Chapter 37 – Performance Evaluation (1)

As Laysha’s sword slashed Cyclops’ knee, a single rose bloomed on the trail of her sword.

– Shuuk.

Finally, the tendon in his knee was severed, and the Cyclops, who was forced to kneel on his knees in vain, could not even offer measurable resistance any longer.

The sword flew in a beautiful curve towards his one eye once more.

-Pushuk!

Unlike his skin, which was firm and tough, his eyes were easily sliced ​​like tofu, and the magic used by the spirits of Ayeong fell on the completely incapacitated Cyclops.

Stone spikes rose from the ground, and sharp winds carrying flames hacked the Cyclops to pieces.

Kill another one with this one. Killed 8 Cyclops in total.

“Phew… It’s easy this time too.”

After taking a deep breath, Leisha brushed off the blood on her blade and put it back into her scabbard.
Due to the nature of monsters that disappear into dust when defeated, she didn’t have to brush off the blood, but it seemed to be her habit.

“The performance of the buff is definitely amazing. It’s amazing.”

Laysha said admiringly, and Chloe also nodded her head in agreement with her master’s will.

Roughly 50 BP per person was invested to raise the stats.
Performance must be great.

[Rating: C+]
[Cyclops: 8/16]

I caught half of them with only 8 left.
It took about 2 hours so far, so if you spend 2 more hours, you will be able to attack the glass world.

“Where is the next Cyclops?”

Chloe asked.
I felt the aura of the Cyclops around me using my Search skill.

“Hmm… The closest ones are two to the southwest, and all the Cyclops in the other direction are moving together, two at a time.”

“Hmm… Two of them.”

Laysha began to think.
He’s probably thinking about whether our party’s strength will be able to deal with two Cyclops.

“Me and Chloe are enough opponents to deal with, so it would be nice to try it once.”

The Cyclops I had dealt with one by one until now had a rather bland feeling.
With a party of only two people and a human assistant, they reached the B rank, and they received my buff and Ayoung’s support, so it was a natural result.

If Chloe blocked the attack of the Cyclops, Ayoung would use the spirits to keep her in check, and if Laysha neutralized it, she would pour gunfire down and knock it down.

I am?
I only used bind intermittently while buffing and healing from behind.
I originally thought of going to the support side, so I was doing my part well enough..

‘I guess I’ll have to make a new ability or skill soon.’

Quite a lot of regulars and points gathered.
Of course, the current BP has reached the upper limit. Points will all be invested in stats, and spirits should be used to level up skills and abilities.

After rearranging the buffs and giving them agility and stamina buffs, I quickly moved to the Cyclops.

“Ooh!”

Perhaps sensing our presence, they let out a roar that made our ears ring even though we were at an appropriate distance.

A stun skill that temporarily puts you in a state of incapacity.
However, no one at this party could be defeated by such abilities.
He resisted the roar, each raising his own mana.

-Thump.

The footsteps of the Cyclops running towards us echoed.

Our party, who had already dealt with 8 Cyclops, took out their weapons and prepared for battle.

Ayeong had jade-colored eyes, Laysha had a sword, Chloe had a shield, and I had a buff spear.

“Me and Siwoo, Chloe and Ahyoung are fighting one by one!”

Seeing the Cyclops approaching at an instant, Leasha shouted and charged at the Cyclops.
Immediately, my bind and Ayoung’s Grun raised up the rope of magic and the rope of mana, and bound the Cyclops’ body.

It was quite effective, but it was not enough to completely restrain Cyclops’ actions.
But that’s enough.

Freeing themselves from the skills that entangled them, Laysha’s sword, Pie, and Wendy’s magic rushed at them without missing the moment Cyclops struggled.

The two Cyclops, whose thighs were lightly cut and burned, seemed to have given up on escaping from the skill, and with their bodies restrained, they simply used their strength to fight back.

A C+ class monster.
Even though they were monsters in the glass world under the academy’s control and were bound by their skills, they quickly moved their hard and heavy bodies, swinging their fists and kicking their feet.

After receiving the speed buff, Laysha moved endlessly in all directions to avoid the monster’s aggro, aiming for the Cyclops’ leg relentlessly and attacking her.

As their fists and feet cut through the air in between, they hit the floor, and each time the stone fragments tore their clothes and tore their skin, they used the heel to heal the wounds.

“Whoa! Whoa…! Oh oh oh!!”

The Cyclops, who let out a roar of deep anger, dyed their brown eyes red and started attacking again, as if they were frustrated that their attacks did not work.

It was the ability of Cyclops, berserk.

Cyclops began to move faster and more powerfully, but their attacks did not reach Laysha.

Chloe also activated her special ability, Guardian (A), and blocked Cyclops’ attack with a shield covered in mana.

Realizing that Bind and Grun’s vines were no longer useful, I converted the BP I had invested in Bind into magic missiles and relentlessly aimed at Cyclops’ eyes.

Cyclops dodged the magic missile as if it were annoying at the attack that didn’t draw aggro to me, but that was enough.

As he began to care about the magic missile and could not fully focus on the battle with Laysha, the battle situation gradually leaned towards me and Laysha.

“Wow!”

The enraged Cyclops’ fist hit the floor where Laysha was standing, and she jumped high and landed on the Cyclops’ elbow.

As I was admiring the movement, as if watching an art performance, I heard the roar of the Cyclops announcing the end of the battle from the direction where Ayoung and Chloe were fighting.

Cyclops, who was madly beating his mana-covered shield, swung his arm even harder as if his pride was hurt by the fact that Chloe was not even dreaming.

Of course, behind Chloe, who didn’t move, Ayoung closed her eyes and drew her natural mana.

More and more intense flames and swirling winds began to gather, and the stone floor rose unevenly as if it were ready to rise at any moment.

Ayoung opened her eyes again.

“Pie, Wendy, Grun.”

A-Young called out the names of her own spirits, and in a tremendous explosion, a thick stone thorn rose from her ground.
Alas, she pierced the skin of the Cyclops, which had been torn apart by repeated attacks.

Both of them successfully attacked without much damage.

“Whoops… Everyone worked hard.”

Laysha, who had been out of breath for a while due to the intense battle, smiled brightly and said,

‘Oooh…’

During the battle, her awareness was focused on Cyclops and she didn’t notice it, but Laysha’s clothes were torn in places from Cyclops’ attack.
In between, her immaculate inner skin was exposed, and something a little pink in her chest area seemed to be visible or not, teasing me.

“…”

Perhaps noticing my gaze, Chloe sneaked in between me and Laysha and glared at me.
What, why

“Oh… You showed me a bad side. Please wait for a moment.”

Laysha said she was trying hard to hide her shyness, and she blushed slightly as she told me, then Chloe took her clothes from her own bag she was carrying and hid behind a tree.

“That’s enough. Chloe, don’t look at me like that. Wouldn’t that be a natural reaction for a man? If it hadn’t happened, I think it would have been more shocking.”

“… All right. Miss.”

Chloe nodded her head at the words of Laysha who had changed her clothes and avoided looking at me.

“I feel ashamed and a little happy to see you looking at such an insignificant body like that. But Ahyoung is here, so will you be hated?”

Laysha blushed and said, but Ayeong just smiled awkwardly.
It was Ayoung who first called them candidates for her lover.

“Hehe… It’s okay. Huh.”

After that, we started attacking again.
As if she didn’t want to show her lord’s true self, the partners changed again to Me and Ayoung, Laysha and Chloe.

Maybe it was because we spent a lot of time exploring the world of glass together.
After changing partners, I was able to finish the battle faster, but at Laysha’s insistence that there was no point in forming a party, I changed partners again and finished 3 battles with a total of 6 Cyclops.

∴

“After this weekend, there will be a performance evaluation for a week at each party unit that returns.”

Friday.
After the department class was over, the students gathered in the classroom again and the homeroom teacher shouted at us.

“Let’s finish preparing for the exam over the weekend and go to school on time on Monday. By the way, all items other than clothes, weapons, and artifacts are prohibited. It is a secret about the contents of the test, but if you faithfully participated in the usual classes and practice, you can easily get a high score. Disband then.”

At the sudden notification from the homeroom teacher, the students put on a devastated expression.
It may seem insane to guide the performance evaluation three days in advance, but students who were consciously or unconsciously aware that it was also part of the exam could not argue with their homeroom teacher.

Even if you want to argue, you won’t be able to open your mouth to the homeroom teacher’s charisma.

After that, the students moved busily.

In order to prepare for the test, their parties began to unite to challenge the world of glass to gain points, or to use the collected GP to acquire new artifacts and equipment.

“What shall we do?”

Laysha, the party leader, asked me, Ayoung, and Chloe who were left in the empty classroom.

“Hmm… Wouldn’t it be better to get a new weapon first and collect points during the holidays?”

Ayoung said.
Certainly, she was, as she said, all about preparing for her exams.

“Yes. I think that would be great. So today, let’s take time to rearrange our equipment and gather in front of the teleportation device we always gathered tomorrow morning.”

“I want to prepare separately during the holidays, is that okay?”

Everyone looked surprised except for Chloe, who was indifferent to me at my sudden question.

“Why…?”

Ah-yeong asked if she felt a bit sad about my personal behavior, lowering the corners of her eyes slightly.

“I just want to stop by somewhere for a while.”

“Hmm… Is it something important?”

Laysha pondered a little, then she asked me.

“Yes, it is important.”

I didn’t bother explaining what was going on, but if they were smart, they would have realized that I didn’t want to talk about it.

“Okay. I’m fine for now. If it’s a C+-class world of glass, the three of us should be able to capture it.”

I turned her head and looked back at Ayoung.

“When are you coming?”

“I’ll probably leave right away tonight and be back around Sunday evening.”

I can’t spend the night with her for two days.
Even recently, there were many days where I spent the night with Seo In-do, so the regret was doubled.

Ayeong looked up at me with a sad expression.

“Should I come back soon?”

“Huh”

I nodded and answered.

After all, Laysha was also looking at us with an interesting expression, probably because she was a woman in her prime.
It’s probably not because of my mood that I feel a little bit of envy.

Afterwards, I went to the shopping complex in the garden to buy A-young and her new equipment and clothes to wear during the exam.

It was clear that there must be a reason why the homeroom teacher insisted on ‘excluding clothes, weapons, and artifacts’.
There will probably come a time when you have to live somewhere for a week.

She bought a few outfits for everyday life, leggings and skinny t-shirts to wear for combat, and other clothes that would make her famous as a nuisance at the gym.

I wanted to go into the locker room right away and have outdoor sex, but I couldn’t because the owner of the clothing store kept his eyes on us as if he were spying on us.

After that, I bought some artifacts, and after parting ways with Ayoung, I headed for an alleyway about an hour away from the garden.

“It’s really rare and hard to find.”

Some of the alleys were winding like a maze, so it wasn’t easy to find the way even with the search skill.

‘If you turn right here… Here it is.’

I chose the right at the fork in the road and moved my body, and a small shop with a familiar appearance caught my eye.

-Yoosung Manmulsang

It is the only building with an interior in a dark and narrow alleyway.
Fortunately, as I knew, it must have been open, and a faint light was seeping in from under the black curtains on the window.

– With my daughter…

As I opened the door and entered, the bell on the door rang.

But there was no greeting.

I didn’t feel any more popular.

Moving my feet slowly, I passed the shelves where the goods were neatly displayed and moved to the checkout.

There, a woman with her red hair undone was wearing a wide, dark purple-brimmed hat.

And she was wearing a black robe that seemed to tell her she was a warlock, but between her robes, like a deep ravine, her bosom was peeking out.

Wouldn’t it be at least two cups bigger than Ayeong?

“Hello.”

When I said hello, our eyes met the eyes hidden under the wide-brimmed hat.

“Welcome…”

As her languid voice resonated in my ears and her enchanting appearance entered my eyes, I felt every cell in her body tense up.

“What brought you here? Looks like you’re a student at the academy…”

She looked me over and said.
I must have said it while looking at the cube watch on my wrist.

“If you are lost, go to the police station. My sister is not free.”

At her words, I barely swallowed what almost made me laugh.

To say that there is no free time in an empty store without a single customer.

And sister?
Her appearance was that of a glamorous woman in her late twenties, but she would actually be over 200 years old.

“I’m here to buy something.”

“Hmm…? You were a customer, not a lost student. Yes, bring whatever you want. But are you okay? The price of things is not something a student can afford alone.”

She said in a calm, languid voice.

She was right.
Most of the items in this place were at least Epic, at most Unique, equipment and items that are not commonly seen in the game, and rare materials.

“Take something and come see it.”

At her words, I turned my back and started looking for things.

[Essence of Power]
[Permanently increases the strength stat by 10.]

From potions that raise stats.

[Dyron Might]
[Increases the wearer’s aura output.]

A weapon with the ability to allow swordsmen who cannot use Auras to use Auras.

[Immortality Pendant]
[Only once. Escape death]

Even a pendant to escape death.
All of them were attractive items, but there was something else I was looking for.

‘It’s not this, it’s not this… It only looks similar… Oh…!’

After a while, something finally caught my eye.

A pendant studded with a crystal-clear green emerald.
The energy that radiated from this emerald was unusual.

[Pendant of Nature]
[The speed of absorbing nature’s mana is accelerated.]

Of course, Ayoung is a gift.