It’s an Academic Fact That Rankers Are Model Students – Chapter 244

Chapter 244: Anti-Scroll Magic Tool

“Everyone! Grab one of the rods Zot brought and throw them evenly!”

Wheeew! Wheeew! Wheeew!

At Kyung-joon’s cry, dozens of rods – Anti-Scroll Magic Tools – flew in a parabola.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

As soon as they hit the ground.

Woong! Woong! Woong!

It created colorful fields everywhere.

[Anti-Scroll Magic Tool 『Movement Weakening』 Activated.]

[Anti-Scroll Magic Tool 『Regeneration Weakening』 Activated.]

[Anti-Scroll Magic Tool 『Attack Power Weakening』 Activated.]

[Anti-Scroll Magic Tool 『Confusion Induction』 Activated.]

[Anti-Scroll Magic Tool 『Probability Hardening』 Activated.]

[Anti-Scroll Magic Tool 『Probability Electrocution』 Activated.]

[Anti-Scroll Magic Tool 『Probability Stun』 Activated.]

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[Activated only on target 『Virus Zombie』.]

━Keeek──! Where the hell did they come from──── Now even scouts──── This is really how the world works──── What a mess───!

All sorts of debuffs that could be imagined began to be inflicted on the Virus Zombies.

“If it’s like this……”

Kyung-joon looked at the movements of the Virus Zombies and roughly estimated their level.

‘If it’s like this, I don’t have to make Edict the second bomber……’

The Virus Zombies had become tougher as they went up the floors, similar to how the magic towers conducted more secretive and confidential research on the higher floors.

However, they were still residents of the Fairy-Elven Alliance, so they couldn’t be treated harshly unless permission to kill was granted.

It was more difficult to treat them without seriously injuring them than to aim for killing.

However, now that they had been weakened by the Anti-Scroll Magic Tools that Zot had brought.

“……Everyone! Do it like we did on the first floor!”

They could proceed as they had when they first captured the first floor.

What that meant was.

━’quick’!!

It could be cleared in about 10 seconds.

Shasha!

The Fael University group disappeared in an instant with a bright light near their Achilles tendons.

When they reappeared.

Fwoosh! Fwoosh! Fwoosh!

Syringes were stuck in the cervical vertebrae of most of the Virus Zombies.

Wooong!

The imprints of pills and syringes engraved on the zombies’ necks by the injection.

It started to shine brightly.

Crackle! Crackle!

Soon, it began to purify the zombies.

Zombies, which would not have been cured at once, soon began to regain their clear elf skin or sparkling fairy wings.

“Oh, what is this? This isn’t just a debuff, is it?”

Kyung-joon was so surprised that he seemed to have a mixture of admiration and wonder on his usually expressionless face.

Without hiding those feelings at all.

“That’s amazing.”

Kyung-joon stared intently at Zot.

“Gasp…… Huff……”

Zot, who ended up facing it, eventually.

“Of course…… Haha……”

He burst out laughing.

Yeah, that face.

Not anger.

Not jealousy.

Not even envy.

The highest praise that only those who have climbed up can give to those above.

It was recognition.

After all.

“Who made this…… Haha……”

It was the face that Zot had always wanted to see.

“Haha…… Hahaha…… Yeah…… I……!”

An elf child born as a promising youngest son of a prestigious family.

An elf boy in a magic academy who always came in first place when he was young, and even when he lost first place, he worked hard to reclaim it, and continued to succeed.

However.

An elf young man who entered the best university as a young man and only fostered a serpent’s heart, harboring envy and jealousy.

He eventually followed his serpent heart and sat down at the very bottom of the pitch-black floor.

Afterwards.

The one who was once an enemy and a target of hatred.

But for the first time in his life, he was truly accepted and recognized.

He was only 18 years old, and he was half-forced to be led out by the hand of an otherworlder.

Honestly.

He was still jealous and envious of talented people.

He felt strangely uncomfortable and wanted to trample them at the same time, but nothing had changed.

But he could say this for sure.

The scenery in front of him after climbing up from the pitch-black floor was.

“I, Zot Kalisberg, made it myself! Haha! Hahaha!!”

Definitely different from before.

🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷

After Zot, who was intoxicated with himself, calmed down for a while.

Kyung-joon asked Zot.

“How were you able to implement mine and apply it to a magic tool without me even telling you, and even further develop it?”

The 『Anti-Scroll Magic Tool』 that Zot made wasn’t just a debuff stick launcher.

Each and every pattern engraved on the stick was still very crude, but it was very similar in principle to Imprinting.

Moreover, when he looked into the mechanism of action in detail.

Basically, it was a method of directly 『hacking』 into the Mana Virus, which is based on scroll programming, to inflict debuffs.

This was a magic tool that could never be made without knowing scroll programming and Imprinting.

“Did you forget that I saw your memories when you entered me? At that time, I also learned a little bit about scroll programming.”

“Aha.”

Come to think of it, when Kyung-joon accessed Zot’s mind, Kyung-joon had peeked into Zot’s memories.

Then the opposite was also possible.

At that time, Zot also peeked into Kyung-joon’s memories, so it seemed that he had acquired knowledge at that time as well.

“And…… I’ve been studying scroll programming ever since I hated you so much.”

“Oh. You definitely showed signs of that.”

Kyung-joon recalled the memories of the 1st and 2nd presentations.

There were definitely many parts of the idea of the 『Anti-Scroll Magic Tool』 that Zot presented that could not be thought of without any knowledge of scroll programming.

“Oh.”

Kyung-joon stared at Zot with a rather proud expression.

“W, What’s with that look……”

Then Zot turned his head as if embarrassed.

“No, I’m just proud of you.”

“P, Proud! What kind of nonsense is that……! Wh, wh, what…… To defeat the enemy, you must first know the enemy! I just did it out of that kind of heart!”

“That’s why I’m proud of you.”

“Ugh……!”

Zot continued to avoid Kyung-joon’s gaze as if it was burdensome.

━Wow…… That Zot is like that……”

━Amazing……”

Scrollpia and the other Fael University students marveled at his reformed appearance.

“Haha. I’m kidding. I’m kidding. But by the way.”

Kyung-joon returned his expression to expressionless and continued speaking in a slightly serious voice.

“This stick, you definitely referenced 『those spears』, right?”

“Yeah. You noticed. I was going to laugh at you if you didn’t.”

At Kyung-joon’s question, Zot also answered in a low voice.

『Those spears』.

What the other Fael University students except for Zot had to tilt their heads in wonder at was 『the 72 and 1 spears that sealed the Demon King』.

“I couldn’t figure out the detailed structure, but…… I tried to make it in a way that would revive the feeling I felt at that time. And I got an A in the Sealing Magic Tool class.”

“Oh. You studied hard after all?”

“……Well, I’m not someone who doesn’t study. Even though all my other subjects are Bs and Cs.”

“Why don’t you tell me about the Ds and Fs you got?”

“Ugh…… You……!”

“Haha.”

Kyung-joon found it rather amusing to tease Zot.

Anyway.

There were three factors that allowed Zot to complete the Anti-Scroll Magic Tool in this way.

First, the idea of an anti-scroll magic tool that he had researched and studied in order to defeat Kyung-joon.

Second, the knowledge he had unwittingly inherited from Kyung-joon when their minds were linked.

And the 72 huge sealing spears and the one very huge sealing spear he had seen when he met the Demon King.

It was because of the combination of these three factors that this moment was possible.

In terms of probability, it was a very strange causality that would not even be a 0.00001% chance.

It was truly amazing.

“Then I’ll take the cured and awakened people downstairs. You guys go ahead and capture the 10th floor.”

Zot sat down next to the people who were lying down after receiving the vaccine, still out of breath.

“Huh? You’re not coming with us?”

He thought Zot would join them.

“I saw your fight for a bit. I don’t even know what that manual is, and if I get involved, you’ll have to rewrite it or something, right? My role is done with handing over the Anti-Scroll Magic Tool.”

Zot paused for a moment and yawned loudly.

Now that he looked at it, the bottom of his eyes were black as if he had put on soot.

“And honestly, I’m tired. I’m going to die of sleepiness.”

“Ah. I see.”

Purifying the black magic stone consumes more mental strength than expected.

That’s why the arliv and the others always fell into a deep sleep after Kyung-joon injected them with special fertilizer to purify them.

However, the arliv was a process of slow purification over a long period of time.

Zot was a very rapid process of purification in an instant with the help of the Demon King.

“Phew. Whew.”

Zot was trying his best to hold on, but if he let his guard down even a little, he would collapse and faint.

It was amazing that he was holding on like that and continued his research on the Anti-Scroll Magic Tool as soon as Kyung-joon left, and ran all the way here.

“Okay. I’ll leave it to you.”

“Yeah. Hurry up and finish it so we can talk about the damn salary negotiation or whatever.”

“Haha. Okay.”

They looked at each other and chuckled again.

It was a moment when a truly strange relationship was born.

🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷

“Phew! Finally, only the last 10th floor is left!”

Edict seemed pleased as he climbed the stairs, making a bit of a fuss.

Teclyn, who didn’t like it, elbowed Edict in the side.

“Be quiet and get your loosened tension back. We’re not done yet.”

“Come on! You saw the effect of the Anti-Scroll Magic Tool too. With that and Kyung-joon-nim, it’s all a piece of cake now! Right, Kyung-joon-nim?”

Edict immediately asked Kyung-joon, who was in front, for his agreement.

Strangely enough, Kyung-joon, like Edict, didn’t have a very nervous expression.

“Yes. I don’t think we need to worry too much. It looks like the permanent mana device, the cause of the virus, is reaching its limit.”

Kyung-joon, who had finished scouting the 10th floor by sending Teemo first as he had always done.

As he had done on the previous floors, after subduing and treating the Virus Zombies, he would destroy the Mana Virus source device located in the farthest corner of the 10th floor, and it would be over.

But destruction might be dangerous……”

“Before everyone does what they’ve been doing, as soon as we enter, throw the Anti-Scroll Magic Tools that Zot gave us at the device all at once.”

He decided to deal with it safely, taking inspiration from the sealed Demon King.

“I’ll mark the location on the status window now. Teemo.”

Ding!

“Oh. This is the place! Understood!”

━Understood!

Kyung-joon and the Fael University group finished their final preparations.

Perhaps after conquering this 10th floor, Kyung-joon and the students here would be praised as heroes who saved the capital.

Or they might receive the title of Svellum, which is said to be given directly by the the Fairy King, and so on……”

Everyone drew their own blueprints in their minds.

Creak.

They opened the door to the stairs.

“Let’s go!”

The moment they stepped inside.

“Huh?”

An unexpected sight greeted them.

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