A Third-Rate Villain’s Sweet Life Exploiting Academy Bugs – Chapter 17

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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Claris Academy Student Council Room.

Liris was humming a tune.

It was today.

Lev Denec’s demonization.

The rag doll that would be used as ‘it’ in the freshmen’s selection test was created by Professor McClone’s illusion magic.

No matter how close he had come to mastering illusion magic, now he was just an old man about to go senile.

In the end, without a puppet as a medium, it was impossible for him to create the illusions of numerous demons.

Therefore, Liris had an errand runner play a little trick.

“I wonder if chaos has erupted by now…”

If the rag reacted to the demon’s circuit embedded in Lev Denec’s body like that, that guy, who ignorantly craved power, would darken and fuse with the demon.

The ending Liris desired would be created.

“Goodbye, incompetent junior…”

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-Enchantment magic is important too, right?

As I rummaged through the goblins’ belongings, a buried memory resurfaced.

It might have been during my first playthrough, when my head was filled to the brim with frustration at the unfriendly game, at the perfect timing, a character had approached me and gave me a tutorial on enchantment.

A girl with a charming, kind smile.

‘Well, the end wasn’t good, but…’

I would meet that guy soon too.

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After that, it proceeded smoothly.

[Aggro: 83]

When we encountered goblins, Aria would illuminate the surroundings, I would snipe the necromancers, and Melissa and Edwin would defeat the hobgoblins.

How many rounds had we gone through like that?

“Let’s… rest for a bit…”

Edwin’s exhaustion came earlier than expected.

“I’ll help with recovery.”

Fortunately, Aria’s divine magic was also useful for managing Edwin and Melissa’s stamina.

Having searched through all the goblins’ belongings, I registered the 1st circle magic, Fire, in the Gamer trait.

For reference, for Lev Denec, a water rocket mage, even this could be considered a high-level magic comparable to Meteor.

And with this cast Fire, I set the goblin corpses ablaze.

-Crackle.

“You, what are you doing again?”

Melissa approached with her arms crossed.

I answered without giving her my gaze.

“If you’re not going to help, mind your own business.”

“What scheme do you have again…”

“There might be hidden necromancers, you know. If we don’t burn the corpses, they might be revived.”

“……”

Perhaps because Melissa was also meticulous, she seemed to be properly convinced and didn’t object further.

“I thought the lady who was the top student in written exams would have noticed…”

As I said that,

Melissa’s face turned red as she shouted.

“Ah, I knew that!”

-Swoosh!

“You can’t even properly handle 1st circle magic like Fire!”

She began to burn the other corpses using her specialty, fire magic.

Damn, I get to save mana. Sweet.

At that moment, Aria, who had been restoring Edwin, approached me.

“Where do you plan to go now?”

She naturally asked me about the next destination, leaving the tank behind.

The party’s order had already become my responsibility.

“Hmm…”

By the way, if words had seeds, would it feel like this?

I had a feeling that she was expecting something from me rather than the results of this test.

It was as if she wanted me to show everything I was hiding, as if I had demonized.

So, to dispel the suspicion, let’s be honest.

“I’m thinking of catching ‘it’.”

“‘It’…?”

Catching the rag would give Hazel an opportunity to shine.

That was the only way to clear the supporting role quest.

-Thud!

-Thud!

-???!!!

There was no need to say more.

The sound of ominous footsteps began to be heard.

For some reason, the rag had already gotten close to us.

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The difference between regular monsters and named monsters was, of course, the name.

Regular monsters had the property of extension, like goblins, cerberus, trolls, while named monsters had unique names given to each individual.

‘Rag’, ‘Flame Demon’, ‘Scarface’, ‘Fist Nose’

Like that.

In terms of grade, although regular monsters and named monsters seemed to be identified by alphabetical ranks…

Of course, there was no way a regular F-rank demon could be similar to a named F-rank demon.

The named ones should be considered at least 2-3 ranks higher.

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-Thud!

-Tremble…

The rag, having spotted us, began to convulse its entire body.

-Kwueee!

It had an appearance as if various creatures’ skins, including goblins, were stitched together piece by piece with a sewing machine.

With its enormous belly and giant form of about 5 meters, its overwhelming presence was tremendous.

“Hieeeek!”

This time, Hazel’s scream was understandable.

No matter how you looked at it, the people in this academy seemed to have strong stomachs.

“Clearly… if you don’t move alone, ‘it’ won’t move…”

As Melissa said.

This situation was unexpected.

“Liris, that bitch’s work.”

This was all the information that could be confirmed with Demon’s Eye.

Whether it was retaliation for what I did to her, it was clear that she had manipulated the rag.

-Kwueeeee!

With that, the rag vertically raised the club it was holding.

“Everyone, step back!”

-Swoosh!

-Kwaboom!

Melissa’s incantation speed was still fast.

It was strong enough damage to pass Trial 1.

-Kwue?

However, even with the well-refined fireball, the rag took no damage.

More precisely, its recovery speed was faster.

The answer was to take it down in one hit.

As the rag looked at Melissa, Edwin stepped forward.

“Over here!”

That guy, acting like a protagonist, tried to face it with a sword.

But if you die here, it’s game over, you know?

In the end, I said to Edwin, who was taking a shitty stance.

“Hey, you run…”

-Bam!

It was just one hit.

-Thud thud thud…

Thanks to his executor characteristic or diligence, he blocked the club attack, but he rolled back 10 meters like that.

-Tap!

Aria immediately ran and used a protective spell on Edwin’s side.

A total crisis.

No matter how much of a veteran I was, in this novel dealing with the previous time point of the game, and in this situation where the author had arbitrarily power inflated, it was difficult to grasp how strong the rag was set to be.

The damage calculation wasn’t clear.

In “Reincarnated Hero”, the damage when a critical hit was triggered was 1.5 to 2.5 times.

And when in a sneak state, the critical hit probability was fixed at 100%, and it dealt 3 times the normal damage.

Veteran players had overused sneak archers to the point where the 3 times damage was nerfed to 1.5 times later on,

but I would be subject to the closed beta judgment, so it wouldn’t matter.

“Then, roughly calculating… no, no…”

The concept of a critical hit meant dealing additional damage because a weak point was hit, but,

I, who received the game’s judgment, got a critical hit judgment upon hitting without any of that.

Then, what would happen if I additionally attacked a weak point here?

Even though the rag had high individual values, the reason it was an F-grade demon was that it also had many weaknesses.

Since various demons were stitched together piece by piece, there were also many exposed weak points.

If we aimed for that, in theory, through the magic of compound interest, 3 times X 3 times would become 9 times the damage.

What if additional enchantment was possible on top of this?

Without hesitation, I approached Hazel.

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-Bam!

-Bam!

-Bam!

‘Ah… Aria!’

Lady Melissa de Prominence was in a state of complete panic.

How did it turn out like this?

Is this also a kind of test?

There was a monster in front of her eyes.

But fire magic didn’t work on it.

And Edwin was unconscious, while Aria was blocking the monster’s attacks with a barrier.

However, the test didn’t stop.

Rather, that monster was trying to finish off Aria and Edwin.

-Bam!

Although Aria’s barrier was buying time, even that didn’t seem easy.

Something was going wrong.

Through Melissa’s clairvoyance, she saw that it wasn’t illusion magic, but… a real monster.

By the time she came to her senses to some extent,

-Tremble…

her two legs had already lost strength and she was sitting down.

“Hic…”

Beside her, Hazel was holding back her screams, whimpering.

‘What about that guy?’

Lev Denec silently watched the monster, then approached and said in a low voice.

“Now that it’s come to this, we have to catch that thing.”

“How can we catch that…?”

“Hii, hieek…”

When Melissa answered, his gaze was solely on Hazel.

“Hey, alchemy. Get a hold of yourself.”

“Hi… huh?”

“Yeah, I’m talking to you. You’re the only alchemist here, aren’t you?”

“To me… why…?’

Lev squatted down in front of Hazel and said.

“In this state, you’ll be disqualified anyway.”

“…”

“What have you done so far?”

Hazel couldn’t refute his words.

When everyone was fulfilling their respective roles,

she had done nothing but scream.

It was difficult for alchemy to show anything in combat,

and it was a clear fact that she had done nothing so far.

“We don’t have much time, alchemy. Listen carefully to what I say from now on.”

“Uh… huh?”

“Make poison.”

“What?”

“Poison, whether it’s nerve poison, healing reduction poison, or instant explosion poison, something that deals damage.”

“How can I make it in this situation?!”

“If I tell you to do it, do it. Don’t talk back. Alchemy is your specialization, isn’t it?”

In fact, Hazel had simply chosen alchemy because she was scared.

It wasn’t because she had any particular talent,

“I can’t! With the ingredients I have now… and I have to make the raw materials first…”

She couldn’t bring herself to say that the reagent bottles she had prepared were all shattered when she fell earlier.

It was too much of a burden.

Then, Lev held out a leather pouch.

“This is what the goblins had. If you use this as a medium, you can roughly make something, right?”

It was the goblins’ belongings that he had found when searching the corpses earlier.

“With this, it might be possible…”

“Okay, as quickly as possible.”

Melissa, who was somehow being passed over by Lev, felt great confusion at his strangely calm actions.

‘Why isn’t he panicking…?’

At first, she thought it was a trap he had set.

So she thought he wasn’t panicking.

But seeing the way he spoke, it seemed like he was also trying to get through this situation.

‘Seriously… what the hell…?’

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Veteran players in “Reincarnated Hero” created a meta where they would invest in sneak or stealth for all jobs capable of long-range attacks, regardless of anything else.

Of course, this had a clear limitation that the aggro meter would explode after attacking once, so it could only deal a critical hit attack just once at the beginning,

but when attempting switching, it could also perform a merciless one-punch on a single boss target through the magic of compound interest.

A setting full of entertainment value, where all enchantments were packed into a single shot.

That’s why sneak archer was something veteran players with fully farmed gear played at least once.

[Aggro: 82]

In other words, there was only one chance, and if it failed, it could lead to my own miserable death, so caution was necessary.

“It’s… done… but this is all…”

The poison Hazel handed over was a complete mishmash, with 3 different effects mixed together ambiguously.

“Dot damage also receives critical hit damage, but.”

In terms of game knowledge, the moment a dot is applied, the aggro explodes.

Naturally, stealth is also broken, so skills that deal damage over a long period of time don’t match well with sneak archers,

and an explosive bolt play style was semi-forced.

What’s the point of discussing it now?

The important thing is that there is only one chance.

“Good. Enchant it on my arrow.”

“It’s my first time, so I might be a bit clumsy…”

“I got it, so hurry up. Do you want to see everyone die?”

“Y-yes!”

It didn’t take long.

As she chanted ancient letters, my arrow began to glow.

Quite fast for a supporting role.

With all preparations complete, I took aim at the rag without delay.

-Bam!

Aria seemed to have reached her limit, frowning her pretty face with her eyes closed.

“Hey, Lady.”

“Uh… huh?”

“Show some of your top student skills.”

“Uh… okay…?”

“Shoot fire magic, I said.”

Melissa, who had become my puppet, generated and released a fireball.

-Swish…

-Thud!

Of course, the damage was far from enough.

However, it was sufficient to draw the attention of the less intelligent rag.

-Kwueee!!

-Thud! Thud!

The guy shook its face and began to charge at us.

“Uh, huh? Huh?”

Melissa didn’t even know what she had done,

“Hiyaaah!”

Hazel started screaming with her head down.

-Thud! Thud! Thud!

I steadied my breath.

It’s okay. It’s not like I’m using magic, so it’s just a simple hand movement.

The rag’s most noticeable weakness was its solar plexus with distinct sewing lines.

-Thud thud thud!

It was getting closer and closer in sync with the sound.

The easiest way to aim for a weak point was…

“What are you doing?!!!”

“Hieeeek!!”

Of course, a close-range shot.

At this distance, it would be more difficult to miss.

-Swish!

It was the same single arrow as always.

-Pff???ook!

-Kwue…

-Kwung…

The rag, pierced by the arrow, stopped just three steps away from us.

Status windows began to appear, indicating that the dot damage was being applied well,

-Kwue… eeek!

It exploded like that

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