I Became a Flashing Genius at the Magic Academy [158-362][English Translation]

Episode 237 Chapter 49: Witch(4)

Witch (4)

Two weeks had passed since the start of the semester.

[You have completed stage 13, 'Thoughts of the Twisted Corridor.']

[Your agility stat has greatly increased.]

In the meantime, I had a rather ordinary yet intense schedule.

I regularly attended classes, wrote club activity reports with Mayuseoung and Eisel every few days, and continued training alone in the dormitory after school.

The dungeon for physical training embedded in the 500-year-old witch's crystal ball sped up my progress, increasing my advancement rapidly.

My stats were rising steadily, and not only was I growing, but my understanding of Tae Ryung Shin Gong and the Mana Retardation Technique also improved. Managing teleportation in extreme situations sharpened my overall skill proficiency.

Perhaps this is the most peaceful period.

Even though the main episodes hadn't begun, somewhere, events were gradually unfolding without my knowledge.

Until then, I just needed to continue my training quietly.

That would have been enough.

But a problem arose.

Come to me...

Auditory hallucinations.

Since using the witch's crystal ball, a woman's voice started whispering in my ear.

The witch's items were something I had only encountered in the game as growth items, so I had no idea about their side effects.

[...] I thought it was too overpowered as a growth item with no penalties.

When the witch's crystal ball was at level 498, its performance was significantly lower, but there were no such side effects. However, after extracting too much black magic from the witch hunter last time, it seems that the dense witch's essence in the crystal ball had seeped into me.

Come to me...

"So annoying."

Even while working out alone in the gym after using the crystal ball, the woman's voice kept echoing in my ears. It was more irritating than scary.

I had somewhat adapted to it, treating it as white noise, but it was still loud.

I searched for the side effects of using the witch's items with the bulbul glasses, but found that no players controlling playable characters had experienced such auditory hallucinations.

Or maybe it's because I overused the irregular item, the 500-year-old witch's crystal ball.

In the end, I had no choice but to visit the library to solve this, but unfortunately, records about witches were almost non-existent in modern times.

It was common for those who handled witch's items to experience auditory hallucinations, and in severe cases, it could lead to delusions, mental confusion, and split personalities...

Come to think of it, something is strange.

I am protected by the blessing of Yeonhung chunsamwol, which grants complete immunity to mental magic. I even neutralized the illusion magic of Macaron Hyejin, who had witch's blood, so what is this auditory hallucination?

Could it be that it's not mental magic?

I had been visiting the library for three days due to this auditory hallucination issue. I spent all day searching through books on witches, but found nothing.