So I'm a Snake, Who Cares?

Black Scales.

Dark scales.

It's a skill that originally only monsters with scales or lizardmen could use.

Naturally, it should be impossible for humans to use.

However, this snake has continental-level potential as a snake master, so there's no skill it cannot use.

It can even use flight skills, though it can't control the direction.

Perhaps my traits had an influence.

Skills shared through the Crown of Connection could be applied even to skills that humans shouldn't be able to use.

In other words, Rania, who had no scales, could now use the Black Scales skill.

Though it seemed to consume twice as much mana, Rania had abundant mana, probably from consuming many elixirs.

I was curious about how Black Scales would manifest, and it turned out her skin turned black.

It wasn't like her race had changed.

Her skin became glossy as if she'd been dipped in tar and pulled out.

In other words, she looked quite ridiculous.

"What is this!"

Rania seemed quite embarrassed.

'Don't be shy, you look great.'

'Not at all!'

'Hehe, no, you look great.'

I tried to encourage her seriously, but it seems I haven't developed acting skills like Obern yet.

However, my mockery actually had an effect.

Black Scales wasn't originally a skill that could be activated easily at will.

It was a special skill that required 'anger' to activate.

So I was curious if it would activate well, but it seems Rania was angry enough to use Black Scales.

I wonder why she got angry.

Pabapak!

She was very fast.

Though not as fast as a hornet, she seemed at least as quick as a honeybee.

Despite being immune to their stings, the hornets stuck to her face and body, tormenting her.

When she swung her fist like a whip, the hornets would burst and die.

The fluid seemed to feel vivid even on her hardened skin.

"Stop her, stop Martein!"

The one who shouted that was none other than the Second Prince.

Compared to Rania who ran freely without minding the hornets, their organized breakthrough was much slower.

What can you do, what can any of you do?

"Bind her feet!"

There were those who could use magic.

As Rania ran, her feet sank into the ground, and the earth rose up to her shins to grab her feet.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

"Augh!"

Rania pulled her feet out with pure strength alone.

But there wasn't just one magician on their side, and an ice spike rushed toward Rania.

These guys should know when to quit.

「Using Beam lv4」

I emitted a beam from close range.

From their perspective, it would only look like Rania's wrist flashed.

Ting!

The ice spike's trajectory twisted sharply and bounced away.

Even so, the physical force must have been quite strong, as it embedded itself into a tree with a thud.

Rania glared sharply at the magician.

"That bastard..."

Don't use such harsh words, Rania.

But he really was a bad bastard. If she had been hit without Black Scales, it could have been life-threatening magic.

"Keep suppressing her while advancing!"

However, the Second Prince paid no mind and instead encouraged his lackeys.

Even if Rania's physical abilities were exceptional, they had numbers and magicians on their side.

What could Rania do from a distance?

It's not like she could throw stones like a primate.

'Ah!'

And I felt like Zhuge Liang thinking of fire attacks at Red Cliff.

It was like my eyes suddenly opened.

'Rania, I know how to deal with these guys.'

'What?'

'That thing, grab that and throw it!'

There's no way she could understand just from me saying "that thing."

Rania glanced briefly at her wrist and looked where my head was pointing.

Then she smiled brightly.

"You're all dead!"

She quickly climbed up a tree (really like a mountain monkey) and grabbed what was there.

It was a hornet's nest.

She mercilessly demolished the hornet's nest and threw it where the Second Prince was.

It was a perfectly appropriate gift for those who had launched ice spikes.

"Aaaaagh!"

Chaos broke out as the hornet's nest fell in the middle of their formation and hornets swarmed out.

The students either tried to avoid the hornets or flailed their limbs trying to catch them.

The formation crumbled.

"Stay calm! It's not that dangerous! Just don't get stung multiple times! Maintain formation!"

Leon shouted quite bravely, but it was useless.

Maintaining formation is originally a soldier's virtue.

While the combat power of Emerald School students was naturally superior to regular soldiers, one couldn't expect them to act like soldiers.

Moreover, Rania managed to throw another hornet's nest.

That one hit Second Prince Leon square on the head.

"Ack!"

With the formation completely broken, they were now no different from a disorganized mob.

Rania didn't miss this opportunity and approached the largest old tree in the center.

She climbed the tree like a mountain monkey and...

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Grabbed the red pouch containing gold coins.

The jingling sound reached even me, wrapped around her wrist.

Rania ran toward the opposite side where the third-years were.

The students gnashed their teeth, but no one dared chase her through the flower garden full of hornets.

We laughed triumphantly.

"Wahahahaha!"

"Ssssss~"

And soon after, we managed to regroup with Phili and Amain.

Finally, we had time to look inside the pouch.

"Let's open it quickly."

The pouch was quite heavy.

The children opened the pouch with anticipation.

A brilliantly shining golden light.

The children were speechless.

And I had no choice but to curse the Chancellor.

'Should've been a training camp instructor rather than a school chancellor.'

Inside the pouch were 100 three-point gold coins.

Worth 300 points.

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"Now, I will announce the results of the preliminary 'treasure hunt'!"

What comes to mind with the name 'treasure hunt' is a 'picnic.'

It's probably similar in this world too.

You can probably tell from remembering the expressions of the tense students when they first heard the preliminary would be a treasure hunt.

Really, isn't that right? If the preliminary competition theme had been something like 'death match' or 'hell's wheel of death,' the students would probably have turned pale.

But now, the state of the students gathered after the competition was terrible.

About 40 had already dropped out midway.

One was in a coma, though not dead.

About 40 injured. Moreover, 20 of those were from hornet stings.

"24th place, Bell Apoti, 10 points! 23rd place is..."

The Chancellor personally called out the names of those who passed.

From lowest rank to highest.

And finally, an important name came up.

"4th place, Leon Ardene Solian. 101 points, wow!"

He had 72 points but somehow gathered up to 101 points.

He probably ruthlessly extracted coins from his lackeys.

Nevertheless, he was 4th place.