Friday’s second class was phenomenology.
“It has been a long time since the dimensional distortion phenomenon, cracking has occurred. However, the cause of the cracks and the type of cracks are still not well known.”
The world’s phenomena.
It is necessary for any superhuman to analyze the phenomena and to know about the previous cases, but it was a crucial study for hunters.
“Ah… When does it end?”
Teenage students who wanted to play in full swing could not stay focused on the class.
“You won’t make a mistake if you release your body. What was the 1st class today?
Besides, Friday was the day of the ‘real evaluation’, a decisive event for students.
The students were not as attentive as usual, as the class was boring, and they had a practical evaluation ahead.
“We can’t concentrate any more today.”
Lee Ho-Jun, professor of phenomenology analysis, disliked the situation.
He was still a high-quality man who was still receiving love calls from various guilds and government intelligence agencies.
As an educator with such standards, he refused such suggestions and then stood at the pulpit.
“There.”
Hojun Lee pointed out a cadet sitting behind and drawing something.
“Cadet Jung Si-woo.”
I slept through the first hour, and I didn’t raise my head throughout the class.
He was persistently vexing.
“You did not lift your head, but you wrote something in your notebook. So if I ask you about today’s class, can you answer correctly?”
I shook my head slowly.
Fatigue was pouring out from me.
“Ah… Well, yes.”
Responding confidently, Ho-Jun Lee thought.
He was already memorizing Jung Si-woo’s embarrassed face.
“What are you going to ask?”
I asked, looking at him through my sleepy eyes.
“… I think I’ve taken this class thoroughly, and I’m confident.”
The attitude made Lee Ho-Jun more irritated.
“The three largest cracks have occurred to date. Tell me about the nature of the crack and when it happened, and what happened to them.”
He asked the most challenging question he could.
“What? I learned that in class…?”
“How can you remember the features if you don’t even know about the three big scales?”
“I was really taken by that professor…”
The cadets around me noticed the difficulty of the question and began to mumble.
Everyone thought that I would not be able to answer, and would be embarrassed.
Lee Ho-Jun thought the same.
The question was about something he just taught in class. However, it was impossible to remember the traits and periods that were explained and the phenomena they caused in such a short time.
However.
“The great crack in Germany on June 20, 1991, a dark crack in China on January 14, 2003, and a red crack in Korea on April 7, 2006; these are the three largest cracks that have occurred. The largest crack is more than 10 times the size of the other cracks, and the monsters that appeared there were allegedly over-class A. The peculiarity is that all the monsters from the crack are large species…”
However, contrary to everyone’s expectations, it was not Jung Si-woo who was embarrassed, but Lee Ho-Jun and the other students.
‘… What. ‘
My answer was perfect. It had no gaps as if I had read it straight from the textbook.
‘… A cadet who just came to the second grade can give such an answer?
He explained the phenomenon with his own analysis, which was surprisingly sharp and accurate. Professor Lee Ho-Jun spat out the exclamation.
“…”
The entire classroom froze in silence.
I looked around and muttered in an indifferent voice.
“Is that enough?”
* * *
“How did you know it in such detail?”
Jinwoo Lee asked me with a strange look.
“The hunting department should know everything, well.”
I replied loudly.
It was futile to dream of being a hunter and not know these basics.
Those who enter the catastrophic cracks can’t make sense of it if they didn’t know about them.
All those who think that excellent hunters are those with strong characteristics and skills must be stupid.
It was a lesson I learned from experience.
A strong idiot is only a hindrance.
The traveler murmured as he looked at me.
[An untrained body, but his head is full of knowledge about monsters.]
“…”
[You fit in with the users of Akashic Records. You’re filled with useless information.]
“Oh, stop it.”
[Why? It’s a compliment.]
I didn’t know if it was a compliment or a gag, but I wasn’t happy to hear it.
While in the middle of a conversation with the traveler, someone burst into the room.
“Full-scale performance evaluation begins in one hour.”
It was instructor Park Hyun-suk.
Everyone was focused on it,
“If you have personal equipment and a scroll or potion to use in a crisis, bring it all.”
“Scroll, Potion… This?”
Some frowned at these words.
Scrolls and potions were expensive items used by active hunters.
It wasn’t something that academy 2nd graders could use.
Of course, a handful of people, the gold spoons, could easily afford them.
But most cadets didn’t have that kind of equipment.
In other words, there was no restriction on the use of expensive items in the tests.
It meant that the gap that would result would not be reflected in the evaluation.
It’s like saying that they prefer gold spoons with expensive artifacts, scrolls, or potions.
It was natural for the students to look bitter.
Park Hyun-suk continued.
“Every year, when I say this, the students look unhappy.”
“…”
“I don’t know how many times I’ve said this, but one of the most important things for a hunter is preparation. And there is no limit to preparation. That’s also why cadets always complain. Shouldn’t the evaluation be fair, shouldn’t the scrolls and potions be disabled, or should at least the artifact be the same?”
Park’s eyes were burning bright.
“But do you think monsters are fair to hunters? Do you think that they would pity hunters who did not kill women or the elderly, or hunters who could not prepare artifacts because they did not have the money? There is no such thing. They are wicked, and they will swallow the weak old people and children alike. To take them out, hunters have to be stronger than these monsters.”
These weren’t words from an academy instructor, but the words of a retired hunter who had been active for a long time.
“So if you’re going to murmur in front of the monsters and say they’re not fair, don’t prepare anything.”
“…”
“That’s the first thing you need to learn to be a hunter. I’m not blaming you for lacking things, but for not finding other ways to fill the gap, for not finding enough weapons to surpass others.”
“…”
“Monsters are more powerful than humans from their time of birth. They can fly faster than the speed of sound, and their bodies are harder than steel. Are you saying that you will be dealing with such creatures and that it is not fair that students have artifacts, scrolls, potions? Huh?”
His words were harsh but laced with advice.
Park Hyun-suk went on.
By the way.
“When the test starts, let’s take a look at Cadet Jeong Si-woo since he said that he reawakened.”
Of course, my name was mentioned.
“Did you find a weapon you could use?”
“…”
Park Hyun-suk’s words turned into a threat as I left his question unanswered.
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