373. A few days ago, a
few days ago with a brief run back an hour north.
In other words, the time when the northern part was peaceful just before Kang Seung-hyeon unlocked the [The Ruler of the Tower] achievement.
A woman with orange hair was standing in the middle of the snowfield at that time.
‘Heh heh…’
Pak! Pak!
Her name is Tina Putane.
A girl who is training in the northern part of the Azul Continent covered in snow and ice to listen to Kang Seung-hyun’s advice and become a magic swordsman.
‘It’s all filled up…’
Now, he is diligently scooping up the snow and ice that is up to his waist with a shovel the size of his height and loading it onto the sled.
‘It’s cold and my hands are cold… I want to go back to the mountain hut and warm up by the fire.’
Snow and ice are scattered all over the place, so you might think why they bother carrying it on a sled, but here in the Vostok Mountains, it is the coldest polar region in northern Azul, where it is winter all year round.
Of course, instead of rain, only snow falls, and lakes, rivers, seas, and underground towels are frozen solid, so you have to melt the snow and ice to get drinking water.
Of course, there is snow and ice near the residence, but the northern people’s survival method is to leave it in case of an emergency and usually go out and fetch it from a distance.
‘I always think, but it’s not easy to get drinking water here. If you need water in the eastern part, you can go to a nearby pond or river…’
To Tina, who was born and raised in the warm eastern part, life in the cold northern part is unfamiliar and difficult, but she was able to endure it because she was prepared to do anything to become stronger.
‘Then… let’s go.’
Tina put the shovel on her back and started pulling the sled.
In fact, scooping and carrying snow and ice is also to store drinking water, but the real purpose was to grow physical strength that fell to the bottom.
‘It’s a bit cumbersome to increase magic power, but it’s easy to increase physical strength, right? I know because I’ve done it, but even simple labor went up a lot? You know what I mean? run!’
Climbing to the top of the snowy mountain is basic.
Carrying a shovel and clearing snow, breaking ice with a shovel, chopping firewood with a shovel, piling up snow and pulling a sleigh…
Currently, Tina’s physical training is all sorts of chores like this.
‘It seems like there were more days when I wielded a shovel than a knife after coming to the North.’
Tina became so close to the snow shovel that she wondered if she had come to change jobs as a magician rather than a magician.
‘That master? When will the magic swordsman skills be…’
Of course, Tina is also a human being, so she was tired of doing simple labor, so she asked to teach her magic swordsman skills.
‘technology? It’s good! I was really bored!’
Surprisingly, he was informed meekly, so I followed him, and a hell worse than simple labor awaited me.
‘Since trivial things aren’t fun, I’ll tell you the funniest things first.’
‘Is it fun?’
It’s because the human being the teacher taught me the skill and rolled it too hard from the start.
‘Look at what I’m doing and follow me.’
Roughly speaking, the mana expelled from the body is converted into a ‘magic sword’ in the form of a sword. Using it as a stepping stone, he jumps and then emits magic again, quickly transforming into a sword form. Before it falls to the floor, it quickly steps on and jumps, repeatedly rises high into the sky, then falls vertically to the floor, slashing it with a sword, and at the same time ignoring its own fall damage with shock dispersion magic right before it hits the floor.
‘I call it “Bungee jumping without a rope.”
‘to.’
Physical abilities and stamina swordsmanship magical powers.
It is a skill of high difficulty that requires all abilities.
‘It’s fun to slash the floor with a knife, but it’s okay to grab someone and climb up and drop them!’
‘to?’
‘So what are you doing? Try it now!’
‘Just did that?’
‘Would you like me to tell you about magic swordsman skills?’
‘I think I’m lacking in stamina right now. I think I still need some more physical training! I think I have too little stamina. I am! yet! I don’t think it’s time to learn magic swordsman skills!’
Tina said, grabbing the snow shovel and running away.
Because I wanted to live as a magician and a nabal.
‘If I don’t build more physical strength, I think I’ll really die while training…’
Since that day, I haven’t asked for magic swordsman skills, and I’m just quietly rolling my eyes.
‘Still, I can learn simple swordsmanship and magic… I think it’s good that I came here.’
Of course, rather than learning, it’s more like watching the teacher closely and clumsily imitating them, then carefully asking other colleagues if there’s something they don’t understand.
Anyway, Tina’s life in the North wasn’t too bad now.
It was much better now that I set a goal and become stronger little by little than when I was an adventurer without a purpose.
‘If it wasn’t for teacher Kang Seung-hyun, I wouldn’t have gotten this opportunity. Shall we send a letter when we go down to the village this time? I need to hear about the story of the last funeral. Master says there’s nothing to worry about and just ignore it.’
Thinking about this and that, Tina, who was pulling the sleigh, looked up at the sky.
Gradually, the evening glow was appearing.
This is because the weather has been very cold these past few days, and the digging speed has been slower than usual due to the frozen snow and ice.
‘Oh, I’m late. The sun will set if I don’t get back soon…’
Tina hurriedly started pulling the sled.
In other areas and the northern part, monsters appear when the day gets dark, and this neighborhood is sparsely populated, so there are no adventurers passing by, so it is full of monsters.
Kurrrrr!
It was then.
The ground shook wildly, and I
grasped it!
Grasp!
The snow and ice shattered and the frozen ground soared, revealing a huge monster.
“ah! I knew it!”
A land where monsters jump out even in the evening like this if time delays a little bit.
It is the northernmost point of the North.
Close by!
What jumped out of the ground was a giant earthworm monster that seemed to be carved out of ice and exhaled cold air.
[Giant Ice Worm]
A gigantic size that is incomparable to normal ice worms.
It was a powerful monster that required a monster raid to be able to subdue it with three adventurer parties.
Quaaaaaagh!
At that moment, something crashed into the Giant Ice Worm at high speed.
It’s like a meteorite fell from the sky.
blah blah blah!
Whoops!
The Giant Ice Worm was cut in half and collapsed in one blow, and someone rose from among the wreckage of the Ice Worm.
Long, messy jet-black hair.
Almost 2m tall, muscle well over 190.
And even ski clothes suitable for the Vostok mountain range, which is a harsh area but is perfect for building a ski resort if there are no monsters.
“Hey, hey, hey, you haven’t been here yet, so you’ve been fooling around?”
“How foolish is this? They were attacked.”
“Whether you were foolish and then attacked by a monster or fool around, both are the same by my standards?”
This man’s name is Choi Yi-han.
Tina’s magic swordsman teacher and one of the dimension movers brought to the Azul continent from Earth three years ago.
And he was a former party member of Kang Seung-hyun.
“If you’re going to play around, you should have made sure to destroy the evidence so that it wouldn’t be discovered. If it were me, I would have buried it quickly and pretended not to know.”
“I don’t know if it’s a mini ice worm… How do you deal with a giant ice worm by yourself?”
“Didn’t you see what I just did? Pak! You can do it and put it down.”
“What happens?”
A gray-haired man with a butt bit on came trudging along from behind with an absurd voice.
One leg is normal, but the other leg is prosthetic.
Of course, amputation of a hand or foot from frostbite is common in cold regions, so this is not surprising.
“What?”
“At least 10 adventurers are needed to defeat the Giant Ice Worm.”
“Noisy, you bastard.”
“after.”
The man murmured as he dumped the ashes into the sack.
This man’s name is Ita Litvaksy.
A middle-aged man with a tired face and an untidy philtrum beard whose age is unknown.
He is also a bit taller than Tina, who is around 160cm tall, so when the three of them are together, there would be an optical illusion that Choi Yi-han, who is almost 2m tall, would appear taller.
Other than that, if there is one external feature, it is that he has slightly triangular and pointed ears, unlike Tina, who has round ears like Choi Yi-han, even though he is from the same Azul continent.
“Is Tina okay?”
“I’m fine thanks to Master.”
“Because this neighborhood is sparsely populated, monsters appear even before the sun sets. If possible, don’t go far and go quickly.”
“yes!”
“Dwarfs do dwarf talk. Is the air downstairs warm? The air up here is cold, so it must be cold.”
“Tsk. Did all the food for courtesy go to height?”
Ita sighed deeply and put a new cigarette in her mouth.
“Let’s go back soon. Giant Ice Worms are monsters that gather in groups of two or three at a time, so there should be more nearby.”
“Cheol? Grab them all and go.”
“Catch it alone! Are we you? Do you know how common it is for a monster like you to catch it by yourself?”
“It’s common because you guys don’t know.”
Choi Yi-han, who was listening to Eta’s words, said with a snort.
“Because it’s literally on a different level.”
No matter how hard the citizens of Azul tried, they could not catch up with the dimension movers who received the fraudulent cheat called status window.
Even ordinary dimension movers are hard to catch up with, especially monsters who are lucky with the status window or who even make an effort.
It was then.
“Shit, what is this?”
At first, Choi Yi-han looked at the empty space and shouted as if he was dumbfounded.
“Why are you like that?”
“Leave it. I don’t know why, but it’s often like that.”
“Have you ever liked looking into space, but never been angry?”
“I like fighting so much that I think I’m going to fight in the void.”
Tina asked with a bewildered face, and Itta waved her hand, saying not to mind.
The two of them can’t see anything, but
※[Choi Yi-han is the first to achieve the ‘Ruler of the Magic Tower’ achievement.]※ -[
If you’re curious how he got it, come to the north lol]
Right now, in front of Choi Yi-han, someone must have achieved the first achievement. A notification message appeared when
even in his own name.
