EP.102 A Midsummer Night’s Nightmare (3)
What is a group task?
I was sitting on the sofa in the professor’s office, pondering the word group project. There was a group assignment in the curriculum designed by the teacher, so I posted a notice first, but…
‘Honestly, I have no idea.’
Of course, when it comes to group assignments, there are many things that come to mind.
Because right now, what I’ve been dying to do for the past five years would have been the group task.
In general, it is about hunting down the devil.
In a small way, hunting down four disasters.
Humans cooperate with others to accomplish tasks that cannot be accomplished alone. Collude. Working together for one goal was the meaning of the group task.
‘If you put it in words, it’s wonderful, but…’
I knew that reality well.
Wherever many people gather, there is always trash. Even in places where top-class people are gathered, low-ranking people always show off their presence.
The knights escape, spreading confidential information.
A traitor who sold his soul to the demons.
and······.
‘A warrior bastard whose brain is dominated by the lower body.’
If you think about it, it’s something that just makes you laugh.
Even in a warrior party made up of only the best of the elite, there was trash.
Three out of four were trash.
In terms of percentage, it is 75%. As someone who was part of the remaining 25%, hearing the word group task just made me shiver. I let out a long sigh and tilted my head back.
“Master.”
“What is it, Rania?”
“Is this group assignment really necessary?”
I seriously had that question.
I asked Master a question.
“Can’t I just do well on my own? “Why do we do group work?”
“Why wasn’t there a reason?”
“yes?”
Master said as he aligned the corners of the documents with a thud.
“Rania, don’t you know the reason better than anyone else?”
“I know?”
“okay. What you have been working on for the past five years is your group project. “Have you learned anything from your five years of experience?”
What I learned from 5 years of experience.
I thought for a moment and then opened my mouth.
“···The only one you can trust is me?”
“······If it is enlightenment, it is enlightenment, but is there anything else?”
“When many people gather, trash is sure to come out.”
“······.”
“Oh, and there isn’t just one piece of trash. “If one person becomes trash, there is a high probability that the remaining people will also become trash.”
I realized this while witnessing the process of a hero turning into trash in real time. That’s the scary thing about salary closure. Sloth is contagious to those around you.
‘Seeing them playing and eating makes me sick to my stomach. ‘Why do I have to work so hard?’
Once you have that thought, that’s it.
I have seen many parties ruined like that. It wasn’t just our party’s story. Because most hero parties tend to fail like this.
‘The difference is that he died on the battlefield before he was destroyed.’
Even though Kyle was broken, he was still capable.
However, most warriors were not like that. Because they had already changed their lives when the damage was revealed.
‘Well, anyway, I went…’
I summarized the insights I gained from my experience into one sentence and pronounced them.
“So, when trash comes out, you have to clean it up right away. So that I can act as a person. Even if it means killing him.”
“······I understand that you have been through difficult times, Rania.”
Master sighed and touched his forehead.
“Still, what you said is the significance of having students do group work. Do you know what it is?”
“Uh… I don’t know?”
“Anyway, there are many times in life when you have to deal with others.”
As I blinked, Master continued to explain step by step.
“Group assignments are an experience in themselves. People gain enlightenment from experience. That realization may be as extreme as yours, Rania, but…”
Master said as he put down his papers.
“I’m sure there will be enlightenment in a good direction.”
“Are you in a good direction?”
“…The situation in which cooperation with others is forced becomes a kind of experience. In any case, it is right to experience it at least once a semester.”
······is it?
I tilted my head. Wouldn’t it be closer to a shitty experience rather than a good experience?
“Uhm…”
When I looked like I wasn’t sure, Master sighed and pointed his finger at me.
“Rania, haven’t you gained a surprising amount of patience thanks to your five years of experience?”
“That’s right.”
“It may be a difficult experience, but there is definitely something to be gained from forced cooperation. “Isn’t that enough of a reason to proceed with the group project?”
“oh···.”
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As I listened, I thought it was somewhat plausible.
“Then what is the best way to submit group assignments?”
“There is no need to think difficult. If you think about why you need to do it, the answer will come quickly.”
That was the moment when Master uttered those words.
“Knock,” someone knocked on the professor’s office door.
-Professor Rossell, are you there?
At that call, Master stood up.
“Let me go out for a moment.”
Left alone in the professor’s office after Master left, I looked up at the ceiling and pondered the words he left behind.
‘Are you asking me to think about the reason for doing group work?
It wasn’t difficult to recall it.
‘A goal that is difficult to achieve alone.’
Cooperation by necessity to achieve goals.
That was the significance of the group task. This is the moment when I remembered that fact. Suddenly something flashed in my mind.
“ah.”
I focused on the prerequisite itself.
Why would cooperation be forced?
‘Because it’s something I can’t do alone.’
That was the condition of the group task.
Sarah.
I took out a piece of paper. In my head, I had a rough outline of what assignment I would be assigned. I copied it down onto paper.
Suddenly, I put down the quill and nodded.
“Yes, this will be enough.”
Did you say that enlightenment comes from forced cooperation?
In that sense, this was a task that served its purpose.
‘A task that cannot be accomplished without cooperation.’
I smiled as I looked at the finished paper.
It was a task of such high perfection that I looked forward to showing it to the students.
2.
“Did you say you would buy a resistance stone?”
“Yes, about twenty?”
Yetual, the black magic tower lord, blinked.
His gaze is fixed on the girl in front of him. There are very few people who can speak alone with Yetual.
And, the girl in front of me was one of that ‘minority’.
‘Rania van Trias.’
A girl with gray hair and blue eyes.
The girl with an elegant appearance tilts her head as she looks at Yetual. It seemed as if there was something strange about what she said.
‘···Are you serious?’
Yetual gauges the girl’s true intentions.
‘You want to buy twenty resistance stones?’
No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t understand it.
What is a resistance stone? It is a rare ore that inherently rejects mana. Since it is used to make barrier stones, its price is quite high.
‘Even the lowest-grade resistance stone the size of a fist is worth enough to fill a bookshelf with quite a few magic books…’
What the girl requested was a mid-to-high-grade resistance stone.
Once you reach a mid-to-high level resistance stone, the places that handle it are limited.
‘Are you asking for powder by any chance?’
That’s at least understandable.
Yetual carefully questioned the girl.
“Well, how big is it…?”
“Well, I guess this will be enough?”
The girl clenches her fist.
It is a white and small hand. It’s a small hand… but at least it’s a size that’s far from powder.
‘Twenty mid-to-high-grade resistance stones of that size.’
Yetual tried to calculate the price in his mind.
“Well, it must be quite expensive, right?”
“How much?”
“Well, about this much…”
The girl checks the amount written on the paper.
She nodded immediately. It was as if she could pay enough for this amount.
“How long can you give me the items?”
“Well, I could offer it to you right now…”
“Then I will buy it now.”
She took out a card and started printing out gold coins. It looked like he wanted to buy it right away.
‘···What on earth?’
Yetual stared blankly at the girl pouring out gold coins on the table. The amount was unusual for her.
“…Huh, Professor Rania?”
“yes?”
“What on earth are you planning on using all these resistance stones for?”
In the end, he couldn’t contain his curiosity and asked a question.
The girl’s answer to that question was simple.
“I want to use it as an assignment.”
“···assignment?”
“yes.”
You want to use it as an assignment?
Upper-mid level resistance stones, just a task for the Academy?
‘Isn’t there something strange since the last circuit record…?’
Yetual glanced at the girl in front of him.
This girl is suspiciously rich.
For some reason, the more they face each other, the more questions about their identities seem to grow, rather than getting to know each other.
“···Okay, I’ll have it delivered to Aplia soon.”
“thank you.”
3.
It is a summer afternoon when the noisy situation in Aplia is somewhat resolved and classes begin in earnest. With their exhausted bodies, the students headed to the next class.
‘Next class…’
A shadow falls on the faces of the students who have confirmed their next class. The students searched their lockers while suppressing the sighs that kept coming out.
『Mana Transactions (Basic) Task』
『Professor in Charge: Rania Van Trias.』
The thickness of the file containing the assignment is unusual.
As the weight of the sheets of paper tied together in the thick file increases, the students’ steps also slow down.
It’s not that I don’t have expectations about class.
If you look at the class itself, Mana Trading Basics is a great class. Every class, students realize something. Get proper learning.
‘the problem is······.’
This is the amount of assignments that will be tied to this file after class is over. Just thinking about what kind of assignment that vicious professor might have prepared is enough to make me shiver.
Trudging.
Students arrive one by one at the front of the classroom.
A student opened the door to the classroom and entered. There were passengers in the classroom.
“Oh, are you here?”
Gray hair shakes.
Blue eyes look at the student who opened the door. She smiled as she leaned her body against the table.
“Please take a seat.”
It was a pretty smile that matched her elegant and beautiful appearance… but the students sighed and sat down because they knew the nightmare hidden behind that smile.
As I sat down one by one, I felt something strange.
“huh?”
Some students tilt their heads.
The layout of the classroom had changed strangely. An empty space was created around the teaching table.
And, there is a box in the empty space.
That wasn’t the only strange thing.
‘And why is the professor already here?’
This is Professor Rania, who originally came in at the sound of the bell announcing the hour. She came into her classroom even before class today.
This is the moment when students begin to question that fact.
“Clap,” she clapped.
As if in response to the sound, the box in the center of the classroom opened. The box is full of ore that shines in jade color. One by one, the ores rose into the air.
Ore shining in jade color.
Leaving the ores behind, she started writing something on the blackboard. Students arrived one by one, sat down in their seats and glanced at the blackboard.
『Basics of Mana Transaction』
『Improvement of order efficiency including trading concept.』
This is the topic covered in Professor Rossell’s class.
After waiting a bit, a new word is written below it.
『Topic: Limits of basic spells.』
The limit of basic spells.
Professor Rania, who has finally finished writing it, looks around at the students.
“It looks like everyone has arrived.”
Dang, daeng, the bell rings to signal class. she said through the ringing of her bells.
“Okay then, let’s start class.”
It was a very excited voice.
The students felt an inexplicable ominousness in that voice.
A word from the author (author review)
The subtitle was changed from ‘Midsummer Nightmare’ to ‘A Midsummer Night’s Nightmare’.
