Chapter 12

There were lots of people but none of them were as strong as Hargaan's group or Kim Yu-Won, not even close, so I didn't pay attention to them, so I turned to Kim Yu-Won.

"You Ready?" I asked him, but he did not answer me and instead jumped into the crater where the boss of the 5th tutorial resides. I follow after him.

'He must be want to take back his number 1 spot' I Think to myself opening the leaderboard and seeing a panel displaying.

{1st – Gojo Satoru: 69202cp}

{2nd – Kim YuWon : 60793cp}

{3rd – Hargaan : 21410cp}

{4th – Kanae Tawata: 18864cp}

I was able to achieve my points using my Meditate skill to get less rest and hunt more, I'm kinda scared that Barragánda will lose all its monsters. Kim Yu-Won's face when he checked the leaderboard and he wasn't on top was something absolutely precious. I wish I had brought a camera so I could catch it.

I looked at the pink panel that displayed as I arrived behind Kim Yu-Won.

{You Have Entered The 1st Boss Room}

{Please Find The Boss And Clear The Trial.}

'Acid Snakes, Land Eels, Lizardmen, Orc Warriors, and Goblin Warriors. All of them together. It's gonna be easy!' I thought and I started making my way towards them.

{Sword Mana x Absolute Zero}

{Barrier Master}

I wrapped my sword made by Absolute Zero in Sword Mana, then added Absolute Zero On top of that, truly a sword mana sandwich. I went on a rampage, along with Kim Yu-Won we made quick work of the 1st boss room.

We were about to continue on to the 2nd boss room but were stopped short by other people entering the boss' crater. We look back and who else do we find but Hargaan's group. The namesake of the group was shocked to see that we had already beaten the first boss room before they even had the chance to participate, but more importantly he was looking at me weird. Must want to fight me like Kim Yu-Won. I shrug my shoulders in my head. Hargaan starts talking to us.

"What are you guys doing here?" Hargaan asked, personally I thought the question was dumb so I decided to not answer and look at him like he's stupid. Seems like Kim Yu-Won elected for the same approach since I didn't hear an answer from him and Hargaan got flustered, his teammate Elador asked a new question.

"How did you guys beat the 1st boss room so fast? We were told you only just got here." The female dark elf asks, this is indeed a way better question than Hargaan's. I decided to answer it.

"Weak." I simply say, Hargaan's group seems to think that it was an insult to them, so I correct my mistake.

"The monsters were weak. Me and Kim Yu-Won made very quick work of them." I corrected them and they seem to understand yet are still in awe at how fast we dispatched the army of now corpses.

(POV Change to Kanae Tawata)

We followed Leader down into the boss crater so we could help Gojo and Kim Yu-Won clear the 1st boss room. What greeted us was a scene of carnage, carcasses everywhere, blood pooled splashed when we arrived. Two lone people stood about to move on the stage. One was one that I instantly recognized since somehow he managed to avoid all the blood from getting on him, the other I managed to recognize as well, but not as easily, it was Kim Yu-Won from the Parasite Dragon room.

"What are you guys doing here?" Leader asked, I inwardly face-palmed at the question, the people he asked the question looked at him like he was the dumbest person alive. I truly felt bad for my Leader, but you reap what you sow. After that embarrassing moment Elador asked the question of the hour.

"How did you guys beat the 1st boss room so fast? We were told you only just got here." my teammate asks, they both seem to accept the new question much better and Gojo is the one to step up and answer it.

"Weak." Such a simple response yet it could mean one of two things, we are weak or the monsters are weak. If it's coming from Gojo it might just mean that we are weak for asking. He is 1st on the CP leaderboard thousands of points ahead of his teammate who is on 2nd. If Hargaan is a genius, and Kim Yu-Won is a monster, what does that make Gojo?

"The monsters were weak. Me and Kim Yu-Won made very quick work of them." He clarified and I let my breath out. From his perspective though, we probably are very weak. I shook my head and asked them a question.

"So you what, killed thousands of monsters in minutes?" I asked, they were not impressed and looked at each other for confirmation, and just started to leave.

'Was my question really that bad?' I thought. We still caught up to them since they weren't trying to go fast.

{You Have Entered The 2nd Boss Room}

{Please Find The Boss And Clear The Trial.}

(POV Change back to Gojo)

After Tawata asked a question where the answer was already in front of her, we non-verbally decided that they weren't worth any more time and continued on to the 2nd boss room.

{You Have Entered The 2nd Boss Room}

{Please Find The Boss And Clear The Trial.}

Boss room No.2 was a path filled with various traps. Dozens of powerful arrows were fired at them while poison rained down, and swords and spears shot up from the ground. Yu-Won Went ahead of me to get rid of most of the traps while I played chaperone on Hargaan's group. I casted Absolute Zero around them so they are protected and made it so they don't feel the cold.

"Is this some kind of Magic?" The group's Korean Lee Sung-Yoon asked me, and it brought me to my thoughts.

'Is Absolute Zero Magic? What exactly is Magic in the Tower? I know Magic Missiles are Magic. It's just accumulation of mana at a certain point that gets shot out, but Absolute Zero, what is it exactly? An authority of the Tower? Just simply a skill? If it is tone or all of those three does that still qualify as magic?' Truly I was stumped.

"I don't know, maybe." I said, I tried to make myself sound as genuine as possible because I truly did not know. He shrugged his shoulders as well. Hargaan suddenly becomes very intrigued and starts flicking the ice wall that surrounds him.

"This is some skill." Hargaan comments that and most of his team seem to nod their heads.

(A/N: the new fanfic I talked about before is up now it should have 4 chapters out. It's called Sign-In system In COTE. Read if you want idrc. Also shoutout to Joohn, you the GOAT)