Chapter 23: Group Battle Preparations

The Internet Broadcasting Club's first dungeon raid was very successful.

That bastard Si-woo suggested going through the back entrance which made me uneasy, but he went to the Association and handled all the aftermath himself.

Right. I should give him that much credit. I think there was some talk about the Black God Church or whatever afterwards, but I decided not to worry about it.

The Black God Church is the protagonist's domain after all.

For rewards, everything from the treasure chest was split 5 ways, while I took the [Ancient Heritage] and [Core].

Come to think of it, Han Soo-ji gets sponsorship from Kim Jae-soo, and Fake Elf Reina who's from another world and an elf descendant gets government sponsorship, that goes without saying. Meanwhile I'm in a position where I have to watch my brother's mood.

So naturally, poor little me has the duty to monopolize these good things.

Yoo Eun-ha: Hey

NTR Professional Actor: Yes, sister?

Yoo Eun-ha: Ho

NTR Professional Actor: ? Sister's being flirty.

Yoo Eun-ha: Just kidding, how do you use items from dungeons?

NTR Professional Actor: You stick them in.

Yoo Eun-ha: The fuck you mean stick them in you bastard

Looking at the size, I don't think it would even fit.

NTR Professional Actor: No, you just stick the item into your body. If you're using it yourself, you can eat it or stick it in.

Yoo Eun-ha: Ok thanks.

Choi Si-woo didn't exchange contact info separately and Reina and Han Soo-ji said they've never used dungeon drop items despite being so strong, so I asked Geum Tae-yang.

Simple enough. Just stick it in, he says.

I cleared away the black mister sitting in the chair with my dagger and sat down, solemnly holding up the Ancient Heritage.

"I'll try eating it."

While talking nonsense to myself, I stuck the Ancient Heritage into my chest.

Don't misunderstand. I just firmly pressed it into my cleavage.

Suddenly along with a stiff feeling, a vast amount of knowledge crawls into my head.

[Akashic Record Operation Confirmed]

[Welcome. Yoo Eun—4­/_#! ）4#41

"Huh?"

[User 4­/_#! ）4#41

[From now on 4­/_#! ）4#41

A strange voice rings in my head.

What the? The Ancient Heritage is an Akashic Record?

Feels like I stuck something weird in my head. Maybe I should take it out right away.

[The Akashic Record is an artifact that cannot be returned.]

"Fuck!"

While cursing, I diligently looked up what the Akashic Record is.

It supposedly contains all records of the universe and humanity. Some hyper-dimensional information aggregate or whatever. They say it can even know things that will happen in the future.

Since it's from Wiki, I can't know what differences there are from the actual Akashic Record.

[The contents match the Wiki. The Akashic Record contains all knowledge of the world.]

Well then I should experiment right away.

This world is similar to the one I know, so it maintains the same web novel platforms.

The novels I saw in that world continue here too. But what if I could see the ending of this work in advance?

Wouldn't that be sweet without having to pay?

[The final chapter of this work is 444. Transmitting contents from after currently paid chapters to the end.]

"Wait fuck."

And so I got spoiled on all the current popular paid novels by the Akashic Record.

It even directly crammed the contents up to the ending into my brain. My head is spinning like crazy.

If it weren't for the parallel circuit, my head would've already exploded.

Come to think of it, didn't I want to know why my status window doesn't show?

"Can you tell me why my status window isn't visible?"

[To view that information, you must watch the ancient people who created the Akashic Record's extinction.]

"Then I don't want to."

[Now executing ancient memory fragment.]

The Akashic Record that can't understand what I'm saying crammed the ancient people's extinction into my head exactly as it was.

The surprising thing is that those ancient people were from another world like the Fake Elf, and their world violated causality by developing the Akashic Record and incurred divine wrath.

­Protect our civilization!

­＠%[­］[］ [）＠[­］＠1

­Wrong. We can't stop that.

­Even the Akashic Record can't prevent our end.

­We must at least hide the Akashic Record.

In the end the ancient people ＠%[­］[］ [）＠[­］＠1

The Akashic Record was implanted in a robot existing in a space like Noah's Ark that they created.

Right. This was the boss of Mekaland.

Those ancient people were really pitiful. They were quite good looking too.

In the end that world was destroyed, and during the Great Cataclysm on Earth, Mekaland where the Akashic Record slept appeared as a dungeon.

"So why can't I see the status window?"

[Even the Akashic Record cannot access divine domains. Instead, I showed you the fragment containing the closest related memory.]

In other words, no matter what I try I can't see my status window so just watch ancient history instead?

"There's no answer."

At this rate, even Lee Yoo-jeong probably can't see my status window.

Come to think of it, Geum Tae-yang also said he reads web novels when he has nothing to do.

At first I thought he was talking bullshit trying to build favor with me, but he turned out to be living quite constructively.

So I decided to take out my frustration on Geum Tae-yang.

Yoo Eun-ha: In 'I Became the Academy's Ghost', next chapter the protagonist's ghost identity gets found out by the original protagonist.

NTR Professional Actor: Excuse me?

Yoo Eun-ha: ttyl

Ah, the taste of spoiling is always fresh and thrilling.

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The Akashic Record doesn't just have perfectly accurate knowledge.

Because the Akashic Record itself changes the future, uncertain things like Schrödinger's cat have unclear futures.

The unfortunate thing is that strangely, the future about me and my companions doesn't show up.

For that bastard Si-woo, only the original history shows up. Nothing shows up about the fact he regressed.

And for content I really want to know about, my head feels like it's going to burst so I can't even look it up.

"You say you can see the future but can't even see the future, what the hell."

To be precise, I can only see the original future. I can't know what happens to this world in the future where I'm alive.

However, there is something I found out while enduring the pain like getting hit in the head with a hammer.

The Black God Church's raid will begin within a week.

Right. The event where I die.

But the future where I die isn't visible.

It's just dark.

"Is it because I'm originally supposed to die? Or is there another reason?"

Right now my evaluation at the Academy is so-so.

Looking at the anonymous bulletin board, all the kids praising me seem to be yuri fans. But when you actually come to the Academy, there are quite a lot who are jealous of me.

Of course not as much as Si-woo. Just Si-woo alone gets picked on every other day.

This is what you call a villain event.

Students who appear like event bosses to make Si-woo grow. Kids who were brainwashed by the Black God Church or raised by them since childhood to infiltrate Hanseong Academy.

"Si-woo caught more students brainwashed by the Black God Church again?"

"Even the nurse teacher was a villain?"

"As expected of a Divine Sword User. Taking down villains so easily."

Si-woo getting high every day.

This can be considered following the original work.

Sometimes I go to dungeons with Si-woo too. As expected of someone who regressed, he raids dungeons quite skillfully.

Thanks to that, I'm about to break my back as a normal person.

"That fucking bastard thinks I regressed too just because he regressed?"

My head is throbbing.

I guess you could say it's protagonist-like how he resolves things on his own without me knowing.

But that bastard's been acting a bit girly lately.

Even his looks seem to be changing from a fresh pretty boy to a fresh pretty girl.

What's he doing?

Seeing him run around catching villains everywhere then running to report to me makes me wonder what the hell this bastard is doing.

"But to think even the nurse teacher was caught so easily."

No matter how I look at it, that bastard Si-woo twisting the original work himself is strange.

If he regressed, just how badly did he mess up to be rushing things like this?

Looking at things so far, what's certain is that idiot is trying to earn my favor.

Let me be honest. Just looking at his face isn't bad, but it's impossible. He still keeps his male self from back then after all.

Or maybe he's building up.

Like warning me the Black God Church might attack.

So he probably planned to preemptively take out any villains who might be active.

While I was anxiously wondering when the Black God Church event would happen, World History class started.

"During the Great Cataclysm, an evil dragon appeared in the world. Even America, the hegemonic power of the old era, couldn't stop the evil dragon. Does anyone know how much damage was taken then?"

"Over 1 billion died just from the evil dragon."

"Correct. We called this evil dragon Azhi Dahaka. Azhi Dahaka devastated human territory with various magic and breaths, and humanity had to endure tremendous damage until Awakened Ones appeared to face the Gates."

"What happened to Azhi Dahaka?"

"Azhi Dahaka last appeared in China. Appearing as a nun in China, without lifting a finger she caused chaos making people kill each other. According to survivors at the time, she muttered something then disappeared suddenly as if killing people had become boring. This is the last record, but her appearance was a beautiful white-haired girl. Ah, come to think of it, don't we have someone with white hair in our class?"

That Firebat bitch. Always picking on me.

"I had black hair before awakening so shut up."

"Ahem. Well, Azhi Dahaka wasn't the only worst opponent. There were many worst monsters like England's 'Traitor Lancelot', China's 'Yellow Dragon', Japan's 'Chaos Oni'."

In this world, national history has almost disappeared and we learn world history. The Korean history we usually learned disappeared long ago.

Records after the Great Cataclysm came out too much reducing interest in ancient history, and the era changed from scientific civilization to magic civilization.

In the previous work, Lancelot, Yellow Dragon, and Chaos Oni were the Four Heavenly Kings if I had to express it.

That bastard Yoo Jin-seok took care of all of them.

Now in this sequel, Sins occupy those positions, but the question is how far Si-woo can exert his power.

"Ah, and as you all know, there's a group battle soon. It'll be 5 people teams. Figure it out yourselves. You can form teams within the class, but people without friends can pick from first years too. I put the dates on the bulletin board. Form your teams by then and submit the roster to me."

"A 5-person group battle huh. Well this is."

The event is right in front of us.

I know Yoo Eun-ha's raid happens at a different event originally. But it seems like it'll be the 5-person group battle.

Since the timing of Yoo Eun-ha's death in the novel matches exactly with the current group battle timing.

Thanks to Si-woo running around everywhere, I just hope the raid doesn't come.

Then should I not participate?

This group battle is just competing between each country's Hunter levels anyway. Whether I actually become a Hunter later or not doesn't really affect anything.

Rather, I should hide at home until the group battle ends.

"Anyone want to team up with me?"

"Anyone want to be secret friends with mister?"

When World History class ended, the insiders gathered to start making teams.

In the original work, the protagonist's dignity showed during the group battle team recruitment.

In the original, students even from other classes came begging Reina and Han Soo-ji to please be on their teams, but Si-woo pulled out the two who were troubled and they naturally became teammates.

­Hmph, I'll go along with your judgment just this once.

­As expected of a Divine Sword User, you have good eyes.

There was also a story where thugs picked a fight saying he stole two pretty girls but got knocked down instead.

"Eun-ha."

"Huh?"

While I had my head down ready to kiss the desk, Han Soo-ji called me.

"Aren't we slacking off too much?"

"That's right. We need to find team members too."

"What?"

"We only need to recruit one more person since we have us."

Not just Han Soo-ji but Reina too. These kids were forcibly putting me on their team.

Oh heavens. This is too much pressure for a heroine who dies early.

"Why was it decided I'm teaming up with you guys?"

"Why? We're all supposed to be together originally."

Did you guys make a Peach Garden Oath without me? A Eun-ha-less Eun-ha Peach Garden Oath? Is that it?

I wanted to argue but held back.

They're not girls you can reason with originally right? I need to spank their asses and teach them a lesson sometime.

Right. Since I'm already dragged in, can't be helped. But one person?

"What do you mean one person. Then who's the other person not here?"

"Choi Si-woo."

"Is that bastard the leader. Fucking harem bastard. So this was his scheme to get me in somehow."

"You're the leader?"

"?"

Why me?

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