I Became a Flashing Genius at the Magic Academy [158-362][English Translation]

Episode 298 Chapter 55: A New Professor (1)

A New Professor (1)

As expected, Professor Raydin couldn't keep his promise. Something went wrong during the process of transferring Anella.

I had a vague idea about this "issue".

'The headmaster must have been accelerating his research on detecting black magic.'

After parting with Professor Raydin and leaving the First Main Tower, I organized my thoughts carefully.

Dark magicians perfectly conceal their identities and operate secretly throughout the magical world. Magicians can't reveal them, so they can't prevent dark magicians from acting freely, which causes all sorts of incidents. This is an essential part of the original story's plausibility.

But this setting doesn't last forever. At a certain point, Eltman Eltwin develops a spell to detect black magic.

'I did think he might have developed it by now, but it's still quite fast.'

Eltman, who must have already developed the black magic detection spell, would probably want to test it soon. Naturally, he would start by filtering the most suspicious transfer students himself.

Although the black magic detection spell has obvious limitations and can't be used on everyone, its very existence becomes a crucial turning point, providing the player faction with the power to pressurize dark magicians.

Of course, such a game-changing spell would appear in the later episodes, but its development speed varies greatly depending on how quickly the player progresses through the story.

On average, players who first encountered 'Aether World Online' saw this spell developed by the first semester of their third year or at the latest just before graduation. By then, the episodes were nearly finished, so the spell didn't have a significant impact.

However, some experienced players pushed the story forward quickly, reducing the development time to the second semester of the second year, and there was one player worldwide who managed to complete the spell by the end of the spring break of the first semester of the second year.

This player, known by the nickname 'Dalso', was the only player I was close to in the game.

Thinking of that player, who always brought rare information and chatted boastfully, made me smile.

(TL: I won't be surprised if it's later revealed that Dalso is some sort of game administrator or someone who had a hand in making yu seul enter the game world)

It reminded me of the days when I enjoyed this world merely as a game.

'Anyway... I'll have to visit Anella frequently now.'

In fact, it wasn't only Professor Raydin who failed to keep his promise, but also myself.

I promised to get her transferred to Stella, but now she could only join as a freshman next year.

Currently, Anella has succeeded in escaping the dark magician society, but she still lacks many things as a human, so I need to take care of her separately.

I couldn't leave everything to Jelliel forever.

"Baek Yuseol."

"...Huh?"

While sorting out the tasks to be done in my mind, Hong Bi-yeon's voice came from behind.

'What is it?'

For some reason, her voice felt unfamiliar.

Although we hadn't met separately due to practice for the Rios match, we did see each other a few times during classes and exchanged a few words occasionally, but it was the first time her voice felt this awkward.