Chapter 358: C-Rank Advancement Examination (10)

Hinata was just an ordinary villager before, but she had an affinity for light attribute magic.

She had been born with an ability that only one in a hundred people had.

However, she had been living as a villager, so her ability didn’t have a chance to blossom. No matter what sort of ability a person had, ordinary villagers wouldn’t be able to recognize it.

Many people in this world live and die without ever knowing the potential they have, much less those who could cultivate that ability.

Thanks to Ryuushin saving her, Hinata had the opportunity to meet a sage who came from another world.

The sage’s goal was to beat the Evil God so he prepared his family and comrades and cultivated their strength in case the deity retaliated.

Ryuushin was among those comrades. Hinata became his wife, so the girl who had the potential that only one in a hundred people possessed managed to cultivate that ability to its utmost limits.

By the way, the sage wasn’t the only one who trained Hinata. She was also trained by the strongest mage swordsman, who was a person from this world from the start. The headmaster of the academy of magic, which was considered the pinnacle of education in this world, also contributed greatly to her progress. Perhaps even too much.

The sage who thought Hinata was just an ordinary villager noticed it when he was observing her growth.

“...Huh? Hinata, aren’t you strong already as you are?”

Ryuushin’s weakness was the light attribute, and in order to protect him, Hinata trained continuously. She had become too powerful. Hinata couldn’t use revival magic. However, if it was any other light attribute spell, then she had already become a mage who could surpass Saintess Seira.

She even won against Ryuushin multiple times as they sparred.

Her status board had also changed before they noticed. A new ‘title’ had been given to her, and that was—

Dragon Slayer (Mage).

It was a title bestowed to people who could slay dragons.

However, Hinata, being a former villager, rarely looked at her status board.

Thus, she didn’t know.

Her husband, the sage, and the others didn’t have any idea, either.

The power that she gained in order to protect her husband had become the power that could slay the Kokuryuu.

Hinata snapped after her husband was demeaned as a "blockhead." Her most adored beloved, her lifesaver, had been insulted.

She couldn’t stand it.

“Three times… No, make it five.”

Hinata, who had awoken the strength of a dragon slayer, now unleashed her full power for the first time.

“This examination round is mine.”

“I-I, I want that guy —”

“I. will. do. it.”

Gad was about to point at Ryuushin, but he was forced to accept Hinata’s declaration because of her overflowing bloodlust. He could only disgruntledly shake his head.

“Well then, I’ll start now. Is that alright?... Yeah, it is alright.”

Gad shook his head again, just like what he did earlier.

The next moment, Hinata’s figure disappeared.

“Gu-huff —”

Hinata, who was clad in a magical suit of light, appeared right before Gad and punched him in the stomach.

Gad was blasted away with full force before hitting the wall. However, he stood right away.

“D-Don’t #$^&%#@ —”

“4 times left.”

Hinata was counting for some reason. She instinctively realized what she had just done.

The only one who also realized it apart from her was Halt, the one who made Gad’s infinite revival possible.

“Haru-Nii, that punch that Hinata just did is quite powerful, right?”

“Why is that guy still so lively, huh?”

Akari and Ryuushin were puzzled.

They thought it was powerful enough to kill him.

“You’re not wrong. That guy was revived in a blink of an eye.”

It was so fast that even Gad himself didn’t know what happened.

He had been struck by a force that was powerful enough to annihilate Kokuryuu, so he did die, no doubt about it. However, Gad was revived not even a moment later, thanks to the revival magic that the sage had set up in this dungeon.

“Just because you look nice, I won’t go easy — gbffpt!!!”

“3 times remaining… I don’t need you to go easy on me. I won’t go easy on you.”

She had already blasted Gad, but Hinata’s anger had yet to subside.

It would take some time before the body could regenerate if she completely annihilated Gad just like Halt. However, if that’s not the case and he died with his body intact, the revival would take effect in an instant.

If Gad had not been revived in a blink of an eye and his lifeless body had rolled on the floor, things might have been different.

Hinata could sense that she killed him, but she couldn’t see it. It somehow made her feel better about it, and there’s no guilt that she went overboard.

Therefore, Hinata caused a total of five accidents, just as she declared.