Academy’s New Guard is Unusual - Chapter 114

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Episode 114
Evangeline’s abilities were specialized in Chasms.
To be precise, Evangeline had no abilities besides Chasm-related ones.
That is, if Evangeline said she had something, there was a high probability it was a Chasm.
“I’m serious, I didn’t pick my nose—I really didn’t!”
Just then, Evangeline clutched her nose and grumbled. I pulled out a handkerchief and offered it to her.
“Use this.”
“You carry something like that around?”
“I carry worse things.”
“What could be worse? Ugh, why won’t it stop?!”
Evangeline pressed the handkerchief to her nose.
When the nosebleed still wouldn’t stop, Evangeline stuffed the handkerchief directly into her nostrils.
It looked absolutely ridiculous.
I turned my gaze back to the Test Grounds.
‘A Chasm has opened at the Test Grounds.’
The Test Grounds, like the Central Library and the Forest of Disappearance, was a Taboo zone.
If Evangeline entered, a Chasm would open.
However, the Test Grounds only opened on exam days.
“Evangeline, have you ever been inside the Test Grounds?”
“Me? There?”
“Yeah, there’s no way.”
So the Chasm had opened without Evangeline.
‘The Chasm opened already?’
Just then, I felt something odd.
‘The Vice Principal isn’t visible.’
The Vice Principal was usually burning with eagerness at the presence of a Chasm.
If he had sensed it, he would have moved immediately.
But now I saw neither the Vice Principal nor Karel anywhere.
That meant the Vice Principal hadn’t sensed it either.
A Chasm so subtle that even the Vice Principal—who was extremely sensitive to them—hadn’t noticed.
“It’s a Trap Crack.”
“A Trap Crack? What’s that?”
“If I explain, you’ll know.”
“Well, I don’t know?”
Evangeline shot back as if I were asking something obvious.
In any case, it made sense that the Vice Principal hadn’t detected a Trap Crack.
You couldn’t notice a Trap Crack without seeing it with your own eyes.
That was what made Trap Cracks dangerous.
Chasms grew exponentially harder over time, but Trap Cracks were difficult to detect early, so most were high-difficulty.
The method to resolve a Trap Crack was simple.
Find it as fast as possible and close it as fast as possible.
This differed from ordinary Chasms, which required training to at least Medium or Weldon level.
The problem was the Test Grounds’ Taboo.
There was one Taboo in the Test Grounds.
It was the Taboo that you could only enter once the exam had begun.
The Test Grounds’ Taboo was among the strongest Taboos at Elysium Academy.
Breaking that Taboo was more dangerous than that Trap Crack.
‘If it’s not exam time, entry to the Test Grounds is forbidden.’
But I couldn’t just wait until exam time either.
If I did, the Vice Principal would definitely move immediately.
I couldn’t enter before the Test Grounds opened, but if I waited for the exam to start, things would spiral out of control.
So then—
‘I’ll have to delay the exam.’
The Director decides when the Test Grounds open the day before.
Once an exam time is set, it can’t be changed on the day itself.
However, if something unfortunate occurs, the exam gets postponed.
In the game, when the Back Gate collapsed, the exam was pushed to the next day entirely.
If a suitable incident happened, the exam would be delayed, and then I could sneak into the already-opened Test Grounds.
The problem was—
‘I’ve already handled most of the problems myself.’
Never thought my diligence would trip me up here of all places.
I had no choice.
‘I’ll have to cause a problem.’
To delay the exam, I needed something significant.
I thought of what I could use immediately.
‘Republic Magic Stone Bombs, Wanderers.’
I combined the clues appropriately.
A rather amusing plan took shape.
“What is it?”
Evangeline looked up at me over her stupid glasses.
“What.”
“You were just smiling really happily.”
“I wasn’t.”
I denied it flatly.
“But the corners of your mouth were twitching—”
“Go study instead.”
“You’re completely—”
Evangeline urgently held up the blood-soaked handkerchief.
“You pick your nose and get a nosebleed and you’re proud of it?”
“I didn’t! ……I just picked it a tiny bit! Honestly!”
“So you did pick it.”
“Everyone picks their nose! Even a beauty like me picks her nose!”
“Didn’t ask. Go study.”
“Ugh, fine. I’ll wash the handkerchief and give it back.”
“Never mind. Keep it.”
“Hehe, free stuff.”
Watching Evangeline happily take the handkerchief, I sighed and added,
“Go back and finish class.”
“Man, I’m so tired—”
Evangeline spun her head around dramatically. It was blatant malingering.
I grabbed the pink head and summoned Holy Power.
Pure white light enveloped Evangeline’s head.
“There, all better. Now go study.”
“Aah! Why are you so desperate to make me study?!”
Evangeline exploded in frustration.
If you get expelled, the world will end.
I swallowed the words that had risen to my throat.
Evangeline was a sunfish. It wasn’t good to burden her.
So—
“You’re a student. Of course you have to study.”
I pushed Evangeline’s head. She grumbled her way into the classroom. I followed her back inside.
The Crown Prince’s gaze turned back toward me.
This was its own kind of ordeal.
Thanks to my fine-tuning, the twin witches’ lecture had become much simpler.
Bella moved Mana directly and showed the magical process step by step.
Lila explained the necessary formulas very briefly.
Around that point, even the dolts started to understand.
Getting those idiots to grasp it was impressive in its own way.
Then my eyes met the Crown Prince’s. He was staring at me without even a blink.
What caught my attention was the blue light rising in his hands.
It was the same form as what I’d demonstrated.
Copying it the moment he saw it—
‘Truly a genius among geniuses.’
For all his foul temperament, his talent was genuine.
Still, I needed to establish the hierarchy clearly.
I snapped my fingers while watching the Crown Prince.
The single thread of Mana split and doubled. The Crown Prince remained expressionless, as if asking me to try harder.
I twisted my fingers.
Two became four.
The Crown Prince’s eyebrow twitched slightly.
I continued without concern.
Four soon became eight.
Eight became sixteen.
And when the Mana rings reached about a hundred—
The Crown Prince looked away. His jaw muscle bulged visibly where his lips pressed together.
‘Was that too harsh?’
Well, he’s the Crown Prince. He’ll be fine.
I waited quietly for the lecture to end.
Much later, the twin witches’ lecture finished. Both of them looked utterly drained.
“You did well.”
“Seriously, we worked our asses off. Why would you gather nothing but blockheads? That’s a really twisted hobby.”
Bella spoke sharply. This time, even Lila didn’t stop her.
“Anyway, those Supreme-Grade Magic Stones I gave you last time—give me a few.”
“Give? I give them and then you take them back—what’s that about—”
“I need them urgently.”
“Supreme-Grade Magic Stones? What for?”
“It’s a secret. Hurry.”
“You’ll… give them back, right?”
“I’ll give them back later.”
After exchanging glances briefly, Bella and Lila produced the Supreme-Grade Magic Stones.
“Two more.”
“You can use high-tier Magic with just one Supreme-Grade Magic Stone, but three?! What exactly are you—”
“I said it’s a secret.”
I carefully pocketed three Supreme-Grade Magic Stones.
I couldn’t feed them directly to Gu here or the twin witches would discover the Subspace function.
Next, Dracopf’s lecture began.
Dracopf had a difficult temperament, but his skill was genuine.
He explained Black Magic as fully and simply as possible.
Of course, predictably, the dolts still didn’t understand Dracopf’s lecture.
In the end, I had to step in again.
‘What was the point of bringing in those professors?’
It was absurd, but unavoidable.
“Direct experience is the fastest way to learn Curses.”
I sprayed diluted Curse on them one by one.
Despite being diluted, these fools writhed on the ground like they were dying.
‘They’re all such crybabies.’
My eyes met the Crown Prince’s again.
As always, he held his back rigid and straight.
There was confidence in it—a readiness to try anything.
Though he’d likely received much Curse-resistance training in the palace.
Still, the Curses he’d faced there were probably just for conditioning.
The palace fools wouldn’t dare curse the Crown Prince sincerely.
‘A real experience would be good for him.’
In the game, the Crown Prince had crumbled many times when faced with real Curses for the first time.
To prevent that, he needed to experience Curse properly.
And incidentally, I could establish the hierarchy.
“Weakness.”
A black Curse dripped from my fingertips. The ground where it touched hissed and melted.
Sensing something amiss, the Crown Prince’s eyebrow flickered.
Yet he didn’t dodge—he accepted the Curse.
Very composedly.
Soon the Curse enveloped the Crown Prince.
Weakness is a Curse that melts the muscles. Of course, the Weakness I deployed on the Crown Prince wasn’t true Weakness.
His muscles didn’t actually melt, but I calibrated it so the pain of melting muscles was present.
This was genuinely excruciating.
It was the method I used to discipline unruly juniors at the front lines.
Even rough bastards would crawl meekly after one dose of that.
It was that painful a Curse.
But the Crown Prince didn’t scream. He just widened his eyes and bit his lip.
‘He passed out with his eyes open.’
Even if appearance mattered, passing out with eyes open was something else.
He was impressive in his own way.
When the remedial lesson wrapped up, Calix from the Academic Affairs Department returned.
But Calix’s atmosphere seemed serious.
“The Academic Affairs Department’s support has been canceled. Unfortunately, we won’t be able to continue supporting you.”
Calix spoke in a truly regretful tone. Leon’s creased expression lightened slightly.
The Vice Principal had attached an Academic Affairs staffer to me to find whoever took the Chasm or to monitor me.
So to remove him now—
‘Something’s happened to the Vice Principal.’
I didn’t know what, but it seemed something had occurred with him.
‘That’s not good.’
It meant the Academic Affairs staffer was being released from his assignment.
I quietly stepped back and approached Volcan, who had been standing in a corner like a pillar.
“Volcan, do you keep in touch with your parents?”
Volcan, startled, answered in a deliberately low voice.
“I’m an orphan.”
“Then do you keep in touch with people from your hometown?”
“I don’t.”
Volcan said it firmly.
“Any way to contact them?”
“It’s better not. They—”
Volcan paused, then spoke with a compressed voice.
“They are very dangerous.”
Volcan warned seriously.
‘Dangerous.’
The Wanderers were certainly dangerous.
They weren’t called the Empire’s Ten Calamities for nothing.
The Wanderers were what even the Empire itself couldn’t completely uproot.
In some ways, they were more dangerous than the Table of Truth.
But—
“It’s fine. I’m more dangerous.”
I answered lightly.
Volcan laughed heartily.
“Ha, that’s true. You’re more dangerous.”
He seemed to think it was a joke.
I stared at Volcan.
In the game, Volcan collapsed the Back Gate to bring in the Wanderers.
It was certain that Volcan had a way to contact the Wanderers.
So—
“Hand it over willingly.”
“Pardon? What are you referring to?”
“You know what I’m talking about. Or—”
I extended my hand and added,
“I’ll take it myself.”
Volcan thought for a moment.
Even a gangster had never heard of someone this brazen.

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