I Don’T Have Any Magic Power But I’M Having A Blast At The Academy 14
14
The 2nd team, including Eun Ga-ye and moving smoothly through the dungeon, astonishingly found the orb not with Eun Ga-ye but with Park Yu-chun.
“Hey, Yu-chun. I’ll kill you. How did you chase away those shadow crows? And where did the dungeon worms go again?”
“Ah, suddenly those wormlings popped out and I was startled. Thankfully, Yu-chun was there.”
Until they entered the dungeon, Lee Soon-cheol and Nam Min-woo, who had looked as if they owned the world, praised Park Yu-chun endlessly.
It was no wonder, as for some reason, the dungeon monsters, upon seeing Park Yu-chun, scrambled to flee as if their lives depended on it.
Even with a single punch from Park Yu-chun, dozens of shadow crows were sent flying.
Thanks to Park Yu-chun’s valiant efforts, the 2nd team could advance to the boss room without much difficulty.
“Hey, Yu-chun. You’re so strong, why were you in the F Rank before?”
“I was weak back then.”
“hahahaha, how long has it been since you enrolled? It’s like you became strong overnight.”
At Lee Soon-cheol’s jest, Park Yu-chun smirked subtly.
Contrary to expectations, the atmosphere of the 2nd team was filled with camaraderie as they stood before the boss room.
“If everyone’s rested, let’s go in now. Check to see if everything’s in order.”
At Lee Soon-cheol’s words, each member of the 2nd team checked their physical condition.
Is their equipment intact, magic power fully restored, not leaving anything behind...
Eun Ga-ye glanced down at the raincoat she had reluctantly handed to Yoo Haesol before entering the dungeon.
She couldn’t quite grasp the intention behind that gesture.
‘What does “be cautious of Park Yu-chun” even mean?’
He’s just someone who spouts strange nonsense.
Eun Ga-ye, with a lowered head, briefly glanced at Park Yu-chun.
His relaxed posture with crossed arms seemed somewhat different from the usual moody Park Yu-chun.
No, looking at his actions today alone, he seemed like a completely different person. Of course, it might be because he had been hiding his true abilities.
But after hearing such words from Yoo Haesol, she couldn’t help but feel uneasy.
Then, Park Yu-chun’s expression suddenly darkened. Eun Ga-ye licked her lips. It seemed like he was struggling.
“Hey, are you okay?”
“Uh, yeah, just a bit tired... *cough*”
“If you’re tired, take a break. We’ll go and come back together.”
As soon as he spoke and half-turned his body, Eun Ga-ye’s footsteps abruptly halted. Her eyes widened in shock.
“Hey, Park Yu-chun.”
“Why?”
As Park Yu-chun, who was coughing, raised his bowed head, Eun Ga-ye fell silent.
In Park Yu-chun’s eyes as he looked at her, a distinct dark energy was swirling.
It was a sinister magic power that only those who had crossed a line possessed, ‘Magi’.
“So, this was what they meant by ‘be cautious.’”
“What?”
Puh-haak!
Blood gushed out. Park Yu-chun’s right arm was severed.
“aaargh!”
Park Yoochun, who grabbed his shoulders, screamed and stepped back.
“What, what?!”
“Eungaye! Are you insane?!”
Lee Soon-cheol and Nam Min-woo were startled by Eungaye’s sudden act of cutting off Park Yoochun’s arm and shouted.
However, Eungaye didn’t even glance at them. Only when the two suddenly felt something strange, their gazes followed Eungaye’s. And the next moment, their eyes widened.
“Gasp!”
Park Yoochun’s severed shoulder. From the cross-section, black ash powder was faintly flowing out.
It was a sensation they were all too familiar with. Lee Soon-cheol muttered in a dazed voice.
“Son of a... gun?”
***
On the other hand, Hanse-yeon, the ‘guardian,’ with keen eyes, could precisely grasp what the understanding pine had done.
The understanding pine didn’t just kill a shadow crow. It targeted and hunted down the ‘head creature.’
In the dungeon where the view opened up, Hanse-yeon muttered as she watched the approaching understanding pine.
“Haesol is truly remarkable.”
When the understanding pine first used the sword, she showed only a slight interest.
It was fascinating, but it seemed to have limited practicality compared to a gun. The fact that she seamlessly blended in with the shadow crows was surprising, but at the same time, Hanse-yeon thought it could be possible.
Since shadow crows responded to magic, and it was a known fact that the understanding pine excelled in magic control.
But when the understanding pine accurately singled out and eradicated the head creature among numerous shadow crows, Hanse-yeon was truly astonished.
Because in order to single out a specific creature among the shadow crows, one had to read their magic patterns.
And reading magic patterns required a significant gap in skill compared to the opponent.
No, if one were to read the magic patterns of all the shadow crows gathered here, it might require an even greater disparity.
Of course, it was heard that with a certain item like a divination orb, one could read magic patterns, but Hanse-yeon, whose abilities were only partially unlocked by Gram, never even dreamed of possessing a divination orb.
***
“Why is she like that?”
Seeing Hanse-yeon blinking uncomfortably since earlier, I frowned and decided to roughly ignore her, looking around.
“It’s a cave.”
“Yeah, it’s a cave.”
Kim Hayoon agreed with my opinion.
A dungeon being a cave? The dungeons we’ve passed through so far had environments too diverse to simply call them caves.
On the other hand, this place truly embodied the structure of an original cave.
Stalactites hung from the ceiling, water dripping steadily, the floor uneven, walls covered with moss – a cave just like that.
The proximity to the boss room was evidence.
In Eternity, they designed the vicinity of the boss room like this.
Then, from the other side of the cave, the sound of a barking dog echoed. Soon, what appeared were Grade 1 Undead Horses, Black Dogs, four of them.
Fairly agile for Grade 1, but possessing a difficulty level not much different from the ones we encountered before.
“What, only four? Not a big deal.”
O Jinhyuk confidently stepped forward, showing a dismissive reaction.
However, I knew that these creatures were mere fake-outs.
With the boss room nearby, Eternity wouldn’t have placed only these creatures and called them monsters.
I glanced down at the ground.
Traces of worms that could go unnoticed if not carefully observed were scattered around.
“Dungeon Worms.”
Grade 2 monster Dungeon Worms.
While the Black Dogs caught attention from above, these creatures suddenly sprang from the ground, making people fall apart.
Dealing with this one was indeed tricky. You never knew when or where it would pop up, and once it did, it vanished just as quickly.
“Oops!”
O Jinhyuk, who rushed forward without much thought, was taken aback as the Dungeon Worm suddenly sprang from the ground and fell back.
Puk!
The Dungeon Worm, with its head suddenly raised, was pierced through the head by my prepared rapier.
“······Wow.”
Kim Hayoon marveled quietly at the rapier piercing the Dungeon Worm’s head.
No wonder. To her, it must have seemed like my rapier had pierced through the Dungeon Worm that sprang up out of nowhere like lightning.
The speed and the ability to pierce through the Dungeon Worm’s thick skin in an instant must have been astonishing.
Hanseyeon, standing beside, grinned as if she knew it all, silently ignoring the situation.
That’s how we easily hunted down the Dungeon Worm baited by O Jinhyuk.
The rapier at my waist trembled, and my expression slightly hardened.
“Has it begun already?”
It seemed like Park Yoochun was showing his true colors. There was no time to waste.
“Let’s go.”
I swiftly followed the lead of the rapier. The three followed behind.