Chapter 456 – Mythology Academy
Unlike the Ethereal Stone, an Epic-class artifact, the Phoenix Feather seems to be managed relatively less tightly. Seong-il nodded calmly at Aaron’s words and followed him.
‘But… At first glance, the ability is no joke… How much is the tariff for this?’
Seong-il had plenty of points because he had recently cleared the farm world and received quite a few points. He just prays that the ethereal stones aren’t too expensive.
“Are you okay?”
“Yes?”
As we approached the exit, Professor Wiline said something out of the blue. Seong-il, not understanding her words, looks at her with her blank expression.
“The stone. Can you protect it? Someone might attack Seongil-gun with that goal.”
“…At the academy?”
“Of course it’s outside. No one within the academy has the potential to do that. Even if there is, the professors won’t let it go.”
“Hmm…”
“However, problems may arise when going out or doing outdoor activities far away. The people of the academy cannot follow and protect Seongil.”
A very reasonable professor Wirain’s words. Her Seong-il spits out a prepared answer to her.
“Oh, don’t worry about that. I’m not going to step out of the academy until the next vacation.”
“Aha! Well… Then that’s good. But how about security when going to the south…?”
“I have to get help from my family. Under normal circumstances, no matter how small I am, I won’t be able to personally ask my family to escort me, but… The situation is different now.”
“Umm… Is that so?”
“Yes. If you do well, you might be able to formally establish a connection with the archmage who lives in seclusion near the Great Alliance, right? Even the elders won’t be able to deny it.”
“Oh, I’m glad then.”
Professor Wirain smiles benevolently after hearing Seongil’s words. Seong-il, who saw the old female wizard’s dignified attitude, sincerely bowed her head and expressed her gratitude.
“Thank you for your concern.”
“Whoops…”
“Anyway, you’re a wizard with a very nasty personality.”
“Yes?”
Aaron suddenly cuts off the conversation and enters.
“As long as you’re an academy student, the experiment could have been caught, but it doesn’t take that into consideration, and you punish it in a nasty way.”
“Ah, well… That’s true too.”
Seong-il smiles awkwardly at Aron’s vitriol. However, in Aron’s words, Seong-il could feel the feelings of concern for himself, so he feels a strange feeling deep in his heart.
‘Fuck… On the surface, he looks like a professor in a similar style to Jo Woo-young in reality.
For a moment, Seong-il remembered his miserable college life and felt bitter. He calmly takes out a memory jewel from his bosom and hands it to Aaron.
“…This?”
“This is an arcane lecture video created by an apprentice of the archmage Yuna.”
“Huh… Already?”
“Yes. The Archmage told me to deliver it immediately when I receive it.”
“Ah…”
Professor Aron nodded at Sungil’s words. Before I knew it, Professor Wee Rain was approaching and looking at the beads with a curious expression.
“Can I watch it now?”
“…Originally, we have to get out of the Guard Tower quickly. It’ll be okay to watch it for a while. Let’s take a look.”
It seems that Professor Aron, who is extremely cold-hearted, could not stand his curiosity. Fortunately, they got out of the sanctuary and reached the entrance on the first floor, so they had plenty of time to look at the jewels.
“That’s interesting…!!”
“…That’s fun.”
After reading the memory beads, Professor Wirain stands in his place with a hazy expression. She wasn’t as much as she was, but Aaron seemed to be deep in thought as well.
“A way to use the human body as a medium for magical power…”
“Um…”
“It’s hard to understand because the mechanism is different from the original one, so we can’t use it right away… But if we practice steadily, I think we can use the magic imprint.”
“That’s right. And in the process, we’ll get a lot more.”
“Yes.”
It seems that he listened to Yuna’s basic lecture quite impressively. The two look at Seongil and ask.
“…I don’t think this is all. Are there any additional lectures?”
“Ah, yes. First of all, he said that he would proceed with the basic lecture calmly, receive and answer the questions from the professors, and then lecture on the next step.”
“Excellent.”
A standard curriculum that is hard to find fault with. As if curious, Aaron asks her Seong-il again.
“…By the way, how do you know this information?”
“Ah, that’s it? The wizard summons my spirit body to the bizarre world I saw last time, and then puts his memories into my spirit body. The method I’m good at…”
“What a great person.”
Professor Aron is genuinely admiring. Just creating an external magic circuit that allows a person with supernatural powers to use magic is amazing, but when they use a unique dimensional magic that summons a spiritual body, the professors express awe at the ability of the imaginary archmage Eunwol.
‘…As it is, there will definitely be loopholes in my lies, so after a while it will be normal if suspicious professors appear…’
The problem is that the magical engineering imprint Seong-il presented as evidence is an original magic system based on knowledge from another dimension, so the professors, overwhelmed by its originality and genius, did not dare to think of Eun-wol as a fictional character.
‘Even if the process is strange, the evidence is clear, so it will work. Rather, it may work even better because the target of deception is smart. If you’re a clumsy wizard or psychic, you won’t be able to read the originality and genius of magical engineering engravings.’
After watching this strange contradiction and ending the conversation, Seong-il moves to his dormitory.
***
“Whoa… When I checked it with [Sensation], It seems that there is no one monitoring me…”
Seongil thoroughly checked for risks. When he feels that there is nothing to snag, he does not hesitate to cast Inner Plane.
“Whoa… Tariffs!!!”
Upon arriving at a safe place from outside eyes, Seong-il holds onto the Ethereal Stone that he took over during the day and confirms its value.
『Material Ethereal Stone: 100,000 Duty Points』
“Damn it…”
The customs of the bloody Ethereal Stone. With the same value as other ending-level items, Seong-il frowns and curses.
“I’m going to go crazy… I need to buy a black ball too… When the hell will this be…”
Headache the more you think about it. Then, Seong-il’s phone starts ringing.
Weeing!!
“…?”
Seong-il turns on augmented reality for an unexpected alarm and examines the contents of the message.
『Followers Quarterly Settlement』
『Gives you points equal to the influence your followers have had on that world through their activities in their respective worlds during the past quarter.』
『Available points: 70,000 points』
“Would you like to receive points? (Y/n)』
“Oh!! It’s already time like this!!!”
It seems that three months have passed since the first point was received. Seong-il puts on a happy expression and quickly presses the point collection button.
“Kyaa!! It’s a piece of cake!! 70,000 points!!!!”
The amount of points increased by 20,000 from the first one, probably because the number of followers increased by 3 from 3 months ago. Cheering for the unexpected point acquisition, Seong-il contemplates purchasing the product.
“Let’s see… Then the points you have… 180,000?”
Seong-il feels deeply moved to see that he has earned 180,000 points in two months after losing all his points just because he bought Farm Story World.
“Whoa… 180,000… But it’s worth getting one.”
A situation where 70,000 is left even after paying the duty on epic items. Seong-il thinks to himself that he can easily buy at least two B-level games even after consuming points.
‘The black ball… Is it okay if I don’t have it right now? There’s no point in forcibly capturing someone. Unless you really want to make a coveted talent into a compulsory follower in the game world later…’
‘In addition, as in the case of Eunwol, if the game world is not cleared, the penalty for summoning the captured character with the black ball is large…’
Seong-il had no objection that the black ball was a powerful item, but he felt that there were surprisingly many restrictions, so he postponed the purchase of the black ball to a lower priority.
‘…For now, let’s do the black ball next.’
The holy day I thought so was the two Ethereal Stones obtained during the day. Take out the Ethereal Stone of Matter and Spirit from your bosom.
“First of all… Shall we start with the Ethereal Stone of Spirit?”
A holy day that lightly infuses mana into a purple stone. Then, the stone starts orbiting Seongil with a light resonant sound.
“Summoning low-class monsters with magic…”
While muttering that, Seong-il takes out a magic book of wonder from his inventory and casts the 3rd class spell 『Summon Lesser Monsters』.
“Kieek!!”
Three or four goblins appeared as Seongil chanted. Those with crude sticks look at Seongil with frowns.
“Kreurreuk!!!”
A goblin who is hostile to the summoner due to lack of mind control due to being a low class. They baring their teeth at Seong-il and begin to approach him with strides.
“How do I activate the active? Shall I use empathy…”
A holy day that projects emotions into the Ethereal Stone of the Spirit. Then he could vaguely understand the active start method.
“Is it okay if I strongly project my will…?”
Seong-il effortlessly avoids the goblin’s attack that wields a club at him and strongly desires to activate the active.
Then, the Ethereal Stone floats around Seong-il and begins to spread invisible and strange waves everywhere.
“Kwaaaaa!!!!!”
Colorless, silent waves. The goblins who took a direct hit knelt on the spot, grabbed their heads, and screamed terribly.
“Kerek!! Keck!! Kehek!!!”
In the meantime, one goblin gets out of the pain and stands up and corrects his posture.
“Hmm? You resisted so easily?”
As Josu, a low-level monster at best, quickly escapes the power of the Ethereal Stone, Seong-il feels an absurd feeling.
“Ha… I was really looking forward to it because it’s an epic item…”
That’s when he raised his hand in preparation for the goblin’s attack that was coming to him.
Baek!! Baek!!!
“Kerere!!!”
Shortly after his disappointment, the goblin collapses and begins beating his agonizing comrades on the head mercilessly.
“Oh…”
Seong-il saw the situation and grasped the situation.
“…Was the mind controlled by Stone? It was to kill the comrades who rebelled against me instead.”
Interesting sight. Seong-il feels the disappointment quickly fade in his heart.
“Well… It could be something like that because it’s a low-level monster… But anyway, it’s pretty good if you give it a passive that emits painful mental waves around you and turns you into a minion if you fail to resist…”
“Krukreuk…”
A goblin who smashed the heads of all his comrades lying around before he knew it. He approaches Seong-il with a dazed expression and kneels with him.
“Hmm? Are you saying you’re done?”
“Kreuk!”
The goblin nodded his head in agreement.
“…I don’t really need your help anymore.”
“Kreuk!!”
When Seongil’s words fall, the goblin, to his surprise, picks up the club he was holding and strikes his own head hard and begins to harm himself.
“!!!!”
An astonishing sight. He succeeds in committing suicide without the slightest hesitation.
“Wow… From what I know, it’s difficult to make self-harming behavior even with fairly advanced mind control magic… This stone is…”
Seong-il learned how powerfully the Ethereal Stone of the Spirit controls the minds of intelligent beings. He looks at Stone in surprise.
“It’s great to use against large numbers or on a chaotic battlefield.”
Thinking so, Seongil deactivates the Ethereal Stone in his mind.
“Should I use the material Ethereal Stone now?”
How to use the stone learned while researching the stone of the spirit ethereal. Seong-il tries to bestow the same weak magical power on the material stone as before. Then, Ethereal Stones of matter began to float around his body.
“Come out!! The alter ego!!!”
To test the power of the material Ethereal Stone, Seong-il takes out a jewel from his bosom and scatters it on the floor to summon an alter ego.
“Hello Seongil-ah!”
Three alter egos appeared in an instant. Seong-il throws a steel ball prepared in advance at them and orders them.
“Children. Throw it once. With the thought of attacking me.”
“Huh!!”
At Sungil’s words, the alter egos start throwing steel beads at him without hesitation.
Ugh!!
Then, the stone floating in the air emits a strange wave around it, stopping the steel stone in the air.
Hard!! Hard!!!
“Oh…”
Interestingly, a stone made of a material that creates a shield by spreading a steel ball suspended in mid-air. Stone then moves around Seongil with a thinly spread steel shield and begins to deflect orbs thrown by the alter ego.
“Is it to increase strength by giving magic to metal? Interesting.”
The appearance of a stone that constantly blocks long-range attacks along with about 5 shields. Seeing that, Seong-il puts on a satisfied expression and thinks.
“It’s really good. It’s incredibly fast. It’s defense is precise, too.”
