<181 - Another Organization>
With the favorability project completed, I was searching for any events that could help with my skill points before the midterm exams when I stumbled upon an event.
[Material Heist Event]
Students attending different lectures began fighting over limited materials.
On one side were students from Professor Weird’s [Fundamentals and Understanding of Mana Usage] course, and on the other were those from the [Basics of Imperial Magic Studies].
Getting involved in this complex situation tangled with the rivalry between the border professors and Imperial professors, not to mention the pride clash between border and Imperial students, would be quite the challenge.
Of course, a good kid who thinks of their friends wouldn’t be afraid to participate in the event, right?
Considering the animosity between the borders and the Empire, this is a must-have event that appears every time!
So far, it seemed like none had happened, but finally, the day had come.
“Hehe. This is a main event that players are guaranteed to encounter in the game story!”
Main events, of course, reward higher than other events.
A ton of points, rare rewards, and various functional releases to help with academy activities await.
To gather rewards like this from other events, you’d need to clear about ten other events to level the balance.
And since it leads to more connections, it can only get better!
“Stop it… Everyone, don’t do this for me!”
But I was losing those great rewards in real-time.
“Oknodie, as a servant of the Evil Organization, I shall reveal your heinous acts pretending to be an innocent young girl with this strike, kyaaa!”
“How dare you touch Oknodie, you vile one? As long as we’re here, you won’t even be able to lift a finger against Oknodie!”
Followers of Arcadia, who had been trailing me, collided with the students rushing towards me, not allowing anyone to get closer.
We need to fight to gain related skill experience points, but if no fights occur, there’s no chance to gain experience points.
“Hmph, I’ve got reinforcements here too. Just a bunch of weaklings won’t stand against a properly trained fighter… Ahhh!? What are you doing, Rosgini! You already compromised!”
In the chaos, Rosgini, possessing a fiery red hair, sighed and said, “I didn’t want to get involved. But I can’t allow you to touch this child. The dregs of Arcadia have come out, and as an apprentice mage of the Red Mage Tower, I can’t just stand idly by, can I?”
“You really don’t need to! I’m totally fine, honestly!”
“See? That admirable child. How could she be so accustomed to living with help from others? I can’t let this go, feeling sorry for her.”
With Rosgini stepping up, even the Imperial students attending Professor Weird’s [Fundamentals and Understanding of Mana Usage] class, who had nowhere else to go because of a lack of free slots in other classes, began to join in.
This cannot continue.
To let those supporting cast or extras snatch away the delicious chunks of experience points right in front of me—how can I just stand by?
I have high Stealth experience!
[Stealth (196)]
[Invisibility (80)]
[Sneaking (65)]
I mixed into the chaos trying to land at least a final blow on the noobs nearby when suddenly the ground surged up, forming a massive wall of dirt.
“Don’t worry, Oknodie. You won’t have to worry about blind attacks, my earth magic will protect you.”
“Sa-Sandkooker?!”
“…Hmph. Now, do you understand the greatness of earth magic just a bit? Remember, I am a superior mage compared to Rosgini.”
You little brat.
From today on, you are my enemy!
[Thanks to your appearance, the students gained courage and won the fight.]
[Completed the main event [Material Heist].]
[Achieved bonus of 10,000 points.]
[Favorability of students from the border region rose randomly between 1 to 10.]
[Favorability of 100 students attending [Fundamentals and Understanding of Mana Usage] rose by 10.]
[Favorability of students in [Basics of Imperial Magic Studies] fell by 10.]
[Achieved victory in the [Material Heist] event without dealing a single blow.]
[Special reward of 10,000 points granted.]
[Protection Trigger Experience +20]
[Charisma Experience +10]
[Terror Induction Experience +10]
[Dark Magic Experience +5]
[Observation Experience +5]
[Good Child Experience +3]
[Perfection Experience +1]
[The experience of the observation skill has exceeded 200.]
[Specialization of the Trait is activated.]
[Special effect [Automatic Analysis] is unlocked.]
Protection Trigger: Owners of this feature have an increased chance of being designated as protector, observer, or attack target by another person’s designated abilities.
Charisma: This feature, held by the commander class, adds bonuses to communication, animal taming, organization management, and group leadership.
Dark Magic: This feature affects the activation probability, duration, potency, and additional effects of all wicked magic mediated by Dark Mana.
Perfection: When this skill is activated during a combination skill, it increases the chance for a great success on that combining skill.
Ugh. I need to boost my battle functions, but I just ended up raising all these useless skills…
“Thanks, everyone…”
“Here, Oknodie. This is your share of the materials.”
[Received [Mana Stone Powder (50g)], a necessary material for the [Fundamentals and Understanding of Mana Usage] lecture.]
Thanks to my habit of often using the ‘Observation’ feature to find targeted items or collectibles, I reaped the benefits from my observation experience of 200.
Every skill that reaches the 200 mark gets a special effect attached, enhancing performance, easing conditions, or specializing traits.
For complicated skills, it’s often easing of conditions; for basic skills with weak performance, it’s performance enhancement; and for skills targeting specific content, specialization development is mainly used.
“I initially wanted a combat skill of 200, but there’s nothing I can do about what I’ve already received.”
In the first place, I have been using this skill ever since gaining the Insight ability in the [Developing Insight] course.
I had always aimed to unlock it, and its deceptive power rivals that of [Stealth].
That made sense.
The trait [Automatic Analysis], which can be unlocked starting from an observation skill of 200.
This analysis activates on people too.
†Dorothy (Human/Apprentice Forest Keeper/Prospective Adventure Department)
†Andrea (Demon Minions/Sky Thunder Demon’s Succor/Prospective Adventure Department)
†Eddie (Fairy/Spirit’s Friend/Prospective Adventure Department)
†Ppyoi (Human/Bikini Warrior/Prospective Knight Department)
†Mainich (Human/Information Agent/Administration Department)
Name, race, class, affiliated department.
Just looking at the neatly polished names shows how convenient this is.
A feature that allows me to pretend I know all the names of extras even if I forget!
“Hehe. Now I can rake in the favorability of the extras too.”
Originally unpopular kids see their favorability jump just by having their names called.
– Your name is Judas, right?
– Y-You, you are that strength-overloaded one-hit wonder!?
– Why do you know my name?!
– So, is that a bad thing?
– N-No, it’s a good thing.
Hmmmm.
Even while digging through memories from previous rounds, I surely liked it!
But then, one name catches my attention.
While gazing at Dorothy, I inadvertently spotted a name that seemingly shouldn’t be here among them.
I went after that person and lightly tapped their shoulder.
“Hey.”
“…What do you want?”
“Why were you spying on the students earlier?”
“Lies… You found me amidst all that chaos?”
“Of course, I noticed.”
I couldn’t help but wonder what made them think they wouldn’t get caught.
“There’s no way you wouldn’t draw attention with that outfit!”
The unidentified demon, wandering around invisible, or the mysterious fairy who casts Invisibility, were all competing for the spotlight, but the most eye-catching was clearly the girl walking around in a bikini under her cloak!
How could anyone ignore a Bikini Warrior showing up at school when it’s not even summer?
*
Professor Rave, a magic professor from the Empire.
At the beginning of the semester, he boasted in front of his imperial students.
“Don’t worry. Your scores are guaranteed.”
The Warrior’s companion and Saintess Yufi.
The Second Princess of the Holy Central Empire, Masugaki.
Considering the knowledge level of these two, he mixed in questions that they could only answer under the pretense of “common sense” from outside their syllabus.
Isabel – 19/20
Yufi – 18/20
Masugaki – 17/20
The results overturned expectations; Isabel, a commoner from the border who just appeared out of nowhere, took the top spot.
It wasn’t hard to discern that Isabel’s passing stemmed from the answer sheet theft orchestrated by Professor Bronze de Estrada.
“Those darn mice from the border. They’ve been waiting for an opportunity to get back at us, and finally, today has come.”
“Professor, does that gossip come up in the test?”
“…It won’t.”
“Then please just tell me the things I need to do quickly. I’m super busy right now.”
The Bikini Warrior Ppyoi shockingly interrupted the professor’s words and urged him.
If senior teaching assistants had seen it, it would have been quite the spectacle, but neither the professor nor Ppyoi held it against her.
They all knew Ppyoi was a special student.
“I’ve heard that Isabel, who achieved high scores through Professor Bronze’s tricks, has taken a liking to Oknodie, the joint top first-year student.”
“What do you want to do about that child?”
“I’ve heard rumors about an evil organization that wishes to corrupt the bikini warrior by making the noble girl from the Empire wear an unremovable cursed Bikini Armor.”
“Oh, Professor, you’re quite knowledgeable for an old guy. Or perhaps it’s because you’re an old guy?”
“Shut it. Anyway, I hope to take this opportunity to make that Oknodie wear the Bikini Armor and corrupt her into a bikini warrior. Don’t worry, the points won’t be stingy.”
Ppyoi happily accepted the offer.
“Alright! But make sure you create the opportunity for me!”
That was the reason Ppyoi was hiding among the students to spy on Oknodie.
“That girl, can’t she stop bringing so many people around her?”
It’s clear how popular she is; I’ve never seen her without someone nearby.
While students are engaging in a material scramble, the earth mage is guarding with a sand wall, making it clear there’s no other way around.
Just as I was about to give up, lo and behold, Oknodie managed to separate herself and faced me one-on-one.
“There’s no way you wouldn’t draw attention dressed like that!”
“Hehe. Hey, do you like Bikini Armor?”
On one side stood a small student whose cloak dragged on the ground, and on the other stood a Bikini Warrior wearing only the Bikini Armor under her cloak.
Despite their ridiculous appearances, this was the meeting of two evil organizations breaking into the Gift Academy—the scholarship student from the Wiheomhae Foundation and the Bikini Warrior from the Bikini Warrior Squad.
