Chapter 93 – Episode 93 Yuara and Lee Hye-Ri’s 3rd Test

“I will give each team member two hours of free time. Find the Pahoebeop within 2 hours and match your breathing. The battle will go on simultaneously. Of course, the grading will be done by the professor in charge.”

With Professor Park Ji-yoon’s declaration, all students gathered in groups and scattered.

Haha! Try to attack well! I’m looking forward to it. The combination of first place in the first semester.”

Professor Ikhyun Choi said with a warm smile.
They greeted such a professor and gathered together for a meeting.

“We are here again. Haha, I was confident in the first semester. All in all, our opponent…”

Yuara and Lee Hye-ri sighed at Baek Han-beom’s words.

“Professor Ikhyun Choi.”
“I got to deal with the most difficult of the professors.”

Professor Ikhyun Choi.
At one time, I was told that I was a hunter equivalent to S rank.
It was said that he was specialized in melee attacks using huge gauntlets held in both hands, and that there were very few people who met his fist.
Although he awakened at an old age, he was as strong as any young person.

Geomseong, Choi Woo-seong, and Choi Ik-hyeon.
At that time, these three hunters were called the Korean Samseon (三仙).

Korean absolutes awakened at an old age.
Among the early awakened Hunters, they were particularly strong.
Looking at them, it was to the point that a story came out saying that Korean hunters get stronger as they get older.

Of course, now there are more hunters who are stronger than Choi Ik-hyun, but his reputation at the time was world-wide.

After being injured, except for Choi Ik-hyun, who entered the academy to nurture younger students, all the other three lines established guilds and built their own forces.

Okay.
The opponent they had to deal with was someone who once held the top position in Korea.

“How am I going to deal with it?”

Lee Hye-ri let out a sigh.
No matter how much I simulated it in my head, I couldn’t see a way to win.
No matter how many times she dodges and parries her attacks.

‘There is no follow-up deal.’

Yuara’s dealings were not yet strong enough to work for Choi Ik-hyeon, and Baek Han-beom was a hunter who was bad at tanking like her brother Lee Kang-san.
At least, the person she deals with is herself…

‘Then I have to give up being a tanker…’

Now that she has become an evasion tank, she can confidently say that she has become a tank that is on par with, or perhaps even better than, the White Han.
But would he give up on being a tanker?

‘It’s impossible.’

But, but…

Now, there was no one who could break through Choi Ik-hyeon’s defense except for her.

What was Professor Park thinking?
She grumbled at Professor Park Ji-yoon for no reason and sighed.

“Sister, what ways can you attack?”
“Um, attacking by lifting things around you? And if Professor Choi is off guard, I will be able to control his body for a while. Maybe one second?”
“Who is Hanbeom?”
“I don’t have any skills related to attack. What about pushing the shield? But I don’t think I can pierce Professor Choi’s gauntlet.”

And the two looked at Lee Hye-ri.

“Ha… Okay. All right. Don’t look at me like that.”

She was the only one who could attack that monster professor.

“I’ll be the dealer.”

If there is no way, I will have to.
If I had been my past self, I would have said no.
For her, being a tank was a goal she had to achieve somehow.
It was a distant goal, and I was obsessed with it because I thought I would never reach it.
I was nervous and anxious.

But now it was different.
She has already achieved her own goal.
Doesn’t the professors, of course, even acknowledge Han-beom Baek, the best freshman?

‘I don’t need to obsess over my role here.’

Eventually, after graduating from the academy, she will face more diverse situations.
In order for her to join Siwoo’s guild and play an active role in a small number of elite guilds, her role will be needed more than anyone else.
Therefore.

‘Let’s think of it as practicing in advance.’

So that he can also act as a damage dealer in case he has a teammate who can be the main tank.
Have to adapt
The teacher also said
I think I can be versatile at parties too.

“I am surprised. I didn’t expect Hyeri to say that she did it herself.”

Baek Han-beom said with a little embarrassment.
It was a face she never really expected to accept.

“Hyeri, if it were you, you would be able to do well.”

Ara said.
There was trust in her face.
Unconditional faith.

“Then let’s strategize.”

Yooara drew a layout diagram.
Drawing a circular Colosseum, the test site, she placed a huge token with Choi Ik-hyeon on it.
Opposite her she raised three small tokens.
Baek Han-beom at the forefront, followed by Yoo-ara.
And she set up a token with Lee Hye-ri’s name written on it at a location a little further to the side.

“This is our offensive position.”
“Why is only my position remote?”
“As an all-around tank and damage dealer, Hyeri, you will act as a separate team.”
“But are you okay? Then Professor Choi will only see me.”
“Are you okay. Baek Han-beom also has his own blow. Shield shove, if it is not blocked by the gauntlet, can it deal damage?”
“It’s possible.”

Baek Han-beom nodded his head.

“Still, it’s an offensive technique in its own right.”
“I also have a technique that can easily stop Professor Choi from moving. I can’t do much damage, but I can annoy you, like stopping movement or creating a sandstorm.”

Yuara smiled at her grin.

“What we are aiming for is surprise.”
“Surprised?”
“Okay. It makes it so you don’t know how it will turn out.”
“The plan is simple. We will use the orthodox arrangement at first.”

Yuara lined up her tokens.

“Forefront, lieutenant, and rearguard. It’s a very clever tactic. Now, let me tell you the details.”

Yooara started devising detailed tactics.
Lee Hye-ri and Baek Han-beom quietly listened to her words.

‘It’s amazing.’

Hearing Yoo Ra’s tactics, Lee Hye-ri was inwardly impressed.
She was like Yua, who passed the exam by filling in the practical skills she lacked in the past with handwriting.

“Understand? Again, our plans are unexpected. You always have to move unpredictably.”
“It’s a great tactic. Very good.”
“Okay. Sister.”

The three made up their minds.
After hearing Yuara’s tactics, they began to have hopes that they could win.

***

“Code number NO. 2-2554, no, Siwoo Kim was a shadow mask?”

Back at the inn, Li Kangsan bit her lip.
I thought she had a corner to believe in.

‘To think he was such a hot topic.’

Hunter, once called a hero who fights for the people.
He was a hunter who was envy and respected by many because he was a hunter who did his best to rescue citizens rather than profit.
The man who stopped the pouring monsters with Shin Seo-ah, who was called a hero at River Gate.

And.

‘A half-hunter with no active skills.’

He was respected by the citizens, but he was looked down upon by his fellow hunters.
He had excellent skills, but he was a half-hunter who only existed passively.

Lee Kang-san recalled the time he met the Shadow Mask at River Gate in the past.

-Please pull back the wires and focus on evacuating the citizens.

The shadow mask, which was dealing with the pouring monsters in the narrow canyon, spoke to the hunters, including Lee Kang-san.

River Gate

The name was given because of the sight of monsters pouring out of the gate like a river.
It was clear that not all of them were strong monsters.
Class C Monster Goblin, Class B Monster Giant Ent.
The strongest monster on the spot was a mini troll judged as B+.
But the number was staggering.
A number with no end in sight.

If the canyon surrounding the gate is breached, these monsters will attack the city.
Will it be possible to block it neatly even if all the Korean hunters are dispatched?
No.
This was a quantity that had to be prepared for a long-term battle.
The bloody battle will continue, and the country will have to fight with all its might.
It was a gate that had to be blocked before that.

A dangerous gate in a different sense from the S-class gate.

At that time, most of the hunters in Korea were dispatched in an emergency.
However, it is natural that it will take some time before dispatch.

Shin Seo-ah and the shadow mask blocked the entrance of the gate before anyone else.

In front of the huge mana wall built by Shinseo Ah, he slaughtered her monsters to prevent other monsters from touching her mana wall.

Lee Kang-san saw it.
The back of him as he eliminated the pouring monsters with his flamboyant swordsmanship.
Without a single active skill to amplify his abilities, he never looked like an A-class hunter as he slaughtered monsters.

Lee Kang-san, who saw that, was convinced.
If Shadow Mask had at least one active skill, he would be able to become Korea’s strongest hunter, following in the footsteps of Daesung’s chairman Choi Woo-sung.

While the two blocked the River Gate, Lee Kang-san and the other hunters evacuated the citizens.

And I saw Shinseo Aga closing her gate with Mana’s wall.
Its appearance was very splendid.
The river gate’s guardian castle that single-handedly blocked the gate that could be called a disaster.
Shin Seo-ah waved her hand at the citizens, and people chanted her name.
But neither the citizens nor the hunters saw it.
The shadow mask that desperately blocked monsters beyond the thick mana wall she had built.

Because shadows are invisible to those who look at the bright light.

Only.
Lee Kang-san would have been the only one.
What I saw that

She said, “She said she lost her qualifications in the process of arguing with Daesung…”

To say that he is Lee Hye-ri’s private tutor.

“Ha… I have no doubts about your skills.”

Because I saw
Siwoo Kim’s strength.
I also knew that I was not talking about something.
However.

-Shadow Mask has always treated its colleagues as baggage.

The words of Shin Seo-ah, who testified that Kim Si-woo murdered his colleague.

Lee Kang-san did not believe her words.
Even if she excluded her personal grudge against her, she was unbelievable.
It was because he believed that he, who had no hesitation in taking his ball to Shin Seo-ah, would not kill her comrades in the dungeon.

“Who should I trust?”

Would you trust a fire fox who takes advantage of his teammates as well as transforms others’ balls into his own?
Would you trust a man who is prepared to risk his life and stand in front of the mana wall to block the Gate?

The answer was already out there.

“You have to believe what I saw.”

If Siwoo Kim is really a shadow mask…
If you really have no other intentions…
He had no intention of interfering with Lee Hye-ri’s teaching.
But before that.

“You will need a final test to confirm you, sir.”

Li Kang San strained her hand that held her shield.