◈ Episode 022. Doing the midterm exam alone (4)
A huge room inside the dome stadium.
[3:38]
When the time watch passed 30 minutes, the instructors confirmed that all the confused students had entered the artificial dungeon and were evaluating the students who had entered the room in various ways.
“There are 12 people who entered number 3, but they haven’t even made any real progress yet.”
“That’s right. “Just looking at this, it’s a failing grade.”
There was also an instructor checking on students while chatting with other instructors through CCTV in the huge room.
“… … .”
There were also instructors who quietly continued grading through the screen projected onto the tablet without saying a word.
And among them, Lee Sang-cheol is the most senior among these instructors.
“… … .”
Students were being graded by manipulating the touchpad on the largest screen hanging in the huge room.
widely. widely. widely.
And at a very fast speed.
If the students saw that, every single one of them would complain to Lee Sang-cheol.
Because Lee Sang-cheol’s grading was so fast.
It took less than 30 seconds for the screen he was managing to change to another screen.
There are many instances where the screen turns in less than 20 seconds at some points.
At first glance, it looked like they were just grading students taking midterm exams haphazardly out of annoyance, rather than grading them properly.
However, despite Lee Sang-cheol’s appearance, none of the instructors expressed any dissatisfaction with him.
Because Lee Sang-cheol is the highest-ranking official?
It wasn’t.
The reason the instructors stayed quiet even after seeing Lee Sang-cheol’s abnormal speed was because they were confident that he would not grade incorrectly.
That’s right, instructor Lee Sang-cheol is currently grading students by rotating the screen among the instructors within 30 seconds.
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Before retirement, he was one of the legendary contractors who was called a clear master by all contractors and whose dungeon attack failure rate never rose above 1%.
And Lee Sang-cheol is grading the students by flipping through the screen.
‘… … ‘Not bad overall this time.’
He was thinking, moving his hands and eyes with an expression that said it wasn’t that bad.
The subject of this midterm exam is ‘Dungeon Strategy’.
However, unlike the subject of dungeon attack, this test implicitly looked at more than that.
‘Completeing a dungeon isn’t just about being good at fighting.’
Of course, what you need to conquer a dungeon is force.
If you don’t have force in the first place, you can’t even begin the attack.
However, on the other hand, having only military power did not mean that a successful dungeon attack could be achieved.
‘Starting with gathering team members, assigning roles to properly balance the team, and a leader to manage the battles that occur within the dungeon.
In addition to that, there are numerous unspecified elements in dungeon raiding.
Only when you can properly control all of these things can you say that you can properly conquer a dungeon.
‘In that sense, there are a lot of smart guys in this first year.’
Lee Sang-cheol recalled the students he had seen so far.
Some teams had more than 20 people in one dungeon, while others had 8 people, but were unable to properly distribute roles.
However, on the contrary, there were people who formed a team and entered the dungeon more calmly and confidently than Lee Sang-cheol thought, and among them, there were others.
‘… … Yoo So-yeon is definitely worth noting.’
Lee Sang-cheol stopped the screen for a moment on Yoo So-yeon’s team and watched them conquer the dungeon.
“Go in front of one tank and block the entrance! The other two keep the monsters next to them in check so they don’t get over them! You don’t have to hit ADCs, so just keep them in check! “Don’t let the tank get through!”
Yoo So-yeon grasps the situation in an instant, gives orders without stopping, and speeds up the dungeon raid without hesitation.
‘That’s amazing’
The other team members faithfully followed the confident orders given as if they had already experienced the dungeon several times, but she was very smart in choosing her team members.
‘… … ‘Are they all at mid-level level?’
Her teammates are all mid-level.
She solidified her position as a leader by supplementing the team members below her, and at the same time, she gave herself most of the contribution that was the grading criteria for this test.
Seeing the way she walked out without hesitation, as if she was looking at the perfect score answer sheet for the midterm that Lee Sang-cheol had in mind, he thought that Yoo So-yeon might take first place in this midterm, and quickly ate it as if he was disappointed.
‘Even if I hadn’t met Kim Joo-hyuk at the entrance ceremony… … .’
Soyeon Yoo was showing off her talent right now, but unfortunately, her entrance ceremony ranking was 992nd.
Why?
Because she lost to Kim Joo-hyuk on the first day of the entrance ceremony.
That’s why I felt sad that even if she ranked first in this ranking, she wouldn’t be able to enter the top 100 at once.
‘… … Now that I think about it, what is he doing?’
Lee Sang-cheol’s thoughts reached Kim Joo-hyuk, who was about to take his midterm exam.
A mysterious strongman who appeared from nowhere, having defeated Yoo So-yeon and the sons of the five great families and entered Valhalla as the top freshman.
In addition, he was one of the students who received a lot of attention from instructors and guilds outside of Valhalla because he had done several more things before and after entering Valhalla.
Either in a good way or in a bad way.
Therefore, Lee Sang-cheol soon started moving the touchpad to find the dungeon Kim Joo-hyuk entered.
‘… … ‘Why isn’t there one?’
Soon he tilted his head and fumbled around with the touchpad.
The touchpad he currently had was showing everything, starting with who had entered the dungeon, which was numbered in order, as well as how much progress had been made in conquering the dungeon.
A new device that even has a search function!
‘Why aren’t you coming out?’
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However, Lee Sang-cheol frowned at the fact that no results came up despite searching for the name ‘Kim Joo-hyuk’, but soon enough, Lee Sang-cheol who was next to him.
“what?”
Why didn’t the screen come up when I searched for Kim Joo-hyuk’s name?
“It turns out that student Kim Joo-hyuk has already cleared the dungeon.”
“… … .”
I was able to realize that fact.
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[2:59]
The midterm exam has just dropped to 2 hours on the time watch.
The students were doing their best to clear the dungeon with even more contributions, and the instructors had to grade those students.
Yes, originally.
However, the hands of the instructors, who were supposed to be moving the touchpad and grading the students, were still for a while, and their eyes, which had to move constantly on the monitor and pad, were also focused on one place.
“… … .”
This is where the instructors are focusing their attention.
That place was a screen within a huge screen that Lee Sang-cheol was manipulating.
That strangely deep silence.
In it, Lee Sang-cheol looked blankly at the screen that had already turned off and began to rewind the video by operating the tablet with an expression as if he were fascinated.
A video that plays from the beginning with him.
There, Kim Joo-hyuk was seen walking down to the dungeon with a relaxed expression.
[23:32:11] CLEAR.
A clear time of 23 minutes appeared on one side of the video.
23 minutes 32 seconds.
Yes, in some ways, that time seemed very long.
There are quite a few things you can do in just 20 minutes.
However, the 20 minutes it took to clear the dungeon prepared in Valhalla was not only an extremely short time, but also ridiculous.
That’s why Lee Sang-cheol couldn’t believe it when he first saw Kim Joo-hyuk’s clear time on the video.
Although Kim Joo-hyuk was exceptionally strong, it did not make sense for a student who entered the dungeon alone without any information about it to be able to conquer an artificial dungeon that was not much different from a regular dungeon so quickly.
okay.
That’s what Lee Sang-cheol thought until he saw this video.
Kim Joo-hyuk in the video was not much different from the Kim Joo-hyuk he was used to seeing.
Kim Joo-hyuk looks around with a relaxed expression.
And, the strange events began from then on.
click-
Kim Joo-hyuk turned his head several times as if he could guess what kind of place this place was, then immediately took out the sword from its scabbard and held it up.
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I immediately started running through the dungeon.
He didn’t know what was ahead of him in the dungeon, so he just took a quick look around and started running without hesitation.
And it was clearly something that completely destroyed Lee Sang-cheol’s common sense.
That’s because running through a dungeon without any information was the same as protesting that you would die inside the dungeon.
You don’t know what might pop up in a dungeon, and likewise, what traps might pop up.
Therefore, according to Lee Sang-cheol’s common sense, Kim Joo-hyuk should have been disqualified from this test.
However, Kim Joo-hyuk in the video seems to have mistaken Lee Sang-cheol’s common sense.
“Cut! Cut! Cut! Cut!”
He was running, cutting down all the monsters that came out of the dungeon with his sword.
Even if it encounters a monster, it doesn’t stop and runs towards it, cutting it down.
When one comes out, cut it down
If two come out, take two.
When three appear, cut down three.
As if he wasn’t thinking about how to fight, Kim Joo-hyuk cut cut cut cut cut! With the same comical sound effect, he slaughtered all the monsters in front of him.
“… … her.”
All the instructors who were watching this were staring at it without closing their mouths.
However, even while all the instructors were bruised, Kim Joo-hyuk killed the monsters and entered a section full of traps.
fault! fault! fault! fault! fault! fault!
The trap section, which the instructors had obviously put a lot of effort into preparing, was quickly escaped with just about eight jumps.
The next place we reached was where the large golem, the boss of the artificial dungeon, was located.
The golem, which can be caught with a certain amount of effort by an average of 8 students, had a different appearance from the golems that appear in regular dungeons due to the instructors’ opinion that a sufficient sense of intimidation should be instilled in the students.
A golem with a sturdy appearance as if it were wearing armor.
however.
“Hit the head!”
Sigh!
Kim Joo-hyuk jumped up in an instant and plunged his sword into the golem’s neck before it could even move its heavy hands.
“Cut!”
Uzijijijijijik!
With a single blow, he separated the golem’s body and head and, using the golem’s body as support, jumped and escaped through the dungeon’s entrance.
The video turned off with him.
The instructors were still staring at the turned-off screen with blank expressions at the sight that went beyond common sense.
Lee Sang-cheol was watching the scene from the front.
“… … “It seems like first place has been decided.”
I laughed as if it was absurd and looked at the turned off screen.
