1st Place In The Ranking Is A Villager

1st place in the ranking is the villager

- Volume 1 Episode 9

9. The Teachings of Krauss (2)

It is difficult to close the gate of the waterway once opened, and water flows out without a break.

Just like that, Hoya and Krauss after the occurrence of the quest were the same.

As I continued to hang out with him, I got used to it, and Hoya's attitude towards Krauss became more comfortable as if he was dealing with his older brother.

Of course, Krauss during training was a more terrifying teacher than a tiger.

But in his non-training time, he was the sweetest and most playful older brother of all.

It felt like Jekyll and Hyde as the cold, sharp, bloody face immediately loosened after training, and a friendly and playful smile turned into a smile.

"Heh heh, heh heh!"

"What are you going to do if you're already sleepy! Stand up!"

"Ugh, yes...!"

The past ten days have been like hell.

For the past ten days, Hoya crawled when Krauss rolled and crawled when he crawled.

He didn't really roll or crawl, but his training intensity far exceeded Hoya's imagination.

During the training period, if you relaxed even for a moment, an attack came immediately with Krauss's decree.

He felt stronger than the pain he felt when he was first killed by the Scarecrow.

Nevertheless, it was surprising that Krauss kept Hoya in the precarious state just before his death.

As I imagined the last ten days of training in my head, the map of hell unfolded.

Still, Krauss' training was very effective.

name: hoya

Occupation: Villager of Ordo

Level: 116

HP: 172/3,100 MP: 2,760/2,760

Strength: 186 Agility: 179

Stamina: 194 Horsepower: 160

Holy Power: 160

Remaining points: 0

style

[Smashing a rock with an egg] [Inhabitant of the village at the edge of the earth] [Indomitable will]

skill

[Return to the Village] [The Strike of the Villagers]

Total stat increase 79.

Hoya is a figure that can be obtained by raising 8 levels, but other players have to raise 16 levels to obtain it.

For ten days, Hoya had grown as if he had raised 16 levels.

When the level reached 100, growth slowed down, so the difference in stats by 16 levels was huge.

The higher the level, the greater the difference according to the stats.

Fighting with Krauss and playing the role of a sandbag wearing the mask of teaching was several times more effective than hitting the scarecrow.

If he had dealt with the Scarecrow, he would have suffered half and half of that amount of ascent.

"Go in."

"Yes!"

Kraus slammed the ground lightly and ran towards Hoya.

Contrary to the light movements and sounds, Krauss was right in front of Hoya's nose.

Now Krauss would hit Hoya's wrist, cut off his right calf, and then pierce his stomach.

These were the attack sequences that Krauss had foretold and known for a long time.

It was something that even his head could understand, but his eyes and body couldn't keep up with Krauss' movements.Only this repetition seemed to have been repeated dozens of times during the day.

Even though he learned the sword movement from Krauss and was familiar with it a little, he was not able to counterattack at all.

puck!

"Wow!"

When Krauss's wooden sword pierced Hoya's abdomen, Hoya's body was lifted into the air and flew away.

With the sound of Hoya rolling on the ground, Krauss announced the end of today's training.

"So far today. It seems a little earlier than in the morning."

[Agility increases by 2.]

Seeing the system message popping up, it seems that Krauss is right.

I don't feel the realization that I've become stronger because I've been beaten up by Krauss that doesn't change every day.

However, since the stats were showing, Hoya could recognize that he was getting stronger.

"Heh heh! Heh heh!"

"This is going to kill Hoya-san, Krauss."

"Adventurers don't die."

"It doesn't mean that."

Wrath-!

Hoya felt a warm light envelope her with a swarm of bright lights.

[Healing light surrounds you.]

[HP is restored.]

Hoya stretched out on the floor and looked only at the person who put heels on him.

There, a slender woman with hair as white as her eyes was squatting and looking down at Hoya with a slightly sad look on her face.

"Go, thank you."

"What, it's not that difficult."

She smiled at Hoya.

It was a beautiful smile that could make any man, without exception, be captivated for a moment.

But when Hoya saw that smile, he just smiled awkwardly and replied.

Hoya jumped up and moved to the side of Krauss, putting her Krauss between her and herself.

In the last ten days she has had quite a bit of adjustment to the town.

Still, it was difficult to deal with anyone other than Moan and Dantals if Kraus was not in between.

Seeing Hoya like that, she puffed up her cheeks.

"Why do you keep running away?"

"Hey, when did I run away..."

"It is now!"

"Oh, no..."

Klaus, sandwiched between the two, just smiled.

When he saw her for the first time, he had a momentary crush on her, but Hoya didn't feel it at all, so she thought it was strange.

"I guess I'm better than Reina and you! Right?"

"Ha ha ha ha ha......."

Seeing Krauss wrapping Hoya's shoulder and Hoya not refusing his hand, Reina felt her name unknown.

She never really cared about it because she said she was popular.

But she was as openly as Hoya, and she certainly had no one to distance her from her.

She is the one who has been loved and recognized by everyone.

However, she was worried that someone who was far away from her appeared.

She is very little, but the goal of wanting to be close to him was born in her mind.

But she felt that the more he tried to get closer, the farther away he felt.

'How did I tell you to do something like this?'

I remembered a friend who wasn't a friend who was talking about the contents of the book as if it was enjoyable for him.

Almost in her room, she loved telling Reyna the stories of books she had been reading, of any kind, at random whenever she came.

Apparently, there was also a relationship between men and women in her story.

It wasn't a particularly interesting story, so I spilled it, but I can't remember for sure.

I wanted to visit him right away and hear what it was about again, but it was not polite to visit too often.

'Ummm......'

What should I do?

What should I do so he doesn't distance himself from him?

He was deeply immersed in that thought, then suddenly raised his head and looked at the place where Krauss and Hoya were standing.

There was nobody there.

"What, did you leave me alone?"

* * *

"Brother, is it okay if I leave it alone?"

"maybe?"

"Perhaps..."

Kraus left Reina who had entered the imaginary world alone and left the training ground with Hoya.

Over the past ten days, Hoya and Krauss have developed into a brother-sister relationship.

It was almost a semi-forced name change by Krauss, but Hoya liked this title unlike the first.

Well, during training, they become perfectly strict between a teacher and a disciple rather than an older brother and a younger brother.

"It's okay, because I'm not the kind of guy who would be pissed off about something like that."

"Because I'm pissed off!"

As she lifted her head toward the source of the sound, Reina stood there with an angry face.

"How could you just go!"

"Ahaha, I thought it would take a long time."

Krauss comforted Reina, and Reina continued to be sullen.

It was like reading her old comics.

flinch.

The two of them, who were continuing their conversation, abruptly stopped and turned their heads at the same time to look at one place.

It was in the direction of the entrance to the village, the forest where Hoya first met Krauss.

"... it's finally here."

"Who's turn was it this time? Since Chibin did it last time... It's just right, it's Krauss' turn. Come back soon."

"What? Is it my turn already?"

What are you talking about?

As Hoya was thinking such a thought, Krauss looked at Hoya and Reina with a mixture of a playful expression and the expression of a strict teacher.

"Huhuhuhuh, Reina, can you use the field now?"

"Field? Why all of a sudden?"

"I'll tell you the reason later, so give me an answer."

"It's possible because I haven't used it in years."

"That's right."

Krauss smiled, revealing his white teeth.

"Hoya, this is the last basic training."

[The quest 'Subspecies of the Contaminated Forest' has occurred.]

[Subspecies of the Contaminated Forest]

A little far from the west gate of Ordo, the forest is the home of the ents who have become ferocious because they have been polluted with the magic of the demon realm.

In that forest full of Treants, subspecies of Treants that evolve due to the occasional accumulation of magic more than necessary arise.

The subspecies is now born!Krauss wants to make that opponent the last of Hoya's basic training.

Completion conditions: Defeat the field boss monster 'Ent subspecies of the Contaminated Forest' (0/1)

Success Reward: Quest [Legendary Sword Teaching] clear, experience

Failure penalty: None. The quest will continue until the quest is completed.

cheap

Hoya felt his body suddenly cooling down.

"I, over there... hyung? No, Master? Just... What did you say...?"

"You have to deal with the subspecies."

It wasn't that I heard Krauss wrong.

No matter how much I rubbed my eyes, the quest didn't change.

Is this guy sane now?

Hoya genuinely had such a question.

"Hey, is that tainted forest the forest I know...?"

"Oh, it's the forest where you and I first met."

"Then... What's my level?"

"I said 116, maybe?"

"...Does anyone who knows that well tell me to go to that forest and catch monsters?"

On the first day, the level of the Ents in the Contaminated Forest that Hoya saw was 700.

It was also a very large number of monsters.

They told me to go to such a forest and catch monsters...

Is this person insane?

"I know what you're worried about, but don't worry. This person here will take care of it."

Saying that, Krauss grabbed Raina's shoulder and pulled him up in front of him.

"Ah, ah, that's why you asked me if I could use the field."

"Yes. Don't you think it would be perfect for gaining experience?"

"Um... sure."

Hoya couldn't understand exactly what the two of them were talking about.

What is the field and what does it mean to have good experience?

Is dying to an ent a good experience?

"Hahahaha, did I not explain enough?"

As he was seriously thinking about it, Krauss smiled at Hoya's frozen face and gave detailed explanations.

Reina's skill 'Field of Equality'.

The effect of that skill creates a barrier that surrounds a certain space in the form of a dome.

And only one enemy, you or one ally can enter it.

Until one of them is defeated, it is absolutely impossible to intervene from the outside, and it is impossible to come out of the barrier.

It is said that the enemy's stats are balanced with the stats of those within the barrier.

“In the field, it will probably be about the level of the field boss of your level. The reward will be smaller as well.”

A skill that can forcibly reduce stats.

It is said that the skill's cooldown time is about 5 months because it is a greater effect than generating a debuff without a duration throughout the battle.

"Well, even then, he's a field boss...?"

Field boss monster.

Field boss monsters can only be hunted when dozens of players of the same level rush at the same time.

It was also limited to the rankers.

But Hoya was telling me to catch it by myself.

Level 100 field boss monsters are better than level 700 field boss monsters, but the difficulty is no different.

"Don't worry. Hoya, you're stronger than you think. Well, it's a long way from Haan Cha-am to follow me."

Pushed by Krauss who said that sincerely, Hoya walked into the forest.

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