Lord of Training - Chapter 88



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88. Our attitude toward genius.

We left the desert and after a full day of searching, we finally found the Class A dimensional monster.

[Pelagotu (A-Grade) – Giant lizard monster.

They pounce on their prey with nimble movements, subdue it with their large mouths and dozens of teeth, or stun it by swinging their long tails and eat it whole.

Adult pelagos can grow up to 40 meters in length, are good at climbing trees, and can change color, making them adept at camouflage.

“Where on earth is the monster?”

Ensign Jester, who had been the youngest in our battalion before the new recruits came in, rubbed his eyes with his hand and opened them wide.

Still unable to find it, he looked at Major Phelps.

“There it is. Between the branches.”

Phelps, who could detect mana, recognized it at a glance, but Ensign Jester looked at it for a long time before saying, “Huh!”

“Even without detection magic, an aerial magician must have good eyesight! Get your head straight.”

“all right.”

I keep nagging my subordinates.

All of the members who came together have awakened the high-speed flight skill, but more importantly, they have to have good eyesight.

That way, you have a better chance of surviving an aerial battle.

And the one we ultimately had to catch also required good eyesight to hunt.

“I’ll just watch, you guys try to catch it.”

“yes?”

“Just us? We’re C-class?”

I nodded.

Anyway, I don’t gain much experience points even if I kill A-class monsters anymore.

First, if you raise the skills of your agents and then hunt S-rank monsters together, you will level up much faster.

And in this labyrinth gate, the one who deals the most damage gets the most experience points.

So when I attack, other agents will get very little experience.

“Wouldn’t it be better to surround them from the air and then fire at them simultaneously?”

Major Phelps made the first suggestion.

Everyone nodded, but the youngest, Lieutenant Franco, raised his hand.

“Tell me.”

“Then he’ll run away. He has no means of attacking from a distance.”

“Well, if there’s no way to attack us, then maybe they can just run away.”

“It seems better to have one person serve as bait and keep running away while the rest chase after him and wear down his stamina until they catch him.”

“Bait······.”

Captain Herman shook his head.

“Words are bait, but it’s too dangerous. And who will be the bait? If you do it wrong, you could die.”

“I will do it.”

“huh?”

Everyone looked at Lieutenant Franco.

“I will strike first and lure him near the ground. Then he will continue to chase me. Then the rest of you follow behind and attack him.”

Major Phelps asked with wide eyes.

“Can you really do it? It’s not easy to change direction in the forest.”

“It’s okay. Leave it to me.”

Phelps glanced at me.

I turned my head away, pretending not to know.

The decision is left to the commander.

If it’s really dangerous, then you can step forward.

“Try it once. But if it’s dangerous, immediately escape to the sky.”

“yes!”

Ensign Franco Vidali looked confident.

‘What are you trying to do?’

I was curious too.

It was difficult to shake off the monster in the forest, but luring it away from a certain distance was even more difficult.

Because there are no eyes on the back of a person’s head.

I took out my peacemaker and loaded it with bullets, preparing for any possible danger.

The troops surrounded Pelagoto from a distance.

Ensign Franco approached stealthily to a distance of 100 meters and aimed his automatic rifle at the monster.

Tataang! Tata tatang!

Papapapapat!

“Kkaaaak!”

Pelagotou screamed after being hit by a rifle.

And when he saw the human who had attacked him, he quickly came down from the tree and chased after him.

Franco comes down close to the ground and runs away.

“Kiririk!”

Dada dadadak!

The creature moved quickly on its four legs and chased Lieutenant Franco.

The forest is not good for aerial magic knights because there are too many trees, so they cannot use high-speed flight skills.

Bang! Tata tang! Bang!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

And then the other airborne magicians chased after the Pelagotou, shooting their rifles.

‘Huh! You can go that fast in the forest?’

Is that also because of the Mana Wind (lv.3) skill?

It was flying, gliding between the trees like a fish swimming.

It’s clearly a low-speed flight skill, but how is that kind of movement possible?

Thanks to this, the pursuing monster kept narrowly missing the human, and the agents in the air were able to continue hitting the monster.

So the hunt was going quite successfully.

“Kuaaaang!”

The monster suddenly stopped running.

He turned his head towards the magic knights attacking him from the sky, wondering if he had come to his senses.

The bait’s role is over.

The bastard was now glaring at the human who was hurting him.

If he was smart, he could have run away or hidden somewhere.

That was when.

Bang! Bang! Tata tang!

Ensign Franco fired his rifle again at the lizard monster’s face.

“Kuaaaa!”

He again chased Lieutenant Franco with all his might.

however!

Whirl!

Tata! Tata!

‘What? You’re flying backwards and shooting a rifle?’

I’ve seen elite-level aerial magic knights using this skill before.

Back fly!

But that skill was possible because it was in the air.

This is a forest, but you avoid the trees without even looking back!

For a moment, I watched with my mouth open without realizing it.

Tata Tang!

“Kkiaaaah!”

The bastard screams.

Then Captain Herman walked towards the lizard monster and hid behind a tree.

Ensign Franco lures the monster past!

Taang!

Captain Herman shot Pelagotou in the foreleg with his rifle.

‘Ah! You used a target skill that is a judo technique!’

If you hit the target on the first shot.

Tata tata tang! Tata tang!

Even if you aim at a roughly similar angle, bullets will continue to fly toward the target.

“Kwaaaaak!”

Pelagotto’s front legs were torn off as he pursued Franco.

Then the speed decreases!

“Concentrated fire!”

Tata tang! Tata tang!

A fireball flies.

That’s Lieutenant John Cutter’s Flame (lv.3) skill.

Boom! Boom boom boom!

Then, explosions occurred one after another.

The Flame skill is an explosion skill that is one level lower than the Fire Burst I have, but it can deal enough damage if you hit it right.

“die!”

Tata tang! Tata tang!

Jester also fired continuously with the Air Bomb (lv. 3) skill while changing magazines in the sky, and Major Phelps also continued to throw grenades and shoot his rifle.

And Franco, who was running away, stopped and fired his assault rifle.

Five bullets and skills rained down mercilessly on the dimensional monster Pelagotou.

But even after shooting for a long time, the bastard didn’t die.

At that moment, the monster swung its tail at Ensign Franco, who was nearby.

Boohoo! Kwak!

The tail broke the tree, and Franco slightly jumped up to dodge, firing at the tail.

‘By any chance, have you learned evasion techniques as well?’

The movement just now seemed like he had been watching the bastard’s attack and then dodged it.

Swish! Swish!

Phelps threw a magic grenade.

Boom! Boom!

“Die soon!”

“die!”

Tata tang! Tata tang!

Boom! Boom boom!

I know that feeling well.

When you shoot for a long time but the monster doesn’t die.

The aerial magician feels the desperate need for firepower.

“Kuaaaaak!”

The monster opened its mouth wide as if making a last-ditch effort and rushed at Franco.

Franco didn’t run away, but fired his rifle straight into the bastard’s open mouth.

Tata tang! Tata tang!

Crunch!

We’re out of bullets.

Tuaang!

Phew!

The bullet I shot blasted into the head of the Pelagoto monster.

Hwaaaaah!

“Kuaaaa!”

Meanwhile, Franco replaced the magazine and fired his rifle into the screaming monster’s mouth.

Tata tata tang! Tata tang!

“Kueeeeek!”

Kuuung!

The monster sat down there helplessly.

And it didn’t move at all.

Even though the man was down, the agents did not stop shooting.

Tata tata tang!

“Cease fire!”

Eventually, I stepped forward.

“Cease fire!”

I only managed to hit it once, but I gained a small amount of experience points, so I was sure it was dead.

“Phelps! Hand out magazines and move.”

“yes!”

We moved to a safe place because a dimensional dragon or other S-class monster might come.

***

Knock! Knock!

We sat in front of the campfire.

“Be happy. You have awakened the flame skill.”

Major Phelps looked at me and smiled broadly.

“I told you to just let me see it.”

Phelps had learned many useful spells, including detection spells, spatial spells, and flight spells, but he had no particular affinity for firepower-related skills.

But today, I have awakened the lowest level skill, the Burst Technique.

When an aerial magician feels the urgency of firepower, he awakens related techniques like this.

“I also learned the compression bullet skill.”

Jester raised his hand slightly with an apologetic expression.

It’s not that I’m sorry for awakening the spirit, but I’m sorry because there might be members who couldn’t awaken.

Although he was timid, he was a considerate guy.

“It’s a compressed bullet. What kind of skill is that?”

“When you activate the magic circle, the fired bullets are covered in compressed air, and a small explosion occurs when they hit.”

“Isn’t it inferior to the Air Bomb (lv.3) skill you have?”

Jester smiled brightly.

“That compression bullet skill lasts for 30 seconds.”

“Ah! This is a perfect skill for our assault rifle.”

In my case, I had to use a skill for each bullet to properly exert its power, so I often fired single shots to increase firepower.

However, Jester’s Compression Bullet (lv. 1) can continuously shoot enhanced bullets for 30 seconds once activated, so it was a really good skill for an assault rifle that could fire automatically.

As the level increases, the explosive power will also become stronger.

“Don’t other people have awakened spells or skills?”

“I have also awakened a new skill. It is a blazing skill.”

Lieutenant John Cutter said.

“Good! Your firepower has gotten stronger. We haven’t been able to catch any strong monsters for a while, so it’s been hard to awaken your spells and even your higher-level skills.”

The Burst skill is a skill of similar level to the Fire Burst skill that I have.

Burst has a large explosive power but small flames, while Fire Burst has a larger flames than explosive power, so they have advantages and disadvantages.

Then Captain Herman raised his hand.

“I also gained the skill of inducing heat, not through magic.”

“Heat source induction?”

“It is a skill that literally detects the hottest heat in the surrounding area when you use the skill and targets the bullets there.”

“Oh! I guess I can use it on enemies or monsters that have been hit by flame skills.”

“yes.”

If only the firepower had been stronger, this would be the equivalent of a heat-seeking missile.

These are C-class magic knights, and they have awakened their spells and skills by killing A-class monsters. And it was a bonus that they all rose to B-class magic knights.

When I was a C-rank, I killed an A-rank monster by myself, so I had two spells awakened.

Then Major Phelps looked at Ensign Franco.

“You must have caught a monster and awakened your magic or skills, right? Tell me.”

“I only increased my skill level this time.”

“Just skill level? Yeah, that’s not bad either.”

“That’s right. It’s been six months since I was commissioned, so I think I can awaken even more in the future.”

Everyone consoled Lieutenant Franco.

I asked about the techniques and skills that Lieutenant Franco used earlier this afternoon.

“Franco, how many drinks do you have?”

Franco glanced at his men and answered.

“There are five.”

“what?”

“Five?”

The agents all looked at Franco with surprised expressions.

That was to be expected, since only Audrey, Nicole, and Ensign Cameron had awakened more than five spells.

Of course I have 8.

“Why didn’t you tell me before?”

“It entered this gate and awakened, so I haven’t been able to tell you yet.”

“You came in here and woke up?”

“Yes, this place is very rich in mana, like a labyrinth gate, so while using the mana wind skill, I kept using the flight spell, and I unknowingly awakened many spells.”

“What is the awakening spell here?”

“Originally, I only awakened the detection and flight techniques. However, after coming here, I awakened the evasion, trap, and concentration techniques.”

“What about skills? Tell me about all the skills you’ve awakened.”

First, the flight technique skills that Lieutenant Franco talked about were low-speed flight (lv. 3), high-speed flight (lv. 2), and back fly (lv. 2).

He just killed a Class A Dimensional Monster and his High Speed ​​Flight and Backfly skills leveled up.

And the detection spell skill was Mana Wind (lv. 3), the trap spell skill was Mana Mine (lv. 2), the concentration spell skill was Mana Field (lv. 2), and the evasion spell skill was Mana Reflection (lv. 2).

Most of the skills were related to mana.

To be honest, I was so surprised that I was a little jealous.

Of course, I had already awakened the skill called Mana Wind before I entered the Southern Continent Labyrinth Gate, but five spells in just six months since I was commissioned!

Moreover, the skill level is also high.

Geniuses are truly different.

The agents looked more surprised than I was.

“Huh! Am I supposed to salute you later?”

“That’s right. You have more awakening techniques than me!”

Franco smacked his lips with an awkward expression.

Have my subordinates and superiors been looking at me like that until now?

The men looked at Lieutenant Franco as if he were a monster.

But I kept a calm expression.

No matter how much of a genius this guy is, he’s no use to me.

‘Because I have two classes.’

End