Episode 160
46. Fellow development is always difficult (1)
Just like any other festival.
After the fireworks display is the highlight of the festival, the excitement is ripe.
Students clean up booths opened during the festival or prepare to return to their daily lives.
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Merchants also settle their big earnings.
Professors and school administrators are busier than anyone else to prepare for the end of the year.
this word soon.
It meant that the year-end exam, the event that ended the first year, was near.
‘The year-end exam is usually done by attacking dungeons.’
If my grades are right now, I’m in the upper-middle class of the first year class, so I won’t be assigned to a dungeon with a lot of difficulty.
After all, it is not a credit system, but a pay-as-you-go system, so you won’t need to prepare like the last semester’s exam.
Then Arthur says so.
Arin is the problem… … .
To my question about how to prepare for this exam, Professor Helen Merses casually answers.
“You don’t need to prepare.”
“Yes?”
“Because you can’t get a proper evaluation right now with Arin’s curriculum.”
Apart from the end-of-semester examination, each department has a different process for the year-end examination.
In Arthur’s case, dungeon raids.
In Ortana’s case, it’s usually a magic aptitude test.
In the case of Arin, it was a hunting match held in a special testing ground.
“Sanwoo, you use melee combat as your basic base, and you’re an archery that feels like you’re approaching close range and shooting.”
“Yes?”
“So you are 100% at a disadvantage. Unlike humans, wild animals are very quick-witted.”
“Ahh.”
Only then did I understand the meaning of Professor Helen’s words.
With my terrible long-range accuracy, it means I’m close to passing the exam.
But then maybe we need to prepare harder. There are only a few weeks left until the exam period.
“You know our archers prefer the hit and run approach.”
I nodded in agreement with Helen’s words.
“But you can’t do that.”
That’s not unique to Paradise Academia.
In any fantasy RPG, hit and run is the basic mechanism of ranged attacks.
Even if it wasn’t a fantasy background, it was the same in the case of a sniper in a modern FPS game.
Approaching the target stealthily, or persevering in the right place.
The moment the target was captured, it was the job of hitting the enemy with a critical blow and catching it.
It’s not for nothing that the sniper Johnver meta is booming in FPS games.
Because X is hot, X is mad.
Considering that, it was a natural fact that I was at a disadvantage, who had only conducted short-distance training so far.
“First of all, the stealth is poor, but the accuracy is not high enough to catch an object running away from a distance at once—”
“stop! stop! Bone hit!!”
“In other words, if you don’t see it, you’re a failure. Birds are among the animals released in this test.”
It was also a professor who expressed the dog pair my way. It feels like my heart is going to freeze because it is not cool to say that there is no hesitation in wording.
“So what is the conclusion?”
“I have already made a suggestion to the dean. I passed.”
Helen said so and held out a piece of paper.
[Paid application form]
The moment I read the text, I was out of breath. As I stand there blankly, Helen holds a piece of paper in her hand.
“We do one more year.”
“I beg your pardon?”
“I did it for one more year.”
Helen grinned.
Hey, you crazy professor!
* * *
“Oh, I can’t even stab the professor. How about this?”
【After all, it is a credit system, so there is no problem in graduating.】
It’s still Eva’s decision to pay without even asking my doctor.
… … no.
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Maybe more profitable?
In the end, whatever it is, it means that you don’t have to take the Arin Faculty’s exam.
That means I have more time to use.
‘If you think about it this way, isn’t that a pretty bad idea?’
Let me emphasize once again.
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My ultimate goal is to fix all the bugs in this damn game, not graduating from the academy.
In the DLC scenario, missing parts, bugs, and even variables due to the small butterfly effect popping out.
It was quite a waste of time being wasted on the year-end exams of one department.
‘And Helen decided to give her the right grades. There will be no disciplinary action or the scholarship will be cut off.’
The more my thoughts were organized, the more beneficial it was for me.
As if my expression had loosened up, Lioner, who was chewing the alchemy ingredients next to him, grinned.
【It seems that you have changed your mind just looking at it. didn’t i say It’s not that bad.]
“That was then. Because people can’t always keep the same opinion.”
【Our spirits have decided to call it irresponsible.】
“Miss Nam. By the way, did you handle my request well?”
【Sure. It was delivered to Grundel. It seems that he is also growing steadily these days.]
If you look at it, he is a character who is the main character of this world.
Of course, he’s also receiving the main character’s buff, so it shouldn’t be too surprising.
It was because I was able to escape from the honey badger from the Lion who signed a contract with me and manifest in my original form.
Noewoong’s Lion.
Even as a contractor, it was the first time I’d ever seen a perfect figure in real life.
Every time I recalled that moment, a shiver rose.
【What are you looking at like that?】
“not a big deal… … Oh wait. Please enter the spirit realm for a while.”
【Suddenly? Wait a moment. Aren’t you trying to summon that assassin again, are you?]
“What else are you going to kill? The last time I was almost behind, I knew that you had saved me.”
【Isn’t that because you and him made a mark… … !]
“Anyway, you saved me. You too should be friendly now. No, I don’t even want to be friends. Don’t react like you’re going to kill me every time I call you.”
At my decisive attitude, I spit out the herb that Lioner was chewing.
【You really are a reckless contractor.】
“This is all work to stop the Demon King. If you know your enemy and know yourself, you will win 100 battles, don’t you know?”
【I don’t know if I can’t speak… … .]
With those words, the honey badger’s body disappeared like a scattering.
While grumbling, he returned to the spirit realm.
“I wish I could be a little more comfortable.”
I don’t know right now, but I have a feeling that there will be a lot of things that Nabe and Lioner will help each other in the future.
Do I have to growl like this every time I use it?
In the first place, the Lioner was just one-sidedly hostile.
Rather, Nabe was genuinely afraid of Lioner.
“Then let me call you soon.”
When he opened the gate by manipulating the status window, a familiar gray boy popped out of the open subspace.
The two-tone white and black hair was always full of personality.
As soon as she left the gate, Nabe politely bowed her head.
“How was your day today?”
It was indeed an Incubus-like attitude.
It feels like serving the real master. It’s not that you’re just saying something to get rid of it.
“Okay, how far did you go with what you said last time?”
“Yeah, I’ll tell you now… … . At that time, most of the people who absorbed the vitality were necromancers or warlocks. It’s not as pure as I thought… … .”
“Ugh. So, does that mean we need more vitality?”
“Yes, Master… … .”
I looked at the gate item in the status window.
[Animation absorbed so far: 12]
only 12.
It’s probably because most of them were already undead at the time Nabe was summoned.
The total amount of vitality it absorbed was not enough, even though it swept away the members of the Church of Death.
“Can’t this be done?”
“I’m trying my best, but it doesn’t work… … . Guess I’m trash… … .”
Nabe’s expression darkened.
Once I started feeling depressed, the tension went down through the mantle, so I hurriedly turned around.
“it’s okay! Apparently, the first target to be absorbed was a denomination that deals with magic.”
According to Nabe, the quality of vitality is higher for those who do not have contact with Magi.
Also, he said that the more clear the purpose of life is, the more delicious and dense the vitality can be absorbed.
‘Anyone can see the ability of a villain.’
All the people suitable for absorbing vitality right now were allies.
No matter how much I use Nabe, I can’t do that to my friends or colleagues.
“Then you haven’t unlocked any abilities until now, have you?”
“I’m sorry, Master… … .”
“Hmm.”
I was in trouble for a while.
First of all, the conditions for absorbing vitality were difficult to achieve from my point of view.
After all, the vitality of a ‘person’ was the best for growth.
That didn’t mean he couldn’t absorb the vitality of the monster, but the efficiency was so low that it wasn’t as bad as nothing.
In conclusion.
Except for the villainy, there are too few options.
What I thought about for a moment, though, was to take away the vitality of people I had no connection with.
Not enough to die, just enough.
But that plan ran the risk of getting caught.
Disguise is also a pain, and what if there are witnesses?
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Maybe once or twice, the Temple of Canaan and the Heretical Judgment Office will sniff and track you 100%.
To do this, you have to take full control of the Canaanite temple.
Because now it was only limited to the Heresy Judgment Bureau.
And to put it bluntly, I’m not going to die, what if Nabe makes a single mistake?
It was clear that the worst of the worst was going to happen.
‘Then we have to find a group of people who have nothing to do with Magi, who have some will to live, and who seem to be in good shape.’
At that moment, an idea suddenly crossed my mind.
“Nabella.”
“yes!?”
Nabe, who had been waiting quietly, replied with surprise.
“You don’t have to be alive, right? After all, life is the energy the soul has.”
“Ha, but, as you know, the souls of the undead are already tainted… … .”
“What if not undead?”
“Yeah… … ?! What do you mean… … .”
The undead basically refers to a being whose soul is corrupted by magic or forced to inhabit a corpse by using necromancy.
The former was a ghost-type monster, and the latter was usually classified as a monster such as a zombie or a ghoul.
There is only one place in Paradise Academia, where beings that are neither Ghosts nor Undead are located.
“Nabe, do you know that well?”
Souls who were bound to pursue endless pleasures voluntarily, not by death.
“The Nightmare Princess’s clan.”
A name that the dreamer can’t know unless he knows it.
Nabe’s expression turned to embarrassment.
“Stand, stand, succubus, succubus… … !!”
“okay. right.”
“The family of the succubus queen!?”
“Even with the same monma, you are an incubus, so you are not affected by the hierarchy of the succubus.”
“Yeah, that’s right!!”
I couldn’t shake, so I gently tapped Nabe’s shoulder, who had reached the point of seizure.
“Don’t you want to be king? How long will you live as a low-level dreamer?”
Living is the same for both demons and humans, in the end.
Unless you’re a geek like Helen or Iliana who doesn’t have greed for fame or position.
All beings want a higher status.
This is especially true for dreamers who are sensitive to hierarchy.
“If you have ever dreamed of becoming the king of incubus that reigns over all incubus.”
I said looking straight into Nabe’s shaking eyes.
“That dream, I will make it come true.”
