Episode 26 Week 1 Battle (4)
Late at night.
Song Cheon-hye sat comfortably on a chair in her room in her pajamas.
I slowly spun left and right on the rotating chair and browsed the student store.
After paying 200 points, two replay correction balls fell into my hand.
[Kim Ho 300 Yang Ji Hong 300_Daeinjeon_Week 1.replay]
[Kim Ho 330 Yang Ji Hong 270_Daeinjeon_Week 1.replay]
Song Cheon-hye watched Kim Ho’s placement test.
A hummingbird that had been enduring Hong Yeon-hwa’s magical baptism throughout, but was finally sent flying away.
[Hummingbird] is a magic that can be learned by outsiders who are not part of the Topaz Tower.
The reason Topaz Matap sits on it is because it is easy to learn, but extremely difficult to master.
Since it is a low-level magic and you won’t be able to use it even if you learn it, you just leave it there and say, “Give it a try.”
So, I couldn’t help but be curious about how Kim Ho could handle the hummingbird so freely.
Since I happened to be the next batch test taker, I thought I would experience it firsthand.
– I will abstain.
– Let’s say you win.
The man made the lame excuse that he wasn’t feeling well and left the place.
I tried to persuade him, but he seemed to have no interest in winning or losing or in the score.
Despite criticism that he lacks the heart of a hero, curiosity about Hummingbird still remains.
However, there is not even a shred of chance that Kim Ho, who has a score of 300, and himself, who has a score of 900, will face each other in a match, so he is watching the replay like this.
The opponent is a swordsman named Yang Ji-hong.
I remember that he was my second opponent in the placement test.
It seems that I may have used too much force to vent my anger right after being rejected by Kim Ho.
My memories of Yang Ji-hong ended there.
Now it’s time to take a look at the match details.
Song Cheon-hye fixed her gaze on Sujeong-gu with a pounding heart.
I was just trying to focus and replay the replay,
“uh?”
… … The game is over.
As soon as it starts, Yang Ji-hong charges and gets hit by the Hummingbird, becoming paralyzed.
Kim Ho beats Yang Ji Hong mercilessly, ending the fight without being able to move.
The second match was similar.
An additional attempt to dodge was made, but was quickly followed by a hummingbird hitting the back.
The two replays combined are less than a minute long.
Even though it’s short, it’s too short.
‘My 200 points… … .’
Somehow I felt like I had been fooled by false advertising.
Just showing this and getting 200 points? How can you be so shameless!
It’s like a bag of chips full of nitrogen!
Even as Kim Ho was being criticized for his only mistake being saving the replay, Sujeong Goo continued to play the replay over and over again.
“… … ?”
Song Cheon-hye, who had been watching with a blank expression, gradually began to look strange.
At first, it didn’t seem much different from my own hummingbird, but the more I looked at it, the more I felt a mysteriousness that was difficult to express in words.
‘What was it?’
I held the crystal ball for a long time, concentrating and repeating it dozens of times, but I still couldn’t pinpoint the exact identity of the mystery.
Just like how a low-level person vaguely thinks that a high-level person’s skills are amazing, but can’t pinpoint exactly what is amazing about them.
Rather, my head starts to feel overloaded, and I feel like I’m getting more and more dazed as I continue to read the hummingbird’s tracks.
But I couldn’t stop because I thought I would know if I just looked a little more.
When I was about 80% dazed,
‘Can I do that too… … .’
Song Cheon-hye casted a spell without knowing it.
A structural formula floats in the air, currents gather, and a hummingbird is created.
A hummingbird flew across the room.
Song Cheon-hye didn’t realize it, but the hummingbird was reproducing the trajectory she had been seeing just a moment ago.
– Boom boom boom!
Until all the furniture fell over.
Song Cheon-hye, who came to her senses, ran out in a hurry.
* * *
Song Cheon-hye wasn’t the only one who kept replaying this visual replay.
There are also two replay correction balls in front of the isu-dok.
Pictures appeared one after another on the large screen.
These are continuous shots of the few seconds it takes for a hummingbird to fly towards Yang Ji-hong and then attack him.
Lee Soo-dok’s expression as he stared at the photos was quite serious.
‘Control is at its peak.’
The direction of the hummingbird in each photo was different.
This is evidence that the hummingbird was manipulated dozens of times in that short period of time.
No matter how Yang Ji-hong responded, the result would not have changed.
That guy probably doesn’t even know how great of a trick he’s been pulled off.
The second game was the same.
Yang Ji-hong thought he had avoided the hummingbird, but in reality, the hummingbird had already turned around before he could even jump to the side.
From the beginning, the intention was to let it pass and then attack from behind.
‘I had a lot of fun with it.’
The ending was also neat.
The fact that the wizard is using a staff instead of good magic, and the fact that the weapon he is swinging is a low-level piece of equipment like [Earth Staff], makes it seem ridiculous at first glance.
This was so cleverly done that I overlooked the point when I first watched the replay.
If you look closely, you can’t find even a little bit of unnecessary detail in Kim Ho’s posture and the way he swings his staff.
Even if Yang Ji-hong had released his paralysis early and launched a surprise counterattack, he would have been defeated head-on.
When you look into it, you start to suspect that magic is just an illusion and that he is actually a master of sealing techniques.
But the hummingbird’s skill level is too high to think that way.
The problem wasn’t just that.
With a light wave of his hand, the screen began to display new photos.
These are close-up shots of the calligrapher’s magic bullets.
First, a photo from the placement test.
At this time, it was not a magic bullet, but just a clump of magic energy that had been clumped together.
Although his progress was slow, it wasn’t all that surprising considering he was a freshman.
On the other hand, a photo taken exactly two days later during a showdown with Kwak Ji-cheol.
It is a perfectly formed magic bullet.
Can a person change so drastically in just two days?
‘genius.’
There have been many instances where the potential of heroes explodes after entering Yongsal Academy.
It is likely that calligraphers are in a similar situation.
But the person who suggested that opportunity is probably.
– Grant me a magic bullet.
As the calligrapher spoke those words, he unconsciously pointed to Kim Ho.
This means that Kim Ho’s share, big or small, is included in the creation of the magic bullet.
This fact made Lee Soo-dok’s already complicated mind even more tangled.
‘What the hell is that guy doing?’
It is no exaggeration to say that magic, swordplay, and shooting are virtually separate fields.
Who is good at all three at the same time?
Even when looking back at the villains, current heroes, and even human-type named monsters, no one came to mind.
The awl in the pocket is slightly exposed, but the exposed part is completely unfamiliar.
Lee Soo-dok, who was starting to get annoyed, frowned.
‘If you force me to go out.’
If you just poke it, won’t something come out?
But Lee Soo-dok soon erased that thought.
He couldn’t treat the students of Yongsal Academy carelessly, and it was the complete opposite of his style to just stab them without any clear evidence.
So the conclusion is, we’re back to square one.
For now, we have no choice but to wait and see.
To complete the puzzle, which has not even been properly outlined yet, more pieces need to be put together.
Replay analysis looked set to continue for some time.
“Tsk.”
Since that wasn’t very pleasant, Lee Soo-dok clicked his tongue briefly.
Why am I having such a hard time buying things this year?
I have taken on a teaching job that doesn’t suit me, and I have to diligently watch replays of one student’s performance because I am suspicious.
‘All the people in the world are dead.’
Lee Soo-dok turned off the screen with that thought in his mind.
The replay correction was also removed.
* * *
[Use ‘amplify’.]
[The grade of ‘Magic Engineering’ increases. (B->S)]
[Duration 00:01:13]
[Reuse Wait Time 00:49:13]
– Clang clang clang clang—
A blue glowing hand moved around the cube at incredible speed.
With every touch of your fingertips, the arrangement of thousands of tiny cubes constantly changes.
– Click, click,
At some point, the hand touching the cube began to slow down little by little.
Instead, each movement became more careful and precise.
Take a slow look through the cube and review it,
The moment the final piece falls into place.
– Woof—
The cube trembled and resonated.
Even though I stopped touching it, it assembled itself and emptied itself, eventually transforming into a small box with a lid that could be opened and closed.
After the box was completed, an intense green light rose from the inside, and various plants grew and flowers bloomed in the small gaps between the boxes.
The plants quickly covered the cube, and anyone who didn’t know would have thought it was a box made of woven tree trunks or something.
‘It’s complete.’
[Cube of Life (B)]
The Cube of Life has only one effect.
Increases the effect of ‘Life’ series items stored by 1.3 times.
For example, if the basic effect of [Totem of Recovery] is to ‘heal allies within range every 10 seconds’,
Simply placing a totem inside the cube will reduce the time to 7 seconds and increase the amount of healing.
[Processed Emerald] has the effect of increasing the power of earth-type magic.
If you store this in a cube, the increase will be multiplied by 1.3.
If it increases by 20%, it becomes 26%.
Moreover, it can store multiple items as long as the box’s capacity allows, making it a truly fraudulent item.
Even this is somewhat inferior to the ‘S-grade’ cube of life obtained by taking the normal route and clearing all the linked quests.
The S rank has a whopping increase rate of 2x.
The cube I created was forcibly completed from a prototype blueprint, so its rank and effect are somewhat low.
But that’s enough.
‘Even if it’s just 1.3 times, it’s huge.’
It is an item that is more than enough to cause a stir at Yongsal Academy.
The four major powers in particular will be drooling.
No matter which club you take it to, they’ll probably give you a season pass easily.
If I do that, my promise with Go Hyun-woo will be kept without any problems, but
‘That’s not enough.’
I don’t plan on being satisfied with just exchanging one season pass.
The supporters ate it all
