Admission is a waste of time (328)
Lesson 64. Freshmen – 3
There were four people who were definitely the talk of the town at Union this year. Of them, Ban Yu-won was obvious, so we left him out. The other four were the new full-time professor Shati, associate professor Mira, and lastly, the new successor to the Ortima family, Luisha, who entered as a first-year student.
First, about the appointment of Shati and Mira as professors.
There were many positive responses, but there were also a lot of negative responses, most of which were dirty speculations questioning their qualifications and speculating about their relationship with Ban Yoo-won, and further, about Ban Yoo-won and the president.
“I don’t know what everyone is misunderstanding.”
Shati, who was in charge of the new subject [Special Magic and Demons] available to students in their third year and above, smiled wickedly at the students who had been her juniors until just a few months ago.
“Even if the Academy’s full professor line is empty, it’s not that easy to hire a professor at the Union. Those who were excitedly trolling about anonymity on the intranet will soon find out the reality.”
“But, Professor, you were a student until last year… … That’s… … .”
“you.”
It was the moment Shati had been waiting for.
“You, you, you, you, and you over there, the guy behind you, the guy who was talking next to you, yeah you, don’t look behind you for no reason, there’s no one there. And the two of you in front. Ten of you in total, come forward.”
“Oh, professor.”
“Come out.”
In an instant, ten scapegoats were dragged out to the front of the classroom.
There, Shati snapped her fingers and a giant demon covered in translucent gray metal appeared in the air.
Starting out as a Bronze Devil, he was unintentionally fed with his master’s destructive magic and eventually surpassed his limits to evolve into a new species called the Titan Devil――well, to put it simply, he was a member of the clan that was the product of chance.
[Did you call, Master?]
“Build the stage and wait for battle.”
[As you wish.]
The students were frozen in place at the appearance of a monster they had never seen before.
Even for them, who had faced many types of monsters while climbing the Tower of Babel every week, the might of the Titan Devil was terrifying.
One of the students who had been muttering behind Shati’s back, questioning her qualifications, grumbled that he had never summoned such a beast during his student days, but hiding one’s abilities well was part of skill, and not making hasty judgments was also a virtue.
“So now you know what to do?”
As part of the classroom space expanded to provide space for combat, Shati snapped her fingers again.
“All of you, charge at my summons. If you can knock the summons down, I’ll give you all a shop and you won’t have to worry about failing this semester. … … Titan Devil, you know what happens if you lose?”
[Please believe me.]
When he was first summoned, he was a guy who showed a lot of spirit, such as talking back to Shati and telling her to kill him instead, and desperately ignoring her even when his whole body was tied up. But now, he was Shati’s complete servant.
It was strange that she didn’t become obedient, since she was semi-forcibly connected to Shati’s power and had to indirectly taste the screams of other demons dying every time her power was used.
“Okay… I will do that, Professor.”
“Even so, ten students are climbing the tower. You are underestimating us.”
“Let’s form a team first! Decide who will be in the line of battle… … Ah, he’s coming!”
[Don’t wait!]
The moment the ten students came up on stage, the Titan Devil charged forward with his eyes shining.
With its massive body, hard and sharp shell, and claws that were influenced by its master’s destructive magic and possessed truly destructive power, the Titan Devil was the perfect close-quarters monster.
When one of the students whose posture was disturbed was hit with a nail and the entire defensive barrier was destroyed and thrown out, the nine remaining students shuddered and quickly prepared their own means of attack.
“Push it, and if it sticks, it’s over!”
“Damn, what level is that guy!”
“Just let me tell you that it’s over 200.”
“What?!”
A shocking disaster that occurred outside the Union two years ago.
Those who have set foot there even a little have experienced growth as intense as the lives lost in that incident.
Shati was also included there… … The two years at Union, where she leaped forward based on the strength she had gained at that time, truly gave her the skills to confront Professor Jeong head-on.
… … On the other hand, the average of most Union Academy students who had nothing to do with it remained the same.
When you reach the graduate level, you are at level 100, and based on the semi-professional level, you can see that you have a 4th Erecto… … You can see that you have a life of around 1,000, which means you are in the ranks of a strong person recognized even in the upper levels, but Shati had already surpassed that standard at the beginning of her third year.
And now, two years later, even Shati’s summoned beast, the Titan Devil, has far surpassed it.
“Weak, weak, weak! At this rate, if someone were to target you, you wouldn’t even be able to scream and would just be swallowed up!”
“Who would target us, who attend Union Academy!”
The smile on Shati’s lips deepened as he heard one of the students cry out in frustration after being hit by the Titan Devil’s strong fist and rolling on the ground.
“At your current level, you probably don’t even know that you’re being targeted. So instead of doubting other people’s qualifications and gossiping, you should focus on improving your skills. All ten of you will get 5 penalty points each. I think this is acceptable since it’s the first day.”
“Ugh… … .”
If Shati proved her authority through violent and definitive means, Mira did the opposite.
The fairies rarely go outside the realm to be active, and those few fairies usually receive attention for their innate, exceptional powers and beauty.
Even the students who had been talking dirty about Mira and Ban Yoo-won’s relationship behind the scenes, when Mira, dressed in her professor’s uniform, entered the classroom, their minds went blank and they were unable to think of anything.
It just felt so natural for her to be standing in the professor’s chair.
“Before we begin the lecture, I have a few things to say. As you all know, Professor Campanella, the full professor of the Artifact Production Department this year, is on sabbatical. I have to finish all the lectures assigned to him, so I don’t have time to waste on asking useless questions.”
Mira declared, slamming her long baton down on the podium.
“So anyone who asks questions about things that can be understood just by listening to the lecture will be penalized. If it’s a really important question, ask it during the lecture and don’t come after the lecture is over.”
It was an extremely unfriendly declaration, but the students who were captivated by Mira’s charm simply nodded.
“This year, the Academy has an overflow of donations, so we’ll be able to do a lot of experiments on artifact creation. Everyone with a brain can understand why there are so many applications for the Artifact Creation Department this year, but if you make a fuss about it on the intranet and get in trouble with someone in authority… … I won’t let that go.”
The Union Student Council President is a member of the Artifact Production Department, and this year’s budget for the Artifact Production Department was generous, if not necessarily so.
Some of the students who knew that the strict person Mira was talking about was Ban Yu-won thought, ‘Professor Mira is too good of a person to be the student body president.’, ‘Since it has come to this, I want to screw the student body president over by force.’
It was an idea that the current student body president could think of because he didn’t know how much the president favored him despite his rebellious nature.
“Professor, I have a question.”
“I told you earlier not to ask useless questions… … What is it?”
“Can you tell me what the gemstone is on the ring finger of my left hand? I’ve never seen that mineral before, so I’m curious!”
In response to a third-year female student’s question, Mira raised her left hand as if to show it to her and smiled pleasantly, saying, “Oh my.”
“That was a good question. I’ll give you 5 points for the store.”
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“thank you!”
Mira, who was as unhesitating as Yumi to abuse her power, held up the purple gem on her ring finger for everyone to see.
“You know that my fiancé is a student of Artifact Creation, right? This is a jewel that he created himself to propose to me. It may look pretty, but do you know how much thought, money, and magic went into making it? If you knew that, you would be qualified to graduate from the Academy.”
“You made it yourself…?”
Aside from Mira’s boasting about confusing the construction, the female student who asked a question about the absurdity of the content made a dumbfounded expression.
As she began to analyze the composition of the gem, she realized how absurd it was.
She thought, perhaps a little exaggeratedly, that she had stepped halfway into the Creator’s realm.
“Haha, so even if you want this jewel, you can’t have it. Make this your goal and work hard. Got it?”
“Then, Professor, um… … why isn’t the student body president here in this lecture?”
“that.”
Mira pouted, thinking about giving a penalty point to the student who just asked the question.
Even that sight was so breathtakingly beautiful that Mira sighed and spoke to the students who were losing their minds.
“That’s because as a professor, my power is… … Ahem, I’m pushed aside by the Vice President.”
* * *
The Ortima family inherits the power that is considered the greatest among the ten families.
Unlike Prominence, who foolishly squandered the power of her innate bloodline by making a contract with the constellation early on and manipulated the deteriorated power of the constellation, Ortima was able to grow a wealthy force without relying on the constellation, and the reason why this was possible was because of Ortima’s succession policy.
Unlike Prominence, who borrowed the power of the constellations to increase the stability of power and ‘allow more people to wield power’, Ortima ran the family centered around a small number of elites who wielded overwhelming power.
Regardless of whether one was a direct or collateral descendant, if one had Ortima’s blood flowing through their veins and could wield strong power, they would immediately become successors and support Ortima.
Within the Ortima family, there was a strict meritocracy, or conversely, a strange bloodline ideology that believed that as long as someone had Ortima blood mixed in, they would become noble regardless of how lowly their blood was.
If you have a brain, you will realize that this is a very practical and wise way to do things.
Obsessed with bloodlines, they end up harboring all sorts of hereditary diseases, or they put an incompetent person in the position of the head of the family and it goes downhill, or talented people who are outstanding but not treated well within the family leak out, or on the contrary, such talented people hold a grudge against the family and start a rebellion… … .
Just for now, how much blood has Prominence had to shed because of this?
However, since Ortima values skill, such a disturbance will not occur.
The only thing that matters is whether the blood of Ortima is mixed or not.
Their arrogance in belittling everything but Ortima, and their ugliness in joining hands with pirate groups like Exodus for their own authority were disgusting, but at least they never once had their status as the heads of the Ten Houses questioned.
Not even once.
And that was why Louisa Halepalomer Equinas Ortima beat out the true bloodline Lucian Roonpalomer Equinas Ortima to become the heir to the family.
‘That man. The man who pulled down Brother Lucain from his position as the heir to the family…!’
Luisia Ortima’s eyes narrowed dramatically as she noticed a man standing near the podium in the same classroom as her… no, for some reason, as a student.
The lecture she is attending now is famous for having a very small number of students compared to the entire school, so all the students taking the lecture, from the first year to the senior year, gather together to listen to it.
Two years ago, the Babylon and Constellation lectures taught by former Vice President Zenon were abolished, and Yumina, who took over as Vice President, officially opened the ‘Understanding of Power’ lecture.
‘I know that your innate powers are extremely strong. But why are you standing there?’
Understanding Powers was a lecture for the very chosen ones, helping them to more easily understand and explore the various types of powers they were born with.
In some ways, it had something in common with the project Ban Yu-won had done through the Union Travel Club in his first year.
Yumina, who had noticed the rapid growth of special admission students who had trained according to Ban Yu-won’s curriculum for a year, made a formal suggestion to the president and, with Ban Yu-won’s help, made it possible for this lecture to be taught to all students at Union.
“So the student body president… … is helping with the lectures?”
“Ah, the first-year students don’t know yet. Yuwon, ahem, the student council president is an assistant teacher. Just looking at last year, there were a lot of students who developed their talents thanks to the student council president, so I hope everyone trusts and follows along.”
“Thank you, everyone.”
Not only special admission students, but also students from higher levels often have innate powers.
Of course, unlike the special admission students who have to develop their powers by heading out into the bare ground, most of them train according to the systematic training method organized within the family――but for the past two years, there has been talk of a training method in the academy that is ‘universal and systematic, but eventually advances to the professional realm, incomparable to the family training.’
The identity of this was precisely the lecture on understanding this power, and at this point, even Louisa, the successor of the teenage family, could not help but listen to the lecture… … .
Who would have thought there would be a trap card like this out there!
Louisa raised her hand, calming her trembling body.
“Professor, I――.”
“Oh, you can still change your course registration at any time. If there are any students who are not satisfied with the class method, please apply to the administrative office immediately.”
Yumina smiles brightly as if she has read Louisa’s mind and explains.
Ban Yu-won, standing next to her, was smiling brightly as if following Yumi, but Louisa felt embarrassed when he seemed to be looking straight at her, blushing and lowering her hand.
‘If I back out here… … I lose.’
She gritted her teeth and tried to justify the pounding in her heart.
‘I will defeat you. I will learn from that man and surpass him! I will make him pay for toying with the Ortima family!’
The carelessness of the twenty-year-old girl was replaced by a foolish hostility and enthusiasm and she turned towards Ban Yu-won.
What was Ban Yu-won thinking as he received her hot gaze?
‘Lucain Ortima, this bastard never came. … … Should we go catch him?’
She was thinking about her cousin.
