Chapter 377 – Mythology Academy
‘In addition… You mean you can awaken Elaine’s abilities in one of the midterm exams? It’s just fine. Use that to accelerate the attack on Elaine!!’
Thinking so, Seong-il asks Elaine about the test subjects.
“Has the midterm exam subject been decided? I know it’s usually one of the three subjects related to combat, exploration, and survival.”
“Ah, this time, it’s about a simulated battle with the great devil and an exploration of a ruined dungeon.”
“Okay…”
The content of the subject is slightly ambiguous. It was also because he could only get the Hidden Peace in the other two subjects except for combat.
‘Fuck… There’s no such thing as hidden peace in combat, there are only negative events…’
‘The fortunate thing is that negative events are triggered in the third year, so I don’t have to worry…’
‘It’s a pity that the ‘long-term survival’ test, which is the best way to get the most hidden piece, doesn’t appear this time. There are many hidden pieces that can be obtained by surviving for about a week in the sealed ‘Forest of Delusion’ within the academy… Jeop…’
‘What to look forward to is the degree of exploration? If there is a speed run, going into the depths of the dungeon, or clearing the target, then at least one hidden piece will be rescued…’
Seong-il ponders what he can gain from this test. As he ponders something, Elaine asks him with a puzzled expression.
“What are you thinking about?”
“Ah… Well… I’m thinking about how to take the test. Well… By the way, what are the details of dungeon exploration?”
“Ah, it’s a speed run.”
“Oh, honey!!”
“…?”
Clearing a dungeon speedrun that is famous for having the highest chance of luck. Since one group of three or one group of five was randomly put together on the spot, even if an individual’s skills were high, if they were unlucky, they could receive poor grades thanks to low-level team members.
Because of this, even though it is a subject that everyone hates, when Seong-il likes it very much, Elaine looks at him with an incomprehensible expression.
“…Do you like that? Everyone says it’s the worst midterm exam.”
“Oh, what…”
“As for Seongil-kun, it would be much better if it was based on individual evaluations?
“Ah… That… Because of the battle. Because of the battle.”
“…I don’t think that’s the case? As far as I know, the first mock combat exam is to give students a test question of ridiculous difficulty in order to inform the students of the true danger of foreign gods or demons.”
‘I guess so.’
“That’s why students with excellent abilities like you suffer greatly due to the low discrimination problem caused by excessive difficulty… To be honest, what is it?”
Accurate Elaine’s Subject Assessment. Seong-il thinks that Elaine’s touch is very good and starts to make excuses with an awkward smile.
“Yeah… That’s right. Actually, I’m pretty good at dungeon exploration.”
“Eh?! How?!”
Seong-il is a bit embarrassed when Elaine bites off the rough-and-tumble excuse. He gives her a suitable excuse to get her out of the situation.
“…I’m the leader. I’ve heard a passing word before. They said that if speedrunning were to be presented as an exam, the seniors would be able to give you a related genealogy.”
“Waaaaa!!!!”
Elaine cheers at the words of Holy Day. She turns on the light in her eyes and clings to Seong-il, asking him.
“Me too!! Me too!!!”
“…Don’t spill it?”
“Of course!!”
A genealogy within a lineage that does not in fact exist. However, apart from that, Seong-il had the game manual, so he was able to provide Elaine with a dungeon map to clear the speedrun.
“First of all… I have to ask and receive it from my senior. I’ll give you the genealogy tomorrow.”
“Yep!!!!”
The appearance of Elaine, who even acts aegyo, which is not usually done. In the meantime, the blanket wrapped around her naked body secretly comes off, and her undulating breasts begin to come into her eyes.
‘Fuck… It’s a really bad body.’
Elaine’s body can be called the standard of glamor. When her private parts like that come into her own eyes, he feels his sexual desire boil.
“Oh!”
Then Elaine blushed as if she had confirmed her own appearance. She calmly straightens her towel and turns her body around.
“I… See you tomorrow.”
“Uh… Yes…”
***
“Whoa… A mock battle… It’s annoying having to take a test that doesn’t help.”
After a few days, Seong-il came to receive a mock battle evaluation. Unlike dungeon exploration, it didn’t require much preparation, so the exam was conducted in just three days as soon as the subject was released.
‘Shit… No matter how much it is to prevent them from not being able to prepare in advance… How do you reveal your opponent on the day of the match…’
Seong-il enters the mock battleground with a slight bewilderment. He responds by lightly bowing his head to the gesture of a senior member of the leadership team who recognizes him.
‘The senior members of the leadership team are helping the professors as field agents.’
A leading member of the academy famous for practicing noblesse oblige. As the school’s elite, they were famous for sacrificing as much for the academy as they received many benefits.
‘The problem is the observer’s gang… Eh, I hope there’s something special.’
Apparently, incidents related to mock battles occur randomly in the 3rd and 4th grade, so Seong-il enters the mock battleground without worrying too much.
‘All I have to worry about is speedrunning. Because 100% observers cause incidents there.’
‘They’re after two things. First, by causing a horrific accident within the impregnable academy, to arouse suspicion that one of the professors in charge of exams is liaising with foreign media.’
‘The second is to weaken the future of this world by killing new students with outstanding talent after admission, and to fill in the vacancy of the dead freshmen by aiming for the urgent recruitment of additional students to insert new observers. ‘
In fact, if the main character fails to clear the first emergency event properly, resulting in death. The academy is attempting an emergency recruitment to fill the quota.
Since the problem is literally ‘urgent’, the cut-off was lower than usual, and since it was not possible to thoroughly investigate the applicants, many foreign apostles were able to easily penetrate the academy by taking advantage of this opportunity.
‘…It would be very troublesome if a death occurred and the attendees were additionally enrolled.’
‘That’s why it’s important to avoid their interference and eat the hidden pieces, but it’s also very important to keep the incident from escalating.’
‘If only the maps that are advantageous to me are successful, I will be able to obtain the ‘Phoenix Feather’, a must-have item for Elaine. If that’s the case…’
At that time, Seong-il was in deep trouble with a serious expression on his face. Someone pats him on the back and asks how he is doing.
“What are you doing?”
“Ah, um… Is that Elaine?”
“Yeah. Did you prepare well?”
“…What kind of preparation to fight.”
“He? What did he say…?!”
Elaine responds with a tone of astonishment at Seongil’s words. The time when those two were arguing. Seong-il feels that someone is looking at him.
‘…Who is that guy?’
A young man with impressive silver hair. He was definitely a candidate for the main character who had the experience of taking the first meditation class together.
“!!”
As soon as he looked at him, the man quickly turned his head to avoid looking at him. Seeing that, Seong-il frowned and thought.
‘That guy… Only went to one meditation class, didn’t he come to class after that?’
In order to help new students who do not know anything take many classes and find a class that suits their talents, Mythology Academy offers new students to cancel their classes without penalty after taking their first class.
And the main character’s behavior, which seems to have canceled the course using it. Because of the current Seong-il, after the main character canceled his class, he was in a situation where he had no contact with him.
‘…Well, since I fixed Elaine instead of him, he wouldn’t have been able to find a way to approach Elaine, and thanks to that, he would have canceled the meditation class because he couldn’t find a reason to take it.’
Perhaps, if Seong-il hadn’t helped Elaine’s magical runaway on her first day, the protagonist who had a crush on her would have helped Elaine somehow, and as a result, the protagonist would have continued to take unnecessary meditation classes to build friendship with Elaine. It was clear
When he sees with his own eyes the butterfly effect caused by one of his small actions, Seong-il feels a strange inspiration.
However, even for a while, he quickly puts his emotions aside and calmly chats with Elaine and moves to the mock battle test site.
“Good luck on the test!”
“Yeah! Seongil-kun, you too!!”
Seong-il and Elaine each receive a magic stone with their order number written on it and move to the designated seat.
‘Hmm… Number 23. Is it early?’
A battle order obtained in a random lottery format. Bondi students who take a combat evaluation at the beginning of the exam are like receiving a penalty to get less information on enemies appearing in mock battles and start, so they had to start with a disadvantage…
‘On the other hand, there are very few students who received number tickets up to 50 in the first half, but there are additional points!’
In fact, the numbers at the beginning of the table are very good. That’s also true, the mock battle test taken in the first year was aimed at informing students who knew nothing about how terrifying the alien enemy was and making them aware, so the difficulty of the test was ridiculous.
Therefore, watching the battle to the end was actually not helpful at all, and students in the early stages, who should have been at a great disadvantage, were virtually no different from taking the test with free bonus points under the same conditions.
‘Even in moderation, the grades won’t be a problem, right?’
Seong-il made me feel more comfortable because of that. He walks around the mock test site, which looks like a circular arena, and looks inside.
‘It’s just like what I saw in the game. A system in which students fight 1:1 with a virtual demon created by magic in the exam hall, and the rest of the students and professors can magnify it through a huge crystal hanging from the ceiling.’
While looking inside, Seong-il finds a seat with his number on it and settles down.
After that, he waits for the first battle to come and prepares to see what demons will appear.
‘Wow… You crazy academy professors… No matter how much the purpose of the test is to know the enemy’s true face… Still, you’re putting the kids who have just grown up to face the ‘Lord of the Abyss’. Are you insane?’
Despite being an illusion, the Lord of the Abyss, the Great Demon, is in a bloody state.
Thick sulfur smoke emanating from between the red and black skin. And from that point, an aura of heat and fear spreads in all directions.
Disgusting purple poison was constantly flowing from the huge hands and the vicious hands that hung on the tips of the toes and the black, sharp hook-like claws at the tips.
Even though it is an illusion, Seong-il feels a tingling sensation at the terrible appearance of the beast, as if it were made from the vicious parts of all beasts.
‘Fuck… I can’t win if I fight while hiding my skills properly… No, even if I fight with all my skills exposed, I can’t guarantee it?’
The ability of the lord of the abyss is no joke even if you roughly grasp it with the response. Because of this, Seong-il gives up on winning against him and decides to come up with a strategy to get the highest possible score.
‘Feeding effective hits… Is ambiguous. Just looking at it, his defense wouldn’t be a joke. If you try an ambiguous attack, it’s obvious that you’ll be immediately countered and killed instantly.’
‘…Because of that, I’m going with the same tactics the main character did in the second round!!!’
In fact, since it wasn’t a monster that was offered to win, the method for obtaining a high score was quite simple.
That’s right, effective hits and long lasting.
However, even if they risked their lives to attack, it was difficult for both low-level and high-level students to inflict effective hits.
Surprisingly, persevering yielded meaningful results depending on the difference in ability. Therefore, Seong-il, who knew that point through gameplay, decided to aim for that point.
‘Whoa… He’s the guy who only saw battles in crappy 2D animations in the game… I’m going to take this opportunity to take a closer look at the actual battle scenes. It might be of some help.’
Thinking so, Seong-il begins to carefully observe the scene where the students with the previous numbered tickets confront the Lord of the Abyss.
“No… Fuck…”
However, as if mercilessly trampling on the expectations of such a holy day, the Lord of the Abyss begins to trample and knock down the students who challenge with a single gesture.
