Why Did I Have to Enroll

The Union Academy, riding their hemispherical barrier shield like an airship, 'observed' all thirteen battlefields where large-scale confrontations between humans and monsters were taking place in dimension Gelas.

Perhaps because Xenon had already finished his explanation, the professors wasted no time exercising their power to clear out the monsters as soon as they arrived at each battlefield.

"Everything shall crumble!"

―CRASH!

Particularly impressive among them was the display of force from Professor Ryu Cheol-myeong of Aura Combat Studies.

Living up to his reputation as the academy's unrivaled wielder of cold weapons, he masterfully handled a greatsword the size of a house. But what was truly astonishing was the devastation wrought by the pure magic power - Aura - that gathered at the tip of that greatsword.

"Seeing how twisted that man's martial arts are, his mindset must be equally formidable. A path of supremacy achieved by ingeniously distorting the principles of the world. Frustrating as it is, I have no way to counter him at my current level."

This was Dokgo Yeon's assessment after witnessing Ryu Cheol-myeong sweep away tens of thousands of monsters with the crimson aura drawn from his greatsword.

However, Ban Yu-won could only perceive overwhelming dominance in the massive energy emanating from his sword, so he tilted his head in confusion.

"That's precisely why it doesn't make sense. How can a man whose level hasn't reached the heavens crush everything under them? That martial art distorts principles and blinds heaven's eyes."

"Hmm... I don't really get it."

"That's alright. You'll naturally be able to read it soon enough."

Since most of the martial arts Ban Yu-won currently handled pursued a single meaning to the extreme, like pierce or counter, he couldn't read the other meanings hidden within Ryu Cheol-myeong's path of supremacy.

Perhaps if he could add different meanings to his martial arts, he might be able to find the true intent behind Ryu Cheol-myeong's actions.

"Hey, Ban. You're learning magic too, right? When you get stronger, will you be able to show miracles like Professor Yumina?"

Meanwhile, Light was mesmerized by Yumina's imposing presence as she single-handedly cleared half the battlefield.

She grew thorny vines across a wide area to restrict the movement of hundreds of thousands of monsters, then used a terrifying magic that instantly absorbed their magic power and withered them to death.

Ban Yu-won could barely recognize a few concepts that made up the plants and the concept of absorption (吸), but he couldn't understand how they worked together to create such devastating results. ȐåɴỖᛒÊṡ

"It'll take a long time before I can reach that level of power, Light. Besides, Professor Yumina's main magic isn't something you can achieve through training."

"I guess..."

The plant magic Yumina wielded must be innate magic originating from her birth.

It wasn't something others could dare to learn, and in fact, the magic she taught was limited to what could be called common magic.

It was similar to how Ban Yu-won could handle all languages and their concepts after riding the Babylonia Code.

That's why Ban Yu-won was more interested in someone other than Yumina.

It was Campanella, the professor of Artifact Creation.

'I was wondering what artificial artifacts made by someone other than myself would feel like.'

To put it simply, Campanella's artifacts were on a completely different level from what Ban Yu-won created.

While Ban Yu-won would attach and combine language concepts that only he could handle to existing objects or machines to recreate them (which was why others were even more shocked by his ability).

Campanella studied what were called divine artifacts, gathered all the mysteries she could find, and recreated them as closely as possible.

With different starting points and goals, naturally, the results had to be different too.

'She's strong. Even stronger than natural artifacts that are products of chance.'

Ban Yu-won could tell because he had already obtained natural artifacts.

Unlike natural artifacts whose creation relied entirely on chance, artificial artifacts made with firm human will were at least clearer in their purpose than natural artifacts, and their efficiency was higher too.

Honestly, it made Ban Yu-won consider majoring in Artifact Creation.

'It suits my abilities well too.'

After all, since the goal was to create an object, wouldn't there be plenty of opportunities for Ban Yu-won, who could freely handle the power of language concepts?

Even if not as a major, it might not be bad to attend her lectures.

Noticing Ban Yu-won watching Campanella, Luciel grabbed his sleeve tightly and asked.

"Yu-won, is that kind of woman your type...?"

"Don't say that in front of others, they'll misunderstand. And no, she's not my type."

While Xenon's demonstrated power seemed almost incomprehensible and hard to grasp, the achievements of the other eight full professors and their colleagues felt tangibly terrifying.

It was a realm that was intuitive enough to understand at a glance, yet made one doubt whether they could ever reach such an overwhelming level.

Even that annoying Cantone inspired awe as he crumpled thousands of monsters simultaneously with his transcendent-scale psychic power!

―Moving to the next location.

"It's Meteor!"

"A full professor using summoning magic at full power!"

"Amazing, Professor!"

The battlefield tour continued.

The professors swept away millions of monsters while moving freely, and the students kept expressing their amazement as they observed.

"W-we're saved."

"We're saved! Reinforcements have arrived!"

"Union, Union has..."

"We're saved... damn it, we're alive!"

And the soldiers who had come to the battlefield prepared to die sat down crying tears of joy at the sight of them.

Despite only a barrier shield separating them, there was a terrible sense of disconnect.

Ban Yu-won felt slightly nauseous.

―Today's group activity ends here. Everyone, reflect on what you've seen today to gain enlightenment of mind and body.

After conquering all the major battlefields in dimension Gelas in less than half a day, the Union Academy group performed another spatial transfer to return to the Tolmon Empire capital square where they had first arrived by dimension ship.

They must have already heard the news from each battlefield, as people who were clearly high-ranking came running out barefoot to welcome the group.

"We've been waiting!"

"Salute to the saviors of dimensions!"

An attitude like they would lick the professors' shoes.

Their attitude was understandable since today's achievements by the professors had essentially ended the monster wave in Gelas.

Though it made no sense for the other students who hadn't done anything to puff up their chests in place of the professors.

"Enough."

Xenon raised one hand to stop the shower of applause and cheers directed at the group, then stepped forward and spoke elegantly.

"The accommodations are prepared, I trust?"

"We will escort you all to a place where you can rest comfortably."

"Very well. Everyone line up by class!"

"Yes, sir!"

While most cities in the dimension had largely collapsed from facing the massive monster wave, the Empire of Tolmon's capital was relatively intact, which was why Union Academy had decided to stay here.

They were given a massive detached palace belonging to the Tolmon Imperial Palace.

The floors were divided by grade level and then by class, and whether due to Yumina's influence, Class 11 was assigned quite a nice area.

"These people will assist you during your stay."

"Please take good care of us!"

They even had three guides assigned to them.

Ban Yu-won and Light got a beauty so stunning their eyes nearly popped out, while Dokgo Yeon and Luciel got a handsome man oozing with sensuality.

The guide assigned to Yumina was relatively ordinary in comparison.

At this point, Ban Yu-won completely abandoned the idea that Yumina had influenced the room assignments.

These guys are obviously spies!

Using beautiful women and handsome men was such a textbook approach it made him want to smack his forehead.

"Please let me know if you need anything. I'll help you with whatever I can within my capabilities."

"Haha, how kind of you."

Ban Yu-won awkwardly smiled at the guide who was sending him blatantly seductive glances. While pretending not to know their true identities, he quickly exchanged glances with Dokgo Yeon.

'As expected, they're starting their schemes from here.'

Though all the guides were wearing military uniforms, Ban Yu-won, who could 'somewhat' read their internal concepts, realized they were hiding their true identities. But calling them out as suspicious would only advertise that they'd caught onto the enemy's plans. For now, it was best to bear with sleeping with the enemy.

—These guys are surprisingly powerful. Tell Light to be careful too.

Perhaps she had the same thought. Ban Yu-won silently nodded at the sound transmission that flew in from Dokgo Yeon.

Then suddenly, he wondered if he could communicate with her in a similar way. The key was the magic he had recently started learning. Specifically...

'Maybe with language magic.'

Having acquired magic language, Ban Yu-won became able to handle his unique path of magic, language magic.

Its essence was to draw magic language containing specific meanings and inject magic power to manifest those meanings in reality.

This felt quite familiar to Ban Yu-won, because language magic was essentially no different from directly releasing the power of language concepts.

'The difference between the two is... while concept release only applies to language concepts I possess, language magic lets me artificially create and manifest specific language concepts.'

The depth of magic language Ban Yu-won had acquired reached a remarkable 100, so its volume was vast and each meaning was profound. It would not be an exaggeration to say he could create almost any phenomenon.

However, like all magic, achieving major effects required consuming enormous magic power, so it hadn't quite reached the level of omnipotence. In terms of efficiency, concept release was overwhelmingly superior.

'Still, for transmitting sound...'

Having seen how Dokgo Yeon handled sound transmission, he roughly understood the principle.

The determined Ban Yu-won immediately moved the vital energy in his body to create and attach two magic language characters.

He then realized it was simple to convey his thoughts as sound and transmit them to others.

—These guides don't seem to be from this dimension. I think they're people directly prepared by Ortima.

—Did you already steal sound transmission from me too?

Dokgo Yeon responded calmly to Ban Yu-won's incoming transmission, not particularly surprised.

—Of course not. I'm just imitating it through other means.

—How talented you are.

—I'd gladly learn properly if you teach me formally. Anyway, let's both be careful of these guys for now.

—You're the one who needs to be careful, Ban Yu-won. If anyone's going to fall for their honey trap, it'll be you.

—That's too harsh. Don't you trust me who never even glanced at beauties like you?

—How do you manage to make even flattery sound so unconvincing?

While they communicated without even looking at each other, the guides naturally couldn't detect it, but Luciel alone noticed with her unique animal instincts and her eyes flashed sharply.

"These are your rooms. Please make yourselves comfortable until dinner time."

"Please call me if you need anything."

Fortunately, everyone's rooms were adjacent to each other.

Well, separating them would have been much more unnatural. It seemed they weren't planning to cause any major disturbance at the lodgings, which was fortunate.

"Then everyone, rest well."

"Yes, professor."

Even as they entered their assigned rooms with their respective guides, the group maintained their composure, pretending to know nothing.

However, everything fell apart the moment Ban Yu-won and Light's guide tried to follow them into the room.

"Why are you trying to come in?"

"I thought I'd attend to you until dinner time..."

While responding nonchalantly, the guide subtly emphasized her chest in a way only Ban Yu-won and Light could see.

But naturally, it had zero effect on Light, and Ban Yu-won didn't have time to react.

Because...

"Grrrrrr...!"

"Eek?!"

Before he could show any reaction, Luciel let out a fierce beast-like growl and forcefully grabbed the guide's arm.

Ban Yu-won was shocked to see her internal emotions of anger and affection each surge past 50, completing a 100-point emotional state.

This was the first time her emotional state had activated to maximum so instantaneously!

—BANG!

Luciel, with half her hair turned black, pushed the guide forcefully against the wall before she could react, leaned in close, and growled in a low voice.

"Don't you dare... make moves on Yu-won...!"

"Y-yes! I'm sorry!"

In that moment, Ban Yu-won had a vision of two pointed ears rising up on Luciel's head.

When Luciel pushed her away forcefully, the guide collapsed on the spot with a dazed expression, creating an indescribably awkward atmosphere.

"My, spring is in the air. See you at dinner."

It was truly frustrating how Yumina calmly spoke such words while closing her door.

Meanwhile, Luciel quickly regained her senses, realized what she had done, and embarrassedly hid behind Dokgo Yeon. Suddenly turned into a human shield, Dokgo Yeon snorted in disbelief, picked up Luciel with one hand, and entered their assigned room.

"......"

"......"

All that remained were the three abandoned guides, Light, and Ban Yu-won.

Ban Yu-won tried to think of something to say as he looked at the guide trembling in terror from Luciel's bestial fear and the other guides making indescribable expressions, but in the end, he said nothing and pulled Light into the room, closing the door.

Everything was ruined.

*

After an unbearably awkward period of time, dinner finally arrived.

Guided by the trembling but persistent guide who somehow managed not to run away, Ban Yu-won arrived at the banquet hall and noticed that students from other classes also had personal guides assigned to them on an almost one-to-one basis. When he read the internal concepts of some of these guides, his expression darkened.

Honestly, he wished he hadn't read them.

"This place is really hard to get used to..."

"Wouldn't it be worth it if they could catch the eye of someone from a higher dimension, even like that?"

Dokgo Yeon sneered, seemingly having noticed what Ban Yu-won had read and what he was thinking.

"Think about it - we're Union Academy students, considered the highest potential across all dimensions. From their perspective, there's no reason to hesitate if they can establish even a small connection by offering themselves."

"Grrrrrr."

Perhaps triggered by Dokgo Yeon's words, Luciel, who was pressed close to Ban Yu-won's side, bared her teeth and watched everyone suspiciously.

Though he'd heard she had been slow to develop due to suppressing her bestial nature, he could now see her bestial traits had increased by more than 5 points since coming on this special activity.

"Eek!"

"...!"

When the female guide received Luciel's fierce glare, she flinched away from Ban Yu-won and moved closer to Light instead, but unfortunately, that direction held even less possibility.

But since Light's discomfort was amusing, he decided to leave it be for now.

―Are you enjoying your meal?

Xenon's voice resonated simultaneously in all students' minds, immediately killing Ban Yu-won's appetite.

―I'll briefly explain tomorrow's schedule. In the morning, you'll have class activities dealing directly with the monster wave under the professors' guidance. In the afternoon, you'll have group activities to freely tour the capital of the Tolmon Empire.

"So it's not a training camp but a field trip."

"Ban Yu-won, what's a field trip?"

"It's when you go on a trip, get caught up in the atmosphere, and come back with nothing but embarrassing memories."

Why do humans get unnecessarily excited when traveling?

And somehow those foolish actions particularly stick in your memory.

I shouldn't have tried to hit on that foreign beauty just because I was confident in my language skills...

As he shook his head, recalling the memory that earned him the nickname "Nova Reject" for the rest of his second year's second semester, Dokgo Yeon's eyes lit up with interest.

"Oh? You tried to seduce a woman?"

"Yeah, she had beautiful red hair and green eyes... Wait, was I saying that out loud?"

"Yes."

Unable to bear Dokgo Yeon's gleaming smile, Ban Yu-won turned his head away, only to meet Luciel's gaze. She clenched her fist with a determined expression and declared:

"I won't lose either."

To whom?

To the red-haired beauty?

"Your world becomes more interesting the more I hear about it. Considering your level when we first met, it doesn't seem like such a harsh environment, yet your talent itself is exceptional, and you have transportation technology advanced enough to freely travel abroad, plus you handle machinery similar to what the highest dimensions use."

"Come visit sometime."

"...Me? To your world?"

Dokgo Yeon asked in disbelief.

Ban Yu-won shrugged and replied, thinking that since they all gathered at Union anyway, what would be wrong with bringing a friend to Earth.

"If possible."

"What an interesting story... No, an uninteresting one."

Dokgo Yeon smiled.

Though trying to appear calm, an unmistakable coldness seeped through.

It was then that Ban Yu-won wondered if Dokgo Yeon might have some circumstances of his own.

Dokgo Yeon looked away as he replied.

"I'll pretend I didn't hear that."

"I'll go, anytime."

Luciel declared firmly.

"I need to greet them too."

Who?

My parents?!

"Everyone, love quarrels are fine, but you need to remember the announcements properly. Tomorrow morning is class activities, afternoon is group activities. Did everyone hear that?"

Yumina's composed voice instantly shattered the strange atmosphere that had been forming among the group.

Ban Yu-won quickly grabbed the lifeline she'd thrown and responded.

"Of course we remember. Will you be with us all day tomorrow too, Professor?"

"Of course."

Yumina replied with a bright smile.

Both the questioning Ban Yu-won and the answering Yumina had a rough idea.

If they were going to make a move, it would probably be tomorrow.

Specifically during the afternoon group free time, when it would be easy to avoid others' eyes.

'They'll try to separate Yumina from us somehow.'

Most likely, the moment they lose her protection will be when they're most vulnerable.

And that's when the 'plan' begins.

Ban Yu-won narrowed his eyes as he secretly checked his inventory.

He'd made all the preparations he could.

Now he just had to wait for the decisive battle.

"Huh?"

...For a moment he felt something squirm inside his inventory, but it must have been his imagination.

After all, there's no way such an obvious development would happen in reality - something miraculously hatching from an egg to save him when he's in crisis!

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