Chapter 114 : Chapter 114
Chapter 114: Final Exams (6)
The battle with the Supreme King, with the tremendous reward called pork belly at stake.
The Class A students did not come blindly to fight without any countermeasures.
Everyone knew, of course, that they couldn't win in a pure battle against the Supreme King.
However, this was a test.
Everyone knew that the Supreme King would not try to kill the children earnestly.
But that didn't mean he would go easy on them.
So while coming here, Kang Tae-wook and Jin-ho exchanged opinions with the students from the position of leaders.
How to get a surrender from the battle with the Supreme King, or fulfill the conditions for victory.
Quite a few opinions came out.
“Warriors don’t need things like strategies!”
“Barbarians only engage in pure fighting!”
“Rejected.”
Fake barbarians.
Seong-hyeon and the twins’ opinions were immediately rejected.
“Let’s bind the Samurai body with Ye-na’s stealth.”
“Or let’s just run away with the pork belly using Ye-na’s stealth.”
“Rejected.”
“Why!”
“Ye-na will die.”
At Kang Tae-wook’s calm tone, the children nodded without refuting.
“Let’s draw attention with a combat team and form a stealth team to strike secretly from behind.”
“Not bad. Hold for now.”
About half of the opinions were decent.
“How about defense-type Awakened set up barriers around the Samurai? Of course, he’ll break the barriers, but then an opening will appear. That’s when strong damage dealers attack.”
“How about blocking his vision? Although they aren't combat types, there’s a Unique Skill that makes trees grow, and a Unique Skill that can create sandstorms.”
“Or while the kids with strong bodies distract him, how about Tae-wook binds his legs with ice ability?”
Although they weren't strategic and concrete operations like pros.
For suggestions made by chicks who weren't even used to fighting monsters in dungeons yet, there were many that weren't bad.
Filtering and filtering among them.
3 operations were finally selected.
Although they didn't know if this would work, it was a conclusion gathered by doing the best the children could do.
Hoping their efforts wouldn't be in vain, the children stood in front of the Samurai.
“If my feet leave the ground within one hour, it is your victory.”
At the condition that was far simpler than expected, all the operations the children had put their heads together to create disappeared into the trash can.
***
“Are you mocking warriors right now!”
“Barbarians don’t tolerate being ignored!”
“We can’t accept such a conditi…….”
Thud!
Thud!
Thud!
The trio of fake barbarians who were shouting while looking at the Samurai.
Seong-hyeon and the twins were surrounded by Class A students and got kicked.
“Thi…… This is Sparta…….”
Seong-hyeon and the twins collapsed on the floor and couldn't make a voice anymore.
“Ahem.”
At Kang Tae-wook and Jin-ho’s signal, the children’s kicking stopped.
“We accept the condition.”
“Within one hour, if your feet leave the ground, it’s our victory, right?”
“Don’t worry. A Samurai does not break an oath.”
The reason the children covered the mouths of the fake barbarians?
Why kick away a pumpkin that rolled in?
(Why look a gift horse in the mouth?)
They feel ignored?
Does being ignored feed you?
And
Isn’t it too easy?
Of course, pride could be hurt.
But, who is the opponent?
He is a Returnee.
A Returnee.
A Returnee whom even S-Ranks called Transcendents can’t even hand a business card to.
The Samurai called the Supreme King.
Even if he was defeated by Teacher Yoo jin.
One of only four Returnees in the entire world.
A Samurai called a god.
Ignored?
Pride?
Give that kind of thing to the dogs.
Surely if Yoo jin were here, he would have said that.
Furthermore.
“Instead, I’ll be slightly serious.”
Demonic Energy began to shimmer around the Supreme King’s body.
The empty air distorted, and cracks occurred here and there.
Kang Tae-wook, who would be sad if he were second in having strong pride.
There, Jin-ho, who is more upright than anyone.
Even these two.
Accepted the Supreme King’s condition.
Meekly.
It’s to that extent.
To that extent…….
One hour.
That Supreme King standing in place lifting his feet from the ground is…….
“Can we do it?”
“We have to try. Until we can.”
Even to those who received lessons from Yoo jin.
The conviction that they could do it did not arise.
***
Sparring Room No. 7.
Yoo jin and Lee Si-wang were watching the battle between the Supreme King and the students that had begun in earnest.
“Wow…… The Supreme King is being quite serious.”
“He gave that much advantage, so of course.”
The Samurai who drew his sword as soon as it started.
Against the offensive of the children rushing in like a tide, the Supreme King stood in place and defended against all of it.
The attacking children fell away one by one.
Of course, he pushed slightly with the back of the sword, not the blade, or tapped their foreheads with the pommel.
However, even with such consideration, the children took quite a hit and rolled on the ground.
In a way, it was natural.
No matter how gently he hit, the current fight.
Was a battle between an elephant and ants.
Unlike Lee Si-wang whose eyes were on the Supreme King, Yoo jin’s gaze was not on the Supreme King.
It was focused on the children rolling on the ground after failing to attack the Supreme King.
Jun-seok, Hee-ju, Yeong-seon, Chan-yeong.
They weren't children with Unique Skills specialized for combat.
And they weren't warlike children like Kang Tae-wook and Jin-ho either.
Even so.
“They’re cool. Those rascals.”
Doing their best.
Even knowing they couldn't win.
They were rushing in.
Like moths diving into a fire.
Although not to the point of death, with fighting spirit befitting that and foolish perseverance.
Even if they fell, they got up again and rushed at the Supreme King.
It wasn't just them.
Children of the defense barrier type and healing type were also supporting from quite a close distance.
A close place where the Supreme King’s gaze could reach.
Normally, long range.
They, who should be standing in the back where the enemy’s attacks don't reach, narrowed their movement paths as much as possible and were supporting the attackers from up close.
A faint smile formed on Yoo jin’s lips as he captured the children in his eyes.
One heart.
They were really trying to overcome the difficulty gathered with the same heart.
No one ordered them to do it.
No one knows if raiding this will give high scores.
Even so, those rascals.
Had courage and rushed at the Supreme King.
“Pork belly is truly amazing. What I couldn't do…… they accomplish like this.”
Although he said that.
He couldn't hide the emotion blooming on his face.
It was understandable.
Because Yoo jin’s face entering Lee Si-wang’s eyes was.
From the first meeting until now.
Smiling like the youngest child.
‘Really…… A fool who knows nothing but students.’
The smile was transmitted to Lee Si-wang’s lips as well.
***
Zone A.
Thirty minutes had passed since they entered combat with the Supreme King.
What was achieved during that time was.
“Agh…….”
“My waist…….”
“This is Sparta, uack!”
The trio of fake barbarians sprawled out on the floor in a big letter shape.
“Ha…… Ha…….”
“Heo…….”
And the Class A students whose stamina was exhausted.
“He’s really a monster.”
“Isn’t it obvious? He’s a Returnee.”
“Our teacher who won against that monster with a single finger flick is really a super-super-super-super super monster.”
The children gasping for breath felt awe toward their homeroom teacher anew.
Toward Yoo Jin's strength.
“Hey, hey. Where did all that initial spirit go? If it’s like this, the meat will all run out.”
While more than half of the Class A students’ combat power dropped sharply to the point where they couldn't move properly, the Supreme King was still full of energy.
No, not just full of energy, he hadn't even engaged in proper combat yet.
He was merely putting well-grilled pork belly into his mouth with tongs held in one hand.
“Ah, it’s tasty.”
Composure overflowed from his body.
Of course, this level was a result everyone expected, but when it approached as reality before their eyes, the students’ will was also being broken little by little.
“Even though Seong-hyeon and the twins, who are A-Ranks, poured out attacks like that at the very front, it’s only this much…….”
“The healer kids probably don’t have much Mana left either.”
“I knew it would be really difficult, but to think it would be this difficult….”
Class A students ground their teeth at the heart that didn't recover even while reorganizing their breathing.
At that moment.
“The first operation is a failure.”
“I thought his stamina would be chipped away even a little, but as expected, his Mana capacity must be completely different from the start.”
Jin-ho and Kang Tae-wook stepped forward.
The Sure Victory Team.
Although all operations were thrown into the trash can, this one operation was promised.
The promise that Jin-ho and Kang Tae-wook would push if his stamina was chipped away even a little after an all-out attack, or if an opening appeared.
There was no opening at all.
Chipping away stamina also became foam (came to nothing).
Then only one thing remained.
“Oho…….”
The brats standing before his eyes were contained in the Supreme King’s vision.
Precisely, the Demonic Energy shimmering around the brats’ bodies.
“I roughly guessed one guy because I heard from Big Brother. But two guys…… This, this, I shouldn't let my guard down?”
A smile spread across the Samurai’s lips.
Demonic Energy that only Returnees possess.
He didn't know how these brats possessed it, but since they were guys Yoo jin even trained.
It would be completely different from before.
Whoosh!
Crack!
Between the blooming Demonic Energy.
Blue flame and ice of Absolute Zero soared up.
Following that, the blue flame and ice approached right before the Samurai’s eyes in an instant.
Swish!
Boom!!!!!!
With a tremendous explosion sound, the blue flame and ice of Absolute Zero were cut and returned to nothingness.
“Wow, it’s really different? I was quite surprised.”
Liar.
It is a face not surprised at all.
Jin-ho and Kang Tae-wook flew at the Samurai simultaneously.
Maximum speed.
Blue flame and ice appeared on their soles, increasing propulsion.
That speed was truly hard to follow with eyes.
The fists of the children flying in with the determination to engage in hand-to-hand combat headed for the Samurai’s face.
Bang!
Bang!
With tremendous impact sounds, Jin-ho and Kang Tae-wook flew far away.
The mouths of the Class A students watching that scene did not close.
Class A’s best forces.
What just happened was an attack they couldn't even follow with their eyes, but that Supreme King countered it while yawning.
“Are you guys really A-Ranks? I reacted quite strongly without realizing it. Are you okay?”
This statement was true.
Originally, he intended to just tap their foreheads very lightly, but at the very end when the distance was almost closed, both Kang Tae-wook and Jin-ho increased their speed by one level there.
Since it was already fast, the children didn't know the difference, but only the Supreme King could recognize that difference.
‘I thought Big Brother was raising watchdogs, but he was raising tigers.’
The detail that came out in that short moment.
The technique of controlling speed until the middle to make one let their guard down and increasing acceleration at the end.
It could be seen as a petty trick, but.
Being able to execute that petty trick in actual combat is what one calls a master.
“This, this, if I do it wrong, I might get hit?”
As soon as the Supreme King’s words ended, Jin-ho and Kang Tae-wook rushed toward the Supreme King again.
Tremendous explosion sounds and propulsion.
Their fists arriving in front of the Supreme King in an instant.
However.
Bang!
Bang!
Jin-ho and Tae-wook flew away again with tremendous sounds.
“Phew… I controlled my strength well this time.”
The Supreme King, who let out a sigh of relief playfully, flinched his body and moved the hand holding the sword again.
“You startled me. What is it, you? Are you perhaps a teleportation ability user?”
Which opening was it?
Just when on earth.
The Model student had approached in front of the Supreme King.
He did nothing.
He was just standing there maintaining a suitable distance.
However, just with that, an opening was created.
Whoosh!
Crack!
Swoosh!!!!!
Godspeed.
Something cutting through the empty air with tremendous speed.
Kang Tae-wook and Jin-ho flew at the Supreme King with speed that broke through their limits.
Distinctly faster speed than until now.
As if pouring out condensed power at once.
They approached the Supreme King like missiles.
The opening created by the Model student who wasn't even in his consideration.
And Jin-ho and Kang Tae-wook, who were exhausting all their Demonic Energy and unleashing a strike risking everything.
“…….”
The Supreme King’s eyes hardened into a straight line.
Of course, it wasn't enough to have alarm, but.
These children’s class was much higher than he thought.
Since they received special lessons from Yoo jin, he understood to some extent, but S-Rank?
No.
These children pushed him to the extent that most standard S-Ranks couldn't even hand a business card.
He acknowledges.
These children’s skills.
Sincerely…….
Still.
“Since Big Brother said to let them feel the wall…….”
Sincerity.
The sword the Supreme King was holding was put back into the scabbard.
And then.
“Draw Sword First Form.”
To the children who gave their all.
One must treat them with sincerity.
To teach them the rank they absolutely cannot cross.
Shing.
The Samurai drew his sword…….
Tap.
“Huh……?”
The expression of the Samurai who was about to draw his sword was dyed with absurdity.
The hand gripping the sword.
Above it, something invisible and warm was placed.
“Blocked it. Hehe.”
Ye-na slowly revealing herself.
Coming all the way here with a presence he couldn't sense was amazing, but.
Thinking that she endured all this time…… and went into stealth for this moment, a smile spread across the Samurai’s lips.
And
“Uaaaaah!!!!”
“Aaaaaah!”
The children flying in with clenched fists.
There, that four-eyes who did nothing all along, creating an opening.
Returnee who cuts the moon.
Samurai.
A smile spread across his lips.
And then.
Swish!
Swish!
The Samurai, who dodged Jin-ho and Kang Tae-wook’s fists by only tilting his head, spoke.
“I give up.”
Eh?
The eyes of the Class A students grew twice as big.
Boom!
Boom!
Explosion sounds were heard as Jin-ho and Kang Tae-wook, unable to overcome the propulsion, crashed into the ground.
“I said I lost. How can I win against kids who are this sincere? It is your victory.”
Behind the Samurai’s last voice.
“Waaaaah!!!!”
“It’s pork belly!”
“This is Sparta!!!!”
The cheers of the Class A students rang out.