The S-Rank Warden Devours the Academy - Chapter 84

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Chapter 84

“…You’re really sure about this?”
Lee Su scrunched her brow, dissatisfied even after revealing her Attribute.
“I’m telling you, it’s fine~”
Do Gyeong answered nonchalantly, and Lee Su finally relented, pressing her lips closed.
There was no arguing with a superior officer’s word.
“Oh~ Now I get why there aren’t any Mental-type students at the Academy. They all came here?”
Tae Eun-o’s eyes gleamed with curiosity as he pointed at the wooden sword in Lee Su’s grip.
“But do Mental-types even use swords? Usually that division doesn’t see direct combat, right?”
It was an innocent question, but Lee Su’s eyebrows twitched slightly.
Go Gyeol muttered under his breath.
“Well, exceptions aren’t completely unheard of….”
His gaze flicked briefly toward Yeom Sa-hyeon.
Mental-types were generally regarded as weak in combat, but the man standing behind them defied that common knowledge entirely—a complete aberration.
Even as the other students’ attention converged on the prospect operative’s Attribute, Sa-hyeon stood with a bored expression, suppressing a yawn.
Lee Su, who had been exhaling a faint sigh at Eun-o’s words, finally opened her mouth.
“Even so….”
Her lips curved upward in a smile.
“I’m better than those hothouse flowers walking around the Academy?”
“! What do you mean, flowers?”
Tae Eun-o bristled, his eyes widening.
“That’s rich coming from you! If you’re that confident, want to go a round?”
Lee Su fired back without batting an eye, her tone casual.
“If you wish.”
“Huh, pretty cocky.”
Tae Eun-o cracked his knuckles sharply.
The moment their gazes clashed in the air, the tension grew acute.
“Whoa, hold on. We haven’t even finished the research facility tour yet, so let’s not get heated~”
Do Gyeong stepped between the two with his broad frame, blocking them.
He narrowed his eyes amusedly and offered a new proposal.
“Since we’re already at it, how about we settle this with a hunt in the Practice Facility?”

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“The Practice Facility is right beside the coast?”
Tae Eun-o asked as he breathed in the salt-tinged sea breeze.
The place Do Gyeong led Yeom Sa-hyeon’s group to was a remote coastal section, quite distant from the other training facilities.
Beside a sea deep enough for large vessels to pass through, a massive concrete warehouse-like structure stood imposingly.
A small entrance on one side of the building.
Do Gyeong held his Personal Watch up to the security device, and the sturdy iron door slid open with a heavy metallic groan.
“Come on in!”
Do Gyeong squeezed his large frame through and stepped into the warehouse.
Ha Jae-yun, following behind him, murmured in bewilderment.
“…A parking garage?”
“Huh? What are you talking about—it’s the Practice Facility.”
Tae Eun-o, who had hurried in after them, looked around in confusion.
“Wait, really?”
The interior was wide open on all sides.
Thick pillars stood at regular intervals, and white lines were painted in neat rectangles across the floor.
It resembled a parking garage.
The only difference was that within the lined spaces sat enclosures—tanks of sorts—holding Monsters captive.
Thick sliding metal barriers, evidently isolation walls, were visible at intervals.
“The letters on those pillars—are those Monster ranks?”
Go Gyeol asked, pointing at the large letters emblazoned on the building’s pillars. Do Gyeong snapped his fingers.
“Oh, you’ve got a sharp eye! Exactly—ranks.”
Tae Eun-o, spinning slowly as he surveyed the expansive interior, gasped in alarm as he pointed to a distant pillar.
On the far pillar, the letter ‘B’ was inscribed.
“Wait, so there are B-rank Monsters here too?!”
“That’s right.”
“Wow, this is amazing!”
Tae Eun-o clenched his hair in envy.
The Academy only handled D-rank Monsters for safety reasons.
Higher-tier Monsters were rarely seen at all.
Even the graduation exam itself took place in a C-rank Gate wrapped in layers of safety measures.
“Jeju Island’s entire inland region is a Monster-free zone.”
Do Gyeong added with a smirk.
“The only places Monsters exist are out there in the sea and here in the Practice Facility.”
Go Gyeol, grasping the implication immediately, flinched.
“…Then all the Monsters here are…”
Do Gyeong walked up to one of the breeding enclosures as if answering his question.
It was beneath a pillar marked with a ‘C’.
“That’s right, most of them—”
Do Gyeong pushed the enclosure’s handle.
Sinews bulged prominently in his thick forearms.
Creak-creak-
The heavy iron door slowly slid open.
“—are marine creatures.”
Do Gyeong added with a casual laugh.
From beyond the isolation barrier, a grotesque cry leaked out of the darkness.
Lee Su narrowed her eyes and spoke.
“…Releasing a C-rank seal without proper preparation could become quite problematic, wouldn’t it?”
She asked out of caution, but Do Gyeong shrugged nonchalantly.
“Everyone here is an A-rank Awakener or higher anyway. One C-rank is nothing—”
“Even so…”
“Why don’t you give us a demonstration, Lee Su?”
It was the moment Do Gyeong released the enclosure’s handle and stepped back.
Splash.
Something viscous suddenly burst out past the tank’s boundary.
“…A tentacle?”
Ha Jae-yun murmured as he stared at it intently.
A long, thick appendage like an octopus’s arm—but the sheer size of it appeared at least ten times larger than any ordinary octopus.
The Monster began slowly crawling out from within, gradually revealing its form.
“Ugh, what is that?”
Go Gyeol frowned sharply and stepped back.
Bulging, protruding eyeballs. Dozens of tentacles hanging beneath an abnormally swollen head.
Squirm-squirm.
But the most revolting thing was the translucent purple skin.
Beneath it, azure veins and organs writhed visibly.
Hae-seong checked the status window with a pale face.
“Venomia Serina, four meters…”
Ha Jae-yun and Go Gyeol gasped.
“F-four meters?!”
“That’s insanely huge!”
“Insane, it’s like a damn car!”
Tae Eun-o exhaled sharply.
Finally, the Monster fully revealed itself.
Its piercing gaze fixed on them.
Hisssss—!
It suddenly sprayed a liquid at Go Gyeol and Ha Jae-yun like spitting.
“…Hup!”
“Ugh, gross!”
The two barely managed to throw themselves clear of the attack.
Where they had stood moments before, a sticky purple liquid now squirmed.
“Man, looks like jelly, doesn’t it?”
At Tae Eun-o’s quip, Lee Su grimaced.
“That’s not jelly—it’s venom. Don’t go anywhere near it.”
Hissssss.
The moment her words ended, the violet liquid began to boil violently, expelling a dark gas.
Though it dissipated without form, a stench so pungent it stung the nostrils spread across the space in an instant.
The monster’s violet eyes flashed as it drew closer.
Squelch-squelch-squelch.
Each time the tentacles pressed against the ground, they emitted a sickening, grating sound.
“This is the worst.”
Yeom Sa-hyeon grimaced in genuine disgust.
Do Gyeong, watching him, burst out laughing.
“And here I thought a professor would have stronger nerves than that.”
Yeom Sa-hyeon covered his nose with the back of his hand against the acrid smell, turning to Do Gyeong with a displeased expression.
“That’s rich coming from you.”
It was Do Gyeong, after all, who stood the farthest from the monster.
Do Gyeong grinned and spoke.
“I have a tentacle phobia, so what?”
…….
Whether Yeom Sa-hyeon shot him a bewildered look or not, Do Gyeong smiled shamelessly on.
“Sigh.”
Lee Su watched their exchange with pitying eyes before setting off with brisk strides.
“I’ll handle this.”
Without breaking her stride, Lee Su drew a longsword from her inventory.
She angled the blade diagonally downward and leaped forward with explosive speed.
Her sharp blade sliced cleanly through the air.
Slice, slice!
The sword bit into the monster’s torso without pause.
Each time the monster’s violet blood sprayed, the distinctive reek intensified.
But Lee Su merely knit her brow slightly, continuing to wield her blade without hesitation.
Wind Blade!
She severed a long tentacle lashing toward her with a decisive stroke.
The moment the unbalanced monster staggered.
Thrust!
Seizing that opening, Lee Su drove her longsword deep between the creature’s eyes.

A shriek—then a dull thud.

The massive monster crashed sideways with that brief cry.
Before the dust had even settled.
She brushed off her training clothes and returned.
Her breathing was rough—the hunt had demanded effort—but it had been cleanly executed.
“Wow.”
Ha Jae-yun let out a short exclamation.
Hae-seong too exhaled his admiration silently.
‘Even for an A-rank, it should be difficult for a Mental-type Awakener to face a C-rank with just a weapon.’
Go Gyeol watched Lee Su return calmly, narrowing his eyes.
‘Is she Yeom Sa-hyeon’s class?’
But something didn’t quite add up.
“By the way.”
Go Gyeol couldn’t contain his curiosity and spoke up.
“Why didn’t you use any Skills at all?”
It was different from the usual way of fighting by leveraging one’s unique Attribute.
She had hunted using only her physical abilities and a single weapon.
Lee Su answered flatly.
“Do I have to use Skills?”
“…? But you’re Mental-type, aren’t you?”
Tae Eun-o asked with a bewildered expression.
Of course, Yeom Sa-hyeon did prefer to engage physically as well, but he was the professor—an exception at a different level.
Using Skills would make hunts far easier.
Lee Su cleaned the blood from her blade as she spoke.
“I can beat people like you easily without Skills.”
“Oh? And just how much do you think our skills are worth, exactly?” Tae Eun-o shot back, lifting the corner of his mouth with a smile.
Lee Su’s gaze drifted naturally toward some distant point.
“I don’t know. I’m not expecting much.”
Yeom Sa-hyeon stood well back from the monster, alongside Do Gyeong.
Lee Su’s gaze passed over him without interest.
“It’s obvious what he’d have learned from such a spineless instructor.”
“I’m sorry?”
“Huh?”
“Spin… less?”
A strange, taut silence fell between them.
The air hung heavy with disbelief.
Tae Eun-o cupped his ear as if he’d just overheard something he shouldn’t have.
“Who—our teacher? Spineless?”
“It seems like he just ran away because of the smell, doesn’t it?” Lee Su offered quietly.
Ha Jae-yun scratched his cheek as he spoke, and Go Gyeol nodded in agreement.
“That’s what I was thinking too.”
It made sense, after all—Yeom Sa-hyeon’s senses were particularly acute.
He’d always been nauseated by loud noise and foul odors.
To interpret his flight as cowardice was simply missing the point.
Tae Eun-o clutched his belly, nearly sending the entire Practice Facility airborne with his laughter.
“Wahaha! It’s perfect! Our teacher being spineless!”
His laughter echoed loudly across the vast space.
Go Gyeol let slip a chuckle at the absurdity of it all, and even Hae-seong, who had been listening quietly to the exchange, was pressing his lips firmly together, struggling to contain the laughter bubbling up from within.
……
Lee Su’s expression hardened, her eyes narrowing coldly at what felt like mockery.
Footsteps.
Heavy, deliberate footsteps cut through Tae Eun-o’s laughter.
They came to a halt directly before Lee Su.
A gaze bristling with killing intent bore down upon her face.
“I wonder what precious wisdom you learned from your master.”
Yu Wol’s voice dropped low, ominous.
“Why don’t you show us directly?”

S-Rank Instructor Devours the Academy – Chapter 84

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Baek Ruga
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