Chapter 200
Returning home before the sun had fully risen, I glanced at the gem, which was not reflecting the light, but rather absorbing it.
[Name: Superior Dark Elemental Essence]
[Rank: Unique]
[Type: Material]
[Description: Originally immortal, it is the essence of a Dark Spirit that has returned to nothingness. Just by looking at it, one can feel the endless darkness.]
“At least I got it.”
A high-grade material item imbued with the power of the creature, the essence of a high-level Dark Spirit.
In the game, it was used as an enhancement material for items.
Of course, there were quite a few other items from his lair, but…….
‘It was a pity that most of them were used for traps.’
Other things that could be used were things used to strengthen the spirits, and the sword he was using.
But
“This is enough.”
It wasn’t an elixir, it wasn’t a weapon, but it was something that would give me another chance.
I walked back to my desk and reviewed the events of the rest of the first semester.
First and foremost, the Academy’s final exams.
To be honest, I’m not too worried about this one. I’m not too worried about the high school-level exams, as I’m sure my smart lenses and experience will be enough to cover them.
The really important event is this.
“First Semester Club Evaluation.”
This is one of the big events on the Academy Route, where you get to see how your club has done over the past semester.
It was an event where all the production clubs, the arts clubs, and the economics clubs had a day to present their work or performance reports and get away with it, but……the problem was that Familia was a “military” type club.
And inevitably, martial arts clubs have to prove their achievements by showing their skills. And that’s where the issues come in…….
-Master. Are you up?
It was almost breakfast time, and Alessia came to my room to wake me up.
“I’ll be right out.”
I’ll eat first since I was so hungry after being up since dawn trying to catch him.
* * *
“I did it, I did it, I did it, do you see it, do you see it, nyaaaaaaah!”
Jin-woo has been roaring loudly since the afternoon.
At the sight of him, Se-ah sighs and shakes her head.
“I don’t know why he likes it so much when he barely avoided failing.”
“At least he tried harder and did all the homework we gave him.”
But Young-jae is smiling with pride as he looks at him.
This made him even more excited and he started dancing in a mysterious way.
“Ha, he shouldn’t be enjoying himself like that. Do you know that we have a club evaluation next week?”
Se-ah is the first to bring up the subject of the club’s evaluation.
“It’s true that our current level is enough to wipe out any bronze club, but……we’re a silver club now, so we can’t let our guard down.”
She says this with a worried look on her face, as if she’s been thinking about it.
Jin-woo narrows his eyes as if he’s worried about something.
“Don’t get too worked up. It’s just a club evaluation. I can’t speak for myself, but……we’re not weak, right?”
Giggling, Jin-woo said that our current club was already a good mid-sized club.
Familia is more than a club, it’s an alliance.
The only problem is that we’re the only proper fighting club in that alliance and if I were an enemy of the Familia, I would certainly capitalize on this and try to squeeze the life out of us.
‘This isn’t going to be business as usual.’
Se-ah was right to not let our guard down.
“First of all, we’ve all had a hard time with the finals, and as much as I’d like to tell you all to get some rest……you’re right, we still have the club evaluation, so let’s make the most of the rest of the first semester. After all, we’ll be on vacation soon.”
A vacation would give me a break from the work of Familia.
With that in mind, I arrived at Familia’s office to prepare for the club’s evaluation.
[New message arrived!]
[Julie: SD]
It was an emergency signal from Julie.
If I remember correctly, that signal means “Dangerous.” It’s a class S crisis.
The way she abbreviated it, it meant that the situation had happened suddenly and it was out of her control.
And if anyone could do this, it would be…….
“Is this the beginning?”
It meant Ray Pendragon made his move.
At the same time as I thought that.
“Junior Eugene! Junior Eugene! Junior Eugene! Emergency, emergency!”
“Junior Eugene! Junior Eugene! Junior Eugene! Help us!”
The screams come from outside the clubhouse and Jin-woo opens the door to see what’s going on.
“Uh? Board game club senior? and……Manager Seri?”
In the distance, I see two people running and panting along with another group of people scurrying behind them.
Most of them were faces I recognized, either related to our Familia or involved in supporting the club.
“Boss, I think it’s an emergency.”
……Jin-woo was right. Something was happening.
* * *
“What the hell are they saying we did wrong?”
“Bo, bo, bo, the people who are holding us back are doing this, uh, what can we do?!”
The reason for this overcrowding was very simple.
It was because the people who entrusted their safety to us felt threatened.
“So, let me get this straight, every single person in this room, every single club. Are you saying there’s a club war on?”
Everyone nods in unison and it wasn’t hard to guess the reason for this.
“Ray Pendragon. The student council president has made a move.”
It was Young-jae who spoke first.
“Before our club evaluation. He must be trying to undermine our club’s power, otherwise he wouldn’t have cherry-picked the clubs with whom we have a contract to compete.”
He’s probably right. It was a malicious tactic.
“It’s funny, he’s getting revenge for the one time I picked on him?”
At least he received a certificate of recognition, but I didn’t expect him to throw a work bomb like this.
“Let’s all calm down, seniors, because as per the contract, we will be representing you in the club war.”
I stood up, calming the nervous club leaders, and counted the number of clubs present.
“Five clubs in total.”
‘Recipe Development Club, Board game club, Indoor fishing club, Tarot Club and Patissier Club’
These are all clubs with little to no fighting power but the point is, we can’t fight for these five clubs.
There’s a lot of overlap but that didn’t mean we were completely without options.
“If it’s a club war, then the first opponent to walk through the gates will have a much lower rank. Se-ah, run down to the cafe and ask Latte for information on these guys. I’m sure she’ll have it ready at my command.”
“Ah, yes!”
As I suspected, this was most likely a ploy to drain our strength, not to win.
In other words, we’d win against the other clubs, but that would mean we’d walk right into another trap he’d set for us.
Moments later Se-ah returned, panting, and handed me a wad of paper with something scribbled on it.
“This is for you.”
“Thanks.”
Thanks to the family’s intelligence operative, all the information I needed right now was in here.
And here it is…….
“As expected.”
The opposing clubs involved in this incident were all categorized as weak clubs.
Of course, they were stronger than the production and hobby clubs gathered here, but they were much weaker than the students who were preparing to become active heroes.
After all, they didn’t come to the club competition with the intention of winning.
In other words, the student council offered them a reward that would more than make up for the loss.
“This should be easier than I thought.”
Apparently, the current student council didn’t have enough information about us.
Most importantly, the growth of our members was beyond their wildest dreams.
“First of all, if you’ll excuse me, I’d like to talk to some members of the ‘Familia’ about alternatives to this, but please understand that it’s for security purposes.”
Even so, it was a bit much to tell our plan in front of this many people, so we sent most of them off to their respective clubs.
That left the four of us in our “Familia.”
“You’re late.”
No, it was all five of us, including Choi Yeon, who had just arrived.
“So, boss, what good idea did you have to send everyone else away like that?”
Jin-woo was the first to speak up.
“Looking at the information the boss showed me, it seemed like a bunch of really insignificant people had come rushing in. ‘How about we just submerge them one by one in the club war?’”
“Do you really think the student council is going to let that happen, they’re going to use that as an excuse to bring all sorts of sanctions against us?”
Young-jae nodded at Se-ah’s words.
“She’s right, if we do anything unnecessary here, we’ll just be showing our weakness. We need to do something different.”
A different method.
“I was talking about a different approach and I have an idea.”
The other kids’ eyes snap to me.
“What, just overwhelm them one by one?”
“No, Eugene, we might as well stamp them with money, press them, and lure them to our side.”
“No way. Boss would rather just go on his own rounds and smash them all.”
……I wonder what I look like in their eyes.
“Eugene can do anything, so maybe he’s just having second thoughts.”
Even Choi Yeon chimed in.
Honestly, it’s not like I hadn’t thought about what they were saying…… but I hadn’t really thought about doing it.
“Let me just say this. This is an opportunity for us.”
“A chance?”
Everyone looked at my face with a puzzled expression.
I smirked at them and continued.
“We don’t have a track record since we started the club.”
“Uh……? No, we’re in the support business, aren’t we the best in school?”
“That’s internal and financial. I’m talking about our ranking, to be precise.”
“Oh, and by the way, we haven’t had a ranking battle since our all-out war!”
Se-ah claps her hands in surprise, as if she’s made a new discovery.
That’s right. The system for the martial arts club it’s the school rankings.
“Well, I guess we have no choice. We’ve been busy since the beginning, advancing to a Silver Club, going through some big events, and working on different projects. “But it’s clear that we need a track record.”
That’s what we were lacking, willingly or unwillingly.
“What looks like a crisis is actually an opportunity. We’ll be taking on five clubs at once, and I think you’ll like it.”
“……A plan we’d like?”
Choi Yeon shakes her head at this.
I looked at the other kids, including Choi Yeon, and decided to let them know what the ‘unconventional plan’ was.
“Let’s each take one club and wipe them out.”
“I love it.”
See? I said they’d love it, didn’t I?
