It’s an Academic Fact That Rankers Are Model Students – Chapter 199

Chapter 199: Professor Kyung-joon

Pang! Pang! Pang!

Using 『Sylph Fly – Shadow Step』, Kyung-joon arrived in front of the Warp Gate faster than the wind.

Paang! Chuck!

“I have arrived.”

Kyung-joon bent his knees and stopped in an instant.

His hair in the game, which had grown past his shoulders, fluttered in the wind in a spiral shape.

<Intercity Travel Guide>

▼Usher (NPC)

“……!”

The Warp Gate staff member of Beginner’s Village was startled by Kyung-joon, who appeared in a flash, and was speechless for a moment.

Kyung-joon spoke first to him.

“One warp ticket to the Fairy-Elven Alliance, please.”

Afterward, from Beginner’s Village to Plovdiv, from Plovdiv to the Kingdom of Hispania, from the Kingdom of Hispania to the Humanity Kingdom, and from the Humanity Kingdom, Kyung-joon even met TikiTiki and had a brief conversation……

And so, crossing space and time, he finally arrived at the Fairy-Elven Magic Academy.

[The dense mana of the Fairy-Elven Magic Academy envelops your entire body.]

Sizzle.

The air, thick with mana that could only be felt at the Magic Academy, enveloped his entire body.

The mana density was such that an ordinary human would have collapsed from mana poisoning.

[Mana temporarily increased by 30%. The duration will continue to renew as long as you do not leave this area.]

But Kyung-joon was fine.

His intelligence and mana had increased significantly since his last visit, and the suffocating feeling of swimming underwater he had felt before was gone.

Instead, he was overflowing with a feeling of fullness, as if this was where his body should be.

“Phew. Ha.”

Kyung-joon took a deep breath, inhaling the fresh mana-filled air.

“The air is nice.”

<Sulfur dioxide 0.01ppm Carbon monoxide 7ppm Nitrogen dioxide 0.02ppm Fine dust 179㎍/㎥ Ozone 0.05ppm Lead 0.3㎍/㎥ Benzene 3㎍/㎥ Mana density 17,359ppm>

<Mana density is excellent, and all toxic gases are below the standard. However, fine dust is much higher than the standard of 50. The air itself is not bad, but it seems they are doing some construction somewhere. It’s dusty.>

“Hmm…… Maybe that’s not because of construction, but because of ‘that’?”

Kyung-joon shifted his gaze from the Warp Gate to right in front of him.

And there it was, a spectacle of war.

Fwoosh!

Boom! Boom!

Zap! Crackle!

Magic exploded everywhere, shining in various colors depending on its attributes, and the sound of mana colliding with mana could be heard here and there.

The Magic Academy, which could be seen beyond the Warp Gate, was in total chaos.

It was as if he had been dropped into the middle of a fierce battlefield.

But what was even stranger was that, despite the surrounding area being in complete chaos, the students on campus were going about their business as usual, without any sense of discomfort.

“Fly potato sticks for sale! 10 sticks for 5,000 liyan!”

“Honey, want some potato sticks?”

“Sure. Excuse me, 10 potato sticks, please.”

“Here you go. I threw in a few extra as a service. Be careful, they might run away!~”

Couples were buying thick, flying french fries, floating them around, and picking them up one by one to eat.

“What’s the highest point right now? I didn’t sign up for a faction, so I can’t see.”

“Hold on, let me check the status window…… Scrollpia 27,894 points, Page Rippers 20,012 points, Independents 12,375 points. Looks like the Page Rippers just passed 20,000 points.”

“Oh…… The Independents are doing unexpectedly well?”

Some were leisurely watching the students fight with magic and chatting amongst themselves.

“Fairy-Elven Toto! Fairy-Elven Toto! A jackpot to the person who guesses the closest point!”

“『35,000 : 25,000 : 20,000』 for 100,000 liyan!”

“I’ll go with 『40,000 : 30,000 : 25,000』 for 500,000 liyan!”

And still, others were betting money on some kind of game, like watching Toto on a soccer field.

The Magic Academy was in chaos, but it was a different kind of chaos.

Like, the end of a festival where everyone was going wild.

“What is this? Is it really a festival?”

Larev’s letter only said that the Magic Academy was in an uproar, but it didn’t say how it was in an uproar.

Kyung-joon decided to take a closer look.

Thump, thump.

“Huh?”

As he got closer to the chaos, he began to feel something.

It grew stronger the closer he got.

[Unique skill 『Multi Mana Control: Nano (Lv.5)』 ]

Kyung-joon immediately deployed his mana to see what it was.

Sizzle.

All the mana in front of Kyung-joon began to be visualized.

No, not just in front of his eyes.

Mana is felt with the whole body, not just the eyes.

Everything around him in 360 degrees that contained mana was being fully perceived by Kyung-joon.

“Ah, it’s too blurry.”

Of course, it wasn’t as clear as it would have been in other places without the dense mana air unique to the Fairy-Elven Magic Academy……

“Teemo. Filter out the mana air as a background using the formula we set up earlier.”

This too was not a problem.

The filtering formula was reconstructed from the airborne mana data Kyung-joon had obtained when he first entered the Magic Academy back in Volume 3.

<Mana Background Radiation removal ON.>

Whoosh.

As soon as the formula Teemo reconstructed was inputted into Kyung-joon’s mana circuit, the surroundings that had been blurred by mana cleared up in an instant.

And the opaque wall in front of him came into clear view.

“This is…… a barrier?”

Crackle. Crackle.

Every time Kyung-joon poked and prodded the opaque mana wall in front of him, the mana distorted randomly.

It was like when you pressed hard on a monitor and the screen went haywire.

As Kyung-joon continued to do so,

“Ah! Please don’t touch that! It’s dangerous to go any further!”

Suddenly, a fairy flew in from the distance.

The fairy slowed down and came to a fluttering stop between Kyung-joon and the opaque mana wall.

A large 『Safety Officer』 sash was slung diagonally across her shoulder.

The safety officer put her hands on her hips and admonished him.

“The inside is a Battleground booth, so there’s a mana barrier up. Didn’t you see the sign?”

Her tiny finger pointed to a sign that read 『Caution! Mana Barrier Deployed Ahead!』.

“Ah.”

Kyung-joon awkwardly ducked his head.

He hadn’t seen the sign for the domestic line when he was in line at Plovdiv, and he had made the same mistake here.

He was a little embarrassed, but at least he learned something new.

“So this is a mana barrier?”

Crackle. Crackle.

Kyung-joon continued to poke the mana barrier with his finger, then raised his head.

It was a huge dome-shaped mana barrier that encompassed a vast area, even into the air.

The safety officer looked a little surprised to see Kyung-joon observing the barrier with such fascination.

“Huh? Wait, can you see the mana barrier?”

“Yes. It’s covering the area from the Scroll Department tree over there to here in a dome shape.”

“You can see it all the way over there?”

“Yes. It gets a little blurry the further out it goes, but I can see most of it.”

Kyung-joon nodded matter-of-factly.

He was just saying what he saw.

“No way~ You’re just making this up. You probably just heard it from someone and are making it up as you go, right?”

But the safety officer didn’t seem to believe that Kyung-joon could see the mana barrier from that far away.

“No. I can see it passing between that building and the central warehouse next to it. And also……”

Kyung-joon pointed his finger here and there, adding evidence that he could actually see the mana barrier.

The fairy’s eyes grew wider and wider.

“Wow…… You really can see it…… Come to think of it, you didn’t seem to bump into it or anything when you got here……”

People with poor mana perception often bump into the mana barrier as they walk around the campus, like they’re bumping into invisible glass.

For example, human and dwarf exchange students, or beastkin who came to work as staff.

But this human man didn’t seem like that at all.

Rather, he was poking and prodding the mana barrier with a look on his face like he was admiring its craftsmanship.

‘This is strange……?’

The safety officer fairy felt something was strange.

She was a safety officer, responsible for the safety of the campus.

If the man in front of her was suspicious, she had to apprehend him.

‘If I ask him to show me his student ID right away, he might react violently……’

She narrowed her eyes slightly and asked Kyung-joon in a somewhat interrogative tone.

“Aren’t you human?”

“I am human.”

“What? You’re human, and you can sense mana from that far away?”

Even if he was a student at the Fairy-Elven Magic Academy, it was almost unheard of for a human to be able to sense mana from that distance.

Fairies themselves were made of mana, so maybe they could, but even elves, a race blessed with mana, would have to be exceptionally talented from birth or have a great deal of experience to be able to sense mana from that distance.

But a human doing that?

It was unbelievable.

“Well…… I don’t mean to denigrate you as a human, but it’s true that humans aren’t blessed with mana. Especially compared to fairies and elves.”

Humans were better than beastkin when it came to mana, but they were still about the same level as dwarves.

For a human to show this level of mana perception, it meant one of two things.

Either he wasn’t human.

Or he was a very special human.

“Hmm……”

Kyung-joon, being perceptive, sensed that the atmosphere had taken a strange turn.

He was being suspected as a suspicious person.

It wasn’t like this when he came here before, but it seemed that security had been tightened since the Mutated Minto Morco incident.

In times like this, the longer he spoke, the more disadvantageous it would be.

Swoosh.

“Here.”

Kyung-joon immediately took out something from his inventory that would put an end to the suspicion.

[Sever’s Honorary Professor Badge]

▶This is a professor’s badge given to professors of the Fairy-Elven Magic Academy. With this, you can move freely around the campus.

▶Item Grade: Rare

What he took out was Sever’s professor badge, which he had obtained after clearing the Contaminated Underground Villa during summer vacation.

“Ah……! That’s right! There was that case! I apologize! I didn’t even recognize you as a professor!”

As soon as she saw it, the safety officer fairy was startled and flapped her wings, backing away a few steps.

She waved her hand at Kyung-joon, as if she was being too much.

“You should have told me from the beginning~ Why are you bullying the students like that~ Hehe~”

She fluttered around in front of Kyung-joon, acting somewhat coy.

It wasn’t this bad when he showed it to TikiTiki and Professor Frankel, who was also a beastkin.

Kyung-joon whispered softly to Teemo, so that only he could hear.

“….This is unexpectedly a big deal, being a professor, isn’t it?”

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