The day after I firmly assured Writer Yoo Eun-ha that I would never corrupt Rosaria, I found myself trembling with back pain at the Academy.

“Ughhhhhh…”

My tail. My tail! The one I usually pull out with flair during the second phase—it hurt so badly that I couldn’t even retract it.

Attending the Academy in this state? Absolute hell. No, it felt like my back was splitting apart. I had pushed my lower back way too far.@@novelbin@@

“Are you okay?”

“You alright?”

The vampire and the fire witch, the culprits who half-destroyed my tail yesterday, had the nerve to act concerned as they tried to comfort me.

“I’m not cross-dressing for a while. Got it? I mean, cross-dressing itself is fine, but I’m never turning my tail into a makeshift dick again. Understood?”

When I firmly warned them, Reyna and Han Suji pouted.

I’ll deal with them later, properly.

As I suffered through the insidious pain in my tail, morning passed, and Rebecca appeared at the lectern.

“Today is theory class. I’ll teach you the tricks for dealing with shielded monsters. To break them, you first need to understand shield magic. Shield magic is essentially about releasing your internal magic outward and using it to envelop yourself. Beginners often form it into a shield shape, but those with excellent control can form it as a barrier around their entire body.”

It had been a while since we had such a genuinely useful theory lesson.

Of course, for the strongest in this world—me, the dragon—and the heroines in this class, this lesson wasn’t exactly groundbreaking.

“Oh, so does that mean we’ll learn shields today?”

“Shield magic is primarily for long-range mages. Magic swordsmen can use it too, but it significantly reduces their damage output. That’s why no hunter bothers with magic swordsmanship. Only lunatics try it. Sure, some guild masters dabble in it, but copying them will get you killed in a dungeon.”

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