Chapter 33 – Summer Vacation at the Academy (2)

When I woke up with a bloated stomach, I felt somewhat better.

Although the sun had set, and it was dark, the streetlights were brightly lighting up the Global Academy.

I don’t want to move, but let’s move.

While checking the status window, I felt a big difference in the combat power between me and Lee Sian.

At first, he possessed a body with the same combat power, but Lee Sian became twice as strong through one quest, and his combat power continued to increase through actual combat experience.

After living as Isian, I came back as Yusian, so the feeling of emptiness was quite great.

Originally, it was true that I couldn’t do it, but I was a little hesitant to recognize it again.

I left the room and waited for the elevator to go down.

Ding.

When I arrived, the elevator door opened and the male students who were laughing and chatting looked at me and laughed.

As I ignored the ridicule and pressed the button for the first floor and closed the door, the voices of male students came through the gap.

“I heard he was ranked last in the whole school this time.”

“There has to be someone in first place behind the Q Peninsula. Is Julian Loya in first place again in front this time?”

“Don’t you know? I heard that you get first place in the sparring exam. So you must be first place.”

‘Damn bastards.’

Isian can easily defeat those guys.

From what I see, when he fought the evolved zombies, I think Lee Si-an at that time had more than mid-level strength in the academy.

If you give it a little more time, Yusian will become that much stronger.

The elevator arrived at the first floor without stopping.

I followed the path illuminated by streetlights and headed toward the physical training room.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

I can tell what’s going on inside even from a short distance.

Vulcan Ludric’s regime training, which can be said to be a specialty of the Global Academy’s fitness room.

Ordinary tools could not withstand the regime of Vulcan Ludric, whose combat power had increased significantly through the quest, so he was tapping on the measuring instrument provided in the physical training room.

It is said that if you are a 2nd year student and aspirant to the combat field, you must hit that meter. I want to hit it like that later when I get stronger.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

The closer you get to the weight room, the louder the sound becomes.

I covered my ears with both hands and walked away, then took out the earplugs I had left in a nearby shoe cabinet and put them on.

This is how my ears feel good.

As soon as I opened the door to the fitness room and entered, the quiet stabbings from the regime stopped.

Vulcan Ludric wiped his feverish body with a towel and then approached me.

I couldn’t hear what they were saying, so I took out my earplugs.

“Ah. You were wearing earplugs. I thought you weren’t coming today? Can you use the same weight room as the person who hit you?”

Vulcan Ludrick said with a grin.

“You’re not going to hit me again here, are you? I have no intention of fighting you right now.”

“Oh? Right now? Let’s meet later, right? Okay.”

I said wrong. Why did we end up making an appointment to fight?

When I saw Vulcan Ludric’s body trembling with muscles, I thought something was very wrong.

I threw a word at Vulcan Rudric, who was about to go to tap the measuring instrument again.

“Vulcan, how much will it cost if you hit that?”

“This? 1000.”

Vulcan quickly thrust his fist.

Bang!

The number on the meter was exactly 1000.

And then he thrust out his other fist.

Bang!

The number that came out again was 1000.

Bang!

Another 1000.

After seeing that, I put the earplugs back in my ears.

‘Rather than hitting with all your might, you adjust your strength so that you get exactly 1000? ‘For over 30 minutes?’

I never had a strong desire to win against Vulcan Ludric before, so I just thought, ‘You’re hitting the meter really loudly.’ I thought, ‘You bastard who makes noise,’ but I was doing something crazier than I thought.

I know that in order to pursue a career in combat in the second year, you only need to exceed 500 through that meter, but he was a guy who repeatedly hit twice that number.

In Class Q, one combat ability was worthy of being ranked high.

Considering the written exam that will become useless later, it’s just a top rank in class Q.

Today, rather than training, I started exercising simply to adapt to my body.

*

Vulcan Ludric has gone, and I am the only one left in the fitness room.

When I slowly reflect on the results of today’s measurements, nothing has changed.

Of course, I used Isian’s body, and the combat experience I gained while possessing only increased my combat power to some extent.

Physical ability remained unchanged.

I think it would be a good idea to take on a quest that instantly increases your physical abilities like Lee Sian.

After looking around the empty fitness room, I approached the measuring machine.

Among the various weapons placed next to the measuring instrument, I picked up a sword.

Because I originally used a sword.

After holding the sword with both hands, I took a long, deep breath and cleared out the air in my lungs.

I put my strength into both hands holding the handle of the sword and lowered it to cut.

“Haaaaap!”

Caen.

Taking advantage of my experience of breaking a zombie’s head with Isian, I hit the meter with the best slash I could, and 160 came up on the number pad.

“160? That’s quite an increase?”

When I tried it as a joke a while back, it was double digits. I was angry at the result and kept hitting the meter hard, but in the end I couldn’t reach three digits.

Compared to back then, I have become stronger. Although I am slower than others, it doesn’t mean I didn’t walk.

After seeing the satisfactory results, I put the sword back and left the physical training room.

Starting tomorrow, we have to practice in real life.

I have to stop by the dungeon management office, which I haven’t been to since entering the Global Academy.

*

I’ve never been to the Dungeon Management Center before, but I’ve heard a lot about it.

It is a place that manages the numerous dungeons that exist in the world and a place where the first exploration of newly appearing dungeons is conducted.

It was also an organization that selected difficult-to-manage dungeons and destroyed the core of the dungeons, deciding on their extinction.

Usually, the job is to manage dungeons where entities called monsters are continuously created, and related workers make up a significant number of Utopia.

It’s something ordinary people without a status window can’t do, but it’s an easy job, so talented people who come to Utopia tend to aim for dungeon management first.

Should I say I feel like a civil servant? If you have the skills to subdue a certain level of manageable monsters, you are qualified and are guaranteed a fairly long tenure, so the competition rate was secretly high.

When I first came to Utopia, my goal was to graduate from the Global Academy and then get a job at the Dungeon Management Office.

Of course, I couldn’t complete the tutorial quest until after the final exam, which ruined my grade in the first semester, so I fell a little behind.

The branch of the Dungeon Management Office is located within the Global Academy.

To be precise, the Dungeon Management Office is located within the Global Academy Student Support Office.

In the case of the student support office, I’ve visited the student support office several times to find a highly suitable possessed body, but I’ve been in vain every time, so I don’t have any good memories.

Going back to the dungeon management office, the job is to assign dungeons that Global Academy students can go to and dungeons that contain a certain level of monsters suited to the students’ level. Class Q’s friends frequented the place.

Among them, the class Q friend who went to the dungeon the most is Avon Jack, a friend who learns the flame skill.

A lot of quests involve killing enemies, so when I got bored, I went to the dungeon and slaughtered them.

I had to fight during the sparring exam during the final exam, and I also had a strange skill that prevented me from burning even though it was extremely hot.

Because of that, I only felt a lot of burning pain. Damn.

I entered the dungeon management office after going through the automatically opening glass door.

There were quite a few other students besides me, and I think they came to use their free time to earn pocket money or train because it was right after final exams.

I took a standby ticket, looked around, and waited until it was my turn.

“Huh? You’re Yu Xian, right? Why did you take a waiting ticket?”

The counselor who greeted me immediately said that.

“Huh? Of course, you have to wait in line, right?”

I clearly saw the face of the counselor who said something strange. I can’t control my facial expression. I felt the corners of my mouth go up very awkwardly.

Was the devilish bitch who pushed me into this Global Academy an employee of the Dungeon Management Global Academy branch?

“For Class Q, if you use your smartphone when you take a waiting ticket, you can meet me right away in the next turn, right?”

“It’s my first time here.”

For the first time, I learned something I didn’t know.

Now that I think about it, when I first came to Global Academy, I said I might be able to see him often. Is that what he meant?

I thought it was natural for an employee who could see the presence or absence of quests to be in charge of class Q.

“Really? You only did the training-related quests? Wait a minute? Weren’t you looking for someone with a high suitability for possession? The quest is already 4/4? Rumor has it that one of the students in the first-year class Q, who is said to be the weakest in the academy, has yet to complete the quest. Of course, I thought it was that way, so I guess that’s what possession was about?”

I wanted to retort with something that mentioned yesterday’s me, but I can’t help it because it’s true.

The rumor that the academy is the weakest is spreading here too.

When I thought about it, I realized that with so many students, it was inevitable that there would be stories about the strongest and the weakest.

“That happened. Let’s move on.”

If you add up the quests I completed with Isian, the number is already in the double digits. It felt like a long time, but it was a hassle to explain that I cleared the quest in an instant.

More than that, I hate it because bad memories about this woman are creeping up.

“Well, the dungeon office staff will know the contents of the quest knowingly or unknowingly. That’s why you said you were here for the first time, right? So do you know that you can’t go to the dungeon alone?”

“Yes. I heard that they will assign a senior or employee like a guide.”

“I usually go with a friend… Ah! Who was that girlfriend at that time? It seemed like she was a little known in the Global Academy as a beautiful healer with light blue hair. She was a healer friend, right?”

Why do you know that? She broke up with me a few days ago. It was uncomfortable to say this, so she decided to just wait around.

“Because Seoyeon doesn’t like fighting. She’s just a good person and asks for someone to help her.”

“Being kind has many different meanings. What kind of kind person do you want? A heart? A face? A face won’t work because I have a pretty girlfriend. A heart? You know that a heart also has many meanings, right?”

Then he winked, and I closed my eyes tightly at that sight.

I hate this woman too.