“Is everyone inside?”

The students entered.

Ha-yeon looked around to see if any students were left behind.

Honestly, it wasn’t a bad idea to check and go in, just in case there were still some stragglers.

But then.

“……!!”

The stench of blood filled the air in an instant.

At this level, she should have sensed it before coming?

Why so suddenly?

“Over there, is it.”

She ran towards the source of the smell.

Something was wrong.

It wasn’t normal for the smell of blood to be so strong near the gate where the academy’s S-Class was doing their practical training!

The situation was taking a strange turn.

Anyway, Ha-yeon, who ran not too far away, could find a corpse lying on the ground.

Wearing a suit, holding a sword in one hand, and the other hand was cut off.

A fairly tall and sturdy man.

Moreover, a corpse that had only been dead for about a day.

“This is….”

She roughly knew.

This person was a gate guard.

As the S-Class was doing practical training, security had to be thorough.

That’s why high-ranking Hunters were stationed…

But that Hunter was killed in such a battered state.

This was definitely the work of someone.

“…The students are in danger.”

This was clearly an attack targeting the students, the academy.

Realizing that the students were in danger, Ha-yeon immediately turned around to run, but.

-Beep-!!!!

“….You crazy…!!!”

Bang!

A huge explosion and a massive shockwave swept through the surroundings.

The trees shook wildly, and some small trees were uprooted.

An artifact hidden in the corpse.

Just before it exploded, she sensed the artifact’s mana and reacted quickly, so fortunately, she wasn’t hurt.

‘Someone is watching me right now.’

Perfect timing.

Could someone predict this?

It was an impossible feat unless they were a prophet.

But then.

‘Why can’t I sense it?’

She couldn’t sense it.

Even when she spread her mana around to find something, she couldn’t find a trace of anyone.

Something was definitely suspicious.

Suspicious, but…

“Still, the students come first right now.”

There was no time to be standing around here.

Thinking so, Ha-yeon ran to the gate.

“Brainwave Acceleration!”

A murderous intent ran down her spine.

It wasn’t for nothing that Cheon-seo-a was the strongest of the current generation of students in the Thunderclap Palace.

It wasn’t for nothing that she was A-Class.

With her innate senses, she sensed the murderous intent and used Brainwave Acceleration, her fastest evasion skill, to back away.

“Haa….Haa….”

A red line was drawn on her pale neck.

If she had been just a little late, her head would have rolled on the floor.

“Oh…. You dodged that? I’m confident in my preemptive strikes, you know, kihahat!”

The man said with a strange expression.

Tensing up and gathering mana, she thought.

‘Who is this man?’

He wasn’t a monster.

Nor was he an assassin from a hostile force.

No, even if he was an assassin, he couldn’t have broken in here unless he was really high-ranking.

As she was thinking, Cheon-seo-a realized that she had seen the clothes he was wearing somewhere.

“New King Church!”

A newly emerging pseudo-religion and a global terrorist group.

As soon as Cheon-seo-a realized that he belonged to the New King Church, her tension reached its peak.

Some S-Class Hunters were said to have died at the hands of the New King Church, so she couldn’t let her guard down.

As she expected, the man grinned eerily and said.

“Ho…. Correct! Then as a reward, I’ll give you a painless death, young lady!”

The man ran with a gleaming blade.

The tanker, who had been hesitating next to her, rushed forward and blocked the attack.

Clang!

A huge shield and a short dagger.

A moment where the outcome seemed obvious to anyone.

Something unexpected happened.

“You think you can stop me with something like that!”

A roar echoed, and the shockwave hit the shield directly.

The male student who was the tanker fell backward.

“Ugh!”

The male student was holding his leg, as if it was twisted.

The non-combat student next to him quickly sprayed medicine to reduce the swelling in his leg.

A healing potion bought from the market.

“Quite a useful shield! To survive my attack!”

Saying so, the man rushed in again.

The tanker was still being treated and couldn’t run to block him.

Cheon-seo-a poured all the mana she had been gathering and activated a magic spell.

“Judgment Day!”

Judgment Day.

Lightning 8th Circle Area-of-Effect Grand Magic.

It was a very burdensome skill for her, who only had intermediate lightning magic skills and had only trained single-target magic the most.

But Cheon-seo-a knew.

That guy wasn’t someone who would be hit by a few powerful attacks.

A tiara made of lightning, yet maintaining its shape, was placed on her head.

Lightning armor covered parts of her body.

Also, spears of lightning with fierce Thunderclap energy scattered around, ready to fly towards the enemy at any moment.

“Lightning of Judgment, strike the enemy.”

Judgment Day was not an ordinary area-of-effect magic.

Free, continuous installation, domination-type area-of-effect magic.

A secret magic taught only to the disciples of the Thunderclap Palace, it scatters her lightning around and dominates the area.

The power of lightning was much stronger there.

‘But if the mana disappears, it’s over.’

In short, it was a finishing move.

Thinking that it would be over if she couldn’t end it here, Cheon-seo-a gathered every last bit of mana and fired a Thunderclap spear.

“Interesting! So you’re a talent!”

Saying so, the man, who was having trouble moving because of the electricity, rolled to the side to avoid the attack, but the priest’s robes were slightly burned by the enormous voltage.

Without paying any attention to it, the man ran forward through the raging storm.

‘Quickly!’

Feeling impatient at the sight, she fired Thunderclap spears even faster and stronger than before.

Whether her efforts paid off, the man’s body was gradually wounded or burned, taking damage.

But the man didn’t seem to feel any pain and didn’t hesitate at all.

“Ugh…!”

A dagger fired by the man.

Blood dripped from the wound on her cheek where it grazed.

She had to block it, she had to block it, she had to block it.

With that one thought, she created huge storms.

It was a divine power that an ordinary student could never achieve.

But the man, regardless of her thoughts, didn’t stop his speed at all and broke through with minimal injuries.

Before she knew it, he was about to enter her attack range.

Feeling a sense of crisis, Cheon-seo-a.

Used her last resort.

“Thunderclap, resound!”

Kwaroooong!!

Squeezing out her last bit of mana, she dropped a huge lightning bolt on the spot where he was.

If it was dodged like the previous Thunderclap spear, it wouldn’t be very powerful.

Even though he was hit directly, he didn’t have any major injuries.

Of course, it wasn’t made for attack.

‘Signal.’

A skill that amplified the sound as much as possible to call for support nearby.

It was the last resort she chose, thinking that she couldn’t win with the little mana she had left.

“…Ugh…!”

After making the Thunderclap resound, Cheon-seo-a felt her mana depleted and collapsed to the floor.

As a result, Judgment Day was canceled, and the Thunderclap spears and Thunderclap energy that had been floating around disappeared.

The man grinned savagely and gripped his dagger.

“Amazing! I can’t believe you’re a student!!!”

His whole body was burned.

All of his once-lush hair was burned off, but he was still smiling like a real madman.

That man approached Cheon-seo-a.

The tanker and the non-combat student could only watch.

They instinctively knew that if they rushed in now, they would die immediately.

“But you’re still just a student, after all, you can’t beat me!!!”

Was he lost in self-admiration?

He shouted and stood near the fallen Cheon-seo-a.

“You entertained me… So, as a reward, I’ll send you off without pain!!!”

Shouting so, the man plunged his dagger down.

And at that moment.

Bang!

The side wall shattered.

“What kind of crazy bastard is causing a ruckus here!!! Get away from our student!!!!!”

Ha-yeon jumped out and twisted the bastard’s jaw, sending him flying.

Immediately after entering the Dungeon.

Ha-yeon moved right away.

Dungeons spawned randomly unless there was physical contact.

Therefore, once inside, she had to rely on sound, senses, and mana detection.

“This way.”

Ha-yeon, who was running towards the only visible passage as soon as she entered, spread her mana around and looked for the place she felt…. No, she didn’t look for a path.

“Get the wall out of the way!”

She smashed the wall.

Didn’t I say?

One slash and the Dungeon would be cleared.

Anyway, she opened a highway for the student and immediately made the student retreat and roundhouse kicked the enemy’s neck.

“Cough!”

The enemy fell.

Ha-yeon couldn’t help but be surprised at the sight.

“New King Church!?”

Why were they here?

Such thoughts filled her head, but she brushed them aside because of the student she saw and said to the student.

“Stay here, come out later when the System says the Dungeon is cleared, that’s the signal that everything is taken care of.”

Saying so, Ha-yeon ran without delay.

But one problem arose.

“Which way do I go…..?”

She felt three places.

One was about to die at any moment, and the other two could hold out a little longer.

If you only heard this, you could immediately go to the first one, but there was not enough time to save all the other two.

Towards her, today too, the Constellation bestowed grace.

[Constellation, ‘Moon-Cleaving Flash’ bestows the skill, ‘Skill Amplifier – Leader’s Qualities (A+)’.]

…..

Constellation-nim is the best.