hotmtlnovel Chapter 119: Grim News
Chapter 119: Grim News
Outside the gates of Colzen Academy, six third-year students–five of them slightly wounded, were walking in a hurry.
One of the students was carrying a bloody sack bag containing the head of an orc grunt, and had a grim expression on his face while the others had varied emotions of guilt, dejection, and worry.
These students were the Colzen Avengers squad who were in a rush to meet the deans to report what happened inside the advanced adventurer zone and ask for help regarding Shye's situation.
Naturally, the worried deans immediately caught wind of their return and didn't wait for them to arrive at the faculty meeting hall. Instead, the deans hurriedly rushed out of their offices to meet their students.
Although of different classes as adventurers, the deans somehow arrived in front of the gates at the same time which slightly surprised the Colzen Avengers.
Upon realizing that there were only six, Dean Snowcrest spoke first:
"Where's Crowley? Why isn't he with you guys?" the dean asked with a curious expression.
He wasn't worried at all because Shye's talisman hadn't sent a notification to him yet so he knew that he was still alive.
He even thought that he simply dropped by the shops or something to sell loot.
What he didn't expect was that his favorite student was in grave danger.
Feeling guilty about Shye's situation, Wendy voluntarily stepped forward and stuttered as she tried her best to report what happened.
"D-Deans...Everything is my fault...After killing the dying berserk orc grunt, we were attacked by a Hellspawn Bull-Lizard. We got lucky and somehow managed to kill the Bull-Lizard after pushing it off a cliff."
"However...While I was circling the Bull-Lizard, I stumbled upon some sort of labyrinth or tomb entrance. The two of us tried to explore around the stairways of the entrance but just when we were about to head back...A trap door suddenly opened below us..."
"Crowley managed to escape but I...couldn't...He dived back in to save me and fell down instead...If only...If only I didn't suggest checking the entrance...Or If I was capable enough to escape the trap on my own...none of this would've happened..."
After stating what happened without hiding anything, Wendy's hands were shaking and tears welled up in the corners of her eyes, feeling guilty about Shye's current situation.
She didn't even know if he managed to survive the fall so in her heart, she was the one who killed Shye.
He calmly observed their movements for quite a while but unfortunately, these two were too focused on keeping each other alive or at least taking him down with one of them.
'Tch...Since these kobolds aren't showing any openings, then I just have to create one!' Shye muttered to himself as he used his weakest and slowest gap closer skill, [Pierce Lunge Lv.1], to purposely show them an opening to exploit.
Finally, after trying to bait them tens of times, one of the kobolds fell for this one.
[Pierce Lunge Lv.1] was slower compared to [Rush Stab Lv.2] or [Dash Lv.3] so one of the kobolds thought that it could exploit this opening, however, little did he know that it was Shye's trap.
While pretending to target the other kobold, he immediately activated [Stoic Lv.3] along with two charges of [Boost] to increase the overall defense of the skill, thus, allowing him to tank one of the kobolds' damage.
His skill, [Pierce Lunge Lv.1] was easily blocked by the targeted kobold but it was all according to his plan.
Then, like an absolute beginner, he fully exposed his whole body for the targeted kobold to attack however the hell it wanted as he turned his attention towards the opening exploiter kobold.
'Got you!' A fierce expression appeared on Shye's face as he immediately used [Draconian Roar Lv.1] on the baited kobold, paralyzing it on the spot due to fear and trepidation.
He then used [Power Slash Lv.3] to instantly slash the disoriented kobold in half while its comrade desperately hacked and slashed at Shye's body in an attempt to save its comrade.
Unfortunately for the last kobold, the double-boosted [Stoic Lv.3] could fully tank its damage for around six seconds which was more than enough for Shye to end the life of its comrade.
Thus, it was now left alone, unsure if it was better to continue fighting or to flee.
In the end, it decided to flee in hopes of finding another group of kobolds to work with, however, how could Shye let the remaining kobold go?
He already considered that the last one might flee so he saved up two of his strongest gap-closer skills just for this moment.
*SPURT*
A comradeless kobold was just too easy for Shye to kill so after using his entire skill set masterfully, Shye successfully completed the execution of three kobolds.
[Congratulations on completing the quest: Hunt: 3 - Kobold Militias! You've earned 700 points as a reward!]