Volume 2 - CH 175

It was morning and we were on our way to the Adventurers’ Guild.

There was only one reason to go there was to have Reizen, Uchikage, and Alena take the promotion exam.

I realized after a day had passed that I had made an unreasonable request to the guildmaster yesterday, but she had agreed to it after all, so there was no point in worrying about it now.

I wondered, is this a little different from skipping a grade?

I have taken the test, and the guildmaster has a part in this.

But since I skipped E+, I wonder if it is still treated as skipping a grade.

I was told by Uchikage earlier that skipping a grade is very rare…….

No, I don’t have a problem with it at all, but I’m worried about what other adventurers will think.

I hope they don’t make any strange accusations …….

While I was thinking about this, we arrived at the examination hall.

There, unlike yesterday, the guildmaster was standing in the middle of the hall, and as soon as she saw me, she immediately waved her hand and shouted loudly.

“Hey! Over here!”

“? Ouren-sama, who’s that?

“The guild master of this place, apparently.”

“I see. The guildmaster here is a woman?’

“Is that unusual?”

“I don’t think so.”

Oh, I see. …….

Anyway, we made our way to Maria, the guildmaster.

As we approached, Maria looked at all three of them and nodded her head in satisfaction.

“Yeah, you seem pretty determined.”

“Maybe I’ m not as strong as him, but I’m strong enough.”

“I guess so. I’ll tell you what the test is.”

Maria then briefly explained the details of the promotion exam.

She said that the promotion exam was a mock battle, and that they would be asked to fight a person prepared by the guildmaster.

Whether they lose or win, if they are strong enough for a certain rank, they are considered to have passed the test.

In short, I guess they want to see everyone give it their all.

It is simple and easy to understand, but it depends on the opponent, so I hope the three of them will not let their guard down.

By the way, this promotion exam seems to get more difficult as one’s rank goes up, and it seems that the guild master will personally conduct a mock battle for the S-rank promotion exam.

Hmmm, I really don’t give a carp honestly.

But I’m sure I’ll be facing her soon, so I might as well keep this in mind.

” Okay, who wants to go first?”

“Let’s start with me.”

Uchikage unusually raised his hand and offered to take the first move.

Uchikage gently lowered the claws on his arm to get ready for battle.

But it seemed that his opponent had not yet arrived, so he was standing still.

“How rare! You’re an Oni, aren’t you?”

“Yes, I am.”

“This is going to be fun!　Well then, everyone except you, the Oni, please move away a little. All right! Let the battle begin!”

Before we could get to the back, Maria gave the signal to start the battle.

However, there was no opponent for Uchikage anywhere, and the air was quiet.

Alena, perhaps bothered by this, tilted her head and looked around.

The same was true for Reizen, who was looking around in the same way as Alena.

Since these two were not specialized in detecting, it was probably inevitable that they were unaware of their presence, but in fact, I had sensed the presence of three other people besides Maria before we entered the room.

It was probably those three.

I was a little surprised to see that they were so oblivious without sensing skills, but Uchikage seemed to sense a presence or something, albeit faint, and kept his eyes fixed on a point.

“……? Guildmaster. Which of these three would you like me to fight?”

“Oh, you noticed. The one on the right.”

“Understood.”

As soon as Uchikage heard the answer, he took up his battle stance and brought his claws forward.

The other man did the same and hurriedly grabbed his wooden sword and readied himself.

The other two guys, who were watching this, backed away, as if they felt they were in the way.

The remaining man asked Uchikage the same question he had asked me.

“Are you able to see me ……?”

“I cannot. But I can feel it.”

“I’m pretty sure I’ve erased my presence ……”

“No, I don’t sense any presence from you. But your consciousness is looking toward me.”

“Hmm?　…… I- is that so……”

Yeah, I have no idea either.

The two people next to me seem to be confused because they don’t understand what it all means,……. I wonder if I should explain this to them,…….

“Well, even if you can’t see it, …… There’ s nothing you can’t do!”

That guy must be Kreis the Shadow Eye who was the first to attack me at that time, from his voice.

I’m glad to see he’s in good health, but …… he’s going in headfirst again without thinking.

I think this guy …… Kreis has a tendency to rely too much on his own skill set.

When he confronted me, he walked up to me with confidence, and he seemed quite confident in his skills.

If you ask …… whether that will work on Uchikage, …… the answer is no, it won’t.

“Fuh.”

“…!?”

Uchikage moved behind Kreis in an instant.

The moment everyone confirmed this, the wooden sword that Kreis was holding fell apart and clattered to the ground.

It seems that Uchikage sliced the wooden sword by swinging his claws on his arms in that split second.

Startled, Kreis’s invisibility was lifted and he became visible.

Apparently, that skill requires concentration, and if he is distracted, it will be canceled.

Not missing it, Uchikage immediately launched a counterattack, at which point Maria called for the end of the mock battle, bringing Uchikage to a halt.

“……That’s really anticlimactic….”

“Uchikage! That was great! I couldn’t see you either!”

“Hahahaha, I kind of got a little serious.”

I did see that speed once in the past and had not seen it recently.

The last time I saw it was when I fought Lequam …….

The two people next to me seemed to know that the test was over, and they were congratulating Uchikage.

Uchikage slowly walks back to us.

“I think I could have done it with just one claw,”

” Uchikage doing great! I’ll do my best too! Next, me! Me!”

“All right, all right, all right. Just go.”

“Aww yeah!”

Seeing Uchikage’s fight seemed to have boosted his morale, and Reizen stepped forward this time with full of spirit.

There is no doubt thatReizen did not have any detection skills at all.

The next opponent was Bid, the captain of Shadow Eye.

Bid slowly approached Reizen and stopped a few dozen steps away from him.

Reizen probably didn’t notice Bid’s presence.

The Guildmaster, who makes a mock battle using someone with stealth skills at full throttle from the start, is quite a bad personality, but if he can’t handle this much, he’s not worth for the promotion exam.

“‘aight-! Come at me from any side!”

“The next one is you. Then, may I start the battle?”

“Aye!”

“Then …… let the mock battle begin!”

At the same time as the signal to begin, Bid jumped high into the air and swung the wooden sword in his hand.