Lord of Training - Chapter 58
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58. The gate is a constitution!
[Level up!]
[Level up!]
[The Magic Knight’s rank has increased!]
[D grade -> C grade]
[Level up!]
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After that, messages continued to appear in the status window for a long time.
How high on earth do you go?
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[Level up!]
[The Magic Knight’s rank has increased!]
[C grade -> B grade]
[Level up!]
Finally the messages stopped.
A D-class magic knight killed an A-class monster, so how much experience would he have gained?
Additionally, the Labyrinth Gate provides more experience points than the regular gate.
Still, getting a B grade all at once is a bit harsh!
Before looking at the awakened skills, there was something I had to do first.
I took the dimensional detector out of the alchemist’s workshop.
I reduced my detection range to a minimum and approached the monster, starting to search for its dimensional core.
For a moment, a foul odor and a burning smell assaulted my nostrils.
I held my nose and put the dimensional detector on.
‘It’s really big!’
When you look closely, the monster’s size becomes more realistic.
It was this hard for me to catch an A-class monster, so how did the elves catch an S-class dimensional dragon? And three of them at that.
Since elves can also awaken magic spells, there must have been those who awakened the flying spells, right?
Elves have long life spans, so there must have been many skilled air magic knights of the same level.
If dozens or hundreds of such capable people had rushed in, they would have been caught somehow.
But I don’t know for sure, but in the process, thousands, if not tens of thousands of elves must have died.
The city is now in ruins, just like the inside of the gate.
‘There wouldn’t have been such an ignorant weapon.’
I glanced at the Peacemaker sniper rifle held by the steel battle doll.
That’s because it was created after the elf was defeated by the dragon dimension monster.
It took 3 spirit bullets to catch one A-class monster.
How many shots would it take to take down an S-class dragon monster? A dozen? No, the dragon flies in the sky, so you’d need a lot more spirit bullets.
‘I only have 3 shots left······.’
It’s not like the dragon dimension monster will appear in our world right away, but since it appeared in the elf world, it’s likely that it will appear in our world.
Back then we had to stop them.
The world we live in is already complicated because it is full of war, and now we even have to worry about dimensional monsters.
I wanted to become a permanent resident and live comfortably, but that wasn’t easy.
If I didn’t have the strength to protect my territory, it seemed like it would be difficult to survive in the other world.
‘Ah! If it’s the Elf Prince Evolod, wouldn’t there be a way to make a spirit bullet?’
Those elven clans have lived in the spirit realm for a long time, and I have all the documents and materials that my elven ancestors studied, as well as all the research equipment.
And there are dragon bones to store the power of the spirits.
If we do this well, it seems like we can solve the spirit bomb problem.
Of course, you have to pay a price.
At that moment, a red light flashed.
‘Oh! There you are!’
A dimensional core has been detected in the tail of the snail monster.
Now all that remains is to take it out.
I took out a dagger made from dragon bone.
This was found inside the second lab.
It was so sharp that even a light touch would cut you. It was also so hard that it wouldn’t even scratch you if you struck it with another dagger or axe.
As I tore at its flesh with the Dragon Dagger, sticky chunks of flesh and fluid flowed out.
And the stench was so horrible that I couldn’t come to my senses.
After vomiting several times, I finally found the dimensional core.
[Small Dimensional Core (Dimensional Energy Remaining – 84.3%)]
Why does this have the most dimensional energy remaining?
It was a strange thing.
Isn’t that a mutant snail monster drawing on dimensional energy?
It was something I didn’t know, but I was lucky.
With this, you don’t have to worry about dimensional energy for another year.
No! We need to build an escape gate.
First, the dimensional core was placed in the workshop.
[Find the Lost World Heritage (3/3)]
[Battle Scars (D-Rank) – Cleared the mission.]
[If you take the Lost Legacy out of the gate, the gate entrance will automatically close.]
The D-class labyrinth gate mission is now over.
I got completely carried away here.
Paaaaang!
I headed towards the forest where the agents were.
Now it’s time to settle your skills.
I opened the status window while flying.
[Alain Bombard (22)]
[Class – Magic Knight (B)]
[Level – 81]
[Spells – Defense (B), Flight (B), Sniping (D), Strengthening (F), Explosion (F), Stacking (F)]
[Mana – 951/2833]
[Artifact – Sylphid Ring (Rare)]
[Defense Techniques – Air Shield (lv.3), Halo (lv.3)]
[Flight Techniques – Low-Speed Flight (lv.3), High-Speed Flight (lv.3)]
[Sniper Technique – Penetration (lv.3)]
[Reinforcement Technique – Body Reinforcement (lv.1)]
[Explosive Technique – Fire Burst (lv.1)]
[Overlap Spell – Overlap (lv.1)]
The Magic Knight’s rank has risen by two levels.
‘Huh! A B-rank! Now I’m an elite-level aerial magic knight.’
It was like going from ace level beginner to elite level in one breath.
The irony is that even though he was a B-rank magic knight, he could still be killed by a single blind bullet if he didn’t use his magic.
This is why you can never let your guard down, even in normal times.
I chose the newly awakened skill of the sorcery.
[Reinforcement Technique]
[Body Strengthening (lv.1) – Increases the physical abilities of the user of the strengthening technique by 1.5 times. Increases both muscle strength and stamina, and allows for great strength and speed when using skills. (Earth series, Mana consumption – 100, Duration – 15 seconds.)]
This is unexpected.
I mainly only awakened wind-type skills, but for the first time, I learned earth-type techniques.
Not bad.
As your strength increases, there are more things you can do right away.
A 1.5x increase in strength and stamina means you can generate additional instantaneous strength and speed on land.
And it also increases the amount of weight I can put in my alchemist’s workshop.
Although the mana consumption is a bit high, it wasn’t a big penalty for me.
The people who raised this skill to level 3 were Lieutenant Colonel Nicole and Evolod.
I chose the following skills:
[Explosive Spell]
[Fire Burst (lv.1) – Adds the power of fire to bullets.
[Causes a fire explosion of the same level as a magic grenade centered on the point where the flame bullet hits. (Fire series, Mana cost – 300, Skill cooldown – 5 seconds)]
This was a higher level skill than the Flame skill, which was Special Agent John Cutter’s skill.
The flame (lv. 3) explosion is 1/3 the power of a magic grenade, but this is the power of a single magic grenade from level 1.
At level 3, each bullet has the power of at least 3 grenades. It’s a shame that there’s a 5 second delay.
Still, I was very satisfied because the firepower increased.
Now we have unlocked the last skill.
[Overlapping Skills]
[Overlap (lv.1) – Stacks the power or ability of a skill by 1.2 times.
Interference, defense, reinforcement, buff, space, induction, and concentration spells are excluded.
(Wind series, mana cost – 20, duration – 5 seconds)]
I finally got it!
A rare technique, the nesting technique!
A hearty laugh flowed.
You might think it’s not that great because there are so many awakening spells that are excluded, but there is no better auxiliary skill for an aerial magic knight.
Because you can stack the abilities of the flight skill!
For example, if you use the high-speed flight skill and then use the stack right away, it means that the speed will be 1.2 times higher.
The power of the sniping technique I have right now and the explosive technique I just awakened will increase by 1.2 times.
‘Now, Lieutenant Audrey, if you do well, you can win, right?’
I’ve invested almost 4 months so far.
But what I got was truly enormous.
I also obtained three Dimensional Cores, the Elf Legacy for the Great Monster, a huge amount of experience, and my Magic Knight rank went up by two levels, and I even learned a rare magic technique.
And the alchemist level also increased.
An alchemist’s experience level increases mostly through amalgamation, but it can also be increased by slaying dimensional monsters.
Of course, the amount of experience gained was very small compared to the level of alchemy, but since he caught a monster that was three levels higher this time, the alchemist’s level also went up to C-rank.
Now, there is not much left to go until we reach Grade A, which can use external filament.
‘At this point, the gate is really in his nature!’
***
The smell of the monster on my body was so bad that I went to the river to wash up first, then went to where the battalion members were.
The men and trainees were now in the forest cutting down and trimming trees to make a raft.
“The battalion commander has arrived!”
“Wow!”
Everyone was cheering because they saw the message that I had cleared the labyrinth gate in search of the legacy.
The only person who really knew what I was doing was Ensign Kalin.
Trainee number 2 Paolo shouted.
“Captain, are you going home now?”
“Of course.”
Private First Class Ken Kaplan raised his hand.
“But why do you want me to build a raft?”
“I might find some use for this. I’ll come back once I’ve finished making this, so work hard.”
“yes!”
Now it was time to go home.
There were no more dimensional monsters to fish for, and there were no resources. The Labyrinth Gate here was useless, as two-thirds of it was in ruins.
There were two ways out of here.
The first is to go out the same way you came in.
But the cave had already collapsed and there was no way out.
And Colonel Morgan seemed to have collapsed the sinkhole as well. So it would be virtually impossible for us to get out there on our own.
Of course, there may be a way if you ask for help from outside.
Currently, I have six dimensional radios in total for the Seven Princesses of the Empire.
There are three here now, one for Hela Wake, one for Evolod, and one for my father.
Among these, the only place I could turn for immediate help was my father.
But even if we were to form a rescue team and come here, it would take too long, and it would take a long time to find the sinkhole we’re in, and it would take an incredibly long time to dig through the collapsed cave.
And somehow it felt like there were still Arica Republic troops outside.
The second method is to create a dimensional gate.
The problem is we don’t know where we’ll land.
The best thing would be a gate to the Atlan Kingdom, but I didn’t know about that.
The worst thing would be if a gate were created in the empire.
At that time, I really had to make a desperate escape.
And we had to consider the possibility that a gate might have been created over the sea.
That’s why he instructed Phelps to build a raft first.
The aerial magic knights could fly, but the rest of the trainees would drown.
***
The next morning, Lieutenant Phelps and I took up residence in an empty lot.
“Will it be okay?”
“I have to try.”
I took out the dimensional gate generator.
Because it was so big and heavy, I had to take out a steel fighting doll and have it lifted.
The Dimensional Gate Generator looked like a large box attached to a thick log, and when opened, there was a space to put the Dimensional Core.
I took out one small dimensional core.
[Small Dimensional Core (Dimensional Energy Remaining – 84.3%)]
The small dimensional nucleus was the size of a handball ball.
Ork Chieftain Orksha said that they created the dimensional gate using a large dimensional core, and that the core they used was as big as an adult’s torso.
But how did the Orcs obtain the large dimensional core?
I’ll have to ask him next time I see him.
“Okay! Let’s do it.”
Phelps and I looked very nervous.
I turned the dial in the center of the gate generator so that it was aligned exactly in the center.
The exact center was the choice that connected to the dimension we live in.
I put the small dimensional core in the box.
Then a small dimensional core floated into the center of the box.
I closed the box and turned another dial on the side of the box to the left end.
Orksha told me that this is the smallest F-class gate that can be created.
So everything is ready.
I took a deep breath and pressed the black button at the very back of the generator.
OK!
Woof woof! Pfft!
In an instant, black dimensional energy shot out from the muzzle of a gun, and the empty space began to distort.
It’s taking some time······.
I guess it’s not something that just happens all of a sudden.
It was when the black dimensional energy was shot for about an hour.
Papat! Weeeeeing!
A black dimensional gate with a diameter of 5 meters appeared and began to rotate slowly.
‘It’s a success!’
[A Class F Dimensional Gate has been created.]
[The lowest level gate creation dimensional energy is insufficient, so the gate will close in one year.]
‘Huh? Are you running out of dimensional energy?’
I opened the Dimension Gate Generator box.
[Small Dimensional Core (Dimensional Energy Remaining – 0.6%)]
I was almost out of energy.
A small gate with a diameter of 5 meters was created in Class F.
But it closes after a year.
Perhaps two small dimensional cores could have created a full F-class gate.
But it didn’t matter.
I’m not coming back here again.
“Everyone gather here! It’s time to return.”
“yes!”
End