"So Clichéd!"

"So Clichéd!"

It was unclear whether it was summer, but not only was the sunlight blazing, the temperature was also extremely high.

Making his way through the forest, Shien laboriously swung the Holy Sword, chopping away the obstructing weeds and branches around him. At some point, he had become short of breath and drenched in sweat.

"So hot..."

Shien groaned weakly, yet he did not stop and continued onward.

Because the deeper he ventured into this forest, the more dangerous Shien felt it was.

"I can't hear any birds or beasts at all..."

Shien had a bad feeling about this, making him want to leave the area as quickly as possible.

Especially since that bad feeling was growing stronger and stronger, gradually reaching the point where it made Shien uneasy.

Then, at a certain moment, a message suddenly surfaced in Shien's mind.

Skill acquired—Enemy Perception—Learn?

Shien could not help but freeze slightly.

"I got a new skill just like that?"

Though surprised, Shien did not hesitate and immediately chose to learn it.

In that instant, his previous sense of foreboding seemed to transform into a tangible warning and flood into Shien's mind.

Shien felt a sharp pain in his head and a chill down his back. Then, as though he had vaguely sensed something, he abruptly turned and looked into the air.

Whoosh!

The sound of something slicing through the air suddenly descended upon him.

Bang!

A muffled impact boomed like an explosion.

Shien felt as though he had been struck by a heavy mountain. He could not even let out a grunt before being sent flying, crashing into a tree trunk like a cannonball and snapping the tree in half.

"Urgh..."

Only then did Shien feel a dull ache in his chest, forcing a cry from him.

Skill acquired—Physical Resistance—Learn?

As another message flooded into his mind, Shien was still dazed.

"What happened?"

"What was that?"

"I was attacked?"

Having slid down the trunk and collapsed onto the ground, Shien had not reacted to what had happened at all.

Yet strangely enough, despite suffering an attack powerful enough to send him flying and crack a tree apart, Shien had not been seriously injured. His chest merely felt a little tight.

Once Shien came to his senses, perhaps due to the effect of Enemy Perception, he finally clearly detected where the thing that had attacked him was. He hurriedly climbed to his feet and looked up.

The moment he saw it, Shien froze.

Because what appeared before him was a sight beyond reality.

"Guh-ji!"

A vicious cry rang out above the forest and lingered for a long while.

A huge black shadow descended from the sky and appeared before Shien.

It was a bird.

A Fierce Bird that was pitch-black all over, with the body of a snake, the wings of a bird, and a human face. Its enormous wingspan stretched over ten meters, and it looked profoundly bizarre and evil.

Just now, it seemed that this enormous Fierce Bird had swooped down from the sky, attacked Shien, and sent him flying.

Now, the Fierce Bird stared fixedly at Shien with a pair of bloodshot eyes, telling him that it had no intention of letting its prey go.

"Hahaha..."

Shien could not help but laugh.

He could not help it.

"Isn't this joke a little too much?"

After meeting a Goddess, he had reincarnated in Another World, been thrown alone into a forest, and immediately been attacked by a bizarre monster?

This development...

"So clichéd!"

"Guh-ji!"

Shien's curse and the Fierce Bird's cry erupted at the same time.

Immediately afterward, the Fierce Bird transformed into a black shadow once more, tearing through the air as it lunged at Shien.

"!"

Shien felt Enemy Perception frantically sounding warnings in his mind. Without a second thought and without caring how undignified he looked, he rolled to the side.

Bang!

The muffled impact rang out once again.

The tree Shien had just cracked apart was directly smashed to pieces by the Fierce Bird, turning into a shower of wood chips and fragments that flew everywhere.

Skill acquired—Evasion—Learn?

Another message flooded into Shien's mind as he rolled miserably across the ground.

"Learn! Learn!"

There was no need to think about it. Shien agreed frantically.

In a moment of crisis, this skill was absolutely meant to save his life.

So, unable to worry about anything else, Shien learned both the Physical Resistance skill he had just acquired and the Evasion skill he had obtained at this very moment.

"Guh-ji!"

On the other side, the Fierce Bird that had smashed the tree apart flew back into the air. As though angered by its failed attack and enraged by Shien's resistance, it cried out and actually spat a bolt of lightning toward him.

The lightning seemed capable of scorching one's eyes. Shien had only just climbed to his feet when his vision turned white, and he was instantly struck.

Boom!

The lightning struck where Shien stood, setting off an explosion and blasting him away. Shien tumbled across the ground like a rolling gourd, rolling far into the distance.

Skill acquired—Magic Resistance—Learn?

Another new skill had been acquired.

"Cough!"

Shien, who had been sent rolling across the ground, coughed violently. Just as before, he learned the new skill without any hesitation.

And this time was the same. Despite being struck directly by lightning, Shien still had not suffered any serious injuries. His entire body merely ached terribly.

At this point, Shien finally understood what was going on.

"Is this the Holy Sword's power?"

Covered in dust, Shien lay on the ground and turned his gaze toward the Holy Sword he had been gripping tightly all this time.

Just as it had from the beginning, the Holy Sword shimmered with dazzling radiance and brilliant colors.

Because the Holy Sword had the effect of reducing all types of damage by 99%, Shien had remained unharmed until now, right?

"Guh-ji! Guh-ji!"

The Fierce Bird in the air knew nothing of this. Looking at Shien lying on the ground, seemingly at death's door but in fact without a single drop of blood spilled, it repeatedly let out furious cries.

It presumably had not expected that the prey it had finally found would still be beyond its grasp even now.

Thus, the Fierce Bird dove down. As though determined to finish Shien off completely, vicious waves surged all over its body.

Watching this unfold before his eyes, Shien felt a surge of fighting spirit erupt within him.

"Don't think I won't fight back!"

Facing that nightmare-like vicious figure descending from the sky, Shien gripped the Holy Sword tightly and struggled shakily to his feet.

Clang!

The radiance that had quietly flowed across the dazzling, brilliant Holy Sword suddenly intensified, bursting forth in a blaze of light.

An astonishing power flowed from the Holy Sword into Shien's body.

Shien raised the Holy Sword and pointed it toward the vicious figure in the sky.

Then...

Skill acquired—Two-Handed Sword—Learn?

Without question, Shien chose to learn it.

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