I Became a Genius Mechanic at the Academy

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Elevorn was flustered.

How could such a massive memory burst forth from mere humans?

However, Elevorn did not think he would be overshadowed.

Was he not the very embodiment of the World Tree’s history accumulated over thousands of years?

“W-what is this… this memory?”

But the memories sent by Edgar were nothing more than a ‘shitty memory package.’

In other words, it was a compilation of Edgar’s final moments, edited to showcase him dying in despair after being defeated by a demon.

“RAAAHHHH!!”

Thus, Elevorn began to scream.

Accepting an opponent’s memories within the World Tree meant reliving the emotions and sensations of that time.

Elevorn could feel the despair and pain Edgar experienced.

He was experiencing Edgar’s memories of being surrounded by demons, alive yet being torn apart, having lost everyone he loved.

“This bastard hit the jackpot.”

But Edgar was calm.

Currently, he was experiencing the memories sent by Elevorn, witnessing the moments where he took over his descendant’s body to share love with his wife.

Most of those scenes were so explicit that it felt like watching a pornographic epic.

“RRAAAHHHH!!! RRAAAHHHHH!!!”

“Oh wow. Even that position?”

Thus, in common language, the deal itself was not established.

It was all an unilaterally disadvantageous situation for Elevorn.

The memories of being devoured alive by demons and those of making love while switching bodies with his wife.

It was truly an incomparable comparison.

“The World Tree is mine!!! This place is under my control!!!!!”

At that moment, it seemed Elevorn was about to make a last-ditch effort, starting to scream.

In fact, his soul was shining brighter than ever as he began to overcome Edgar’s memories.

He had started to adapt.

“Oh, holding on, huh? Then how about this.”

However, Edgar had another painful memory.

Physics.

He sent the vast knowledge obtained through blood, sweat, and tears directly to Elevorn.

“Here you go. Calculus, General Physics, General Chemistry, General Physics Lab, Classical Mechanics, Electromagnetism, Mathematical Physics, Experimental Physics, Modern Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Statistical Thermodynamics, Experimental Physics, Optics, Relativity, Solid State Physics, Computational Physics, Astrophysics, Nuclear Particle Physics.”

“RRAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Then Elevorn began to thrash about madly, screaming.

Immediately, he started losing his hair, his skin sagged, dark circles formed under his eyes like a panda, he muttered curses in a dialect while reciting the professor’s name, vomited as soon as he pictured a makeshift bed, cried when he saw his reflection in the bathroom mirror during a teeth-brushing session, lamented for days on end about not going to graduate school, shivered at the voice of a professor calling him, and swallowed tears when his parents called asking if he was eating well…

In any case, all sorts of infuriating memories started to shake Elevorn’s mind.

“UAAAAAAAHHH!!! Professor Han Myung-jin, you bastard!!!!!!!!!!!”

Fwoooosh!

Ultimately, with that last exclamation, Elevorn’s self shattered into pieces.

The thousands of years of history that constituted him were eroded away by Edgar’s memories and ‘neutralized.’

Now, he was not a clear soul with firm opinions and personality, but merely a fragment of memory scattered throughout the World Tree.

– GoOoOoOoOoOo…

And where his soul had exploded, a small ‘Orb’ remained.

As soon as Edgar saw the orb, he immediately inferred that it was the ‘key core’ capable of controlling the World Tree.

– Grasp.

Thus, Edgar promptly grabbed the orb.

As soon as he held the orb, he felt a connection to the countless souls trapped within the World Tree.

If an ordinary human had experienced such a sensation, their consciousness would have collapsed and disappeared immediately.

“…Hmm.”

However, Edgar was both the strongest among the heavenly beings in myth and a mental aggregate that had gone through hundreds of reincarnations, each time possessing a different self.

There was no reason he couldn’t handle this orb, which even Elevorn could control.

“Is this what was used to control the souls of the World Tree?”

And the orb’s function was precisely to place seals on the souls within the World Tree.

In other words, the very use of the orb was extraordinarily nefarious.

Therefore, Edgar released the spells binding the souls within the World Tree.

As the seals placed on them shattered and disappeared, the formerly aggressive fragments of memory began to stabilize.

Among them, there were still memory fragments that retained ‘selfhood.’

[Ah… .]

It was none other than Enlirl, Clarice’s mother.

Being a relatively recently sealed soul, even if only half, she still distinctly possessed her selfhood.

[You… have set me free.]

And Enlirl’s soul realized that Edgar, holding the orb, had released her.

However, Enlirl had a more urgent matter than expressing gratitude.

[But by any chance… are you from the Empire? If you are from the Empire, do you know Count Benen? He is my husband, about 178 cm tall, and looks like—]

“He is dead.”

[……..]

However, Edgar calmly relayed the fact he knew before Enlirl could finish her sentence.

Instead, he delivered another piece of news she was eagerly awaiting.

“But, until the very moment he died, he protected and raised his daughter wonderfully. The Empire Academy is not a place just anyone can enter.”

As Edgar said this, he pointed to a certain location.

The tip of his finger was directed to where the unconscious Clarice’s soul lay.

As soon as Enlirl saw Clarice, she recognized that she was her daughter.

[Clarice!]

Enlirl immediately rushed towards Clarice’s location.

At the same time, Edgar used the orb to restore the consciousness of the injured students.

Soon, everyone, including Clarice, began to regain consciousness.

“Ugh… what the hell happened…?”

“…Was I unconscious?”

“….Where is Elevorn? He was just here a moment ago…!”

The students began to regain consciousness and assess the situation.

“I dealt with him.”

But at that moment, Elena, also a heavenly being like Edgar, took the lead and started to manage the situation.

As the guiding professor, and to simplify the potentially complex situation, she convinced the students that as the Great Mage, she resolved everything.

“Mom…!”

[Clarice!]

Thus the mother and daughter met, and while Elena managed the situation,

The souls possessing selfhood within the World Tree began to gather around.

Being sensitive to the orb’s controlling power, they realized that Edgar had freely released them.

[The fog that was wandering in my head has finally disappeared. Thank you.]

[I’ve been dreaming of the day I could take revenge on that bastard for deceiving me. However, I knew I could never win against someone with the orb… Thank you. Thanks to your noble action, I was able to release the years of pent-up grievances.]

[Thank you… .]

Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of souls surrounded Edgar in a grand scene.

However, having been released from a long seal, they seemed less joyful and more apathetic.

Having longed for the moment to break free from Elevorn’s seal, they had no plans for what to do next.

[So now… what should we do?]

Thus, they had lost the purpose of their lives.

No, their lives had ended long ago, and those remaining here were merely memories bound to the past.

For a mere memory without a body to return to, the very notion of ‘purpose in life’ could not even be established.

“Then, how about trying to save the world?”

So Edgar threw a topic at them.

Saving the world.

They immediately reacted.

[Saving the world…?]

“Yes. As part of this world, you do something worthy of dedicating all your energy to.”

As Edgar said this, he manipulated the orb.

He shared the hellish scenery he had witnessed through hundreds of reincarnations with them.

Eventually, their souls began to tremble in rage and burn with a red flame.

[The forest…! The forest I cultivated!]

“The demons will devour everything from the world you cultivated and where your descendants flourished. We need the help of our ancestors.”

The help of the ancestors.

Just with that one phrase, their phantom forms began to blaze.

As those who had lost their ‘reason for existence’ felt the call of their descendants, emotions surged within them.

[Just say the word! We will deploy everything we can to stop those demon bastards!]

Thus, they were ready to expend their last bit of energy given to them.

And Edgar, watching the flames of determination burning in the many souls, had one thought.

That with this, he pulled the massive consciousness collective known as the World Tree to his side.

‘It’s almost like a supercomputer.’

Moreover, the World Tree, gathering intelligence from ancient times, could not just be a supercomputer; it could handle calculations and knowledge activities far beyond that.

Thus, Edgar quietly made one chilling proposal to the massive collective of minds.

“Then, shall we start learning physics?”