Eldrea Academia and The One That Stars Chose
Chapter 6: The Beginning of Part 3

Dungeons. A place that has a distortion of space and time that is so concentrated that it can create another dimension in a particular region. Not only that, dungeons also had countless monsters within them caused by being out of balance of space and time.

Usually dungeons are created in places that are very closed and not passed by many people, such as caves and dungeons. That way this place becomes the most suitable place for me to train my fighting skills.

Compared to simply attacking a wooden statue made with magic so that it can be back intact even though it is destroyed many times, the doll created specifically for practice is named, Dummy ..

I also can't look for a collection of monsters out there because in addition to taking a lot of time, the fighting experience I will receive will also be greatly reduced.

Now I have reached the level 3 magician after being trained for 3 months under the direction of Master. Because of my rapid development, Master decided to train me in a dungeon instead of continuing to train at a Guild training ground.

In the distance of the cave, I could see there were 6 Kobolds. They are wolves that are able to stand on both feet and also wear human-like fighting equipment, such as swords, shields and also armor made of monster skin.

Seeing their passing movements in this dark, narrow cave. It seems like they are still unaware of my existence here.

I could see them clearly after studying magic, the Eye of Fire. By focusing the fire magic into my eyes, I was finally able to see very clearly in the darkness like I was in the sun.

This is the magic that the teacher created when he was 14 years old. Really, hearing all of his achievements made me completely amazed and also horrified simultaneously. I'm lucky that he's my teacher, if he's an enemy. I definitely won't have a chance to win at all.

“You ready?” ask Master on my shoulder who is turning into a bird.

“Of course.”

After noticing all the possibilities, I immediately fired, Wind Cut towards them. The wind magic that is able to cut 3 trees at once I point at the heads of the Kobolds.

But the attack power of the Wind Cut I fired was still not very strong and only managed to hit 4 kobolds. The remaining 2 were lucky enough because my attack was held back by the cave wall.

“Sial there are still 2 left,” lamented.

I then ran towards them while firing, Shock Wave. Electric magic aimed at making them stop moving. After they stopped moving, I immediately finished them off with the Wind Cut like the one before.

The teacher sneaked a slow look at my performance. “I think you still need a lot more practice to defeat several monsters at once,” said Guru.

The bodies of the kobolds I just killed started to disappear just like that, because they couldn't defend themselves from the distortions that existed when they died. I would also experience the same thing if I died inside the dungeon.

“If only I used Fire ball. I can definitely beat them all at once,” I said looking for a defense.

Fireball is a magic made of fire. By making a big fireball to shoot. I could blow up the target I chose and burn him to death.

“I told you it's impossible. If you use the FIre Ball. The explosion will hit us too. As long as we are inside a dungeon with a narrow place like this, we can only use magic that does not do too much damage to the area around it,” explained Master.

It is true that fire magic or land that has a considerable effect is able to make the area around the cave become destroyed, and it must have caused harm to us if that happened.

“Then why don't we use water magic?”

“If we use water magic. We might be able to beat them all at once, but we will also make the floor wet. If there was a surprise attack in a place like this, you would definitely not want to slip because of the remaining water from your attack right?”

“You're right, it will do us a great disservice.”

Imagining the possibility that Master just mentioned, I don't think it's wise for me to use those magic.

“There are so many novice adventurers who die from such recklessness. If witches always make

the mistake of accidentally making the surroundings become chaotic and troublesome to their movements. Soldiers who use swords usually make the mistake of using a long sword, so his attacks are often hit by walls or ceilings from a narrow cave,” continued Master gave his knowledge to me.

“Luckily my first Dungeon exploration was accompanied by you,” I said after hearing an explanation from Master.

“Sure, if you want to die. At least you should die from my training or be killed by the Demon King. So that I am not ashamed when I have to tell the death of my students to the people.”

“Ergh, Thank you?”

I don't know what to answer to his statement. He didn't want me to die, but it was because it would be considered a ridiculous death, not because he cared about me.

“It's fast moving again, we're almost to the Boss of the Dungeon. Do you remember what you had to do?”

“Sure, I have to kill the Boss and take the treasures from the dungeon. That way the dungeon will disappear and become an ordinary cave, right?”

“True, if so let's go.”

We also started to explore deeper. After walking for 5 minutes, I finally managed to reach the place where the Boss Dungeon was located. A large area stretched out before us at this moment.

“Looks like the Kobold was the last monster apart from the Boss in this dungeon,” said the teacher.

I started to take a deep breath. “Well let's face the Boss.”

I also stepped into the cave area that looks very wide unlike the narrow road that we just passed earlier. The area here had an area like the running track field that existed in the Guild, with a ceiling of 6 meters high.

In the distance I could see a white crystal ball floating in the air. There was nothing else around the area other than the crystal.

“What is it?” my question.

“That is the treasure of this Dungeon, when we have already entered the area specified by the Dungeon. The crystal will turn into the Boss of this Dungeon. In addition, the treasures of each dungeon were always changing depending on how much distortion there was in the dungeon, the greater the distortion of the dungeon the higher the value would be. Seeing the treasure this time around is an ordinary crystal, at least the distortion from this dungeon is at a level you can go through. ”

“You only need to approach it, at a certain distance the treasures of the dungeon will turn into the boss of the dungeon. After you kill the Dungeon Boss, his corpse will again turn into a treasure. That's when you can take the treasure from the dungeon.”

“Alright, then I just go to the designated area, right?”

“Yups! Just approach the crystal.”

I moved my foot toward the crystal carefully. When my distance to the crystal was already around 3 meters. I could see the crystal shaking violently.

Not long from that. The crystal suddenly turned into a Kobold with a very large size, about 3 meters high with a large body. He looks like a werewolf, but compared to a werewolf. He did not use his claws and fangs to fight, but instead used a sword of an unusually large size.

“Kobold King, huh? Not too bad. Hey, get ready, don't get killed by that lowly monster,” said Guru as he floated higher.

“Maybe for you he's a lowly monster, but for me he's quite strong Master.” I took a standby position.

Shortly after the change was complete, the Kobold King jumped straight at me while swinging its sword vertically.

I tried to dodge his attack by channeling wind magic to my feet and jumped backwards. But the kobold doesn't stop there. He immediately ran towards me and tried to stab me with that sword that was almost 1 meter long.

“Hey you have to stop the movement with Shock Wave!” exclaim the teacher who is now flying above us.

“T-but he's too fast!” I am still trying to avoid all those Kobold King attacks.

The wind magic I cast on my legs really helped me to dodge the attack from the monster. If there wasn't this wind magic, maybe I could have died earlier, given the reflexes from my body that were still so lacking.

”Do not complain and just do it according to my words!” teacher from up there.

“Alright, I will try,” After successfully dodging several of his attacks at once. I managed to secure distance from him.

Without waiting for a long time I immediately shot Shock Wave towards the monster. “Shock Wave!” But my attack was successfully evaded by the Kobold. He then ran back towards me with a deafening roar.

“Sial!” I ran away from him again.

“Hey how can you miss when your target is that big!?”

In the midst of the consecutive attacks given by the Kobold King, Master instead cursed me.

“Be quiet Teacher! I'm not as good as you.”

“But you shouldn't be that late boy!”

The kobold attack still continues to come alternately and makes me corner because of it. His attacks are getting faster and putting me in an unfavorable position.

The monster tried to slash me into 2 pieces after successfully cornered me in the corner of the dungeon.

“Shock Wave!” I fired my magic as the monster tried to split my body into 2 in one go. It was fortunate that this time my magic managed to hit him and left him speechless with a sword over his head.

“Now quickly attack his hand!” The teacher is up there.

“Alright, Wind Cut!” My magic finally managed to cut off his hand and make the sword that was being held by the monster fall and stab the head of the Kobold King.

With the monster's sword stuck in his head, the fight I managed to get through. The corpse of the Kobold King began to turn back into crystal as Master had said.

“Huft! I thought, I'd die.” I sat down instantly after my fight was over.

“Weak base,” Guru revealed.

The teacher slowly descended from the ceiling of the cave and turned back into a human. Without caring about me sitting limp from my fight earlier, he immediately stored the crystal in his Dimensional Pouch.

“Alright, since it's over, we should be back before night. I'm already so hungry. Moreover, we should also hurry up immediately before this dungeon turns back into an ordinary cave. If we move too late, we can be buried in here.”

“I'm starting to rethink whether my decision to follow you is right or wrong.”

I took a deep breath and got up from my seat. I tried to strengthen myself who was very tired to immediately go outside the dungeon. I tried to catch my breath and patted my cheek.

“Stop complaining and walk fast! You don't want to be buried here, do you?”

“Iya-iya, let's go now.”

“Then you were overwhelmed, how could you possibly survive another war with the Devil race?”

“Are you sure the Devil race will re-invade the human world?” I asked the teacher.

“This is just my hunch, but if 2 of my students could just disappear without anyone seeing their trail. I think this has something to do with the invasion of the Demon race,” replied the Master seriously.

Hearing his words I could only swallow. If indeed Master's words are true, then I should immediately become even stronger. At least strong enough to survive.

We got out of this dungeon before it collapsed. As I walked, I kept thinking about what the teacher said just now. There will likely be the next invasion of the demon race. Inevitably I must become stronger from now on.

I wonder what kind of adventure will await me in the future?