The Automatic Rooting Range Is Too Wide - Chapter 123

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Auto Looting Range Too Wide Episode 123

Episode 123: Main Tournament (2)

Flames flew endlessly through the air.

Each was only about the size of a thumb.

They looked like they would only sting a bit if they touched bare skin.

【Activating skill ‘Black Horn Bullet Form’.】

【Consuming ‘140’ mana.】

But Mincheol even used a skill to dodge them.

A flame belatedly reached where Mincheol had passed.

Boom—

At that moment, the ground was shattered by an explosion.

It was hard to believe such a small flame could cause such an explosion.

‘I could withstand up to three hits.’

Mincheol estimated as he ran across the ground.

It wasn’t a baseless judgment. He reached this conclusion thinking about when he got caught in the Colossus’s bombardment recently.

Enduring was possible.

The problem was the number of flames. More than a dozen flames were flying toward Mincheol.

If he took even one direct hit, he’d get caught in a chain of explosions.

Then Mincheol’s body would surely leave no trace behind.

‘Yikes.’

Even as Mincheol continued to worry, the flames kept flying.

Boom—

Naturally, the explosions didn’t stop either. The plains had already become ruins.

‘It’s already been over ten times. But she’s not stopping.’

‘Just how high is her mana stat?’

‘Or does she have a skill that reduces mana efficiency costs?’

Either way, it didn’t seem like he could expect Kim Eun-ae to get tired.

Seeing how she kept bombarding with skills like this.

That’s when it happened.

Suddenly, a flame appeared right in front of Mincheol.

“…!”

At this rate, he would collide with the flame and get caught in the explosion.

Mincheol reflexively threw his sword to hit the flame.

Boom—

An explosion occurred right before his eyes.

It was already too late to dodge to the side.

Mincheol covered his face with his forearm and leaped into the explosion.

Thanks to causing the explosion a beat earlier, he didn’t take any significant damage.

It was when he burst out through the heat wave and dust.

Right after that, Mincheol saw it.

The flames flying toward him.

But their trajectory was different from before.

They spread out widely and flew in to surround him.

At this moment, Mincheol realized.

The flame from earlier hadn’t appeared suddenly.

Kim Eun-ae had read Mincheol’s movements and sent it ahead of time.

‘She wasn’t just mindlessly shooting flames.’

It was an act to grasp Mincheol’s speed and patterns.

Now that the calculations were complete, she was trying to finish it.

‘She can control skills this precisely?’

Mincheol looked back at Kim Eun-ae with a dumbfounded expression.

Her eyes held the arrogant gaze befitting a promising member of a large guild.

But he didn’t sense any complacency.

Rather, her gaze was sharp as if she wouldn’t miss his every move.

She was this strong yet didn’t even let her guard down.

Mincheol couldn’t help but shudder.

“You’re quite good as the rumors say. But that’s about it.”

Kim Eun-ae said calmly.

It seemed she wasn’t particularly impressed even after seeing Mincheol’s movements.

“I’ll praise you for lasting this long against me.”

With those words, the flames reached Mincheol.

There was nowhere to escape.

Kim Eun-ae must have opened her mouth because she was confident of that.

No, there seemed to be none.

If Mincheol didn’t have a movement skill.

Even if he did, if it was an ordinary skill.

And if Mincheol hadn’t been constantly analyzing the flames’ movements.

【Activating skill ‘Black Horn Bullet Form’.】

【Consuming ‘140’ mana.】

Mincheol moved simultaneously with activating the skill.

He kicked off the ground and weaved between the flames.

The flames couldn’t reach Mincheol and struck the ground instead.

Boom—

Over a dozen explosions simultaneously covered the ground, but Mincheol wasn’t harmed in the slightest.

“…!”

Kim Eun-ae’s face showed change for the first time.

She looked at Mincheol with an expression of disbelief.

Black Horn Bullet Form wasn’t simply a skill for running fast.

It was a technique that utilized elasticity to kick off the ground.

Not only was changing direction free, but the instantaneous acceleration was also fast.

Breaking through the flames’ encirclement was a simple matter.

【Activating Black Horn Bullet Form.】

Mincheol, having broken through the encirclement, activated the skill again.

He stepped on the ground and accelerated toward Kim Eun-ae.

Mincheol, who approached in an instant, swung down his longsword.

“Did you think you could win if you got close? Not a chance!”

Kim Eun-ae didn’t try to dodge. Instead, she swung her staff to parry.

Her stance was far from ordinary. Park Du-nam’s words about her having some skill in close combat seemed to be true.

‘Even so.’

Clang—

With a sharp sound, the staff was knocked away.

If Kim Eun-ae hadn’t reflexively loosened her grip, she would have lost hold of her staff.

“…!”

For the first time, Kim Eun-ae’s expression changed. Her face was filled with surprise.

Mincheol didn’t stop and swung his twin swords again.

Kim Eun-ae deflected the pouring sword strikes with her staff.

But she was precariously unsteady.

Every time sword and staff clashed, her body shook greatly.

‘Close combat is my specialty.’

No matter how promising a prospect from a large guild she was, it was impossible to excel in every field.

Now that the distance was closed, the advantage belonged to Mincheol.

“Kuk!”

Kim Eun-ae was no pushover either.

The crystal on her staff spewed fire.

Every time Kim Eun-ae swung her staff, flames scattered.

The wide range made it quite threatening. But Mincheol didn’t think much of it.

‘Just don’t get hit.’

The range was wide, but the trajectory was simple and easy to read.

Mincheol dodged all the flames while closing the distance. At the same time, he crossed both arms.

‘I’ll end this now.’

【Activating skill ‘Fierce Twin Strike’.】

【Consuming ’70’ mana.】

Two sword energies burst forth.

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Ordinary.

That was Kim Eun-ae’s impression when she first saw the Butcher.

Quiet and calm. He didn’t particularly look strong either.

‘I heard he was a crazy murderer… but he looks too normal for that. Could he be fake?’

If he really was fake, Kim Sae would be in trouble.

Kim Eun-ae had been itching to crush the Butcher when she met him.

‘An unaffiliated nobody matching up to a large guild’s promising prospect? Does that seem possible?’

Kim Eun-ae took great pride in being affiliated with Gakdeungjeong and being a promising prospect there.

That’s why she couldn’t let the Butcher’s existence slide. It felt like a challenge to Gakdeungjeong.

Fortunately, Kim Eun-ae’s worry was unfounded.

Her opponent was the real Butcher after all.

When the large fireball she created to end the match was destroyed by a single spear, she realized that fact.

‘Huh?’

Magic-related skills increased in power and size as the amount of mana consumed increased.

The fireball Kim Eun-ae just used was a technique that consumed 50% of her total mana.

To break it so easily? This was a first.

‘Seems he’s quite capable, as rumored?’

Then, the Butcher appeared alone before her.

That action slightly annoyed Kim Eun-ae.

‘He’s going to face me alone? A mere unaffiliated nobody?’

Since joining Gakdeungjeong, this was the first time she’d experienced such humiliation.

Most Awakened, even those from mid-sized guilds, were busy avoiding her when they met.

‘I’ll make him feel the gap.’

Kim Eun-ae gathered the flames scattered in all directions.

The mana that had been consumed when using the fireball returned to her body.

This was her unique skill ‘Circulation’.

A unique skill that reabsorbed residual mana left after using skills.

However, it didn’t apply to all skills.

Close combat skills left almost no residual mana.

But magic skills were different. After using a skill, there was quite a lot of residual mana left.

With a recycling skill, more than half of that mana could be reused.

Thanks to this, Kim Eun-ae could use fire-type skills to her heart’s content.

‘I’ll kill you.’

Kim Eun-ae fired small fireballs wildly.

The fireballs chased after the Butcher and exploded endlessly.

‘He is fast. I’ll give him that.’

Most enemies were finished with just a few fireballs.

But the Butcher was beyond the ‘ordinary category’.

The fireballs were too slow, and the Butcher was too fast.

‘But you’re not the first enemy like this I’ve faced.’

When she got used to the Butcher’s speed, Kim Eun-ae dispersed her fireballs.

Dozens of fireballs flew like a net.

‘Go get some rest.’

Kim Eun-ae was confident of victory.

With the Butcher’s speed she’d observed so far, he couldn’t dodge this many fireballs.

That’s what she thought.

Until the Butcher dodged all the fireballs.

Kim Eun-ae couldn’t help but be shocked at that sight.

‘What kind of skill is that…!’

No, no.

What she just witnessed couldn’t be explained by skill performance alone.

Kim Eun-ae had placed the fireballs strategically.

Even if he dodged one or two, he would inevitably be hit.

In other words, it was impossible with hardware alone.

Software.

It meant the Butcher had grasped the movement of all the fireballs.

‘…Is he insane?’

The 3rd ranked guild in South Korea.

Even in Gakdeungjeong, there were few people capable of such a thing.

Even among those, there was no one who could dodge so cleanly.

Looking at the entire industry, such people might exist, but at least Kim Eun-ae had never seen one.

A brief moment of shock.

Because of that, she reacted a beat late to the Butcher’s movement.

The price was steep.

The Butcher, who had approached in an instant, began pressing Kim Eun-ae.

Kim Eun-ae swung her staff in resistance.

Though mages were said to be weak in close combat, that didn’t apply to her.

Her strength, stamina, and agility stats were high, and she had professionally learned staff techniques.

In fact, she had cracked the skulls of warrior-type Awakened several times in close combat.

But it was woefully insufficient to stop the Butcher.

Every time she blocked an attack, it felt like her wrists would snap.

Cleverly executed attacks left wounds all over her body.

‘I can’t win like this.’

The moment she instinctively realized that fact, Kim Eun-ae struck the ground with her staff.

【’Spirit Summoning’ is activated.】

【’Lesser Fire Spirit’ manifests for ’10 minutes’.】

【Usage count is deducted. 2/3】

【Will recharge after 24 hours.】

Flames surged up from beneath her feet.

The Butcher stopped his attack and retreated.

The flames that had surged up in an instant soon transformed into a large lizard.

Screech-

The fire spirit surrounded Kim Eun-ae protectively.

The intense heat turned all the remaining grass blades on the plains completely yellow.

“…This is ridiculous.”

Kim Eun-ae spoke as if dumbfounded.

Spirit Summoning was a skill that Gakdeungjeong had provided with the event’s victory in mind.

Its grade was ‘Unique’.

However, the summoning time and usage count were limited, so it couldn’t be used carelessly.

To think she’d have to use it already. And against some unaffiliated Awakened at that.

She was so angry it was giving her a headache.

But Kim Eun-ae forcibly suppressed her rage.

‘I need to calm my emotions.’

She was acknowledging that the Butcher was a dangerous opponent.

So dangerous that even after bringing out the fire spirit, she couldn’t feel at ease.

“Burn him to ashes!”

With Kim Eun-ae’s shout, the fire lizard blazed fiercely.

* * *

‘Oh, that’s interesting.’

Mincheol thought as he looked at the lizard made of flames.

The way it moved as if alive didn’t seem like an ordinary skill.

‘That looks really dangerous.’

As evidence, the moment the fire lizard appeared, the plains turned yellow.

All the grass blades that had been green withered completely.

‘First she spams fire magic, now she uses this dangerous skill…’

What was even more shocking was that despite being a ranged specialist, she was pushing him, a warrior-type, this hard.

‘So this is what a promising talent from a large guild is like?’

Strong.

Her potential seemed unfathomable.

That’s why it was enjoyable.

She met his expectations, no, exceeded them.

His heart was pounding. He could feel his body temperature rising.

Mincheol unconsciously licked his lips.

‘I can’t win just like this. I need to show something too.’

Mincheol shouted toward the sky.

“Kkwak, buff!”

【’Kkwaekkwi’ uses ‘Warm Wind Wing Beat’!】

【All physical abilities increase by 10% for 10 minutes!】

【Movement speed increases by 20%!】

A storm descended from the sky.

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