Midterm (2)

With the midterm exam approaching, Helios was busy preparing for the exam.

The students who are working hard on their studies are also enthusiastic, but the faculty preparing for the exam is also busy.

Above all, the stage of this midterm exam is a record that has a reputation for being dangerous.

Professors were busier than ever to ensure smooth exam progress.

“Ah, Professor Yujin Kang!”

And, Kang Yoo-jin was also called to prepare for it.

Seeing him enter the auditorium, Professor Roshua, who had arrived earlier, waved his hand.

His face was full of color as he welcomed Kang Yu-jin.

“You must be busy, but thank you so much for taking the time.”

“No. I’m doing what I’m supposed to do.”

Kang Yoo-jin, who received a handshake, looked at Roshua with a tired gaze.

“You have nothing to do.”

“Ahahahaha…”

From disciplinary committee, administrative management, and other chores, this time to preparing for exams.

Yujin Kang looked at him as if he couldn’t understand him.

“I’m a bit busy with construction…”

“Have you caught any weaknesses in school?”

“It’s fortunate that it’s a weakness. It can be removed with effort…”

“…?”

I’m not saying it’s not a weakness.

Kang Yoo-jin’s eyes flashed doubt, but Roshua didn’t say anything more.

“then···.”

Kang Yoo-jin’s eyes fell on Roshua and looked at the professors gathered in the auditorium.

Different subjects and different majors.

However, the same people were working like zombies, except for the dark circles under the eyes.

“So. How can I help you?”

“All you need is to help stabilize the warp gate. I heard that you have an expertise in mana tuning.”

warp gate.

In other words, it was a passage leading to the inside of the record.

Since you can’t go directly to the rift in the record that’s far away, just get the coordinates and break through the gate.

Of course, the record is a very large and dangerous area, so it is more important than anything else to select the place you moved to.

To a place where the concentration of magical power is relatively low and there are no dangerous native creatures.

Because the work is so arduous, the professors who are preparing for the exam are all looking like zombies.

Kang Yoo-jin nodded happily, and Roshua happily guided him to the gate.

“Then please.”

“Yes.”

It immediately raises mana and starts touching the circuit structure and mana flow.

As a kind of optimization work, it was a necessary process to increase the efficiency of the warp gate and reduce the load on the device.

Seeing Kang Yoo-jin skilfully fixing the gate, Roshua wiped her heart out as if she had taken care of it for 10 years.

“Actually, you don’t know how fortunate the professor came. It was impossible to do such a delicate work because everyone was not in good shape.”

“It’s something I want to do, so I’m grateful.”

After the warp gate is complete, you can of course go to the record.

Yujin Kang, who had only heard about the record and had never been to it, had no intention of missing out on this opportunity.

It was a great opportunity to experience the environment of the record before the test started.

Roshua’s expression went blank as she watched Yujin Kang silently do her job.

“Why do you look at me like that?”

“No… I feel very fortunate that Professor Yujin Kang is here.”

“Well···?”

When I turned my head as if to ask a question, Roshua scratched her head with an embarrassed face.

“I have a lot of things to do with other professors. In particular, I have a lot of things to do with core subjects…”

He let out a sigh.

“That’s because the professors in the core subjects all have wit… unique.”

“·······.”

Yujin Kang doesn’t know about Professor Lafless, but Skadi does.

Kang Yoo-jin, who had experienced that personality, nodded wordlessly.

It was a response full of compassion.

“···It’s done.”

Shortly thereafter, optimization of the warp gate was completed.

When I turned on the power to the gate that looked like a door, the light flashed a couple of times and the gate was successfully connected.

The gate leading to the inside of the record was pitch-black, as if representing the environment there.

“Thank you for your hard work. You are really fast as I heard!”

“It’s nothing.”

Yujin Kang stood up and immediately checked her armament.

“Is the record already open?”

“Yes? Ah, yes. As of today, some of the seals placed by the Senate have been lifted.”

“okay.”

Scared to hear the story, he stood in front of the gate.

“Professor Eugene…?”

“I’ll go inside for a while.”

“Now, let’s go to sleep…!”

Roshua reached out, but Kang Yoo-jin threw herself inside faster than anyone else.

Seeing him disappear in an instant, Roshua looked at his empty seat with a stunned face.

“I’m about to leave…”

*

“It’s dark.”

That was the first thing I said upon entering the record.

A pitch-black darkness where nothing can be seen.

In the distant sky, flickering starlight shines strangely, and a space filled with thick and dense magical energy.

The place where you can feel the circle of your heart creaking just by breathing, it tells you why this place has become a forbidden place.

“I see. It was worth sealing.”

Even if you are a skilled hunter, it will be difficult for students to survive a day here.

It’s an extremely hostile environment for humans, but at the same time I saw the potential here.

The magic of the huge stars that filled this vast space.

Because the way to reap the power of chaos wandering without an owner was in my hands.

coo goo…

As I had calculated before, I began to analyze the magical power of the record little by little.

Then, I mixed my will into the chaotic magic and made it obey.

The calculation of mana is just a process.

This requires magical power control that can hold and shake even unstable magical power, but I am a person with a good understanding of that.

all right

Because he lived for 20 years with magical powers.

“There are many, many.”

The enormous magical power of the record oscillates according to my will.

Space shakes and the ground vibrates.

The stars floating in the sky vibrated with space, scattering strange clusters of light.

-kiik

– Key profit!

With a small scream, I saw beasts big and small appearing.

A creature native to this place, those who approached in search of prey felt the pulsating power and fled.

I struggled to put the record’s massive magic into motion, but it wasn’t as easy as I thought.

It was because the density and amount of magical energy were so great that the flow was too slow.

“…Is it still too much?”

I don’t know how far I can digest this mana, but once I succeed in absorbing it, I should be able to increase my mana to the threshold of at least 3 circles, and if I’m lucky, up to the 4th circle.

And mind control will be able to go beyond the second level and move on to a new level.

“I’ll have to wait.”

Well, I didn’t think that I would be able to take the magical power of this place by myself from the beginning.

That’s why it was prepared.

Through a special lecture, he taught the three formulas and how to calculate the mana of a record.

Because the whole process is part of my plan.

‘Did you…really foresee all of this?’

He asked Maria, who was no longer listening, a question that had no answer.

If she has all this in mind, there is no reason for me to stop either.

For the annihilation of all demons.

I stepped out of the record, promising the future.

*

Mason, the master of the magic tower, flew straight to Helios.

It became a big issue for him to go to another dimension, who barely escaped from the Mage Tower.

The magic tower is the center of the magic world that governs all magical essences in the central dimension.

It is like a living legend that penetrates the history of magic accumulated over countless years.

In fact, it is the place where most of the magic used in modern times was developed, and as the headquarters of magic, the constellation from the Mage Tower also reaches double digits.

In addition, the master of the magic tower of the time, ‘Mason von Regel Pollux’, is a person close to awakening to the extent that it is said that he is about to awaken the Constellation.

As soon as he received the invitation, he immediately flew to Helios.

People argued over the reason, but in fact the reason itself was simple.

It was because I wanted to get his advice in interpreting the three formulas created by Kang Yoo-jin and the ‘magic power of records’, one of the biggest mysteries in academia.

So as soon as I arrived at Helios, I ran to Yujin Kang’s office.

what is this

Isn’t someone else sitting in his office instead of the owner?

“Skady Polaris?”

Mason’s gaze turned to Skadi, who was wriggling in Yujin Kang’s seat.

Skadi, who was reading the papers happily, looked at Mason with wide eyes.

“Old Man Mason?”

“… you still talk impolitely.”

Skadi Polaris.

Mason knew her very well.

Skadi is an excellent mage now, but this is because when she was young, like any other young mage, she went to the Mage Tower to learn magic.

At that time, Skadi at that time was a complete mess, so he had accidents every day.

Whether it was burning the research building with lightning magic, or putting a lightning trap in the central hallway to cause a group electrocution accident…

Mason’s face was already full of fatigue as he recalled the events of the day.

“Where is Professor Yujin Kang?”

“Wow. See how he didn’t even say hello. That professor must have gone to fix the warp gate right now.”

“Then why are you here?”

“Uh… there’s a project we’re working on…?”

Skadi, who was sitting in Yujin Kang’s seat, strangely hung her tail.

In fact, the partnership for the thesis has already ended a long time ago.

It was just last week that I sent the sorted data to Veritas.

She came here to ask about Kang Yu-jin’s three formulas, but she just sat there because he wasn’t there.

“That…the old man, what did you say was going on here?”

The voice referring to Mason was quite friendly.

As she is an outstanding mage, she has a deep relationship with the Mage Tower, and it is because she was acquainted with Mason, the owner of the tower.

“Kuhmm. I have something to do with Professor Yujin Kang. Regarding the three formulas.”

“Ah. What else am I saying? Ask me. I’ll tell you.”

“How are you? That’s Professor Yujin Kang’s formula.”

At that, Skadi grinned.

“Professor Yujin Kang taught me.”

“what···?”

“Professor Yujin Kang taught me.”

Did you just teach me that?

A noble formula worth a thousand gold?

“Hey, what’s your relationship with Professor Yujin Kang?”

“Uh… friend?”

Mason’s gaze narrowed.

“Don’t lie to me. You made friends.”

“Oh what! I have friends too!?”

“Who? Except for that poor Rochea.”

“·······.”

Of course, Skadi, who was about to say Roshua, avoided her gaze and buried her face in her tail.

“Ah, anyway! What are you curious about?”

“No matter how much you don’t know. I wanted to ask you about the complex and esoteric process of obtaining the record’s magical power.”

No matter how much formula you learned, it’s a rudimentary level workplace.

Mason did not think that Skadi would have the ability to use such a formula yet.

“Eh. What is it? The news from the old man is really slow.”

“Well?”

“It’s been a long time since I’ve been looking for record magic power, right?”

“what···?”

To the frozen Mason, Skadi showed a piece of paper.

On a piece of paper covered in mathematical formulas, everything from solutions to answers was written with the title ‘How to Calculate the Magical Flow of Records’.

“Professor Yujin Kang has already solved that.”

I taught it to all the other students and professors.

Mason’s body stiffened with Skadi’s voice as he added that.

Took.

The cane slipped from his hand and rolled on the floor.

*

The intersection of dimensions, its outskirts.

There, far from Helios, was a deserted mansion.

The mansion is cluttered with no servants.

It was the mansion of Dalton, the family of Andrei, who was the culprit of the monster attack not too long ago.

Everyone is busy during the exam period, but not as much as Jason.

I just locked the door and covered the window with a curtain, and stayed in a dark room.

In a messy place with a musty smell, Jason drank helplessly.

“Khehehehe… Damn it.”

After his father, Andrei von Dalton, died trying to summon the Witchbeast.

With the stigma that his family was in cahoots with the Witchbeast, the family’s prestige declined rapidly.

Due to the academy’s reconstruction and the reparation of the evil beast, the Dalton family was sitting in a huge pile of debt.

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Jason was also kicked out of the dormitory, and even if he had graduated, the stigma of being a traitor’s family would have blocked his career path.

Although he had paid the price for the atrocities of conspiring with the witch, he just resented Kang Yoo-jin.

Without him, I thought none of this would have happened…

“Kang Yujin… Kang Yujin…!”

The bottle he threw hit the wall and shattered.

As if his anger still didn’t ease, his drunken shoulders trembled with anger.

“I will avenge myself. No matter what happens… I will avenge you as much as I can…!”

Yujin Kang.

He cursed the name and opened the bottle.

The smell of alcohol wafting through the room intensified.

“Isn’t that an interesting story?”

“What, what!”

At that time, he was startled by a voice in the room and shouted.

In the wide, dark living room, there was a woman in a robe that hadn’t been there before.

“You…nu, who are you…”

“Isn’t that what’s important right now?”

The woman who smiled and replied stood in front of Jason.

“uuu~ The smell of defeat. The words of a loser are really terrible.”

“…Are you here to mock me?”

“That can’t be the case. Rather, I came to cheer you on.”

cheer?

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Jason raised his head curiously.

“what···?”

“Are you serious when you said that you would take revenge on Yujin Kang?”

“Kick. So. Is that a fake? My father died because of that child, and the family will collapse soon. I lost everything because of that professor!”

“Then tell me.”

The woman held out her hand to the screaming Jason.

At the tip of her slender fingers, there was a small jewel that glowed black.

“I have a good method, would you like to hear it?”

An eerie glow shone from within the hood.

Looking into those eyes, Jason nodded as if possessed.