Chapter 446 – Mythology Academy
“It’s a bit difficult for me to decide on my own. Wait. I’ll discuss it with other professors and give you an answer.”
“Yes.”
***
“You can go in.”
“Oh, thank you.”
Has it been about an hour? Seong-il was resting in the break room of the leading team. In the midst of this, assistant professor Aaron came to Seong-il and led him somewhere.
Smart.
“Come in.”
Squeak!
A familiar voice from within. Seong-il carefully opens the door and steps inside.
‘Fuck… Isn’t that a lot?’
Just looking at it, the appearance of the professors who seem to be more than 10 people. There were not only people he knew, such as Ahindel, Wirain, and Thorgrim, but also professors he had never seen before.
“You’re here.”
“Yes… Professor…”
“As you can see, I hastily gathered the faculty who are in charge of the academy’s executive roles. Now it’s time to check the contents.”
“Yes.”
At Aaron’s words, Seong-il calmly takes out the memory beads from his bosom. When a unique artifact appears, professors look at it with curious eyes.
“…Is that an artifact that extracts and stores those memories?”
“It is.”
“Ha… To think something like that existed…”
Seeing that many professors knew memory beads beforehand, it seemed that the professors in charge of the first year, who knew memory gems from the assassination case, explained the item in advance.
“If you’re ready, give it to me now.”
“Ah, yes. Here…”
Seong-il gives the memory jewel to Professor Aaron. After receiving the jewel, he tries using the item as if demonstrating it to the professors, imbuing it with his mana.
“Hmm…”
Maybe a minute passed? After reading the memory inserted inside, Professor Aron gives the jewel to Professor Ahindel with a strange expression on his face.
“Why do you…?”
“…You’d better see it for yourself.”
“?”
Professor Ahindel is puzzled by Professor Aaron’s reaction. However, rather than asking why, he calmly accepts the jewel he gave him and confirms his memory.
“Um…”
As expected, Ahindel fell asleep after seeing the contents. He silently passes the jewel to another professor.
“…”
The professors read the contents of the memory jewels one by one. Although time passed and everyone finished reading the contents, no one in the auditorium opened their mouths.
“…Who is the person in your memory?”
Professor Ahindel asks Seong-il with a firm expression. However, Seong-il shakes his head with a firm expression, just as he had prepared in advance.
“I’m sorry, but I can’t tell you. It’s a contract sworn with magic.”
“…He seems to be at least a professor level. I’ve never heard of such a strong man.”
‘It’s eaten!!!’
Seong-il, who was anxious about what to do. However, when Ahindel acts as if he mistook the disguised Eun-wol for a professor-level magician, he inwardly exults.
“I see? With black hair… He looks like a Southerner… Out of all the southern mages I know, no one has a look similar to him. Even if he’s at that level, he’s definitely a famous figure. .”
Professor Wirain’s impressions of seeing Eunwol. After hearing her words, Professor Ana Hilo nods her head in agreement.
“That’s right. That’s not all. Not only did she deal with a golem of an original form that I’ve never seen before, but it looks like she made a homunculus that only appears in legends. Judging from the inside of the room, it looks like she’s a master of alchemy…”
‘Oh! You’re doing great!!’
When Professor Anahilo points out exactly what Seong-il and his followers desperately staged, Seong-il cheers inwardly.
“That’s right! Even I, who handles alchemy, seemed to be dealing with a type of alchemy I had never seen before. The mysteries emanating from all sorts of bizarre devices inside the room were no joke!!!”
Professor Thorgrim rants. He continued talking like a rapid-fire gun, blushing as if that was not enough.
“Is that all? The method of dealing with the mysteries of alchemy magic was truly original!! The new method that seemed to directly deny the method of the existing schools was really amazing!!”
Perhaps because he majored in alchemy, Professor Thorgrim seems to have taken a closer look at the internal features than the other professors. As such, he seemed to be deeply impressed by the scene he saw inside.
“The magic circle was like that too. It’s like… From another world… Like magic…”
“…”
Professor Wirain’s review that warms Seongil’s heart. Seong-il calms his pounding heart and tries desperately not to show off his nervous appearance.
“I didn’t seem to be an ordinary person at all. The finest magic stones, which are said to be extremely rare in nature, were placed in every corner of the room as if they were ornaments…”
“Hmm…”
The professors drool all at once. However, someone is surprised by the somber appearance. Someone salute you. Others show greed.
“In our academy, there are only about 30 pieces of super-fine magic stones, how can we have so many of them? Even the artifacts inside look unusual.”
At the end of Professor Aron’s words, the professors’ eyes all begin to focus on Seong-il. Seong-il, who received those eyes, answered them with a determined expression as he had practiced in advance.
“I’m sorry. I will never give you any information that would allow me to infer his identity. That was the condition of receiving the vision.”
“Hmm…”
“And… Honestly, I don’t know.”
“You don’t know…?”
Even though they are close enough to inherit the vision, when Seong-il replies that they do not know the identity of the mysterious sorceress, the professors all look puzzled.
“It’s true. He always wore a mask, and he always traveled secretly across the south in an enchanted carriage so as not to find out where he lived. If he hadn’t had business with me, he’d never met him. There wouldn’t have been.”
“Carriage?”
“Yes. It’s a small carriage, but it floats a little off the ground.”
“…If it’s such an unusual carriage, surely it will draw attention, right?”
Reasonable Aaron’s assessment. Seong-il begins to tell lies prepared in advance in response to his words.
“Surprisingly, it has the magic of being invisible all the time. Not only that, but it seems that the space magic is also applied, so if you go inside the carriage, the mansion pops out of nowhere.”
Seong-il describes a virtual carriage based on an item worn by a game character he liked in the past. Perhaps it was because he had practiced his lines dozens of times beforehand, but there was a strange confidence in his words.
“…After all, you don’t even know her identity?”
“Yes.”
The hall fell into silence. However, in the meantime, a curious middle-aged professor approaches Seong-il and asks him a question.
“If it’s your artifact, wouldn’t it be possible to extract memories from the past? If you use it, you’ll be able to show the scene enough, and if you use it, we can infer her identity…”
“You don’t like it?”
“What…?”
Not enough to cut his own words, the middle-aged wizard looks at Seongil’s attitude of refusing like a knife with a slightly angry expression. Seong-il also frowns at his attitude and shoots at him with an aggressive tone.
“Aren’t you crazy? You’re asking someone who swore by magic to break the oath. Are you sure you’re asking that it’s not your business?”
“No… I… The future of our world…”
“Not for our world, but to satisfy my personal intellectual curiosity.”
“…You.”
A wizard who glared at Seongil with a slightly angry tone. The time when the two were fighting. Life begins to spurt out near the magician.
“What are you doing?”
“Uh… Haven’t you seen it now, student…”
“What kind of nonsense are you talking about after making unreasonable demands in the first place, Professor Taupin?”
“…”
“You know the binding power of the oath cast on magic, but you do such a foolish thing? How dare you tell my pupil?”
Seong-il feels strangely moved by Professor Aron’s sincere concern for him. In the meantime, Ahindel also intervenes in the conversation between the two.
“Not only that, but if you do that, you’ll go against the planting of an unknown archmage. Are you confident enough to handle the aftermath?”
“What can’t I go against? No matter how strong an individual is, if the mages of the academy join forces…”
“Anyone?”
“…?”
Professor Taupin stares blankly at Thorgrim, who suddenly cuts off his words.
“In the first place, isn’t this a case where we are trying to steal the other’s precious research results as an excuse for our cause?”
“That’s the world…”
“It’s the world and Nabal. Would you mind if I asked you to hand over the results of your secret research all your life for free?”
“Muh… Of course… If I could save the world…”
“Really? So, why don’t you reveal all of the dark magic you’re researching for the cause right now? Did you know? Will the results of your research help save the world?”
“…”
A middle-aged professor who became a mute after eating honey at Thorgrim’s clumsy murder. Seeing this, Thorgrim snorts and continues.
“In the meantime, you’re going to dig into the opponent’s back? It’s conditional, but you said you’d cooperate anyway?”
“…”
“For what reason do you want to persecute the opponent? Isn’t what you said disgrace to the academy’s face?”
“…”
“I assure you, the faculty council will not only oppose Professor Taupin’s opinion, but will not take any action even if you are assassinated by the unknown archmage who is angry.”
“…”
“Rather, they’ll just pass it on saying it was a legitimate retaliation.”
A middle-aged professor named Topin, who was speechless at Grimm’s blunt murder, shuts his mouth as he has become a mute who has eaten honey.
“If you want to die, then you should die alone. Judging from the circumstances, he seems to be living in seclusion in the south. Why don’t you try to find him yourself and use his outstanding skills? Can you afford it?”
Professor Thorgrim is now openly sarcastic. Perhaps he took over a precious elixir from Seong-il not too long ago, he seems to thoroughly defend Seong-il.
“…”
“Stop it. There’s no need to fight among professors over unnecessary actions, right?”
“…I see.”
When first-year professors who know Seong-Il, such as Professor Wi-Rain, begin to support him as a group, the middle-aged professor eventually steps back and rejects his opinion.
“It’s not like that.”
“?”
The wizard who thought that was the end. But Aaron glared at him with cold eyes and said.
“Should I apologize?”
“…Look at me now.”
“After…”
Professor Aaron, who exudes murderous spirits by raising mana instead of words. Even when he defeated the Lord of the Abyss the other day, he summoned a piece of metal he used to put pressure on him.
“…I’m sorry.”
The middle-aged professor, who saw the murderous appearance, eventually lowered his tail and apologized to Seong-il.
‘I heard that Professor Aaron is one of the best combat psychics in the academy…’
Seong-il thinks that Professor Aron is not called the genius of the academy for nothing, and he reciprocates with a nod to the apologetic middle-aged professor.
“Whoa… By the way, it looks like she wants an artifact. What do you guys think?”
Professor Ahindel asks the professors.
“What can I do? If you can complete such a vision with only a few artifacts, isn’t it a surplus business? Of course you should.”
“That’s right. I have to.”
When most of the professors seemed to agree without disagreement, Ahindel looked at Seongil and asked.
“…By any chance, do you know of items that wizard might like?”
‘Hmm…Somehow.’
At Ahindel’s words, Seong-il wonders if he should spit out something useful for himself.
Thrill!!
However, as soon as Seong-il thinks about it, Gam-eung warns him that the choice will not be good.
‘… If I know her taste in her corresponding mage, it means that I know her well… This conflicts with her earlier statement. It’s only right to say you don’t know this.’
Seong-il, who thought so, began to answer with an expression that he did not know anything.
“I don’t know. He’s a person who doesn’t know what he’s thinking… Can’t we just give him something nice in moderation…?”
“Hmm…”
The professors drool all at once in Seongil’s answer.
“…Anyway, I have to discuss with the professors who are absent for a while, but why not have another meeting?”
“Um… I guess I should. Can you lend me some jewels?”
“Oh, yes, it’s not difficult.”
Seong-il calmly handed over the jewel at Aaron’s words. Aaron gives a grateful glance and accepts the jewel.
“You worked hard today. When the final results come out, I’ll call you back and give you my opinion.”
“Yes.”
Fortunately, the meeting proceeds as intended on the holy day without any major variables. Seeing this, Seong-il sighs in relief after going outside.
‘Huh… What kind of reward will they offer?’
