A Third-Rate Villain’s Sweet Life Exploiting Academy Bugs – Chapter 80

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Wjin
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Evolution Chamber’s Trial 3.

In fan fiction Chapter 4, second semester part,

Edwin had achieved the feat of clearing it with two people by forming a party with Selena.

-They cleared Trial 3 with just two first-years?

-Impossible!

The Academy was shocked and the world was shocked.

It was good that Edwin formed a good atmosphere with Selena here.

The problem was the fan fiction writer’s brain malfunction that followed.

As Kaelan, who copied Selena’s wind archery and Edwin’s execution, cleared Trial 3 alone,

he became maximally spotlighted…

It became a collection of self-insert daughter characters.

‘That won’t happen anymore.’

Anyway, because of this narrative,

unlike Trials 1 and 2, Trial 3 had some description of the strategy in the original work.

First, the target to be defeated was the high-rank wind spirit, Jinn.

I already knew about this spirit being’s setting from the fan fiction.

Unlike low and mid-rank spirits, Jinn itself had intelligence and could switch between close/long-range combat according to the situation.

Since it used high-rank wind magic and its unique swordsmanship here,

many aspiring vanguards and rearguard students wanted to learn magic or sword techniques from it.

However, after the demon invasion began, the spirit realm maintained neutrality with a passive attitude as much as possible,

and with the number of spirit users and elementalists greatly decreasing, those who could summon high-rank spirits like Jinn to the mortal world were quite rare.

In the end, Sinatis had implemented Jinn’s avatar in Trial 3 for hero training.

‘That was roughly the setting…’

This guy’s pattern was simple.

It was divided largely into close/long-range stances,

in close-range stance it attempted high-powered attacks and finishing moves using a dagger with [Wind Sword Technique],

in long-range stance it only attacked with simple wind magic like [Wind Cutter], [Wind Edge], but maintained virtual invincibility by constantly maintaining [Wind Wall], a defensive magic equivalent to 6th circle.

Therefore, only when Jinn maintained close-range stance was there any possibility for me to deal damage.

The problem was that due to the compatibility between archer and assassin, when it approached to attack, I naturally had difficulty shooting the crossbow.

That’s why this was a trial requiring party play, and the vanguard and rearguard strategies diverged depending on what form Jinn took.

For example, when it was in long-range form, the vanguard would disrupt its magic casting while the rearguard aimed for effective hits in that gap.

Conversely, when it was in close-range form, the vanguard would need to position well to prevent it from approaching allied rearguard and midrangers.

Reviewing Edwin and Selena’s cooperation method was the same.

When Selena supported Edwin with wind energy through covering fire, it looked roughly even, but when Selena ran out of wind energy, Jinn switched to close-range stance to target Selena first.

Here Selena couldn’t withstand its fierce attacks and was out.

But Edwin awakened in that gap and overcame Jinn, that was the story.

There had never been a pattern that completely went against the original story.

Therefore, if I kept this in mind and actively utilized it, it would surely be an easy victory.

-Tick.

When the pocket watch bought in the Imperial Capital was approaching about 6 PM,

-Ding.

A simple status window message popped up.

And after that, one spirit being revealed its appearance.

-…

The overall appearance was a tall adult male,

with flowing long hair that could appear in Greco-Roman mythology.

The whole body sparkled with emerald light, giving a hologram-projected feeling.

This dreamlike atmosphere harmonized to create mystique.

-Next challenger?

The guy’s low resonating voice.

Though it looked quite gentle and sweet…

its combat style was not like that at all…

The clear condition was simple.

Using exclusive weapons that could only be used in the chamber, not substitute weapons like Ash Dispersion,

I had to reduce its HP to 0%.

Damage judgment would be applied considering what Sinatis had set up.

Since it was literally an illusion, I wouldn’t die either, but if I exposed vital points or got hit too much, I would be disqualified immediately.

As I was quietly organizing my thoughts like that,

it asked me in an emotionless voice.

-…We’ll start when your companions finish entering.

As expected, it didn’t know I was challenging alone.

‘No stance…’

I carefully asked it.

“When entry is complete, can we attack first?

-Alrig…

-Fweeeeee!

-!!

Its word “alright” was not completed.

It might have been underhanded, but my wind archery reacted first.

And,

-Keeeeek!

The sound of wind ripping through wind.

-…?!

Afterimage Shot-Curved Shot excellently penetrated Jinn’s left side.

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Rapid fire was about shooting quickly in a straight line by catching gaps the opponent didn’t expect.

Even high-rank spirit being Jinn had seen quite a lot of aspiring archer students’ patterns.

Of course, even so, it hadn’t expected the bluffing that utilized the fact of challenging alone.

Usually most challenged with 4 or 5 people, and this person was the first to challenge alone.

Therefore, Jinn was forced to let its guard down.

-Alrig…

-Fweeeeeee!

As soon as it gave permission for first strike, blue wind arrows rushed at it.

-‘Human… wind archery…?’

It was too late to deploy magic. Therefore, Jinn tried to escape the trajectory with minimal movement.

But that rather became poison.

-Whoosh!

When it hurriedly twisted its body,

-Keeeek!

-!!

His wind arrow properly penetrated Jinn’s side as if predicting this.

It wasn’t rapid fire.

What he shot was [Wind Arrow-Curved Shot]

Moreover, a wind archery technique never seen before.

A blue attack that left afterimages in its trajectory.

-‘Even at this speed… curved shot…?’

From the aiming posture to the trigger-pulling shoulder motion, everything passed like it was cut off.

Adding a bit of exaggeration, it wasn’t visible.

So, naturally it had judged it as rapid fire, but.

-…!

-Wheeee…

The clear trace of the crossbow arrow penetrating its side remained, then disappeared with the wind.

It had given up an effective hit from the start.

-Never go easy, never let your guard down.

The words Sinatis had cautioned Jinn with.

They were real.

This guy wasn’t trying to play around.

He really intended to overcome it alone.

Jinn changed its stance first.

Powerful wind pressure began to swirl around it.

From now on it would not allow any attacks.

-‘This feeling… how long… has it been.’

Looking up, the guy was making an expression without a hint of hesitation or confusion.

Originally, spirits had little interest in humans who weren’t spirit users but.

Jinn unknowingly asked the boy.

-…Name?

“Lev Denec.”

Lev Denec…

Maybe because it took a good hit aggressively.

The ordinary yet suitable human name felt somewhat distant.

After reciting this once, Jinn,

-Whoooooo!!

As if his name had become an incantation spell, began casting wind magic in both hands.

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.

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In a ranged vs ranged fight, it was an easily seen aspect.

-Clang! Clang Clang Clang!

With each of Jinn’s controlled movements,

wind blades, Wind Cutters became projectiles, pouring down on Lev.

Crescent moon-shaped wind boomerangs.

-Fwit!

-Bang! Babang!

And Lev shot these down one by one with his crossbow.

On the surface it seemed Jinn had the initiative, becoming a situation where it unilaterally pushed Lev back, but that was just how it appeared.

Jinn’s extending attacks were all repeatedly blocked by the guy’s wind archery.

And his wind arrows penetrated through Wind Cutters, subtly aiming for Jinn’s vital points.

-‘Is he reading my attack trajectories?’

He wasn’t some run-of-the-mill archer.

Of course since Jinn had the wind wall, it wouldn’t give up any more effective hits but…

Actually it thought Lev’s actions were a bit awkward.

While knowing how to shoot the crossbow so quickly, he seemed to lack combat experience, excessively responding even to just one Wind Cutter.

Looking at Lev who didn’t control power and just distributed skills,

Various miscellaneous possibilities came to Jinn’s mind.

-‘He’s probably just waiting for my mistake.’

It didn’t matter.

That very act of dealing with magic projectiles through shooting, while being a kind of ‘look how good I am’ that only exceptional archers with amazing dynamic vision could do, was also extreme waste at the same time.

Wind archery used ‘wind energy’ as a cost.

In other words, there was a limit to its use.

Moreover, the guy was solo, not a party.

Without even being a long battle, in 1-2 minutes he would collapse on his own from lack of maintenance power.

In comparison, the Wind Cutter that Jinn used was equivalent to 3rd circle magic in Circle Magic so the cost-effectiveness was overwhelmingly good.

-‘Soon.’

Jinn planned to continue appropriate attrition warfare from range until Lev’s wind energy showed bottom.

And when the guy’s wind energy was depleted, it, who could engage in close combat, would use Wind Walk, a mobility enchant skill, to lead him into melee.

Being an archer and having wind archery sealed, he would clearly be very vulnerable in close combat.

Having taken a big effective hit at the start, this was Jinn’s composure to block any possible variables in advance.

Like that, Jinn’s Wind Cutters began pouring down on Lev again.

-Clang, clang clang!

“Kugh!”

Gradually the power of his wind archery began to plummet rapidly.

-‘Is this all…?’

Jinn was disappointed in the boy… Lev.

Was that first attack really just luck after all?

Or was it because its response had been too careful?

-Bland.

After exchanging several more rounds of wind archery and Wind Cutters like that, confusion began to frost over on Lev’s face for a moment.

Now he had no wind energy remaining.

-Over.

-Swoosh!

-!!

Leaving those words, Jinn switched stance and charged at Lev.

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