Became an Academy Self-Inflicted Blackmailer chapter 71

71 – Midterm Exam (2)

There is no particular reason. However, a thought suddenly occurred to me.

How strong am I now?

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I have nothing to say if it’s a useless worry, but I think the element of growth is important. At least in this world, there is no other force as important as pure force.

‘I have to become stronger’, although it wasn’t a severe obsession, I was aware of it.

There is no need to go far. For example, let’s consider the main villain of the second episode, Sword Saint’s excommunicated disciple.

If you put everything else aside and only look at his strength, the man was definitely not weak.

No matter how much he kidnapped Aria and held her hostage, he was the one who killed the Sword Saint in the end.

– Seven years ago, I had already established my own sword style, but now I have definitely reached a higher level.

If I were to borrow Aria’s words, it is the entity that established my sword type.

Here, prosecutorial punishment refers to one of several stages that classify prosecutors.

If I were to be a wizard, would I say he is at the beginning of the 8th circle? In other words, it means that she is on the same level as Helena.

Of course, Helena was an archmage in name and reality who was nearing the end of the 8th circle, but-.

Since that standard was 7 years ago, there is no doubt that it has advanced even further now.

Now it would be better to think that we are really dealing with an archmage.

I had to face that archmage-level swordsman.

That is the question that arises.

How strong am I now? Doing.

In order to prevent the Sword Saint from dying, I need to confront Aria’s excommunicated student before she is kidnapped, and then I need to consider her chance of victory first.

‘Can you win?’

First of all, I can say it clearly.

It is not impossible.

Even if you look at it objectively, I am pretty strong right now. At least I could confidently say that I was not weak.

Although we were unable to achieve straight growth in many areas, we were able to boast about our military power at least for now.

Isn’t it possible to demonstrate the same level of power as Tsumei just with the powers that he originally possessed in the first place? Even the penalty given in return was considerably less burdensome now.

You can get help from Flügel, and if you try too hard, you can even produce output equivalent to Tsumei’s breath at least once.

Even if the opponent is a high-level swordsman, he has the skills to predict victory.

‘Hmm.’

But I was also able to assert.

‘I’ll probably lose.’

It’s barely even that much.

It was impossible to defeat a swordsman of that level just by being moderately strong. Instead of increasing the time to continue the battle, it is unthinkable to defeat an excommunicated disciple with a correspondingly reduced output.

In the first place, there isn’t much the player can do in the original story.

It is the Sword Saint who moves to rescue the kidnapped Aria, and it is the Sword Saint who finds the hideout of the excommunicated disciple.

The player’s role was simply to rescue Aria safely while the Sword Saint dealt with his former student. There was nothing more that could be done.

‘Because it is the first semester of the first year.’

It is impossible to say that the player is weak.

It was just a matter of timing.

If the time given is short, there is a limit to becoming stronger. No matter how much of a player it is.

It is not much different now either.

I am not weak, but beyond that, I am not exceptionally strong either.

Defeating enemies that should have been dealt with with the help of other characters using only my current abilities.

The opponent I have to face is strong, and I am not great enough to overwhelm such an enemy. So what should we do?

The answer was simple.

All you need to do is become stronger. More than now.

It is not enough to fight ten times and possibly win once or twice. Unless you can be sure that you can fight 100 times and win 100 times, thinking that ‘it will work out somehow’ was just optimism.

So, it becomes stronger.

Luckily, I knew how. A way to become stronger, a way to grow.

The number of characters raised was several, but it was actually a given.

For example, getting a weapon. This can be resolved for now by absorbing the unique abilities of Geumgangjeo into Flugel.

As far as I know, there are few 5-star weapons that are better than the ‘Flügel’s Magic Sword’, and since it has the characteristics that best match my abilities, I probably won’t have to change the weapon.

Well, there are many other items that can be worn, and there is nothing you can’t do if you try to get magic tools such as accessories.

First of all, the ‘way to become stronger’ that I was planning to adopt soon was not one that relied on such equipment.

It could perhaps be called a classic, and it is not strange even if some say it is a bit cliché.

In other words, it is training.

There is no shortcut to becoming strong. This isn’t something I would say, as someone who started his life possessed with extra-standard abilities, but it certainly wouldn’t be wrong.

A swordsman increases his physical abilities by swinging a sword, and a wizard gains enlightenment after seeking knowledge.

Except for the fact that Aurors and Mana were together in the process, it was the basis of growth.

So what I need to find is a way to shorten the long time that will inevitably be spent in such training.

Real combat or dramatic environment. Anything was good. All it took was an experience that could give me that much stimulation.

…… And the academy is called an academy only because it provides students with opportunities to study and develop.

Coincidentally, the three-day midterm exam starting tomorrow, from Monday to Wednesday of this week, is taking the form of a slightly unusual one-on-one sparring. I was planning to become more familiar with the use of this ability in that sparring match.

This ability is an ability that has a different tendency from swordsmanship and magic.

No matter how much I trained and worked hard, the results I achieved were relatively minimal, so I ended up having to use a method different from swordsmanship or magic based on ‘accumulative’ energy.

This is the so-called application. One of the surest ways to grow your abilities.

I needed to understand my abilities in more detail.

In the case of a telekinesis user who was once explained as an example, he carried dozens of weapons on his person to use his abilities more powerfully.

It was just an imitation of a sword using a sword, but it was powerful in a different way compared to the martial arts sword technique.

It didn’t really matter whether it was actually useful or not. The effect appears differently depending on how the person with the ability perceives it and how familiar it feels.

In short, it penetrates the essence.

All of the few people with special abilities in this worldview were like that.

Jibril projected the power of astrology and prophecy in the form of ‘dreams’, and the telekinetic person enjoyed all-out battles using dozens of weapons as a medium.

If we were to name it, should we call it visualization?

Describing the thoughts, thoughts, ideology, etc. That one pursues more clearly by using the power of one’s natural ability. That was the most appropriate way to utilize this ability.

‘But what about me?’

Now, if a problem arises, it is this part. In the end, I’m the one who should care, but I’ve never been able to think of a meaningful application before.

Just dropping a lightning bolt or simply wrapping a thunder flag around the body.

Yes, it is simple. It’s so simple and-.

It was also flat.

Isn’t the reality that there is no further development at all?

It was late, but there was no need to be any later.

Needless to say, Dante’s supernatural ability belongs to the powerful axis. The fact that it has managed to endure despite not being able to achieve the basic application of the ability means that its basic specifications are ridiculously excellent.

This ability does not need to be simple like swordsmanship, nor does it require intelligence like magic. All you need is creativity, imagination, and unwavering intuition.

I desperately needed the ability to clearly accept this thing called intuition.

Immersion, empathy, or union. In any case, there must be a process of adapting to my natural ability in order for my control ability to develop further.

The midterm exam scheduled for tomorrow was the best opportunity for that.

I have already passed up many opportunities to practice close to the actual game, starting with group training, group competition, and individual sparring with Aria. It was clear that this year’s midterm exam would be quite special, even excluding the ability leeway gained thanks to the flugel.

As I said, this one-on-one sparring is not very simple.

First of all, the person I was dealing with was not a ‘human’.

Tiring!

It was then. How did he know I was thinking of that? A blue hologram window appeared in the air along with the now quite familiar mechanical sound.

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[Sub Quest]

Starting from the class competition, the level of interest within the academy toward you has reached a significant level.

In the midterm exam of the first semester of the first year, please produce grades that will respond to the interest of students and faculty.

Condition 1. Complete the test without collapsing against Tsumei’s acceleration doll.

Condition 2. Fight against Tsumei’s acceleration doll and defeat it in reverse.

When the first condition is met, the quest is treated as successful.

When the second condition is achieved, CP (clear points) will be paid at least as much as when the first condition is achieved.

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‘Yes, I was waiting for this.’

Actually, it wasn’t difficult to guess to some extent that a quest would appear. That’s because the quest window only pops up when a specific situation is approaching.

It was like that when I was dealing with Grisha during the class competition, and I would have thought it was strange if the quest didn’t pop up during the midterm exam.

I waved my hand to clear the quest window and remembered the gift shop I checked a few days ago.

To be exact, one item I saw at that time.

-Retrieve job change.

‘Because I knew there was such a thing. Now, you can’t collect points without collecting them.’

Although this ability clearly boasts great power, it may reach its limit at any moment. So, if possible, other measures had to be taken. At least one.

If you can, it is right to save up a lot of points, and you will use the store window more actively with the points you have collected.

It is like an almighty key that will definitely save me at the moment of crisis. Wouldn’t it be more unnatural if you didn’t covet it?

Anyway.

As proudly mentioned in the quest window, the enemies our first-year students will face in one-on-one sparring during the midterm exam are not the same students or faculty. It’s a doll, doll.

In other words, a golem. And magical creatures.

Unsurprisingly, it was Tsumei’s work and was given the very comical name ‘Promotion Doll’.

Once again, she was an expert not only in martial arts, but also in alchemy and organ healing.

Numerous traps and spells in the basement of the academy, as well as the golem of the final gateway that will become Flügel’s spare body. All of these were created solely by Tsumei’s hands.

This means that creating strange mechanical devices to ‘accelerate’ the growth of all kinds of students is not a task for her.

A golem that can be said to be somewhat malicious in some ways, as it learns the students’ characteristics and works accordingly to defeat their most notable weaknesses.

That was the identity of the acceleration doll.

For the midterm exam, grades are determined based on students’ performance in one-on-one sparring with a facilitator doll.

Everyone will probably have a not-so-pleasant experience…….

Fortunately, there will definitely be a lot to learn in the process.

I had to achieve remarkable growth in order to attend the sports competition a month later and further defeat the swordsman’s excommunicated disciple.

3 Days for the midterm exam. I don’t know when my turn will come, but in any case, facing the acceleration doll will be a positive turning point.

I will make it like that.

So that it can at least serve as a starting point for application of this ability.