Episode 42. Performance evaluation (6)
8.
By catching senior Bae Jin-su, I was able to obtain quite a bit of information.
The most valuable information among them was the fact that the head of the Rebellions branch would visit Awakening High School during the performance evaluation.
‘The Rebellions guys who broke in during final exams come to school during performance evaluations… … .’
What he meant was that the attack that occurred during the final exam could be pulled into the performance evaluation.
Armed with this information, I started making a plan.
The Rebellions were a force that I had no choice but to clash with until I reached the ending.
If we were going to clash, I thought it would be better to weaken our power each time we clashed.
After thinking that, I looked at Bae Jinsu, who had lost his mind.
It definitely instilled in me a sense of fear.
Because I experienced the extreme fear that I might actually die, it was clear that Bae Jin-su would cause a stir just by looking at me.
However, as befits the title of spy, Bae Jin-su was a person who could betray like a meal.
Minimum safety equipment was essential.
“Senior, listen carefully.”
With my words, I lit up the flame of Hwaryeong in front of Jinsu Bae.
Grumbling.
Bae Jin-soo’s pupils shook when he saw the flame.
“I’m going to put this into your body now. If you reveal what happened with me to others… … “Pow!”
Hehehe.
When I showed an exaggerated gesture, Bae Jin-su seemed surprised.
“Okay, so it might hurt a little bit.”
After saying that, I held out Hwaryeong towards Bae Jin-su’s chest.
Wow!!
***
After such an eventful weekend, the morning of the performance evaluation day dawned.
During the performance evaluation, I received information that the Rebellions were attacking and was fully prepared yesterday.
First of all, I combined buff and kendo.
Then a system message appeared.
[Combines ‘Buff’ and ‘Kendo’, which are sub-talents of the talent ‘Transfer’.]
Since the buff was a grade A talent, the talent level that could be maxed out was also grade A.
I chose one of the five talents that appeared in the combination, made a combination talent, and started visiting my friends on Sunday.
It was for this reason that I filled my talents with the talents of people around me.
First, I called Dabin Hwang and Selina over and sparred with them under the pretense of teaching them what I had learned in the performance evaluation preparation class.
As soon as my talent increased after being attacked by those guys, I used a combination without either of them knowing.
[Combines ‘Buff’ and ‘Hwaryeong’, which are sub-talents of the talent ‘Transfer’.]
Unfortunately, the combination system required one day to combine the same talents.
Since the number of times the combination system could be used per day was limited to three, I had to accumulate my talents efficiently.
I had no choice but to be satisfied with sparring with the two, taking one combination talent and filling both of their talents back to (1/1).
After hanging out with the two of them, I went to see teacher Kang Joo-hyuk and had a good time, then went to see senior Choi Min-ji.
While receiving swordsmanship instruction under the pretext of learning sword fighting, I wondered if Choi Min-ji knew about Bae Jin-su’s work.
Fortunately, senior Choi Min-ji seemed completely unaware of what had happened with senior Bae Jin-soo.
Having acquired the talent for kendo, I combined Hwaryeong and kendo in Senior Minji Choi’s training room, filled my kendo talent to (1/1), and came out of the training room.
As a result, I was able to fill in 3 combination talents and 5 usable talents among the transferred talents in one day.
9.
I sighed as I recalled what happened yesterday.
If anyone had seen me yesterday, I would have looked like a student preparing very diligently for a performance evaluation.
“Siwoo, hello!”
As I arrived at school, I saw Yoo Ah-ram greeting me.
When I saw that, I suddenly remembered what I heard from Jinsu Bae on Saturday.
‘Why were you targeting me?’
‘… I saw each tube at Rebellions and was keeping an eye on you. I’m here to recruit you… … .’
After hearing that, I was surprised when I went to the Gaktube run by Yoo Ah-ram.
This is because the video had a huge number of views.
“Yoo Ah-ram. You said that video… … .”
“uh? saw?! I already wanted to talk about it last time! “Siwoo, it’s so amazing!”
I stopped what I was going to say about the video as I watched Yoo Ah-ram smiling brightly.
My face has already been sold anyway.
Rather than arguing about what had already happened, the first thing to do was to think about how we could take advantage of this situation.
As I watched Yoo Ah-ram making a fuss, I whispered to Yoo Ah-ram.
“Aram, after the performance evaluation, let’s film another video.”
When I suddenly whispered, Yoo Ah-ram looked embarrassed and then answered.
“Yes.”
“Then take a good look at today’s performance evaluation!”
Having said that, I sat down in my seat.
And the moment I sat down, teacher Kang Joo-hyuk came into the classroom.
“Everyone knows what day today is, right?”
The students didn’t answer. Teacher Kang Joo-hyuk said after seeing the students looking nervous.
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“There’s nothing to be too nervous about. “If you just follow the lessons taught so far, you will be able to do well on the performance evaluation.”
“yes!”
“Then, we will move to the location where the performance evaluation will be conducted.”
“yes?”
The students tilted their heads when the teacher said, “Let’s move,” not “Let’s move.”
That moment.
Rattling.
Holes began to form in the classroom floor.
“Good luck.”
Shoo!
“Aaaah!!”
“Crazy, what is this!!”
Unlike me, who was mentally prepared, other students screamed from all over because it was their first time experiencing it.
Slurp!
We descended vertically as if riding a roller coaster and landed on a high pile of straw.
“Kellogg, Kellogg.”
“What is this place?”
Looking around, it seemed like 100 first-year students had fallen at the same time, starting with Mir Yoon, Jun-woo Oh, Ha-rin Kang, Min-jae Yang, and Won Won-hoon. I could see the faces of students in other classes.
At that time, a huge screen appeared in the sky.
[Ah, can you hear me?]
The teacher who appeared on the screen was teacher Hye-ran Yoo, the homeroom teacher of the first grade class.
[Ah, I think it worked. hello. This is Yoo Hye-ran, who is in charge of conducting today’s performance evaluation.]
For some reason, it seemed like the teacher was in charge of the broadcasting.
The students began to get noisy after hearing teacher Hye-ran Yoo’s words.
“This is a performance evaluation?”
“I never thought there would be a facility like this in the basement of the school.”
[Everyone please be quiet and listen carefully. The place where you are standing now is inside the educational gate located in the basement of Awakening High School.]
“gate?”
“If it’s a gate, then… “That monster is coming?”
The students started talking once again at the word ‘gate’, and teacher Hye-ran Yoo was impressed when she saw it.
[there! I told you to be quiet!]
“sorry!”
The students, who knew that school life would become difficult if they were picked on by teacher Hye-ran Yoo, began to quietly listen to what teacher Hye-ran Yoo said.
[The rules for performance evaluation are simple. From now on, you can clear this educational gate as a group of 100 people.]
Clear one gate with 100 people.
In some ways, it was a rule that seemed easy. It was a difficult rule.
“Then how do you differentiate the scores?”
Teacher Hye-ran Yoo answered Ha-rin Kang’s question.
[It’s simple. If you want to get the highest score in the performance evaluation, you just have to catch as many monsters as possible and defeat the boss monster.]
The students’ eyes sparkled at those words.
[There will be a special prize prepared for the person who comes in first place in this performance evaluation, so I hope you all do your best. Then, let’s start the performance evaluation now.]
Paaa-!
As soon as the screen turned off, the surroundings turned dark.
It was the beginning of a full-scale performance evaluation.
10.
Hwareuk.
A flame bloomed in a space filled with darkness.
When Selina’s Hwaryeong ignited a flame, the students who recognized their surroundings heaved a sigh of relief.
“Thank you, Selina.”
Dabin Hwang, who was standing next to Selina, looked around.
Clearing the gate, I never thought you could do something like this at school.
Thinking that his experience in clearing the gate with Lee Si-woo and Selina would be of great help, Hwang Da-bin visited Lee Si-woo.
“uh?”
“why?”
“… doesn’t exist.”
“what?”
Apparently Lee Si-woo, who had been next to them just a moment ago, had disappeared.
***
“Among the freshmen that the teachers are considering, is this one a student they should keep an eye on?”
Won Tae-jin asked while watching first-year students taking a performance evaluation on the screen.
Teacher Kang Joo-hyuk answered those words without any hesitation.
“This is student Lee Si-woo.”
“If you are a student Lee Si-woo… “Are you talking about the student who beat Yoon Mir?”
“Yes, that’s right. “I am a student who got an F grade but took first place on the midterm exam.”
Won Tae-jin tilted his head when he heard that he was grade F.
Awakened people speak in terms of grades.
Of course, awakeners who were stronger than their grade often appeared, but on average, the grade represented the strength of the awakened person.
Perhaps that was why Principal Won Tae-jin asked in a skeptical tone.
“Hmm, is it because I only got first place on the midterm exam?”
“Principal, haven’t you seen the tube? “It’s not that crazy.”
“yes? Each tube?”
“yes. “It seems that among the first-year students, there are students who post videos on each tube.”
“The student uploaded a video. Ah, it’s here.”
Won Tae-jin, who accepted the phone held out by Lee Ro-won, looked surprised when he saw that the number of views had exceeded 500,000.
Considering that the number of awakened people in Korea is 2.5 million, 500,000 means that a fairly large number of awakened people watched this video.
“The number of views is amazing, but you’ll be even more surprised when you see the comments.”
At those words, Taejin Won started reading the comments.
[The strongest person in the world: I’m sorry, I dragged you around to show you this… Is the midterm exam level at Awakening High School true? It is truly a battle between the strongest in the world.]
[Gwakseong High School graduate passing by: Is this true? Grade F is ranked 1st in the midterm exam haha A lot of people died at Awakening High School haha]
[Students at Gakseong High School: My heart is filled with joy when I hear that an F-grade freshman is ranked first in the entire school.]
[Anonymous: Lee Si-woo, who is he?]
“… … .”
There were so many aggressive comments of all kinds that Taejin Won frowned, so Teacher Lee Rok quickly pointed out exactly what he needed to look at.
“Principal, you can focus on the comments with the most likes.”
At those words, Taejin Won paused after reading the comment with the most likes.
[Geomshin: That’s fun. It would be fun to grow.]
└[Alchemist: I filmed that guy. Don’t pass it on.]
└[President Hill: What are you guys doing here? lol]
└[Awakening High School Jjintta: Are the guys above the Jjinda?]
└[Information Chung: Information) Jjinim.]
└[Cold sweat bug: ;; I’m going to ward it.]
└[Subscriber 1: ㅇㄷ]
└[Subscriber 2: ㅇㄷ]
└[Subscriber 3: ㅇㄷ]
“This… … .”
“I think the coordinates were recorded because the Seven Heroes left comments.”
“The number of awakened people watching the video has increased explosively, and it seems that each guild is keeping a close eye on Lee Si-woo.”
[…] Then, let’s start the performance evaluation now]
Just then, teacher Yoo Hye-ran announced the start of the performance evaluation, and Won Tae-jin began looking for Lee Si-woo on the screen.
Won Tae-jin, who discovered Lee Si-woo like that, saw Lee Si-woo’s behavior and said,
“… “That student, what is he doing now?”
