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Chapter 10: Sparring(bullying), Dungeons, and Clubs
Note: I'm stopping with including a precise date as it will make it harder for me to time certain events in the future… Also, I'm going to start adding facts that explain certain things at the end of the chapters.
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[Korea, Cube, 08:47, 2025, January]
Today they had "Anti-Personnel Training" and "Dungeons And What To Expect" on their schedule. After their instructor for the class finished explaining what they would do for this class they all split up into pairs and, unluckily or luckily C2 had to pair up Shin Jonghak since the bastard had a vendetta against him.
"Do I seriously need to do this…" C2 grumbled clearly not wanting to be here.
"What? You sacred?" Shin Jonghak snakily responds.
"Nah. Just don't want to humiliate you too badly…" C2 responds in a provoking manner.
"YOU!" Shin Jonghak roared changing at C2 spear in hand. "Crescent Moon Slash!" Shin Jonghak said swinging his spear and sending out a slash made of Magic Power at C2.
C2 in return sent out some of his wires and obliterated the flying slash Shin Jonghak had sent out. "My turn," He said with a smile. With a snap of his fingers, countless wires appeared around them, purple lightning weaving from one wire to another in perfect harmony. Shin Jonghak tried to cut them down with his spear but he got electrocuted and dropped it. Clenching his fist C2 made the wires contract around Shin Jonghak stringing him up like a puppet.
"ON HAND ME THIS INSTANT!" Shin Jonghak shouted at C2 with clear killing intent in his voice, and C2 just gave him the 'Bitch what?' face. Turning to the instructor he could see her performing a comedy skit with Kim Hajin and in the process beating the everliving shit out of Hajin. Choosing that his time was better spent watching this skit he just left Shin Jonghak hanging(literally), and then took a seat and started to eat popcorn that he took out from god knows where.
"GET UP!" The Instructor yelled at Hajin who had just fallen over from exhaustion. It looked like she was mad because one of his bullets had scratched her.
"I-I can't con-continue" He could hear Hajin stammering out.
"Yes, you can. If you can talk, you can continue." The instructor(devil) said to Hajin, C2 meanwhile was just sitting on the sidelines laughing his ass off internally. Then he felt a tap on his shoulder, looking behind him he found no other than Yoo Yeonha.
"Hmmm?" C2 hummed in a questioning tone.
"Ummm, could you please let Jonghak down?" She asked in a somewhat nervous tone.
"HMMMMMM? It depends, did you figure out my riddle yet? UMU?" C2 replied imitating a certain Emperor Of Roses(best girl).
"As ashamed as I am to admit it… no, I have not…" Yeonha said with a dejected look on her face.
"UMU? As a kind person, I shall give you a hint." C2 said smirking at her. "[In Answer]. That's all you get UMU." He said snapping his fingers as the wires coiled around Shin Jonghak disappeared.
"I see… thank you," Yeonha said with a slight bow and walked over to Shin Jonghak's side.
Resting his head on his hand C2 kept watching the spar(skit) between Hajin and the Instructor. And then the part he had been waiting to see in person instead of just reading it… Hajin bit the instructor's hair and didn't let go.
"ACK! What are you doing 934… ACK! Let go! Let go!" The instructor tried pushing Hajin away but he was really biting down on her hair.
"Thi-this is a warning 934! Let go! I said LET GO!" The instructor finally had enough and hit Hajin in the face so hard that C2 could hear the crunch of Hajin's nose breaking.
"Oof… that's gotta hurt," C2 mumbled looking at the now unconscious Hajin on the floor.
"Alright! Class dismissed! You may go to your next class." The instructor shouted at the cadets. Getting up C2 went to class and sat down in his seat.
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After waiting a bit as the cadets slowly trickled in, the instructor finally came.
"Today class, I'm going to be teaching you about the different Dungeon types and what you could expect from them. Now let's start." The instructor said putting up some files on the board(hologram).
"As we can see here…" The instructor said pointing at the hologram. "There are a total of three types a Dungeons can be. Normally it is not hard to tell which it is, but if you don't have an Enlightened person with you it can be extremely difficult to tell the difference. What can make it even harder to tell even with an Enlightened person is when the Dungeon has a sub-type."[Pic if I remember lol]
"I'll explain them in order of most common to most uncommon." The instructor then paused for a moment. "First, we have just a regular Conquest-type Dungeon. This type of Dungeon only requires us to defeat the Boss Monster to clear it. Simple and easy, nothing much to think about. This is the type that is typically only seen with Puzzle as its sub-type, even to this day there has never been a Conquest-type with Survival as its sub-type, the opposite is also true with this, no Survival-type has ever had Conquest as its sub-type."
"Next, we have Survival-type Dungeons. These types of Dungeons have two possible kinds that can manifest as a 'Main' type. We have the Time-type which is a time-based trial where you have to survive for a certain amount of time. The other is the Wave-type, in this type a better reward is given out the faster you clear all the waves. So, far only an S-rank has been archived in a Wave-type. As for sub-types, it's normally only Puzzle-type in a Time-type Survival Dungeon. When this is so it usually means that hoards of monsters will be sent out until you've figured out the puzzle. With the Wave-type in this case it would either have a puzzle that you would have to solve to get into the Dungeon or one that you would have to solve to get the rewards." The Instructor paused for a moment to let the cadets take in this information
"And finally we have the least common type, the Puzzle-type Dungeon. These Dungeons are very straightforward, yet confusing to most. The only thing puzzle types require is problem-solving abilities. The puzzles in these Dungeons can range from a simple riddle all the way up to something akin to an escape room. There is honestly nothing more to say about this type as it mostly appears as a sub-type in the other types." The Instructor clapped his hands. "That was all for today, you can go now." He said with a slight smile on his face.
C2 turned to his right. "Hey, Suho, Yeonghan, what club are you two planning to join? I'm properly going to go with the Traveling Club and Academics Club." He said looking at both Kim Suho and Yi Yeonghan.
"I'm going with Traveling," Suho responded.
"Same as him," Yeonghan said, gesturing to Suho. Nodding at this C2 and the other two left the class out to do what they each had planned for the day.
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Fact #1: An [Enlightened] person has unlocked their [Status Board], this allows them to among other things, grow more efficiently as they can see where their talent lies. To achieve [Enlightenment] one needs a Gift, otherwise no matter how hard one trains one won't become [Enlightened]. It's estimated that only around 20%-30% of Heros are [Enlightened], and the youngest known person to achieve this is Kim Suho at the age of 15. Most [Enlightened] achieve it around the age of 24-27.
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I am finishing this chapter on the 26th… way later than I would've liked. I got kinda stuck with this chapter and half-wrote around 5(?) drafts before being able to finish this one. Hopefully, the next chapter will go better…
Anyway, do any of you have some good TNE fanfic recommendations? I wanna read some to see if I can get some inspiration.
Also going to be re-reading TNE's first 50 or so chapters just to get my memory going. It's kinda annoying that sometimes I can remember down to the smallest detail about something, and other times I can't even if you put a gun to my head to remember. Funnily enough, I can still remember that [The Mysterious Teahouse] card was used in chapter 245 of TNE… I have an insane urge to write more about the Elves in TNE's universe because of it.
And finally… what do you think about me adding these facts about this fanfic's lore at the end of the chapter? CIAO! Go listen to [Sing To Me] by [MISSIO]
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