It’s an Academic Fact That Rankers Are Model Students – Chapter 121

Chapter 121: The Award Ceremony (1)

“Woohoo! Otherworlders are the best!”

“Thank you for protecting our Luxemb!”

“My son was able to return alive from the battle! Thank you so much!”

The stands were packed with Luxemb residents.

[Favorability of all Luxemb residents towards the defense participants will increase by 5-15.]

This was a kind of overall reward given to all participants when they successfully completed the Luxemb defense.

“Otherworlders! And our proud citizens of Luxemb! We will now begin the award ceremony!”

“Waaaaah!!”

The Luxemb host shouted through the loudspeaker magic, and the crowd cheered.

He then spoke to Lee Woon-youngGM next to him.

“Representative of the otherworlders, administrator. Then please.”

“Yes.”

Operations Team’s GM Lee Woon-young took the stage.

This was to show the videos taken during the event.

He casts video magic.

A large video began to play in the air so that everyone in the audience could see it.

At the same time, the Luxemb people continued the awards ceremony in line with the video.

“Now! Look! That mysterious magic tower! Is that really the technological prowess of an otherworlder who hasn’t even set foot in World for two years?!”

Tatatatata bang!

The Energy Tower in the video was slaughtering the mutated monsters while firing energy bullets non-stop.

Mutated monsters that move only with their inherent desires without reason.

They were rushing in groups to somehow destroy the Energy Tower, but most of them died without even being able to attack.

Even if they managed to reach it, there was a fence in front of the Energy Tower.

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A mysterious fence that somehow gets fixed by itself over time, no matter how much you hit it.

Shhhh…….

The Energy Tower stopped working.

The internal cooler operates quickly, and white steam rises up.

The sight that could be seen beyond the smoke was a field of corpses.

Of course, it wasn’t made up of human corpses, but mutated monsters.

“Waaaaah!!”

The residents of Luxemb shouted even louder than before, almost in a frenzy.

“What the…… Is that made by the same player? Not an NPC?”

“I saw that from the side It was crazy.”

“Heh, I almost died after entering the tower’s range without knowing anything.”

“No, no. Is that really the same player? A production ranker? Who the hell is it?”

“I don’t know…… The video doesn’t show who it is.”

The players were speechless with disbelief.

But their shock didn’t end there.

“This time, it’s an archmage!”

The video that started playing next.

There was a man standing alone.

Of course, his entire body, including his nickname, was mosaicked, so it wasn’t revealed who he was.

In front of the thousands of mutated monster troops advancing, he looked so precarious.

But he didn’t run away or attack.

He just took out something like paper, folded it into an airplane, and flew it forward.

Doubt creeps into the faces of everyone gathered in the awards hall.

What the hell did he throw?

More than that, is it not moving?

The moment they thought so, the man moved.

He stretched out only one arm upwards.

Then he made his fingers into the shape of a gun.

Bang!

An energy bullet was fired from the end!

It hit the paper airplane that was just thrown!

The video that followed was a disaster that no one expected.

Small energy bullets began to form in the sky.

It exceeded hundreds of thousands, and soon reached an immeasurable amount.

Pachchachchachcha!

Kwakwakwang!

Pupupeng!

A rain of bullets fell.

After the thick dust settled, only corpses were scattered about, similar to what we saw in the first video.

Every time the man threw a paper airplane and hit it, this was repeated.

“Waaaah!!”

The citizens of Luxemb, who saw the second video, screamed like crazy as before.

The players are speechless.

“Hul.”

“What is that.”

“That’s definitely a ranker……”

“Was there a wizard like that among the rankers who participated in this event……?”

“PigeonEatRice is a pigeon, and DPSPaladin is a paladin, so of course not, and the bard BJMiguning is a pass, so the only one left is MilitaryWifeHighSchoolGirl…… I’ve never seen her use magic like that……”

“It’s probably a new ranker.”

“Has the ranker level already risen that high?”

“Maybe? Like the Photon Cannon earlier and this whole magic.”

“Aah……”

The players couldn’t help but feel bitter at the huge gap.

“But who is 1st and who is 2nd?”

Come to think of it, the host didn’t say who was 1st and who was 2nd.

“Isn’t the person who made the Energy Tower shown at the beginning 1st?”

“But the whole magic that just came out seems more awesome?”

“I don’t know, maybe they’re 2nd and 3rd. Usually, when they announce something like this, they show the 1st place last. They’ll show one more video at the end, right?”

“Oh, that makes sense.”

As the players said, the video went straight to the next one.

In addition, the awards ceremony host further boosted the already excited atmosphere.

“Now, this is the last one! The last third video!”

Chak! Chajjok! Pububung!

The third video was dazzling from the start.

Two men are facing each other fiercely.

One was the red player BlackChef, who was not subject to the identity protection system, and the other was a man with his entire body mosaicked like before.

Chwarr! Chwararar! Chwachwach!

Blood splatters into the sky and the wind blows, creating a blizzard of blood.

The players who saw it couldn’t hide their admiration.

“Crazy.”

“Wow…… He fights so well.”

“Is that kind of movement even possible, even if it’s a game?”

“It’s like watching a cartoon fight scene.”

“As expected, BlackChef is always crazy.”

At that time, a player’s cautious remark.

“Wait…… Guys, is BlackChef losing?”

“Huh?”

“What?”

“Really?”

The players began to focus more on the video.

It was hard to see because of the mosaic, but if you looked closely, you could tell.

The fight was clearly losing BlackChef.

“Wow……! A thief player overwhelming BlackChef?”

“Isn’t this the first time?”

“Amazing!”

Puck!

The match in the video was quickly decided.

“BlackChef got stabbed!”

“Kuh! I feel refreshed! Die, BlackChef!”

“It’s confirmed. The 1st place this time seems to be that thief player.”

“But isn’t the ranking determined by points? Being good at PK and being good at hunting are two different things. Then the second guy is definitely first.”

“No, man. It’s points, so the first guy must be 1st. It looked like that tower just kept hunting non-stop if you set it up. Whoever looks at it, the guy who installed the first tower is 1st, right?”

People argued with each other, saying whether the first one was first, the second one was first, or the third one was first.

Well, the three videos that were just shown were all different in type, but anyone could see that they were the best performances.

It was understandable.

At that time.

A single word that would put an end to this fight echoed softly among the players.

“Hmm? Are you still thinking that the owners of the three videos are different people? Haha, you all need to improve your eye for detail!”

“Huh?”

“Eh?”

“W, What……?”

At the host’s words, all the players looked like they had been hit by a hammer.

That’s right.

The one who made the first magic tower……

The one who unleashed the second large-scale magic……

And the one who captivated everyone’s attention with his dazzling close-range combat that made BlackChef cry in the third, all!

“They were actually all the same person! Now, otherworlder Kyung-joon! Please come forward! Please welcome him with a big round of applause!”

“Waaah!!”

All the citizens of Luxemb, regardless of gender or age, began to cheer.

A voice filled with joy and admiration more than ever before.

It was a natural reaction since he fought for their country.

But the players weren’t necessarily like that.

“That guy in the beginner’s clothes is the owner of all three videos? You want me to believe that?”

Basically, players compete with each other.

So when the first Energy Tower video was released, they thought this.

━He’s just a production worker anyway.

After watching the second large-scale magic video, they rationalized it like this.

━Didn’t he just get lucky and get a cheat skill book? He’s showing off his skills.

Although they thought he was really good at controlling in the last third video.

━Thief classes originally have a lot of melee buff skills. It must be that.

In this way, when someone seems to be doing better than them, they tend to feel jealous rather than respectful.

But when the above three are combined into one.

“Hey! Don’t you know that hidden masters often wear beginner clothes to hide their identities?”

“That’s right. The strong ones always hide their power.”

“Wow~ The main character hid his power!”

People’s opinions began to change completely from before.

In terms of like or dislike, this was entirely like.

It was a natural change.

Originally, when a person is moderately high up, people think that they can follow suit.

So they want to underestimate them for no reason.

They imagine that they could have been like that too, if only the conditions were right and they were a little lucky.

But if they go up so high that they can’t even think about it.

Also, if they make you think that they are truly untouchable……

In the end, you have no choice but to admit it.

Ah.

He’s the real deal.

“Waaah!!”

This time, not only the residents of Luxemb but also the players cheered loudly together.

Kyung-joon smiled bitterly as he looked at the crowd cheering for him.

‘Yoo Seol-ha from school comes to mind.’

Yoo Seol-ha is the granddaughter of the prominent Seolha Group.

If the world was a hunter world, she would have been called the Ice Queen, with her beauty, wealthy family, and proven intelligence and grades.

How dare anyone even think of surpassing her?

On the other hand, Kyung-joon was just an ordinary commoner.

Although he had ranked 2nd in the entire school this time, he had been at the bottom before.

So many students thought that Kyung-joon ‘got good grades because he was lucky for a while’.

The classmates who knew Kyung-joon and had heard his explanation at least once were a little better, but the students from other classes who didn’t know him treated him like nothing special.

But.

“Is what was shown in the video real?!”

“Amazing! What class are you?”

“What’s your level? Over 300?”

“Show us your skills!”

But Kyung-joon standing on the podium in the game was an existence that no one could touch.

Just like Yoo Seol-ha.

‘Not only in the game, but also in reality……’

Kyung-joon clenched his fists and vowed.

He will definitely achieve the situation he is experiencing now, not only in the game but also in reality.

He will prove it to the whole world by achieving success in both the game and reality.

And he wants to say.

I made it, like this.

“Then, otherworlder Kyung-joon! We will now reveal the prizes for you! Please give a big round of applause to the administrator who prepared the prizes!”

Clap clap clap!

With loud applause, Lee Woon-youngGM removed the cloth from the long table.

Cha-rak!

All sorts of dazzling prizes that had been hidden were revealed to the world.

“Wow! It’s a Dragon Demon’s weapon!!”

“The ‘Dragon Demon – 137th Sword’ I saw on the list!!”

“Ah, I really wanted that……!”

“Please don’t let anyone choose it before my turn comes!”

“Are you crazy! It’s obvious that he’ll choose it first!”

“Then please at least leave Ifangji’s staff……!”

“Geomdan’s dagger for me! Please don’t choose that!”

The players started praying, each hoping that Kyung-joon wouldn’t choose the items they had their eyes on.

Ignoring them, Kyung-joon approached the displayed prizes.

The awards ceremony host speaks to Kyung-joon.

“Now, Kyung-joon-nim. Any three items you want. You can choose whatever you want, as you please.”

&Gold&

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