Chapter 217

Violets felt tired during the lengthy orientation.

“Boring! Isn’t this all stuff we already know?”

The orientation was just too dull.

“Therefore, history can be defined as a continuous conversation passed from the past to the present through mere existence. That is why we study war history this semester. I hope you understand, even if it’s boring.”

In war history class, while pretending to listen to the lesson, a Violet running a break game caught trouble.

“However, some students seem to find my class very enjoyable. Violet student?”

“Uh! Me?”

The history professor, who had a very stern look, pointed at me. The eyes of the other students turned my way.

“I have a question for our student who likes history. There was a battle during the Great War that served as a turning point. That battle is the Battle of Erngart. What is the name of the general who commanded this battle?”

Startled, Room 243 scanned the surroundings.

“Daphne, help me!”

But I realized.

Daphne was in a different class, and she wasn’t here!

I looked at Kalia sitting right next to me.

“Tell me!”

“What? Why are you looking at me? I don’t know!”

But there was salvation. I spotted another friend around.

“Irene! Save me!”

Irene turned around from the front row, and sensing my expression, let out a deep sigh and mumbled.

“What to do? I can’t see it well!”

“Ahh! I’m gonna lose points!”

At this rate, it was obvious I would get scolded for messing around.

Just as the professor’s gaze was about to furrow, I hurriedly contacted the Violet at the headquarters.

“Guys, we’re in big trouble!”

The Violets hurriedly rummaged through the materials.

“Umm, so… it’s General Emmanuel Ryx?”

The answer I squeezed out with all my might for five seconds—what was the result?

“Correct! Applause!”

The professor’s face lit up. Fortunately, it was the right answer.

“As you all know, General Ryx of the Parmian Empire Federation is one of the first Awakened Hero, and he was the first to develop a joint tactical operation comprising tanks, biplanes, and Awakened Hunters. It is said that the academic world marked the beginning of humanity’s counterattack after the introduction of this tactic…”

While I sighed in relief, the class continued.

“However, the heroes of the Great War are not limited to these. Anyone else know?”

A student from the front row, with a somewhat gloomy military vibe, shot his hand up.

“General Alexander Hybon! He was friends with General Ryx!”

It seemed this class was filled with military enthusiast friends who loved war history. Everyone’s answers came pouring out.

“Adriana Velestron! The Witch of Thunder!”

“Cedric Cascadia!”

“Jemont Restraid! The Immortal Knight!”

“What are they talking about?”

“Oh no… a bunch of otakus!”

Even while clicking my tongue inwardly, I decided to try and understand my classmates.

Maybe those people might be akin to heroes like General Lee Soon-sin or King Sejong in this world.

“But they didn’t save our Violets, did they? They didn’t, right?”

“At best, they were common folks from a century ago!”

“That’s true! The scholarship officer saving modern people might be more of a hero!”

As everyone excitedly spoke one after another, the classroom heated up.

It seemed each had their own personal hero.

That was until someone poured cold water on the conversation.

“Notix Valefor…?”

“…!”

The moment someone mentioned the former president of Polaris, now a mad criminal under trial, a chill swept through the classroom.

The students’ jeers immediately flew.

“That crazy old guy? Definitely a villain!”

“N-No, I meant he was friends with the heroes I mentioned! He was a hero in reality!”

“Are you out of your mind? How is a mage who does human experiments a hero?”

“Looks like he got bribed by Magnavis…”

The classroom descended into an awkward and uncomfortable silence, as if Adolf Hitler had been nominated for a peace prize.

“Um, let’s stop talking about that person. The current ongoing case is a political issue and should not be mentioned. Dismissed!”

Only when the professor intervened could the students calm down.

“Indeed, the world truly needs genuine heroes.”

By the way, is the Ariel Group a hero, or not?

Even after the history lecture that sparked complex debates concluded, the professors continued with their questions.

Business class.

“What do you think is the most important quality in leadership?”

Biology class.

“Based on the biological energy metabolism of monsters, what determines the differences in mutations by species?”

Up to this point, I managed to force some answers out.

In pure terms of knowledge acquisition, studying was pointless for us Violets.

If knowledge was all that was needed, just putting Violets in a library filled with computers and piles of books would solve all the problems.

Thus, the Violet Room!

With the power of the Violet Room, we smoothly passed through the onslaught of questions.

However, the torrent of questions continued endlessly, and amidst the overwhelming tide, we could only scream.

In Ether Dynamics class.

The green-haired lady who introduced herself as Professor Sharia pointed to me and threw a sharp question.

“Hey, student in the left corner, second to last row? Do you want to pay attention and not fall asleep?”

“Y-Yes?”

“Would you like to come up and solve the curvature calculation problem for the third Ether equation written on the board? The key is to find the inverse of the curvature radius.”

“M-Me?”

“Yes, Violet, right?”

I had no idea why she was singling me out with all these questions. Did the professors resent me?

“After some digging, I found out she’s forty years old, so maybe that’s why!”

“Ugh! Math!”

“I haven’t learned this yet!”

I decided to use my newfound friend chance—a smart blue-haired boy sitting right next to me.

“Lucian! You know this, right? Get me the answer now!”

But upon seeing the problem, Lucian’s face hardened seriously.

He whispered.

“…I don’t know that.”

That wizard lady might be trying to test our beautiful Violet out of jealousy.

“In that case, let’s use a cheat!”

I immediately dashed to the lab of the Violet headquarters.

As soon as I opened the door, I found two researchers savoring coffee among the piles of papers.

“Professor Albert! Please help me!”

“What’s this? Suddenly asking for help? You’re not suggesting I solve the problem, are you?”

I promptly presented the magical formula.

Upon seeing the problem, Professor Albert frowned and questioned me.

“Tsk tsk, I can’t believe you rushed here just because it was hard…

Wait, the professor from Aegis Academy, her hair is red, right? Was her name Sharia?”

“How did you know?”

“Hmm, this could be…”

After a moment of examining the problem with me, he seemed to think of something amusing and chuckled.

“That woman is just playing around with the students. Anyway, you want the answer, right?”

“Yes! Please help me just this once!”

Professor Albert readily agreed to my request.

“Alright, I’ll solve it, so just follow along.”

I didn’t know why he was helping us, but the Violet on-site watched the professor solve the problem.

And I copied it all onto the board at the academy.

A festival of incomprehensible complicated equations and numbers. The board was filled.

“I’m done. Is that right?”

Professor Sharia’s face turned half amazed, half aghast.

“Y-Yes, that’s right. But how did you… this is an advanced level problem…”

The reactions of the students sitting in the classroom were split in half.

“What? How did she solve that?”

“Is she really a first-year like us?”

“It doesn’t look like she used a calculator.”

Half the students were whispering in astonishment while the others…

“Crazy… a genius!”

“She just solves it on-site? Even our seniors couldn’t do that?”

With all the eyes on me, I sat proudly back in my seat.

“Now, the problem Violet solved is…”

The boy next to me, Lucian, asked.

“How did you solve that? Professor Albert hasn’t even covered that in our curriculum.”

“I asked the professor!”

“Was it a cheat…?”

He shook his head disapprovingly.

While student Violet was attending class, the assistant Violet far away was talking with the researchers.

“By the way, what do you mean by ‘playing around’?”

When assistant Violet asked, Professor Albert kindly answered.

“When I was a lifetime professor, I interacted a lot with professors from other academies. We shared knowledge and met at seminars, so of course, it’s natural to meet a lot of the magic professors from Aegis Academy…”

“Oh, I see…”

“Each professor has a different teaching style, but Professor Sharia believes that students become stronger the more they use their brains. So she throws difficult problems and observes how they solve them before deciding on directions.”

At that moment, I understood why such difficult problems were brought up in the first semester second year class.

By the way, I wondered what these people were doing here as assistant Violet 112 surveyed the desk.

I spotted a familiar symbol on a stack of papers.

An electronic circuit-embedded wing with a tail resembling a DNA helix.

“Isn’t this Rumyx?”

Several titles were written above the research document.

[Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning and Quantum Enhanced Neural Networks for Engagement with Monsters]

[Building a Parallel Connection Network for Dynamic Task Assignment of Cluster Individuals]

[Learning in Parallel Neural Networks: Ether Calculations and Reasoning through Resilient Weight Integration]

“What is this?”

Upon my question, Doctor Yurik answered.

“Oh, it’s nothing. Just some materials I’ve been looking at during my leisure time. Research output from famous scholars in Trist trying to create a superintelligent computer.”

“Superintelligent computer?”

At this unfamiliar term, I tilted my head.

Seeing that I genuinely didn’t understand, the two started explaining calmly.

“Simply put, it’s artificial intelligence. It was a global project to analyze Ether and artificially implement magic. It got scrapped before I even became an elementary school student, though.”

“That couldn’t be helped. Only living brains can properly trace and handle the movements of Ether. Moreover, computer circuits can’t withstand things like electromagnetic waves or radiation that occur when Ether is activated. Even if you surround them with protective gear, they end up mutating into bizarre things like relics uncovered in dungeons.”

Finally, the story I knew came up, and I joined in.

“Oh, right! That’s why there’s no wireless communication inside dungeons or areas with severe erosion. Unprotected electronic devices break down quickly.”

Seems like these people were making their efforts to fight monsters too.

“Well, by the way, Violet. You mentioned you were at Laplacian, right?”

“Yep! They’re such bad guys.”

At my response, Professor Albert stroked his chin in thought.

“Come to think of it, it’s quite strange. I was curious why they turned their specialty upside down.”

“They changed fields?”

“Rumyx Research Foundation’s focus is on biotechnology and nanotechnology. But at one point, electronics were the core of the foundation.”

“Electronics, like electricity or semiconductors?”

Yurik nodded as he replied.

“Correct. There was a brief AI boom decades ago. It became a trend to repel monsters with robot legions and solve Ether dynamics problems with artificial intelligence. However, when the AI project failed, many of the existing foundation personnel left.”

“Seizing the opportunity, Secretary General Fegan took control of the foundation’s power. His twin brother led his own group and independently formed Laplacian.”

So that’s what happened.

“But why are you explaining this to me? And why are you looking at AI data?”

The doctor and professor exchanged glances for a moment. The professor answered curtly.

“Well, you had a bad experience with the Laplacian folks, right? Just thought it might be helpful to explain. And this is just our hobby. Don’t meddle in adult matters, go on.”

Assistant Violet was in a daze but prepared to leave again.

“Oh, wait! Violet. I forgot one thing. About that magic professor’s trait.”

“What is it?”

Professor Albert said with an unusually excited voice.

“I heard Professor Sharia likes students who respond well to her tricks. So cheer up!”

I didn’t understand the meaning behind Professor Albert’s words.

Only after the class ended did I realize what he meant.

“Hehe, Violet student. Could you come to my office for a moment?”

The green-haired witch professor called me with a peculiar look.

“You are definitely a talent that will go far…! Would you have any more interest in studying?”

With chills running down my spine, I quickly fled.

“Yikes! No way!”