Episode 109. Class Up (5)
[Char has entered.]
[Char: Hello.]
[Marlene: Welcome.]
[Root Curtos: Nice to meet you.]
60 students lying on the lawn of the stadium. At their bedside, there was a holo board that any nutuber could access.
“The number of visitors per student is displayed. 0 people… . That, Nam Man-hyuk’s screen is too dark. Shall we take a look at the others?”
The screen is too dark. That was the reason why you didn’t get a Nutube even though you won first place in the previous tests.
‘Something has to come out to be broadcast!’
[Aka-chan: Nam Man-hyuk. / 100,000 won]
“Hot, yep!”
However, when the money caught on, it was Choi Mi-joo who quickly changed her mind.
After watching them for a while in the dark space, she turned her attention to the large hall dedicated to the stadium.
Four teams were projected on the four-part screen. They were volcanic, jungle, sea, and snowy terrain, respectively.
Students placed in extreme environments used their own characteristics to adapt to the environment, and the performance of the Swift team was unparalleled.
There was no connection, so no sound could be heard, but the team leader, perhaps a student who looked like Swift, pushed the ash into the wind, and a boy and girl with blue-and-white hair created water and ice to lower the ambient temperature.
Compared to the other three teams who are still struggling, he seemed to have adapted well to the local area.
flash.
“oh!”
At that time, the body cam connected to Nam Man-hyuk’s student brightened.
“Wow, is that white marble the magic you’ve only heard of?”
In fact, Mijoo Choi already knew about magic through the You Tube video, but took an exaggerated reaction to elicit the audience’s reaction.
[Char: Yes, it is light.]
“There, everyone. But can you use magic there?”
[Aka-chan: A dream drummer’s abilities are limited. So, I tend to rely on the unconscious to some extent.]
[Root Curtos: Well. It sounds like Miracle Nam controlled his unconscious.]
[Aka-chan: It gets a little more complicated if you go deep, but in the end it is.]
[Marlin: Oh, so Man-hyuk is unconscious?]
[Chara: Research in that area is also active in the magical academia. After self-establishment, the wizard who can expand the realm becomes involved in the unconscious—]
Mijoo Choi thought while watching their conversation.
‘Is this only my room?’
I feel like I’m watching a discussion among highly educated people. Even though there are more than ten people in the chat room besides them, no one is chatting. Everyone is listening to what they have to say.
Looking at the chat on the side of the unlucky guy next door, it’s completely different from this one.
A general chat window with swear words, thoughtless words and uninteresting drips.
‘okay. Our viewers are better than that. There is no one who is fussy.’
[Aka-chan: You are moving. Stay focused. Student Mi-Joo Choi.]
“Oh, yes. sorry.”
Relying on the light magic to go out on a single path, they soon encountered a giant ant with sharp claws.
“I, what is that?”
[Aka-chan: According to ‘My Dream Encyclopedia’ published by Dream Drummer, it is ‘Tunnel Ant’.]
‘You’ve published a book… . Uh, wait.’
“Ants? Then it could be an ant den over there?”
[Aka-chan: It is highly likely.]
bang!
The blonde girl’s fist slammed into the carapace of the ant’s head.
Kee eh!
The ant pounded its chin on the floor and repositioned itself, squealing with an agonizing ear and flailing its antennae dazzlingly.
[Marlene: It sounds like you are calling your own people.]
[Root Curtos: It will be dangerous.]
As expected, the rattling sound got closer and closer, and after a while, all the space in the aisle was filled with black ants.
Margaret in the rear and Quinn in the front blocked them, but because there were a lot of them, it was not enough with two.
“Nam Man-hyuk! Are you still?”
Nam Man-hyuk, who had closed his eyes in the center and focused on the question that sounded like Margaret’s scream, pulled his lips together.
“done. Sister-in-law, let’s work.”
A black door opened at Nam Man-hyuk’s feet, and a small skeleton came up from it.
stone track.
Seeing the skeleton with a cheese cat on its shoulder, Mijoo Choi took a picture of the body cam with the camera of her smartphone.
“Oh my God, how can you be so cute?”
[Marlene: Hoho, you are cute like our Qingi.]
Choi Mi-joo, who swallows saliva and presses the shutter, sees the cheese cat grooming herself solemnly even in a situation where the ants attack.
[Root Curtos: That undead.]
[Char: Do you know that undead?]
[Root Curtos: This is a skeleton that always appears when Miracle Nam fights and plays the role of a solver. Among the wizards I know, they are also called ‘Arch Wizards’.]
[Aka-chan: Archmage is an honorable title given to a wizard who has mastered a single magic.]
Choi Mi-joo didn’t believe it. The moment when these people think that they are teasing me lightly because I don’t know them well, and pass it on like that’s roughly it.
The screen, where only white and black were located, was filled with purple.
“Whew. I, is that all magic?”
[Root Curtos: Huh. It’s really spectacular. It’s not the magic missile I know.]
Root Curtos had never taken on one or two murders of wizards, so he knew their level and magic system to some extent.
[Char: The atmosphere is a little different from usual.]
[Marlene: What part?]
[Char: Seriously.]
[Aka-chan: ?]
[Root Curtos: Can you elaborate?]
[Char: Ah. As you may already know, I am in the world of magic. In the past, I did a study on ‘psychological changes according to the undead’s eye light’. Now, the glare of the eyes that seem to be moving together in one point is an emotional state similar to hatred.]
[Aka-chan: Interesting.]
In addition, Choi Mi-joo turned away from chatting and focused on the voice coming from the body cam speaker, as they had conversations that required basic knowledge.
– Is it similar to a labyrinth? … ok do what you want
Right after Nam Man-hyeok had a conversation with the little skeleton, purple arrows rushed towards the ants. Unfortunately, we couldn’t penetrate the ant’s carapace, but we succeeded in destroying all the antennae!
Then, the ants rushing at the three people all at once stop attacking and run around.
-Good job.
– Stone song.
Nam Man-hyuk uses the heads and backs of such ants as stepping stones. The two girls, reluctant to step on the ants at first, looked at each other, shook their heads as if they couldn’t help it, and followed him.
[Aka-chan: Char-sama, you have great insight. I want to meet you sometime and talk about it.]
[Char: Oh, that’s good. Shall we all see Kim like this? I think everyone knows Nam Man-hyuk.]
[Root Curtos: I agree.]
[Marlene: I like it too. But I’m a little busy right now, so I think it should be next month.]
Choi Mi-joo, who watched the scene of making an offline appointment with each other, came to her senses and filled the audio.
“If this is the case, the test scores will not be a big problem!”
Nam Man-hyuk’s team, who passed through multiple rooms while fighting the ants, arrived at a huge cavity and encountered the queen laying eggs in the center of the room.
“Are you going to use that undead called Samsik to wipe it all out again?”
In the middle, they were all fools when they just destroyed the antennae and the soldier ants.
The queen ant was not without antennae, so Mi-joo Choi expected it to do so, but Man-hyuk Nam unexpectedly did not attack the queen ant.
– Those assholes.
Choi Mi-joo was surprised by the swear words that came out of Nam Man-hyuk’s mouth. On the other hand, the two next to him stare at the place his gaze is directed, as if familiar and calm.
– It’s class B.
… Was that girl’s name Margaret? Anyway, a large girl with only her hair sticking out, looking carefully at their cocooned faces, asks Nam Man-hyuk what to do.
– Save me.
When Nam Man-hyuk answered with a sigh, the girl pulled out the antennae of the worker ants that were trying to melt them.
Then, the queen, who speeded up around the ceiling of the common room, crushed the head of the queen ant, and the movement of the ants in the area stopped.
profit… .
The three people who almost turned into meatballs even if they were a little late crawl and cry and make a fuss.
– Uh huh.
– I thought I was going to die.
-thank you. hee hee.
The three of us in Class B immediately fell apart because of the relief that they were alive.
Man-hyuk Nam, who seemed to be contemplating on the spot for a while, strangely took out a tent that could fit three people from his arms.
Choi Mi-joo asked the chat window how it came out of the inner pocket, but there was no clear answer.
-Manhyuk seems to be carrying a tent.
– You too, live alone in the mountains. Even if you don’t like it, you’ll get everything.
-… But is there only one?
-Of course. I don’t even have a partner.
Quinn, who was hesitating, was finally pushed back by Margaret and entered the tent, and Nam Man-hyuk was startled as he tried to enter with a sinister smile.
After tasting the tent, I went to the place where the three of us in Class B were and laid out a sleeping bag and went to sleep.
Student Nam Man-hyuk was talking to himself, but no one, including Choi Mi-joo, heard it.
* * *
Day 2 of the exam.
“Time passes differently.”
Time inside the screen flows faster than real time. One hour here is 48 hours over there.
If it is not a screen where a major event is taking place, it basically proceeds at tens of times speed, and anyone who accesses the student’s holo board and observes can adjust the time from the beginning to the latest moment and watch the video at any time.
[Aka-chan: It is a characteristic of dreams. The collaboration between Dream Drummer and Professor Magic seems to have been successful.]
30 minutes in real time. A day passed in my dream. While waking up, Nam Man-hyuk’s team relaxes, washes, eats, and stretches to prepare for departure.
The four teams floating on the board alone in the stadium have been using their traits from the moment they entered until now without taking a break.
“No, everyone. Isn’t this too biased?”
The man next to him walks towards Choi Mi-joo and threatens his camera.
“look at this. The team over there is flirting with each other as if it was a camping trip, how hard our kids are!”
The man seemed to have changed the student he was focusing on to Swift, and he had posted a disgusting notice in the chat room stating ‘Swift Team 1st Prize Fundraising Box’ to induce donations.
“Isn’t it? miss? Talk to me. I’ve only been filming that student since before. Isn’t this discrimination?”
“mister.”
“Oh, uncle? I am only 26 years old—”
“Don’t be nervous and come back and watch the first part of Nam Man-hyuk’s student video. … Jeon, do you think those students deserve enough rest?”
Choi Mi-joo came out louder than expected, so the man who couldn’t answer and struggled with an awkward smile went back to his seat and muttered.
“She is a very strange woman. uncle what the. Yes? no, brother. If your hair is stripped, you’re right!”
Choi Mi-joo stopped paying attention to men and looked at Nam Man-hyuk’s team.
Nam Man-hyuk, wanting to get out of the queen’s room, looks around the queen’s ant carcass and picks up the egg stuck to the tail.
“Oh, that egg. Is the color a little different?”
[Drum has entered.]
[Drum: Hello.]
[Char: Drum-nim, welcome. Um, but are those eggs rotten? As Mijoo Choi said, the color is a bit strange.]
[Drum: Oh, that’s a princess egg.]
“Ball, princess?”