Why Did I Have to Enroll

[Absorbed Life 3, Magic Beast 4, Body 2, Wildness 3.5]

"Luciel, I think there aren't any more alive ones."

"Huff, huff..."

Luciel, who had been excitedly rampaging among the swarming monsters, only came to her senses and looked up after hearing Ban Yu-won's words.

It had been about ten minutes since they had set a point to meet up with either Light or Dokgo-yeon, moving in a straight line while completely breaking down and absorbing the concept of walls that blocked their path.

Now that the monsters seemed to have decided to show their true colors, they had been forced to stay in one spot and eliminate all the creatures that were rushing in from every direction.

"I got 3.5 in wildness. Come here."

"Thank you, master... ah!"

After classifying the concept and injecting the wildness string into Luciel's body, she trembled with a strangely sensual voice.

Ban Yu-won was certain she was trying to provoke him, but whenever he gave her a stern look, she would droop her eyebrows like a wronged puppy and whimper (though the trick here was that she usually wasn't wronged at all), making it impossible for him to question her too deeply.

"I want to meet up with the others quickly..."

"Yes, that's right."

Good job reading your Korean textbook, Luciel.

Ban Yu-won sighed and checked the concepts within his body.

Life had already reached 392.

Considering it was 360 when he left the academy, he could say he had grown quite a bit... but it still felt insufficient.

He had hoped to reach 400 before encountering any enemies in here.

Seeing how the growth rate of Life was gradually slowing down, that didn't seem like it would be easy.

"No matter who appears, I'll protect you, master...!"

"Thanks, Luciel."

You're the scariest one here.

While thinking this, Ban Yu-won sensed something flying toward them at an incredibly high speed.

The moment he reflexively reached out his hand.

"First, I'll take that hand of yours!"

A familiar male voice pounded in his ears.

"Master!"

Luciel cried out in shock and rushed toward him.

Ban Yu-won soon realized what she had seen.

'This is...?'

The massive flow of mana felt right in front of his outstretched hand.

This too was a pattern of magic power he had experienced before.

Explosion(爆).

"I'll return it to you in full, Ban Yu-won!"

"Master... ugh?!"

The man's voice filled with hatred.

Luciel, who had been rushing toward him, was now howling fiercely as monsters 'sprouted' from everywhere, blocking her path.

A truly massive projectile that surged forward as if to shatter his body, generating magic reactions in real-time—.

"Haha."

Despite the urgent situation, Ban Yu-won couldn't help but laugh dejectedly.

Hadn't he experienced exactly the same situation before?

Moreover, now that he had become more proficient in handling his powers than back then.

[Absorbing Magic Bomb 50!]

It was possible to completely extract and take the concept of objects this simply.

"What...?!"

When the unnecessarily large projectile blocking his view disappeared, he could finally see him clearly.

The man who had lost his right arm after trying to kill Ban Yu-won, refusing to accept his defeat in their class duel.

It was Erecto.

"But..."

While he hadn't expected to meet him here again, there was something even more surprising: the mechanical forearm that now occupied where his right arm used to be.

Honestly, he thought it looked incredibly cool.

"What's with that cyberpunk arm? Did you just shoot with that thing?"

"You, how did you...!"

Unfortunately, Erecto didn't seem inclined to tell Ban Yu-won where the mechanical arm came from.

"How did you handle the Magic Bomb, Ban Yu-won!"

To Erecto's near-scream, Ban Yu-won shrugged and replied.

"You should know if you watched the video uploaded to the Rebellion channel."

"That must have been fake... ugh!"

Erecto started to shout something but shut his mouth.

Now that he had proven with his own body that the Rebellion channel's video wasn't fake, he couldn't spout such nonsense anymore.

Ban Yu-won examined the golden thread wrapped around his arm—the string of the Magic Bomb with a depth of 50—before speaking.

"Well, I doubt you shot this just to verify whether it was fake or not... Are you working with those Exodus guys too?"

"Don't compare me to such lowly creatures. I merely follow the Young Master's orders!"

"You mean Ortima... I see, so you were connected to him rather than Exodus."

Come to think of it, it had been strange how Erecto had picked a fight with Ban Yu-won right from the first class.

What if he had already been under Ortima's command by then?

What if Ortima had moved Erecto from the start with the intention of provoking Class 11?

That would explain everything.

During the duel with Ban Yu-won, Erecto... might have been trying to kill him or at least seriously injure him from the very beginning, regardless of the outcome.

"How dare a lowly creature like you speak the Young Master's name!"

"Ha, quite the loyal dog, aren't you."

"I'm master's loyal dog too...!"

"No, Luciel. Don't get competitive here."

In the end, while Ban Yu-won didn't die and instead Erecto lost an arm and was expelled, Ortima had pulled him back into this incident using revenge against Ban Yu-won as the reason.

From beginning to end, he had been nothing more than an easily manipulated piece for Ortima.

"So how did you get in here? Did you come in with Ortima?"

"Do you think I'd tell you that?"

"Ah, right. Actually, you don't need to tell me."

He had been making assumptions since the moment he saw him.

The probability of him hiding outside and entering when the dungeon opened was extremely low.

Naturally, he must have been inside here even before the dungeon opened.

However, this meant there could be other enemies lying in wait inside this dungeon besides him... Ban Yu-won bit his lip firmly.

The situation was much worse than expected.

'Of course, I prepared a lot not knowing what might happen, but...'

"Don't get cocky! You think you can beat me just because you nullified the Magic Bomb?!"

Perhaps annoyed that Ban Yu-won was lost in thought right in front of him, Erecto growled fiercely like a wounded beast and began to swell up.

This wasn't an exaggeration—it was literally happening.

His mechanical forearm started spewing ominous purple steam, and in an instant, his entire body was covered in metal, swelling up into a mechanical monster reaching 4 meters in height.

"Khaaaaaah!"

An ashen metallic giant, as if the right arm had devoured the whole body to give birth to this form.

The joints that had previously spewed steam like volcanoes were now emitting purple mist.

"This is the power I received from the constellation! Not from Exodus! From the constellation who aids the Young Master, 'The Sowing Hand'!"

The now clearly monstrous Erecto howled in an alien voice.

Ban Yu-won groaned and stepped back as he realized the mist constantly pouring from him was poison.

At that moment, he succeeded in reading him.

—Evil Spirit(惡鬼) 800[Giant 400, Super Strength 300, Poison Mist(毒霧) 100]

He felt his breath catch at the sight of this concept mass reaching a depth of 800.

But separately from that, he was puzzled.

How was he able to immediately read the internal concepts of someone so much stronger than himself?

Perhaps it was because he had defeated Erecto once before and absorbed his record?

'But thanks to that, I've figured out what this is. That's a curse.'

He had read that Erecto carried giant's blood during their previous duel, and had even collected the giant concept with a depth of 14 from his severed right arm.

But that had merely been a concept of potential dormant within him, so how had it grown so massive that it could transform his body—it must be because of that Evil Spirit concept.

'Like Luciel's Heart Furnace, no, even more than that. It's devoured all the concepts he originally possessed and reshaped Erecto into a simple yet lethal monster.'

While Erecto took pride in it as if it were a blessing, in Ban Yu-won's view, that guy might never be able to return to his original self. While Luciel's Heart Furnace utilized temporarily generated concepts to create power, Erecto's Evil Spirit was power created by devouring the concepts he already possessed.

"Poor fellow..."

Ban Yu-won couldn't help but pity him.

That became the trigger that sent him into a frenzy.

"The only poor one here is you who's about to die!"

BOOM! He charged forward, stomping the ground.

"Where do you think you're going!"

Despite her pitiful situation, it was of course Luciel who blocked the charge of the monster whose raw power far exceeded Ban Yu-won's.

"Woman! I'll tear you to shreds first!"

"Ugh...!"

Though Luciel faced him with her Heart Furnace maximally activated, she couldn't push back Erecto who had been strengthened by the constellation's curse in a head-on confrontation. While they seemed evenly matched in pure strength, the poison he continuously emitted was weakening her.

—Detoxify!

"I was ready for this!"

He channeled some of his mysterious qi into the staff's magic crystal and drew in the air. The magic language that was instantly completed and released took the form of the Chinese character solve.

Language magic had manifested.

"Ah!"

"You...?!"

The effect was dramatic. The moment the language magic manifested, not only did the poison mist filling the space vanish, but even the additional poison being emitted from Erecto's body lost its potency.

Until all the mysterious qi imbued in his released solve dissipated, poison would have no meaning in this space. After all, it would be detoxified by the power of the magic language that clung to everything before it.

"Magic?!"

"HYAAAAH!"

"Urgh!"

CRASH! Taking advantage of his momentary confusion, Luciel delivered a powerful kick to his abdomen. Though in terms of size it was like David versus Goliath, he staggered backward with a scream.

"Too hard...!"

But Luciel, who had actually landed the hit, wore a dissatisfied expression. Her foot was swollen from the collision with his metal-covered body.

"Master, we can't win like this."

"I'll join you right away. He's just a big idiot anyway..."

"Master, please watch out for other enemies."

"Ugh?!"

Hearing Luciel's calm voice, Ban Yu-won immediately began scanning his surroundings. But even with his eyes that could read all concepts, he couldn't detect any enemy presence. Luciel wouldn't lie to him... In his urgency, he unfurled the string of characters from the Magic Bomb he had been holding until now.

"It should explode on contact!"

The golden string of characters with a depth of 50 spread widely in a circular shape. The moment it caught something in midair, the threads simultaneously wrapped around their target and exploded—

"Hah, what an interesting ability you use."

But surprisingly, the target merely had their invisibility dispelled and remained standing there unharmed.

"Is this an ability received from a constellation? To think there would be a constellation that would grant power to a lowly being like you..."

Ban Yu-won's eyebrows twitched at the somehow familiar voice.

As the explosion's smoke cleared, what appeared there was.

"Ah... the associate professor who got fired from the academy?"

"What? You insolent..."

It was that pathetic associate professor Parel who had been kicked out of the academy after getting caught by Yumina while harassing Ban Yu-won during the first class!

While analyzing the strength of the barrier he had manifested to protect himself, Ban Yu-won spouted whatever came to mind as he contemplated magic or martial arts that could counter him.

"This is legendary, really. You got fired because of your own fault and came back for revenge?"

As if proving his guilt, Parel appeared completely stained in darkness to Ban Yu-won's eyes that could distinguish good from evil. While wondering why it was even worse than Erecto's...

"You're mistaken, vermin. I was originally part of Exodus."

"...What?"

A truly unexpected answer came back.

—Here he comes!

Instead of Luciel who was preoccupied with blocking Erecto, Selon warned in a shrill voice.

Ban Yu-won reflexively raised his staff to block the attack flying at him.

While being pushed back while blocking his arm, Ban Yu-won gasped. After blocking it, he saw that it was a 'human arm' that had grown long and sharp like a blade.

"Is this... the power of a constellation, or your innate ability?"

"I'll tell you once only your head remains."

Like someone who had eaten the Snip-Snip Fruit, magic power flowed through his entire body as both his arms transformed into massive blades.

No, in fact, even without going into magic power, Ban Yu-won had no way to overcome his pure physical abilities alone.

—Use magic, magic! I'm about to get cut— though I'm not just any staff!

'Let's stop that joke now.'

Above all, the problem was that the staff he wielded wasn't quite suitable as a weapon for blocking the guy's hard and sharp arms.

Though he tried to somehow utilize the principle of Counter, Ban Yu-won's abilities were still insufficient to deflect a blade enhanced with such terrible magic power!

'The Executioner's Greatsword... no, even wielding that wouldn't be enough to overcome this difference.'

There are things you can only learn by directly crossing weapons.

Even now, wasn't the overflowing magic power pressing down on him?

His opponent was someone who had served as an associate professor at Union Academy.

Moreover, he was a formidable enemy who was likely enhanced in some way like Erecto.

'There's no way I can win head-on even if I die and come back. In that case...'

Ban Yu-won had no intention of displaying unnecessary bravado.

There was only one way he could defeat this guy—

Get out of the one-on-one situation.

"Ha!"

Ban Yu-won immediately focused his mysterious qi on two active concepts within his body.

Super Strength and Acceleration!

"Ugh, you...!"

After striking him away with momentary super strength enhanced by the flow of Flow, he quickly retreated backward using acceleration-enhanced Shadow Step.

He extended his staff to construct elemental magic.

Wind attribute, in the shape of a cube large enough to fit one person!

It was a wind prison to contain Parel!

"This kind of... you...!"

—You won't escape easily, you brute!

Of course, there was no way he would remain trapped in Ban Yu-won's magic when he had only just begun learning it.

He was grateful just to have landed the magic properly.

During the brief moment Parel was tearing apart his magic, Ban Yu-won threw a mass of concepts to Luciel who was locked in combat with Erecto.

"Luciel, can you win with this?!"

"...!"

It was the language concept he had pulled out from an impromptu idea while watching Erecto's manifested concept and Luciel fighting him.

It was the 'Giant' with depth 14 that Ban Yu-won had previously obtained from Erecto.

It was half a gamble, but fortunately, Luciel's response was truly dramatic.

"What...?!"

"To think you would grant me even this ability!"

Was it because Luciel was Ban Yu-won's slave?

Or because she wasn't a pure human but a beastman?

If not that, then perhaps her hidden aptitude had bloomed upon meeting Ban Yu-won's authority.

Whatever the case, the giant concept melded naturally into Luciel's body, and immediately after, influenced by the mysterious qi that Ban Yu-won had carefully packed into it, it greatly enhanced her abilities!

"This is enough... I can win!"

"You worthless beeeeast!"

The super strength giant reaching 4 meters extended both arms roughly trying to crush Luciel.

Amazingly, Luciel, who had absorbed the giant concept, swelled up to a size that wouldn't lose to him and instantly crushed him flat.

"KYAAAAH!"

"Guhaack!"

With a fierce cry, her enormous hand pierced straight through the evil spirit's chest and ripped out his heart!

This was no illusion.

This time, Ban Yu-won could see clearly.

The beast ears and tail that suddenly sprouted from Luciel's head and behind.

The sharp and hard beast claws that grew over her hands.

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