No Gossip, a Real Extra

68 – Retreat # 6

Kido concealed while searching and moving.

It was a big help just to imitate my friends like this. How to hide yourself. How to move carefully. And how to find monsters again. All the knowledge that becomes blood and flesh comes into my head.

There is a taste of learning because you actually learn by moving your body. I guess I have the qualities of an engineer.

“…”

But what can I say?

I felt something strange.

“Hmm?”

What can I say about this feeling?

Since I was doing this, I felt an unknown familiarity. I’m a military pilot, but I’ve never had this kind of training… Most of the training I received was climbing a mountain with military gear on, or sitting in a position for days and days.

I’ve never trained while maneuvering like this before.

ㅡ Tiring.

[Skill has increased by 1]

And an audible notification sound.

“…”

I just watch what my friends do and imitate them, but my skills are improving.

This is a bit strange. Are your stats going up this far? Are you saying I’m that talented? I was happy, but I was also afraid of my explosive growth. If you become an S-rank Awakener at this rate. Obviously you can’t live a normal life. Literally, you will have to live as a hero.

No matter what, I felt very well that I was concentrating on this situation.

How many times have you been so focused in your life? It’s probably because of that that his stats go up. At the same time as his stats went up, he felt a strange sense of excitement.

I can do better.

Anyway, I’m watching my friends while exerting such extreme concentration.

“Kim Geun-cheol?”

Leona’s voice tickled my ears.

“Huh? Mr. Leona?”

“Are you nervous all of a sudden? Relax a bit. What, what, focus like this.”

“No, Leona. What can you do to relax? I think it’s a real battle and I’m doing it as seriously as possible. If I relax here, it’s a joke.”

“Oh, is that so? It’s Kim Geun-cheol as expected. He’s really commendable. Huhuhu.”

Leona’s smiling face feels very familiar. She is familiar and familiar. It’s like we’ve known each other for a long time.

As expected, a smiling face suits her the best.

“More than Leona. Really moving together like this, seeing and experiencing things like this… I can feel my skills improving very rapidly.”

“That’s natural. There is no better training than seeing and experiencing. Later, when Kim Geun-cheol can properly maneuver, the memories of now will be very helpful.”

“Definitely yes.”

It hasn’t been long since I started training, but my skills have already gone up by 2 stats.

That’s how helpful it is. It felt so familiar to operate here now, probably because my stats had gone up.

Things like tactics and combat knowledge are being absorbed like a sponge.

If the magic power and the proficiency to use it increase a bit, I think I can follow similarly. I really don’t think I have the talent of a hero.

“A monster appeared ahead.”

“Uh.”

Sihoo gives a hand signal in front of him.

It is a signal to take a quick look around and kill it.

—-Damn it!

It wasn’t particularly difficult. After searching around for a while, we launched an attack, and with that, the hologram monsters were annihilated very easily.

* * *

Since you are moving like that.

“Discover.”

Finally found the target.

“You just built a fort.”

Leona, lying down beside her, said so. We were now tucking ourselves into the tents spread over the roof of the building and looking ahead. Anyway. A monster stood in front of me.

ㅡGreuk gurgle.

ㅡRurrureuk.

With dozens of F-rank monsters.

But those monsters were a bit odd-looking. How about something. Should I say it looks like a bio turret? The monster was surrounded by such biological turrets, staring in all directions with his eyes shining.

It’s a guy with an octopus-like head, but his eyes are hanging around his head 360 degrees. That boundary seems to be really clear. What argos?

“Those bastards got that set right.”

“Yeah. It looks a bit tricky.”

Yuri and Sihoo also said admiringly.

The monster literally built a fortress just for himself. A number of long-distance attacking monsters were placed, and outside of them, monsters for meat shields were placed to stop the charge.

Similarly, to catch the heroes’ ankles, melee-type monsters with high mobility and attack speed are also sparsely placed.

Damn it straight through?

It will be very difficult.

It seems like it would be difficult to break through that turret’s offensive in the first place.

“Tsk. Actually, that kind of thing should be done with a howitzer. Right now, we’re alone, so there’s nothing we can do about it.”

“Howitzer. Leona. That E-class monster is a magician type, right? Can’t it block a howitzer?”

“Yes. Even if an E-class monster creates a shield, it can’t stop the howitzer. It’s nice and well-gathered, so we just need to get the coordinates and report it. It’s best to destroy the building as a whole.”

That would be easy.

But isn’t it a bit like a hero just destroying buildings? It can’t be helped in an emergency, but he learned that it is necessary to refrain from destroying buildings as much as possible.

“But we don’t have howitzers right now. We’ll have to deal with it ourselves.”

Sihoo said.

“That’s why it’s a bit tight. It’s a bit difficult to penetrate head-on with our composition.”

No matter how strong my friends are, it is not easy to break through the defense wall of monsters that have been thoroughly defended like a fortress.

You literally have to do tower defense from the point of view of the monsters. Dogs have to be beaten and drilled.

“Hey. Leona. What if the chairman was here?”

“It’s just catfish. Would you go alone and rip it all off with one knife? The realm itself is different from us.”

“hehehehe, that’s right.”

Of course, there are only a few such powerful superhumans in the country.

“Hmm, hey. Did you place all your troops on the rooftop?”

Leona answered Yuri’s words.

“At first glance, that’s what it looks like. I don’t think it’s a good arrangement.”

It’s not a good layout in my opinion.

“Right. Like Leo said, it’s going to be food for the howitzer. Or I think we can take it down with a long-range sniping.”

“No. Kim Geun-cheol. Long-distance sniping can be dangerous.”

“Why?”

“If you fire back from there, you might get tired. Those monsters. They’re all specialized in long-range combat. And with that number, you could form a fire net. Unless you can run faster than bullets, it’s dangerous.”

Oh. Do I even have to think about all that?

It feels like my experience points are rising.

“Ool. She’s a noble lady. Do you know everything? Very?”

“Heh, this is the basics.”

Leona laughed at Yuri’s praise.

“Sihoo, but it’s a bit strange.”

“Huh? What?”

“If this is an exercise that assumes actual combat… Well, as Leona said, there is a method? A howitzer or something. But I can’t use that right now.”

“Yes. That’s right.”

Sihoo nodded at my words.

“But if you’re in a state where you can’t do anything properly like you are now, isn’t it meaningless training? That’s right.”

Usually heroes fight in conjunction with the army, but now there is no such help. It feels a bit different from the real thing.

“Hmm… Is that so? Ah, Geuncheol. Maybe this training is just like that.”

“What is it?”

“Isn’t it just to see how you deal with different situations?”

I have given you these difficult tasks to cope with various situations. After thinking about it for a while, Sihoo continued.

“I don’t know, but if there are civilians left here, you won’t be able to use the gun. There might be survivors in that building, right? If you fire a howitzer in that situation, it’s murder. So, assuming a situation where you can’t use the howitzer, training-“

“Ah! That’s right! Nice Ishifu!”

Leona shouted as if she had realized something!

“That’s right! It was assumed that there were civilians in the building! The answer came out. That monster is holding hostages right now. That’s why he can be open like that. Taking hostages and taking on the task of defending the area is It’s clear!”

“Ohh!”

I was in awe of Leona’s analysis!

After hearing it, it seems so!

“Is this the analytical power of a cadet! After all, Leona!”

“Every training has a reason. Whoop whoop. Anyway, since you got the answer right, let’s move on to rescuing the hostages.”

“Sounds fun. If there were real hostages, would they be well received?”

Yuri grinned.

Good.

Then let me tell you my opinion here.

“Then Leona. There will be hostages inside the building anyway. Well, let’s give up on attacking the rooftop directly. That’s not what you meant to be there in the first place.”

“Yes. It should. Then how?”

Leona looks at me as if she’s taking a test.

“Can you tell? Go in through the front door. Or infiltrate through the windows on the lower floors.”

“Right. As Geun-cheol said, there seems to be no other way. It’s dangerous, but if there are hostages, we have to go that way.”

Sihoo accepted my words.

“Surely so.”

“Well, that’s how it should be. Then.”

Did it go well?

“Geuncheol-ah. You made a good decision. If you’re a hero, that’s the right decision. If there’s a hostage, you must save it. You shouldn’t ignore it.”

“That’s right. That means firefighters won’t go into a burning house.”

“Exactly.”

Just take firefighters as an example.

“Well, as Kim Geun-chul said, it’s dangerous, but that’s the only way. Let’s try to infiltrate the building.”

“I believe in Yuri.”

“You are the most dangerous, you bastard.”

With this, the policy was decided.

It’s dangerous, but we’ll break into the inside of that building.

There is no answer to war. There is always only the worst. There are situations where you have to infiltrate into enemy territory without even having air supremacy. This is just such a situation right now.

With no military support, you must defeat the monsters that have taken over a building and rescue the hostages inside.

“The scale is too big for training for children.”

“Well, I rather like it. In terms of hard training.”

Leona rather burned her fighting spirit.

“Then, as Kim Geun-cheol said, let’s infiltrate from the lower floors. First of all, let’s go secretly so that the guys on the roof won’t notice.”

It is truly an infiltration action.