Chapter 16: Untouchable Scholar

After having a manual battle with all available opponents from the system, Angus found that the strength of the opponent is based on what he knows and sees. Moreover, the stronger the opponent also yields more soul points.

At this moment, the strongest opponent he could face is Princess Jayna that gives him 0,000024 soul points for every 1,5 second. It means he will get around 2 points every day.

He also tests to fight with other students but none of them could fight back even a second if Angus got serious from the start. All of this because he always approaches the opponent in fast speed before killing them.

Beside that he also found another function from the opponent selection. It is called group battle. From its description, he could fight multiple opponent at once and get higher rewards of soul points

The reward is quite huge around 2-3 points if he decides to fight all the first year students that are available at once. Unfortunately, he couldn't use automatic battle for multiple opponents. Otherwise he could harvest more points using this way.

Another huge discovery is that he finally gets an item from the virtual opponent. He speculates that the drop chance of getting an item is very low.

He only gets the item by fighting the same multiple opponent a few times. After that, he didn't get any kind of item anymore.

The item is a spell book and stored in the inventory tab that just opened. After doing various tests with the inventory, he found out only items generated from the system could be stored in it. Beside that no other things could be stored.

The spell book itself is called [1st Circle - Aqua Ball] spell book that drops from virtual opponent Wylda. As soon as he touched the book, he got a question panel.

"Do you want to learn the [1st Circle - Aqua Ball] spell by Wylda? yes or no"

After contemplating a little bit, Angus chose yes. At this moment, Angus gets a lot of basic information about Aqua Ball spells. He could even cast water ball spells as good as Wylda the moment he learns it.

Moreover, since his intelligence is higher than Wylda he could construct and modify the magic circle faster than her.

'No wonder I never got the spell book item before. This function is too overpowered.' Thought Angus

Knowing this, Angus realizes that this is a very overpowered function that could make him cast stronger spells than his opponent as long as he got their spell books.

Angus speculates that to generate spell books, he needs to meet various requirements before it could drop. Otherwise, he will get another spell book after killing virtual Wylda more than a dozen times.

'Either I am unlucky or there is some special requirement or it is just one time drop item. Anyway, this has become more interesting.'

As time went by, three months passed in the blink of an eye. The time for the class tournament event soon comes. In the past months, Angus strength has increased by leap bound.

Beside his strength, he also got title as Untouchable Scholar. Angus got the title as every student was afraid of him because of his bodyguard and Duke Victory behind him.

Apparently, his father really put some of his acquaintance's son/daughter to help and protect Angus every time he got trouble.

Since Angus is famous for being weak, many other strong students try to bully him. But, before bullying Angus, they always end up being bullied back by Angus's 'bodyguard' across the academy.

Moreover, Angus seems to 'avoid' all the bullies that come after him. Be it another student that tries to prank him or even a student that wants to challenge him.

Some students are bold enough to challenge him at duel, but Angus immediately turns down by surrender at it. Few days later, the challenger ends up being in the hospital after being challenged by another stronger student.

He also got a few good marks at his side course and is always found in the library during the weekend that gives him moniker as scholar combined with his previous deed he became known as 'Untouchable Scholar'.

During the weekend, he tries to learn various spells and skills to increase his repertoire. Using his high intelligence status, he could learn some of them quite easily.

At first he didn't have a place to practice them. But, after 'manipulating' a little bit of manual battle function, he got himself a practice room with a living target inside of it.

During the time Angus practiced spells and skills, he found the distinction between two of them. Spells only increase the power based on the magic circle and its comprehensiveness. As for skills they increase along with the growth of the user.

For example, a first year student doing skill [bash] could only give a strong punch. But if a six grade mana core person was doing [bash], he could easily obliterate a building. This is why skills is fewer than magic spells

Skill prowess depends heavily on the proficiency of the user. The more often he uses, familiarizes and masters the skill the more potent of its effect.

The royal academy gives information freely about skills and spells at the library. But to learn and practice it depends on the student themselves. The academy also provides teachers that could teach skills and spells better for points.

However, Angus will never use these options to hide his real strength. He could learn the skills by himself from his past experience. As the strongest person in his past life this kind of feat is simple as long as the skill itself is not too complicated.

While for Spells, Angus heavily relies on his own intelligence to learn it. Magic is practically having the same way to cast and utilize it. The only difference is the magic circle they need to be constructed.

During this three months, he also found the rule for spell books drop rate. Apparently, it drops only once with different kinds of drop chance according to the difficulty of the spells. He also found same rules apply with skill books.

Although it only drops once but the books will drop again from the same person the moment they get enlighten or make huge progress at their respective skills/spells. All of this on the premise that Angus already witnessed and learned about their progress before.

He also found another item beside the books, the item is variety but most of them are category as materials. He said that because it always drops from monsters.

To familiarize themselves with monsters, the student got a chance to look at a few live caged monsters during the monster studies course.

The first monster he sees is a brown wolf which is a 2 meter tall wolf that is full of muscle. Its expression is very aggressive and full of bloodlust.

The moment the teacher shows them to the first years, most of them collapse or piss her/his pants from such a bloodlust. Only students with strong minds handle their fear but still shivering heavily.

At that time, Angus pretends to be shivering and afraid that he is rooted in his place. He also manipulates his body to become paler than it supposed to be.

To make some sort of resistance toward monster's bloodlust, the teacher will bring students to look at a caught monster every month during the monster studies course like this.

Now, Angus participated in the briefing of a class tournament contest.

'Haa… when will this end?' As Angus half listens to the briefing by teacher Elis.