[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-became-the-academy-s-final-boss":3,"chapter-i-became-the-academy-s-final-boss-i-became-the-academy-s-final-boss-chapter-89":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","I Became the Academy’s Final Boss",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1319845,1753,"Chapter 89","i-became-the-academy-s-final-boss-chapter-89",89,"\u003Cp>Chapter 89\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After hearing Joo Sarang’s message, I went straight to the Student Council room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What business could that bastard Berid have with me?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After the incident at the Beast Ranch—or maybe even before that—he and I hadn’t interacted much for quite a while.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was because he had started becoming wary of me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It must have been because the combination of my powers I had shown him was too much of a threat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was only natural for him to be on guard when someone he used to ignore suddenly rose above him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pandemonium operated under the iron rule of survival of the fittest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if I took away everything he had built up with my strength, he wouldn’t be able to complain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, with my current power, I felt confident that I could fight Berid on even ground in a one-on-one battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, that’s assuming I went all in, like when I fought Instructor Kang Jae-seok.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I had no intention of fighting that recklessly within the Academy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A person should use their head—why let the body suffer?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’d already had my fill of suffering.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before I knew it, I had arrived at the Student Council room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When I opened the door, Berid was there, looking the same as usual.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A quick glance around told me he was the only one present.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was Yoo Iseo busy with something else? She hadn’t been around the Council much lately.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Welcome. I’ve been waiting for you. Would you like a cup of tea?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’ll pass.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s a shame. I just received a fine batch.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Same old routine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He always tried to act refined, pretending to be sophisticated while scheming behind the scenes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That was one of the reasons I couldn’t stand him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Get to the point. We’re not here to sip tea together, are we?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Now, now, no need to be so cold. We’ve helped each other before, haven’t we?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that, he set his teacup down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wooong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, a barrier went up, blocking sound from escaping the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I leaned back on the sofa, relaxing my posture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Help each other, huh. The only thing I remember is cleaning up your mess.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I saw the news. The Daehos Guild terror incident. That was your doing, wasn’t it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What kind of answer are you expecting? Don’t tell me you’re about to complain that your influence in the organization has weakened because of me.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Honestly, the reason he called me was obvious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just like after he ruined the plan during the field trip, he probably wanted to whine again about why I hadn’t helped him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Pandemonium’s support was already shifting in my favor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I no longer had to bow my head to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, the words that came out of his mouth were completely unexpected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why would I? On the contrary, I’m deeply grateful to you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Grateful…?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course. You used yourself as bait to get Instructor Kang Jae-seok suspended, didn’t you? Thanks to that, a massive obstacle in the Academy has been removed.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He smiled faintly and took a quiet sip of tea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sunlight shattered against the window, obscuring his expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ah, this bastard is about to pull something again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had been peaceful for a while, and I’d almost started to enjoy it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it seemed that hectic days were coming back again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When would I ever get to live without worrying about demons—or my own life?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What kind of scheme are you plotting this time?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’ll find out soon enough. Things are about to get quite interesting, you see.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I didn’t expect him to reveal his plans to me anyway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But that’s why I had planted a spy among Berid’s underlings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’d just have Joo Sarang tell me everything later.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Just make sure it’s nothing that’ll drag me into it.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So, what’s the real reason you called me here?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Didn’t I say? To express my gratitude for your assistance.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“……”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He said he was grateful, yet it sounded like a provocation to me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if he were saying, I’ll start moving properly now, so don’t get cocky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fine then. Let’s see who gets the last laugh in the end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I left the Student Council room without another word.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Out in the hallway, Park Siwoo was waiting for me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he saw me, he smiled widely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What took you so long? Did you do something wrong?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wrong? Hardly. What are you doing here anyway?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What else? I’m part of the Student Council too. Came to work.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But why did he look so happy?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The guy was grinning like a drunk.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then I noticed a plastic cup in his right hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t tell me you’ve been drinking?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Huh? Of course not.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then what’s that cup in your hand?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh, this? Some club was handing out drinks. I think it was the Potion Brewing Club? Said they made it themselves.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Potion Brewing Club?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At his words, a piece of information flashed through my mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I see now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So that’s why Berid was so smug.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the game, there were four major incidents that acted as triggers for Berid to corrupt Yoo Iseo.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Through those events, her mind gradually weakened until she finally fell into corruption and became a Demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Berid then used her as a sacrifice to devour the Academy, which had fallen into complete ruin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And among those incidents, the one that shattered Yoo Iseo’s mind the most was the “Tears of the Succubus” incident that spread among the students.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A drink made by the Potion Brewing Club.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It tasted good, revitalized the body, and quickly became popular among the students.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But hidden within that drink was the essence of a succubus refined by the Demon of Indulgence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At first, it granted vitality and focus, but with continuous consumption, it made the drinker more vulnerable to desire and impulsive behavior, ultimately causing a magical rampage—an elixir of pure corruption.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of that, the Academy’s reputation plummeted after multiple hero candidates lost control of their mana under the influence of the essence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A place meant to raise and train heroes had instead produced addicts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The reason I hadn’t immediately thought of this incident was ironic—it was because this was the largest and most infamous of them all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally, Berid’s subordinates would trigger smaller incidents first, with this one as the final event.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, Instructor Kang Jae-seok—the Academy’s greatest deterrent against such chaos—was gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, Berid’s plans had all failed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a result, an event that was supposed to occur much later seemed to have been triggered prematurely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I snatched the plastic cup from his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Smack!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Argh! Why’d you hit me!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You think you can just swallow anything people hand you? Do you?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Why are you suddenly acting like this!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He looked up at me with a tearful, wronged expression.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Good grief, this fool.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If a stranger told you to follow them because they’ll give you something tasty, would you go?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course not!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then why the hell are you eating food handed out by strangers, you idiot!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the guy who was supposed to stop the incident happily sipping away made my blood boil.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even in the game, the Player could try this drink.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Street NPCs would aggressively advertise it, claiming it boosted your stats.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Newbies often fell for it and drank it without a second thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their accuracy and other stats would rise instantly, making them ecstatic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was a deadly trap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When fighting Berid as the boss, a debuff would be applied proportional to the amount of the drink consumed—making the difficulty skyrocket and resulting in countless game overs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Where did you get that?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“In front of the main building.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I grabbed him by the arm and headed toward the main building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There, a group that looked like a potion-making club had set up a shoddy booth, distributing the drinks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Good thing I found them early.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed no students had gathered at the stall yet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since external sales like this as part of club activities were fairly common, most students only glanced at them with mild curiosity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But once the trend spread, anyone who hadn’t tried the drink would be treated like an outcast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even major corporations sought out the potion-making club to obtain the recipe—so that said enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, my eyes met one of the students promoting the drink at the stall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He, seemingly a club member, waved at me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s getting pretty hot out, huh? How about a drink?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I took the glass he offered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A chill spread through my hand from the cold glass, and a rich peach aroma tickled my nose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At a glance, it looked like an ordinary sparkling beverage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s a free promotional event. Starting next week, we’ll be charging for it. Go ahead, have a sip. I guarantee the taste.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was only natural that this drink became a craze—it contained the essence of a Succubus, and now they were trying to make money off it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I glared at them as I brought the glass to my lips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Succubus essence was a weaker form of demonic energy—ineffective against Demons like me.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As I took a sip, the sharp carbonation stung my throat with a refreshing peach flavor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then came a subtle aftertaste that lightly brushed the tip of my tongue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was too peculiar to be called a simple fruit flavor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So this was the essence of a Succubus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment I drank it, faint but distinct vitality coursed through my body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If even a Demon like me could feel this much effect, it was no wonder people went crazy for it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing me sip the drink, Park Siwoo gave me a pointed look.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“…Didn’t you just lecture me not to eat anything given by strangers?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m checking if it’s dangerous inside. Anyway, if I tell you not to eat it, then don’t eat it, dumbass.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Even if it is dangerous, what are you gonna do—taste-test your way to death? What have you been living on?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ignoring Park Siwoo’s retort, I memorized the faces of the club members.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The club president was definitely a Demon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In fact, these guys could all be Demons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And the Succubus essence was likely supplied by the minions of Berid, the Demon of Indulgence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As far as I knew, no Succubi had entered aside from the Demon of Indulgence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which meant there were definite connections with outside Demons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back when I cleared this part of the game… how had I resolved it?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right— to stop the drink’s distribution, I had destroyed the factory where they harvested the essence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I pulled out my phone and texted Joo Sarang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Left alone in the Student Council room, Berid quietly sipped his tea.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Things were going better than expected.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who would’ve thought he’d receive help from the Devil Knight?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thanks to his efforts, both Yoo Iseo and that troublesome Instructor Kang Jae-seok had been suspended.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Berid didn’t miss the opportunity and brought out the trump card he had been saving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ever since the Field Trip incident, he had lost Pandemonium’s trust.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, he was feeling a deep sense of urgency.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he didn’t produce results soon, his standing within the organization would collapse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His goal was never something as small as the Academy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The great enterprise unfolding at the Academy was merely a stepping stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He sought to stand alongside the supreme beings who ruled at the very top of Pandemonium.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘To do that, I must cleanly remove everything standing in my way.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Field Trip incident had completely shattered every plan he had prepared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since then, he had been haunted by the suspicion of a traitor’s existence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without internal leaks, it was impossible for all his plans to be blocked so perfectly from start to finish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, through this new conspiracy, he intended to catch the tail of whoever dared betray him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The one he suspected most was none other than Joo Sarang.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among his subordinates, she was the laziest, the most disobedient, and showed clear hostility toward him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘If not for the protection of a High-ranking Executive, I would’ve disposed of her long ago.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Pandemonium, where the iron law of survival of the fittest reigned, disobedience equaled death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet because of the shielding hand above her, Berid could do nothing about Joo Sarang despite his distaste.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But if she were revealed as the traitor—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the supreme being protecting her wouldn’t be able to save her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Surely, the traitor would try to sabotage this mission too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So he had laid a trap.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Depending on how the interference occurred, he would identify the traitor’s identity instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A dark smile spread across his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>‘Come to think of it, Joo Sarang used to be childhood friends with the Devil Knight.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He couldn’t wait to see that ever-arrogant face of hers twisted in despair.\u003C\u002Fp>",2138,"2026-06-05T19:04:26.866Z",1,"novelbin.me","02d3364ebae3ee066a5745ebdc78b2e73a84fdc52255ecb0b3aadb778291fe6c","i-became-the-academy-s-final-boss-chapter-90","i-became-the-academy-s-final-boss-chapter-88",137,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-became-the-academy-s-final-boss-cover.jpg"]