It’s an Academic Fact That Rankers Are Model Students – Chapter 233

Chapter 233: Zot Blackening (2)

A voice echoed.

Not from behind, front, or side, but a voice inside his head.

He didn’t know who it was.

━Me? Curious who I am?

The voice he had never heard before seemed to be reading his mind.

Normally, he would be scared, but for some reason, Zot felt strangely familiar with the current situation.

━Heek. Of course. I’m not talking to you. I’m talking to your ‘desire’.

‘Desire?’

━Yes. Desire. What you want, wish for, and crave.

‘What I, Zot Kalisberg, want, wish for, and crave……’

Zot thought about it.

The thought that had been in his heart since he was a child, before he entered the magic academy, a thought called a dream.

It was to complete the Magic Tool Department course of Fairy-Elven Magic Academy better than anyone else and become a great wizard who would bring glory to the Kalisberg wizard family……

━What a boring thing to say.

The voice interrupted Zot’s thoughts as if yawning with its chin resting on its hand.

━Is that really what you, Zot Kalisberg, want? Cut the crap. How many people do you think live in this world with such five-year-old dreams?

‘That……’

━None! There’s absolutely none! Even if there are, they’re just narcissistic perverts who are intoxicated by themselves dreaming childish dreams! Have you already forgotten what that Merde b|tch said? Are you a goldfish?

‘Ugh…… That’s……’

━Adult! He told you to be an adult! This little kid! If you’re an adult, think like an adult!

The harsh words of the voice began to irritate the anger that Zot was barely holding back.

━What? Are you angry? Yeah, you must be angry. You must be pissed off. You did nothing wrong, but you were insulted and your family was insulted! But then again, when you think about it, it’s all true, so you can’t properly refute it, can you? Yeah. What can you do? It’s the truth. Heh……

The voice’s provocation didn’t end there, and it continued, escalating in intensity.

━Life, no, El life is really sh|tty, isn’t it? During your magic academy days, you were the best and everyone sucked up to you, and even until you got into the magic university, you were on the fast track to El life. But after entering Fael University, which was so hard to get into, you realized it was all an illusion.

‘……’

━The talent you thought you had was nothing more than mediocre, and even that wasn’t that great. The grades you get from studying 10 hours a day are sometimes the same as the guy who studies 2 hours a day. Sometimes you’re completely outdone by a ‘human’ who has no racial advantages whatsoever.

‘……Human?’

━Yes. Human. For example, 『Kyung-joon』.

The voice laughed creepily.

It was an evil laugh filled with the joy that things were going well as intended.

‘Kyung-joon…… Kyung-joon……’

But Zot’s mind didn’t notice it and just kept muttering the name the voice had told him, as if reminiscing.

━Yes, Kyung-joon! If you think about it, it’s all because of that unknown otherworlder! Isn’t it?

The devil continued.

━What was the problem? You were laughed at in that disgusting space of Fael Square. The justice you had been upholding was trampled on in front of everyone. You were even insulted by someone you thought was from the same Magic Tool Department, telling you to grow up and whatnot……

A creepy voice that grazed his eardrums, passed through his brain, and reached his spine.

The voice changed its tone and asked again.

━Think about it, what is all this because of? Huh? Zot Kalisberg.

Shhh.

The events of that time began to replay around Zot.

The memories of that time, which had been like rewinding a black-and-white film, gradually became clearer and more vivid.

There, Zot saw.

He found the common denominator.

There was always ‘that’ in the recent sh|tty things he had experienced.

‘Scroll…… Scroll…… Yes, because of that damn scroll programming…… I’m in this mess……’

Zot clenched his fists.

All the anger and frustration that had been building up began to focus on the easiest target to blame.

━Heek……

The voice chuckled, pleased that things were going according to plan.

The real thing starts now.

━That’s it! Scroll programming! And that otherworlder Kyung-joon who made and spread it! That piece of sh|t who picked up some knowledge from another world or whatever, completely unverified, and acted up in the magic university, that’s why this whole mess happened! Don’t you think so? Doesn’t it make your stomach hurt? What’s he got to be so proud of with his master’s thesis? 10 billion scouts? If you think about it, he didn’t even get into the magic university properly! It’s a parachute, a parachute! Ezeri Capirus! And if you go further up, even that Fairy King b|tch! It’s a hotbed of all sorts of dirty corruption connected to that line!

‘Trash…… Trash b@stards……! If it weren’t for those trash b@stards, I……! I, I……!’

Zot clenched his fists so tightly that his fingernails dug into his flesh and blood dripped down.

Zot’s anger grew so great that it seemed ready to explode at any moment.

But it couldn’t just explode here.

The basics of terror are to annihilate the surroundings while targeting a specific ‘target’.

━That good-for-nothing otherworlder approached Ezeri Capirus in all sorts of dirty ways! And then he secretly put his name on the thesis! He even bewitched other students with that trash called scroll programming, which has no tradition or history! The magic university, the center of the academic world of the Fael Alliance! Being played by that one otherworlder! Do you think this makes any sense?! Huh?!

A perfect piece of incitement with no real basis.

If you were to compare the ratio of truth and falsehood, it would probably be about 1% and 99% respectively.

But this 99% lie mixed with 1% truth.

‘Scroll programming…… otherworlder…… Kyung-joon…… .’

Sometimes it looks like 100% truth.

Smirk.

The formless voice seemed to smile.

But Zot didn’t notice at all.

He had long since been engulfed by an unknown black energy.

His eyes are gradually going blind.

Now, all truth appears as falsehood, to the point where he firmly believes that black is pure white.

Zot’s eyes were severely blinded.

Thump, thump.

Zot began to take steps.

Where to?

In the direction the pitch-black energy was leading him.

‘Otherworlder otherworlder otherworlder otherworlder otherworlder…… human human human human human…… Kyung-joon Kyung-joon Kyung-joon Kyung-joon Kyung-joon…… scroll programming scroll programming scroll programming……’

Zot continues to walk somewhere with his completely blinded eyes.

━Now, let’s be honest with ourselves. Don’t think too hard. How great a wizard you want to be, how you want to glorify your family, put those distant future stories behind you, way~ way~ behind you.

The voice went into its final act.

━Think about what you want to do and have to do right now. I’m talking about things that only you can do now that you’ve realized the truth! Hehehe!

‘……Things that only I can do.’

He couldn’t see anything around him.

But he could see one thing.

The target he had to destroy now.

Otherworlder Kyung-joon.

The face of the trash he had never really faced before naturally came to mind.

Whether it was really his face or not……

‘Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill……!’

It didn’t matter at all.

━Hehehe! Yes! You have to kill! If you want to achieve that, come here! Come here quickly! You are the one who must uphold the justice of the magic university! It will be a very tiring and difficult journey! So come here and eat this! Chew it! Chew and swallow it right now!

Smirk.

He laughed.

Zot Kalisberg and the devil laughed together, their faces completely overlapping as if torn apart.

They looked very happy.

Munch, munch!

Munch, munch!

Munch, munch!

” ……Gulp! Heh. Hehehe. Hehehehehe! Hahahahahahaha! “

It was very twisted.

🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷

Zot immediately moved towards the magic tower booth.

His purpose was one.

To completely destroy that b@stard, Kyung-joon, who had played Fael University and Fael Alliance itself with the dirty otherworldly knowledge of scroll programming!

Zot now had the power to do so.

[『Corrupted Black Magic Stone of Wisdom: 3rd stage』 is being eroded!]

[Reason begins to collapse.]

[You can gain powerful strength as you break down.]

[All stats increased by 16%.]

[Your body begins to mutate.]

[You can gain powerful strength as you mutate.]

[All stats increased by 23%.]

[You begin to feel anger towards the target.]

[You will gain even more power when facing the target 『Kyung-joon』.]

[Stats continue to increase……]

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．

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Gurgling!

Churning!

Rumbling!

The black magic stone embedded in Zot’s heart was spreading throughout his body through his bloodstream and mana circuit.

” Kyung-joon, Kyung-joon, Kyung-joon, Kyung-joon…… “

Despite this, Zot felt no sense of incongruity.

The reason that would have made him feel that the current situation was wrong had long since disappeared.

At that time.

” Kyung-joon……! “

He saw Kyung-joon walking out of the magic tower booth towards him.

To think he came out here on his own.

That’s great.

Zot felt such an overwhelming urge to blast a spell at Kyung-joon just from seeing his face from afar, but.

” You otherworlder trash! “

Zot barely managed to suppress his anger.

Even though Zot’s reason was collapsing, he knew this much.

If he attacked Kyung-joon right now, he would be the one at a disadvantage.

So, he would create a situation where there would be no problem at all.

『Wizard’s duel』.

As long as he dragged him into a formal duel according to the rules of the magic university, there would be no problem at all, whether he beat Kyung-joon to a pulp or whatever.

He would bring him to his knees in front of everyone at the magic university.

And he would make him beg for mercy.

He would return the humiliation and disgrace he had felt tenfold, a hundredfold, and completely crush him.

He felt that he could do anything, even more than that, with his current self.

But then.

Swoosh~.

Kyung-joon just walked past Zot.

” This b@stard……! “

[Reason is further collapsing.]

[Anger is building up even more.]

[You are being further eroded by the black magic stone.]

[All stats increased by an additional 37%.]

” Hey, otherworlder Kyung-joon! Are you deaf too, you piece of trash?! “

Zot turned to Kyung-joon, who had passed him, and shouted once more.

Unfortunately, however, Kyung-joon was indeed deaf at the moment.

[Unique skill 『Isolated System (Lv.1)』 ]

[Currently in the process of noise canceling (Sound Blocking).]

” So, there’s this thing called Total Perenteral Nutrition, and you can survive on just this IV without eating a single meal, so it’s a new way to diet…… “

Kyung-joon didn’t respond to Zot’s words and just continued talking to the air.

[Reason is further eroded by the black magic stone.]

[All stats increased by an additional 31%.]

” This b@stard, who does he think I am……!! “

Whoosh!

Zot, who had lost a bit more of his reason, immediately took out his student ID and threw it at the back of Kyung-joon’s head.

This was a wizard’s sign of challenging someone to a duel!

According to the rules, the person who received this sign could not refuse a duel.

In other words, Kyung-joon would be forced to fight Zot.

But then.

[Unique skill 『Sylph Fly – Shadow Step』 ]

Swoosh!

Kyung-joon dodged the student ID that Zot had thrown!

” Th, th, th, th……! “

[Reason begins to fade even more in the black magic stone.]

[All stats increased by an additional 28%.]

Churning, churning!

Just as Zot, enraged, was about to attack the back of Kyung-joon’s head with the power of the black magic stone.

Float, float.

Zot’s student ID suddenly began to float in the air.

It wasn’t Zot who did it.

It wasn’t the other students around him who had stopped to watch, sensing that something was wrong with the situation.

It wasn’t human.

It wasn’t fairy.

It wasn’t elf.

A very foreign and artificial mana.

Wooong.

[The formula for 『Remote Vector Manipulation』 has been added to the Mana Mechanics research skill 『Vector Calculus』.]

[Research Progress (Proficiency) has been updated.]

▶Current Proficiency: 36.7% → 50%

” Did you drop your student ID by any chance? “

It was Kyung-joon’s mana that had lifted the student ID into the air.

🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷

” Th, th, th, th, thiiiiiis……! “

Zot trembled, clenching his fist as if he was about to crush it at Kyung-joon’s words, 『Did you drop your student ID by any chance?』.

Looking at Zot, Kyung-joon didn’t think, Why is he acting like that?

“For someone affected by the black magic stone, Zot is maintaining his sanity pretty well, right?”

<^오^>

<Yes. I think it would be perfect to have an anger management competition with him and AngerManagementVodka.>

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