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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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In the Academy’s monitoring room, Instructor Lee Yeon-ji, who was on duty today, was watching numerous monitors.
Looking at the scene displayed on the monitors, she let out a deep sigh and said,
“Senior, is it okay for the midterm evaluation to be like this?”
“Hmm…”
In response to her question, Kang Cheol-su, who was monitoring alongside her, scratched the scar on his forehead instead of answering.
Seeing Kang Cheol-su’s reaction, Lee Yeon-ji sighed deeply once again.
Then, with a gloomy face, she looked at the documents stacked like a tower on the table in front of her and said,
“Senior, what should we write on the students’ evaluation sheets…”
Originally, the students were supposed to act in accordance with the concept of ‘survival’.
For example, they should have been on edge, constantly alert to the possibility of being attacked at any time.
They should have been using the survival knowledge they had learned so far to be self-sufficient or fighting to secure the supplies that were airdropped once a day.
But everything had gone wrong.
Because of one person – Lee Yu-jin.
“Apart from the combat on day one and briefly hunting monsters on day four, there’s nothing to evaluate…”
The students from Classes B and C who had barely survived from Class A – or more precisely, from Yu-jin – were ‘surviving’ as the instructors had hoped.
But the Class A students gathered around Yu-jin weren’t ‘surviving’, they were ‘camping’.
They were sleeping in high-quality tents made by the Academy’s production department, not in trees or on the bare ground.
They didn’t need to be self-sufficient, as they satisfied their hunger with gourmet meals made in the Academy’s cafeteria.
In other words, because of Yu-jin, there was nothing to evaluate for Class A.
Of course, they hadn’t done anything wrong.
If anyone was at fault, it was the instructors who hadn’t specified properly in the guidelines.
For this reason, not only Lee Yeon-ji and Kang Cheol-su, but all the other instructors were racking their brains.
“Still… we have to write something, right?”
“Hmm… I suppose we do.”
Lee Yeon-ji and Kang Cheol-su brought forward the documents with the names of Class A students and picked up their pens.
As Lee Yeon-ji was writing ‘The top student shows excellent preparedness’, Kang Cheol-su noticed something strange on the monitor.
“Wait, who’s that woman?”
Among the students from Classes B and C who were sleeping rough on the beach, a woman was standing.
“She definitely wasn’t there a moment ago.”
Kang Cheol-su, wondering if it was just his eyes playing tricks on him, nudged Lee Yeon-ji, who was groaning as she filled out the evaluation sheet.
“Ah, Senior, I’m busy writing these evaluations…”
Lee Yeon-ji raised her head with a complaining expression as the sudden nudge had messed up her writing, but her complaint was short-lived.
“Yeon-ji, can you see a woman standing on that monitor?”
“…Yes, I can see her.”
Lee Yeon-ji’s face turned serious as she realized a problem had occurred.
“So it’s not just my eyes.”
Hearing Lee Yeon-ji’s confirmation, Kang Cheol-su picked up the radio he had placed on the table with a grave expression and just as he was about to communicate with the bracelet of a student visible on the monitor…
Rumble rumble rumble…
The building suddenly started shaking.
At this, the instructors in the monitoring room stood up from their seats with confused faces.
“Is it… an earthquake?”
“…I don’t think so? We’re not getting any disaster alert messages.”
“Then what’s this shaking?”
As the instructors were in confusion, Lee Yeon-ji shook her head and stood up from her seat.
“Senior, I’ll go check and come back.”
“Alright, go ahead.”
As soon as Kang Cheol-su finished speaking, Lee Yeon-ji’s figure disappeared.
As expected of a magician specializing in spatial magic, she had used it instantaneously.
Kang Cheol-su turned his gaze back to the monitor and just as he was about to attempt the communication he couldn’t make earlier…
Pop!
Lee Yeon-ji, who had gone to check the situation outside, reappeared.
“S-Senior! We have a big problem!”
And with a very serious face at that.
“Yeon-ji, calm down.”
She was usually unflappable, so what could she have seen to make her like this?
“Huff… huff…”
At Kang Cheol-su’s words to calm down, Lee Yeon-ji took a deep breath in and out.
Then, in a somewhat calmer voice than before, she continued.
“A large number of Fallen have appeared outside the Academy’s main gate!”
“What?!”
Kang Cheol-su stood up from his seat with a shocked face.
Then he hurriedly left the monitoring room and when he looked at the Academy’s main gate through a window…
Thud, thud, thud!
An enormous number of Fallen were pounding on the magical barrier engraved on the main gate.
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Although a Named had appeared during the midterm evaluation rather than the Duel Season, and disasters were occurring one after another, such as a special high-risk rift swallowing the uninhabited island, I didn’t despair.
I had prepared a lot for times like this.
“Top student! The barrier installation is complete!”
We had created an outpost centered around the lighthouse.
“Top student! The awakening potion boxes are in place!”
I had made awakening potions to resist Enchantress’s charm.
“Top student! The holy grenade boxes are in position!”
Noah and I had made bombs to deal with the magical beasts that might have been contaminated by the rift’s demonic energy.
So we would hold out in this outpost until reinforcements arrived.
“Top student! The placement here is…”
“Top student! The placement here is also finished…”
Reports were coming in from all directions and soon after, when all of the reports were finished, I told everyone they had done well and to rest for a moment, then I climbed to the top of the lighthouse.
I lit the lighthouse, pushing back the darkness surrounding us to a certain radius.
As soon as I saw this sight, I nodded to Noah, who was already up in the lighthouse.
“God will watch over us.”
Noah said this as he knelt down and in a devout posture, he offered a prayer.
“Immanuel.”
Whoosh!
With that prayer, an immense holy power erupted from Noah’s body and shortly after, a defensive barrier made of holy power was created around the outpost.
“I don’t think I’ll be able to move from here.”
At Noah’s words, I patted his shoulder and said,
“That alone is more than enough.”
Just pushing back the rift’s demonic energy was more than sufficient for Noah’s role.
“If anything happens, immediately set off a flare. You can do that, right?”
“Yes, I can do that.”
At Noah’s answer, I nodded and came down from the lighthouse.
Then I climbed onto the installed barrier and activated the effect of the Thousand-Mile Eyes.
Whoosh.
As my vision expanded, I could see the uninhabited island.
The island that had been clearly visible just a few hours ago was now engulfed in darkness and barely visible.
However, with the effect of the Thousand-Mile Eyes, even though I couldn’t see into the darkness, I could see the positions of the enemies.
As the island had darkened and become hard to see…
Enchantress, who was approaching leisurely as if intending to toy with me, was a white dot.
The students from Classes B and C who had been charmed by Enchantress were orange dots and the monsters were red dots.
The colors of the markers had changed to make it easier to identify the positions of the enemies.
‘…The monsters have almost arrived.’
The red dots were approaching at a rapid speed, it seemed they would reach the outpost in just a few minutes.
At this, I turned off the Thousand-Mile Eyes and shouted to the others.
“The monsters are almost here, everyone get ready!”
At that shout, everyone took out weapons from their spatial items and climbed onto the barrier and I too took out a weapon from my inventory.
That weapon was none other than…
It was a minigun.
Thud.
“…It’s certainly heavy.”
Still, thanks to the ‘Superhuman Strength (B)’ effect of the OPG, it wasn’t so heavy that I couldn’t lift it.
I then took out the ammunition box for the minigun and slung it on my back and inside that ammunition box were ‘Holy Bullets (7.62×51mm)’ specially made for the minigun.
Clank.
After connecting the ammunition from the box to the minigun, I took a deep breath and looked ahead.
“Huff, huff…”
“…We can do this, we can do it.”
“We just need to hold out, so let’s hold out…”
I could hear the tense breaths and self-reassurances of my classmates.
At the same time…
– Kiaaaaaak…!
Eerie cries of monsters echoed from the darkness.
And not long after…
– Kieeeeeeek!
– Kuaaaaaaa!
– Kigigigigik!
The monsters began to appear.
At this, I gripped the minigun tightly and pulled the trigger.
Then…
Whirrrrrrr…!
The minigun began to spin.
And following that…
Kwaaaaaaaa─!
It unleashed a white flash of light towards the monsters.
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