Surviving as a Villain at the Academy

33 – Midterm Exam – Practical. (1)

Day 2 of midterm exams. It is the day when the actual practical exam begins.

The students each stood in front of the swordsmanship and magic professor with nervous expressions. The format is a simple instructional couplet, but the content is a strict test.

The practical test is evaluated based on the subject chosen by the student. For example, for a student who chose swordsmanship, the score evaluated in swordsmanship is determined as the test score, and for a student who chose magic, the score evaluated in magic is determined as the test score.

It is not just swordsmanship and magic. Naturally, magic is divided into many fields, and the content evaluated is different for each field.

Also, there was a practical test that priests took.

It was definitely a test for trainee priests attending the academy, and this test is usually taken by the senior priests in charge of the healing center at the academy…… Starting this year, there was someone to take the practical exams for apprentice priests instead of the chief priest.

Saint, Adrian Deus.

You may think that she doesn’t have to do such things once she becomes a saint, but Adrian Deus was a person who was very faithful to her role as a saint.

Adrian Deus, like the saints that appear in recent novels, is somehow twisted, obsessed with something, or in the dark…… He wasn’t that kind of person.

You can just say she is a standard saint. She is an extremely good person who sympathizes with the pain of others, does not want to see anyone get hurt, and is indignant at the evil deeds of others.

The personalities of the characters themselves have not changed even after I was possessed, so Adrian’s personality will probably be as kind-hearted as the original work, but will clearly distinguish between public and private affairs.

Because he is that kind of person, he will take the test itself very strictly.

Anyway, it was in the same context that she took her priestly exam.

She was very aware of the weight of her title as a saint, and she was a person who had to fulfill the role she had to fulfill.

Perhaps the priestly exam was about treating students who had been devastated by sparring with professors? That’s probably why he’ll be staying at the academy for quite some time, so it’ll be easier to get to where Ruslan is fighting the lesser demons tonight.

I wish it could be like that…… I wish more variables would stop popping out. I mean, my head hurts.

If everything happens exactly as planned, there is nothing more to wish for. Then you won’t have to worry about it any more, and the work will be completed neatly.

If Ruslan defeats the demons well today, Adrian’s favorability towards Ruslan will increase considerably, and Ruslan only needs to say one word.

‘I hate demons who try to take away other people’s happiness.’

You may not know it, but Adrian’s likeability will skyrocket. Adrian is a person who hates demons as much as his personality.

From there, if you just show yourself protecting people and defeating the demon beasts with justice during the demon beast flood, the candlestick of St. Valencia will fall into its hands.

He was the most perfect scenario coming true in my head right now. If that happens, it will be enough for Ruslan to defeat Lina, who has united with the remains of the fallen saint, and he will be able to overcome the second battle with Nea that follows immediately after defeating Lina.

From then on, it’s up to me and Asti’s discretion…… First of all, I hope it goes well until that point.

After being lost in thought for a while, it was time for the practical exam to begin.

Of course, I was the one watching the swordsmanship practice, so I followed the instructions of the second-year swordsmanship professor in front of me.

The job of the swordsman professor was simple. Call students’ names in order and spar with them. In this case, since it is strictly an exam area, the professor treats it as if it were a real test, unlike the usual guidance sparring.

The fact that the professor treats the test as if it were a real test means that if the student gives the test roughly, he or she may suffer serious injury.

The priest exam was not viewed as treating an injured student for no reason.

Anyway, the professor repeatedly called the student’s name and sparred with him. The exam had no choice but to proceed quickly, because the professors had a vague idea of the students’ level in the first place.

It is a kind of reference point, and if the student shows improved skills or overwhelming performance compared to the reference point, a high score is given, and if not, a low score is given.

But no matter how fast the test progresses, a test is still a test.

It takes a long time to record something and even call students, and since there are too many students for one professor to take charge of, there is no choice but to conduct the test on separate days.

Fortunately, Ruslan and Aris had exams scheduled for tomorrow. Aris is taking a swordsmanship test this time in the original, so there is no difference from the original up to this point.

That is.

“Next, Frach Lancel.”

It means that right now I just have to do well.

* * *

Wear armor and hold a sword in your hand. Although the professor said something, it was about rules that I already knew well about.

In this case, the student can strike the professor with a murderous blow. Instead, the professor will land an equally sharp blow on my body. That’s what real combat is like.

No matter what you did, the actual battle was to knock the opponent down and cut off their head with a knife…… That’s probably what the professor wants from me.

The original Prah gets a pretty good grade in this test. That guy at that time also received power from Asti and became quite strong. It’s probably slightly worse than my current skills. The power he received from Asti will be less than the power I received.

So, what I have to do now is ‘in moderation’. It was to achieve the score that Prah received in the original.

You may be asking why we make such a fuss about test scores, but distortion usually starts from such trivial things.

For example, if I were to be the valedictorian of the entire grade, the future in which Ruslan would be the valedictorian would be discarded. It is quite an important issue that Ruslan gets the top spot, because there is one heroine who approaches Ruslan after seeing that he is the top student in his grade.

Why, isn’t there such a story? The story of Cha-seok, who works hard to keep Seok-su in check and interferes with him, but then falls in love with him. It’s a fairly common material, so I remember including it.

Anyway, the heroine’s role was not that small, and there was a high possibility that there would be quite a big twist if I took the lead role. So there is no need to jump out. Because being at the top of my grade doesn’t mean anything good will happen to me.

The professor glared at me with sharp eyes. It would probably mean giving up a player. In most situations, the first striker has the upper hand in the flow of battle.

I took my stance according to his wishes. When he was told to use a sword in the Talantis Empire, he was the first to learn it, which was the basic stance of imperial swordsmanship.

It was a sword technique taught directly at the academy to train outstanding knights in the empire, so its performance was unmistakable.

Because it was a swordsmanship that was faithful to the basics, there was little flashiness, but being faithful to the basics meant that it could respond to numerous variables.

As with all swordsmanship, if the basics are poor, it will not work.

I took my stance and ran straight away. With the professor’s skills, he could teach the second player faster than my first player, but this is a test under the guise of actual combat.

If you finish as soon as you start, it will be impossible to evaluate it, so I will give it a moderate amount of attention.

I had to aim for that gap.

I take a step forward and strike down my sword. The target area is the opponent’s collarbone. It was an obvious critical point.

I thought it was a simple sword technique, riding the flow of magic power and approaching the professor at a fairly fast speed. But I stayed focused until the end. If the other person is a professor, they will definitely react to this speed.

Then, as expected, the professor’s sword skills flew towards my sword at a speed beyond recognition.

Just as I expected when I ran toward the professor, the professor stabbed his sword towards my neck faster than my sword strike, which was at a very short distance even with a second attack.

However, I had already anticipated his attack, and since I had the power and magic eye transferred from Asti, I had no problem dodging the professor’s attack.

It didn’t just end with me raising my head, I quickly changed my stance to strike and slashed the professor’s sword.

Chaang!

With a sharp sound of metal, the professor’s sword and my sword became entangled. The expression in the professor’s eyes was one of interest. Oh, wait a minute.

Only then did I feel that something was wrong. How did the original Prah behave here? He apparently failed to react to the professor’s sword and dropped it…… It was.

It was ruined. I was so focused on the professor’s sword that I forgot to do it in moderation.

Even if I lose like this, the professor will probably give me a fairly high grade.

Because…… Lee Chae caught the eye of the professor. That’s definitely the professor’s reaction when he meets a nice guy. In other words, it was a reaction that only Ruslan could see.

And because of that embarrassment, I slightly relaxed my grip on the sword, and of course the sword, pushed by the professor’s strength, fell helplessly on the ground.

At this level, I wouldn’t give it as much score as Ruslan, right? I hope so. If the senior event gets messed up, I’m the only one who gets in trouble.