I Was Reborn (3)
by Afuhfuihgs
1.
It was a girl who didn’t even look ten years old.
Her sweat-drenched golden hair reflected the moonlight, shining beautifully.
Her blood-red eyes emitted a noble aura, like well-polished rubies.
She still had three more years before entering her full growth spurt, but the girl’s beauty had already blossomed.
“As expected, there’s no taste in killing them.”
The battle after a long time was quite enjoyable.
Although the enemies were not satisfactory for Elia’s level.
Still, the mother of the Wolf Beast she faced last was quite tough, so she managed to satisfy her desires to some extent.
“Huh?”
Elia, who was dusting off the dirt on her skirt, turned her head towards the gaze directed at her.
Two men and one woman.
Seeing the emblems attached to their chests, she recognized them as adventurers.
They came earlier than expected?
I thought they would come tomorrow.
Anyway, Silver rank…
Elia thought she had done well to deal with them first.
If they had faced these things, they would have been annihilated.
One Wolf Beast is a level 2 threat, which a Silver rank adventurer could handle.
But what if there were more than ten of them?
Bitten.
Torn apart.
They would have ended up in a miserable state.
That wasn’t the only problem.
The giant Wolf Beast, dead with its tongue sticking out long.
This one alone could have torn those three apart.
“You’re adventurers, right?”
Dian nodded stiffly.
He didn’t know what the situation was.
It was too different from what he had worried about.
He couldn’t have imagined it.
He thought another party would be getting torn apart by a Magical Beast.
To think that a girl alone would defeat more than ten Magical Beasts.
And what is that?
He had never seen such a large Magical Beast in his life as an adventurer.
“That’s all the Magical Beasts in the forest.”
Elia kicked the head of the giant Wolf Beast.
Even approaching it was daunting, but the girl was indifferent.
“Please take care of the cleanup.”
After bowing politely.
Elia turned her steps towards the convent.
“Wait… just a moment…!”
Dian, who had been blinking with a dazed face, called out to Elia.
“Yes?”
Elia tilted her head and looked back.
“Did you… do this alone?”
She didn’t have an adventurer’s emblem, so she wasn’t an adventurer.
She didn’t have proper weapons either.
She was wearing a slightly shabby dress and was empty-handed.
Her body was that of an ordinary girl.
“So?”
“How? How did you do it?”
Elia pointed to the branch embedded in the Magical Beast’s crown.
“I smashed their heads with a branch.”
“No, that’s not what I’m asking. I’m asking how you faced those Magical Beasts alone. You don’t seem to be an adventurer, and you don’t seem to be a mage either.”
Elia looked at Dian.
In Dian’s clear eyes, there was the desire of someone who wanted to become stronger.
He has good eyes.
“It’s simple.”
I’ll tell you specially.
How to get stronger.
“Do five hours of physical training, five hours of swordsmanship training, five hours of Mana Training, and hunt 30 Magical Beasts every day.”
“W-what?”
“If you want to get stronger, you have to do the impossible.”
Elia gave a gentle smile.
“Try pushing yourself to the brink of death once.”
She pointed her finger at the Magical Beast carcasses lying scattered.
“You can do it too.”
With those words, Elia disappeared into the forest.
The three of them stared blankly until the girl had completely disappeared.
“…What was that?”
Once at the place where the girl had disappeared.
Once at the Magical Beast corpses with their heads smashed.
They looked back and forth.
“First… shall we start the salvage?”
After catching a Magical Beast, you have to peel off the Magical Beast’s horns, teeth, and skin as proof of subjugation and submit them to the Adventurer’s Guild.
Dian and his party took out their daggers for the salvage.
They decided to start with the biggest one first.
It seemed like it would take the three of them more than an hour just to skin it.
It was the moment the three approached the giant Wolf Beast.
“Kaoooo!!”
The wolf, which they thought was dead, roared and swung its tail like a whip, sending the three of them flying far away.
“Kuheok!!”
He was hit hard in the abdomen.
After flying away, he hit his back against a tree.
Dian clutched his abdomen and curled up.
“Kkeueueu… it was alive…?”
He frowned and raised his head.
A wolf with a thick branch embedded in its crown like a horn.
Even though brain fluid was flowing down, the wolf was alive.
The wolf’s purple eyes were stained blood-red, as if blood vessels had burst.
“Geureureu!!”
The enraged wolf showed its sharp fangs.
Thick blood flowed between its teeth.
Blood was also flowing from its nose.
“E-everyone… are you okay…?”
“Y-yeah…”
“……”
Arold barely answered.
Piara fainted because she hit her head on a tree.
The party was on the verge of annihilation with just one tail attack.
They had to make a quick decision.
Fight?
Or run away?
“Arold! Let’s get out of here!”
It was impossible for the three Silver rank nobodies to catch that wolf.
There was no need to fight.
He could tell instinctively.
If they fought, they would die.
They had to run away.
Dian took care of the fainted Piara.
“Kkyaaaa!!”
A scream came from behind.
It was Arold’s scream.
He had his abdomen slashed by the wolf’s claws.
“Arold!!”
The abdomen was split into three.
Blood flowed from the gaps.
Arold groaned, feeling the pain as if his organs were about to spill out.
“Eut…!”
The wolf looked at Dian.
It smirked at Dian’s trembling figure.
It was the mockery of a strong person playing with the weak.
The wolf, who had been scared in front of the strong and pretending to be dead until just now, drooled at the thought of eating the three fools who had appeared in front of it.
The wolf nodded its head at Dian.
It meant to try running away.
It was completely toying with Dian.
It was obvious that he would be caught even if he ran away.
But considering its size, wouldn’t it be possible to escape somehow?
He soon realized that it was a meaningless thought.
The forest was intact even though there had been a battle.
There wasn’t a single broken tree.
If a fight had taken place with that size, at least one tree should have fallen.
As expected… it was impossible to escape.
“Hoo… hoo…”
Dian took a trembling breath and drew the swords from both sides of his waist.
The sword hilts trembled.
The end of the battle was clear.
He would die.
He would become food for that wolf.
But he had no intention of becoming food willingly.
Let’s resist as much as possible.
For some reason, the words the girl had said earlier came to mind.
Push yourself to the brink of death.
He didn’t know he would put it into practice so quickly.
“Heuaaa!”
With a powerful shout, Dian rushed at the wolf.
-Peoeok!!
The wolf swung its leg and easily knocked down the rushing Dian.
Dian fell to the ground.
What a futile ending.
He had dreamed of becoming an Orichalcum rank adventurer.
He knew it was an absurd dream.
That’s how strong he wanted to become.
But the reality was Silver rank, the second-highest rank from the bottom, which accounted for the highest percentage of adventurers.
“Keuk, keukkeuk.”
The wolf mocked Dian.
Blood-mixed saliva dripped onto his head.
But shamefully, he couldn’t do anything.
All he could do was face death in vain.
The wolf opened its mouth wide.
It had lost interest.
It wanted to play more, but the opponent was too weak.
A terrible breath wafted over.
Dian’s body trembled even more.
The skin on his palm holding the sword was torn and bleeding.
Yeah.
At least let’s land one hit.
The wolf’s mouth approached.
Dian forcibly raised his numb body as if he was paralyzed.
I’ll stab the sword into your mouth!
“Heuaaaaa…!!”
But.
-Kwak!!
As if it knew this would happen.
The wolf shattered Dian’s sword with its strong teeth.
“Pick, keukkeuk, keuk.”
The wolf smiled with a nasty expression.
Dian desperately realized his powerlessness.
“Ha, haha… damn it…”
The wolf opened its mouth wide as if to show off.
And at that moment.
Flash.
A golden flash severed the wolf’s neck.
The wolf’s head fell to the ground with its mouth wide open in a nasty smiling expression.
“I came back because it felt ominous.”
Step by step.
The girl approached.
She was holding Arold’s sword in her hand.
“It was pretending to be dead, huh? It was a tougher guy than I thought.”
Elia yawned.
She rubbed her sleepy eyes and sighed deeply.
Her young body got tired easily with just a little movement.
She was sleepier because she had moved more than usual.
“I’m sorry. I should have finished it off properly before handing it over.”
Elia squatted down in front of Dian.
“Are you hurt anywhere?”
It seemed like a bone was fractured.
It was hard to breathe.
“A… Arold… Arold is…”
Dian took care of his companion first.
Arold was the most seriously injured.
His abdomen was torn by the wolf’s claws.
“That man?”
Elia pointed to the man far away with her thumb.
“Y-yes…”
Dian nodded.
Elia straightened her knees and stood up.
Then she approached the man who was gasping and looked like he was about to die.
“This is badly hurt.”
Elia rolled up her sleeves.
“Excuse me for a moment.”
She placed her hand on Arold’s stomach.
She closed her eyes.
Her long eyelashes fell like curtains.
Elia said in a small voice.
“…Oh God, lend the power of salvation to your daughter.”
She began to recite the prayer.
Then, a power different from Magical power arose.
Warm and cozy.
It was Divinity.
“A, a priest…?”
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