I Became a Genius Swordsman in the Pretty Girl Game

Joo Hye-jeong, the strategy and tactics instructor.

Upon hearing that instructors would receive a three-month bonus if their team won the group sparring, she was determined to win this match at all costs.

Even though the salary provided by the Velvet Hunter Academy was incomparable to that of a regular employee, instructors were essentially office workers, not active hunters. After deducting various expenses, money was always tight.

Moreover, this match was in her favor.

10 vs. 10 Sparring.

Tank / Main DPS / Sub DPS / Support / Healer / Special

It was a well-known fact that a maximum of six members was the most efficient composition.

When members with overlapping roles were in the same team, their mana influenced each other, causing a significant drop in efficiency.

Therefore, other groups typically divided into two parties, each with five members, operating as a main attack team and a sub-attack team.

However, Joo Hye-jeong was different.

She was the instructor who taught strategy and tactics at the world’s top educational institution, and she had come up with a strategy to maintain efficiency while rotating ten members as a single team!

‘Of course, this combination can only work with these ten members, and it requires flawless coordination without any margin for error…’

She was confident. After all, she had spent two out of the four weeks of training solely practicing this timing.

Glance.

Joo Hye-jeong looked at Jin Yuha, who was calmly watching the hologram screen with his arms folded.

‘I know he has a special talent for strategy and tactics.’

The story of how Jin Yuha had completely outclassed the strategy and tactics instructor, who seemed as if he wouldn’t even shed a tear if pricked with a needle, had spread among the instructors.

Even so, wasn’t he still just a student?

Looking at Jin Yuha’s party, Joo Hye-jeong was quite disappointed with the results.

Tank (Iron Wall) – Sub DPS (Hwarang) – Main DPS (Alice)

The three special admission students formed a triangular formation.

The remaining six male quota students were placed far away.

While the special admission students seemed serious about the match, the other six were just clumsily grouped together.

‘This has no strategy at all.’

Although it was a bold move that could overwhelm the opponent at the start, the lack of support, special, and healer roles made the team’s sustainability too low.

In other words, this was a match that Joo Hye-jeong could win if she just endured.

Having heard countless stories about Jin Yuha, she was quite disappointed.

‘There’s no way I can lose this.’

At that moment, Jin Yuha, who had been silently watching the screen, spoke up.

“Oh, this is not bad.”
“What?”
“Two tanks in the front, forming a wedge formation to lock down the front. Two sub-DPS supporting the main DPS archer on both sides. And the healer and support are each in charge of an area, right? And the special… Ah, it’s a siege ballista. To calculate the timing for that big shot… It seems like the rotation is on a 3-minute cooldown. You must have put a lot of effort into this.”

As Jin Yuha quietly exclaimed in admiration, Joo Hye-jeong widened her eyes.

‘What, what is this kid…? He figured out all that just by looking at the positions?’

Joo Hye-jeong felt a sense of foreboding, but she soon shook her head and regained her composure.

‘Well, I guess those rumors weren’t false. But even so, it shouldn’t be a problem…’

After all, the other team was completely unprepared.

“Huhuhu, well, you certainly live up to your reputation as a top student! It would be interesting to have you in my class next time!”

She suppressed her anxiety and spoke.

“Hmm, it’s not bad…”
“What? Is there a problem?”
“No, it’s just… Although it might be difficult to apply this tactic to other parties, this 10-person attack team with this strategy can handle most enemies.”
“But…?”
“Well, you know, no matter how complex and sophisticated the tactics are, they can be rendered meaningless with a single blow.”
“A single blow?”
“Yes, click—”

And at that moment, Jin Yuha interrupted her.

[Sparring begins]

As the start signal sounded.

Kwaaaaaaaang!!!

A loud noise reverberated, like falling artillery shells.

“Well, with no delay and overwhelming firepower, everything else becomes meaningless.”

Jin Yuha smiled broadly at the instructor, who was in denial of the reality unfolding before her eyes.

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“Bang! Bang! Bang!

“Th-This, this, this, what is thissss!!! That junior, what is sheee!!! She charged right into the enemy formation as soon as the match started and destroyed them!! It’s an overwhelming display of firepower! I thought a bomb had dropped!”

Lim Ga-eul, fully immersed in her role as a caster, excitedly banged on the table and shouted.

“Wow, a 10-person rotation… The other team must have prepared diligently, but this is quite anticlimactic. Their strategy became meaningless.”
“But is this even possible? That junior is a special admission student with a mana limit artifact, but this is on a whole different level.”
“Ah, it’s a matter of efficiency.”
“Efficiency?”

At Lim Ga-eul’s question, Shin Se-hee nodded.

“Yes, even with a limited mana amount, if you can pour it all out at once, such an attack isn’t impossible.”
“Pouring out all the mana at once? Is that possible? It was almost no-delay—”
“Hmm, it’s usually difficult to concentrate and utilize 100% of your mana. So, this is it.”
“What is it?”
“What else could it be? She’s a genius. Even so, this is a bit much… It must be hard to adapt to the limited mana amount, but she’s using it so skillfully… It’s challenging even with talent…”
“Hmm, has she been wearing a mana-limited artifact all this time?”
“Hoo, another monster among the juniors?”
“Ah, the strategy and tactics instructor doesn’t seem to believe it either, so she’s going to the field to verify it herself.”

-LMAO, what the hell is that?

-Instructor: 10-person rotation, ‘We must win.’

-Jin Yuha: Yep, click

-That’s brutal!

-Who is she? I’ve never seen her before, but she suddenly appears and destroys the sparring?

-The other two are Hwarang and Cheolbyeok…

-‘Iron Wall,’ you bastard!

In reality, the strategy and tactics instructor, unable to believe it, took the mana-limited artifact from the new student with white hair and verified it.

And from her hand, a pathetic stream of water trickled out.

The instructor’s disappointed expression as she bit her lip was clearly visible on the screen.

“Ah, Instructor! She’s pretending to be calm, patting her back as she leaves, but she’s biting her lip!”
“She must not have expected to lose so anticlimactically after preparing so hard, huh.”
“Hmm, do you know who that junior is?”

Although they had already met Alice to some extent, Lim Ga-eul asked Shin Se-hee shamelessly.

In fact, this was a request from Jin Yuha to them.

As Alice would soon be joining Utopia, she needed to build some recognition.

Since Alice had no previous public activities and was an unfamiliar figure, this approach was the most natural way to introduce her.

So, Shin Se-hee flipped through the papers in front of her and said,

“Wow— It’s not surprising that she has such skills!”
“Huh? Why?”
“Her name is Alice, and she uses a rather unusual weapon called a Crescent Sword… The most notable thing to watch is…”

Shin Se-hee paused and hesitated for a moment.

“That person is the granddaughter of the Sword Emperor.”

-Wha… What?

-The Sword Emperor!?

-Did the Sword Emperor have a granddaughter?

-Why is the Sword Emperor being mentioned here all of a sudden?

It was an unexpected announcement.

Even though she had become a hermit and people had forgotten about her, the name of the Sword Emperor carried a unique weight.

In the chaotic era when the Gate incident occurred.

The Sword Emperor was one of the heroes who stabilized the world alongside Lina and the Shin family.

-LMAO, the Sword Emperor appears here!

-Is this a joke?

-Don’t you know that when you enter the academy, they thoroughly check your background as a swordsman? They’re very strict about it because of the possibility of a demon infiltrating.

-I thought she was dead since we hadn’t heard from her in a while, but it seems she was raising her granddaughter somewhere…

-Speaking of which, my grandmother told me she saw the Sword Emperor in Jeju Island recently. I thought she was hallucinating because of her age, but it seems it was real.

And the camera zoomed in on her, calmly lowering her sword, which was as long as her body.

-If she joins Utopia… Crazy…

‘I’ve dropped enough hints.

Emphasizing it further would only create a sense of dissonance.

Since we’ve revealed that she’s the granddaughter of the Sword Emperor, the news will spread on its own. The media and public opinion will take care of spreading the information.’

Ahem!

Shin Se-hee cleared her throat and said,

“Well, then, let’s take a look at another match. I heard there are quite a few impressive new students!”