I Became an Academy Mechanic Genius chapter 72

72 – Complete

Imperial Imperial Academy.

Established for the purpose of conquering extinction, this place advocates elitism, excluding all differences such as family, age, social system, and between men and women, and evaluates an individual’s value solely based on ability.

No matter how old or young, or whether your family’s status is high or low, only ability is the top priority, so cadets must constantly train themselves.

Otherwise, you will not be able to join the super elite that the empire wants, and that will soon ruin both your personal reputation and the prestige of your family.

-Pazizik!

Every time Edgar summoned the suit, it was a natural phenomenon for all eyes to be focused on him.

Those who regard Ed as competition cannot help but be conscious of how much his suit has been upgraded, and those who aim to become strong cannot help but look with admiration at Ed, who has risen to the ranks of the academy’s strongest.

“Hey, hey! “I summon you.”

“What will be different this time?”

“What a mess”

With everyone’s attention focused, a black object flew out of a crack in the air and landed on Ed’s back.

And the identity of the black object was none other than the ‘ultra-fast carbon nanotube injector’ that Ed had developed over the weekend.

In order to prevent the suit from becoming vulnerable while wearing the suit, the entire body is wrapped with carbon nanotubes that have both elasticity and rigidity.

-Shwaaa!

Just like that, a black latex carbon tube began to extend from the back.

The carbon tube, like an Iron Man suit incorporating nanotechnology, instantly covered the entire body in black and emitted black vapor as a by-product.

The black vapor served as a good smokescreen to hide Ed, who became vulnerable while wearing the suit.

And at the same time─

“Oh, what’s going on inside…”

“Why is my heart beating so fast…”

By covering himself with black vapor, he was able to instill fear in his enemies and build anticipation in his allies.

In that way, the academy cadets listened to the exquisitely engaging sounds of the machines and looked into the black fog where Ed was.

There, red light was intermittently emitting from the black vapor, as if a monster was scattering its eye light.

The red ore attached to the suit creates such an illusion.

-Ssaaa…

Soon, the black fog that created a mysterious atmosphere began to clear.

The cadets swallowed their saliva, looking forward to Ed’s appearance soon.

-Slap! Clap, clap… Clap! Wow! Slam!

So finally.

The black steam cleared and Ed’s appearance was revealed.

Ed seemed to have finished wearing the suit and started checking it.

The sleek metal armor mounted on the shoulder blades opened wide to check the spraying device, and the palm of the gauntlet glowed red and keee! It radiated sound.

At the same time, the mana stone embedded in his chest glowed red and supplied mana to his entire body, and the mana stone that received the mana connected to the mana emission device and began to emit red light throughout his body.

“······.”

The cadets were silent as they watched the scene.

No, even the instructors were silent while looking at Ed.

The appearance of Ed standing suddenly in the black steam that has not yet completely cleared.

It was as if I was seeing a transcendent being that completely transcended the human species.

Ed’s suit, which had begun to establish itself to some extent through numerous improvements and modifications, was now a step forward in terms of design, to the point where the symbolism of the ‘devil’ could be intuitively felt.

Even the imperial people who did not yet know the shape of the devil were able to feel awe and fear just by looking at it.

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“Wow, it’s even bigger than last time.”

“That sucks.”

However, the moment the steam cleared and Ed’s face was revealed, the cadets were internally relieved.

The relief you can feel when your most feared enemy becomes your side.

If the being equipped with such an enormous thing is ‘Edgar Fix’, whom everyone can recognize and trust, then the image of the devil becomes not a being to be feared, but a being that can be revered with peace of mind.

As a vulgar term, it is not something that is scary, but something that is a piece of sh*t.

-Jiying···Weiing···. Crash.

After completing the function check, the suit was extinguishing the red light that spread throughout its body.

Ed moved his body around and commented on his impressions of the improved suit that was first introduced.

“Not bad.”

***

After a while.

On the huge screen in front, Ed and his group were playing in the dungeon.

Even though it is an outdoor class, a projection device is set up to broadcast live images of his classmates.

However, this was the professor’s design to encourage competition.

By nature, humans are conscious of how they appear to others, and others who see such images compare themselves with others and are stimulated.

Especially in this place, where the best talent in the empire, which could be considered corpses except for pride, were gathered, I couldn’t help but be greatly stimulated by the sight of my classmates showing outstanding performance.

A representative example is Ed running across the dungeon and wiping out monsters.

-What is that… I felt it even when I was beating up Max, but it’s just no answer?

-The balance is ridiculous. It has a powerful long-distance attack, but it’s not easy to approach because of that mobility device, and even if you force yourself to approach it, you can’t do any damage because it has a strong defense shield.

Ed’s suit with destructive power, speed, utility, and strategy.

In this way, Ed’s devil suit did not depend on the conditions of close combat, long-distance combat, or aerial combat.

No matter what monster appeared in the dungeon, it was possible to deal with it, and it could be defeated with overwhelming utility and destructive power.

Even the monsters that the other cadets who entered the dungeon had worked hard to catch were slaughtered without much effort.

[Clarice, take the left at the next intersection. This is where ghost-type monsters appear, so it will be easy for you to deal with them. Roy, you turn on the mana barrier in the passage on the right. Flame-type monsters…]

Furthermore, Ed did not monopolize the activity to himself.

He gave the team members who entered with him appropriate tasks and gave them room to play, and he himself took total command of the operation and supported the team members only when necessary.

It was completely different from other groups where members of the same group competed to somehow earn more points.

“·····I should have done that too.”

The cadets who entered before this were regretting the appearance of an idealistic party.

Didn’t the party’s balance collapse due to the competition between members of the same group and the party had to give up without being able to clear the dungeon?

In the end, what was important in group battles such as dungeon raids was not individual abilities but cooperation.

It is not important to show your outstanding performance to the instructor and get points, but the key to this dungeon strategy evaluation is to perform even small tasks perfectly and help in the dungeon attack.

‘Now it’s time to show up…’

However, the reason Ed took the lead in leading everyone and conquering the dungeon was not in order to be evaluated well.

An unexpected event that occurs to players taking outdoor classes.

Because we didn’t know when and where it would explode, it was to conserve as much power as possible.

‘What will appear this time?’

Outdoor class unexpected event.

This event was an event that always happened to the player when he entered the dungeon during his first outdoor class.

Because the game is designed to make a name for everyone by showing the player’s performance in the first outdoor class.

In other words, the purpose of this event is to draw attention to the main heroine NPC by having the player, who was out of everyone’s interest in the game story, kill the boss monster that suddenly appears.

If you get S rank in this event, Isabella will show interest, and if you get A rank, Enya will show a little interest.

B rank or lower is the only thing NPCs who are barely extras show interest in, so from Ed’s point of view, the hurdles were high, so it was a disastrous performance that required him to restart the game.

In other words, rerolling must be done.

‘But now the direction of the event has probably changed. ‘More powerful monsters may appear.’

However, as Ed does not follow the established flow of the story, there is a high possibility that the content and rewards of the event will be different.

At this point, he has already monopolized the attention of the main NPCs and has even developed one-sided romantic feelings, so interest from Isabella or Enya is a compensation that is completely unnecessary.

‘This world is a world with high volatility. Stronger monsters will definitely appear.’

Because of the algorithm of the game. In other words, the Will of the World was likely to have prepared a bigger reward than the main NPC.

And with greater rewards comes greater risks.

In essence, in order to obtain a greater reward, you must overcome a certain crisis.

[······.]

When he reached the end of the dungeon, Ed could not believe his eyes.

Originally, it was because a powerful monster that was not supposed to appear until a year later was waiting for him at the end of the dungeon.

[Wow! Whoosh! Whoosh! Krulup! Kururuk! Sigh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Kwarap! Quad deuk! Pop! Whoosh! Crunch!]

And the instructors and cadets who were watching the giant screen outside also froze in place.

Demon species.

This was because it was my first time seeing a demon species tearing apart a mountain of corpses and feasting on them.

The grotesque appearance of this guy, who looked like a mix of half human and half monster, had an appearance so terrifying that it stimulated people’s instinctive fear.

[ꊍꊎ··· ꊏꊎ? ꨨ··! ꋩ···!]

And the sight of him muttering an unknown demonic language while looking at Ed and his group shocked everyone once again.

It’s not that there aren’t talking monsters, but there hasn’t been a single monster that speaks such strange and ominous language.

[Everyone get behind me! This is not a level you can compete with!]

At that time, the instructor on the scene, sensing a crisis, pushed Ed Party back.

Then he took out his weapon and told us to run away immediately.

But─.

-Quad!

[Wow…!?]

While the instructor was looking back, the demon’s arm stretched like a rubber band and pierced the instructor’s abdomen.

A level 2 instructor, who was only an intermediate sword expert, was attacked by a surprise attack from a demon species.

[Kahak! Whoa!?]

The demon species began to dig into the instructor’s abdomen and suck out blood and mana.

The instructor’s mana and blood were flowing out through the guy’s arms, which were stretched like rubber bands, and the instructor’s expression was distorted.

-Oh my!

At that time, one of the party members hurriedly pulled out his sword.

And he tried to cut off the arm of the monster that was sucking the instructor’s blood, but instead the sword that struck his arm cracked.

This is because there is no way that the proper mana will be used in the sword that was thrown down hastily in panic.

[ꉲ···· ꉲꊡꊎ···.]

At this, the demon servant once again muttered an unknown demon language and shook his shoulders.

I enjoy the reactions of Ed and his companions who are trembling with fear.

-Chaaa!

That was when the guy’s arms began to stretch out in a deformed manner once again.

-Pow!

Oval-shaped plasma suddenly spreads around Ed.

A mana shield covered in ultra-high temperature plasma protected Ed and her colleagues.

Ed, who stood blankly for a moment, looked back at Jo Won, who was terrified, and said.

[Sorry. I lost my mind for a moment.]

Ed said that and shifted his gaze to the dying instructor.

The reason Ed did not step forward to let the instructor get to this point was because a vision suddenly unfolded before his eyes.

It is an illusion of the empire being destroyed by demons.

However, Ed could not figure out the reason.

Just like that day when he put Isabella to sleep, hugging her from behind, today he had a blank expression on his face as he looked at the past and present overlapping.

As a result, the instructor suffered fatal injuries.

[What? Wow! Tsk tsk!!! ꉀ···ꉀ.]

And the devil was mumbling something while looking at his arm that had been cut off by the ultra-high temperature plasma shield.

However, the guy’s arm that had been cut off began to grow again as if it had never happened before.

It was a stronger and more lethal arm than before.

-Paaat!

Soon, the demon species closed the distance in an instant with a single leap and began pounding on the plasma mana shield.

The ultra-high heat melted the hand of the knocker, but the hand that sprouted again was stronger and more durable than before, and the more it struck, the more powerful its destructive power became.

[Listen carefully, everyone.]

At that time, Ed, who had been silent with his plasma mana shield on, finally opened his mouth.

As the mana shield shook unstable and cracked due to the demon species’ continuous punches, Ed uttered the following words.

[The professor will be coming. Our goal is to survive until then. But I think the Manashield will break soon. I can only last about 30 seconds.]

There are only 30 seconds left.

It was a very tight time.

At that time, it was enough time for everyone to be wiped out by that crazy monster before the professor even arrived.

However, Ed had unwavering eyes as he glared at the demon species that was grotesquely tearing its mouth open.

And then he said something unbelievable.

[So I will deal with him. Clarice heals the instructor’s wounds, and Roy turns on the mana barrier to protect them both. Garnet covers Roy and fends off a surprise attack from an unknown guy.]

Ed said he would deal with this guy alone.

A cadet will fight alone against a guy who easily defeated even the instructor?

However, everyone had no choice but to nod their heads at Ed’s subsequent actions.

Because Ed─

-Pazizik!

After creating a crack in the air,

-Sigh.

After grabbing the metal mask that appeared there,

-Crash.

This is because he wore a sleek jet black metal mask on his lower body.

When Edgar pressed a certain button on the jet black metal mask, carbon nanotubes began to come out from the tiny outlet of the jet black mask.

The discharged jet-black carbon nanotubes quickly wrapped around the side of Ed’s face, covering Ed’s ears, and then completely covering the back of his head and the crown of his head.

-Wheeeing…Clap. Churrr mode…Jiing… Click.

However, he did not just cover his face.

After the jet-black carbon nanotubes cover the entire face, mechanical parts are intricately interlocked to add detailed design and functionality.

-Crash.

The mask attached to the lower part of Ed’s face instantly fired carbon nanotubes and metal parts built into it, completing the design of the helmet.

Now all that was left was Ed’s eyes, glaring at the demon species.

-Sigh.

Ed checked the plasma mana shield, which was almost broken.

Ed turned to them to leave a final word of advice to his colleague.

And at the same time, the lock on his forehead was released, and a metal eye mask covered Ed’s eyes. The sound of mechanical parts coming together was emitted, and the eye mask and helmet were combined.

Then─.

-Paaat!

A light came into his sharp, raised eyes.

In the dark cave, Ed spoke to his companions with his red eyes shining.

【Don’t worry. Because that guy is no match for me.】

“······.”

Ed’s voice has changed subtly.

Ed’s team members barely nodded their heads with blank expressions as they listened to that heavy bass sound.

Perhaps because it was wrapped in his helmet, Ed’s voice changed to a heavy bass tone, and there was something about it that made his heart flutter as if he was hearing the voice of God.

-Paang!

And his voice and image that made his heart pound were not like a fleeting mirage.

The demon species immediately destroys the plasma mana shield and rushes towards Ed.

-Quad!

You can see it being sent flying far away with just one punch.