Round 2 Starts With 990,000 Points

69 – Magical Spot

After the Concentration Week, the scores have been tallied. My ranking was 3rd. For reference, the first place is Choi Ji-sung, and the second place is Han Cheol-woo.

If I had participated in the Great War, I would have been aiming for first place, but considering the opportunity cost, I did not place much importance on first place.

I was rewarded to see if there was an achievement even though I was in 3rd place, but as expected, the points and abilities. Now, if there are no big surprises, it is more beneficial to spend time training rather than achievements.

The academy’s vacation ceremony is held separately for each grade due to the training schedule, but it starts with the awards ceremony. I was yawning boringly on the podium when Ha Yeon-si touched me from the side.

Tuk-tuk.

Her ranking was 4th. For reference, 5th place is Yoo Seong-won.

Originally, before the regression, Yoo Seong-won was in 3rd place, Ha Yeon-si was in 4th place, and Uyuna was in 5th place. Uyuna was completely excluded from the prize.

Puffy.

Looking at Ha Yeon-si, she communicated her intentions to me with the shape of her mouth. As she sees her lips moving, she notices to be quiet.

I hope it ends soon.

After a while, the moderator spoke on the podium and the awards ceremony proceeded. Choi Ji-seong received the award and Han Cheol-woo received the award. And it was my turn.

When Choi Ji-seong and Han Cheol-woo received the award, the cadets applauded enthusiastically, but when I received the award, it was relatively quiet.

It seems they still don’t understand my abilities.

“Congratulations. Cadet Ymir.”

My face stings when I come down from the podium after receiving the award.

There were a lot of people staring at me, but among them I looked at the ones with particularly strong eyes.

Park Jeong-pal, Pyo Hang-woo, Yoo Seong-won.

Especially Yoo Seong-won, her red eyes made her look like she would burst into tears if someone touched her. It seems very upset.

May that anger work positively.

I was killing time praying like that, so after a while the awards ceremony ended and the vacation ceremony ended. When the moderator announced the dissolution, the cadets rose from their seats and met with their families. Since it was a vacation ceremony, the cadets’ families were also located in the auditorium, and among them were guild scouts and reporters disguised as cadets’ families.

Click.

A large-scale photo zone was created with the sound of someone’s camera as a signal. The cadets were busy taking pictures to commemorate the vacation ceremony, the guild scouts to gather information, and the reporters to write articles, but I wasn’t interested.

I have no family. No one to take pictures. So I was about to leave quickly when a cadet who looked like an anchovy called me.

“Mir. Congratulations on your award.”

First place is the Grand Prize, second place is the Grand Prize, and third place is the Excellence Prize.

The person who congratulated me on my award was, unfortunately, the same guy who made fun of me as a caveman at the beginning of the school year. I dissuaded him from taking a picture with me and left my seat, and after a while, those guys came.

“Congratulations. Mirya. Do you want to take a picture?”

“Yaya. Where. Take a picture and go.”

“I knew you would come third.”

Most of them were the ones who cursed at me at the beginning of the school year.

These are funny guys.

When you show your skills, the evaluation turns upside down like flipping the palm of your hand. I understood their realistic appearance, but on the other hand, it was disgusting. That’s why, no matter how ugly you look in your own eyes, you have to treat them well. Because that ugly person might succeed later.

I left the academy looking around at people taking pictures like a graduation ceremony. You can use the dormitory facilities even during vacation, and you can live in the dormitory, but I had something in mind.

Waying through the crowds of congratulatory people including Mo Ye-ji and Ko Soo-young, and those who want to take pictures with them, they arrive at the main gate, and strangers follow them.

Who are you?

It could be a mine that is planning an attack on me, but the possibility of an attack from the first day of vacation is remarkably low. In particular, there is no possibility to start tailing in broad daylight.

I expanded my senses and confirmed that I didn’t feel any magical energy from them. This is a special aura after getting the arm of emptiness, and you can read their aura strangely.

They’re guild scouts, not mines.

I left the academy as soon as I made a judgment based on their atmosphere. You can use the portal, but since you won’t be moving around the city, it’s easier to use public transportation. People presumed to be guild scouts ran late and shouted.

“Ymir! Wait for a sec!”

“Wait, wait a minute.”

“Hey! Where!”

I ignored them and took a taxi. From time to time, I heard swearing from behind, perhaps angry at being ignored by someone younger than me. I ignored that and told the taxi driver the destination.

Buaang.

The taxi crossed the road vigorously.

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The outer zone has a higher magical power concentration than the safe zone. Of course, if you practice magic in the outer zone, the speed at which magic accumulates is much faster than in the safe zone.

However, there were not many people who actually did it because of the side effects peculiar to the outer zone, but there was a special zone that could offset such disadvantages.

Magic spot.

It is an area on the border between the Outer Zone and the Safe Zone, and large guilds monopolize the best places with high magical power concentration while the environmental characteristics of the Outer Zone are not displayed. However, I know of an unexplored magic spot.

Mt. Oseong in Cheorwon-gun, Gangwon-do.

Originally, when I was weak, I couldn’t dare, but now I’m strong and I have the ability to use it. When I arrived at my destination, I paid a hefty fare to the taxi driver and walked the mountain path.

Following my memory, I moved on and a monster popped out after a while. It is a monster that resembles a wolf, but walks on two legs and uses weapons like a human. It is a beast-man monster called Lycan.

I continued walking while dealing with the lycans. After a while, we arrived at the place we wanted. It was a place like a cliff cut into a cliff, but there is a gap made of rocks at the bottom of the cliff.

I noticed the gap.

“I’m sure this is the right place….”

Contrary to my expectations, I didn’t feel the energy of magic at all.

Did I come to the wrong place?

I wandered around, expanding my senses. The energy of the outer zone was nowhere to be felt. If I remember right, this place is definitely right, but it’s strange.

After wandering around for a while, I remembered something different from my memories before returning.

Before the return, there was an unusual dungeon near here, and the road to the dungeon was opened separately. There used to be a signboard, but it’s not there now.

Remembering that fact, I headed to the place where the dungeon was just in case.

The location was behind a cliff, so we had to turn around. It’s easy to move using a meteor beam. After I got there, I realized something new.

There are no dungeons.

I inferred from that.

I wonder if the presence or absence of dungeons has something to do with magic spots.

I approached the place where the entrance to the dungeon was. Ordinary people would have thought it was part of the cliff, but to me who remembered the entrance to the dungeon, it looked like a rock blocking the entrance.

I hit the rock with my foot. If it was a part of the cliff, it should have bounced off without making a sound, but it made a hollow sound as if the inside was empty.

That’s right too.

After taking a few steps back, I used mastery and then used martial arts. He could break rocks up close, but he acted safely in anticipation of falling rocks.

Kwaguawang!

After a while, the rock broke and an entrance appeared. As I expected, the entrance to the dungeon was correct. At the same time, the words of light came up, and it was an alarm that the points and all general stats were obtained.

And I started to feel a little bit of the dense magical energy, and it’s an energy that can be felt in the outer zone. After going around the cliff and going back to the place where the magic spot was, mysteriously, the energy of the outer zone was felt intact. It seems that it was correct that the opening of the dungeon had an effect on the magic spot.

It’s amazing.

Is it because it is located on the front and back side with the cliff in between?

I quelled my doubts and applied the Yongmusimbeop, a mana practice technique learned from Daesik Park there. When you use the simbeop, magic power builds up inside at an incredible speed. In particular, my magical power representation was lumpy and shapeless, like a slime.

The efficiency is crazy.

Because the training went well, my concentration went well, so I practiced in a state of trance for a long time. It wasn’t until the sun went down that I came to my senses.

Let’s go down the mountain for now.

After I went down the mountain, I took accommodation nearby. The facilities were poor, but it was operated together with the restaurant, so we were able to save time for meals. I practiced like that.

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When a dungeon is discovered, the dungeon discoverer is entitled to own the dungeon. This is the reason why many guilds became frantic in the business of reclaiming unexplored outer zones.

I also found a dungeon unexpectedly, reported it and was able to claim ownership, but I delayed reporting the dungeon a bit.

It was because I was concerned that if I, as an academy cadet, reported that I had discovered a dungeon, it would become an issue and draw attention.