Reincarnated as a Genius Prodigy of a Prestigious Family - Chapter 124

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Reincarnated as a Legendary Talent Genius of a Noble Family Episode 124

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

78. Exciting Exploration Preparations (1)

 

 

 

 

 

“That’s Dane Sogress.”

 

“The son of that person who gave the special lecture recently?”

 

“He was so cool… That family is really unfair, unfair.”

 

The positive murmuring that I thought had quieted down increased again.

 

Thanks to Father.

 

The impact of the special lecture must have been significant.

 

Especially the Spear Arts Department students grabbed onto me every time we met, to a degree that would make the Bodybuilding Club step aside.

 

“You’re Dane Sogress, right? Let’s be friends!”

 

“Could you take a look at my spear arts sometime later?”

 

“Your father was so cool…”

 

I suddenly began to think that no matter what I did in the future, I probably wouldn’t have any conflicts with the Spear Arts Department.

 

Professor Ingrid, who tried to treat me even better than before, was a bonus.

 

Anyway, thanks to Father’s special lecture, which had a better response than any other special lecture, I seemed to have become even more popular.

 

Perhaps because of this, I was a little more careful in my actions, but that didn’t mean my shoulders shot up to pierce the sky or that I was overly cautious.

 

Father is Father, and I am me.

 

“Dane, I’ve been hearing only stories about you lately?”

 

Leila seemed somewhat envious of me like this. Leila, whom I met in the club room, wore a regretful expression.

 

“It would have been nice if our father had come too.”

 

It had been quite a while since Duke Termion reduced his attendance at official events.

 

It was because of the Duchess’s illness.

 

That said, the influence of Duke Termion House wouldn’t weaken.

 

But separately from this, Leila seemed to understand this while still feeling regretful.

 

“Little Brother will definitely find a way.”

 

“We’ve been getting contact fairly often anyway… I wish vacation would come quickly so we could go to the Habarosk Mountain Range.”

 

I felt the same way.

 

If we made a plan, we should see it through to the end.

 

Depending on the situation, heading to the Habarosk Mountain Range and then going to the Ascetic Training Grounds would be perfect schedule-wise.

 

“By the way, where did the two go?”

 

“Ah. Priscilla has a lecture, and Ernest… is that guy wandering around here and there exploring again?”

 

“Probably something like that.”

 

Yesterday too, he came back to the club room late and told us to wait a bit, saying something in an excited voice.

 

He spoke so fast that I don’t think I properly understood what he was saying.

 

“Should I contact him?”

 

I attempted communication with the communication crystal.

 

Beep- Beep beep-

 

And a sound I would rarely have occasion to hear came through.

 

“…That’s that signal, right?”

 

In other words…

 

It meant communication was completely impossible right now.

 

Either he was in a place where the communication mana from the mana relay installed within the Academy couldn’t reach-

 

Or.

 

He was currently in a state where he couldn’t communicate with the crystal.

 

“Did the crystal break?”

 

“That’s also a possibility.”

 

I was thinking of waiting a bit, but remembering Ernest who had been frequently bringing up exploration stories lately, I shook my head.

 

“Let’s go look for him.”

 

“Where to?”

 

“First, we should meet with the bodybuilding kids. Let’s bring weapons. Just in case.”

 

“Okay.”

 

I left the club room with Leila and headed straight to the sewers. And I found the guys drenched in sweat, enthusiastically training their muscles.

 

“Master Dane! Master Leila! You’ve come!”

 

As soon as I and Leila arrived, the guys urgently got up and greeted us respectfully.

 

Especially Dorian, who had asked me to take him as a disciple, had the loudest voice.

 

Of course, this wasn’t a situation to praise his voice.

 

“Nothing unusual, right? Did Ernest happen to come and go?”

 

“Ah, if you mean member Ernest, he left 2 hours ago!”

 

2 hours ago.

 

“He didn’t say where he was going?”

 

“Ah, you didn’t go to the club room? I can tell since you came looking like this. Um, earlier… I think he mentioned the Restricted Zone.”

 

“Restricted Zone?”

 

“Yes. He said he’s been investigating around there lately. He said something interesting might come out? Is there some problem?”

 

Restricted Zone.

 

Something interesting.

 

Noted.

 

“Didn’t he say anything else?”

 

“There was nothing special.”

 

I left Dorian, who looked full of curiosity, behind and exited the sewers with Leila.

 

I thought I heard a shout of “Take care!” from behind. It’s not like I’m the head of some secret organization.

 

“Those guys are really respectful. At the beginning of the semester, they were incredibly annoying.”

 

“You never know how people will turn out.”

 

Who would have known they’d become this respectful just from setting up one muscle training room in the sewers.

 

Anyway, the important thing wasn’t that.

 

“He said it was toward the Restricted Zone.”

 

“Let’s hurry. Before something happens to Ernest.”

 

Leila urged me on in response to my muttering.

 

I could feel that she wanted to rescue Ernest first, regardless of the Restricted Zone or whatever.

 

We headed toward the Restricted Zone for now.

 

We’d have to find out what had happened first.

 

“Security.”

 

Was it because of what happened at Saint Aimar’s Hall?

 

The security seemed to have been strengthened twice as much as before.

 

Plus the mana barrier that had become even thicker.

 

“To think he broke through here, that’s impressive.”

 

Leila also nodded blankly at my muttering.

 

“Really impressive…?”

 

Indeed, the numbers were considerable.

 

There were barely any gaps visible between shifts, and among them, magic detection seemed to be continuously performed.

 

Breaking through here would be difficult even for me.

 

Of course, it would be possible if I used the ‘Shadow Hiding’ I learned from Mother, but that would just be passing by while hidden.

 

Ernest had aimed for barely visible gaps, matched the timing, and entered the Restricted Zone.

 

“Wait a moment.”

 

I concentrated my mind.

 

Soon, the flows of mana began to become visible to my eyes.

 

I can see a dense network of mana that seems to be in charge of detection.

 

I shifted my gaze further inward from there.

 

Then I caught sight of a group of mana moving busily.

 

“Are they chasing Ernest?”

 

Just when I decided I should move—

 

“Ah.”

 

I was able to relax my tension for a moment.

 

Someone was coming this way.

 

But it was familiar mana.

 

“Dane, Leila! It’s really you. I knew it!”

 

A familiar voice reached us.

 

It was Ernest.

 

“What happened?”

 

Leila asked with wide eyes, and I first checked Ernest’s condition.

 

He was fine.

 

Though his body was covered in dust, he didn’t seem to be hurt anywhere.

 

“I heard you went to the restricted zone and came looking for you. I couldn’t contact you.”

 

Ernest finally took out his communication crystal orb and showed an apologetic expression.

 

“Ah… I turned it off when I went in, just in case. I thought I might get caught. Sorry.”

 

Wait, he turned it off when he went in?

 

“So you already went in and came back out?”

 

At Leila’s question, Ernest grinned.

 

“Of course. And I finally found it!”

 

“Found what?”

 

“An amazing exploration site!”

 

 

 

 

 

 

After visiting Saint Aimar’s Hall, Ernest became completely fascinated with one person.

 

That was Saul Hanston.

 

The person who built Saint Aimar’s Hall, and someone whose achievements were all legendary.

 

He was a figure revered by all mages, and a master who was said to be the only one to reach the 9-Chain level after the fall of Magic Kingdom Arcana.

 

He was even a man who not only reestablished magical theory after Arcana’s fall, but also had a tremendous influence on the Academy’s establishment.

 

Ernest focused on exactly this point.

 

The Academy’s establishment.

 

More precisely—

 

“It’s about the Academy buildings that Saul Hanston designed.”

 

Including Hanston Building, various buildings were designed by Hanston’s hand, and most of them are buildings that have been maintained without cracks or distortions even now, hundreds of years later.

 

And those buildings were also in the restricted zone.

 

It might have been natural for Ernest, who was investigating those buildings out of personal curiosity, to discover a ‘secret’.

 

“There are several buildings designed by Saul Hanston in the restricted zone, and one of them is strange?”

 

“That’s right!”

 

Ernest was extremely excited, and I felt the need to calm him down.

 

Priscilla, who joined us as soon as we returned to the club room, and Leila both had agreeing looks in their eyes.

 

“Alright. Calm down first.”

 

“I can’t calm down! Anyone can see it’s suspicious!”

 

Suspicious, he says.

 

I paused for a moment before asking.

 

“Tell me in detail.”

 

Ernest began explaining slowly while calming his excitement a bit.

 

Anyway, Ernest had great interest in the buildings designed by Saul Hanston, and wondering if there might be something more, he focused on examining several of them.

 

If he did well, he might be able to uncover one of Hanston’s secrets, who died without leaving a single disciple.

 

In the process, he discovered that one of the buildings designed by Hanston was strange.

 

“When I got close and listened, I kept hearing strange sounds coming from the building.”

 

This is ridiculous.

 

He got close and listened?

 

“So you really went into the restricted zone and came back? Avoiding all that security?”

 

“Yeah. It was manageable.”

 

At Ernest’s nonchalant answer, Priscilla’s jaw dropped, and Leila shook her head.

 

And rightly so, since security in the restricted zone had been doubled after the incident at Saint Aimar’s Hall.

 

Of course, that’s not the important part.

 

“What kind of sounds did you hear?”

 

“Sounds of someone working. Very occasionally, it seemed like I could hear people talking too.”

 

At those words, Leila’s face turned pale.

 

“Gh-gh-ghosts?”

 

And she said she wasn’t afraid of ghosts.

 

“If you heard human voices in a place where people can’t enter… that’s ghosts!”

 

Priscilla, befitting the Theology Department, denied the existence of ghosts and offered a different interpretation.

 

“Even though it’s a restricted zone, couldn’t the people guarding that place be using it for other purposes?”

 

Ernest shook his head.

 

“If that were the case, they wouldn’t have been talking at such a whispered level, would they? There’s definitely something there. Inside.”

 

“Couldn’t you hear what they were saying?”

 

“Uh, um. Yeah. I couldn’t hear that. It was kind of like a mumbling feeling.”

 

But this alone isn’t enough.

 

Even if there are people inside.

 

“What kind of building is that?”

 

“The research laboratory that Saul Hanston used during his lifetime.”

 

Saul Hanston’s research laboratory.

 

That’s a mouth-watering story.

 

A legendary mage would have conducted all sorts of research and experiments in there.

 

“Of course, after his death, all the items inside were either used for other research or moved to Hanston Memorial Hall.”

 

My disappointment was brief.

 

“But then, why are mana fluctuations being detected in a place that should have nothing?”

 

At Ernest’s words, the surroundings suddenly became quiet.

 

Mana fluctuations.

 

Ernest grinned and pulled something out of his spatial storage.

 

“And they’re coming out periodically too. Look. Unless you’re at Dane’s level, you’d never detect it, but I hid a fluctuation detection device and came back to find this recorded!”

 

And what he showed was indeed a device that had recorded mana fluctuations periodically.

 

It was extremely subtle.

 

Such subtle fluctuations that even professional detection equipment could only record them like this.

 

These are definitely not natural fluctuations.

 

The nature of the fluctuations indicates they’re artificial.

 

“Could it be fluctuations coming from a mana barrier?”

 

“Absolutely not. Fluctuations from mana barriers have completely different characteristics.”

 

I’ve never seen this type of characteristic either, but it’s definitely artificial.

 

If this is real—

 

I smell something.

 

The smell of something happening inside.

 

Everyone seemed to be having the same thought while looking at these fluctuations.

 

“…There’s no other choice, right?”

 

This time Leila gave up first.

 

No, rather she seemed to be looking forward to it.

 

“Saul Hanston… I’m not particularly related to magic, but I’m curious?”

 

“I’m not friendly with magic at all, but I’m still curious. What could it be?”

 

Priscilla agreed as well.

 

There was no need to mention Ernest-

 

“Dane, what about you?”

 

Now everyone was looking at me.

 

As for me, well.

 

“Fine.”

 

Needless to say, I agree to the exploration.

 

“I’m definitely curious about what might be inside.”

 

Saul Hanston’s Research Laboratory.

 

It piques my interest.

 

But what comes to mind with an even stranger connection is….

 

His trail of pursuing the Magic Kingdom Arcana.

 

Perhaps, I might be able to get clues about that.

 

Clues that could lead to increasing the circles in my body.

 

“Before that.”

 

However, there’s something I need to make sure of.

 

It could be dangerous, and there might be something we don’t know about.

 

That’s why we need more information.

 

I picked up Ernest’s wave analysis equipment, thinking of Big Sister who told me to inform her in advance if I was going to cause trouble next time.

 

“Let’s analyze this wave first.”

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