Chapter 127
“Your aura color is dull! Shouldn’t you have been working harder on your aura?”
“You’re calling this garbage, mana!? It’s just blue garbage!”
“You should be ashad of yourself for attending the Academy like this!”
My body froze at the sight of the supervisor, Kwak Chun-sik, chasing the kids away while spouting venomous words.
No, why is he here?
But it didn’t take long for to organize my thoughts.
Didn’t I already tell him that if he works as an instructor at the academy, he can live in the city without attracting the attention of the Association?
Apparently, after the investigation into the Villain Alliance was over, he had taken a job as an instructor at the academy to avoid returning to Gangwon Province.
“If that’s the case, at least give a call.”
“I forgot to tell you that I had the first class today.”
As I thought about it, I started to rember all the little things I had forgotten to tell him.
Is he doing this on purpose, to get back at ?
“Okay, okay, okay. Do you want to asure?”
“Isn’t asuring supposed to be done by a machine, not an old man?”
“Yes, you son of a bitch. How many other people in Korea can evaluate aura and mana like ?”
“That’s right.”
Even if he and the machine did the evaluation, people would still believe Kwak Chun-sik’s words, not the machine’s.
“But you seem to be giving the other kids too much trouble.”
“Hey, this is all for their own good, I’m purposely giving them a push to try harder. Anyway, what does a young man know……tsk tsk.”
“Oh, yeah…….”
From the way he talked, he must have given them fair marks.
“Now, wait for the others. If you’re going to do it, do it, if you’re not, co back later.”
“I will.”
I realize this is no different than being judged on my violin playing in front of Paganini, but I’ve been practicing, so I think I can do sothing I’m not embarrassed about.
I raise my hand as the aura begins to mold shapes: a square, a hexahedron, a sphere.
As I move the aura around, shaping it as I’ve always done whenever I have ti, I hear a few gasps of admiration.
It was understandable, since rolling aura with such precision in the palm of one’s hand is not sothing that is easy to see.
“Well, at least you’ve been practicing hard.”
“I don’t want to make a mistake and ruin your reputation.”
“Hahahaha, that’s right, you’re my disciple so I’ll let you off the hook.”
Saying that, he scribbled sothing on the evaluation sheet.
“You’ve certainly mastered the basics. The others should be half as good as you…………By the way, are you still wearing that?”
……You an that pink bracelet on my wrist.
“Yeah, I’m wearing it under my shirt for now.”
“Well, you’ll be able to take it off soon enough, thanks to your effort.”
“Thanks.”
“Okay. I’ll see you later. Next!”
With that, I walked away from the place where the mana and aura were being assessed, and when I saw that no one was around, I imdiately took off the tireso pink bracelet.
“Now that’s liberating.”
Not creepy in the slightest, just exhilarating.
“I can give this back later.”
He said he’d see later, so I’d give it to him then.
The next stop was the defense testing area, where Bear Grizzly, the guy who’d grabbed the microphone in the first place, was conducting the evaluation.
“Oh.”
As if on cue, I see Jin-woo taking the defense test.
The defense test was fairly straightforward, with Bear Grizzly throwing blows at the students with controlled force, and the students blocking his blows.
“Jin-woo Bevalt, are you ready?”
“Yes, Instructor……co on!”
At that mont, a combat knife swung out of his hand with a short chant and stabbed into Jin-woo’s thigh.
Now, in the normal course of events, he would have been able to defend himself with aura or magic, or parry the instructor’s attack.
But──.
“Huh?”
Jin-woo only shifts his leg slightly as if to say, “If you try to stab , I’ll stab you” and parries the knife as it flies toward his thigh.
At the sa ti, Jin-woo thrusts his own dagger toward the nape of Bear’s neck but the dagger stops in front of his throat.
“Jin-woo Bevalt this……?”
Bear asks, sounding genuinely confused, as if he doesn’t know what’s going on.
Well, of course it is.
I don’t know anybody who would just accept that on a bar exam.
In a way, he’s the teacher who attacked the defenseless student but Jin-woo’s response was even worse.
“I learned it from that crazy ntor of mine. She said that giving out flesh and taking bones is also a form of defense. Isn’t that right?”
Hadn’t he also said that he had been taught in training to avoid blood vessels and vital muscles?
If you look closely, Jin-woo’s leg doesn’t actually look like it’s been stabbed, and it doesn’t even bleed much.
“And your ntor is……Han Yeo-eun?”
“Yeah…….”
“Jin-woo Bevalt……has been through a lot.”
There was a pitying look in his eyes.
He sheathed his sword and pulled out a potion from his belt, sprinkling it on Jin-woo’s wounds before patting him on the back.
“Offense is also a ans of defense. Your ability to catch your opponent off guard and strike while minimizing your own damage is admirable!”
“Instructor……!”
“Yes, go ahead now. Later, you’ll learn how to move your guts and get stabbed in the stomach.”
“……Yes?”
“Next.”
“No, instructor. You’re kidding, for real?”
“Next!”
Co to think of it, Bear Grizzly had been a colleague of Han Yeo-eun’s in the past, right? That’s why he seed to feel a little sorrier for Jin-woo.
“……Eugene Han.”
“Hello, instructor.”
“I’m very curious to see what kind of attacks you can block. I’d like to test you, and I’d like to do it with full force.”
“Full force, of course.”
I smirked at his question and straightened up.
This is the kind of thing CS really enjoys.
“Here we go!”
At that mont, a different sound than the one he’d used to test the other students rang out.
His knife ca in, aiming for my liver and a terrifying green aura pulsated around the blade.
I imdiately summoned aura on both my hands and wrapped them in [Midas’ Gloves], then swung my fist to block the first blow but in the anti, a kick ca in for my stomach.
If I get hit by that my intestines might be ruptured so apply a layer of aura on my abdon to block the attack and countered his attack with an equal amount of aura.
Instructor Bear paw remained in front of so I imdiately grabbed it but it was still Instructor Bear, and he wasn’t going to go down easily, swinging the dagger he hadn’t let go of yet and aiming for my back.
Even though I wasn’t looking, I could feel the chilling foreboding approaching all too well but I didn’t react.
I was confident that his attack would not penetrate [DisPater] and as if to prove it.
Giggle giggle giggle──
A sound like a knife scraping against a steel plate resounded.
It was then that the instructor and I fell to the ground together.
Just as I was about to turn this into a muddy fight, he imdiately released his grip and raised his arms above his head.
“Cadet Eugene Han has already surpassed the level of an ordinary hero.”
“You’re being flattering. If the instructor had stabbed with the intention of killing , it would have been quite dangerous at the end.”
Besides……there’s no way Bear, who went by the alias ‘The Real Grizzly’, would have let get away with it if I’d gone straight into the dogfight.
“Defense and skill. Excellent. I’ll give you a good score.”
“Thank you instructor.”
I pick myself up off the ground and offer him a hand to help him to his feet.
At the sa ti, a new window pops up in front of .
[Hidden achievent earned!]
[Achievent: “I don’t even blink!”]
[You succeeded in defeating Bear Grizzly’s in the defense test!]
[Bear is impressed by your talent!]
[Special rewards are given!]
[Your physical endurance increases!]
CS was partly about savoring these little achievents and rewards.
I didn’t realize it now, but the ga had gotten to the point where I could take an aura attack and not even bat an eye at a normal human attack, so it was almost like I was taking an elixir that boosted my defense.
“There she is.”
As I headed to the next test, Power, I saw Marie, who had created a puppet three tis her size, reaching out and barking commands at the puppet as if she were a trainer.
Marie doll clenched both hands and slamd them down on the impact reader as if it were a hamr.
At the sa ti, a loud sound rang out from the machine and a colorful effect burst out.
[7683! GOOD!]
“That’s a good score. If we’re talking about the summoner’s lee attack power, it should be able to match the lee Awakeners.”
“Thank you……!”
“Fifth place. That’s got to make the other guys sick to their stomachs. Okay, go.”
“Okay!”
As Marie left, I looked behind her to see that there was a leaderboard with the nas of all the students who had been here so far.
In the ga, it just popped up, but here it was handwritten.
[1st. Choi Yeon 9,417 points]
[2nd. Jung Hoon Chung 8,759 points]
[3rd. Jin-woo Bevalt 8,644 points]
[4th. Ahn Byung-hoon 8,018 points]
[5th. Marie Nate 7,683 points]
[6th….]
“Oh.”
Looks like a lot of students took this test.
Let’s see……The first place has 9,417 points?
With average play, it would have been normal for her to be in the low 8,000s and barely pass 9,000, but with 9,417 points, her growth has been faster than ever.
I feel like I should be more serious about getting stronger.
But…….
“I feel bad for Choi Yeon.”
Unfortunately, I have so business here too.
There were two hidden achievents in the Academy’s first physical fitness test, and they were Defense and Strength.
“Next!”
I hear the instructor’s voice from inside, and I step forward, pulling my shotgun from my cube.
“I’ll do it.”
“Eugene Han, are you going to asure……with that?”
“Yes.”
The registration for [Billy the Kid’s Shotgun] had been completed in the morning.
I had nothing to hide, so I nodded and stood in front of the machine.
“Do you know how to do this?”
“Isn’t it just a matter of hitting that part with full power?”
Sa principle as the hamr machine in the arcade.
It was one of my favorite asures because it was relatively simple.
“That’s all you need to know. Let’s get started when you’re ready.”
Trudging over to the machine, I charged my shotgun with aura and pointed it at the power ter.
“Here we go.”
The target rose at the sa ti as my declaration.
It’s half a second from the first impact before the machine recognizes it.
-Boom, boom, boom!
The ugly sound of gunfire shook the asuring center, and I felt a trendous amount of impact in my hand.
In the short ti I had pulled the trigger, the recoil had been transmitted to my body.
And the result.
[11073! Perfect!!]
An unprecedented chanical sound resounded.
[Hidden achievent earned!]
[Achievent: “With Overwhelming Strength!”]
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