Lord of Training - Chapter 57



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57. No, I have to catch it!

I scanned my surroundings with the dimensional detector.

However, the last dimensional core that should have been here was not visible.

I kept increasing the detection range of the dimension detector.

I tried all the way to the end, but it wasn’t detected.

‘Why are things going so smoothly······.’

But I wasn’t too worried.

Since you have a dimensional detector, you will eventually find it if you are inside this labyrinth gate.

First, we need to check what the detection range is.

Previously.

Chi-chik!

“Phelps.”

– Yes, I can hear you well.

“Everyone, except the trainees, come in! And the slope is slippery because of the sand, so use your low-speed flying skills to come down slowly.”

– all right.

After a while.

The battalion members descended into the first underground research lab.

“Huh! What is this?”

“Oh my god! It really feels alive.”

Everyone looked shocked just by seeing the bones of the giant dragon monster.

“First, let’s take down the monster’s bones.”

I started collecting monster bones with my battalion members.

Boom! Boom!

Although the bone fragments were all separated, the dragon bone was so heavy that it could not be lowered without combining forces.

And I couldn’t fit a dragon skull or a few large bones into my alchemist’s workshop either.

I could have put it in the workshop with just a little bit of force, but this thing wouldn’t budge.

That’s okay though!

Because there is Lieutenant Phelps’ subspace warehouse (lv.3).

“be careful!”

Vroom! Vroom!

A large truck slowly emerged from a subspace warehouse with a diameter of ten meters.

Most awakening skills increase experience points when used.

The same goes for the subspace warehouse skill.

Every time you open or close a subspace, you gain experience points and your skill level goes up.

Of course, it took time because it consumed a lot of mana each time.

However, I invested a lot of mana for Phelps, who always carries things by hand, and kept him leveling up his skill experience before the expedition.

And the result of this thousands of repetitions was this large truck and the widened subspace entrance.

The problem is that there aren’t many magic stones left to be fused.

I had to start getting magic stones soon.

Squeak!

A large truck stopped.

“Carry them all, without leaving anything behind!”

“yes!”

Starting with the dragon bones, I loaded everything that couldn’t fit in my subspace warehouse onto a truck and moved it to Phelps’ subspace warehouse.

I also put all the journals I studied here in my workshop.

It took three days to pack everything in three large lab spaces.

***

A peaceful gate today too.

It’s already been a month since I entered the labyrinth gate.

Feeling full even without eating.

Because I already got the Elven Legacy and three Dragon Bones from the Alchemist’s Workshop and Phelps’ Subspace Warehouse.

And since I had already collected two Dimensional Cores, all I needed to do was collect one more.

Bang! Tata tang! Bang!

On one side, the already awakened trainees were hunting monsters for the last time for additional awakening, and the battalion members were also hunting separately to gain skill experience and awaken new techniques.

Now that there are hardly any dimensional monsters left around here, I’m closed for business.

Of course, I no longer had any skills to level up.

Since the Halo skill has reached level 3, the triple shield is now activated.

Now, using this skill, you can block bullets imbued with a normal level 3 explosion skill or sniper skill that has no stacks or additional strengthening effects applied.

Of course, if I shoot a gun or use a high-speed flight skill, the Halo skill disappears.

In the case of low-speed flight, once you use the skill, you can maintain it without having to use it again until your mana runs out, but once you use the high-speed flight skill, you can only maintain it for up to 5 seconds.

That’s why you always had to be careful because the shield would disappear when you used the Halo skill and the high-speed flight skill.

‘Now all I have to do is find the last dimensional core······.’

“Captain Alain!”

“huh?”

As the gunfire stopped, Private 23 came running.

“I have awakened!”

“Well done, Trainee Franco.”

“It’s a flying technique! I have awakened the flying technique.”

“Oh! Congratulations.”

Among the 40 trainees, Franco was the only one who had awakened his flight skills.

Is it related to the Mana Wind skill?

He would be an excellent aerial magician, as he could read the flow of mana.

As expected, those who are meant to be will be!

I felt sorry for the seven agents who were still receiving training from the Grand Duke.

“Captain Alain, I will never forget this favor.”

“You can’t call it a favor. It’s the result of your hard work.”

“thank you.”

I patted Franco on the shoulder.

He was now 18 years old and had already mastered two spells, so he was set for great success.

Of course, my record as the youngest major will never be broken.

Chi-chik!

– This is Ensign Kalin, Commander.

Chi-chik!

“It’s me. What’s going on?”

– Found it!

I finally found the last dimensional core.

I left the search to Ensign Kalin for some flying technique experience.

Kalin was the perfect candidate for the search, as he had night vision and eagle eye skills.

And now he had a dimension detector.

When tested with Lt. Phelps, the detector’s maximum detection range was 3 km.

In short, it meant that one could find dimensional cores, dimensional gates, and even elven relics containing dimensional energy within 3km.

This was a very useful item.

Although, like the Saintess, you won’t be able to find dimensional gates that are hundreds or thousands of kilometers away.

If it was within 3km, there was no need for the saint’s powers.

For example, this means that you can easily find the C-class labyrinth gate that you are currently looking for while digging the ground in the Lacrosse Empire.

Chi-chik!

“where are you?”

– It keeps moving.

“It’s moving?”

– Yes, we are now moving north from the desert southeast of the gate entrance.

“What is it?”

– I can’t see the figure. I’m in the sand desert right now.

“What? Okay. I’ll go there.”

Paaaaang!

***

It was flying towards Ensign Kalin.

The maximum detection range of the detector was 3 km.

So if it went out of range, I had to find it again.

I had to hurry, because I was moving in the sand again.

“Here it is!”

Kalin waved his hand.

Paaaaang!

“Commander, look at this.”

The red light continued to move on the dimensional detection device hologram.

The hologram was flat, not 3D.

Since we can’t see it now, it means that the moving object is underground.

‘Could it be that a desert bug monster swallowed it?’

Otherwise, the dimensional core wouldn’t have been able to move on its own like that.

There was only one way to check.

He has no choice but to drop something as he passes by.

“Huh? He stopped!”

Let’s look at the detector, the dimensional core has stopped.

“Carlin, keep an eye on him!”

“yes!”

I flew to a nearby land and picked up a few dozen small rocks.

Fortunately, the dimensional core was still there.

I dropped the small rocks one by one onto the desert near the red light.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

“Huh? It’s moving.”

The red light moved and rushed towards the rock I had dropped.

Then the sand suddenly popped up.

And then a huge, squirming monster burst out with its mouth open.

“damage!”

Kalin and I flew left and right.

The snail monster climbed so high that it almost swallowed us, who were 150 meters above the ground.

I looked at the bastard’s information in the status window.

[Mother Abilkinat with Dimensional Core (C-Grade -> A-Grade)]

[Mother Abilkinat (C-grade) grows up to 40 meters in length, likes dark places, and mainly eats magic stones underground.

They are very sensitive to vibrations and have a habit of swallowing objects that move on the ground.

It evolved into a mutant (Grade A) by embracing the Dimensional Core.]

Mother Abilkinat sank into the sand in an instant.

“Oh, sir! What did I just see?”

“I saw a really big caterpillar.”

Kalin made a dumbfounded expression.

‘Crazy! A class A monster!’

Isn’t that an A-class monster in a D-class dimensional gate?

He was originally an elite Avilkinat, a C-class monster.

But after swallowing the dimensional core and living here for hundreds of years, it seemed like I had risen to A-class.

Contrary to the status window description, the body length of the thing just now seemed to be 100 meters, and its mouth size seemed to be 30 meters.

“Kalin! Get out!”

I pushed Carlin aside.

At that moment, the sand shot up and the thing leapt up again, its huge mouth wide open, towards me.

[Use the High-Speed ​​Flight (lv.3) skill.]

Paaaaang! Paaaaang!

For a moment, the stench of his rotten breath hit my nose.

Kwajik!

I just barely avoided his attack.

“Kurrrrrrrr!”

The one who went down into the desert didn’t even go into the sand, but bared his teeth at me.

Then it disappeared into the sand again.

That snail just jumped almost 300 meters.

I’m now 400 meters up in fear.

‘What? There was no vibration just now?’

Could it be that he sensed my dimensional energy and rushed at me?

Or to feed on the mana in my body?

Kalin approached with a look of astonishment.

“Just now, it was really dangerous.”

“Haa! This won’t be easy.”

“Surely we should be catching that guy?”

“No, I have to catch it!”

That way, it would be worth coming all the way to the Labyrinth Gate.

There’s a three-level difference between me and that dimensional monster.

No matter how excellent or skilled a hunter was, he would have to give up this level of difference in rank.

But then Harry’s words came to mind.

It was said that you can awaken rare spells and obtain good skills by hunting monsters of level 2 or higher.

What this meant was that if I, a D-class magic knight, could catch that A-class dimensional monster, I would definitely be able to obtain good spells and skills.

‘I wish I had gained experience through the final blow······.’

There is nothing easy in this world.

In this place, the person who deals the most damage gets the experience points.

So, it was more advantageous for me to catch it by myself rather than getting help from the battalion members.

Still, I just figured out the desert bug monster’s weakness.

It reacted to my movements and tried to eat me.

In that case, you can eat 50% of it.

Now we needed a way to kill him.

***

Paaaaang!

The life-threatening lure operation was just plain disgusting.

“Wow!”

If you do that wrong, you might end up in the stomach of a giant snail. Who would like that?

Every time he jumped across the desert, the hair on his body stood on end and the back of his neck felt creepy.

I was currently flying between 100 and 200 meters above the ground, luring the thing.

Tutata tang!

“die!”

Papapapat!

Damn it! The bullet struck, but did little to damage the area.

“Coooo!”

Oh my god!

The bastard jumps up with his mouth wide open.

The mouth now seemed to be about 40 meters wide.

He pulled the safety pins of two magic grenades and threw them towards the mouth.

Boom! Kwaang!

Flames and smoke were pouring out from around the mouth, but this attack didn’t seem to cause much damage.

After all, a proper remedy was needed.

[Use the High-Speed ​​Flight (lv.3) skill.]

Paaaaang!

I narrowly avoided the monster’s mouth.

Kwakwakwakwang!

The bastard went back into the sand.

If it weren’t for my high-speed flight skills, I would have been eaten a long time ago.

Is it because it contains dimensional energy? Or is it because it originally ate magic stones and is after my body’s mana?

Anyway, the bastard desperately chased after me to eat me.

‘They’re all here!’

We lured it to the rocky area where our base camp was.

All the agents and trainees have already evacuated.

‘Just one shot! Just one shot!’

Paaaaang! Chuck!

I came down to the end of the rocky area.

There was no going back. It had to end here.

Pot! Papa Pot!

At that moment, sand rose up like a mountain from afar.

And then the giant worm jumped into the air with its huge mouth open.

I waited patiently until the bastard got closer.

A cold sweat ran down my entire body, and I felt like I was going to die.

It was when the bastard tried to swallow me while I was on the rock.

Paaaaang!

I turned my body and used my high-speed flight skill.

And he shouted at the battle dolls prepared in advance at the back.

“Fire spirit bullet!”

Geek!

The steel battle doll heard my command and pulled the trigger of its Peacemaker sniper rifle.

Tuaaaang!

The white spirit bullet flew and entered the mouth of the giant snail monster.

Flash! Boom!

Pfft pfft pfft!

A bolt of electricity burst from the bastard’s mouth.

“Kuwewewewek!”

A giant snail monster was shaking its huge body at the edge of the rocky area.

“It’s a success!”

Sparks and gray smoke emitted from various parts of the mutant Abilkinat’s body.

He just got hit by a spirit bomb (Chaos from the Lion’s Nest).

But the bastard didn’t die.

After all, I had to finish it.

The steel battle doll reloaded the peacemaker with spirit bullets.

I pulled the trigger.

Tuaang! Kwaang!

Pah, pah, pah, pah!

The monster trembled without even being able to scream.

I fired the lightning spirit bullet again just in case the bastard went into the desert sand.

‘It’s the end now!’

Loaded a new spirit bullet (Efreet’s Breath).

Crunch!

And aimed for the bastard’s mouth.

Tuaaaang!

Thud! Thud!

There was a huge explosion and flames were sprayed in all directions.

Hwaaaaah! Hwarurur!

The giant, electrocuted worm shook its body violently, but the spirit’s flames did not go out easily.

I used up 3 out of the 6 spirit bullets I had.

Now just die!

It was time to load the next spirit bomb.

“Keuuuuuu!”

Thud! Kukukukung!

The snail monster could not hold out any longer and fell.

I finally caught an A-class monster!

[The strengthening technique has been awakened.]

[The explosive technique has been awakened.]

[The nesting technique has been awakened.]

New alarms started going off one after another.

What skills have you awakened?

End