Reincarnated as a Genius Prodigy of a Prestigious Family - Chapter 368

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Reincarnated as a Legendary Talent Genius of a Noble Family Episode 368

266. There’s No Choice

As expected.

Priscilla came back looking completely drained.

It seems she went through a lot over there.

This time, I wasn’t the only one who would listen to her story.

At our club grounds—well, the place we still haven’t named yet—all our friends had gathered.

“Priscilla, how did it go?”

“Are you really going to graduate early?”

“This is driving me crazy. That department head guy must be insane, right?”

“Hah, I heard the Theology Department has strong influence, but…”

While everyone was bombarding her with questions out of curiosity, only Dorian calmly settled the rest.

“Teachers, let’s hear the story first. She seems very flustered right now.”

I backed up Dorian.

“Dorian’s right. Priscilla, tell us slowly. When you’re ready.”

After a moment.

Priscilla finally managed to speak.

“Well… um… first, the early graduation has been postponed indefinitely.”

Right, as expected.

There was no choice but for that to happen, for a simple reason.

It was approval paperwork submitted without Priscilla’s consent.

It was written as if Priscilla had wanted early graduation and submitted such paperwork, even though Priscilla had never done such a thing.

So the paperwork was invalid from the start.

It was fraudulent.

“…For that reason, the Dean asked me directly… and I answered that I had never wanted early graduation.”

“And then?”

“The Department Head got up from his seat and left. It seemed like he wanted to ask me something several times, but each time the Dean cut him off.”

“Ah…”

The conclusion is this.

The Department Head’s plan failed.

Moreover—

“Then that High Priest who came to see us before…”

“He’s probably furious by now.”

Leila answered Ernest’s question.

Altur added a comment too.

“Not just furious, but extremely furious. As far as I know, the bishop selection period is coming up soon.”

Since Altur is an upperclassman, it seems he can see the political aspects too.

As he said, with the bishop selection period approaching, Priscilla refuses early graduation and even turns her back on the Grand Temple?

It would create a situation worse than not touching anything at all.

Simply put, we’ve now interfered with the political issue of bishop selection.

Thanks to that, Altur asked me with a worried tone.

“Even for you, haven’t you jumped into something too big?”

“It is big. Because it’s my friend’s matter.”

“…That’s nice to say, but I’m saying this out of concern for you and Priscilla.”

A typical reaction.

Naturally understandable.

We’ve interfered with the Imperial Church.

But guys like Leila reacted like this.

“So what. It’s something Dane started. He’ll handle it well somehow.”

Such infinite trust.

I should repay them with infinite sparring soon.

“Right. It’s Dane, so whatever.”

Ernest chimed in too.

Then the other guys seemed to agree, and only Altur shook his head.

“You guys are probably the only ones who’d accept picking a fight with the Church for that reason.”

“So what. If they mess with us, we’ll just deal with it when the time comes.”

Right, that’s the way.

And right now, on the surface, this absolutely isn’t something that involves me and the Church.

It’s just that…

Dean Homet, who owes me a ‘debt,’ accepted my proposal.

It seems some mutual interests aligned there.

For example, he already didn’t think well of the Theology Department, and then my proposal came in?

“Priscilla Neriel!”

In the midst of this, what was bound to come, came.

It’s Seres, the Department Head of the Theology Department.

Approaching us while fuming, he was emanating divine power right off the bat.

Priscilla flinched, but she doesn’t seem to have any intention of backing down.

Rather, the ones who backed away were Altur, who’s a mage, and Jenna, who wouldn’t be too friendly with divine power.

“Do you even know what you did earlier!”

“What do you mean by what I did?”

“Yes! It was all for your sake, and you don’t appreciate it?”

For your sake.

At those words, Priscilla’s eyebrows seem to twitch.

“For my sake…”

Meanwhile, Department Head Seres glared at us with wide eyes.

“So you’re the obstacles the High Priest mentioned.”

Obstacles.

What an appropriate expression.

For the High Priest, there couldn’t be bigger obstacles than us.

But what to do.

We’re not just obstacles, but more like quite large rocks.

Massive rocks big enough to block the path and then some.

“If you truly care for your friend and the Empire, let Priscilla go. Deceiving her with wrong words makes you worse than demons, not friends…”

“Professor.”

Then Priscilla stepped forward.

Without yielding to the massive divine power Department Head Seres was emanating, she took a step forward.

“I can tolerate you insulting me. Like you did at the Grand Temple. Making me serve drinks to the priests instead of serving God.”

“P-Priscilla, what are you saying right now…”

“Those were ascetic practices for walking God’s path, weren’t they? That’s what you said, right? I can endure any amount of such insults. Because they’re directed at me.”

“That was only…”

“But I can’t stand you insulting others who aren’t me, pressuring them to try to break me down.”

What flowed from Priscilla’s mouth afterward was a declaration.

“So I’m going to walk my own path. My own path to God.”

“…Priscilla.”

“You don’t have to be at the Grand Temple to serve God, do you?”

“Priscilla Neriel.”

“I want to seek out those who need God’s help and serve them. That’s what’s in my heart.”

Standing tall, she looks like a tree that won’t be shaken.

Looking at the department head who had lost his composure along with my firm resolve, I couldn’t help but laugh inwardly.

And at this point, the department head seemed to become desperate instead.

“P-Priscilla. That decision right now… could lead to excommunication for going against the Holy Church. You know this well, don’t you?”

“That would be an unjust excommunication. Don’t you know that well?”

She was right.

At least on the surface, there was no justification for excommunication.

Rather, the fact that the Grand Temple interfered with early graduation without the student’s consent would be more problematic.

Of course, normally these would be powers that could easily ignore such things…

The important thing was that an outsider had intervened in this matter.

Dean Homet.

Someone who would gladly help if it meant obtaining more mana stones.

That’s how all mages are originally.

And I was there too.

“Are you really planning to turn your back on the Grand Temple? That would ultimately mean turning your back on God…”

“Those words seem more like blasphemy, Department Head. Are you saying that the Grand Temple is God?”

The department head was left speechless by this brilliant counterattack.

Probably at the department head’s level, there were no more words he could say here.

Except for threats and coercion.

If he were to pressure her like that and it actually happened, he would have to bear the full brunt of the aftermath when the High Priest failed to be elected as bishop.

Politics, really.

“I plan to report to the High Priest as well. Personally.”

“P-Priscilla. Don’t do that, think about it a little more. Hmm? At least, yes. Until the semester ends.”

I think the bishop election was supposed to be next month.

That’s probably why he was acting like someone with a fire under his feet.

If Priscilla went and gave up the path of a Grand Temple priest in front of everyone, it would truly cause chaos.

“Do you really want to be excommunicated?”

“Why should I be excommunicated when I’ve done nothing wrong, Professor? It seems like you’re the one doing something wrong right now.”

Priscilla was probably holding back quite a bit right now.

For her usual way of speaking, she was being remarkably calm and not even mixing in any curses.

So paradoxically, this was even more of a situation where she was angry.

I wonder if that gentleman of a department head knows this.

“Being insolent to the very end…”

Apparently he doesn’t know.

Judging by how he was swept up in anger and began recklessly releasing divine power like that.

“Everyone step back.”

I spoke quickly.

Jenna and Altur.

The two who were vulnerable to divine power had already moved away, but with that level of divine power, it would affect the other guys too.

Not to mention Priscilla.

In fights between priests or knights, you could completely suppress an opponent by overwhelming their divine power.

Among users of the same divine power, it works differently than mana.

“Priscilla Neriel, are you saying you’ll turn your back on God, abandon the Grand Temple, and let your talent rot like this!”

The intense divine power was now trying to focus on Priscilla.

“Ugh.”

It was when Priscilla momentarily couldn’t withstand it and staggered.

“…!”

Perhaps sensing something strange, the department head looked toward me.

Understandably so.

“How…?”

I had just put up a barrier of mana to block the path of the violently surging divine power.

“You’re crossing the line, Professor.”

Even when I said this, the department head’s eyes were full of disbelief.

Naturally, he couldn’t believe that a mere student, and with mana no less, could block his divine power.

Mana and divine power have a conflicting and rejecting relationship.

Therefore, if one side is even slightly lower in level, they get pushed back endlessly like the difference between 1st class and 8th class.

Of course, since priests and mages don’t directly oppose each other, it’s not an important fact, but…

At this moment, it would be more important to that department head than anything else in the world.

“What kind of wicked trick are you… A mere undergraduate has a higher grade than my divine power?”

The divine power focused on me, and its force was growing stronger.

“Dane!”

Priscilla urgently shouted from beside me, but it was fine.

I could feel the power amplifying, but my mana barrier wasn’t even shaking, let alone being perfectly calm.

“Professor, it would be better if you withdrew your power.”

I gave one last warning.

But rather, the department head seemed unable to believe that his power wasn’t working, only increasing his force more.

Just what I wanted.

This wasn’t a remote place like Bonia Forest.

Rather, it was a place where students often came and went, and sometimes…

“Hey, what are they doing over there?”

“Aren’t those the Romance Club kids?”

“Seles Department Head is there too? Theology Department?”

“What’s going on all of a sudden?”

Like this, students who had just finished class and poured out in droves could form a crowd.

Some of them grasped the situation and urgently shouted.

“Magic Department students fall back!”

Divine power.

Divine power that overwhelms the mana possessed by mages devours mana and causes it to flow backward.

Simply put, it was a dangerous situation…

And it was being created by none other than someone who was a department head of the Theology Department.

“What the hell are they doing? Is that professor attacking Dane?”

“Dane put up a barrier, so maybe that’s why?”

“What on earth is happening?”

They couldn’t know the reason, and it would be difficult for them to judge the circumstances, but they would know one thing.

The fact that a professor was attacking a student.

“Professor, didn’t I tell you?”

I looked at Department Head Seles and continued speaking.

“That it would be better to withdraw your power.”

“You… what kind of trick are you…”

But unfortunately, Department Head Seles seemed focused on the fact that his divine power had been pushed back by my mana.

What could I do.

About being pushed back.

It was probably a fact that would be hard to overturn.

So rather than that, it would be good to focus on the situation that everyone was watching right now…

“Damn it! Right now you’re mocking God’s power with an impossible trick!”

Department Head Seles seemed to have no intention of backing down.

As evidence, the amplifying divine power grew even stronger, and beyond pounding my mana barrier, it was trying to spread in all directions.

“There’s no choice.”

I activated mana manifestation.

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