It’s an Academic Fact That Rankers Are Model Students – Chapter 40

Chapter 40: How Did He Study So Well That Rumors Spread Like This? (2)

“Since I’ve studied general chemistry, let’s try making a study lamp.”

And he was talking about a lamp that helps with concentration.

<A study lamp? But how is that related to general chemistry?>

“You know about electron energy levels, right? How they emit different colors of light.”

Something they learned at the beginning of general chemistry.

Every time the energy level of an electron changes, light of a different color is emitted.

Kyung-joon planned to make a lamp that shines a specific color using this principle.

<Ah, that’s what you meant! But what does the color of light have to do with concentration?>

“I saw it in a drama. SKY Castle, remember I told you about it?”

Last time, when arranging the desk and chair, he had also utilized the knowledge from that drama.

This time was no different.

“The intensity and color of light. These two things are surprisingly important when studying.”

It’s a well-known fact that it’s good to have bright light when studying.

Conversely, it’s not good if it’s too bright either.

If it’s too bright, it’ll just hurt your eyes.

The right amount of light intensity was important.

<How bright is “just right”?>

This was important.

He couldn’t make a proper lamp just by saying ‘just right’ without a standard.

Of course, Kyung-joon knew the exact figures.

“400 to 500 lux is the perfect brightness for studying. And 700 to 1,000 lux is good for when you’re making something.”

Lux was the unit for measuring light intensity (brightness).

As such, even a trivial thing like light had a different appropriate brightness for each task.

“And 70 lux is appropriate when sleeping, and about 150 lux is comfortable for the living room so your eyes don’t get tired.”

<I see. Then we need to make it so that the brightness can be freely adjusted up to 1,000 lux.>

“Yeah. Being able to increase or decrease it in 50 lux increments should be enough.”

After brightness, it was the color of the light.

What on earth does the color of light have to do with studying?

This could be compared to food.

If the brightness of the light was like choosing between Chinese, Japanese, Western, or Korean food, then the color of the light was like choosing what to eat from the menu of the cuisine you chose.

For example, if you chose Chinese food, would you eat jajangmyeon or jjambbong?

And in studying, the menu meant the subject.

“For subjects that require concentration, like math or physics, blue light of 8,000 Kelvin is good. For memorization-heavy subjects like Korean history or biology, 4,000 Kelvin white light is good. And for creative learning like music or art, 2,200 Kelvin red light maximizes study efficiency.”

Here, Kelvin was the unit representing ‘color temperature’, which expresses color as a temperature.

Kyung-joon, while studying the quantum mechanics part of general chemistry this time, had completely grasped both the principles and the numbers, like how much energy was needed to implement those color temperatures and how to do it.

Now that he knew the principles and the exact figures, all that was left was to actually implement the knowledge in his head.

Of course, this was the most troublesome part.

“I know all the principles, but I’m stuck when it comes to actually implementing it. First, what do I need…… Right, a material that emits light. I need to find that first.”

A material that emits light on its own, like the sun.

In other words, he needed a luminous body.

In reality, there were many options like the filament of a light bulb or LEDs, but this was a fantasy game world.

Such convenient products of civilization didn’t exist here.

Instead, there were magic and various other mysterious items.

<If you’re looking for a luminous body, there’s one thing that comes to mind.>

“Oh, really? What is it?”

<There are things called Shards. They are usually obtained from spirits. Among them, the ones that emit light are probably the Fire Shard and the Light Shard.>

Shard.

It refers to a crystal in which the energy of a spirit is condensed.

The way to obtain it is simple.

As the name suggests, you can get it directly from a spirit.

Of course, it wasn’t easy.

Spirits are beings that rarely reveal themselves to humans.

Whether you catch them or ask them, you have to meet a spirit first, which was the biggest problem.

If only it were easy to find spirits.

For this reason, shards were treated as precious magic materials.

Even the shard of a Low-rank spirit was basically Rare grade.

Naturally, as you go up to Mid-rank and High-rank, they become even rarer, and in most cases, there are no items on the market and you can’t buy them even with money.

“Spirits? Then I can get one right now.”

Of course, this didn’t apply to Kyung-joon.

Kyung-joon immediately used his Spirit Skill to summon Bangwool.

[Rare Skill 『Summon Water Spirit (Lv.3)』 ]

Originally, the skill level was 1, but while he was in the Contaminated Underground Villa, he kept using Water Shield, and it had risen to 3 before he knew it.

Bangwool greeted Kyung-joon with a splash of water.

━Mumul!

[Bangwool expresses his joy, saying it’s been a week.]

Bangwool jumped onto Kyung-joon’s thigh and rubbed his body against him.

Every time he did, Kyung-joon’s pants got wetter and wetter.

It was as if he had wet himself like a child.

‘Well, he is a Water Spirit. It’s cool and nice.’

“Yeah, yeah. Nice to see you, nice to see you.”

Kyung-joon petted Bangwool without a care in the world, even as his pants got wetter.

As he did, his affinity increased slightly, as usual.

[Water attribute affinity has increased by 1.]

[Water attribute affinity: 65→66]

After interacting with Bangwool for a while, Kyung-joon spoke.

“Bangwool, like how you introduced me to Mod last time, can you introduce me to a Fire Spirit or a Light Spirit?”

When he tried to get quartz last time, Bangwool had introduced him to Mod and helped him a lot.

This time, Kyung-joon was thinking of getting introduced to a Fire Spirit or a Light Spirit through Bangwool.

However, Bangwool’s reaction was completely unexpected.

━Mumul……!

[Bangwool is throwing a fit, saying the only good Fire Spirit is a dead Fire Spirit.]

“Huh? You two don’t get along?”

━Mumul!

[Bangwool says it’s important so he’s saying it again.]

━Mumul!

[Bangwool emphasizes that the only good Fire Spirit is a dead Fire Spirit.]

“You two really don’t get along.”

And it seemed like they really didn’t get along.

It was like watching sworn enemies.

Considering Water and Fire were opposing elements, it wasn’t a reaction he couldn’t understand.

“Then what about a Light Spirit?”

If a Fire Spirit wasn’t possible, a Light Spirit would suffice.

Unfortunately, Bangwool shook his head.

━Mumul, mul..

[Bangwool says he doesn’t know Light Spirits well because he hasn’t met many.]

“After the enemy, and now he doesn’t even know them.”

<While Water and Fire are incompatible, Water and Light have no relationship at all, so maybe that’s why.>

“That’s true. When I think of Water and Light, nothing much comes to mind. No, wait…… Now that I think about it, that’s not entirely true, is it?”

Water and Light weren’t completely unrelated.

Rainbows are formed when sunlight is refracted by water droplets, and the reason ice appears transparent is because of ‘mie scattering’ caused by water molecules, as he learned in Physics 1.

For reference, the reason the sky looks blue is because of ‘Rayleigh scattering’.

If science was like this, Kyung-joon thought that there must be some kind of relationship between the two elements in magic as well.

“Maybe wizards haven’t discovered it yet because they just assumed the two were unrelated?”

<That’s a possibility. I hadn’t thought of it that way.>

“I bet there are some interesting things to uncover if we dig deeper. Should we study it properly sometime?”

After obtaining the Venom Grimoire, Kyung-joon had developed a taste for studying magic itself.

Of course, his school studies were the priority.

🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷

He also asked Mod if he knew any Fire Spirits or Light Spirits.

Naturally, he didn’t get any good results.

Therefore, the next method Kyung-joon chose was the Player Auction House.

“If there aren’t any, I can just buy one…… is a fail.”

He had confidently opened the Auction House status window and started searching, but he couldn’t find any listed items.

<I heard that production job classes like alchemists usually go directly to guilds or merchants to buy materials in bulk. They don’t use the Player Auction House much.>

Now that he thought about it, it made sense.

The Player Auction House.

It had the advantage of being accessible anytime and anywhere, but the commission fee was a whopping 30%.

Unless it was an item that was always in demand regardless of person or place, like potions or food, people didn’t usually list items on the Player Auction House.

If there was a definite demand despite the inflated price due to the extremely high 30% commission fee, then maybe, but Shards, which were only purchased by a very small percentage of production job classes, were not like that.

In the first place, there weren’t many production job class players who could handle Shards yet.

<Village Transfer Guidance>

▼Usher (NPC)

And so he arrived here.

Kyung-joon was planning to leave Beginner’s Village and go to ‘Plovdiv’, the city of merchants and trade.

Plovdiv, the center of trade in the Southern Continent.

Of course, it was a week away by carriage.

“But don’t worry. With the appearance of players, a mysterious thing called the Warp Gate has also appeared. Look, that’s it over there.”

The Usher pointed to a giant oval-shaped Warp Gate.

According to the Usher, the Warp Gate was like a blessing bestowed by the God of the World along with the players.

No wizard had yet been able to unravel the principles of the Warp Gate.

They could only use it.

Until the Warp Gate appeared, the inhabitants of the world had to travel everywhere by carriage.

“As it happens, a Warp to Plovdiv opens in about an hour. Would you like to use it?”

“Yes. How much is the fee?”

“The Plovdiv Warp Ticket costs 1.5 million Liyan for a one-way trip.”

“1.5 million? Why so expensive?”

It took less than 10 seconds to travel, so it was very convenient, but the price was too high.

He was sure he had heard that other regions were much cheaper.

“It can’t be helped because Plovdiv is far away. Other places only require one or two Mana Cubes, but Plovdiv consumes at least ten. The Mana Cube manufacturing method is quite tricky, you see.”

“Hmm, then how much is it by carriage?”

“If you’re using a carriage, it’s 50,000 Liyan per day of travel. It usually takes about 6 to 7 days, so it’s about 300,000 Liyan.”

“One-fifth the price. But that’s not exactly cheap either.”

“The distance is the distance, after all.”

“Hmm.”

He wasn’t short on money.

Thanks to selling the chair and the bread, Kyung-joon currently had over 100 million Liyan.

He could pay 1.5 million Liyan right away.

‘But 1.5 million Liyan is 15,000 won in real money. That’s a shame. Should I just take the carriage?’

Come to think of it, it wasn’t that urgent.

It would take a week to get there by carriage, but he could just study while on the carriage.

‘It’s a bit unfortunate that I won’t have the Study Villa buff, but I can raise tenacity and calculation ability with bread anyway. It’ll be fine even if my creativity is a bit lacking.’

Kyung-joon decided to study subjects where creativity wasn’t very important while on the carriage and came to a conclusion.

“Then I’ll just take the carriage.”

“Yes, I understand. If you’re going by carriage, you can go talk to Mr. Wagon over there. He’ll tell you the departure date and you can pay him directly.”

Kyung-joon followed the Usher’s guidance and headed towards where Wagon was.

Soon, a name came into view.

<World’s Best Guild>

▼Wagon (NPC)

“Excuse me, I was guided here. Is this the right place for the carriage to Plovdiv?”

“Ah, yes. That’s right. My name is Wagon, and I’m in charge of distribution for Beginner’s Village as part of the World’s Best Guild.”

“My name is Kyung-joon.”

“Hm?”

Upon hearing Kyung-joon’s brief self-introduction, Wagon reacted instantly.

“Did you just say Kyung-joon?”

“Yes, Kyung-joon.”

“Ah! As expected!”

[The effect of the Regional Title (Unique) 『One Who Reaches for the Rainy Sky』 is applied.]

[You will receive better treatment from Wagon.]

[The effect of the Regional Title (Unique) 『Hero of Beginner’s Village』 is applied.]

[You are welcomed as the hero who saved the village.]

[Affinity with Wagon has increased by 50.]

“It’s truly an honor to meet you! Hero!”

Wagon suddenly bowed 90 degrees to Kyung-joon and greeted him with great enthusiasm.

Then, he turned his head back and shouted.

“Hey! Everyone come here! Kyung-joon-nim is here in person!”

“What? Kyung-joon-nim is here?!”

“Really?”

“Where, where?”

Wagon’s guildmates came rushing over and lined up next to him.

“Is it really Kyung-joon-nim?”

“Uh, um…… Well……”

Kyung-joon awkwardly agreed.

Then their faces brightened up…….

[ Intimacy with Duncan increased by 50. ]

[ Affinity with George increased by 50. ]

[ Affinity with Matthew increased by 50. ]

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“Wow! We never expected to meet the hero who saved our jobs here!”

“Thank you so much for protecting Beginner’s Village!”

“Thanks to you, we can continue working like this!”

“Huh?”

Before Kyung-joon could even ask what was going on, they started reaching out their hands.

“Please, shake my hand!”

“Me too, please!”

“Me three!”

A sudden onslaught of countless handshake requests!

Kyung-joon couldn’t help but be greatly embarrassed by the ‘mass handshake request,’ which he was experiencing for the second time in his life.

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