It’s an Academic Fact That Rankers Are Model Students – Chapter 203

Chapter 203: Attack on the 6th Warehouse of the Klangs Building (3)

Now there were two strategies the two could take.

Either stay in the basement and wait for the human man to fall into another scroll trap.

Or go outside and deal with the human man directly.

“Yaya, the former won’t work. Just like before, it won’t work at all.”

The incident in the yard just now proved that the former was completely useless.

He had made the landmine scrolls on the floor useless while simultaneously detonating all the others around them, so how could the traps inside possibly work?

‘The fact that he can do this means he can directly interfere with scrolls…… Could he be a traitor from Scrollpia?’

The first thing Eo-er suspected was the Scroll Department, which was practically synonymous with Scrollpia.

‘No, that can’t be…… Our Scroll Department is……’

The Scroll Department is famous for being close-knit and getting along well with each other, compared to other departments.

It was enough to remember how they all worked together to create a super-giant scroll during the talent show in the first week of the festival.

Eo-er considered various other possibilities.

‘First of all, he’s unaffiliated… Seeing as he’s attacking us on this scale, he must be thinking of ripping off our department and getting some kind of deal as an unaffiliated. Maybe he minored or double majored in scrolls and classes. And he’s more talented than I thought……’

Eo-er roughly organized his thoughts.

He said to Yaya,

“Yaya, that human man attacking us right now is probably a once-in-a-billion genius among humans. We have to bring him to Scrollpia.”

“That’s true, but… seeing as he attacked us, doesn’t that mean he hates us?”

“I don’t know. If he’s doing this because he wants to rip us off and get a deal, then we just have to offer him a better deal, and if not, he might be doing this because he wants to 『recruit』 us.”

In the Survival Magic Battle Ground, there is a rule called 『recruitment』.

Just like recruiting capable people into politics, it’s about recruiting capable unaffiliated individuals into Scrollpia.

“……Eo-er, you’re right.”

Yaya nodded her head as if she understood now at Eo-er’s suggestion.

“Okay. Then I’ll go up and make him an offer. We might end up fighting though.”

Yaya was thinking of going up from the basement and dealing with the human man who had invaded.

Now, before he even entered the building, it was the only chance to go out and gain an advantage.

“Yeah. Be careful. If you can’t subdue him, you can just eliminate him. We’ll find out who he is then.”

“Don’t worry, Eo-er. You know I took a few Combat Magic Department classes.”

Yaya confidently headed for the door leading out of the basement.

He may have looked impressive at first, but he was still just a human.

Just as it’s hard for an elf to beat a fairy in a magic battle, it’s not easy for a human to beat an elf either.

He may be physically stronger than humans due to his race, but elves are far superior in agility and mana.

Moreover, this is a magic university, a place where magic has the upper hand over strength.

“I’m going.”

“Don’t forget to contact me through a message scroll when it’s over.”

“Of course, Eo-er.”

Creak, thud.

Thump, thump.

Yaya moved up to the basement, silencing his footsteps as he had learned in the Combat Magic Department’s basic combat class.

The surroundings were like a maze, cluttered with all sorts of materials.

But Yaya had already memorized what was around and how it was all laid out, so he darted around the place like it was his own room.

‘……I guess he hasn’t come inside yet.’

If he had entered, Eo-er in the basement would have seen him through the crystal ball and activated the traps.

Yaya was planning to sneak up on the human man and ambush him.

But since it was still quiet, it seemed the human man was still outside, figuring out how to get in.

‘He must be thinking there are traps inside too.’

As he had felt from the beginning, he was not a human to be trifled with.

‘But it’s useless.’

Yaya closed his eyes and twitched his long ears a few times.

[Rare Skill 『Ancient Elf’s Secret Ear (Lv.7)』 ]

[Elves were originally beings who lived secretly in the forest. Concentrate mana in your ears to temporarily recreate wild hearing.]

Whoooosh.

The sound of the air in the warehouse resonating, as if she had put a conch shell to her ear.

Now Yaya could hear even the slightest sound.

Even if the human man outside just lightly touched the wall of the building with his fingernail, Yaya would be able to detect it.

It would be a big mistake to think that elves are a race blessed only with mana.

There is a saying that all the truly famous assassins are elves, and no race can match elves when it comes to stealth combat.

At that moment.

Slide. Thud.

‘……There!’

Yaya’s ears caught the sound.

It was the sound of a body pressing against the wall.

It seemed that the human man was also trying to use sound to figure out what was inside.

‘I can just go out that window.’

There was a window a little higher than a normal person’s height, through which one could see outside.

Rustle. Rustle.

Yaya stealthily headed towards the window.

A little to the left of where the sound was coming from.

The moment he reached there, he was going to go straight out and subdue the human man who would be right there.

He was confident in his ability to pull off this kind of stealthy ambush, having taken a few Combat Magic Department classes, which was rare for someone from the Scroll Department.

In fact, his agility was almost at the top of his Scroll Department peers.

Furthermore, he had many skills that sharpened his senses, like the hearing enhancement skill he had just used.

And the fact that he was here, in charge of making Kyung-joon-style scrolls, meant that he wasn’t neglecting his studies in his original department, the Scroll Department.

Yaya was such a great model student that he could be called both a scholar and a warrior!

But even Yaya…

<^o^>

……seemed to have missed the Teemo right in front of him.

🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷

Slide.

As Yaya got closer to the wall, the sound in his ears became clearer.

Scratch. Scratch, scratch.

‘Okay. I don’t hear any other moving sounds. That’s the sound of him working.’

It wasn’t the sound of footsteps, but the sound of scratching and fiddling with the wall.

It seemed that the human man, instead of coming in through the front door, was going to break down the wall and observe the situation first.

Not a bad idea.

Having multiple entrances would distract the opponent.

The human man outside was probably trying to use that to keep them in check.

‘But it’s useless.’

The moment the human man got into proper work and his attention was focused on it, that’s when she would strike.

By then, even if he broke the window and went outside, he wouldn’t be able to react in time.

By the time he realized what was happening, he would already have been ambushed.

‘It’s a good thing I took the ‘Basics of Indoor Combat’ class at the Combat Magic Department.’

He had done a few mock battles in class and got decent grades for a student from another department.

He was already quite familiar with this kind of building defense.

Slide.

Yaya began to move stealthily again, completely silencing his footsteps and making only the slightest sound of his clothes brushing against each other.

That’s when it happened.

Woooong. Woooong.

‘……?!’

Sak!

Yaya immediately ducked behind the cargo.

Waves of mana spread and passed by him.

Fortunately, he was unharmed thanks to hiding behind the cargo.

Phew.

A sigh of relief that he managed to exhale only through his nose.

‘That human, he even has detection magic……?’

A skill commonly known as 『sonar』.

It’s a skill that detects what’s beyond an invisible wall by continuously emitting mana in all directions.

If he had been hit by the first wave just now, Yaya would have been immobilized on the spot.

After all, if he wasn’t there for the second and third waves, it would be detected that he had moved.

Woooong. Woooong. Woooong.

The waves of mana didn’t stop at once, but continued several more times.

‘Whether he finds me or not, he’s trying to figure out what’s inside……’

Unlike the performance he had put on when he first entered the yard, the human man outside was being very cautious.

‘But to put so much mana into detection magic…… He’s just revealing his own location like that.’

The better you are, the more you minimize the mana used for detection magic.

That’s to avoid revealing your location.

Casting detection magic with all your might like that is no different from shouting, “I’m here!”

‘As expected…… Maybe the landmine scroll earlier was a fluke.’

Yaya, thinking that the human man outside wasn’t much, was about to move towards the window again.

Thump. Thump.

He heard footsteps.

The sound grew fainter and fainter until it stopped.

Scratch. Scratch, scratch.

He heard the sound of him working on the wall again, just like before.

Thump, thump.

It got further away, then closer.

Just when he thought it had stopped.

Scratch. Clack.

The sound of scratching the wall and attaching something.

Woooong. Woooong. Woooong.

And then, detection magic again.

The human man outside was working from all sides.

But the sound was strange.

‘What the…?!’

He would be working on the front wall, and then suddenly he would hear footsteps behind him.

As he turned his head and focused his hearing on the back, he would hear the sound of him working on the right wall.

Elusive.

He would appear and disappear, then reappear.

He seemed to be there, but he wasn’t.

So he was everywhere.

If he closed his eyes and concentrated on the sound to figure out his location, it was as if dozens of him were already surrounding the building.

‘W, What is this……!’

Thump. Thump.

Yaya’s heartbeat grew louder and louder.

He had underestimated him.

The human man outside wasn’t just trying to break down the walls to keep them in check.

He was working on all sides so they wouldn’t know where to expect him, and at the same time, he was figuring out the layout of the interior.

He wasn’t in a hurry to attack, but was slowly tightening the noose, trying to bleed them dry.

Just as Yaya was racking his brains about what to do.

Ding!

“……!”

A status window suddenly popped up before his eyes.

[Message Scroll: You have received a message from 『Eo-er Twinies』.]

▶Eo-er: Yaya! The traps inside the building suddenly stopped working!! What’s going on up there?!

Only then did Yaya realize.

That he had made a very bad choice.

‘That wasn’t detection magic…!’

It was a scroll-disabling skill disguised as detection magic.

The reason why there was so much mana in the detection magic was to disable all the trap scrolls inside……!

‘How does that even make sense?! He’s not even a fairy!’

Mana control skills that couldn’t be considered human.

He had been too quick to dismiss the opponent as just a human.

He should have run away as soon as he saw the detection magic, without overthinking it.

He was a frog in a pot of water that was slowly being brought to a boil.

He didn’t even realize the fire was lit underneath, and was swimming leisurely in the water.

And by the time he finally realized it, the water was already boiling hot, steam rising from it.

If he stayed like this, the walls would all be blown up, and he would be the one trapped.

‘What do I do, what do I do, what do I do……!!’

Now he only had two choices.

Stay inside and wait to be boiled alive in the water.

Or get out now and face the one who lit the fire.

‘Tsk……!’ Since all the traps have been disabled, there’s no reason to stay inside anymore!’

Naturally, Yaya chose the latter.

Thud!

Yaya stopped silencing his movements and jumped high.

Towards the window right in front of him!

And at the same time, he cast a spell without chanting.

[Rare Skill 『Multi-Casting (Lv.5)』 ]

[Advanced Skill 『Air Bullet (Lv.6)』 ]

[Fires compressed air bullets in all directions.]

Crash!

The moment Yaya’s body smashed through the window.

Shatter!

At the same time, other windows of the building shattered as well.

This eliminated the possibility of him being ambushed in return!

Now all that was left was to fight it out one-on-one outside!

Thud!

Yaya landed on the ground, rolling to absorb the impact as he had learned in class.

Thump!

The moment he raised his head.

“Huh……?”

Something completely unexpected greeted him.

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