Chapter 323 – Rapid Growth (1)

I am in the Q class of the Global Academy as a quest expert.

The advantage of class Q is that you can take the class freely, but since you don’t know what quests will come up, it’s quite easy.

Of course, I had to take the midterm and final exams, but they were just for confirmation.

So, while I was legally able to skip class, I went to the Dungeon Management Office to find a place to grow.

I used my Q class privileges and walked straight to counselor Lee Da-young without waiting in line.

“Si’an student. Do you come here often even during the semester?”

It seems like it’s been a while since I’ve been here, but if I think about it, I went to the dungeon a few times to test Shahemoth.

“Yes. Sister Dayoung.”

I always drew a sharp line with counselor Lee Da-young, but for some reason I spoke comfortably today.

Other people seem to be saying that, but there’s no need to be so stubborn.

“Huh… ? Sister Dayoung? Yes. There or here. I don’t think there’s much difference. So, are you going to the dungeon? I don’t think you received any special quests?”

Counselor Lee Da-young was a little surprised that I changed my title so conveniently, but it didn’t change much.

“Are there any places that are very hot or contain volcano-like terrain?”

After hearing what I said, the agent looked at me and said, tapping her fingers meaninglessly on her keyboard.

“Did you know that the dungeons that are open to students going to the academy are of low difficulty? That’s because the terrain for most of them is caves or forests. Even if it’s a high-level dungeon, when you graduate and go outside, It’s like a low-level dungeon. However, terrain like lava can be considered high-level even outside.”

“Yes. It is necessary for growth.”

Until now, I had used the Yeonyeomshingung (連炎神功) to make Master’s heat my own, but now that I have reached the 8th level, I felt that I could also gain strength from nature.

If I strengthen my power to influence all possessed bodies, it will be helpful no matter what world I possess.

After hearing what I said, counselor Lee Da-young started typing and showed a dungeon on the screen.

“It’s a dungeon with lava terrain that Global Academy students can go to. There are mainly fire attribute monsters, so you must prepare countermeasures.”

I read the dungeon information while listening to counselor Lee Da-young’s story, and it seemed pretty easy to me.

‘If it’s a spirit, it’s extremely weak to shadow energy, right?’

Even if it is not a shadow machine, Shadow Mastery has the power to cut down mana, so it can be said to work very well against spirits regardless of their attributes.

Besides, fire-type attacks would hardly work on me, so it seems like a dungeon optimized for me, right? It seemed like I could beat down all the monsters on the way with ‘physics’.

“I’ll go with this.”

“You’re not going alone, are you? Even though Xian students have become stronger recently, I don’t recommend going alone.”

“I don’t know any of the students who have fire resistance as much as I do, so I’ll just go and if that doesn’t work, I’ll raise a rescue signal and wait.”

“You’re not doing something really dangerous?”

“I know that my life is the most important thing.”

“You only say that when you go to a dangerous place.”

I handed my smartphone to counselor Lee Da-young, completed dungeon registration, and left the dungeon management office.

Wouldn’t it be really helpful if your body could absorb the heat of lava? I’m already excited.

*

“Why are you going to such a dangerous dungeon?”

After a long time, Mana spoke as she pouted her lips.

“It’s okay because Shahemos is there too.”

Shahemos was eating a lot of ice cream-like desserts that he couldn’t eat in the midfield.

Eating that fast would give me a headache, but I thought the devil was the devil.

“How can I trust a familiar that looks like a child? Haha. Let me wait a little longer.”

As Seoyeon has mastered her attack magic in the second semester, we know that she is following a similar path to Chris Roanna.

At first, his mental strength was so weak that his body stiffened even at the sight of blood or violence, but after I took him through the dungeon a few times to increase his mental strength, he even gained mental resistance skills.

That’s why I didn’t want to be caught by Seoyeon, who showed off her magical talent and ran to catch up with me.

“Shouldn’t I grow more as you grow?”

“Yeah… If one side goes too far ahead, problems will arise.”

For me, it’s now become an old memory, but for Seoyeon, since it hasn’t even been half a year, she still had a hard time when I poked her.

I pulled Seoyeon’s face and kissed her lightly.

Seoyeon opened her eyes wide and her face blushed as soon as the kiss ended.

“Sian…?! Are you seeing people…”

Because it was a café at school, students passing by glanced at us kissing.

Anyway, they were an Academy-accredited couple and I have no intention of breaking up again, so I don’t mind seeing them.

“So you don’t like it?”

“It’s not that I don’t like it…” ” But I think you’re being sly.”

“Is that so? I think my thinking has become more flexible since I’ve risen from the bottom.”

“I don’t think that’s everything…”

I answered while stroking Seoyeon’s light blue hair with her fingers, and she looked at me with something suspicious.

It is true that that is not everything, but it would be difficult to guess easily.

“I’m going to the dungeon tomorrow, so can you make time for me on the weekend?”

“Yes. I’ll make it.”

After the Olympus incident occurred, the times strangely did not align, so Upper Perth did not go in the end.

I didn’t join the club, but as Naen’s friend, she said that if there weren’t enough people, she would ask us first, but that hasn’t happened yet.

Since we don’t have fixed club activities on the weekends, we were able to use them freely, but I don’t know if this would be better for polar couples.

“Master, I ate it all!”

Shahemos said, acting like a child at his peak

I felt like I wanted to wipe the ice cream from her mouth her, but it also seemed to stimulate Seo-yeon’s her motherly her love her.

“It’s all in your mouth.”

Seoyeon took out a tissue and wiped Shahemos’ face clean.

“Hehe.”

After Shahemos finished eating the food she ordered, we got up, took Seoyeon to the girls’ dormitory, and then I came up to the dormitory.

She didn’t forget to use the Youngshin Gong (連影神功) she opened before going to sleep to build up her mana.

***

“If it’s dangerous, use your watch. I’ll be there in 5 minutes.”

“Yes, I understand.”

As it was a dangerous dungeon at the level of a student attending the academy, the dungeon manager seemed to be quite strong.

In case of an emergency, I turned the watch toward the structure and walked along the white line to find the point where the space was broken.

(Shahemoth, prepare your heart.)

(Are you going to call me as soon as I go in?)

(Take a look at the situation.)

I took a confident step towards the dungeon.

“Wow!”

I heard that it included heat and volcanic terrain, but it was just sweltering heat from the entrance of the dungeon.

Before entering the dungeon, it was chilly fall weather, but I never thought I would suddenly experience this heat.

For those going on a dungeon expedition for the first time, I don’t know how much they need to prepare to come back in good health.

I immediately used the Yeonyeom Divine Technique to increase my heat resistance and absorbed all the heat scattered around me.

‘Yang accumulates.’

It may be just pure heat scattered around, but at a small level, yang energy has started to build up in my body, but I have the skill to burn it off in an instant.

Yeonyeom Shingong (連炎神功)

Eight wheels of wave ring resonance

All the yang accumulated in the body was burned off and Palyun resonance was released again.

Because of the fight with Old Man Gu in the midfield, I kept adjusting Paryun Gongmyeong, so I got a little used to adjusting it.

“As expected, I think shamanism is good.”

While using the soft flame magic technique to withstand and absorb the heat, I held the sword I had used the most with the shader in one hand.

First, I need to wipe out all the monsters in the dungeon and start training.

Skill Link-Boost

Yeonyeom Shingong (連炎神功). Presence detection.

Presence detection – wave

As the heat-reading ring spread, the locations of nearby monsters were found.

Because the surrounding temperature was high, there was a possibility that it wouldn’t be found properly, but that didn’t happen because the monster’s body temperature was higher.

Holding the sword of shadow, I arrived at the nearest group of monsters while stepping on a wave wheel.

“Kkuiik!”

It was a burning pig, just as it appeared in the dungeon description handed over by counselor Lee Da-young.

Flames were rising from the backs of the pigs, called fire borers, like the manes of horses, and the heat the pigs gave off was considerable.

As I accepted the hot heat emitted by the fire bore, my body accumulated more yang, but since the amount of yang I could take in also increased, it was not too burdensome.

I made a shadow sword with my left hand, put all the power of the spiral, and drove it into the fire bore between the eyes.

“Kwiiyin!!!”

When my comrade died in vain, the Fire Boar started to rush at me, and I slashed it down heavily.

Yeonhwanryu (連環流) Chamjeol (斬切).

As the cutting power of the sharp sword of shadow was added, it was split in half without even feeling the tenacity of the fire bore.

As soon as life is cut off, the flesh cooks, and it seems that resistance to heat decreases.

“As long as it tastes good, you can enjoy it endlessly.”

I swung my sword again at the remaining Fire Boer.

Suddenly!

“Am I weaker than I thought?”

I removed the sword of shadow and clenched my fist to catch the remaining fire bore with my fist.

Yeomryun Kwon (炎輪拳) Five Wheels (Five Wheels).

Poop!

“Kwiiikik!!!”

I hit it squarely on the head, but only a loud sound was heard, and the fire bore’s charge did not weaken.

It’s not that these guys are weak, it’s that the Shadow Sword is too strong.

My goal is to wipe out all the monsters and have a comfortable breakfast.

Pierced the Fire Boer’s head with a spear made with Shadow Craft.

I killed four fire borers in one go, but the first one I killed was drying out.

‘For an average person, it would have been really difficult.’

As I continued to absorb the heat in a dungeon filled with heat and felt the mana accumulating in my body, I felt for the first time in a long time that the Flame Magic was not classified as a magic attack for no reason.