chapter 10
10. The Omens of Second Awakening
The students of the Awakener Academy, where battles were predominant, had to necessarily take a practical class on ‘the essence and application of Buff and Healing magic’.
Learning healing magic would at least enable emergency measures in critical situations.
Because of this, the survival rate of the fighters was like the life expectancy before and after the advancement of medical science.
Previous heroes had already proved that it literally skyrocketed.
The case of buff magic is not just limited to enhancing the physical body.
In the buff’s essence, there is the method to understand and apply the reinforcement of abilities.
This greatly helps in understanding one’s own abilities more deeply and developing them.
Almost all students focused on this practical class, albeit.
“All right! Today is a very very im.port.ant. lesson that increases the survival rate and maximizes what you all have!”
A professor who seemed to have a lot of trans fats in his voice and an ominous force in his accent.
The third god in the 12 gods, the professor in charge of Hoban, who had a strong presence from his glasses and had a more hypnotic or brainwashing magic vibe than healing or buff magic….
The cognitive dissonance was triggered indiscriminately.
Although he was indeed skilled, teaching with that kind of style as the ‘Ho’ban’s professor in charge, certain comments were made.
‘Is this the story of modernized tigers in despair?’
‘Isn’t he the top supporter in Inbang(online)’?
Quite a few students were making such jokes in the back of the classroom.
Thanks to this, ‘Slipper’ the professor in charge of Hoban, always got diet food as a gift from the students.
He was maintaining this physique due to his constitution and characteristics, but…
‘Should I, really lose weight…? But then, the effect of my traits will decrease….’
He pondered about this as there were times when the students were distracted by his appearance like today, affecting their concentration on the class.
But when he saw students like Jane, Rika, Erin, who focused well in the class…
It felt like the concentration in the class depended on student aptitude….
‘Why is that kid behaving? Why is he even listening to my class instead of sleeping?? Did he become sane in the past few days!?’
The guy who always skipped his class or showed off to girls and interrupted classes.
Now, mad stalker Lockser was focusing on his class with a strict, stern, and serious look on his face.
“Then, two people per group! Two groups will form one squad to proceed with the class!”
In the squad which was coincidentally formed, there were Erin and Rika who Lockser used to stalk.
And also Jane, who was exceptionally talented and attractive, which made her unapproachable as she was called a flower on a cliff.
Nonetheless, he pleaded for the classes to commence with a very serious look on his face.
Usually, by now, Erin would get annoyed.
Rika would reprimand the bull-headed Lockser, and
She would escape from the class using her unrivaled space teleportation ability.
It felt almost like a class routine.
‘???? Why is he behaving so well? Erin and Rika are also there??’
‘I’m seeing him concentrate for the first time. Did he hurt his head…?’
‘Someone, please explain, why did he change like that? How did I get implemented when I didn’t know?’
‘What the hell is this? Is he a genius in attracting attention? It seems like he’s getting more attention than before.’
Usually, the boys’ gaze would have been filled with annoyance, anxiety, and jealousy.
But in these few days, their gaze was different due to a dramatic change in his behavior which seemed as if he was reborn.
Of course, because of the heap of past misbehavior piled up like a mountain,
There were no favorable looks, but Lockser didn’t care about this.
He was simply focusing on his class, like an eagle eyeing its prey….
In fact, right now, Roxer was…
‘No way! Does it make sense to pair the stalker and the stalked in the same practical group at the Academy?’
Roxer was cautiously keeping quiet, like a mouse caught between a snake and a cat.
On his right, as if he would really kill him for not keeping some unknown promise,
Rika was watching him with dead eyes from his side.
On his left, an entity like the Grim Reaper from the main story, who is supposed to beat him up,
And amidst their aggressive behaviour, there was the monstrously powerful protagonist, Jane, who realized her powers.
Roxer felt as if he could describe the feelings of a sparrow caught between the Azure Dragon on the left and the White Tiger on the right in 5,700 characters.
At least there was Eryn acting like a brown retriever, which eased his anxiety a little.
‘If Rika and I switch places, Eryn will want to play with Rika and switch places with protagonist Jane… Hmm.’
Roxer put Eryn, who was the neutralizer for Rika’s hostility, next to him,
And considered whether to keep Jane as far away as possible through the two of them.
His right cheek stung at Rika’s glancing gaze.
‘Let’s calm down so our heart rate doesn’t rise unnecessarily, let’s be calm.’
If his heart rate took off due to fear of being caught between Rika and the protagonist,
And if his Heart Rate Addiction activated, he might do something strange, so Roxer tried hard to maintain his inner peace.
Although he did find consolation in the lecture that seemed to give a clue on how to create a skill,
“Let’s try practicing in pairs the enhancement spell and healing spell that I explained last time!”
No time to lose as they had to practice magic which they hadn’t even learned yet.
Even in the tiger’s den, if you keep your wits about you, you can be vividly caught and eaten.
Like beasts on the hunt, something fierce from his left and right shots Roxer glances.
Considering a direct gaze into a beast’s eyes could be regarded as a battle challenge, Roxer only looked straight ahead.
“Hey, aren’t you practicing?”
Rika, who was pinching Roxer’s side, urged him to quickly turn his body toward her with her dead eyes.
Rika, with her cold face contrasting with her fierce, angry Bengal tigress-like demeanor.
‘What have you been working on for those muscles in your waist?’
A few weeks ago, he was soft, but now he could feel through his touch that he had changed into a firm body.
All his stats were nearing 49, so his body had gotten firm.
Roxer had grown closer to his second awakening, just 10,000 left.
As the prerequisite of the second awakening was skill acquisition, this time was extremely important for him,
And his Woowoljiche was whispering that he had to acquire the ‘time acceleration’ series of skills, which he had thought of, in the form of a modification of the ‘buff and recovery’ magic.
“Ha, you probably don’t know since you always skip class. I knew that. How are you going to do anything without me, really?”
As Rika nagged, Roxer nodded in calm agreement.
It was too bad he couldn’t scratch her a bit due to his heart beating faster because of Rika’s dead eyes and his heart rate addiction. He wanted to experience an even more thrilling thrill,
But he was already in the process of gaining enlightenment and putting it into practice, so he just managed to hold it in.
“Give me your hand.”
Rika told Roxer, who already had his hands held by her, to give her his hand.
The students, who were pretending to practice, turned their ears, whispering and looking at Roxer and Rika in an event that was not at all usually possible.
Whether they snickered or not at the sudden change in Roxer and Rika, the cadets observed.
“This is absolutely not for you. We have to follow the class. This is just for this time, so open your eyes wide and feel it well.”
While Rika held onto Roxer’s hand tightly and spoke to him in a sneering tone,
She looked at him as if she were probing, ‘When are you going to keep your promise, don’t tell me you really forgot it?’
She’d been annoyed and felt too proud to ask him directly, so she’d been watching him all the time,
But now was practical time to talk.
She had him caught, holding his eyes,
Naturally, he didn’t know what the promise was,
And intending to casually pass over it using the impending near-death combat as an excuse, Roxer had no choice but to nod.
“huh, so you guys even hold hands?”
Thanks to that, Eryn, who was looking at Rika from the back while pretending to practice with Jane, looked on with the interest of a high school girl watching a morning drama.
Jane discreetly glanced at the two of them.
The atmosphere felt like a puppy nuzzling in with its tail wagging.
“I’m just taking care of an incomplete follower as a leader. Rok-Soo, don’t get the wrong idea.”
Rika held onto Rok-Soo’s hand tighter, as if to tell him to only look at her, ignoring his protest.
‘Is she planning on breaking my hand and then demonstrating recovery and buff magic!?’
The Awakened Academy’s average student was at 2nd Awakened level, while Rika was at the 3rd. Rok-Soo, whose hand ached due to the vast difference in strength, was worse off.
From behind, Jane sneakily glared at him, making him feel absolutely miserable.
“Let’s start.”
Rika, who hated Rok-Soo to the extent of wanting to kill him, but couldn’t, started to use recovery and buff magic.
The awe-inspiring aura emanating from Rika’s body, appearing in Rok-Soo’s eyes as a net of crimson and periwinkle spider webs, began to coalesce and concentrate in her hand, transforming into a white entity.
As the white entity shone with a cozy light on Rok-Soo’s hand,
his sore muscles from wielding the sword, started to recover and he felt a slight surge of power due to the buff.
“Well, I applied the recovery and buff at the same time. Now keep practicing until you succeed, you’re not going to just give up without even trying a basic spell, right?”
Instantly, Rok-Soo felt as if he knew how to transpose the magic power.
Putting aside his fear towards the yandere heroine Rika, he concentrated.
As Rika released his hand, he started to control the flow of power within him, like the stream of a river, while reviewing what she had shown him.
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◆You start absorbing the Temporal Manipulation (時空造作) entirely in your body due to the condition of transcendence (無越肢體). The generation of skills you can use through your unique abilities begin.
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Then, a status window appeared before his eyes, indicating that he was on the right track.