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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Vine
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“Thank you for your hard work.”
“It’s not far, what hard work are you talking about?”
“It’s called manners.”
“You haven’t changed.”
In the guild master’s office, a man and a woman sat facing each other.
“Thank you for your assistance.”
“Not at all. We’re helping each other out.”
“I wish everyone was like that…”
Argo, the Guild Master.
Lucia Marigold, the Headmaster of the Academy and former S-rank adventurer.
If only the relationship between adventurers and academy students was like theirs.
But it was difficult to recover a strained relationship.
Although it wasn’t impossible to mend it with an ‘order’ from their high positions, that would just be like a tyrant ruling with power.
Neither Argo nor Lucia would use such a method, given their personalities.
Unless it was an absolute worst-case scenario.
“Why didn’t you go to the exercise yourself?”
“I think the students would be too tense if I was there, so I try not to go if I can.”
“That’s understandable. You’re one of the three S-rank adventurers in the world. Even I would be nervous.”
“Even S-rank adventurers are human…”
Of course, they were extraordinary in terms of combat ability, but compared to the other two S-rank adventurers, Alchemist and Weapon Master, she thought she was more approachable.
“But I was so surprised when I saw the name of the adventurer coming to assist today!”
She already knew it from the document.
Luke.
She was very surprised.
She still remembered Luke.
He was famous for having no magic power, and he was one of the few students who declared that he was dropping out of the academy.
She didn’t expect him to become an adventurer.
“He’s already C-rank?”
It took a lot of time and effort for an adventurer to rise in rank.
Usually, it took at least three years to go from E-rank to C-rank.
And it took even longer to rank up further.
It might seem like a long time, but it was short compared to a human lifespan.
“That’s amazing.”
It had only been a few months since he left.
She didn’t know what had happened, but it must have been difficult.
It was impossible to rank up that fast without difficulties.
She had ranked up quickly too, but she was born with strong magic power, unlike him.
“Haha… He’s skilled, but I don’t know about his personality…”
Part of the Guild Master’s job was managing the mental health of his receptionists.
Helping them relieve stress with proper breaks.
But Adela, who had met with Luke a lot lately, seemed to be having a difficult time…
“He also got a B-rank promotion test as a reward, so he’ll be B-rank in no time.”
“B-rank? Is that even possible?”
“I believe he’s more than capable.”
Lucia might not know, but he also took care of the Marquis’ demonization.
He was already stronger than a B-rank.
“Hoo… Perhaps we’ll see a new S-rank adventurer soon.”
His rapid promotion was amazing, but so were his skills.
Luke, who was at the bottom of the class a while ago.
He rose through his own strength, without cheating or taking shortcuts.
‘If I could just teach that to the students…’
Knock, knock.
“Guild Master, excuse me. May I come in?”
A receptionist’s voice called out.
“What is it, Adela? We have an important guest. Is it urgent?”
“Well… there’s been a report that a demon appeared at the academy.”
“…What?”
It was Lucia who asked.
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“Cough! Cough! Cough!”
I was dying.
It was good that I didn’t take damage from the explosion, but the smoke getting in my nose and mouth couldn’t be helped.
Why not protect me from the smoke too?
Smoke filled the dungeon.
It was a spur-of-the-moment decision, but…
It seemed the instructors hadn’t slacked off. The dungeon remained intact.
*Whoosh!*
A strong wind blew, and the smoke cleared.
I could finally see again.
“You actually did it…”
“Haa… I thought I was going to die…”
“You’re alive~ I believed in you~”
Luna and Yui were inside their blood barriers.
The barriers were tattered, explosions were still powerful.
“Y-you…! Are you crazy?! How could you cause an explosion here?! Are you trying to kill us all?!”
It was Arthur, who had been inside Stella’s earth barrier, that jumped out.
“If you died, blame yourself for being weak.”
The strong survived.
Like him.
And seriously, how could a protagonist almost die to an extra?
*Clank.*
“?”
He heard the sound of armor.
He turned around and saw the armor getting up.
So it didn’t die from that?
If it did, then everyone here would have been dead, and all adventurers would only use explosion magic.
Clank. Clank.
But wasn’t it too unharmed?
It didn’t even have a scratch.
It must have been a strong person in the past.
But there was a saying: if you cut down a tree ten times, it will eventually fall.
“Second explosion, let’s go~”
“S-stop!!”
“Luke! Everyone will die this time!”
He tried to open the bag of flour, but Luna and Yui stopped him.
“Then you guys catch it.”
Arthur couldn’t defeat it, and now he was making excuses.
“You used all your mana blocking the explosion earlier!”
“That’s unfortunate. Train harder.”
“How are we supposed to fight without any mana?!”
“So you want us to do it?”
They were annoying him.
He grabbed Arthur and threw him into the dungeon wall.
“Guh!”
*Thud!*
Finally, it was quiet.
“Y-you, again!”
“Go take care of your boyfriend.”
“Ugh…”
Tia was about to say something, but then she ran to Arthur.
“Let’s finish this and go.”
He drew his greatsword, and sensed the gaze of the Dullahan.
The Dullahan pointed its sword at him, burning with fighting spirit.
“It’s challenging me?”
“It seems so.”
So it could sense the strongest.
He must have been a tough manly man in his past life.
Honestly, he wanted to finish this quickly and go rest, but he couldn’t refuse a challenge. He’d be proving himself to be a coward.
The Dullahan charged at him.
“Oh, I just remembered.”
He opened his inventory.
The Dullahan’s sword disappeared into his inventory.
-…!
The Dullahan stepped back, flustered.
It must have been speechless, he imagined it would’ve said, “Wh-what?!”
He grinned.
“Kihihihi. Hehehehe. Hohohoho. Hahahaha.”
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What happened after that?
He put the armor into his inventory. It died.
He knew it was dead because he got several level-up notifications.
“What… what just happened…?”
Yui asked, genuinely curious.
“Well, I was thinking that the Dullahan is just some armor, right? It’s not even alive, it’s just moving armor. So, I tried putting it in my inventory, and it worked?”
Honestly, the knight he had just caught was closer to a Living Armor than a Dullahan.
But the one who summoned it called it a Dullahan, so that’s what it was.
“…Then what was with the explosion?”
“Just because. I felt like it.”
“…”
This is why you shouldn’t act on impulse.
The heroines were following them out of the dungeon, supporting Arthur.
The heroines’ expressions as they watched the Dullahan die from afar were truly a sight to behold.
Before the battle with the Dullahan, they were looking at him as if they would gladly bury him alive, but now their faces were saying, ‘Even we couldn’t defeat it, but you, without magic power…?’
This is probably why overpowered characters and hidden abilities are so popular in novels.
When we got closer to the entrance of the dungeon, the professors rushed in, having felt the tremors.
There were only two professors outside.
“What’s going on?!”
The male teacher shouted as he ran.
He was on high alert, as if there were monsters nearby, and was preparing to unleash his magic, so I took out the demon’s head to explain.
“No further explanation needed.”
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Ridiculous 😂