It’s an Academic Fact That Rankers Are Model Students – Chapter 231

Chapter 231: Imprinting

“What I’ve prepared is Imprinting.”

Imprinting.

To be precise, Scroll Imprinting.

Kyung-joon was going to show them.

“Hmm.”

Larev stroked his beard slightly.

He wasn’t surprised by Kyung-joon’s words.

After all, he already knew what Kyung-joon was going to present from the preliminary round announcement record.

Still, it was good to ask him what it was, since the people gathered in the presentation hall wouldn’t have heard it.

“You skipped the first presentation, saying you weren’t ready. So, in this second presentation, you have to show us both what this ‘Imprinting’ you speak of is, and how you actually implemented it. Would that be alright?”

“Ah, yes. Well. It’s enough.”

Kyung-joon nodded confidently.

Just how amazing was this ‘Imprinting’ he spoke of?

Kyung-joon continued to explain.

“Imprinting, as the word suggests, means ‘to engrave something.’ The Imprinting I’m talking about is, of course, Scroll Imprinting, so it’s using scrolls. But what’s unique is that 『it’s not about engraving letters on the scroll itself』, but rather engraving letters on everything around it, outside of the scroll.”

Simply put, it’s about breaking away from the preconceived notion that scroll crafting must be done only on scrolls.

“Hmm~ What are the advantages of doing that?”

Teina asked the most important question after Kyung-joon’s brief explanation.

The most important thing about an idea is what you can do with it.

If it doesn’t work, it just remains a theory, a mere table talk.

Kyung-joon nodded casually at Teina’s question with a hmm.

It felt like he already had the answer in mind.

“It’s simple. The reason we write scrolls. The elaborate, delicate, and complex magic that can only be done with scrolls. We can bring all of those advantages.”

“But if it’s the same as what you can do with a scroll, is there any reason to use this Imprinting? I’d rather just use a scroll I’m already familiar with and well-known.”

Following Teina’s question, Siam’s question dug a little deeper.

It could be seen as an aggressive response toward Kyung-joon.

But in reality, she was asking the questions that the people gathered in the square should be asking.

If he couldn’t give a proper answer to this, no matter how talented Kyung-joon was, they couldn’t just give him first place.

Of course.

“No. Scrolls and Imprinting have completely different uses.”

Kyung-joon had prepared the answer to this as well.

“As expected, it’s better to show you once than to keep talking about it.”

Kyung-joon started walking towards the edge of the stage.

“Edict.”

“Yes?”

“Do you have one of the scrolls you demonstrated earlier?”

“Uh, uh…… This one?”

“Yes. Thank you.”

Swoosh.

Kyung-joon received a scroll from Edict below the stage.

It was a scroll made with Scrollpia team’s idea, the 『Scroll Programming-Based Disposable Magic Tool Making Method』.

So, it’s a scroll, but you could say its durability and persistence have been increased to be used like a magic tool.

Of course, it used scroll programming as its implementation method.

Not bad.

They made good use of the advantages that scroll programming could offer.

However.

Kyung-joon knew better than anyone that the advantages of scroll programming didn’t end there.

“There’s something you’re all misunderstanding.”

Suddenly, the surrounding atmosphere began to change.

Everyone instinctively felt that something was about to happen.

“It would be a big mistake to think that scroll programming simply offsets the disadvantages of existing scroll crafting and enhances its advantages.”

Not just the Scrollpia team, but everyone here was thinking wrong.

The reason for programming.

It’s not just because it allows humans to do things faster and more efficiently.

Automatic.

It does the work on its own according to a given algorithm, without human intervention.

That is ultimately the purpose of human programming and the realm that scroll programming must ultimately reach.

And Kyung-joon.

“You all remember the giant laser magic I used on the last day of the festival, right? The Heaven’s Punishment or pseudo epic or whatever.”

He had already demonstrated it once.

Shhhwaack!

Kyung-joon scattered some powder he took out of his inventory into the air.

This is a scroll.

To be precise, it’s a scroll in its powder state, right before it becomes a scroll.

With this, Kyung-joon was going to implement something beyond the existing paper scrolls.

“First, I’ll create the logic gates that will be the basic units, copy them as they are, and connect them together to build a non-memory main processor. Then, I’ll create a memory processor to temporarily store the processed data as cache data……”

Woooong!

As Kyung-joon began to gather mana in the air, the scattered scroll powder began to take on a shape.

No one, including the judges and the people gathered in the square, knew what that shape was.

But they had seen it once.

When Kyung-joon scorched the entire PUBG booth with 『Heaven’s Punishment』, the process of the skill itself raising its grade from Unique to Epic.

That process was now combined with the scroll powder and became even more advanced.

“Done.”

The powder, which had taken on a very complex form, was finally compressed into a single pattern.

A sword-shaped pattern.

It was floating in Kyung-joon’s palm along with mana.

“Edict. Give me your hand.”

“Ah, yes.”

Edict, with a dazed expression, held out his hand.

Woooong!

Kyung-joon brought the sword-shaped pattern to his palm.

“Lastly, this process is called 『Imprinting』.”

Soon, the pattern was imprinted on Edict’s palm like a tattoo.

That was the end of it.

“How is it? Amazing, right?”

“……”

Everyone still had a bewildered expression.

It’s like they wanted to ask what was so great about it.

To think that so few people understood even after seeing it demonstrated up to this point.

“Don’t tell me……”

“Oh my, oh my. Don’t tell me it’s what we’re thinking……”

“……It seems like that’s exactly it.”

Of course, the judges seemed to fully understand what the Imprinting Kyung-joon showed was.

“Edict. Try pouring mana into the pattern I engraved.”

“Yes? Mana?”

“Yes. Don’t try to use magic or anything, just mana.”

Edict nodded and did just that.

Then, something unbelievable happened before their eyes.

Whoosh!

As soon as he poured mana into the sword-shaped pattern, a sword made of mana popped out of his hand!

“T, This is…!”

It was the same one Edict had demonstrated during his presentation.

It didn’t end there.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

“W, What, what is this…! It, it keeps coming out?!”

Instead of the scroll being used once and disappearing.

As long as the Imprinting remained, all he had to do was pour in mana, and it would automatically do it for him indefinitely.

This was the true value of 『Imprinting』.

🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷

Kyung-joon’s presentation didn’t end with simply showing what Imprinting was.

Kyung-joon ‘devoured’ the ideas the other four teams had prepared.

“The second team’s idea was 『New Concept Fairy Combat Magic Textbook』, right? I think it’s very useful in that it maximizes the not-so-popular magic of Body Modification Magic with the fairies’ powerful magical abilities. And in reality, it can overcome all the weaknesses of wizards, such as being weak in close combat and lacking strength and agility. But as the judges pointed out, this is almost impossible to use in actual combat unless you’re a very talented fairy like Azuaz.”

Woooong!

Kyung-joon engraved wing-shaped Imprinting on both of Edict’s legs.

“Edict. Pour mana into it like you did before. Legs first.”

“Y, Yes…! Uwaaah?!”

Swoosh!

Edict disappeared from his spot in an instant.

When Kyung-joon turned around, he saw Edict again.

He had just moved behind Kyung-joon in an instant by pouring mana into the Imprinting on his legs.

“I, I just, what, what did I……!”

Edict was greatly flustered by the fact that he had just made such a move.

He himself couldn’t understand what he had just done.

“……”

However, Azuaz knew better than anyone what the move Edict had just shown was.

And there was a good reason for that.

“…Quick.”

It was none other than her signature technique, 『Fairy-style Magic Body Enhancement Quick』.

Edict, who had never learned Body Modification Magic in his life, had just done it.

Just by having a single Imprinting engraved on his leg.

“This way, we can perfectly solve the weakness of 『New Concept Fairy Combat Magic Textbook』, which is that it can’t be used by anyone other than Azuaz herself.”

It wasn’t just a solution.

This was a complete revolution beyond a solution.

“It doesn’t have to be imprinted on a person’s body. For example, the third team’s 『Dragon Palace Sea Krill Oil-Infused Mana Cartridge Supplement, optimized for each race』. By engraving this Imprinting on their health supplement……Done. Edict, try eating this.”

“Y, Yes…! Huh?! Woooh! The power is surging through me…! The energy of the Dragon Palace is overflowing from my entire body?!”

“This way, we can directly imprint items to enhance their effects.”

The revolution didn’t end with just one thing.

This Imprinting magic could be applied to all sorts of fields, leading to countless revolutions.

“Similarly, the fourth team’s 『Anti-Scroll Magic Tool』 can be further developed through Imprinting……”

“Gah?!”

As Kyung-joon said that and looked at Zot, he flinched and took a step back.

He looked like prey before being caught by a predator.

“Well, I think that’s enough explanation for my idea.”

Fortunately, Kyung-joon shrugged and looked away from Zot.

Fortunately?

It wasn’t fortunate.

It was nothing more than a beast letting its prey go because it was full and thought it was enough.

It could be eaten again at any time.

“……Damn it.”

He had already been eaten by Kyung-joon.

🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷

The second presentation of the World’s Top Magic Competition was over.

The first presentation had ended in quite a shock, but……

The second presentation had to end in a state of complete panic, beyond shock.

Everyone had been eaten by Kyung-joon.

All the ideas they had come up with in the first presentation had been devoured by Kyung-joon’s idea.

The strengths and weaknesses they had heard in the first presentation, and the new feedback they had received in the second presentation.

All of this had been improved and developed, and Kyung-joon had reborn it into a perfect superior version.

There was no longer any point in them continuing their research.

It was a complete defeat.

It was Kyung-joon’s perfect victory.

The fact that Kyung-joon didn’t even do the first presentation?

That didn’t matter at all; it was no different than Kyung-joon already being decided as the winner.

There was no need to go through the Magic Tower booth or the final presentation.

Everyone thought so.

“How was it, Teemo? It went just as I said, right?”

<^오^>

This was exactly as Kyung-joon had expected.

But lastly.

“……Let me ask you one last question.”

Larev, the most conservative of the judges, tried to find a flaw and give feedback.

That was the role of a judge.

“It is truly an amazing magic, but if only you know and can use it, wouldn’t there be a limit to its supply in the end? To solve this, you would need to spread this incredible Imprinting widely and increase profits significantly……”

“Ah, that problem?”

Kyung-joon interrupted Larev and spoke immediately.

“Isn’t that why I was invited here as a professor at Fael University?”

“……”

With those words.

All the problems Kyung-joon had at Fael University were solved at once, and very cleanly.

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