Chapter 18 – From a Small Battle to a Major Accident (03)

“Aren…?”

Ophelia looked at me with a blank expression, as if she didn’t know I could wield this much power. Then, when her wolves started howling noisily, she came to her senses and held on to her sword tightly.

“Kkkk!”

Ophelia swings her own great sword to keep in check the wolves that attack her from all directions, and at the same time, she swings her wooden sword at the one wolf that attacks her.

‘You just have to guess it’

There was no need for complicated swordsmanship or swinging the sword her using its her power her her her.

The power is provided by the wooden sword instead. All I had to do was concentrate all my attention and, if a wolf attacked, swing my wooden sword at least at the tip of its foot and strike it.

Pooooo!

When the wooden sword grazed, the area where the legs were completely caved in, making one of the wolves silent again. Meanwhile, Ophelia also cut one of the wolves in half at the waist, subduing a total of three.

In terms of turns, it was only one turn.

“Whoo!”

Take a moment to catch your breath and look around.

Just me and Ophelia could easily subdue a pack of wolves.

In the first place, it was a battle of difficulty level for first-year students who had just entered the academy, so there was nothing dangerous about it.

In reality, a person would have to risk his or her her her her life her her her to deal with a single wolf, but this world is a fantasy world where humans show superhuman abilities depending on their characteristics and stats.

For students at Celestial Academy, who specialized in combat, wolves were weak creatures that had foul personalities and harmed livestock.

‘Except for the main character’

Anyway, my current stats were pretty good, and I took out a cheat weapon called a wooden sword, so there was no way I could get attacked.

Even if you get a penalty for swinging the weapon roughly, just grazing a 99999 level weapon against a wolf or something like that will result in instant death.

Poop!

When I looked at it with the sense of an animal, it seemed that I was weaker than Ophelia, so the wolves did not approach Ophelia as much as possible and mainly attacked me, but each time, I did my best to avoid the wolf’s attack or touched my body with a wooden sword before it reached me.

Then, like now, the sound of a leather wineskin bursting is heard and a wolf disappears.

“If this continues, Aren will catch them all?”

“Kwi-ing! Kwi-ing!”

In fact, while Ophelia caught three, I already killed more than five, and the remaining wolves started to run away in fear.

‘Ah, in the game there are just enough to catch, but in reality they appear a lot, and if you catch 8 of them, is it treated as a group annihilation?’

Or maybe it’s because the level of difficulty is really different.

After wiping out the first group of advance troops, the wolves, who were much more cautious than before, quietly appeared.

“Grumbling… “

Watching her second group make a deliberately low sound, Ophelia wiped the wolf blood off her sword with a handkerchief, threw it on the floor, and raised the sword again.

‘After defeating the wolf pack twice, the wolf leader will appear…’

In terms of numbers, if more than 8 wolves are defeated in the second pack, the remaining wolves will retreat and the leader wolf will emerge with his elite subordinates.

The wolves here rush at the first group roughly without paying attention, but they move more cautiously from the second group.

Thanks to this, when we are pushed back, the second pack aggressively attacks, but when we are overwhelmed like now, they get scared and show evasive behavior when they show up, so we have to chase down as many wolves as possible and attack them , but I don’t bother to keep the wolves in check and retreat. I didn’t pursue it.

Since they have an advantage at night, and because the students who went hunting withdraw for safety reasons, they seem to have thought that they would win if they only had time until it got dark.

‘It’s intelligent’

The wolves’ actions were not wrong.

There was a time limit in the game system, and even in reality, dealing with wolves that could come out of nowhere in the dark was quite dangerous for just two swordsmen, rather than hunting as a group with a torch.

However, the problem is-

Wow!

When doing such a trick, you have to think about the possibility that your concentration will be disturbed and you will get hit by one or two hits, but I don’t know if it’s Ophelia, but if you catch me, it will definitely end in one hit.

When the wolf that grazed my buttocks flew away with its lower body completely broken, the wolves did not come towards me at all, but instead widened their distance and headed towards Ophelia.

Of course, I wasn’t attacking that direction, I was just watching and retreating.

Seeing the wolves taking cover between the trees, Ophelia carefully raised her sword in a defensive stance and tried to move forward, but I swung my wooden sword right as I passed by Ophelia.

“Aren! Danger…”

Wow!

The huge tree that was originally blocking the middle of the road and was an obstacle that caused Ophelia and I to fall or move in line was struck by the wooden sword and shattered.

There was no way a tree as thick as a human body could withstand a weapon with such crazy power that it could break even the stone pillars of the temple strengthened with holy magic.

– Aren’s strength has increased by 1 –

‘Is this… A battle?’

My abilities do not increase through training, but the Five Elements of Nothingness and Mindfulness made me increase my abilities every time I walked, took a breath, or used my head.

Although my ability level was still low, I could vividly feel my body becoming stronger every time the number rose to 1.

“Hehe… Hehe…!”

“Aren?”

“Let’s go, Ophelia!”

Bah!

Seeing the broken tree, Ophelia and I were so frightened that we hit the wolf, which lowered its tail, and started to run blindly and chase after the wolves.

The wolves, whose formation had already collapsed due to fear, were collapsing because they were unable to perform the basic joint attack of preventing their allies from being attacked by taking advantage of the opportunity to check when Nana Ophelia attacked.

“Kkiing! Kiing!”

“Kkeggang…!”

“Whoops…! Whoops!”

However, the wolves began to run away with all their might, and as someone with agility in my early teens, I was unable to follow them.

Moreover, because my physical strength was low, I didn’t have enough stamina to chase after the battle just a moment ago.

Although this world is based on a turn-based game, battles occur in real time.

‘Shit! The weapon is strong, but if it runs away, you can’t catch it!’

I only had to hit one hit, but I couldn’t catch the ones running away.

“Are you tired?”

Ophelia’s abilities were high enough to follow the wolves, but she still kept her guard up and waited by my side until I caught my breath.

“Whoop… Whoop… It’s okay… Huaaa…”

I was so excited by the tension during the battle that I couldn’t really feel it, but perhaps because I was so aggressive while fighting two packs of wolves, my whole body was numb and my legs were shaking.

“Hehe… That’s why you have to distribute your stamina well during battle. If you catch one and fall down from exhaustion, you’ll be killed by the next enemy, right?”

“Yeah…Well…”

In turn-based mode, if you don’t have a special skill, you hit one hit and I hit one hit equally, but it’s applied in real time, so it’s like this.

Fortunately, as my stamina was low, it refilled quickly, so I was recovering quickly just by resting with my wooden sword on the ground.

“Whoa…”

“We did a good job Aren~”

Ophelia was praising me by gently rubbing my head as I was resting against the wooden sword. At first, I tried to move my hand away because it was annoying, but for some reason, it was soft and every time I stroked my head, the cool breeze was cooling my sweaty head, so for some reason, I stayed still. .

“You’ve been studying swordsmanship diligently these days, and you’re pretty good at it, right? Of course, you’re not as good as me.”

I looked at Ophelia, who was cooling my sweat by waving a fan with her hand, and through her front hair, which had been disheveled during the battle, there were scars from her collarbone to her neck that looked like they had been cut by her sword.

‘Ah…’

Ophelia, who realized her own mistake her, did not panic and removed her hand her her from her head her her her to cover her her front hair her her her, but it could be seen that the lower part of her neck had numerous wounds as if it had been hacked.

“Oh my. Is he having sinister eyes again?”

“It’s not like that.”

“It’s rude to try to steal a woman’s inner skin. Would you be in big trouble if you did that to another woman?”

“Ophelia can do it, what do you mean…”

“It’s okay for me. When she becomes an adult.”

Ophelia’s words her now contained an ambivalent meaning, along with her joke that it would be okay for her to do dirty things when she became an adult.

‘When that time comes, the lineage will be stable.’

Although he joked like this, Ophelia’s physical condition her her right now was beyond words.

It is not a matter of ability or physical strength.

The procedures performed to improve her abilities in a short period of time tore the skin inside her body and squirted outward, leaving a large scar.

As her bloodline strengthened, she gained a lot of stamina and regenerative ability, and in emergency situations, her confidence immediately injected her with the highest quality hi-potion, so she was able to survive. Even now, she is barely able to endure the pain of her entire body and her being torn apart. .

It may not have been difficult to move or be life-threatening, but there were ugly holes like that all over her body.

“Don’t worry about the wound on your neck.”

It seems she already knows that her own scars have been shown.

“I was taking a shower with some friends I became close with recently, and I got a little hurt because we were playing around.”

“Yes.”

“You thought it was strange that we were going to shower together, didn’t you?”

She tried to pass it off as a joke, but as someone who already knew the general story, I had a rough idea of ​​what Ophelia was currently going through.

Anyway, all I can do is pretend not to know or pretend I was mistaken.

‘Well… He’s an unlucky character…’

When other Class F friends proceeded with the Academy route, they were able to live well on their own without my interference, and there was no problem as long as the protagonist did not antagonize them and attempt to kill them.

But Ophelia…

‘Let’s not overindulge’

Anyway… She will betray us later.

“Aooooo-!”

And with perfect timing, a cry that was different from before was echoing throughout the forest.

“I heard an unusual way. Could it be the leader of the wolves?”

Judging from Ophelia’s sensitive words, it seemed like the second group we had defeated earlier was retreating and the leader had heard the news and appeared.

“Let’s go.”

When I climbed over the shallow hill and looked around, I found a basin sinking below and a rocky mountain placed like an altar in the center.

“It came out.”

Her hand holding her wooden sword is tense.

A white-furred wolf with numerous elite wolves around him was howling on a bone hill made by stacking livestock skeletons.

He told me to kill young humans who dare to challenge him.

‘But they’re already appearing?’

After leaving the second group, Ophelia worked together to subdue about three of them, but why did the leader wolf come out already? While I was wondering.

‘Ah’

I was able to find about five dead wolves in a corner, seemingly unharmed, bleeding from their necks.

Rather than being crushed by my wooden sword or being cut off by Ophelia’s single sword, it was a killing technique where a thin sword was dug into the nape of the neck.

It seems that Inori is not here now, but it seems that Inori encountered the second group that was running away and disposed of the wolves to protect Alice.

‘Hmm… If it’s as I expected…’

Alice is very scared. So, if such a huge wolf shows up with a large pack of wolves, he will definitely take action.

We were each holding a weapon above the basin, and the leader wolf, who was looking for enemies below the basin, was baring his teeth and making a low howl as he looked at me and Ophelia.

I raised the wooden sword to the sky while looking at Ophelia, who was waiting for me to give instructions.

Shuuuuuk-!!

And the stars began to fall from the sky.

It’s a much bigger meteorite than I thought.

“Ophelia.”

“Huh?”

“…Run.”

“Huh?!”

Only then did Ophelia open her mouth as she saw the meteor falling from the sky, and I grabbed the embarrassed Ophelia and started sliding down the hill with her.