Subscriber of the Gods Episode 51
Episode 51. Test (2)
The morning exam has begun.
Ethan sat in the audience with his two escorts and watched the test.
“Wow!”
“I will definitely bring that guy to our department!”
“Don’t talk nonsense. Just look at him using a spear. He should join our group.”
Current students cheered as they watched the new applicants show off their skills.
In particular, among the students watching them, there were quite a few heads of the Academy’s special activities department.
If we select the right people from among the freshmen, it will be an opportunity for the wealth to be revived.
So they had no choice but to keep their eyes open and look for promising players. If they couldn’t get them, other departments would.
Then, since it was the revival of another wealth, I absolutely could not miss this great event.
“This is no joke, really.”
“The standard is really high, Confucius.”
Schudlen watched the freshman exam without being able to take his eyes off it.
The age of the freshmen entering the academy is not that high.
The minimum age was 14, and there was no maximum age limit, but students over 20 were rarely admitted, so most were in their mid to late teens.
“I heard there’s an implicit age limit, but you look like you’re in your 40s?”
“What is that thing?” he asked.
Ethan looked at the old boy with interest.
‘I feel like I’ve seen it somewhere.’
I squinted my eyes and looked closely.
He looked familiar. He looked to be in his 40s, had severe presbyopia, a grim expression, and was of average height.
Swordsmanship skills that embody the spirit of defeat.
‘ah.’
Ethan remembered who he was.
‘Oliveira.’
He was the most important character in Chapter 1 of the main scenario and the person who initiated the fall of the Holy Empire.
the problem is…….
‘Why is the royal family here?’
He looked like he was in his 40s, but he was a member of the royal family. Contrary to his appearance, he was actually 18 years old.
Oliveira Sacred, the hidden prince of the empire.
‘He’s the guy who took all the information from the Holy Empire and went to the Magic Empire.’
So if you start on the side of the Holy Empire, catching Oliveira was the end of Chapter 1, and if you start on the side of the Magic Empire, protecting Oliveira was the goal of Chapter 1.
He was an important character, as he had the key to moving on to Chapter 2.
‘The timing is a bit ambiguous, though.’
Ethan had no intention of interfering deeply with the main scenario until he met the saint.
But since he was an important person, I couldn’t help but think about him here and there.
‘Oliveira wasn’t there when I came to Ibeca. That means I’ll be staying in Ibeca for about a year.’
Ethan grinned.
‘Then I can use it effectively for my survival.’
As I’ve cleared countless maps, I’ve played with all sorts of characters and factions.
And during that play, there was also a play where I stood on the side of the main villain, the Moon Follower.
It was considered a virtually impossible play, but Ethan opened up the route and went almost all the way.
‘It could be used to draw a line on the side of the Moon Followers.’
* * *
It’s finally afternoon.
The afternoons at Ibeka Academy were much more notable than the mornings.
That would be the case, because the freshmen who passed the morning exam were sitting down to check which teachers would pass the afternoon exam.
Also, a large number of people who weren’t there in the morning are participating.
It was the parents.
Accepted freshmen may invite their parents to Ibeka Academy.
Most of them will take the new teacher recruitment exam in the afternoon with their parents.
In fact, this could be seen as the main event.
* * *
Waiting room for the new teacher recruitment exam.
Since it is a closed exam, new teacher applicants wait on the first floor and then go up to the second floor.
Ethan looked at the crowd of people filling the waiting room.
It was full of the same stellar people I had seen yesterday. But the one who stood out the most was the blond young man from yesterday.
Theory of the small sword.
It may not be called the Little Sword yet, but it is only a matter of time.
Soon, he will be called the Sogeomseong and will stand out.
‘Hmm, there’s no one else worth caring about.’
Because the waiting room was so large, the new teacher applicants were calming their minds through their own routines.
“Hoo, hoo, hoo.”
Right next to Ethan, a pretty woman was breathing heavily.
She seemed quite nervous, but Ethan was surprised when he saw her.
I thought there were no more notable talents, but there was one more.
‘Nadia.’
Nadia von Chernkastel.
The Chernkastel family is one of the twelve families that support the current Holy Empire, and Nadia is the granddaughter of the current prime minister’s youngest daughter.
For a moment, Shiron looked in that direction and their eyes met.
Shiron and Nadia probably knew each other. But perhaps because of the upcoming exam, Shiron also continued with his own routine.
‘Familiar characters keep appearing.’
I knew that Siron was in Ibeka, but Nadia wasn’t.
I couldn’t help but be surprised to see a familiar character appear in an unfamiliar place.
‘As far as I know, you’ve never been involved with Ibeka.’
That meant Nadia would fail this exam.
‘There’s no way it would fall.’
But that didn’t make sense.
As the youngest of the Twelve Stars, Nadia had outstanding abilities.
“Are you okay?”
Ethan spoke to Nadia first.
Because he is someone who is easy to get close to.
But when Nadia turned her head, her face was incredibly pale.
“Oh, I don’t feel so good. Did I eat something bad earlier? Ugh. I, I won’t be able to use my magic properly like this.”
She didn’t look nervous, she just seemed unwell.
“Can I help you?”
“Oh, if you have any over-the-counter medication… … I usually carry it with me, but I forgot today.”
What he’s probably carrying is an escort.
I’ll probably be traveling with an escort.
Ethan decided to take this opportunity to gain his opponent’s trust.
“Rather than medicine, I have some abilities.”
“yes?”
Before he knew it, Ethan had spit in his hand.
“I can cure you with this.”
“… … ?”
She didn’t open her mouth, but her eyes spoke.
Are you trying to stab me with that?
“It is fate that we are taking the same test. I will help you.”
“Oh, no, no. I, I think I’m okay. Wow.”
Ethan accurately jabbed her moving thumb as she waved her hand in refusal.
She screamed softly.
But everyone was so focused on their own preparations that they didn’t even pay attention to this.
“uh?”
She was surprised to feel relief in her stomach, which had been uncomfortable.
“It feels like something has gone down. Like it’s been digested.”
“Do you see this? This is your blood.”
“New, new black?”
“You’ve done it.”
And then I saw the bright red blood coming out.
“It has now gone downhill.”
“Am I better because I just stabbed you with that?”
“yes.”
Of course, it’s not like the body temperature went down because I actually lifted my hand.
‘If it was really true, that would have solved it. But no. There’s no way someone with Nadia’s mana would have found it.’
Those who have a lot of pure mana do not have a stamina. Even if their physical condition is bad, they can be emptied with one mana cycle.
‘Something was blocking it.’
Something was deliberately blocking Nadia’s blood flow.
Even if the mana circulation is restored, the blocked symptoms will not disappear. It was just that the effect of the false acupuncture was so great that it was easily opened.
It was a problem that couldn’t be solved by just anything.
‘It looks like the events have already started.’
Events specific to each character had already begun at Ibeca Academy.
‘As expected, it’s the center of the whirlwind.’
Where major characters gather, events overlap and overlap to form a huge event.
‘You need to come to your senses.’
Such events are food ingredients.
From now on, Ethan must prepare and season those ingredients to make delicious food.
‘I’ll put it all in my stomach so that I don’t get sick!’
“I will now announce the contents of the exam.”
An academy staff member who arrived at a good time gave a presentation on the exam content to the new teacher applicants.
“There are two tests in total. If you pass the tests, you will be interviewed by the principal. After the interview, you will become a new teacher at our Ibeka Academy.”
I heard someone swallowing dry saliva.
Until now, Ibeka Academy has selected teachers through various tests.
“The first round is a written exam. We will distribute exam papers that are appropriate for the department you applied for. The second round is a practical exam. Regardless of the results of the first round, everyone can take the practical exam.”
As soon as the Academy staff finished explaining, other staff members came in.
“You will now be moved to the first written examination room.”
* * *
‘Hmm.’
The examiner for this exam was a man named Claude Hyde.
He was from the Hyde family, one of the twelve constellations, and was a skilled person with unparalleled skills among his peers.
He was also evaluated highly in the swordsmanship department, and was considered to be the youngest dean of the knighthood department.
The students looked slightly intimidated as they saw Cloudy coming in.
Cloudy and I are about the same age. There were also some who were older than Cloudy.
But the locations were incomparably different.
‘This is the guy.’
Cloudy saw the only person among the many applicants who wasn’t looking at her.
He slowly opened his closed eyes and looked at other people.
Cloudy also knew the story.
Among those who applied to the swordsmanship department this time, there was someone special.
He said that he wanted to become a real teacher, not an honorary teacher, after donating 10 million gold to the school.
So I looked into it carefully, but it was completely below my expectations.
‘He doesn’t look like much. His body isn’t very sturdy and his eyes are sunken in.’
Speaking of Michu, he was handsome, close to Mi, but when I saw him as a swordsmanship teacher at Ibeka Academy, he didn’t seem to fit in.
He must have been about the same age as me, but his body looked extremely frail.
Mana was faint there too.
The swordsmanship department is the flower of Ibeka Academy.
Because it was the most difficult to become a teacher among the many departments, if you passed the exam to become a teacher in the swordsmanship department, it was natural that you could enter other departments, as the difficulty level was high.
Moreover, the students he taught were of a high standard to match.
So, if you are not strong, you cannot dare to teach students.
Rather, there was a high possibility that they would be ignored and eaten by students.
As a swordsman and teacher myself, it may seem odd to say this, but there were a lot of unlucky and arrogant students in the swordsmanship department.
Because they chose new students based solely on their skills, leaving their character aside, some of the swordsmanship teachers who had passed the exam with great difficulty ended up resigning due to great stress.
‘Donation-based admission is a good system. But if you want to be a real teacher, you should at least show something.’
But he still didn’t look good in Cloudy’s eyes.
“Let’s start the test.”
The test of swordsmanship was always difficult, but this time it was even more difficult.
It was just one problem, but it couldn’t be easy because it was descriptive.
-Interpret the ancient swordsmanship, Lubinade Swordsmanship, and write the supplementary points.
*Attached is the Rubinade swordsmanship textbook.
There should have been a loud quill pen sound, but all I could hear was breathing.
Rubinade Swordsmanship was one of the swordsmanship styles commonly taught to swordsmen and students at the Ibeka Academy.
This Rubinade swordsmanship is a swordsmanship that can be the basis for numerous swordsmanship techniques, and it is very important for future lessons as it can serve as a foundation for laying the groundwork.
This was because the swordsmen and students each had swordsmanship they had learned from their families.
Of course, there were some students who used Iveca’s swordsmanship as their main method rather than the family’s swordsmanship, so they had to understand this Rubinade swordsmanship.
‘At a level where you can teach.’
Of course, I could hear the sound of the quill pen every now and then, but I kept writing and stopping.
Cloudy remembered when she took the hiring test.
At that time, it was not about the Rubinade swordsmanship, but rather interpreting and supplementing other swordsmanship techniques, but even then, it was quite difficult.
‘The interpretation and supplementation there are not simply written about swordsmanship.’
After all, this exam is just an exam to select teachers.
That is, the answer had to be given in a way that would help teach the students.
While everyone was thinking about it, the rustling sound began to continue.
The skinny man sitting in front of me started moving his quill pen frantically.
‘Ethan Wickes.’
He continued to write down his answers without stopping. The other applicants also began to look at Ethan and were surprised.
‘You don’t have any hesitation like that?’
Cloudy was impressed.
Are you sure you’re just going to give up so quickly and just write whatever you want?
‘How pathetic.’
After today, I will probably never see you again.
* * *
Written exam is over.
And a little break was given during the grading period.
“This test looks like it’ll be pretty fun.”
“You’ve gone too far, Headmaster. Rubinade Swordsmanship? The topic is too difficult, and there may not be anyone who passes.”
“Well, it’s a swordsmanship test, you know. The other subjects were given out at a reasonable rate.”
The principal chuckled and stroked his beard.
“Okay, then let’s see.”
The grading order was the order in which the answer sheets were submitted.
“huh?”
So at the very top was a test paper with the name Ethan Wickers written on it.
The principal remembered the name. It was the man who had donated ten million gold and come to take the exam.
The test paper was densely filled with writing.
The principal began reading the test paper as if he was absorbed in the first sentence.
The vice principal and the dean of the engineering department approached the principal, who suddenly became silent.
“Why are you doing that?”
The principal quietly handed over the test paper, and the two of them had no choice but to become quiet as well.
fantasy,
