It’s an Academic Fact That Rankers Are Model Students – Chapter 132

Chapter 132: Scientific Expansion of Farmland (1)

” I, I see. “

” Hahaha. “

” Hahaha. “

” Hehehe……. “

” Hehehe……. “

Whack!

” Ouch?! “

The team leader flicked Kim Bu-ha on the head.

” Stop giggling and gather everyone right now! Emergency meeting! “

” Y, Yes, sir! “

Kyung-joon, the best Irregular since the launch of The World.

And Ceram, the key figure in this first epic quest.

It was a situation where two storms might collide.

And under Murphy’s Law, where ominous predictions always come true, this prediction was also accurate.

Kim Bu-ha announced the emergency meeting via company email.

” Huh?! “

He double-checked the monitoring screen and shouted to the team leader.

” T, Team Leader! User Kyung-joon has started moving east! Towards Ceram! “

The team leader didn’t ask ‘Why?’.

Rather, he had an expression as if he had expected it.

” Tsk……! It’s not even surprising anymore! Why is the guy who’s expanding his farm suddenly moving? “

” W, Well…… Huh?! “

” What is it with you and ‘huh’ all the time?! “

From past experience, Kim Bu-ha’s 『Huh?!』 was actually an omen.

An omen that something crazy was about to happen.

Sure enough, Kim Bu-ha shouted.

” He is expanding his farm! But he’s moving east while plowing the land! Like a bulldozer, no, a living earthquake! “

” W, What? A bulldozer? A living earthquake……? What in the world are you talking about? “

The team leader, dumbfounded by the nonsensical words, had no choice but to check the monitoring screen himself.

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[Deposit Account (Sales): 268.5 million liyan]

※Will be settled tomorrow on the 6th (Consignment fee 10%)

About three weeks have passed since World’s Best began consigning and selling Kyung-joon’s bread.

Sales have long since exceeded 200 million liyan.

In terms of daily sales, it’s almost 1 billion liyan!

Just from the bakery business, he was making 300 million liyan, or 30 million won, per month.

Of course, 2/3 of this is expected to be spent on residents’ salaries.

In addition, considering the territory maintenance costs such as Energy Tower, fences, houses, and farm equipment, it seems like a little more will be spent, but fortunately, it wasn’t much.

[The building is imbued with the energy of the earth spirit.]

▶Restores 5% durability per minute

Thanks to Mod infusing it with the energy of the earth, there was no need for repairs unless it was severely damaged in the first place.

This way, he made money and developed the territory.

First, the task of replacing all Energy Towers in the territory with Improved Energy Towers.

Of course, all of this was accomplished by the residents under the leadership of Kyung-joon.

“Lord! I have finished installing all the cooling units you mentioned in the Energy Tower!”

“The test launch is also over… I’m rather worried because it’s too strong……”

“We’ve also finished replacing all those Magic Memory Stones with scrolls. I used to be quick at work.”

There was no need to go and check in person whether the residents had done their work properly because a status window popped up right in front of him.

[Upgrade to Improved Energy Tower is complete.]

▶Number of Improved Energy Towers installed: 479

[The security of the territory has been further enhanced.]

[Residents feel much more secure than before.]

[The average satisfaction of residents has increased by 17.]

[Residents are amazed by the performance of the Improved Energy Tower.]

[The average loyalty of residents has increased by 16.]

The improvement of the Energy Tower has also been completed.

No more worries about outside intruders!

There will be no more cases like BlackChef invading as he pleases.

It wasn’t just the performance of the Energy Tower that improved.

“Oh yeah, the cost-effectiveness is perfect. As expected, scroll and air conditioner technology is the best.”

The Improved Energy Tower no longer uses Magic Memory Stones, but rather Kyung-joon’s exclusive scrolls.

The efficiency, which was not bad in the first place, is expected to improve much further, which will greatly reduce maintenance costs.

The only problem was that the means of supplying the scrolls had not yet been determined……

<ᕦ (ò_óˇ)ᕤ>

<We have a lot of scrolls, so we don’t have to worry about maintenance costs for the time being.>

1,000 『Scroll Parchment: Kyung-joon style writing method』 made in Ezeri’s lab.

With one of these, 5,000 rounds can be loaded into the Energy Tower.

The monsters on the plains around here are not very strong, so most of them are taken care of with one bullet.

Therefore, since each tower shoots less than 50 rounds a day, in terms of simple calculation, one scroll per tower will last for at least several months.

Since there are about 500 towers, it means that the security costs of the territory for several months have been covered by only 500 scrolls.

It is truly the number one contributor to saving territory maintenance costs.

“Of course, the downside is that the scroll is not available anywhere.”

Scrolls could only be made with the Tree of Memory, which is only found in the Fairy-Elven Alliance.

<When the scrolls run out, there will be a gap in security. It’s a technology that cannot be replaced by Magic Memory Stone, so it won’t work at all.>

“Yeah. I’ll have to stop by the Fairy-Elven Alliance again before that.”

He had connections at the magic university, and they were the first to express their desire to be friends with him in the alliance and received gifts.

He’ll just have to stop by again during winter break and get some scrolls.

A little more time passed.

The Energy Tower improvement was finished, and he finished talking with the residents about the farm expansion.

“Okay. Let’s go expand the farm.”

“Let’s go!”

The production speed of the bakery system previously established is so fast that the supply of wheat will not be able to keep up at this rate.

“It’s a bottleneck here. Let’s cross over here.”

“Yes.”

“I think it would be good to build a bridge here. So that carriages can pass too.”

“I think so too.”

Splash. Swish.

Kyung-joon took the lead and crossed the river.

Since the river was close to the inside of the territory, they decided to turn all the existing wheat fields into rice fields.

So he’s going to build a wheat field outside the territory.

At the same time, if the bakery is moved to the outside along with the wheat farm and production begins, it will be closer to the road where carriages come and go, which is more advantageous.

‘No matter how much it’s a World’s Best carriage, it’s a bit too much to enter the territory as you please. Since it’s like this, why don’t we just divide the inner area and the outer area?’

It seemed like a good idea.

Only Kyung-joon or those permitted by Kyung-joon are allowed to enter the inner area of the territory.

Outsiders, including merchants, are to stay in the outer area of the territory.

‘Let’s call the inside of the territory the Inner City and the outside the Outer City.’

This creates a pretty good picture.

Inner City is where the key players of the territory, including Kyung-joon, study and research.

Then, the Outer City is an industrial complex that cooperates with the outside world to produce goods.

“This looks like a good place. Let’s tear this place down.”

To expand the farm, it was necessary to plow the bumpy and grassy plains once.

It wouldn’t take long since all 107 residents were mobilized.

One.

“Mod!”

Kyung-joon had a way to finish it much faster.

━Huue…!

[Mod says he’s going to try his best for the first time in a long time.]

It’s a way to use Mod, the spirit of the earth!

[Mod asks you if he can borrow some mana.]

“Okay, use it!”

[Gives mana to Mod indefinitely.]

Mod was about to use the ground-turning skill using Kyung-joon’s mana.

A ground-turning skill that can plow an average of 10 pyeong of land with 100 to 200 mana.

“Use it when you can, use it as much as you want when I tell you to!”

But what Mod didn’t know at this time was that the mana Kyung-joon gave him was not ordinary mana.

“Teemo!”

Before giving mana to Mod, Kyung-joon first gave it to Teemo.

Then, Teemo’s emoticon changes as follows.

<Calculating…….>

<Inputting the Lame coefficient into the Rayleigh wave equation assuming an isotropic, linear elastic material.>

<…….>

<Complete.>

<Engraving the R-wave’s mana-wave calculation formula into mana. I will pass the mana engraved with the calculation formula to Mod.>

<ㄱ_ㄱ!>

Wooong!

The mana processed once through Teemo was immediately delivered to Mod.

━Huue…?

Mod wondered what Teemo and Kyung-joon had done to the mana just now.

However, he soon thought it would be just ordinary mana and used the ground-turning skill as it was.

Then, an earthquake occurred.

A powerful earthquake that literally turns the ground upside down.

[Created Unique skill 『R-wave』.]

[100 hours are charged during Dimensional Study Room time.]

Boom boom boom!

The embedded stone explodes with a bang! and breaks into pieces.

The soil a few meters below rises upward as if a landmine is exploding.

The plain of lush grass is turned upside down in a mess, and it’s a complete mess.

Boom boom boom!

After a powerful earthquake engulfed everything in front of it in a fan shape.

Whisper.

Only the well-chosen black soil was revealed, along with the thick dust.

The pretty plains of the past were nowhere to be found.

━Huue?

[Mod is speechless as to what he just did.]

“It’s okay. Mod is doing a great job. I just tweaked it a bit for my convenience.”

━Huue.

[Mod is speechless.]

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In the past, watching the residents till the virgin soil for rice farming, he thought,

“This efficiency is terrible.”

So, he pondered how to easily till the land with magic, and what he came up with was 『seismic waves』.

‘Typically, you only learn about two types of seismic waves in high school.’

『Fast but weak P-waves』 and 『slow but powerful S-waves』.

P-waves are commonly known as aftershocks, and S-waves as the main earthquake.

However, Kyung-joon, of course, had completed not only high school but also his freshman year of university.

Moreover, Kyung-joon had consulted various advanced books whenever necessary.

Having completed such unprecedented in-depth & advanced studies, Kyung-joon knew that there were more than just those two types of seismic waves.

‘It’s called the R-wave (Rayleigh wave).’

The truly terrifying earthquake isn’t the S-wave.

The S-wave is nothing compared to the R-wave.

Among the various seismic waves, the 『slowest but most terrifying wave』 is the R-wave.

While other seismic waves simply shake the ground up and down or back and forth, the R-wave takes it a step further.

It literally tears the ground apart by rotating the surface and the layer just beneath it in opposite directions!

You might have seen the surface of a rough sea churning white as it gets tossed around.

Imagine that happening on land.

KWA-KWA-KWA!

” Ah…… Ah……! “

Thud!

The residents witnessed Kyung-joon manipulating the earthquake and fell to their knees.

” W, When you said you’d till the land yourself, my lord, I wondered how……. “

” To think you can control the very disasters of the earth……. “

” I knew you commanded the earth spirit, but I never imagined it would be to this extent……. “

” The earth spirit is supposed to be a gentle and patient spirit, is it not……? “

” G, Gentle…… That’s a spirit of destruction……! “

” Spirit of destruction! “

[The residents are terrified of you and your spirit.]

[Territory satisfaction is sufficiently high. Fear transforms into awe.]

[Average loyalty of the residents has increased by 5.]

[The unique title 『Spirit of Destruction』 has been created for Mod.]

[Mod’s notoriety has increased by 10.]

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