It’s an Academic Fact That Rankers Are Model Students – Chapter 62

Chapter 62: Joint Research with the Elf (2)

“No, wait, wait, wait! If you scribble it down like that, the scroll won’t work properly……!”

In the end, Ezeri, unable to watch any longer, had to intervene.

“You can’t do that! You have to follow the proper scrollwriting method!”

“Huh?”

Kyung-joon stopped writing the scroll and looked to the side.

Ezeri, judging that Kyung-joon did not understand properly, continued her explanation.

“If you run it as it is, there is no set procedure, so the mana will keep circulating in the middle and the scroll will burn out! So first of all, don’t do that and do this……”

Ezeri reached out to fix the scroll.

Thud

Kyung-joon stopped her by grabbing her hand.

“It’s okay. It’ll be fine if you add this one line at the end.”

Kyung-joon started writing anew on the last line of the scroll.

But it wasn’t a rune letter.

『If MP>=125:

break』

The letters that Kyung-joon wrote with mana were used only in real-world programming.

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“What…… is this?”

Ezeri said, looking at the unfamiliar letters written on the scroll.

“I made a new one.”

“You made a new one?”

“Yes. This way, you don’t have to write the mana gathering sentence repeatedly, and you can make it stop automatically when a certain amount of mana is collected.”

What Kyung-joon had been doing for the past three days.

It was the process of finely dividing each and every rune letter into mana units and interpreting them.

In doing so, he obtained the ‘mana data’ possessed by the rune letters.

“With this data, you can create a new scroll language system to your liking. It is even possible not to use rune letters at all.”

At Kyung-joon’s words, Ezeri raised her voice and retorted.

“No, rune letters are optimized letters for scroll magic! If you want to change that arbitrarily, you have to re-arrange all the scroll magic!”

“That’s right. That’s why I wrote the basic letters in runes. I just changed the way I wanted it, or should I say I changed the structure a bit?”

“That can’t be……! Rune letters are a great and long-standing invention of the elves that has been going on for over 700 years, it’s impossible to arbitrarily change that structure―”

“It’s possible.”

Kyung-joon cut off Ezeri’s words and asserted.

And added.

“Everything that humans can imagine is within the realm of possibility.”

Kyung-joon finished writing the scroll.

Immediately after injecting mana, the rune letters written on the scroll began to glow brightly.

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Fwoosh!

Unlike the cool words he had just spoken, the scroll written by Kyung-joon burst into flames after shining brightly.

Poof

Kyung-joon’s hair became as fluffy as an afro.

He said with a slightly embarrassed expression.

“……I’ve tried to confidently say that, but it seems like we’re still a bit far from reaching the realm of possibility.”

Perhaps if someone else had seen this, they would have burst into laughter, saying, ‘See! I was right, wasn’t I?’

But Ezeri wasn’t laughing at all.

Rather, she was surprised.

‘The scroll worked properly.’

Ezeri saw exactly.

The brightly shining scroll shattered into small pieces and disappeared into the air.

That meant the scroll worked perfectly.

However……

‘It’s just that the magic didn’t work properly after it worked.’

It meant that there was a problem with the way it was written, not that the scroll itself rejected the new character system he had created.

It failed, but it was proven possible.

As he said, this was clearly within the ‘realm of possibility’.

“Hmm, what was the problem? I thought it would work.”

As Kyung-joon crossed his arms and pondered…

“……There was too much mana going into the air for compression magic.”

“Huh?”

Ezeri began to give advice based on what she had seen and judged.

“And usually, when using compression magic, you gather the air like this in a rotating motion.”

Whoosh

Ezeri created a wind in her hand and gathered it in one place.

It was as if a small typhoon was spinning in her hand.

“You don’t just gather it all in one place recklessly. That’s the method commonly used in fire attribute magic.”

“Aha. Rotating method. That way, you can reduce the phenomenon of mana collision.”

“Fire attribute magic doesn’t matter because the purpose is to use the mana collision phenomenon, but judging from what you’re doing, it doesn’t seem like that, right?”

“That’s right. That’s really good advice.”

“I graduated from here, even if I look like this. Of course.”

Kyung-joon thanked her for her advice and started writing a new scroll.

And before long……

“I’m done writing.”

Kyung-joon handed the completed scroll to Ezeri.

“I think it will work now, how is it? Why don’t you try using it?”

“……Are you saying that because you’re afraid it’ll explode again?”

“Hey, come on. It’s just because you gave me advice. It won’t explode now, really. Trust me and try it.”

“……”

With a sullen expression, Ezeri received the scroll that Kyung-joon handed her.

She glanced at the rune letters written on the scroll.

‘The advice I gave him earlier is included. To think he’d understand everything in that short amount of time and finish writing the scroll……’

Soon, Ezeri made a decision.

To try injecting mana into the scroll.

She wasn’t sure if it would work this time, but as a graduate student here who had been through a lot of hardships, she had a hunch.

The look in the eyes of that human boy is real.

“Then…… I’ll try it, pretending to be fooled?”

“Yes, pretend to be fooled.”

Wooong

Ezeri’s pure mana began to permeate the scroll.

Kyung-joon’s eyes widened slightly as he saw it.

It wasn’t as much as TikiTiki’s mana he had seen at the Warp Gate a few days ago, but Ezeri’s mana was also beyond imagination.

The scent of fresh mana, like spraying freshly opened Febreze in the room.

This is what the mana of an elf living in nature is all about.

“It worked.”

“I told you, right?”

A bumpy crystal was floating in Ezeri’s hand.

It was air.

Compressed and solidified air.

Just like carbon dioxide freezes into dry ice.

The air, which was slowly compressed and released heat, froze into crystals.

“When did you add the sentence to remove the heat?”

“I thought it would be a mess after the magic was over even if the scroll worked properly. If the compressed air is released all at once, it’s an explosion, right? So I added one more sentence to make it safe even after the magic is over.”

“But when I read it roughly earlier, there was no ice magic……”

“Yes. I haven’t learned ice magic yet. So I used Energy Bolt.”

“Energy Bolt? How?”

Energy Bolt can be applied in reverse to cast pseudo-ice magic.

Since Energy Bolt is a magic that consumes mana and applies energy, if you use it in reverse, you can extract the energy that air particles have.

“……Smart, huh?”

“I just struggled to make it work somehow without ice magic. It’s nothing special.”

Kyung-joon really thought so.

He was just racking his brains to make up for his lack of magical knowledge.

‘It’s not as simple as it sounds……’

However, Ezeri was even more impressed by Kyung-joon’s attitude.

He makes the most of what he currently has to implement the magic he wants.

It was something that Ezeri, who looked up the Encyclopedia of Magic whenever there was an unknown magic, could not easily do.

As a graduate student at a magic university, she had learned and mastered a lot, but that knowledge was rather hindering the application of magic.

‘As expected of this human.’

Then, indeed, she needs his existence.

“Um…… Kyung-joon, was it?”

“Yes? Yes.”

“You are an Otherworlder, right?”

“Yes. A Player.”

Tap

Hearing Kyung-joon’s answer, Ezeri suddenly grabbed him by the shoulders and brought her face closer.

An expression of great determination.

Her tightly closed lips parted right before his eyes.

“Are you interested in a Unique Quest?”

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Kyung-joon, hearing Ezeri’s suggestion, tilted his head and asked back.

“I will share the research topic, and you will help me with my research and use the results for your master’s presentation. Right?”

“Yes. That’s right.”

“I think the research will be much faster if you help me.”

Simply put, Ezeri was proposing a joint research.

Kyung-joon gave a positive sign and continued speaking.

“How can you help specifically?”

This was important.

If there was no tangible benefit worth the effort of doing research together, there was no need to share his research topic.

Joint research is a process of helping each other and achieving a win-win, not a process of parasitism by relying on someone.

It was necessary to carefully consider the advantages and disadvantages that each other could obtain.

“What I can help you with is my knowledge of magic and the existing rune system. First of all, your research is going to fundamentally change the structure of the existing rune system, right?”

“Similar.”

“Then you need to know exactly what all the existing runes are. It’s going to take a lot longer than you think.”

“I guess so.”

“But I know a lot about rune letters and scroll magic, as well as various other magics. It would be much more convenient to use me properly than to study everything by yourself, right?”

“Definitely. The advice you gave me earlier helped me a lot.”

“Right? So I’ll tell you exactly what you want, like an encyclopedia of magic. Then you can just focus on changing the rune system.”

“But is there any reason why you need to do that with my subject?”

“I can’t decide on a topic for my master’s presentation this time. I want to do that if you don’t mind.”

“Hmm.”

Kyung-joon rested his chin in his hand and fell into thought for a moment.

There was nothing Kyung-joon could lose.

Anyway, in order to apply the ‘real-world programming method’ to scroll magic, he had to study all the rune systems currently used in scroll magic.

Come to think of it, it would have taken too long.

Even if he used the Dimensional Study Room, he would probably have to use the entire vacation.

But if this master’s elf helped…… who knows.

Ezeri continued her pitch.

“You can use the master’s research funds allocated to me and the tools in our lab as much as you like. I may not be as good as the professor, but I’ve been working on it for almost 10 years, so…… yeah, it will help a lot! Surely!”

“Oh.”

He felt a little guilty for using the magic scroll here without permission.

If Ezeri participates in the air conditioner research in earnest, there is no need to worry about such things anymore.

It goes without saying that he will not have to pay separately.

“I’ll put your name on the paper as a co-author.”

“That’s natural.”

“Additionally, I’m going to use a Unique Quest on you.”

Since Players appeared in the world, all NPCs in the world have been given the right to give quests to Players.

Among them, Unique Quest is a right that can only be used once a year.

“Then the God of the World will give you an additional reward. I don’t know what kind of reward will be given in what way…… but at least it will be unique grade, right?”

Ezeri, who said so, had an uncertain look in her eyes.

It was her first time meeting a Player and giving them a quest.

“First of all, please show me the quest window.”

“Ah, okay.”

Ezeri used the power of Unique Quest on Kyung-joon.

“Here, Unique Quest. Did it pop up?”

“Yes. It popped up. I’ll check.”

[Help Ezeri with her master’s presentation research!]

▶Ezeri is…… (omitted)…… Help her research and pass the master’s presentation safely!

▶Quest Reward: ???

▶Quest Type: Hidden

▶Quest Grade: Unique

[Would you like to accept the quest?]

The reward was a question mark.

The God of the World, or the system, cannot properly predict the reward for this quest.

In the case of quests where the outcome changes from moment to moment depending on the Player’s actions, most of the rewards appear as ???.

“Ugh.”

She boldly stepped forward and negotiated, but Ezeri couldn’t be sure if Kyung-joon would say OK.

Kyung-joon’s characteristic expressionless face and silence made her even more anxious.

Kyung-joon, who had finished reading the quest window, held out his right hand to Ezeri.

“It’s nice working with you. Let’s do a good research together.”

“……!”

It was a sign of acceptance.

Let’s do well in the future.

Ezeri smiled brightly at this and replied.

“Yes!”

[The quest has been accepted.]

Thus began the joint research of Kyung-joon and Ezeri.

“But what exactly is the research topic?”

“Well, let me summarize it in one sentence.”

『Grammatical restructuring of scroll rune language for replacing Magic Memory Stone used in refrigerant compression in heat pumps and verification of its efficiency and feasibility of actual implementation.』

“That would be it.”

“……What?”

Kyung-joon had been an expert at naming papers since high school.

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