EP.68
Move while searching while maintaining prayer secrecy.
Just following my friends like this was a huge help. How to hide yourself. How to move carefully. And how to find monsters. All the knowledge that becomes flesh and blood comes into my head.
It’s fun to learn because you’re learning it by actually moving your body. I guess I have the qualities of an engineer.
“…”
But what can I say?
I felt something strange.
“hmm?”
What should I say about this feeling?
As I was doing this, I felt an unknown sense of familiarity. Although I am a military veteran, I have never had any training like this… Most of the training I received was just climbing a mountain with a military uniform on my back or setting up a camp and sitting there for days on end.
I’ve never trained while maneuvering like this.
ㅡTiring.
[Skill has increased by 1]
And then you hear a notification sound.
“…”
I’m just watching what my friends are doing and copying it, but my skills are improving.
This is a bit strange. Are your stats going up this much? Are you saying I’m that talented? I was happy, but I was also afraid of my explosive growth. What if I continue to become an S-rank awakened person? Obviously, you can’t live a normal life. You will literally have to live as a hero.
Whatever it was, I felt very well that I was focused on this situation.
How many times have you been able to concentrate like this in your life? That’s probably why my stats are going up. As my stats went up, I felt a strange sense of excitement.
I could do better.
Anyway, I am watching my friends with extreme concentration.
“Kim Geun-cheol?”
Leona’s voice tickled my ears.
“Huh? Mr. Le Ona?”
“Are you nervous all of a sudden? Please relax. Why are you concentrating like this?”
“No, Leona. There’s no need to relax. I think it’s a real fight and I’m doing it as seriously as possible. If I relax here, I’ll be like a sandfish.”
“Oh, is that so? It’s Kim Geun-cheol, after all. He really deserves praise. Hehehe.”
Leona’s smiling face feels very familiar. Familiar and familiar. It’s so friendly, as if we’ve known each other for a long time.
Of course, a smiling face suits you best.
“More than anything, Leona. Since we’re really moving together like this and seeing and experiencing things like this… I feel like my skills are improving a lot.”
“That’s natural. There is no better training than seeing and experiencing. In the future, when Kim Geun-cheol is able to maneuver properly, the memory of now will be very helpful.”
“Definitely yes.”
It hasn’t been long since I started training, but my skills have already increased by 2 levels.
That means it’s helping that much. Carrying out operations here now felt very familiar, perhaps because my stats had increased.
Things like tactics and combat knowledge are being absorbed like a sponge.
If your magic power and proficiency in using it increase, I think you can probably do something similar. Without saying anything, I guess I have the talent of a hero.
“There’s a monster ahead.”
“uh.”
In front, Sihu makes a hand signal.
This is a signal to raid and kill them after looking around.
-Paaah!
It wasn’t particularly difficult. After a brief search of the surrounding area, we attacked and the hologram monsters were easily annihilated.
* * *
That’s how I’m moving.
“discovery.”
Finally, we found the target.
“They just built a fortress.”
Leona, who was lying down next to me, said this. We were now hiding in the tent spread out on the roof of the building and keeping an eye on the front. anyway. There was a monster standing up ahead.
ㅡGrrrrrgl.
ㅡRurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
And with more than a dozen F-rank monsters.
But those monsters were a bit unusual looking. What can I say? Should I say it looks like a bio turret? The monster was surrounded by such biological turrets and was looking in all directions with its eyes glowing.
It’s a guy with a head like an octopus, but its eyes are wrapped 360 degrees around its head. I think that boundary will be really clear. What kind of Argos is this?
“Those bastards were properly prepared for that.”
“I see. It seems a bit tricky.”
Yuri and Shihu also spoke with admiration.
The monster had literally created a fortress just for himself. A number of long-distance attack monsters were placed, and outside of them, meat shield monsters were placed to block the attack.
Likewise, melee-type monsters with high mobility and attack speed are also sparsely deployed to stop the heroes.
Are you going to pierce that head on?
It will be very difficult.
It seems like it would be difficult to break through that turret’s attack in the first place.
“Tsk. Actually, something like that should be tackled with a howitzer. Now that we’re alone, there’s nothing we can do.”
“Howitzer. Leona. That E-class monster is a magician type, right? Can’t it block a howitzer?”
“Yes. Even if the E-class monsters create a shield, they can’t stop the barrage of howitzers. Since they are all gathered together nicely, all we have to do is pick the coordinates and report. The best way is to destroy the building as is.”
That would be easy.
But isn’t it a bit weird for a hero to just destroy buildings? I learned that although there is nothing we can do in an emergency, we need to avoid destroying buildings as much as possible.
“But we don’t have howitzers now. We’ll have to deal with it ourselves.”
Sihu said.
“That’s why it’s a bit tight. It’s a bit difficult for our combination to break through from the front.”
No matter how strong my friends are, it is not easy to break through the monster’s defense wall that is so thoroughly fortified like that.
You literally have to play tower defense from the monsters’ perspective. You have to get through it while being beaten so fucking hard.
“Hey, Leona. What if the chairman was here?”
“It’s just bullshit. Are you going to go alone and blow it all up with a single slash? They’re on a different level from us.”
“Hehehe I guess so.”
Of course, there are not many such powerful superhumans in the country.
“Hmm, hey. But are all the troops stationed on the rooftop?”
Leona responded to Yuri’s words.
“At first glance, that’s what it looks like. It doesn’t seem like a good arrangement.”
Even in my opinion, it’s not a good arrangement.
“That’s right. Just like Leona said, they will become food for the howitzers. Or, I think we can kill them with long-distance sniping.”
“No. Kim Geun-cheol. Even sniping from a distance can be dangerous.”
“why?”
“If you return fire from over there, you might get tired. Those monsters. They are all specialized in long-distance combat. And with that number, they could form a fire net. Unless you can run faster than a bullet, it’s dangerous.”
Oh oh. Do we really need to think about all that?
It feels like my experience level is increasing.
“Oh, she’s a noble lady after all. Do you know everything? Really?”
“Hey, this is basic.”
Leona laughed at Yuri’s praise.
“Sihoo. But it’s a little strange.”
“Huh? What?”
“If this is training for actual combat… Well, like Leona said, there is a way, right? A howitzer or something. But we can’t use that right now.”
“That’s right.”
Sihu nodded at my words.
“But if you can’t do anything properly like you are now, isn’t there any point in practical training? That’s right.”
Usually, heroes fight in conjunction with the military, but now there is no such help. It feels a bit different from the real thing.
“Hmm… Is that also true? Oh, Geuncheol. Maybe this training is just for that.”
“What?”
“Maybe it’s just to see how you react in different situations?”
This difficult task was given in order to cope with various situations. As I was thinking about it for a while, Sihu continued.
“I don’t know, but if there are civilians left here, we won’t be able to use the artillery. There might be survivors in that building, right? If you fire a howitzer in that situation, it’s murder. So, this is training assuming a situation where the howitzer can’t be used-”
“Ah! That’s it too! Nice Ishifu!”
Leona shouted as if she realized something!
“That’s right! It was assumed that there were civilians in the building! The correct answer was given. That monster is currently holding a hostage. That’s why he can stand out like that. It is clear that he is on a mission to defend the area while holding a hostage! ”
“Oh oh!”
I was completely amazed by Leona’s analysis!
After hearing it, I think so!
“This is the analytical power of a cadet! As expected, Leona!”
“There is a reason for all training. Hehehe. Anyway, since we got the answer right, let’s move on to rescuing the hostage.”
“It would be fun. Would it be well-received if there were real hostages?”
Yuri grinned.
good night.
So let me tell you my opinion here.
“Then, Leona, there will be hostages inside the building anyway. Well, let’s give up on attacking the rooftop directly. That’s not what we were supposed to do in the first place.”
“Yes. I should. Then how?”
Leona looks at me as if she’s about to test me.
“Is there anything we can do? We have to go in through the front door. Or we have to infiltrate through the window on the lower floor.”
“That’s right. Like Geun-cheol said, I don’t think there is any other way. It’s dangerous, but if there are hostages, that’s the way to go.”
Sihu received my words.
“It certainly is.”
“Well, then. Then.”
It worked well, right?
“Geun-cheol. You made a good decision. A hero makes the right decision. If there are hostages, you must save them. You cannot ignore that.”
“That’s right. It means a firefighter wouldn’t go into a burning house.”
“That’s right.”
This can be clearly seen by taking firefighters as an example.
“Well, as Kim Geun-cheol said, it’s dangerous, but that’s the only way. Let’s try to infiltrate the building.”
“I believe you, Yuri.”
“You are the most dangerous, you bastard.”
Roughly speaking, the policy was decided on this.
Although it is dangerous, we will break into the inside of that building.
There is no right answer to war. There is always only the worst case scenario. There are situations where you have to infiltrate enemy territory without even having air superiority. That’s exactly the situation now.
In a situation where you do not receive military support, you must defeat the monsters that have taken over a building and rescue the hostages inside.
“It’s too big of a scale for training kids.”
“Well, I actually like it. It’s difficult training.”
Leona rather burned up her fighting spirit.
“Then, as Kim Geun-cheol said, let’s infiltrate from the lower floor. First, let’s sneak in without the guys on the rooftop noticing.”
It is truly an infiltration action.
A word from the author (author review)
This is training!!!!!!!!
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