Then, as if he had suddenly remembered, he opened his mouth.
“Ah, we’re bored. Shall we make a bet?”
“A bet?”
“At the end of your first semester, which group will get the highest score?”
Jang Ahn-cheol let out a laugh.
“I don’t think the bet will work out
.”
“why?”
“Because I think you’ll choose the same group as me.”
“well. Which group do you think will get the highest score, Mr. Jang?”
Heeyoung Lee asked with a smile.
Jang Ahn-cheol looked at that smile and pointed to the screen showing Team 7.
“Of course, this is Team Yuara.”
“Why?”
“This is because team member Lee Seo-joon, one of the first-place candidates,
is anxious. And because Lee Seo-joon can do everything by himself, there is a limit to the enhancement system, which specializes in 1:1. But look at Yuara. We have already reached the middle of the first floor or higher.”
Heeyoung Lee laughed at that answer.
“The bet is settled. I
think the 3rd group will win first place.”
— Chiiyiik!
Lee Seo-joon’s sword cuts a giant rat monster with a single knife and collapses.
Even though the thick leather was wrapped around the body, it was neatly cut.
Lee Seo-joon continued to move forward past the monster as if nothing had happened.
“and. Seojun fights really well.”
“I know. It looks like we’re already more than halfway there.”
Thanks to Lee Seo-joon’s excellent skills, the dungeon exploration proceeded smoothly.
No matter which monster appeared, Lee Seo-joon’s sword cut it with a single knife, and since the monsters that appeared on the first floor were of a low grade, Lee Seo-joon could not be stopped.
At this speed, wouldn’t it be easy to get into third place?
“What will be the first boss?”
“Well, since it’s on the 1st floor, wouldn’t there be weak animal-type monsters?”
“I think so too. If it’s an animal, a mouse or a dog? bear?”
Shin Ji-hyeok and Jung Jin-tae were chattering in the back from earlier.
In a place called a dungeon where you don’t know what will happen, it doesn’t look good to look somewhat relaxed.
“Since the giant wolf appears, stop talking and concentrate.”
Shin Ji-hyeok asked in response to my words.
“A giant wolf? How do you know?”
“There is a way to know everything.”
I know from experience. I couldn’t answer, so I just covered it up.
Then Jihyeok Shin laughed.
“He has lies.”
“If you don’t want to believe it, don’t believe it.”
“I don’t believe you.”
Shin Ji-hyeok’s unique nasty way of speaking.
…something’s pissing me off.
“Hey, do you want to bet?”
“bet? It’s funny. So what bet?”
“How about dropping out?”
Shin Ji-hyeok frowned at my confident attitude.
“…what? Do you really know?”
“Are you going to make a bet or not?”
As I spoke with pressure, I heard a voice next to me.
“Hey you, stop.”
When I turned my head, Yoon Ha-young was out and glaring at Shin Ji-hyeok.
“Are you going to be like this from day one? Fight every Thursday?”
Yoon Ha-young puts her hand on her waist as if a teacher is admonishing her.
Since I was short, I thought it was cute rather than frightening.
I nodded lightly, not wanting to hurt the team atmosphere.
Lee Seo-joon glanced at us and said.
“Did you fight? Then let’s go quickly.”
“Kuk-kuk. okay.”
So we moved forward again.
And maybe three minutes had passed.
Something came into my field of vision.
“Everyone stop.”
At my words, everyone stopped in their seats.
“why? What else?”
“It’s not like you’re suddenly scared or anything like that, are you? Kuk-kuk.”
I ignored Shin Ji-hyeok’s ridicule towards me and said.
“There is something on the floor.”
“floor?”
Lee Seo-joon turned his gaze to the floor. He looked at it and slinked back.
“…that’s right. There are some special characters
written on it. Is this a magic trap?”
Yoon Ha-yeong’s expression darkened at Lee Seo-joon’s words.
“Why are there magic traps? If you get caught on that, can’t you get seriously hurt?”
“Oh no way. I don’t think he would have installed anything so dangerous.”
“But just in case…
While everyone was confused, I passed them and went forward.
“Hey, Kim Seon-woo. Be careful.”
“Be quiet.”
I bent down and looked at the floor carefully.
Complex-looking magic formulas were listed on the floor.
“Well, it’s not that dangerous. It’s a simple barrier.”
“Barrier? How do you know that?”
It’s easier to understand with action than to explain in words.
I reached out into the air. At the same time, sparks flew from my fingertips.
“Did you see it?”
“Wow… is it real? How did you know?”
Shin Ji-hyeok approached me with a curious face. Then, as I did, I stretched out my hand in the air.
—Pajik!
“oh! It stings!”
Shin Ji-hyeok put out his hand and frowned. I looked at Shin Ji-hyeok with a puzzled expression.
what is he doing now?
“what. You can’t get past this Should I go back?”
“Uh… was there another way?”
“I will have one. But when are you going to go back and go forward…
Jeong Jin-tae and Yoon Ha-young chattered in uneasy voices from behind.
go back the other way
Of course, if there is no barrier on the other road, it could be a good solution. However, as I expected, there would be barriers like this on other roads as well.
There’s no way the school would have included such a luck element in a dungeon class where attack speed was important.
And in the past dungeon exploration class, I had experienced the same situation as this.
That said, this was the first hurdle prepared by the school in the dungeon exploration class.
Once you pass this, you can move on to the next location.
“Shall we go back now?”
“I guess so.”
While Yoon Ha-young and Jung Jin-tae were talking, Lee Seo-joon breathed magic into the sword and stepped forward.
“Look out. I’ll cut you with a sword.”
Lee Seo-jun, holding the sword, swung the sword at the barrier with a stormy movement.
— Chijik!
Lee Seo-joon’s sword containing powerful magic collided with the barrier. A powerful sound of friction spread and a pure white light exploded.
Is it Lee Seo-joon?
It’s a somewhat ignorant method, but if you can attack with powerful magic like Lee Seo-jun, the story is different. And,
as if the method worked, the barrier was torn and cracks began to appear.
However, the barrier quickly regenerates and returns to its original form.
“Oh sorry.”
“I know. I thought I was successful for a moment.”
“…Uhm. I think you should do well.”
Seojun Lee grabbed his sword again and took a stance. It’s like trying again after failing miserably.
However, the moment you fail to break a barrier by force,
the probability of failure the next time is very high.
In the end, in order to break through this barrier, someone must interpret the magic formula and cancel it.
“Is it my turn to leave?”
Shin Ji-hyeok stepped forward with confident steps.
Rodent magic such as barriers and traps fall under sub-type magic.
And Shin Ji-hyeok was the only auxiliary magician here.
“Let’s see…
Shin Ji-hyeok bent down and examined the magic formula on the floor.
“It’s complicated… It’s going to take some time.”
“How long do you think it will take?”
Jin-tae Jeong asked at Shin Ji-hyeok’s words.
“……Forty minutes?”
“what?”
“I am confident in entering magic formulas, but I am a bit weak at interpreting them.”
“But isn’t 40 minutes too long? Why don’t we go the other way
?”
Jeong Jin-tae looked at Lee Seo-joon and said.
It was to ask for the opinion of Lee Seo-joon, the leader of this team.
However, Lee Seo-joon shook his head.
“There’s probably a barrier on the other road as well.”
“What, then do I have to wait here for 40 minutes?”
“I can’t help it if there is no other way.”
When Lee Seo-joon said this, Shin Ji-
hyeok smiled awkwardly.
“I’m a bit weak at interpreting magic formulas, but I’ll try to solve them as soon as possible.”
The moment Shin Ji-hyeok bent down to try to break the barrier, I grabbed his shoulder.
“I’ll try to solve it.”
When I stepped out, everyone’s eyes were on me.
Shin Ji-hyeok looked up at me with an expression of ‘what is this?’
“You say you solve it?”
“Oh, let’s try something.”
Shin Ji-hyeok looked at me blankly and smiled.
“Hey, it’s okay. No matter how bad my interpretation skills are, I’m faster than you.”
“Look out.”
A complex magic formula that maintains the barrier.
Originally, it would take quite a long time to solve, but I had an ‘outsider’s benefit’.
By using this, the time to interpret the magic formula can be greatly reduced.
“It’s Kim Seon-woo. What are you doing?”
“Be quiet.”
[The unique attribute ‘Outsider’s Benefit’ activates.]
[Interprets the magic formula.]
I carefully looked at the magic formula filling the floor.
At the same time, the interpretation of the complex magic formula of the barrier came to mind.
I slowly put my hands on the floor. Then, the magic power inside the body
was released towards the floor.
“what? Do you really know?”
Ignoring the words of Shin Ji-hyeok muttering behind him, I focused on my magic.
Light emanated from his hand and the floor swallowed it. As time passed, the magic formulas on the floor began to glow.
“What do you know and see?”
“…I know?”
I channeled my magical energy and canceled the formulas that maintained the barrier one by one.
Did about 1 minute pass like that
?
The magic formula that emitted light began to slowly disappear.
At the same time, the barrier in front of my eyes began to blur and gradually lost its shape.
“uh? Are you really going to be?”
“Is it possible to solve subtractions like this?”
I stayed focused.
It is forbidden to be careless until the end. One mistake can set everything back to normal.
—Sueuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
;
You have succeeded in disabling the barrier.
When I stretched out my hand, the spark didn’t fly like before. It was proof that the barrier was completely lifted.
“Guys. succeded.”
I glanced behind me and saw that everyone was looking at me with surprised faces.
Shin Ji-hyeok said he couldn’t believe it and had a shocked expression on his face, and Lee Seo-joon was also quite surprised with his mouth open
.
but. Anyone can unlock barriers, but it’s not common to do so quickly.
Is such a reaction natural?
“…oh my god.”
“and. This quickly…
Then a small window appeared in front of my eyes.
[The character ‘Lee Seo-Jun’ is surprised by you.]
[The character ‘Lee Seo-Jun”s interest in you is added.]
[The character ‘Lee Seo-Jun”s interest in you Lv: 1]
[You will get 5000 points as a reward.]
[The character ‘Ancheol Jang’ is surprised by you.] [You
will get 1000 points as a reward.]
[The character ‘Heeyoung Lee’ is surprised by you. ]
[You get 1000 points as a reward
.]
What is this? level of interest?
After the morning class of dungeon exploration, we went out for lunch.
There were not many people in sight except for the number of students who hadn’t come out of the dungeon yet.
Shin Ji-hyeok, who had been arguing with me throughout the dungeon,
had become a chick who ate honey after the barrier was lifted. I really like that look.
While I was outside, Jang An-cheol, a muscular man, approached me from afar.
“Article 3. Currently in 2nd place. A good start for me.”
Jung Jin-tae and Yoon Ha-young smiled brightly and were delighted at Jang An-cheol’s words.
2nd place.
It was a decent result, but I wasn’t very satisfied with Lee Seo-joon as a team member.
After all, is Yooara’s team in first place?
“Especially Kim Seon-woo. The way he unraveled the barrier was very impressive. If he hadn’t released the barrier quickly, he would have been ranked third. By the way, I’m curious. What method did you use to release the barrier so quickly?”
“It’s a field I’m interested in, so I practiced regularly.”
I couldn’t be honest, so I made up a rough answer.
“It is an area of interest. That’s enough for mere interest, you’re so talented. But if you have that talent, why not choose an assistant? I think you will do very well
.”
“Still, the expression system suits me well.”
At my words, Ancheol Chang nodded.