1st Place In The Ranking Is A Villager

Chapter 10

1st place in the ranking is the villager

– Volume 1 Episode 10

10. Ent of the Contaminated Forest

“Hey, why are you wearing that?”

Krauss and Reina had their faces covered with veils made of woven leaves over their heads, just like when Hoya first met Krauss.

“Ents are quite brainy. Even at this level, they know that they are the same ent and don’t attack until they are attacked. It’s annoying when ents flock to the subspecies’ place, right?”

“Then I don’t have to turn over, do I?”

“Is it all right for Hoya to go? He said he wasn’t attacked at all in the first place?”

Recalling what happened on the first day, Hoya was convinced.

Certainly, there had been no attack before Krauss showed his face that day.

Although he had entered the forest even now, he was not attacked.

It wasn’t a character I made with that in mind, but I was lucky.

However, it is said that the method does not work for the subspecies because the intelligence of the subspecies is about that of a child.

“As soon as the subspecies sees us, they will scream and gather the ents. Be careful as the sound is quite loud, and don’t worry, we will deal with the rushing ents.”

After that, as we walked a little further, Krauss, who was ahead, spread his arms and stopped Hoya.

At Krauss’ signal, he hid behind something he didn’t know whether it was a tree or an ent, and with his head slightly raised, he looked ahead.

Standing there stood a naked boy with brown skin and long green hair that dragged him to the floor.

Upon closer inspection, his brown skin looked like the bark of a tree, and his green hair was an elongated stretch of leaves, similar to the ones that Kraus and Reina wore on their heads.

At first glance, he looked slender, but Hoya could feel a chill from the boy in the distance.

[The presence of the field boss monster ‘Polished Treant subspecies’ evokes fear.][The state is ‘fear’.][Resisted due to the effect of the title ‘Resident of the End of the Land’.]

Was it out of condition?

Looking at Krauss and Reina, the two seemed okay.

Hoya also seemed to be okay with the momentary chill he felt.

Perhaps the chill that Hoya felt was not caused by an abnormal condition, but from an instinctive sense of fear from the fact that there was a monster far stronger than him in front of him.

“Hoya, do you remember everything I told you earlier?”

“Yes.”

“Okay then… Let’s go!”

Krauss pushes Hoya on the back, causing Hoya to semi-force out of the blind spot behind the tree and run towards the tainted subspecies of Treant.

At the same time, seeing that Subjong’s head turned slightly toward Hoya, the enemy seemed to recognize Hoya’s existence.

I’ve already been caught, so I can’t go back now.

Krauss explained to Hoya in advance about the attack method of the subspecies.

His stinging attack is his specialty, and be careful of the tree roots that suddenly sprout from the ground. The roots are quite tough, so once caught, it’s hard to get out.

Reina knows that Hoya doesn’t have her armor, so she gives him a buff that increases her armor.

But the battle with the subspecies was for Hoya’s training.

Therefore, Krauss spoke to Reina and put a limit on the level of defense that he raised as a buff, only to the level of wearing normal armor of the same level.

Even that is better than nothing at all.

Whoa-oh-oh-oh!

The subordinate, who turned completely toward Hoya, opened his mouth and made a low, creepy voice.It felt more like a sound wave rather than a voice.

Soon after, the rustling of the surrounding trees could be heard, and Hoya reached right in front of the subspecies.

“God, in the name of Eve! Field of equity!”

As Reina sang, a dome-shaped wall of soft light was created around Hoya and Ajong.

[Skill ‘Field of Equity’ has been activated][All living things are pushed out of the field except for ‘Hoya’ and ‘Contaminated Ent subspecies’ in the field.][The stat of ‘Polished Treant subspecies’ changes in proportion to ‘Hoya”s ability.][You cannot leave the field until one side dies.]

Quang-! bang!

The polluted Ents who arrived in that instant smashed the wall of the field with their stems, but the wall did not show any vibration.

Subjong also noticed the strange thing that had happened to him.

Perhaps that is why, after discovering Hoya, his distorted face became even more strongly distorted.

A red light was emitted from the hollow part thought to be the eye.

[Exposed to the gaze of the polluted tree.][All stats, attack power, and movement speed are reduced by 30% until out of sight.][Resisted due to the effect of the title ‘Resident of the End of the Land’.]

Quang-!

The sword that Hoya was holding strong was hurled at the subspecies, and a shallow cloud of dust suddenly appeared.

In the place where the dust cloud had cleared, I could see Hoya holding up his sword with strength and a subspecies blocking Hoya’s sword with his arm.

Kaga!

The ent subspecies of the tainted forest deflected Hoya’s sword and slashed it.

A sharp branch like an awl from the tip of the left arm of the subspecies protruded toward Hoya’s open abdomen.

Aiming at his feet and his left side, the roots of trees were sprouting up from the ground.

He avoided the tree roots that sprouted from under his feet by sprinting.

At the same time, while kicking the soaring root of the tree, he retreated back and avoided the arm of the subspecies that was digging into his abdomen, and drew the sword that had been struck straight down, twisting the direction of the root of the tree that was coming in, aiming at his left side.

It all happened in an instant.

However.

‘see……!’

Compared to Krauss, it was like a baby who had just begun to walk.

Hoya’s eyes, who had battled with Krauss for ten days, developed the power to chase faster things with his eyes.

There were attacks that could not be avoided or skipped because the stats did not support it.

However, there was no difficulty in figuring out the direction of the attack and avoiding it by moving the body with minimal damage.

Suddenly, Hoya remembered what Krauss had said to him.

-Hoya, because you are much stronger than you think.

Up until now, he had only been beaten by Krauss every day, so he didn’t feel it, but Hoya was strong enough.

Only the stats were low, but even compared to the rankers, he was showing movement and judgment ability that would never easily be defeated.

Outside the field, Krauss and Reina were looking at Hoya like that with happy smiles.

“I’m glad. To be honest, I was a little worried.”

spatula.

Reina swung her sword.

Then, the ent of the polluted forest, the size of which would be breathtaking even if five adult males spread their arms around them, disappeared as grains of light, revealing their annual rings.

“If you lose to that level, your teaching is not worth it.”

🤩

Blue light gathered on Krauss’s sword, and Krauss swung it like lightning.

The blue light on the sword bent like a bow and flew to several entren in the polluted forest in front of them, cutting them all in half.

The two were doing such things as if nothing was wrong, as if they were used to it.

It looked like it was picking up weeds in the yard.

It wasn’t wrong.

The village was their home and the forest was their front yard.

They were peaceful compared to Hoya, who wields a sword.

The tragedy that happened was worse for Krauss and Reina than for Hoya, though.

Whoa-!

When the subjong made a loud sound wave, the roots of the trees came up from the ground around the subjong without a gap and hurled themselves at Hoya like a bullet.

Since it is a simple attack aimed at one point, you may feel that it will be easy to dodge.

However, since it was like a huge drill with dozens of tree roots, the area of ​​​​the attack was wider and larger than any other attack so far.

Aww!

A huge amount of dust rose around the place where Hoya was standing.

and,

bang-!

[You cannot leave the field until one side dies.][You cannot leave the field until one side dies.][You cannot leave the field until one side dies.]

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Hoya’s body bounced off the dust cloud and crashed into the wall of the field.

Keeping your body in contact with the wall was constantly generating messages saying you couldn’t get out of the field.

“Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!”

Hoya exhaled steeply and checked the HP gauge floating above the subspecies’ head.

The subspecies’ HP was slashed with only about three-fourths of the attack over several tens of minutes.

I don’t know for sure, but it seemed like an hour had passed.

Hoya’s HP was already on the verge of hitting bottom.

If he was attacked even once in the future, he would be immediately declared dead.

It was truly a crisis situation.

Reina reached out her hand to give him her heel.

But Krauss stopped her hand.

“No, Reina.”

“But… if we can’t do it this time, we’ll have to wait another 5 months!”

“Look at Hoya.”

Hoya stood up with his sword as a staff.

“Do you see that through the eyes of a guy looking for help?”

Even as he woke up using his sword as a staff, Hoya’s eyes were fixed on the servant in the distance in front of him.His eyes looking at the subspecies were shining with a desire for strength.

They didn’t pay any attention to the existence of Krauss and Reina, who had almost come close to the outside of the field.

He was only concentrating on the enemy.

“……”

Reina, who checked Hoya’s eyes, quietly lowered her hand.

Although he was very worried, his eyes were not those of a person who had given up without a way any more.

He seemed to have a corner to believe in something.

In fact, Hoya had a corner to believe.

He had never used it in real life, but he had shown quite a bit of power in practice.

For maximum efficiency, he continued to swing his sword until he was close to cutting his stamina.

Now is the time to use the corner he believes in.

ride it!

As Hoya got up and ran forward, tree roots came out aiming for Hoya.

Hoya was barely avoiding the tree roots that were flying towards him by almost a single paper difference.

Whoa!

As his own attacks all missed, the angry subbell snarled.

Then, more tree roots sprouted up than before, but at that moment, Hoya had already reached the front of the subjong and was wielding his sword.

Then Hoya shouted loudly.

“A villager’s blow!”

Hoya’s only attack skill for villagers exploded on the ent subspecies of the tainted forest.

Aww-!

There was a roar of a completely different size than before, and dust rose, and the impact shook even the branches outside the field.

In the place where the dust cloud had cleared, a subspecies that had been slashed and split with two-fifths of their HP were staggering from the impact.

In front of the Gran subspecies, Hoya, who had been pierced by the roots of a tree, was drooping with his body pierced.

Hoya’s HP, which was on the verge of hitting the floor, decreased in an instant.

Seeing Hoya’s condition, Subjong smiled at the thought that he had won and retrieved the tree’s roots.

Hoya’s body seemed to collapse from his knees as the roots of the tree fell from his body.

“Hoya-san!”

Reina shouted.

She, too, should have walked in heels then.

She thought so and was sad.

right then,

[The effect of the title ‘Indomitable Will’ is activated.][Immediately revives while recovering 1 HP.][All stats are doubled for 10 seconds, and all attacks are applied as critical hits.][The cooldown of all skills has been reset.]

Hoya’s body, which had been collapsing, stood upright, and he muttered softly.

“A villager’s blow.”

Aaaaaa-!

There was a louder roar and a cloud of dust than before.