Jin-seong thought of three scenarios.
The first is that Kim Oh-sung tries to sacrifice Lee Soo-ah after receiving a report from Muhyuk that Jin-seong was still alive and taking the mana cell. And Muhyuk tried to save Lee Soo-ah.
The second is that Kim Oh-sung does the same thing as the first, but Muhyuk doesn't try to save Lee Soo-ah at the ceremony according to Kim Oh-sung's will.
With these two things, Kim Oh-sung, who received information, would have prepared for Jin-seong's killing. The mana cell could also have been used for the altar or to strengthen one's power.
However, the actual situation was not the first two scenarios that were likely to happen, but the third.
The third scenario set by Jin-seong. Muhyuk did not report any information about Jin-seong and even tried to blow up the underground dungeon using the mana cell as a time bomb.
'I like it.'
Muhyuk's life was almost in danger, but it was all in Jin-seong's prediction. Jin-seong organized his thoughts and looked around the speculation site.
Whoops!
The living-dead were running away at the cadets' shouts.
The cause of the screams was nothing else. It was because of Kim Oh-sung's head, which was placed on the podium and pierced by a long spear.
"Kim Oh-sung is living-dead!" "The priest is living-dead!"
Those screams caused a big stir. The crowd of the living-dead were frightened and forced to flee.
It was time for Muhyuk, who was covered in blood, to chase the living-dead.
"Don't go, Muhyuk."
Muhyuk stopped and looked back at Jin-seong's words.
"Master, if we don't stop them, they'll all get away!" "No, we don't have to. I've blocked all the entrances." "…Huh?"
Jin-seong looked at Jin Soo-yeon and Yoo Jae-hak standing next to him. They joined in the midst of a battle with the living-dead.
Jin Soo-yeon replied.
"We've blocked all the way to the ground as instructed. Don't worry." "……Ah."
Muhyuk wanted to ask how he knew the escape hole, but he was just admiring Jin-seong's plan. Jin Soo-yeon asked, looking at Muhyuk.
"By the way, who are you? I don't think you're a cadet." "Oh…… I……."
Muhyuk was at a loss for words on how to answer the question. Then, Jin-seong suddenly said.
"He's my disciple."
Jin Soo-yeon stared at Jin-seong.
"What do you mean a disciple…?" "And the girl in the dress is my disciple too."
When Lee Soo-ah first heard this, she pointed her finger at her face as if she was double checking.
"…Me, too?"
There was a surprise on Jin Soo-yeon's face.
"Are you... Are you going to be a professor? No, but you took a test to become a cadet, didn't you?"
Jin-seong looked at Jin Soo-yeon quietly.
"There's nothing to learn from people who don't even know that there's an outbreak underneath the academy." "…Oh, that's……."
Jin Soo-yeon couldn't answer and just coughed. It was true that the professors knew about the chairman's conspiracy, but they still let the outbreak almost happen.
And Jin-seong silently moved on.
Skkk.
Jin-seong stood on the altar where Lee Soo-ah stood as a sacrifice earlier.
Kugugugu...
Then, the eyes of the bronze statue, whose eyes were red, turned to Jin-seong. The arms of the red-hot statue moved slowly back toward Jin-seong, just as they tried to get Lee Soo-ah.
But Jin-seong had no intention of being caught by the slow forearm.
Run, run!
He quickly stepped on the arm of the statue and swung his sword.
Crhhh!
The slaughter sword hit its chest and directly on its neck. For one moment, the thick statue had been decapitated.
Toong toong toong toong...…!
The head of a bronze statue rolled on the floor and crashed.
The red-hot angry cow's eyes rapidly disappeared.
Kung! And Jin-seong landed beautifully.
Sppp...
After the situation ended, Jin-seong returned the slaughter sword to the slot. Muhyuk, who looked into the eyes of a dying cow statue, quietly asked Jin-seong.
"··Is that it?" "…The road to Malek's resurrection was stopped."
Thus, Malek, the right-hand man of the great demon, can no longer create an outbreak.
Of course, the statue bust could be revived, but if the military academy started managing it properly, it would never work again.
Lee Soo-ah approached Jin-seong with hesitation.
"……What is it?"
Lee Soo-ah was surprised by Jin-seong's cold tone, but she was still undaunted. She bowed her head down.
"Thank you for saving my life……."
She greeted him with all her heart. In response to Lee Soo-ah's greeting, Muhyuk also bowed straight down.
"Thank you very much, Master."
Muhyuk bowed to Jin-seong.
"……You don't have to do this."
Jin-seong shook his head.
They didn't save them so they could thank him. Their power was only needed to prevent future disasters.
And then, the other survivors shouted.
Thank you! You saved my life! Long live Lee Jin-seong!
Whooshhhh!
And survivors began to chant Lee Jin-seong's name.
Jin-seong looked back at them quietly.
"……."
And the scenes from his past life came to mind like panoramas and disappeared. The days when he followed the killer Kim Jun-ho and repeatedly killed people.
'…That was really weird.'
But now. The murderer was praised as a hero who saved people.
Jin-seong said again.
'I've really…regressed.'
He realized again that he was living a new life.
A few days later. All the living-dead in the dungeon were wiped out by Muhyuk, instructed by Jin-seong. Survivors returned to school safely, and what happened under the school was also communicated to professors.
Despite the series of proceedings being conducted in strict secrecy. Rumors have begun to spread widely that a monarch-level dungeon could have caused an outbreak under the military academy.
The military academy denied the rumors, calling them groundless rumors.
Originally, a faculty meeting was scheduled to be held only once this week due to Lee Jin-seong's admission problem, but due to the monarchy-level dungeon crisis, the faculty meeting was being convened daily.
"What the hell happened? There was a monarchy dungeon under the school, and no one knew about it!"
The meeting room with a large round table was surrounded by professors. They were now engaged in fierce discussions about the dungeon appearance at school.
To the complaints of a male professor in his 30s, the chairman of the blue-eyed faculty council responded heavily.
"The chairman was determined to hide. The interrogator was a living-dead, so there was no way to find out so easily." "That is true, however, there was a monarchy dungeon at a military academy.…!"
At that time, Kang Min-ah replied in a husky voice.
"Yeah, I didn't know there was a dungeon, and I didn't know the chairman was a living-dead……."
Kang Min-ah looked coldly at the professor.
"Professor Shin, I know you and the chairman often had drinks together, but you didn't feel something was weird about him?"
All of the professors' eyes were on Professor Shin at the same time. Professor Shin, who received attention, quietly stared at Kang Min-ah.
"……What are you trying to say?"
Kang Min-ah smirked.
"Why are you so wary? I'm just wondering what the chairman was like?" "That's right. Please say something. You got along with the chairman when everyone else hated him, right?
This time another elderly female professor helped.
The man, called Professor Shin, jumped to his feet, hitting the round table when all the other professors at the round table were not favorable.
"Is everyone doubting me?"
Kang Min-ah still maintained a cynical expression despite the grunt.
"Since the chairman was a living-dead, are there any professors too?"
The air in the meeting room was cold at the end. It was the head of the professor's cough that broke the silence.
"Well, that's enough. This is not the time for us to doubt. The government will send an investigation team soon. We have to prepare for that."
The female professor who helped Kang Min-ah asked.
"On the government? Isn't the government a place occupied by the living-dead?"
Then the head of the professor's looked miserable.
"……There is overwhelming public opinion calling for a fact-finding. The fact that the chairman is missing has been leaked from the media, so it will be inevitable to send an investigator."
The professor’s deeply sighed hearing the words of the head professor.
"Well, what do you suggest?" "In the end, we'll have to reveal that the chairman was a living-dead. Then we need someone to take responsibility for this critical situation."
The head of the professors calmly took off his glasses and continued.
"I'll take responsibility for this."
At the words, an elderly female professor tried to stop the head of the professors.
"Prof. Wagner, that is not possible. In times like this, the head professor needs to take care of the school!"
Other professors then murmured against Wagner's resignation as the head of the professor's. But Wagner's will was firm.
"You don't have to say that. I'm just going back to being a normal professor. So, I'd like you to decide who will be the next chairman in advance."
Richard Wagner, an orthodox wizard professor fixed his glasses and captured the faces of the professors sitting at the round table. Then he smiled at a female professor.
"Professor Setz, why don't you be the next chairman?"
At that, the eyes of professors at the round table were on the woman.
The woman had an air of mystery as if she had fallen from another world. Blonde straight hair and green eyes. And she was a very white, dazzlingly beautiful woman.
The female professor, who had been silent so far, slowly opened her mouth to the head of the professor's request.
"……If necessary, I will."
Jin Soo-yeon's teacher calmly accepted the proposal. Then Professor Setz smiled as she looked back at the audience.
"By the way, what should we do about the reward for Lee Jin-seong? Without Jin-seong, we wouldn't have been able to get together and discuss this."
The head of the professor nodded at her words.
"…Oh, yes. We also need to discuss Jin-seong's case. I'd like him to get into the Centurion class right away, what do you all think?" "I agree." "Me, too." "Of course, I'll enroll him in the Centurion class."
When the other professors are all for it. Setz raised her hand.
"Yes, Professor Setz." "Based on Jin-seong's performance, wouldn't it be a waste to keep him as a cadet?"
Then she began to look at people with a persuasive voice.
"He infiltrated the living-dead man's dungeon without any support from his surroundings, and fought against the giants and won. Also, he blocked the holes where the living-dead would escape and wiped them all out."
A few professors nodded at her words.
"Let's see…… yes. It's a waste to keep him as a cadet……."
The head of the professor's nodded and brought up an unconventional proposal.
"Then why don't you give Jin-seong a chance to be an interrogator?"
Professor Shin jumped at that.
"The interrogator………?! But isn't he too young?" Another professor intervened in that remark.
"How many people have so clearly wiped out the living-dead? The child has done something that even professors can't do. He is qualified." "Haha…… but it's too……."
Then Professor Setz raised her hand again.
"Yes, go ahead." "Everyone, I'm glad you all acknowledge Jin-seong. So let me make another suggestion……." That's what Setz said, and the professors turned to her again as she paused.
"I dare to suggest, why don't you give Jin-seong a chance to be employed as a professor?"
For an instant, silence fell in the meeting room. Kang Min-ah, who was lying on her stomach at the time, also raised her head.
"The opportunity to be employed as a professor...…?"
Other professors were equally surprised.
"…Huh?" "Professor…?"
Setz appealed to professors without giving them a break.
"As you all know, an opener with outstanding skills can be a professor. It's not about age, is it?"
Jin-seong paid attention to young professors, including Kang Min-ah, who became a professor in her early 20s. Kang Min-ah let out a big smile.
"I'm all for it!"
Kang Min-ah raised her hand and responded. But.
"Well…… that's……." "He'll be a teenage professor...…that's a bit...."
There were professors who recognized Jin-seong's skills, but they couldn't easily agree on him becoming a professor and hesitated.
Jin-seong thought of three scenarios.
The first is that Kim Oh-sung tries to sacrifice Lee Soo-ah after receiving a report from Muhyuk that Jin-seong was still alive and taking the mana cell. And Muhyuk tried to save Lee Soo-ah.
The second is that Kim Oh-sung does the same thing as the first, but Muhyuk doesn't try to save Lee Soo-ah at the ceremony according to Kim Oh-sung's will.
With these two things, Kim Oh-sung, who received information, would have prepared for Jin-seong's killing. The mana cell could also have been used for the altar or to strengthen one's power.
However, the actual situation was not the first two scenarios that were likely to happen, but the third.
The third scenario set by Jin-seong. Muhyuk did not report any information about Jin-seong and even tried to blow up the underground dungeon using the mana cell as a time bomb.
'I like it.'
Muhyuk's life was almost in danger, but it was all in Jin-seong's prediction. Jin-seong organized his thoughts and looked around the speculation site.
Whoops!
The living-dead were running away at the cadets' shouts.
The cause of the screams was nothing else. It was because of Kim Oh-sung's head, which was placed on the podium and pierced by a long spear.
"Kim Oh-sung is living-dead!" "The priest is living-dead!"
Those screams caused a big stir. The crowd of the living-dead were frightened and forced to flee.
It was time for Muhyuk, who was covered in blood, to chase the living-dead.
"Don't go, Muhyuk."
Muhyuk stopped and looked back at Jin-seong's words.
"Master, if we don't stop them, they'll all get away!" "No, we don't have to. I've blocked all the entrances." "…Huh?"
Jin-seong looked at Jin Soo-yeon and Yoo Jae-hak standing next to him. They joined in the midst of a battle with the living-dead.
Jin Soo-yeon replied.
"We've blocked all the way to the ground as instructed. Don't worry." "……Ah."
Muhyuk wanted to ask how he knew the escape hole, but he was just admiring Jin-seong's plan. Jin Soo-yeon asked, looking at Muhyuk.
"By the way, who are you? I don't think you're a cadet." "Oh…… I……."
Muhyuk was at a loss for words on how to answer the question. Then, Jin-seong suddenly said.
"He's my disciple."
Jin Soo-yeon stared at Jin-seong.
"What do you mean a disciple…?" "And the girl in the dress is my disciple too."
When Lee Soo-ah first heard this, she pointed her finger at her face as if she was double checking.
"…Me, too?"
There was a surprise on Jin Soo-yeon's face.
"Are you... Are you going to be a professor? No, but you took a test to become a cadet, didn't you?"
Jin-seong looked at Jin Soo-yeon quietly.
"There's nothing to learn from people who don't even know that there's an outbreak underneath the academy." "…Oh, that's……."
Jin Soo-yeon couldn't answer and just coughed. It was true that the professors knew about the chairman's conspiracy, but they still let the outbreak almost happen.
And Jin-seong silently moved on.
Skkk.
Jin-seong stood on the altar where Lee Soo-ah stood as a sacrifice earlier.
Kugugugu...
Then, the eyes of the bronze statue, whose eyes were red, turned to Jin-seong. The arms of the red-hot statue moved slowly back toward Jin-seong, just as they tried to get Lee Soo-ah.
But Jin-seong had no intention of being caught by the slow forearm.
Run, run!
He quickly stepped on the arm of the statue and swung his sword.
Crhhh!
The slaughter sword hit its chest and directly on its neck. For one moment, the thick statue had been decapitated.
Toong toong toong toong...…!
The head of a bronze statue rolled on the floor and crashed.
The red-hot angry cow's eyes rapidly disappeared.
Kung! And Jin-seong landed beautifully.
Sppp...
After the situation ended, Jin-seong returned the slaughter sword to the slot. Muhyuk, who looked into the eyes of a dying cow statue, quietly asked Jin-seong.
"··Is that it?" "…The road to Malek's resurrection was stopped."
Thus, Malek, the right-hand man of the great demon, can no longer create an outbreak.
Of course, the statue bust could be revived, but if the military academy started managing it properly, it would never work again.
Lee Soo-ah approached Jin-seong with hesitation.
"……What is it?"
Lee Soo-ah was surprised by Jin-seong's cold tone, but she was still undaunted. She bowed her head down.
"Thank you for saving my life……."
She greeted him with all her heart. In response to Lee Soo-ah's greeting, Muhyuk also bowed straight down.
"Thank you very much, Master."
Muhyuk bowed to Jin-seong.
"……You don't have to do this."
Jin-seong shook his head.
They didn't save them so they could thank him. Their power was only needed to prevent future disasters.
And then, the other survivors shouted.
Thank you! You saved my life! Long live Lee Jin-seong!
Whooshhhh!
And survivors began to chant Lee Jin-seong's name.
Jin-seong looked back at them quietly.
"……."
And the scenes from his past life came to mind like panoramas and disappeared. The days when he followed the killer Kim Jun-ho and repeatedly killed people.
'…That was really weird.'
But now. The murderer was praised as a hero who saved people.
Jin-seong said again.
'I've really…regressed.'
He realized again that he was living a new life.
A few days later. All the living-dead in the dungeon were wiped out by Muhyuk, instructed by Jin-seong. Survivors returned to school safely, and what happened under the school was also communicated to professors.
Despite the series of proceedings being conducted in strict secrecy. Rumors have begun to spread widely that a monarch-level dungeon could have caused an outbreak under the military academy.
The military academy denied the rumors, calling them groundless rumors.
Originally, a faculty meeting was scheduled to be held only once this week due to Lee Jin-seong's admission problem, but due to the monarchy-level dungeon crisis, the faculty meeting was being convened daily.
"What the hell happened? There was a monarchy dungeon under the school, and no one knew about it!"
The meeting room with a large round table was surrounded by professors. They were now engaged in fierce discussions about the dungeon appearance at school.
To the complaints of a male professor in his 30s, the chairman of the blue-eyed faculty council responded heavily.
"The chairman was determined to hide. The interrogator was a living-dead, so there was no way to find out so easily." "That is true, however, there was a monarchy dungeon at a military academy.…!"
At that time, Kang Min-ah replied in a husky voice.
"Yeah, I didn't know there was a dungeon, and I didn't know the chairman was a living-dead……."
Kang Min-ah looked coldly at the professor.
"Professor Shin, I know you and the chairman often had drinks together, but you didn't feel something was weird about him?"
All of the professors' eyes were on Professor Shin at the same time. Professor Shin, who received attention, quietly stared at Kang Min-ah.
"……What are you trying to say?"
Kang Min-ah smirked.
"Why are you so wary? I'm just wondering what the chairman was like?" "That's right. Please say something. You got along with the chairman when everyone else hated him, right?
This time another elderly female professor helped.
The man, called Professor Shin, jumped to his feet, hitting the round table when all the other professors at the round table were not favorable.
"Is everyone doubting me?"
Kang Min-ah still maintained a cynical expression despite the grunt.
"Since the chairman was a living-dead, are there any professors too?"
The air in the meeting room was cold at the end. It was the head of the professor's cough that broke the silence.
"Well, that's enough. This is not the time for us to doubt. The government will send an investigation team soon. We have to prepare for that."
The female professor who helped Kang Min-ah asked.
"On the government? Isn't the government a place occupied by the living-dead?"
Then the head of the professor's looked miserable.
"……There is overwhelming public opinion calling for a fact-finding. The fact that the chairman is missing has been leaked from the media, so it will be inevitable to send an investigator."
The professor’s deeply sighed hearing the words of the head professor.
"Well, what do you suggest?" "In the end, we'll have to reveal that the chairman was a living-dead. Then we need someone to take responsibility for this critical situation."
The head of the professors calmly took off his glasses and continued.
"I'll take responsibility for this."
At the words, an elderly female professor tried to stop the head of the professors.
"Prof. Wagner, that is not possible. In times like this, the head professor needs to take care of the school!"
Other professors then murmured against Wagner's resignation as the head of the professor's. But Wagner's will was firm.
"You don't have to say that. I'm just going back to being a normal professor. So, I'd like you to decide who will be the next chairman in advance."
Richard Wagner, an orthodox wizard professor fixed his glasses and captured the faces of the professors sitting at the round table. Then he smiled at a female professor.
"Professor Setz, why don't you be the next chairman?"
At that, the eyes of professors at the round table were on the woman.
The woman had an air of mystery as if she had fallen from another world. Blonde straight hair and green eyes. And she was a very white, dazzlingly beautiful woman.
The female professor, who had been silent so far, slowly opened her mouth to the head of the professor's request.
"……If necessary, I will."
Jin Soo-yeon's teacher calmly accepted the proposal. Then Professor Setz smiled as she looked back at the audience.
"By the way, what should we do about the reward for Lee Jin-seong? Without Jin-seong, we wouldn't have been able to get together and discuss this."
The head of the professor nodded at her words.
"…Oh, yes. We also need to discuss Jin-seong's case. I'd like him to get into the Centurion class right away, what do you all think?" "I agree." "Me, too." "Of course, I'll enroll him in the Centurion class."
When the other professors are all for it. Setz raised her hand.
"Yes, Professor Setz." "Based on Jin-seong's performance, wouldn't it be a waste to keep him as a cadet?"
Then she began to look at people with a persuasive voice.
"He infiltrated the living-dead man's dungeon without any support from his surroundings, and fought against the giants and won. Also, he blocked the holes where the living-dead would escape and wiped them all out."
A few professors nodded at her words.
"Let's see…… yes. It's a waste to keep him as a cadet……."
The head of the professor's nodded and brought up an unconventional proposal.
"Then why don't you give Jin-seong a chance to be an interrogator?"
Professor Shin jumped at that.
"The interrogator………?! But isn't he too young?" Another professor intervened in that remark.
"How many people have so clearly wiped out the living-dead? The child has done something that even professors can't do. He is qualified." "Haha…… but it's too……."
Then Professor Setz raised her hand again.
"Yes, go ahead." "Everyone, I'm glad you all acknowledge Jin-seong. So let me make another suggestion……." That's what Setz said, and the professors turned to her again as she paused.
"I dare to suggest, why don't you give Jin-seong a chance to be employed as a professor?"
For an instant, silence fell in the meeting room. Kang Min-ah, who was lying on her stomach at the time, also raised her head.
"The opportunity to be employed as a professor...…?"
Other professors were equally surprised.
"…Huh?" "Professor…?"
Setz appealed to professors without giving them a break.
"As you all know, an opener with outstanding skills can be a professor. It's not about age, is it?"
Jin-seong paid attention to young professors, including Kang Min-ah, who became a professor in her early 20s. Kang Min-ah let out a big smile.
"I'm all for it!"
Kang Min-ah raised her hand and responded. But.
"Well…… that's……." "He'll be a teenage professor...…that's a bit...."
There were professors who recognized Jin-seong's skills, but they couldn't easily agree on him becoming a professor and hesitated.
