I Killed an Academy Player - Chapter 7
[Rank Test (2) (2021-05-14-13:01 Edited)]
「In 30 seconds, monsters will come. “Take care of it.”
Professor Ronan’s blunt voice echoed through the space.
Suddenly left in a pure white space, a case containing all kinds of weapons was thrown to him, and the test was unkindly enforced.
Most of the 5th and 6th grade students probably just grabbed the weapon they could get their hands on without even having time to think about it properly.
And it is most likely a sword. I was like that in the previous grade test, and the percentage of students in the knight department who chose the sword was roughly 70%?
Isn’t the sword really cool?
“Let’s see~”
I chose the spear without hesitation. The weapon used in the previous episode was a spear.
Actually, there was no particular reason why I chose Chang in the previous episode.
Why isn’t it called Baekilchang, Cheonildo, and Mangeom?
This is because I was reminded of a saying from a martial arts magazine that says 100 days is enough to skillfully handle a spear, and 100 days is enough to skillfully handle a sword.
It’s not that I haven’t used a sword other than a spear, but handling a sword was very difficult.
“5… 4… 3…”
When I took the spear out of the weapon case, a new spear was supplied.
Although it is an element that was not revealed in the game, it is Mrs. Josephine’s consideration to use a new weapon if it breaks.
「2… 1…!」
After a short waiting period, monsters materialized like holograms over the horizon.
There are three level 5 monsters that make you wonder what a small hunting dog would be like if it had large molars.
I think three level 5 monsters might be a bit too much for beginners, but guardians should be able to at least take down monsters higher than my rating one-on-one.
For example, a level 5 knight should be able to kill at least one level 4 monster by himself and at least three monsters of the same level, even if they are slow.
My evaluation level is level 6, so if you think about it normally, I would be lucky if I could catch even one short hound, let alone three level 5 monsters, but…
“Krrr…!”
I’ve caught so many of those things.
“Around 40? Be kind.”
Short Hound measured the regenerated distance and lightly threw his spear.
-Tuung!
It draws a parabolic curve and penetrates exactly into the monster’s head. A clean javelin with no unnecessary elements, befitting the skill of having thrown it tens of thousands of times.
“Crung?”
A short hound suddenly struck by a flying spear disappeared into smoke, and his panicking companion was also sent away in peace.
“Krr…!”
The last one kicked the ground. An experienced teaching assistant reads the distance and trajectory path from the object through spinal reflexes.
“Distance 15.”
The distance is sufficient to handle it with a javelin, but I should also experiment with rune magic. I concentrated my magic power on my fingertips and engraved letters in the air.
『 』 ─ Kenaz.
As the runes meaning fire were engraved, flames erupted in the air.
-Good luck!
“Crung?!”
A short hound that throws its body to avoid the fire that attacks it. An unexpected flame crackled the ground.
“Tsk……”
Was the magic power used not enough? Speed is also a problem. I have felt this for a long time, but runes are not a good type of magic to use alone. I don’t know if the horsepower rating goes up.
“Kung…!”
The approaching short hound jumped up as if he was going to bite the back of my neck, but his movements were too linear.
Calculate the trajectory and set up a window at the drop point.
“Kung?”
The low scream in the air is too late.
-Puzik!
I left the short hound, who had sentenced myself to be skewered, and counted the seconds.
The time it took to deal with a level 5 monster was approximately 12 seconds. Although it was thanks to the continued creation of the throwing window, I caught it pretty quickly.
‘How far will I go this time?’
In the previous round, I was eliminated because I couldn’t catch the short hound, but this time it was different.
The grade test is a form in which monsters and demonic spirits are tested by grade. Up to level 3 will be prepared.
I’m waiting for the next wave to come, but for some reason the response is slow. It came out right away in the game?
“…Is it broken?”
Even after waiting for several minutes, the level 4 monsters did not appear. Rather──
“Crung!”
“Crrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrm too!”
“Kkkkkkkk!”
A level 5 monster appeared again.
Is it really broken?
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Professor Ronan did not have high expectations for the students I was in charge of.
All you have to do is roughly summon monsters according to Mrs. Josephine’s settings and throw them into battle.
He clicked his tongue as he watched the students’ struggles on the screen.
“Tsk tsk, I barely even caught that, so what am I going to do?”
When I see the kids struggling because they can’t even catch three level 5 monsters, I just sigh.
Wow, those level 5 monsters were cut at 1 minute and 22 seconds. Even considering that he was a level 3 wizard at the time, the level of these students was miserable.
「Aaaah…!」
「Please help me!」
Students are being eliminated one after another after being attacked by level 5 monsters that, based on their specifications, should be enough to defeat them.
Even those who know how to fight will take a little longer to deal with all three.
‘If the 5th grade is like that, there’s nothing to see about the 6th grade.’
Professor Ronan saw the Grade 6 students at the edge of the crystal ball. It seems like the screen was turned off and that happened all of a sudden.
“Pathetic things… huh?”
Professor Ronan saw a student sitting with his butt down on a weapon case in the white space.
「Corin Locke: Grade 6.」
A martial artist with little expectation. An inferior student, who cannot be considered an outcast, is yawning while clutching the window.
“What? You haven’t been hit yet?”
Not to mention other 6th grade students, 30% of the 5th grade students were killed by short hounds. But why is that student so fine?
Could it be that you killed all three short hounds?
“That can’t be possible.”
Even the 5th grade students were having a hard time, so how could the 6th grade students deal with all the monsters? And much faster than 5th grade students.
“It must be an error.”
It seems that the monster was not summoned properly. He decided that there was a bug in Korin’s space where monsters were not summoned.
Professor Ronan summons level 5 monsters again and turns his gaze towards the other students’ screens. I looked around the crystal ball with soulless eyes and confirmed that I was the first successful candidate.
“7 minutes and 20 seconds…”
It’s a pathetic record. No matter how many students he is in charge of, even if they are in grades 5 and 6, there are only 7 of them.
Looking at Professor Permak, who was in charge of the 3rd grade students sitting next to me, he seemed to be able to clear the course in 2 to 3 minutes.
One by one, two… Level 5 monster passers were appearing, and Ronan looked at the screen in the corner again and couldn’t believe his eyes.
“Yes?”
In the screen, Corin was still sitting in the weapon case. It must have been taken out several times, with dozens of spears left stretched out on the floor.
“what?”
“What’s going on?”
Professor Harman Welsch approached with his characteristic coquettish voice.
Professor Ronan also becomes cautious in front of him, who is called an old man among professors as he is called an instructor rather than a professor.
“Oh no… I think this thing is broken.”
“Broken? Is that possible? Lady Josephine’s test magic has never caused an error in 20 years.”
“No, the monster here keeps failing to be summoned.”
“That can’t be possible…”
Old Man Harmon looked at Professor Ronan’s crystal ball.
corner of the screen. With his magic-enhanced visual acuity, he could see every corner of the screen in an instant and checked Corin, who was sitting casually on the floor.
“Magic rating level 6. Corin Locke. You somehow didn’t get eliminated.”
“Is that so? The guy who should have been eliminated a long time ago is still doing that. It’s clear that the monster is not being summoned.”
“Did you see it?”
“huh?”
“The professor saw that the monster wasn’t summoned.”
“No… Is there even a need to see that…”
It’s level 6. It was a level 6 magic power that was difficult to find even in village guard positions.
Does it make sense that such a student would kill level 5 monsters, let alone defeat them, in just a dozen seconds before Professor Ronan could even see them?
“…….”
Doesn’t that mean you didn’t see it after all? When Old Man Harmon glared at him with a sharp gaze, Professor Ronan quickly surrendered.
“Ah, okay. I’m sure this time it’s barley. It seems like it’s a bug, so I’ll summon it one more time…”
That’s how Corin went through the test with the third group of Short Hounds.
“……What? “Are you training your dog?”
Corinne said briefly in the video. He raised three spears and pierced the charging short hounds one by one.
7.3 seconds.
Professor Ronan couldn’t believe his eyes.
“…………”
He approached Professor Permak, who was checking on the students next to him with a puzzled look. Because he was in charge of twenty third-level students.
“Look at you, Professor Permak.”
“Wassup? What’s going on?”
“Your side… is already in the process of level 4.”
“Well, that’s right.”
Professor Ronan hesitated for a moment and then asked him.
“Among the students you have taken charge of, who has the fastest time?”
“Hmm… I didn’t count, but I think it took the student here named Jaeger about 3 minutes and 30 seconds.”
“Ah… I see.”
“Why are you asking that?”
“It’s nothing special.”
Professor Ronan looked at the crystal ball with an unfamiliar feeling.
‘Look at my mind. ‘I need to summon level 4 monsters.’
Even though Corin Locke’s magic rating is low, he seems to be quite good at throwing spears. You might wonder if you are the son of a hunter. I skimmed through it like that, but focused on Corrin’s screen.
The monster summoned this time is Matt Boer. It is a difficult monster to deal with because it rolls around at high speeds.
Unlike the level 5 monsters, the mere fact that only one was summoned meant that the threat level of this monster was far superior.
-Quack!
3.7 seconds.
Ronan rubbed his eyes several times. He even used memory return magic and recalled the scene where Corin Locke slaughtered Matt Boer.
He dodged Matt Boer, who was rolling at high speed, like a matador in a bullfighting show, and then deftly threw a spear and bounced Matt Boer up.
Matt Boer, who freed himself in the air, was stabbed by a spear and fell to the floor.
A wonderful hunt achieved only with skill and without much force. Even he, who often ignores non-fighting hunters, can’t help but admire this hunting that is close to an art.
“Aaaah!”
“This is a scam!”
I couldn’t help but compare as I watched the students sink without being able to overcome Matt Boer’s wall.
Only four students passed the level 4 monster test.
The next level 3 monster is Owl Bear. A mid-level monster that can be called a threat thanks to its bear-like size and powerful grip.
It won’t be easy this time. The Owl Bear’s leather is so tough that it cannot be easily pierced, and even a knight protected by an auror will be instantly thrown away if hit by its thick claws.
「Kyaaa…!」
「Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa…
!
When he tried to block it with his shield, the shield itself broke and he was declared unable to fight just from the impact.
But Corin’s screen was different.
“Kwaa!”
Instead of facing the bear’s characteristic swing of its front paws, it lowered its head to avoid it and stabbed the spear blade in its armpit.
It seemed like he would be more greedy, looking for an opening, but Corin immediately escaped, swinging his spear in the out range and striking Owl Bear’s head before immediately retreating.
『 』 ─ Kenaz.
Fingers embroidering the air. The letters created with magical power immediately turned into a mass of ether and attacked Owl Bear.
“Lu Run magic?!”
“???”
The attention of the surrounding professors focused on Professor Ronan’s reaction. In particular, Professor Permak’s eyes shone sharply.
Rune magic is a type of magic that has clear limitations and shortcomings.
Professor Ronan could not help but be surprised because it was a very old and ancient magic system, and it was something that only scholars taking teaching courses would look into at least once.
Even though his entire body was burning, Owl Bear jumped towards his prey. The instantaneous technique, which was activated with a poor amount of magic power, did not produce much power.
However, the smoke created as the leather burned was enough to block Owl Bear’s vision.
Owl Bear couldn’t distinguish between the black smoke blocking his vision and the ‘spear tip’ penetrating through the dot… -Too
-Quack!
That made the difference between victory and defeat in an instant. He is the only survivor among Professor Ronan’s students.
“…….”
At this point, I have no choice but to admit it. Professor Ronan was certain that this student would never stay in grade 6 or anything like that.
‘It’s a shame that the monster test only goes up to level 3.’
Is it really possible to defeat a level 2 monster? I had this question, but I don’t know.
‘If this is enough, unless I make a huge mistake in the magic spirit test, I will fail at least level 4.’
In the grade test at the beginning of the semester, the lowest score is used as the measurement grade.
Even if you defeat a grade 3 demon, if you cannot defeat a grade 4 demon, it will be measured as grade 4.
Ronan summoned a level 5 demon spirit, hoping to see how skillful this student named Corin would be in combating demon spirits.
Even if you just use that rune magic, you can easily defeat a level 5 demon.
Ronan paid attention to Corrin’s screen, thinking he would pass at least level 4 with ease…
“???”
Corin Locke did nothing. After a while…….
“I will abstain.”
“?????”
「Grade test completed. Grading completed. Sample summation completed. Organize the records.」
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[Student No. 7 Lorococo]
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[Student No. 14, Bedic Rumlow]
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[No. 19 Student Corin Locke]
Auror grade: Low (680) Magic
power grade: Lowest (120)
Characteristics: None
Comprehensive evaluation: Grade 6
[Demon Spirit Test] Grade
5 Magic Spirit Ghost: Abstained Grade
4 Magic Spirit Hexwraith: Disqualified Grade
3 Magic Spirit Banshee: Disqualified
[ Monster Test] Grade
5 monster Shorthound: 7.3 seconds (new record) Grade
4 monster Matt Boar: 3.7 seconds (new record) Grade
3 monster Owlbear: 11 seconds (new record)
[Final evaluation grade: Grade 5 Knight – Submitted]
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