Reincarnated as a Genius Prodigy of a Prestigious Family - Chapter 128

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Reincarnated as a Legendary Talent Genius of a Noble Family Episode 128

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

81. Where Do You Think You’re Opening Your Eyes

 

 

 

 

 

The work preparations were completed in an instant.

 

First, I quickly analyzed the magic circle and filled in the empty parts.

 

It was more difficult than the magic circle completion problem Professor Denabo had given during the entrance exam, but it wasn’t at an extremely difficult level.

 

“The more I look at magic, I just… think I made the right choice picking swordsmanship.”

 

Priscilla and Ernest simultaneously agreed with Leila’s muttering.

 

“Agreed. I have no idea what’s going on even looking at it.”

 

“How the hell do you even learn something so damn complicated? It doesn’t look fun at all.”

 

What? It’s nothing but fun though.

 

Anyway, completing the magic circle didn’t take very long, and I glanced at those guys who were still unconscious with their hands and feet bound.

 

I had adjusted the sleep poison so they wouldn’t wake up until lunch, so we probably didn’t need to worry for a while.

 

“Now then…”

 

I channeled mana into the magic circle.

 

Then light flowed along the magic circle starting from where I injected the mana, and in an instant the entire magic circle began to glow.

 

Woom woom woom…

 

Was it thanks to the ancient mana?

 

The magic circle vibrated more intensely than I had initially expected.

 

“W-won’t the sound leak outside?”

 

“Hanston’s mana barrier is there.”

 

“Ah, right.”

 

After reassuring Ernest, I began the main work.

 

“Hmm.”

 

By the way, this thing is also covered with the same mana barrier.

 

It’s weaker than Saul Hanston’s case though…

 

“Kyreuk?”

 

Does this guy read thoughts now too?

 

I grinned at Karnas, who had poked his head out at just the right timing.

 

“Please.”

 

“Kyreuk!”

 

Karnas turned his head toward the mana stone as if to say leave it to him, and released flames.

 

Then the mana barrier covering the mana stone instantly disappeared.

 

“Kyreuwook!”

 

Karnas lifted his head with a proud expression.

 

Taking advantage of the momentum, I brought Karnas out of my embrace, set him down, and let him roam around freely.

 

“Come here, Karnas?”

 

“Kyreuk!”

 

“Aww! How cute!”

 

While Karnas went to Priscilla, I focused on the mana stone again.

 

“But what exactly is Dane trying to do?”

 

“He said he’s extracting Saul Hanston’s ‘essence’?”

 

“Essence? What’s that?”

 

Priscilla answered Ernest’s question instead of me.

 

“It’s like a kind of legacy that mages leave behind. It’s a bit different from secret magic, I guess. It contains overall information about the mana and magic they possessed in life, along with part of their power. It’s similar to wanting to leave traces of themselves.”

 

“Then the essence Dane is extracting now is…”

 

“Right. It’s practically Saul Hanston ‘concentrated.’ It’s not like an actual corpse was concentrated, but anyway, for a mage, mana is no different from life itself.”

 

She explained it accurately.

 

The essence I’m extracting now contains information about Saul Hanston.

 

Since it also contains his mana, the value of this essence is limitless.

 

However, what’s puzzling is why Saul Hanston hid this like this, and what those five guys were trying to do with it.

 

Actually, there are many things you can do with this.

 

Since he died without leaving a successor, we might be able to uncover the principles of the extraordinary magic Saul Hanston used, and maybe even discover his secret magic that’s only passed down as legend.

 

That’s also why I want to take it.

 

Honestly, it’s tempting.

 

Isn’t it?

 

Even though I possess ancient mana, Saul Hanston is a legendary mage.

 

I’m curious about his secret magic.

 

“Wait.”

 

Then are these guys also after Saul Hanston’s secret magic?

 

“What’s wrong?”

 

I turned my head toward Ernest.

 

“Ernest.”

 

“Yeah?”

 

“While I’m extracting the essence, let’s search through what these guys had. Can you look for anything related to Saul Hanston’s secret magic?”

 

“Sure!”

 

While Ernest took out the belongings from subspace again, I injected more of my mana.

 

Who would have thought learning the extraction formula from Big Sister would be this helpful.

 

“Whew.”

 

Of course, since the target was Saul Hanston’s essence, it wasn’t entirely simple.

 

The internal defense barrier code installed to prevent essence extraction was quite complex, and I had to navigate around it carefully.

 

But what I possess is ancient mana.

 

A powerful force that can crush most mana through sheer strength.

 

Mages would probably be shocked unconscious if they knew that mana existing in nature had such ‘grades.’

 

Well, maybe…

 

It could be because the user is me?

 

Is this too much showing off?

 

“Dane, I found it. Here, there’s content about Saul Hanston’s secret magic written in a notebook. It looks like a journal… should I read it to you?”

 

“Summarize it.”

 

“Okay. Um… simply put, there are several speculations about Saul Hanston’s secret magic. One is ‘Meteor Summoning’ magic that could destroy the entire continent… another is ‘Prime Teleport’ that can move tens of thousands of people at once… and lastly, it says ‘Life Creation’?”

 

Look at that scale.

 

That’s so like Saul Hanston.

 

Of course, those are just speculations.

 

But even as speculations, they’re at an tremendous level.

 

“Are these even plausible magic spells? Can one person’s magic exert this much power?”

 

“What’s the point of desperately learning divine power and all that. One meteor summoning and everything’s goodbye.”

 

“Wow… isn’t this just a god at this point?”

 

While everyone made comments and felt a kind of despair that wasn’t quite despair, Ernest continued reading the summarized content.

 

“And um… it seems like acquiring this secret magic is their ultimate goal. It says something about overturning the world? That’s all.”

 

“Good. Thanks.”

 

Overturning the world.

 

This is getting interesting.

 

Since they’re definitely dangerous guys, it’s clear we need to turn them in.

 

Meanwhile, time gradually passed and it was almost dawn.

 

“Almost done.”

 

I had nearly finished extracting the essence.

 

It wasn’t as difficult as I thought, and perhaps because I applied acceleration, it didn’t take long either.

 

Plus, thanks to the previous guys having done the preliminary work, finding the path wasn’t difficult either.

 

Since the path was already prepared, just like when I treated Third Prince Edward’s wrist, I just had to push the overwhelming power called ancient mana through the narrow gap.

 

And finally-

 

“Done.”

 

I was able to obtain a fist-sized sphere in my hand where mana had been extremely compressed and crystallized.

 

Woom woom woom woom!

 

A red sphere vibrating intensely.

 

It was so red that it looked like clotted blood.

 

“This reminds me of that thing at the entrance of Hanston Building. The one that measures mana talent.”

 

At Leila’s mention, I nodded.

 

When you pass through the barrier, it automatically measures your mana, and the barrier’s color changes according to your mana talent.

 

Back then, Leila had gotten red, which meant good talent.

 

I had gotten green.

 

“My goodness… it’s so beautiful?”

 

“Woooow…”

 

I heard Ernest and Priscilla’s exclamations of admiration.

 

I chuckled softly while concentrating once more to carefully wrap Hanston’s essence with my ancient mana.

 

Then the vibration gradually subsided and finally became quiet, and I put it in my chest instead of the subspace.

 

If I put it in the subspace and something went wrong, the subspace that Big Sister gave me could be damaged.

 

“Is it over now?”

 

“Yeah. I’ve taken everything I need to take.”

 

Now all that remained were the five guys who were still unconscious and the giant mana stone that had become completely empty.

 

Those guys would probably faint again when they see the empty mana stone, wouldn’t they?

 

“It feels wrong to just leave these guys here.”

 

Of course.

 

If we just left them, they’d run away as soon as they woke up.

 

So we need a method.

 

“Dane, how about this?”

 

Then Leila came up with a clever plan.

 

“We make the guards discover them naturally. Come to think of it, that anonymous tip you mentioned earlier would be too time-consuming. It would take quite a while to be delivered too.”

 

I nodded at Leila’s words.

 

“That’s good.”

 

Certainly, it would be better if they were discovered naturally.

 

Then they’d be caught in the act.

 

“Then how about we also dismantle the mana barrier before we go? Without that, the guards would be able to enter without obstruction.”

 

Ernest also offered his opinion.

 

This was also a good method.

 

Finally, it was Priscilla’s turn.

 

“I think we should leave some evidence too. There should be at least one reason why these guys did this kind of thing.”

 

Thanks to this, these guys became pitiful.

 

The essence they must have been working on for months, I completely extracted it all, they were knocked unconscious, and when they wake up, they’ll face prison bars and torture.

 

“I feel so sorry.”

 

Of course, I didn’t feel sorry at all.

 

We selected one or two pieces of evidence that could serve as grounds for punishing these guys and placed them in appropriate spots.

 

“Shall we get going?”

 

Just when we had finished all preparations to leave.

 

“Mmm…”

 

One guy let out a faint moan as if trying to wake up.

 

Maybe he had resistance to the sleeping poison…

 

Thwack!

 

“Where do you think you’re opening your eyes.”

 

But Priscilla ended the situation.

 

“…Priscilla said she was in the Theology Department, right?”

 

“Seems more like the Combat Department?”

 

Priscilla had struck the back of the head of the guy trying to wake up, knocking him unconscious again.

 

As we stared blankly, Priscilla shrugged as if asking what we were so surprised about.

 

“Didn’t I tell you? I originally aspired to be a holy knight.”

 

“Ah…”

 

“The old folks said my divine power was too precious and shoved me into the elite course from holy knight training.”

 

So back then at Saint Aimar’s Hall, when she was smashing undead heads with divine power… she was smashing them with ‘fists’ imbued with divine power.

 

“Hmm.”

 

That guy Dorian.

 

He’s fallen for a very scary woman, hasn’t he?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zeke was the first of the five to open his eyes.

 

“Ugh…”

 

What on earth had happened?

 

Amid the splitting headache, Zeke instinctively quickly surveyed his surroundings.

 

This wasn’t the passage.

 

It was the basement level 2 they had been about to enter.

 

“What the hell…”

 

And Zeke’s jaw dropped.

 

Was he seeing things because he hadn’t been awake long?

 

Or was he still in a dream?

 

“The, the mana stone…”

 

The mana stone that should have been glowing yellow and emanating intense power-

 

was completely empty.

 

“What happened!”

 

Zeke urgently jumped up and approached the mana stone.

 

He had hoped otherwise, but it was as expected.

 

His heart sank and his spine turned cold.

 

Their mission from the organization was precisely to finally extract and bring back the mana from this mana stone.

 

Following the previous shift workers who had drawn magic circles for months, they were supposed to complete the magic circle and then just extract it-

 

but nothing could be seen inside the mana stone.

 

“C-Captain.”

 

Zeke urgently shook the captain awake.

 

At first there was no response, but after shaking him hard several times, the captain also opened his eyes.

 

And as soon as the captain opened his eyes and saw the mana stone, he became dazed.

 

“This is absolutely ridiculous…”

 

Then the other three also woke up, and after going through the same process, all five fell into serious shock.

 

Even their belongings were gone.

 

Except for a few items placed on the floor.

 

“Captain, w-what happened?”

 

“…”

 

Just as various possibilities were floating through his mind.

 

Kiiing! Kiiing! Kiiing!

 

Strange noises came from outside.

 

They absolutely shouldn’t be audible due to the mana barrier on the building exterior wall, but no matter how you looked at it, these sounds were coming from outside, not inside.

 

“…!”

 

The captain made a quick decision.

 

“We’re getting out of here.”

 

And just as they were heading to basement level 1 instead of the passage they had entered through.

 

Bang!

 

The moment they reached the 1st floor and were about to open the door, the door burst open before they could even touch it, and a group of guards poured in.

 

“It’s the intruders! Surround them!”

 

“Reinforcements will arrive soon!”

 

The captain, Zeke, and the other three were flustered.

 

More than ten spear tips aimed at them.

 

And reinforcements were coming too.

 

‘Damn it….’

 

Something unbelievable was happening.

 

Originally, they were supposed to safely enter, safely extract Saul Hanston’s essence, and safely leave again….

 

‘Don’t tell me those guys we replaced….’

 

One possibility came to the captain’s mind.

 

The organization abandoned us.

 

He had been feeling strange signs recently anyway.

 

Being intentionally excluded from several missions, or his superior’s attitude toward him not being the same as before.

 

‘These bastards…!’

 

The captain, who had unknowingly jumped to the wrong conclusion, cursed inwardly—

 

“Captain…!”

 

He realized that the suicide poison that should have been in their teeth had also disappeared.

 

He couldn’t tell how it happened.

 

But he could tell that their hope of escape had vanished.

 

“Surrender quietly! There’s no way out for you!”

 

Meanwhile, there must have been guards who went underground, as sounds came from inside.

 

“There’s an incredibly large mana stone over here!”

 

The captain gave up.

 

There was no explanation other than the organization abandoning them.

 

Otherwise, they wouldn’t have been caught in a situation where they absolutely shouldn’t have been discovered.

 

“…I surrender.”

 

“C-Captain!”

 

Zeke cried out urgently, but he knew too.

 

That this wasn’t a situation they could escape from.

 

Even if they killed all the guards here and got out, outside was a restricted zone.

 

Now that this incident was already known….

 

‘Fight the Academy professors? That’s insane.’

 

The sun had already risen, and people were awake.

 

It was a fight with no chance of winning.

 

If only the organization hadn’t abandoned them….

 

The captain gave up.

 

Without realizing at all that what happened to them wasn’t because the organization abandoned them….

 

But because of some strangely named club.

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