Sono Mugen no Saki - Chapter 5.7

Over the Infinite – Chapter 5 (7)

「Ngrahhh!!」

It seemed like the old man finally snapped, and his sword glowed green.

However, as long as I had confirmed the start of the technique, as long as it was《 Power Slash 》, there were no elements that I couldn’t avoid.

It’s alright, no matter how fast it was, he couldn’t hit me anymore if he used it directly to me. I could even afford to observe how he released it and what kind of trajectory it drew.

I avoided it even with less danger than the second time.

And then, a system message appeared in my sight, in the timing where I almost wanted to say out loud, “Why are you appearing at this moment!?”

Looking back at me who was not pursuing him, the old man shot another Power Slash again. He was agitated with desperation, unable to judge the situation anymore.

I attacked his strike from the front…

「《 Power Slash 》!!」

――Action Skill《 Power Slash 》――

I activated the skill that I just learned.

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「……Really, both of you are really unbelievable rookies!」

The uncle began to speak again while his appearance turned into a fog.

The speed of him magicified was long, probably already directed from the start.

「I’m sorry, uncle. I didn’t think that the ball of shit will hit you.」

「As I thought, it was really shit, damn it… I shouldn’t have asked you…」

Yuki was too cruel.

「Well, both of you are students that I want to kill in various ways, but does it become a good lesson, rookies?」

「Ah, yes… That’s right, thank you very much.」

「Thank you very much.」

I didn’t know how serious this old man was, but he was still a veteran. He had tendencies to rampage at the end, but he was probably going easy on us.

There should be a very big gap in our ability if he used his real strength and we wouldn’t even be able to lift our fingers at all, but he was an examiner who especially limited his ability after all.

The benefits were great. If our opponent was not him, I wouldn’t be able to get this experience since it was something that I shouldn’t be able to obtain in this kind of place.

「But then, I thought that you would’ve ended it by passing the time, but I didn’t expect that I would lose. There was almost no rookie that can use《 Power Slash 》. Much less, you learned it during the trial.」

That was probably because he showed me the skill three times. I might have been influenced by the effects of《 Sword Technique 》I had learned and how I had taken the damage with my body.

「Ah, Tsuna is good, you should do your best.」

「Yes.」

「Yuki, I won’t forgive you, this brat! I will nominate you in the rookie match and kill you there!」

「Eh? Ah, yes.」

Yuki replied without understanding anything, and the lizard old man disappeared.

…What was a rookie match?

「Whew, he was really strong. I couldn’t joke about him at all.」

「He really is. The second and third level is not a big deal, and yet the difficulty suddenly went up too much.」

With only this kind of fight, the adventurers in Labyrinth City would become stronger.

「I don’t think the level of difficulty will be this high every time since that old man is the boss that targets specific people, but… we might be able to get the first clear with this. We also learned a few frightening skills after all.」

「Skills, huh… I think we learned them because our opponent was that old man.」

Because he came to actually kill us, not just to train us.

There was also a possibility that the dungeon might have acquisition revisions, but it would be impossible for us to learn skills at such speed if we did it normally.

If this was a certain game, there would be bleeping sounds flashing right now. We just went to the lizard old man’s dojo.

「By the way, did you already learn the two-sword style?」

The last one seemed to be good enough.

「Nihihi, I learned it. There were only five skills displayed in my card as usual, but it is《 Two Short Sword Style 》. Amazing, I wonder if I can aim to be a ninja as it is.」

He also used those smoke balls, huh.

But then, was ninja actually a thing in this city?

「Tsuna also learned a lot of skills, so you will go to the fifth level, right? You won’t say that you’re going home, right?」

「We already reached this far, so I won’t say that anymore. We’ll have a gorgeous debut if we already come this far.」

[The fourth level of the trial dungeon boss trial has been captured.] [Only challengers with Lv 4 or below will acquire level-up bonuses by the boss trial capture.]
The announcement told us that the capture was completed.

[ As a bonus for crushing the fourth level boss, you received Skill Orb:《 See Through 》and a commemorative item. ]
Speaking of which, it was said that there would be a bonus after crushing the boss.

In the center of the area, two treasure chests for us appeared.

We opened the lid since there was no way it was a trap, and found a palm-sized crystal ball there. This should be the thing that was called Skill Orb just now.

Could we use this to learn skills?

When I looked at my side, Yuki’s orb was gone, probably he already used it. He was really a guy without any hesitation as ever.

「《 See Through 》!!」

Yuki said so after pointing like me, reminded me of that little detective. Was that action necessary?

「Ohh, I can see Tsuna’s name and HP. …That’s it, but this is still much better than nothing.」

「That’s right, it’ll be quite different if we know the HP.」

I also picked up the skill orb to learn the skill.

…How did I use this?

「Somehow, I could use that after thinking of “using” it.」

「I see.」

Yuki gave me timely help, probably realized that I was in trouble.

As he said, when I “used” it, the skill orb disappeared and a system message appeared.

[ You acquired《 See Through 》skill. ]
It was something that I saw a lot of times in our previous battle.

When I activated it to Yuki to try it out, his name and HP was displayed. It was like those bar in the MMORPG. Unfortunately, there was no MP or other information displayed.

It seemed like the HP display was just a bar as well, and the numerical value was not displayed.

「This was probably something that we could easily learn after out debut. It’s too generic too.」

「Yeah, this feels like we only managed to learn it a little bit ahead of the time.」

This was like those skills where if we acquired it later, it would be a bit more expensive or we would need to take extra quests.

「Ahh, it seems like the MP will keep declining during the activation. It doesn’t matter since we don’t have any other means to consume MPs, but we have to be careful if we’re using magic. They decline rather intensely.」

「So we only have to activate it for a while when we have the timing to check the HPs, huh. We need to practise using this skill without saying its name.」

Like Chitta-san’s《 Materialize 》she showed to us on the first floor, or the old man’s《 Power Slash 》.

「It’s also the same for Tsuna’s《 Power Slash 》. If possible, I want to learn it before we reach the dungeon boss.」

「That’s right, it’ll be troubling if I can’t use it right away.」

There was voice activation for that purpose, but it would be more convenient to be able to activate the skill without that.

Even though the message was displayed, I didn’t want to bother declaring what I was going to to use, and I didn’t want to make a voice when doing a surprise attack.

「By the way, what is the commemorative item? There was only that crystal ball from before.」

「My treasure chest is also empty. …There’s a card in Tsuna’s treasure chest.」

When he told me that, there was really a card at where the skill orb was placed. …So the card was squashed like that?

「I don’t think it will be a big deal since it’s a commemorative item. …What is it?」

While saying so, Yuki took out the card inside. Hey, that’s my treasure chest, you know.

「This is terrible…」

The card that Yuki showed to me was written as『Lizardman’s Portrait』, with the lizard old man’s drawn there.

It was a black joke that could only be done in this Labyrinth City. He surely died, but he was supposed to come back alive…

「Let’s look for that uncle later and give this to him as a gift.」

「Stop that and give it to me.」

Even if this guy kept earning hate in normal situations, he would get the old man’s eyes on us sooner or later.

「Well, Chitta-san also should’ve been waiting for us, so let’s go. You can have the old man’s portrait.」

「Eh… I also don’t need it, though.」

There was only one floor left until the end of the trial.

Since we already came this far, let’s set a record for the fastest time and surprise Chitta-san, the lizard old man, Philos and the others.

….It couldn’t be helped since we just came to this city today, but I realized that we had only a few acquaintances here.