Exploring the Dimension After Reincarnation: Academic

Night Games

*sis!* *srak!* *srak!*

In the darkness of the night, Elena tried to trace the path Senolia had just traveled. He jumped from one tree branch to another. In the process, the dense foliage gets in the way making it a little difficult to penetrate through it and creating a frictional sound of the leaves every time he moves. Something very troublesome, but fortunately he had the ability of Branching that helped him.

“(Can you find his whereabouts?)” ask Aya.

While Elena struggled to aim for the tree branch as a foothold and pierced through the dense foliage, Aya still remained above Elena's head and had a relaxed look. He just needed to defend himself so as not to fall from there. The rest, he did not put in much effort, at least for the time being. It's comfortable too, yeah.

"The problem is that this place is quite large while my Branching area is limited. It's very difficult to find it, maybe I'll need to go through all the areas in this place to find its existence. Hopefully we are lucky and can find it in just a few seconds. After all, he shouldn't have gone too far," Elena replied flatly.

"(So, yes..)" Aya's response shrieked. "(My eyes can see clearly through the night, but the trees here bother me. I won't be of much use in this game! I just rely on you to do everything!)

"...." - ".There was nothing Elena said, she had already guessed about this.

•••••

A while passed with Elena who kept looking for the whereabouts of her target—Senolia—. The main problem is not the darkness of this place at night or the dense trees that block the view, but rather the search for the existence of Senolia among this vast area. If it was only the darkness of the night and the dense trees, the branching ability made Elena able to see the surrounding area.

*sis!* *sis!* *sis!*

Several arrows charged towards Elena and Aya.

"Yes!"

"(Yes!)"

*clank!* *clank!* *clank!*

Using her 2nd skill—Black Catcher—, Aya fired a few black pegs towards the arrows pointing at them. The two attacks collided with each other in midair, and knocked each other down between them.

"Hmm…?" Elena noticed some arrows falling to the ground.

It had a shape like an ordinary arrow in general. She is a slightly transparent dark blue and a little hard to see, especially when it is dark at night. Also, the speed of each of them becomes a problem if the target is a layman or an individual who does not have martial skills. They would only become a dead wall and lose their lives just because of one strike.

"(Dangerous attack...,)" murmured Aya.

"You are very eco-friendly, yes. Arrows created from pure energy centers, have a simple form and are efficient in use, but will give a deep thrust through high speed increases. The penther that did it should have been a high-level one. It's possible, this one has a humanoid form," Elena commented.

"(Humanoids? Wouldn't he have something in common with Kitsuna? How could they have anything? This one individual is something rare to exist in this world, right?)" Aya had a lot of confusing questions and speculations in her mind.

"Calm down, not necessarily it's either. It still has the possibility that it was a penther that evolved many times until it had a humanoid form. It's too much to call it either. But even if I say it like this, still he should have a strength that cannot be underestimated as a high-ranking penther."

"(Somehow after a moment of calm I was worried.)"

*sis!* *srak!* *srak!*

*sis!* *sis!* *sis!*

Not as easy as expected, several arrows shot towards him in a faster tempo. They were the same arrows as before, only their number and speed were a problem.

"Yes, give me a katana-shaped one?"

"Good, good."

*zrt!*

Still the same using the Black Catcher skill, Aya created a piece of black katana along with her sharp blade. There is no mercy for him! After all the enemies they were fighting right now had unknown information and identities. It was not something appropriate to give him mercy using a blunt blade.

*clank!* *clank!* *clank!* *clank!* *clank!*

Various swings created Elena slashing at the arrows hitting her. A ruthless and sharp slash split each one of them, also under the effect of the Black Catcher skill all of the arrow fragments were absorbed as additional energy that would strengthen the resistance of the black katana.

'Quick! My branches can barely keep up with their movements. A little more, and it won't be cut by this katana. It will pierce my body like paper. It probably won't destroy my body without a trace, but it's more than enough to give a creepy impact even though I've currently strengthened my body using Myokinesis.'

*sis!* *sis!* *sis!*

After a few moments of silence, the arrow came back to him. This time the arrows were aimed at Elena's back, which meant that the shooter was in the latter direction. He had moved in this short time!

'From there!' Elena glanced back in surprise.

In just a few seconds for this arrow shooter to move in the distance opposite to the target! This was not something that ordinary humans could do! Elena knew that the shooter must be a penther and would have skill abilities that could not be underestimated considering that it came from a trained trainer, but she remained shocked by this reality.

*tap!* *stab!* *stab!* *stab!* *srak!*

Elena used one of the tree trunks as a foothold to jump up high, up, after that was the scene where three arrows pierced at the translucent branches of the tree with several others darting and darting through the dense foliage.

"(Well, it looks like you're already in a situation where you can't catch up to the shooter, yeah. The skill used should not be something related to speed, but rather lead to instantaneous displacement of places. There was no way he could change places in such a short time with a direction that was in the opposite of before.)"

Elena's eyes glanced upwards at Aya before she said, "I feel annoyed at your first sentence that was so insulting to me, but I had to agree with you this time. He was indeed extremely terrifying in terms of speed if it was a movement. If it was an increase in speed, I doubt I would be able to compete with him in close combat. At least, from his dart attack, I know that he is the type of long-range attacker."

"(What are you going to do now?)"

Elena's gaze turned to the sea of leaves as she said, "Skill first, Accel. We're gonna keep going after him, there's no other choice."

"Good!"