I Possessed a Character in an Academy Without a Protagonist – Chapter 64

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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[T/N: i changed vape to Vafe]

“Wow…!”

Trie was exclaiming with her hands clasped together, looking around in all directions.

Just watching Trie like that made me feel breathless.

I wondered if Trie was originally this pretty.

The colorful lights spreading from all directions dyed Trie and illuminated her so brightly.

“Wow…”

The fireworks ended in just 3 seconds, and soon the forest was filled with darkness again.

Since I couldn’t see an inch in front of me, I took out a luminous artifact and brightened the light.

Only then did Trie turn towards me.

“Schlus! That just now! How did you do that?!”

“Whoa.”

Thud.

The excited Trie ran towards me and tripped over a tree root, tackling me.

Trie’s head hit my solar plexus, and I fell backwards just like that.

Rubbing the aching back of my head and opening my eyes, Trie was straddling me.

“Ah… sorry!”

“It’s okay.”

“More importantly! How did you do that just now?”

“I’d appreciate it if you got off first.”

“Ah!”

Trie, who had been pushing herself close to me while bringing her face close, got startled and got up.

It was a moment when I felt awkward as two heavy weights kept being felt on my chest.

“Hehehe. Sorry. But really, how did you do that just now? Huh? Huh?”

“I simply dismantled the technique.”

“That many at once? How? How on earth?”

“The technique for mines is extremely simple. If they are detected, it’s not that difficult to dismantle multiple ones simultaneously.”

“Even so! Who in the world can dismantle hundreds of techniques at once?! This is the first time I’ve seen something like this in my life!”

Trie said while grabbing my shoulders and shaking me repeatedly.

I’ve never seen you this excited either…

Though, to be fair, there’s no human in this world with a computational power stat of 48.

Even among Majins, except for a few, their computational power stat didn’t exceed 30.

At times like this, the computational power stat did feel like a cheat.

Though it became useless the moment close combat started.

“I find you more amazing. I didn’t expect you to complete the technique so quickly just by hearing an explanation verbally. To be honest, I thought it would be impossible to finish it even if we stayed up all night…”

“Nah. We won’t have to stay up all night.”

“I’m not just saying empty words. I was genuinely amazed.”

I had been underestimating Trie’s magic skills.

If it followed the original work, she should only be able to barely use basic magic, and it would be normal for her to not even understand such a high-level technique, let alone construct it.

Moreover, in the original work, it was like that even in the later parts, and this was just the beginning of the novel.

No matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t understand.

There was no way this world, which had been faithfully following the original work, would suddenly include original settings.

“Hehe. It’s all thanks to you, Teacher.”

“Teacher?”

“Yeah. You. Teacher Schlus. Didn’t you say it? Don’t try to understand, just accept it. When I emptied my mind as you said and just accepted it, the technique suddenly started being drawn smoothly.”

“…”

No, I mean.

You suddenly gained enlightenment because of one piece of advice anyone could give?

And in the original work, you were constantly bad at magic because no one gave you that easy advice?

Ha. Geez. It was so absurd that I couldn’t help but laugh.

“Ha… Haha… Hahahaha!”

“What’s wrong? Why are you suddenly laughing like Professor Sergei?”

“It’s just funny. To think it was this easy…”

“What. What is?”

“It’s nothing.”

“Ah, why! Why are you stopping after making me curious?!”

“Hahaha.”

Perhaps Trie had talent in magic.

It just wasn’t revealed in the original work.

How far that talent went was something that needed to be confirmed in the future.

So there was no need for Trie to let go of magic right away.

To be honest, it sounded like nonsense, but as Trie said, she also had the possibility of becoming a magic knight.

If Trie became a magic knight and reached the pinnacle of both magic and martial arts, there would be no more reliable helper than Trie.

“So many magic teachers have come and gone, only finding me frustrating… But today, I suddenly feel like my eyes have been opened. I think the advice you gave today can make up for me teaching you swordsmanship!”

“Don’t talk nonsense. As soon as the midterms are over, we’ll dive right into magic lessons.”

“What? Really? Then I’m grateful.”

“My classes can be quite harsh. You’d better be prepared.”

“Ah…”

I couldn’t let a discovered talent go to waste.

I had to test the limits of how much talent she had.

Just thinking about teaching Trie used to make me sigh, but now I was even looking forward to it.

“Hoho. I guess I should call you Teacher now.”

“I don’t call you anything, do I?”

“But I’m still going to call you that. Teacher Schlus!”

“Don’t cling to me…”

“Hehe.”

Trie laughed while hugging my arm.

Stupid girl.

If you do this, men will misunderstand and think you like them.

As expected of a noble lady who was preciously raised…

Chattering noisily while walking, we had already arrived at the lodging before we knew it.

I’m pretty sure the quest content was to escape Whist Forest before dawn…

This was the difficulty of a 5-star quest?

If I had used my ability, I might have been able to get out even more easily.

I began to question the quest difficulty rating system.

“Don’t approach Whist Forest again tonight.”

“Okay, Teacher.”

“Use either informal or formal speech, not both.”

“I don’t want to? Then, good night, Teacher Schlus!”

“…”

Trie disappeared around the corner of the corridor, laughing playfully.

I sighed and pretended to return to my room, then quietly slipped outside again.

No one would have seen me.

It was certain, seeing as my sensitive intuition didn’t react.

As soon as I left the lodging building, I started running towards Whist Forest.

‘There’s not much time.’

I had to bring out the enlightenment, Vafe, by tonight.

Trie had already seen the map, so when the sun rose tomorrow, she would go around the mine-buried area to search for the rocky mountain.

I had no choice but to take it out beforehand.

The problem was that the mana concentration would soon thicken.

Being eroded by mana energy was one thing, but the monsters were a bigger problem.

When the mana energy thickens, naturally, the monsters would also wander around here.

Then we would have to deal with hordes of magical beasts rushing at us from all directions while unable to move a single step.

So I had to quickly retrieve Vafe before being surrounded by monsters.

‘I’ll arrive faster than I thought.’

Thanks to dismantling a large number of mines earlier, a considerable size cavity was created in the mine-buried area of Whist Forest.

Thanks to that, I could cut straight through without having to go around the forest.

I had cursed a bit inwardly when I was trapped in the forest with Trie, but I had also benefited from Trie in a way.

I was a bit grateful.

Very slightly.

“Is it there? Phew…”

After running mindlessly, I escaped from the forest full of tall trees.

Before I knew it, the scenery of a rugged rocky mountain unfolded before my eyes.

The slope was quite steep, but there were many protruding parts in between, so it seemed like I could climb it quickly if I climbed like rock climbing.

“It’s more generous than I thought.”

I had tried rock climbing as a club activity in college.

Well, it wasn’t as intense as back then.

Because there were quite a lot of places to put my feet.

It was practically the feeling of climbing a narrow mountain trail.

A mountain trail with a width about half the length of my foot.

Climbing until my hands were rough, I had already arrived at the summit before I knew it.

Looking down, it seemed like I didn’t climb much, but it was dizzying.

When would I ever get back down?

“…Is it here?”

Right in front.

A crack in the rock was visible.

The crack, wide enough for about two people to enter, was so deep that it was hard to see how deep it was.

“Ah!”

I shouted, but there was no echo returning.

Was there something that absorbed sound laid at the bottom?

Anyway, one thing was certain: Vafe was down there.

It was a bit creepy, but I should go down and see.

“Ugh…”

With the luminous artifact in my mouth, I slowly went down with my feet on both sides of the wall.

If I slipped even a little, I’d fall and die.

I descended about 20 meters like that.

A hole was seen on one side of the wall.

That was it.

As soon as I saw it, my intuition screamed that.

I thought I would have to go all the way down to the bottom of the crevice to take out Vafe because I only described it as simply going down the crevice and taking out Vafe.

I didn’t know there would be a cave in the middle.

Seeing things like this, the parts I didn’t describe were also quite nicely implemented.

The more I saw, the more I liked this world.

Of course, if I could watch from the outside, I would have liked it much more…

“Hup.”

I threw my body into the cave.

The inside was quite spacious compared to the entrance.

The smooth walls and ceiling told me that this was by no means a natural cave.

As I stepped inside, an even more artificial scenery entered my eyes.

Stairs. And murals.

Vafe was originally the weapon of a Majin who lived in ancient times, and when the tide turned in favor of humans, he ended up sealing Vafe so that it wouldn’t fall into human hands.

This was the place where it was sealed.

“Oh.”

As expected, I immediately bumped my nose into a transparent barrier.

It was a quite sophisticated barrier.

Well, they must have put their heart and soul into sealing a weapon.

But it seemed this guy wasn’t very skilled in barrier techniques.

Bam…!

The barrier broke after I focused on the technique for a while.

I didn’t even need to use Selection and Concentration.

Well, in the original work, it was a barrier that could be penetrated if Hertlocker, Eric, and 3 intelligence agents worked together.

“Oh.”

As I went inside, the cave gradually narrowed, and at the end, there was something like an altar.

A circle with an empty center and six candles placed on top of the circle.

I used ignition magic to light the candles one by one.

Rumble…!

Then, with a vibration that seemed to shake the entire cave, something rose from the center of the circle.

A black sphere.

No, rather than black, it was like… as if nothing was there.

It was so distinctly black, absorbing all the light from its surroundings, as if that space alone had been cut out with scissors.

Just in case, I tried using Examine on it.

This is Vafe?

It looked creepier than I imagined.

How did that Hertlocker bastard think of grabbing it without even knowing what it was?

He was really an incredible guy.

“Phew.”

I took a deep breath.

And reached out my hand to touch the sphere.

“…!”

At that moment, the form of the sphere collapsed and began to be sucked into my fingers.

Surprised, I unknowingly fell backwards.

“Was it… absorbed?”

What? It was absorbed into my body?

Why didn’t it transform into the form of a weapon?

I opened and closed my right hand, falling into a panic.

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