Chapter 816 – Stormy Island (4)

The battle with the spirit encountered on the mountainside of Tempest Island was also similar to the battles fought while climbing the mountain so far.

Do Ye-hee, who is capable of indirect defense using earth magic, blocks monster attacks and occasionally delivers dangerous attacks, such as lightning strikes, with earth magic.

Using a purification spell, we purify the storm that comes right in front of the party members to secure their vision, assist the entire party by casting blessings appropriate to the situation on each individual, and create a barrier to protect us even if there is an attack that we cannot block. Lulucia’s role is to create.

Sihee, who had the most powerful long-distance attack in the storm, was naturally the main dealer. In this environment, where fire magic and wind magic disappear before reaching 10 meters, Sihee’s arcane arrow, made by condensing pure internal power, was the most efficient means of attack.

And my role was to assist Sihee and fill in the manpower that was lacking in other areas from time to time. For example, like this.

-Peeing, tick!

“Wind, wind around!”

A small vortex was created around the flying vision arrow created from Sihee’s fingertips and made to follow as if wrapping around it.

Even though the magic would dissipate after less than 10 meters, that was enough. At least for that 10-meter distance, it will prevent the vision arrow from slowing down or its trajectory being disturbed. Since this is an attack where initial acceleration and direction aiming are important, this small assistance had a big impact on the power of Sihee’s attack.

“Do Yehee! Stop the rocks coming that way!”

“I was already preparing!”

-Cheolpeeook!

Do Ye-hee blocked the most dangerous direction of the storm spirit wind blowing towards us with earth magic mud. Her earth magic had just blocked a rock that rolled down from the mountain.

As it gets closer to the center of the storm, it seems to be difficult to maintain the golem’s form, and most of the defense is done by mud tentacles. … To be honest, it was a very grotesque sight to see those big, long lumps of mud writhing around, but I didn’t complain because there was no method as efficient as that.

However, even if the storm moved in one direction, the other objects rotating within it did not move in the same direction. Even if Do Ye-hee’s defense using earth magic was thorough, it could only protect the nearest direction, and of course there were limits.

-Hwiooooo!!

“Aaaaah!! Now, wait a minute, Mr. Taekyung! Tree on the right!”

Do Ye-hee calls out to me, surprised by an obstacle appearing in the opposite direction to the direction she is blocking.

Even before she called my name, I was also looking at the huge tree trunk flying from the right. Just before the huge tree hit the direction where Lulucia and I were, dozens of tough plant stems wriggled and grew from the ground to my right.

-Kwajijic!!

The tree trunk that was attacking the party was blocked by the plant stem and fell to the ground, forming a new defensive wall.

Perhaps because it was a battlefield with soft soil and abundant water, it was a battlefield with good conditions in many ways to utilize the explosive growth power of plant magic.

“Sihee! How’s the situation?! How many times can I defeat it?!”

“First, the damage continues to be inflicted from before! We’ve intercepted almost every possible nuclear location, and now if we can fire just one more shot… !!”

“Then let’s finish with the next shot! “You can do it?!”

“I’ll shoot with all my might!”

“Lucia! Please give Sihee a little more visibility, so she can snipe!”

“Yes, Taekyung~!!”

At my request, the area of ​​the purification spell used by Lulucia was expanded even further, and the shape of the storm spirit was vaguely revealed beyond the wide field of view.

“Mr. Seongcheol! “This is the last time!”

“I’m already prepared, so you can shoot anytime!”

-Peeeee!

“Wind, wind around!”

At my signal, Sihee released the arcane arrow in her hand toward the storm spirit. Her arrow followed a straight path and pierced the center of the storm spirit.

I was slightly anxious that this time I might just stumble and get up again without much damage, but fortunately, my worries were unfounded and faded away.

-Hwiooooo…

“Huh?”

The first to notice the strange thing was Do Ye-hee. Because it was Ye-hee who fought the battle the hardest against the storm spirit’s headwind.

One by one, the other members began to realize that the intensity of the storm that had been hitting us so far was weakening, and Sihee’s final attack indirectly informed us that the storm spirit had been properly finished off.

-Hwii…

A storm spirit disappearing to the ground with the sound of the wind slowly fading away. It was a meaningless exit for an opponent who had been struggling for quite some time, but it definitely didn’t make me want to fight again.

“… Finally, it’s over.”

-Slap!

“Si, Sihee! You are a foundation hunter with no culture…”

Si-hee, who had exerted every last drop of her body’s strength, was so exhausted that she fell down on the mud floor with a crashing sound. Do-ye-hee was so shocked to see her that she tried to get back up.

Of course, Do Ye-hee was extremely exhausted and was a magician with low stamina to begin with, so an unfortunate accident occurred where she fell while trying to get up.

-Clap!

“Ugh… ?!”

“… What are you doing? “Are you trying to be funny?”

“…”

“You’re not trying to say that rolling around in a mud puddle like a pig is more civilized behavior, are you? If that’s the culture that a Foundation Hunter must have, maybe you should seriously consider transferring?”

“… Be quiet.”

Do Ye-hee, with muddy water covering half of her face, stood up with a shameful expression, wiped her face roughly with her hand, and deliberately looked into the distance, acting calm.

Of course, there was a trace of muddy water on the back, with exactly half of it splashed, so neither I nor Sihee could hold back laughter.

“Phew.”

“Big…”

“Si, Sihee~! Taekyung~! Well, you can’t do that~!”

“…”

Seeing Lulucia blocking Sihee and I from laughing made Do Yehee look even more miserable.

For reference, Lulu Sia seemed to have used purification magic before she knew it, and there were no mud stains or wet marks left on her white priest’s clothes. I guess she thought there was no need to save sacred power anymore since the battle was over.

“Yes, yay~! I will purify it for you~!”

“…”

After watching Rurusia hug Doyehee from behind to cleanse her mud-covered body and clothes, I retrieved the S-class monster’s core from the floor where the storm spirit was.

S-class monster, storm spirit core.

If all you get after such an intense battle is one core of an S-class monster, you could say that it would be more efficient to hunt things like the giant sand scorpion or sandman that you met in the wasteland desert last time, but of course, since they are S-class monsters, they all have the same S It didn’t have the value of a level monster.

Just like the Hunter grade, monsters also have no grade higher than S grade. And giving hunters SS-level or SSS-level was simply a title created based on how long they had been active as an S-level hunter, so it was impossible to measure that standard against monsters.

If that were the case, the Red Dragon of the Blue Valley Fjord was estimated to be almost 10,000 years old, and such a monster would have to be referred to as S × 1000 class.

Therefore, what ultimately determines the value of an S-class monster is the value of the material and how difficult it is to subdue the monster. Not only the strength of the monster itself, but also all restrictions and environments for defeating that monster.

‘So, the rewards for exceptional SS-level monsters, like the three-headed basilisk in the abandoned village, were literally endless.’

In particular, monsters in unpopular dungeons such as Stormy Island are given a small amount of additional compensation by the guild in order to block monster waves, so even the same S-class monsters are valued a little higher.

In fact, the most efficient way to deal with unpopular dungeons was to attack them quickly and even destroy the dungeons from the guild’s perspective, but the reason why Storm Island is still recognized for its economic feasibility even though it is an unpopular dungeon is because of this ‘Storm Spirit’s Core’. It was.

Most of the reason modern scientific civilization can operate in this world is because inventions using these monster materials, especially cores, have a close impact on daily life.

For example, it is said that one core of this storm spirit can create a refrigerant device that can roughly power 10,000 refrigerators or 10,000 air conditioners. Of course, this doesn’t mean that one core is worth 10,000 refrigerators since it only goes into the refrigerant device, but it was at least an indispensable material when making core parts.

I don’t know exactly how it works. In the first place, that was the job of people who specialized in monster materials, and all a hunter like me had to do was collect these materials, submit them to the guild, and get paid.

In any case, it meant that all the hard work that went into catching this guy would be rewarded with just this core. Moreover, since the weather situation was stabilized by defeating the Storm Spirit, it was an opportunity to easily collect other valuable materials on this Stormy Island until it regenerated.

“Wake up, Sihee. As I said before, now that the weather has subsided, shouldn’t we take the opportunity to secure other materials and return?”

“… Can’t we take a break for a little while, Mr. Seongcheol? “I’m a little tired, probably because I’ve exhausted all my strength.”

“Yes. Well, Sihee, since you’ve used up almost all of your strength, I ask you to rest properly and just collect the materials. Do Yehee and I will take care of the monster hunting.”

“I didn’t mean the rest I was talking about… Ugh, uh…”

I knew that I didn’t mean to take a break like that, but I just pretended not to notice and told Sihee to work.

Not hunting monsters and collecting materials during such a great opportunity was something my pride as a hunter could not tolerate.