The Academy’s Unrivaled Professor - Chapter 93

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Academy Absolute Professor Episode 93
Black again?
The way Min Seo-jun came scurrying at Kang Hyun’s call looked for all the world like an eager puppy.
“Master! You called for me?”
His eyes sparkled with curiosity and anticipation.
At first, Kang Hyun had privately worried that he was heaping too much work onto this young man’s shoulders.
But it didn’t take long for him to understand.
For the boy, designing and studying Array Formations wasn’t labor at all—it was a fresh, thrilling toy that his master kept tossing his way.
Look at him now.
Isn’t he just like a puppy wagging its tail for a bone?
So Kang Hyun had long since stopped feeling any hesitation about calling him over.
“Tell me—do you think it would be possible to design something like a bag that expands space?”
“Space Expansion?”
The light that had been shining in Min Seo-jun’s face dimmed, just slightly.
“What? You don’t think it’s possible?”
“No, it’s not that it’s impossible, it’s just……”
His answer, as always, was brilliant.
“Compared to the Space Displacement Formation, it’s far too simple.”
“Too simple?”
“Yes, you just overlap the spatial coordinates and stretch the inner area outward. Um, do you have any random bag lying around?”
As Kang Hyun glanced around, Yun Tae-jung hastily thrust forward the premium leather document bag he’d been holding.
“Use mine.”
“Thank you, just a moment.”
Min Seo-jun took the bag, then went back to the construction site and gathered a single Low-grade Magic Stone and several scraps of Formation Wood.
These were materials they’d ordered in bulk since they were setting up Array Formations throughout the building.
Tap, tap, tap.
First, Min Seo-jun ground them down very finely with a small hammer.
Then he pulled out a pocket knife and carefully peeled away the inner leather lining of the document bag.
“……!”
It was quite an expensive piece, but Yun Tae-jung said nothing.
This could become the foundation of a whole new business, after all.
“Just a moment—if the lines go even slightly wrong, the space will tear.”
Seo-jun held his breath and began meticulously spreading the ground Magic Stone dust onto the leather’s inner surface in intricate geometric patterns.
The Magic Stone dust traced out a complex formation, and above it, thinly sliced Formation Wood scraps were firmly affixed along the bag’s opening like a border, then secured.
From the time he stripped away the leather lining to the moment he sealed everything seamlessly with pins, exactly twenty minutes had passed.
Beads of sweat had gathered on Min Seo-jun’s brow by the time he shut the bag’s opening with a sharp snap.
Whoosh!
A fine light flickered once from within the sealed leather interior, then faded away without a trace.
“There. It’s done.”
“Well.”
Yun Tae-jung took back his bag with a bewildered expression.
Outwardly, it looked unchanged.
But the moment Yun Tae-jung peered inside, his eyes went wide.
“What?”
What appeared to be a thin bag that could barely hold a few stacks of papers now revealed, when he looked inside, a spacious interior expanded at least three times the original volume.
Of course, Yun Tae-jung had experienced Space Displacement before, so his jaw didn’t quite drop, but still—it was extraordinary.
“Would you like to try putting some tools in there?”
As Min Seo-jun offered him some metal implements, Yun Tae-jung placed them in the bag as if entranced.
Things that should never have fit suddenly settled into place, and what’s more……
“Light as a feather.”
It defied all logic.
He could carry metal implements at this weight?
“There will be limits, though. If you put something too absurd inside, the formation will break, so you’ll need to be careful.”
Even so, it was remarkable.
After all, this was magic that turned metal into feathers.
Kang Hyun, watching with a smile, opened his mouth.
“How about starting a bag business with this technology, Chairman Yun? If you diversify like Taejung E&C does, it seems like it could be quite lucrative, doesn’t it?”
“……!”
Yun Tae-jung couldn’t answer immediately.
The neurons in his brain were firing wildly, sparking with electricity.
‘A bag?’
This wasn’t merely bag-level technology!
What if we applied it directly to export containers?
If we could pack multiple times the original volume into a single container and it actually became lighter?
We’d carry far more cargo while cutting fuel costs for ships and aircraft.
Like the Space Displacement Formation, it was a business that could fundamentally collapse the entire logistics paradigm.
And that bag itself was extraordinary.
Even used solely for Dungeons, its applications would be limitless.
Surely inquiries would flood in from Hunter Associations, major Guilds, and military contractors across the globe?
“……We should focus on Space Expansion. If we establish an independent subsidiary called Taejung Space and sell the expansion technology itself…… I think we could sweep up all the money in the world.”
Yun Tae-jung’s voice trembled with excitement.
Then, abruptly, Yun Tae-jung’s expression hardened.
“But Major Shareholder. There is one problem.”
“What is it?”
“Technology leakage……. The megacorporations of America and China won’t simply stand idle. They could purchase the bag, tear it apart, replicate the technology, and we’d lose everything we’ve built.”
It was a natural concern for any businessman.
But Kang Hyun laughed softly.
“Technology leakage.”
An elderly Array Formation master had never once worried that his formations would be stolen.
Take Kang Hyun himself—he couldn’t have created the bag without Min Seo-jun’s power.
“Professor Park.”
Kang Hyun called out to Professor Park Tae-geon beside him.
“Yes?”
“If I asked you to disassemble this and replicate it identically, could you do it?”
There was no one better to ask than the nation’s foremost authority on Array Formation theory.
Park Tae-geon examined the bag, and in less than a minute, he shook his head.
“Impossible.”
“Why?”
Yun Tae-jung asked immediately.
He couldn’t understand.
Couldn’t you just copy it exactly without understanding the principle?
“Ah, how do I even explain this.”
Park Tae-geon, searching for a way to make it clear, offered an analogy.
“……Suppose you had a ceramic vessel. If you broke it, could you determine the temperature fluctuations in the kiln?”
“Hmm……?”
“Well, you could certainly analyze the residual glaze color and the composition of the clay. But how would you know how many degrees it was held at for how many minutes during firing? This formation is like that.”
It wasn’t a flat drawing on paper.
“Moreover, even performing the same work…… if Seo-jun did it, the resulting formation could be entirely different. I’d wager that even with an identical bag right in front of you, asking him to recreate it would produce a different formation.”
“What?”
As Yun Tae-jung’s eyes widened, Park Tae-geon continued with a smile.
“This fellow is a genius. He sees what we cannot see, and lays out formations accordingly. In other words, merely copying the shell would be utterly meaningless.”
Space Displacement isn’t the only example—Space Expansion is equally beyond conventional wisdom.
It doesn’t deceive sight and mind; it literally expands the physical space itself.
“Moreover, you won’t even be able to analyze it. The moment you tried, Array Formation theory would actually regress. To comprehend Seo-jun’s formations, you’d have to demolish all the Array Formation knowledge that’s been established up until now.”
“Heh.”
Yun Tae-jung let out a hollow laugh.
For that renowned Professor Park to be this captivated by a single Student!
Now there was nothing to worry about.
“Major Shareholder, then I’ll begin planning this venture as well.”
“Do as you see fit.”
“Yes, but is Seo-jun all right? With building designs, Taejung Market, and now making bags…… he might overextend himself.”
“Don’t worry about that, Chairman.”
Min Seo-jun smiled brightly.
“If the building construction is the main course, making this bag is just dessert. If there’s anything else you’d like, just say the word! It’s not taxing at all!”
Yun Tae-jung swallowed a deep sigh of admiration.
‘He really is the main pillar.’
No, more than a pillar.
A goose that laid golden eggs?
No, he was a sacred artifact unto himself that conjured an entire golden mine.
“Haha, how reassuring. Truly reassuring!”
Yun Tae-jung’s hearty laughter rang out across the construction site, bright and pleased.

* * *
From that day forward, Yun Tae-jung plunged into a whirlwind of activity.
He cleared his entire schedule and threw himself wholly into restructuring the management hierarchy and launching new ventures.
First, he established Taejung Holdings, the parent company.
The holdings’ shares were divided cleanly: Kang Hyun held 50%, and Yun Tae-jung held the other 50%, mirroring their original stake in Taejung Commerce.
Kang Hyun was satisfied.
Yun Tae-jung retained full operational control, consulting Kang Hyun only on major decisions—share restructuring or the establishment of subsidiaries.
Beneath the holdings, he incorporated four subsidiary companies.
Taejung Holdings
├ Taejung Commerce
├ Taejung Market
├ Taejung E&C
└ Taejung Space
Taejung Holdings acquired 100% of Taejung Commerce and Taejung Market, but at Kang Hyun’s insistence, Min Seo-jun and Park Tae-geon took stakes in both Taejung E&C and Taejung Space.
Kang Hyun had been clear: “Give generously. We can’t proceed without Seo-jun, after all.”
However, Yun Tae-jung proposed one stipulation: Taejung Market’s shareholding should remain untouched.
He needed to keep capital reserves for potential external investments, and internal research suggested that Taejung Market would generate the largest returns for the entire holdings.
In fact, their analysis valued 1% of Taejung Market’s future worth higher than 100% of Taejung Space.
Kang Hyun accepted the logic.
While Min Seo-jun would contribute to completing Taejung Market, far greater capital and effort would come from elsewhere, so the arrangement was fair.
Instead, Kang Hyun resolved that whenever Space Displacement Formation usage fees arose, Min Seo-jun’s share would be paid in full.
So how were Taejung E&C and Taejung Space’s shares divided?
Taejung Holdings 80%
Min Seo-jun 10%
Professor Park Tae-geon 1%
Future investment reserve 9%
It was settled cleanly and simply.
The legal team arranged Min Seo-jun’s stake—he was still a minor—under a trust structure.
The corporate establishment process sailed through as easily as roasting beans over lightning.
But the real mountain still loomed ahead.
Government approval.
Space Expansion was indeed revolutionary, but equally dangerous.
In the hands of criminal organizations, it would be catastrophic.
Weapons, narcotics, explosives—even corpses could be transported with ease.
There was no chance the government would grant approval to civilians so readily.
International export would be strangled by layers of regulation, that much was certain.
‘This is the challenge that’s fallen to me.’
Eyes alight, Yun Tae-jung decided to fabricate a prototype first and then make his push.
‘I can do this.’
South Korea’s three major conglomerates wielded absolute power through their backing of S-rank Hunters, didn’t they?
Yun Tae-jung wanted to try the same.
‘I have Professor Kang Hyun as my backing—an S-rank Hunter I can twist around my finger!’
Yun Tae-jung sequestered himself with Min Seo-jun and threw everything into manufacturing the prototype bag.
A week of sleepless nights, skipped meals, and relentless labor.
Thus the prototype was born.
It was called Geonkon.
For global export, the English name was SkyLand.
‘The design is crude, but we can refine it later.’
What mattered was the Space Expansion technology.
Geonkon came in four grades, differentiated by performance.
[Geonkon C] Consumes 1 Low-grade Magic Stone / Hunter’s backpack / 3× Space Expansion
[Geonkon B] Consumes 5 Low-grade Magic Stones / Hunter’s backpack / 10× Space Expansion
[Geonkon A] Consumes 1 Mid-grade Magic Stone / Hard carrier / 20× Space Expansion
[Geonkon S] Consumes 5 Mid-grade Magic Stones / Specialty container bag / 30× Space Expansion
“Ha ha ha.”
Yun Tae-jung chuckled with satisfaction as he examined the prototypes lined up before him.

* * *
The Ministry of Industry and Trade, which received the business authorization application from Taejung Space, was thrown into turmoil.
It was inevitable.
Space Expansion and weight reduction technology!
Since they’d already received and examined the prototype, there was no question of someone playing a prank.
In the end, the matter was classified as a national security threat and forwarded to the Management Bureau and the National Intelligence Service.
“Director! Look at this!”
Kim Hyung-seok’s eyes widened as he took the documents from his chief secretary.
“This technology actually exists?”
“Yes, we’ve confirmed the prototype as well.”
“What insane company developed something like this?”
“Well…….”
The chief secretary swallowed hard and opened his mouth carefully.
“It’s a newly established subsidiary called Taejung Space, but Taejung Holdings owns 80 percent of the shares.”
“Taejung? That name rings a bell.”
“Yes. The major shareholder who owns 50 percent of Taejung Holdings is…… Black.”
…….
Kim Hyung-seok squeezed his eyes shut.
How long had it been since he’d summoned Ariana, and already she’d brought something like this?
Just when he thought he could finally get some rest!
“Again!”
A wail finally erupted from the director’s mouth.
“Again, again, again — Black again!”

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