I Got an Ex-Class Omnipotent System - Chapter 173

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Chapter 173
173: Dimensional Peace Treaty? (2)
Vera’s expression was the perfect embodiment of that once-viral meme: “Professor, you’re going too fast.” Meanwhile, Dohyun regarded her with the patient, slightly exasperated look of a professor observing a bewildered graduate student.
“Hm?”
“Eh?”
The original had copied the technique and gained its knowledge, then elevated it into something far more powerful through practical application. Now the copy was explaining it back to the original, who couldn’t grasp it. The irony was almost painful.
I pondered how I might explain this more clearly.
Honestly wondering if I could possibly simplify it further, I glanced at Hanalin and Jiyuchan—both sighed and shook their heads.
My explanation was theoretically understandable, but the real problem was the execution. It was like saying, “I studied the test material carefully and got into Seoul National University”—technically true but utterly unhelpful.
It wasn’t that they didn’t understand the method at all. They understood it. The issue was how to actually do it, and I couldn’t fathom why that was so difficult to grasp.
If anyone dared ask me, “So how exactly do you do that?” I’d inevitably hear myself say, “I just tried it and it worked?”
Most people would give up explaining here or assume we were simply different, but my relentlessly determined self wouldn’t let it go.
“Well, if you still don’t quite understand, there’s nothing for it but to learn through direct experience.”
“…What?”
Watching Vera’s still-dazed expression, I explained myself.
“It’s simple. You need to learn combat using Ether hands until you’ve adapted.”
“So what you’re saying is…”
“Yes, we’ll spar until you’ve mastered it. This sort of thing is always best learned through the body.”
At my words, Vera swallowed hard. So I was suggesting she spar with me—the one who casually created pulse waves that even Jiyuchan could barely block—until she’d internalized what I’d demonstrated?
Vera trembled visibly and turned to Hanalin and Jiyuchan with a look asking if I was joking. Both regarded her with expressions of pity for a pitiful creature.
Only then did the reality sink in, and she tried desperately to escape, but both Hanalin and Jiyuchan shook their heads.
As they looked at her as if to say it wouldn’t happen, Vera’s face went pale as she stared at me, and I spoke to her thus.
“Then let’s begin right now!”
* * *
The Celestial Ship had far more responsibilities than one might initially think. Just as they’d once discovered Dohyun’s previous vessel, they now patrolled to prevent their own ships from being commandeered as pirate vessels, and they also mediated disputes between conflicting races.
They couldn’t traverse the entire C-rank Zone, but at least in the places where the Celestials actively operated, major conflicts rarely erupted.
The Celestials took considerable pride in this, and they traveled between various Safe Zones selling artifacts.
Even ten bodies wouldn’t have been enough, but as befitted their formidable Superior Race nature, they still managed to cover considerable ground.
Ines, the Captain of that Celestial Ship, issued orders to proceed to the next Safe Zone before ascending to the deck.
Just as I was methodically organizing the insights gained from sparring with Dohyun, I sensed someone approaching from behind. Clearing my thoughts, I turned to find my Subordinate waiting there.
“Captain, I find myself worried about how Vera is faring.”
“Hmm, the emergency beacon hasn’t sounded yet, so I’d imagine she’s diligently training.”
“…That man certainly is remarkable, but I’m uncertain whether Vera will truly have much to learn from him.”
My Subordinate’s words held some merit, but I shook my head regardless. Even I had benefited considerably from Dohyun, after all.
That was partly why I’d sent Vera to him.
“Vera still lacks combat experience. Simply adapting to battle would constitute significant progress.”
“Vera is admittedly rather weak in combat.”
Not all Celestials were skilled fighters, but Vera was notably deficient among them. With her craftsman-like temperament, she’d eventually reach heights in magical engineering that no other Celestial could match in a few years’ time, but in combat she was far too fragile.
That’s why I’d entrusted her to Dohyun—hoping she’d return with at least some combat training.
Of course, she might suffer in the process, but that was a price worth paying, wasn’t it?
Ines thought this to herself while murmuring as she looked at Dohyun.
“Then I’ll teach him well enough. He’ll have to endure that level of hardship.”
“…Understood.”
“Still, if you’re that worried, come immediately when the communicator goes off.”
“Yes, thank you.”
Ines murmured as she watched the Subordinate withdraw.
“I wonder what they’re doing by now. I suppose he’ll start with the basics?”
A few hours after Ines had such thoughts and Dohyun and Vera began their training.
“P-please save me!”
“What? I’m not killing you!”
“Then please kill me!”
“No, I can’t do that!”
“Waahhhhh.”
Vera, tears streaming down her face as she desperately grasped at Ether’s Hand, genuinely wanted to escape, but this cursed temporary Party prevented her from doing so.
Moreover.
“Ah! You can’t use it yet—training isn’t finished!”
Even her communicator was confiscated, and the training continued. It felt like being kidnapped by a professor as a graduate student, but there was one consolation that made it bearable despite the ongoing hardship.
“…Just endure a little longer.”
“…It seems like I’ll master it soon.”
The fact that there were two other “graduate students” like her was a consolation. Or was it? Wasn’t it just harder?
Though it was agonizing and exhausting, there was another reason she couldn’t complain. Dohyun was currently repeating the same training that these three were receiving.
So what could she say? Everyone rose from their positions again, thinking they should follow Dohyun’s example.
Only during brief rest periods did she wish for death or mercy; during training, such thoughts were all that filled her mind.
Ines had never imagined it would come to this.
* * *
Exactly three days after Vera began training under Dohyun, she had changed in many ways. The Vera who once displayed wide, innocent eyes and a naive appearance was gone. Before Dohyun now stood Vera with sharp eyes and a keen expression.
Dohyun nodded with satisfaction upon seeing this. After using Ether’s Hand, he spoke to Vera.
“Are you ready?”
“…Of course.”
Even her gentle and kind tone of voice had changed, but Dohyun, Hanalin, and Jiyuchan paid it no mind. The environment left them no choice.
In any case, Dohyun reshaped the form of Ether’s Hand while maintaining distance from Vera, transforming his hands into the shape of gun barrels.
Vera quickly matched him, transforming into gun barrel form as well, and both of them generated Pulses.
“『Pulse』”
Using mana incantation, Dohyun took a moment to form the Pulses, allowing Vera’s loading to become even faster.
She added the Pulse—the Celestials’ specialty—to Ether’s Hand, enchanted the hand itself with Pulse properties, loaded the Pulse directly, and fired it toward Dohyun.
Unlike the wave-like Pulse that Dohyun had fired at Jiyuchan before, a clear, straight blue line was etched in midair, and just as the end of that line reached Dohyun.
Click.
Dohyun completed his loading and fired his own Pulse bullet at the one flying toward him.
As the trigger activated and the Pulse bullets were fired, they flew toward each other, and when they collided in midair, their Pulses scattered in all directions, momentarily creating a wall in the empty space.
Vera knew she still couldn’t defeat Dohyun with that alone, so this time, instead of just her right hand transformed into a gun barrel to face the Pulse, she transformed each finger of her left hand into equipment.
Five fingers that had transformed into tools necessary for enchanting—a driver, drill, or brush—touched the pulse bullet, and I was able to quickly inscribe the enchantment onto it.
Fzzzzzt.
The pulse was already formidable, but with magic now infused into the pulse bullet, it carried an indescribable destructive force as it was loaded into the gun.
Dohyun also watched this and inserted the pulse bullet into the gun barrel he’d created with his own hands, then used a verbal incantation.
“『Enchant』”
Dohyun could also use enchanting with his ether hands, but if he relied solely on that method, his power would be weaker than Vera’s, which could lead to a disadvantage.
So Dohyun used it in conjunction with mana incantations, inscribed magical circles onto the pulse bullet with his other hand, loaded the enchanted bullet, and fired.
Boom――――!
Thus the reloading gradually became faster, and Dohyun managed to hit every single bullet Vera fired, albeit with a slight delay.
As the pace accelerated, only the sound of bullets colliding with each other echoed through the midair.
Boom――――!
Bang! Boom!!! Crash!!!
Boom――――!!
Powerful bullets detonated in midair, and Vera, rapidly reloading and deploying magic simultaneously, and I could nod in acknowledgment watching her.
Feeling that even pushing further would yield the same result, I spoke to Vera.
“You pass.”
At my words, her sharp expression gradually softened, and tears of emotion glistened in her eyes as she raised both hands.
“Hurray!!!”
Vera rejoiced as she recalled all the hardships she’d endured up until now.
“You handle it well now.”
“Thank you!”
I then approached and returned the communicator to her while speaking.
“If you’d like to practice more next time, feel free to call anytime.”
“Huh? No.”
“What?”
Vera answered so quickly that she seemed flustered, and when she looked at me wondering why, I tilted my head in confusion, so she quickly spoke.
“I can’t impose on you any more than this.”
When Vera said that, I nodded, understanding her position.
During her training with the Dohyun Party, Vera hadn’t only developed combat strength. She’d also cultivated adaptability and social skills, and her previously withdrawn demeanor had largely disappeared.
Perhaps Ines would be pleased?

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