was essentially a single-player ga but it also had content where players could compete and battle against each other.
For instance, in the competitive content, so practical evaluations and events were tallied across all users.
Of course, I was ranked first.
No matter which ranking I checked, my na was always at the top.
And that too, with a considerable margin over the second place.
The gap was even more significant in the Fixed Zone.
To the extent that the word overwhelming would be an understatent.
Thats why I earned the nickna God which I found to be a bit embarrassing.
There was no one who could rival in the Fixed Zone.
[Entering the Fixed Zone.] [The rank of so skills/traits/equipnt will be adjusted.]
I glanced at the notification ssage and brought up the status window.
[Kim Ho]
Skills
Amplification (F)
Copy-Skill [1/1]
1. Hummingbird (F)
Traits
Core (F)
Monarch (F)
Copy-Trait [1/1]
1. Elental Resistance (F)
Equipnt
School Uniform (F)
Earth Staff (F)
According to the Fixed Zone rule, the rank of all skills, traits, and equipnt was fixed at F-rank.
Since most of what I originally had was around E-rank, there wasnt much change for .
Additionally, a skill like [Hummingbird], whose main purpose was controlling enemies rather than destruction, would perform similarly even at F rank.
However, this ti I planned to challenge myself by using only my basic physical abilities without even using Hummingbird.
I need to warm up.
This was my first experience in the Fixed Zone since enrolling in the academy, and it was a chance to see what I was capable of.
And my physical abilities alone should be sufficient.
After all, I didnt get the nickna God of the Fixed Zone for nothing.
I surveyed my surroundings.
The terrain of the [Mist Forest] was randomly ford the mont a challenger entered through the portal.
But random as it may be, this dungeon was ultimately created by humans.
Broadly speaking, there are several standardized patterns.
If you can figure out these patterns, you can predict when, where, what kind of monsters will appear, and in what numbers.
Judging by the arrangent of the bushes, trees, weeds, rocks around , and the direction of the mist flow,
Its the C pattern.
I took my position in front of an empty space near a rock.
Gripping the Earth Staff with both hands, I raised it high above my head.
The system began the countdown.
[3]
[2]
[1]
[Start!]
[Monsters will be summoned.]
[Remaining Ti: 9:59]
[Current score: 0 points]
Black and dirty smoke billowed in the air before .
From within the smoke, a monster with green skin the size of a five- or six-year-old child burst out.
Keuk, keureuk.
As soon as the goblin was summoned, its yellow eyes flashed and it tried to find a target to kill.
However, the first thing that ca into its view was a thick wooden stick plumting towards its head.
Kwajik!
I crushed the first goblins skull and imdiately snatched the dagger it was holding.
At the sa ti, I swung the staff with all my might to the left, exploding another head.
I grabbed that goblins dagger too and ran recklessly towards the bushes.
Before the three plus of black smoke could even transform into the shapes of goblins, I swung my staff at them.
Kwajik, kwajik, kwajik!
Three goblins were summoned and they were imdiately converted into points,
and in the sa spot, about ten black smoke masses rose up.
As I prepared to swing the staff again,
Two orcs at 7 oclock. In 3, 2, 1 seconds.
At the count of 1 second I threw the two daggers over my shoulder.
Pukpuk!
Gik.
Keuk.
While I was sweeping away the goblins in front of , I heard two sounds of flesh being torn and two short death cries from behind.
I put the Earth Staff into my inventory.
Weapons were now abundant for .
Clutching a handful of daggers dropped by goblins, I rushed toward the corpses of the orcs I had just killed.
While doing so, I tossed the daggers in all directions as if scattering them.
Goblins flocking from all sides each took a dagger in the forehead and collapsed.
The two dead orcs each had a shortsword and an axe.
I grabbed one in each hand and sprinted to the next summoning location.
Between two trees, large and small plus of smoke arose.
Six goblins to the left, four goblins and two orcs to the right, and a troll at the rear. 3, 2, 1.
At the count of 1 I leaped into the smoke, whirling my body like a windmill.
Swoosh!
I annihilated the lesser monsters in an instant and charged at the newly summoned troll.
Before it could resist, I plunged the shortsword into its heart, twisted it, kicked the hilt to drive it deeper, and finally brought the axe down on its forehead.
Kwajik!
Then onto the next location, and the next.
Monsters had their heads severed as soon as they were summoned.
To an outsider, it would have seed like blatant cheating.
It might have appeared as if soone was deliberately summoning monsters right where I was going.
But this was not cheating, but rather the result of long experience and ticulous analysis.
Alright, thats enough.
I felt that it was about ti and stopped walking towards the next summoning location.
Turning my gaze to the scoreboard,
[Remaining Ti: 7:02]
[Current Score: 683 points]
The result was slightly disappointing.
I only scored 683 points in 3 minutes
I feel like I lost a lot.
Back in the days when I was setting new records, I would have scored at least 800 points in the Misty Forest in three minutes.
Anyway, I had achieved my initial goal.
[Side Quest: Placent Test]
Objective: Achieve a mid-tier or higher rank on the placent test.
Win at least once in the duel battle placent test (1/1)
Rank in the top 50% in the strategy battle placent test (Current Ranking: N/A)
Reward: [Copy-Skill] Slot 1
The goals of the placent test quest were to achieve at least one win in duel battles and rank in the top 50% in the strategy battle.
Normally, the cutoff for the top 50% fluctuates between 400 and 500 points, so with a score of 683, I should rank comfortably in the upper-middle range.
There was still 7 minutes left, but I felt no need to increase my score further.
Of course, even if I took it easy, winning first place in the strategy test was a given.
But attracting too much attention would render my forfeit against Song Cheon-hye pointless.
Huh? Kim Ho is in first place?
Maybe hes stronger than we thought?
Then why did he concede?
Did he just let her win?
I would probably beco the subject of gossip like this.
Just like in the duel battle matches, I needed to hide my abilities until I could handle the fa that ca with them.
So, I decided to end the placent test here.
I want to stop here.
Everything around turned gray and ca to an abrupt halt and a ssage appeared in front of .
Of course, the remaining ti continued to decrease.
[Remaining Ti: 6:49]
[Do you really want to end the strategy battle test?]
[Accept/Decline]
Yes.
[Do you want to save the replay?]
[Accept/Decline]
No.
The exit promptly opened its mouth,
And I leisurely walked outside.
***
Buch of weaklings.
Lee Soo-dok frowned.
His already fierce face grew even more nacing, which caused the passing students to involuntarily lower their gaze.
At the end of his gaze were the weaklings, that is, the ones who failed the test.
The placent test had been underway for quite so ti, yet there they were, still sprawled or sitting helplessly on the ground.
Still unable to get up?
Though he wouldnt ntion it outright due to his nature, Lee Soo-dok, as a teacher, had the discretion to offer students who retired a chance to retry.
If even one of them had asked for help or asked if there was any way to make ands, he would have given them a chance.
But there was no such indication from those defeated ones.
They seed to have completely lost their will.
Just over sothing like this.
Lee Soo-dok himself was once a student at the Dragon Slayer Academy.
The path he had walked was far more brutal and treacherous; it was much worse than this.
Even in such conditions, he had climbed up from the very bottom with sheer will.
So, it was only natural for him to be dissatisfied with their early surrender.
Lee Soo-doks gaze briefly shifted to the side.
A portal that had been closed earlier just opened, and another student erged from it.
He rembered that this student had entered about 3 or 4 minutes ago.
This ant that this student didnt last the 10 minutes period.
Another one retired.
He didnt know the students na, but his face was one he rembered.
A student who had forfeited in the duel battle test with the claim that he was in a bad shape.
And now, it seed, he had retired from the strategy battle test as well.
What kind of dragon are you going to catch with such rotten spirit?
He doubted that student could even handle a B-rank boss after graduation, let alone catch a dragon.
If his own subordinates had engaged in such pathetic antics, he would have beaten them to a pulp. But this was Dragon Slayer Academy, and that guy was a student in his class.
The thought of having to teach and lead such a worthless creature as a horoom teacher was already giving him a headache.
Despite it being a request from a forr legendary hero, Lee Soo-Dok regretted his hasty decision to accept it.
Wait a minute
Lee Soo-Dok turned his head.
He felt an inexplicable sense of unease.
After pondering the source of this feeling, he realized it only after his eyes caught the faces of the disqualified students.
That student, he walked out.
The safety chanisms in the artificial dungeons employ a forced teleportation spell to eject students when their safety is at risk during the strategy battle.
The reason students were seen tumbling out of the dungeon was precisely because of this.
The lingering effects left them disoriented for a while.
But this student was walking out nonchalantly and checking the leaderboard as if nothing had happened.
At the very least, it ant he hadnt been ejected.
Lee Soo-Doks gaze followed the students gaze to the leaderboard.
[Kim Ho, 683 points, 38%]
Upper middle range?
Such score couldnt possibly be achieved in just three minutes.
Even if one were to exaggerate and assu a polymorphed dragon appeared in the dungeon, such a feat would still be impossible.
So does that an he lasted the full 10 minutes?
But he had only entered about 3 minutes ago. Did I see it wrong?
Lee Soo-Dok, who always maintained a cold deanor, felt a slight sense of bewildernt this ti.
His na was Kim Ho, right?
Lee Soo-Dok made a ntal note of the students na.
He resolved to definitely check the replay of his dungeon battle later.
*******
TN: Its already erased though.
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