I got into school for nothing - Chapter 295
I got into school for nothing (295)
Lesson 57. Bridal Legion - 5
"Yuwon, you said you were going to use Changeling, so what exactly are you doing right now?"
"If I did that now, do you think Prominence would notice, or not?"
"Ah, I see."
As Ban Yuwon bantered with Asha, who, as always, was reassuringly foolish, Aire narrowed her eyes and questioned him with a suspicious expression.
"Then what *is* this you're doing?"
"Preparations."
Ban Yuwon was individually conducting oral examinations on three thousand fairies, who had been guided to him by the Fairy Queen.
Given the situation alone, it wouldn't be strange for someone to call it lewd, yet Ban Yuwon's utterly businesslike demeanor gave it a peculiar feeling.
"H-hik— Ahhhn...!"
Those whose throats were poked by his fingers shrieked in terror and tried to resist, but soon lost all their strength, collapsing to the ground with feeble groans.
Aire, unable to suppress her bewilderment at the sight of fairies collapsing every time he inserted and withdrew his finger, suddenly focused on Ban Yuwon's word, "preparations."
"If it's preparations for using Changeling... are you using the fairies' power?"
"Correct. I only just realized this today, but as long as they're completely subdued, merely touching them like this allows me to..."
Breaking off mid-sentence, Ban Yuwon grabbed the jaw of the next fairy in line. Regardless of how terrified the target was, he mercilessly plunged his finger into their throat and activated his Authority.
The Authority of Babylonia, which conceptualizes all things into language and manipulates them according to his will!
Anything that could be defined by the language Ban Yuwon conceived became his target for plunder.
All sorts of concepts— [Body, Mana, Life, Soul, Charm, Archery] —fixed within the target's body, and critically, the most important concept of [Concept Conversion], fiercely resisted before finally leaving their owner's body and flowing into Ban Yuwon's finger.
"I can just take their power. Of course, there are downsides, like the target having to be weaker than me, not being able to extract all their power, and me having to understand the target's concepts."
"Fulfilling preconditions to cause miracles is the essence of sorcery. Perhaps the power of sorcery you obtained has strengthened your Authority."
"Oh, now that you mention it, that might actually be true."
This method prevented Prominence from discovering them by killing them, reduced the need to shed blood with his own hands, and furthermore, even if they were freed, they wouldn't be able to exert their power properly since no concepts would remain in their bodies. Could there be a more perfect punishment and subjugation?
Over a hundred fairies had already been neutralized this way, and the amount of concepts he had extracted from them had become truly vast.
Ban Yuwon had already absorbed as much as he personally could. As for those that were no longer helpful in terms of their depth, he distributed them equally among his vassals, causing their combat power to amplify in real-time.
'After all, these traitors were all prominent fairies from the A-1 Dimension. Ah, their concepts are sweet.'
Ban Yuwon's own Life concept had surged cleanly to 1,300, thanks to the previous grand-scale exploration and the added Life of the fairies. His Wonshin, which had evolved into a higher concept of the body, and Won-gi, the supreme concept of mana, both reached 999 simultaneously.
It seemed that to reach 1,000, these concepts wouldn't simply be absorbed recklessly but would require some kind of training or enlightenment... and he figured Yeon would help him with that.
'But then, the Soul, which should be even harder to raise than these concepts, is also at 1,300, the same level as Life...'
Ban Yuwon had once defined the Soul as a vessel for Authority, skills, and the like.
Since his Authority and skills tended to strengthen proportionally with the increase in his Soul's quality, he was probably not wrong.
The problem was that Ban Yuwon had never seen anyone other than himself raise their Soul to the same level as their Life concept.
Conversely, it likely meant his innate Authority was that extraordinary.
"Well, I can check my internal concepts later. What's important now is..."
The Concept Conversion, or Changeling concept, which had already accumulated to a depth of 1,500 thanks to being extracted and condensed from numerous fairies.
Ban Yuwon, who had already used Ketra's concept previously, placed it into a massive Code Core created by combining several other cores.
"Alright, preparations complete."
The orb, which gathered the essence of the fairies' mystery, was enveloped in an indescribably radiant yet eerie light.
If one were not Ban Yuwon, who wielded concepts themselves, merely touching it could distort their body and mana, making it akin to a cursed object.
"A core created by extracting only the fairies' Authority... just this alone is already on the level of a top-tier artifact."
"If we get more fairy criminals later, bring them over. I'll extract one for you."
"Could you please not say such terrifying things in front of the Fairy Queen, son-in-law?"
Ban Yuwon chuckled wryly at the sight of the fairies whose eyes glittered, recognizing the essence of Changeling.
This alone was amazing, but if used in harmony with the magic circle carved into this planet, it could create an even more astonishing outcome.
It was a little annoying that he wouldn't be the one to benefit from it...
"My sister truly couldn't make it up to me even if she served me for her whole life."
[Serving you, I don't know, but it feels like she'll be taking care of you for life, Master.]
"Please stop, Lilyth. I was wrong."
Ban Yuwon ignored the terrified gazes of the captured criminals, the gazes of awe, favor, and desire from the fairies watching the non-execution, and the suspicious gazes of his companions, busy guessing what he would do next. He finally extracted the concepts from all the criminals within two hours.
"Alright, these people just need to have their means of external contact removed and be confined somewhere."
Ban Yuwon explained, handing the weakened, collapsed criminals back to the fairies.
"Don't kill them, though, because they're still the key people for activating the magic circle. Aire, you come with me to fix the magic circle. This will probably take a few days."
"When it comes to magic circles, you can't leave out the Iblis, with their thousands of years of magical contract research."
"If it's the magic circle carved into our planet, I want to help too."
The party had nothing else to do anyway but follow Ban Yuwon around.
Many fairies were astonished by the miracle Ban Yuwon had shown when he came to Fairytale and tried to approach him in various ways, so their role was mainly to prevent overly enthusiastic advances towards him.
The problem was that the magic circle covered such a wide area that they had to move constantly, and as a result, they couldn't perfectly block everyone who approached Ban Yuwon...
"Darling, come here and have lunch with me!"
"Why is my boyfriend *your* darling?!"
"Oh my, how can a human wield such dense mana...! Don't you want to mix your mana with mine?"
"We're in the middle of modifying the magic circle, so don't come any closer!"
"Modify? Work? How about with me?"
"No, I've never seen such crazy people."
Within half a day, Ban Yuwon grew utterly fed up with the fairy race.
How could there be such a licentious and lewd race?
Before coming to Fairytale, he had only expected them to look down on him as an inferior race, but this completely different kind of obstruction left his head spinning.
"They are indeed a remarkable race. To openly flirt with you, knowing how dangerous the magic circle covering the entire planet is, as if it's none of their concern."
As Dokgo Yeon, who effectively blocked most fairy approaches simply by emitting precisely honed killing intent, spoke in an exhausted voice, Mira, embracing the shame on behalf of all fairykind, covered her face with both hands and offered an excuse.
"They're not usually this clingy, but Yuwon is such an exceptional individual... And the fact that he's my boyfriend is a bonus point."
"Why is that?"
"Because if they steal the future Fairy Queen's man, that alone would be an achievement to boast about for a lifetime."
"Are there really only crazy people here?"
Dokgo Yeon, replying with a tone of utter exasperation, turned to Ban Yuwon and spoke in a gloomy voice.
"Yuwon, let's finish the work quickly and go back. I don't want to stay in a place like this for long."
"Yeon, no matter how much you dislike it, the decisive battle with Prominence has to be fought here..."
And so, they spent two days roaming the vast planet of Fairytale, modifying the magic circle.
During this process, they positioned Dragon Fang Soldiers at key locations and had already greeted the legion of Iblis Dark Magic Soldiers who had arrived earlier and were waiting.
Just as the magic circle modification was almost complete, a request for access to the Fairytale Dimension came in.
"Oh my, what cute animals! They're even cuter than I heard!"
It must have been prearranged, as Fairy Queen Yura readily allowed their spaceship inside...
It was a spaceship carrying beast-kin elites!
"Long time no see, son-in-law!"
"You've grown even more since we last met. Haven't you made any children yet?"
As Rucell's parents, Kanid, a beast-kin descended from the Divine Beast Fenrir, and Lucia, a descendant of the Nine-tailed Fox, stepped out of the spaceship and each threw a remark at Ban Yuwon, he instinctively turned to Rucell and narrowed his eyes.
However, Rucell merely wagged the tail that sprang from behind her hips and smiled contentedly.
"You brought a lot of troops, didn't you?"
"Indeed, we were idle with no more battles to fight. What was it, the System? We only brought those over Level 70 by its standards. And that turned out to be exactly 100 individuals."
Kanid thumped his chest heartily and grinned, echoing Rucell's words.
He himself lacked the ability to check his stats, but with the help of his daughter, who already had a status window, he could roughly gauge the strength standard, Level.
"Ohoho, there were such strong people among the beast-kin... Oh my."
Surprisingly, Yura, who had also come out to greet the guests, briefly sparkled her eyes upon seeing the reliable and handsome Kanid, but before Lucia could react with caution, she shook her head and averted her gaze.
"No matter what, our son-in-law is still the most handsome."
"I'm going to lose my mind, seriously."
No, he wasn't going to lose his mind because of Yura's continuous attention.
That was troublesome enough, but the bigger problem now was that the key figures of the beast-kin race had come all the way to Fairytale.
"Rucell, are you out of your mind? We're fighting an S-rank dimension. What do you mean by bringing your entire base with you?"
"But if we lose here, there won't be a future, will there?"
That was true, but— with his mother and sister involved, there really was no turning back!
As if she sensed Ban Yuwon's feelings, Rucell's eyes curved gently.
"I've staked everything on Master. My parents have given everything to me, so please, Master, don't refuse and accept it all."
"No, it's too much..."
"Baaaaan Yuuuuuuwoooooon—!"
Just as he was at a loss for how to respond to Rucell's complete affection and devotion, something terrifyingly drawn-out in voice rushed forward and latched onto his neck, wrapping its arms around him.
'What is this, it's not a sloth,' he thought, turning around, only to realize it was indeed a sloth.
"Ah, as expected, it activates as soon as you cling to me."
He didn't want to ask what had activated.
The woman, Slothy the Nataehu, whose golden hair sprawled wildly and tickled his back as she wore a languid smile, looked at him and continued.
"You didn't come, so I came myself."
"Oh my, my."
Yura let out a strange exclamation of admiration, seeing yet another woman clinging to her son-in-law.
Ban Yuwon, recognizing that things were already spiraling out of control, sighed and struggled to peel Slothy off him, when his companions approached to help him.
"Ah, seriously, our kids need to move faster! This won't do, Yuwon! Let's go together, let's bring our troops too!"
"I'm sorry, but a few weak humans added to the mix won't be much help, will they?"
"We're not weak! We get stronger if I lead them!"
"Our Dark Magic Soldiers are the strongest. I can't yield on this."
"Dragon Fang Soldiers... are you ignoring us? Are you ignoring Dragonoids right now...?"
The atmosphere heated up even more with Rucell also bringing her troops.
A step away, Dokgo Yeon bit her lip and muttered, taken by surprise.
She felt utterly wronged.
"Compared to the Shin-gyo's martial force, these are just a handful of nobodies..."
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