Chapter 9 – Episode 9. Practice Class (2)

Thursday morning, today is also a practical class.

Among the various curriculums, today’s class is virtual monster training.

It is a training to deal with monsters created with magical powers one-on-one or as a team, and the opponents that are suitable for the student’s level are determined.

“I’m sure you all know this, but I’ll explain it one last time.”

The professor in charge, Kim Jin-hyeok, began to explain by giving directions with the textbook.

“First, go up to the measurement magic circle over there and follow the guidance of the support assistant. After the measurement is completed, enter the arena suitable for your level. Those who have decided on a team in advance go to the left side of the arena, and those who want 1 on 1 go to the right. .”

I don’t know how they decided on a team in advance, three days after the semester started, but the kids with good ties formed their own team in the meantime.

The only person I knew, Rumi, was on a team with Lucy, and Kim Young-han also naturally headed to the 1-on-1 training ground because there was a team he had originally been with.

Upon entering the arena, I saw a large magic circle in front of me.

I followed the guide’s instructions and got on top of it.

“Lee Ho-yeon from Class A, right? Raise your hand there.”

In the center of the magic circle was a sphere-shaped magic tool emitting blue light.

When I put my hand on the orb, mana ran through my body with a uh-huh sound.

After the sensation of going up and down several times passed, the mana gathered and returned to the magic tool.

[Measuring combat power. Please wait a moment.]

Then, the number 5 appeared above my head.

“… 5 points? Student Class A, right?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“Um, well. Go over there in the corner.”

The average score of the first-year students in Class A in front of me was 7 points. Except for me, the lowest score was 6, but I updated my lowest score. It hurts my pride.

Khehehehehe–!

Looking at the other arenas, everyone is fighting grotesque monsters.

“Die!”

Coo-!

It is very interesting to see the Imoogi, which made a tremendous sound, fly away with a small girl’s fist and get stuck on the wall.

It reminds me that I am in the game again.

Among the class A cadets, I was the only cadet in the 5 difficulty level arena.

Let’s think positively. How nice it is not to wait. There are over 10 people waiting in line for the 7th level guys over there.

When you step into the arena, a combat power of 5 is displayed above your head again.

“Difficulty level 5? Class A isn’t the lowest record ever?”

“Wow, I recognized him from the time he fooled around saying he was changing to a wizard.”

The students who finished the exam early gather one by one and gossip.

The kids who evaluate me from below are extras, so it doesn’t matter anyway. But no matter how you think about it, it’s strange.

As soon as the original protagonist enters the school, the score that is measured is 5 points. This is the score you receive with just one unique skill, [Combat Sense].

But since I received 5 points for combat sense and special privileges, it seems that he is not aware of the special privileges.

[An opponent suitable for difficulty level 5 will be summoned. 3 C-rank monsters called Ice Platter are summoned.]

Ice platter. It is a flat plate-shaped monster made of ice.

The main means of attack is the ice beam emitted from the crystal in the middle of the body.

Fortunately, a monster with good compatibility came out.

[The exam begins.]

Beep-!

As soon as the mana barrier blocking the monster and me disappeared, the ice platters fired ice rays with a cute sound.

But I’ve already thought of a solution.

The ice ray on the ice platter is loose and spreads over a wide area. That’s why it’s a pretty tricky opponent for close combatants, but I was a wizard.

It spewed out fire like thin waves. Fortunately, I was fortunate enough to try this type of magic at the level test at the training center.

The waves of fire swallowed the ice rays as they expanded their territory and reached the ice platters.

Embarrassed by the heat, the ice platters fled here and there, scattering ice beams everywhere. If the three of them had united and concentrated the ice rays, they might have overcome the heat, but it would be wrong to expect such intelligence from a C-class monster.

The plate is made, so all you have to do is act.

The ice platters that were scattering and making noises were burned one by one and destroyed individually.

I knew that the jewel in the middle that shoots ice rays was a weakness, so it was easy to just throw fire magic at the jewel.

Beep-!

If this is level 5, you think you can do something more difficult?

[The test has ended.]

“What? You won. Ayy, the measurement must be weird.”

“Well, it’s class A, but difficulty 5 makes sense.”

Magic tools that measure skills are not omnipotent. Because it is a magic tool that grasps general skills or characteristics, it cannot grasp other obstacles or linkage factors. As a result, your skills may come out low.

However, no matter how big the difference is, it is only about 1 step.

“Actually, difficulty level 6 is embarrassing for an A class, isn’t it?”

“You’ll know when you see it.”

According to the regulations, with the permission of the visiting professor, you can challenge a high level of difficulty up to 2 points.

“I will take on the 6th level challenge.”

“Cadet Lee Ho-yeon, the 6th level challenge. I will approve it.”

*

“Passed level 9. You worked hard.”

Whoa.

Elis let out a sigh of regret as she brushed the blonde hair down her collarbone behind her.

Another 9 points. Before she entered the academy, she practiced steadily from a talent training institution, but she could not cross the 9 mark barrier.

Compared to her, Nam Da-eun was different.

“Did you hear Nam Da-eun? She said she went through 10 steps in 30 seconds and disappeared?”

“Wow, even if she doesn’t fight, her skills are the best ever.”

Fast.

No matter how hard she tried, the gap between her and Nam Da-eun could not be narrowed. What’s even more annoying is that she considers Ellis to be her rival by herself.

Nam Da-eun always stood in front of her, mocking Alice no matter how hard she tried.

“It’s okay. You can do better next time.”

You shouldn’t get caught up in these feelings. She consoled herself and headed outside her arena.

“Hey, Lee Ho-yeon, does he even go up to level 7?”

“Who is Lee Ho-yeon?”

“He’s handsome and turned into a wizard.”

“Oh, that one? But he said he came out of level 5, so he’s challenging level 7?”

The test was almost over, but people were flocking to the 7th stage test center.

Normally, she would have gone on her way without paying attention, but she was in a good mood and was worried about something today.

After breaking through the crowd and entering the crowd, I saw a handsome male student standing in the arena.

‘Lee Ho-yeon…?’

She honestly didn’t care much. She said that she changed from a swordsman to a wizard as soon as she entered the academy, but the cadets here were people who had been working hard for over 10 years to enter the academy.

However, she entered the academy with that achievement, and as soon as she entered the academy, she changed her specialty, so she couldn’t understand what the hell she was thinking.

‘Are you trying to somehow graduate as a wizard and enter a managerial position?’

After graduating from Victoria Academy as a wizard, you can usually fall into the administrative work of a guild or association.

Of course, if you’re aiming for that, it would be more efficient to prepare differently, but people don’t know what’s inside.

“Cadet Lee Ho-yeon takes on the 7th level challenge. I will approve it.”

[Summons a suitable opponent. Class A monster scrap metal giant appears!]

On the other side of the arena, as the magical energy fluctuated, the mechanical parts protruding from somewhere began to merge.

“Ah, it’s a scrap metal giant. It’s over.”

“No luck, no support.”

I’m going to go to the middle of the day – I’m going to go to the middle of the day –

It creates the form of a giant by merging with gears and scrap metal that make a creepy sound. The huge body over 3M had rust everywhere and it creaked and creaked whenever it moved.

“It’s over.”

The scrap giant is considered one of the worst opponents in the 7th stage. In fact, even if it’s level 8, it’s okay.

I just came here and wasted my time. How much is my 5 minutes worth?

[The exam begins.]

I’m going to go to the middle of the day!

Thud! Thud!

As soon as the test started, the scrap giant began to move his heavy body.

The body of the scrap giant is made of lumps of scrap metal. The scrap metal of the scrap giant is special. Even if it is broken again and again, it is reattached by a strange power to form a body.

Its weakness is to attack the giant’s joints, preventing its body from being formed.

However, the bond is so strong and strong that it absorbs most of the shock from the outside.

In the end, it is necessary to have excellent mana control ability to inject mana into the gaps between the scrap metal that makes up the body, but it was not easy to achieve such mana control at the cadet level.

That’s why there were many people who wanted to upgrade the scrap giant to level 8 instead of level 7. However, because of its obvious weakness, it is stuck at level 7.

Its weakness is an attribute that makes it easy to attack the gaps between joints, such as water or ice.

If Lee Ho-yeon was a water or ice wizard, the scrap giant might have been an easy opponent, but he was a fire wizard.

Cad de de de de deuk!

The scrap giant raised his hands high into the sky. That’s the pattern of hitting the floor with both hands. He had to evade quickly as his movements were large, but he used magic.

A light wave of flame extends from his hand to the giant.

‘It’s over.’

It must have been an attempt to attack the giant’s gap with light fire, but the idea is good, but even if it squeezes into the gap with that, the output is insufficient.

It would have been better to gamble with powerful advanced magic.

The moment I lost interest in Lee Ho-yeon and was about to turn his head and walk back.

Kugoong!

As Lee Ho-yeon became a rat in the fist of the scrap metal giant, a completely different sound hit her ears.

Looking back, she saw a picture she had never imagined before.

The Scrap Giant was lying on his face in a ridiculous position, apparently having fallen while punching his fist down, his left leg severed at about the knee level.

“What is it? What kind of magic did you cut off your leg?”

“It seems that only the knee joint melted in an instant… I don’t know what it is.”

‘What is this…’

You just melted a scrap giant with that magic? To melt a scrap metal giant with fire, you need to generate firepower of at least 1000 degrees, but you can never generate that kind of firepower by radiating magic power so thinly.

Chucking Geek-

The scrap giant somehow manages to stand up with both of her arms and her remaining right leg.

He approached Lee Ho-yeon with uncomfortable behavior, but the speed was remarkably slow.

Lee Ho-yeon slowly retreated and used magic again.

‘It’s the same form this time.’

His magic slowly expanded its territory, and he suddenly began to converge on a single path.

“What is that?”

In her moment, her startled self-talk made some stare at her, but Elise didn’t have time to pay attention to her surroundings.

He spread the flame shallowly and widely. It was a magic that was designed that way from the time it was first cast.

But that man ‘forcibly’ condenses such magic.

The flames overlap and overlap again. In the end, the flame was completed as thin as a thread, but with condensed firepower.

The thread of flame pierces the gap in the right leg of the giant, who is precariously balancing on two arms and one leg.

Fukkwawang!

Eventually, when even his right leg was cut off, even his precarious posture collapsed and dust rose.

Eventually, the light slowly disappeared from the giant’s eyes.

[The test has ended.]

It was a different result than everyone expected.

A man who ignored the difficulty level of 5 subdued the scrap giant with magic like that? At the unbelievable sight, everyone stared at the arena in a daze, and the professors who watched the series of courses were astonished.

‘That’s a cadet-level magic operation?’

‘What nonsense…?’

The magic Lee Ho-yeon used was originally a form of spreading flames like a wave. Of course, the size of each flame is small. That’s why I dug into the gap with it, and created the lack of firepower by gathering and gathering sparks.

The idea was good, but the delicate mana control ability was like a miracle in the eyes of the professors.

Alice, who had passed the ninth stage, naturally noticed the magic control.

She could hear some chattering around her, but it didn’t reach her ears.

Her idea of ​​using her tiny underdogs to target her scrap giants didn’t matter to her.

The important thing is to use that magic power.

The mana management of pulling out flames as thin as a thread and inserting them into gaps was no longer a cadet’s.

No, even Alice could be able to pull it out like a thread if she concentrated. However, overlapping them is a completely different story.

Ellis knew that his talent was real, and without Lee Ho-yeon even realizing it, she fell in love with Ellis.

*

“It’s a pity that you can only challenge up to level 2 (high difficulty level) according to the rules. I think level 8 would have been worth it.”

“Haha, no.”

After finishing the exam, I came down from the arena.

There is no mana left in the body, so what is the 8th level?

“Wow, it was hard. Really.”

Today’s virtual monster training was really hard. He has not yet mastered advanced magic that can attack the gaps in the scrap giant’s body.

I didn’t know any useful magic, so I used the magic I used against the ice platters again.

I forcibly changed the form of magic mana and dealt with it, but I used too much mana.

“If the head is bad, the body suffers, so I took it hard for no reason.”

He thought he would have to increase the amount of magic he could use in the future. Still, I’m glad the results were good. After.

“Hey, what’s the class today?”

“I think it was a steak? Shall we just go out and eat it?”

“I heard there’s a homemade burger place by the front door?”

After morning classes, it’s lunchtime.

I headed to the student cafeteria.

There were many cadets who went out to eat, but I have to save money because the cost of maintaining dignity is the end of my income.

Fortunately, Victoria Academy operated a ‘student cafeteria’ free of charge for the welfare of students.

“I’d like a steak, please.”

I was about to sit down after accepting the lunch steak I ordered, but I caught Moon Su-rin in my field of vision.

She was cutting her steak alone in a corner seat behind her post.

As she gazed at it as if possessed, she raised her head as if she too felt her gaze.

Her pupils widened slightly as my eyes met, and she tapped the seat in front of him with her finger.

“Eh?”

Do you mean come to me?

As I pointed at myself with her index finger, Munsu Lin nodded at her.

Nod.

Okay. Wouldn’t it be better to eat with a beauty than to eat alone?

“Hoyeon? Did you come to the restaurant too?”

I heard the sound next to her and turned her head to see Kim Young-han waving her hand at me.

“Huh? Yes.”

“If you’re going to eat alone, let’s eat together. I came alone today too.”

“I’m sorry, but I actually have someone to eat with…”

She refuses and tries to go to the seat in front of Munsu Rin, but her Munsu Rin is already gone.

“Where? Nobody’s there. There.”

“…Let’s eat together over there, yes.”

As the popular student council president, well, I understand your position.

Unfortunately, I sat down with Kim Young-han and cut the steak and ate it, and I was surprised at how delicious it was.

‘Why do we leave the student cafeteria like this and go out to eat?’

Well, no matter how delicious learning is, it’s hard to stop eating outside that harms your health.

“Aren’t you looking forward to the 1v1 sparring in the afternoon? Yesterday I was at the training ground all day because of that.”

“Um, how are you?”

Afternoon classes are interpersonal training.

It is a training that takes place in a safe arena. I wanted to try a person-to-person battle, so I’m looking forward to it a little.

Well, wouldn’t it be a big deal?

“…”

“Hoyeon-ah, what’s wrong?”

“No, I’m getting chills. Why are you like this all of a sudden?”

Suddenly, chicken skin grows on your arm. Was I missing something…?

Hmm…. Will it really be okay?