The gigantic monster that let out a grotesque scream started coming straight towards me without looking at anyone else.

I calmly recalled the pattern of his attack and prepared to deal with it.

The purpose of the broadsword embedded in his body was to attract attention.

I hadn’t thought from the start that it would be able to inflict fatal wounds. Although it should be a little annoying in his situation.

About 7 seconds had passed since the last lightning strike, so it was time for the next lightning strike.

The white horn of the one who fixed his gaze on me shone dazzlingly.

“It’s dangerous, avoid it!”

Perhaps because it was an attack he had seen several times before, it seemed that senior Xian realized what he was up to.

It was an attack that I also blocked several times, so I fully felt the power of it.

It was an attack that was enough to knock out quite a few people with just one hit.

It wasn’t something I couldn’t avoid if I tried to anticipate the landing point and avoid it.

However, there was no reason to avoid it.

That electric shock he threw was the easiest way to defeat him.

“Senior Conrad!”

I immediately memorized two different types of magic in accordance with the situation where the white beam of light flew towards me.

With both arcane magic and light magic.

Arcane magic, magic barrier, was a magic that could be used from the 2nd circle, but light magic, gloss, was a magic that could be used from the 4th circle.

Even in order to use this magic, it was important to free the 4th circle before the hunting festival.

Right before the electric shock from his horn reached my body, the combination of vision and light magic was activated in front of me one step too quickly.

My unique magic, which I named Magic Reflection, deflected his depth charges.

It wasn’t just deflecting it accurately, it was aiming at the monster that used the attack and reflecting it.

Facing the lightning that was flying towards him, the guy put on a stupid expression for a moment.

“Keeek… ?”

Although it is a variant that can use electric attacks, its main body is only one owl bear.

The Great Owl Bear’s body itself has no resistance to electricity.

“Keee… !!”

The monster who returned the attack he had made complained of pain with a grotesque scream.

It was the first time I tried magic reflection in this life, but it seemed to work well as expected.

If it were a simple magical barrier, it would stop at absorbing or spreading incoming magic attacks.

When light magic, gloss, was added to it, a synthesis magic with a completely different effect was created.

The smooth surface of the magic barrier could deflect all magic attacks that hit the barrier in the forward direction.

It was a skill with high utilization, such as using it as a way to return it to the target it attacked, or knocking down another guy by matching the angle well.

“Kikkik… . Queek… .”

No matter how resistant it was to being hit by electric attacks, it was still a great owl bear.

Thanks to his solid durability, he didn’t fall down with a single lightning strike, but stood up to attack me again.

It meant that I also had to prepare for the second Magic Reflection.

“Watch out, it comes again!”

As soon as its horns glowed white, a flash of light that was faster than sound crashed in front of my eyes.

“Keee !”

If you attack in the same way, you will only receive the same attack.

“Khehehe… !!”

The second reflected lightning pierced his body again.

It must have been quite painful since the first magic reflection.

It was highly likely that the body was burned from the inside by the depth charge penetrating the body.

Since the high-voltage current penetrated his entire body twice, it would only be a matter of time before he stopped breathing.

“Kkeuk, kek… .”

It would be nice to wait for it to collapse like this. There was nothing wrong with making it clear.

Thinking so, I took out an arrow from Senior Xian’s quiver that fell on the floor.

My broadsword was already stuck in his waist, so I needed a suitable replacement.

As expected, her quiver was full of high-quality arrows made of bush clover trees, as expected from senior Xian.

I lifted one of them and picked up the opposite part of the arrowhead.

“Turn it off… .”

The Great Owl Bear seemed to have recovered from its wounds to some extent and began to show movements as if it were about to rise again.

It seemed that hostile feelings toward me and others had already disappeared, but he turned his feet in the opposite direction and tried to run away.

It was impossible to release that dangerous individual to roam around the Demon Forest.

Holding an arrow in his right hand with the arrowhead properly coated with Giant Boa poison.

The staff in his left hand formed a trajectory made with wind magic.

So that an arrow can fly in a straight line to the guy’s body.

‘Wheein!’

The arrow left my fingertips and flew in a beautiful parabola, as if shot with a real bow, with the sound of cutting through the wind.

Before long, the final blow landed right in the Owl Bear’s left eye.

“ooo… !!”

One long roar.

Lastly, a soaring head.

Finally, Owlbear laid his huge body on the ground.

“… … .”

“… … .”

“… dead.”

After a moment of silence, Lulu confirmed that the guy’s energy had stopped breathing, and the battle to be fought at today’s hunting festival ended like this.

“I got that… ? alone… ?”

“As expected, you are senior Conrad… .”

The gaze of senior Xian, who moved from the Great Owl Bear to me, seemed to contain awe beyond surprise.

Stella also muttered my name with a similar sentiment.

It was the moment when the winner of the hunting festival was decided.

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A few minutes after the Owl Bear that destroyed Xian’s party collapsed.

One or two of her party members, who had fainted from the attack, began to regain their senses.

“Ugh, my whole body is numb from head to tail… .”

“Oh, I can’t even move a finger.”

“I really thought I was going to die… .”

Thankfully, no one lost their lives and everyone seemed to have come to their senses.

The aftereffects of being hit with the high-voltage current seemed to be deep.

He took out several vials labeled Paralysis Cure from his bag and put them in the mouths of senior Xian party members one by one.

“It’s a paralysis cure. Everyone, pass it all the way down your throat.”

Originally, it was prepared in case Stella or Lulu were struck by the blinding attack of the Great Owl Bear and collapsed.

Anyway, I’m using it like this because it’s used for my purpose.

A total of four people were knocked down by Owl Bear’s electric shock.

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Just in case, the four paralysis cures, including the extras they brought, found their respective owners and fulfilled their role.

“Senior Xian also opens his mouth.”

“ah… .”

Although he seemed a little ashamed to take the medicine I gave him himself.

I can’t even move my body anyway, so I can’t do anything else.

I had no choice but to quietly open my mouth and swallow the bitter contents that went into my mouth.

After feeding all of Xian’s party members who had fallen down like that, they recovered one by one in a few minutes and started to get up.

“Whoa, I thought I was going to die of frustration!”

“Thank you for your help, I almost became a bear in this deep forest without moving.”

“Thank you for saving me, Mr. Conrad.”

Students from the spearmanship, swordsmanship, and archery departments each expressed their gratitude.

“… Thanks for saving me.”

Lastly, even senior Xian.

“And I’m sorry, you guys did something cowardly to steal your prey.”

“Well, how are you? It’s not really against the rules.”

It would be against the rules to intervene and steal without consent when the battle has already begun.

It is not particularly against the rules to intercept prey before combat begins.

Of course, everyone would probably admit that it was a bit cowardly, but if you didn’t allow even this much, it would have been difficult to compete properly.

As long as they did not commit illegal or illegal acts that were clearly against the rules, the hunting system was usually all about the results brought from hunting.

Even managing more than that would be a hardship for the academy.

“It happened somehow, but it will be difficult to continue hunting again from now on.”

“My whole body is still numb! There’s no way you can wield something like a spear in this state~!”

“… It seems our hunting festival has ended with this.”

After waking up, Xian’s party members expressed their disappointment with bitter expressions on their faces.

Of course, even so, it wasn’t a sad expression as if the world had been lost.

Anyway, since I almost died once and was saved, I should have been thankful that the thing on my neck was safe.

Xian’s party members were a group of students who knew that their lives were precious.

“Since it happened like this, I guess I have to repay the debt I owe to my juniors who saved my life.”

“Yeah?”

The male student, presumably a 3rd year swordsman who said that, pointed to the body of the fallen Great Owl Bear and spoke.

“How did you originally plan to dispose of that huge monster’s corpse?”

“Once one of our co-workers gave it a decent trim on site. I was thinking of returning with only the evidence that I had caught the mutant Great Owl Bear.

Maybe a horned head would be enough evidence. If you can afford it, you can also pack some leather or claws.”

I answered, pointing to Lulu who was sitting next to me.

The purpose of this hunting festival was to catch the mutant Great Owl Bear from the beginning.

It was always a side step to get a share in the cost of materials.

In the first place, the life of the most important senior Xian was safe, so now it didn’t matter anyway.

“Are you going to leave that much material in the forest?

Isn’t it worth it? Even if you can’t do it, you should be able to get more than three digits in gold.”

“It’s a pity, but what can I do? I couldn’t afford to buy a size-adjustable pouch.

And if you hold on to small things and the day gets dark, won’t the hunting festival end?”

After the hunting festival, no matter how huge and dangerous the game was, it meant nothing.

It was a judgment that I had no choice but to care about Stella’s hunting performance.

Because I couldn’t change the priority of my goal just to earn a dozen more gold coins.

When you think so and give up halfway. Unexpected words came out of the swordsman’s mouth.

“I will help you. To take that gigantic corpse to the outside of the Demon Forest. Even if you look like this, you are confident in your strength.”

Having said that, the senior in the swordsmanship club showed off one of his forearms to me, showing off his thick forearms that he must have trained for over ten years.

“Are you okay? You haven’t recovered from paralysis yet, have you?”

“It’s just hard to move quickly, but there’s no problem with working hard.”

It didn’t stop there, and the leopard beastman of the spear department and the female archery club raised their hands and opened their mouths.

“I-I will help you too! It’s embarrassing to just get help and get over it!”

“I’m lacking compared to my seniors, but I’ll give you even a small amount of strength.”

I felt a lot of gratitude to all of them who said so.

Certainly not a bad suggestion.

If I could get all of that Great Owl Bear’s corpse intact, I’d be sure to dispose of all the parts at a high price.

In particular, the hides of deviant monsters were traded at high prices among collectors, to the extent that they were called expensive.

It was inevitable that I would feel a little excited about the kindness they had shown me.

Of course, in order to get help from Xian-senpai’s party members for the monster corpse, he had to first get permission from the party leader, Xian-senpai.

“Everyone says this, but what do you think, senior Xian… .”

Lastly, I was just trying to ask her opinion on whether I could borrow her party members.

Senior Xian had already disappeared from the seat next to me.

When I was confused for a moment and turned my head, my eyes met the fallen Great Owl Bear.

Since Xian-senpai was also in the snow again with that huge monster.

She was already tying strong ropes around the Great Owl Bear’s collapsed body.

“I don’t have time to relax, Junior Conrad.”

He still had a cool personality.