[19th Round] Terminator
At that time, his stats were like this:
▷ Race: Great Human
▷ Level: 999+
▷ Job: Wizard (Chastity → Wisdom)
▷ Skills: Magic ZZZ, Sorcery ZZZ, Magic Power Z, Path of Magic Z, Intelligence Z…
▷ Status: Good
Now:
▷ Race: Great Elemental
▷ Level: 999+
▷ Job: Connoisseur (Yin-Yang = Truth)
▷ Skills: Yin-Yang G, Elements G, Magic ZZZ, Eternal life ZZ, Energy Z…
▷ Status: Good
Sword God Alex was incredibly strong, but Shakespeare was even far beyond the standards of primary education.
He was a boss with two G-rank skills in a place where even a Z-ranked enemy could give heroes hell.
It was insane, considering his skills were adjusted accordingly for each course.
I found it difficult to imagine how strong he was in the secondary and tertiary courses.
What made me even more curious was his job.
I activated the “Learn More” function, which I hadn’t used in a long time.
Connoisseur: This job can be acquired by patient and tenacious archmages that have fallen in love with an unprecedented beauty. There’s less than a 0.00001% chance of gaining it, but upon doing so, they would be freed from their old shackles. The truth would always be with them as they explore the world’s most outstanding abyss and realize the essence of yin and yang. For as long as the harmony of yin and yang remains intact, all of the Connoisseur’s actions will lead to unconditional success.
I had never seen a job so fraudulent. I found it hard to believe that the system designed it.
Unconditional success?
‘What do you think of this, Trainee Teacher?’
▶ Opinion: This is my first time seeing that job, but I think it’s romantic.
‘Romantic? You’re very sentimental!’
It was definitely impressive.
But I had already lost my virginity at the beginning of the 1st round, which meant I could no longer become an archmage to accomplish one of its founding conditions.
▶ Curiosity: How was cadet Kang Han Soo’s first time? Did you have a romantic night with a beautiful lady?
‘Nothing like that…’
After being beaten by Alex, who pretended to train me, I got drunk to ease the pain.
I couldn’t remember what happened next.
When I woke up the next morning, the maid of the royal palace was sleeping naked next to me.
▶ Expectations: That maid fell in love with you, huh!
Another miss.
The maid wanted to be impregnated by the Hero to change her social position.
Romance or love wasn’t her motive.
▶ Disappointment: Oh, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have asked…
‘It’s okay, Trainee Teacher!’
Fortunately, the maid didn’t get pregnant. However, it taught me a lesson.
So from that moment on, I made sure to always keep my mind clear.
It was thanks to that behavior that I managed to avoid leaving my children here in Fantasy. Hence, I would one day depart from this world without regrets.
But the faculty members refused to let me go easily. The cowardly Second Demon also caught me in her web, turning me into the MAX-Class husband.
“Great Hero, if you have time, I invite you to our home.”
“Please allow me to repay you for introducing me to my dearest Shakespeare.”
Since the strongest couple on the Western Continent insisted, how could I refuse?
[The Orgat’s Flying Ship is on standby.]
[Please set a course.]
I had taken control of Orgat’s flying ship.
[Course set.]
[Initiating flight.]
If Richel, who jumped from the ship, had died, the world would’ve already collapsed, but he had to be alive since nothing happened.
As his caring senior, I immediately took advantage of Shadow A’s honorary teacher position to check on his condition.
“Ouch… Damn…”
He was fine.
Looking at my junior, who didn’t even break his ribs, I learned something new.
Fall damage was defined as normal physical damage in this world.
Hence, since his divine reflection was triggered, he sustained no damage.
This was a fact that I wasn’t aware of. Angels were born with wings, after all, which meant they rarely fell.
At least I discovered I could throw him off a cliff next time.
“Sir Hero Riel! Are you okay?”
“Someone attacked me on the ship!”
Lanuvel and Mercenary A, who had just joined Richel, were fine as well, apart from a couple of broken bones.
I wasn’t particularly surprised, considering I had no intention of killing them in the first place.
After that, I also decided to check my body sitting on the throne in the Demon Lord’s castle.
“My niece! I haven’t read Chapter 272 yet! ”
“Neither have I, Mistress Ssosia.”
“It’s not that you haven’t read it yet. It doesn’t exist at all because the author took a break.”
“Break?! He’s worse than the Drug Demon Lord himself!”
“Such a lazy person needs to be put in a dungeon to make sure he only focuses on working on his novel.”
Three women were reading a romance novel using a tiny smartphone screen.
The Addicted Spirit was on my head, Ssosia sat on my lap, and Shadow A, bending over slightly, sat on the arm of the throne.
It was a little strange to watch this from the outside…
“This is our home, Great Hero.”
Shakespeare pointed at the distance, where a dome-shaped bunker could be seen.
When I first saw it, it seemed pathetic to me, but my mind gradually changed as we got closer.
It was huge.
Really damn huge.
It was the same size as the Supreme Dragon of Oblivion, Noebius.
“What is that?”
“That’s the capital of the Eternal Night Empire, ruled by my wife. That dome saves the vampires from sunlight and allows them to live normally.”
It was surrounded by low buildings, making it look like an egg without the yolk.
“There seem to be people living outside the dome.”
“Every city in the empire has this structure, allowing humans and vampires to coexist. It took a long time for the two races to come together, though, and if it weren’t for Mollan’s Teachings, it would’ve been much more difficult.”
“Wait. Mollan’s Teachings?”
I didn’t think I would hear about Master Mollan’s achievements outside the Central and Northern Continents.
“Yes. he treats everyone equally, after all, including humans and vampires.”
“Right.”
It wasn’t difficult for humans and elves to get along, but things were different with vampires.
For humans, vampires were blood-sucking parasites, and for vampires, humans were livestock filled with nutrients.
Their very nature made despising each other almost natural.
“After declaring Mollan’s Teachings as the state religion, racial discrimination has been eliminated. With our power, we’ve taken control over half of the Western Continent, and we’re in the process of conquering neighboring countries through cultural influence, not military conflict.”
“Cultural influence…”
I didn’t think I would hear something like that in the wild, wild world of Fantasy.
“Vampires with infinite life spans don’t retire due to old age, so they’re basically the ones who hold the entire empire together, but the proliferation of flush toilets caused the number of humans to increase dramatically, equalizing the scale of power.”
“But that doesn’t change the fact that most aristocrats are vampires. Wouldn’t that mean the situation here hasn’t changed much, then? Racial discrimination was just replaced by class discrimination.”
I was really curious how the Eternal Night Empire could hold out for 2,000 years without their entire civilization collapsing from within.
I was an emperor too, and right now, I was the Demon Lord.
This was a topic close to my heart.
“There’s no problem with that,” said the epitome of beauty with a bright smile on her face.
“Why?”
“Because I’m a vampire slave who can’t live without Shakespeare’s blood. Hehe!”
“I don’t think the empress ruling half of the Western Continent can say that…”
This woman hugging a middle-aged man’s forearms and rubbing her cheeks against him was the “Vampire Queen” and ruler of the empire.
“But it’s true. I can’t drink other people’s blood even if I were to starve to death.”
“Then it is better for you two to be on good terms…”
She would die of anemia otherwise!
It had finally become clear how humans and vampires were able to reconcile.
Empress’s Master: Human
Empress: Vampire
Royal Family: Vampires
Aristocrats: Vampires
Commoners: Humans
The empress ruled the empire and the vampires, but her husband ruled her.
Looking at this couple, I didn’t feel any dominance in their relationship, but the empire’s citizens felt differently.
▶ Whimper: I think their love is wonderful.
‘Trainee Teacher, you’re too sentimental. You have a beautiful body and soul, though!’
[Captain.]
[You have arrived at your destination.]
[Landing.]
While we were talking, we got to the “home” of the power couple.
“This is impressive.”
I had seen many things that had gone beyond what was common, but I still couldn’t help but admire the panoramic view of the city.
The columns supporting the dome were multi-story buildings connected by tunnels like bridges, but what caught me by surprise even more than that was their mode of transportation.
Vehicles similar to trains and buses moved quickly between buildings without accidents despite the absence of traffic lights and road signs.
That wasn’t all.
There were many things here that reminded me of the Earth.
Fans, refrigerators, washing machines, vacuum cleaners, TVs, cameras, telephones, elevators, escalators…
Thanks to the addition of magic, their technology was even more efficient.
Their washing machines magically folded the laundry that passed through the dryer and sent it to the closet.
It was a huge scam.
“Sir Hero, there’s nothing that Shakespeare cannot do! After all, he is my husband!”
Shakespeare laughed and provided an explanation.
“Thanks to ‘the truth,’ there is no invention that I can’t make. Just having an idea of what I want to create and its focal details is enough.”
“It’s all thanks to your job, huh…”
I thought it was stupid of me to even attempt to make a smartphone charger and bidet myself.
I should have turned to him right from the beginning!
If all of Shakespeare’s actions led to unconditional success, he could definitely recreate Earth’s smartphones.
No, he’d be able to make a far better invention than that.
Shakespeare petted his wife.
“This power of mine isn’t absolute, however. My inventions must obey the rules of this world. Time travel, inter-dimensional travel, and the merging of souls are impossible. My “truth” is only available in this world, after all.”
“This is…”
He voiced a rather interesting list of things that were beyond his control.
Time travel, movement between dimensions, and merging of souls. The three main prohibitions of the Fantasy system.
Shakespeare knew the truth about the locals’ cruel fate.
A divided soul, an eternally-repeating life, an artificial destiny…
“From the moment one comes to the conclusion that the truth they know is, in fact, true, it ceases to be the truth, for, at that point, it becomes self-inflicted.”
“Uhh… Sure.”
What nonsense was he talking about?
“But the truth still exists. One such example would be you being our hope.”
“Um…”
I couldn’t understand what he’s saying, but it didn’t sound like an insult.
▶ Question: Cadet Kang Han Soo, how can a student, devoid of any hope, graduate? If the probability is 0%, wouldn’t that be true?
‘Please explain it to me in a way that I’d understand, intelligent Trainee Teacher!’
▶ Explanation: To become a good senior, you need to pay more attention to your juniors.
Juniors…? Ah!
I looked at what Richel, the Hero who crash-landed somewhere on the Western Continent, was doing.
“For a pathetic vampire, you’re holding up pretty well.”
“Khhh!”
“Princess of Darkness, if you take a blood oath to obey me, I’ll let you go.”
“Don’t make me laugh… Khhhhhh!”
“Haha! Let’s see how long you can hold out in the sunlight.”
Princess of Darkness…
That junior of mine was currently toying with Shakespeare’s daughter.
“Does he want his journey to end in 0.1 seconds again?”
