Chapter 206.1

Translator: JiuJiuBa

Proofreader: GodlyCash

People usually experience at least one presentiment in their lives .

The presentiment could forebode failing an exam, losing a bet, or that today’s fortune will be outrageously bad for no reason .

Anyways, everyone would .

Some believe it’s just bad luck and disregard it .

Some think that awful things happen because of presentiment .

Some think it’s not a big premonition .

In such a case, people don’t believe in the premonition, but the ominous feeling lingers regardless .

However, once you’ve experienced life-and-death crises repeatedly that was present with an ominous premonition for hundreds of times, you catch onto this feeling instinctively .

My experiences is such a case .

Having been gone through fire and water for countless times, spoiling the doorsill of the hell, I unconsciously began to get used to it .

Every time before something challenging occurs, I feel as if I have my ankles in the Jordan River .

At worst, I feel as if I bathe in the Jordan River to the point that I could see my Grandpa on the other side .

As this kind of premonition happens frequently, sometimes I even feel that it is not bad to take a foot bath in the river and that it is not bad to meet my Grandpa once in a while . Soon, nerves would begin to relax, but the sense of unknowing haunts me .

Sometimes, I wished that my presentiments were not true, even though I’m accustomed to the monthly death crises .

If I continue hanging around, I would drown in the Jordan River rather be simply being soaked .

This time, I feel like I wouldn’t be able to return from the opposite bank .

That is what the current ominous premonition warns me .

I can’t sense the enemy, but the atmosphere is uneasy . That uneasiness that warns me that if I act rashly, I will die here .

I have often experienced this before I reached the level of strength where I easily cleared the tutorial’s stages without any great danger .

I quickly checked my condition as the agitation swept through my mind .

My mind is stable .

My reaction speed and directionality are stable .

I wondered if the fear born from my excessive premonition had affected my judgment, but it didn‘t seem to be so .

The feeling of death would intensify when neither the fear nor the enemy’s existence is felt .

Such a situation would be a perfect chance for sudden death .

I had to swiftly decide whether to escape or locate the adversary .

At that moment, the lake quaked violently .

The ripples that appeared at the center of the lake quickly turned into huge waves .

It seemed like something was struggling in the depths of the lake, trying to jump out of the water .

[The survivor of the research team repeatedly told the absurd story that lava beneath the lake would explode and swallow the continent . ]

I thought again of the message about the lake .

In this case, there is only one choice for me .

[Clear Condition]

-Investigate the abnormalities in Irai Lake .

– Protect the summoned contractors in your team from injury or death . The summoned contractors you have to protect are (2/2)

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The clear condition of the stage clearly required the protection of the other summoned contractors .

It wouldn’t be too late to investigate anomalies of the lake after making sure the safety of the other two magicians .

Instead of watching the wave that came to us, I turned around, grabbed the shivering Sicia and Yata, and rushed into the forest .

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Within minutes, we arrived at the village where we had stayed on the first day .

The whole village was empty .

To be precise, there was no one here .

The furniture and clothes in the houses were intact .

I searched every corner, but there wasn’t even a dog, let alone people .

The village remained unharmed even though anomalies had occurred in the woods .

Therefore, I had thought the village was safe, but that turned out to be wrong .

There are two possibilities I could think of .

One is that the villagers predicted that there would be an abnormal phenomenon and left .

I don’t think these ordinary people could perceive what I wasn’t able to notice in advance though . However, they have indeed experienced such abnormalities many times and have been familiar with that .

Perhaps this occurred periodically .

If not, then there must be some sign that only they know .

The other possibility is that they’ve already died before we arrived .

But the village is completely preserved as if it was never attacked .

Just the people have disappeared . The buildings and gates in the village are still undamaged and the scent of blood is absent too .

Even the weakest people would do their best to resist an approaching crisis .

At least, the villagers would have raised some chairs to struggle, which is the normal response of a human .

Even if their resistance is futile, with the overwhelming fear lingering over, a desperate villager should have struggled to grab everything within reach .

But no traces of struggles could be seen .

That cannot be unless the mishap was too fast to be perceived .

After looking around the village, I took Sicia and Yata to the place where we lived the first day .

“Yata, please try to communicate with other teams as well as the temple . ”

Sicia, who cheers up a little, asked Yata to communicate with others .

Both Sicia and Yata cheered up quickly .

I asked Sicia, who was looking at Yata .

“Is this a usual task for summoned contractors?”

“No . This is my first time encountering such a situation . ”

So this was abnormal .

When things got to this point, I knew that my approach was wrong .

Sicia kept saying that we didn’t have to go to the lake .

The message clearly put that we can stay in the village for one or two days before we leave .

Thus, we should have stayed in the village and collected as much information as possible about previous anomalies .

The message’s information and the information from other summoned contractors were based on the words of panic-stricken survivors, so no one could vouch for its accuracy .

Instead, it’s likely that the villagers hold the most information .

But after the first day, there was no communication between the summoned contractors and the villagers .

What’s more, the food we ate before was prepared in advance so we didn’t interact with the villagers since then .

The reason was simple .

This is one of the stages of the tutorial after all .

So, if I didn’t ask anyone about anything, no one would gather the necessary information for me .

I should have gone out and collected some information from the villagers .