Ch.4747 – How a Veteran Player Chooses Lectures

by fnovelpia

<47 – How a Veteran Player Chooses Classes>

Mahabharata, despite his bad personality, properly conveyed the information students needed to know.

“From now on, you will be taking <Common Lectures>, <Department Lectures>, and <Liberal Arts Lectures> while attending the Academy.”

“Common Lectures are mandatory for all students, and there is no freedom of choice.”

“For Department Lectures, you must select courses within your chosen department to fulfill the required credits.”

“Liberal Arts Lectures are courses you can freely choose according to your interests. They are purely for expanding your knowledge. Some students listen to lectures with the impure intention of converting credits to points, but I sincerely hope you will attend with pure academic enthusiasm.”

Isabelle scribbled notes and showed me her page.

Don’t the Liberal Arts Lectures look good? You can earn points.

I looked at Isabelle with the eyes of someone watching a graduate student making a wrong choice and expressed sympathy for her academy life.

It’ll be tough later.

If I were you, I wouldn’t take extra lectures just to earn points.

Why?

The deductions you receive during lectures might be greater than the points you earn.

…Really?

Do you think so?

I’ve given my advice.

Whether you listen or not is up to you.

“Department Lectures differ according to the department. First of all…”

The Academy is divided into five departments.

Knight Department. Magic Department. Administration Department. Adventure Department. Production Department.

Knights. Mages. Administrators. Adventurers. Producers.

Each department aims to nurture different classes.

Delving deeper, there are military knights who roam battlefields, domain knights employed by lords, royal knights employed by the royal family, guardian knights who protect specific races, and so on.

Depending on the goal, even the same profession can have different titles and required skills.

‘Those classes are different from the world-class talents that Gift Academy aims to teach.’

The Academy also needs support.

That’s necessary for its operation.

Most of these minor classes were created for show, considering the sensitivities of various countries.

…That’s what I knew from the game.

But from what Dragon Principal said, I can’t shake the feeling that they’re just inferior professions created to sell to underachievers.

‘The difference between lower and higher professions.’

Regardless of the principal’s remarks, I need to understand that promising talents and the rest are separated from this course registration.

The Academy’s ideal student.

The path to graduating with top grades is to obtain a special class and become a disciple who inherits the professors’ world-class knowledge.

A true <Knight> who defines their own taboos and acts with righteousness is on a completely different level from a professional knight who merely hones combat techniques.

The same applies to mages, administrators, producers, and adventurers—whatever you choose.

In short, if you only aim for easy credits and simple lectures during course registration, your future becomes uncertain.

“I’ll give you an hour to think about which lectures to take. Please consider the lecture plan posted on the magic clock’s course bulletin board.”

Isabelle asked.

“Which department are you going to enter, Oknodie?”

“What about you, sis?”

“You don’t even need to ask. Adventure Department.”

“Ah, right. You were an adventurer.”

“Let’s do it together. I think Oknodie would definitely make an excellent adventurer.”

I think so too.

If I, who knows many of this world’s secrets, became an adventurer, just imagine how many treasures, dungeons, mysteries, and dangers I would discover.

The wealth and honor that would come with it makes my heart race just thinking about it, but there’s a problem.

“I’m also considering the Knight Department.”

“Knight Department? Ah, you did handle the sword well in the last battle. And Oknodie only uses swords. You definitely want to learn swordsmanship, right?”

“Huh? No, that’s not it.”

Think about it.

Female knight in form-fitting armor vs. adventurer in standard adventurer outfit with absolutely no exposure.

Just looking at the balance, the former is overwhelmingly better.

How could I bear being in a class where my classmates are female knights?

“So you’re going to abandon me?”

“…Ugh. Don’t look at me like that. We can still meet in other lectures, right?”

When persuasion failed, Isabelle changed her strategy.

“The Knight Department would definitely be too much for Oknodie’s height. They probably won’t even have armor that fits you.”

“I might grow 30cm by next year!”

“No, you definitely won’t.”

“I will!”

The provocation naturally backfired.

I’m not taking the same lectures as Isabelle!

* *

On the way to course registration, holding hands while munching on the berries Isabelle gave me.

The corridor was becoming a chaotic scene due to other students rushing to register.

“Hahaha! Out of my way, you little rats!”

“Aaaaargh!”

“That brainless monkey is ramming into everyone with his body!”

Son Ocheon, the monkey beastkin and human tank, charging toward the lecture hall in the most direct route with his body as a battering ram.

“Gyahaha! Anyone who wants to get shot, come forward. I’ll shoot dead anyone faster than me!”

“Aaaah, she’s crazy!”

“W-wait! I’m waiting for you to go ahead quickly, so why are you running toward me!”

“No one’s standing in front of me so I can’t shoot anyone! Hurry up and come forward. Then die!!”

The outrageous pirate Zigoku, chasing fleeing students while running the wrong way down the corridor.

“Amazing. Should we hurry too?”

“This pace is just right. I don’t want to get caught by the instructors and lose points.”

We probably won’t receive as severe deductions as during the entrance ceremony, but causing a disturbance in the corridor can result in point deductions between 10 and 100 depending on the severity.

As the saying goes, “you don’t notice your clothes getting wet in drizzle”—if you act recklessly, you might experience the feeling of getting caught by a speed camera and receiving a fine bomb.

“Is it okay to make your first lecture registration for adventure lectures?”

“I don’t mind. I’m not particularly interested in high-competition lectures anyway.”

What concerns me more is Giselle following us in the same direction.

“Mr. Giselle, why are you following us to the adventure lectures? As a black market merchant, wouldn’t it be better to take merchant class lectures in the Production Department?”

“Hoho. Oknodie, you’re still a child and don’t understand. If you give adventurers in the field an opportunity to quickly lighten their heavy loads when they desperately need help, you can easily take over 1000% profit. Lectures that help read adventurers’ mindsets are even more valuable to merchants.”

“…Are you a demon?”

So this is the kind of person who appears in games occasionally, selling consumables at ridiculously high prices and buying loot for cheap!

Working as a ticket scalper during peak seasons and as a field merchant at other times.

Truly a diligent minor villain.

“This is the Adventure Department section.”

“There’s a guide sign over there.”

The long-awaited Adventure Department.

The available course list was as follows:

Do you sense the ruthless realism?

That’s right.

There’s no Dungeon Exploration Studies or anything like that among these.

It would be problematic if such a course existed in the first-year, first-semester basic curriculum.

If you really want to take it, there is a workaround.

‘If you skip a grade, you can take second-year lectures. As long as you have enough points and credits, you can apply for grade advancement.’

You attend classes with seniors one year above you.

It’s a feature occasionally used by players aiming for speed runs or special strategies to unlock character redemptions or exclusive events.

Of course, as a veteran player, I’ve done it before, but I don’t particularly want to do it now.

‘It’s not like the crisis of human extinction is approaching, and this playthrough has been quite lucky overall.’

No national disaster-level events have occurred in the four frontier regions.

Without failing at disaster-level events, the world event <Imperial Invasion> that occurs doesn’t happen.

There’s no <Hero of National Salvation> event that occurs when the Empire is in dire crisis, nor the <Hero of Chaotic Times> event that takes place in the shattered west.

There’s no need to do a time attack and start a depressing academy life where I’d say, “Sob, I couldn’t get an A rank in today’s lecture. Because of my stupid incompetence, tens of thousands of local residents will die.”

‘If I had entered the Academy during the war generation, I would have really experienced that, so I should be thankful.’

In short, this playthrough’s continent is on the peace route.

There are threats, but humanity isn’t particularly in a precarious situation, and there’s no approaching enormous threat—it’s a world of <status quo>.

In such a world, combat techniques don’t develop much, but cultural development takes precedence.

‘The trending technology seems to be sacred studies that lead imperial culture.’

I can roughly recall the related lecture list.

There were some surprisingly interesting lectures.

The last one was particularly so.

-If your physical abilities are excellent, you can safely land from a height of 20m without the power of faith.

-What? You don’t have such physical abilities? But you still want to get credits?

-Then believe in the full-body Mark and convert to faith, landing on the ground with the power of <Iron Block>. By the way, entry-level priests of the Mark Warrior Order are guaranteed at least a B rank.

Would you rather believe in Mark and get a B rank, or take the test of jumping from 20m without sacred arts through extreme training and skill?

Students who took this extreme sales pitch lecture either tearfully became believers or firmly resolved that they couldn’t believe in religion even if their legs broke, ending up in the treatment ward.

“Hmm. A lecture on handling sacred arts without divine power. That’s intriguing.”

“Grand Duke Andersen is going to take <How to Use Sacred Arts Without Faith>!”

“Let’s take it too!”

I only feel sorry for the freshmen who follow the wrong choice of the Western Noble Union’s number one like moths to a flame.

“Oknodie. I’ve already chosen.”

“Ah, the same as me!”

Isabelle chose <Developing an Eye>.

Compared to Grand Duke Andersen, this lecture is a million times better choice.

“I chose this because I’ve already learned other things through my adventurer life, but why did you choose <Developing an Eye>? I thought you’d take cooking studies.”

“I like eating food, not making it.”

Of course, there’s another proper reason.

“How unusual. Freshmen coming to take this lecture. Do you know it’s difficult to earn credits in a lecture taken simultaneously by first and second years?”

A female professor in a white suit with a silk hat, leaning against the podium with her arms crossed, revealing an undeniable presence of her chest that captured attention.

Despite giving the stingiest grades, having the most difficult lectures, and being located in the most remote corner of the Adventure Department, the reason I came here is right there.

Anyway, I already know everything from all the lectures.

For a veteran player, the first criterion for choosing lectures isn’t easy credits, appropriate schedule distribution, or professors who teach well.

Difficult to earn credits.

Terrible schedule.

Even if the teaching isn’t good, it’s fine.

‘I can’t resist a D-cup glamorous female professor in a white suit.’

For a veteran player, all is forgiven as long as the professor is sexy.

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