Chapter 350 – Mythology Academy
‘If I train her a little more, she’ll tell me to pick and eat her maiden.’
Seong-il, intoxicated with his victory, moves to his dormitory.
Next day.
‘By the way, as Ophelia said, the vulnerability that occurs when returning to reality from the Inner Plane takes some time.’
The situation in the world of Mythology Academy where you cannot use the Pineapple House because it is not a cleared game world.
If the world is unified through clearing, it is very regrettable that Seong-il cannot use that advantage because he can easily move to the desired place at any time using the 『Transcendent Door』 Installed in the Pineapple House.
‘Oh… After returning to reality, there is a way to use the transcendental door, but in this case, the emergency mission at stake will fail, right? It really hurts…’
The penalty for emergency missions that felt like there were a lot more restrictions than I thought. Seong-il decides to think about how to solve the problem sooner or later.
‘Well, if it happens, taking into account the penalty, I’m the only one who returns to reality and bounces through the transcendental door…’
Still, considering the sacrifice, Seong-il comes up with some unstable ways to solve the problem, so Seong-il leaves his worries behind and goes to class.
“Hmm… Introduction to psychic tactics… What kind of class is this…?”
That time when I was moving thinking about today’s class. Someone stands in front of Seongil and greets him.
“Nice to meet you, Seongil-kun.”
“Uh…?”
The appearance of a blonde beauty that I am quite familiar with now. Claudia Neferti, in a gorgeous, tight dress, with her curvaceous figure standing out, stood in front of her holy day and was greeting him.
“Ah, good morning, senior Claudia.”
“Ohoho…! Good morning. Did you enjoy your first class yesterday?”
“Ah, yes. It left a deep impression on me. I was impressed by the fact that he coolly passed on knowledge to me as if scratching an itch.”
“Heh… Mythology Academy is so amazing. In a closed world of magic, such generous knowledge transfer.”
“Yes. I think so. By the way, I’m starting class soon, so I’ll see you next time. Then…”
In case she makes another annoying proposal to herself, Seong-il quickly ends the conversation with her and tries to avoid her place. However, the voice of a middle-aged man can be heard next to him.
“It doesn’t matter if you’re late.”
“…?”
As expected, Seong-il, puzzled by the familiar man’s voice, looks to the side. Then, the appearance of Professor Aaron Bjornsen appears.
‘…Why is that human again?’
Seong-il looks at him with a tired expression because whenever Professor Aron appears, there is always something troubling.
“Looks like you signed up for my class this time?”
‘…That’s because it’s a required major.’
Seong-il tried to skip Professor Aron’s lectures whenever possible. However, when he was told that his lecture was mandatory for psychics, he cried and applied for the class to eat mustard.
“So don’t worry about being late and continue the conversation. I’ll take care of it.”
“…Yes.”
At his words, Seong-il already feels his head hurt. Cloudy comes closer to him and bows down to apologize.
“…I was sorry at that time. Seongil-kun.”
“No, why did you suddenly ask me…”
Claudia is famous for being very arrogant and high-handed, befitting her usual nickname of ‘Queen’. When she bows her head to him and apologizes politely, Seong-il looks very embarrassed.
“It is because of the fact that Seongil was arbitrarily named in the leadership team without prior consent.”
“Ah…”
“As a result of this, there was an unfortunate incident with our members, so as the lead manager, I must apologize.”
“Hmm…”
“Will you accept my apology…?”
“Ah, what are you…”
When Claudia apologized in a serious manner unlike her usual, Seongil nodded her head with a bewildered expression.
“Ohohoho…!! Thank you, Seongil-kun.”
And Claudia, who is arrogant at Seong-il’s words, but smiles beautifully with an expression that makes it hard to take her eyes off her. Seong-il’s expression was relaxed at the sight of him, and she stared blankly at her face.
‘Wow… I don’t like a girl with a mole on her face, but Claudia is pretty enough to crush my taste…’
Claudia’s beauty that makes her like the mole under her eye, not her own taste. While her Seong-il is idly intoxicated by her beauty, Claudia stops laughing and starts talking to her about Seong-il.
“Sungil-kun. I came here because I wanted to formally invite you again this time. Would you like to become one of our leading members?”
“…Well, as I said before, it’s burdensome.”
“I understand what you mean. But, could you please listen to us first and reconsider?”
“…?”
Instead of Claudia, Professor Aron jumps out of nowhere and takes her words to Seong-il. Seong-il looks at him with a puzzled look at his sudden action.
‘What? There has never been an event in the game where this bastard behaves like this.’
Professor Aaron, who was always arrogant and had a negative attitude towards the main character, so there was no interaction event. Then, when he politely talks to himself, Seong-il feels a little embarrassed.
“Of course, I understand that you turned down Miss Cloudy’s offer.”
“…But why?”
“It’s simple. The reason why I want you to join the leadership team is not simply to recruit members, but because it has a strong political purpose.”
“…A political purpose?”
When a completely unexpected reason pops up, Seong-il puts on a puzzled expression. And as if he had read his expression, Aaron nodded his head and continued his opinion.
“It’s simple. It’s because the wizard faction has dominated the leadership team for the past 10 years.”
‘Ah… Is that the problem?’
As soon as I heard Professor Aron’s explanation, something crossed my mind. However, he pauses his thoughts and begins to focus on Aaron’s words.
“Of course, since I advocate skill priority, I have no complaints about the fact that wizards have taken up a large number of executives in the leadership team based on their advanced talents.”
“Hmm…”
“However, what I’m worried about is that in the midst of that, the problem is prolonging, and cracks are forming in the school little by little.”
‘As expected, that’s the problem.’
Another story that you can experience when you enter the second round of Mythology Academy.
According to the story, the Mythology Academy is established, and the evil spirits of the alien world feel threatened by their ideology and skills. Indeed, if they create a unified force and seal the rift, it will be impossible to invade the world they have been eyeing.
Because of this, in order to succeed in conquering the world of Mythology Academy, which they are aiming for, foreign media tried to stir up alienation behind the scenes to prevent psychics and wizards from uniting using their own people.
‘This event was representative.’
However, even if all the forces of foreign followers were mobilized, the academy could never win in a head-to-head confrontation and the mighty magic powers that supported it.
For this reason, the foreign powers, especially the ‘Eyes of Tala’, a follower of the foreign god of lies and deceit, ‘Tala’, made every effort to deceive and alienate the psychic and the wizard according to the instructions of their god.
The problem is that after going through a terrible war, not even a seed of alienation was eaten by the old powerful people of each faction who would tremble in conflict, so instead of alienating the high-powered people, Tala’s followers distrusted the students of the academy, whose values were not yet established. Decided to plant seeds.
And the representative of the alienation is this ‘Seize the Leading Division’ event.
‘…Many of Tala’s followers were hiding in the leadership.’
Tala is one of the most powerful evil gods among foreign gods. He used to bestow lavish power on his followers. In particular, the blessing he most enjoyed was 『Talent』.
‘Even though it’s a fake talent that I received by selling my soul to a foreign press… It was the best power to deceive and disturb the academy.’
In fact, Tala’s authority, which increases magical knowledge, memorization, concentration and comprehension, magic response, and fatigue relief, was not an ability that stood out on the outside, so it was very specialized in hiding its identity, so it was an ability optimized for writing in Kanji. .
‘Even these idiots did things that didn’t get high grades on purpose in order not to get suspicious, so they didn’t get caught.’
Tala’s followers, who secretly dug into the academy, did the tricks of inducing ‘conflict’ and planting ‘awareness of discrimination’.
After receiving high grades by borrowing the power of magic talents bestowed by foreign media, they made their own connections to high-ranking positions in the academy based on that, and did their best to plant seeds of conflict by subtly degrading those with psychic powers.
‘They’re the ones whose purpose is to incite conflict between factions…’
Tala’s followers, who said that many students who had achieved high grades for the past 10 years were wizards, secretly lowered psychic powers and desperately tried to plant a sense of choice in wizards.
‘Actually, there is almost no difference in talent between wizards and psychics except for Tala’s followers… But after they get high grades with talents obtained by selling their souls to God, they pretend that there is a significant difference in talent between the two factions. I called.’
In the meantime, they intensively attacked the ‘Balance Dividend System’, a system in the leadership to balance the psychic and the wizard, because Tala’s followers were the most in the leadership.
‘These bastards…We couldn’t infiltrate the academy in large numbers, so as the next best thing, we focused on the leading team, which was the most elite group in the academy.’
‘In the bad ending route, did you advance to the student council based on the power of dominating the leadership team and eventually produce a professor?’
Despite not actually having a bad ending route, at the start of the game, their efforts turned out to be a certain level of success, and about 15-20% of the members of the leadership team consisted of Tala’s followers.
‘Haa… I wonder… Listening to what Claudia said, it seems that the conditions for triggering the 2nd main event have been touched…’
As he listened to Claudia and Professor Aron, Seong-il pondered over how to confront the alien god and his followers who had infiltrated Mythology Academy.
Aron spoke to him in a serious tone, probably thinking that he was seriously thinking about his proposal.
“…I’ll ask you. Even though I don’t like wizards, I won’t let my alma mater ruin my alma mater just because I’m blinded by it. Besides, if the students make foolish choices while I’m a professor, the infighting intensifies. , I’m going to be embarrassed by my alma mater and teachers.”
‘Wow… Professor Aaron has this kind of attitude…’
Seeing Professor Aron earnestly asking him, Seong-il has many thoughts. For this reason, Seong-il asks why Aron rated him so highly.
“…But why are you pushing me so hard to scout me? I don’t understand that. I’m a first year student after all? The influence I can have is definitely limited, and I’m sure it’s not the two of you who don’t know that? Won’t there be gossip about giving preferential treatment to first-year students?”
“You’re welcome. There won’t be any gossip. I assure you. Why? It’s because Seong-il is the only psychic in the lower grades who has the talent and skills to recruit as an executive while assuaging his dissatisfaction with the dividend system. “
“…”
“10 years. It’s a first-class talent that has appeared in 10 years. No matter how first-year you are, you don’t know its symbolism, right?”
“Hmm…”
“And… Gossip? Ha! As a freshman, you won the third grade in Dalian. But what kind of gossip are you talking about?”
“Uh…”
“Even while playing with it. In that sense, it doesn’t matter if there are gossips. Then step on the arrogant guy like last time. Then everything will be solved. You have skills like that.”
“Yes? Playing with it. I did my best…?”
Seong-il tries to get rid of excessive expectations by putting himself down. At his words, not only Professor Aaron, but even Claudia snorted and denied it.
“What nonsense… Have you forgotten that I was an observer at that time? Or are you seeing me as blind?”
“…”
“I did everything in my power to keep the arena under control so you and Albert wouldn’t get hurt.”
“Hmm…”
“Especially, I was giving you all my attention.”
Seong-il is taken aback by Professor Aron’s remark that he was focusing on himself. He recalls the memory of the time and asks him back.
“…To me? Wasn’t it the professor who helped Albert-senpai stop my attack?”
“Ha, that’s why I’m interested in it because the market is over.”
“…”
“Did you do your best? Don’t be ridiculous. You were just watching Albert, as if watching a fun game, even though he was trying to cast.”
“Uh…”
“That’s something even a beginner who doesn’t know anything would do.”
‘Haa… Shit, I did something stupid back then…’
Seong-il hit the mark. He’s speechless, doesn’t say anything, and looks at Professor Aaron with his mouth closed.
“Looking at the mana control you showed back then and the bold battle judgments, it’s impossible not to have such basic common sense.”
“…”
“Then, what is the conclusion? Of course, you did it because you believed that you could defeat Albert no matter what he did. Am I wrong? Even I think you have a resource that I haven’t shown you yet. My name I bet you. If you don’t say you played with it, when should you use that expression?”
“…”
Seong-il clicks his tongue inwardly at Professor Aron’s presbytery, who has figured out himself in a surprisingly short amount of time.
‘…A professor is a professor.’
“How about it. Would you like to make a bet? As a condition of joining the leadership team.”
“…I’ll just sign up.”
“Whoa… I thought well.”
Seong-il eventually surrendered with a white flag to Professor Aron, who showed brilliant speech that left Seong-il speechless.
Professor Aron, who saw Sungil like that, shrugged his shoulders, approached Claudia, patted her on the shoulder lightly, and told the two of them.
“You don’t have to take this class. I’ll guarantee your grades even if you don’t attend a single class.”
“…Yes?
“Introduction to psychic tactics? To be honest, judging from the tactical judgment you showed in Dalian this time, you’d benefit from taking a tactical class in the senior year. It’s a waste of talent to have such a person take a beginner’s lecture. I’d rather spend that time Do something more productive.”
“No… That’s a bit…”
“Okay. Now that you’ve decided to join the leadership team, visit the leadership team with Miss Claudia. Don’t worry about attendance and grades. Then we’ll see you next time.”
“!!”
Professor Aron said that he would take care of attendance as well as grades, so Seong-il eventually gave up on replying and just nodded calmly. And when he nods, Professor Aaron turns his back and leaves for his classroom.
And Claudia, who saw that, was very satisfied and approached Seong-il and led him to the leadership team.
“Okay! Seongil-kun. We warmly welcome you to join our leadership team. Come on! Let’s go!”
“…Yes.”
Seong-il, who was suddenly caught up in (?) By the two’s ruse, follows Claudia with trudging steps, thinking that nothing will work out.
