Chapter 78 – Summer Vacation at the Academy (15)

After meeting with the professor, what I started doing again was trying out various weapons.

In a way, swordsmanship is no different from learning it for physical strength training.

I made a blunt object like a baseball bat using Shadow Craft, and even tried stabbing it with a spear.

I made a gauntlet and tried to break through a dungeon just by punching, and once I even tried making a scythe.

“Now goblins are killed in a variety of ways…”

Seoyeon, who continued to go to the dungeon with me, saw that and spoke as if she had given up.

Seoyeon, who had never been able to watch violent movies until now, grew a lot mentally by going with me.

“But I’ve grown a little to see if this method is wrong.”

Combat power is now 394, and combat power, which did not increase even when going through intermediate dungeons in the normal way, slowly increased by using weapons other than the sword.

Is it the feeling that if you know your enemy and yourself, you won’t be in danger even if you fight a hundred times?

I walked a little further and found the boss monster.

Two goblins and one orc.

The two goblins created a nasal canal and pierced their heads.

I was wondering what an appropriate weapon to use to deal with the orcs and made a sword.

As expected, I have the feeling that this is the basic weapon.

“Kuruk?!”

An orc holding a blunt iron sword ran quickly.

Although he is large, his body has a lot of muscles, so the orcs he has faced so far were not that dull.

Kang!

After parrying the orc’s downward slash, I immediately cut down his body.

Suddenly!

The orc, who had a deep cut on his upper body, took two steps behind him, covering his chest with his left hand.

I intentionally used a shallow cut, and it ended up giving me the exact feeling I wanted.

Next, aim for his right arm holding the weapon.

Seokgeuk

Running outside, I twisted his body slightly and cut off his wrist.

As expected from a very sharp knife, he cut off my wrist without difficulty.

The orc, with blood dripping from his chest and wrists, can already be considered incapable of fighting.

With a bit of regret, I went back to the orc’s back, made him bend his knees, and then stabbed him in the heart.

Seoyeon, who slightly covered her eyes to avoid looking at the corpse of the orc I had made, walked quickly to my side and said.

“Good job.”

“Yes. Let’s go back.”

I did not use abilities derived from survival instincts such as calmness and insight to conquer this intermediate dungeon.

Until now, it seems like I’ve relied a lot on the skill called [Survival Instinct], So I reduced it and used Shadow Craft to fight, but is the weapon I’m good with too strong?

Or, fighting in a mid-level dungeon may not be of much help now.

It seems like it would be stimulating to fight against a slightly stronger enemy, but the boss monster in the advanced dungeon is too strong, and it is not as easy to enter as it is now.

Would it be better to join a club in the second semester and conquer advanced dungeons? So, shall we spend the rest of the vacation comfortably and comfortably?

After escaping from the dungeon, we took the warp gate and returned to Global Academy.

“Are you going to register for the next dungeon right away?”

“No. Shall we take a day off? You’re not used to going to dungeons yet.”

He said while gently stroking Seoyeon’s light blue hair.

It is said that he has grown mentally compared to when he did not see violent scenes at all, but it cannot be considered perfect yet.

I need to give myself time to recover like this.

“Yeah. So, shall we go on a date tomorrow?”

Since vacation is coming to an end, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to go outside one more time.

“I’ll think about it until evening and get back to you.”

“Please hurry. I have to decide what to wear when I go out.”

I took Seoyeon, who had her arms around me, to the girls’ dormitory, and at her entrance, I met Mai Hoshino, who had her signature pink hair.

I seem to be seeing you a lot lately? I don’t talk about it in depth, but I think I saw it a few times in passing.

“Hello? Are you two coming back from the dungeon?”

“But?”

Seoyeon answered with a sharp voice.

“I’m just asking how your friend is doing. No one works as hard as you do. It’s fun, right?”

“The fun is…”

Normally, around this time, Seoyeon would have gone up to her dorm and sent me away, but she was holding my arm tightly.

“I’m going. I have an appointment.”

I felt a little uncomfortable when Mai Hoshino passed by me, waving her hand gently.

I feel like this every time I see this, no way.

“Mai Hoshino. Do you have any mental interference skills?”

When I asked Mai Hoshino as she was passing by, she answered while slightly looking behind her.

“I’m a person with arts and physical education, right? I think the effect of increasing fascination leaked out a bit. I’m sorry about that. It’s still hard to control it.”

Seoyeon said softly as she watched her leave after giving a brief greeting.

“I’ve been getting strangely irritated with Mai lately. Is that why? I thought it was because she didn’t like me because she gave me strange advice to break up with you.”

“It has quite dangerous abilities.”

It felt a little ominous, so I put a little more strength into the hand holding Seoyeon’s waist.

***

“Those two completely failed.”

Mai Hoshino whispered softly as she walked away from the girls’ dormitory.

As she infiltrated the academy, she came across two quite interesting people.

Seo-yeon Kim, who learned the healing skill the fastest among her first year students, and Xian Yu from class Q, who had quests but failed to clear any of them and thus stopped growing.

The two were such close lovers that they met whenever they had time at the beginning of the semester.

‘Priority is given to recruiting quest holders. It would be nice if the other side could also destroy itself.’

Order from above.

So little by little, it began to weaken the hearts and minds of the two people.

It was Yoo Sian who showed change first.

Mental interference was easily applied to Yoo Sian, who was no different from an ordinary person because he could not clear any of the quests.

I didn’t want to be a burden to my girlfriend who was starting to become popular, so I chose to isolate myself.

Next is Kim Seo-yeon. She feels insecure about her boyfriend, who is becoming somewhat distant, and relies on me a lot.

The only annoying ones were Roy and Naen, but at least when it came to dating, she trusted me, who had been bewitching men for fun, more than Naen, who was single.

Judging that it had reached its climax, he proposed a breakup as a way to break the quest holder’s mental strength, but there was fierce opposition, so the strategy seemed to be successful by injecting the word ‘temporarily’ breakup.

Are you also a quest holder? I was away from the academy for a month after the vacation started due to other work, but I completely shook off the mental interference and grew.

Kim Seo-yeon, who was on the verge of complete breakdown, is now overcoming her mental interference through her hatred for me.

‘Whether it’s a healer or a quest holder, one of them should have been saved. Only then can we escape from this prison called Utopia…’

There are still a lot of cards.

Once the second semester begins in earnest, more people will naturally agree with our ideology.

Mai Hoshino took her steps to germinate the seeds she had sown.

***

Mai Hoshino said that she was attractive and passed it on, but she was also reluctant.

I don’t know what would have happened if that ability had not been reduced by the effect of her self-establishment skill.

When it comes to mind interference, there is one spell I know.

She recalled Cian Raven’s memories in her dorm room and created a mind-manipulating tattoo through Shadow Craft.

“This is so ambiguous.”

Should we ask the Global Academy?

You will get much better results than asking the magic tower wizard through the adventurer’s guild.

Still, I am still a little reluctant to reveal the magic of mind manipulation.

Should I find out for myself? Is there a library you haven’t been to yet?

If you can learn magic as a bonus while checking for mental manipulation, it would be good to at least find a way to deal with it.

It seems that magic can be cut with a weapon made with Shadow Craft, but I thought that the magic of Senior Pael Enrica, which I saw a while ago, would be impossible.

After all, wizards must be assassinated.

‘Cyan Raven doesn’t fall.’

I went to the library while remembering the path I had learned while touring the academy with Seoyeon.

Entering the library was as simple as swiping the watch, so there was no problem.

Fortunately, you can use the kiosk installed at the entrance to find the book you want, so I stood in front and took a quick look at what books were available.

‘There are also books related to swordsmanship.’

I don’t know if it will be helpful to me now, but it would be good to read.

First, since today’s goal is magic, I searched for magic-related books and mental interference magic.

‘I don’t have one?’

I guess Global Academy doesn’t teach this type of thing, so there was no book because it was an item that was left in the library.

I was thinking of going back to the dormitory right away, but I came already and went inside with the idea of ​​taking a look at the library.

As it is a library, there were a ton of books, so there were plenty of places to read.

She went to a place where there were books related to magic, and there was a woman with rich golden hair who looked familiar, sitting there, piled up with books.

Chris Roanna? Since she couldn’t be sure just by looking at the color of her hair, she walked around her slightly and took a peek at her face.

Unlike usual, she was wearing glasses and turning the pages of a book with an expressionless face.

Thinking that Chris Roanna was amazing at reading books so fast that I wondered if I was reading them properly, I looked for books related to magic.

I found a book on introduction to magic and took a quick look at it, and it said how to move mana and how to make it into her skills.

Unlike the detailed explanation at first, after the skill was created, it could be said that there was little explanation.

‘That’s unfriendly.’

As I put the book away and turned away from the bookshelf, I made eye contact with Chris Roanna, who was staring at me blankly.

“Yusian, are you turning to magic now?”

“I know some magic, but I need some interpretation.”

“Hoo? I’m interested. Would you like to show it to me?”

Rather than just showing mental manipulation, how about showing magic for slowing down?

I drew as much as I could remember using a pen and paper lying on one side of the library and then showed it to them.

“It is a debuff series that slows down the speed at which signals from the brain are sent to the extremities of the body. Can I consider it a slow?”

Was he always this kind? Maybe because he was wearing glasses, he looked like a different person.

“Oh. It was something like that when I experienced it. My head turned, but my body didn’t move.”

“Is it because the user lacks brains that made it possible to activate the skill by engraving it on the body? There is something that matches this magic circle, and it converts one’s life force into mana and casts it on the target pointed by it. So this is it. Are you curious? I was quite concerned if you would leave the room instead of wandering around and looking at me.”

Well then. This is definitely my mistake.

Or should I try this?

When I changed the mana in my body to negative mana, Chris Loanna showed interest once again.

“I don’t think it’s just an argument during vacation.”