Below the podium.
The faces of the boys and girls flushed red instantly.
They didn't know how to refute him.
After all, they had a clue about their own situation deep down.
"Ma, that's how it is..."
Roser spread his hands. "Don't you all understand clearly? This is your parents' will, not yours.
It concerns your own lives. Whether you are willing or not, the Folklore Class will definitely exist. And the choice you have..."
He braced his hands on both sides of the podium, his eyes, pitch-black like the night sky, looking down at them.
"...Is nothing more than choosing a teacher like me who can give you a certain amount of freedom, or some old man with a face full of wrinkles who rambles on and on?
Or perhaps a middle-aged man smeared with various colors, acting mysterious, with lice crawling out of his hair?
Oh right, cultists are also a possibility. I remember quite a few sects are related to the political and business worlds.
If someone in Class 3 meets with an accident again...
Hiss, your parents wouldn't sacrifice you to cultists, would they?
After all, if you die, perhaps they wouldn't count as being related to Class 3 anymore?
Yabai (This is bad), I heard that big shots are all very cold-blooded and dark..."
Roser looked at the students below, who resembled young ladies from wealthy families, and whispered like a devil.
The students who indeed knew some of their parents' affairs began to tremble uncontrollably.
They would.
They absolutely would.
If it were that man, he would absolutely make the attempt for the sake of his own life...
"Sa (Now), make your decision."
Roser opened his arms, smiling wickedly. "Is it me, or some..."
Before he could finish, he had thoroughly pierced the psychological defenses of many people.
"Don't say anymore!!!"
A slightly chubby boy who looked somewhat cowardly spoke up, fear in his eyes. "It couldn't be better to have you as our teacher."
As if it were a signal.
Everyone surrendered one after another.
Even Miko Iino wasn't willing to gamble.
It wasn't that she feared her parents would abandon her, but that the exorcist appearances Roser described were too terrifying.
What was even scarier was that she had actually seen mediums with that kind of image on TV programs.
Just imagining that kind of person, who looked so non-mainstream it was scary, approaching her in the name of exorcism made the girl tremble with fear.
"That's what I'm saying..."
Roser shrugged. "Wouldn't it have been better to cooperate earlier?"
It was clearly a win-win situation. He obtained Source Essence, and the students kept their little lives.
"Hai, hai, hai."
"It couldn't be better to have you as our teacher."
The boys and girls answered in unison.
Although they felt their parents loved them, there really was no need to gamble—!
And so.
Everyone was handled.
[Ding... Caused by Koromo Shiranui... Heavenly Dao Jades +0.08... to Ayanokoji... Heavenly Dao Jades +0.8... Yukino... Heavenly Dao Jades +0.2... Heavenly Dao Jades +0.1... +0.12...]
In just a short while.
Roser's Heavenly Dao Jades reserve had skyrocketed to 3.9.
He had already started considering how to first reinforce his physique.
After all, it wouldn't help with catching urban legends, but it was incredibly useful for resisting accidental death.
Reinforcing the whole body directly was too much of a loss, but he could concentrate on internal organ functions and reaction speed, reaching the peak of perfection.
Moreover, Traits—or rather Talents—these kinds of noble percentage-based improvements had a very high price-performance ratio...
Having made up his mind, Roser looked at 'Brother Road' (Ayanokoji) curiously. "Ayanokoji-student, why haven't you gone yet?"
Instantly.
Everyone in the classroom focused their gaze on the transparent guy with the middle-part hair.
"Sensei..."
In the focus of their gazes, Kiyotaka Ayanokoji stood up silently and placed his wallet on the desk. "Forty-plus copies of 'The Compendium of Folk Exorcism' will cost at least three hundred thousand yen. Teacher, I don't have enough money!"
Hah?
Is this junk that expensive?
Roser didn't feel there was any problem at all. Instead, he spoke as if resentful that iron failed to become steel: "You can't even take out three hundred thousand? Aren't you aristocrats? Didn't your moms and dads squeeze out so much of the people's fat and ointment (hard-earned money)?"
"..."
The students were speechless.
Even if it were true, you shouldn't say it out loud, Sensei!
And who would carry that much cash around~
It was Yukino Yukinoshita who stood out. Her eyes, like pale blue gems, glanced at Roser.
She directly took out her wallet, walked up to Ayanokoji, took out all the ten-thousand-yen bills, placed them on the desk, and then returned to her seat without saying a word.
The others instantly knew what to do.
"And me!"
Kikyo Kushida reacted immediately, though she only had one ten-thousand-yen bill.
It couldn't be helped; how a family like hers could appear at Shuchiin was an unsolved mystery.
"I also have fifty thousand yen."
Miko Iino took out all her money without hesitation.
Her father was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan; she really didn't lack this little bit of money.
"Alright, no need to give anymore."
Rei Onodera, with blonde hair and red eyes, directly took out a stack—at least three or four hundred thousand yen—and placed it on the desk.
"The extra is for troubling Ayanokoji-student to make the trip."
Un.
Her family sells jewelry...
"...Then, thank you."
Ayanokoji was silent for a while, then decisively accepted it all.
Students need to eat too.
Although his biological father was also a politician, after running away, he had lost his source of income.
Now he was living off his savings.
"Alright, then sorry to trouble you for the trip, Ayanokoji-student."
Roser was smiling, but his eyes were a bit red.
Sons of bitches, these powerful families who squeeze the people really have money.
He racked his brains and only managed to save twenty million yen.
Here, any random high school student had over a hundred thousand, or at least tens of thousands of yen in cash.
He didn't doubt that there was definitely someone down there with tens of millions lying in their card.
For example, a certain second-year maid-chan, Ai Hayasaka, had saved forty million...
....
Half an hour later.
When Ayanokoji returned, sweating profusely and holding a large cardboard box with a wooden expression...
Roser, having completely exposed his wicked nature, had already mingled thoroughly with the students.
He sat leisurely on his desk, tasting the high-end desserts brought by the girls while casually bullshitting.
"Sensei, are you really an Onmyoji?"
Kobachi Osaragi looked skeptical.
Even this kind of frivolous man could become an Onmyoji?
Then the Japanese industry really is hopeless.
Taking a sip of coffee said to be pilfered from the Student Council, Roser raised an eyebrow. "Onmyoji?
I used to be, but I changed my class to Magus a long time ago."
"Magus? Teacher, what magic tricks can you do?"
"Hmph, it's not the sleight of hand you're thinking of, but a method of deceiving the World to borrow from the Greater Source to achieve an objective."
Roser stitched together a story casually: "Essentially, it's an attempt to use technical means to reach the Vortex of the Root. Of course, I'm not that low-class. Teacher here merely wants to rule the world."
Kobachi Osaragi rolled her eyes at him.
See, not a single word from this frivolous man's mouth can be trusted.
I'm talking about you, Miko-chan!!!
"Rule the world?" "Vortex of the Root?" "Magecraft that deceives the World?"
Miko Iino, who looked serious to the point of being rigid on the outside but actually had a very rich inner mental life, lit up.
Such cool settings!!
"Teacher, can you elaborate?"
Many boys also crowded together, quite interested.
Roser looked weary of the world. "There's nothing much to say. I simply wanted to rule the world and enslave everyone, making them work eight hours a day, only allowed to rest ten days a month, only permitted fifty days of paid annual leave a year, and mandating one hour of free time during work hours for exercise..."
"...As a result, a group of people inexplicably came over holding swords and bows, shouting 'Love!', 'Bonds!', 'Courage!' to beat me up."
In the corner, unable to suppress her curiosity, Yukino Yukinoshita, who had been keeping her little ears pricked up to eavesdrop, had a face full of black lines.
So are you some Demon King being crusaded by a Hero's Party?
"And then?"
Kikyo Kushida leaned in very close, looking excited.
"Oh, then I beat them to death. Oh, the strongest shrine maiden stayed behind. She was super pretty, just right to be my Queen."
Roser looked innocent. "Although there were still many people, like some capitalist called Hagoromo Gitsune, a big landlord called Toga-Ou, and silly sons like InuYasha and Sesshomaru, as well as a bunch of official lords coming in waves to stop me. But after I hung half of them on streetlights and sent a portion to dig mines—it would be a waste not to use such strength for mixing concrete...
Then everyone understood the greatness of my ideals."
"I engaged in construction like that for a thousand years. Just when I was deciding whether to conquer the Land of Light in the M78 Nebula first, or Cybertron in Centaurus...
A redhead brought a purple-hair along and called me some 'Lostbelt King', and said some unintelligible words like 'Pan-Human History Crisis', 'Human Order Crisis'.
That girl was quite cute, and since I was bored recently, I went with them to check out some Chaldea.
And then, there was no then.
All day long it was chop, chop, chop... fighting against the Abyss, Lord Gods, Aggregate Sentient Wills of the Multiverse, Old Deity Pantheons, Enemies of Civilization... and so on, slaughtering across major universe clusters, timelines, and multi-dimensional layers on the front lines, sigh..."
After stitching together who knows how many settings, he looked reminiscent. "Finally, the crisis was resolved, the warhorses were sent to the southern mountains, and I just found a parallel world to take a vacation."
As he spoke.
He even stitched in some Xuanhuan mythology settings.
Fearing cultural differences meant they couldn't understand, he thoughtfully changed the Six Paths Reincarnation Punch and such into the Noble Phantasm [Six Paths Reincarnation Punch: Heavenly Collapse (Rikudō Rinne Ken · Ten Hōkai Kō)].
Effect one: Six Paths Manifestation. Effect two: Karmic Judgment (Asura Path Judgment, Heavenly Path Judgment, etc.). And Effect three: Reincarnation Shatter.
It was messy cool.
There were also the Nine Secrets, He Who Transforms into Freedom, and so on, all localized.
That was truly soul-stirring.
This world is different from Earth. Probably because of the existence of urban legends, it's hard to pass censorship involving gods and ghosts.
So Light Novels are mostly Isekai, Superpowers, or School Harem categories.
The combat power systems rarely focus on these, hence his talk of Transcenders, Great Wills, Incineration of Human Order...
Talk of 'Heavenly Dao Emperor Ye Huang battling the Lord of Billions of Burns, Shendai Yan', burning away timelines and collapsing the Vortex of the Root.
Moreover, to look after the girls, he even stitched together a pile of healing masterpieces from his past life, like 'A Life of Everlasting Regret, A River Flowing East', claiming they were things he witnessed in other worlds.
The whole room was shocked into silence.
One must know that even on the Earth where Roser was, Chinese Web Novels conquered a bunch of Westerners with completely different cultures.
A certain famous novel even had its own website established, with a bunch of obsessed fans calling each other 'Daoist Friend' and discussing what the Dao is, what the Nascent Soul is, and what a Venerable is.
Let alone in a derivative cultural zone like Japan?
These messy cool settings were something this world, which discusses various romantic harems or human nature, simply couldn't withstand.
Even the suppressed pervert Ayanokoji had light shining in his eyes.
A pile of boys squeezed together, while the girls could only be on the periphery, tears streaming down their faces.
They were also amazed by Roser's unconstrained imagination.
Even if he didn't work as a psychiatrist in a charlatan's skin, he would absolutely become a literary giant of the generation in Japan if he became a writer.
The status of writers in Japan is high enough to be printed on currency.
[Ding, ...+0.1, ..+0.08...0.19... Heavenly Dao Jades +0.35....+1.5....+0.52....+0.23....]
[Extraordinary Element: 'Magecraft' establishing... Function not unlocked... Establishment failed... Transferring to Archive... Saving... Save Successful!]
[Mythological Element: 'Human Order' establishing... Function not unlocked... Save Successful!]
[Great Element: 'Vortex of the Root' establishing... Function... Save Successful!]
[Mythological Element: 'Throne of Heroes'...]
[Extraordinary Element....]
[Destiny 'Lostbelt King' establishing... Function not unlocked... Establishment fai... Save Successful.]
[Noble Phantasm "Divine Might Descent · Six Paths Manifestation" establishing, establishment failed... Archived.]
[Noble Phantasm "Nine-Origin Mysteries (Nine · Origin)", "Lord of Myriad Weapons", "Godspeed Domain", "Causality Decomposition"... establishing, establishment failed... Archived.]
['Titan Physique', 'Magecraft Mastery', 'Demon God Slaughterer', 'Dimensional Conqueror'... addition failed...]
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PS: Because Reader-samas had opinions regarding the '100x Comprehensive Enhancement', I am posting the AI calculation process here.
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First, the requirement is limited to 'blocking', not 'unscathed'. Therefore, a 500x comprehensive enhancement, focusing on reinforcing skin, muscle, and bone, is sufficient.
Then, considering the 20mm caliber heavy sniper with the most exaggerated kinetic energy currently existing: 66,000 Joules...
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Then.....
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Advice given on how to block it....
5000x Enhancement + Diamond Skin + Muscle Material Alteration + Energy Field.
In short, stop being human.
Then, what if the condition is limited to 'immune to all firearms, unscathed'? That is, blocking this highest-spec heavy sniper without a scratch.
Looking closely at the definition of 'unscathed', it's actually quite broad: no bleeding, no fingernails or hair knocked off.
Result.....
AI suggestion: Become a Quasi-Neutron Star Matter + Energy Composite Body + Omni-directional Automatic Energy Shield + Micro-Space Locking, Spatial Layer Rewriting.
Simply put, the AI says: Don't think about random bullsh*t, go play with Rules.
That's why I said, to be unscathed and ignore all firearms, bathing on the surface of the sun is truly no problem. Of course, taking a bath is fine, but you can't live there, otherwise heat accumulation will occur, and you will be plasma-fied.
Simply put: Round-nose bullet — Pointed bullet — Block — Unscathed. These are four completely different levels of magnitude.
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