Chapter 70 – Chapter 01: Elf Heavenly Horse
And just like the girl, Eugene steps back through the smoke generated by the explosion, increasing distance from the girl and speaking in a carefree voice.
Seeing Eugene like that, the girl realized that her practical test opponent was stronger than she thought, and her impression was frowned upon.
“Fuck, anyway, you should know about my shitty luck…”
Even though she was selected as an opponent for the practical test, Eugene was secretly muttering that this was what she wanted to say when she saw the girl spewing out curse words, wondering why she was chosen as such a difficult opponent.
‘She’s about 160 centimeters tall and has the smallest breasts next to Yeonhwa. In addition, there is a secret two-tone hair with pink hair on the inside based on black hair. A fierce cat face. Crucially, the use of assassination-style martial arts for the dark circles that have become thick and stretched out.’
Plus, no matter how much I wanted to deny it, I couldn’t deny it since the main weapons were two double daggers.
The beautiful girl in front of her with long, straight hair who is beautiful but has a strong feeling of being somewhat impoverished is a sub-heroine of the assassin route she knows, whose real name is No. 538.
She gives herself a ‘past life’ name of Moon Ae-ri, and like Eugene, she is a person who lived and was reincarnated in ‘Earth’, a world where men and women are reversed according to the orbital world.
‘That’s also a TS heroine.’
She wasn’t just a TS heroine. Among the main heroines and sub-heroines in Orbital World, if one were to choose the most pitiful heroine, she would definitely take first place, a girl whose life itself is a devastation.
“What level are you at?”
“First of all, the highest level of introductory… “So, it’s at the highest user level.”
“Under! After all, the opponent is a top-level user…”
When Eugene was confident about the girl in front of her, the girl, calling herself Moon Ae-ri instead of the experimental subject name of No. 538 given to herself, was venting her lament.
‘That’s quite a conflicted expression.’
From what Eugene knew, Moon Ae-ri was the heroine with the highest starting point among the heroines entering the academy.
While all the other heroines enter the academy at the beginner level, she alone enters the academy at the beginner level.
Although other heroines have great backgrounds, their lives so far have not been very difficult.
However, unlike those women, Moon Ae-rin is a top-level heroine in terms of the hardships of her life, even compared to Yeon-hwa who lived in that demonic cult.
In addition, he is overflowing with talent, and as a result of going through all kinds of hardships since he was young, he has reached the level of superhuman from the beginning, which in the case of the route is considered the level of reaching the final level.
‘But to put it another way, it means that it stands out.’
It was a world where it was natural to be called a rare genius simply by reaching superhuman status while attending school.
But even before entering school, someone who has reached the level of a superhuman at the age of only 17 enrolls?
Even if it was possible to reach the beginner level or the highest level, it was a different story from the level of a superhuman.
That was big enough news to be featured on the front page of a real newspaper.
‘If you have a good background, you can somehow reach the upper or top level, ignoring talent.’
They receive elixirs as if they were eating a meal, and receive personal instruction by inviting excellent martial arts, magic, and power users.
Then, no matter how untalented one was, it was possible to reach the entry level or top level before the age of 20, depending on one’s efforts.
However, from the level of a superhuman, it was the realm of talent. No matter how much support you provide, you will never be able to achieve it unless you invest talent or equivalent ‘time’.
The level of the Absolute was such that even the talent could not affect it, but in the true ending route, one could enter the realm of becoming an initiate in the first year, superhuman in the second year, and reaching the level of the Absolute in the third year.
Let’s just assume that in the general route, reaching the level of a superhuman by the time you graduate from the third year is enough to see all of the route’s endings.
Moon Ae-ri’s starting point can be said to be the highest point among the main heroine and sub-heroine entering the academy.
In fact, in the normal route, Moon Ae-rin was treated as a completed party member without any need to develop it.
‘If only I could include it in the party.’
Of course, should we say that this is a price to pay for? The conditions for being included in the main character’s party are very strict… , The problem began with her background, which created those difficult conditions.
As I said, she could have become quite a celebrity if her level, which is already at the beginner level, was known, but in order to hide it, she probably lowered her level to the Academy, creating the current situation.
‘In that sense, just looking at him, he looks like he’s worried about whether he should show his true skills to beat me.’
Those who know Stral even at the highest level of initiation, which is Eugene’s level, what did they really receive from the Demon Lord this time? I was at a point where I could express my doubts.
For those who don’t know about Stral, is it the best level for beginners at that age? Aren’t you a rare genius? It was also a point where people said, “It looks like they received a lot of support.”
Defeating Eugene in such a situation? In other words, it would be advertising that one’s level is at least the beginner level or higher.
‘It would be difficult for Moon Ae-ri to do that.’
She was the one hiding her status for a reason. She probably informed the academy that she was at the advanced entry level.
In fact, she must have prepared some kind of means to hide her level even from professors whose level was higher than her.
She has come this far, so even if she wins against Eugene here, only she will be in trouble.
… However, to admit defeat against Eugene like this was bound to put her admission at a disadvantage.
‘Losing doesn’t necessarily mean you fail…’
The probability of passing the entrance exam is lower than winning the practical test sparring.
Right now, Eugene doesn’t know the details about the academy entrance exam. In the original work, the story begins with the main character having already entered school.
Afterwards, during the entrance exam for her juniors, the main character went out of the academy on winter vacation and caused all kinds of events.
However, because he was Eugene, he listened intently to the explanation of the entrance exam and understood that winning or losing the practical exam had a significant impact on the exam. In other words…
‘For that kid who has to enter the academy no matter what, he’s worried about whether he should defeat me by revealing his hidden skills.’
It was difficult to reveal one’s abilities, but if one does not reveal one’s abilities, admission becomes uncertain.
Therefore, Moon Ae-ri, who had assumed that she would be able to win just by reaching the advanced level of entry, was looking quite troubled because she did not know what to do.
‘Of course, I’m in trouble too.’
And like Moon Ae-ri, Jeol Yu-jin was also in a very difficult situation.
As I said, she was a sub-heroine, and the moment he entered this sparring hall and encountered her, of course Eugene figured out her identity right away.
Therefore, he too was in a situation where he could either win or lose against her.
‘Like all heroines, Moon Ae-rin is her essential strength if you only look at the fighting part.’
The unfortunate event that she would not be able to enter her academy had to be prevented. But she said that if she lost here, she might not be able to enroll Eugene.
‘No, she was a novice in the first place, and if she lost to Moon Ae-ri, who loudly said that she was a top-level user in this way, she could roughly be said to be a beginner-level user…’
That fact alone created the possibility that Eugene’s admission to the academy would become impossible.
In other words, for her own admission, Eugene must appeal to the fact that she has reached the highest level of admission by defeating Moon Ae-ri.
‘Ha, if I had known it would be like this, I would have lowered the conversation to beginner level or intermediate level…’
I thought that if I was not a superhuman and was at the highest level of entry, I would be treated as a rising rookie, but I would not be called a rare genius.
It seemed like the problem was that she honestly told the Academy about her current status without lying, as a proof that she was definitely a different person from her previous self.
‘No, now that I think about it, my current level is probably the highest among the test takers…’ …’
In that sense, considering the standards of test takers, even though there were more than 10 people who reached the advanced level of entry, it may have been inevitable that Eugene ended up with Moon Ae-ri.
‘You can only see their true skills if you put them together with people of roughly similar level.’
The problem is that, as mentioned, her entrance exam was not described in detail in the original work, so Eugene, who did not know about it, ended up in this situation after announcing his status through ignorance.
‘What should I do…? …’
Therefore, at this point when sparring was in a lull for a moment and everyone was looking at each other and being on guard, Jeol Yu-jin had no choice but to worry just like Moon Ae-ri.
‘Should I win? No, but if they show their true skills, can they win?’
That person is a superhuman, that is, an assassin who has reached the level called an expert in Orbital World?
As Eugene informed her academy, she was a Salatic user who was only at the beginner level and user level.
Should I remember that fact and hope that my opponent doesn’t use Aurors? He was smiling bitterly as he thought about this.
“… Okay, let’s give it a try.”
Moon Ae-ri, who was the opponent, had clearly reached a conclusion and began to internalize the essence beyond the limits that high-level or top-level users could show.
In short, it is said that he has clearly begun to strengthen his physical abilities beyond that of Eugene.
“… Since they asked, I will also ask, what is the state?”
“User Advanced. … “For now.”
When Eugene secretly asks with a momentum that is clearly difficult to think of as an entry level level, she, as expected, puts into words the state of her knowledge to the academy.
“With that momentum?”
“Just think of it as a special type.”
“No matter how you look at it, it seems to be an assassination type, but the assassin uses a technique that amplifies momentum?”
“Like a man, he talks a lot. Just think of it as bad luck.”
When Eugene tried to criticize Moon Ae-ri’s answer, she calmly lowered her fierce voice and took a stance again.
‘From what I can see, he is conscious of the test tube and is trying to walk a tightrope in an invisible area.’
Her decision would be to use him to promote herself against Eugene, who is officially one level higher than her, or to make it look like she was lucky and won.
‘Is this a judgment that can be made since the examiner is not directly watching the sparring at the moment?’
Thinking like that, Eugene glanced at the unusually shaped object installed on one side of the sparring hall.
It looks like a mirror and is transmitting the sparring taking place in this sparring hall to the examiner who is looking at several sparrings at once and grading each test taker’s practical test.
In other words, since the examiner was not directly watching this sparring, she judged that if she did not use the power to prove that she was an expert like an Auror, she would be able to fake her level.
‘In other words, to put it another way, only I, the person I am dealing with, is dying.’
If you submit information about the level to the academy and say it is the highest level of entry, you will lose to the level of entry level?
Even if she showed good combat skills in the process, it would not be surprising if she was rejected because she lied about her level.
Especially considering that Stral committed suicide at the Academy, this is a story that should not be given any justification.
In other words, Eugene must fight a battle she cannot afford to lose against an expert who pretends to be an advanced beginner.
what a great plot point