1st Place In The Ranking Is A Villager

Chapter 37

1st place in the ranking is the villager

– Volume 2 Episode 12

12. Trial of the Elves (3)

‘what? Where are you?’

Hoya and Sylphid, who had been stuck behind him, were nowhere to be seen.

When I widened my field of vision and looked at a distant place where new monsters were coming in, I could see the monsters quickly disappearing into light.

It was too far to see clearly, but Hoya and Sylphid were slaughtering monsters.

No, but what if you leave your seat and run away!

[Beksul: Hoya-san, it’s dangerous, so come back!][Hoya: It’s okay.][Beksul: The seat is still empty.][Hoya: Reister and Arko took care of it.]

Looking closely at Hoya’s whisper, Hoya’s place between Reister and Arko was perfectly covered.

To be precise, Reister and Arko were dealing with the few monsters that escaped Hoya’s attack.

Hoya was in the front line covering the area of ​​three people.

Whoo-!

Sylphid opened his arms wide and closed it, avoiding Hoya, and a strong wind blew around.

Hoya defeats the monsters that cannot withstand the strong wind and whose movement is restricted, mixing bullets in the middle.

Even though it must have been the first time today, it was a movement that seemed to understand how the opponent would attack, and how this situation was created by wanting the opponent to continue the attack.

Or it means that we are relaxed enough to accommodate each other.

Whatever the reason, it was good.

“Reister! Move between Pedra and me!”

“Yes!”

Beksul decided to use the current situation for the better.

The monsters that flowed toward Reicer and Arko, avoiding Hoya’s attack, were enough time to catch one of them.

So, rain manpower should be used where it is needed.

Since Joonggi and Pedra seemed dangerous, they moved the seat of Reicer.

Reister also understood the situation well, so he moved up to the monsters he was holding, and then moved according to Bekseol’s words.

Based on the millennium tree, there were two people in the east and four people in the west, but Hoya was doing enough for three or more people.

[Remaining Enemies (23/200)]

At the end of two hours, there were few monsters left.

In other words, more than 150 monsters poured out in 2 hours.

150 in 2 hours… Is this a dungeon made to clear this?

could be sureIf I hadn’t been able to make Sylphid my ally at the first test site, if Hoya wasn’t in the party, the situation would have been several times more dangerous than it is now.

At first, he was convinced that it was possible to clear the conditions for annihilation.

When the remaining enemies reached 20, there were no monsters left on the plain.

It was that the monster was dealt with faster than the monster was created.

Arko, who saw it, sank down on the floor.

He felt like he wanted to stretch out to the big guy, though.

“Uh-huh, princess, after the second test, can’t we just take a break for an hour or 30 minutes and then move on to the next one?”

“Look at the situation.”

“Please take a good look!”

Arko cheered when something neither negative nor positive came out of Snow White’s mouth.

It was not a negative word, it meant that the thinking was inclined toward the positive to some extent.

A few minutes later, Arko saw the monsters appearing over the horizon again, and stood up again with a bright expression.

He counted the number of monsters, only 20, and the ones coming out now were the last monsters.

In less than 30 minutes, they were able to hunt down all the remaining monsters.

[You have cleared the second test with ‘Annihilation of the Enemy’][The damage done to the Millennium Tree is ‘0’.][Yggdrasil gives a blessing in return for protecting his child perfectly.][Recovers all HP and MP with ‘Blessing of Yggdrasil’.][‘Blessing of Yggdrasil’ has reset the cooldown time of all skills.][You can enter the third test center.]

The moment he checked the system message, Arko’s face turned earthy, and Beksul smiled brightly.

“I think it would be more efficient to go straight to the third test center right?”

* * *

“Princess, please… Let’s move on to the fourth one tomorrow… That way you can log out!”

“Sylphid, what’s your next exam?”

“The fourth is navigation, finding a maze. It’s quite complicated and long, but with my help, you can follow the direction of the wind and find your way right away. Instead, it’s a bit long, so it’ll take a few hours just to get there.”

“Um… Then the access time limit seems to be close, so let’s all log out today and log in again tomorrow at 9 am.”

“Oh yea!”

Arko smiled pleasantly and logged out first.

After that, everyone logged out sequentially.

Finally, as Hoya tried to log out, Sylphid caught him.

“Hey… before going to rest, can’t you tell me how Lencia is doing?”

Sylphid looked at Hoya with sad eyes like a kitten abandoned on the road.

There was still time before the timeout, so Hoya told Sylphid how Lencia was going.

Hoya didn’t have much encounter with Rencia, except for living in the village for the first month.

So, I didn’t know much, but for Sylphid, even the little stories that Hoya knew were a good thing.

When he first met Lencia, he made a crater in the ground with a bow.

When he has free time, he fights with Krauss.

By some chance, she was asked to taste the medicine from Rencia and immediately spit out her medicine at the strong bitter taste she felt for the first time. I told Sylphid.

As Hoya spoke them, Sylphid pricked his ears and lit his eyes, and listened intently to Hoya’s story, not missing a single word.

“That’s right……. Hehe, I’m glad that you seem to be doing well.”

On the one hand, she felt sad and anxious that she could get along without me.

What if she doesn’t want to see me as much as her lencia wants me to see her?

What if I’m not a friend in her head, but just a passing relationship from her old days?

Why haven’t you come to see me until now?

Do you remember the promise?

As she listened to Hoya about how Rencia was doing, a little uneasiness rose in Sylphid.

Sylphid wrapped herself in a smile so as not to show that feeling.

However, Hoya could see the inner kernel, which had simply been peeled off the packaging.

“… it will be fine.”

“……Is that right? Hehehe.”

She didn’t know what was causing her Sylphid’s anxiety to her, but she knew one thing was to comfort her, so Hoya patted her on the back.

Then Sylphid shed tears like chicken dung.

* * *

“Damn!”

In the fourth test site, I was able to get out of the maze right away by following Sylphid’s guidance.

Although the maze itself was quite long, it took almost 4 hours to just move.

I can’t even imagine how many days it would have taken without Sylphid’s help.

“The fifth test, the last test, is nothing like a test. If the spirits who have watched the test so far come to say that they want to sign a contract with one of you, they pick one child and sign the contract. The entrance to it will open.”

I was slightly nervous at Sylphid’s words and moved on to the fifth test site.

It was a pure white space where the boundary between the land and the wall was not felt like the space for character creation that comes when you start Initium for the first time.

If there was one difference, instead of the full-length mirror, there were many spirits of five colors flying around.

The spirits that found the party flew to the person they wished they had signed a contract with.

“Hey, hey. I’m called Gryupane! You can use different ice! Do you want to sign a contract with me, huh?”

“I’m Noim! Human, you’re funny, so I’ll give you a special contract! Let’s sign a contract!”

“My name is Noim too! Do you want to sign a contract with me?”

“Ah! Don’t cut it!”

“I am…”

Everyone was surrounded by spirits.Among the spirits, there were a mixture of spirits who wanted to make a real contract and spirits who just watched because humans were curious.

Hoya was surrounded by many spirits, but only one spirit approached to make a contract.

Among the spirits hovering around him, there were spirits who wanted to make a contract with Hoya.

However, the spirits just stood still because they could not fight the one spirit that approached Hoya.

He was a boy with dark hair that seemed to absorb all the light, and really white skin that didn’t feel like his skin was white.

“Huh? What are you doing?”

Sylphid asked the black and white boy a question, but the boy ignored Sylphid’s words and approached Hoya.

“Would you like to sign a contract with me?”

Hoya paused at the system message that appeared at the same time as the boy with a charming yet frightening smile spoke.

[Hieros seduces you.][The status abnormality is ‘enchanted’.][Resisted due to the effect of the title ‘Resident of the End of the Land’.][Hieros manipulates your emotions.][The state is ‘fear’.][Resisted due to the effect of the title ‘Resident of the End of the Land’.][Hieros…]

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It was the content of the endless system messages, all of which were resisted by a status abnormality.

The name of the target who attempted the status abnormality was ‘Hieros’.

Hoya could have guessed that the name of the boy in front of him was Hieros.

As Hoya’s mouth, visible under the mask, hardened, Hieros smiled softly.

“Yeah. Strangely, none of my mental attacks work? I like it. I’ll say it again. Would you like to sign a contract with me?”

Hieros, who floated in the air and met Hoya’s gaze, still had a charming smile on his face.

Hoya wondered if it was okay to make a contract with this spirit.

To put a condition on someone who wants to sign a contract from the beginning…

not very trustworthy

However, he had a size and height that fit his appearance, unlike other spirits, who were large enough to fit on the palm of his hand and had a simple appearance.

It was almost certain that that was a higher spirit, so there was also the thought that it would be a waste to reject the contract.

“I get a rough idea of ​​what you’re thinking. Do you have any credibility for what I did?”

“……”

“Cook-Cook, even though you’re wearing a mask, you seem to show all your emotions. Can’t you trust me? The elves are afraid of my abilities, so they don’t sign contracts with me~”

Hoya didn’t answer, Hieros was smiling, while Sylphid interrupted their conversation.

“Even if he is a bit playful and has such a personality, you can trust him because he is a good boy.”

“Then I’ll make a contract.”

“Huh? Even if you don’t believe me, do you believe what Sylphid says?”