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I Reincarnated As The Greatest Genius of a Prestigious Family!
[Translator – Rainypup]
[Proofreader – Harley]
Chapter 74: I Made a Mistake
The next day, the Academy was quite chaotic.
As soon as I stepped out of my dorm room, I heard Drojan and Arnold discussing what happened last night.
“I heard things were a mess last night. What happened?”
“Basically, someone broke into St. Aimar’s Hall.”
“What? What kind of insane…?”
The ‘insane’ person in question was sitting on the couch, listening to them nonchalantly.
Oh, there was one other person.
"It wasn't just breaking in. The undead are all gone."
“…Huh? How does that make sense? They were liberated?"
“Yes. So, the Theology Department is in an uproar right now. Priscilla, have you heard anything?”
The Accomplice Priscilla shook her head, revealing excellent acting skills. “I don’t know. I just got up now. I’ll find out when I go to the church later. I don’t know which crazy bastard it was.”
“…”
Anyway, it seemed like there was quite an uproar last night.
“There’s an investigation going on at the Academy right now, trying to figure it out. Priscilla, did you go out last night?”
“Yeah, no.”
“If you get caught up in something like this, it’ll be a hassle. Oh my gosh, what the hell is going on?”
The aftermath appeared to be significant.
Well, the undead lair in the restricted area had been liberated. If it had been a simple liberation, it might have been fine, but one of the undead was Saint Aimar—someone who was branded a rebel by a former emperor.
“Perhaps the imperial family will also make a move?”
“No way. The imperial family? Really?”
“Even if Emperor Aemon V was crazy, this could be taken as undermining the authority of the imperial family or plotting a rebellion.”
After hearing Drojan and Arnold's story, it seemed like we’d done something more serious than we thought.
Well, if we didn’t get caught, it was fine.
I enjoyed a leisurely morning, leaning back on the sofa. Today's afternoon classes were on spearmanship.
“Anyway. I should come right back after class today.”
“I should too. Hey, Priscilla. Stop fooling around and come right back. You’re under observation right now.”
“What the hell? What did I do?”
Drojan shook his head as if he were used to Priscilla's reaction and went to his room.
When she heard the door close, Priscilla let out a sigh she had been holding and cried, “…If this continues, won’t we really be caught?”
I shook my head and reassured her, “We won’t get caught.”
“How can you be sure?”
“Well, no one would ever imagine it was us.”
There was no roll call yesterday morning, so there was no separate check by the dorm staff, and the academy didn’t keep any entry and exit records. Because of this, it wasn’t possible to distinguish between the students’ movements.
“Ernest even sprinkled anti-tracking powder behind us.”
"Are you sure that it works?"
“Yes, I’m sure.”
“…Then that’s fortunate.”
Only then did Priscilla seem to feel a little relieved.
Then, as if her worries had been meaningless, she asked, “But Dane, when will you be able to let me go out secretly like you mentioned last time?”
“Oh, that.” I was planning on going to see my eldest sister soon anyway. "Soon."
“Really? If you don’t, I’ll blow it all… Then I’ll get caught, too.”
I chuckled at the sight of Priscilla’s cute threat.
"I'll keep my promise, so just wait a little."
“Very well. By the way, are you feeling alright? After that huge fight yesterday.”
"Me?"
I looked down at myself.
I was fine. Although I was tired last night, I wasn't injured or exhausted from wasting my magic power. This ancient mana… I felt it more clearly now that I’d experienced it in real life.
“I’m fine.”
“Then that’s fortunate. Leila and Ernest were both fine, but divine power doesn’t work on you.”
As Priscilla said, there was a downside in that healing using divine power did not work on me because the two powers repelled each other.
It didn’t matter. With mana of this magnitude, it was good that the penalty was only that.
"I'll leave first."
“Huh? Do you have a morning class?”
"No. My class is in the afternoon. I have somewhere to go."
Now I had to go see my eldest sister. There were a few things I needed to find out.
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“What in the world is going on…?”
Arabella Sogres had finished her experiments quickly when she heard that her brother was coming to visit, and she had some time left to read the Imperial Academy Daily News.
The content in the newspaper was quite something.
Last night, someone broke into St. Aimar’s Hall. The necromancy was even said to have disappeared.
"Whoever it is, they’re brave—but crazy."
The atmosphere at the academy was chaotic this morning, and that was the reason. It seemed like all the guards who were usually on patrol were out running about.
“The student council is going to have a hard time.”
Arabella prepared refreshments and brewed tea for Dane, who would soon arrive, even as she muttered to herself. She really liked this free time. She lived a life immersed in experiments and inventions, but when her younger brother came to visit, she could get a little break.
“Wait, will Dane be scared?”
Arabella was worried that Dane might be a little scared of the current atmosphere at the Academy. No matter how smart and gifted he was, the youngest was still the youngest. To Arabella, he was still a child, only fourteen years old.
At least, that was what she thought until Dane arrived.
“…Huh? Where did you get this?”
“In St. Aimar’s Hall.”
“…”
Arabella looked at Dane, momentarily stunned. She felt like someone had hit her over the head with a hammer.
So, the chaos that shook up the Academy and even mobilized all the guards… was her little brother?
“I made a mistake, sister.”
“…Haha.”
Arabella recalled her undergraduate days. It was a stormy past where she would run around the academy under the pretext of experiments and inventions, causing all sorts of chaos. Around her fifth year, she came to her senses and focused solely on magic, but before that, Arabella was a troublemaker who even the professors gave up on.
“I don’t think I’ll get caught, so it’s fine.”
…Yeah, it was exactly like that. Who would ever doubt they were siblings?
But the scale was beyond imagination.
“What? You fought against Saint Aimar and freed him?”
After listening to the story, she was left speechless. So this little brat just wiped out dozens of undead and defeated Saint Aimar, who had turned into a revenant?
What on earth was with his talent? It was something she couldn't even imagine doing when she was fourteen.
“That’s what happened.”
“…You really won’t get caught, right?”
“Yes. It’s alright. I definitely won’t get caught.”
Arabella let out a hollow laugh. How long had it been since he entered the academy? To think that he was already causing something this big!
But, it was strange.
Why did she feel so amazed and proud?
“Well done, Dane. It was a good thing you freed the undead from their three-hundred-year-old resentment.”
“Thank you, sister.”
Of course, as an older sister, it was okay to worry.
“But next time you do something like that, tell me first. I won’t stop you—I’ll help you, alright?”
As expected of his eldest sister.
Dane nodded with a grin.
“Yes, I will.”
“Yes. Good boy.” Arabella stroked Dane's head.
“Kikreuk!”
“Oh my, Karnas.”
Karnas also stuck his head out. It was a cute gesture that made it seem like he was asking to be petted, too.
"It seems like he’s gotten bigger?"
“Kikreuk!”
Dane got straight to the point.
“Actually…”
Dane took out the red gem he had obtained from the underground tomb and told Arabella everything. He didn’t leave anything out.
Arabella realized that what Dane had said was true.
“…I really can’t lift it.”
"Correct."
Arabella immediately began investigating and analyzing.
“Here, just put it on the analyzer.”
Dane picked up the gem and placed it on the analyzer. As soon as Arabella injected her magic into it, the analyzer began to spin.
But after some time…
[Unable to analyze]
That message appeared in the analyzer.
“…How could that be?”
Judging by Arabella's reaction, it didn't seem like a common occurrence.
“Has something like this happened before?”
“No. Almost never, from what I know.”
It was true. Arabella had set it up for all the possible situations during analysis and proceeded with it.
Arabella conducted the analysis by changing several more variables and conditions, but the results were the same.
“I’ve already used three mana stones.”
The analyzer was a huge experimental device. Since it analyzed the target down to the molecular level, the amount of magic stones consumed was no joke.
'I heard it's really expensive.'
Even the consumed mana stones were of the highest quality. Arabella was sparing no expense in investing her expensive mana stones for Dane.
“Let’s try this.”
Arabella did not give up easily. After that, she tried putting the gem in different types of analyzers and even brought a spectrometer.
A couple of hours later.
When the number of top-grade mana stones consumed reached ten, Arabella finally crossed her arms and glared at the jewel.
“It looks like you can lift it, Dane, but others can’t, so it seems like there must be some qualification required.”
Ultimately, there was only one variable that could be considered at this point.
The existence of Dane Sogres.
What made Dane different from other people?
Talent?
Rather than that…
“Ancient Mana.”
This was it.
“Dane, have you tried injecting it with your mana?”
“No, not yet.”
“Then let’s do that. I wanted to do it after analyzing it if possible, but I guess there’s nothing I can do about it now.”
Arabella immediately prepared for the experiment.
“Just in case.” Arabella secured safety by setting up magic barriers on all sides. “Let’s do it right away.”
"Alright."
“First, my mana.”
Arabella injected her mana into the jewel. Nothing happened, and Arabella nodded as if she had expected that.
Next was Dane's turn.
“If it seems dangerous, stop immediately.”
“Very well.”
Dane approached the jewel nonchalantly, then he placed his hand on the jewel and began to infuse it with his magic power.
At that moment—
Craaaack!
Cracks appeared on the jewel.
As expected, there was a reaction. Since it was a jewel that only Danes could lift, the key to it was Dane's unique ancient magic power.
“Dane, slowly.”
At Arabella's insistence, Dane continued to inject magic into the jewel without wavering even though cracks appeared on its surface.
Craaa一aaack
The crack gradually grew larger and soon covered the entire gem, and at that moment, Dane increased the amount of mana he was injecting into the gem.
Then一
Thunk!
The jewel shattered into pieces.
However, Dane and Arabella weren’t surprised.
“This is…”
Something was left behind when the jewel had burst.
A glowing sphere.
To be exact…
“It is condensed Ancient Magic.”
It was similar to the one Dane had found at the fountain.
"Ha."
‘I had a rough guess, but I didn't think it would be true.’
“Dane, do you know what this is?”
“Yes. It’s the same as what I absorbed at the fountain.”
"Oh my…”
Arabella looked upon the condensed Ancient Magic with awe, both as an inventor and as a sorcerer. She hadn’t realized it when it was trapped in the jewel, but once it came out, she could see how great it was.
It was a sensation that she couldn’t even imagine handling on her own. However, her youngest brother Dane was handling it now.
“Should I absorb it like last time?”
“We can’t leave it like this.”
"Alright."
Dane nodded and grabbed it.
Swoosh!
As if it had been waiting, the condensed ancient magic was sucked into Dane's fingertips and disappeared without a trace.
Dane shivered and opened his eyes after a while.
“How is it? Are you okay? Do you feel anything strange in your body?” Arabella, who had witnessed perhaps one of the greatest and most amazing events in the history of magic, gulped and asked urgently.
Finally, Dane opened his eyes and answered, “It looks like I have one more circle.”
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