Chapter 1027 – (Side Story)05. A Witch’s First Love (2)
“Uh? “Isn’t it Illyana?”
“She said she went to the professor’s office, but she came out already?”
Other students were whispering as they spotted Illyana walking down the hallway after leaving the professor’s office.
“Did you go to protest because of the score? What happened? Has it been fixed?”
“Is that possible? Of course, I was rejected.”
“Well, what can I do?”
They giggle and say out loud what they are thinking, an attitude and behavior that seems to have no intention of hiding anything.
“Do you think that arrogant nose will bend a little this time?”
“It was arrogant for nothing, I didn’t want to see it, but it turned out well.”
Illyana’s ears are filled with voices that feel bitter as they openly belittle her.
“…”
Illyana ignored their mocking conversation and headed to her room.
It was something I was already familiar with.
Among the students of the Magic Tower, her perception and treatment of Illyana was not very good.
Not only did he have innate magical power and senses, but he also had a very high level of understanding and skill in constructing the techniques needed to manifest magic.
The magician’s talent that she was born with was probably what Illyana was talking about.
So much so that most professors who have seen Illyana cannot deny this assessment.
Her talent is very clear and superior.
Not only that, but she also had a stunning appearance that caught the attention of other male students at a glance, so it was natural that she would be popular, but the reality surrounding Illyana was not.
This is because, as much as her outstanding looks and talent were, there were many who looked down on her.
Illyana’s origins were a bit different from the other students at the Tower of Magic.
When she was young, when demonic beasts attacked her village, she lost her parents.
The one who took in the orphaned Illyana was her current teacher, Aden, who was a member of the punitive force that arrived in the village and eliminated the demon beasts.
Among the village’s survivors, Aden recognized Illyana’s talent and took pity on her.
His insight was not wrong.
Illyana had a genius talent for magic, and she developed that talent through Arden’s education.
That’s why she couldn’t help but receive glares and jealous looks from others.
She was an orphan with no special background, and it was surprising that she was evaluated as superior to them as a wizard just because she met her teacher well.
Some are children of prestigious noble families.
Someone as the successor to a great fortune.
As someone who grew up with an excellent higher education and thought of himself as an excellent human being, the emotions he felt when he met a ‘true genius’ were extremely dark, gloomy, and downright dirty.
So when Illyana received a C grade on her group assignment, the other students giggled as if they were laughing at her clown’s ridiculous behavior.
“You bastards…”
Dormitory floor provided to students.
As soon as he entered his assigned room, he threw her body down on the bed and cursed.
“What are they doing so well…”
Just as other students disliked and disliked Illyana, Illyana also hated them.
Some students just drank alcohol and liked to seduce the opposite sex by showing off their parents’ status or wealth.
Some students asked why she wasn’t number one, and she just made a protest that didn’t make sense to the professors at the Magic Tower.
Another student showed no enthusiasm or effort in any class, giving up any desire to improve her own worth or ability.
There were quite a few male students who only saw her appearance and approached her with dark intentions.
If this is the case, it’s a place full of people that I can’t understand why on earth I became a wizard of the Magic Tower.
It’s so absurd that only the elite wizards on the continent can enter a place like this.
The inside of the magic tower was rotten to the point of being shocking.
And I couldn’t understand that her evaluation of herself in a place like this had hit rock bottom.
If it weren’t for his teacher Aden, he couldn’t stand it and would have burned the heads of the professors who judged him and the students in his group, turning them bald.
The reason she was able to endure it was because of her respect for the teacher who raised her and taught her magic.
“This is not the time.”
Illyana let out her breath evenly, letting the anger and anger that had filled her chest subside.
Even though she was annoyed by the reality surrounding her, she knew best that her situation would not improve.
“I have to make up for it.”
In order to make up for her low grade, which may have been due to her C grade, she couldn’t just sit here and do anything.
Illyana recalled the story she had previously heard from Aden.
External evaluation.
It is also a test method frequently used by professors when evaluating the grades of students who have taken lectures.
There are three main elements a wizard needs to handle magic.
The total amount of magical power originally possessed by the wizard.
And the sense of using that magical power.
A spell that acts as a medium for activating magic.
Through these three factors, the capabilities of wizards are identified, and a grade called ‘number of digits’ is evaluated.
For wizard students belonging to the Magic Tower, this grade evaluation is an important step in proving their worth as a wizard and at the same time realistically increasing their ransom.
In short, for Iliana, who was supposed to get high grades, missing the group assignment, which contributed a lot to her grading score, was like a huge disaster for her.
“Tsk.”
She once again remembered the miserable memories of the group project, but she tried to erase them from her mind.
Illyana lit up her eyes and made plans for her future.
The information about the external evaluation that she secretly heard from her teacher, Arden, was also an important story that could turn the current situation, which was extremely bleak.
Originally, the total amount of magic power, senses, understanding and precision of magic, etc. Were the basic criteria for professors to evaluate wizard students, but the ‘external evaluation’ was also a newly created test.
It arose from the argument that when evaluating a wizard’s competency and level, a comprehensive evaluation should be conducted not only of ‘individual competency’ but also of the ability to cope with external variables.
The content of the evaluation is simple.
Achieving performance and achieving results as a wizard by working in the adventurer’s guild.
It doesn’t matter if you subdue high-level demon beasts, and collect rare magic materials.
Alternatively, you can perform a high-level request and successfully complete it.
As long as you prove your skills and capabilities as an adventurer or wizard, you can get a high score.
“Words are an external variable. “This is just an expedient way to give points to those idiots for free.”
The intention is blatant.
This means that as long as you prove to the Adventurer’s Guild that you have conquered or completed a request, the process has nothing to do with it.
In other words, it also means that there is no problem as long as you hire adventurers with money and fulfill the performance and performance.
It is so lax and blatant.
It was enough as an excuse to secure high grades for wealthy nobles or children of wealthy families.
“Okay. The shortcut you guys used. I can use it too.”
Do you feel guilty about using cowardly means rather than legitimate methods?
I didn’t feel anything like that at all.
I didn’t mind hearing information about the next evaluation in advance from my professor and teacher, Aden.
Illyana knew well that the world is run by those with power, such as connections and power, which is logic, law, and truth.
“First… I have to decide what to do to build performance and achieve results…”
Completion of adventurer’s requests, subjugation of higher-level magical beasts, and collection of rare magic materials.
This was the only thing that came to mind right away.
“…”
Illyana was worried.
There is no way she can achieve such great achievements as subjugating a high-level demon beast, so the only choices she can make are completing requests from the Adventurer’s Guild or collecting rare magic materials.
First of all, the most necessary thing was money.
Other students will spend a huge amount of money to hire veteran adventurers to make up for their lack of grades with performance and achievements in external evaluations.
She jumped out of bed and went to the professor’s office.
Going to the professor’s office late at night was something she wouldn’t normally do, but perhaps because it was so urgent, she didn’t have time to think about it.
“Illyana? What happened…”
Aden was about to ask a question when he saw a student who came to the professor’s office again late at night.
Illyana said, her breath rising to her chest in such a hurry that she came.
“Master. “Please give me that money.”
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The next morning.
Illyana packed the money she received from Aden into her pocket and headed straight to her adventurer’s guild inside the magic tower.
“… I don’t know if it will be enough.”
Although she was aware that it was an extremely large amount of money to carry around as an individual, she had no idea exactly how much the money Arden had given her was worth.
Illyana had never lived outside the magic tower.
Let alone going out to buy anything, she had never even bought necessary supplies, household items, or clothes.
This is because the textbooks, experiment materials, and equipment needed for her lectures were provided upon request, and even the clothes she wore were procured by Aden.
She had never had the luxury of taking care of herself or decorating herself.
So she didn’t know how much it would cost to hire adventurers or purchase necessities for activities.
Tuk
Perhaps it was because her eyes were drawn to the money bag tied to her waist due to a small worry.
It was a moment when she couldn’t see clearly.
“Huh?”
She bumped into someone.
“Oh my, I’m sorry.”
The man who bumped into Illyana scratched her head and looked embarrassed.
When she bowed her head and apologized sincerely, Illyana, who had nothing more to say, just nodded her head.
A few seconds later, as they immediately pass each other and go their separate ways.
“… ?”
Illyana felt an indescribable emptiness.
She felt as if a part of herself that had been there just now had disappeared.
I couldn’t feel that ‘weight’.
As she moved her gaze to her waist, where she could feel her emptiness, Illyana’s complexion turned cold.
Her money bag, which had been tied to her waist just now, had disappeared.
As soon as I realized her situation, I turned my head and looked behind her.
Could it be that her string got loose, and she dropped it?
That can’t be possible.
How tightly she had tied it up in case she lost it, it was just Illyana’s wishful thinking.
“No… !”
The face of the man she had bumped into appeared in her mind.
It didn’t take long to realize what had happened.
Pickpocketing.
As soon as she realized that she had been hit, she had to rush back the way she came to find the man she had hit.
“Where? Where… !?”
I hurriedly looked around, but what I saw was a street crowded with various people.
Finding just one specific person among them was not easy, even for Illyana.
Her mind went blank.
She couldn’t think of anything to do.
The numerous magical knowledge and theories that I had studied could be of no help when I encountered a difficult situation.
When I was wandering the streets aimlessly for less than a few minutes.
“Whoa, whoa… ! Flaw…”
Illyana’s physical strength, which was at a hopeless level, was already starting to catch up with her.
“Really, something like this…”
Are you saying that shitty situations keep happening?
Why in the world is he the only one who suffers such an unreasonable thing?
It’s beyond irritating, and I’m so angry.
“Ouch!”
While shaking her fists, feeling her helplessness, Illyana heard someone scream.
“Huh?”
It was a faint scream that came from very far away.
Was it because he was so desperate, or was it just a coincidence?
Illyana clearly heard the scream on the crowded street.
Fortunately, following her screams that came from a nearby alley, Illyana squeezed out her already exhausted stamina and moved her body.
And there.
“Sorry. Sorry! Wrong! I won’t do that again!”
“I guess this isn’t everything…”
“Yes! Yes! Actually, I had something saved! I’ll give you everything! Sorry!”
“If you search and find more, it’s one coin per coin?”
There was a white-silver-haired man who had five or six men kneeling on the floor and was yelling at them.
