A Third-Rate Villain’s Sweet Life Exploiting Academy Bugs – Chapter 20

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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“Be careful coming up!”

After completing the dormitory contract through Yeriel, I followed her.

Going up the slightly creaking stairs to the 2nd floor…

what seemed to be my room appeared.

“You can use this room. I cleaned it one more time, but…”

It was a typical Western-style house often seen in fantasy.

It seemed to be well-maintained even normally, as it was spotless.

However, since the building was quite old, I couldn’t say it was extremely nice.

But it had more of an atmosphere compared to the Cheong-gwan dormitory, which was closer to modern for the author’s convenience.

It was like going from only seeing the latest penthouse to a well-preserved hanok.

“Even if it’s a bit inconvenient, please bear with it…”

“It’s fundamental and nothing but good. What are you talking about?”

“Huh?”

“It’s quiet and nice, isn’t it? It reminds me of when I was at my grandma’s house.”

“…I see.”

Ah, right. The latter part was my own addition.

“…That’s right.”

“?”

Yeriel nodded her head several times without knowing why, and handed me the key, saying,

“If you need anything… feel free to let me know! And for meals…”

Come to think of it, going from here to the academy cafeteria, I might starve to death.

“Uh… It’s the rule to cook on your own, but I’ll help you today! Come down at dinner time…”

Brushing her long white hair behind her ears, she smiled at me once again.

It could truly be called an angel’s smile.

To prepare dinner for an unfamiliar man with a bad reputation.

Was she really so kind to the point of being foolish,

or was she just happy to have someone in the dormitory?

Like that, Yeriel left the room shyly, leaving only a faint scent of flowers.

-Ching!

“Oh?”

If we consider the level of surveillance magic,

1 – Cannot know the target’s location at all.

Can know the extent of when the target has used a large amount of magic power or when something related to life and death has occurred.

2- Can specify the target’s location at the building level.

In a word, it could be seen as quite a bothersome ability.

However, considering Aria’s current mana amount, it would be difficult for her to maintain level 2 constantly.

So, hidden dungeon exploration,

‘Now’s the chance!’

I just roughly unpacked my luggage, grabbed the Mermaid’s Scream, and immediately left the Black House.

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“…”

Yeriel, who was checking ingredients for two portions for dinner.

Just now, he had run out as if he had something to do.

“Does he really not like the dormitory after all?”

She had several doubts about Lev Denec.

“No. No… If that were the case, he would have taken his luggage…”

In fact, even if it wasn’t him, most of the Claris students wouldn’t choose the Black House as their dormitory to reside in.

This was the first semester she was put in charge as a dormitory supervisor.

So she had prepared diligently, but…

However, what everyone said after looking around the dormitory was similar.

-Ah… I had a good look around.

-It’s too far…

-Food? Don’t tell me we have to grow it ourselves and eat?

-I heard from the seniors that this is the dormitory for kids who caused trouble or ran out of gems…

-Shh, be a bit quieter. They’ll hear you.

Well, the location was poor, the facilities were old, and it was a place where it was difficult to receive the convenience of the academy.

If it was purely for the sake of focusing on studies, it was an understandable choice.

Of course, Lev Denec’s case was different.

First of all, it seemed he was pushed here because no other dormitory would accept him as he had exceeded the demerit points.

Moreover, he had caused trouble by picking fights with others and getting humiliated, and even made advances on female students,

so he was completely ostracized by the academy.

On top of that, he was said to be a very picky person with a clean freak tendency.

But for someone like that, his actions were somehow natural.

As if it was someone else’s business, in addition to acting like that,

-Why, it’s overflowing with fundamentals and it’s great.

Whether he had composure or not, he even praised the Black House in a genuine tone.

-It’s quiet and nice, isn’t it? It reminds me of when I was at my grandma’s house.

This was the first person like this.

It could be just flattery, but still, Yeriel couldn’t deny that she felt good at that moment.

The reason she decided to stay in this old building was because it was where her grandparents had been dormitory supervisors.

Even before the academy was built,

before this place, which had been a sanctuary of corruption, was purified, it was the building of memories for her grandparents.

Did he think that way too?

“For a bad person…? He was quite calm…”

Despite his blunt way of speaking and not seeming to have much interest in anything, unlike her expectations, he didn’t particularly object to her words.

That’s why he seemed even more composed.

Yeriel didn’t judge people by their appearance or rumors.

She believed it wasn’t too late to judge even after actually experiencing and interacting with them.

“Since we’ll be living in the same dormitory, there will inevitably be points of contact… Yeah, yeah.”

Of course, having a male student come was an unexpected situation, but still, since he was the first resident of the Black House, it should be fine to treat him to a meal as a celebration.

That’s what Yeriel thought.

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After taking the circulation train and walking quite a bit to the east, an emerald surface with sunlight shattering on it…

A magnificent lake like that appeared.

Who would have thought there was a dungeon inside this…

There was a saying that it’s darkest under the lamp.

Inside this clear lake, there was an undersea cave that received the judgment of an instance dungeon,

and in that place lived half-human, half-beast snakes, the Nagas.

They were a tribe that had been sleeping since the time this place was a sanctuary of corruption,

and they had an original story of reviving the water dragon to aim for the revival of their tribe.

And that water dragon appears in Chapter 2, during Harpan’s magic sensitivity practice, and at this time, Melissa, ignoring the type advantages and blindly believing in her fire magic, gets properly burned.

And Caeran appears and saves her, and Melissa’s inferiority complex soon turns into feelings of liking him.

Well, anyway.

Chapter 2, the water dragon – Posedaros is the link between the non-foundational characters.

If I disrupt this connection, wouldn’t it help me avoid the Caeran ending, which is my goal? That was my thought.

Now, right before the revival of the water dragon, was the perfect opportunity.

-Gulp!

I immediately opened the glass bottle and downed it in one shot.

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-Plop.

In the dark and damp cave, only the sound of my crossbow echoed.

-Swish!

-Thwack!

-Shuaaa…

And at the same time as the status window popped up indicating a hit, they collapsed lifelessly without even screaming.

Like that, like a sneak archer, I was sneakily heading deeper into the cave, selecting only positions not visible to the enemy.

-Swish!

-Thud!

-Slither…

With gameplay bordering on forced assassination, I could monopolize the experience points.

Even if it was ultra-hell mode, if they were caught in one hit with an assassination critical, aggro management was easy too.

Nagas had much stronger individual values than F-rank hobgoblins, but since their concept was that they had been living deep in the sea as a tribe for a long time,

despite being serpent-evolved merfolk in the original, they had no resistance to land poisons.

But I could make full use of this because the poison enchantment Hazel had put on me was applied as a number of uses under the game’s judgment.

Anyway, the synergy of hidden monsters, luck traits, and monopolizing experience points was tremendous.

Originally, the stat bonus obtained with a low probability when defeating an enemy was being acquired almost every time.

It was almost regrettable that the number of individuals was limited.

Like that, my growth began to catch fire.

“Delicious.”

It wasn’t just the stats.

“Delicious…”

I hadn’t planned on using the crossbow for long, but a quite sweet hidden passive was attached to the proficiency.

Additional damage proportional to agility, no less.

Perhaps in “Reincarnated Hero”, archer, scout, and thief positions had many agility-proportional skills, so it turned out like this.

It was unfortunate that I didn’t have much luck with agility builds,

but until all stats rose moderately, I had to enjoy some honey with this risk-free gameplay.

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Like that, after diving down again in the cave and swimming up in a U-shape,

I was able to find the last one, the leader.

-Grrrr…

It was an emerald-colored Naga dressed in white cloth, pretending to be a priest.

The problem was that in the original “Reincarnated Hero”, it was judged to be a rare monster,

but as expected, it was standing in front of me as a named monster, probably because it was subject to ultra-hell mode.

“Should I try hitting it in one shot…?”

If it was according to the characteristics confirmed with Demon’s Eye, if his spell stacking succeeded, he would become D rank.

A D-rank named monster would be equivalent to A-B rank in terms of regular monsters,

and at that point, even if Grandpa Crossbow came, he wouldn’t be able to kill it.

Moreover, due to the system of the original game where they became stronger over time, the timing of evolution just happened to be in 2 hours.

In other words, it was too late to try again by devising other means.

‘It would be too much of a waste to give up after coming this far.’

Since it was a named judgment, it would allow me to choose one of three new traits upon successful defeat.

Moreover, the brilliant Water Dragon’s Essence behind it… was tempting me.

‘I’m salivating.’

If the weak point was luckily hit? It would be a one-shot.

Even if it failed, wouldn’t it be okay if I ran with all my might?

‘What if I collapse?’

In the real game, it was always safer and more cost-effective to use mercenaries in instance dungeons.

This was indeed the disadvantage of solo play.

As I was contemplating whether to give up like that, my skill set flashed before my eyes.

‘Wait a minute…’

There was one skill that was rather good to use when alone.

‘Demonization.’

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[……you guys are gay]