Why Did I Have to Enroll

As soon as they arrived in the lower dimension 'Gelas', they were met with thunderous cheers.

The welcome exceeded all expectations.

"Welcome to Gelas, everyone from Union Academy!"

"We will ensure your stay is completely comfortable!"

"Soldiers of the Tolmon Empire, salute our saviors!"

What was all this about?

It was truly a magnificent sight as countless soldiers lined up in the vast plaza waiting for the Union Academy students, all saluting in unison upon their arrival.

Next to a dumbfounded Ban Yu-won, Light spoke with a sullen expression.

"They have no shame..."

"..."

Light remained silent for a moment before responding to Ban Yu-won's question.

However, unable to withstand Ban Yu-won's steady gaze, he opened his mouth again to explain.

"They can't solve their dimensional problems on their own and are relying on beings from higher dimensions. I just thoughtlessly expressed how pathetic that is."

"Hmm."

Ban Yu-won nodded, realizing that was one way to look at it.

Though it didn't seem particularly right for Light to judge them by his own standards without knowing the detailed circumstances of this dimension.

But he didn't feel like scolding Light for that reason either.

―Attention everyone.

Xenon amplified his voice magically so all gathered students could hear as he made another announcement.

―The dimension Gelas is currently fighting against a Monster Wave. The goal of this special activity is the complete suppression of the Monster Wave occurring in Gelonica.

"Ooooooh!"

"Thank you, thank you..."

The ones shouting excitedly at Xenon's voice were none other than the soldiers gathered in the plaza.

Some collapsed to their knees sobbing, while others stood at attention with tears streaming down their faces. it was clear just how serious this Monster Wave crisis was for this dimension.

With thousands to tens of thousands of people showing such reactions, even Light, who had been looking down on them for relying on Union, reddened his eyes as if moved by their plight.

"Weren't you saying it was pathetic?"

"S-shut up!"

―Now we will move to observe the most intense battlefield in this dimension. Everyone stay in your current positions and follow the instructions of the faculty and student council.

As soon as Xenon finished speaking, a massive hemispheric barrier formed, encompassing all thousand-plus Union Academy members.

Soon countless magical text strings rushed across the barrier's surface, which Ban Yu-won recognized as spatial transfer magic formulas.

Amazingly, Xenon had activated a formula to spatially transfer the barrier and everyone inside it to the battlefield!

Light, who had been sniffling after seeing the crying soldiers, apparently decided to change his target to Xenon as he glared in his direction and spoke.

"Did he just say we're going to observe the battlefield?"

"Surely they won't just have this many people go to the battlefield just to watch."

Indeed, Dokgo Yeon was right.

When he quietly asked Yumina, he learned that today was meant to show the students the reality of large-scale battlefields (or more precisely, to show them the stark reality of lower dimensions), as well as demonstrate the faculty's military might.

Light seemed even more upset after hearing this explanation.

"Using people's deaths as teaching material... What do they think of their sacrifices...!"

"We're here to help anyway. Don't be so disgusted by it."

"If only I had a little more power..."

"Yeah, yeah, let's work hard from now on."

Ban Yu-won, who was internally just as shocked as Light, gave a bitter smile as he patted him, when a voice called out from behind.

"We meet again, Ban Yu-won."

"Ah, senior."

The man was even taller by more than a hand span than Ban Yu-won, who had recently grown to 185 centimeters due to his body being modified in real-time by hyeonsingong, and boasted a massive build.

Except for his ash-gray skin, the student who looked down at Ban Yu-won had physical characteristics not too different from Earth humans.

"I'm Graham, the student council secretary. Third year."

"I remember, Senior Graham."

Ban Yu-won's peak popularity had started about two weeks ago when he first uploaded the tower exploration video.

Even now, whenever possible, first-years or even friendly second and third-year students would approach Ban Yu-won.

But this senior had left a particularly strong impression as he was the only one among all those students who had come to invite him to 'join the Academy Student Council.'

"Is that so? Have you given any thought to joining the student council?"

"While I'm very grateful for the offer, I'm still struggling just to manage myself..."

"Hmm. The student council will always be waiting for your visit. If you have any questions, feel free to approach me anytime."

Graham nodded heavily before moving away.

Ban Yu-won could only awkwardly smile and see him off, feeling that Graham's attitude seemed to hold him in too high regard.

Though he had initially refused out of confusion, not knowing any better, it turned out the Academy Student Council was quite an influential group.

They were basically in charge of maintaining order in both the academy and the floating island, as well as managing academy facilities.

Even many of the academy's official events were influenced by them, which said a lot.

'More importantly, there's not a single Special Class member among the student council officers.'

This was because they were a group that prevented the Special Class from potentially misbehaving and monitored them to ensure fair competition among students.

Naturally, they were bound to be at odds with the Special Class, and all members possessed abilities surpassing even the elite Special Class students.

Perhaps this was why the student council was trying to recruit him.

They must have anticipated that Rebellion would form an opposing relationship with the Special Class.

'Since their purpose was fair competition, they were also the group that treated lower dimension special admission students somewhat decently.'

However, it was truly sad that even they couldn't prevent Ortima's recent manipulation using family influence.

In the end, being a group composed of students, they had their limitations.

"We've arrived."

"Huh? When did we... ah."

As Ban Yu-won was continuing his thoughts about the Academy Student Council, Dokgo Yeon's voice from beside him made him realize that the spatial transfer had already completed.

"Ah, aah."

A dumbfounded Luciel grabbed Ban Yu-won's sleeve.

Ban Yu-won turned his head following her gaze and soon wore a similar expression to theirs.

'What... scale...'

They had spatially transferred to a point approximately 100 meters above the ground.

Below the barrier firmly supporting their feet, they could see an impossibly vast plain stretched out.

No... it would be more accurate to say it had been transformed into a plain.

'Looking closely, there are traces of many collapsed buildings... just that.'

Just that most of them had been reduced to dust scattered in the wind by the enormous number of monsters filling that space.

―KUWOOOOOOOOO!

―Let's become one! Let's make all these pitiful humans our comrades!

―Don't fall back, hold the defense line!

―Hold on! I said hold on! HOLD ON!

―KWAAAAA!

The number of monsters densely filling the earth seemed to exceed several million.

Of course, there was also a human army opposing them, but being so vastly outnumbered, their defense line looked precarious, as if it could collapse at any moment.

Ban Yu-won swallowed hard at the sight of a true 'battlefield' that he was seeing for the first time in his life and muttered.

"Is this what a monster wave is...? I mean, is it always this horrific?"

"While it is much larger in scale than what I know..."

Goblins, orcs, trolls, and ogres formed the main body of the wave.

There were also many monsters with grotesquely twisted bodies, undead monsters that moved against death, and other amorphous monsters.

In the sky, winged creatures were running rampant, centered around high-ranking monsters like harpies and wyverns. When they suddenly noticed the group of nearly a thousand humans appearing in mid-air, they rushed forward in surprise but were being repelled by the barrier surrounding all of them.

―Currently, there are at least 10 more battlefields like this in Gelas.

Xenon's voice inevitably pierced Ban Yu-won's ears while he was still in shock.

―When dungeons are left unmanaged and not dealt with in time, they resonate with natural mana and give birth to an absurd number of new monsters. This is a monster wave, and if it's not properly contained, the scale of resonance gradually increases, causing the number of monsters to grow exponentially.

The explanation continued in a comfortable voice as if they were on a field trip.

People were still dying in real-time down there, which was truly absurd.

―As you can see now, when the wave intensifies, it can affect not only natural mana but also other objects containing mana, or even humans. When that happens, humans transform into monsters and join the wave.

"Kuk, grrrk..."

"Light, stop making animal noises and calm down. Jumping in there alone now would just be suicide. But really... this is incredible."

The battlefield situation was horrific enough to make one wonder if this was what a world on the brink of destruction looked like.

What was particularly terrible was that humans could be transformed into monsters by the waves emitted by the monster horde. Ban Yu-won, with wide eyes, could faintly make out the four characters that spelled out 'Infection Wave.'

However, that was as far as it went. For Ban Yu-won, who had only recently begun handling authority, it was impossible to find the cause of mana resonance among such complex and vast intertwined concepts.

'Of course, I don't think something of this enormous scale could be easily stopped, but...'

Most of the students were watching this tragedy as if they were watching an entertaining movie.

They were literally spectating.

Of course, there were some students who trembled with anger like Light, but unless they were going to step forward and annihilate this enormous number of monsters, there was nothing they could do.

―Many lower dimensions fall to ruin because they cannot withstand monster waves. Protecting them from such a fate is also a virtue of those who stand above. Please remember well what you've seen today.

Xenon's gentle, almost emotionless voice continued.

Just as Ban Yu-won was snorting at what seemed like emperor-style education.

Xenon, who was at the front of the group, took one light step forward.

He had stepped outside the barrier.

The change was immediate.

―Swoooooosh

In an instant, black clouds covered the sky.

Black rain began to fall on the battlefield.

―Keeeeeeek!

―Kuruk, kuhaaaaah!

Ban Yu-won couldn't immediately recognize where the sounds were coming from.

When he finally realized it was coming from the black clouds covering the sky, he looked up, then quickly lowered his head again.

It was different from the Chancellor's presence that overwhelmed just by observing.

He instinctively sensed it was a concept that would harm Ban Yu-won himself just by observing it.

"Everything... everything is melting..."

"Keeng."

Light groaned, and Luciel clung tightly to Ban Yu-won while making animal-like cries.

The black rain that began falling on the battlefield equally dissolved and oxidized every being it touched.

Naturally, it didn't discriminate between objects or people.

While the humans seemed to have been warned in advance and were showing movements to withdraw from the rain's area, nearly 10% who were engaged in combat with monsters couldn't avoid it in the end and melted away along with the monsters after being caught in the rain.

"Wow."

"As expected of the Vice Chancellor. To erase them all in an instant."

"I can't even grasp what kind of ability that was."

"...What terrifying power."

While students overwhelmed by Xenon's show of force whispered here and there, Dokgo Yeon also muttered in admiration of his power.

"But it's not clean. Just like the impression I got from him."

"It is cruel, isn't it...? Not even distinguishing between friend and foe."

Even Yumina, who must have already known about Xenon's ability, had her brow slightly furrowed.

Meanwhile, Ban Yu-won was focusing on a different aspect.

'The concepts are disappearing.'

The beings that had filled the battlefield had died, so there should have been concepts lingering in that space for a while, but there weren't any.

It wasn't that life died and concepts disappeared.

It was as if concepts died and life disappeared.

If Ban Yu-won had to face this ability, what should he do?

...At least for now, he couldn't find the answer.

"Then we'll move on to the next site."

Xenon, who had erased several million lives in just a few minutes, spoke in a voice that remained impossibly calm.

As Ban Yu-won absently stared at the spatial transfer text strings covering the barrier again, in his ears.

"As I said before, please remember well what you've seen today."

Somehow, Xenon's voice seemed to be clearly etched in his mind.

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