I Became a Disaster-Class Sorcery Genius

Genius (Physical) (3)

The entrance exam for the Sorcery Institute had always drawn a lot of public attention.

There were two reasons for this. The first was that students who entered the Sorcery Institute had a high probability of becoming successful S-rank sorcerers in the future.

The second was that children from the three great families, as well as some children from other prestigious families, would take the exam.

Because of this, once the exam was over, journalists would eagerly publish their articles.

Some wrote about the top scorer of the Sorcery Institute.

Some wrote about the small, humorous events that happened during the exam.

Some introduced the children from prestigious families who had participated in the Sorcery Institute.

And among these, the articles about the children from prestigious families who participated in the Sorcery Institute always garnered more views than any others.

This was because, one way or another, the children of the renowned families had already built up their image both within and outside their families.

Almost as if they were creating idols.

That's why, typically, after the exam, the majority of articles were about the prestigious families.

Yes, typically.

However, that was not what was dominating the internet news at the moment.

Now, more than three days after the Sorcery Institute entrance exam had ended,

the internet news was filled with:
【Just how strong is Candidate 772, who destroyed the levitating stone!?】

【Is Candidate 772 not even a child of a prestigious family, but just an ordinary test taker?】

【Unveiling the secret! The reason why Candidate 772 could destroy the levitating stone that even S-rank sorcerers couldn't!】

【772! Who is Kim Dojun?】

【A Sorcery genius appears!】

Articles about Candidate 772, Kim Dojun, who had utterly smashed the levitating stone with his bare hands during the recent exam, were still pouring out.

However, the very person at the center of all this attention, Kim Dojun,

"Hoo...."

had shut himself in his room, not paying any mind to the news articles, and had been messing around on his computer for several days.

Only today did he finally admit it to himself.

'So this damn situation is real.'

That he had, indeed, entered the world inside the game.

Actually, Kim Dojun had been aware of it from the start.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he found a message written right in front of him, telling him to save the world from destruction and see the ending.

But, that was just a realization, not an acceptance of the fact that he was inside the game.

Even though he had actually seen scenes just like in the game with his own eyes.

"..."

Anyway, only after three days had Kim Dojun come to terms with reality.

With the fact that he had entered the game, Sorcery Killing Technique.

With the fact that, once again, he was facing a situation where his parents had vanished in an instant...!

... All that, just one day before he was about to reach the peak of his life as Korea's #1 S-rank hunter.

"At this rate, it wouldn't be surprising if even my great-grandfather disappeared...."

Kim Dojun let out a hollow laugh.

The fact that something like this happened to him just as he was about to have the prime of his life—it really was damn absurd.

However, he didn't waste any more time lamenting his circumstances.

Over the past three days, he had figured out his situation clearly.

Kim Dojun had entered the world of the game.

He had to see the ending of this world.

Only then could he get out of here.

'Do you know how hard I worked to climb to number one...!'

There were so many things he had to do once he got out.

Starting with putting those S-rank hunters who'd always looked down on him in their place, to smacking the bald association president who always picked at him—the list was stacked sky-high.

That was why Kim Dojun absolutely had to get out of this world.

No matter what.

'Still, the situation itself isn't so bad.'

Honestly, aside from the damnable fact that he was inside the game, Kim Dojun's situation wasn't bad at all.

Back when he played the game, even though he had made terrible decisions and saw a bad ending, in the end, Kim Dojun had finished the game.

As a result, the list of boss monsters he needed to take care of for the ending was already laid out in his head.

Kim Dojun's abilities were also a huge plus.

'I came in just as I am.'

He wasn't possessing a character in the game.

He had literally just 'entered' the world of this game.

His physical enhancement, the ability that had brought him to the number one spot in South Korea, was still intact.

His body was a little younger, but his overall abilities remained the same.

'Well, I'll have to learn sorcery, though.'

As his main ability was physical enhancement, there was still a need to study sorcery.

Among the bosses in his head, some could only be faced with even basic sorcery skills.

But even that wasn't a major problem.

For some reason, when Kim Dojun woke up here, he was already taking part in the Sorcery Institute entrance ceremony, which was one of the early-stage game events—and he'd just received his acceptance notification yesterday.

'All the early bosses appear around the Sorcery Institute, so I'll just deal with them as I learn sorcery.'

Yes, looking at it so far, as far as a start went, everything wasn't bad.

He had come into the game with his abilities intact.

The boss list was already in his head.

And he had entered the Sorcery Institute, one of the game's main stages.

But there was still one thing that kept bothering Kim Dojun.

It was time.

'No matter how I think about it, ten years is way too long.'

The playtime for Sorcery Killing Technique was about a week, if you played the game very intensively.

But that was only for the real-world player's playtime, after all.

If the player played for about seven days, then in-game, about ten years would pass.

Ten years.

'Stay here for ten years?'

Kim Dojun was absolutely not thinking of doing that.

'Honestly, if I could, I'd fly around right now smashing the skulls of all the essential boss monsters I need for the ending, but...'

Unfortunately, he couldn't do that.

'Because the bosses in Sorcery Killing Technique only appeared at set times or when special triggers were activated.'

In short, unless the trigger was activated or the time was right, the bosses' locations were completely unknown.

However, Kim Dojun, with a confident look, set his goal.

'Five years—no, I'll finish it in four.'

He didn't know where the bosses were.

But that was only a matter of the present.

Kim Dojun already knew how some of the bosses appeared.

In other words, he knew how to summon bosses.

So, renewing his resolve toward his goal—

Exactly two days later, the Sorcery Institute entrance ceremony began.

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The Sorcery Institute entrance ceremony, though not as big as the entrance exam, still drew a fair amount of attention and interest.

Journalists were snapping photos, capturing every moment.

They photographed and recorded Shin Se-yeon, who had been chosen as top student for her consistently high marks in the first to third rounds, as she took the podium and spoke.

But the one currently most captured by cameras was—

"Is that the guy? Number 772?"

"Yeah, that's him."

"I heard a rumor that he's the apprentice of a recently reclusive S-rank sorcerer—is that true?"

"Might be true."

—none other than Kim Dojun, who had smashed the levitating stone in the recent entrance exam.

Perhaps for this reason, Shin Se-yeon, who was giving a speech onstage, glanced stiffly in Kim Dojun's direction, but he paid her no mind.

To him, today's entrance ceremony was nothing but a bothersome chore.

The only reason Kim Dojun was here today was because he was looking for something.

While Shin Se-yeon was energetically talking on stage about the greatness of the Sorcery Institute and how advantageous the new students' position was, Kim Dojun's eyes were roving here and there, searching for something.

And, much to his relief—

"With this, the entrance ceremony for the Sorcery Institute is concluded. All students, please proceed to your assigned dormitories."

Just before the ceremony fully ended, he found what he was looking for.

What he had found was a girl lingering in a corner, glancing around nervously.

She was so tiny that she could easily be mistaken for a middle schooler; seeing the girl, Kim Dojun smiled.

As soon as the ceremony ended, he kept a little distance and started following her.

After a few minutes of following her this way,

just as she was turning onto a deserted street, she encountered a group of students.

"Wow~ Han Soyeon, you made it into the Sorcery Institute too?"

"Ah...."

"Unbelievable, how did someone like you get in? You were always barely scraping by even in middle school, right?"

No sooner did they spot Han Soyeon than they began to bully her like a pack that had found its prey.

"It makes no sense, how did someone like you get in?"

"Did you pass thanks to connections?"

"There's no way—how could an orphan like you have any connections? Well—"

One student, looking particularly insolent, smirked and said,

"Maybe she made connections before the exam."

Blatant contempt.

But Han Soyeon could say nothing in response to the group's words.

Bowing her head and shutting her eyes, she only looked like someone wishing for this storm to pass as quickly as possible.

Regardless of Han Soyeon's attitude, the group kept poking at her.

"Hey, can't you talk?"

"Ugh—"

They started twisting and pulling her pink hair.

"Seriously, it's disgusting... Are you happy you got in so dirty?"

"Right. But if you think about it, you didn't even need to come here, so why are you here? Anyway—"

Hee hee—

"—Since you got in here, you could probably get in anywhere else, right?"

By now, they were flinging abusive words while yanking her hair this and that way.

And after a while,

"Hey, let's go. We have to check our dorm assignments."

"Ah, please~ I hope I'm assigned to the same room as you."

"Me too~"

The students who had bullied her walked past Han Soyeon and Kim Dojun as if nothing had happened.

"Well, that's nice, though. Didn't think our stress toy would be coming along."

"Right, we can use her whenever we're stressed from studying."

Even as they passed by Kim Dojun, they kept chatting like that.

The especially insolent-looking one cackled as though the remark was a hilarious joke.

Kim Dojun glanced at the group of cookie-cutter bullies disappearing off in the distance, then turned his gaze to Han Soyeon.

She gave a sigh, finally feeling it was over.

Seeing her like that, Kim Dojun immediately approached Han Soyeon.

Soon, he stood before her.

Han Soyeon flinched again as he did, but Kim Dojun paid that no mind.

"Don't you want to kill them?"

"... Pardon?"

"Just kill them. All of them."

"??"

"You can do it, you know?"

"...???"

He began to whisper to her.

-------------= Clacky's Corner -------------=
Damn, Dojun egging a bullying victim to kill the bullies...
Is Soyeon going to summon the first boss?
【「(°ヘ°)?】