Leona and the other players entered the Training Ground. They found thousands of doors in front of them lined up so that they couldn't see where the line of the doors stopped. There was no room behind the doors, only a door that did not connect to any place.
The players were confused about what they should be doing in this place. There was no scarecrow as stated in the main quest Tutorial. They had thought that the developers entered the data incorrectly and made a door instead of a scarecrow.
One of the players plucked up his courage and turned away from the Training Ground. With a stuttering voice, he asked the Instructor what they should do and the result was as all the players had expected.
"Don't you guys have eyes?!!! Don't you see the door? Enter that door, you stupid creatures!!! Ptuih!!'' The Instructor's voice exploded from outside the Training Ground.
The player who dared to ask the Instructor the question entered the Training Ground with a spit-splattered face. His body trembled as if he was holding back anger but the smile on his lips told another story. A sticky liquid ran from his forehead to his chin but he didn't seem to want to wipe it off. His nose was puffy like he was trying to inhale something. Even though he was just spat on, this player didn't seem to have given up and wanted to experience the same thing once again.
The expressions of the players varied, some saw this player as a hero who dared to ask the Instructor a question, some laughed at his fate, some were disgusted, some just kept quiet, and some looked at him with... envy?
Even so, thanks to the player's 'sacrifice' they all knew what to do. Although these doors were not connected to a room they seemed to have the power to move them somewhere like a portal.
They finally chose their respective doors and prepared themselves for the boring job of hitting the scarecrows.
"Billy, what do you think of the Weapon Affinity?" Leona asked.
Billy was taken aback and for a moment he didn't answer. "Ahh... Uh... I think it's like I said before. Our strength is related to the weapon affinity we have" Billy just repeated what he had analyzed before.
Leona felt odd, Billy should have a new analysis after he read the new reminder in the virtual interface. "Oh, then what Weapon Affinity have you got?" Leona forgot about Billy's awkwardness and asked another question
Billy was silent again for a moment, he saw Leona's innocent face and blinked multiple times as if he didn't know what to say. "Hmm... Leona, sorry I have to finish this tutorial soon because I have other things to do after this"
Billy seemed in a hurry to end their conversation. He immediately grabbed the doorknob and opened it. And entered the door without saying anything, Leona could only say "Eh? Yeah, good luck to you!" staring at Billy's closed door.
She turned to the other two players, Guta and Rou.
"Guta—"
"Ah, sorry Leona, I also have other things to do" Guta said and also rushed into the door before Leona finished speaking.
"Ah? Good luck to you" said Leona while looking at the closed door once again. She turned to Rou but before she could say anything Rou rushed to open the door.
But before he entered, Rou turned to Leona with a guilty face "uhh... I'm sorry Leona, I can't tell you about the Weapon Affinity I got" and he immediately closed the door without waiting for Leona's response.
"Uh... ah... Uh... why?" Leona opened and closed her mouth like a koi fish, she was confused as to what was going on.
{I thought you were just an idiot, but it looks like there is something wrong with your brain. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU THINKING ASKING THEM THAT??!! Like I said stop munching that catnip like candy, you mush-brain-catnip overdose cat!!}
The flustered Leona was annoyed, with pouting lips she opened the door, and closed it with a bang.
*BAM!
Leona arrived at a room covered with gold paint. The entire room was quite spacious but had no furniture other than a golden scarecrow in the middle.
Leona, who was annoyed, stepped toward the golden scarecrow without a second thought. She wanted to use this poor scarecrow as an outlet for her annoyance.
However, when she was 3 meters from the scarecrow, a virtual interface appeared in front of her.
[You are in combat range, Combat Helping System' is active (temporary)]
Suddenly after reading the message on the virtual interface, a triangular shape appeared in front of her. The triangle was like a reverse pyramid and it had a cone on each side. Leona seemed to have seen this pyramid shape somewhere but she couldn't recall.
Leona turned her gaze back to the scarecrow and she saw the same reverse pyramid in front of the scarecrow's body. Leona wondered what the function of these weird buildings was.
But she had not forgotten her annoyance. Leona lunged like an enraged bull and slashed at the scarecrow in front of her.
[1x]
"Hahaha... you will be my training dummy ~meow!" unknowingly she ended her words with a meow.
Leona again slashed at the scarecrow with her Kris Bamboo but before the knife hit the scarecrow's body, Leona felt danger on her left cheek. She reflexively crouched and a strong wind blew over her head. Her cat ears vibrated and Leona felt a sting at the tip of it.
Leona looked at the scarecrow in front of her with wide eyes. The right conical side of the reverse pyramid unknowingly turned red and returned to white again.
Leona did not understand what had just happened, she immediately retreated and increased her vigilance. She felt that when the golden scarecrow had suddenly moved if she hadn't followed her animal instincts, she would have lost her head.
But the golden scarecrow still didn't move at all. Leona's forehead wrinkled and her cat ears twitched. She really felt that there was something odd about this scarecrow. Especially with the two cone-sided reverse pyramids in front of her and the Scarecrow.
{Are you really a cat? Then why do you have a bird's brain?}
She started slowly circling the golden scarecrow with her body always on alert as she was waiting for the scarecrow to attack. Leona circled the scarecrow up to five times but it still didn't move.
{Now you look more like a cat. But still, you waste your time trying to analyze things with your bird-mush-brain}
Instead of disappearing, Leona's annoyance grew, she felt like she was being toyed with by the golden scarecrow in front of her. With irritated steps, pouting lips, and a waving furry tail, she arrived in front of the golden scarecrow and stood akimbo, and said.
"Not only did this Kris Bamboo and The Instructor trick me but now you also dare to trick me!! So what if my fans run and don't want to talk to me suddenly? I'm Leona and I know no defeat!" Leona said as she scolded the scarecrow.
{This is the first time I feel shame when watching an idiot}
With all her might Leona swung the Kris Bamboo and slashed at the scarecrow's body. *Slash! Again she sensed danger coming from her left and it was coming from the right side of the cone from the reverse pyramid in front of the scarecrow which had turned red again.
However, Leona was no longer surprised, she quickly picked up the Kris Bamboo to intercept the golden scarecrow's attack. "Hahaha! Got ya! As I said Leona knows no def—"
*Craak!!
Without her noticing, the Kris Bamboo was broken into two and the golden scarecrow's hand that didn't slow down hit her head and crushed it.
[-180 HP]
[-15 Weapon Durability]
Leona's head snapped and turned into a torrent of liquid that soaked the entire room. Luckily, it wasn't red, otherwise, this scene would be horrible.
A second before Leona fell unconscious she had a thought "Eh?"
{IDIOT-BIRD-MUSH-BRAIN CAT!!! Didn't you remember the reminder to never block with your twig-like weapon!! You are so stupid that it makes my blood pressure increase tenfold!!}
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Leona opened her eyes, she felt herself lying on the ground with untrimmed grass. Blinking her eyes and looking around.
In front of her, she saw the Instructor, who seemed to be holding back her rage. Her gaze which was originally only full of arrogance and confidence turned into a look full of disgust as if she was looking at trash.
"Are you even a warrior? What kind of disgusting martial art did you learn!! That you can only use your body for whoring your teacher huh! Slut! Ptuih! What kind of fight is that? Hah! 2 hits? Against a scarecrow, you can only do 2 hits? Even a caterpillar will have a more accomplished life than you! Ptuih!" Her voice filled with disgust and disappointment pierced Leona's mind so deeply that she didn't realize that her face was covered in a sticky, fragrant liquid.
{Wow! What words! So creative, I think I found my match! And what kind of food does she eat? Her spit is so fragrant. I want to spit on someone and get their appreciation too}
Leona's head felt numb, for a moment she couldn't say anything and just stared. She received too much information and curses so her brain was overloaded. Even her haters never called her a "slut".
"What are you daydreaming about? Get back to the Training Ground and don't come out till you can hit the scarecrow 100 times!" The Instructor's order seemed to have made Leona forget her cruel words.
Leona suddenly stood up and woke up from her daydream, but when she was about to return to the Training Ground she remembered something. "Instructor, I don't have any weapon, mine broke when I blocked the golden scarecrow's attack"
The Instructor narrowed her eyes and said in a tone as if she was speaking to a fool "What weapon did you break?"
"It's my Kris Bamb-- Huh?" Leona was surprised when she saw that Kris Bamboo was still in her hands and still intact without any cracks. Leona opened the weapon information virtual interface and saw that the Kris Bamboo's durability had returned to normal.
"Now get back to the Training Ground, you lazy creature!" The Instructor kicked Leona into the training ground.
As She was entering the training grounds she heard the words of the instructor who had just won her first victory.
"Did you think you're the only one who can hide information? hehehe" she said while pointing at the empty space.
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