Chapter 20: Chapter 20 - The Tutorial - Part 1
As Jake looked at the message, he heard a sound, coming from outside the auditorium. After a few seconds, everyone could hear a bang come from the auditorium doors.
"What was that?"
"What's happening?"
As they were talking, another bang came from the auditorium doors as massive dents were being put into them, and a hinge came off of the door. The girl who had a bronze mark, Yi Seol-Ah grabbed a chair and put it against the door.
"Block it!"
"Sis!"
"Block the door!"
Most of the people began to block the door, keeping whatever's out there out, but also blocking their only exit. As they blocked the door, some of the people were thrown out, from the impact coming from the outside, and more people blocked the door.
"Is it gone?"
"I think so."
"Whew—"
After a while, the door stopped getting banged, as everyone began to let go of the door.
"Wow, it's intense even from the start. I have goosebumps on my arms!" Kang Seok said.
"Now that the door is all blocked up, I wonder what we should do next…"
Kang Seok continued to talk, as his words and attitude raised hopes in the hearts of the Contracted that a quick solution to their problems would be found soon. However…
"Let's go. Let's just poke around here and there, see what's what."
Kang Seok only took his lackeys, who are the fat man and a skinny man, along with him, prompting those waiting for an answer to their prayers to be dumbstruck instead.
"Hey you!" A middle aged man shouted at Kang Seok.
"Me?"
"What's your plan?"
"To investigate."
"Investigate?"
"Like that."
Kang Seok said to the man while pointing at the hooded girl who's name is Yun Seora, who was looking for things.
"What are you looking for?"
"No clue. The door is blocked so we gotta find anything we can."
"Yeah, you're right. Then should we help too, right?"
"What? Why are you… yeah do what you want. It's not like I'm here to order people around."
Kang Seok said to the man with a sigh.
"I know but, wouldn't things get don quicker if we helped out?"
"…I don't know. Probably not?"
"Huh?"
"Do what you want. We'll be doing our own thing."
"Th—that bastard!"
Kang Seok walked away with his goons, causing the middle aged man to shout.
"What a petty loser. You selfish bastard. You're only thinking of yourselves in this situation?"
"What did you just say?"
"Don't you see all these people here? There are woman and children here!"
A girl with a good figure shouted at Kang Seok.
"We already have too much on our plate. What do you want from me?"
"That's why we offered to help!"
"Help?" Kang Seok sighed at what the girl said.
"Sigh— why are you giving me all the baggage?"
"Baggage?"
"Yeah, you useless baggage. I see you guys trying to leech off of me, so get out of my face."
"Please, both of you, stop! We need all the help we can get, so we should be working together, not fighting."
Yi Seol-ah tried to diffuse the situation between Kang Seok and the girl who is arguing with him.
"Whatever. You're Yi Seol-Ah, right? Let's team up. I'll take your brother too."
"Why are you taking us in?"
"Because you guys seem useful."
"How do you know who is or isn't helpful?"
"It's simple. These two were invited, and you guys were dragging in by your contracts."
"You…!"
They continued to bicker and Kang Seok is trying to build a team.
"Hey! What about you? Don't you want to get this tutorial over with? Should be easy if you joined us."
"Nah, you guys are too weak, you just want to leach off of me because of how easily I beat you 3."
Kang Seok tried to invite Jake to his team.
At this time, Jake's intuition told him that Yi Seol-Ah was in danger, and he walked closer to them, as the ground began to rumble.
"Wh…what's happening?"
"Everyone run!"
Someone shouted, causing everyone to run to the exit. Yi Sungjin tripped as he rolled his ankle, falling to the ground.
"Sungjin!"
Yi Seol-Ah ran back to Yi Sungjin.
"Hurry, get up!"
"Uh, uhg…"
Yi Sungjin started grunting, as the floor boards behind him and Yi Seol-Ah burst open, with lots of sharp metal hooks flying around the place. The hooks are attached to a very hard thread like thing, which are attached to a monster.
"What… is that…?" The middle aged man asked.
"Let's go."
"Okay…"
As they were moving towards the exit, a hook came heading straight towards the two of them. Jake appeared in front of them and grabbed the hook, before yanking it hard, pulling the monster controlling it out from underneath the floorboards.
The monster has a Human like appearance, with long unkempt hair, it's head at least four times the size of a grown adult man's head, it has a single giant eye that takes up almost half of that large head.
Jake rushed at the monster, before punching it in the eye, bursting the eye and cracking its skull. The monster flew backwards hitting the wall as it let out a scream of pain.
Kheehick!
Jake came in front of the monster again before he punched it again in the eye, killing it as it's brains splattered everywhere.
"Why is it so weak? Can't the gods at least make it a little harder, like at least create 5 at once, make it at least a little hard for me."
Jake felt a few eyes looking at him, and he said aloud, "Can you try to make this entertaining? If you don't want me to breeze past the tutorial, you can make them stronger, create multiple of the monsters, at least make it challenging."
"What are you talking about and to?" Yun Seora asked Jake as she came up to him.
"Whoever is spying on us. They're probably gods, I can tell that currently I cannot kill them even if I unseal all my strength, which is probably because they have divinity." Jake replied.
At a table, 7 goddesses are watching whatever is happening in the tutorials, and are discussing about Jake.
"How did he find us?"
"I know, it should be impossible."
"Well, how about we listen to his suggestion and create more and stronger Gaekgwi."
"I agree, let's see his strength."
After they talked for a while, they decided to create 3 Gaekgwi and have them be 1.5x as strong, increasing the amount by 1 and the strength by 0.1x every time they are all killed.
Back at the Tutorial, Jake has looked at the map on his phone before he rushed straight to the convenience store. As he rushed to the convenience store, he was completely mapping the area out with his Six-Eyes. When Jake reached 3/4 of the way to the convenience store, 3 Gaekgwis appeared in front of him.
Jake threw out one of the Gaekgwi's hooks smashing it into them, killing 2 of them and seriously damaging the last one, before he twisted the hook, making it fly backwards killing the last one.
Jake used his cursed energy on his hand, making it sharp before slicing all the Gaekgwi's hooks off of the dead ones, and tying them onto his pants. Jake quickly reached the convenience store, as he used the [Pinnacle Element Manipulation] Ability to manipulate the wind element.
Jake used the wind element in combination with his Six-Eyes to control and lift all the items in the convenience store, putting them into his bag, As he finished this, 4 more Gaekgwis appeared in front of him.
Jake used the hook again like a flail, and absolutely decimated the Gaekgwis in a short period of time. He then left the convenience store and went to the stationary area of the school.
As he entered the area, Jake quickly looked at everything there before he did the same thing and used the wind element to collect everything. As he was leaving to go to the library of the school, 5 Gaekgwis appeared in front of him.
Jake continued to do the same thing, killing the Gaekgwis with the hook before taking all of their hooks. Jake entered the library and grabbed all the books in there. When he was halfway through doing this, 6 Gaekgwis appeared in front of him.
Jake grabbed 5 of the hooks, before cutting off the thread that is connected to them, holding them between his fingers like claws. Jake quickly moved towards the Gaekgwis as he appeared in front of one of them, cutting their face with the makeshift claws, killing it.
Jake then used the claws to block the attack of the Gaekgwis using their hooks. Jake quickly began to weave between them, killing them swiftly and with almost no damage to the surroundings. Jake continued to use the wind element to grab the books while he grabbed the hooks off of the dead Gaekgwis.
After he did this, he went looking throughout the school, quickly mapping the whole 1st floor of the main building and every other location except the rest of the main building of the school. In between doing this he encountered many more Gaekgwis. At this time he has went back to a place he thinks is useful, which is the staff room.
Before he entered it, 15 Gaekgwis appeared around Jake, however they looked different from the ones he had previously encountered. These Gaekgwis now have leather armor on them and their hooks look much more sharp.
Jake grabbed one of the cutting knives he found in the stationary area, and quickly approached one of the Gaekgwis. After he reached it, Jake pierced the leather armor and also the Gaekgwis whole body using the cutting knife with the [Absolute Piercing] Skill, killing it. Jake continued to do this for the other Gaekgwis, swiftly killing them and grabbed their leather armour and the sharpened hooks.
Jake entered the staff room and swiftly looked at everything in the room detailedly. After this he used the wind element to grab everything, before he went to the staircase that his intuition told him was trapped.
As he went there he encountered the Gaekgwis again and swiftly killed them. He started to go up the staircase, and encountered various types of traps. Jake made sure to activate all of them as he also encountered more Gaekgwis while he was getting through it. Jake perfectly made it through the staircase without any damage and made it to the second floor waiting area without getting through the normal entrances that are meant to be used.
[Mister Jake Gojo has arrived at the second-floor waiting area.]
Jake went back to the trapped staircase and began to brush the Gaekgwi that appeared, as time began to pass quickly. Some time has passed and Jake heard a commotion at the 2nd floor.
Jake went back to the 2nd floor and encountered Kang Seok and his goons harassing a big crowd of people that are blocked to enter by a steel bar gate, but more specifically the girl with a good figure who argued with Kang Seok back at the auditorium.
"What do you want me to do?"
"First take them off."
"…What?"
Kang Seok wanted the girl who is named Shin Sang-Ah to take off her clothes as a requirement to let them all in.
Jake went up to Kang Seok, pressed his head against the wall and yanked his arm, pushing his hand on the red button that allows the people who first entered the gate to open it when they press it.
"Get through, don't worry about him, he will be out cold for a while," Jake told them as they began to enter the 2nd floor waiting area.
After they all entered, a mechanical voice sounded.
[The first Tutorial mission, 'Escape from the Assembly Hall', has concluded. Number of remaining survivors: 36.]
[A new message from the Guide has arrived.]
[The second mission of the Tutorial, 'Breaking Through Traps' has begun.]
Jake then checked the message, before he began to complete the mission.
[Sender: the Guide]
[1. Enter the classroom "3-1" on the fourth floor of the main building via annex's third floor before time runs out.]
[Remaining time: 01:59:30]
Jake quickly moved onto all the traps, triggering them without taking any hits, and also disarming them at the same time as triggering them. There were many people that followed behind Jake, but were still getting left behind in the dust a little.
Jake went to look at everything on the 2nd and 3rd floors, he found a computer room that had the locations of the traps, he also found a crafts area which contains: Metalworking, Carpentry, and other things that are useless, he found a sport hall that had: baseball, soccer, etc. and what Jake thought were important were kendo, archery, and boxing.
Jake finished this mission and reached the classroom, with a mechanical sound appearing when he entered the classroom.
[Mister Jake Gojo has arrived at classroom 3-1.]
After that the rest of the people arrived shortly after, completing the mission. The last people to arrive were Kang Seok and his goons, because they had to carry him along.
[The second Tutorial mission, 'Breaking Through Traps', has concluded.]
[Time to complete the mission: 00:12:30]
[The total number of casualties during the second mission: 0.]