Chapter 467 – Mythology Academy
Claudia’s sexual openness has increased significantly. Seong-il starts recording all the scenes with a nano machine and sending them to Yudi remotely.
‘Even cheap communication devices in real life are often useful. A simple generator is essential, and it is regrettable that it can only operate within a 1km radius of my residence…’
A follower smartphone with formidable power that allows you to communicate across dimensions without a power source.
The old smartphone that was handed over to Yudi was incomparably worse than that, but Seong-il still thinks it has its own use.
‘Can I replace my communication device with nanomachines in my body? That’s amazing too.’
Seong-il was admiring the terrifying versatility of the Deus Ex Machina. Yudi leaves a reply to him as if he received the video.
“I checked the video. You are a great person.”
“Huh. Is this enough?”
“Yes. I will analyze Claudia’s psychological state and prepare to move on to the 3rd level assistant!』
『Suffer on~』
“Yes!!”
Sooner or later, Seong-il feels relieved at the thought of completely conquering Claudia and clearing the main quest in this world.
‘Once I clear the main quest, I have to focus on ‘real’ training here for the time being.’
I really liked Seong-il’s high-quality professors and high-quality educational environment unique to the world of Mythology. The period of his stay here was less than a few months, but he gained a lot from this place, so when he turned off the urgent fire called the main quest, he decided to concentrate on training here for the time being.
“Whoa… Tomorrow is Professor Weirin’s meditation study, isn’t it? Tomorrow is a class on mana management and magic points using a cane, but a cane…”
After spitting out the word cane, Seong-il feels a surge of consciousness.
‘Ah! Branches of the World Tree!!’
When he remembered the branch he had managed to resurrect after struggling, Seong-il opened his inventory and took out a staff.
『Ugh…!!』
The warm echo you feel as soon as you pick up the branch of the World Tree. Seong-il could instinctively feel that the staff was greeting him.
“How have you been?”
『Uh~』
The branches of the world tree as if to say so. He carefully puts his cane on the floor and thinks to himself.
‘Assistant Claudia will be finished soon… I’ll have to go see Professor Thorgrim tomorrow.’
***
“Welcome!!”
Following the guidance of the teaching assistant, Professor Thorgrim greets Seong-il, who is sitting in the hospitality chair in the corner of the room. Seong-il gets up from his seat and bows to him.
“Long time no see! Professor.”
“Ha ha! That’s right. How are you?”
Thorgrim very welcoming to the holy day. Seong-il does not miss the fact that a strange feeling of anticipation is melted in his good-looking smile.
“Yes. I’m doing well. I have some good news.”
“Ohh!! Good…? No way… Three…”
“…Shh.”
“Oh, well…”
Thorgrim flinched at Seongil’s actions. He lowers his voice as much as he can and speaks in a very low voice.
“Why? Any problem…?”
“I’d like to have a private meeting with the professor, but…”
“Ah, that’s what you meant.”
Thorgrim nodded at Seongil’s words that he wanted to talk without the teaching assistants around him.
“Miss Luna.”
“Yes. Professor.”
“I’m going to give you a magic card for professors here, so take this to the cafe on campus and eat something delicious and take a break.”
“Ah… Can I…?”
“That’s right. The academy doesn’t take issue with light drinks and meals at the cafe on campus with research funds. Now, let’s have some fun.”
“Go… Thank you…!!”
Thorgrim’s magic stone card, which seems to be used for a similar purpose to the corporate card in reality. Her tone was kind, but her assistant, who had always been expressionless, left her classroom with a broad smile for the first time, and Seongil looked at her with a slightly puzzled expression.
‘…Here, in reality, the assistants are only half slaves.’
“Now…Yes. What exactly is it?”
Thorgrim sends his teaching assistant away, brings a teapot nearby, and puts a cup of tea in front of Seongil’s eyes while talking.
“…Before I speak, I would like to ask if absolute secrecy is possible for what I am saying.”
“Hmm…”
When Seongil asked for it with a serious expression, Thorgrim hardened his expression. Normally, he would have rejected such a request from a single student, but the student named Han Seong-il in front of him was a student who had the right to say such a thing.
“…I swear to keep the request you said, as long as it doesn’t go against my conscience.”
“Conscience…?”
If you keep it, you’ll keep it. When Thorgrim puts an ambiguous clue, Seong-il puts on a puzzled expression.
“That’s right. Because I don’t know what you’re going to ask for. If your request is out of line with my values, I can’t and I have no intention of protecting it.”
“Ah, that’s what you mean.”
Seong-Il understands Thorgrim’s answer that he will protect him as long as it’s not an evil plan. He agrees with what he says by nodding his head in response.
“Well, it’s not a particularly evil plan, so you can do that.”
“If so. I swear.”
‘It’s a pretty reasonable oath technique.’
Professor Thor Grim already knew, as the story progressed, that Seong-il had come to talk about the branches of the World Tree, but like a seasoned wizard, he seemed to be thoroughly prepared for any eventuality.
“…The branches of the World Tree I mentioned before.”
“Ohhhhh..Did the hermit wizard succeed in reviving the world tree?! Really?!”
“Yes.”
“Very… In what way!?”
Professor Thorgrim had been looking forward to it just in case because it was said by the archmage who developed the genius secret technique of magic imprinting.
As soon as his expectations seem to turn into reality, his expression begins to turn into joy.
“I don’t know the exact method of resurrection either. The magician said it was a secret technique that could cause danger to the user depending on how it was used. He said he never wanted to leak it to the outside world.”
“Ah… Really? It’s a pity… It’s really a pity…”
Professor Thorgrim, who devoted his whole life to animism and alchemy. Of course, the world tree, which had a great secret in the mysteries of life in alchemy, meant a lot to him, so when Seong-il said he couldn’t share the secret, he looked very sad.
‘Hmm… I’m really sorry, but should I tell you the truth a little bit with a little bit of lies?’
Professor Thorgrim’s disappointment felt through emotion. On the outside, he had a slightly regretful expression, but Seong-il could feel that his heart was greatly agitated.
‘Well… Originally, I was in a position to ask for a favor, but if it’s someone like that, I might be able to change it to a position of trading by giving them side knowledge.’
Seong-il thinks so, and after organizing his thoughts for a while, he talks to him.
“Hmm… I don’t know the specific method, but I do know roughly what kind of mechanism the eggplant was resurrected. Can I tell you about that?”
“Really?! Really?! Let me know!! I swear I will reward you for your knowledge!!!”
Professor Thorgrim’s enthusiastic reaction. Seeing that, she revises the plan she originally wanted to ask for, and secretly tries to make a deal based on her own conditions.
“Since you mentioned compensation… Then how about this? Instead of telling you the secret, you’re helping me get closer to the World Tree.”
“Umm… Why?”
“First of all… I want to know if it’s possible or not. Maybe it’s something that could save the world.”
“…Save the world.”
Thorgrim closes his eyes at Seongil’s words and begins to ponder seriously. After being silent for a long time, he opened his eyes and answered Seong-il.
“…I’m a wizard who has studied spirit magic and alchemy all my life, so I have a pretty good relationship with the elves.”
“Ah yes…”
“And since we live with them often, there are some things that we owe each other.”
“!!!”
Professor Thorgrim said that it was virtually possible. Upon hearing his story, Seong-il feels his blood boil with excitement.
“It’s possible. So it’s your turn. Tell me the trick. I swear by magic, I’ll grant you your terms if your knowledge is useful to me.”
“All right.”
Seongil sighed lightly at Thorgrim’s words. He begins to tell the story of the mixture of truth and lies that he had been thinking about the day before.
“First of all… The wizard said that he used unspeakable ancient magic.”
“…Ancient magic? What?”
“Ah, it’s called dimensional magic. It’s a magic circle system cast based on a huge sacrifice, and it’s magic that opens the door to the special dimension…”
“What!? Connecting dimensions?! That’s a very dangerous magic, isn’t it!!!”
The world of Mythology Academy, which had a history of being invaded by foreigners by opening another dimension in ancient times. Professor Togrim, who knew the history so well as a professor, answers Seongil with a straight face.
“Yes. That’s right. That’s why I asked for secrecy before explaining to the professor.”
“…”
Thorgrim glared at Seongil with sharp eyes. To him, Seong-il sighs lightly and begins to recite the answer prepared in advance.
“Of course it’s dangerous. That’s why the wizard said he would never share secrets.”
“Ha, you say you’re going to have such a big accident just because you’re a bit good?”
“…Well, you’re right to think like a normal professor. I didn’t understand, so I asked him a question.”
“However?”
“It is said that he hammered an enormous artifact he had been preparing for over ten years into here.
“…How much?”
“I heard you’re almost done?”
“Crazy…!!”
Eun-wol’s fake lab, which I saw through the past memory jewel. Thorgrim knew all too well how precious the myriad giant magic stones were, and Thorgrim knew very well how expensive the experiment she was supposed to be.
“Anyway, he said that he descended the spirits of the spirit realm and the earth in a limited space through mysticism, planted a branch there, and resurrected the branch by receiving the help of the spirit.”
“I… You descended directly from the spirit realm?!”
“Yes. It was partial… Temporary. Would you like to see this?”
Professor Thorgrim quickly accepted the memory jewel at Seongil’s words. Then, in it, he could see a meadow exuding intense vitality and a little boy tending a tree that seemed to be branched out with spirit energy.
“Crazy…!!”
Although it was only for a moment, Thorgrim made an expression of astonishment at the fact that the Japanese realm had descended into reality. When he doesn’t say anything in surprise, Seong-il tries to divert attention with a quick closing remark.
“Anyway… The Archmage asked me to know that the casting of the Secret Advent of Dimension was not without countermeasures, but was carried out safely through a lot of investment and effort.”
“Okay…”
“In addition, he told me not to spread rumors so that other wizards and psychics do not unnecessarily turn their attention to dimensional magic again.”
“Ha…”
Professor Togrim listens to Seongil’s words and only caresses his forehead as if his head hurts.
‘I need to freshen up the atmosphere a bit.’
When Togrim frowned and fell silent as if he was having trouble, Seong-il took off his robe to change the mood, took out a familiar staff from inside, and began to infuse his magic power.
Then, refreshing magic spreads through the professor’s room. Surprised by that power, Thorgrim forgets to worry and stares at Seongil in amazement.
“…That?!”
“It is a branch of the World Tree that I received the other day. I brought it because I promised the professor the other day.”
“No way…Really…?!”
Professor Thorgrim, who has let go of the preceding passions at once and approaches the branches of the World Tree as if possessed.
“I… I’m really alive!!!!”
You can feel the intense vitality as you approach the branches for a moment. Seeing that thrill, Thorgrim trembled his hand and caressed his branch.
“…Would you like to take a closer look?”
“That… Can I do that?!”
“That’s about it…”
As soon as Seongil’s permission was granted, Professor Thorgrim swiftly took up his staff and inspected every branch of the World Tree ceaselessly as if possessed.
“What…Is this longing…?”
I was excited and experimented with this and that for a while. Thorgrim feels a strange longing emanating from the branches.
“Ah, that… That’s why I asked the professor for help.”
“…What?!”
The expression of not being able to understand English. Seong-il explains to him about the potential of the branches of the World Tree.
“That… The Archmage kept talking to him, so I tried to communicate with him through the spirits to see what was going on…”
“Sympathy… You’ve become a rapport!? Talk to the spirits?! How?!”
“…We’ll talk about that later. Anyway, according to him, the resurrected branches of the World Tree want to return to the World Tree. They say they can resurrect the World Tree by sacrificing themselves.”
“What?!”
Professor Thorgrim yells at Seongil’s bomb declaration to leave the professor’s office adrift.
“It’s true. You can ask Gazi.”
“You know how to communicate?!”
Since it was only possible for the now extinct druids to communicate with nature, Thorgrim looks shocked at Seongil’s words.
“No? If you just ask the eggplant a question, he responds with strange power? It’s vague, but I can understand it.”
“Ah…”
He seems to know what he’s talking about. Thorgrim questions Gazi just as Seongil did.
“…Are you really saying you can resurrect the World Tree?”
『Wow!!!』
Then, waves of intense magical energy flowed from the branches. In fact, the reason why the branches of the World Tree reacted was because the Inner Plane ordered the World Tree in advance through Purple, but Thorgrim, who had no reason to know the truth, put on a shocked expression.
“No… It’s amazing…!! To think that a cane has a will…!!”
“…Now that you have confirmed the truth of what I said, can you take me to the World Tree?”
“Fortnight!”
“…?”
“Give me some time. Then I’ll take action so that I can go to the World Tree!!”
Thorgrim with lightly lined blood vessels in his eyes. He answers Seong-il with a childish expression to the point of madness.
