It’s an Academic Fact That Rankers Are Model Students – Chapter 92

Chapter 92: Reflecting on Vacation

Let’s recap the vacation.

The summer vacation at Cheongshin High School was quite long.

Though shorter than a college student’s two months, it still lasted a similar 50 days.

He welcomed the first day of vacation by clearing the unique dungeon ‘Contaminated Underground Villa’.

He spent a week reading about 1/3 of the general physics and chemistry books he obtained there, and the following week, he studied ahead for his second year of high school.

As a bonus, he enjoyed a day trip to Plovdiv for a culinary tour and made a concentration-enhancing stand with the shards he acquired there.

This took a total of 15 days.

Next, while accepting the residents of Ria Village, he also created Kyung-joon Fertilizer based on his studies in general chemistry.

The fertilizer’s effect was truly amazing, and the residents were thrilled, saying they would easily double their usual harvest.

He had read about 2/3 of the general chemistry and physics books at this point.

It was so hot that he made an air conditioner, but its efficiency with the Magic Memory Stone was so poor that he ended up at the Fairy-Elven Magic Academy.

The joint research at the Magic Academy lasted about 10 days.

In a way, it was the time he gained the most.

Besides the basics of learning programming and scroll magic, he also made valuable connections by interacting with various NPCs.

It wasn’t intentional.

Relationships between people aren’t something you can force.

Anyway, this took about 25 days.

The connections he made so far are as follows.

First, the World’s Best merchant guild in Plovdiv.

Although they haven’t had a proper conversation yet, they clearly want Kyung-joon very much.

He received a business card and can contact them anytime he wants.

They were highly likely to become excellent business partners.

The Player Auction House had high fees and wasn’t a very big market anyway, so building a relationship with them would be a great help in many ways.

For example, distributing unique bread and so on.

Next are the beastkin, including Brave Fang.

After becoming close while hunting Mutated Minto Morco together, they asked him to call them if he ever needed a lot of help.

They said they were confident in their strength and would even call their fellow countrymen to help.

Considering the labor and force issues that would arise later, it was a valuable connection.

At least they’ve come to trust each other to some extent.

Lastly, there’s Ezeri Capillus, who is currently busy transitioning to a doctoral program after completing her master’s qualifying exams.

As a joint researcher, she was an excellent research partner.

She called herself an inferior student who couldn’t even graduate with a master’s degree in 10 years, but Kyung-joon didn’t think so.

He thought she was a persistent wizard and already a great scientist.

He wasn’t sure how long it would take her to get her doctorate, but by then she would have grown into a proper R&D personnel.

“She might become too great and refuse to come, saying she’s too busy.”

< ¯＼_ (ツ)_/¯ >

When Kyung-joon chuckled, Teemo responded with a similar emoticon.

<Isn’t Limurimu from that slime labyrinth also an excellent researcher?>

“Right. Ezeri was quite open-minded for an elf, but Limurimu accepted science much faster.”

Originally, beings like elves and fairies have very high regard for magic.

Even looking at Sever’s research discovered in the Contaminated Underground Villa, those wizards didn’t easily accept science.

Sever was a real oddball.

Ezeri was also quite the oddball in a way.

It was only natural that wizards didn’t easily accept science.

Their way of thinking seemed similar, yet was completely different.

It’s like the difference between liberal arts and science.

However, Limurimu was a demon.

Demons are those who use dark magic.

There is no pride in their dark magic.

They only care about efficiency.

That’s why Kyung-joon was able to easily make a contract with Limurimu.

Limurimu provides the slimes and gel pens that Kyung-joon requests.

Kyung-joon uses science to help Limurimu with her slime research.

They were in an excellent business relationship where they clearly gave and received.

Besides this, another connection is……

<Didn’t you also form a bond with DPSPaladin and BlackChef?>

<^Oh^>

“……I want to pretend those two don’t exist. Especially the former.”

He had previously searched for BlackChef on World Inven and also searched for DPSPaladin.

A cafe popped up.

A cafe called 『Victims of DPSPaladin』.

Kyung-joon considered joining but decided against it as he hadn’t suffered any direct damage yet.

However, he did learn something.

The reason that perverted paladin got chat-banned was because of this cafe collectively reporting him to Customer Service.

‘I hope I never have to join.’

Kyung-joon sincerely wished that wouldn’t happen and stretched his back.

Then he looked at the status window he had set aside.

.

.

.

[Intelligence has increased by 1 through continuous studying.]

[Intelligence has increased by 1 through continuous studying.]

“Intelligence is going up steadily.”

It’s been 40 days since the vacation started.

Finally, Kyung-joon was able to finish studying general chemistry and physics.

Each book was over 700 pages long, incredibly thick.

He read it all, without missing a single letter.

This meant that more than half of his preparation for the Science Certification Exam was complete.

All that remained was to continuously review and fully ingrain the contents in his head.

This wasn’t particularly urgent.

It’s not like the Science Certification Exam was right after the vacation ended.

The beginning of the semester wasn’t that busy anyway, so there would be plenty of time to review and prepare for the exam.

It was okay to rest a little now.

It’s vacation after all.

“No.”

There’s an old saying.

『Study when you study, and study again when you rest.』

“Hmm? Wasn’t it something else?”

Anyway.

Studying had to continue.

Just like raising his level, learning skills, and creating his own value.

Studying was how he could make others recognize his worth and follow him.

He couldn’t stop studying if he wanted the connections he had built so far to work properly in the future.

Whether it was studying in reality.

Or studying in the game.

[Venom Grimoire]

▶The posthumous work of the poison master Sever, written even as he faced death. A glimpse into his brilliant attempt to apply the knowledge of another world to magic.

▶When used as a skill book, you can learn the unique magic 『Sulfuric Acid』.

▶Item Grade: Unique

“I should be able to understand it now.”

When he first obtained this book, he couldn’t understand it properly.

This was because he lacked basic magic knowledge, as well as the general chemistry and physics knowledge that formed the basis of the book.

But it was different now.

He had finished studying both general chemistry and physics.

Through joint research with Ezeri, he was able to understand to some extent what wizards thought ‘magic’ was.

He even got to see what dark magic was like firsthand while developing slime with Limurimu.

“Well then.”

Rustle.

Kyung-joon opened the first page of the book.

『Science is truly precise and quantitative. In a way, it’s the complete opposite of magic, which is highly subjective and qualitative.』

The foreword written by Sever, which he had read before.

However, the foreword he was looking at now was a completely different text from before.

Of course, the text itself hadn’t changed.

It was just that Kyung-joon’s perspective had changed.

Kyung-joon continued reading, moving on to the next chapter, and the next.

[You have gained an understanding of knowledge you previously overlooked.]

[The level of advanced skill 『Spell Delay』 has increased to 8.]

[The level of advanced skill 『Spell Modification』 has increased to 9.]

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

The same content can be perceived in vastly different ways depending on who is reading it and their background knowledge.

When ordinary people hear something, they take it at face value, but learned individuals read between the lines.

Some find clues to world-changing innovations in a single sentence that others dismiss as insignificant.

While an average person learns one thing and understands one thing, a talented person learns one thing and understands ten.

Seeing this, some might say.

That it’s an unavoidable difference in talent.

But no.

This is clearly a difference in effort.

[The level of Rare skill 『Multi-Casting』 has increased to 8.]

[The level of Rare skill 『Fine Mana Manipulation』 has increased to 10.]

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

Studying is like climbing stairs.

Of course, some people start at the very bottom of the staircase.

Each step is too high for them to climb.

They don’t even have enough strength.

While others effortlessly stroll up the stairs as if on a leisurely walk, they have to jump with all their might just to barely reach a single step.

That’s where the separation occurs.

Between those who give up jumping and those who don’t.

Kyung-joon was the latter.

If he couldn’t jump, he would even scratch and claw his way up the stairs, no matter what.

That’s how Kyung-joon buried his stagnant grades in his heart and continued to study every single day in the game for a year.

[You have gained new knowledge.]

[The grade of general skill 『Basic Magic Mastery (Lv.10)』 has increased by one level.]

[The skill has become an advanced skill, and its name has changed to 『Non-Elemental Magic Mastery』.]

[The grade of general skill 『Energy Bolt (Lv.10)』 has increased by one level.]

[The skill has become an advanced skill, and its name has changed to 『Energy Shooter』.]

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

A year after Kyung-joon started studying.

He finally climbed a single step.

However, all he could see ahead were even more daunting stairs.

But it was alright.

His hands and feet were already covered in calluses.

He was used to looking up at the daunting heights and crawling his way up.

So he thought he could overcome this as well.

[Experience has been added to your new knowledge.]

[The level of advanced skill 『Spell Delay』 has increased by two levels to 10.]

[The level of advanced skill 『Spell Modification』 has increased to 10.]

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

When he climbed the seemingly insurmountable wall with Trance and climbed one more step, Kyung-joon looked ahead.

The beings he thought were beyond the sky were now close enough to see with the naked eye.

He looked back.

Those he thought were above him were struggling to climb the stairs.

Seeing that, Kyung-joon realized.

That wings had sprouted on his back.

It was the very ‘talent’ that they had been clamoring about.

[You have successfully integrated previously separate knowledge into a unified theory.]

[Rare skill 『Fine Mana Manipulation』 and Rare skill 『Multi-Casting』 have been combined.]

[The previous two skills have disappeared, and a new Unique skill 『Multi Mana Control: Nano』 has been created.]

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

Three days had passed since Kyung-joon started studying the Venom Grimoire.

He had studied for over 15 hours a day.

Considering the doubled time in the Dimensional Study Room, it amounted to over 100 hours of study time.

However, time itself wasn’t important.

What mattered was how much he had realized and how deeply he had understood.

And the moment of proof…….

[You have fulfilled the 1st Promotion condition for the Mythical Job 『Infinite Knowledge Seeker』.]

▶My descendant, studying is the process of gathering separate pieces of knowledge and moving forward.

[1st Promotion quest (Mythical) has been unlocked.]

Had arrived right now.

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