It’s an Academic Fact That Rankers Are Model Students – Chapter 52

Chapter 52: This is How You Use What You’ve Studied (2)

“What? You’re saying you’ll go in there and check for yourself?”

“Yes. I’ll judge the scoundrel who’s holed up in that log cabin. I’ll drag him out by the neck right away.”

“No…! That’s because you don’t know the power of that magic tower! You could die if you’re not careful! The power of the Energy Bolt fired by the magic tower is beyond imagination!”

Liant tried to stop Kyung-joon, warning him of the danger.

However, Kyung-joon brushed off Liant’s restraint and…

“It’s alright. I won’t die.”

“Ah……”

At that moment, Liant saw.

Kyung-joon with eyes like those of a hero.

Then, information about Kyung-joon popped up as a status window in front of Liant.

[The god of the world notifies Liant.]

[Player Kyung-joon’s fame rating: 312]

[He is a hero who saved Beginner’s Village.]

[He is also a possessor of strong force who single-handedly protected a merchant group from the attack of Black Secret Village thieves.]

[In addition, his fame is…… (omitted)……. ]

[So trust Player Kyung-joon and propose a Unique Quest.]

🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷

A Unique Quest that can be proposed only once a year!

Liant gave Kyung-joon a Unique Quest without hesitation.

[Resolve the grudge of the Ria Village immigrants!]

▶Farmers who left Ria Village to escape Black Secret Village and immigrated to Beginner’s Village. However, on their migration path, they were attacked by an unknown magic tower and suffered great losses. All their land deeds were burned, and now they’re completely homeless!

First, let’s capture the owner of that magic tower and resolve the grudge of the Ria villagers.

▶Quest Reward: ???

▶Quest Type: Unexpected

▶Quest Grade: Unique

※However! If you are discovered to be the owner of the Energy Tower, your fame will decrease by 200, and your favorability with the Ria villagers will drop to the lowest.

A completely contradictory quest content!

Kyung-joon, the very perpetrator of the incident, received a quest to deal with the perpetrator of that incident.

It’s like assigning a police search to the criminal, only to find out that the police officer was the criminal.

It was a quest where he had no idea how to clear it.

Of course, Kyung-joon had already thought through everything about how to handle it.

‘To carry out the plan for sure, I need to study physics.’

And not just any physics.

‘Mana’, which exists only in the world and not in reality.

A new physics that deals with that was needed.

“Please wait a moment.”

Kyung-joon said that to Liant and took out some wood from his inventory.

And then, he quickly started working.

Thump, thump, thump!

Liant and the villagers of Ria Village couldn’t understand why Kyung-joon was doing that all of a sudden, but one thing was for sure.

“He’s incredibly skilled.”

“He’s much better than me, who has been making farming tools all my life.”

Kyung-joon’s Handiness had already exceeded 200.

To be precise, it was 221.

Handiness is a special stat that cannot be raised with stat points.

It’s never easy to raise.

It was a figure made possible by Kyung-joon constantly making things while studying carpentry, architecture, and baking.

[You have completed the simple chair and desk set.]

It wasn’t as good as the carefully crafted desk and chair in the Study Villa, but it was enough to spread out and study anywhere.

Kyung-joon immediately took out a general physics book and a basic magic theory book on the desk.

Scribble, scribble.

Soon, all sorts of formulas began to fill the white notebook.

“Studying all of a sudden?”

“What are you doing all of a sudden?”

“Just a moment.”

The farmers of Ria Village were puzzled, but Kyung-joon briefly asked for their understanding and continued studying.

After a few minutes of quick study, Kyung-joon.

He said to Teemo next to him.

“Teemo, I’m going to shoot a total of twenty Energy Bolts at the same time, from 10 to 200 mana. Measure the distance traveled and the height dropped every 0.1 seconds accurately.”

<Okay.>

Kyung-joon immediately cast a spell.

Three at the same time, to be exact.

[General skill 『Energy Bolt (Lv.8)』 ]

[Advanced skill 『Spell Modification (Lv.5)』 ]

[Rare skill 『Multi-Casting (Lv.3)』 ]

Shush, shush, shush!

From an Energy Bolt with 10 mana to an Energy Bolt with 200 mana in increments of 10.

A total of twenty Energy Bolts were fired simultaneously into the air in a straight line.

“Twenty Energy Bolts at the same time…?!”

“And they’re all different sizes!”

“I don’t know much about magic, but I can tell that’s amazing!”

Even a single Energy Bolt was quite a sight for ordinary farmers who couldn’t use magic.

Not everyone could become a wizard.

However, Kyung-joon transformed the power of the Energy Bolt through Spell Modification and simultaneously cast twenty spells through Multi-Casting.

Even farmers who didn’t know much about magic could tell at a glance that it was amazing.

“Teemo, what’s the data?”

<10 mana Energy Bolt: t=0.1 seconds (2.41m, 1.73m), t=0.2 seconds (4.78m, 1.62m),…….>

Kyung-joon wrote down all the data that Teemo told him.

Then he started writing formulas again.

To speed up his calculations, he even ate castella to increase his calculation ability by 30%, and in the meantime, the state of Trance was activated, doubling his concentration.

It took only 5 minutes for Kyung-joon to complete the calculations based on hundreds of data points.

Dozens of notebooks on the makeshift desk had already been blackened.

“Teemo, the acceleration of gravity acting on mana is about 0.011m/s^2. And the drag coefficient acting on air is……”

Kyung-joon told Teemo the results of his calculations.

And lastly, he said this.

“Predict the Energy Bolt trajectory based on these calculation results and show it to me.”

<Okay.>

As Teemo uploaded the calculation results to him, a status window appeared before Kyung-joon’s eyes that he had never seen before.

[You have created a new discipline 『Mana Mechanics』.]

[100 hours have been added to the Dimensional Study Room.]

🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷

[Mana Mechanics]

▶A new discipline that combines the classical mechanics part of physics and the basics of magic theory.

▶Research Progress: 1.7%

▶Unique skill 『Deterministic Worldview』 available.

※You can complete the discipline when the research progress reaches 100%.

[Deterministic Worldview]

▶You can predict the trajectory of all projectiles in advance. The more mana you consume, the further into the future you can predict.

▶Skill Level: Lv.1

▶Skill Type: Active (ON/OFF)

▶Skill Rank: Unique

Deterministic worldview!

It is one of the major premises assumed by classical mechanics in physics.

As the name suggests, the future of the world is ‘determined’.

Imagine you throw a ball.

We can roughly predict how the ball will fly and where it will fall.

Classical mechanics says this here.

The speed, weight, gravity, wind influence, etc., when the ball is thrown.

If you know all of this accurately, you can know exactly where the ball will fall without an error of 0.01mm.

In other words, the future of the ball is determined.

“Good.”

Kyung-joon wanted to apply this principle not to the ball, but to mana.

This was exactly what Kyung-joon had been studying and researching.

Just as Sever applied chemistry to his poison magic.

Kyung-joon applied physics to his ‘Energy Bolt’.

And the discipline born from that, 『Mana Mechanics』.

Kyung-joon, with a satisfied smile at the results, said to the villagers of Ria Village next to him.

“Everyone, please wait a moment. I’m going to bring the unethical person who broke through the Energy Bolt magic tower and ruthlessly destroyed your precious property right now.”

And then he whispered very quietly to Teemo next to him.

“Teemo, exclude me from the Energy Tower’s non-attack list.”

<Okay. Please be careful as you will be logged out immediately if you get hit even once. Master’s Energy Bolt, amplified by quartz, is no different from a powerful small bomb.>

“Yeah.”

Tap!

Kyung-joon ran towards the Dimensional Study Villa.

[The Energy Tower recognizes you as an enemy.]

[A powerful energy bombardment will begin.]

Rumble!

Dozens of Energy Towers that recognized Kyung-joon gathered energy at the same time.

Just like that, 1 second, 2 seconds, 3 seconds.

Bang!

Huge Energy Bolts amplified by quartz flew towards Kyung-joon.

[Unique skill 『Deterministic Worldview』 ]

[Predicting the trajectory of all projectiles.]

Mana began to gather in Kyung-joon’s eyes and burn blue.

The world beyond that was black and white.

Red curves visible in a black and white world.

They were all paths.

About where the Energy Bolts rushing towards Kyung-joon will bombard.

[Mythical skill 『Dimensional Study Room』 ]

[Time Dilation is doubled.]

Kyung-joon doubled his own time and then quickly tried to get out of the red path.

The movement of 410 Agility has become twice as fast!

The movement surpassed even that of a ranker.

Boom, boom, boom, boom!

Kyung-joon was already gone from the spot where the Energy Bolt bombarded.

“W, What a speed…!”

“He’s so fast!”

“He’s several times faster than the Black Secret Village thieves?!”

Boom, boom, boom!!

Countless Energy Bolts firing towards Kyung-joon.

Unlike before, where the bombardment was aimed at one place, this time it was aimed at all directions.

Shhh, shhh, shhh!

However, Kyung-joon avoided all the bombardments without even a scratch at his tremendous speed.

“How in the world did he…… in that bombardment……!”

“He dodged them……! He dodged them all!”

“……It was as if he knew where they were going to fall.”

“Is that even possible?!”

“At first, he was making a desk and a chair, and then he suddenly started studying and using incredible magic, and now he’s showing us these moves!”

“That person, no, that gentleman, is……”

The villagers of Ria Village looked at Kyung-joon with disbelief.

Kyung-joon judged from the sound of astonishment coming from afar that things were going according to plan.

Tap!

He jumped over the fence and safely entered the Dimensional Study Villa.

Now it was time to get into the second task.

Boom, boom, boom!!

After Kyung-joon dodged all of the last bombardment, he shouted so that only Teemo could hear.

“Teemo, now! Stop it!”

<Okay.>

[The Energy Tower recognizes you as an ally.]

[The energy bombardment stops.]

Crash!

As soon as the bombardment stopped, Kyung-joon kicked open the door of the Dimensional Study Villa and rolled inside.

It was practically a show for Kyung-joon.

On the other hand, to the villagers of Ria Village, it looked like Kyung-joon had evaded all of the magic tower’s attacks and safely infiltrated the enemy’s base.

“Kyung-joon-nim succeeded!”

“He successfully infiltrated!”

“It’s too far away to see well! What’s going on inside the building?”

“The bombardment has stopped! He must have stopped the wizard inside!”

“Kyung-joon-nim! We wish you safety!”

“Give that damn owner inside a good beating!”

Kyung-joon thought to himself at the cheers of the villagers coming from afar.

Showtime starts now.

“Are you the owner of this magic tower villa?”

Kyung-joon shouted very loudly on purpose so that he could be heard outside.

Of course, Kyung-joon was the only one inside.

Therefore, there is no way an answer will come back.

But it was okay.

If it doesn’t come back, he can just say it himself.

Kyung-joon put his hand to his neck.

And then he let the mana flow.

‘The feeling of handling mana…… Yes, it’s like when I recorded the sound of rain on the roof of the library.’

At that time, if he recorded the sound of rain with mana.

This time, he modulates his voice with mana.

Buzz!

[You have learned the rare skill 『Voice Modulation』 on your own.]

[10 hours have been added to the Dimensional Study Room.]

[Modulating voice with mana.]

『Keuugh?! Who, who are you?!』

A very vicious tone of voice.

It was the voice of ‘Heukgil-dong’ that he had heard during the Black Secret Village carriage raid a few days ago.

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