
“Ji Tae-hoon and Kang Ha-rin take over the left side, and Yoon Mir and Hwang Da-bin take over the right side.”
“huh? “Left and right?”
I nodded to Dabin Hwang’s question.
It was clearly visible to my eyes. Monsters were flocking from all directions.
“Me, me?”
“You assist senior Kim Min-seok. “It will be helpful if you just take care of the monsters that are hiding behind you and targeting you.”
Yeo Tae-woo nodded at my words.
“Senior, please do me a favor.”
I turned around, thinking that senior Kim Min-seok must have heard what I said. Then Mir Yun looked at me and asked.
“you?”
“I have to take care of the back.”
“back?”
Grumble.
At that moment, the gate started shaking.
4.
“Move quickly!”
At my shout, the team members moved to their seats.
‘Strange.’
During the 1st and 2nd rounds. I’ve cleared quite a few gates.
However, there has never been a case where monsters came pouring in from all directions like this.
-It’s red, it’s sticking out a lot. Does it seem like someone was playing a trick at this level?
I agreed with Gatterkal.
I wondered if the school had prepared for a realistic match, but that didn’t seem to be the case.
‘There’s no way they could have sent only seven people to the gate and sent so many monsters in.’
Asking seven people to endure waves of monsters coming from front, back, left, and right was the same as telling them to fight like seven heroes.
‘Did it succeed?’
I left a message at Rebellions through Bae Jin-soo.
If Rebellions had gotten involved, a situation like this could have happened.
Chuwiik!!
I thought about this over and over while dealing with multiple orcs.
‘Anyway, they clearly came in through the same gate, but where have teams 1 and 2 disappeared to?’
I came to the Sword God Guild during the second round, but I didn’t go into the closed gate for actual combat training or anything like that.
The main stem will remain the same, but the detailed stems have become very different.
Now that the future has changed, we have to make the optimal choice within limited information.
What is the optimal choice in this situation?
“Just sweep it all away and think about it.”
Once everything is swept away, something will come out.
With that in mind, I used one of the combination talents I got yesterday.
When dealing with so many monsters, I had gathered a useful talent.
‘Earth spirit, activated.’
[For 1 hour, you can use the power of the earth spirit.]
‘Gutter Carl, what is the best way to deal with the majority?’
-Well, it’s a big blow.
‘answer.’
I activated the gauntlet and hit the ground.
At the same time, he used the power of the earth spirit on the ground.
Since I had eyes to see, this level of performance was essential.
Then the ground began to shake.
If senior Kim Min-seok, who uses magic, saw the phenomenon I caused, he would think this.
‘what? It’s Earthquake, right?!’
At that moment, the ground turned over.
