Chapter 152 – Black Slime Material Delivery (2)

The moment I started hunting, I suddenly had that thought.

Perhaps out of all the powers and skills I’ve acquired so far, there really is something that I can truly say I’ve made my own through hard work.

Isn’t it just a numerical ability obtained by using points?

Maybe Seong Tae-kyung himself is still an insignificant guy, but maybe it’s just that I’ve gained so much strength that I can’t handle it.

It may sound like a blessing in itself to talk like this after defeating the Kraken, an S-class monster, just a few days ago, but thinking about the sparring I had with Eun-young a while ago, I couldn’t help but think of this.

Even if it was an S-class hunter, the result of 68 losses, 2 wins and 1 draw was not a very good result.

It was a difficult result to understand easily considering that it was attached without using magic, recovery, or other abilities.

At least purely with just one sword, it was barely touching the toes of an S-class hunter.

It was quite a shocking result for me, who had lived with great swordsmanship until I awakened this ability.

Because of this, no matter how well he looked at it, he was no different from a mediocre A-class hunter when it came to swordsmanship. It’s just that he has skills that match the level of swordsmanship raised through his awakening points.

With that, it wasn’t enough.

Being able to handle various awakening abilities, of course, did not mean that each ability itself could be neglected.

It’s multiple awakening, and I’ve already seen several awakening abilities that try to handle multiple abilities at the same time, but end up halfway through them.

In order not to become like that, it was the time when it was considered necessary to achieve meaningful achievement in the swordsmanship that he had learned the most and practiced for the longest time.

If I don’t understand this ability completely enough to at least understand, then whether I learn magic or recovery, I’ll end up in the same situation.

I want to become a warrior with excellent footwork on the battlefield rather than slouching in bed.

Because that was my wish since I was young.

So, as soon as I entered the first dungeon of the day, the tar pit, I slashed a black slime with my sword.

The one who blocked the first attack immediately developed the black slime’s ‘first attack resistance’.

If you use fire magic like this, you can easily kill him. Although the material of black slime is damaged, I have to catch one more.

That’s why I planned to catch him using only swordsmanship.

Catch a monster with physical resistance with swordsmanship.

It may sound like a strange sound in a way, but of course it wasn’t an impossible story.

It was common for S-rank hunters as well as A-rank hunters to be able to deal with monsters’ attack resistance if they had reached a certain level.

In that respect, the black slime with physical resistance was a perfect opponent to overcome its limitations.

If he cannot overcome this level, he cannot even attempt a proper attack on Eun-young in the next match.

On top of that, I had to prepare for the promotion test that was going to take place shortly after.

Until now, he had been able to easily handle B-class requests by combining multiple awakening abilities, but after all, it was quite dangerous to show multiple awakening abilities in front of other hunters.

I don’t know if it’s a reliable hunter like Hye-eun or Si-hee, but there’s a high possibility that the examiner for the promotion test will be assigned to someone I don’t know.

I wanted to avoid showing my various awakening abilities to strangers as much as possible.

If that’s the case, it must mean that you have to be able to solve the quests you’ve been carrying out to raise your Hunter rank so far with just one ‘sword skill’.

It was the seed I had sown, now it was my turn to reap it.

‘Fruus-!’

The black slime sprang towards me from below with a menacing cry.

Instead of responding with fire magic or ice magic against such a guy, I swung my mithril greatsword once again and struck him.

Kakang. Along with that sound, there was the sound of the greatsword hitting something hard and bouncing off, and immediately after that, the black slime and I spread the distance again.

‘Purruleus-!!’

Also, it doesn’t work well from the beginning.

No matter how good the greatsword was, in the end it was like physical attack against an opponent with physical attack resistance, so it didn’t seem to work properly.

With a bloody cry, his body came towards me again.

‘Fruit-!!’

Caang. And the second sword attack.

This time, as soon as we split the sum, we immediately widened the distance, but right after that, the distance between me and the monster narrowed a little.

It wasn’t because I hit him with the strength of another robber. I swung the sword with the same intensity against the black slime in the second attack.

However, this time, as Eun-yeong noona told her, she only attacked by endowing the sword with strength.

In fact, inner strength was a third power that was neither physical nor magical, so it could be used in either direction as long as it was handled well.

A melee fighter who can only do physical attacks deals damage to enemies resistant to physical attacks.

It is also helpful for wizard hunters who can only use magic to fire mana with physical power.

How well you can use it was what determines a hunter’s ability, and as long as you aim to become the world’s best hunter, it’s a skill you have to acquire at some point.

And now.

Even if my attack worked to some extent, I could visually confirm that the top of the black slime’s head was split in half.

It didn’t lead to death with only one sword attack, but it was proof that my attack was working properly.

Of course, like a slime, this level of wounds seemed to recover immediately after a while.

‘… Pruth-!!’

The monster screamed even more viciously, perhaps angered by the proper attack.

It was so terrifying that it was unimaginable that a B-class monster the size of a small rock had thrown out.

Unlike the second attack, the furious guy rushed towards me at high speed.

I was also in the middle of getting a sense of it, so I responded to the battle with him without avoiding this time.

This time, the same amount of internal strength was applied to the sword, but the density was increased by compression and the shape was also made much sharper.

I was also confident that I would be able to take advantage of this blow.

Right! With a sound, my sword cut through the body of the black slime.

It was the moment when an attack using only sword skills, not a cowardly trick using fire magic, worked for him.

“P-Reut… !!”

The core protruded from the body of the dead guy with a horrifying cry until the end.

I collected the bodily fluids from his corpse, put them in a vial for material collection, and stored them in the monster material pouch along with the black slime core.

「1 Black Slime Core

1 black slime bodily fluid”

Now, there are nine of them left.

Expectations were rising that maybe it could be finished sooner than expected.

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It was just past 10:00 PM when we finished collecting materials for the second dungeon.

It tended to be delayed because of the insistence on killing monsters only with swordsmanship, not using fire magic and recovery skills like last time.

The material for the black slime and the material for the second skeleton visited would have been quests that could have been completed much faster if only fire magic and recovery skills had been used.

Compared to when he first accepted the quests, his equipment improved and his skill level rose, so it was only natural that they would actually end much faster.

Of course, that doesn’t mean that it was a waste of time that I simply used swordsmanship today.

At least I’ve come to realize that I’ve grown to the point where I can feel it myself.

Until I caught the tenth black slime, I had to split the sword attack three times for each one.

By the time I caught the 15th black slime, I was able to take it down with just two hits.

When I caught the last target, the twentieth black slime, I was able to reach the point where it was possible to kill it with one blow.

The way Eun-young noona taught me how to deal with my history and how to overcome my limitations only with swordsmanship really helped me a lot.

The same was true when dealing with the skeletons in the next dungeon, the Necromancer’s Graveyard.

There, he learned detailed swordsmanship to accurately attack the joints of complex and constantly moving skeleton monsters.

To be honest, I would have been better off using a saber or arming sword rather than a greatsword for such a detailed attack, but I had to be able to do it with a greatsword as well.

At least Eunyoung noona could do it.

In the second half, while swinging the sword with unbelievable power and speed, the detailed attack that accurately cuts the center of gravity of the sword I was holding does not know its power unless it is directly experienced.

I can’t imitate everything of her right now, but I had to start by imitating at least her movements.

Replenishing speed and power would be the next step.

It was fortunate that Eun-yeong noona regained her ability to awaken as her hunter.

If she hadn’t been for her, there would have been no teachers at all to teach her swordsmanship, especially the unpopular swordsmanship.

In fact, it was as if she was passing on everything about her hunter life over the years.

If one day I can beat Eunyoung noona with swordsmanship, then I will probably be one step closer to my goal.

If that happens, you will naturally have to spend time learning your next main skill, fire magic.

It would be nice if I could find someone who would become a teacher versed in fire magic, but maybe next time it wouldn’t work out as well as I thought.

I don’t know if I can build a relationship with an S-class hunter who retired from dealing with fire magic.

There’s no way such an amazing coincidence could happen.