Chapter 113
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Moon Ga-eun barely calmed her startled heart. N0v3lTr0ve served as the original host for this chapter's release on N0v3l--B1n.
It was a sudden attack.
Kim Do-yoon, a classmate who had been unpleasant from the first impression, attacked them for no reason in the dungeon they came out to for practice.
The first target of the attack was Moon Ga-eun, herself.
Kim Do-yoon amplified his abilities with a [Berserk Potion] and then rushed in relentlessly using Assault runes and [Ruthless Charge].
If it wasn’t for Do Jae-hyun who quickly noticed the situation.
If it wasn’t for his body shield defense as he threw himself in.
Kim Do-yoon’s exploding sword would have definitely reached her body.
‘To protect me...’
The reason why Do Jae-hyun, whose specialty was evasion, collided with Kim Do-yoon using body shield instead of utilizing evasion.
It was to protect Moon Ga-eun.
She looked at Do Jae-hyun standing in front of her.
His body was full of wounds from enduring the collision and explosion.
However, he was standing firmly like a wall protecting the front.
Knowing that if he was penetrated, it would become dangerous for those behind.
While drawing her bow, Moon Ga-eun blankly looked at Do Jae-hyun.
‘What should I do...’
It was a strange feeling.
She knew this wasn’t the time or situation for it, but...
She kept seeing Do Jae-hyun’s back.
She ended up staring endlessly at his back.
That wasn’t all.
The first one to quickly notice the surprise attack and move to block it.
After that, calmly defending against the explosion and capturing the opportunity for a counterattack.
And when he was pushed back, the...
‘....Back hug.’
Because she had no composure earlier, she only recalled it now when she had room to think with the opportunity for a counterattack.
That she hugged Do Jae-hyun with a back hug when he was pushed towards her by the explosion.
That rough texture and soft warmth still remained in her hands.
Normally she would have been surprised and jumped up, but maybe because of the situation, it wasn’t as flustering.
Also...
‘Well, we’re a couple after all.’
Do Jae-hyun and her have been dating for 100 days.
...Outwardly.
And now Moon Ga-eun knows too.
For couples who have dated for over 100 days, this level of skinship is just playful affection.
So she needed to be more nonchalant about things like back hugs.
For when she needs to pretend to be a couple again sometime.
Then...
It might happen again.
‘Hmm, hmm.’
If her best friends like Kang Juyeon or Kim Chae-eun found out about this, she would be grilled to the bone, but...
It’s fine as long as it stays hidden.
...Moon Ga-eun thought so as she pulled on her bowstring.
Now wasn’t the time for idle thoughts.
It was time to support Do Jae-hyun with cover fire.
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From now on, it’s a battle against time.
The duration of [Berserk] is 10 minutes.
The duration of [Berserk Potion] is about an hour.
The reason why the time is longer in proportion to the penalty, and also because my own skill [Descendant of the Barbarian King] is affected by the level.
So I needed to defeat Kim Do-yoon within 10 minutes.
[Hide Attack].
A skill that lowers the target’s endurance by a set amount and increases my attack power at the same time, containing both defense penetration and amplification.
A powerful derivative skill I could utilize because I wasn’t detected before attacking.
“Ugh, ugh... Uwaaaa!!”
Because he allowed the sudden blow, Kim Do-yoon started thrashing around crazily.
Despite the agony from being slashed in a vital area full of organs, he somehow tried to move his body to attack me behind him.
Whoosh-
Thwack!!
“Gah, geh...!!”
“No way, you bastard.”
A powerful magic arrow flew in and pierced through his shoulder.
It was cover fire from Moon Ga-eun, who had already drawn her bow according to my signal.
She fired [Extreme Shot], a derivative skill of her main rune [Wind Archer], optimized for one-on-one.
Of course, with her current abilities, she couldn’t deal big damage to Kim Do-yoon.
No matter how much magic power she imbued it with, Kim Do-yoon’s endurance stats were too high right now.
But at the very least, at important moments like this, appropriate attacks could control Kim Do-yoon’s movements a little.
And this level of control was...
Sufficient support for me.
“Explode.”
I shoved the [Sword of Penitent] into Kim Do-yoon’s back.
I poured magic power into it to utilize my ultimate skill.
After maximizing magic power using the support rune [Magic Amplification] as well.
[Sky-Shattering Heavenly Sword], condensing the extremes to the extreme that I could currently use.
It was the strongest combo I had right now.
Boom, boom-!!
“Gah, geh...!!”
The enormous magic blow exploded inside his body.
Kim Do-yoon, who was writhing in agony with a twisted expression, soon collapsed limply.
His whole body was covered in blood...
It had a corpse-like appearance.
“Haa, haa....”
It’s over, damn it.
Really freaking tiring...
As I breathed roughly, Moon Ga-eun quickly approached from behind.
“Do Jae-hyun! Are you okay?!”
With a worried expression, she examined my face.
She checked everywhere in case I was hurt, and even stroked my shoulder that was severely injured earlier.
...Not like Moon Ga-eun’s usual excessive care.
But seeming to be convinced of my unharmed condition, after examining me for a while, Moon Ga-eun let out a sigh of relief.
“Gosh... I really thought things were going wrong.”
“Don’t you know after going hunting with me so many times? I don’t get hurt easily.”
“What do you mean? I saw you chugging potions every time.”
“Did I...?”
“Anyway, you’re really okay right? Your shoulder doesn’t hurt?”
“Yeah. Just out of magic. I’m fine.”
I poked her frowning face to smooth it out.
Then I looked up at Kim Do-yoon collapsed on the floor.
“Phew....”
Although it was a sudden surprise attack, we eventually defended against it and won.
Now it was time to use this as an opportunity to track <Villain> once more and pressure them.
...My newly created <Anti-Villain> will get busy.
[You have won the duel! With the mysterious power of the Rune Hunter, you can replicate one of the opponent’s runes. Please select a rune to replicate.]
And a duel victory reward I haven’t seen in a long time popped up.
Well, this was a bonus.
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