Chapter 455 – Mythology Academy
“… Shall we check the causal rate with emotion?”
When everything is sorted out. Just in case, Seong-il grabs the memory jewel and tries to project the emotion.
“Oh… Are you okay?”
Surprisingly, the positive energy felt from the beads. Seong-il is happy, feeling that this deception can work without much trouble.
“…I always feel that the skills the Demon of Causality taught me are really useful.”
The feeling of lifting the fog of a dark battlefield. Seong-il feels confident and returns to the world of misology.
***
“… I heard her story. She said her answer came back from her?”
“Yes.”
After returning to the world of the academy, Seong-il contacted Aaron the next day with an artifact dedicated to the leader team. Then, as if Aaron was waiting, he quickly called him.
“What do you mean?”
Now, like the thread on the way of the needle, the other professors waiting in Professor Aron’s office. Seong-il smiled awkwardly at that and handed her a bead.
“Check me first.”
Professor Ahindel naturally receives the memory marble and wants to check the contents. Even after seeing him like that, Aaron nodded his head without expressing any displeasure.
“Ummm… As expected…”
Ahindel looked at the contents and uttered something. He gives the jewel to Aaron.
“…”
As expected, Professor Aron confirms the contents without speaking. After confirming the contents one by one, Aaron opens his mouth.
“…As expected, did you choose the Ethereal Stone?”
Aaron smiled slightly. At his chanting, Professor Wee Line smiled and continued his words.
“You know exactly about the artifacts? And I’m pretty sure there are only 24 of them in our world.”
“…24 is correct?”
“Don’t you know? Actually, it’s the first time I’ve heard of it. I only know that it’s extremely rare… In fact, it was even considered a nonsense artifact that didn’t exist in this world until the headmaster personally retrieved it, right?”
‘Fuck… Did I pretend to know too much?’
Seong-Il is saddened by the conversation between Wehrin and Professor Taupin. However, he quickly calms down his surprised heart and pretends to be calm, having figured out that there is no problem with this trick in advance by calculating the rate of causality.
“…If it’s such a rare artifact, shouldn’t the conditions be changed? The other party seems to covet the item a lot, so it might be okay to try negotiating again…”
“Nonsense!”
An unknown old professor who cuts off his words as if he is dumbfounded by Taupin’s words. He continues his speech in an absurd tone.
“If you break your promise like that, who is going to make a deal with the academy in the future?
“…”
Professor Taupin kept his mouth shut as if he had nothing to say. Looking at him like that, Seong-il thinks.
‘That person has been blaspheming every single thing since the last time. Why are you like that?’
That time when I was cursing Taupin in my heart. Someone taps Sungil on the shoulder.
“…?”
Then, a man with a stocky, hard-looking body appeared in front of me. Seong-il puts a puzzled expression on his behavior, which is now quite familiar.
“The contents of the marble just now…Is it true?”
“Yes? Ethereal Stone? That’s me too…”
“No!! No!! Not that!! Branches of the World Tree!!!”
‘Caught!!’
Seong-il, one of the professors cheers as he intended. Thorgrim asks him with an anxious expression.
“You can resurrect the branches of the World Tree!! Really?!”
“Well…? You should ask me about that…”
“So… Then? How about the research process…?”
“I don’t know. I’m not the subject…”
“Okay…”
Thorgrim sighed with a complex expression at Seongil’s words. He asks Seong-il, just in case.
“…Then, how did you send the branches? Could you connect me to that wizard at that time?”
Thorgrim seems really interested in a drug that can resurrect branches. Seong-il gives him a pre-prepared excuse.
“Already sent.”
“What!? Already?!”
“Yes. I already sent it using a one-time magic transmission circle. I didn’t know it, and he put the transmission circle on my body. I was embarrassed too.”
“Uh…Why?! If it’s a one-time event, I’ll send the eggplant along with the artifact I’ll receive this time!!!”
Thorgrim asked with a puzzled look at Seongil’s words.
“I heard you don’t want to be chased? After you receive the artifact, there’s room for you to be chased when I deliver the item… He just wanted to get it now, when the attention wasn’t focused on him…”
“Okay…”
Having read the Memory Gem, Thorgrim roughly understood what Seongil was talking about. He murmurs with a slightly regretful expression.
“I was really curious about what that potion was… Too bad…”
“Don’t expect too much.”
“Hmm?”
“… He’s a bit of a bravado, so he could be a braggart. Reviving the branches of the World Tree might be impossible.”
“…Okay?”
“Yes. He’s… He’s not omnipotent.”
“Hmm…”
Thorgrim gave an awkward smile at Seongil’s words. Seong-il throws one more rice cake at him.
“But, by any chance, if the story about the potion just now is true, and if the branch of the World Tree is revived because of it, I will definitely show the branch to the professor in the future. I promise.”
“Kko… I have to!! I promised you!!”
“Sure.”
Seong-il succeeded in creating a link that would allow him to approach the World Tree in the future. While he was laughing inwardly at the fact that things were going well, the strict middle-aged professor Taupin said sarcastically.
“That’s an absurd greeting. It’s like leaving a precious artifact to a freshman and only taking the branches of a dead tree… Does that make sense?”
“…”
“Is he really a great wizard? It’s because he’s so small.”
“Ah yes.”
Seongil ignores the sarcastic words of Taupin. Then he continues with a slightly greedy tone.
“You… Are you confident in protecting the major artifacts? Why don’t you leave the artifacts to the faculty instead? For example…”
“Haa… Don’t you keep embarrassing me?”
“What?”
Professor Taupin distorts his expression as if he is dumbfounded by the freshman’s behavior of talking back to him following yesterday.
“Did you hear the message in the memory gem? It’s to punish me and keep it. In that situation, what would he think if I left the gem to the academy?”
“Heung! What is the person hiding behind the shadow afraid of…?”
“That’s probably because the professor isn’t from the south.”
“…What?”
Taupin distorts his impression harshly at Seongil’s words. Seong-il answers him with a bold expression.
“Before her former academy student, she is the heir of the Southern Caravan Alliance. Even if she pretends to be with the great wizard residing in her south, her family’s business may suffer a great deal, but her behavior of ignoring her Do you think this is right?”
Awesome!
Taupin clenched his teeth with a slightly poisoned expression at Seong-il’s logical questioning. At the time when the two of them were tense, other professors intervene between the two.
“Stop it. Why do you keep acting like that since yesterday?”
“No… I…”
“You’re right, but you’re doing too much.”
“…”
When the professors around him criticize him, Taupin eventually shuts his mouth with an annoyed expression. After passing by him, Aaron tells Seong-il.
“The answer has come. She has chosen you as her agent, so she will deliver the goods to you. Come with me.”
“Yes.”
***
“…This is it.”
“Ah yes.”
Seong-il arrives at the center of the academy with Aaron, his first year advisor, and Wirain, his third year advisor. At first glance, he was standing in front of a magic tower that looked old-fashioned and well-protected.
“I’ll be controlling the guard magic.”
“Please.”
The two move into the tower, leaving behind the magic control line. Aaron goes up the tower and tells Seongil.
“The security looks lax, but in fact it’s not at all. With advanced magic, your conversations and movements are being recorded one by one, so pay attention to your behavior.”
“Ah, yes.”
Even if Aaron didn’t warn him, Seong-il could feel the powerful mystery within the warehouse, so he nodded calmly.
Ugh!!!
After walking for a while, a huge door appeared in the middle of the tower. In front of that huge door, which is not suitable for a small tower, Aaron takes out a green orb that seems to have been prepared in advance and puts it on the door.
Cuckoo Palace!!
‘It’s very shabby…’
Then, the inner scene appeared. Seong-il is intrigued by the appearance of the interior, which looks more like a shabby warehouse than a place where treasures are stored.
‘But, all of the items are unusual.’
However, a powerful mystery is felt in each old item. The stimulating power they give begins to stimulate the sensitivity of the holy days strongly.
“…Incredible.”
“Isn’t that right? It’s a treasure that the principal and seniors from the previous school have gathered while wandering the world to fight against the foreign media.”
‘Isn’t that why the principal didn’t show up at school?’
For some reason, the principal who rarely showed his face at the academy. Seong-il could roughly understand why he couldn’t show his face.
‘…The setting said that he was always wandering the continent and doing something for the world, but was he collecting artifacts?’
Of course, it’s not just that, but Seong-il is sure that collecting artifacts is one of his main tasks.
“Here it is.”
At that time, Seong-il was immersed in other thoughts for a while. Aaron brings Seong-il to a place sealed with a strange magic circle and tells him.
“This is it…”
“That’s right. Ethereal Stone.”
Jewels of strange colors floating on top of the magic circle. Seong-il couldn’t take his eyes off the jewel that spewed out beautiful and subtle magic, not befitting the name stone.
‘Green, silver, purple…’
Each jewel radiates intense power. Seong-il instinctively uses augmented reality and then projects the emotion onto the nearest silver jewel.
『Ethereal Stone of Matter』
– Active: Injecting magic power grants the owner the power to manipulate materials such as metal. The control range and power are proportional to the magic power used by the owner.
– Passive: It always floats by the owner and provides a metal shield.
– All Ethereal Stones have the ability to naturally absorb the surrounding magic power, so no additional magic consumption is required. Instead, when the charged magic power is consumed, the power disappears. (However, in this case, it can be reused in the form of sharing the owner’s magic.)
‘Fuck… That’s shit…’
The authority of the Ethereal Stone is not a joke at first glance. Seong-il calms himself down, makes a casual expression, and quickly looks at the purple stone next to him.
『Ethereal Stone of Spirit』
– Active: Injecting magical energy grants the owner the power to manipulate the power of the mental system. Continuously inflicts extreme confusion and fascination on enemies within a 30M radius. Enemies that fail to resist become slaves faithful to the user’s will for a certain period of time.
– Passive: Always afloat next to the owner and protects the owner’s spirit. In addition, it improves the master’s memorization and understanding, and destroys fantasy magic.
‘…This kills me too. Shall we look at the end?’
Seong-il only looked at the jewelry for a fleeting moment so as not to be suspicious. He examines the last jewel.
『Ethereal Stone of Life』
-Active: When activating the ability, you can blow an effective toxic gas within a radius of 30M from the stone. (Users are immune.)
– Passive: It is rich by the owner and provides strong recovery ability at all times, and even gives strong resistance to aging.
‘This is good, but…’
Apparently, Seong-il was not particularly interested in the stone because it had many overlapping abilities, such as nanomachines, elixirs, and Elisha’s potions. When he made the same evaluation as he had judged beforehand about the stone to choose, he told Aaron without hesitation.
“The wizard wanted the Ethereal Stones of “Spirit” And “Material”.”
“Right.”
Aaron nodded at Seongil’s words. He puts his hand on a large crystal near the magic circle.
Wooooo!!
An intense magical storm resounding from crystals and magic circles. The two beings resonate for a while and then start to calm down little by little.
“I’ll be getting my hands on the crystal, so take the two stones quickly. It won’t last long.”
“Yes!”
Seong-il puts his hand in the magic circle quickly at Aaron’s fuss. He then telekinetically pulls the two gems together.
“Ugh!!!”
Jewels that come naturally to Seongil’s body. They float in front of Seongil and begin to absorb his magic power.
“What?!”
“… Wait. The principal said, it’s a process of recognizing the owner for a while.”
“Aha…”
Seong-il, who obeys Aaron’s words and acts according to his words. When the whole process is over, the stone starts to float round and round around Seongil.
“Whoa… Now how do I transfer ownership of this to someone else?”
It is a deceptive question that is naturally asked because you have to hide that you want to own the jewel permanently.
“It’s simple. The headmaster said that the owner can command the gem with “Will”.
“Aha.”
“Go out soon.”
“Ah, I…”
“If it’s a phoenix feather, I already have it separately.”
“Ah… Yes.”
Unlike the Ethereal Stone, an Epic-class artifact, the Phoenix Feather seems to be managed relatively less tightly. Seong-il nodded calmly at Aaron’s words and followed him.
‘But… At first glance, the ability is no joke… How much is the tariff for this?’
