I Became a Genius by Running Away From the Academy

18 – Before the black dragon opens its mouth, its fangs (2)

A system message kept ringing in my ears, but strangely, it didn’t reach my ears.

All five senses were focused on Xiao Zhan’s collapsed image and the red drops of blood soaking the floor, so I couldn’t think of falling.

I looked down at Xiao Zhan’s corpse, then lifted her head and looked up at her ceiling.

As I inhaled as deeply as possible in that state, I suddenly had that thought.

‘I really did it.’

I had guessed from the first time I fell into this world that I would have to kill people.

The lunatic difficulty wasn’t kind enough to clear it by killing only monsters.

So I continued to make up my mind until the moment right before I stabbed Xiao Zhan, but it seems that it was a little clumsy.

Koo Woo-wook–

The hand holding the dagger was as hard as a rock and did not move.

My heart was on fire, and the blood running through my whole body boiled up.

As if something in my head was broken, tinnitus resembling a mechanical sound lingered in my ears.

‘Oh, that’s a big deal. I feel like throwing up.’

I’m not kidding, I felt like I was about to pour out something inside.

I felt like I would be much more comfortable than I am now if I poured out all the things inside me.

Kkaduk-

But I forced myself to bite my lip and suppress him.

Although it was an unavoidable situation, in the end the choice was mine.

I didn’t want to whine about this unnecessarily.

‘It’s not something to avoid or reject, but something to get used to and adapt to.’

Because it wasn’t going to end with just this once.

“…… Okay, it’s okay.”

It was painful because of the shock of crossing the line, but to put it another way, it was just painful at best.

Even the pain did not come from the guilt of killing a person, but resembled the feeling of trepidation when a child failed to keep a promise with his parents.

“Then it’s okay. No problem.”

I kept muttering and lowered my eyes that had been raised up again.

Then the corpse came into view again, and my heart, which had subsided a little, started beating again.

But instead of turning a blind eye to it, I tried to fully accept it.

Now that I’m doing that, I can definitely realize what kind of person I am.

‘I’m not nice, I’m not strong, I’m just being selfish.’

I didn’t kill Xiao Zhan for the sake of the world.

I was just stepping on the lives of others for the sake of my own comfortable life.

The stiff, motionless hand creaked and moved.

‘This time, it turned out that the target was this kind of garbage, but if it were me, I could have killed it because it was necessary even if it was someone else.’

The fact that I am thinking like this right now is proof of that.

He repeated squeezing and bleeding his frozen hand.

How much time had passed like that?

“Enough.”

The red color of blood soaking the floor.

The fishy smell of blood that filled the room.

The stickiness of the blood that flowed down to the palm of my hand after digging into the dagger.

Now I’ve gotten used to it to the point where it doesn’t feel intrusive.

A new bitter smile came up.

“As expected, I am not the main character.”

Pair-! Match-!

After muttering that, he hit me hard on the cheek.

‘I’m going to take time to pay attention to the past. Let’s focus on what needs to be done right now.’

Now that I had enough space in my head to think about something, it was time to move again.

‘First of all, there were results.’

Xiao Zhan, you have succeeded in dealing with the guy who would have bothered the main character until the middle of the story.

Thanks to that, I got rid of a lot of things that would annoy the main character in the future, and now I can safely proceed with my plan.

“The things you had, I will put to good use even more than you do.”

Muttering that, he rummaged through Xiao Zhan’s pocket and took out a cube, an object resembling a black cube.

If a device is a computer, a cube is an information storage device like a USB.

In other words, it contained all of her research achievements that Xiao Zhan had accumulated over the years, as well as a lot of information she learned.

‘Well, this will be used for a different purpose than that, though.’

After recovering the cube like that, I changed into the clothes hanging in one corner of the room, put on the artifact, and put on the mask.

‘With this, the disguise is complete.’

Basically, they had a similar body shape, and since they had meticulous personalities in hiding information to the extent that they covered their identities with masks, they didn’t have to struggle to disguise themselves.

Finally, I carefully put all the guns that Xiao Zhan was carrying and all the guns in this room into the subspace bag I borrowed from Erio.

In the first place, the subspace bag was brought for rooting, so there was plenty of space.

‘I’m happy that the number of weapons has increased, but thinking that I got it by looting a corpse makes my head complicated again.’

Now that I was doing this, I felt once again how safe the circle was.

“Then let’s go.”

After finishing all the tasks I had to do, I stood on top of the magic circle in the center of the room and closed my eyes.

Then, along with the feeling of floating in her whole body, I felt that I had moved to another place before I knew it.

I opened my eyes and opened my mouth slightly in surprise.

“It feels like the genre has suddenly changed from fantasy to science fiction.”

I saw a laboratory filled with all sorts of state-of-the-art equipment in a wide space.

“I expected it to a certain extent, but I didn’t expect it to be this much.”

Shao Zhan dominates Qingdao Field City and at the same time is one of the first-class executives of the Black Dragon Association, which is famous as China’s three largest black guilds.

And unlike other executives, he was a person who rose to this position by using his abilities and brains rather than brute force.

‘In fact, if it was originally, it would have been possible enough to use it to rise above the current position.’

But Shao Zhan didn’t.

It wasn’t because there was a grandiose reason, it was a decision I made simply because I wanted to enjoy my hobby life comfortably.

‘Thinking about it again, he’s really crazy.’

Well, it’s fortunate for me.

If Shao Zhan hadn’t done that, he would have been recognized for his ability and would have been in a place like the headquarters of the Black Dragon Society.

“Now then, shall we begin soon?”

As I said before, Xiao Zhan was a genius.

Then what was he a genius for?

Magic engineering? I had basic knowledge, but it was literally just a basic level.

Make guns? This was simply an area that could be called an extension of his hobby.

“It’s like this.”

The field that Xiao Zhan was interested in and showed his talent was alchemy, especially pharmaceuticals.

‘Because of this guy, all the officers of the Black Dragon Society appeared as Lloyd Berserkers in the latter half.’

I was very annoyed just by looking at it, but now that Xiao Zhan is dead, it’s the future that’s gone anyway, so I decided not to care.

“Then shall we begin?”

It was time to raise the floor crawling talent and mana.

◎ ◎ ◎

“Whoa, I don’t know what kind of mess this is all of a sudden.”

One of the people in the white study coat grumbled as he moved his luggage.

“What are you saying out of the blue? The boss’s whims aren’t just for a day or two.”

“Right. Even if I am sudden, is this better? When you’re immersed in experiments like this, you don’t even bother us.”

“That’s right.”

Others nodded at the words of the red-haired man.

“But what kind of experiment are you doing that asks you to bring so many ingredients?”

“You said to bring the elixir as well.”

“Sure…… This alone is enough to make 300 first-class warriors.”

“Hey, I’m not curious about that. Useless curiosity is poison.”

The black-haired man said coldly.

At that, the woman with a virtuous expression murmured softly.

“Hey, I’m honestly curious though. Even the materials that have been put into the lab so far are enough for the people in our lab to last for a week.”

“In addition, I am still collecting materials with dark properties using the funds allocated for a large project.”

“That’s not all. Looking at it, it seems that the materials allocated by our association weren’t enough, so other black guilds even used the materials we entrusted to them when they commissioned us to make them.”

After saying that one by one, a small but deep silence fell between them.

“…… Isn’t this really what’s going to happen?”

“There is no such thing.”

The black-haired man looked at them and declared.

“How can you say that?”

“It wasn’t to this extent, but something like this happened once before.”

“What? Really?”

“But how are you all right?”

“I heard that it was because the results of the research were disclosed?”

They were dumbfounded by the man’s words.

“Certainly, a genius is a genius.”

“That’s how it is.”

Percussion-

The black-haired man said that, and after briefly sorting the materials he had brought, he put them down on the container belt entering the laboratory.

“Besides, I haven’t seen anyone worrying about their lives like he did. So don’t worry.”

“Is that so?”

“Well, since he’s not the kind of person who would do anything to harm himself, there must be some way.”

After they forced themselves to do so, they went back downstairs to carry their luggage.

Thanks to that, they had no idea what was going on inside.

“Originally, I was planning to eat lunch with the food I brought, but this should be fine, right?”

In the lab, Yujin Do was eating cereal with a spoon by putting pill-shaped elixir in liquid elixir.

“Oh, that’s starting to boil. I need to stir it slowly.”

At the same time, he was taking part in places that needed a process, looking around from time to time.

Is it because they are experimenting right away based on the recipe that has been organized based on the tree wiki in their head after hitting all kinds of expensive ingredients?

I could feel the level of skill and alchemy rising rapidly.

Thanks to that, I enjoyed it, but on the other hand, I also felt that way.

‘How big a storm will this be?’

I don’t know, but it’s probably so powerful that one or two people can’t put it to sleep.

‘Well, it has nothing to do with me anyway.’

Still, Yujin Do was not worried.

It wasn’t because there was a trick to calm the riot of the Black Dragon Society.

‘I’ll be back in the circle by then anyway.’

I thought it would be enough to simply run away, so there was nothing to worry about.

“Then let’s continue.”

Yu-jin Doo ate the elixir like soup and shook countless beakers in her head as shadows.

A shadow of an unknown depth of greed crept into the nest of the black dragon, which holds countless riches.

And despite its small size, the shadow slowly swallowed the black dragon’s wealth as its own.