I Became a Genius by Running Away From the Academy

59 – Lessons with the Storm (1)

“Some idiots may have heard of it for the first time, but ‘Ragus Leaf’ is used as a key ingredient in low-level recovery potions.”

The tough-looking middle-aged professor raised his glasses while babbling in such an unlucky voice.

“However, due to the side effect of consuming the target’s physical strength and nutrients, the process of refining herbs and adjusting the proportions is considered important, and for that reason, today it is called the most effective experiment to find out the basic skills of an alchemist.”

Fishik-

“Well, I don’t expect to be able to do this experiment neatly with your skills now. But it is necessary, so for now, etch all these theories into your empty brains.”

An attitude that seems to say that showing off one’s knowledge is more important than imparting knowledge to students during class.

Haaam-

‘I’m watching you talk, so I guess it doesn’t matter if you just ignore this class.’

After making my judgment, I fell face down on the desk, ignoring the professor’s words.

As I moved my fingertips lightly in that state, the shadow crawled across the ground like a snake, and from among the herbs behind the professor, I sneakily selected and brought only those that were effective in clearing bruises.

After that, I secretly made a potion and drank it.

‘It’s amazing that I’m doing this even though I’m openly doing this in class and yet I’m not caught.’

As expected, among my traits, it was like [In a transparent world (5★)] Running a double wagon with usefulness along with [Covering a shadow (5★)].

‘If I had just one characteristic like this in real life, I would have been very comfortable going around.’

So I secretly rolled my eyes while feeling sorry for myself.

‘Anyway, I roughly expected it, but it feels different from the classes I’ve taken so far.’

From the professor and the students in class, the smell of book ink was stronger than the smell of blood or sweat.

‘Is it because of the difference between the departments?’

There are a total of three departments in the Circle: Combat, Auxiliary, and Production.

And the alchemy I’m listening to right now was a lecture mostly taken by students belonging to the assistant and manufacturing departments among the three.

‘Well, that doesn’t mean I’m the only combat student taking this class.’

I glanced at the seat in front of me.

“Oh, the plants near the village could have been used for this purpose as well. I will remember it well, and when I go to the village this time, I will try to make it myself.”

There, Fuma Shigure, a cross-dressing ninja with green hair who proudly puts her name at the top of my boundary list just because she’s in the same class, was listening to class with an engrossed face.

Especially when the word poison was mentioned, I could see her eyes shining with a particularly serious face.

‘Are you studying how to make poison?’

Well, it was a convincing reasoning in its own way.

It could be said that poison and shurikens are essential for ninja attacks.

‘Anyway, it feels strange to be in class like this.’

In a way, I felt like I was playing dodgeball with elementary school students after I became a college student.

‘Well, I have to endure it.’

Chooo Ok-

Thought so, I sucked the potion through a straw.

The reason I signed up for this class was to create a character that would be used in the school, a genius in summoning and alchemy.

If it weren’t for that, I wouldn’t have any reason to take this class.

That’s because my head already had enough knowledge to compare with professors, or to overwhelm most professors.

Clap clap-!

“Okay then, the theory ends here. From now on, I will take the time to make the 10 low-level potions I talked about in class.”

Ssiik-

“Use this time to feel how immature you are.”

After saying that, the professor motioned for the students to come out.

“Hey, doesn’t that professor taste a bit like rice? What did you say your name was? Cancer?”

“Varren, not cancer.”

“I don’t know what else, and it’s clear that I don’t like it.”

“Yeah, it looks unlucky, but that’s what it says…… “

“Ehh, I chose the wrong class.”

Students grumbled so quietly that Professor Baren couldn’t hear them and brought materials from the desk in front of them.

Then, they moved busily to make potions, such as handling alchemy tools or grooming ingredients.

‘Replacement.’

Looking at him, I also started preparing.

I brought the necessary ingredients to the shadow, changed [Overshadowing (5★)] To [Alchemy is Explosion (4★)], And then lightly loosened my hands.

‘This attribute is more suitable for making offensive potions than recovery or support potions, but it’s still better than nothing.’

I muttered that to myself as I trimmed the ingredients.

Every time I moved my eyes and flicked my hands, countless theories popped up in my head, and thanks to that, there was no blockage in my movements.

‘When was it?’

In the past, when many players were frustrated by the huge barrier of Lunatic difficulty, they tried to find the key to attack in the difficulty below.

Even if you change the game difficulty, things like the location of important hidden pieces and the settings of characters do not change.

Using that, I came up with the idea to use the various recipes I found in the Easy difficulty level to target the Lunatic difficulty level.

This ingenious method was once supported by numerous players and emerged as a true strategy.

‘But in the end it collapsed just like any other plausible thing.’

The reasons were varied.

Unexpected situations caused by hidden pieces that only exist in Lunatic difficulty or other equipment cannot be matched due to the supply and demand of materials needed to make potions.

In addition, decisively, it was because of the weakness that it was too vulnerable to certain enemies, like when all points were invested in a single attribute talent.

Fishik-

‘But even if it failed, the recipe obtained that way is undeniably genuine.’

Seoguk-

The talent of alchemy, which has reached the level of a beginner, moves as the voice of knowledge guides it, holding a tool called the attribute engraved with four stars in its hand.

On that stage, nothing was mixed with the words I heard in class earlier.

That’s because it was just an impurity that lowered the purity.

A professor who memorized various textbooks for a long time?

I can’t even laugh.

When you were clinging to hypotheses covered with all sorts of imaginations and predictions, this side was holding on to the clear truth by spending thousands and thousands of years on only one material that could barely come out.

Ok again-

‘This is how I can see the virtue of absorbing alchemy recipes from all kinds of deceased people while residing in the gallery and tree wiki.’

I checked the time after pouring the finished potion into each bottle with generous use of [Attribute Amplification].

‘It’s 10 minutes, it’s just that.’

I raised my hand while grumbling inwardly.

At the same time, I used my attributes to radiate my hidden presence to the surroundings.

“Tsk, there are a lot of guys who don’t even know the basics of alchemy. Why the hell do only those who want to tarnish the name of the circle come in every time…… Huh?”

Then, Professor Baren, who had been nagging among the students, looked at me and approached me.

“What? Do you have any questions?”

“No, I made all the potions.”

“…… What?”

At Professor Baren’s question with a bit of embarrassment, I looked straight at him and said.

“Ten potions. He said he made everything and called the professor.”

The students around me heard my words and murmured.

“What is that?”

“You made this already?”

“I haven’t made even one properly yet?”

At that time.

“…… Under!”

Professor Baren, who was making a dumbfounded expression, laughed loudly as if to cut off the atmosphere.

“Yes, one person like you comes out every year. Those who don’t know anything and think that just making a potion quickly is everything.”

As Professor Baren said, he took the potion in front of me.

“You guys take a good look too. The important thing in making a potion is not making it quickly. Rather, the quality of the potion…… “

Professor Baren Yi, who said that, secretly checked my potion.

“The potion…… “

Then he slowly stopped talking with his eyes fixed on the potion I made.

“The potion…… ?”

Instantly, he stopped his mouth in a daze and opened his eyes wide as if they were about to tear.

Seeing that, I was also a little surprised.

For guessing the concentration by looking at the color of the potion, it seemed that he had enough skills to imitate a professor position.

“How the hell…… This is not a low level potion, but it is similar to an intermediate level potion…… “

While the professor was distracted and checked each potion I made.

“What? What happened?”

“I don’t know either.”

“I tried to find a fault, but there is nothing to catch.”

“It definitely looks like that…… Is that possible? You are a professor and a student.”

“Just looking at it, the color of the potion looks unusual, but…… “

Students stared at me, puzzled by the current situation.

Well-

‘Is this a side effect of avoiding the eyes of others too much lately? Something is uncomfortable.’

Still, I persevered.

Since these situations piled up, it became a line in my self-introduction letter that I would use later when I got a job.

“Huh, heh! This is nothing!”

At that time, Professor Baren, who came to his senses, shouted like that.

At the bottom was a deep jealousy toward me.

It’s not unusual.

If a student who has lived less than his half suddenly jumped out of a class and did something he couldn’t do, it would have been natural for him to react like that.

“Creating potions according to the text in the textbook is something even a monkey can do!”

Hmm, but I wondered if it was too ugly for a famous professor to deny what he said during class and try to put a student down.

“Is that what we want to hear now?”

“I’ve only heard about it, but it’s really beyond my imagination.”

As if he couldn’t hear the cries of the students around him, Professor Baren glared at me with a huff.

“Since ancient times, true knowledge is the law in the world outside of books! You! If you’re trying to make a lesser antidote, what are you going to do if you don’t have Pepe Nuts?”

“I’ll use pistachios instead.”

“Yes! You have to use pistachios! If you don’t know these things, you still have to study more…… Hmm?”

The professor looked at me with an expression saying, ‘Shouldn’t you answer that right now?’.

So I looked at the professor with the meaning of ‘what to do’.

Looks like the knowledge in the book doesn’t seem to be able to step on me, so it seems that I asked for practical knowledge, but unfortunately it wasn’t a jjambab that I would be embarrassed by.

“Lee Ik! Tell me how to make a minor burn healing potion without Musketchup!”

“Grind the tard and mato well and mix them in half.”

“Damn it! Then, what is the way to tell the difference between mulbok and tukbok, which are known to look exactly the same!”

“The simplest thing is, of course, the touch, because the mulbok is soft and the tuckbok is hard.”

“What herbs should I get when I am poisoned by Rye Snake’s poison!”

“It’s full of grass.”

“In case you can’t get it!”

“We should feed him the cake.”

“Keuuugh!!!”

After I answered without interruption, the professor asked a question with a reddened face.

So I smiled inwardly and continued answering the professor’s questions.

“Goyanggoyanggogoyang’s sole color?!”

“One tone warm pink color!”

For me, his outburst was just satisfying.

“Wow…… “

“What is that guy…… “

Because I felt the image that I ruined in the summoning class changed during this one class.