Hidden Sanity at Villain School - Chapter 84



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(084)

The environment inside the gate was very different.

Some gates had no gravity, some had no oxygen, and some were blazing fire or filled with ice.

However, South Korea, a portrait powerhouse, only operated the gates that were relatively clean inside and good for hunting as mining types.

Sega slowly raised his head and looked around.

“It’s a different world.”

The floor, walls, and high ceiling of the huge cave were made of a material that could either be meat or rock, and were a vivid purple color.

There was no sun, but the wall seemed to emit some sort of fluorescent substance, allowing a clear view without having to turn on the flash.

It was full of large and small red stalactites and stalagmites, and here and there, you could see tentacles that looked like blood vessels passing by.

The magical power inside seemed to be higher than that of the Shinseoul Hunter Academy, and it felt several times more vivid, perhaps due to the intermediate magical power friendly potion.

“Where on earth is this?”

Lee Kyeom looked around as if he was overwhelmed and answered.

“I don’t know. Some say it’s another planet, some say it’s a rift in the dimensional space, and some say it’s hell. Personally, I think we’ll probably never know.”

Just hearing his voice filled him with awe for the unknown, but he clung tightly to Sega’s arm.

Iljinrim also seemed anxious and kept fiddling with his sunglasses.

Joo Da-hyun clenched her fists because she didn’t like the atmosphere.

I absolutely had to pass this midterm exam and flatten Joo Ra-hyun’s nose.

“……let’s go.”

“uh?”

“This is a gate mining type. From our perspective, it’s a different world’s magic realm, and the hunters have already cleared out all of it. It’s a mine where they wait for the queen to hatch and then come back and kill everyone! Don’t be afraid. The forests of Gangwon-do or Paju where you lived are more dangerous.”

She said it like she was hammering a nail into it.

“Don’t be afraid of sharks coming out of the indoor fish farm.”

Sega raised its head.

“Okay, let’s go. A thousand more will be coming soon, and it would be a waste to stay here.”

Group 8 chose a passage and walked inside the gate.

“I’ll take the lead. I’m still a little scared, so please understand if I go slowly.”

Naturally, the explorer, Lee Gyeom, took the lead.

“Of course. Let’s not overdo it.”

“If you see anything suspicious, tell me right away. I’ll start by crushing anything.”

The telekinesis and knight, Sega, followed at a distance of about thirty steps, and right behind him was the telekinesis, Joo Da-hyun, who was in charge of long-range attacks.

“It feels good to start.”

Iljinrim, the blood shaman in charge of support, kept a distance of five steps from Dahyun and guarded the sides and rear.

It was a classic and excellent formation.

* * *

About a thousand first-year students all entered the gate.

Electronic devices could not be used inside the gate due to the EMP, but it was not difficult to receive real-time video transmissions using summoned creatures or artifacts.

If a person with psychic abilities could refine the video using a special artifact, it could be played back and saved using electronic devices.

The professors gathered in one room of the dome and watched the videos sent by Ina’s summons.

1,000 students enrolled in Shinseoul University.

There were dozens of knights who were called the best hunter class, and there were many aces who had received advance training since childhood and specialists who had grown like crazy thanks to the power of the vaporization magic field.

Just by hearing it, these students seem ready to fill dozens of guilds and advance north and south, saving several countries from the dangers of Monster Land.

“Mom! Dad!”

“Kwaaaaah!”

“That spider has three heads!”

I was proving with my whole body the dictionary definition of a rabble.

No matter how much training I received and how much indirect experience I had through photos and videos that were not released to the general public, the otherworldly demons I encountered in the space called the Gate were terrifying beyond my imagination.

The vivid patterns of the purple shell, the disgusting smell of green fluid, the flashing fangs and the eggs that stick together.

These were all things I had never seen or heard before at school.

“A demon that size would kill 100 people!”

Those who had experienced the devil, like the Iljinrim gang or the scavengers, ran away because they knew the fear.

“The guys I killed didn’t grow up like that?”

The advanced learners with hunter parents were intimidated by the new reality.

“It’s a monster!”

Students from ordinary families who came from Jeolla-do, Gyeongsang-do, and Jeju-do were faced with a fear beyond their imagination and were left frozen in place.

“There’s nothing I can do.”

“What makes us different?”

“It’s not surprising anymore. I feel a little sorry for the kids in the first and second generations. That’s normal.”

The professors at Shinseoul watched their students with bitter smiles.

“This can’t go on! I can’t get expelled.”

“Let’s go again. It’s scary, so let’s go together!”

Soon, reactions started coming in that were 100% as expected.

“If 50 people hit you, won’t you die?”

A whole class of people would run around and kill a hamster with a single step.

“You guys, you guys go in first! If you don’t go, I’ll shoot you!”

Push a group as a sacrifice to check the path.

“Let’s just attack the kids who come back with their hands tied.”

Human hunting.

These were time-honored strategies boasting a tradition of 17 years in the long run, and 8 years in the short run.

“Professor Lee? Are there any kids worth seeing?”

“It looks like Joo-hyuk and Seo-cheon are starting to go inside.”

“It looks like Sega is going to engage in combat right now, but can you show us our 78% skills? No. I’m not saying this because I think our class’s Winter is better.”

A professor with a keen eye found Sega in the small, divided screen.

“Are you confident?”

Ina laughed bitterly at the cute provocation.

The psychic brought up the screen.

* * *

Sega could see sweat dripping down Kyeom’s spine.

From the sky, from the floor, from the wall, from the void.

At night, during the day, at dawn, and in the evening.

The explorer class was the first to go through a path where a demon could appear at any time and any place, relying solely on their five senses.

It was a car that traveled for about 20 minutes.

The passage became slightly narrower than before, then widened again.

Bam.

At that moment, Lee Gyeom raised his hand and clenched his fist.

Demon’s appearance.

“!”

‘It’s the beginning.’

Sega took off his bag in a hurry and drew his sword, Dahyun prepared her telekinesis, and Iljinrim also took off his bag and drew his machine gun.

Swish. Swish.

Lee Kyeom pulled his clenched fist back twice.

It meant to retreat into a narrow passage and confront them.

Sega retreated, his footsteps muffled, and Kyeom also retreated slowly, approaching right in front of Sega.

“They’re aliens. There are two types: worker bees and assault bees. They’re not that big. But I think there are about 50 of them.”

“hoarse?”

I opened my eyes wide and looked ahead, and soon the cursed creatures appeared.

Crackle, crackle.

The worker bee crawled on the floor.

If you grew a flat fan shrimp to about 3m in length, attached scorpion forelegs to it, and covered it in hideous purple barnacles and blisters, it would look like this.

Dadadadada-!

The assault rifle ran along the ground.

If you combined a grasshopper and a carnivorous reptile, grew it to the size of a compact car, and then attached the forelimbs of a locust to its back, it would look like this.

“Shiiiiiiiik-!”

“Crrrrrrr-!”

A terrible, headache-inducing howl was heard, and a foul smell like rotting food waste wafted out.

“Chief. What should we do?”

Lee Gyeom asked Joo Da-hyun.

“Me, me?”

“You said you were going to encourage it!”

“Let’s kill them all!”

Joo Da-hyun shouted, her face turning pale with disgust and anger.

“Okay, Kyeom-ah. Will those bullets work?”

Sega nodded and picked up the submachine gun.

“I think it might be possible.”

Kyeom and Jinrim also held machine guns.

“it’s okay.”

Joo Da-hyun shook her head proudly.

“I’ll finish it in one go.”

Her long hair, partially dyed crimson, stood on end.

An invisible force pulsed within her palm, splitting into hundreds of pieces and spreading out.

Technology used in assigned missions.

Pbububububububu-!

The first and second groups of demons that had been surging forward like a flood rolled on the floor with large and small holes in their bodies.

“Shiiiiiiiik-!”

Green fluid splashed everywhere, wetting the floor, and the demons running behind them suddenly stopped or tripped over the corpses of their own kind.

Jump!

An unusually large assault beast spread its insect-like wings and flew towards Ju Da-hyun.

“Crrrrrrr-!”

She squeezed her eyes shut against the triple assault of horrific sights, headache-inducing sounds, and stench.

“under!”

Then Sega pulled out his sword and kicked the ground.

Tsukaaaaak-!

A bright blue line shot out for nearly 7 meters, and Sega lowered his sword to the ground.

thud.

A beat later, the corpse of the beheaded demon fell to the floor.

“Crrrrrrr-!”

Following this, another wave of swarms rushed in one after another, but they were all cut to pieces by Sega’s sword.

“nice!”

After running three steps up the wall, the demon pulled out his Teeth Blade and swung it.

The neck of a worker beetle that was crawling up the wall was cleanly cut off.

“Shit!?”

The individuals in the back row who had avoided Ju Da-hyun’s bullets turned around and started to run away.

Doo doo doo doo doo-!

“Where are you going?”

Iljinrim’s machine gun fired without mercy, and disintegrating blood flow bullets were fired.

“I have to leave the magic stone behind!”

It didn’t even take 3 minutes for 50 demons to turn into corpses.

“Isn’t this… too easy?”

Sega put his sword back into its sheath with an unrealistic feeling.

I was dumbfounded because the battle ended so quickly, more than I expected.

“Both Dahyun and you are incredibly talented students, and you still have some magic left. If even one of you were gone, I would have been tired. Stay by Dahyun’s side. I’ll go back to guarding the area.”

Lee Kyeom answered, putting back on the bag he had taken off.

If Dahyun hadn’t been there, it would have been impossible to block the rush of 50 demons in the first place, and if Sega hadn’t been there, the formation might have collapsed, unable to stop the demons’ leap.

“Humility is right.”

Iljinrim prepared the collapse-type blood flow magic bullet on his palm, then dropped it one drop at a time onto the demon’s corpse.

Chewy!

The demon’s shell and muscles melted away, revealing a blue magic stone.

“Right now, everything is easy. Damn. This kid is a bit tough.”

Thud! Thud!

What didn’t come out at once was dug out by swinging a titanium alloy hatchet.

In the meantime, Dahyun took deep breaths to recover her magical power, Sega stayed by Dahyun’s side, and Gyeom was on guard around her.

It was common for the smell of a corpse to attract stronger demons.

“I got it all.”

Iljinrim collected a total of 51 magic stones.

The small one was as big as my little fingernail, and the large one was as big as my thumbnail.

“Let’s divide it equally. If we start counting contributions, there’s no end to it.”

Sega, drawing on their experience from the previous designated mission, immediately nailed down the distribution principles, and everyone agreed.

The magic stone was divided into 13 pieces, 13 pieces, 13 pieces, and 12 pieces.

I registered it on the terminal right away, filled up 13 points, and put the magic stone in my bag.

‘It felt like it was about 3g to 5g each. This little grain costs hundreds of thousands of won. Isn’t it so good?’

Group 8 then encountered a group of small demons once more, and Lee Gyeom encountered a group of small demons twice more.

Sega’s points became 32 points.

About 4 hours have passed since I came in.

“My body is starting to feel more relaxed and I’m feeling okay today, so how about trying a medium-sized demon?”

Dahyun confidently suggested, holding up one finger.

“Medium? Thinking about what we experienced in class back then, wouldn’t it be impossible for us to catch it on our own? Of course, I know that Dahyun is a telekinesis of a different level, but it’s a hunter’s rule to take minimal risks.”

Lee Gyeom frowned and politely declined.

“If it’s 50 points, that’s 50 small demons, or more. The current demon density is lower than you think. If you’re aiming for the top ranks, you absolutely have to catch them.”

On the other hand, Iljinrim calmly and strongly insisted on hunting.

‘I can’t take too big of a risk, but I need points. Isn’t there a better way?’

Sega thought about it for a moment and then made a suggestion.

“Then let’s gather more groups. Even one or two groups would be fine. There will be some who start to think similarly.”

Joo Da-hyun tilted her head.

“Are there any kids who want to move with me?”

“There will be people who want to move with me.”

“You know you’re unlucky sometimes, right?”