Episode 33. The Dream Forest Trial (2)
A terrain with rugged rocks jutting out in a jumble. One wrong step and you’ll end up falling down the cliff.
However, the remaining participants were already prospective assassins with a certain level of agility.
He was jumping from rock to rock with steady and quick movements.
Knock knock. Knock knock.
“Who will confess next?”
While moving, Hamilton shouted at the top of his lungs. His shout echoed back immediately, but there was no one to answer.
It was not a situation where one could have a leisurely conversation. The participants were spreading out in three directions, keeping their distance from each other.
A dream monster that follows the participants like prey.
‘Mutant Orc. So is it Blane next?’
This monster did not appear in the ‘2nd selection’ before the return. The flow was different from the past. Then, the first person to be suspected was Blane.
“Blane! Is that your fear?”
As it happened, Rubin and Blaine were running in the same direction.
The two men were moving west from their starting point. Behind them, a mutant orc was chasing them, swinging his long spear in both hands like a madman, thirsting for blood.
Grrrrrrrrrrk!
A creature whose upper body was that of an orc, but whose lower body was not. It looked like the lower body of a wolf had been sewn together.
The orc, his skin like reddish-brown bark expanding, brandished the long spear in each hand menacingly.
Still, they were far from fast enough to chase after Rubin and Blaine.
Even as the mutant orcs leaped between the rocks on their four wolf legs, Rubin and Blane were way ahead.
“No, I am not.”
“Really?”
“Really, I say.”
Blane’s speed was slowly falling behind. It seemed like his stamina was reaching its limit.
Rubin looked back and measured the distance between him and the mutant orc. If this continued, Blane would soon catch up.
“Hamil? Or Kun? I don’t know.”
“I think it would be one of the Bondogna Stone family participants.”
Blane’s long hair fluttered in the wind as she answered. Long brown hair that she had grown out to hide the burn scar that extended down her left shoulder.
Rubin looked at her, her hair flying wildly.
“Oh, I see what you mean.”
I understood what Blane was saying. That creature, which inherited the lower body of a wolf, was a species that had been attempted to be improved in the port city of Krulti in the southern part of the continent, but failed.
It was created for the purpose of being used for training by master swordsmen and martial artists, but it was too cruel and uncontrollable for training, so it ended up being taken over by slave traders near Krulti.
Since the home of the Bondogna Stone family was near Krulti, there was a chance that one of them had seen a mutant orc when he was young.
“That orc’s name was Krulti Orc.”
“It doesn’t seem that different from a real Crulti Orc.”
Blanet said with difficulty.
The lagging Blane entered the Crulti Orc’s firing range. The Crulti Orc let out an excited howl as its prey approached.
Grrrrrrrrrrr!
The Crulti Orc swung the spear in his right hand.
Perhaps sensing his own demise, Blane’s eyes widened as she looked at Rubin, who was walking ahead. The sound of a spear striking fiercely rang in her ears.
at that time.
Rubin, who had slowed down, turned his body backwards and grabbed Blane with one hand.
The long spear that was rushing towards Blane cut through the air.
Swoosh
Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Unlike Rubin, who steadily reduced his speed, the Krulti Orc could not do so. The Orc, who turned his head towards Rubin and barked, crashed into the rock due to his uncontrollable speed.
“Why are you sparing me?”
Blaine was breathing heavily. It was a decision that defied common sense to spare another contestant.
Rubin approached the Krulti Orc.
“For me, this test is a kind of training.”
“Huh? Cultivation?”
“A training that takes everyone to the next level.”
The Crulti Orc had lost one of his two long spears, one of which was now in Rubin’s hands.
“You’re saying you’re going to make everyone grow?”
Rubin didn’t hesitate. He returned the Krulti Orc’s spear to its original owner.
thud!
The movements of the Crulti Orc, which had been struggling after hitting a rock, stopped.
The spear pierced the Crulti Orc’s neck and lodged in the rock. The Orc’s blood dripped down the spear and onto the ground, drop by drop.
“Because everyone has to become stronger.”
Rubin pulled out the spear he had embedded in the rock. He picked up the remaining spear from the dead Krulti orc’s hand.
He turned towards Blane, holding two long spears taller than him.
“Eventually I will win, but until then, this is training for everyone.”
Does this mean that he can control the flow of this test as he wishes? Blanet trembled slightly at Rubin’s confident attitude.
‘There are people this strong, so why am I caught up in this crap?’
“Let’s go. We need to get rid of the other two quickly. Then we can move on to the next step, right?”
With the start of the fourth order, there were three Crulti Orcs in total. Accordingly, the six surviving participants were divided into three groups and scattered.
Rubin and Blaine.
Stone and Bonedog.
And Hamill and Kuhn.
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While Rubin dealt with one of the Crulti Orcs, Hamil and Kun walked in the same direction, at a distance from each other.
“Do you think you’ll survive long if you stick with me?”
“No, don’t let your guard down, I’m looking for an opportunity to kill you.”
The two men had already killed one of the Crulti Orcs that had been chasing them, even while they were bickering with each other.
Kun directly blocked the Crulti Orc’s spear with his own hand, and Hamil, not missing the opening that occurred, slit the Crulti Orc’s neck with his dagger.
“Now there are only two left… I wish they would just appear in front of me. I’d tear them all apart.”
“Kun said, gritting his teeth.
“There must be one. Master Rubin would have taken care of it by now.”
“Damn, you’re really a Roinen follower.”
“Kun, do you want to bet?”
“Get out.”
Even though he didn’t want to accept it, Kun also knew that Rubin would have already dealt with this much.
“I’d like to see the Bone Dog and Stone pups. Let’s eliminate them both immediately so we can move on to the next round.”
“Oh, hey. It’s just like you said.”
“what?”
“Can’t you see those two running towards you?”
When you enter a dream state, the space changes into a sphere with a circumference of 4 kilometers.
That’s why if you keep going straight in any direction, you will eventually return to your original starting point.
As Kun and Hamil were walking straight ahead, Stone and Bonedog participants running away from the Krulti Orcs appeared in front of them.
“Those kids still haven’t caught the orc.”
Kun hid by pressing his body against a rock.
“I’m going to knock those bastards off, Hamill. If you come near me, I’ll attack you too, so stay away.”
At Kuhn’s declaration, Hamilton raised both hands.
“Or else. I’ll just watch from afar.”
“Hehe, you’re scared after all.”
Hamilton did not fall for Kuhn’s provocation. Instead, he moved to a position a good distance away from Kuhn.
Meanwhile, Kun pulled out his dagger. The Kergit Dagger. This legendary weapon, steeped in poison, was the one Kun had obtained as a reward in the ‘first selection.’
If you stab Bonedog and Stone with this dagger, they will suffer from the same poison as in real life until they are knocked out of their dream state.
Kun laughs bitterly as he thinks of the two contestants who will suffer and die from the poison.
Stone and Bonedog continued to run without knowing what their future would hold. At that time, they were running while keeping a distance from the Krulti Orc.
“You came all this way!”
“… … !”
Kun rushed in front of the two contestants. Kun jumped in and swung his dagger. His attack speed was doubled by the darkness.
That attack was not something Stonena or Bondog could handle.
“Ugh!”
Stone and Bondog were humiliated by Kun in the first test. So they were just waiting for the moment to take revenge on Kun.
Kun was too strong for the two to succeed in their revenge. In Kun’s surprise attack, Bondog’s head was cut off. He didn’t even have time to feel pain.
Bondog was eliminated, and Stone suffered a cut to his forearm.
“Don’t worry, kid. Your friend isn’t actually dead. Meet me outside the forest as a fellow dropout.”
The Kergit’s poison quickly spread through Stone’s body. Stone, paralyzed, shut his eyes tightly. This time, I’m being attacked by Kun again!
“That pesky Crulti Orc is your fear, isn’t he? After I kill you, I’ll move on to the next round.”
Kun swung his dagger and knocked out the helpless Stone.
At that moment, Kun, who had confirmed Stone’s elimination, put the dagger away.
An aggressive movement entered the radius of Kun’s darkness.
“Hamil, you sly bitch! Are you fooling me again?”
Kun immediately turned his body. He jumped up on the floor and barely avoided Hamil’s dagger. It was so close that his collar was cut off.
“Damn it!”
Hamil cried out in regret after failing to attack.
In fact, the fear of the Crultie Orcs is Hamil’s own.
After the first test, Hamil, angry at his own helplessness, asked his master to save the Crulti Orc. Like other swordsmanship and magician families, he trained against the Crulti Orc.
Then one day, he was in danger of being killed by dozens of uncontrolled Crulti Orcs. If he had not been saved by the help of the head of the household, he would have died.
‘I knew that fear would be engraved in me at that time.’
That wasn’t the problem now. The plan to eliminate Kun had gone awry, so now all that was left was to confront that monstrous Kun head on.
“It was your turn this time? Huh… … .”
Kun pulled out the dagger he had been holding.
“I hope this isn’t a dream. I really want to kill you, bitch.”
“Me too, you insolent little dog.”
“I’ll pull that damn tongue out!”
Coon’s attack began. Hamill took a defensive stance for the time being.
After a while.
As Rubin and Blane walked, they came across the last remaining Kruti Orc, which was about to attack someone with a long spear in each hand.
“Those two… … .”
“Kun and Hamil. It looks like Bondog and Stone were eliminated.”
“Then the Krulti Orc would be the fear of one of those two.”
The last Krulti Orc swung his spear. With the Orcs joining in, the fight became a three-way battle. Kun, Hamil, and the Orcs.
If it were a one-on-one fight, they would have easily dealt with an orc, but Kun and Hamil were attacking and defending each other.
“Are you going to watch?”
“No. First, we need to stop the fight.”
Rubin divided the spears he had brought into his right and left hands, and stretched out his dark smoke towards Kun and Hamil, who were in the midst of a fight.
“Blane.”
“yes?”
“I don’t know why you’re cowering so anxiously, but listen carefully.”
Rubin stretched both hands holding the spear behind his shoulders, intending to throw it straight over there.
“If you draw the shadow long enough, you can increase your aim. There was someone who taught me the secret. She was the best at long-range assassination. She could take out targets from unseen places. With just one blow.”
Just before throwing his spear, Rubin looked at Blane. At this moment, the best long-range assassin Rubin could remember was blinking with a face that seemed to show that he did not understand what he was saying.
“You can be that kind of person.”
At the same time, Rubin pulled his shoulders forward with all his might.
The two long spears that left Rubin’s hands flew towards Kun and Hamil at incredible speed.
The nature of the fight between Kuhn and Hamill was such that Kuhn actually had the upper hand.
Even though an orc suddenly intervened, Kun deliberately did not kill the orc. If he killed the orc first, he would not be able to eliminate Hamil.
“Get out of here now!”
Just as the attack to eliminate Hamilton was about to take place.
It was a moment where all he had to do was bring down the dagger.
Swoosh.
Two long spears flew through the wind.
Krrrrrrkk …
One spear pierced the body of the Crulti Orc that was stuck between the two men. And the other.
“f*ck!”
It was stuck in front of Kun, who was about to stab Hamil with his dagger. Thanks to this, Kun’s attack was blocked by the long spear.
Whoosh.
The fourth cycle ended with the death of the last Crulti Orc.
