I Killed the Player of the Academy

by Sebancia quickly pulled my mind into it.

 

 

  The abilities of this world commonly classified into the categories of specialty and magic are further divided into innate and postnatal.

 

 

  The readability of the book was quite good.
Some grimoires were hard to read because of their terrible handwriting and legibility, but it seemed that Sebancia had been a good writer back in his days.

 

 

  I saw a warrior taking his last breath.
He was barely standing in the midst of a bloody battlefield thanks to his intestines tied around a rock

 

  I asked him, “O warrior, shall I end it for you.”

 

  He replied, “It would be much appreciated if you give me water to satiate my throat.”

 

  Respecting the tenacious warrior, I went to the nearby lake and scooped up water with my two hands to relieve his thirst.
That was when something miraculous began to happen.

 

  ……………………

 

 

  Why the heck was this so gory? What? Standing with his intestines tied on a rock? He’s even more upright than a right angle triangle.

 

 

……………………As such, I have written down an imitation of his secret move.

 

 

  A change occurred to my body after reading the entire book.
I could feel my organs shifting and it felt very odd.

 

  “Done.”

 

  The specialty earned by reading this grimoire was the ❰Regeneration of the Tenacious Warrior❱.

 

  “Like how that warrior did not lose his fighting spirit, as long as you maintain your honorable spirit… your body will regenerate in the end.”

 

  “Don’t give an ambiguous explanation, and please make it clear.
Do you mean I won’t regenerate if I faint?”

 

  “…As long as your vitality is there, the regeneration will be maintained.
Your vitality will also be greater than others.”

 

  “Ohh.”

 

  It was Park Sihu who acquired ❰Regeneration of the Tenacious Warrior❱ in the last iteration but he had never suffered from a severe injury, so this was my first time learning about its effect first-hand.

 

  I got the permission of Sebancia so I should be able to make use of this ability quite well.

  

  “Huu~.
Thanks for that.”

  “Hmm… Are you not going to read that? I didn’t write it myself but I’m sure there won’t be any downside to reading it.”

 

  Sebancia said while pointing at the other grimoire.
That grimoire would have the enchantment of a spirit-type skill called something like ❰Soul Warriors❱.
It was what Park Sihu used quite often to create tankers.

 

  “I have no talent in magic.”

 

  Plus, it was a spirit-type skill so I wouldn’t even be able to sense my own minions.
I had already given up on the path of magic in this life.
I was not good at magic formulae calculations, and also had no talent in understanding magic.

 

  It was a different story for things like rune magic where letters themselves acted like spells, but I couldn’t use normal magic in the slightest.

 

  Back when I asked Park Sihu about it, he said you had to be good at Mathematics to use magic.

 

  The last time I studied for Maths was when I was a high school freshman, and people called me the CD case, because out of A, B, C and D, there were only Cs and Ds in my report.

 

  “Hmm… I’m sure grimoires are still expensive though.
Selling it should be quite helpful.”

 

  “That’s for my friend who you are possessing right now.
I promised to give it to him.”

 

  “Is it because of the Contract of Pledge cast on this brat?”

 

  “Yes.”

 

  As expected of someone who used to be called a hero in the past, he noticed the contracting spell binding Lark and me.

 

  “Right.
Sir Sebancia.
There is something to ask you.”

 

  “What is it?”

 

  “A vampire’s urge to suck blood – is that thing controllable? For example, sticking to the blood of animals and stuff…”

 

  “No.
It is impossible.
That impulse… Although I do not even want to think back to it, I felt like I would become a different person.
It truly was eccentric.”

 

  “…I see.”

 

  “A vampire sucking blood is not simply to satiate their hunger through blood.
That in itself is related to magic, because the powers of blood and the familiar of blood are both awakened by sucking in the fresh blood of a human.”

 

  Sebancia paused and pondered to himself before raising a possibility.

 

  “If there is someone who can pull it off, then that person must be one with extraordinary talents.”

 

  “I see.
And a few more things…”

 

  After asking a few more questions to Sebancia Duke, we finished our questioning session.
I thought it was done but that was when Sebancia also threw me a question.

 

  “…Is my castle still there in the south?”

 

  “Hnn? It is.”

 

  “If you happen to go there, have a look at my office.
It might still be there.”

 

  “Huh? Is there something there?”

 

  We didn’t find anything in the previous iteration though?

 

  “That is for you to see, Rune Mage.
I wish you harbor the same caliber of courage as that warrior.”

 

  “I don’t want to support my body with intestines though…”

  

  “There will be nothing you can’t do with that level of courage.
Well… it looks like you already have it though.”

 

  “That’s an overstatement.”

 

  “It is a rightful evaluation.
As an ordinary man who is neither the hero nor the sage, pledging to save the world is not easy.”

 

  “……There was no other choice.”

 

  The world was going to be destroyed without me, so what else could I do?

 

  “No.
There was always the option of running away but you did not choose to escape.
You have my respect.”

 

  “…”

 

  “And lastly, thank you for telling me news about my wife and my daughter.”

 

  With that, Lark’s body began to collapse to the ground.
He was falling face-first and looked like his nose would be crushed at this rate so I supported his body, as golden powders piled up neatly on the floor of the secret room.

 

  It was an Epic Rank Soul Dust, which one might even mistake for gold dust.

 

  After laying Lark down on the ground, I collected the dust and placed it into a cloth purse.
It might seem difficult to gather because it was powder, but Soul Dust of the same attribute gravitated to each other so all I had to do was pick up a few and have the rest follow in one piece.

 

  An exceptional ingredient which could only be gained at around Level 50 was already in my hands.

 

  “Uuhhh…”

 

  “Did you wake up?”

 

  “My head… hurts”

 

  “You were possessed by a demonic spirit until just then.”

 

  “Why does my jaw hurt as well though?”

 

  “Who knows.”

 

  I quickly handed the grimoire over to Lark, who was touching his swollen jaw.

 

  “I, is this the grimoire?”

 

  “Yeah.
Hurry up and read it.
We have to leave soon.”

 

  Lark received the grimoire with shivering hands.

 

  “Can I… really read it?”

 

  “What do you mean? That was the contract.”

 

  “T, that’s true but…”

 

  Wasn’t the contract too favorable for me in the first place…? That appeared to be the question in his mind.

 

  “It’s okay for things to be sometimes given to those who don’t try.”

 

  “…”

 

  After a while, we walked out of the secret room.
Lark seemed touched by the fact that he had obtained a medium-ranked spell despite not doing much himself.

 

  “T, thank you! I won’t forget what happened today! Thank you so much! Seriously!”

 

  “Alright.”

 

  It wasn’t my fault that he had a miserable end in the previous iteration…Yet I still felt a strange sense of guilt dissolving away.

 

  I fed him the first spoon, and after that it was up to him.
I could only hope that the boy wouldn’t fall into despair and that he wouldn’t hate himself in this life.

 

– Buzz! Buzzz!

 

  “Mhmm…!”

 

  It was then.
The sentences of Precept engraved on my body turned blazing hot.
Ugh… It felt as if I was being scorched with fire.

 

  “That’s a success.”

 

  It seemed that the Duty of the Precept, the one that I wouldn’t disregard the misfortune of the good, had been successfully fulfilled.
I looked at the system message which I hadn’t seen for a while.

 

 

 

『Duty Fulfilled – Sebancia Duke』

※ Difficulty: B

※ Reward: Even distribution of 80 points

 

 

  Something did pop up, but what was ‘Even distribution of 80 points’ supposed to even mean? Can’t you be a bit more nice?

 

  “…Status Window.”

 

 

『Access denied due to insufficient qualification.』

 

 

  Geez, for fuck’s sake!

 

  “Huu…”

 

  Although I wasn’t sure because of my practically useless system window, those points were probably talking about the status points of a character.

 

  A player’s status in ❰Heroic Legends of Arhan❱ were divided into Strength, Agility, Aura, Mana and Dexterity.

 

  The common rule of thumb was to go 3, 1, 1 depending on the skill tree you were after.

 

  ‘Can I not even pick the stats I want…?’

 

  It was a shame because using all the 5 stat points given per level up into the necessary stats were the most efficient way to grow a character… Hold up.
5 points?

 

  “Wait, I got 80 points?”

 

  80 stat points was something you could only get through 16 level ups in the game.
I didn’t get any level up announcement, so that meant the reward of the quest itself was 80 stats.

 

  Even though Sebancia Duke’s quest had a difficulty rank of B, it wasn’t a quest that gave an enormous amount of experience points that equaled 16 level ups.

 

– Gulp!

 

  Although there was the penalty of everything being an equal distribution… Maybe there was no cap for my stats then?

 

  Was this a synergy created from the system and the effects of the Precept?

 

  As a reward for doing something good, I got an Epic Rank Soul Dust, a specialty, and… a tremendous increase in stats.

 

  “Huhu… Jackpo… Huuk?!”

 

  W, what was I trying to say just then? I almost copied the habit of that disgusting dude!

 

  ‘How horrendous.’

 

  I’m different from that psychopath.
It felt terrible so I decided to avoid copying his habit at all cost.