It’s an Academic Fact That Rankers Are Model Students – Chapter 255

Chapter 255: Engineering Nietzsche

Fairy-Elven Alliance, deep, deep underground.

What Kyung-joon found in the abyss was none other than a computer.

There it was, a state-of-the-art computer with a monitor, a main body, a keyboard and mouse, and all sorts of input and output devices.

” Now I know why my ancestor wrote down something about a brown-eared bulbul on a txt file. This is amazing. “

It was hard to believe that there was a computer in World, a fantasy game world.

If it had just been a real computer here, he would have just accepted it.

But this was no ordinary computer made of mere science and engineering.

” The inside looks completely different from the CPUs and GPUs I’ve seen in reality…… and I feel mana inside……? “

Highly refined and organized mana was felt inside the computer.

A magic engineering computer that combines not only science and engineering but also magic.

The essence of magic engineering that can only be realized by mastering science and engineering to some extent and magic as well.

That’s what Kyung-joon was looking at right now.

Whooong.

As Kyung-joon pressed what he assumed to be the power button on the main body, a blue light began to emanate from it.

『Quantum Magic-Engineering Computer ver1.0.3』

” Quantum Magic-Engineering Computer……? What, is this a quantum computer? “

Kyung-joon, with his eyes unusually wide open for once.

” Wow…… A technology that hasn’t even been properly commercialized in reality is here in World…… “

Quantum computer.

A dream computer that can solve problems in seconds that would take hundreds of years for conventional electronic computers to calculate.

It was right in front of him, not yet commercialized in reality.

It was linked to ‘magic’.

‘……No, come to think of it, it might already be a commercialized technology at Seolha Group. To implement a perfect artificial intelligence MMORPG game like The World, honestly, it would be impossible even with hundreds of supercomputers in reality, but if we assume that quantum computers are already commercialized at Seolha Group…… Yeah, that makes sense.’

Kyung-joon had all sorts of speculations.

But whatever the speculation, there was something else he had to do right now.

” First, this quantum magic computer. “

Kyung-joon put aside his thoughts for a moment and concentrated on the loading of the monitor screen.

『OS-World98 now loading……』

『Success!』

『Welcome! My descendant, Muhanhan Jisig-ui Tamguja!』

” Haha. “

Kyung-joon laughed hollowly as he saw the words Infinite Knowledge Seeker written in Korean pronunciation.

Click.

Click, click.

He moved the mouse and looked around the screen.

” It’s almost the same as the real Windows…… Found it. CMD. “

Kyung-joon clicked on CMD (Command Prompt) to open the window, and then.

Tada, tada, tada.

He quickly began to tap on the keyboard.

The sentence to be typed had already been decided 700 years ago.

It was the sentence that the previous Infinite Knowledge Seeker had written down with the current Kyung-joon in mind.

『C:\Users\Huma\Documents\brown-eared bulbul\If_successor_is_otherworlder.txt』

The ancestor had gone to such lengths to leave this behind for his otherworlder descendant.

This might be the way to break free from the fate that had already been sealed by death.

Clack!

Without hesitation, Kyung-joon immediately pressed enter.

Pat!

Then, the text that the ancestor had left for his descendant – Kyung-joon – popped up!

As soon as Kyung-joon saw it, within 10 seconds.

” Puhahaha! This is really messed up! Puhahaha! Puhahahahahaha! “

He burst into uncontrollable laughter.

🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷

Back to the Kyung-joon Special Management Team.

After simply throwing away the USB containing the wide-area monitoring legendary skill 『World Monitoring』, which only a few people in the Seolha Group had.

” Secretary Oh. Play it back. “

” Yes, sir. “

Secretary Oh and Chairman Yoo were replaying the video of Kyung-joon that they had been monitoring for at least 10 seconds.

Meanwhile, Team Leader Jo and Kim Bu-ha were doing something else.

” Team Leader, what do you think that place is? “

” Well…… Judging by the location where the monitoring was caught, it’s definitely the basement of the royal palace in Favengarden, the capital of the Fairy-Elven Alliance, but I’ve never heard of such a thing…… Have you translated it? “

” Uh, well…… First of all, it’s not English, German, or French. I’ll keep trying. “

Team Leader Jo and Kim Bu-ha, who had been searching the company’s database.

Team Leader Jo was investigating what the underground ruins where Kyung-joon was filmed were.

Kim Bu-ha was trying to translate the phrase Kyung-joon had written on the floor before he jumped down.

” Hmm…… It’s not Greek, it’s not Italian…… I’ve tried all the Indo-European languages, but it’s not…… Ah! “

Suddenly, an idea occurred to Kim Bu-ha.

” Could it be a language spoken in World? “

” What? World uses Korean, what are you talking about? “

” That’s the common language, isn’t it? I heard that 700 years ago, humans and other races had their own languages…… Ah, ah! That reminds me of something else! Kyung-joon user, didn’t he learn all sorts of languages from Ceram?! “

” That’s it! Elvish! It’s the Fairy-Elven Alliance, so try translating it into Elvish! There should be some World language related stuff stored in the database! “

” Ah! I found it! Database! There’s a file from around 2025 that summarizes and reports on World’s own languages! “

” Yes! There should be at least some translation sequences in there! I’ll take a screenshot of what Kyung-joon wrote and send it to you, so try running the translation sequence! “

” Yes, sir! “

Tada! Tada, tada, tada!

Kim Bu-ha began to frantically operate his computer.

” Chairman. “

” Yes. “

Naturally, Chairman Yoo and Secretary Oh began to gather around him.

And not long after.

” Translation complete! “

Clack!

Kim Bu-ha immediately pressed enter without hesitation.

Pat!

Then, the text that Kyung-joon had left for them popped up!

『Kīii bāteelleeēe see aaavēē môoôônstaal dvar feēeeiiīir aateēēnshoon neēee dveēeenīiir sēēlf môôônstāal eeen bāteēel.

(Elvish → Korean)

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster in the process.』

” This is…… Nietzsche, isn’t it? “

” Yes…… It is, isn’t it……? “

Kim Bu-ha nodded, saying he had seen it before, in response to Team Leader Jo’s reaction.

This was a sentence about the abyss written by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in his book 『Beyond Good and Evil』.

It was a famous and cool sentence, but it was also a very ordinary one.

Just as everyone was about to be disappointed.

” Wait a minute…… Isn’t this a little different from the Elvish in the database? “

Chairman Yoo narrowed his eyes and picked something out with his eagle eyes.

” Th, th…… This guy has Chinese tone pronunciation marks in the middle of some of the words, and there are a lot of unnecessary syllable repetitions like typos. Look at this. This doesn’t exist in the original Elvish. “

Chairman Yoo pointed his finger at the two windows displayed on the screen, as if to compare them.

” Oh? Is that right? “

Team Leader Jo agreed with wide eyes.

Kim Bu-ha, who had the same expression, said.

” Ah……! I’ve seen something like this while monitoring! I saw it often when Kyung-joon was learning fairy language from Ceram! Fairy language uses the pitch and intensity of mana to further refine the meaning, and I heard that they use these strange marks above the words to express that in writing! Please wait a moment! I’ll translate it right away! “

Tada, tada, tada!

This time, Kim Bu-ha changed the setting to fairy language and ran the translation sequence again.

Pat!

Then, above the window that had just appeared, the same sentence as before appeared, but with a completely different translation.

『Kīii bāteelleeēe see aaavēē môoôônstaal dvar feēeeiiīir aateēēnshoon neēee dveēeenīiir sēēlf môôônstāal eeen bāteēel

(Fairy language → Korean)

But if the monster I was fighting was myself, I would not hesitate to choose to become a monster.』

” …… “

Silence fell, as it had when Kyung-joon had jumped down.

A heavy silence, different from then, a cold, sinking feeling.

” ……?? “

Kim Bu-ha, who knew nothing about it, could only tilt his head repeatedly, unable to speak.

However.

Chairman Yoo and Secretary Oh, and Team Leader Jo, who had some idea of what was going on, were different.

They knew the weight of the current situation and remained silent.

The first person to break the heavy silence was Chairman Yoo, the highest-ranking person present.

” Huh, huh, huh. “

Chairman Yoo began to laugh softly.

” Um…… Yoo Geun-chul Chairman……? “

Kim Bu-ha happened to catch a glimpse of Chairman Yoo’s eyes as he laughed.

They weren’t really amused eyes.

Rather, they were burning coldly, like a martial artist who had found an object of revenge.

But it wasn’t murderous intent.

There was no burning emotion in it to be called anger or hatred.

Was he sad?

Or was he envious?

Or maybe he was completely emotionless.

In the end.

In those indescribable, creepy eyes.

” Hick……?!”

Thud!

Kim Bu-ha let out a yelp and plopped down on his butt.

But no one could afford to pay attention to him.

In that strange space.

Chairman Yoo said.

” So, I’ve created a monster. “

The one who should be careful not to become a monster while fighting monsters from now on.

It was not Kyung-joon, but Chairman Yoo.

It was the entire Seolha Group.

🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷

Two weeks later.

Somewhere deep underground in Vladivostok.

Zzt. Zzzt.

From there came the sound of all sorts of welding.

Clang! Clang! Claaang!

The sound of hammering.

Zzt! Zzzt!

Whirr! Whirr!

” Damn it. The alignment is off by 0.07mm. It’s inconvenient without Teemo. But once I get this done…… “

Kyung-joon, who was building some kind of huge electronic device entirely by hand, with minimal mechanical assistance.

A huge donut-shaped mechanical device, so large that it seemed to encircle the entire underground, which was larger than a schoolyard.

This was a particle accelerator that could create new materials.

What Kyung-joon was trying to create using this was.

” Okay. This accelerator should be able to create at least a micro black hole. “

A miniature black hole.

Swipe.

Kyung-joon wiped the sweat from his forehead.

It wasn’t just sweat, but blood from the burst blood vessels, but he didn’t seem to mind.

” Wow. This is like a Zerg creep or something. It’s a total inferno. “

Because the surrounding floor was already soaked in dark red blood.

Thump. Thump.

Kyung-joon’s entire body was already red with blood.

Cancer cells were forming, and as soon as they did, they were destroyed and healed again, and as an aftereffect, even more cancer cells were forming……

This process had been repeated endlessly for three weeks.

He hadn’t slept a wink in this physical state.

There was no way he could be okay.

He felt like he was going to collapse at any moment, and he thought he might as well die than endure this pain.

Nevertheless.

He endured, hoping for one great possibility.

Kyung-joon opened a laptop.

Tada, tada, tada, tada! Tada, tada, tada, tada!

He started coding at a speed of 1,800 characters per minute, faster than a first-class typist.

The laptop was connected to the particle accelerator he had just built, and at the same time.

It was connected to 『World’s access gear』.

Tada!

Clack!

He pressed enter.

Pat!

The laptop screen went black.

It seemed to be turned off, but.

A status window began to appear in the middle of it.

<Beep…… Bee-bee-beep……>

<Beep!>

<Connection complete.>

<Master, how are you? It’s been a while. This is the first time I’ve seen you here in reality.>

The beginning and the end of being able to come this far.

A companion in life, no less.

And a ridiculous one at that.

<^오^>

Using only this emoticon, and still acting cheerful when its owner might die soon.

That annoying little thing.

” Yeah. It’s been a while, Teemo. “

It had just been resurrected in reality, not in World.

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