episode_0210

The mock dungeon where the class competition takes place consists of a total of five different zones.

There are 25 safe zones where cadets enter.

There are 50 monster zones where monsters appear.

There are 20 treasure zones where magical tools are hidden.

There are 5 boss zones where powerful monsters are located.

Finally, there is 1 exit zone in the center.

A total of 101 zones.

Except that all safe zones are spaced at a certain distance, the zones are all randomly arranged.

So there’s no need to worry about zone placement in the planning stage.

What’s important is what you have to do in each zone.

Hunting, combat, exploration.

We will select outstanding cadets in each of the three areas to achieve the best performance.

I have gathered information about all the cadets of 1-A from past training.

And based on that information, I have completed the appropriate personnel allocation.

First, hunting.

Since there are the most monster zones where ordinary monsters are released, I have formed two teams.

Hunting team Alpha, the reliable team leader is Eve.

With her adventurer experience almost on par with mine, she is also rich in monster hunting experience.

This is practically a one-woman team. To help Eve, who has difficulty relating to people, I’ve added female cadets who are low in combat ability but quick-witted.

“Can you do it?”

“…I don’t intend to be a hindrance.”

Eve is relatively overpowered, hence the one-woman team remark, but the individual skills of each member cannot be ignored either. I will surely fill in her rare weaknesses perfectly to ensure successful mission accomplishment.

Hunting team Beta, the team leader here is Andrew, my captain of the guard.

Was it the Guard or the Protective Squad…? Anyway, it was a fan club with such a name.

Despite his usually foolish behavior of following me like a fanatic, he has combat experience ingrained in his very being. He’s a responsible man when it comes down to it.

“Give it your all.”

“As you command…”

“Amen—!!”

The team members consist of male cadets who follow him well. The command structure is naturally established, and the combat synergy will already be in place, right? Since he prefers a barehanded approach instead of staves or wands, I trust him to perform well in quick hit-and-run guerrilla warfare.

Next is combat.

Alpha and Beta may encounter other parties, but their main objective is monster hunting.

Combat team Gamma, on the other hand, will eliminate other participants instead of monsters and steal points. That’s why I separated hunting and combat.

While you must actually kill monsters to score points, for human participants, you are eliminated if you receive ‘a certain level of damage’ that the barrier magic can detect.

In other words, it’s possible to earn points even with relatively low magical power.

Therefore, I chose cadets who excelled in defense, stealth, and sniping for Gamma.

Isn’t it true that in games, the phrase ‘You really play this game like shit’ is high praise?

While nominally a ‘combat’ team, I don’t intend to engage in active combat at all.

It’s all good as long as I can eliminate them quickly and certainly.

“You know, right? Losing in battle means winning in the game.”

“Leave it to me, Leader!”

I entrusted the team leader to a female cadet named Rosaria.

Proficient in long-range sniper magic, she, along with her team’s airtight defense, will become the assassin of the battlefield.

Exploration team Delta.

They will focus solely on finding magical tools without fighting.

Among my girls, there was one who was particularly sensitive to mana reactions. Ideally, I wanted to make her the leader.

“Let’s use Nix here.”

“No. The spirit is recognized as an individual and judged as an invalid participant.”

I got immediately rejected.

Though, if we’re going that far, it’s just a matter of taming the dragon living atop Tarun Mountain and unleashing it.

‘Operation Rise’ is canceled.

Of course, even without Nix, there was another person sensitive to mana fluctuations.

That’s Yuri.

She is the one who helped Lulu successfully cast ‘Resonance Magic’ for the first time in actual combat.

If Nix excels in magic and Aspi excels in physical abilities, then Yuri is exactly in between. Having spent my childhood with me, she has grown into a capable person who is somewhat of my inferior version in combat.

Having learned from me, she will surely perform well. I never neglected her, neither in bed nor on the training field.

Thus, four teams in total.

And the role of the leader who will read the ever-changing battle situation and issue commands to them is…

Naturally, me.

. . .

Clink-

I had two necklaces around my neck. One is a locket containing a picture of my mother. The other is a black crystal pendant where Nix sleeps.

As I opened my chest and gently stroked the jet-black crystal, black mist began to rise.

Whooooosh—

“Kehehe… It’s been a while since I was summoned like this. Front hole? Back hole? Or mouth hole? Which one will you use—♡”

“That’s not why I called you.”

The hikikomori spirit revealed herself from the mist and made a grimace as soon as her form materialized.

I didn’t feel any responsibility to satisfy Nix’s sexual desires. She never suppressed her sexual desires to begin with. Just as she immediately finds a book to read when she’s curious about something, she invades my dreams whenever she feels horny. Each time creating a different situation, she’d get me to have sex with her in various ways.

It seemed she never got tired of role-playing sex in my dreams.

When she occasionally felt really horny in reality, she’d borrow from Yuri’s collection, so the days she needed my care were few and far between.

“Tch… Tonight, I’ll make you dream of being my servant. Of course, I’ll be your master—♡”

“Even so, in bed, our master-servant relationship will reverse.”

“Even better… Khuhhuh—”

Nix smiled seductively and licked her lips.

Creak—

With her beside me, I leaned back into the chair. I pointed at the bundle of papers on the table and extended them toward Nix.

“Read this.”

“Hmm…”

Nix exhaled black mist. The mist is like her body; hands, feet, now also eyes.

The black mist swallowed the bundle of papers whole and Nix soon made a mysterious expression.

“Already finished reading?”

“Yes, it’s easy to read… Easy, but…”

She propped her chin with her finger and fell into thought for a moment. It’s best not to disturb Nix in this state. She’s concentrating with all her might.

Fortunately, she soon spat out the swallowed bundle of papers and approached me.

“You’re going to devise a strategy?”

“Right. I have a few things I want to ask.”

“The important thing is to know the strength of other participating parties…”

“I think so too.”

Information about the enemy is just as important as information about our allies. I’ve become ‘known’ now, but I’m not ‘knowing’.

Fortunately, Nix’s memories contain a vivid record of last semester’s final exams.

That’s why I even went so far as to transform her into a normal person and brought her to the academy.

I had also used the Oracle to obtain information about the various parts of the training grounds. However, I couldn’t remember everything like Nix’s vast repository of knowledge.

It was good to have a source of enemy information, but I couldn’t just be thankful for it. Because while I’m struggling to gather information, the enemy knows everything about me.

The reason is simple. Because I’m the tournament’s undefeated champion.

The final match was watched by all the students of the academy. Not only cadets, but ordinary people and even nobles interested in such competitions saw it.

To summarize, the enemy knows me, I don’t know the enemy.

In this desperate situation, it is Nix’s memory trove that gives me a lifeline.

“Hmm, but you see… Kehih—”

“Why are you laughing?”

What she just read was the document concerning this class competition.

And of course, it contained the traces of my memos.

Understanding my intentions, Nix couldn’t seem to hold back her laughter.

“Regardless of our enemy, you just plan to wipe them all out.”

“Well, something like that.”

“Kuhuh… I knew it.”

With an evil smile clearly visible, she burst out laughing. It was more of a sneer than a laugh, that’s her favorite kind of laughter.

I gathered the bundle of papers together and neatly arranged them on the table with a thump-thump.

“But we should still show that we’re following the rules of the game, right? Breaking the rules can wait until later.”

“Yeah, yeah. That’s true too. Kehiih—”

Our 1-A cadets had already experienced the individual matches. Their memories would also contain information about their enemies.

As for me, I can monopolize the points just by running wild. The important thing is how efficiently I use those guys’ strength to suck up points to the extreme.

“Anyway, show me the memories quickly.”

“With nothing but my mouth…?”

Tsk.

I was planning on getting the information fast and then getting it on with Aspi tonight, but Nix was already licking her lips and peeling off her clothes.

Nearly every night, she makes my dreams her own, and even while awake, she’s constantly aiming for my dick.

“I’ll pay you handsomely. For one day’s worth of memories… five times.”

“Greedy. Three.”

“Five times—!!”

“…Alright. Four.”

Churut-

The negotiation went through after a brief standoff. Twelve orgasms for three days’ worth of information… the price was expensive, and I’m already worried about tomorrow morning.

“Will this do as payment?”

“Yeeees— Stick it in here—♡♡”

I purchased the cumshot plan.

. . .

The day of the Nai Franz Academy’s second semester final exams.

5 minutes left until the start of the class competition.

Five teams gathered in each of the five training grounds, preparing to enter the dungeon.

“Well, we’ve been waiting a long time!! It seems the cadets are finally about to enter the mock dungeon! I’m very much looking forward to this, and what we should be looking out for this time again is, of course, Cadet Narias Philbrogue—?!”

When my name came up in the announcer’s booming voice, I was taken aback and my shoulders trembled.

It was ridiculous. I didn’t have to be that surprised.

That’s how much I was looking forward to this class competition.

Perhaps the reason I have maintained friendly relationships with all the cadets of 1-A was for this day.

Even if you say I view human relationships too mechanically, I won’t change my mind.

If I am here, and my wives are by my side, everyone else is a stranger.

Still, it’s better to say a few words befitting a leader.

I turned to look at the cadets lined up behind me in two rows, and I could see the tension in their faces.

“Let’s just do our best as we have practiced. There are monster senior students as our opponents, so if you fail it’s not just your own responsibility; ”

I raised my hand high. While my voice alone seemed to scatter their focus elsewhere, when I used distinct physical gestures so that their attentions would be captured with my actions, everyone’s minds started to focus.

“We’re all in this together. Got it?”

“…Yes!”

“Let’s show them what we’re made of, guys…!!”

“Right! We can do it!!”

The tension that had frozen their bodies began to melt away.

I infused my voice with aether and shouted so that it reverberated throughout the stadium.

「Let’s go—!!」

Through the skill [Sacred Words], I infused all the cadets of 1-A with strength.

I led the four squads into the mock dungeon.