46 – Entrance exam (7)

I’ve observed some mages cast freezing spells on Plantera. Plantera does not need to maintain body temperature and does not suffer from frostbite. Even if the outer shell is frozen, they move straight through the ice.

To subdue Plantera with freezing, you must freeze it from the inside.

The bomb Cecile gave was much more effective than the one used to catch fish.

Due to the nature of the sorcerer, the battle would become somewhat difficult if consumables were exhausted. It feels a bit strange to think that he handed me a magic bomb like a lifeline. Received a greater favor than expected.

There were still more gates left for the top advance team, and there were sections where it was unclear whether or not to break through, so I had to test it out.

The experiment is a great success.

Thanks to Cecile’s gift this time, a slight opening was opened.

It wasn’t just that good. Plantera’s punches were excruciatingly painful.

There was something I experienced while dealing with Plantera at the test site. These only try to subdue the applicants, not kill them. Because of this fighting mechanism, the tension was relaxed a little. it’s my negligence

Lilith is calming herself on the spot. It must have been so frightening that I still whimpered a little.

I leaned against the wall and sat down. My clothes are a mess because I rolled on the floor. Blood seeps through the shirt hidden under the cloak. Not a very good situation.

Lilith came slowly beside me, less calm.

“I have to say something. Wow, thank you for saving me… .”

“… .”

“Now I know for sure. You were hit very hard.”

“And you… You are the craziest human being I have ever seen or heard of in my life.”

I don’t know if I was born and raised in a greenhouse or how many different groups of people there are in the world. If I knew how the Griffin Potion recipe was made, I’d bite the foam.

A sense of camaraderie through adversity and the story of friendship are good, but right now there was no time to care about Lilith. Since I wasn’t wearing a proper armor, I received the shock with my whole body.

I took off my cloak. Then he began unbuttoning his shirt buttons one by one from the top.

Lilith questioned my behavior.

“…?”

She said in a slightly puzzled voice.

“Wait, what are you doing now… .”

When I took off my shirt, my bare skin was exposed.

My shoulders and chest were pitted against the stone, and there was a deep tear in the flesh from my side to my back.

Seeing my wounds, she didn’t say anything more, as if she accepted the reason for my actions.

I took the potion out of my backpack. It was a potion given to Sylverine to use when injured.

Lilith’s gaze stings. She stands still with her hands behind her back and looks down blankly at me. The fidgeting of my feet bothered me, so I raised my head and made eye contact. Only then does she turn her head slightly.

“… .”

I wonder if Cecile felt this way as she tore her skirt.

Have you ever seen a man’s body?

I opened the cork and poured one bottle down my throat. When the potion ingredients start to circulate in the blood vessels, the internal damage that cannot be seen with the naked eye will be properly healed.

He threw the empty bottle aside and took out another.

Lilith stares at the empty bottle with strange eyes.

“Now, wait, what did you drink?”

Ignoring her words, I opened the bottle and started pouring it roughly over the wound.

“No, wait! This is not how you write it!”

Then he clung to me and grabbed my wrist.

“This pattern embedded in a glass bottle. I’m sure it’s a special elixir from Mericania.”

Lilith had a cold face.

“How did you get this when you don’t even know how to use an elixir? You can’t get it even with money!”

“… .”

Even as she said that, Lilith sniffed several times.

I can roughly understand how great it is, but I don’t know what they’re doing holding on to someone who is about to die of pain.

Lilith stuttered as I stared at her.

“That… That… . not. hey, give it to me I’ll apply it.”

Lilith snatched the potion from my hand and pulled out a handkerchief from within.

After that, he soaked a handkerchief with the potion and took a few deep breaths.

“Now, put it on?”

Then, with a spleen face, he dabbed it on my wound and began to apply it.

She was so nervous that her hands were tight.

I was so engrossed that I didn’t even realize that part of my dark gray hair had touched my body and stained me with blood.

She unknowingly put her remaining hand on my body, and took it off in surprise.

“uh… . Show him, de, etc.”

As I turned around, Lilith continued to apply the potion to my wounds.

“The elixir recovers quickly, so if you don’t apply it slowly, it will heal unsightly.”

I am concerned about the penetrating scar on the stomach skin caused by fighting the race in the past.

She doesn’t mention it, but this scar is something that will be strongly imprinted in my head.

It was like a medal to me, so I didn’t want to erase the scar.

It can be identified, so you shouldn’t take off your top when you’re not wearing a mask.

“Look, did you heal well?”

Now the sniffles had stopped and a proud smile appeared on his face.

Lilith closed the cap on the elixir. The wounds were all healed, but some potions remained.

I checked that the wound was healed and packed my clothes. There is no time for further delay here.

Lilith said bluntly.

“Where would it be if I gave you an answer?”

I quietly looked up at the sky. Dark clouds were slowly covering the sky.

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Joyce was climbing up the valley with her fellow Knights of Wiesel.

fellow knight Julien said.

“Is this right?”

“wait a minute.”

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Joyce pulled out a map. What he held in his hand was a different map than the one the Eternian examiners had distributed.

On this map, which I managed to find by asking around in Rigbed, there was a secret route that went directly to base 2 without passing through base 1.

Thanks to that, they were going somewhere unknown to other applicants.

“Are you sure. But you said Plantera would be waiting here too?”

You’ll encounter fewer of them than following the officially distributed map, but warned that there will be some Plantera resident on this shortcut.

Contrary to the description of the herbalist who sold the map, the valley was strangely quiet.

“Let’s go for now.”

They set out as marked on unofficial maps.

After going for a while, seeing one place, Julien exclaimed in surprise.

“Aww!”

He grabbed Joyce’s arm.

“Damn it. There was a Plantera gatekeeper here too!”

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Julien pointed his hand at one of the valleys.

Plantera, the size of a house, appeared partially in a valley with both arms and head hanging.

The gatekeeper, who said you can only see it after base 1, was holding out even on the unofficial route.

Eternia seemed to anticipate that applicants would enter through this route. I didn’t expect much, but as expected, they didn’t allow tricks.

When Julien tried to run away with his companions, Joyce urged them on.

“Wait, wait.”

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Joyce sensed something unnatural.

“Wait, wait! look. Doesn’t that move?”

All the colleagues calmed their surprised hearts and looked at the gatekeeper.

He sticks his head out and looks down at the Wisel Knights, but there is no movement.

“… It’s real. Something is wrong.”

All of the members of the Knights Templar swallowed saliva and exchanged glances with each other.

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Joyce beckoned, and they muffled their footsteps and began winding their way slowly down the valley.

And when I squeezed into the place hidden by trees and rubble, a large clearing appeared.

Those who witnessed the scene were shocked.

Someone came first and swept through this place.

Dozens of Planteras were strewn about, being cut in two.

The most impressive was the Plantera gatekeeper.

A gatekeeper the size of a house was impaled on a rock face on one side of the valley with its upper body severed in a barrel.

“What is this… .”

And on the cut surface of the gatekeeper’s upper body, a blue afterglow remained, giving off smoke.

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Joyce said.

“… Another applicant must have passed first.”

said Julien, shaking his head in disbelief.

“What the hell is this… . It’s crazy, it’s not something people can do.”

“… .”

“… damn this is a monster Could it be that applicants like us did it? isn’t it? Even if we are in different classes, we are very different.”

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Joyce watched the Plantera wreckage.

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Joyce had heard rumors about a sword that left a blue glow.

It was because it had already spread as much as it would have from the battle with Gale.

“There is only one person who would do something like this.”

There were quite a lot of modifiers attached to him.

Master of the Demonic Sword Civeline. A hundred years of talent. Sword Master’s apprentice.

The rumors were right. This is an overwhelming stage that no applicant can resist.

“Zion, only Zion.”

***

The man in the mask killed the deer and took the right amount of meat. Lilith collected dry twigs and mushrooms.

After moving all the luggage to the cave, it rained just in time.

Lilith said as he tickled the flint in front of the branches piled up inside the cave.

“Look out. You don’t have to.”

As soon as she cast the spell, a fire came up.

“… .”

The man silently put the mushrooms and meat on the skewer.

Lilith rubbed a handkerchief in the dripping rain. The handkerchief was stained black with blood.

“Ehh, I cherish it.”

She spread a handkerchief on the rock out of the rain and sat across from the man.

Then he put the venison and mushrooms on skewers and started grilling them over the fire.

Even if we didn’t have to talk a lot, I felt that the sum was well matched.

A strange sense of stability after a long drift. Compared to the place where I usually live, the environment was extremely poor, but I felt strangely good.

Looking at the sizzling skewers, she suddenly thought.

“there,”

“… .”

“At this point, we are practically like colleagues. is not it?”

The man stared at Lilith blankly.

Then he shook his head resolutely.

“her.”

Accompanying them all day, taking care of the injured themselves, sharing the food they obtained, and camping in a cave alone.

We went through this adversity together, but aren’t we colleagues?

It meant that he could leave Lilith at any time without saying goodbye.

Something cries inside and rises.

sadness. And it’s a strange sadness.

Even if you don’t really mean it, can’t you just give me a pretty answer?

Lilith said with a troubled face.

“You really sucked.”