Reincarnated as a Genius Prodigy of a Prestigious Family - Chapter 293

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Reincarnated as a Legendary Talent Genius of a Noble Family Episode 293

188. Because We’re an Exploration Noble Family

“Huff!”

Benatio opened his eyes.

Another humiliation.

The first time was when he was being chased by the Eastern Army, hiding in a civilian house for several days and nights, holding his breath.

And this second time was when he was knocked unconscious by a ‘horse’.

‘I suddenly couldn’t move.’

Normally, he would have dodged it.

Even though it had suddenly become incredibly fast, if he had climbed up a tree, it wouldn’t have been impossible to avoid.

But suddenly some force bound him, and he got hit like that.

By the charging horse.

“Ugh.”

Benatio raised his aching body.

However, there were no painful spots.

The weight of a horse is tremendous.

Since such a creature had charged and rammed into him, it would be normal for at least one part to be broken.

‘Did they heal me?’

Could it be that they found out he was affiliated with the Intelligence Agency?

No, that’s impossible.

All items related to that are in a security-processed subspace.

“As expected, it’s intact.”

The subspace is fine.

Then instead of extracting information, why did they even heal him and leave him here in this safe place?

“Of course my identity wouldn’t have been discovered… So they just thought it was an accident?”

Benatio stroked his chest in relief.

If he had been discovered, he probably wouldn’t have had a good time.

He had even enrolled mid-semester at the Academy to track Dane Sogress, but what if that freshman was actually affiliated with the Intelligence Agency?

There would probably be a huge uproar.

The Intelligence Agency’s prestige being damaged would be a bonus.

Perhaps he might disappear without a trace like some of his seniors.

‘I can’t fail here.’

Someday, Benatio wanted to make a ‘secrecy oath’ and live a new life, just like a very few of his Intelligence Agency seniors had done.

So he couldn’t be discovered here.

“I guess I need to revise my plan.”

He had to admit he was hasty.

Who’s to say another accident like this won’t happen if he approaches impatiently again?

From watching continuously, Dane Sogress had talent and skills, but strangely got involved in various incidents.

It would be better to keep his distance and watch while gradually approaching.

Anyway, Dane would continue to stay at the Academy.

“I should slowly gain his favor.”

Let’s start by approaching the people around him.

That would be a bit better.

Plus, he had created a ‘debt’.

Benatio firmly believed the recent contact accident was a debt.

‘First, let me go back to the dormitory…’

That’s when he had that thought.

“Benatio Grün?”

When he heard someone urgently calling and turned his head, he saw uniformly young fellows looking at him with faces pale as sheets.

As if they had finally found him.

They were Swordsmanship Department freshmen.

“This is big trouble now. The seniors are looking for you. They said you spoke like that during the lecture and left, and now they’re assembling all the freshmen…”

Benatio thought.

First, let’s solve the immediate problem.

‘I don’t think they taught this kind of thing at the Intelligence Agency.’

If he left it like this, it would be bothersome throughout, so it would be better to resolve it somehow.

“Guide me.”

Then something suddenly came to mind and he asked.

“By any chance, is there anyone among you who’s close to Senior Leila Termion?”

The reason I let Benatio, who was even a ‘spy’ affiliated with the Imperial Intelligence Agency, go was simple.

Because he wasn’t following me around with the purpose of harming me.

“His Majesty the Emperor doesn’t seem to be giving up.”

Telling him to find out what I like.

It’s such a groundless command that I almost feel sorry for that fellow Benatio.

His effort is admirable, so I’ll leave him be, but…

“Dane, what happened to that guy earlier?”

“Chiron probably dumped him somewhere appropriate.”

“They say you have so many fans, Dane.”

“Indeed.”

At Ernest’s words, I shrugged my shoulders.

And putting thoughts about Benatio behind me, I recalled Carnas’s graffiti, no, the map that Ernest had mentioned earlier.

“Then… shall we go back and read these books for now?”

I headed toward the dormitory, thinking of the ancient books of Arcana I had stored in my subspace.

Currently, I have one thing to do besides my studies.

Namely, interpreting Carnas’s graffiti.

I even took Linguistics Department classes last semester for this, but as expected, that alone was a bit insufficient.

But to look for it again now is still…

“It’s because the words I can read have increased.”

The ancient mana concentrator I took from Annabel.

Precisely, the fourth ancient mana concentrator.

Thanks to that, the words I can read have increased, which is why I’m attempting this now.

“I hope it’s somewhere not too far if possible.”

If it happens to be in Drenik or some distant place, I’ll have no choice but to travel during vacation.

Well, it’s not like it’ll run away somewhere.

Anyway, I don’t know what might be there, but…

“Kyirik?”

“Let’s hurry and look for it. If we go, more of your secrets might be revealed, right?”

“Kyirik!”

Since Carnas seems to like it, I should start looking soon.

I’ll go during vacation though.

After arriving, I began interpretation with books piled up everywhere, just like I had done in the library at the beginning of my first semester, first year.

“Certainly, the words I can read have increased.”

Every time I obtain an ancient mana concentrator, the Arcana words I can decode increase.

More precisely, interpretation becomes possible in more complete sentences.

Therefore, I opened a book for clues about Carnas’s graffiti, no, the map that I hadn’t been able to find until now.

“Hmm.”

Certainly, it has increased.

Even with the third mana concentrate, the sentences that could only be read sporadically at the word level now seem to connect fairly well in one go.

“Then shall we take a look at the dragon section?”

What I want is information about dragons.

The ‘map’ that Karnas drew seems to indicate the location of a dragon’s lair, so I need to obtain that information.

“I need clues, but this isn’t bad.”

Fortunately, it’s much better than when I only had a few combinations and language rules to work with.

By applying the rules of various languages I learned in the linguistics department that I can read, sentence-level interpretations come out easily.

Scratch scratch.

I complete sentences while writing them down in my notebook, then combine those sentences to infer the content.

After doing this for several hours.

“Kyreuk, kyreuk.”

By the time Karnas had flown around beside me, rolled about, eaten snacks, and fallen asleep.

I was able to reach one conclusion.

“So even in Arcana, they were ultimately just speculating about dragon lairs?”

Even in the Kingdom of Arcana, dragons were legendary creatures.

In other words, dragons like Karnas had already disappeared from very long ago.

Therefore, the dragon lairs where dragons once lived existed from before Arcana, and after the dragons disappeared for some reason, only traces remained…

The speculation goes like this.

[Near the capital, on Angat Mountain, there exists a basin surrounded by mana.]

Angat Mountain.

For reference, there is currently no mountain named Angat Mountain in the Empire.

And that capital refers to Arcana’s capital.

[Approach itself is impossible with ordinary mana, and powerful magic is at work so that when one draws near, a suggestion to ‘turn back’ takes effect, causing ordinary people to return without even recognizing that they came to this place.]

And one decisive point.

[Presumably, some powerful entity has put these measures in place to prevent approach and investigation. However, investigation itself is impossible with ordinary mana and it prevents recognition of its very existence, so finding a way to investigate this remains distant…]

Even an interesting fact.

It makes me want to visit at least once, even if it’s not necessarily a dragon’s lair.

An area that places suggestions the moment you approach, forcing you to turn back.

Isn’t that interesting?

An ordinary person would turn back without even knowing they were under a suggestion.

I wonder if that would happen to me too.

Would it happen to Karnas too?

“Kyreuk?”

“We might be able to approach this place.”

“Kyreuk!”

I looked at Karnas’s doodle again.

You could call it basin terrain if you wanted to. The problem is I’m forcing it to fit.

“Then the key is this place called ‘Angat Mountain.'”

Angat Mountain is a place name that, as far as I know, doesn’t exist in this Empire or even in Drenik.

Then it means it was a place name used only in Arcana…

“Angat Mountain?”

“I’ve never heard of it?”

“Hmm. Then this time our goal is to find out where Angat Mountain is.”

“That sounds fun!”

So the next day.

I shared my speculations with our club friends.

It’s a hundred times better than worrying about it alone.

“So it’s a place name that was only used in Arcana?”

“Yeah. At least for now. Even searching the entire continent, there was no place called Angat Mountain.”

Ultimately, what we need to do is find a way to locate this place called ‘Angat Mountain.’

“Let’s try the process of elimination first.”

Ernest, befitting a member of an exploration family, started with the most plausible method.

“Karnas’s doodle…”

“Kyreuk!”

“No, not a doodle but a map. Right, we don’t know the scale of the map so it’s not exact, but based on the ‘approximate size of dragons’ that Dane told us about before, there probably aren’t many mountains that could have a basin where dragons could live.”

“Continue.”

“First we calculate the size that could have a basin, then we compare mountains of that size one by one. With Karnas’s ‘map.'”

“Kyreuk…!”

“No, I said map!”

Then Altur picked up the conversation.

“I’ll do the calculations. What size are we talking about?”

“Here, this is what I wrote down before. This is the estimated size of dragons, and this is the overall areas of each mountain that exists in the Empire.”

Altur immediately began calculating.

True to his record of being class representative for four consecutive years, it didn’t take long.

“Seven places total. Including those in Drenik.”

“Including Drenik?”

When Leila asked with surprised eyes, Ernest shrugged as if it was nothing.

“We’re an exploration family.”

Drenik would be in an uproar if they knew.

Well, it was helpful, so I’ll let it slide.

“That’s fewer than expected?”

“We’re estimating quite large. There aren’t many mountains that could have this kind of basin.”

“Hmm.”

Now that we’ve narrowed down the candidates through elimination, what we need to do is find the most likely place among the candidates.

“It would be too difficult to search them all individually, right?”

“That’s ridiculous. To look around all these places, we’d have to cross borders and tour the entire country.”

“That’s actually a decent method. If only we could escape this damn academy.”

For reference, that last comment was from Priscilla.

With graduation approaching, she seems to be having a terrible time.

“Hmm…”

Anyway, everyone started looking at Karnas’s doodle… no, map, but they don’t seem to see any clear solution.

Because there are no images to compare with.

They’re all mountains large enough to have dragon lairs after all.

“As expected, we’ll need to look further and investigate?”

Everyone nodded at my words, and just when Karnas was showing signs of disappointment.

“Father might know.”

Ernest said something unexpected.

“Father?”

“Yeah. My father. He just returned from an expedition recently. After almost two years.”

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