Chapter 69: What Happens When a Model Student Drinks (2)
The surroundings were literally horrifying.
All the beastkin were sprawled pathetically on the ground.
None of them showed any sign of movement.
As if they were dead.
“They, they’re all wiped out……!”
Seeing the situation, Ezeri could only conclude that they were all dead.
But the scroll writing was a success……?
Did they all die after losing to Mutated Minto Morco?
What in the world happened while she was unconscious?
“Huh…? But where’s Kyung-joon……”
“You’re awake?”
“Eek?!”
Ezeri was startled by the sudden voice beside her.
“Kyung-joon?!”
After confirming that it was Kyung-joon, Ezeri asked urgently,
“What in the world happened! Why are all the beastkin dead? Did the scroll I wrote malfunction?!”
“No, the scroll worked perfectly. I killed the beastkin.”
“W, What…….?”
Ezeri was speechless at Kyung-joon’s calm voice.
Soon, she managed to ask in a trembling voice,
“Why did you kill them…? Why…….”
Her face was full of disbelief.
Despair filled her eyes.
“Don’t worry too much. I’ll bring them back to life.”
“……?”
Ezeri was even more confused by Kyung-joon’s words.
He killed them but he’ll bring them back to life?
She wondered how he could revive the dead, and she couldn’t understand why he would do such a thing.
But whether she understood or not didn’t matter.
“Gasp…….”
“Ugh…….”
“Uhhh…….”
As Kyung-joon said, the sight of the beastkin coming back to life before her very eyes was too shocking to comprehend.
“Eek! N, Necromancer?!”
Every time Kyung-joon touched a beastkin, the beastkin she thought were dead started to rise like zombies.
“Grrr……”
“Groan……”
“S, Stay away!”
The beastkin, clutching their heads and groaning, staggered towards her.
Their zombie-like appearance made Ezeri stumble back in fright.
“Ah…… Ugh……”
She tried to escape using magic, but her body wouldn’t move properly because it hadn’t been long since she had depleted her mana.
Kyung-joon, who had experienced mana exhaustion many times, might not have noticed, but there was nothing she could do, having experienced mana exhaustion for the first time in decades.
“Ugh, my head…… I think I’m going to puke…… Huh? The elf lady is finally awake?”
“A, Awake? Don’t tell me I’m a zombie like them too……!”
All sorts of thoughts came to mind.
Mutated Minto Morco definitely used dark mana.
And now, Mutated Minto Morco was nowhere to be seen.
Furthermore, Kyung-joon’s statement that he had ‘killed the beastkin’ and then resurrected them with some kind of magic.
All these facts allowed Ezeri to have various reasonable doubts.
‘Is Kyung-joon behind all this? That can’t be! There’s no way that’s true……!’
It was a suspicion she didn’t want to acknowledge, but all the circumstantial evidence continued to torment her.
“Elf lady, are you alright? You seemed to have collapsed from mana exhaustion.”
The tiger beastkin asked as he approached Ezeri.
At that moment……
“Huh…?”
Sniff. Sniff.
She smelled something.
It was the smell of alcohol.
At the same time, Kyung-joon looked at her and smiled playfully.
“Haha. Your reaction is funny.”
“……Don’t tell me?”
“Perhaps, what you’re thinking is correct, Ezeri.”
“This$^&@^%*!!”
Ezeri cried and sniffled, throwing a tantrum as if she had thought of everything.
It was impossible to tell if she was crying or angry.
Kyung-joon just laughed and apologized.
Kyung-joon said to the beastkin beside him,
“I’ve removed the alcohol from your stomachs, but you’ve already absorbed quite a bit, so it’s best to get a few more detoxification spells.”
“Detoxification magic……? You mean to tell me the reason why you didn’t get drunk no matter how much you drank is because……”
“That’s right. But you never said we couldn’t use magic in the bet, did you?”
“Oh no! We’ve been completely tricked!”
“That’s cheating, cheating! Ugh, my head hurts when I yell……”
“I’ll detoxify you right away.”
[Rare Skill 『High-speed Detoxification (Lv.1)』 ]
Woong!
As Kyung-joon’s mana circled Brave Fang’s entire body, his red skin returned to its original healthy tiger skin.
He detoxified all the other beastkin as well.
“Wow… The drunkenness is completely gone.”
“While we’re at it, should we try learning magic too?”
“Puhaha! Us, with our near-zero magical aptitude? Don’t be ridiculous!”
“But this detoxification magic is truly amazing. I was having a hard time with the hangover.”
For the beastkin, who loved alcohol so much that they lived with it, Kyung-joon’s High-speed Detoxification was a whole new world.
“That’s why the stakes of our bet were so high.”
Kyung-joon wanted to borrow the beastkin’s labor for a while as a reward for winning the bet.
He was worried that they might not accept it, saying that magic was cheating, but…….
“Haha! Of course! Cheating or not, I was going to help you with whatever you needed anyway.”
“That’s right. It was all thanks to you that we defeated it.”
“That’s right. It’s all thanks to you that we were able to avoid listening to that old geezer fairy.”
Fortunately, the beastkin were very willing to help Kyung-joon with his work.
After telling the beastkin what they needed to do, Kyung-joon called out to Ezeri.
“Ezeri.”
“……”
Ezeri crossed her arms and turned her head away.
Her cheeks were puffed out, as if she was sulking.
“Are you still upset?”
“Of course I am! You scared me to death! And I was so worried! I almost….”
Ezeri, who was about to confess something, hurriedly stopped talking.
“Ah, really……!”
Ezeri ruffled her green hair and stood up, heading somewhere.
“Hmph…… Everyone follow me. If you want to cut down the high-purity Tree of Memory, you have to go this way.”
“Everyone! Follow the elf lady!”
“Ooh!”
“Haha.”
Kyung-joon chuckled and followed behind them.
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Things went very smoothly after that.
Ezeri, being an elf, used her natural senses to find the high-purity Tree of Memory, and the beastkin quickly cut them down.
With ten beastkin with high strength and stamina helping, the efficiency was incredible.
They were able to cut down almost hundreds of Trees of Memory in a single day, and transporting them to the lab was a breeze.
The process of processing the wood was also completed very quickly with the help of the beastkin.
“Now it’s our turn.”
“Yes. I’ll show you how I do it first.”
Next was Ezeri and Kyung-joon’s domain.
The process of making special scrolls using the processed materials.
They repeated numerous experiments and research for several days to create the most optimized scroll.
[Your intelligence has increased by 1 through consistent studying.]
[1 hour has been added to the Dimensional Study Room for acquiring new knowledge.]
[Your mana has increased by 1 through continuous mana usage.]
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They stayed up almost all night.
He had been thinking about it so much that he even dreamt about research.
Ten days had passed since Kyung-joon came to Fairy-Elven Magic Academy.
All research had come to an end.
[You have successfully crafted a unique item.]
[This is the first item you have crafted.]
[Your dexterity has increased by 20.]
[This is a magic tool that uses mana.]
[Your intelligence has increased by 20.]
[Your mana has increased by 20.]
[100 hours have been added to the Dimensional Study Room.]
[Scroll Parchment: Kyung-joon style writing method Inscription]
▶『Scroll writing: This is a specialized scroll optimized for Kyung-joon style writing method Inscription』. It can contain far more magic than existing scrolls and significantly enhances their power.
▶Scroll efficiency increased by 250%, scroll power increased by 100%.
※However, it can only be written using 『Scroll Writing: Kyung-joon style writing method Inscription』.
▶Item Grade: Unique
Kyung-joon immediately inscribed the air conditioner’s compression mechanism on the dedicated scroll and installed it in the modified prototype 001.
Whiiir~
The sound of the air conditioner running filled the air, and a cool breeze began to blow.
Ezeri’s eyes sparkled.
“Wow! It’s actually blowing cool air!”
“Well, it’s an air conditioner.”
“To think it can last for over 10 hours with just this much mana stored in a scroll! Even if I use ice magic to the best of my ability, I can’t achieve this level of efficiency!”
“Well, it’s an air conditioner.”
“Air conditioner, what a scary thing you are……!”
After successfully creating the dedicated scroll, they used the remaining Tree of Memory to mass-produce the scrolls.
Mass production might be even more difficult than creation.
However, thanks to Ezeri, who had made countless scrolls in Frankel’s lab for 10 years, they were able to finish without any problems.
“I should get going now.”
“Huh……?”
The day came for Kyung-joon to finish all his business at the magic academy and finally return.
[You have successfully completed the hidden quest 『Help Ezeri with her master’s presentation! (Unique)』.]
[Your intelligence has increased by 50.]
[Your mana has increased by 50.]
[You can receive additional rewards from Ezeri.]
🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷
[You have acquired 1,000 pieces of the unique item 『Scroll Parchment: Kyung-joon style writing method Inscription』.]
Ezeri gave Kyung-joon all the dedicated scrolls she had made.
“Wow. Are you sure it’s okay to give me this many? What about the materials you need?”
“I’ll be here for a while, so I can always go logging.”
Ezeri twirled her side hair awkwardly.
“And, you know…… I made friends with the beastkin.”
“You certainly did get close to them.”
“Yeah. So much so that they call me every time they drink, which is a real pain.”
“Haha.”
The two had their last conversation in front of the Warp Gate before parting ways.
“This is more than enough for me. It’s not that hot where I’m going anyway, so I won’t have much use for that air conditioner thing. And……”
Ezeri bowed her head politely with a serious expression.
“……It’s all thanks to you that I was able to write my fifth master’s thesis. I won’t forget this debt. Thank you so much.”
“You’re welcome. I received a lot of help from you too. It was a joint research project, after all. We helped each other out of necessity.”
Kyung-joon had received a Unique Quest.
A quest is a kind of contract between NPCs and players through the god of the world.
Once they accept the contract, it is their duty to do their best to fulfill it.
“……That’s true.”
“Anyway, I’ll put what you made to good use. Good luck with the rest of your master’s presentation.”
Kyung-joon put all 1,000 dedicated scrolls into his inventory and turned to go towards the Warp Gate.
“It was fun researching with you.”
“Yeah…… Me too.”
He had done everything he had to do and gained and achieved a lot.
He had studied programming a lot unintentionally and completed the air conditioner with the best efficiency.
Now it was time to return to the Study Villa and resume studying for the Science Certification Exam.
Or so he thought…….
“Wait……! I have something to say!”
Ezeri stopped Kyung-joon with her words.
Woong.
It was the moment he was about to step into the Warp Gate.
Kyung-joon turned around to look at Ezeri.
Her hand was tightly clasped over her chest.
[Ezeri’s intimacy has increased by 1.]
[You have reached the maximum affinity that can be achieved in the current relationship.]
[A relationship quest has been triggered.]
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