Episode 182 Midterm Random Defense (4)
Tudor remembered the fight he had with Hive a while ago that almost turned into a duel.
“Unlucky son of a bitch. Being arrogant about using a knife. See you someday at Naphtali. I’ll have to crush you again.”
“Wow, the line just sounded like a real third-class villain.”
Bianca gave Tudor a thumbs up.
It was quite a surprise that Tudor and Bianca, who always bickered, were in the same group.
“……Are we going to be okay?”
“……hmm.”
Piggy and Sancho looked at them and felt uneasy.
Beep-
[First grade 108! Four of the 108th grade students, please come up to the stadium now!]
But that was a futile worry.
“Now then, please cover me with a one-deal from behind, Mr. Bi.”
“Don’t worry, don’t worry, Mr. Tyu.”
As soon as the exams began, Tudor and Bianca became business friends, completely free from personal feelings.
Tsutsutsutsu……
In front of my eyes, a black darkness, a damp crypt, gloomyly blooming molds and filthy slime, eggshells and piles of eggs that vibrate unpleasantly were summoned.
Creeping …
and countless armies of ants began to rush in between them.
Monster Wave! Waves of monsters! It comes soon as if it will attack the four test takers.
-Titling!
A status board made of magic appeared in front of everyone.
< Map: Killer ant colony 'Unclean spawning ground' > -Let’s
join forces with colleagues to stop the killer ants flocking!
Time remaining until end of phase 1: 19 minutes 59 seconds
1. Don Quixote La Mancha Tudor
HP: 100/100
Kill point: 0 points
Assist point: 0 points
2. Sancho Panza Barataria
HP: 100/100
Kill point: 0 points
Assist point: 0 points
3. Usher Poe Bianca
HP: 100/100
Kill point: 0 points
Assist point: 0 points
4. Piggy
HP: 100/100
Kill point: 0 points
Assist point: 0 points
“Good! Let’s set a new record! ?”
Tudor, the most notable young man in the Don Quixote family, grabbed a large spear and rushed forward.
…Hook!
A vapor-like aura that proves the advanced level of the expert radiates a thick blue light.
It is weaker in hardness and density than Graduator’s liquid aura or Sword Master’s solid aura, but the expert’s air aura is the lightest in weight.
……That means it’s easy to wield!
Pupperpuppung!
The ants in front of me were torn apart like sheets of paper, caught in the storm of aura that extended from the window.
Seeing this, Bianca snorts.
“Do we really need to tear the ants to pieces? It’s inefficient to waste energy that shouldn’t be used.”
“What? Seriously. Then you can try it.”
“There’s nothing I can’t do. Take a good look.”
As soon as Bianca finished speaking, she let go of the demonstration.
Puff!
The arrow, which seemed to contain mana, flew in a bluish trajectory.
It pierced the forehead of the ant that was crawling right in front.
Then, it pierced through to the rear and half-embedded between the eyebrows of one of the ants behind it, and exerted all its strength.
Bianca killed the ants one by one using minimal force.
Bianca’s arrow, which only inflicts fatal wounds to the point where the ant is killed.
Her penetrating shot, which carries the unique gas aura of an expert, causes ants to die in a line.
“Oh- that’s arrogant?”
“Now do you know? Ho-ho-”
Tudor and Bianca grinned at each other. They were bad friends who got along quite well.
Then there were ants falling from the ceiling towards Bianca.
They opened their large, sharp jaws and aimed at Bianca’s head.
“Where!”
“dare!”
A large ax and a sharp longsword decapitate the ants.
Sancho and Piggy were acting as tanks by Bianca’s side.
puck! Fuck! Quick! Poududeuk!
Sancho slashed the ants with great force, swinging two axes.
Piggy gave orders day after day as he swung his longsword and cut down the ants.
“Tudor! I think it would be more efficient to go to the corner and slash the ants when the ranks of the ants break! You don’t have to kill it, so focus on the forelimb joints!”
Piggy’s orders were so precise and sharp that even Bianca, who didn’t like to follow others, moved her body with a surprised look on her face.
“……You have a very good eye, don’t you?”
“Hehe, thank you. I did a lot of research because I didn’t want to be a nuisance!”
Although Piggy’s fighting power was inferior to the other three, he was mentally good and diligent.
Because of this, Tudor and Sancho Bianca were able to hunt efficiently like never before.
“Look! Didn’t I say I’m good at blooming!?”
“No one has ever objected. Hehe!”
Tudor’s spear smashed the ants in front of him and charged, and Sancho’s twin axes killed all the ants sticking out from the side.
“Does our combination look good?”
Bianca fired an arrow at the right place, twisting the ranks of ants, and as a result, the speed of the monster wave was noticeably slowed down.
“Thank you for trusting my order! I’ll be back! Tudor! Give me a little more distance! Your spearmanship is so great that you can expand your area a little more. Ah! Same goes for Sancho! You’re doing well as you are now, just a little more. I think it will be much more efficient if you fight in the corner! Bianca is doing so well right now, so I think we’ll just have to keep going like this! Fighting everyone!”
And all of this proceeds in an instant under Piggy’s order.
Tudor, who broke the shells of the ants’ heads, shouted while dodging the venom.
“Hey! This is worth doing! If we do well, we can even break the record set by Vikir’s Joe!”
Then Sancho and Piggy Bianca also said a word.
“At this rate, it’s possible enough! New record breaking!”
“Huh…… It’s so hard. It must have been this hard for Vikir too, right?”
“The Baskervilles’ dogs are so fierce and stubborn, so it must have been difficult, right?”
Everyone pities Bikir, who was with the Baskerville triplets.
While having a conversation that would have made Vikir hear it.
Time goes by.
Countless ants piled up as corpses, and Tudor and Sancho Piggy, who were rampaging at the forefront, were also exhausted.
Everyone’s HP was so low that Bianca, who was now a one-hander, had to step forward and stand strong.
And in the end.
< Map: Killer ant colony 'Unclean spawning ground' > -Let’s
work together with our colleagues to stop the swarm of killer ants!
Time remaining until the end of phase 1: 0 minutes 08 seconds
1. Don Quixote La Mancha Tudor
HP: 0/100
Kill point: 231 points
Assist point: 81 points
2. Sancho Panza Barataria
HP: 0/100
Kill point: 189 points
Assist point: 94 points
3. Usher Poe Bianca
HP: 0/100
Kill point: 156 points
Assist point: 179 points
4. Piggy
HP: 0/100
Kill point: 58 points
Assist point: 89 points
Remaining time 8 seconds!
It beat the record set by the Baskerville triplets by two seconds.
After the exam, the total score is 312 for Tudor, 283 for Sancho, 335 for Bianca, and 147 for Piggy.
If you add up the kill points and assist points, you get a total of 1077 points. If you convert the lasting time of 19 minutes and 52 seconds to 1 point per second, the total is 1192 points.
With a total of 2269 points, it was 16 points ahead of the original first place record of 2253 points.
The first place record has been broken!
Looking at the status window, Tudor Sancho Piggy Bianca shouted while half-naked in the suit that records HP.
“First place! Yay!”
“Everyone has had a hard time.”
“Really? Are we really number one? Hooray!”
“You’ve had a hard time.”
Tudor, who killed the most ants in front, Sancho, who killed the next most ants, and Bianca, who had the highest score when combining kills and assists, even Piggy, who gave the order at the right place last.
Their synergy has set a new record and there are no groups to surpass this record in the future.
Tudor sighed in relief as he looked down at the suit with HP.
“It’s fortunate that the impact was quantified as HP. That it became 0 would mean that if it was a real battle, you’d die, right?”
At those words, everyone realizes the fear of actual combat.
Looking back at the number of monsters they had slain, they were predicting how far their capabilities and limit development potential would be.
“Let’s go now!”
Piggie shouted and everyone nodded.
The test for first graders is only up to phase 1.
As a sophomore, you’ll get an extra 20 minutes for phase 2, and as a junior, you’ll get another 20 minutes for phase 3.
muttered Bianca.
“Someday I will become a warrior who can last an hour like Chairman Dolores.”
At that, Tudor Sancho Piggy also nodded in agreement.
yet. They headed towards the entrance of the dungeon.
Soon, the hologram magic will dissipate and return to the real world.
The ant nest made of fantasy will disappear, the arena of reality will appear, and the magic wall will be lifted.
When that happens, the cheers of the crowd like thunder will be heard.
Tudor Sancho Piggy Bianca moved on, thinking about what kind of ceremony to respond to the cheers cheering them on.
……but.
“huh?”
“what?”
“Huh?”
“Why isn’t it over?”
Tudor Sancho Piggy Bianca’s expression is colored with wonder.
Despite the end of Phase 1 for first year students, the hallucination of the anthill still persists.
Everyone looked at the status window in bewilderment.
1. Don Quixote La Mancha Tudor
HP: 0/100
2. Sancho Panzer Barataria
HP: 0/100
3. Usher Poe Bianca
HP: 0/100
4. Piggy
HP: 0/100
Everyone’s HP remains the same. Power retirement indicating the end of the test.
Right then.
Cumbersome…
From behind the few remaining ants, a huge number of ants started to come again.
“What’s this!?”
“Why are you coming again!?”
“Isn’t it over!?”
“Open the door quickly!”
Everyone was shocked and knocked on the magic wall behind them, but there was no response from the outside.
Instead, what came up in front of their eyes.
-Titling!
< Phase 1 has ended >
< This is all 1st grade monsters >
< Phase 2 has started >
< From here on, only 2nd grade monsters >
.
.
This time, it’s not just worker ants.
Here and there, even large-sized soldier ants began to come in droves.
The moment you see soldier ants whose entire bodies are coated with an exoskeleton like an iron shield.
“……X is done.”
The blood began to drain white from Tudor Sancho Piggy Bianca’s face.
