Reincarnated as a Genius Prodigy of a Prestigious Family - Chapter 365

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Reincarnated as a Legendary Talent Genius of a Noble Family Episode 365

263. Let’s See Each Other for a Long, Long Time

“To think that a fellow who’s never been to Drenick could create something like this.”

Professor Cross muttered as if he couldn’t believe it.

“Just how did you manage to make this?”

“I received help from the Architecture Department for the design, and I handled the applied magic myself.”

“In less than a week?”

“Yes. Of course, magic aside, the Architecture Department’s help was crucial in creating that.”

Professor Cross shook his head back and forth.

For reference, Professor Cross had said to submit a research project as he would be conducting credit evaluation this semester.

So I wrote and submitted a production report on the ‘Sudden Drop’ our club had made.

“But didn’t you see it during the festival?”

“You brat, how busy do you think I am. I wasn’t even at the Academy. Since there were no lectures, I went outside.”

“That’s a shame. I wanted to see if a Lich could feel fear.”

“Do you want to use your master as a test subject?”

Professor Cross, grumbling that there’s no point in raising disciples, asked.

“How on earth did you come up with this idea?”

“I saw it in a book.”

“In Drenick literature?”

“Yes.”

“You know how to speak Drenick?”

“A little?”

“Hehe.”

Actually, Drenick isn’t that difficult.

According to the Linguistics Department professor, the linguistic differences aren’t very significant.

So learning it itself isn’t hard.

It’s just that the writing system is a bit complex.

However, due to the Alteon Empire’s policies, research and learning of Drenick language simply isn’t very active.

“I’m curious what kind of action Drenick will show with this.”

“Surely they wouldn’t send assassins?”

“Unless they’ve lost their minds, they wouldn’t do that.”

But considering they chased Delward all the way here from Drenick to kill him, it doesn’t seem entirely impossible.

Well, it’s not like I’d let them get me anyway.

“Anyway, you’ve created something incredible. Do you know that?”

“Then that’s fortunate.”

“You never have a good reaction to anything. Well, you pass the assignment. No need to even look at it.”

Bang, Professor Cross stamped it and returned the report.

“You don’t need to worry about your grades.”

“Thank you.”

The report is taken care of.

Now it’s time for the lecture.

“Where did we leave off last time?”

“We learned how to gather visualized mana together and manifest it in curtain form.”

“Good. Try it.”

Gather mana concentrates together, but spread them widely to manifest in curtain form.

It’s actually an extension of gathering visualized mana or sharpening it.

However, considering the purpose of a ‘curtain’, it’s usually spread over a wide area, so it’s not easy.

Still, it was manageable.

Whooom!

Right now, I’ve completely covered the entire research lab.

“As expected, you do it right away.”

Professor Cross reacted as if he wasn’t even surprised anymore.

“What’s next?”

“Nothing for a while. Just review.”

“Why?”

“Well, I need to control the pace. At this rate, it won’t even take a semester. Ugh.”

At Professor Cross’s words, I curled up the corners of my mouth.

“Don’t tell me you think that if you have nothing more to teach me, you won’t be able to see me anymore?”

“Persistent fellow. What would change if I couldn’t see you?”

“What will you do next if you don’t see me?”

In other words, I was asking what he would do next after finding the disciple he’d longed for his whole life and transmitting everything to that disciple.

Saul Hanston.

Now called Professor Cross, but a legendary mage and Lich.

The reason he became a Lich was to find a disciple to whom he could transmit his knowledge and techniques.

“…Well.”

Professor Cross scratched the back of his head.

“I haven’t thought about it deeply.”

Then he glanced at me.

“So learn slowly, my disciple.”

It was a tone filled with strange emotion.

“I will.”

“You answer well. Anyway, it’s not good to learn anything too quickly. Even I took decades to complete what you finish in barely a few months… If you had been born during wartime, you probably would have contributed enormously to continental unification for whichever side.”

At those words, I smiled bitterly inside.

In my previous life when I was born during wartime, my influence was utterly insignificant.

“By the way, are you planning to go on another adventure during vacation?”

“Probably. I’m thinking of visiting the Western Region.”

“Hmm. You said there were places where demons used to live there.”

Plus one more thing.

There’s a high possibility that mana concentrates exist in the Western Region.

I’m going for both purposes.

Of course, the real purpose is Western Region exploration for fun.

It’ll be much more interesting than just lounging at home during vacation.

Of course, Mother and Father will be a bit disappointed.

“If you go to the desert, be careful. Desert monsters are always starving and burning. If you get caught, you’ll shrivel up without leaving a drop of bodily fluid.”

“Your disciple is going to such a dangerous place and you have no advice, only instilling fear?”

“I should worry about someone worth worrying about. Ugh.”

Professor Cross waved his hand dismissively.

“The lecture’s over, so hurry up and go. I’m busy.”

It hasn’t even been an hour since the lecture started.

As always, Professor Cross is slacking off today too.

So I hope he’ll slack off for a long, long time.

Let’s see each other for a long, long time.

We set up a temporary training ground on the spacious grounds we received as the first place reward for the club festival.

We finally left Bonia Forest.

“Forest Keeper Uncle will be lonely.”

“He’ll manage fine on his own. Didn’t he say he’d come visit later?”

For now, we set up the temporary training ground by moving everything we had in Bonia Forest as is.

Fences and wooden dolls.

Since it wasn’t yet at the stage where we needed help from the Architecture Department, setting up the temporary training ground was finished in just a few hours.

“Puhihihihing!”

In the midst of this, a cry I heard – one I hadn’t heard in a long time.

It’s Chiron.

“How did this fellow who should be in the forest get here?”

I lightly mounted Chiron, who had rushed at me to ram into me as soon as he saw me, and tilted my head in puzzlement.

“Ah, he’s become a famous attraction at the Academy lately.”

Hearing Leila’s words made it even stranger.

“A famous attraction?”

“Yeah. I heard he escaped from the forest and has been roaming around the Academy here and there.”

Look at this fellow.

While I wasn’t paying attention, he became such a famous attraction?

“Puhihihihing!”

The fellow shook his head up and down as if showing off.

Karnas, who had been in my arms, popped out with a poof and landed lightly on top of him.

“Kyiruk! Kyiruk!”

“Puheheheng!”

I left the two fellows who understood human speech alone and surveyed the training ground.

Several of them had already started training.

“Benatio, come here. Let’s spar.”

“Yes, Senior.”

Benatio seemed to have become Leila’s sparring partner for sword practice, Ernest was practicing archery, and Jenna and Altur were concentrating on physical training as always.

Anyway, everyone’s working hard.

With this much, they won’t all die of thirst even if we go to the desert.

“But are we really going to the Western Region?”

At Priscilla’s question, I nodded.

“Most likely. If there are no particular problems. You’re going too, right?”

“Of course.”

At her surprisingly quick acceptance, I looked at Priscilla.

“Have you completely made up your mind?”

“Not quite that far, but I’ve already talked to the Grand Temple. I said I’d like to take a sabbatical year.”

“There’s such a system too.”

“I’m using that as an excuse to rest a bit. In my case, I’m postponing the choice.”

Priscilla sighed.

“But I’m not sure if it’ll be approved. Those damn old men. They’ve been eagerly promoting me, but when I said I wanted a sabbatical year, all their expressions were just ridiculous.”

I’d like to see those old men’s faces once.

“Honestly, I don’t know. Whether I should align my faith with my career path, or just follow my heart.”

It doesn’t seem to be just because of Dorian.

“I’ve been thinking about it from before.”

Priscilla showed me the pendant hanging around her neck.

It’s something that priests of the Empire’s Holy Church typically carry around.

But Priscilla has this even though she’s not an official priest.

“From a very long time ago. I was growing up knowing nothing, when suddenly priests from the Holy Church came to our family and told me I had tremendous talent for divine power.”

“From the Holy Church?”

“Yeah. And then, even before I became an official priest, when I entered the Academy they gave me this. As if my career path was already decided.”

Priscilla held out the pendant as if telling me to touch it.

The moment it touched my hand, I felt a strange discomfort.

It must be due to the characteristic of repelling each other.

“That pendant is special. It continuously collects the wearer’s divine power. So later, when selecting high priests, they use that divine power as an evaluation indicator.”

Then that means from right after becoming a priest until death, it can’t be removed from the body.

“Honestly, if I give up this path, I don’t really know what I’ll do. Since I decided to walk this path, I’ve already been pushed out of family succession…”

Priscilla, who had been sighing the whole time, hid the pendant back inside her clothes.

“It’s a difficult matter, isn’t it?”

“It is.”

“But it’s also true that meeting you guys made me think seriously about it. I’ve become… a little less burdened too.”

At least she’s not dead weight.

“There must be something you can do well. Learning magic would also be a good method.”

“That’s the least suitable thing for me.”

I asked Priscilla, who was chuckling.

“How about opening an astrology shop?”

“That would also be a good method.”

An astrology shop.

This time at the club festival, we recorded an amazing 5th place.

It’s tremendous results for a small-scale booth.

Thanks to that, after the festival ended, Priscilla and Dorian who helped her were completely exhausted.

In that sense, I think an astrology booth would do very well too.

“If I set one up, can I use your name to sell it?”

“In what way?”

“A shop recognized by Dane Sogress?”

“That much is fine.”

It was then, as we were having this frivolous yet somewhat serious conversation.

“Wait a minute.”

“Why?”

“Something with a similar feeling to that pendant is coming this way.”

“What?”

When I turned my head to look, three men immediately came into view.

White priest robes and staffs.

Anyone could see they were people from the Empire’s Holy Church.

And the fact that they’re coming this way means…

“Phew.”

They must have business with Priscilla.

“Dane, you don’t need to interfere. I think I know… why they came.”

The sabbatical year application.

It’s probably because of that.

“Priscilla Neriel.”

Finally arriving, the elderly man at the front among them spoke first.

“High Priest.”

“So you were here.”

“I didn’t expect you to come looking for me here.”

Priscilla was trembling.

The High Priest’s authority.

I think I understand what it means to be able to overwhelm someone with divine power alone.

“Communication or written correspondence didn’t seem like it would work.”

The High Priest immediately turned his head toward me.

“Are you that rumored Dane Sogress?”

“That’s correct.”

“I am High Priest Gariod Bloom of the Empire’s Holy Church Grand Temple. I heard you learned magic, so it would be unpleasant to be close, so step back.”

If I were a mage, that would certainly be the case.

However, if I were an ordinary mage, that is.

“I’m fine.”

“This is no time for bravado.”

That’s when Priscilla came to my aid.

“It’s alright, High Priest. Dane is special.”

“Special?”

The High Priest narrowed his eyes and looked at me.

Then he soon turned back to speak to Priscilla again.

“Priscilla, did you apply for a sabbatical year to hang around with these friends?”

“That’s not it.”

“No matter how I look at it, that seems to be the case. Priscilla, you started changing precisely when you began associating with this Dane Sogress and his friends.”

At those words, I let out a hollow laugh, but given the setting and considering Priscilla’s dignity, I kept it to myself.

But what came next, I couldn’t let slide.

“Therefore, as a result of the Grand Temple High Priest council meeting, we’ve concluded to have you graduate this semester.”

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