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Crrr…

The ogre slowly moved its head as if observing me.

In response, my heart started beating faster.

It is a harbinger of battle sense.

Now I have become accustomed to the feeling of battle.

Excited.

The ogre in front lives by relying on its instincts.

Instinctive destruction and plunder, preying on anything they can get their hands on and destroying anything that moves.

This stupid monster knows nothing and is extremely curious.

That’s why I always observe something I see for the first time.

This is because when an attack comes, you have the confidence that it will not be too late to counterattack only then.

That’s why I have to hit the ogre now, while it’s still observing me.

To avoid being discovered by the ogre, I slowly condensed the mana within my body.

The moment mana moves outside the body, the ogre will attack.

So, you need to manifest a magic circle in an instant and inflict damage when the ogre is not aware of it.

That was my specialty, so I was confident.

Three seconds to go.

The ogre is still looking at me. Now he was also looking at Baek Ayoung behind him.

‘done!’

Churrr!

The magic circles that are completed in an instant emit magic.

With one hand, he fired a fireball aimed at the ogre’s eyes.

The blades of wind flew towards the ogre’s stomach and cut into its skin.

bang! bang! Pushuuu-

The smoke from the fireball enveloped the ogre, and a moment later, the ogre appeared, covering its face with both arms.

“Ha, you’re such a crazy bastard.”

Surprisingly, the arm that was blocking the guy’s face was clean, without a single scratch.

There was only one small scratch on the belly where dozens of blades had cut into it.

The ogre let out a growl of displeasure.

Wow!

The ogre expressed his anger by stamping his feet.

Now they have completely recognized me as their enemy.

Wow!

The ogre with red eyes ran towards me and swung its fist.

I didn’t want to get too close to him because he was drooling.

I glanced back.

Baek Ah-young was trembling and looking this way.

Quickly rotates the mana in the mana circuit.

I jumped forward while using ‘acceleration’.

To avoid harm to Baek Ah-young, it would have been better to fight in front of her.

thud! bang!

While avoiding the ogre’s fist, I moved away from Baek Ah-young and the battlefield.

Wow!

Boom-!

My hair was blown by the fist of the ogre that passed before my eyes.

If you hit it right, your ribs will definitely go out.

I slowly guided the ogre away from Baek Ah-young and collected mana again.

‘What should I do?’

Its skin is too hard to damage with my magic.

There was neither time nor enough magic power to prepare high-level magic.

If so, high destructive power with low horsepower was needed.

Excited.

The heart accelerates rapidly.

My body felt the hot breath of the ogre and I avoided the attack, but my head remained cold and I thought of a solution.

To produce high destructive power with a small amount of magic power, you must attack from close range.

This will eliminate the waste of power that occurs while flying.

In addition, you need to increase the speed of the attack with ‘acceleration’ to achieve maximum efficiency.

The strand was caught.

There are two things I can do.

Punch a fist strengthened with magical power into the ogre’s stomach.

Or, create a new form of magic that can hurt the ogre and stick it in its stomach.

Fortunately, unlike the ogre who was hit by the fireball and didn’t get any soot, there was a slight scratch on the wind blade.

That was the breakthrough.

Big!

I lowered my head and dodged the ogre’s fist flying towards my head.

At the same time, magical power was concentrated in his hands.

Magic power was extracted in the same spiral form as when making the cotton guard.

The spiral form that pursues solid defense can, conversely, become the strongest means of attack.

It contains the will of sharpness in solid magical power.

Although its magical power has been sharpened, it is no different from a wind blade.

Magic power twisted into a spiral is condensed while rotating into a sphere.

The spiral sphere, rotating at tremendous speed, will gnaw away at the ogre’s skin little by little.

Coo!

The ogre’s arm strikes my side once again.

‘Pierce through the next attack.’

He deliberately kept the distance close and induced large movements.

The stupid ogre was caught off guard by my intention and slammed both hands down on the floor.

thud!

‘Acceleration’

The spiral sphere spinning in his hand was driven into the side of the ogre who was trying to lift his hand from the ground.

“Kuuuck-!”

Cracked!

With a vicious sound, the hard outer shell was torn away little by little.

The moment when the ogre’s side becomes covered in blood and the inner skin, which is weaker than the outer skin, comes out.

A large crack appeared in the ogre’s stomach.

If the outer shell breaks even a little, it’s over.

My magic went deep inside and spun around, slicing through my inner skin.

The ogre’s blood and fragments were scattered on the dungeon floor.

“It’s over.”

thud!

The ogre died with a large hole in its stomach.

──『 Spiral 』 ──

▶ Unique skills

▶The magic power is twisted into a triple helix to make it hard and compressed into a sphere that turns in a spiral.

A very high level of horsepower control is required. It has greater destructive power when struck at close range rather than thrown.

───────

“Spiral?”

Only melee skills that I don’t want are created.

Fuck. This is not what I thought, really.

“Hoyeon! You, you! What were you thinking when you fought the ogre!”

Baek A-young came to me with a worried face and questioned me.

“We can’t abandon Ayoung. We’d rather die together.”

“… you!”

Although she looks angry on the outside, Baek Ayoung doesn’t seem to be in a bad mood.

It would be nice to increase my likeability here, but my current state doesn’t make sense.

If you feel dizzy, you may experience mana exhaustion. You need to quickly replenish your body with mana.

“I’m going to meditate for a moment. Please escort me.”

“Uh, yes. I’ll tell you right away when someone comes.”

I used Baek Ah-young as a human alarm and filled my mana with meditation.

Since I was so low on mana, I almost used up all of it in the fight just now.

Still, I am highly efficient at meditation, so it will be over soon.

“Whoa….”

I closed my eyes and slowly began to absorb the mana around me.

*

“Student President, just a moment. I understand everything, but just calm down!”

“Get out of the way. I need to see this person right away.”

“Over there! Oh my!”

Su-rin Moon pushed aside the secretary guarding the chairman’s office and entered the chairman’s office.

“Surin, what’s going on?”

At the head of the table, I saw a white-haired man lounging on the sofa.

He looked at Moon Su-rin with a happy expression.

“Is it time to leisurely drink coffee? The cadets are trapped in the dungeon?”

However, Moon Su-rin poured out her complaints as if she had no interest in the man’s gaze.

People were trapped right now due to the dungeon flooding, so it was not the time to relax here.

“…Surin. You’re not saying this without knowing that I just finished convening a rescue team, providing supplies, and assigning wizards, right? And I didn’t even drink coffee.”

“I know. But do you have time to rest? The cadets are locked up?

“I did the best I could. You know that.”

“No. Go out yourself.”

“…Surin!”

Talking about his body was taboo.

However, Moon Su-rin was in no position to decide between the two.

Hoyeon Lee. As soon as I heard the news that he was trapped in the dungeon, my heart sank.

Only then did he admit that he had feelings for Lee Ho-yeon.

And as soon as I realized my feelings, I threw away everything I had done today and ran to the director’s office.

The chairman also saw Moon Su-rin’s well-functioning eyes and thought that he should calm her down for now.

“All the experts have been called, and many active hunters will also be deployed to search. Don’t worry, just wait.”

“No. If the Chairman doesn’t go, I will go myself.”

“Why on earth are you doing this? Is there a guy you like among the first-year cadets?”

“Well, that’s not it! Aren’t all the cadets members of our Victoria Academy!”

“….”

The chairman’s face suddenly began to harden.

The reaction is to turn your head to a place where there are no people, make eye contact, and then run away.

He had often seen his granddaughter react this way.

This is the response you give when you want to change the topic of conversation.

“Uh, anyway! I’ll go in myself, so you know that! And I’ll go on strike until the case is over.”

“Soo, Surin! The academy won’t run without you!”

“That’s none of my business. What’s important right now is the dungeon surge. We need to maximize the search scale and recruit additional hunters.”

“Well, isn’t that all part of the Academy budget!”

“The money I earned is probably much more than this.”

Su-rin Moon glared at the chairman, spoke coldly, and left the chairman’s office.

The chairman felt frustrated. Who on earth is that man to do this to my granddaughter?

From my long life experience, this guy doesn’t die easily.

I’ll have to see his face at least once when he escapes from the dungeon to see what kind of noble guy he is. It was the chairman who thought this way.

*

“I think I’ll buy something now. Thank you.”

“Ugh, no. Thanks to you, I am living well.”

We explored the dungeon in a friendly atmosphere.

After killing the ogre, my confidence also increased considerably.

From what I heard, ogres are monsters that even active hunters have a hard time catching on their own.

I caught that monster on my own, so it’s something to be proud of. huh?

“Still, monsters bigger than ogres won’t appear. Even ogres were at a level that didn’t make sense in the first place….”

It makes no sense for an ogre to appear in a dungeon where people like kobolds appear.

It looks like something was written in the Minecraft group Pandemic, but I was frustrated because I didn’t remember it appearing in the original.

“I guess so? It’s a blessing in disguise….”

thud. thud.

“Oh, fuck.”

Without realizing it, I cursed in front of Baek Ayoung.

Fortunately, Baek Ayoung didn’t seem to hear it.

thud. thud.

Baek Ah-young also had no time to listen to me talking to myself because she was listening to these ominous footsteps.

Even, the sound of these footsteps was not from just one animal.

Thump. Thump. Thump. Thump. Thump. Thump. Thump.

Two. Two ogres were walking.

Excited.

The sense of battle boils over again. But it’s okay.

Since I had already tried it once, I honestly wasn’t scared.

The method for catching two stupid ogres is no different.

Avoid simple attacks with ‘Acceleration’ and then hit ‘Spiral’ on the stomach and you’re done.

Of course, there were other details than the explanation, but that was the general outline.

Wow!

The ogre’s sound is getting closer.

This time, I wanted to reduce it by one from the beginning.

Baek Ayoung’s physical strength is now at a critical level, so she needs to finish quickly and find a place to rest.

‘Spiral’

He created a spiral sphere in his hand.

‘Acceleration.’

And accelerated the mana around the body.

I gathered magical power in my toes and waited until the distance got closer.

Kurrrr-!

Just before the ogre and I caught sight of each other, the eye power strengthened by ‘Open Eyes’ caught the ogre one step ahead.

Quagwagwang!

I jumped into the ogre with such momentum that the floor beneath my feet exploded.

Cr?

The ogre finally recognized me, but it was not a high-level life form enough to block my attack, which was accelerated by ‘acceleration’.

Wow!

“Look around, you bastard.”

A hole appeared in one of the ogre’s stomachs, and it fell down, vomiting blood.

Ku, kueh?!

And the remaining one, as soon as it saw the guy standing next to him become soft tofu, recognized me and came swinging his club.

Excited.

My battle senses were speaking.

Now get used to these simple attacks.

I lightly dodged the club and prepared a spiral.

Now all you have to do is put this on your stomach or face.

“Chor!”

The ogre was waving his club, but then he couldn’t control his anger and came swinging his fist.

I thought before dodging the ogre’s fist flying from accelerated space and getting hit in the face by a spiral.

‘This is your last chance.’

Now the ogre is swinging its fist at me. My speed is much faster.

At this speed, an ogre’s life can be ended by smashing its head in a spiral before it gets punched.

But that wasn’t my goal.

I didn’t come here just to catch monsters. The target is Baek Ayoung.

There was no other chance other than this time.

Unlike the first time, the dungeon mana concentration is now almost stable. With this level of mana density, there can be no monster stronger than two ogres.

To begin with, Ogre’s specs made no sense, so there’s no way there would be anything better than that.

I already killed one ogre in front of Baek Ah-young.

But the guy who easily caught one ogre gets wounds on the verge of death from other monsters? That was a very awkward story.

After all, now is your last chance.

When the opponent is two ogres.

Anyway, if Baek Ayoung is there, she won’t die.

‘It’s worth it. No, I have to.’

In the end, this situation had to exist in order to attack Baek Ah-young.

As I watched the ogre’s fist fly slowly, I slightly slowed down the speed of my spiral hand.

I put a lot of effort into making sure that even if I were hit by an ogre, the spiral would already be in a position to kill the ogre.

Kwasik-! Pushuuuk-!

First, I was hit by the ogre’s fist, and immediately after that, the ogre’s head was torn into pieces.

The ogre’s blood splattered in the air and fragments covered my body.

“Kuhup…! Kkuuk….”

And blood started coming out of my mouth.

sick. It really hurts like I’m going to fall behind. Fuck.

My ribs and all my internal organs seem to have been torn apart.

“Ho, Hoyeon…! No!”

Still, seeing Baek Ayoung running towards me, the plan was a success.