chapter 24
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Most of the students in the class believed that the victory in this match was thanks to Inhwan.
It was a fact that almost everyone knew that Inhwan had the ability to fire, and they thought it was Inhwan’s ability that made the sniper, the core strength of the opposing team, incapable of combat.
“ruler! Everyone worked hard!”
When they returned, the homeroom teacher praised the three with a wide smile.
“The next match is next week. Your opponent is still in a confrontation, so watch the video together and respond well.”
The homeroom teacher seemed already satisfied enough.
It didn’t seem like he was expecting much to go to the school year as a representative, and he was just satisfied with winning the class of Professor Kim Whanki.
“Sung Hyun-ah. Are you going to the door today?”
Inhwan didn’t care much about the attention of other friends.
He was only interested in the competition next week.
“No, let’s rest today. It’s important to match the sum and raise your proficiency, but you haven’t been able to take a break until now, have you?”
As Seong-hyeon said, In-hwan and Seong-hyeon spent every day at the gate from last week to just before today’s match day.
The skill level had risen that much, but it was only natural that the fatigue was accumulating that much.
“Let’s go tomorrow instead.”
“Uh…it’s the weekend tomorrow.”
“I have only a week to spare. And tomorrow we will go through the other door.”
“Another door? Where?”
There were a total of three open doors in the metropolitan area.
Until now, the door that Seonghyeon and Inhwan went through together was a level 5 door, and it was a good door for beginner hunters to subdue.
“The place right above.”
“There…”
The place Seong-hyun spoke of was a door located in an ambiguous position between the 4th and 5th grades.
It was an area where wolf-type beasts appeared from the beginning of the gate, and it was an area frequently subjugated by hunters with relatively experience or good abilities.
The difference between the 4th and 5th grade doors was quite large.
The beasts that appeared in Level 5 could still be killed if a few normal adult males rushed in, but the beasts that appeared in Level 4 could not be dealt with even with a single truck.
“Then what time will we meet tomorrow?”
“Let’s have lunch and go slow. Is the time okay?”
“Even if you don’t, you have to pay. As long as I become a class representative, I can receive exclusive equipment.”
“Hmmm, over there…”
So while I was making plans for tomorrow, Goo Goo came to me with a cough.
“why? If you want to talk, you have to talk.”
“If you go to that door tomorrow…”
In-hwan sighed and said, wondering if Sang-yeon, who couldn’t speak properly, was frustrated.
“What, do you want to go together?”
“Oh no what. If you win the next competition, you will also be the class representative, and you won’t need a front row when you go to the door.”
“Is that so? what do you think about it?”
Inhwan looked at Sunghyun and said.
It’s as if the decision is up to you.
“…it doesn’t matter. Like it or not, we are a team.”
Goo Goo-yeon’s expression was not so bright right now.
The eyes that seemed to be together for the sake of their own goal were absolute.
“…I’ll see you tomorrow then.”
Seong-hyeon didn’t take it very seriously because he wasn’t a narrow-minded person who couldn’t understand how to use it for each other’s purposes.
“Hey, he’s still there.”
“Don’t worry too much. Because I don’t really care.”
“You have good speed.”
“done. Let’s see a video.”
Seonghyeon and Inhwan checked the video of the opponent they will face in the next match.
‘…just like back then.’
It was going the same way as before the return.
‘Maybe that one will win…’
The problem was their abilities.
A class made up of pure force.
Based on their overwhelming physical abilities, they were able to neutralize the opponent’s check as well as attack.
‘It could have been easier.’
Seonghyeon’s ability, stigmata, was an ability that was close to perfection, except that it had no distance restrictions and no lethality.
Besides, the stigma is a complete higher ability that ignores all resistance.
Today’s Dalian was a little more difficult.
Because there was a talented person with a longer range than Seong-hyeon.
‘For now, let’s avoid using stigma as much as possible.’
If he simply used the stigmata, he would surely be able to easily climb up to the grade level representative.
However, the representative of the national competition did not know what would happen.
Besides, Seong-hyeon’s ability is to only inflict pain.
Of course, since resistance was impossible, I had to feel the pain unconditionally, but I did not know what other variables would act if there were people who were born with the pain itself well.
That is why Seonghyun thought the team’s breathing was important.
So, he did not object to Goo Goo-yeon’s offer to go with him to the door.
“It’s over.”
With the words of Inhwan, who focused on watching the video, the second first-year class representative competition came to an end.
As expected, Seonghyeon’s memory and the winning team was a victory in the class that induces close combat based on their overwhelming physical ability.
“But to deal with them, Guo Guo-yeon has to use a little bit of power, right?”
“You don’t have to worry about Koo Sang-yeon.”
Inhwan asked, looking at Seonghyeon, who spoke quite firmly.
It wasn’t until recently, or even a while ago, that I didn’t think that we were good friends at all.
“why?”
“What was the reason you were against me in the first place? Is it simply because he has superior abilities? no. Other than that, I wouldn’t even care. But with the class representative at stake, it’s such an extreme…”
“Extreme?”
“Oh, no. Anyway, Goo Goo-yeon will do her best. The only problem is that it doesn’t fit us.”
Still, I was planning on trying to match the sum for the next week, so there wouldn’t be much of a problem.
In addition, as he roughly grasped how Koo Koo was dealing with the enemy during today’s confrontation, he was given only a short time of a week, but it would have been easy to match the sum.
“Then see you tomorrow.”
In-hwan also lightly responded to Seong-hyeon’s greeting.
“yes. I’ll call you.”
The next day, as promised, the two met at the new door for lunch.
“Isn’t this the door right out of the wolf-type beast?”
“yes. right. Guess what?”
“I think we’re almost there.”
As soon as In-hwan finished speaking, Sang-yeon approached the two with a slight hesitancy in front of me.
“If you come, let’s go right in.”
“Hey, Goo Sang-yeon.”
“why.”
“Go and touch yourself. Deal, I’ll take care of everything.”
“…nonsense.”
In-hwan and Sang-yeon clashed and followed Seong-hyeon into the door.
A feeling I was completely accustomed to now revolved around my body for a while, followed by a landscape different from the one outside the door.
“It’s my first time here… it definitely feels a little different.”
“A different feeling? okay?”
Seong-hyeon felt a sense of déjà vu, but it seemed that In-hwan and Sang-yeon did not feel it.
“Shhh… it’s in front of you.”
Seong-hyeon, who was leading the way, spread his arms to announce, while In-hwan and Sang-yeon leaned over and followed Seong-hyeon’s back.
“Are there a lot of numbers?”
It was still unclear how many more there would be around as the number of visible numbers alone was 5, and the forest was denser than the gates I had been through.
‘Let’s not use the stigma this time.’
If it was just the two of us, there was no choice but to use the stigmata, but now I don’t like it, but now I have a strong front row, so there’s no reason to use it.
‘Let’s see how much the sum is right.’
Although they had one confrontation as a representative of the class, there was not a single part that actually matched.
The battle aspect to be shown from now on was purely the fighting sense of Inhwan and Sangyeon.
“…I’ll get your attention.”
“Of course it is.”
“…”
Goo Goo-yeon looked at In-hwan with a more wrinkled brow than she had ever looked at Seong-hyeon, and then headed to the place where the beasts were.
“A kid like that should be treated like this.”
“…”
Inhwan didn’t seem to be normal either, so Seonghyeon sighed a little and looked at where Sangyeon was heading.
“Beasts. I will slaughter them all.”
Seonghyeon looked not nervous at all.
Rather, a little excited.
‘How long does it take to prepare with this in mind?’
It wasn’t difficult to deal with one, but it was a different story with five.
Until now, I had never felt a sense of exaltation and freedom at the same time from battle, but these two emotions that cannot coexist now coexist.
‘Is this… the value of being a healer?’
Seong-hyeon has not shown anything yet.
Rather, the relationship between the two of them is not good, no, the situation is the worst to the point of worrying whether to show it or not.
However, even in this situation, just because he was on the battlefield, he was already able to calm down emotionally.
“Cre…”
Of course, the beasts looked at Sangyeon, who appeared proudly for a moment, and then gathered in front of Sangyeon with a growling sound, as if food had rolled in on their feet.
“hey! Are you ready?”
“Get started. Because it is over.”
In-hwan was no longer joking in this situation.
Inhwan, who looked at where Sangyeon was located with a serious face, was thinking about where to use his abilities most effectively and whether there would be any damage to Sangyeon.
“Goes.”
Five demonic beasts spread out in a fan shape in front of him began to rush towards Sangyeon, and Seonghyeon looked closely at Sangyeon’s movements.
‘A habit of avoiding attacks coming from the front to the left…’
And after avoiding the body like that to the left, Inhwan’s attack flew in without fail.
‘I prefer to block attacks from the side rather than avoid them…’
It was a little later than just now, but still, Inhwan’s attack flew in at the right time.
‘Isn’t this a pretty good fit?’
It was pretty good for a completely first time breathing together.
Thanks to Inhwan’s increased proficiency, he was able to attack only the demonic beasts without any damage to Sangyeon.
In addition, the power itself is an excellent ability, so all of them inflicted fatal damage in a single shot.
Seong-hyeon, who had already visited the gate with In-hwan a few times, knew about In-hwan’s sense of battle.
‘The problem is Gu Sang-yeon…’
To simply avoid and block, there had to be something that Goo Koo could show, something that anyone in the academy could do.
“Baby beast cubs…!”
Sang-yeon swung her sword towards the beast that was attacked by In-hwan exactly, and also towards the part where the attack was hit.
Along with the sound of ripping flesh that reached the place where Seong-hyeon was located, a short scream of a demonic beast was also heard.
The show didn’t stop there.
In the same way, he swung his sword and stabbed the wounds on the side where Inhwan’s attack hit.
“Wow!”
But perhaps the number itself was too many, Sang-yeon, who was slightly stabbed in the side by a claw that flew from the side, stepped back for a while.
As if waiting for something.
“now!”
Whether it lived up to Sang-yeon’s expectations, In-hwan’s attack flew in immediately, and Sang-yeon cut the beast’s head, which was faltering in pain, with a sharp knife.
‘Is this enough?’
Seonghyeon cast scars on the remaining two beasts.
“。!”
“…? What, what?”
Sang-yeon was a little embarrassed when she saw the beast suddenly lying on the floor, but she wasn’t stupid enough to hesitate to deal with it, so she immediately took care of the other two.
“Huh, aren’t the five of them a little too heavy?”
“Why are you talking like you caught yourself?”
“…without you, I managed to catch three of them by myself.”
“Yeah, the wound on the side must be mild.”
“…”
While they were arguing like that, Sang-yeon felt no pain in her side for a moment.
Sang-yeon, who immediately saw the wound through the torn clothes, looked at Sang-hyeon, seeing that there were no scars or bloodstains left.
“Let’s go if we want.”
“…okay.”
The three of them headed towards deeper, little by little.