A Third-Rate Villain’s Sweet Life Exploiting Academy Bugs – Chapter 5

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Wjin
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The closed beta could be said to be extremely interesting.

Although it was unstable as the balancing wasn’t fully tuned yet,

it allowed for emergent gameplay by exploiting the loopholes in the system,

and thus, it could vastly deviate from the intentions of the developers.

Through the principle of absurd multiplication, even spear weapons could be created.

Despite having the least content volume compared to later situations, players could simply feel the most incredible sense of adventure by playing a new game.

These things would accumulate, be talked about, and later become memories.

I seemed to really like those things.

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I was organizing my dormitory room until the pendant’s effect manifested.

I would have to vacate the room soon anyway… and it was good to check various things… Just as I was thinking that, my consciousness suddenly cut off, and my vision went black, and I entered a bottomless abyss.

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My vision was filled with darkness.

How long would this last?

Was something wrong?

Just as a sense of fear rose with that feeling, a shimmering haze emerged, and a shadow with only its eyes wide open in white appeared.

It somewhat resembled the shape of an owl… and the lower part was hard to make out.

-Creature…

The demon’s voice came out eerily, like a radio with mismatched frequencies.

-It seems you have made up your mind.

Cutting out the clichéd greetings, I brought up my business first.

“Never mind the small talk, what’s your rank?”

-Yes, your despair and anger are certainly…?

“I asked what rank are you.”

-……

The demon-like being seemed to have stopped in form for a moment, completely taken aback by my response.

Do demons get flustered, too?

Fantasy characters tend to have longer small talk than I thought.

“Reincarnated Hero” had a setting based on the 72 demons of Solomon.

Hence, the main task was to defeat and purify all 72 of these demons.

Therefore, whenever there was an encounter with a demon, there were a lot of trivial scripts, which I was pretty sick of as I aimed for repeated playthroughs.

So, I just wanted to get it done quickly.

-Kukukuku, what an ignorant creature.

“I don’t have time, so hurry up.”

-Lowly human, entirely consumed by greed, forgetting even your place…

“Give me everything.”

-……

“I said give me everything you have.”

I was in a foul mood today.

I had to vent it out on this guy, at least.

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Rafah’s Cheong-gwan, 1st year student cafeteria.

The freshmen who had just entered Claris Academy were in a state of half excitement and half anticipation.

They had completed the 2-month training schedule,

Tomorrow, they will face the first hurdle of Claris Academy: the positioning test.

With youth gathered from various regions in one place, the cafeteria was bound to be crowded and noisy at all times.

Aria and Melissa also felt the same way.

“But Ria, why did you lie to me…?”

Aria put down her fork at Melissa’s careful question for a moment.

“Ah, about that.”

In fact, she had no reason to defend Lev.

Aria had been subjected to rough actions, and physical contact outside of training duels clearly violated school rules.

“Something…”

“Something?”

“Well.”

However, something was different.

I mean, Lev Denec was impulsive, and after losing his first duel to Edwin, it seemed like he had gone entirely crazy.

But what about behind the dormitory?

He was taking a stance of being wronged as if he was someone whose memory had been erased.

Of course, that didn’t change his actions, which were wrong and unpleasant…

‘He must have been driven to the extreme in terms of his mental state.’

If he were to be humiliated again there, it seemed like he would make a wrong choice.

In other words, her action was clearly out of sympathy.

Once Aria sorted out her thoughts, she smiled slightly at Melissa.

“No. I was just worried that he might make an extreme choice.”

“He brought it upon himself anyway. Ria, you unexpectedly have a soft side.”

“Tomorrow is the day for positioning. I don’t want to be swayed by unnecessary things.”

At Aria’s answer, Melissa stopped prying and focused on her meal.

“Could it be that Edwin isn’t even eating and still practicing…?”

“If you’re worried, why don’t you go and see…”

“That’s not it!”

Even as Melissa said that, she felt a little embarrassed about whether she should go and take a peek.

‘Ah, no, no. Why would I care about him?’

Edwin, unlike herself, never loses the top spot and is always in the lower ranks.

Yet, he puts in more effort than anyone else.

He was probably practicing alone in the closed training hall today as well.

He really never got tired of it.

He did not deny the poorly evaluated entrance exam results and only acted according to his beliefs.

Melissa also felt sorry for unintentionally making remarks that hurt his pride,

But he would instead smile it off whenever that happened, which was slightly annoying.

They said a reed may sway but doesn’t break.

He had been harassed a lot by that guy, Lev Denec, because of his background, but he eventually overcame that on his own as well.

‘That was somewhat admirable…’

Just as Melissa was reassessing Edwin in her mind,

-Kuwoong!

“?!”

Only Melissa detected an ominous wave of magic power in the peaceful cafeteria.

Her magic sensitivity was top-class, even within the academy.

Something had definitely happened in this dormitory.

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A contract with a demon.

Granting abilities in exchange for a human’s soul…

Once the vessel breaks, the soul is absorbed into Pandemonium and reaches the end of greed as a slave to the demon’s power.

Therefore, the amount of magic power that could be given also varied depending on the extraordinariness of the target’s soul.

63rd demon.

Andras.

The demon of hatred and destruction.

The number 63 is just the order, not the actual rank.

However, explaining this to this ignorant and weak human was something he couldn’t even think of with his head.

To him, humans were less than mere insects.

But among other living beings, the human species had the characteristics of being the most greedy, cunning, and selfish.

That was why the method of handling them was also simple, like insects.

Nothing more, nothing less.

However, this guy was clearly crossing the line.

He was different from the humans he had contracted with so far.

Clearly, when seen through Andras’ demon eye, he was more than just angry; he was greedy and showed unbelievable arrogance.

A being focused on only pursuing his own desires.

Moreover, he demanded he hand over everything.

It had been a long time since he encountered such an unprecedented human.

Of course, it wasn’t a complete bluff.

Although he had a pitiful and weak vessel of a creature, his soul was not only extraordinary but peculiar to the point of being unusual.

It felt like it didn’t originate and exist in this world but came from a different world.

In conclusion, it could be said that he had the size of a vessel to receive Andras’ power.

The problem was that he only had the size to receive it.

If this man, who showed no notable mana qualities other than his soul, were to momentarily borrow all of Andras’ power, he would lose control of himself and become a demon within milliseconds.

And nanoseconds later, his body wouldn’t be able to endure it, and his soul would be collected immediately.

This wasn’t the end of it.

The price of a contract with the 72 demons was never light, to begin with.

Even after his soul was absorbed, he would have to receive punishment in the hellfire for at least three hundred thousand, no, four hundred thousand years.

Even those who had briefly crossed paths with him would be destined to be tormented by demons for the rest of their lives.

In other words, he would be in a state where he couldn’t die completely, his soul couldn’t reach rest, and he couldn’t receive comfort from anyone alive, spending an eternity of time.

That was why Andras found this mere insect of a man, who was boldly making demands of him, to be so ridiculous.

-Kuhahahahahaha.

In a word, he couldn’t help but laugh at the situation.

When Andras laughed heartily for the first time in a long while, that guy spat out strange words.

“Scared?”

-What did you say?

“I asked if you’re scared.”

-…

Andras didn’t answer.

-Kekekekekekek.

He just grinned so wide that his mouth seemed to tear to a frightening degree.

He would have more than enough time to hear his answer anyway.

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[Forbidden Art – Andras]

[Target – Lev Denec]

-Swoooooosh…

Like that, all the magic power Andras possessed began to be conveyed to him.

At a breakneck speed.

-Swoooooosh…

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-Plop.

With that, the contract was established.

It wasn’t an arduous task.

And milliseconds passed.

-?

No? About 5 seconds had passed.

That nameless human was just standing there, laughing in the same spot.

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-What…

Even Andras, who had mastered most of the world’s knowledge, had taken human greed too lightly.

The following words from him were something he wouldn’t understand for the rest of his wretched life.

“Oh dear, looks like things didn’t work out like you thought? What a pity, demonization isn’t a supported feature in the closed beta.”

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