NOVEL WEB Chapter 191: Hunting
Everyone from Mage class 1-B decided to follow Lumilia's plan after they heard Randolf's words. It opened their eyes, and they realized that they were like children in front of Souta, Bryan, and the rest of the people who had a life-and-death battle.
Well, Souta could understand them. When he just arrived here in this world, Souta was afraid at that time. He was afraid to fight and was afraid of this terrifying world. But Souta didn't want to die, which is why he fought and tried everything that he had in every quest that he got. He's always trying his best.
That's really simple. If his classmates didn't want to die, then they had to fight for it. They have to earn it on their own.
Randolf just smiled as he took a glance at Souta and Lumilia. He never thought that Souta would take Lumilia under his wing after that battle in Gripin city. Souta became her caretaker; that's what Randolf feels about them.
But never did he expect that Lumilia would show this much improvement. What he didn't know was that Lumilia was doing everything she could to get her father's approval. She went to Desolate Woods with her butler and maid to get the Mystical Light Cherry.
She personally experienced the calamity that happened in that place. The place that became a forbidden place after that calamity was the Desolate Woods. The True God's Holy Kingdom forbids any people from visiting that place.
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They traveled through that wilderness and found a village after three hours of walking. The village was quite large, as it has a population of five thousand people.
They didn't immediately go to the village. They did a scout first and found that some class beat them to it. The group decided to leave since they don't have any plans to compete with each other.
Randolf looked back at the village and saw that the other classes used the same tactics as them. They were also moving in class, not as a team. The other class was talking to the village chief.
He then looked at Lumilia and asked, "Class rep, why don't we stop and wait for them to leave?"
"It's better if we leave because I don't want to get involved with other classes in this outdoor training. We'll train ourselves, and for people who want to increase their points, they could just do the task that the institute gives." Lumilia shook her head and said.
"I see... You really wanted to train and not show off like other students." Randolf said as he smirked and looked at the village one more time.
"But... The institute didn't give us any tasks at all. I wanted to do it soon." Bryan spoke with a disappointed expression.
Everyone was surprised when they heard his words. Not that Bryan mentioned it, but because they have no idea about the task. Teacher Alex didn't tell them about it.
Lumilia sighed and pointed at the device on her wrist. "Have you forgotten about this thing? I think the institute will give us tasks and challenges through this device."
This device was given to them by the institute for free. They could check their points and initiate a ranking battle with other students. They could also check the top rankers on this device.
"Right, teacher Alex said that the institute will give a challenge every day throughout the whole outdoor training," Randolf said. "So let's wait before making some big moves."
"We should find a place to stay for tonight. If the institute gave the challenge later at night, then we would suffer." Lumilia said to them.
"Well, we should find another village and hunt monsters there as well," Souta said, and he looked at the rest of the classmates. "I'm going to hunt monsters for my team, not for all of you. We're moving as a class, but that doesn't mean that we will provide you everything. We'll only give you information, and that's all; you can do the labor work on your own."
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Lumilia memorized some parts of the map that teacher Alex showed. She couldn't memorize all of it, so she only memorized a part that she decided for their base.
After walking for another hour, they arrived on the outskirts of the Night Light Forest. They decided to hunt monsters first before going to the nearest village.
She said to her classmates that they would meet at this place after they hunted monsters. This was going to become the money to pay for the inn.
Lumilia, Souta, Lynn, Alice, and Yujin strode cautiously inside the Night Light Forest.
"We shouldn't go deep in this forest. It's too dangerous." Souta said to his group. Everyone knew it, and he explained the danger of it to his classmates before departing.
Night Light Forest was a huge forest between the Hebrei Kingdom and Mali country. The monsters that inhabited this place were powerful and dangerous. The third and fourth evolution monsters can be found here. In the Adventurers Guild records, there were five fourth evolution monsters in sight. Two black-dotted spiders and three flood poisonous serpents.
'This place is too dangerous for students. Their power level is too low to fight the high-level monsters here,' Alice thought as she looked around, but then she recalled that teacher Alex was observing them.
She thought that not only Alex was watching them. The other staff of the institute must be here to prevent the deaths of the students. They will only show themselves if the student is on the brink of death. After all, they were not babysitters.
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They walked for a few minutes, and they immediately encountered five orcs. Four of these orcs were high earth orcs, the second evolution of orcs, while the remaining one was a black orc, another second evolution of orcs, but this evolution path was different from the high orcs. It was much stronger as it was a rare evolution of orcs.
Lumilia's group hid in the bushes as they observed the five orcs.
Souta frowned as he saw that these orcs were organized. The black orcs were issuing orders to the other orcs.
'I couldn't understand them. After all, I only knew the Goblin's language among the other languages of monsters.' Souta thought as he heard the orcs say something. He would learn their language in the future, after his evolution.
He looked at his team and asked in a low voice, "Let's hunt them."
"T-They look strong..." Lynn said.
"Don't worry; with our team, we could handle it," Souta assured her. He then looked at Lumilia, Alice, and Yujin and asked, "Are you ready to go?"
"Anytime. Leave the black one to me." Yujin said to him as he took a swift glance at the black orc.
"I'll handle the normal one," Alice said to them.
"Okay, I'll help you with it." Souta paused for a moment before he added, "Lumilia, Lynn, stay here and look out to see if there are monsters heading here."
"I understand." Lumilia and Lynn nodded at him. Lynn had high sensory ability, so he could leave it to her.
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Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
Alice, Souta, and Yujin jumped out of the bushes, and they immediately rushed towards the orcs.
Souta dashed towards one of the orcs, and he imbued his mana in his fist. He then threw it towards the orc's stomach.
Bang!
The orc flew, but several tentacles like shadows burst out of the ground and grabbed the orc. The tentacles pinned down the orc to the ground.
He could pin down every orc here, as his [Shadow Bind] skill could even hold a third evolution monster for a few seconds. But he didn't do it because he wanted to see Yujin and Alice's strength.
Souta walked towards the orc, and he stepped on its head. He then looked at Alice and Yujin's fight.
Swoosh!
Alice took out a pipe from her pocket, and it transformed into a spear. This was her orange-grade weapon.
The three orcs looked at her with an angry expression. The orcs were armed with a huge butcher knife. Two of these orcs dashed towards her, swinging the huge knives in their hands.
Swoosh!
Alice lifted her feet and kicked the two huge knives.
[Repulsion Kick]!
[Repulsion Kick]!
Her feet deflected the knives easily. She then moved her body forward as she gripped her spear tightly.
[Swift Strike]!
Her spear pierced through the arms of the two orcs. It skewered their arms as their weapons fell to the ground, causing a loud metallic sound to ring out.
Then, a shadow covered her body. She looked up and saw the huge body of the orc heading towards her.
She quickly pulled out her spear and jumped away.
Bang!
The orc crashed on the ground, leaving a small crater.
'I'm going to fight three orcs? Then, Souta is fighting one orc. I thought that he would divide these four orcs between the two of us.' Alice thought while looking at the three orcs. 'That man scammed me...'