Book 2: Chapter 11: The Viper Part I

Book 2: Chapter 11: The Viper Part I

Inside of the Electives Tower

Viper narrows her eyes on the students walking into the classroom from her spot hidden just in the back corner of the lecture hall as she waits for one particular student to enter the class. Because no matter how much she tried, she could never catch Scarlet after she made it back to the campus grounds from her visit to the front lines. The girl was always either training, studying, or in class. Never free to speak.

In the end, the Class IV Guardian ended up resorting to just waiting till the class she teaches to find her and make contact with her after the class.

So where is she? Why hasnt she entered the class yet? All of the other Top class and Advanced class students taking Achievements are here already, so where is she?

Viper glances at her terminal to find that the class starts in just another two minutes before she looks up, only to find the girl in question finally walking into the class with her hands in the coat pockets of her rather unusually styled magi-tech gear. Gear thats basically just regular clothing including a shirt, pants, and a coat, and apparently the only thing she ever wears around campus.This chapter was first shared on the Ñøv€lß1n platform.

Then again, it looks mostly like casual clothes and gives the protection of magi-tech gear, so I understand why she does it, given that everything Ive heard about her paints the girl as extremely practical and a bit of a battle junkie with a dislike for most things girly.

Suddenly the girl stops moving and begins looking around the class for a second with a frown, as if searching for something.

Does she have a friend in the class shes looking for? But I thought most of the students here were ones she ripped to shreds in the tournament actually, some of her teammates should be in this class now that I think about it.

Vipers eyes widen when the girls gaze finally stops on her.

Wait, she was looking for me?!

After her brief surprise, Viper starts grinning like a madwoman, only wanting to make the girl her apprentice even more now than before.

Meanwhile Scarlet just frowns as she stares at the spot where Viper is at, seemingly unsure of something as if shes not actually seeing Viper but knows something is there.

I frown at him, but he just nods, so I sigh and focus on the professor again.

I will say this now though, Viper continues, turning her gaze away from me and scanning the class instead. There is no way to fool the System. It has been tried by thousands of people, all older and more experienced than you, and not a single person has succeeded. The only things we can do are learn the possible Achievements that can be gained from the System, a list of skills and their requirements, and a few things that do manage to skirt around the rules a little bit. Such as a parent trying to limit the danger of a Fracture for their childs benefit by bringing them into it and forcing them to fight the demon without any assistance. This would give the child rewards depending on how much higher a level the demon was as long as the parent truly has no intentions of helping the child should something go wrong. She pauses here, her eyes narrowing. Even if the child were to die.

Thats a rather brutal way of raising a kid.

Tar who had been speaking a lot more during these lectures doesnt say anything. Which makes my frown grow deeper for a second, only for it to fade away completely when the professor continues speaking.

Now, there are plenty of accidental methods that can give someone powerful achievements but still allow them to survive, Viper says, her gaze going straight towards me again as she raises a single brow. But she quickly moves her gaze away without singling me out, But those cant be planned, otherwise the System would know about it and reduce the reward depending on what the plans were. It may even refuse to give a reward entirely if the entire thing was planned and there was no risk involved at all.

Exactly the reason why most Guardians dont just power level their kids or something.

Because the System would know.

The System is probably the closest thing to omnipotent in existence, even if it cant actually do anything outside of its programming, Tar suddenly says, speaking up again.

Yeah.

Now, Viper says before tapping away on her terminal and making a long list appear on the screen as she smirks. To show you the list of skills and their requirements that youll be memorizing.

And as if on cue a bunch of groans echo through the room.

Well, this wont be fun.