Jobless Reincarnation: Sword, Magic Hat and Romance System

Chapter 70 What lies at the bottom of the mountain?

The sun was already hovering over the mountaintop.

After an hour of rapid movement, the gradually dimming sunlight shone on the faces of everyone in the hunting team, their solemn expressions almost overflowing.

Alan Paul and his group stood on a towering tree. Monsters kept leaping up from below, but before they could reach them, they were sliced to pieces by the light, swirling blades in mid-air.

The red snow beneath the tree was dark and filthy.

Beside the trees, the mountain slopes down along the ridges on both sides, and what comes into view is a deep valley.

The valley was surrounded by rugged peaks, and the only passage to the outside world was a "pocket" with only a small opening. The group was on the mountainside on the side of this only opening.

Looking down the mountainside into the valley, one sees overflowing silver water, constantly lapping and rippled, dazzling everyone's eyes.

Under Allen's squinting gaze, the scene inside the valley became clear.

The surging waves crashed against the valley floor and rushed toward where they were.

That wasn't water, but a dense swarm of monsters. The monsters came one after another, and the snowflakes beneath them flew into the air.

Allen looked at the small, calm puddle in the middle of the valley, which was actually the geothermal lake Paul had mentioned.

Rudy and Hilfi were already deathly pale.

"It seems we've been discovered; monsters are swarming here."

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"That's obvious."

As Allen spoke, he brandished his blade, shredding the monster that was climbing up the tree trunk into a bloody mess.

Ten minutes earlier, they had already encountered several groups of magical beasts, and when they arrived at the valley of the geothermal lake, the magical beasts continued to attack them.

It's obvious they've already been discovered.

Allen and Paul, who looked grave, exchanged a glance.

"There are more monsters than we thought, but it's good that we've been discovered."

Rudy looked at Allen in shock, about to retort, when he heard Paul's voice beside his ear.

"In a sense, that is indeed the case."

His expression froze for a moment.

"What do you mean by feeling good after being discovered?"

Allen pointed his finger at the densely packed horde of monsters surging into the valley, then turned to look at Rudy.

What lies at the bottom of the mountain?

Rudy's eyes widened. He subconsciously felt that the line sounded familiar, but at this moment he couldn't remember where he had heard it before.

"The bottom of the mountain? The monster's lair?"

"The bottom of the mountain is our destination. Now, even before we reach the lair, the monsters are swarming up the hillside. In that case..."

His words still lingered in Rudy's ears, but his footsteps had already left the tree trunk unattended.

Allen suddenly plummeted from the tree trunk, startling Rudy, who quickly followed Allen's fall.

But then he stepped into a crevice among the monsters on the ground beneath the tree, and casually flicked the blade aside beside his body.

The cutting speed is very slow.

But powerful enough!

Instantly! Waves of air surged out from his feet, spreading outwards in a wavy pattern.

The monster was blasted into pieces by the wind and flew to the side, its words, along with the rest of his sentence, reaching Rudy's ears and exploding in his heart.

"We don't even need to get close to the target. We just need to hold this hillside and wipe out the hordes of monsters to complete the plan. Isn't that a good thing, Rudy?"

Paul squinted at Allen's figure, and the fatigue on his face seemed to have dissipated a lot. He smiled and jumped down from the tree trunk, turned his head and spoke to Rudy above him.

"Rudy, the plan has changed! Switch from an assault formation to a defensive formation. Allen and I will deal with the attacking monsters, while you stay in the tree and cast spells to suppress the fire. Maintain this for one hour! After that, we'll decide whether to retreat or continue killing monsters based on our stamina, mana, and the number of monsters we've killed! Don't be afraid, although there are many of these monsters, they are all low-level. Allen and I will still have the stamina to lead you out in one hour."

Rudy paused for a moment before realizing that they were no longer in the woods outside the village. Paul and Allen had to consider the protective netting, the villagers, and the village outside the forest, adopting a defensive posture that made clearing the monsters seem somewhat 'difficult'.

But the current situation is that the group is in a valley far from the village. Without the village's protective net and the villagers as "hostages," for Allen and Paul, dealing with a group of D-level monsters is just like two human lawnmowers strolling around a park and mowing the lawn. If it weren't for the issue of lawnmower fuel consumption, they could have easily pushed over the so-called monster tide in the valley with just the two of them.

One of them is a high-level swordsman of the third-rate school, a former swordsman in charge of attacking dungeons in an S-rank adventurer team. What kind of dungeon hasn't he seen? And in the dungeon, there are many scenes of monster hordes.

One of them is a newly minted Water Saint-level swordsman. Rudy still remembers that a few months ago, after Paul and Allen sparred, Rudy couldn't even touch the hem of his opponent's clothes. Afterwards, when he solemnly deduced this, and Allen nodded in agreement, Rudy felt as if he had been dealt a blow by a native genius from the world of swords and magic.

What's there to worry about?

Monster tide?

It's just a little bit of hardship.

At worst, Allen and Paul can still escape with a few people in an hour, right? Can these D-rank monsters stop these two?

Rudy's expression softened at this thought. He turned to look at Hilfi and found that she was also slowly recovering from her shock and was now looking at him.

Rudy grinned.

"Let's proceed according to the plan Paul laid out on the way. I must say, this is the experience of an adventurer. Magic can be used so flexibly when dealing with monsters. Not just for attacking, but even for constructing fortresses!"

"Earth Spikes! Ice Domain!"

Sharp, massive earthen ridges protruded from the ground, enclosing the area cleared by Allen and Paul under the tree where they were, forming an open-air "battle fortress." Paul and Allen immediately leaped onto the ridges and began slaughtering the monsters surging in from below like harvesting wheat.

Inside the fortress, the blood mixed with monster corpses instantly froze into thick blocks of ice, a defense against monsters that might dig up from the ground.

Rudy looked up, his palms outstretched in front of him, and the superior water magic that Loki had once taught him came to mind.

"Ice Spear Snowstorm!"

Straight ice spears condensed in the air around him from all directions, and the moment they formed, they exploded in all directions from his side, piercing the air and silently shooting out into the distant monsters.

The monsters were pierced by ice spears like skewers of candied hawthorns, and often a single ice spear would kill more than ten monsters.

It's worth mentioning that powerful fire magic had been forbidden before the group arrived, as explosions could easily cause avalanches. Therefore, Rudy had been using water magic, which didn't produce much noise.

Thanks to Rudy's vast magical power and meticulous battle plan, those responsible for protecting Sylphie barely had a chance to unleash their magic.

ten minutes.

twenty minutes.

half an hour.

One hour.

As evening approached, the hillside from the valley to the cliff changed color.

It's so thick that it's hard to tell if it's blood.

It was still just a fleeting glimpse of the sunset.

Don't worry, it won't be a bunch of bored people pushing monsters to clear the game.

The climax of the early childhood stage begins 2-3 days later.

Absolutely gorgeous! (Pats chest)

I definitely have to come back to read it tomorrow!!