chapter 37
37. Contact
Unlike a space like a state-of-the-art research institute, the faculty and staff wore fairly old-fashioned attire.
He was wearing clothes that looked like he could handle summoning magic and alchemy.
“We will summon the most difficult monster created by analyzing each cadet’s fighting style. The summoners have arrived just in time.”
They approached the young female professor Clien.
A middle-aged man who looks like he’s going crazy.
As if assessing the cadets, I looked carefully at those sitting on the terraced stairs.
He cleared his throat to attract the attention of the cadets.
“As Professor Clien explained, we plan to analyze the cadets’ fighting styles and summon the most difficult monsters.”
She raised her finger upward and made a provocative expression, as if it would be no easy task.
I was stimulated by this…. To be precise, he fell into the hands of a ‘demon worshiper’ preacher.
The cadets act out of heightened emotions without knowing that bugs have been planted in their bodies.
I squirmed at his provocative laughter.
‘Hmm…. ‘These kids are quite active, aren’t they?’
The middle-aged faculty member, who had no way of knowing this, thought that the provocation had worked well.
‘However, the people who said they were quite good didn’t come over.’
Unlike the cadets who passed over, Rika was apathetic.
Erin’s expression clearly shows that she is looking forward to seeing what kind of summoned beast she will be, perhaps because she has known him for a long time.
And then we dispersed in order at Roxer, who was smiling happily as if it was okay no matter what happened.
‘Hmm…. I understand the fighting style of the kid who suddenly got stronger, but Cadet Rika’s case is a bit ambiguous.’
Although the cadets have already decided on the monsters they will face.
Cadet Rika, who originally fought from a distance, has a very wide range of combat uses.
He found nothing worthy of being a complete counter.
But that doesn’t mean it was easy.
“No matter how many summons you have, they are monsters created through alchemy, so please be especially careful.”
After a middle-aged faculty member who thought there would be no problem warned the cadets.
“And, as some cadets may know, the practical test for subjugating monsters also includes an evaluation of each other’s capabilities, so please watch carefully. For your information, the score for this evaluation is based on how well you made the evaluation. “Please be careful because if you unconditionally slander or are insincere, you will receive a large deduction in points.”
Notices for the final practical evaluation were provided.
Thanks to this, the expressions on the faces of the cadets who were about to write an evaluation of Rokseo were slightly crumpled.
The glare from the barely concealed grumpy face was directed at Roxer’s back.
‘Next time, I must come quickly and sit in the back.’
Rokseo’s reason for insisting on taking the back seat all this time became more and more firm.
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A large snake with three heads.
A lion with a poisonous stinger on its face and a large mouth on both hands.
Monsters that could easily be considered chimeras attacked the cadets in a friendly manner.
Of course, most cadets only struggled at first.
Quickly identify your weaknesses and compensate for them to catch the monster.
I passed the last practical evaluation by changing my fighting style.
Watching the cadets’ battle closely.
‘I think it would have been better to encourage the opponent to come down since he is also close, rather than jumping and pressing the short range….’
Rokseo wrote an evaluation based on his experience in this work and his experience here.
What I used when writing it was the academy-specific application for smartphones.
It was an ordinary smartphone, but a hologram appeared on the screen.
I was surprised by the story and features that didn’t exist in the main story.
I put that aside.
I only judge them based on their abilities and level of awareness, but they are my seniors.
There are many things to think about in terms of learning or fixing things while watching other people’s battles.
Especially while reliving the confrontation with Jane.
Little by little, I found improvement points for my shortcomings through the battles of other cadets.
Especially.
“Hmm… I guess it’s Rika…”
I felt like I learned something from Rika’s use of shadows.
Shadow’s deceptive characteristics, such as unconditional penetration and temporary attack nullification.
Rika’s battle is definitely used well.
Just as the stronger the light, the more prominent the shadow appears.
There are light-emitting organs all over the body, so even if no shadow is visible.
Rather, he clearly used the power of shadow, which becomes stronger as the opponent’s power or light becomes stronger.
‘Don’t overdo it like me and rely appropriately on fraudulent aspects…’ .’
Roxer sees Rika neutralizing her opponent’s attacks through her shadow ability.
‘Should I try using something like time stop appropriately?’
I was shaken by the sight of Rika steadily continuing the battle.
‘Then growth slows down…. After all, I should only bring it up when I really can’t win, right? Hmm…. I want to try it, but….’
Thanks to this, the desire to try out his fraudulent abilities began to tempt him.
‘You mean Jane would have won easily…. Hmm. But did he sulk after losing once? ‘You haven’t been visiting lately?’
Then I suddenly thought of Jane and tilted my head.
I wasn’t particularly worried because it didn’t come.
I felt like I was missing something because the dollar amount didn’t arrive as the days went by.
Erin quietly sits next to Roxer, who is thinking about various things.
‘How were you supposed to write mine down??’
I looked at the report he wrote at the back of the logbook.
He sneakily approached her as if he was curious about how she evaluated her own battle.
If it were normal, she would never have approached, but Roxer’s stock price has plummeted due to what happened the other day.
A situation that is strangely mentioned in large guilds.
I wondered how her own battle would have looked in the eyes of Roxer, who had become inexhaustibly stronger from the moment she stopped hiding her strength.
‘But what should I say!?’
But since she couldn’t just ask her to show it to her, Erin pondered alongside her.
We were one-sidedly close to begin with, but then we suddenly became distant.
I owe Rokseo many things, but I acted in a way that did not look good on Rokseo.
It seemed like something was wrong to ask outright here.
But I was very curious.
‘What did my battle look like in the eyes of the kid who defeated Jane?’ .’
She didn’t just defeat Jane, who had been called a monster since she entered school.
I achieved a complete victory by completely destroying her weapon and subduing her.
It is much more difficult to subdue it than to simply beat it and win.
She wondered what the cadet, who was better than most professors, thought about her battle.
“…Erin?”
Then, when it was her turn, Rokseo got up and only then did she spot Erin.
She looked at Erin with an expression that made her wonder why the child was here.
Erin came to her senses for a moment and wondered what she should say.
It’s funny that she went out of her way to come after the guy she pushed away first.
‘Well, maybe I should just wait a little longer?’
Anyway, you can find out her evaluation of her later, so maybe she should have just waited? She wanted to
“Well, there were no seats, so I sat here.”
“…It’s empty in the back…?”
“…Woo, I just came here because I was curious about how you wrote my evaluation, why?”
I was about to ignore it, but Rokseo pointed out my point, and I finally confessed.
Roxer looked at her with a grumpy expression and rolled her green eyes like a misbehaving puppy.
“What… Sending it through a cadet-only messenger?”
I didn’t write it in a particularly good way, so I had a distraught expression on my face.
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“…Erin?”
Rika, who had easily caught the giant luminescent crayfish, found Erin trembling.
No, Roxer saw something from where he was sitting and it caught his eye because it turned as red as a kettle.
‘What is it? Why from where Roxxer was sitting?’
Rokseo said something again that made her wonder if Erin was doing that, so she quietly sat down next to him.
“Rika…!! That guy…! That bad guy!!!”
“Roxer?”
Blood started to appear on Erin’s face as she let out her anger as if she had been waiting.
“Look at you chanting! Shouting out the name of the technique is tacky!! Who likes it!?”
aaah-!! As he walked away, he exploded with anger at Roxer’s evaluation.
It was okay to say that the power was too strong, or that there were a lot of useless movements and combinations due to the obsession with magic synthesis.
Even magicians without chanting intentionally chant to amplify their power.
When Roxer tackled me about this, I got angry like a heated kettle.
“My teacher, who created more power than Inferno with a simple fireball, also chanted on purpose!! How powerful is it to further develop magical techniques through a person’s mouth!!”
He was waving both her hands and questioning Rika as if he was very angry.
Rika, who is not a wizard in particular, looked like she was wondering what to do about this.
Meanwhile, Roxer embarrassed Rika and caused Erin to explode.
“Slime? It has no core and has many weaknesses.”
We continued the practical evaluation of monster hunting targeting giant fragmentation slimes.
It felt like they used their brains quite a bit, because when they tried to attack their weak points, they split their bodies on their own.
I intentionally turned my body completely into liquid and spread it on the floor.
“Then what should I do? Just beat him up and that’s enough.”
However, in the previous confrontation with Jane, she had hit Jane’s sword and moon area.
The spread itself was identified as the target, and the split thing read the future in advance and swung the sword at the split slime’s weakness in advance.
I thought it would end so easily.
Quang-!!! With a sound, the wall where Roxxer was was pierced.
This is because a cadet who felt jealous of Roxer deliberately wielded his power strongly.
The room was opened from the side where the Rock Book was located.
‘Okay, after all, there’s nothing easier to deal with than a person blinded by desire, right?’
The demon worshiper’s preacher controlled this.
He released his self-immolation behind the cadet who had sneakily breached the wall.