NOVEL NEXT WORLD Chapter 1054
<1054 – Extreme Weakness Mode (12)>
Ninjas have the custom of “Aisatsu” for greetings.
Even if they are bound by a bitter rivalry, they consider it polite to introduce themselves, and not doing so would mean being treated like human trash – that’s their unspoken rule.
Oknodie also has a greeting custom known as “Hello, Beatdown Technique.”
At the introduction phase, you throw a couple of light jabs as a taster.
Going straight for a serious punch right from the start would be an embarrassing sight for a veteran, showing a lack of reflection.
Professors also had similar implicit rules.
A professor who throws a serious punch from the get-go because a student is acting out doesn’t even qualify as a professor.
When kids throw tantrums, it’s the duty of the strong to match their level and give them a gentle smack.
Professor Weird upheld that duty.
But even her adherence to that level reached a terrifying strength that was among the top-tier when compared to the many strong enemies Oknodie had faced so far.
In fact, the technique that neutralized her backpacking abilities was the first time any opponent had delivered a true critical hit.
“Can’t I just get treated instead of being punished…?”
Having already depleted many resources in the fight against the Heavenly Sovereign and the curse spreading, Oknodie wanted to avoid this fight.
“Then equip this sealing orb honestly for your treatment.”
<Weakness Crown>
<Thorn Handcuffs>
<Freeze Bird Nest Shoes>
<Tightening Belt of the Cursed>
<Despair's Binding>
Lining these up, all were top-tier items in the binding category.
Oknodie pouted.
“Could you just bind me a little gently?”
After all, it’s always a WWE match between professors and students. Did it really need to go this far?
Of course, it didn’t work on Professor Weird, who treated her students sincerely.
“What punishment do you think you’ll inflict?”
“I’m going to forcibly make you wear this.”
“Punishment and treatment are the same thing!”
In fact, there was no choice.
Do you take fewer hits and kicks?
Or get hit more and kicked?
There was only that difference.
“Oknodie… I’m okay. I’m ready to fight till the end alongside you.”
“Jiang!”
“Even if I become Professor Weird’s fertilizer, I won’t run away. I have no face to meet Sister Sia, who has entrusted me with this difficult responsibility.”
At the same time, if Sing, who was beating down the high officials, saying if you have dissatisfaction with national affairs, to win in a duel, were to hear this, she’d say, “A difficult responsibility? Me?” with a puzzled expression.
Surprisingly, Sing, who fit well in the role of Empress, enjoyed a fresh start in life with her ghostly younger sister, but only Sadi, who knew via the terminal, felt her mouth itching.
“Oh my God. If Jiang is that determined, then I know it’ll hurt, but I’ll fight!”
In the face of a newbie’s resolute will, Oknodie’s heart always softened.
Her principle was that all NPCs on their first life are newbies, so Oknodie resolved to display their fighting spirit for Jiang, a friend and newbie.
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<Professor Weird>
<Main Function – Writing>
<First Art – Ultra-Speed Writing>
<Double Art – Multi-Writing>
<Triple Art – Visualization>
For years, she wrote on the blackboard, filling it densely with chalk and countless vines for her lectures.
Professor Weird’s <Writing> function combined with <Teaching> upgraded to the higher function <Writing>. This led her to reach the realm of Writing’s First Art.
Her mastery in writing became a <Magic Circle>, created by numerous vines writing simultaneously, producing an ultra-high-speed magic circle that radiated light no one could rival.
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<Professor Weird>
<Phase 1 – Professor Mode>
<Pattern – Multi Ultra Speed Magic Circle>
In an instant, various harmful insects, toxic materials, and plants inducing status ailments were summoned into the air following the magic circle.
As Oknodie’s flame storm technique covered the insects, beasts bearing poisons imbued with ten buffs charged through the inferno.
While the beasts struck by a Dark Ball bomb that forcibly dispelled their buffs fell silent, plants with thirty buffs scattered seeds like a machine gun.
Jiang, startled, swatted away the seeds while feeling the impact in real-time.
That’s worth noting.
Such thoughts wavered within a second.
The power imbued in the seeds from one second earlier and one second later differed, and the intensity of the pain conveyed through her fingertips changed.
The speed of casting spells reached unprecedented ultra-high speeds, with multi-casting.
With a strength that wouldn’t pale in comparison to any of the Three Great Evils, Professor Weird’s summoned creatures turned into monsters that crossed the realms of a 7th-ranking High-ranking Monster and an 8th-ranking Overlord Monster.
The plants, bolstered by buffs, verged on rivaling the essence of an Adult Kraken or an Adult Hydra.
Even as Jiang noticed the presence of plants that continued to grow without joining the attack, she frantically thought,
-Help me.
-Oh ho ho. Why should I? I’d like Oknodie to get into some trouble this time.
-If Professor Weird recognizes the growing Undead, she’ll plant flowers on your head and suck your nutrients.
-…
-Do you want to become nutrients for the plants just because you’re curious if you can still grow?
-That would be a problem.
Sadi Chocolate, with an expression that clearly showed her displeasure, let out a shallow sigh.
Then she simultaneously planted <Terminals> into the plants and animals that were growing in real-time.
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<Sadi Chocolate>
<Multi-Simultaneous Terminal Deployment>
Sadi Chocolate poured her all into a connection technique that causes mental disarray towards the activated terminals.
“Grrr?”
“Giiiiiick!!”
Though their level had risen, the grade of the entities themselves was low, and they could not withstand Sadi’s chaos.
Considering each other as foes and wasting their strength, massive plants exploded, dissolving opponents and pouring fire instead of blood, creating a hellish scene.
Empress Masugaki, with a face that expressed her discontent, urged her knights, while they hurriedly evacuated nearby citizens.
Suddenly, Sadi’s troubles began.
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<Weird's Collection>
<No.5 The Peacock>
As a peacock with countless feathers puffed itself up, the pattern rune engraved on its body activated.
The effect was slowdown.
It would diminish the movement within a certain radius centered on the peacock.
Neither Oknodie nor Jiang could escape that range.
Wouldn’t the attacks in that range also slow down?
Denying Sadi Chocolate’s complacent thought, outside the range, the magic circle and summoned entities from Professor Weird were rapidly accumulating and growing.
“Sadako’s minions. Don’t bother me, or what? Do you really want to become fertilizer?”
Sadi felt the astonished glances of Oknodie and Jiang directed toward her.
She understood.
This was a crazier situation than when she faced the Heavenly Sovereign.
Now was not the time for tricks.
And yet, why was it?
Feeling envy towards the relationship between the two, who cared for and cherished each other without being influenced by terminals, was frustrating.
It was because Sadi Chocolate had built only false relationships using terminals and mind control, and if she lost her terminals, she denied those relationships or became distrustful herself.
A sense of envy for genuine friendship.
It didn’t matter if it was merely an ‘imitation.’
After all, she was originally a whimsical woman.
“Not bad. Such bravado.”
The turmoil among the plants and animals began anew.
Seeing the dying minions, Professor Weird raised a finger.
Sadi Chocolate flinched, wondering if a laser might shoot out.
Contrary to her expectations, the finger was pointing at the ground.
Beneath her gaze, Sadi noticed a magical aura subtly rising below the earthy surface.
The ground, covered in magical light everywhere.
Many beings, having failed to notice due to the corpses of numerous plants and animals and the magical reactions.
<Urgent.>
The swarm of insects emerged, flipping the ground as Sadi Chocolate turned and fled.
No genuine friendship could withstand the oncoming wave of insects rising with such force.
Thud.
Sadi’s eyes fell to her feet.
At her feet, Professor Weird wiggled her index finger amidst the vines wrapping around her.
With a thunderous crash!!
The swarm of insects charged downward as if the world were collapsing.
Even Undead would perish, right?
As she was horrified by the dreadful end, her body was lifted into the air.
Sometime earlier, Jiang had thrown a dagger that severed the vine.
Oknodie used Telekinesis Magic to pull Sadi to their side.
The shadows of insects blackening the surroundings.
A downpour of insects raining down upon the counter-magic.
Shock. Explosion. Poison. Chaos. Flash.
Amidst the explosions of countless attribute insects, the counter-magic shrank and diminished, with the Senior Instructor supporting Oknodie’s back, infusing her with mana.
Watching the blood drain rapidly from Oknodie’s face, Sadi placed her hand on her shoulder too.
“Whew. You must be crazy?”
Oknodie had the essence that even transcendent beings could gnaw at.
Just how long had it been since she deliberately avoided breaking connections with the transcendents?
Jiang, who had been lugging Oknodie around with her, was also losing their wits by passively transferring mana.
And herself joining in on this was simply insanity.
But oddly enough, she found joy in this moment.
‘Could it be? Have I wanted a share of such foolishness with companions for a long time?’
As Sadi Chocolate closed her eyes, thinking that it would not be so bad to scream together and perish under Professor Weird’s overwhelming offensive, the anticipated final moment never arrived.
It was because Oknodie freed the essence she had held and devoured the approaching insects instead.
“Jeez, it’s taking a while.”
Professor Weird directly lifted the essence Oknodie had dragged and placed it onto the surface of a massive summoned plant.
This giant plant, which was almost reminiscent of the World Tree, astonishingly exhibited a <Dimensional Overlap Phenomenon> and opened a dimension gate by itself.
“Life-Form Lockdown. Contract Cancellation.”
With that, the gate closed, and the essence vanished.
The dimensional gate trembled, and an attempt to invade from outside heavily pounded the Middle Realm, but Professor Weird commanded a giant serpent to coil around the dimensional gate.
Adding the overwhelming buff and slowdown that had harried them all, the invasion attempts soon ceased.
“Curses aren’t meant to be cured. They should be passed on to others.”
Professor Weird’s treatment of Oknodie’s essence curse.
The solution was straightforward.
Dumping cosmic trash into another dimension!