CH 27.1

The free time after school.

Normally, Eisel would be studying in the SDL room, but today she could not.

‘Baek Yu-Seol…..’

Her mind was a mess.

Obviously, it was true that thanks to his help, she was able to break through Maizen’s trap. But, what did she do then?

At the very least, she knew how to do one of the things that Baek Yu-Seol had instructed her to do, so it wasn’t the end of it.

‘On the spot… He made that recipe on the spot?’

It was unbelievable. With her own ideas and talent, it was unlikely that she could reach that far.

Although alchemy was not mainstream… The problem was that his knowledge was not limited to alchemy.

Rumors had already spread throughout the department.

‘A genius who came in without any preparation.’

Baek Yu-Seol submitted all of the questions in the Class Placement Test that could not be solved with applying the memorised formula on a blank paper. It was natural if it was at the level of an ordinary student but Stella’s Class Placement Test was comparable to most college tests.

A student who studied normally and entered high school would not be able to solve college-level problems. However, Stella’s students were all gifted, and it was rather natural to solve them because they had received early education.

But, Baek Yu-Seol did not have that luxury. He came in without any preparation and solved three magical questions that others could not solve.

In addition to that, even though he was lagging behind others, he studied negligently but was already standing out.

He wasn’t stuck in any subject, and his ideas were admired and acknowledged by all faculty members.

“Hah….”

Eisel clasped her face with both hands.

‘My daughter.’

Suddenly, she remembered her father’s death.

‘My dear daughter… You too, where you are going… you will know the truth…’

He left a questionable statement, ‘Father, who became dew and disappeared with the stigma of a traitor.'

She still couldn’t understand his will. However, the reason she was still alive was for her revenge.

‘Adolevit.’

A filthy family that turned her father into a traitor which eventually led to his demise.

She couldn’t forget the face of that damn woman who killed her father.

She must exact her revenge.

She must plunge the sharpened blade of vengeance into the hearts of those who drove her fathers and her into the abyss.

To do so, she needed to be the best.

‘Cause I’m a prodigy. Because I am a mage from the heavens and was called an incomparable genius.’

There were only one means of revenge left for her who lost everything.

To become a greater and superior mage than the two princesses of Adolevit and to reach the ‘Heavenly Realm’.

If she became the best mage who controlled all of the magic world, she would be able to return all the shame, pain, and adversity she had suffered.

By the way.

‘This time, what was my role?’

'Wasn’t I just a dead weight that was no different from an assistant, who made the potion depending on the improvisation and knowledge of other students?'

She couldn’t do anything. She had to be the best.

She didn’t think of anything. She thought that she would be able to overcome any hardship and adversity she faced.

‘I have to… be different.’

Eisel gritted her teeth and stood up. There was no time to be drowning in the sense of shame. Even at this moment, Baek Yu-Seol would be climbing higher than her, and Hong Bi-Yeon, who was once her rival, was already standing higher than her with thorough elite education in the royal family.

No more, she couldn’t fall behind beyond that.

“Slurp!”

Since I came to Stella Academy, there was something I had always wanted to do. Drinking Americano ‘elegantly’ at Stella Cafe.

Drinking coffee brewed with high-quality coffee beans while looking at the night view on a spacious terrace was truly akin to living a luxurious leisure life of aristocrats, wasn’t it?

“Well. I want to drink one more…” But, I drank it in one shot without saying anything. Honestly, I didn’t even know what it tasted like. The mixed coffee I used to take from the vending machine for 300 won was more delicious

“Hey, it’s terribly expensive, and it doesn’t taste good.”

After laying down on the chair, I pretended to watch the night view and activated my Sentient Spec.

[Maizen Tyren]

[Dark Magic Contamination Progress: 37%]

Despite being humiliated in the last group assignment, the progress was still only 37%.

‘How do I hasten this again…’

As time flew by, the level of contamination could naturally rise, but then it would be too late. If a certain incident caused the professor’s contamination to rise explosively at once, the incident would ensue without any time to deal with it.

My goal was to make it 50% so that the Dark Demon Slayers would become aware of Maizen’s existence, but it didn’t go as planned.

“You are destined to follow your own destiny. In the next three months, there will be an incident.”

Professor Maizen Tyren’s ‘Dark Magic Contamination’ randomly affected one student.

I didn’t know exactly who it would be.

Not because I couldn’t memorize the story, but because there were many branches in one episode, like a simulation game, and it was impossible to confirm the future of this world.

Still, there were fixed candidates.

Jecky, Edna’s friend. Arshuang, the girl from Hong Bi-Yeon faction. And… Haewonryang.

‘It would be worse if Haewonryang is swept away.'

Even among hundreds of thousands of players, very few people had seen the Haewonryang’s dark magic contamination. However, one had to be especially careful of it. His dark magic Contamination immediately resulted in a [bad ending].

“But there’s a person I can predict roughly.’

Jecky.

That kid was the most suspicious. There was no particular reason, but because she had become a dark magician with a probability of over 90%. Of course, it was not confirmed yet, so there was no way to find out.

‘Sigh. Now that I think about it, I have to tighten my shoulder muscles.’

With that thought in mind, I got up.

As I got out of the cafe and walked slowly towards the training ground, someone was sitting in the garden, looking at me.

‘… Edna?’

She looked at me, then jumped up and approached. She came close enough for it to become uncomfortable, waved her short black hair, and asked sternly.

“What are you?”

“… What are you talking about?”

“You didn’t answer me properly last time. Your identity.”

'Is this another question?'

In fact, as I was going through the ‘group task’ in the past, I started to think about it.

The future information I knew and the future information Edna knew were different. Because she remembered all the little stories, while I hardly knew any of them.

However, if I could gain trust from Edna, I could combine the two pieces of information.

'If?'

No doubt, the process of reaching the ‘True Ending’ would also be easier.

‘Now or never?’

Gulp!

My throat was moving. I hadn’t figured out her true intentions yet, but my desire for an ‘easier way’ kept tempting me over and over again.

And it wasn’t my instinct to stop the temptation.

[Warning! The narrative is lacking!]

[Warning! Don’t tell the person you’re a ‘Transmigrator’.]

[Warning! Don’t share the knowledge and information you know with the person]

‘… I’m really going crazy.’