The Eun Kwang High School math trip group spent their last night in Jeju Island.

Thanks to the suggestion to extend the afternoon free time, the sun had set by the time all the students returned to the hotel.

Some students had eaten their fill at Jeju Island’s famous restaurants, but in any case, the late dinner time had begun.

The hotel banquet hall that the Eun Kwang High School students had rented had an atmosphere that seemed to visualize the word “chaos” due to the mixed concepts proposed by various groups.

“That cake is sold out, so why is it here? Oh... The guys from Class 0 bought it.”

“I asked the firework hologram to be displayed when Teacher Jegal came in, but why is it already up!”

“Read the hologram. That’s not ours. But who installed that old-fashioned banner?”

A hologram that occasionally displays a firecracker effect.

A banner that looks like it was hastily printed and hung.

Various tangerine and green tea cakes that seemed to have been raided from all the cake shops near the hotel.

Judging from the different designs, styles, content, and tastes, it seemed like several student groups had planned surprise parties for each other.

Everyone had a lot to celebrate, and they had planned things secretly to surprise everyone, which resulted in this chaotic banquet hall.

“But the hotel staff must have known. Why didn’t they tell us?”

“Didn’t they say, ‘You have to do it without telling the other kids’ when they asked the staff?”

“Ah...... They thought we were on the same level as the kids in Class 0.......”

The students who had planned the surprise party looked embarrassed as they looked at the mess of the banquet hall.

The party themes were extremely diverse.

There were common themes such as congratulating the survivors, the last night of the school trip, and celebrating the completion of Mt. Halla, but there were also meaningless themes such as celebrating Jegal Jae-geol’s great performance and celebrating a scoop.

To sort out the messy atmosphere, Yeom Jun-yeol went up to the stage to announce the upcoming schedule.

“Everyone, listen while you eat. The flights were canceled due to bad weather, so it’s hard for the recreation instructors to make plans. The recreation and team bonding activities scheduled for the night have been canceled.”

Wow!

The students who had been filled with complaints and embarrassment toward each other until just now cheered as one.

The recreation schedule that the faculty had strongly recommended, such as ‘Everyone hates doing it, but when they do it, they have a competitive spirit and have fun doing it’, ‘If we include this to get the students excited, they won’t do anything else at night and will sleep’, and ‘Some students become close because of this schedule’, was canceled, and everyone expressed their joy.

In any case, the faculty’s intention was successful in uniting the students’ hearts at this moment.

In fact, Yeom Jun-yeol and Cheon Dong-ha knew from the beginning that the last night’s event would be canceled, so they didn’t object too much and listened to the faculty.

“Since everyone has a lot to celebrate, let’s all have a celebration party together. The student council will organize the topics that we told the hotel in advance and celebrate them one by one. If there are any topics you want to add or leave out, please let us know before dinner time ends.”

“Then, leave out everything except our teacher Jegal!”

“Chansol, take a seat.”

“Wow, are the guys from Class 0 going to make a big fuss and have a surprise party like that?”

The recreation was canceled, so the official schedule became free-spirited, but most of the Eun Gwang High School students decided to stay and enjoy the celebration party.

The student council organized the numerous topics and combined similar content into one to organize the celebration order.

The celebration order was organized based on the time of receipt from the hotel, alphabetical order, etc., but specific topics were carefully selected considering the time.

This was because the satellite took into account the information processing and calculation time after accessing the player’s performance records that day, the announcement time, etc.

Dingdong, dingdong, dingdong.

When the celebration was halfway through, Ma Jin-seung’s device rang out like crazy.

Ma Jin-seung, who was eating tangerine cheesecake with a half-asleep face, panicked and tried to turn off the device alarm, when students from all over the place hit his back and shoulders.

The stinging shock made Ma Jin-seung wake up and raise his head.

“Hey, Ma Jin-seung! Congratulations!”

“I thought you’d get it after seeing what you did today!”

“Huh? Huh?”

Ma Jin-seung turned his head around to assess the situation, and his eyes met with Yeom Jun-yeol’s, who was standing on the stage.

Yeom Jun-yeol, who was the emcee as the student body president, smiled and raised his hand, pointing to the center of the stage.

The hologram floating in the center showed a different phrase every time the congratulatory theme changed, but this time it had Ma Jin-seung’s name in it.

[‘Prince of the Prairie’ Ma Jin-seung]

Ma Jin-seung looked at the phrase with a blank expression.

After hearing Yeom Jun-yeol’s explanation, Ma Jin-seung realized that the Prince of the Grassland was his nickname.

“The wall of grass that Jin-seung sang today withered due to the evil darkness, but the grass that grew close to the ground remained. The player satellite must have given that nickname after seeing the grassland that Jin-seung left behind.”

A visual image screen that the newspaper department had obtained appeared under Ma Jin-seung’s nickname.

It was a video and photo taken from the sky around the peak of Hallasan and Baekrokdam.

A long grassland was visible on one side of Hallasan where the evil darkness and signs of a volcanic eruption had disappeared.

The traces of Ma Jin-seung and the 200 or so Silver Advertisement people who had broken through the darkness remained in the grassland.

“But Jin-seung’s screaming didn’t seem particularly noble.”

“That’s true.”

“If you look at what Jin-seung usually does, the player satellite would want to give him a new nickname.”

Everyone was saying congratulatory or something, but Ma Jin-seung couldn’t hear properly because he was so excited.

He felt like he was finally standing next to students like Yeom Jun-yeol, Cheon Dong-ha, and Kwak Kyung-gu who had already received their nicknames.

At that moment, a loud cheer of ‘Wow!’ poured out again.

Yeom Jun-yeol was at the center of the cheers.

[‘Hongryong’ Yeom Jun-yeol]

The newspaper editor in charge of manipulating the hologram instantly added a phrase.

Yeom Jun-yeol’s new nickname appeared next to Ma Jin-seung’s name.

Yeom Jun-yeol forgot to look at the society and looked at his new nickname.

Now, he was no longer ‘So Hongryong Yeom Jun-yeol’, but ‘Hongryong Yeom Jun-yeol’.

“Well, the nickname So Hongryong doesn’t suit me anymore.”

“Now he’s really Hongryong.”

Under the phrase, several photos of Yeom Jun-yeol successfully using Hongryonghwa and handling fireworks appeared.

One of the photos was taken by the newspaper editor who joined Yeom Jun-yeol halfway through, and the others were pictorials released by the Red Lion.

“I can’t call you So Hong-ryong anymore.”

“You didn’t call me that in the first place.”

A friend who was as close as Kwak Kyung-gu mischievously called him So Hong-ryong once, but Yeom Jun-yeol didn’t get angry.

To be exact, he wasn’t angry anymore.

The word So Hong-ryong could no longer be Yeom Jun-yeol’s sore spot.

“Oh, then what should I call you when I want to spar with Jun-yeol......?”

Ma Jin-seung, who had been blankly staring, said something stupid.

Since Ma Jin-seung had been the one who had been picking the most troubles using Yeom Jun-yeol’s sore spot, the students next to him poked him in the side as a sign of their presence.

However, Ma Jin-seung just felt pain in his poked side and didn’t notice at all.

Yeom Jun-yeol put down the mic for a moment and spoke to Ma Jin-seung privately.

“Jin-seung, whenever you want to spar, just tell me. I’ll do it for you.”

“Really?”

“Yeah, but I want to practice fighting together rather than sparring with you.”

Ma Jin-seung nodded his head several times, shouting, “Me too!”

Although Yeom Jun-yeol had been his rival, he felt better fighting together than being a rival.

Many people congratulated Ma Jin-seung and Yeom Jun-yeol on their nicknames, so this topic went on for a long time.

After congratulating the two, Heo Chae-ah said after looking at the information that Wi Seong had announced.

“I thought Lee Dam-i would get it too.”

“He was active, but this time, he had a big tempo. If he could get a nickname for using a powerful item, anyone would get a nickname. Or they would give the item a nickname.”

“Even if you’re a templar, if you accumulate achievements, you’ll eventually get a nickname. That means you have the power to protect the powerful item even if the Jin tribe or highly intelligent enemies who are hostile to humanity come after it.”

There was a lot of talk about Gye-dam, who saved the students by strengthening Gwangrim with an unidentified brazier.

Gye-dam attended the celebration, but he didn’t seem to be particularly looking forward to the nickname, and he didn’t seem envious.

Regarding this, some students said that Chairman Ji-ik had been out of his mind lately, but today’s performance was like that, and he had become serious again, like when Sung Si-wan was around.

Meanwhile, Jegal Jae-geol was also paying attention to Gye-dam.

“The brazier that Lee-dam used was made by Eun-ha. It’s different from the ‘affectionate hand’ I’ve felt so far.”

Jegal Jae-geol had a short but intense conversation with Eun-ho, who looked like Cheon Eun-ha.

The brazier that Gye-dam used was also included.

The brazier also revealed without a trace that it uses the blood of those who use their powers to exert its power.

Jegal Jae-gyeol was shocked to learn what sacrifices the students had made and what they had done to deal with the terrifying conspiracy.

Of course, their contents were not in their teens, but Jegal Jae-gyeol still felt even more devastated because he didn’t know that yet.

―If I had told you in advance, you would have definitely stopped me.

―Of course!

―With Jegal Jae-gyeol’s power, you can’t stop the rampage of 300 students. Even if you were lucky enough to stop it, it would have been a big problem for you, and the students who were left behind would have suffered.

Eun-ho spoke as if he had read Jegal Jae-gyeol’s mind.

―The brazier needs the blood of those who control the power of the fog. Not only me, but even senior Seong Si-wan can’t replace Jegal Jae-gyeol’s blood.

―... ... Does Si-wan know that too?

―Yes, I decided to tell the person who wouldn’t stop me even if I told him honestly.

Jegal Jae-geol was shocked when he realized why they had hidden their moves and moved.

As Eun-ho said, if Jegal Jae-geol had interfered and twisted the moves to protect the students, everything would have been a mess.

It was obvious that another teacher would be sacrificed.

Eunho’s intention to poison Jegal Jaegyeol was coming true.

“Jegal Teacher! Next is the surprise party we prepared.”

“Wang Chan, you crazy bastard, if you tell me that, the surprise will be meaningless!”

Jegal Jaegyeol’s thoughts were interrupted by the sound of the students of Class 0 bickering.

When Wang Chansol was kicked, Jegal Jaegyeol stopped him and said.

“I knew, so it’s okay. Don’t fight.”

“Huh? When did you know?”

“You guys from Class 0, you made it so obvious, how could you not know?”

The students sitting nearby jeered at the shameless behavior of the students of Class 0, but they didn’t care.

Jegal Jaegyeol stared at Geum Chansol and Wang Chansol, who had been playing with someone on this school trip.

I felt sad when I thought about how much effort the children who couldn't even hide it properly put into this surprise party.

Jegal Jae-geol hid his complicated feelings and spoke {N•o•v•e•l•i•g•h•t} affectionately.

"I just found out. I don't know everything, so I want to find out together."