I Became an Academy Overpowered Growth Genius

I Became an Academy Overpowered Growth Genius – 93

EP.93 Alpha Male (3)

The top-ranked conglomerate in China’s business world.

The grandson of the chairman of the Hwangryong Group.

Li Xiaoming had completed all the transfer procedures today and was about to begin his academy life in earnest.

“……….”

In front of Class A’s lecture room.

Li Xiaoming held the doorknob and fell into thought.

Just two days ago, Li Xiaoming had been eagerly awaiting this moment.

He had thought that once the transfer procedures were completed, he would easily dominate the Korean students and consume the ‘Fruit of the Sun’ like a piece of cake.

But now….

‘Please…. Please…. Please…. Please…. Please….’

Li Xiaoming’s mind was filled with the image of the red monster he had seen yesterday.

‘Please be in another class…. Please be in another class…. Please be in another class…. Please be in another class….’

-Tremble! Tremble!

Even now, thinking about that red giant made his body tremble and his mouth go dry.

He had heard that there were no promising students in the Korean Hunter Academy beyond Park Shin-hoo.

But the unidentified monster Li Xiaoming had seen yesterday was definitely not below [B-] rank.

‘There’s no way that thing is below [B-] rank…!’

There had never been an existence among those below [B-] rank that had made him tremble with fear like this.

Li Xiaoming, who was a world-class genius and a [B] rank Awakened, had even thought that Kuyamoto Kenji, who was also a [B] rank, was a worthy opponent.

‘Definitely…. At least B rank or higher…. No, maybe it has already surpassed A rank….’

It wasn’t just a gut feeling.

Li Xiaoming had a special skill.

After the day he got beaten by Park Shin-hoo, his grandfather had taken notice of him and given him a piece of advice along with this skill page, ‘When you meet a strong opponent, you should know how to run away and plan for the future instead of confronting them head-on.’

The skill 《Identify Main Trait Lv. Rare》.

It was a convenience skill that allowed him to identify the ‘highest-ranked trait’ of an opponent by staring at them for more than 15 seconds.

‘It was unmeasurable….’

The highest rank this skill could identify was [Epic+].

In other words, the red monster he had seen back then had at least a [Legend-] rank trait.

‘A mere student with a [Legend] rank trait…? Why wasn’t such a person in our database…!? Where did this guy come from!!??’

How great it would be if he had just momentarily lost his mind and seen it wrong.

But that wasn’t the case.

‘If possible……. I never want to face it again….’

Thinking about having to genuinely fight that monster over the ‘Fruit of the Sun’ in the future….

‘I’m going to lose my mind….’

His SAN points were depleting rapidly.

‘Please be in another class….’

With that desperate wish, Li Xiaoming opened the door to Class A.

– Creak! –

Li Xiaoming swallowed hard and entered the classroom.

– Murmur murmur. –

He entered so quietly that the students of Class A didn’t even notice the new face and continued chatting among themselves.

Li Xiaoming quickly scanned each one of them.

‘Red monster…. Red monster…. Red monster…! …Not here!!!’

Li Xiaoming’s half-crying expression brightened in an instant.

The current time was 8:20 AM.

‘Since the school start time is 8:30 AM…!’

If the red monster wasn’t in the classroom by now, it was highly likely it was in another class.

‘Phew….’

– Swish. –

In an instant, Li Xiaoming’s hunched shoulders straightened, and his previously timid expression turned arrogant.

‘As long as that guy isn’t here…. The rest are just…. small fry…!’

It was an arrogant thought, but not entirely wrong.

Li Xiaoming’s current rank was [B-].

Park Shin-hoo, who was originally a promising [B-] rank, had fallen and was now insignificant, and the next promising students, Lim Chae-won and Jin Se-rin, were officially registered at the [C+] level.

‘As long as that monster isn’t here, the rest are all below [B-] rank. They’re all weaker than me.’

In fact, among the officially registered student specs at the Korean Academy, except for Kuyamoto Kenji, Li Xiaoming had the highest specs.

Without that red monster, it wouldn’t be difficult to dominate and rule this class.

‘All the promising Korean students are gathered in Class A, so I was worried that monster might be here…. I really aged ten years from the stress.’

Feeling much more relaxed, Li Xiaoming looked around at the students gathered in small groups.

‘Let’s see….’

He decided to check out the real faces of the people in the database.

The first one that caught his eye was a beautiful girl with brown hair and green eyes.

It was Lim Chae-won.

“Sigh….”

She was holding her head, seemingly deep in thought about something serious.

“Sigh…. I should have caught him right away…. When will I get another chance to talk to him…. Sigh…. I shouldn’t have missed that opportunity…. I have to recruit him…. He disappeared right after I went out…. Ugh…. Everything will be taken away…. Jin Se-rin will end up monopolizing everything….”

She was completely absorbed in her own world, muttering incessantly without any awareness of her surroundings.

‘…What’s she so serious about?’

Well, whatever it was, it had nothing to do with Li Xiaoming.

‘Anyway, she doesn’t seem like much in person either, except for her face. Lim Chae-won. I don’t need to be wary of her.’

Li Xiaoming quickly lost interest and looked around the classroom again.

Searching for promising students was a secondary task; there was someone he really wanted to see.

His long-time enemy who had left a large scar on his nose.

‘Park Shin-hoo, or rather, Park Shin-hye now…. Hehe, where are you sitting, Park Shin-hye~ Oh?’

It didn’t take long to find her.

She was sitting in a prime spot.

Park Shin-hye was sitting at the very back seat by the window.

‘Park Shin-hye…. When I saw the paparazzi photos, I wasn’t sure….’

That sharp aura. The expression always trying to appear aloof.

Seeing her in person, it was clear that she was indeed Park Shin-hoo.

– Sneer. –

‘Look at you now.’

The once unyielding person now sat there as a feeble-looking girl, making Li Xiaoming’s lips curl into a sneer.

‘Where are your followers?

The database mentioned that there were always some big guys hanging around with Park Shin-hye.

‘Ah, there they are.’

They were sitting in the middle row, chatting noisily.

‘Park Shin-hoo. This bastard.’

Li Xiaoming quickly noticed the distance between Park Shin-hye and her cronies.

‘Even her followers have abandoned her?’

Seeing her sitting alone, isolated like an outcast, it was clear that her prickly personality had made her an outcast in the class as well.

‘You should have managed your personality better. Trying to act nonchalant, but it’s obvious you’re sitting on pins and needles. Hehehe.’

– Sneer. –

He could barely contain his urge to torment her.

He wanted to avenge the defeat he suffered at the hands of Park Shin-hye in middle school as soon as possible and wash away the humiliation.

With that desire, Li Xiaoming was about to approach Park Shin-hye.

“Move.”

“?”

Suddenly, a deep, resonant voice echoed from behind him.

Li Xiaoming reflexively turned around.

“…….”

Before his eyes was a vast chest, reminiscent of the Grand Canyon.

The student uniform seemed ready to burst from the sheer size of the pectoral muscles.

Looking up, he saw a rugged man glaring down at him as if he wanted to kill him.

“……Huh?”

‘What, what is this!? Did I do something wrong!? Why is this happening all of a sudden!?’

He was sure it was their first meeting, so who was this man, and what grudge did he hold to look at him like this?

“…Ugh!”

He almost lowered his eyes, intimidated.

‘Was there someone like this in the Korean Academy?’

– Twitch! Twitch! –

Startled, his cheeks twitched involuntarily, but Li Xiaoming tried to meet the man’s gaze as nonchalantly as possible.

Then the man, Kang Seo-jun, commanded again in an even heavier voice.

“……Move.”

– Twitch! Twitch! –

‘This guy is no joke either.’

Though smaller than the red monster, he was still an enormous figure.

‘Do I have a bad match-up with big guys?’

He rarely felt his body tremble like this, but it was already the second time since coming to Korea.

‘But he’s better than that red monster.’

That guy was a monster, but at least the one in front of him was human.

“Seo-jun~”

At that moment, a pretty female voice came from behind the big guy.

“If you block the way, I can’t get in~”

Soon, a cute girl peeked her face out from behind the giant.

‘Huh?’

She was a person listed in the Hwangryong Group’s database.

One of the promising students of the Korean Hunter Academy, Jin Se-rin.

‘Oh…. It’s Jin Se-rin. She looks amazing in person.’

In fact, it was the second time Li Xiaoming had seen Jin Se-rin, but the first time, he was so focused on the red monster, Kang Seo-jun, that he didn’t even recognize her.

‘Huh?’

In an instant, a brilliant idea flashed through Li Xiaoming’s mind.

‘If I play this right…. I might be able to turn this into an opportunity.’

Li Xiaoming planned to take control of Class A as quickly as possible.

That way, he could command his fellow students like subordinates, dominate all class exercises, and create sacrificial pawns to tie down Kuyamoto Kenji or that red monster during inter-class competitions.

The key to ruling was displaying power.

And the easiest, simplest, and fastest way to show power was….

‘To fight and defeat a strong opponent to prove myself. Conveniently, this guy picked a fight with me at the right time.’

If this guy was hanging around with Jin Se-rin, he was at least second to the promising students.

‘If I take him down, Jin Se-rin will have to react somehow. Whether she tries to stop the fight or joins in, it’s all welcome.’

After all, Jin Se-rin was only [C+] rank.

The moment she laid a hand on him, he would use that as an excuse to take her down too.

And since this big guy wasn’t in the promising student data, he must be weaker than Jin Se-rin.

Facing both of them at once wouldn’t be easy, but as long as he didn’t let his guard down, it was doable.

‘But before that…. Let’s identify his main trait first.’

– Ping! –

Li Xiaoming activated the skill 《Identify Main Trait》.

‘Knowing his main trait will make it easier to handle him.’

[15…. 14…. 13…. 12…. 11…. 10…. 9….]

The skill required him to stare at the target for 15 seconds.

– Tick tock! –

“…….”

Around the 7-second mark, Kang Seo-jun’s patience began to wear thin.

“……I’ll give you 10 seconds.”

Honestly, he wanted to crush this guy like he did Kuyamoto Kenji.

Thinking about the events in the original [Grand Hunter Academy] where he suffered at the hands of Li Xiaoming still made his blood boil.

‘There were no NTR events like Kuyamoto Kenji, but he stole my stuff, crippled my comrades, set traps in every exercise…. Huuuh…. Remembering the old days makes it hard to control my anger?????’

Still, since Li Xiaoming wasn’t as bad as Kuyamoto Kenji, he gave him 10 seconds.

“10. 9. 8. 7.”

Of course, once the 10 seconds were up, there would be no mercy.

“Seo-jun? Why aren’t you coming in? Who’s in front of you?”

“6. 5. 4.”

[3…. 2….]

Kang Seo-jun’s countdown reached 3 seconds, while the skill 《Identify Main Trait》 had 2 seconds left.

‘What are you going to do if you count down?’

Li Xiaoming looked up at Kang Seo-jun with a smirk on his face.

‘He’s not even in the database. At best, he’s a C-rank nobody.’

Of course, there were variables like the red monster he saw yesterday that weren’t registered in the database….

‘There’s no way there could be two monsters like that in the academy, right?’

But assumptions often lead to downfall.

[3…. 2…. 1….]

-Ping!!

[-Failed to read the target’s main trait.]

“……What?”

Such a message appeared before Li Xiaoming’s eyes.

“1.”

Kang Seo-jun’s countdown also came to an end.

“Wait a minute…!”

Sensing that something was terribly wrong, Li Xiaoming hurriedly tried to come up with an excuse,

“Move out of the wayyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

– Thud!!! –

“Ugh, ughhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

Kang Seo-jun’s hand shot out like a spear and grabbed Li Xiaoming’s neck tightly.