After the rhinoceros beetle died, Luck felt a sudden pain in his head.
"Acghhh!!!" Taking his head in his hands, Luck's nose was dripping blood when a pain much more terrible than the pain in his head spread to his chest.
Luck, who held his chest and fell to the ground, felt as if his heart was going to burst.
"Luck, what's happening? Are you hurt?!"
Nikolai was surprised when Luck suddenly shouted and threw himself to the ground, and when he grabbed Luck and turned him round to face him, he was shocked to see blood pouring from his nose.
"Again? How could this happen?"
...
Luck fainted because of the pain he felt and when he opened his eyes after a while, the first thing he saw was the white ceiling.
Trying to realise where he was, Luck sat up in bed in astonishment.
Luck: (⊙︿⊙)
Why do I wake up in an unfamiliar room every time I faint?
Luck was sitting on the bed in a daze when the door to the room opened.
"Oh, you're awake..."
Luck was somewhat relieved to see Senna entering the room.
'At least I wasn't kidnapped this time...'
Senna looked at Luck carefully and said, "How do you feel?"
"How do I feel?"
At Senna's question, Luck, remembering the pain he had experienced before he had fainted, realised that he no longer felt any pain, in fact, he felt as if he was bursting with power.
"I'm fine, very fine," Luck said with an audible surprise in his voice.
Breathing a sigh of relief, Senna said "I'm glad you're OK, we were afraid that your body wouldn't be able to take it when you made two breakthroughs in a short time..."
"Breakthrough, what breakthrough? What are you talking about?"
Senna tilted her head to the side and looked at Luck, who looked at her with blank eyes.
"You were in the middle of a breakthrough when we found you wounded and you fainted today when you made a breakthrough in front of my father... you now have 2-star power, you just need to find a suitable star path..."
Luck: ( ｡_｡)
I still have no idea what you're talking about! And also, how come I have 2 star power?
Realising that Luck was still staring blankly at her, Senna was surprised that Luck didn't know anything but began to explain.
"As you know, every time we kill a star beast, we absorb some of its star power, and sometimes if the star power we absorb is too much and too sudden, our star core can't hold all that star power and it cracks, forcing you to force a breakthrough... That's what happened to you... in a very short time, your star core cracked twice and repaired itself and became stronger and bigger."
"Forced breakthrough? What makes you think I was forced to break through?" asked Luck, trying to make sense of all the information he had just heard.
"When I found you, blue blood, that is, star power, was flowing from your wounds... When you fainted next to my father, blue blood flowed from your nose! Do you need any other explanation?"
Luck:...
Senna: (눈_눈)
"If you were to make a normal breakthrough, as your star core absorbs star power, it would gradually grow and strengthen itself over time, so your star power would rise in pleasure without any pain or suffering, no blue-coloured star power would flow out of your blood..."
Remembering the pain and soreness after killing the rhinoceros beetle, Luck was convinced that Senna was telling the truth, even though he didn't remember his blood running blue.
"What about the star path?"
Senna rolled his eyes "What cave did you live in? Why don't you know anything?"
"The star path will determine the way you use star power, if you choose to become a star warrior you will be able to use star power to strengthen your body and you will only be able to spread star power around your body and fight, but if you become a star mage your body will be much weaker than a star warrior, but you can cast star spells because you can spread star power over a much greater distance."
...
After bringing Luck to the compound, he went back to his subordinates where the Rhinoceros beetle was.
"Welcome, Guildmaster."
Nodding to his subordinates who greeted him, Nikolai crouched down next to the Rhinoceros beetle's head.
Examining the rhinoceros beetle's shattered head, Nikolai removed several pieces of metal with the tip of his knife from the wound, which had turned into a tangle of flesh.
Remembering the so-called bullets he had put in Luck's hand, Nikolay thoughtfully looked at the place where Luck had fainted.
The Barrett MK22 was lying where Luck had fallen when he fainted.
"Bring me that gun."
"Right away, guild master!"
The subordinate rushed over and picked up the gun lying on the ground and brought it to Nikolai.
Picking up the gun, Nikolai began to examine it carefully, imitating Luck as best he could remember, and when he put the butt of the gun to his shoulder and looked through the scope, he exhaled in surprise.
The pipe-like thing he was looking at was making things hundreds of metres away look as if they were only a few metres away!
"This thing isn't even magical... it has no star power..."
Studying the scope for a while, Nikolai closed his eyes and tried to remember how Luck used the gun.
Stock on the shoulder, eyes away from the magic pipe...one hand stabilises the weapon while the other holds it like this...then his finger...
BAM!
The trunk of a tree tens of metres away was blown to pieces by a stray bullet.
Nikolay had unintentionally fired the gun while copying Luck's grip and firing.
For Nikolai with 5-star power, the recoil of the gun was insignificant, but the recoil of the gun still surprised him.
"So this is how it is used..."
When some star beasts started to appear, smelling the blood of the rhinoceros beetle, Nikolai had an idea, so he handed the gun to a subordinate and explained how to use it.
"Aim and shoot."
After a while, gunshots echoed through the forest again, but not for long.
Why?
They ran out of bullets!
...
When Nikolay and his subordinates returned to the compound, the group was strangely silent.
Nikolai, thinking that the gun had broken down when it ran out of ammunition, scolded the subordinate who was using it so severely that the man could hardly keep from crying.
When Nikolai heard that Luck was awake, he entered Luck's room with a few subordinates, proudly slinging the gun on his back.
"I apologise, Luck...we broke your gun..."
As soon as he entered the room, the first thing Nikolay said was that he had broken his gun, and Luck looked at Nikolay and the gun hanging on his back in surprise.
"You broke it? How? Give me the gun and I'll check it."
Nikolay gave Luck the gun from his back and said, "After I brought you here when I went back to the place where the rhinoceros beetle died, I found your gun there..."
The more Nikolai spoke, the more embarrassed he seemed.
"I wondered..."
"What were you wondering?" Luck asked in surprise.
"I wondered if I could use the gun...I copied what you did and it worked...the gun fired...but then it suddenly stopped firing..."
"Did he stop shooting? When Luck opened the magazine of the gun and checked it, he saw that the magazine was empty.
"Hhahahaah, you didn't break the gun, don't worry...it just ran out of ammunition."
"I haven't broken it?
"No, you didn't..." Luck looked disappointed.
"I didn't expect to use so many bullets to kill the star monster with 4-star power..."
Seeing the disappointed look on Luck's face, Nikolai and his subordinates were going crazy.
It's a 4-star rhinoceros beetle! Even 4-star starfighters find it hard to fight it, but you killed it from tens of metres away without breaking a sweat!