chapter 39
39 – Situation Progress
Hockey’s party, led by Hockey, prepared a camp and secured food in advance, led by Reina, who showed great mana.
And Abur’s party…
“How about preparing for camp?”
“I think that’s a good idea!”
“What do you think, Abur?”
‘No… That’s obvious…’
“I’m so hungry.”
“Sure. I’m hungry too.”
“What do you think, Abur?”
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Abur was dumbfounded.
Two hours ago.
Abur’s party encountered an E-class monster.
Perhaps the party’s abilities weren’t bad, and they succeeded in dealing with it without too much difficulty.
-Let’s take the beast’s meat.
It was Abur’s very valid opinion.
But the party members didn’t seem to do that.
– Yes? Why?
-That’s because you need food to replenish your stamina.
-You mean to eat that now?
-Of course. The monster’s meat is tough, but it’s the best food in this situation.
-No matter how much, that money…
-I don’t think even Avir-sama can eat the beast’s meat.
– Sorry. I agree too. He dissuaded Abur, who was taking the beast’s meat, saying,
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Until now, they had lived as nobles all their lives and hadn’t had a day without a delicious meal, so they didn’t realize how full they were.
That’s right, but now that it’s like this…
Abur felt like her spirit was about to leave.
Then, Abur thought that no matter what, she must come to her senses and lead them like flowers in a greenhouse.
‘I’m the only one to trust here. Let’s make up our minds!’
After thinking deeply in her heart without anyone knowing, she called out to the girls who, though for a moment, had to go through her future together with her.
No, I was going to call.
“I will sleep next to Abur!”
“Wouldn’t it be reasonable for me, as a healer, to sleep next to Abur’s stamina?”
“What are you talking about! You say so, but you must be thinking something sinister on the inside!”
“That must be you!”
“Don’t talk nonsense!”
‘Why are you doing this to me…’
I felt like crying.
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The moon that brightened the night by reflecting the sunlight went down and the sun rose in the morning.
Most of the parties that decided to start quickly got up and started moving around 5:00, when the movements of the monsters were dull, and most of the parties quickly organized and started moving between 6 and 8:00.
And if it’s long, if it’s short, a whopping 30 parties (210 people) were eliminated during the short night.
The total number of eliminated parties was 45 (315).
During the four-day adventure, half of the party that was eliminated was over.
There are still a lot of their skills and poor situational judgment.
The fastest-growing party was, of course, the hockey party, which is currently number one in terms of adventure combat ability.
There are some things where the hockey skills themselves are excellent, but the biggest thing was that the party itself was well organized.
After that, Reina’s party.
It was sloppy in the beginning, but with Reina’s excellent leadership, she managed to lead the party well and defeat several E-class monsters.
Kabry was also contributing a lot to the team’s strength by using the swordsmanship he had learned from me.
These two parties were the ones most likely to reach [Natural Number].
Excluding this one, most parties are at odds with each other, so there’s nothing to say, but…
I was worried about Abur’s party, so I went to visit him.
“·····”
Except for being popular, it was like seeing myself in the past.
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Time passed and the second night also passed.
Additionally, 5 parties (35 people) were eliminated, and the leading group of hockey entered the Devil’s Play.
“It’s going to be hell soon.”
Because you will feel keenly why this place is called the Devil’s Land.
Although there aren’t actually demons.
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“More… Hotter!”
Oliver groaned.
I’ve been sticking with Laeri until now, but I couldn’t win over their love because it was too hot.
“It was hot as hell in Vera too, but it’s even hotter here.”
Kals, who had maintained an expressionless expression since the beginning of the Devil’s Forest, also frowned.
Even hockey let out a weary breath.
“This is too much!”
“Flora, if you scream like that, it will get hotter.”
“But…”
“Come to think of it, Professor Ikele said that it gets cold at night, right?”
“I think so.”
“I don’t think it will ever get cold…”
Flora thought. And she said
“···I’d rather be cold.”
“Even if you say that now, aren’t you saying that it would be nice to be hot at night?”
“No! Mr. Laeri, I like the cold better! Originally, I liked winter more than summer.”
“This must be different from that…”
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.
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“The hot one was so much better!”
“I knew it.”
Time passed, and the cold night Flora had been waiting for was more than expected.
It’s a problem because it exceeds expectations.
In terms of the feeling of the earth. It felt like her whole body was wrapped in dry ice.
It was so cold that his whole body was frostbitten.
Said Hockey, who had kept his mouth shut and raised his temperature as much as possible.
“I can’t go on like this.”
“What?”
“Yes?”
“What are you going to do?”
Haki summoned a scythe from his hand.
“I need to catch the demon beast and use its skin. It’s said that Flora-san and Keira-san are holding out somehow with their holy power, but it’s not even properly night yet. The temperature will gradually drop, and in the end we You will be eliminated.”
‘If I drop out, I will not show my face to my older brother. You can never do that!’ He added inaudibly.
“As Professor Ichle said, there are monsters who live in demonic realms in this kind of environment. That means they’ve adapted. If that’s the case, the skins of those monsters might be given to us during the day.”
The students who saw her talking a lot when they were related to Havir for the first time were dumbfounded for a moment.
Then, one by one, the party members gave their opinions.
“But the devil’s beasts are at least C-class?”
“You can’t just drop out like this.”
“…I agree.”
“If you’re going to be eliminated in this state, you’d better try something.”
“Your body is frozen and dull, but in the end if you don’t try, you’ll be eliminated anyway, right?”
They were sitting and resting to save their stamina as much as possible, but in this state, they kept falling instead of saving their stamina.
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Most of the remaining party students started entering the Demon Realm.
But… Almost all parties started to drop out as soon as they entered the Devil’s Realm.
It was hot enough that even Vera was painfully hot, but the heat of the Demonic Realm was beyond the limit.
Ray Nana Abur tried to use ice magic, but she proceeded as the ice began to melt due to the extremely high temperature, consuming a large amount of her magic power.
Then, as the sun went down and the cold came, the party that couldn’t overcome the temperature difference between day and night was eliminated.
Honestly, just holding out until night in the Devil’s Palace can give you an A grade.
Because it means that I studied and studied hard enough.
I was currently running unnoticed through the students’ party with tracking spells and danger awareness, watching their situation.
“Huh?”
I was going to take a quick look at the hockey party… What is that?
“Haa… It’s warm.”
“That’s why… I think I did a really good job listening to Mr. Haki.”
Beside him, the beast… C-class Ice King Kong’s corpse and its skin were worn… They were all covered in blood and laughing in a huddled state…
Are you scared? You are grotesque.
Students, even one of my younger sisters, are smiling like that, so if it wasn’t for me, I wonder if there would have been trauma…