I Obtained The Absolute Garbage Skill At The Academy

Chapter 7 – In the Slums (7)

Black smoke rose, and Yu Mihee felt a throbbing pain in her right shoulder and side.

‘Seems like some fragments got embedded…’

She avoided a fatal wound, but still suffered considerable damage.

‘Was this her plan? What a frightening woman. To think she’d put something like that in her body.’

She must have prepared after hearing about her coming.

In her experience, villains who unhesitatingly used their subordinates as disposable pawns weren’t actually that common.

Han Aejeong—this moment revealed just how vicious a person she truly was.

‘The bleeding is… minimal. My legs can still move, but my black… shoulder is injured, making it difficult to swing with full force.’

Not good.

While muttering to herself, she thought about the voice that had echoed in her head.

A young boy’s voice…

She guessed it might be a child who had awakened their unique ability in this place.

Is he watching from somewhere? However, she couldn’t pursue that thought further.

‘Is she coming right away?’

She heightened her ki sense in the thick smoke.

A flash of light appeared, and a sword strike aimed at her vital points came down through the smoke.

Clang!

A short dagger moved with supernatural speed from all directions.

They clashed against each other, creating dazzling friction.

Whoosh!

Holding her sword with both hands, she swung broadly toward where she sensed the ki.

The smoke parted left and right, and she could see Han Aejeong retreating with nimble movements.

‘!’

Simultaneously, three daggers rapidly flew out from Han Aejeong’s chest.

‘Throwing knives!’

Yu Mihee’s sword absorbed a blue light and drew a circle, as if tracing the moon.

Clang-clang-clang!

With a clattering sound, the daggers fell.

‘Now!’

Gripping her sword firmly, she rushed forward.

Blue light filled her body, concentrating power in both legs.

This was the basic physical enhancement technique taught at the Academy, based on superhuman abilities.

Executing it skillfully, she propelled her body forward.

‘A prolonged battle is dangerous in my injured state.’

She needed to finish this while she still had more stamina left.

Reaching Han Aejeong at a speed the other couldn’t react to, she was about to bring down her sword.

But a chilling sensation made her instincts sound an alarm.

Forcibly twisting her charging form, she swung her sword broadly behind her.

Clang!

Two additional metallic sounds were heard, and hidden throwing knives whirled through the air.

‘Could it be a masterpiece!’

Clearly, no additional presence was felt when they were thrown.

It was a throwing knife specialized in stealth, able to deceive even her own senses.

‘To think she prepared even this!’

“An opening?”

‘Oh no!’

She quickly pulled back her body, but,

Swoosh!

Han Aejeong’s dagger swiftly slashed Yu Mihee’s back.

‘Ugh’

Biting her lip at the burning pain, she thrust her sword.

Their blades clashed again, continuing their fierce exchange.

Normally, Han Aejeong would be overwhelmingly pushed back,

But in reality, that wasn’t the case as they continued their precarious battle.

‘My body is getting sluggish.’

There was no liquid applied to the dagger.

She guessed that applying poison specifically to daggers

Must be her unique ability.

The poison must be quite potent, as her entire body was becoming paralyzed and increasingly sluggish.

‘No choice.’

Yu Mihee focused her consciousness while exchanging sword strikes.

As she activated her belatedly unlocked unique ability [Combat Continuation], a deeper blue light enveloped her body than before.

“That won’t help, it’s already spread throughout your body!”

Han Aejeong sneered as if it was useless,

And charged forward, gripping her spinning daggers in reverse.

She thought Yu Mihee’s sluggish form would collapse.

However,

Swoosh!

“Kyaaaah!”

With a scream, Han Aejeong’s left arm cut through the air.

Seeing her own arm fall to the floor with a thud, she glared with a face twisted like a demon.

“You bitch!”

Watching her opponent charging while cursing, Yu Mihee calmly waited for an opportunity.

[Combat Continuation] was a unique ability that allowed her to ignore injuries and status ailments for a short time, maintaining full combat capability.

In exchange, she would feel doubled fatigue and exhaustion after the duration ended.

It was an ability that was neither flashy nor exceptional, always dismissed, but thanks to it, she had survived countless brushes with death.

‘Has she lost her mind?’

Watching Han Aejeong wildly swinging her dagger, she was confident in her victory.

As she continued to dodge the trajectories,

Whoosh!

I could see her swinging wildly, to the point where her body might collapse.

‘It’s over.’

After twisting my body to avoid it, I quickly slashed diagonally.

‘!’

Splat! Thud

A considerable amount of blood spilled onto the floor. However, it wasn’t Han Aejeong’s blood.

“What…?”

Yu Mihee couldn’t immediately understand what had just happened.

Suddenly, a slash appeared in midair, cutting her body.

‘Could this have been her real unique ability?’

The poison was a fake… Perhaps the dagger was a masterpiece, or she possessed related traits or physical qualities.

‘A mistake.’

She had been pretending to swing madly to induce carelessness while waiting for an opportunity.

Yu Mihee blamed herself for hastily judging her opponent’s abilities.

Thwack

“Kuhak!”

Yu Mihee’s body was kicked aside, and her sword was thrown into a corner.

“Hah, that was difficult. Not easy at all.”

Blood poured like a faucet from her severed arm.

Though her complexion was pale and she looked exhausted to anyone watching, Han Aejeong smiled brightly.

“My ability consumes a massive amount of mental energy each time I use it. I can’t fire it off easily, though I didn’t expect to lose an arm in the process.”

After revealing her ability as a parting gift,

“Now die.”

She flipped her dagger and moved to stab her fallen opponent.

At that moment

“?!”

Behind her, a flashy sound effect erupted.

Simultaneously, two muscular men wearing exaggerated-looking armor appeared, talking to each other.

[Returning users get so many benefits!]

[Plus 200 free draws…]

Han Aejeong couldn’t collect her thoughts as she watched the two men spouting nonsense.

Their sudden appearance was strange enough, and they looked undeniably powerful,

Yet the content of their conversation made absolutely no sense.

Yu Mihee also stared ahead in confusion.

Then, Bang! The door opened roughly,

“Duck!!!”

A small-bodied boy shouted, forcefully throwing a bone spear he held in his hand.

The sharp spear made a piercing sound as it

Lodged into her abdomen.

I saw Han Aejeong’s eyes looking at me with an expression of disbelief.

She moved her lips until the very end as if wanting to say something, then collapsed while looking at me with eyes full of lingering attachment.

Only then could I breathe a sigh of relief.

‘Shit, that was close.’

When warning messages appeared over my subordinates’ corpses,

It was good that I hurriedly used the chat function to speak,

‘But I was in such a rush that I couldn’t tell you about her unique ability.’

The chat function, a kind of telepathic communication, could only be used again after at least a day had passed once a message was sent.

Han Aejeong’s unique ability was called [Demon of Double Slash].

Limited to daggers, it was a dangerous ability that caused an additional slash after the first cut, using a time delay.

‘She was the first boss where you had to learn by getting hit’

Literally, without any information, given her vicious and ruthless personality, it was easy to fall victim to her.

I wanted to help somehow while secretly watching through the door crack from time to time,

But the battle was so intense that if I had rushed in carelessly, I would have been stabbed to death.

‘Anyway, is it over now?’

I turned and walked toward the hero who had collapsed on the floor.

“You… who are you?”

Her complexion was pale from poison and blood loss.

“First, drink this.”

I took out a store-bought potion that I had been saving and put it in her mouth.

After hesitating for a moment, she surrendered herself and drank slowly.

‘As expected, it doesn’t work automatically when used on others.’

Well, that would be fucking overpowered if it did.

With a bit of regret, I watched as her complexion improved.

‘Is the immediate danger over?’

She would need to recover for a while, but her life didn’t seem to be in immediate danger.

After drinking all the contents, she looked at her body’s condition in amazement. Then, with a bewildered expression, she pointed behind me.

“What on earth is that?”

Ah, I forgot that was still there.

Looking at the two senior figures laughing heartily together, I clicked on [Close Advertisement] in the corner of the screen.

Then their figures disappeared without a trace.

‘To think it would be used like this.’

A mass-produced 30-second advertisement typically found in K-mobile games.

Surprisingly, I had it too. And with a similarly terrible quality…

‘When I first turned it on, the bouncing sound woke up everyone who was sleeping’

It was a function I discovered by pressing the replace button in the sale items section of the store menu, and after experimenting secretly after going through hardship,

I realized that the advertisement could create size and sound at any point I wanted, centered around me.

‘Of course, it can’t be something of an impossible size and range.’

As someone seeing this for the first time, anyone would be wary of a man appearing with flashy impact and seemingly powerful weapons.

I thought it could be used as an illusion magic if used properly.

I was worried since this was my first time using it in a real situation,

‘Thank goodness it worked just as I thought it would.’

Wiping my forehead, I looked at Han Aejeong who had collapsed dead.

‘Why did you look at me so wistfully at the end?’

After clicking my tongue at the unpleasant aftertaste, I extended my hand to the hero who was sitting down.

“Can you stand up?”

“Thank you… it’s you, right? The child who warned me telepathically”

She smiled and said,

“Thanks to you, I survived. That’s amazing. To have telepathic abilities at your age… I’m Yu Mihee, a B-rank hero from the Association. And you are?”

“Ryu… no, I’m Yu Siwoo. I’m one of the orphans who was kidnapped and brought here”

We smiled at each other as we shook hands.

‘Now I just need to guide Changsik and the kids out of here.’

I was about to open the message window that had been noisily alerting me.

At that moment,

“Watch out!”

“!?”

Yu Mihee shouted loudly, pulling my body into her arms to shield me.

CRASH!

With a much stronger impact than when the men exploded,

“Kirrrrrrk…”

Along with the distinctive sound of an insect’s cry, a giant spider at least 4 meters in size appeared from the collapsed ceiling.

[Field Boss has appeared]

[This opponent is above your level! Run away!]

Unable to even see the urgently flashing warning window,

I wore an expression of shock.