Chapter 12: A Failure In S Class (5)

Chapter 12: A Failure In S Class (5)

Late evening.

After finishing Hong Bi-yeons Special Lecture, I immediately left the academy site and headed for Arcanium.

It had to go to a bookstore.

Does she really believe in all that?

Thinking about what I had just done, I felt a sense of shame and guilt.

Hong Bi-yeon. She was obviously a good wizard and had a smart brain, but her disadvantage was that she had a stereotyped way of thinking.

But that wouldnt help her in her growth.

Well, it doesnt matter since shes a villain anyway.

I couldnt help it. Right now, the Terifon magic sword was fluttering in front of my eyes.

I have to convert Terifon into a magic sword as soon as possible to increase what I could do at the academy.

Lets stop thinking about it. I have to buy a book too.

From tomorrow onwards, I had to purchase a book for my major because I was going to take practical classes and lectures in earnest.

As I walked through the streets of the magical city of Arcanium, a panoramic view of the colorful Mage tower and numerous magic academies unfolded.

A carriage led by a winged horse and a small floating island was floating in the air. The streets were quite crowded with students, including me, who came out to purchase books in haste until this morning. Men and women could be seen walking around in pairs.

These young ones.

The streets were beautifully paved, and colorfully lit buildings were lined up. As soon as I entered an alley while looking at the essence of magic engineering, I moved quickly using blink.

Is it here? I cant remember.

In the game, you could automatically press listen to the lecture, but in reality, you need a major book.

Another absurd thing was that the increase in grades differed depending on which major book was used.

At first, I remembered buying books at a fairly famous bookstore in the city. There are many kinds of books and there are many customers, so I thought it was better anyway.

But no. It was later revealed by the players that there were hidden books all over the city that added to grades.

In particular, the bookstore where such books were most often hidden must have been the nameless bookstore. It got its name because its signboard was empty.

After wandering along the alley for a while, I arrived at an unnamed bookstore. It was a pretty old place.

As I creaked open the wooden door of the crumbling bookstore, which looked like it would filter out people and even ghosts, a smell of musty books greeted me.

There is an old man dozing off at the counter. That pervert old man pretended to doze off like that and observed guests with mana scan. Well, theres always something unique about long-lived wizards.

Without hesitation, I walked inside. It was quite old, but there was a Maelas Handwritten Notes that said that he graduated from the Stella Academy as a top student 10 years ago.

I didnt know why it was being sold here. But if you take a magic engineering class with these handwritten notes, youll get a perfect score almost unconditionally.

My grades may not really matter because I had copper glasses, but there were hidden recipes stored inside, so I might find something useful later.

As long as I have that, I can study the rest of it with just plain books.

After all, I got a perfect score thanks to the glasses. Lets see I think I found it. No one has also touched it. Maelas name was clearly written on a Magic Engineering Theory Handwritten Notes. Some might say that having a lot of hand stains was annoying, but it was beneficial to me. Old books and notebooks, by the way, are always preferable.

As I reached for it, a white wrist appeared from the other side and grabbed the book Id chosen.

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Oh?

I turned my head slightly and noticed a sky-blue-haired girl, slightly smaller than me, frantically removing her hands as if they were on fire.

While I recovered my hands, I was frankly bewildered when I saw her.

Eh, Eisel?

What. Do you know me?

Huh? Uh, you know you are famous.

It was because Eisel Morph, also called the Salty Mistress, was looking at me with an old used book in her arms.

She looked at me with an expression, What nonsense are you talking about? I couldnt explain that I saw it in the game, and it was embarrassing.

Well everyone thinks like you. Thats why its easier to get grades.

Anyways, I should get going

It was difficult to continue the conversation, so I dashed out of the bookstore, looking back to find Eisel staring at the Introduction to Sealing Studies with a puzzled expression on her face.

Her expression, on the other hand, did not seem promising.

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{Eisle POV}

The next day. Today was the first day of class in earnest.

The first class

I checked the timetable. My first lecture at the Stella Academy was a subject called How to Look into the Void.

Rumors had it that it was easy to get good grades, so even though it was a non-mainstream one, I hurriedly applied for the course.

Are you in the void class too?

Really? Oh Im doomed. You study better than I do.

Did you come here to get grades too? Isnt it obvious? I thought only the kids I know knew, but there are a lot of kids. I am doomed from the first semester

However, as word spread that it was simple to get good grades, a large number of students gathered. Furthermore, students who did not receive scholarships because they did not reach the top of the list were compelled to make a decision.

Hmm its difficult.

It wasnt very good for Eisel, who always had to stay at the top to get a scholarship. I have to work hard on other subjects.

Time was short, and there was a lot to study. There was no time to regret the past.

Eisel, who was striding along the hallway, suddenly overheard the students crowding around and talking about the lunch menu.

Her stomach rumbles, a signal asking for food. She took a bundle of 60 academic tickets out of her pocket.

With this ticket, you can eat at the academy 60 times, but there was no way you could survive with this for the whole semester, so you had to save it over and over again.

Todays lunch doesnt taste good, so Ill have to buy some bread at the cafeteria.

Of course, she could barely buy plain bread, which costs only 1,200 credits, but Eisel, who was walking to the cafeteria for a quick meal, abruptly came to a halt while passing by a lecture hall.

This was the lecture hall of Introduction to Sealing Studies, a lecture that a student named Baek Yu-seol, whom I met last night, had applied for.

I sneaked a peek inside just in case and noticed Baek Yu-seol in the distance, listening to a class with a blank expression on his face. He had transparent, black eyes that couldnt tell what he was thinking or looking at.

Eisel looked at the other students.

Huh? Are there really so few students?

The number of students was such that the lecture could barely be sustained, and perhaps as a result, the professor was biting his nails and conducting the lecture with an anxious expression.

Furthermore, the students who came to take the course were also in turmoil.

What if, if if I also had applied for Introduction to Sealing Studies?

if I didnt had to spend a lot of time, I could have improved my grades.

And if I had studied other subjects with the time I saved, maybe I could have gotten more scholarships because my grades would go up. Did he really know that this course was easy to get grades for?

Eisel looked at Baek Yoo Seol. His eyes were still unsure of what he was thinking. He might be sleepy, or he might be meditating

Could it be that he had his own course registration strategy carefully crafted?

Such a thought flashed, but Eisel quickly shook her head to disperse the thought.

What did I have such a thought? It must be a coincidence.

End of Chapter

Translators Notes:

Heres the bonus chapter I promised. Damn, its the 2nd bonus chap in just a few days. UNJOYYYYYYY.

Signing off,

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