Chapter 228 – Attack of Nakseong Cave, a Class B Dungeon Where Stel, the Current Top Academy Player, Is Rampant With Trickery (1)

One.

“Grandma, I’ll be back!”

I ate a hearty meal prepared by her grandmother and packed a lunch box. In commemoration of this graduation exam, I shouted out while putting on my new sneakers with a big heart.

My voice was much more lively than usual at the thought that I could escape from the academy just by taking this graduation exam.

“He’s going to a dangerous place, but he has to be nervous. He’s laughing so hard!”

Her grandmother, who was washing her dishes with the usual liveliness, came out to her front door with her rubber gloves on, and I held her with my arms wide open.

“It’s okay! Do you know grandma? Ever since I was in my second year, I’ve always been in first place in the academy. No one can match my skills, and that dungeon is nothing to me, so don’t worry about anything!”

Even when I hugged her like this and said it was okay, she didn’t know how to stop worrying about me, as Grandma always does.

“He! Don’t you know that it’s a big deal when you’re in the middle of the day? Did you get the radio or something that the insurance gave you?”
“Of course not! Now, here!”
“Whoa… That’s good Wasn’t this old woman like that? I think it looks good with the president’s name on the signboard there.”
“Ugh, ugh.”

However, her grandmother’s concerns were also alleviated to some extent by showing the ‘rabbit call’, which is not cute because it is black that she received from the rabbit boss yesterday.

‘Call of the Rabbit’ feels trustworthy to an old woman who knows nothing about the awakened world. Perhaps this is the only usefulness of calling a gay rabbit to ease her grandmother’s worries.

She deliberately didn’t tell her grandmother that if she sent a rescue request with this bunny call, she would come. She said it was nonsense.

Telling the truth would only make her grandmother worry more about her.

In addition, I could easily tackle the level B dungeon ‘Nakseong Cave’, the location of this graduation exam, by myself, so I hugged her grandmother one last time, thinking that good is good.

After holding it silently for about 10 seconds, she spoke softly into her grandmother’s ear.

“Then I’ll really go, grandma.”

Then her grandmother let out a small sigh of her concern, and then she answered my greeting with a wry smile.

“Stel, I’ll cook your favorite short ribs. Like you said, I can pass the graduation exam with ease. Come and do not get hurt.”

Those words filled with her grandmother’s love and concern made me take a deep breath and shout with confidence.

“······Yes!”

Because I also made an appointment with her grandmother. Let’s easily get first place in the graduation exam!

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“Now that everyone has gathered, we will start the graduation exam from now on.”

For the past 3 years of attending the academy, the professor in charge of specialized physical strengthening education, who was unfamiliar to me, who had only received education specialized in strengthening my own abilities, was the supervisor of this test.

“As everyone knows, the place where you guys take the graduation exam is the B-class dungeon ‘Nakseonggul’ under the jurisdiction of the academy. You must have heard of it in the physical strengthening class, but there are people here who have not taken my class, so I will explain briefly.”

The professor looked at only one of the ten test takers gathered here and started explaining with a disapproving expression.

“This ‘Nakseong Cave’, as the name suggests, is a vertical dungeon created by falling stars. To be precise, it was not formed by a falling star, but it looked like a falling star, so it got its name.”

While talking, the professor tut as if he was annoyed at why he had to tell the same story twice. And clicked his tongue.

Shrugging my shoulders at the sound, I almost said that I had heard about Nakseong Cave in the skill enhancement class, so you can skip it, but I knew that if I did, the atmosphere would only get worse.

Three years of being bullied, harassed, ignored and humiliated gave me the ability to read moods.
So I was fortunate to receive only a glance, and I listened to the explanation I already knew.

“In this vertical dungeon, the place you all need to reach is the lowest point of the dungeon, commonly known as the Tomb of the Stars. Whether you join forces there or not, your goal is to defeat the boss of the dungeon and return to life. The boss of this ‘Nakseonggul’ definitely drops a piece of star when you catch it, so you just have to come out with it. So, do you have any questions?”
“…”
“······There is not! Let’s start quickly, Professor!”

To answer in a loud voice when asked if there were any questions was disrespectful, even for a student from a prestigious academy.

However, courtesy is something that needs to be kept depending on the status you have, and the person who said let’s start the test now had a status that deserved it.

“Yes, Blossom. There don’t seem to be any questions, so let’s start the test now.”

At the words of Gree Blossom, the eldest son of the world-famous Blossom family, the professor nodded his head without showing any displeasure.
The only thing left now is to enter the dungeon according to the professor’s signal to start the test.

“Now, as of the current time, the academy graduation exam. I will start attacking the B-class dungeon ‘Nakseong Cave’. Everyone enter the dungeon!”

With those words, the ten students who were standing in front of the dungeon, in front of the hole where the stars fell, threw themselves toward the entrance of the dungeon along with the professor’s words.

2.

Widely.

The speed at which a person falls does not increase as soon as gravity and air resistance become equal and maintains that speed.

Therefore, no matter how deep you fall into the hole, your speed does not increase infinitely, so you can land lightly like this by timing your landing well, putting mana on your legs right before landing and spreading it widely to increase resistance.

“Whoa.”

Been down for a while It’s very deep here. It’s to the point where I can’t see the hole I came in.

After landing, I looked up and saw that the entrance to the first wide dungeon was small enough to look like the size of a coin.

It was so deep that I wanted to admire it without even realizing it, but I couldn’t help but admire it inwardly.
Because.

“Wow, it’s fucking deep here? You could have landed wrong because you were careless. I almost sprained my foot.”
“Well, there’s no way you could make such a mistake. You’re usually a little clumsy, but your skills are genuine.”
“Don’t be silly. I joked, but if you take it seriously like that, the atmosphere gets cold. Apologize quickly.”
“Oh sorry! But I’m saying such nonsense that you landed wrong, so I’m not even aware of it!”
“What the. He’s a funny guy, really.”

There were 9 other Awoken people here besides me.

Ahahahahaha!

The laughter of Grie Blossom and the students below him, that is, the followers of Grie Blossom, echoed in the dungeon.

Originally, making a loud noise after entering a dungeon was an uncommon behavior that should never be done, but there was no one here to point out their actions.

Because I’m a jerk who can’t even assert myself properly, and those guys are broken heads who laugh and chat among themselves and just do what Blossom tells them to do.

Even if I take a test, I take it with them. I want to attack quickly and get out.

Right after me, the second-ranked Grie Blossom and the tenth-ranked students were all connected by family ties and had a close relationship since childhood.

They were literally the Cartel of the High House, a miniature version of it, and to them I was no more and no less than a rolling stone.

“By the way, that bastard doesn’t say a word even on the day of the graduation exam and looks elsewhere. I want to beat you.”

And these guys weren’t the ones to stand still and see the stones embedded in their solid cartel, and those guys who took the graduation exam today were the instigators who ostracized me for 3 years.

They stopped physically interfering after I became number one and widened the gap so that no one could overtake that position, but the mental violence such as abusive language, insults, insults, and contempt only increased.

But if I couldn’t hold back my anger and rebelled, their family’s power would easily trample on an awakened brat like me, and if that wasn’t enough, I might even reach out to my grandmother, so I endured it.

If I endure alone, if I endure for three years, everything will be resolved.

Still, these terrible days were over as long as the exam went well.

Three years of perseverance will return with the honor of graduating first in the academy, and based on that title, I will run on the solid road without any blockage and give her grandmother a good boost.

So I don’t care what the cubs say to me. I’ve already reached the point of ignoring and enduring things like that, and this will end today.

Just as always, arming your heart like steel and trying to stick to the attitude of ‘You guys talk, I’ll go my own way’, when Grie Blossom gets lucky, the third-ranking extra-ravilion who adds to the beat lightly touches his arm. Caught and dried

“Wait, right now, everyone here is a team with the same goal of clearing the dungeon, right?”
“What?”
“Be patient. Because today is the last time I see her face.”

Grie Blossom to stop swearing at me? Not anyone else, but among the ganksin extra lavillon?

Stunned by such nonsense, I didn’t hear the whispers of the guys behind it.

“Haha. Yes, today is the last day. Seeing that bitch’s face.”