Chapter 11 : Stability Assessment test (2)

Meanwhile, Sejin’s magic was completed.
What a damn slow casting.
“Dancing Flame Bolt!”
Why do you even say the name of the magic?
So lame.
But the power was undeniable.
KWWAAAAAANG──!
The lightning bolt accurately struck the monkey that was throwing banana bombs from behind.
With the flying bombs gone, the frontliners, Han Sion and Im Yeongjun, could deal with the monsters more easily.
Of course, Han Sion’s kill speed was much faster than Im Yeongjun’s.
“KYAAAAAAK!”
The outstretched claws are dodged by a paper-thin margin.
Sion raises his dagger and cuts off the elbow of the monkey with its arm extended.
While that one is in pain, another one rushes in, and he smoothly turns his sword path, cutting down its waist.
The silver line dances as if playing a melody.
“Piik!”
I applauded from above the supervisor’s head as if I had witnessed a marvelous art piece.
Unlike Han Sion, who had defeated about twenty, Im Yeongjun, who had only managed three or four, muttered in frustration.
“Damn it… Is this what an S-rank is…”
Hey! This is my contractor!
I puffed out my chest and flew around proudly, but then a system window appeared.

[Forcibly activating Sun’s Eye.]
“Piak?!”
What? Why?!
Startled and flustered, I soon came to my senses.
I saw something in the bosom of the bomb monkey that had been burned to death as if struck by lightning.
“Pion?”
“Piik!”
I’ll be right back!
At the sight of the golden gleam, I flew over immediately.
And after struggling, I was able to acquire a single banana from inside the monster’s corpse, which had somehow survived the fire.
‘What is this?’
The inside of the banana wasn’t filled with fruit but was empty, and when I peeled it all off with my round tentacle hands, a golden gear rolled out.
The forcibly activated Sun’s Eye informed me of its information.

[Gear Made of Sand: Myth]
A fragment of a certain annihilated Constellation. When it was annihilated, its fragments were scattered throughout the world. It is found with an extremely low probability from monsters and can be a top-grade crafting material.
[But for now, it might be better to just keep it?]
What is this?
I first picked up the gear and went to Han Sion.
The golden gear was placed on Sion’s white hand.
“Pion, what is this?”
“Piuk?”
How would I know?
I’m just giving it to you because it looks good.
Han Sion, who couldn’t appraise items, just thanked me and stroked my head.
As expected of my contractor.
Even stained with monster blood, he was beautiful.
But because I was distracted by my contractor’s face, I didn’t see the reaction of the two from Crow.
“Huh?”
“What, did you get it too?”
“A scenario, I think I did?”
“To deal with the jellyfish and retrieve the gear…?”

The starry sky.
Though the sky was full of the Milky Way, the transparent water, which should have been like a salt desert, had turned into a pool of blood, and on it, the corpses of crows were piled up.
From under the sea of countless corpses, bubbles rose, and a blond boy lifted his head.
From his back, six rotten crow wings, so rotten that the bones were exposed, flopped and fell into the sea of blood.
“A gear?”
The boy with a rather gentle impression said.
For some reason, he couldn’t check the item window properly, but his gut, seeing the golden gear through the broadcast room, told him.
This was a fragment of the ‘Returning Hourglass’.
“Ha! That bastard, I wondered what he was up to since I haven’t seen him lately.”
The Constellation, The Crow’s Ruins, smiled wryly, his red eyes gleaming.
The Constellation, Returning Hourglass, is his long-time rival.
He had been quiet lately, so he wondered what he was up to, but to think he was scattering his fragments throughout the world.
‘If you scatter your fragments, your rank as a Constellation naturally decreases, so what’s he thinking?’
But whatever it was, it was welcome if his rival’s power decreased.
Moreover, a Constellation’s fragment, if offered by a contractor to their Constellation, could become their own power.
It was stealing someone else’s power.
The Crow’s Ruins felt good at the thought of his power increasing.
He had been bothered by being a high-grade, not a top-grade, Constellation, and he thought it would be a good opportunity to collect fragments and aim for the top.
To do that, he had to get that fragment first.
‘And while I’m at it, I should also deal with that jellyfish that the contractor cherishes so much.’
Because that seemed fun.
He sent down a scenario.

The gate raid proceeded smoothly.
In fact, it was more accurate to say that Han Sion carried them.
The magician Sejin’s casting was too slow, and Im Yeongjun lacked damage.
Should he be called a damage tank?
So the complete agile dealer, Han Sion, had no choice but to fly around.
One falls.
The white gleam becomes a line, and soon the line becomes a jewel and rolls around.
One monkey falls.
Stepping on the rolled jewel, another’s center of gravity is thrown off.
Two necks fall at the same time.
Three faces rush in.
Five bisected corpses were created.
The form of the dagger that had dropped the jewel was gradually shrinking, but the pace was not fast.
The battle was over.
The fallen jewels were simple iron pieces scattered on the floor.
“It’s gotten much smaller, right?”
“Piik!”
By the time we reached the end of the gate, the thick dagger, which had been as thick as a forearm, had become quite thin.
This was because on the way, he had converted the components of the dagger into jewels and used them in battle while defeating monsters.
“We’ll rest here for a bit.”
At the supervisor’s words, the three of them plopped down and sat down.
I also took a seat on Han Sion’s shoulder.
This gate trip provided a pretty good experience for both Han Sion and me.
I was able to get used to the way a swordsman fights and learn a little more about my contractor, and Han Sion learned how to use his ability.
Sion’s ability, ‘Stardust’, could be used on weapons, and by consuming the weapon’s durability, it could be transformed into various forms.
Like just now, he could physically detach a part of the dagger and use it as a factor to throw off the center of gravity, or transform a thick dagger into a thin longsword.
But even so, due to the effect of the unique ability, the sharpness, that is, the cutting power, did not die.

“Just the sharpness alone is at the level of an S-rank weapon.”
That was the supervisor’s evaluation of Han Sion’s ability.
Usually, S-rank items received an S-rank only after receiving various additional effects, but Sion’s ability was said to be at that level just with its cutting power.
Whatever grade the weapon in his hand was, as long as it had enough durability, it would become an S-rank weapon.
He made a fuss, saying it was a fraudulent ability.
Thanks to that, he also said that there would be almost nothing he couldn’t cut.
The people who originally came for the test, at the detailed feedback that the two from Crow didn’t have, wondered if the supervisor always gave such detailed feedback, but seeing the two’s ‘Is that supervisor crazy’ expressions, they realized that wasn’t the case.
It must be Hong Yuon’s instructions.
I thought I should be nice to her niece when I get back.
The two from Crow became very quiet from the middle.
But they were more tense than before and exchanged glances, and even to me, the atmosphere was strange.
‘I smell something. I smell something.’
The intuition of the White Magic Tower Head, who had been betrayed, framed, and even beheaded, whispers.
‘You bastards, you have the look of betrayers!’
If not, then so be it.
But my gut tells me.
Those guys are up to something.
Whether it’s item stealing, or they’re planning to team up and take down Han Sion, or whatever.
I snorted.
‘Sion is no longer in a domain you can touch.’
Sion handed me a walnut cookie and smiled gently.
Ah, his face is bliss.
Anyway, it might have been different before entering the gate.
But after entering and slicing through monsters, Han Sion’s skills had improved by leaps and bounds.
It’s not a level that two mid-tier A-ranks can handle.
Awakeners were said to get a nickname when they accumulated a certain amount of fame, and it was something to look forward to.
Though it might just be me getting ahead of myself.
“If you’ve rested enough, we’ll resume. The boss room is ahead.”
The three of them stood up in turn.
The guild members from Crow still said nothing.
But I didn’t let my guard down.
I watched them so that I could be ready anytime they raised their mana.
But I was so focused on Sion and myself that I didn’t pay attention to the kind supervisor.
The anomaly occurred in the boss room.
“The boss room is sometimes blocked off like this, but it can also be a sudden sea, field, or cave. So… no, wait a minute!”
It was when the supervisor was explaining about the boss room for Han Sion.
The two from Crow exchanged glances, and then Im Yeongjun ran out and threw open the door to the boss room.
KWANG─!
The boss room opened with a flourish, waking up the boss who was sleeping inside.