Male Lead Is Obsessed With My Health - Chapter 185

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Episode 185

Silence fell.
“…….”
“…….”
Everyone had lost their words.
I was the first to come to my senses.
[The brightest star blesses you]
……So it wasn’t a dream.
Ever since I’d heard that Star-rank Mages were chosen by stars, I’d been privately wondering ‘how exactly do they choose?’ and now I had my answer.
A small white star hovered above my head, pouring down brilliant light as though performing some kind of baptism.
Was this what being chosen meant?
I broke cold sweat, more unnerved by the sight than by the fact that my Floating Light Magic had swollen to nearly ten times its original size.
Uh, well.
“What in the world is this…….”
Someone finally broke the silence.
That moment.
[The darkly burning star blesses you]
[The fortunate 777 star blesses you]
[The star of knowledge and wisdom blesses you]
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Notifications rang out without pause, and above my head the light grew oppressively bright.
“Ugh…….”
I groaned under the intense, astonished stares of the Star-rank Mages around me.
“Wait, the stars chose her?”
“And it’s not just one star?”
“Multiple?”
I’d only come to observe. What was happening here?
Suddenly I had become a legendary magical prodigy, and I was about to tell the world.

* * *

The Mage Tower was in uproar.
I’d always wanted to turn the stage upside down someday, but I never expected to flip the Mage Tower first.
“In my seventy-three years as a mage, I’ve never witnessed anything that contradicts everything I know.”
“Wow, how is this possible? How?”
“The stars chose her like this?”
“I want to study this.”
“I want to dissect her.”
“My goodness, she had talent of a degree we couldn’t even begin to imagine!”
All mages are born with the essence of stars, and they blossom when chosen by the stars. But an ordinary person who doesn’t even know what Magical Power is receiving the stars’ blessing out of nowhere?
“A genius!”
“An absolute genius!”
“A genius the likes of which appear once a millennium, if ever!”
Do you know what a taxidermied genius is?
That’s me.
No wait—you fools kept saying I had no talent.
Beloved by the stars?
I don’t need this kind of love!
I came here just to learn the Elixir formula, so how did it end up like this?
The mages who had been shocked rigid as stone at first started to come to their senses, and when they began swarming toward me like a pack of dogs, I genuinely feared for my life.
Fortunately, they weren’t trying to harm me—just to identify which stars had blessed me—so I cooperated willingly.
What I learned from that experience:
“In all of Mage Tower history, has there ever been a Star-rank Mage blessed by every star……?”
Every single star had blessed me.
Among the Star-rank Mages left speechless by this unprecedented phenomenon, only the brilliant Chloe smiled radiantly at me.
“Arelin, you really are a genius?”
The dumbfounded mages murmured.
“She’s definitely a genius.”
“I’m living in an age alongside a true genius.”
“Wait, if she received every star’s blessing, does that mean she can cast Fusion Magic too?”
“That means we can finally establish a true hierarchy of magical disciplines?”
Before long, the mages’ eyes gleamed with avarice and they fixed their attention on me.
“Miss Arelin? Would you care to learn the most magnificent Flame Magic?”
“The supreme magic is Spacetime Magic, you see. Master it, and you can teleport anywhere!”
“All learning must be built from fundamentals. Why not study Introduction to Magical Theory with me?”
“And with me……the beautiful art of Light Magic……!”
Seeing the predatory gleam in their eyes like professors hunting for graduate students, I bolted.
“I just want to go home.”

* * *

My wish to go home could not be granted. It was all because of Sky Tower’s strict entry restrictions.
“Why in the world can’t I descend from the Mage Tower without a mage’s help……!”
My simple visit to the Mage Tower to learn the Elixir formula had spiraled into an uncontrollable situation.
I wanted to be alone.
I wanted to go home!
I was hiding from the mages, caught up in an impromptu game of tag, when suddenly I felt a gaze on me.
I lifted my head in reflex and flinched.
“Huh?”
A distinctive robe and golden eyes.
The figure was unforgettable once seen, and I blinked.
Isn’t that the mage who helped me at the auction house? So, the Grand Mage?
“Huh? It’s gone.”
What was that? Did I imagine it?
Now that I think about it, I believe they mentioned earlier that the Tower Master, the Grand Mage, was away?
“Must have been my mistake.”
I was about to stand up in relief when—
“Found her!”
“She was here!”
I ran straight into two mages.
“Oh no.”
A mistake. I should have moved faster.
“We’re not going to hurt you.”
“Come now, be good. Come with us.”
“Do you think I’d fall for that?!”
I put up my guard and glared at them, and the two mages approached me carefully from either side, as if catching a stray cat.
How could I possibly escape?
As the encirclement tightened and I felt my anxiety rising, I was biting my lip when—
Boom-boom-boom-bang!
A massive explosion, and the floor shook violently.
“Kyaa!”
Just as I was about to lose my balance, a mage threw himself forward and caught me, his expression twisting in pain.
“This is……”
“Looks like it.”
The mages’ expressions grew grave.
“What, can’t those guys even clean properly?”
“Something’s actually gone wrong?”
The mages exchanged looks and fell silent when they saw me.
“What happened?”
Seeing my anxious expression, both of them shook their heads vigorously.
“Nothing happened at all!”
“Oh, that sound? They’re running an experiment, just an experiment.”
“Ha-ha-ha.”
“Ho-ho-ho.”
Their obviously contrived conversation made me hesitate for a moment before I should believe it, when the two began whispering to each other in low voices.
“When you think about it, it is an experiment—a Magical Bioexperiment? Probably?”
“Ugh! Shut that mouth! What are you saying in front of a child!”
The mage in the white robe punished the careless one with heavy-sounding punches, then turned and smiled at me, extending a hand.
“We weren’t going to teach you any magic, so shall we head back? We need to check on your condition anyway…….”
I gave them a skeptical look.
How was I supposed to believe that wasn’t a lie?!
Just then, a notification chimed, and large characters appeared on the ceiling.
「NOTICE: Miss Arelin is hereby prohibited from receiving magic lessons」
“Oh look, an announcement.”
If you were in the tower, it was impossible to miss—the same message appeared not just on the ceiling, but on the walls and floor.
「Magic school lesson order will be determined by subsequent mage duels. This is a temporary decision by Breghemin」
So Breghemin had opened in that short span. And no wonder the mages’ eyes had lit up so brightly. It was truly terrifying.
“Shall we head back then?”
Though I kept my skeptical gaze fixed on them, I eventually took the hand the mage offered.

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Outside the Mage Tower.
Three Star-rank Mages who had come out for so-called “cleaning” heaved sighs.
“Isn’t this a waste of manpower?”
“Stop complaining and hurry up. Let’s finish cleaning and get out of here.”
“Ugh, I’m exhausted.”
Ever since the last incident, the standing order had been to move in groups of three rather than pairs, so even against powerful Dark Mages, the odds favored them.
“Why do they hunt other mages when they’re mages themselves?”
“They worship some nameless dark star, so they can’t be in their right minds.”
“Those infuriating apostates…….”
At times like this, I understood why the Holy Temple dispatched Heresy Inquisitors.
“Banish them quickly.”
The Mage Tower’s standard treatment for apostates was execution or Banishment to Stars, though lately they’d been trying to banish them when possible.
They needed to extract information on how the kidnappers had been driving the abducted Star-rank Mages into rampage.
“Hah! Do you think we’d be caught so easily-!”
Just as they were about to banish the Dark Mage, who was flailing desperately with a broken arm as he cast spells—
“-!”
Fog rolled in thick, choking off the Star-rank Mages’ breath.
“Ugh, this is-!”
“Run!”
When one of the Star-rank Mages realized what was happening and tried to flee, they lost all strength in the fog and became helpless.
Their earlier advantage evaporated like a mirage—in an instant, the three powerful Star-rank Mages were subdued and lost consciousness.
From beyond the fog, a small figure emerged.
“It’s difficult to maintain control in this form.”
A child who appeared to be about eleven smiled.
“Chaeyen.”
The dying Dark Mage greeted the child. Chaeyen gazed up at the towering Mage Tower and the Sky Tower that rested above it.
The intense star essences he’d felt earlier were likely gathered up there.
Among them, one particular essence…….
“My little young lady couldn’t wait until she awoke to come here. How lonely.”
Chaeyen extended a finger, and the sturdy Protective Barrier surrounding the Mage Tower rejected him, thrashing violently in resistance.
Whoooooosh—
Watching the barrier shake as it denied his very existence, Chaeyen laughed softly.
“Still not enough at this level…….”
It was unavoidable—the seal had only just been broken.
“Hmm, I’ve already consumed all the stray star fragments, and now there’s nothing left to eat.”
He would need to hunt more mages.
Chaeyen smiled as he thought of the barrier’s master and, beyond it, the one entity he most longed to see.
“See you next time, Master.”

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