[Main Scenario Updated]
Target Confirmed: Trainee Professor Sianna Cale(Married)
Objective: Seduce Professor Sianna within 3 days.
Reward: 5,000 Coins + Skill Unlock Ticket
Penalty for failure: Death.
A small blue box suddenly popped up right beside the main objective screen, floating in the empty air.
[Note: She has been married for four years to Captain Darius, who is currently stationed at the dangerous northern border. She has not seen him in seven months.]
'So? So what, you motherfucking system?' I wanted to scream out loud in the middle of the crowded corridor.
Why do I even have to know about a professor's complicated love life?
The Angel of Life really had a twisted sense of humour to drop this specific lore on me right after I bumped into her.
I reached out to grab a specific paper outlining basic mana flow charts from the floor at the same time she did.
Our hands touched for half a second. Her skin felt surprisingly cold to the touch.
She pulled her hand back quickly, like she had been burned, and thanked me very politely as I handed over the stack of freshly organised papers to her.
But as she looked at me to say thank you, I noticed something else hiding right behind her strict professional facade.
She looked exhausted and deeply lonely.
Dark circles were hiding right under her silver glasses, and her polite smile did not reach her eyes at all.
She looked exactly like someone carrying a very heavy burden all by herself for far too long.
Then my eyes caught the silver light reflecting off her left hand as she adjusted the stack of papers against her chest.
A silver wedding ring was very visible right there on her finger, mocking my current situation.
She gave me one last polite nod and walked away down the busy hall, carrying her heavy stack of papers toward the faculty offices without looking back even once.
I just stood there frozen in the middle of the hallway, staring at her retreating figure while my tired brain tried to process this massive new complication.
A transparent red window popped up in my vision, hovering right in the middle of the corridor to remind me of my current miserable reality.
[Time remaining: 2 Days 18 Hours]
'She is literally a married woman,' I thought to myself while running a hand roughly through my hair in total frustration.
'She is married, she is my teacher, and looks like she desperately needs a long vacation and a good nap instead of a weird teenager hitting on her.'
I leaned my back against the hallway wall and let out a long breath as students continued to walk past me to their next classes.
The system was completely insane.
'The Angel of Life actually wants me to seduce this tired, married professor before she even knows my first name, or else I am going to die and turn to dust all over again.'
Three torturous hours had passed since that encounter.
I don't even know what happened in the last two classes, simply staring blankly at the chalkboard for no reason, my mind racing through terrible pickup lines and calculating my inevitable death.
Zephyr, sitting right next to me, often glanced at me. He would then shake his head slightly and just continue writing down his neat notes.
After what felt like a few agonising days of sitting still, the classes finally ended for the morning block, signalling the start of the lunch period.
I stood up from my desk, grabbed my bag, and was just about to leave the lecture hall when Lucien suddenly stepped out and blocked my path again.
"Follow me," he demanded with a scowl, and then he just started walking down the aisle without waiting for an answer.
I stood there for a second and stared at his retreating.
'Actually, this is a good thing,' I realised with a small sigh.
'I really need to vent out my massive frustrations on something right now before my head explodes.'
I followed him silently all the way down to the first floor.
The main academy training hall was way bigger than I remembered, with high vaulted ceilings and heavily designed stone floors.
Although, to be fair, when I was originally a student at the academy, I spent most of my miserable time getting beaten up in here.
Lucien stood confidently in the absolute centre of the training ring, his hands were already glowing with a crackling blue power.
"Let's decide this right now, fucker," Lucien spat out.
"Decide what exactly?" I asked, dropping my bag near the entrance.
"I'm sure you cheated somehow in the classroom earlier. What kind of dirty trick was it?"
"Aren't you just too weak to handle a simple flick?" I asked with a straight face.
His two loyal underlings, standing by the door, gasped in shock, hearing a commoner talk back like that, while Lucien's face reddened with pure anger.
He didn't waste any more time talking and moved incredibly fast, his boots barely making a sound on the stone.
He reached the space right in front of me before I could even blink.
One important thing I realised after getting bullied and beaten by Lucien countless times in my past life is that the longer you drag out the fight, the more likely he is to win.
Lucien was a natural speedster.
His raw speed was easily the highest among all the first-year cadets at the academy.
Even with my stats currently maxed out, his sudden burst of acceleration was hard to track perfectly.
No one in the hall could clearly see how he was moving, including me.
A bolt of lightning slowly formed in his glowing hands as he threw a punch aimed squarely at my chest.
So how could I possibly win if I couldn't dodge it?
The answer was simple.
Lucien is all speed.
He doesn't have the durability or the physical mass to support his own explosive actions if something gets in his way.
His lightning-infused punch connected hard with my chest. The impact sent visible shockwaves rippling through the training hall, even making his two supporters stumble backwards from the sudden wind.
But I had braced myself for it.
I took the full brunt of the hit directly to my body.
'Ah, that actually stings a bit,' I thought as the electricity danced across my uniform.
Because I absorbed the kinetic energy instead of flying backwards, Lucien's body completely stopped moving for a single second, his momentum hit a brick wall, and he was completely defenceless.
I stayed firmly planted on my feet, barely moving an inch from my starting position.
My own hands quickly started replicating the same blue energy he just used, letting the system mimic his technique.
The mana turned into crackling electricity as I pulled my arm back and landed a devastating punch on his surprised face.
"Guh!" Lucien choked out.