I Ended up Doing Too Well as a Professor of the Enemy Nation - Chapter 141

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Chapter 141. Huh? A Papal Priest? (2)

“…What?!”

The faculty meeting room was engulfed in silence at that absurd declaration.

Then, there was someone who broke through that silence.

Slam!

“!”

The professors’ gazes turned toward the door.

The person who entered under those gazes laughed awkwardly.

“Huh? Were you in the middle of a meeting?”

Professor Eren Nocton.

However, his true identity was the Special Grade Wanted Criminal, Echo.

Receiving all the attention, he made an appropriately tired expression and avoided their gazes.

“Well… it seems you were having a serious discussion. I just came to get vacation documents…”

“Professor Nocton.”

Elaine’s voice came out low and heavy.

“Wait a moment. Let’s talk.”

“…Huh? What about?”

“From now until the Papal Priest returns, you are the Head Professor.”

…What?

What does that mean?

“You need to pretend to be the Head Professor.”

“…Me? Why?”

“The priest might harm Professor Ruins. Coming here to learn about the Catalun bottle treatment method is just an excuse – the real intention is to eliminate the Head Professor who’s encroaching on the Papal Court’s territory early on. So please be his substitute.”

Echo looked up at the ceiling.

…So you want me to be that butterfly bastard’s shadow warrior?

“Professor Ruins Wayne is Haven’s treasure. You are-”

“…Are you treating me like some miscellaneous accessory right now?!”

Elaine smiled brightly.

“Or would you like to have a sparring match with me?”

Damn it…!

Whether I die by the Priest or die by the Hero, it’s still death either way!

And so, Echo ended up sitting in a chair in the meeting room. With the borrowed Head Professor badge pinned to his collar, he kept squeezing his eyes shut and opening them repeatedly.

Then, with a knock-knock sound, the door to the meeting room opened.

“Head Professor, it’s a pleasure to meet you for the first time.”

A High Priest wearing blue vestments entered the room. His eyes were clear, and his expression was excessively friendly.

“I heard you healed Catalun’s illness? That’s truly impressive.”

“…Yes, well… that’s right.”

“But the Magic Empire’s standards for appearance seem… rather low?”

“…Excuse me?”

“I was expecting something since they said you were devastatingly handsome.”

…That hit hard.

Echo gritted his teeth.

‘Grrr…! Are you saying I’m uglier than that bastard Butterfly?!’

I’m pretty good-looking too!

However, the real problem was something else.

“And strangely…”

The Priest’s eyes changed as he trailed off. Echo sensed through intuition that the previously light atmosphere had suddenly turned sharp.

“…You smell like the Demon Race.”

“?!”

His spine froze.

Damn it, he can smell it even though I’m wearing Ginseng Superior’s leaves? This Priest is that powerful?

‘If this… if I get caught, I’ll really die.’

Echo gulped down his saliva.

“Excuse me for a moment… I need to use the bathroom.”

Echo, who had fled like he was running away, sprinted across the corridor at full speed. His expression was one of despair, sweat pouring like a flood. His face was as desperate as someone who had witnessed a massive disaster.

‘No, no, no… Butterfly, you damn bastard…!’

He came looking for Ruin, who was in the Head Professor’s office.

Bang!

Ruin quietly raised only his head while holding his coffee cup.

“I lent you the Head Professor badge. What is it now?”

“Hey! We’re in big trouble! That priest, that Papal priest—”

“Right. Judging by the reaction, she must have caught the demon scent.”

Echo’s eyes rolled back.

“Then lend me the Mandrake Boss! It’s much more effective than just holding the leaves!”

Ruin frowned.

“No.”

“…What?”

“I need to use it too.”

“Are you serious?! I’m about to die!”

“Then be careful. Your scent is stronger than you think.”

Ruin leisurely put on his coat and headed toward the door. Behind him, Echo cried out in despair.

“Hey! Wait! Where are you going now!”

“Class.”

“Class at a time like this?!”

“I need to plan our strategy before my identity gets exposed. You keep dealing with that priest.”

“…Hey!”

* * *

The Papal priest had come right to the door.

She had even caught Echo’s scent?

‘A priest of higher rank than expected has come.’

Honestly, he pretended it wasn’t a big deal, but it was indeed dangerous. Then he needed to make minimal preparations beforehand.

‘If they’re advanced level, I have no choice but to respond with advanced level as well.’

But the Shadow Skills he had acquired so far were only low-grade.

Of course, they were all useful, but these were intelligence-type at best. To survive, he needed combat-type skills.

And he needed to learn Advanced Skills?

“…There’s not enough tribute.”

Ruin had offered all the student lost items he had collected from the ‘Cabin Lost and Found Center’ to Ginseng Superior.

Candy wrappers, class materials, broken magic stones, dropped earrings… They were all low-value miscellaneous items.

The result was at most a few low-grade skills. Of course, it was because he had extracted healing totems for the students’ classes…

“As expected, junk items aren’t enough.”

Then there was only one method left.

“Today we’ll learn ‘Offering Magic’.”

Right, just make them offer tributes!

Offering Magic.

Simply put, it was a buff-type magic that received blessings by offering tributes to God.

“Offering Magic is magic that obtains blessings by sacrificing possessed items as offerings in moments of crisis. Healing, defense, mobility, survival ability, etc. On the battlefield, it’s the ultimate survival technique.”

The students exclaimed in amazement.

“But that’s Sacred Magic that only priests use!”

“Right! You need Divine Power! We’re mages though…”

Ruin looked at them with cold eyes.

“We are noble mages. Therefore, we can even implement God’s blessings through magic.”

“…!”

The classroom fell into momentary silence.

“Of course, it could be seen as impossible. Only the Hero can use that magic.”

The Hero was a being blessed by the Union gods. That tremendous Luck Power, defense, and combat ability were traces of that.

However, that blessing was the exclusive privilege of priests and heroes, and ordinary Heroes only had luck power but couldn’t receive direct blessings. That’s why they train in magic.

However, Ruin’s eyes flashed.

“But a mage should be able to implement everything. So through long research, I discovered a method to obtain blessings by offering tributes to a god.”

“Ooh!”

The students exclaimed in admiration. Among them, Goldmoon was especially pleased.

‘That means if you have money, blessings are unlimited!’

There was no way they wouldn’t like it.

So, who is the god that’s the core of offering magic?

Thud.

Ruin placed Ginseng Superior in the center of the podium. Under the students’ gazes, Ginseng Superior laughed “puhihihi.”

Ginseng Superior was a god of Pride, but was quite favorable to the Union due to his interest in Union items. For instance, he would be interested in things like rattles that human children play with.

And even if he was a god of Pride, a god was still a god. If he wanted, he could give blessings to humans too.

‘Shadow can do quite a variety of things more than you’d think. He can easily give blessings that would seem like basic magic.’

As proof, Ginseng Superior chuckled “keukeukeu” from inside the flower pot.

「He’s not Head Professor for nothing! Just gathering the students taking Demon Hunting Studies is a jackpot, a jackpot!」

That’s right.

Offering magic!

If called tributes, students would try to bring better offerings to receive blessings, and since they’re offerings, no one would think it strange if expensive items disappeared. Truly a perfect scheme!

Of course, Ruin would enjoy all the fruits of the tributes the students offered.

‘With this, I can draw lots of advanced skills and totems too.’

The students would expect blessings, but was he crazy?

‘I’m going to draw my skills first before that.’

That’s why Ruin checked his pocket watch.

“I’ll give you 30 minutes. Each of you prepare the best item you have as a tribute. To whoever offers the most valuable tribute, I’ll bestow the strongest blessing.”

“Yes!”

The students all stood up at once.

Goldmoon, confident in tributes as a noble family, rushed out first, followed by the First Prince, Imperial Princess, and 2nd Prince pushing each other as they ran at full speed toward the exit.

Echo, who had been hiding and watching instead of going to the Priest, shook her head back and forth.

“Wow… You really have to be that shameless to make it as a spy…”

* * *

「It’s a bumper harvest, a bumper harvest. Hehehe…」

Ginseng Superior in the flower pot laughed like crazy while looking at the pile of tribute accumulating before his eyes.

That laughter was genuine.

Over a thousand students had each brought what they ‘believed to be most valuable.’ In short, it was a tribute feast.

“Dud.”

“This one’s a dud too.”

“…Right, it’s a dud.”

The students kept using magic as Ruin had taught them, but there was no way the magic would activate. It was a natural result since only Ruin could enjoy the benefits of the tribute.

“Misfire.”

At those words, the student’s shoulders drooped.

“Damn it, what I brought is a talisman passed down for three generations!”

“Was my faith really lacking…?”

“At this rate, am I the only one who won’t receive anything?”

Their tribute, offered with the desperation of grasping at straws, all disappeared into Shadow God’s belly. It was truly an enormous amount.

As proof of this, points accumulated tremendously.

-983,873pt

Yes, just a little more and the first digit will change!

Ruin clenched his fist and looked at Ginseng Superior.

‘Come on, at this point you should open up at least one Advanced Skill, right?’

「Not yet~」

「Give me more, more more more more~」

「There’s lots of good stuff, from the noble kids.」

…Really detestable.

Ruin sighed as he watched the students lined up in front of the magic circle.

Well, whatever the case, he had properly taught the magic itself, so there was nothing to feel guilty about.

Originally, Ruin had learned all sorts of magic when he infiltrated as a support mage beside the legendary Lucherin.

Moreover, being of the Shadow Race, he was naturally exceptional at memory and storage. That’s why he could hold far more magic in his head than ordinary mages.

As proof of this, he was also familiar with ‘Dispel Magic’. After all, you can only destroy magic if you understand its structure.

‘I suffered at the Magic Tower. Yeah.’

「Eh? You just swallowed and spat out mages because studying was bothersome.」

‘Be quiet.’

Anyway, it wasn’t just the Magic Tower.

He had also encountered many of the Union’s various scheming magic used to catch ‘Fire Butterfly’. It meant he knew more than mediocre Magic Tower mages.

To that extent, this Offering Magic was the same.

‘I already confirmed during my spy days that this works on Union gods too.’

That’s actually why he taught it.

It’s just that now…

‘The god is different, that’s all.’

Ruin sipped his coffee.

‘The core of this Offering Magic is calling the closest god.’

And in this classroom, that ‘closest god’ was… just Ginseng Superior.

Of course, it would be suspicious if everyone failed, so he’d have to help about one person succeed subtly.

But it was still far off.

‘It’s still mid-class.’

He planned to make someone succeed barely at the end of class.

Yeah. That was the plan, but…

“Ah! A blessing has descended!”

“!”

Everyone’s admiring gazes turned to one spot.

‘What? Success?’

Ruin glared at Ginseng Superior as if asking what the hell happened.

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