The Novel's Extra (0-100)

Chapter 62 - Final Exam (4)

The situation came to an end with Kim Suho's arrival, but I spent another hour looking around the surroundings before climbing down the World Tree.

"Agh, what a pain."

I couldn't help but groan as I landed on the ground. Even though I had Parkour, the tree was just too abnormally big.

Shaking off the numbing feeling in my hands and legs, I checked the number of points I had.

[22 Point]

22 points. It should be a bit below the average. Since I practically took 12 of these from Chae Nayun, the amount I gained from monsters only came to 10 points.

In the original story, the first place cadet scored 130 points, so I needed to obtain another 50 points to stay in the safe range.

It should be possible as long as I worked busily today and tomorrow.

I turned around, thinking optimistically.

"..."

But as soon as I did, my body stiffened and my hair stood on ends. I was so mind-numbingly shocked that I couldn't think of anything.

In front of me was the Chameleon Troupe's boss, who was disguised as Seo Ijin. She approached me without making any sound and was staring at me with her black eyes.

Why was she here?

Cold sweat ran down my back, and my survival instincts began to roar.

I forced myself to calm down. She should be here to observe, not fight.

"What's the matter?"

But contrary to my expectations, she took out her sword and pointed it at me.

"..."

Silently and with unshaken eyes, she stood there. A chilling light flashed from her sword blade.

My thoughts ceased. I didn't know why, but she was undoubtedly picking a fight with me. But whether it be close ranged or long ranged combat, there was no way I could beat this woman. I would die instantly or be beaten painfully until I die.

"You know what."

She spoke with a tranquil voice. Just like she said, cadets were currently enemies.

However, this woman was simply too powerful to be an enemy. It was the same reason that insects couldn't call humans their enemies. To them, humans were predators.

But in this life-or-death situation, I found a glimpse of hope.

In this exam, cadets didn't fight each other to kill. What was important was to take the other side's exam smartwatch. Even if you subdued someone, if you didn't take that cadet's smartwatch, it wasn't your victory. Additionally, if you subdued someone, but had your smartwatch taken, it was your loss.

Currently, the smartwatch around her left wrist was loose.

It could be that she equipped it loosely to begin with, or that it was unable to withstand her unleashing of magic power and became loose, or that I was simply lucky.

Regardless of the reason, this was the only way I could escape this situation.

From my sleeve, I began to weave Aether to be thin, thinner than a spider thread.

Then, I controlled the thread so that she couldn't see it. Like a worm trying to dodge a preying hawk's eyes, it slowly squirmed towards her left wrist.

Currently, her focus was entirely on me. Just meeting her deep eyes seemed to strangle me, but I continued to stare into her eyes. That's how I bought time.