I Became an Academy Mechanic Genius

86 – Witch of the Dark Forest

‘El Pandor Runeterra’

This damn difficult game is actually close to a defense game.

The goal is to protect the empire from the invasion of demons by nurturing players and heroines as much as possible in preparation for the coming apocalypse.

“Teach me. “How can I become stronger?”

In that sense, Charlotte’s remarks were no different from an ‘event.’

Usually in this game, the heroine, whose path to growth is blocked, grows one step further in the process of becoming involved with the player.

“Let’s go to the lab first.”

So I took on the role of a player.

After taking Charlotte to her lab, I offered her a cool drink to drink as she looked rather excited.

Eventually, Charlotte cleared her throat and calmed down her anger, and she began to look at me with her natural tension again.

“Okay, I’m so sorry all of a sudden… “I asked you this favor…”

As soon as her anger subsided, she apologized to me.

Looking at his expression, I could see that he had been thinking for a long time about accepting my help.

You probably wanted to solve it yourself as much as possible.

‘If you still ask me for favors…’

It will most likely be a difficult task to overcome on your own.

So I asked Charlotte what had happened, and she told me the whole story.

Eventually, Charlotte told me everything that had happened, and I was able to understand her situation.

Cadmus Kratz.

That gangster threatened her Charlotte.

“You must have had a lot of trouble.”

“······.”

“But it’s okay. “Because it’s no big deal.”

However, in my opinion, it wasn’t something to make a fuss about.

From Charlotte’s point of view, Cadmos may seem like a huge mountain, but from her point of view, it is nothing more than a sand castle that will collapse if you step on it.

“First of all, I will repay the money that Cadmus lent to your family.”

The money that the Kratz family lent to the Verdian family was only 30 million Orden.

What a ridiculous price.

The monthly air conditioner subscription and mosquito net costs alone are in the billions, but you can’t believe you’re campaigning with just 3,000.

“Ha, but…! “I can’t possibly get that much help…”

However, Charlotte seems to find my proposal burdensome.

Because of that, I─

“Pay me back later.”

“····Huh?”

“You can pay it back later. “You will be charged interest as well.”

In order for Charlotte not to feel burdened, she created an appropriate justification.

Eventually, Charlotte nodded her head with a softened expression.

“···Yes.”

Charlotte lowered her head, clutching the hem of her dress as if she felt sorry for me.

Perhaps, if she were Charlotte, she would be able to quickly clear the burden of her heart from me.

She has such a sense of money that she came up with a product called ‘glow-in-the-dark shoes’.

“So the money has been resolved, and now I just have to get revenge?”

“···Huh? Yeah, right? But that’s because… ah, I guess… I’m in the C class…”

“It’s okay. “It’s easy to win.”

“It’s hard to win anyway, huh?”

Charlotte looks at me in surprise at my next words.

She said.

“Bah, what did you just say…?”

“They say it’s easy to win. “You can easily defeat Cadmus.”

“······?”

Charlotte’s expression looked unconvinced, as if she had heard 1 + 1 = 3.

So I started adding to her explanation so that she could understand.

“Charlotte. She’s not really qualified to get a C grade. “She should get at least an A grade.”

“······?”

Charlotte’s biggest weakness.

It wasn’t her physical condition, her lack of proficiency in mana management, or her family’s specialty magic.

Her mental state.

For a long time, she was tied up in her own Verdian family, and that was her mental problem that became her obsession.

“Charlotte. You are limiting your possibilities too much. No, your family itself has a tendency to limit violent tendencies. “You can’t fight properly like that.”

Charlotte’s family, the Verdian family.

The Verdian family is a family that has long avoided fighting and considered harmony and coexistence as important values.

Because of this, they did not fit the empire’s method of achieving things through competition, and were now eliminated as a family that could not even pay academy tuition.

‘It’s because I was strongly influenced by Sijo.’

This is because the founder of the Verdian family was an elf.

An elf who likes humans and settled in the human world.

However, as hundreds of years passed and the Verdians interbred with humans, they eventually became closer to humans.

Inheriting their spirit that is completely incompatible with the human world.

“Charlotte. Your natural world creation technique has infinite possibilities. “Especially if the goal is ‘killing,’ it can be very powerful.”

My role is to enlighten her.

So that she can break free from her long bonds and embrace her fighting spirit and malice.

“My, my technique… Is it for life, death, and death…?”

As soon as she heard the word killing, Charlotte looked at me with a blank expression.

As expected, Charlotte needs mental reform.

Because I’m so soft-hearted, I’m making shabu-shabu using that good special technique.

“Yes. “There are many natural plants in this world that have evolved in a cruel way.”

“Now, are you cruel? “A plant…?”

“Yes. If you’re curious, would you like to take a tour first? “Let’s take a quick drink to the ‘Forest of Death.'”

***

Time passes quickly, four days later.

Finally, the selection competition that all the cadets had been waiting for was held.

A 1:1 no-rules match took place in a large-scale amphitheater.

-Asen!!! Win!!

-Pintel, you guy! If I lose, I won’t let go!!

The amphitheater was crowded with cadets and their officials.

As it was an event to select members for the ‘Sea Wall’, one of the world’s three largest magical unique zones, it was a stage in which many newspaper companies and high-ranking nobles also showed interest.

-Waaa!!

The game that soon started was passionate.

All of the cadets were desperate, and there were several great matches.

The audience responded loudly and cheered, and journalists repeatedly pressed the shutter.

-When was Edgar Fix vs. Lucas Elmar called?

-I heard it was the last time.

-Oh my. It’s hard to wait.

However, even though this spectacular match was unfolding, the audience was still not satisfied.

This is because expectations for Edgar Fix VS Lucas Elmar, which can be said to be the highlight of this selection match, are sky-high.

Who will win if Lucas, a genius magician who took second place in the class evaluation, and Ed, who is said to be the reincarnation of the blacksmith god, compete?

Audiences could not dare to predict the outcome.

There are high expectations for Ed, whose equipment is being upgraded every day, but there are also high expectations for Lucas, who is expected to become the Elmar family’s biggest output.

“The next match is Cadmus of the Kratz family versus Charlotte of the Verdian family.”

With such explosive interest, the players for the next game were announced.

Cadmus in Group A vs. Charlotte in Group B.

The audience’s reaction was cold.

This is because Cadmus is ranked 6th in class A, while Charlotte ranks at the bottom of class C.

Isn’t the reason he was able to become C grade in the first place because he rode Edgar Fix’s bus in the first game?

-Hey, I guess there’s nothing to watch about this game.

-But I’m glad it ended quickly. Well, is it going to be a 3 second cut?

-But hasn’t she definitely become prettier? Even if you don’t have any skills, you can aim for a rise in status if you get married well, right? Even if you just graduate from the academy, you have pretty good qualifications.

As a result, the audience was not interested in the direction of the game.

They just bet on how quickly the game will end or talk about Charlotte’s beauty, which has recently risen in popularity.

Almost all of the cadets were predicting a landslide victory for Cadmus.

‘Is that really so?’

But.

There was only one person who predicted Charlotte’s victory.

Edgar Fix.

After training Charlotte hard for the past four days, she decided that she could win.

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‘It’s an expedient method.’

However, the method Ed used was not a common method.

In the first place, it was almost a miracle for the bottom of Class C to beat the top of Class A.

In order to achieve this near-miraculous feat, it was necessary to improve one’s skills and change the person himself.

“So, have you thought about it?”

While Ed was lost in thought.

Charlotte and Cadmus were facing off in the center of the stadium.

Cadmus asked her question to Charlotte with her perturbed expression, and Charlotte bowed her head with her shadowed face.

He remains silent in response to Cadmus’ questions.

“Kkeukkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk…”

Cadmus therefore understood Charlotte’s silence as ‘fear.’

She wants to show off her pride, but she is so afraid of herself that she keeps her head down on the ground and can’t say a word.

“This, this, this, now you can’t even say anything? Kkkkkkk…”

Cadmus mocked Charlotte to the fullest.

Imitating Charlotte’s timidity that was brought on by her own self, she made a snarky and fierce expression that was unique to her.

-Sigh.

At that moment.

Charlotte raised her head.

Unlike before, when he was shaking like an aspen, he was glaring at Cadmus with an aloof face.

Soon she said.

“No matter how much I think about it, I just can’t forgive it.”

“······?”

Charlotte’s mood changed in an instant.

However, Cadmus could not believe his own ears.

Who dares forgive whom?

The guy laughed and said.

“What are you saying? Has this b*tch finally gone crazy?”

“You should have only touched me… “You even tried to take my family away.”

Charlotte clearly says everything she wants to say.

Cadmus is still looking at Charlotte with a puzzled expression.

“Ready for the game!”

In the meantime, the referee gave a signal.

Before the game starts, there will be a countdown.

“You damn scum b*tch.”

At this, Cadmus opened his hands and prepared to dash.

.

I needed to clearly explain to that stupid b*tch what true education is.

-Sigh.

However, Charlotte took out her strange object that was in her arms.

It was a mask given to me by Ed.

Charlotte put on a mask made of sleek jet black metal, then she pressed a button.

Then-.

-Poo─Shui Iik····.

Black smoke erupted from inside the mask and began to penetrate Charlotte’s bronchi.

Eventually, the infiltrating black smoke stimulated Charlotte’s brain nerves, activating her mana receptors, and began to regulate her emotional control organs.

It blocks the ‘selflessness’ and ‘compassion’ that make up most of Charlotte’s personality.

-Whaaa…

And she began to develop unfamiliar feelings that did not belong to Charlotte.

Sense of superiority and sadism.

And it was violent.

The hormones selected by Ed solely to subdue the devil fill Charlotte.

-Suooooo····.

As Charlotte’s inner self completely changed, her external appearance also began to change.

Her eyes, which were always moist, turned jet black, and the area around her eyes also turned black, as if she were wearing smokey makeup.

“The game begins!”

While Cadmus was taken aback by the sudden change in Charlotte’s appearance, the referee, who had already counted down the count, announced the start of the game.

Cadmos, who belatedly came to his senses, kicked Charlotte on the ground to dash towards her, and at the same time, Charlotte activated her magic.

-Boom!

However, the essence of the magic technique was a rock.

To block Cadmos’ dash, she summoned a rock and blocked it.

Cadmus shouted, bursting into laughter.

“hahahaha! Well then! “Is there anything else you b*tch can do like this!”

Cadmus smashed the rock as if to show off his power.

I could destroy a hundred or a thousand rocks at any time.

-Gurrurrr however nonetheless.

However, the magic that Charlotte implemented was not about summoning rocks or anything.

As the rock broke into pieces and visibility was gained, an unfamiliar landscape, not the stadium, came into Cadmus’s field of vision.

“····What…?”

Charlotte’s new technique that combines psychedelic techniques and natural techniques.

A territorial attack that covers a specific area with a forest of death.

【hehehehe····.】

In the forest of death filled with ominous red air, the sound of the evil woman’s laughter was like an echo.

Cadmus entered the middle of the forest created by Shalott’s malice, breathing heavily and rolling his eyes here and there.

Everywhere was full of signs of death, and strangely shaped trees and grass were emitting harmful gases instead of carbon dioxide.

-Whoop!

While my thoughts were becoming stiff at the strange sight, a black silhouette passed by at high speed.

At the same time, the creepy sound of a woman’s laughter pierced Cadmus’s ears, and Cadmus could sense that this laughter was Charlotte’s.

“Haa…Haa…Haa…”

Cadmus’ breathing began to become heavy.