Chapter 18
Chapter 17: Ly’s Growth (3)
TL: Haku
Edited: Stealth
Through the training skill, Ly’s Potential increased little by little. And whenever his Potential’s digit changed by 10, the growth range of Ly’s stats increased whenever Ly leveled up.
‘As expected, Beginner-level Training skill was a fraud skill!’
In the Kailran community, instead of seeing the hidden cla.s.ses as a better cla.s.s than the normal cla.s.s, they saw it more strongly as a slightly different and rare cla.s.s. This was because the users with the hidden cla.s.ses weren’t particularly stronger than the users with the normal cla.s.ses.
However, Ian thought that wasn’t correct all the time. When a hidden cla.s.s is received, appropriate experimentation and thinking were needed according to the cla.s.s and optimized nurturing is needed, but he thought that because people raise their hidden cla.s.s just as they would a normal one, which is why it becomes average.
And while raising a hidden cla.s.s himself, Ian was realizing that his a.s.sumption was right.
‘All monsters have a distinct Potential and depending on this Potential, the stat range increased per level up is decided.’
Increasing Potential meant that the Monster’s cla.s.s itself was rising. And the skill that was able to raise that Potential was precisely ‘Training’.
Ian, who received that enlightenment, immediately opened the skill window. And he invested all the skill points that he hadn’t used since the beginning and saved up onto ‘Beginner-level Training’.
He was tempted for a moment to maybe invest into ‘Beginner-level Tactics’ as he was low on Leaders.h.i.+p and couldn’t catch the bear, but he automatically thought that he did a good job holding back.
Ian checked the skill window with a satisfied expression.
Intermediate-level Training
Cla.s.sification: Active Skill
Skill Level: Lv 0
Proficiency: 0%
Cooldown Time: 25 minutes
Ian brightened up. It didn’t show up in the information window, but the range to increase Potential per training time would have for sure increased as well. And above all, the cooldown time had reduced 10 minutes.
With the application of the option to reduce the cooldown time that was attached to the ‘Necklace of Pitch Darkness’ that he just obtained, he was able to use it every 20 minutes.
Ian, who solved a big curiosity, put his notebook back into his chest with a satisfied smile.
‘Now I feel much better.’
Like a person who had just solved their constipation, Ian’s expression was incredibly bright.
Before he began to hunt again, Ian checked Ly’s Potential once again.
‘His Potential is at 94. We’ll be able to hit 100 soon enough.’
Since the growth range changed every 10 digits, Ian felt incredible antic.i.p.ation wondering what change there would be when there was an increase in digits themselves.
"d.a.m.n it, I’ve wasted almost 1 hr."
Ian, who checked the time, grumbled to himself as he lifted his bow again. If limitless training without getting tired was a talent, Ian had an incredible talent. And shortly after, he reached lv 20.
Jinsung logged off according to the lunch time he had decided and consumed a simple meal of bread and milk.
Click-. Click-.
Of course, even at this time, he was diligently searching for information about Kailran with one hand holding the mouse.
"If I studied like this, I would probably be a judge or a doctor by now, right?"
Jinsung, who mumbled out meaningless words, watched a video while taking a bite of his bread. It was a combat video on one of the new cla.s.ses that were released along with the update, the Black Magician.
It was the lv 18 user that was the highest-level Black Magician currently up in the community.
"Ooh, the skulls are cuter than I thought."
Jinsung, who was diligently clicking his mouse, finished his milk and without hesitation, he stood up from his spot. It was time to sit back inside the capsule.
"Shall I log in now?"
However, just then, Jinsung’s smartphone started ringing.
Ring-. Ring-.
‘What the h.e.l.l? There’s nowhere to be getting a call from…’
It was a situation just as rare as the chance of getting dragon armor from catching slime.
Jinsung, who slightly flinched at the unexpected situation, checked the calling number.
‘This is an unknown number… I’ve paid off all my school loans, maintenance fees I paid last time… where exactly am I getting a call from?’
Ian considered just ending the call but because it was a call in such a long time, he decided to pick up the phone.
"h.e.l.lo?"
It was even a thin and beautiful voice of a woman. Jinsung felt his heart throb a little.
"Yes, I am?"
"Ah, yes, TA, h.e.l.lo."
The heart throbbing was only a moment and as soon as Jinsung heard that it was a TA, he was nervous. This was because Jinsung had a lot of parts where he felt guilty because of his lack of responsibility towards his school life, to the point none of his professors thought that he was a current student throughout the whole semester.
If it was Lee Jinook Professor, Jinsung knew him. This was because he was also the head of the department.
"Yes, I know him."
"Call… him?"
He began to be seized by unknown anxiety.
"Can I… know the reason why?"
Jinsung’s hands started to shake.
‘What the h.e.l.l? I was thinking that it wasn’t an academic warning, no way that its probation? No, I’ve attended all cla.s.ses of The Understanding of Virtual Reality, so they should have given me a D.’
Jinsung, who collected his unsteady heart, opened his mouth.
"Excuse me… TA. "
"What would happen if I don’t call the Professor?"
Jinsung’s pupil began to shake again.
He couldn’t let that happen. Jinsung had no confidence in controlling his father’s wrath that would explode out as soon as the report card went home.
‘At the sweet age of 20, I may be forced to return to farming.’
The scarier thing than returning to farming was the chance that he might had to sell his capsule away.
‘Er…’
Jinsung had no other choice.
"Looks… like I’ll have to give him a call."
Beep-.
As the call ended, Jinsung had an expression as if he had lived his whole life. He didn’t know that the phone call he hadn’t had in a long time would leave this much mental damage.
"Ha… right, I need… to call. Do I have Lee Jinook Professor’s number?"
Fortunately, he had the number. He believed he saved the number at the Freshman Orientation.
"Hoo…"
Jinsung, who calmed his anxious heart with deep breaths, called the Professor shortly after.
"h.e.l.lo, Professor. This is Park Jinsung. I heard you were looking for me…"
A dry voice rang through the phone.
It was like the voice of a middle-aged delivery man of a Chinese restaurant that had an overload of orders on a rainy day.
"Yes, for what reason you were looking for me…."
Jinsung opened his mouth again after suppressing the desire to say ‘I don’t know.’
"By any chance, is it because of my marks?"
Jinsung flinched again at the word academic warning.
"Academic… warning? Don’t I have… two Fs?"
At Korea University where Jinsung was attending, it was an academic warning if you got 3 Fs in one semester. If it was two academic warnings, then it was expulsion. For someone who was not very afraid of getting a low grade, Jinsung’s reason for being afraid of getting an academic warning was here.
An obvious threat!
Jinsung’s two hands shook.
He wanted to say ‘What do you exactly want from me, Professor’, but Jinsung wasn’t that fearless of a student.
"What do I need to do then, Professor…"
Truthfully, there was never a case where in university, not even high school, a Professor personally called saying that you weren’t studying hard.
However, the Virtual Reality department was a new department newly created at Korea University. Especially Lee Jinook Professor’s pa.s.sion and pride towards the department was on a different level from others, so Jinsung’s negligence was unacceptable.
Meanwhile, Jinsung was thinking about how to respond and thought hard of a stunt that he could pull.
‘I had no choice because I was gaming… would make me sound like I’ve gone crazy, wouldn’t it?’
Firstly, Jinsung slightly tested Lee Jinook Professor.
"Professor, the reason why I came into the Virtual Reality department."
"I had a not-so-small interest in ‘Virtual Reality’ ever since, and it was because I felt a longing towards the infinite possibilities."
"There are many reasons why ‘Virtual Reality’ is currently getting so much attention right now, but one of the biggest reasons is because of the game ‘Kailran’, right?"
Jinsung swallowed his dry saliva.
From now on was important.
"If you want to catch a tiger, don’t you have to go into the tiger’s den?"
Lee Jinook Professor’s sense was fast. He figured out what Jinsung was trying to say instantly.
"It’s not for the purpose of just playing games all day, Professor. It was to more closely research about the Virtual Reality world implemented in Kailran that is surprisingly realistic…"
At Jinsung’s lame excuse, Lee Jinook sent off a reproach.
"…!"
For a second, Jinsung felt his body stiffen as if it was..h.i.t by lightning. He thought even a tear would drop at his sadness.
‘If only I didn’t reset…!’
For the first time, he regretted resetting his character. If it wasn’t for resetting, he could have confidently said ‘I am ranked’ here.
"I… That is… Professor."
However, he couldn’t think of an excuse to say.
He wanted to ask himself.
‘Jinsung, why can’t you say it…’
That’s why he could only say the truth that sounded more like a lie than an actual lie.
"I was originally a lv 93… but I reset just a while ago… So I’m lv 20… right now…"
The more he said, Jinsung’s words became muddled.
At those words, the Professor couldn’t help but feel ridiculed.
However, Jinsung had little words that he could say.
"But it’s the truth, Professor…"