Today we will be doing a D-Rank portal raid, I will take this opportunity to practice my skills well. Even though this portal is in Seoul but in this place there are not so many people. Well, I don't need to think about anything else for now. Then I saw Ji-Hae running towards me. He also used armor that was better than before, it seemed he had prepared it well.
"Hyungnim, have you waited long?" He asked me with an exhausted breath.
"I just arrived, are you ready for today's raid?" I asked while looking into his eyes to see if he was completely convinced of this.
But his eyes showed that he was very ready, "I'm so ready Hyungnim!" it was as i expected. At this rate I won't hesitate to do a D-Rank portal raid even with just 2 people.
Then Ji-Hae talks to the supervisor of the portal, and we will enter the portal. Ji-Hae said that this portal shouldn't be that difficult, he had already gotten quite a bit of information from the party that entered this portal before. There were no difficult monsters to deal with there were only red orcs and trolls.
Then we stepped inside the portal, this place is quite interesting. The air inside this portal was refreshing. I looked around the area to see the terrain of this portal. I felt that we were in the mountains, the air was a little humid and the cold weather made me comfortable. There is little light from the sun, the forests look scary. Trolls are known to like to live in mountainous areas or caves, while orcs will usually move in forests or mountain areas.
Ji-Hae prepared quite a bit of his equipment, he seems to have brought quite a lot of stuff this time. As expected of a trickster, his ability to lay traps and devise plans was excellent.
He will help me improve my skills today, the first thing I want to improve is my swordsmanship. I had watched hunter fights from the hunter league last year, I saw that there were more than 10 sword-wielding hunters entering the top 32. Their swordsmanship was truly excellent, no movement was wasted.
I've tried to study their movements, but it's difficult. Even a casual slash should be done well, so far I've only slashed with my instincts. Indeed it worked well, but if I met a difficult opponent it would be useless.
Even I had a hard time battling that werewolf yesterday. For the rest I only rely on my skeleton army, my skeleton is strong but I can't always rely on them. I also have to become stronger myself besides that, I have to try some new things with my skeleton army.
"My preparations are done hyungnim, should we start?"
"Okay let's get started"
Then we started our raid, while walking Ji-Hae explained to me about the area of this portal. The terrain is uneven, because it is a mountainous area some places will be steeper, this is not a good place to fight. But he says that it can also train my balance.
"I read it yesterday hyungnim, the most important thing in swordsmanship is balance. Maybe this portal will be a good practice"
Then I decided to try practicing in this place. Just like Ji-Hae said, even I'm having a hard time treading well in this place, I also just remembered maybe I can train Luck to use the sword better.
"Luck comes out, and come with me to practice using the sword" Then Luck came out of the black portal carrying his sword. He looks a little disoriented, but this will also help my skeleton army in the future.
After that I walked with Ji-Hae and Luck down this place. Several times I almost fell because of these annoying small rocks. But Luck didn't seem to have any trouble at all, he managed to dodge all the small stones. Was he really great at dodging?
After that we found a red orc in front of us, it was only one red orc and he brought an axe.
"Hyungnim, try fighting that red orc with your sword."
Then I slowly walked forward, the red orc also looked at us he was ready to fight. I couldn't lower my guard, then I changed my position a bit. I turned my body to the left, but I maintained a straight look ahead.
I braced my left leg and pushed my body forward. My body quickly drew closer to the red orc, with this position I was able to deliver attacks well. That's what I thought, but the red orc attacked me first. He used his axe and he tried to attack me from the front with great force. His arm flicked the axe strongly, I couldn't dodge this.
Then I changed the position of my sword, I tilted my sword horizontally to block the incoming attack. After that the axe hit my sword very hard, but thanks to my high strength stats I was able to withstand the attack well.
I used my strength to push back his axe with my sword, he managed to get pushed back. I took a step back to try to attack once more. I want to kill him in one hit. The red orc looked a little annoyed, he shouted out his anger. Then he runs towards me, I will fight him head on.
"Hyungnim be careful!" Ji-Hae was a little worried for me because the red orc was angry and his power became stronger.
I was afraid for a moment, but I'm not going back. Then I changed my stance. Since he's running straight he won't be able to turn easily, I'll take advantage of this.
When he got very close to me, I used a side step to step aside. He saw me move and wanted to change his pace, but his movements slowed down. My legs seemed to move on their own, I ran towards him without thinking. I used my sword to stab him in the stomach, but he tried to strike me with his axe. I drew my sword and spun to the left, he became unbalanced. I tried to end it but I accidentally stepped on a small rock. I slipped and fell in a very bad position. The red orc regained its balance and tried to hit me with its axe.
"Noooooooooooo....hyungnim!" Ji-Hae shouted while running towards me to help me.
I didn't expect it to end like this, the red orc used all its strength to kill me, I could see that it wanted to kill me. Suddenly, Luck came out of nowhere he reflected the red orc's attack, then he jumped at the red orc. Luck drew his sword quickly and cut off the red orc's head.
I was very surprised to see that, my Luck skeleton has such great abilities. I don't really pay much attention to it, but I think Luck gets stronger every time we do a portal raid.
"Hyungnim are you okay?" Ji-Hae looks worried and scared about my condition.
"I'm fine, Luck saved me" I saw an amazing thing, it turned out that Luck was that strong. I can practice my sword skills just by looking at it. The skeleton that I summoned, turned out to be this strong. Even though Luck was just a skeleton goblin, he had a smaller body than orcs and red orcs. But his fighting ability is very great compared to the others.
This is amazing, I've never looked after my skeleton army that well. So far I've only ordered them to attack regardless of how they fight. I can also strengthen my skeleton army in various ways. I have a werewolf skeleton, I also have many orc skeletons, and a skeleton sorcerer. After all I have to use all the abilities my skeleton army has, they might become as strong as Luck in the future.
I saw it earlier when Luck saved myself from that red orc. I saw him reflect the red orc's attack to the side and didn't hold back. Ohhh... I see, since Luck doesn't have the same strength as a red orc then he doesn't try to block his attack. Therefore he bounced his attack, and after that the red orc lost its balance and couldn't block Luck's next attack.
This could be a good lesson for me, I'm still learning how to be better. And this isn't bad, I will become stronger with the help of my skeleton army.