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15.

Jeremy raised his battleaxe, painted red.

Jeremy, wearing a combat uniform with black and orange as the main colors, and red hair slicked back.

Scattered around his feet were orange boulders, the shattered remains of mini golems as they died.

Even after killing three mini golems by himself, Jeremy didn’t lose his breath. He was truly worthy of being ranked second in the Academy.

“Vera, my MP is running low. Please recover it.”

Jeremy used his ultimate skill without sparing any effort to defeat the mini golem, and ended up running out of mana.

But there were still more than 10 Magic Cubes left to defeat.

There was a need to recover mana points.

Vera, who had been at the back, picked up the microphone again and started singing her magic song towards Jeremy.

“lalalala~ lalala~”

Chris couldn’t understand the lyrics Vera was singing.

It seemed like a song not in a common language, but in an ancient runic or elvish language.

Vera’s singing voice became a pink heart-shaped beam and shot towards Jeremy.

Delivery mana.

It was a rare skill that only idols had.

The ability to transfer your mana points to your allies.

It was a skill with endless uses, from magicians to vanguard warriors who originally had little mana.

Because they have such super useful and rare skills, the idol profession is classified as an S-class combat profession.

Vera felt Chris’ gaze as she used her skill.

‘Haha. Chris, now you know what kind of power this Vera Morgan you rejected has.’

Vera tousled her blonde twintail hair, conscious of Chris’s gaze.

Jeremy recovered his mana with Vera’s Delivery Mana skill.

He raised his Battle X again and charged towards the gathering of Magic Cubes.

The magic cubes were surprised and changed the colors of their square bodies in real time.

The action of changing the color of its body to yellow, red, and green, like a traffic light, was an action that Magic Cube took when it was confused.

Kooky!

Jeremy’s blow pierced through the Magic Cube like a red flash.

The Magic Cube, split in two by an axe, died instantly, spitting out rainbow particles like blood.

Shushu shuk!

Jeremy continued to attack the magic cubes using his spinning blade.

As Jeremy swept past, as if a red top was spinning, the corpse of the Magic Cube was left behind.

-Pipipip!

The remaining six Magic Cubes, feeling that they could not possibly win, began to run away, flailing their stick-like legs.

“Catch them! Don’t let a single one go!”

At Jeremy’s command, the Warrior Cadet and the Archer Cadet attacked the back of the Magic Cube’s head as it fled.

Before long, Jeremy Party was able to catch all the monsters.

[Magic Cube 12/120]

Jeremy Party caught 12 Magic Cubes in an instant. That’s twice as many as Chris Party caught.

Jeremy brushed the rainbow blood off the Magic Cube’s red battle axe and approached Chris and his group, who were resting under a cluster of giant, dark green mushrooms, avoiding the lightning.

“What do you think, Chris? What do you think of my hunt?”

“You seem very relaxed. I can definitely tell you have some skills.”

There wasn’t a single drop of sweat on Jeremy’s forehead, which was clearly visible beneath his slicked-back hair. It was proof to Jeremy that the group of monsters just now were not a formidable opponent.

“Do you think you can catch monsters faster than our party?”

“Looking at your hunting, I don’t think that’s likely.”

Jeremy thought Chris had made a remark that admitted defeat.

But Chris’s attitude didn’t seem that daunted or anything, despite what he said, and he seemed relaxed.

“I guarantee that our party will catch 120 Magic Cubes in less than two hours and return to Midreddin where the Academy is.”

Jeremy looked down at Chris and his party members Sean, Joe, and Austin, who were dodging the lightning under the giant mushroom.

“I don’t know if you guys will be able to accomplish the task even after four or five hours.”

“We will accomplish the task too. It may be a little slower than you guys.”

Chris seemed unfazed by Jeremy’s provocation.

From the beginning, Chris was insensitive to the subtle, backhanded provocations that the nobles loved.

Because he was born a commoner, he did not know much about the ‘cultured goroshi’ culture that nobles were accustomed to from a young age.

But to Jeremy, even Chris’s actions seemed like a challenge to him.

“Really? You’re saying you won’t give up and will fight until the end, no matter how long or short it is? Try hard. Of course, even if you try hard, you won’t be able to beat me.”

Jeremy shot Chris an intense glare and then left with his colleagues to catch the Magic Cube.

Meanwhile, Vera thought as she watched Jeremy and Chris’ war of nerves.

‘Chris’s party won’t be able to finish the Magic Cube before me and Jeremy’s party, but… I wonder how fast Chris will finish the Cube.’

Vera walked quickly towards Jeremy as he returned from the giant mushroom colony to the party.

“Jeremy, let’s hunt monsters near Chris’s party. Wouldn’t that be a good way to show them the difference in skill?”

“That’s right. Dooken, if you find a monster, bring it to us.”

Jeremy ordered his archer cadet, Duquen.

It also seemed like it would be fun to kill a horde of monsters brought by archers near Chris’s party.

“Are you all resting now? Let’s go hunting too.”

After hearing Chris’s words, the party members stood up and grabbed their weapons.

“Are you okay, Chris? Jeremy seems to be completely hostile towards you.”

Sean looked at Chris with a worried expression.

“That’s right. I don’t know why you hate me?”

“Probably because Chris Ner beat Howard, who is ranked 3rd.”

“What are you talking about?”

“Jeremy is ranked 2nd right now. Chris, who beat Howard, you are actually ranked 3rd. So Jeremy thinks you are after his spot.”

Chris was a little taken aback by what Sean said.

“You’re not even a kid, so why are you picking a fight with me over something like that?”

It was ridiculous.

Of course, there were instances where rough kids in the slums would establish a hierarchy among themselves and fight each other.

But who would have thought that the academy’s young people, who are made up of only nobles, would be fighting and fighting like slum kids over the rankings?

‘Are all children of nobles the same?’

Chris thought the nobility would be a little different.

I thought we would fight nobly, but the reality was no different from what the kids in the slums did.

Perhaps it was a fantasy that the commoners had for the nobles.

Anyway, whatever Jeremy thought or quibble he had with him, Jeremy was not something Chris should have to consider.

First, get the Magic Cube as much as you can, and if possible, make a Thunder Tiger, a boss-level monster, into a summon.

That’s what Chris cared about.

“Let’s go guys.”

Chris had recovered all of his mana by drinking a mana potion that Lily had given him that morning, in addition to the amount of mana restored by the ring of mana recovery.

I placed the unicorn in the center again to block the lightning in the swamp and headed towards where the monsters were likely to be.

In the Blue Lightning Swamp, there were giant mushroom colonies growing here and there, and since lightning did not strike, there was a high probability that monsters would inhabit the giant mushroom colonies.

Chris suggested that they head towards the nearest colony of giant mushrooms.

As we headed toward the giant mushroom colony about 140 meters east as we had hoped, we saw a group of magic cubes resting on the dirt floor.

There were about 8 of them, and this time there were two mini golems.

Mini Golem was a monster that Magic Cube served by bringing food to protect them.

I also heard an explanation of how to deal with it during Professor Berriol’s lecture.

It is more efficient to defeat the mini golem first and then deal with the magic cube.

It was the tactic Jeremy used earlier.

“Shawn, can you get the attention of the Magic Cubes by yourself?”

“Alone?”

Sean looked uncertain.

“To defeat the Mini Golem, it would be a good idea to unsummon the Unicorn and focus its magic on Ray. Just distract the Magic Cube until Ray defeats the Mini Golem.”

After listening to Chris’s explanation, it definitely seemed like it would be more efficient in battle to defeat the mini golem first.

“Okay, I’ll try my best.”

Sean stroked his shield and steeled his resolve.

Still, since I have a rainbow shield with high magic resistance, I can hold out to some extent against Magic Cube, which focuses on magic attacks.

“I might not be able to hold out for long. Take down the mini golem as fast as you can and tell Ray to help me.”

“Don’t worry, Shawn. This body will soon defeat the mini golem and join you.”

Ray looks confident.

“Please, please.”

Ray rushed to where the magic cube was stuck in the ground.

Sean followed Ray, his expression uneasy and his shield tightly gripped.

-Kugugu?

The two mini golems guarding the magic cube that was resting on the ground like security guards realized that the enemy had arrived when they saw Ray running towards them.

-Kuquawaa!

The Magic Cubes were startled by the Mini Golem’s shout and jumped up from the dirt floor, flashing rainbow colors.