I Studied Mainly Textbooks! Chapter 20

2 years later.

Abel had become a super famous person by releasing 4 sets of papers.

It wasn’t that hard to write those papers. He had seen a lot of them back on Earth, and even wrote one when he graduated university. Moreover, he was also holding back a little upon Kyle’s advice. He said that he may be threatened if he was too fast or something.

‘Start publis.h.i.+ng papers from the middle-school stuff.’

There was a lot of time anyway. If he mastered s.p.a.ce-time magic later, he would be able to return to the dimension he lived in, as well as the past that he lived in.

He had just gained an insight and was in the chamber of secrets. He was planning to test a new spatial magic!

He was holding a black fountain pen on his right hand.

“Fuu…. It would be awesome if this succeeds…….”

Abel carefully chanted. Using white mana to distort the dimension.

However, this time, it didn’t stop at distortion.

“Let’s go…….”

He put the fountain pen inside the distorted s.p.a.ce. The sharp point slowly entered the distortion.

Swoosh.

Then, the tip of the fountain pen appeared in a completely different location.

“It worked!”

Success.

A level beyond spatial distortion – spatial replacement.

Think about it!

An enemy mage cast an attack spell, but what if the s.p.a.ce was replaced and the attack spell flew right back to the caster?

An enemy soldier stabbed him, but the sword suddenly appeared behind the soldier?

This was an amazing feat.

And it happened for real.

Abel named the spatial replacement magic like this.

“Let’s call it backstab.”

AKA, betraying magic.

His knowledge and theoretical geometry and vectors combined to make this amazing magic.

He was literally invincible now!

If there was a drawback.

It was that his mana affinity was low and his mana quant.i.ty is lacking…….

Well, no hurry. It didn’t matter that much. Abel’s body was still young, and time was on his side.

“Huh! It’s already time….”

MEAT’s practice should start soon.

“…Teleport!”

Fwoosh.

Abel teleported straight into the clubroom.

He had already mastered teleportation magic. The same magic that only the professors within the academy could use.

For the first year, MEAT was considerably behind MARIO. Thanks to Cain’s revolutionary wage(?) system, most people joined MARIO.

However, with MEAT’s solid curriculum, and the introduction of the top-student Abel, the situation was completely flipped around. MEAT was the major now.

Although he wasn’t able to completely make them understand the mathematical concepts,

What was necessary to become a teacher in Korea? It was none other than cramming methods of teaching!

Thanks to that, he could revolutionarily reduce the time it required to cast magic.

‘Make them memorize the formula, and use simple subst.i.tution.’

Although it wasn’t complete comprehension, and therefore impossible to be applied in practice, that didn’t matter at all. The aim of the students was high scores after all.

Like that, Abel became a superstar in less than 2 years.

There was someone who was extremely displeased with Abel’s smooth road ahead – Cain.

His inferiority complex exploded.

“Uaaaaah! Abel that b.i.t.c.h!”

Tremble.

Nowadays, he was angry at least 10 times a day.

‘Yes, I have to admit.’

He used all sorts of methods during the past 2 years, but he wasn’t able to win against Abel in a normal way.

However, behind him was the richest person of the continent, his father. Money was able to solve everything in this world.

‘Let’s buy the ultimate magic book.’

He needed a secret weapon to win against Abel. If there was something like that, he would be willing to spend anything to get it.

His father, Duke Junerheart, was the 1st place in the empire’s financial world, and was the richest person in the continent. His merchant guilds and various businesses were spread around all of the continent.

The information he required, the items he required. Cain had never been lacking those before. And using that infrastructure, he was planning to find an item that would let him surpa.s.s Abel.

He ordered his subordinate and planned to meet a merchant.

‘It was the ultimate magic book, right?’

A legendary magic book that would allow him to increase the quant.i.ty of mana in an instant, and holds various strong magic spells. The Supremenomicon. He heard that a thief had stolen it, and immediately contacted a broker.

Knock knock knock.

-Young master, he is here.

“Tell him to enter.”

Finally!

Creak.

The door to a separate house in Cain’s mansion opened and a grey hooded man came inside. It seemed to be raining outside as the robe was all wet.

“Thank you for coming all the way here. Please sit.”

Cain stood up and guided the mysterious person. As always, he was a very polite person on the outside.

“I have prepared the 500 thousand gold you have asked for. The item is the real deal, right?”

Cain exerted some strength in order to push the box on the table that was full of gold. It was considerably heavy.

He even opened the box to let the opponent confirm the contents. The lights from the room reflected on the gold. It was s.h.i.+ning brightly.

After checking the box, the mysterious person started speaking.

“…The item is indeed the real deal. However, be aware. This is a stolen item. You must not be found out by anyone that you’re learning this.”

Tap.

He took out a magic book from his robe and put it on the table.

It was a very thick book that was wrapped in black leather. All sorts of characters were seen on the cover. Just from the cover, this was a very mysterious book indeed.

“Haha, of course. I’ll train quietly without anyone’s notice. Is there anything else you need?”

“…No. Then…….”

After the deal, the hooded guy picked up the chest and stood up. He seemed immensely strong as he walked out with the chest holding it with one hand.

Cain found that even more reliable.

‘I’ll see to you later, Abel….’

Finally! There was a chance to blow away all the frustration from the last 2 years!

Inside a small room that was about 10m2.

The candle on the table in the middle of the room was the only source of light.

Two men faced each other on the table.

“Did you transfer it properly?”

A man with a black mask on, asked.

The metal-screeching-like voice was creepy as heck. It was as though he had terminal laryngeal cancer.

“Yes. I’ve done it so that no one noticed.”

The grey hooded man replied. This was the same guy that gave Cain the magic book.

“That boy shall become our foundation. The foundation to grasp the Hela empire when we reveal ourselves to the world.”

“With that child’s skills, he’ll never find out that it’s black magic. Moreover, he paid a great price for it… he’ll stick to it even more.”

“It’s been 30 years already……. Without ‘him’, Our dearest wish of the ‘Apocnaty’ would have been achieved long ago……. We must not make a single mistake this time!”

“Yes. I shall keep watching over the boy. Once he tastes its power, he’ll never be able to leave even if he realized what is happening.”

“Now… there aren’t many days that we’ll stay in hiding. Only we can set the ‘order’ of this world straight.”

Until now, everything was going smoothly. Until now, that is…….

30 years they were gone for. The lessons of one failure was immense.

Goel was Sibelius’s right hand. No, he used to be. Until that p.r.i.c.k came along…….

Goel was born from a servant that worked under the Berner family. He served Sibelius since young.

Goel, who was cunning from a young age, realized very soon. This guy would become his savior!

He always spoke honey-sweet words to Sibel. And Sibelius always believed in his words.

‘He’s a total pushover!’

Like that, Goel became Sibelius’s va.s.sal, and right hand. His background was now the sole successor to the Marquis. His words were Sibelius’s words.

Thanks to Sibelius, he was able to learn magic, and even entered the academy together with him. His grand objective was to become a n.o.ble.

He thought it would come true. If he could only stay by Sibel’s side…….

But ever since that p.r.i.c.k came along, everything changed. Now, Sibel listened to that p.r.i.c.k’s words more than his.

‘If that p.r.i.c.k didn’t exist…….’

The p.r.i.c.k that blocked his grand scheme! He hated that guy.

“Goel, do you hate Abel as well?”

It was Cain. The guy that Sibel hated the most in the magic department.

“As much as you do….”

“I have a way. Will you come with me?”

…Nod.

‘As long as he disappears, everything will return to normal. Then, my dreams won’t be broken either…….’

Grab.

Loser and lunatic joined hands.