Chapter 170 (2/2)
“According to the human, yes, it is.”
“I can’t believe it….”
“No, wait. If it’s that human….”
“Is it for real?”
“That human’s a swordsman, right? He’s certainly different from us who pretty much rely on magic.”
“Which means, it must be the truth….”
The plaza became noisy rather quickly.
The Titan Turtle was dead. Such a thing was hard for them to believe. Especially so for those dragons who had personally encountered the gigantic monster in the forest at least once before.
The Titan Turtle’s shell was completely impenetrable, regardless of what magic they used. Not only was its magic resistance ridiculously high, the monster was also agile enough to bite and rip apart dragons flying in the sky, as well.
<< I too had the same reaction as them. >>
Blanc sighed, shook his head and at the same time, opened his mouth. “I have personally confirmed it. The beast’s corpse was lying cold in the middle of the forest, its back shell shattered wide open.”
“T-then, for real we can…!”
“Silence! In any case, now that the Titan Turtle is dead, we have nothing more to fear. We shall start with subjugating the demonic beasts in the forest and, gradually, regain our land.”
After Blanc was finished, one of the dragons suddenly asked him. “By the way, sir. Where is that human?”
Blanc pondered for a bit at the question, before making his reply. “He said that going solo is more convenient for him.”
“Eh?”
“He asked me where he can find monsters as dangerous as the Titan Turtle, and then….” Blanc spat out a long, long sigh. “And then, he dashed out in sheer excitement.”
It was as he said. Su-hyeun really did dash out of the city in unbridled excitement.
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[Acquired 128 achievement points.]
[Acquired 88 achievement points.]
[Acquired 160…]
Messages popped up seemingly without end. Su-hyeun ignored them all and continued on his ‘hunting’ spree.
<< Almost there. >>
Kiiii-eeeeehk-!
Ki-rik, Ki-ri-rik-
Thousands of giant ant corpses littered the ground. And Su-hyeun’s eyes, fixed on the super-massive ant currently being protected by the still-living ant soldiers, were sparkling brightly.
<< That’s the ant queen. >>
The demonic beast that birthed eggs that these ants hatched from. He had run into this type of monster as the boss of a blue-colored dungeon in the past, but it now appeared as a field boss of this forest.
Even the ‘regular’ ant soldiers were considered rather tough monsters to fight, as not only were their bodies easily twice as large as a mature tiger, they even had wings, too.
But Su-hyeun welcomed this situation.
Ants that numbered in the thousands. Although small, he could acquire some amount of achievement points by hunting down every single one of the monsters.
<< I already know where I’ll spend them. >>
He was in need of a lot of achievement points, anyway. So, this trial was definitely the best stage for Su-hyeun right now.
[Leap.] [Leap.] [Leap.]
Paht, pah-paht-
Su-hyeun activated ‘Leap’ several times in a row and reached high up in the air.
Most of the ants had been taken care of by now. The remaining creatures had bunched up in a single spot in order to protect their queen.
<< One strike. >>
Gi-gigik-
Su-hyeun took out the spear tied to his back.
[The Dragon Slaying Spear.]
His body arched in the air like a pulled bow. He counted in his head, before his body pounced forward, his arm swinging out, fast.
Chwa-rururururuk-
Ruuuumble-!
[Flame.]
The divine Flame permeated the spear, splitting apart into thousands, tens of thousands of separate strands.
The spears blazing with massive flames engraved the heavens in an instant like the endless rain of fire.
The moment those things touched the ground….
Kyah-aaaaah-!
The ants gathered in one spot, around the wounded ant queen, were all ripped to shreds while being scorched black.
[Acquired 55 achievement points.]
[Acquired 145 achievement points.]
[Acquired 105…]
[…]
[Acquired 20,000 achievement points.]
More messages rained down in the blink of an eye. Su-hyeun confirmed the total achievement points acquired so far, and a grin spread on his lips.
<< Nice. >>
With that, most of the monsters hiding in the forest had been taken care of.
He was solidly marching towards the trial’s completion, and couldn’t help but feel somewhat rueful about that. This trial’s stage was perfectfor him to acquire a ton of achievement points.
[The effect of a divine beast’s buff has been applied.]
[Acquired 15 achievement points.]
[The effect of a divine beast’s buff has been applied.]
[Acquired 12 achievement points.]
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More messages popped up belatedly.
On the other side, dragons were taking care of the monsters along with Miru. Su-hyeun had been wondering about that for a while, so he couldn’t help but start cheering in elation inwardly.
<< As I thought, the Cintamani is counted as one of the effects of Miru’s buffs, it seems. >>
Miru was a divine beast currently under Su-hyeun. Obviously, when the red dragon hunted a monster down, the achievement points would go to him.
The contributions made under the buff effect were also recognized and he even got to acquire some achievement points, albeit quite small in total, from everything the dragons killed.
Not to forget, Miru was currently buffing hundreds of other dragons through the Cintamani at the moment.
The acquired points were small, ten points here, twenty there, but, regardless of that, there was no doubt that Miru and the dragons were hunting down a massive number of monsters at the moment.
<< Looks like my tally will soon exceed five million points, at least. >>
Of course, that still wasn’t enough. It was always better to have more points, after all.
<< First of all, I’ll raise my physical strength this time. >>
It wasn’t enough to only raise one’s magic level and the count. He couldn’t hunt Fafnir down with those two stats alone.
In that case, all he had to do was to find a solution in a different direction.