It’s an Academic Fact That Rankers Are Model Students – Chapter 169

Chapter 169: Ceram, the Black-Skinned Silva (3)

The epic quest 『Purify the Arliv』 received from the arliv.

And the epic quest 『Ceram, the Black-Skinned Silva』 received from Ceram.

It’s been three days since he started devising a way to simultaneously and perfectly clear these two epic quests.

The arliv visited Sky Cliff again, the temporary residence of the silva tribe.

Meanwhile, Kyung-joon was standing there alone.

“Ugh…… I’m so tired…….”

Three days until the quest deadline.

Except for a brief logout to use the bathroom, he hadn’t slept a wink during that time.

It was a good thing it was the weekend, otherwise, he would have lost even the Perfect Attendance Award, the only award he had consistently received.

《Savior of the Forest. Have you brought the answer?》

The arliv asked in front of everyone.

At that question, Kyung-joon first yawned loudly and then answered confidently.

“Yes, I have.”

The arliv, the silva, the other races, and even Kyung-joon.

Kyung-joon brought the best happy ending that could end without sacrificing anyone.

In other words.

A way to purify the arliv without sacrificing the silva or other races.

“I, Is that true?! We really don’t have to be sacrificed to get rid of the demon’s curse……!”

The silva village headman looked at Kyung-joon with eyes full of hope, though he couldn’t believe it.

“Demon’s curse……”

Kyung-joon chuckled at the words he had heard so many times.

It was a ridiculous sneer.

Whether they knew it or not, the silvas, like the village headman, just looked at Kyung-joon with hopeful eyes.

Kyung-joon was going to let them know.

What the real demon’s curse really is.

《Is that true, my friend?》

“Yes. Of course it is.”

At the arliv’s reaffirmation, Kyung-joon confidently replied yes again.

And then called someone else’s name.

The owner of the name was none other than the one whom the green silvas had so shunned and ostracized as the ‘demon’s curse’.

It was Ceram, the Black-Skinned Silva.

“Ceram, you can come out now.”

As Kyung-joon beckoned as he had told him beforehand, a figure emerged from the bushes over there with a rustling sound.

Much smaller than the average human.

Instead, it has wings and flaps them, but unlike other silvas, it walks directly on the ground.

With its black skin, some might think it’s a miserable moth that can’t even fly.

But to Kyung-joon right now, Ceram looked like a butterfly.

“C, Could it be…… Ceram……?!”

“Ceram……?”

His mother, who recognized Ceram right away, even though she hadn’t seen him for decades.

Cera, her daughter and Ceram’s younger sister, also had a complicated expression on her face, as if she had heard something from her mother.

Nevertheless.

“…….”

Ceram didn’t even glance at his blood relatives.

Probably because it was awkward.

But the real reason he did that was different.

“T, That color……! It’s the demon’s spawn! How is it alive?!”

“That’s right! It’s all because of that b@stard son of the demon! It’s all because of his schemes!”

“We were supposed to kill the demon’s spawn as soon as it was born……! Who is it?!”

The silvas were not only agitated but also started to hurl insults.

The expected reaction was coming out.

That’s probably why Ceram pretended not to know.

He didn’t want to bother his family because of himself.

I commend him for that.

Instead, I, the lord and employer of Ceram, will tell them myself.

“Shut the f*ck up with that bul|sh|t.”

A short remark rang out from among the agitated crowd.

Of course, it was Kyung-joon’s voice.

There was a moment of silence, and then one of the silvas who had insulted Ceram started babbling something……

“What do you mean bul|sh|t?! What’s that all of a sudden……!”

“I told you to shut up.”

It was drowned out by Kyung-joon’s words that followed immediately.

No, rather than drowned out.

It was completely blocked.

[Rare Skill 『Transform Magic (Lv.5)』]

[Rare Skill 『Sound Blocking (Lv.2)』]

[Mutes the target’s sound.]

” ―――! ――! “

He jumped up at the sound of Kyung-joon’s ‘Shut up’ and kept shouting here and there, but there was no sound.

It was as if the volume of the speaker had been removed.

” ……? ――! ――?! ―――!! “

He couldn’t hear his own voice, so he tried to shout as loud as he could, but neither he nor the other silvas around him could hear his voice.

Literally a silent scream.

It might seem like nothing much, but the sight of his voice being completely blocked was somehow creepy.

Kyung-joon looked at the other silvas with a satisfied expression.

“Good. One noisy b@stard down. Anyone else want to be muted?”

“…….”

All the silvas were speechless and shut up as Kyung-joon had instructed them to do.

Kyung-joon didn’t even look at them and said,

“Those of you who just called Ceram the demon’s spawn. And those of you who thought so or were about to think so. Keep your eyes peeled and watch carefully from now on.”

The black-skinned silvas they had been killing, ostracizing, and discriminating against all this time.

“Watch in silence as the one you call the demon’s spawn becomes your savior.”

After declaring it in front of everyone, Kyung-joon immediately turned his gaze.

At the end of his gaze was the back of Ceram.

His shoulders were trembling slightly, but Kyung-joon reached out and patted him, calming him down.

“Now, Ceram. Let’s begin.”

“……Yes. Let’s do that.”

Ceram cast earth magic.

It was the process of imbuing the fertilizer Kyung-joon had made with the energy of the earth.

The ‘purification fertilizer’ that Kyung-joon and Ceram had spent three days and nights creating was being transmuted in front of all his fellow silvas.

[Arliv-only Fertilizer: Purification]

▶A special fertilizer optimized for the tree spirit arliv. Contains mana ingredients that purify arlivs corrupted by dark mana.

▶Item Grade: Unique

This would give the arliv the strength to resist and overcome the dark mana.

To be precise, the ingredients of the fertilizer would enter the arliv’s core and remove the ‘mana code of dark mana’.

Once that was done, it could recover its already contaminated wooden body on its own.

Right there, in front of all his fellow tribesmen, Ceram finished transmuting the fertilizer and sprinkled it on the arliv.

Next was Kyung-joon’s turn.

“This is an after-sales service.”

Wooong!

Kyung-joon, who received the baton, used Mana Plunder on the arliv.

Of course, he modified the skill a little.

[Rare Skill 『Transform Magic (Lv.5)』]

[Unique Skill 『Mana Plunder (Lv.2)』]

[Converts mana into forest mana.]

[Transfers forest mana to the arliv.]

If the arliv-only fertilizer was an ‘antibiotic’ that would help it fight off the disease, then the forest mana that Kyung-joon had just supplied was like an ‘IV’ that would give it the stamina to fight off the disease.

[The arliv gains the strength to resist dark mana.]

[Begins to resist corruption.]

《Ahhhh…….》

The arliv made a face like a working man who had just finished a hard day’s work and was soaking in a hot spring.

“How is it, arliv? I’m going to keep supplying you with mana and fertilizer like this on a regular basis.”

《Ahhh…… Feels good…….》

“Seriously?”

《Ahhh…… Kim-ochi…….》

[You have successfully completed the epic quest 『Purify the Arliv』.]

[Your relationship with the arliv has changed from 『Temporary Friendship』 to 『Strong Friendship』.]

[You can now make a Spirit Contract with the arliv.]

“That’s a relief.”

If he had failed, his soul would have been taken by the arliv and his level and stats would have been reset to 1.

Of course, before that happened, he would have abandoned the arlivs or the silvas to cope somehow, but it was a good thing it didn’t come to that.

The silvas began to react to what they had just witnessed.

“Did we…… survive……?”

“I can’t believe the demon’s spawn had that kind of power…….”

“I, I’m surprised…… For a demon’s spawn…….”

As expected, the silvas’ reactions were so underwhelming that they made him want to punch them again.

‘……As expected.’

He had expected this.

Even after such a dramatic event, people’s perceptions do not change overnight.

Basically, the world doesn’t change easily.

But even so.

“No! He’s not the demon’s spawn! He’s the savior!”

“Yes! Savior! Savior Ceram!”

“Abolish the evil practice……! Even if he has black skin, he’s a silva like us!”

“Ceram! Ceram! Ceram!”

The world changes.

🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷

A few more days passed since SurvivalKing uploaded the video of the arliv colony’s migration.

Another video was uploaded to his YouTube channel.

[The End of the Arliv Colony’s Migration! Who is the mastermind behind this?!]

This video, which ranked #1 on YouTube’s trending videos in less than 10 hours after it was uploaded.

As you can see, it was a video of the arliv colony, but the content was completely different from the previous one.

━Hello, this is SurvivalKing. Right now, I’m witnessing something incredible that could completely change the ecosystem of Whale Forest. The arlivs, who were slaughtering the silvas just yesterday, are now trying to become homes for the silva tribe.

The arlivs and silvas in the video were cooperating in the same space.

The silvas were holding a black powder in their hands.

As they sprinkled it on the arlivs, they also poured green mana into them, and the blackened trees and leaves of the arlivs began to regain their vitality in an instant.

Then, the arlivs, whose vitality had been restored, stretched out their roots and branches.

They dug into the ground, scrambled around, and then shot up into the sky, gathering in one place.

This was the arliv’s part.

Now it was the silva’s turn to finish the job.

Thump, thump.

The silvas began to dig holes as big as their bodies with hammers and chisels.

They were carving houses into the trees to create new homes.

The arlivs just stood there silently, as their flesh and blood trees might be in pain.

As if they had already talked it over.

━This is…… something that neither I nor any other player, not even the NPCs, have ever seen before. I’ve seen orcs and ogres form their own tribes, but this is one of the few times in world history that different races have shown such symbiosis. It’s recorded that it only happened for a very short period of time right after the Demon War ended.

▶Thank you to 『GosiNangin』, who is preparing for the Fairy-Elven Magic Academy, for providing the information by personally searching for the materials. I hope you pass this time.

A surprise caption pops up with a screenshot of a book that appears to have been taken by GosiNangin himself.

Back to the screen of the arlivs and silvas working together to build a house.

━I’m really curious what happened while I was gone. I’d love to go straight up to them and ask them if I could communicate with them, but…… Curiosity killed the cat, as they say.

Suddenly, the camera in the video was pointed behind SurvivalKing.

Behind him, a familiar monster party was greeting SurvivalKing…….

<Piercing the Darkness>

▼Whale Forest Forest Horned Rabbit (Monster)

“Kkool? Kkyul!”

(Huh? We meet again!)

<Tempting>

▼Spotted Deer (Monster)

“Kkokkokkot! Kkokkotkkokkot?”

(Hehehe! I don’t hate persistent men?)

<Evasive Tank>

▼Whale Forest Wolf (Monster)

“Grrrr…….”

(You bastard, you’re a man too…….)

<Ironclad>

▼Triple Horn Wild Boar (Monster)

“Kkuweo~! “

(I want to eat key lime pie~!)

From the biggest to the smallest, the monster tower stretched straight up, one on top of the other.

It was the same monster party that had killed SurvivalKing and CameraMan earlier.

Of course.

That wasn’t the end of it.

Coo-goo.

The surrounding trees, which had seemed like ordinary trees, suddenly began to reveal their roots as if they were lifting their hanbok skirts, surrounding SurvivalKing.

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