I Became the Academy’s Piercing Spearmaster- Chapter 1

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: Xrecker
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Who was the idiot who cursed out the fucking trash game, then bought the ‘Sucker’s New Game Plus Edition’ only to get possessed?

That would be me.

“Fuck.”

I mean, did I write a 5,700-character-long rant?

Did I throw a fit, demanding a refund and a cash receipt for every single penny?

Is getting possessed the new trend when you buy something now?

Why was this happening to me?

My head began to ache, but I couldn’t just stand still.

Just then, the final objective quest window floating in the air vanished, and a new quest window appeared in its place.

“You’re crazy.”

No, seriously, why would the world end just because I failed to get into an academy?

Was the world a sunfish?

I pressed my temples firmly to withstand the throbbing headache and looked around.

“Where am I?”

The scenery was probably one of the fields I often saw on the game screen.

It felt familiar.

But that didn’t mean I could pinpoint my exact location right away.

I could see a forest nearby and mountains in the far distance.

The rest was mostly plains.

I might have known if I could see a building or something, but there was nothing like that in sight.

I had no choice but to start moving.

‘Before that…’

First, I decided to check what needed to be checked.

The one thing that was an unwritten rule in these kinds of game possession stories.

‘Status Window!’

As I shouted it loudly in my mind, something appeared in the air.

‘What are you?’

I was appalled.

When I thought of the status window, a status window appeared.

However.

It wasn’t the status window I had been expecting.

‘Why is there Magic? No, in the first place, what are Strength, Luck, and Fame? It used to show Attack Power, Defense Power, Critical Hit Chance, and Critical Hit Damage! And where did my level go?!’

A status window completely different from the one displayed in Lucadia Fantasm had appeared.

‘S-skill Window!’

Feeling uneasy, I hurriedly called out for the skill window.

Thankfully, the skill window looked similar to the one in Lucadia Fantasm.

Unacquired skills were shaded dark and listed out in a long row.

I checked the skills I currently had from the various skill windows.

‘The description has gotten a bit weird, hasn’t it?’

The Penetration skill was one of the necessary passive skills in Lucadia Fantasm.

As the game progressed, the character’s max level was fixed. Naturally, their stats were fixed as well. In response, the defense of new monsters kept getting higher, so the developers created this new passive skill after users complained.

It was a skill that allowed you to ignore defense and deal penetration damage depending on its rank.

A low F-rank skill only allowed 5% penetration, but as you ranked it up to EX, you could ignore 100% of the defense and deal full penetration damage.

Then, as more time passed, defense became meaningless, and monsters gradually turned into huge meat shields with tons of health….

Even though this was a New Game Plus, the ability to ignore defense had a huge impact in the early game, which was why I chose it, but just like the status window, the description for the Penetration skill had changed.

‘Could this be too?’

A skill for one who has reached the pinnacle of the spear.

In any other game, people would say a passive skill that tripled your attack power was completely broken, but this was also the result of a skill overhaul that was created because the monsters had become ridiculously tanky.

Likewise.

‘It says potency here.’

Just as the stat display had changed, the skill description that originally said “attack power” had changed to “potency.”

Additionally, a supplementary explanation had been added at the end.

Even if I wanted to ask why it had changed like this, there was no one to answer me.

I checked the remaining functions.

‘Inventory.’

This time, too, the inventory window appeared in the air as I thought it.

Inside were one common spear, ten loaves of bread, and a waterskin.

And in the top right corner, there was a coin symbol with a “0” next to it.

In other words, I had 0 gold.

‘Haaah…’

I had expected it, but the thousands of pieces of equipment and materials I had collected, and the hundreds of millions in currency, were nowhere to be found.

For now, having checked everything I could, I took the spear out of my inventory.

‘Oh.’

The moment I gripped the spear, a strange feeling washed over me.

I had never held a spear in my entire life.

But it felt as if I had held it my whole life, fitting perfectly in my hands, and I felt a surge of vitality.

The surging vitality blew away a bit of my frustration and gloom.

“First, I need to find a place where people live.”

After walking aimlessly for about 30 minutes, I finally saw a familiar city skyline.

‘There it is!’

It was Valendia, one of the major cities in Lucadia Fantasm.

When you started the game, your character would begin in the middle of Valendia.

But they had dropped me 30 minutes away.

‘What a fucking trash game.’

First, I had to get inside Valendia.

Just as I thought that, a green, child-sized monster came into view.

A monster that was a staple in many games.

It was a goblin.

Three of them, in fact.

‘In the game, you’d run into them just a little way out of town.’

I didn’t know how different the stats on my status window were from the ones in Lu-Fan.

No matter how good Spearmanship Mastery and Penetration were, it was uncertain if I could defeat a goblin right now.

‘I’ll have to fight them eventually, but not now.’

I tried to bypass the goblins by taking a detour.

The moment I backed away to create some distance.

-Kigek!

One of the goblins spotted me.

-Kekek!

-Kugya! Kke!

The other two goblins also looked this way and started running toward me.

It was already too late to run.

‘I have no choice but to fight.’

The moment that thought crossed my mind, my body naturally gripped the spear and took a stance.

As if it had always done so.

On top of that.

‘What is this?’

Should I call it intuition?

I could clearly picture in my head how to move and how to thrust my spear at the goblin running toward me.

Beyond that, the possible trajectories of the spear that I could swing and thrust were being drawn before my eyes.

It was a phenomenon that reminded me of the expression from martial arts novels about seeing the path of the sword.

The moment the first goblin to charge came into range, my body moved on its own.

I simply swung the spear horizontally along the trajectory.

With a sharp tearing sound, the spearhead accurately grazed the goblin’s neck.

Next, I pulled the spear back and thrust it toward the solar plexus of the second goblin to arrive in range.

As if piercing tofu, the spearhead broke through the goblin’s solar plexus and continued onward.

A ‘ting!’ sound rang in my head, followed by a mechanical voice.

Without even a moment to pay attention to the voice, I pulled the spear back and finished off the last goblin by thrusting my spear along the trajectory.

“…”

The goblins lay collapsed, bleeding.

I looked down at my hands, which had just wielded a spear and killed goblins.

It was a strange feeling.

Even if they were monsters, they were still humanoid creatures. But I didn’t feel any particular reluctance or panic from killing them.

Did something happen to me when I was possessed by the game?

Just as my stats had changed, had my mind also undergone some kind of change?

The questions arose, but I decided not to worry about it too much.

‘This is actually better.’

The final quest to return home was to defeat that ridiculously overpowered boss, the Demon King of Chaos.

And to defeat the Demon King of Chaos, I would have to progress through various stories and also slay many monsters.

In the first place, the enemies in the game weren’t just monsters; there were also bandits, brigands, and the Apostles of Chaos, who appeared as completely human.

This was better than being unable to defeat those kinds of enemies and just cowering in fear while waiting for the world to end.

In the first place.

‘If I fail to get into the academy, the world ends.’

I had a feeling that a quest window would appear even after I entered the academy.

Among them, there might be a quest to eliminate human enemies.

And if I failed, the consequence might once again be the destruction of the world.

If a moment came when I had to choose between dying along with the end of the world…

Or taking one step closer to returning to my original world by killing an enemy.

In the end, I would probably kill people with a foul feeling in my stomach.

Even if it was an unavoidable situation, it was obvious it would be incredibly damaging to my mental state.

‘This is much better than that situation ever happening.’

I looked at the three dead goblins.

All non-human monsters in Lucadia Fantasm possessed a magic stone, and selling it would get you currency called gold.

‘In the game, they just went poof and disappeared when you defeated them.’

The corpses remained. This was proof that this world didn’t operate exactly like the game.

In in-game conversations, there were countless mentions of weapons made from monster materials, so in this situation, this was probably normal.

Looking at the goblin corpses and my own clothes, a thought came to me.

‘I need money.’

Even just to defeat the final boss.

My current equipment was too shabby.

Just plain villager clothes and a single spear.

The thought that I needed to earn money as quickly as possible and get some proper gear came naturally.

I approached the corpse, held the spear with a short grip, and stabbed the goblin.

Thanks to the Penetration skill, the spear still went through the flesh smoothly when I stabbed.

If anything, it took more effort to pull it out after stabbing.

I stabbed multiple times in a circular motion to make it easier.

After piercing the goblin’s chest area and peeling back the flesh, I found a red magic stone.

I did the same to the other two goblins, exposing their chests to retrieve the magic stones, put them in my inventory, and started walking toward Valendia.

As I walked towards Valendia, I experimented with a few things and learned something new.

First, I didn’t have to open the inventory window every time to take something out.

If I pictured what was in my inventory and thought about taking it out, it would appear in my hand.

The other thing was that if I focused on and ‘pressed’ one of the dark, unacquired skills in the skill window, the acquisition conditions would appear.

For example.

If I clicked on one of the unacquired skills.

It was displayed like this.

To learn a skill, I needed to use the points that were listed in the quest rewards.

For now, these were the two things I had figured out.

“Halt.”

When I arrived right in front of Valendia, a guard called out to me.

‘Their outfits are the same.’

It felt like seeing a live-action cosplay of the guard NPCs I saw so often in the game.

“I haven’t seen you around before. For what purpose have you come to Valendia?”

I stated my purpose concisely.

“To enroll in the Lucadia Academy.”

Valendia was the city closest to the Lucadia Academy.

There was even a lore setting that prospective students often passed through Valendia for admission, so it wasn’t anything strange.

“The Lucadia Academy?”

The guard looked at me with suspicious eyes.

“As you can see, I’m quite skilled.”

I hid my left hand behind my back, then took out the goblin magic stones from my inventory and showed them to the guard.

Only after seeing the goblin magic stones did his suspicious gaze lessen.

No, it went beyond lessening; it changed from suspicion to a look of slight ridicule.

“Alright, do your best to get in. You may pass.”

This was probably how I looked in the guard’s eyes.

A country bumpkin, brimming with useless confidence.

Thinking he could get into the academy just by catching a goblin or two.

I didn’t need to care what the guard thought of me.

I had achieved my goal of entering Valendia.

Passing through the gate, the bustling sight of Valendia came into view.

If this were a VR experience, I would have been amazed at how realistic it was.

Recalling the memories of walking around this place hundreds, no, thousands of times in the game, I headed to the outdoor reception desk of the Adventurer’s Guild.

“May a radiant light shine upon you! Welcome, how may I help you?”

With a kind smile, I presented the magic stones to the guild receptionist, Deishee, who always recited her standard lines while giving users their daily quest rewards.

“Exchange for cash.”

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