LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 969
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While everyone was struggling on the island with the main house mansion, there was someone leisurely entering the island with Oknodie, just watching everyone’s suffering.
It was Sing, who always followed Oknodie like a shadow, savoring her new life as a woman.
“What’s that huge thing over there?”
“It’s living in a mana-rich vein like the Gift Academy!”
“That giant king crab over there is pretty big, but this one is so massive that the giant king crabs seem like little creatures.”
“I guess the pruned branches of the World Tree bring a lot of mana from another dimension!”
To Sing’s common sense, it all sounded very strange.
“Does the World Tree grow on an island in the sea? Considering the root size, it would wither and die if it touched seawater.”
“Can’t it just drink the water it doesn’t want and spit it out into another dimension? What a picky eater!”
“…Then wouldn’t the sea water in the Middle Realm decrease?”
“I think it will somehow work since foreign species aquatic spirits are coming in! If things go awry, the Principal might hold a concentrated rain event world event!”
“……”
Oknodie could guess Sing’s true feelings just by looking at her expression, even without the help of Sadi Chocolate’s heartfelt exchange.
‘As expected, the ruler of the world, Principal Omoshiroi. She’s thinking that she’ll turn the Middle Realm upside down, huh!’
Putting aside the World Tree’s role, Sing felt that her friends’ future visiting the island looked very bleak.
To understand why, she couldn’t help but recall the memory of the first day of their visit to the island.
*
In the summer vacation of the first semester of 981, Sing had stayed the longest at the facility known as the Chairman’s villa or the Tower of Training with Oknodie. She had decided to borrow the foundation’s strength for her vengeance against the Eastern Empire.
“I’m looking forward to seeing what training courses there will be this year.”
There was a significant difference in skill between the Sing of then and the Sing of now.
Having awakened her origin realm, where she could split space and regain her initial intentions anywhere, she had added depth to her domain.
Controlling the depth and size of space created by her sword, she could cut the air from all directions and launch attacks, creating a storm with a single strike—a finishing move she proudly named the “Storm Slicing Technique.”
‘With my current level, I might be able to surpass Professor Jonnas’s level in the past.’
This meant that Sing was confident she had reached a professor level.
However, the Chairman’s main house looked delightfully serene as if it were a vacation spot with good water and great terrain.
“It’s a disaster and zone of protection type that doesn’t attack unless disturbed. What a place carefully prepared to prevent even a single intruder from appearing by chance.”
“Right? I never imagined that the Chairman lived in such a serene mansion. I thought he must have grown up chewing on vermin in a hell pit connected to hell!”
“Well, that’s unlikely. That man was said to be a shard of the previous hero.”
For First Wahyhiemhai, the concept of childhood didn’t even exist.
Thus, this mansion was both the first resting place prepared by the Chairman and a hometown of souls he needed to return to.
Thanks to Oknodie smashing the lighthouse with a hammer, slowing it down with a debuff, the three were able to smoothly enter the island.
*
[Rolling through the portal]
[Cutting through space]
[Brain Photon]
Of course, that didn’t mean they had landed; the three didn’t step on the white sandy beach or green forest area but reached the front of the mansion.
“This island is kind of boring!”
“It is.”
“…It feels that way because we didn’t touch the ground, doesn’t it?”
Sadi Chocolate naturally noticed her device was connected to an absurdly huge creature.
Being someone who could implant devices in anyone they made eye contact with, Sadi couldn’t help but realize it was an ambush.
“And there’s something even bigger here too.”
“What kind?”
“This thing.”
As Sadi’s device was planted in the dense bushes, a bush slime began to rise slowly and clung to the doorknob of the mansion.
It was a super slime so dangerous it could be left untouched even by the Offspring of the World Tree.
The moment the slime released digestive fluids to consume food, the door burst open, and countless hands rushed out to grab the slime.
Bam!
In an instant, the slime vanished inside the mansion.
Sing couldn’t speak in shock.
“Whoa! It’s a mimic!”
“It’s not just any mimic. It’s a house mimic.”
The entire mansion was a monster, known as the Monster House!
In other words, the Giant Mansion Mimic.
From the claws beneath the beach to the bush slime in the bush area, and the Giant Mansion Mimic…
The Chairman’s main house had one consistent concept going on.
Entities that steal or consume things that originally don’t belong to them and use them as if they were their own.
The Chairman’s main house was full of monsters like that.
“Ewww.”
“The training effect will be excellent. This place is probably the best for Academy Students to raise their ‘insight’ by facing the traps of professors. You picked a good training ground.”
“Right? Hehe. The Chairman’s pretty good at making these things!”
If the Chairman found out that Oknodie had boasted about him to his friends, he would have been overjoyed, but unfortunately, he was busy collecting the legacy of the God of Death in hell.
Anyway, they had stumbled upon an unowned empty house, but astonishingly, when Oknodie injected dark mana into the mimic, a door that seemed to have eaten the slime led to another passage.
“It’s a transmission portal! It’s a gimmick that doesn’t eat visitors who have met special conditions but sends them away in the body of its transmission portal. This must be the entrance to the ‘real mansion’!”
Without the hassle of screening for uninvited guests, the house itself easily distinguished between visitors and intruders, sending them along one of the camouflage or transmission portals.
It was an incredibly smart house that operated like a smart home where the AI butler took care of the owner.
“Shall we check the camouflage first?”
“…Why are we going there?”
“I wonder if there are any undigested treasures?”
“Let’s visit the house first and then go in later. It’s awkward to roam around the house after coming out of the camouflage.”
“Well, it wouldn’t be very courteous!”
Using the camouflage digestive fluid all over their bodies and walking through the hallway would be just as rude as wearing shoes indoors.
However, what unfolded wasn’t a magical territory as they had thought would be inside the mansion.
[Exhibition Hall]
[The Misguided Gamble of the Candidate for Great Evil, Tratodon]
[Fake Hero, Stuffed Lies]
[Baron Longgeston’s Endless Feast]
Every photo embedded a soul inside, allowing repetitive experiences of moments of death, poor judgments, and despair—a gentle exhibition hall.
[Attribute Mana Combat Textbook Picture Book Corner]
[All About Ignition]
[All About Freezing]
[All About Thunderstrikes]
In this corner, if one did not perform the skills of a specific mana, their soul would be killed, compelling them to perpetually unleash combat techniques in a closed world.
[Collection of Academic Books]
[Learn Politics from the Fiends Taunting 108 Demons in the Human Seeking Game]
[Honing Skills on Crushing One’s Competitors with Know-How on Sociological Approaches]
[Learning Psychology from the Moments of Corruption of the Demon King’s Army Commander]
Each ‘book’ trapped the struggles of those within, recounting their thoughts and actions, providing a different development and teachings every time in a rewarding collection.
Various ‘Soul Collections’ were impeccably organized, as if someone had wished for someone to learn all these skills someday.
“As expected. If the Chairman is one to preserve souls, I figured there would be such a training ground in the main house.”
Sadi Chocolate looked around the collection with satisfaction, repeatedly expressing her contentment.
“But Sadi, how come the ‘textbooks’ in the mansion still hold high quality as textbooks? What’s the planning to make them more useful?”
“Of course, it’s ‘Hope Torture.’”
“Hope Torture?”
“Short term, a few years; considering the time dilation factor, after hundreds of years of rolling souls, if we push students to be ‘freed’ as compensation, they can directly experience all the skills they honed for eons.”
“Whoa. Such a method!”
Though concerned about the textbooks’ hearts crumbling under the evil hope torture, there was a simple solution to erase memories.
Seeing Oknodie and Sadi Chocolate working together to gaslight the textbooks, Sing felt assured.
This vacation, the students trapped in textbooks would truly have a hell of a time.
“This textbook is specially prepared for you, Sing. Which one do you like?”
Oknodie had gathered some swordsmanship-related textbooks for Sing.
Although Sing felt a bit tempted to challenge the souls who must have lived solely swinging swords without eating, she was already drawn to another textbook.
“Can I try this one…?”
The textbook Sing had her eye on was “Becoming a High-Class Socialite – Women’s Edition.”
She was captivated by the opportunity to master high-level social skills and up her feminine power.
But sometimes, there existed authors that employed the wicked craft of cover deception.
The Chairman was the riskiest author in the world just by name.
Realizing too late that the reality of the socialite society was a battle royale arena where a melee of clubs and staffs took place, Sing ended up practicing only combat training.
Thinking about how Titosso and the other students might fall for the cover deception, Sing found solace knowing that, at least, she wasn’t the only one suffering.