Only Wisdom Awakened - Chapter 136

Chapter 136: Blizzard area
With the sun barely visible on the horizon, the group of awakened gathered just outside the blizzard area, all geared up to enter it.

Only five people there would not participate in the expedition:

The dean, the Team One guild leader, and the three Greenlanders who had taught the American academy’s teachers all there was to know about those frozen lands.

All around them, there were at least ten drones, and even if they couldn’t see it, they knew that two satellites were pointing in their direction too.

“Good luck” said the dean to the departing professors, and then she whispered to Hans’s ear.

“If any of them risk getting seriously hurt, forget about our promise, intervene even if the academy may be undervalued, otherwise forget about the jet.”

“Of course, I know”

“Good, then I’ll see you when you come back”

“Alright, I’ll see you”

All the members of the raid team wore warm thick clothes, which materials came directly from the monsters that inhabited these lands;

The yetis.

They began marching towards the middle of the whole snowstorm, and they soon entered the blizzard area.

The cold and strong winds almost made the cameras of the drones freeze, while the effect they had on the raid members was slowing them down a bit.

Leading the expedition squad, to everyone’s surprise, was Caleb.

After the huge fuss Hans had caused, almost everyone was certain he would have been acknowledged as a leader, but they were wrong.

This decision didn’t make sense to most of the spectators, but the keenest among them could tell it was a decision to separate Hans’s powers from the Academy’s, since otherwise, the Academy would become dependent on him.

They kept the whole world anxious with their walk for thirty minutes, until what everyone feared would have happened actually happened.

In front of Caleb, from beneath the snow, appeared the feared monsters, the ones and only predators of that land.

“Yetis incoming! Get into position” ordered Caleb.

“Yes”

Replied the others in unison.

They enlarged the distance between each other and then unsheathed their swords, preparing for the incoming fierce fight.

They had been told that creating distance between themselves was the best way to fight off against yetis.

Humans are weak, that’s why we must use weapons and group up.

That is also why we use tricks, why we fight dirty, it is all because we do not have the necessary strength to fight legitly.

But for yetis it is the opposite, even if they live and hunt in groups, they prefer to abuse their strength to smash whatever problem may come their way, and the reason dividing can be helpful even in that case is one:

While they fight alone, even in front of death, yetis don’t ask for help from their mates.

That is because if they managed to eventually catch the prey they had almost died against, then they would have to split it, and that could start a power struggle inside the tribe.

The only time yetis fight together is if they are either cornered or if their targets are together.

If the humans had been identified as a whole big prey, then the monsters would’ve directly charged at them, but since they spread out, and became various smaller prey, the yetis began their hunt one at a time, every yeti taking on a single person.

The dozen or so of yetis who couldn’t step in in time remained waiting for some of their companions to die so that they could take their places.

Since every single one of the raid team members was at least B-rank, none of them died to the yetis, and in the meantime, the strongest out of the teachers took down the monsters one by one.

Hans was just playing with his yeti while observing the others and surveilling their movements and situations, ready to step in in case something too difficult for them to handle popped up.

However, to his disappointment, everything went smoothly, and he didn’t find any chance to step in.

He did kill one yeti since it was annoyingly chasing him, but that didn’t level him up at all.

He needed something way more powerful to gain a level just by slaying it once.

Apart from him, the strongest in the team was the team leader, Caleb, who had improved again since the last time they met, it felt as if he was on the verge of reaching the peak S-rank.

He had blown the yetis leader’s head off with a single blow, and it was on par with an A-rank monster.

The drones captured the scene, and everyone watching at the moment had only two things to think about:

The first one, that impulsively came to mind, was surprise, they were shocked to see that the American academy didn’t only have two monsters, but three.

And secondly, something that came to mind to those who had opened the live purposely just to watch Hans, was asking what he was doing.

It was already the third attack from the Yetis, and Hans had yet to intervene once.

The others were beginning to get tired, and some of them received minor injuries while holding off the white monsters.

…

After almost twenty hours of walking and fighting, the tired members of the team finally got some rest.

They had brought with them some supplies and a couple of tents, so after setting them up, they had a small but nutritious meal before going to sleep.

There was no need for someone to stand on guard since the drones were surveilling the vicinities in all directions, and a call would’ve reached them in case of trouble.

In the middle of the night,

While he was sleeping inside a tent shared with three other men, Hans suddenly opened his eyes.

‘Is it them?… Ugh, I really don’t want to get up.

I’ll take both the Jett and the levels, just the fact that I’m thinking about getting out of this warm sleeping bag to help them should be enough to get me both of the rewards.

Without any more complaints, Hans got up.

Everyone was extremely tired, and waking them up could’ve slowed down the entire operation.

The people in live were still various millions since the Asian viewers were now in the middle of their day, and even some Europeans had woken up early to see if something interesting was happening.

The operation room had noticed the movement of an extremely big Yetis tribe, that was closing on to the raider’s camp at an alerting speed.

Hans made a gesture to pick the attention of the drone, and a couple of seconds later, it was flying in front of him, taking a first view of his face.

“Hey, I know about those monsters that are coming, do you want me to take care of them?”

Even if he was speaking into a camera that the whole world could hear, there was one person who knew exactly what Hans was referring to.

Not even the time for the drone to fly away, a message arrived on his phone,

“Dean:

Yes, do as you like”

‘Finally, I have been itching to unleash a full-power spell for a while now’

Hans walked away from the camp where the tents were set up toward the direction from

Which the monsters were coming from.

‘If I were to cast a powerful spell I would wake them up, and the whole point of this secret extermination would be lost, so something like this should suffice’

Thought Hans before casting a mana barrier all around the camp.

‘Now they won’t wake up even if a nuke exploded a couple of kilometers by.’

“Let’s see… what do we have here… meh, they’re less than I expected”

The ground began trembling, as countless beasts appeared in the distance.

The snow raised by the first beasts covered everything behind them, but Hans could sense that there were at least a couple of hundreds of them, and the five leaders on the front were all fearful A-rank monsters.

….

In the operation room:

“Are you sure about this?!!”

Asked the guild leader of Team One to the dean.

She, with an unsure expression on her face, replied to the question without even speaking.

“It’s not only the raid at stake, but the entire nation, I will not let you throw it away like this”

Said the man, picking up a phone ready to give the alarm to all the sleeping awakened in the raid.

“No! They need rest if they want to have any chances of defeating the boss, I’m sure it’s more probable for Hans to handle those yetis alone than handling the boss”

“This…”

“It’s better if we trust him, we have both seen what he’s capable of, right?”

‘He’s an official of the night market, he wouldn’t join a battle he can’t win’

“Alright, I hope you are right”

The man put down the phone and watched the screen solemnly.

‘Hans Richer, please… please don’t fail’

…

Since it was also streamed on various platforms, the chat on every single one of them was going crazy over the happening.

[dipleduck: is he thinking of taking them on alone?!]

[jdudbs: what are the others doing? Shouldn’t they also wake up?]

[littlepony: really? Taking all those monsters alone? Please Hans don’t die]

[facco12: LOLOLOLOLOL bro’s scouting for death]

…

[gingiluck: @facco12, fr fr…]

But even when everyone doubted Hans, in his mind he was just thinking of what spell to use.

‘I want to see how much stronger I’ve truly gotten…

For better comparison, I think I should use a skill I already had, let’s see…

This should do’

{burning hell}(tier-6)

The skill he had obtained from evolving {burning field}.

In a forty meters radius, the snow immediately melted down to five meters below the ground, but Hans stayed floating with {telekinesis}

“Alright… here we go”

He put both his hands forward, charging mana in those without a single double thought.

{fire breath}(tier-5)