Chapter 34 – Summer Vacation at the Academy (3)

“Then, would you mind giving me your smartphone for a moment? There is a registration process.”

When I handed over the smartphone I was holding, I placed it on the perfect holder and started tapping on the keyboard.

A devil-like woman who was tapping rapidly on the keyboard asked me.

“But where do you plan to go? It looks like all the quests have been completed. It’s your first time, but you studied dungeons during the exam period, right? You say you’re the weakest, but you must have hunted goblins in the practical exam during the midterm and final exams, right? Then goblins can be hunted. I guess that’s why I usually target goblins when I first go to a dungeon.”

Although I have fought zombies in the lower levels, I thought it would be better to choose a dungeon with basic goblins.

In battles that do not use mana, the difference in weight class cannot be ignored.

Although the goblin was small, its mobility was average, so it was definitely a formidable enemy among monsters.

“Yes. Goblin, I’m still lacking in skills, so please put me in a place where there are fewer people.”

“I understand. Is it okay if the person who will share Student Yu Xian’s first dungeon experience… Um, the remaining person… Is a man?”

“Yes. It doesn’t matter.”

I don’t know why she keeps trying to get a girl when I didn’t even tell her that I broke up with Seo-yeon.

I’m not the type to reveal myself to women, but is it because the morale of the male students improves when a female guide or senior comes?

From that perspective, I thought it might be more efficient to be of the opposite sex.

“Most guides who follow you to a goblin dungeon will just watch unless a variant appears. So, going with them means going, but wouldn’t it be nice to meet them once before and get advice? So, are you fully prepared to go to the dungeon? No matter how much it is a goblin dungeon, I’m not going to be able to perform to my level with the supplied weapons and armor, so why not try fitting them properly?”

“Huh. I hadn’t thought about that. I thought it would be a good idea to bring supply equipment.”

I know the performance of armor well.

Even if the goblins hit me, it ends up only hurting.

I don’t think I’m good at holding weapons. How should I get a weapon?

Since it was only a day ago that I started beating zombies with a baseball bat, I had little desire for equipment.

“Then, I would recommend that you meet a guide in advance. It would be okay since we are paid for such consultation anyway. The guide I selected appears to be currently at the Global Academy.”

“Yes, I will.”

Today, the devil-like woman nodded her head with a bright expression, as if she liked how obediently I listened to her, and then returned her smartphone to me.

“Enter the dungeon section in the Student Support Office app.”

I followed his instructions and operated the smartphone.

“When you enter the party, the dungeon code for you to go to will appear. Have you checked?”

“Yes. It’s 9 a.M. Tomorrow morning. We’re going through the warp gate, so we have to meet 20 minutes before and there’s a penalty for not attending.”

“Penalty points are important, so make sure you’re not late. If you look at the accompanying person section, there will be a guide to go with you. You can contact the guide through the app, so make sure to do it today. Understood?”

“Yes. I don’t have class today, so I can do it.”

I thought I was almost done with what I had to say at the dungeon management office, so I got up from my seat and the devil-like woman pointed to the silver nameplate on her left chest.

“My name is Dayoung Lee, Counselor Dayoung Lee, Sister Lee Dayoung, Sister Dayoung, you can call me many different things. If you look at me, I’m from the neighborhood and a gemstone that I discovered. Let’s get to know each other.”

“Yes. Counselor Lee Da-young, see you next time.”

“I choose the one that seems the most distant. That’s right. See you next time, Global Academy 1st year Q class student Yu Xian.”

‘If you take a standby ticket, you have to wait in a long line, so if you want to keep using Class Q privileges, is it better to just become friends?’

That’s what I thought, but there are still some bad feelings left.

If we meet a few more times in the future, those feelings will resolve, and we will be able to become closer friends. With that thought in mind, I escaped from the dungeon management center full of people.

*

After leaving the dungeon management office, I opened the student support room app, entered the dungeon section, and looked for a guide, as I learned from counselor Lee Da-young.

“I guess I can just send it like this.”

[I would like to receive consultation about equipment before entering the dungeon. Can I meet you?]

This will be enough.

At that time, a phone call suddenly came through the app.

As soon as I picked it up, I heard a man’s voice.

“Student Yu Xian? Is that right?”

“Yes, that’s right. Are you the guide?”

“That’s right. If you want to consult about equipment, please come to the equipment manufacturing office in the student support office.”

Weapon factory. This is a place where weapons and armor are made to suit the individuality of students attending the Global Academy.

The quality of the equipment is excellent as there are people with excellent equipment manufacturing skills in Utopia, so it was recommended that I receive a student discount and produce a dedicated weapon before graduating from the Global Academy.

If you try to fit the equipment from outside, it will be about 30% more expensive, but the difference in equipment is not that big.

Although it is called a manufacturing center, it is a good place to visit since it manages everything related to equipment, such as equipment rental.

“Yes. I just came out of the dungeon management office, so it’s close. I’ll go right away.”

“Huh? Then, would you like to take a step to the left?”

Suddenly left? I extended a step to the left and moved to see if someone was nearby.

“One turn to the right.”

It moved to the right again.

“I found it.”

A man in green overalls approached me waving his hand.

Her brown hair was long and tied at the back, so it waved like a horse’s tail when she walked.

When I got closer, the man’s face looked slightly red, as if he had been working near a fire, and his sparse beard seemed to show that he didn’t really take care of himself.

“This is Torres, the guide who will accompany you tomorrow. You are a student of Yusian, right?”

“Yes. I am Yoo Sian. Guide Torres.”

“Okay. Let’s go straight to the equipment workshop.”

I followed guide Torres and headed to the equipment manufacturing facility.

It is like a large factory located away from the Dungeon Management Bureau, but it is mostly divided into individual rooms.

The huge workshop we entered following the guide had equipment on display that was incomparable to supply equipment.

I looked around to see if there was a price tag attached, but it was just on display.

Guide Torres asked me as I was looking around the equipment.

“Is this your first time at an equipment factory?”

“Yes. I think it’s a little late.”

“Everyone has different speeds. Now, let’s start the consultation. I think this is your first time purchasing equipment. Is there a type of weapon you want?”

The thought of a baseball bat briefly crossed my mind, but I think it would have been much better if I had used a sword when fighting the evolved zombies.

Is not it? Are blunt weapons better? If you hit that steel-like skin with a sword, wouldn’t the sword have shattered in one blow?

Still, it is a sword.

“I plan to use the sword.”

“Sword. It’s universal. You start with it as an introduction and then move on to a spear, a sword, or even a pistol.”

Who would have thought that we would suddenly move from cold weapons to modern firearms.

If you continue to learn shooting skills like Tae Won-ho, you can easily become a weapon that emits incredible power, but it is generally difficult to learn related skills, so many people use it for self-defense.

Modern firearms that guarantee a certain level of power cannot be ignored when resources such as health and mana are exhausted.

“Then can I see the pistol too?”

“I don’t make pistols, but I can introduce them to you. Going back to the sword, what skills do student Yu Xian have? Usually, weapons are received in a way that amplifies those skills.”

I don’t have any skills?

The survival instinct is a general-purpose mass, so there are no particular limitations.

“I don’t have any weapon-related skills.”

Guide Torres seemed embarrassed when I said that.

“The Global Academy final exams are now over, right?”

“Yes. It was finished yesterday.”

“But you don’t have any skills for your main weapon?”

“Yes. There is none.”

The way you look at me has become a little strange?

“As long as you have a status window, you can gain basic skills by swinging a sword for an hour a day for a month, but the fact that you can’t even get that is…”

It seemed like he was saying that he was a worthy opponent to hand over his weapon to, but this is a bit unfair.

“I did it for two hours a day for three months. It’s just because I don’t think skills can be developed through repetitive actions.”

“Were there any students like that?”

“It’s here.”

I also know that I am strange.

Talented people like me who didn’t want to go to the academy and who thought about giving up the status window tended not to create skills on purpose.

I tend to study a lot of languages ​​using the language blessing that those with status window abilities have as a basic feature, but I deliberately refrain from practicing swordsmanship or taking actions that would develop specific skills.

Did you say that the moment you undergo an ability sealing procedure, your talent for that skill is tied up, and you become a dull person?

So, there were two types of people who set the goal of establishing a global academy as a utopia.

It is said that he acquires a wide range of skills through various experiences from a young age, combines and refines those skills, and develops them into his own fighting style, main skills.

Probably, general students who are not in class Q will create and test numerous skills and then focus on their main skills.

Also, if Seoyeon didn’t learn anything, but came to the academy, it would be advantageous to learn more advanced skills.

I chose to go into auxiliary classes such as healing, which are usually difficult to learn outside, or learn about offensive magic.

“If you can’t learn skills at all… It will be difficult to live in utopia, let alone the academy…”

Since they were treating me like a pitiful person, I felt like I should let them know that I learned the skill a day ago.

“Ah. Since I’m in class Q, I can learn skills in other ways. It seems like I learn it on my own.”

“I’m glad. If you have quest skills, what will happen!”

And there are those with quest abilities who view things with such prejudice.

Since you gain good skills compared to training or actions, many people say that this is eaten raw.

I also wasted 3 months, so yesterday I learned 3 skills in 7 days of perceived time and 1 minute of actual time.

But really, why doesn’t the next quest come? Is it because I woke up too many times at once?