I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 175

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Chapter 175. Midterm Exams (1)

The day of midterm exams.

All of Haven was complete chaos.

“Where the hell is this treasure?!”

“You really hid it?! Does it make sense to make that into an exam?!”

Students holding their test papers fell into confusion.

The Combat Department’s legs were shaking from climbing mountains for highland search training, the Magic Department lost their minds trying to detect mana at ancient ruins, and the Information Department was wailing inside dark tunnels.

The Command Department held the maps Ruin had distributed and seriously debated ‘why are north, south, east, and west in these directions,’ while the Healing Department got burned after touching something strange in the bushes.

“Kyaah! Save me!”

“Ahhh! I’m dying!”

Ruin looked down at them from atop the tower and sighed.

‘All this fuss just because I hid some treasure…’

But his ears inevitably picked up some incredible words.

“Professor Ruins would definitely hide it somewhere weird! Like… inside his underwear?”

“That’s your wishful thinking! The Professor would absolutely hide it inside a corpse.”

Ruin pressed his brow.

‘Even I wouldn’t hide it in places like that… you crazy bastards…!’

But the real problem was something else.

[Infirmary Graveyard Basement – 2 Students Missing]

Ruin’s eyebrows twitched for a moment. Two students who had actually been digging in the graveyard had gotten trapped underground due to ground collapse.

And an even worse situation.

“Uaaahhh! Ghouls! Ghouls appeared!”

“Professor! Uaaahhh!”

Ruin let out a long sigh and instantly leaped toward the collapsed ground. Then he simultaneously grabbed the necks of the two fallen students and-

Whoosh-

Pulled the two people up to the surface as if throwing them.

Thud! Thwack!

The students who collapsed beside Ruin looked up with gleaming eyes and sobbed.

“P-Professor!”

“Are you hurt anywhere?”

“…P-Professor…! Ahhh! Ghouls! Ghoulssss!”

Grotesque ghouls began swarming from the collapsed ground.

Against those monsters advancing with rotting lips chattering, Ruin expressionlessly extended his magic wand.

Crackle—

A red magic circle formed and hot flames burst forth from its center.

“Flame Kill.”

Bang!

The ghouls were instantly engulfed in scorching heat and melted away with terrible screams. Their decaying bodies burned while giving off a terrible stench.

Ruin continued speaking calmly.

“Digging up graveyards is desecrating the dead. Stop doing pointless things and come up.”

“Sob…sob! The Professor… that cold-blooded Professor saved us…!”

“Walk properly. You’re going to fall.”

Leaving behind the students who were clinging to him with teary eyes, Ruin silently turned around.

However.

“Professor! Professooooor!”

It wasn’t just students who were in danger. This time, from farther away, commotion could be heard from below a cliff.

“…Ugh! Professor! Please save us!”

“Hah…”

A towering cliff that made you wonder how they even climbed up there. Hanging from its edge were professors shouting ‘Professor! We’re falling!’

“Ugh! Head Professor! P-please help us! We feel like we’re about to fall right now!”

Ruin coldly crossed his arms.

“You can figure out how to get down yourselves.”

“Professor! You said we’re also being evaluated!”

“Professors are not included in rescue targets.”

“Ahhh!”

Eventually, the desperate cries of two professors echoed from below the cliff.

Ruin turned away from them and opened his real-time location tracking notebook again. After checking the positions of all students, Ruin sighed.

“Where the hell are these guys even looking…”

I mean, come on. Do they really think he would hide treasure in such bizarre places? What do they take him for?

* * *

Meanwhile, the imperial descendants taking the exam were also in chaos. It was all because of Ruin’s words.

“Anyone who fails here won’t get my classes.”

Because of those words, they desperately tried to find the treasure with bloodshot eyes.

‘This is Ruins’ qualification test!’

Then I must get a perfect score!

That’s why First Prince Henry, wearing his usual calm smile, gathered the divination students.

“Now, from this moment on, you are my eyes and ears. Move immediately whenever a prophecy comes.”

“Yes!”

Soon, one student shouted breathlessly.

“South! A small cave!”

“Good. Deploy them.”

Henry stroked his chin with his index finger and spread out a tactical map.

“Squad B, Squad F. Deploy immediately to the Southern Forested Area. Prophecy reliability is 82%, worth it enough.”

The First Prince’s faction moved with military precision like executing an operation. Even the supervising professors were impressed by the sight.

‘…That guy is running the exam like a war!’

However.

“Aaaaah!”

Plant vines emerged from inside the cave, wrapped Henry up tightly, and kidnapped him just like that.

That’s when it happened. A small explosion occurred right in front of Henry’s eyes as he was sucked into the cave.

Boom!

“Uaaaah! Damn it, my eyes… my eyes…! Cough cough!”

When the smoke cleared, what was revealed was a single piece of paper written in Ruin’s handwriting.

-One who gathers subordinates’ eyes and ears, do not forget your own feet.

-Treasure is held in the hands of those who search for it directly. Don’t try to cheat.

-Ruins Wayne

Henry, his face covered in soot in front of his subordinates, quietly tore up the paper.

“…This bastard…!”

Meanwhile, on another front, Second Prince Ryle was…

“There was no exam like this even before my regression!”

He was screaming while climbing the highlands with his bare body. His panting appearance was closer to a wild beast than a student.

After much hardship, Ryle finally reached the top of the hill and immediately lifted up a rock.

“It’s here!”

…he shouted, but what was placed underneath was…

-If you’re a regressor, you should have anticipated something like this, right? Unfortunately, there’s nothing here. Honestly, I was surprised by how hard you tried. Your stamina score is perfect.

-Ruins Wayne

“…Son of a bi…tch…!”

And finally, Princess Karin-

“There’s something down here…!”

While searching the forest with levitation magic for treasure, she discovered a suspicious presence and confidently landed.

However, at that moment, the ground collapsed.

“Kyaah?!”

The place Karin fell into was none other than a trap.

“Uaaaaaaah!”

It was even a trap filled with blades coated with all kinds of deadly poison.

The knights rushed to the trap in shock.

“…Your Highness…?!”

Karin, barely standing while avoiding the blades, said while crying.

“…Report this as attempted murder…”

Next to her, on a sign placed in a row, Ruin’s writing was clearly written.

-The sky is high, but treasure is low.

-For the high-born to obtain what they desire, they need to bow down lower.

-Ruins Wayne

Thus, throughout all of Haven where hundreds were running around for the midterm exam.

The Hero, watching this chaos, clutched his chest with a gasp. He looked like someone who had watched a sacred movie that couldn’t be viewed without tears.

“Professor Ruins…! To give your all like this for my treasure…! Is this what love is…!”

Ruin looked at him pathetically and turned away.

‘That’s not your treasure, it’s my severance pay.’

Thus, the chaotic exam came to an end. Now it was time to grade and see who had talent.

Of course, this evaluation could be left to the head professors of each department. But well.

‘If there are Revolutionary Army members among the head professors, they might manipulate the rankings.’

In other words, Ruin would have to evaluate each one directly himself.

But Ruin was busy. No, honestly, he didn’t want to do it. Of course, it would be nothing for Fire Butterfly, but the ‘innate laziness’ that invariably kicked in at times like this couldn’t be helped.

‘In the end, I need someone to work in my place.’

Of course, there were several conditions attached to this.

First, someone who would respond within 3 seconds when called.

Second, a steel mentality that would yawn even when receiving harsh curses.

Third, someone indifferent enough to witness a national coup and think ‘Oh, what’s for lunch today?’

Fourth, someone with enough Luck Power to live off their innate ‘good fortune’ alone.

‘There happens to be one person here who fits perfectly.’

A moment later-

“?”

“??”

The two people called by Ruin tilted their heads in confusion.

They were ‘Elaine, who was both Hero and Chairman’ and ‘Ran, the Assassination Studies Professor.’

“You two must be free, so please help me out.”

“Free? Are you kidding? Right now I’m working 10 part-time jobs because of the tribute money I have to pay you-“

“If you achieve the goal, I’ll teach you a line of Secret Technique for free.”

“Really?! I’ll do it! What do I need to do?”

“Evaluate the professors. Right now. Whether they’re seriously committed to the treasure hunt or not. You can judge that much, right?”

“Of course! If they’re not serious, I’ll kill them!”

…No, there’s no need to kill them.

Next was the Hero’s turn. Ruin placed the records of the students he had filmed and the evaluation sheets in front of him.

“Chairman, you just need to grade the students in my place.”

“???”

Isn’t this a professor’s job?

“If you don’t want to, just say so. I’ll file a restraining order from now on. Don’t come near me.”

The Hero laughed as if coughing up blood.

‘…That felt like a lot of blackmail.’

Thanks to these two, the answer came quickly. The results were revealed a few days later in the Head Professor’s office.

Ruin chuckled as he looked at the person who had been summoned.

“I never would have thought you were part of the Revolutionary Army.”

Before Ruin’s eyes was the Revolutionary Army comrade who had been discovered.

It was Kalon.

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