It’s an Academic Fact That Rankers Are Model Students – Chapter 58

Chapter 58: Air Conditioning is a Must for Summer Studying

“Yes. My colleagues are moving all the ordered goods, and it seems like we’ll be leaving as soon as I get there.”

“Good. I’ve assigned stronger escort mercenaries this time. You don’t have to worry about something like last time.”

This time, the average level of mercenaries escorting Wagon was in the 150s.

Although the labor costs more than doubled, it was still better than being helpless against the Black Secret Village bastards like last time.

“And Wagon, please deliver this letter to Kyung-joon.”

TheWorld’sGreatestMerchant took out a previously written letter and gave it to Wagon.

“I’d like to go and thank him in person, but I can’t.”

“Understood. But is it okay to just deliver the letter?”

“I thought about giving him some money, but that didn’t seem right. It feels like I’m putting a price tag on you and your colleagues’ lives.”

“Oh, Guild Master……!”

“And a mere sum of money wouldn’t convey my sincere gratitude. I’ll have to meet him in person and talk later.”

World’s Best Guild cherishes their people.

Whether they are NPCs or players.

They saved their lives, and to think of repaying them with a few hundred million liyans?

That would be no different than tarnishing the reputation World’s Best has built so far.

Of course, it wasn’t just for these moral reasons.

He wanted to meet Kyung-joon in person.

If he wanted a reward, he would have to come out of Beginner’s Village.

‘I must build some kind of relationship with him.’

The best-case scenario was Kyung-joon joining their guild.

Even if not, he had to maintain a good relationship.

The unique bread he created alone was already worth it……

Considering the report from Froi, the personal consultant on the second floor of the main branch, his future potential was incomparable to other crafting players.

“Then, I’ll leave it to you, Wagon.”

“Yes! Leave it to me! I will make sure to deliver this letter to Kyung-joon-nim, no matter what!”

With that, Wagon left the office.

He was told to use the Warp Gate to deliver the letter first.

At least the letter would be delivered by tomorrow.

After that, TheWorld’sGreatestMerchant only had to wait for Kyung-joon to contact him using the business card.

‘A crafting player who makes unique bread and presumably uses Unique Skills. On top of that, he possesses incredible power, enough to wipe out the Black Secret Village thieves in an instant.’

‘I must build a connection with him, no matter what.’

TheWorld’sGreatestMerchant.

A letter with his handwriting was on its way to Kyung-joon.

🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷

Blazing, blazing, blazing.

That was the sound of the sun beating down.

Huff, huff, huff.

That was the sound of a man dying from the heat.

“It’s hot!”

Thud!

Kyung-joon roughly put down his pencil and slumped back in his chair.

This place was like a sauna.

Study Villa in the middle of the grasslands.

Looking outside, farmers were toiling away in the heat, cultivating wheat.

How hot must they be?

Even he, studying inside, was going crazy from the heat.

Summer vacation was already halfway over.

A terrible heat wave had hit not only South Korea but also Study Villa.

“Bangwool……! Get rid of some of this humidity!”

━Mumul~!

[Bangwool absorbs the moisture in the air.]

The humid air inside Study Villa disappeared.

It felt a little cooler.

But the intense heat remained.

“It was bearable until a few days ago, but suddenly the heat is crazy.”

<Indeed. Master’s concentration has been declining significantly for the past few days.>

“You’re right. But how can I concentrate when it’s this hot?”

Kyung-joon wiped the sweat dripping down his face with his clothes.

He lowered his gaze slightly and saw two books on the desk.

General Physics and General Chemistry.

He had finished almost two-thirds of both.

He could finish them completely in another week or two.

But his pace wasn’t picking up any further.

His notebook and books were only getting stickier with sweat.

It was too hot to hold a pencil or open a book.

Even with the study buff, it was helpless against the true heat.

“……Teemo, we’re taking drastic measures.”

<Drastic measures, you say?>

“Page 472 of General Physics, we’re going to make it a reality.”

Creak.

Saying that, Kyung-joon pulled his chair forward again and opened the book.

He flipped through the pages.

Page 472 of General Physics.

Where basic mechanics and simple fluid dynamics ended and thermodynamics began.

The title of the subsection there read:

『19-2 The Principle of Air Conditioners』

After confirming the contents, Kyung-joon turned on the Player Auction House and muttered quietly.

“I’m going to make an air conditioner.”

🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷

Clank, clank.

Kyung-joon used all sorts of magic and skills to create an air conditioner prototype.

The principle was in General Physics, and he had experience with engineering from building the Energy Tower.

He could get any materials he didn’t have from the Player Auction House.

With the materials, he could use the Transmute skill to shape them as he wished, so it wasn’t too difficult to make if he just went through some trial and error.

Of course, there were materials he couldn’t get.

“What should I use for refrigerant?”

Refrigerant!

The most crucial material that made an air conditioner an air conditioner!

Air conditioners usually used Freon gas as refrigerant.

Nowadays, it was no longer used due to ozone layer depletion and other reasons, but it had been used for nearly a hundred years.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t available in the Player Auction House.

Freon gas, as if such a thing would exist in a fantasy game world!

“Now, all I have to do is compress and insert the refrigerant……!”

Nevertheless, Kyung-joon found a refrigerant.

He knew.

That Freon gas wasn’t the first refrigerant used in air conditioners.

Ammonia.

The refrigerant used in the first air conditioners developed in the 1800s was ‘ammonia’.

He could produce as much ammonia as he wanted, as he had done when synthesizing artificial nitrogen fertilizer.

<Isn’t ammonia quite toxic as well? Wouldn’t it be dangerous if it leaks?>

“It’s okay. I’ll just drink a potion.”

That’s right.

This was a fantasy game world!

A world where they didn’t have to worry too much about hazards or risks.

If his body ached and his HP dropped, he could just refill it!

Using ammonia, Magic Memory Stones, quartz to increase mana efficiency, and other materials, Kyung-joon completed the world’s first air conditioner!

[You have completed a Rare item.]

[This is the first time you have crafted this item.]

[Dexterity increased by 5.]

[There is no appropriate name.]

[Please name the item.]

“Air Conditioner Prototype 001.”

[Air Conditioner Prototype 001]

▶A magical tool that combines various magical materials and the ingenious technology of another world. It cools the air.

『Compression』 It can be used by charging a Magic Memory Stone engraved with Compression magic.

▶Item Grade: Rare

Kyung-joon tried to engrave the Compression magic onto the Magic Memory Stone.

Of course, he didn’t have Compression magic separately…

“By properly controlling Energy Bolt, Spell Modification, and Fine Mana Manipulation skills with Multi-Casting…”

But there was a workaround.

Manipulate Energy Bolt with Fine Mana Manipulation and change the original skill’s properties with Spell Modification.

Energy Bolt, a skill that converts mana into energy and simply fires it with force.

Into a skill that applies minute energy to particles, causing them to clump together in one spot.

As long as he understood the exact principles behind each process, implementing Compression magic was nothing.

[You have learned the Advanced skill 『Compression』 on your own.]

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

Kyung-joon immediately engraved the implemented Compression magic onto the Magic Memory Stone.

The Compression magic engraved on this stone would compress the ammonia refrigerant and keep the air conditioner running.

The principle of an air conditioner was that the refrigerant continuously compressed and expanded, releasing internal heat to the outside.

Whi whir!

Air Conditioner Prototype 001 started running.

“Oh! Cool air is coming out!”

To think that the first prototype he made would work right away!

Kyung-joon was overjoyed with his incredible achievement.

Whiiiiir…

But his joy was short-lived.

Not long after, Air Conditioner Prototype 001 stopped abruptly.

“Huh?”

Kyung-joon immediately checked here and there, analyzing the cause of the shutdown.

He found the cause right away.

“The Magic Memory Stone is already worn out? It hasn’t even been 5 minutes?”

He had used quartz to increase mana efficiency.

Despite that, the air conditioner couldn’t last even 5 minutes.

For reference, one Magic Memory Stone cost about 200,000 liyans.

<It seems that running the air conditioner for 5 minutes will cost over 200,000 liyans.>

An astronomical electricity bill.

Or rather, a mana bill.

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An air conditioner that cost 200,000 liyans per 5 minutes!

The monthly salary he paid to the residents was 1.8 million liyan, and this thing cost 200,000 liyan per 5 minutes.

If he used the air conditioner for more than ten days, he wouldn’t even be able to pay the residents’ salaries.

Currently, he had about 300 million liyans left after buying the air conditioner materials.

The residents’ salaries amounted to almost 200 million liyans, so if this continued, he wouldn’t even have money to pay their salaries next month.

In this situation, using an air conditioner that cost 200,000 liyans per 5 minutes was insane.

Of course, he had plans to make money.

The residents were currently working hard on wheat farming.

He could extract as much Unique Fertilizer as he needed from the air, so they would be able to harvest in a month.

If he used that to mass-produce and sell Unique Bread, he could easily earn enough to cover the salaries.

That wasn’t all.

Kyung-joon was increasing the residents’ mana stats every day by manipulating their mana.

Later, he planned to teach them magic so that they could create a system where they could make Unique Bread on their own without him.

“But I can’t waste money now…… Should I just delay their salaries?”

<The residents’ loyalty and satisfaction will decrease.>

“You’re right.”

The employees were sweating and working hard, and here he was, the boss, wanting to use their salaries for his own comfort.

It was no different from a typical exploitative, black-hearted company.

Kyung-joon didn’t want to be such a boss, or rather, a lord.

“The answer is to improve the air conditioner.”

<But there doesn’t seem to be much room for further improvement. Even with the quartz to increase mana efficiency, it seems difficult to achieve significant improvement without introducing a completely new method.>

“Yes, I know. That’s why……”

Kyung-joon made a new plan and got up from his chair.

He then prepared to go somewhere.

“Let’s try a completely new improvement.”

<A completely new improvement? Did a good idea come to mind?>

“No.”

<Excuse me?>

<-_-a;;>

Teemo’s emoticon expressed his confusion.

In response, Kyung-joon took something out of his inventory.

It was the reward he had received for clearing Siri’s Unique Quest.

“What we need is an improvement in magic, specifically Compression magic.”

[Sever’s Honorary Professor Badge]

▶A professor’s badge given to professors at the Fairy-Elven Magic Academy. It allows free access within the academy.

▶Item Grade: Rare

“And for that idea, I just need to ask an expert.”

For illnesses, ask a doctor.

For medicine, ask a pharmacist.

And for magic, ask a real wizard.

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