Chapter 515 – 41. Dezac Empire – Imperial Academy (12)
Even the restaurant at the Imperial Academy is big.
As most of the students are aristocrats, the academy has no choice but to pay more attention to tricky things like meals. Thanks to this, not only the quality of the dishes, but also rooms for 2 or 4 people, so it is perfect for a quiet meal.
Valdez ate alone with Adele in a double room.
“Wow, I think this restaurant is better than the Mage Tower restaurant.”
“The Mage Tower places less importance on meals, so it’s like that.”
“That’s right. Everyone doesn’t take care of themselves anyway.”
It’s not about taking care of yourself, it’s the opposite.
So, the role of the mage tower restaurant was to check whether the wizards had eaten or not and to supply light meals. It can be seen that the role itself is different from here.
“Mmm. This is delicious too.”
“Don’t Adele want to go to the academy?”
“Huh? Well…”
Adele pondered seriously at Valdez’s question.
Academy.
She has heard it many times since she was a child.
Even when she was young, the Empire, the Emperor, was investing in the expansion of her Imperial Academy.
Honestly, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t interested.
Unlike her and her best friend Theresia, Adele has a sociable and bold personality.
She likes to hang out and make friends with people.
However, the mage tower did not match her personality her, and in the end, the only person she could call her friend her was her 4th princess Theresia. That does n’t mean she disliked her friend her being the only one there, but there was a sense of regret.
“There are a few things I’d like to try.”
“Okay?”
“Yeah. But, I don’t think he’s very interested these days.”
“Yes?”
“I’m satisfied enough.”
“… It’s surprising.”
“Oh, what?”
“It’s just. You seemed stuffy sometimes.”
“Poohyo. Did you look carefully at me?”
“Sure. Watch very carefully.”
“…”
Adele, who said her mischievous joke of her, made her blush without even getting her money back.
She lowered her head to hide her reddened cheeks, but she didn’t like that anymore.
‘Hey, why is he so good at talking like this!’
It is unfair.
However, she has been lopsided a few times so far and she won’t be able to play around again.
Why is it that when she talks to him like this, she is so easily caught up in her that she is speechless.
“Ate it all?”
“Uh, uh? Uh…”
“Then let’s go soon.”
“…Yes.”
After lunch, the two went back through the back door and climbed into the waiting carriage.
Anyway, the wagon was rented for the whole day.
Soon the wagon wheels rolled in the direction of the grove, a two-hour round trip.
“Let’s see, what did you say to collect?”
“Wait a minute. So…”
“Hmm. The amount is larger than I thought.”
“But it will be finished within today. It’s a well-maintained forest and it’s the beginning of the semester, so there are still a lot of them.”
The forest the two of them are going to today is a forest that the academy uses for various practices.
The reason why I went to this place instead of the forest of the Mage Tower was because of the distance.
The forest of the magic tower is the closest one, but it takes several days. Compared to that, the academy’s stuff is within reach, so the Mage Tower often pays for it and collects herbs. It was a kind of reciprocity.
There was one more reason.
It is Natalie’s consideration for Adele, who is out of the system for the first time.
It’s been two months since I’ve known him, but he’s very trustworthy.
Natalie was relieved to have him accompany her, but aside from that, Adele was closely watched by the Emperor.
However, it is not possible to keep them from leaving the system, so sending them like this, even if it is close to them. It was Natalie’s own consideration for her.
‘First out of the island….’
Adele’s face flushed as she talked about what to do in the woods.
Before his talent for magic became known, he had even been to the family estate a few times.
But I was too young to remember.
No wonder she is thrilled now.
“We have arrived, Wizard.”
“Yes, thank you!”
“Yes. Then I’ll be waiting for you here.”
“Okay. Just in case, make sure to use the protection magic stone we gave you.”
“Thank you.”
The coachman greeted him by bowing his waist with an embarrassing expression on his face.
A one-time artifact enchanted with protection, a magic stone.
Even if it belongs to the magic tower, it is a very expensive item for a mediocre coachman. In general, high-nosed wizards rarely show such consideration. So it was only natural that the coachman was so grateful.
“Let’s go, Valdes.”
Nod her head and follow her.
This nameless forest, roughly called the hard-to-pronounce forest of practice, is rather small compared to other places.
However, a forest is still a forest, and it is large enough to be used by a large number of people for various exercises.
As such, it was necessary to proceed with caution, but Adele moved her feet without hesitation.
‘It’s amazing.’
Valdez admired Adele.
It’s not her ruggedness her, but the way she naturally uses magic as soon as she enters the forest.
Indeed, as much as he learned magic under the magic tower master from a young age, he has no hesitation in using magic, and the use itself is efficient.
The part where you can see how sincere Natalie taught her, even though she usually seems to be moderate. It is probably to foster autonomy and creativity that gave me more time to teach myself as the days go by.
‘He’s a wizard. For me, my body moves before magic.’
“Um. Let’s go this way.”
“Suddenly?”
“There’s a monster ahead. It’s not hard to catch, but he it’s not the target, so I don’t think you’ll have to fight.”
“Right.”
“Hehe.”
Adele shrugged her shoulders, stunned by Valdez’s response her.
She liked this side of him.
All of the nobles, wizards, and knights I’ve seen from the sidelines my whole life have the habit of using power unnecessarily because of my high nose. These are things that go against the efficiency and common sense that Adele pursues.
“For now… Ah, here it is.”
Sensory magic that expands sight and hearing, and a map of the forest in my head.
When the two things came together, Adele went as fast as a boat with sails in a fair wind.
There are 15 materials in total, including 4 herbs, 2 fruits, and 3 mushrooms.
But Adele drew her shortest route and completed her five collections in an hour.
At this rate, the schedule would end in three hours.
It’s a short time to get closer to Adele, but Valdez doesn’t see it as too bad.
‘It’s nice to stay up late, but it’s dinner time when it’s over in three hours.’
It’s also good to have a meal in a decent atmosphere in a moderately decent place.
In particular, he did not like being in the forest for a long time.
‘Here’s what it is…’. I hope Adele doesn’t go there.’
The forest is large, but I can’t be sure how Adele will move because Valdez doesn’t know.
And what she didn’t want her to do was to come out somehow.
“Next this way…”
Adele paused while talking abruptly.
Valdez was also startedled inside her, but asked her as if nothing was wrong.
“What’s the matter?”
“Huh? No, that’s… Um. What should I say…?”
Adele tilted her head and made a strange expression.
A face that says there is something wrong, but doesn’t know how to express it.
After a while, Valdez started to have a baby.
She wants to lead her to the other side of her, but Adele is quick to notice her, even though she is clumsy in her love affairs of her. Rather than giving her doubt points for nothing, he decided to deal with it by hanging out naturally.
“What is it? It’s a look that’s caught on something.”
“Um… I’m using a magic that expands my senses right now.”
“Yeah. It seemed like that.”
“When you become skilled at this, other than the five senses increase. Why are there things like intuition or sixth sense?”
“You know, you know. Especially for someone like me who uses a body and a sword.”
“Uh. But… I felt something strange about that feeling. Somehow, it was familiar… But on the other hand, it was unfamiliar and disparate. But nostalgic… ?”
Valdez got goosebumps.
A cold sweat began to trickle down my back.
No matter how much magic has expanded my senses, I wonder if I can feel it.
‘It’s a really crazy talent when it comes to magic. A few years later would have been dangerous.’
“It’s a difficult expression.”
“Ummm, right? It’s hard for me to put into words either.”
“Then, shall we go where we feel first?”
“That way?”
“Yes. If you care too much, you should go. If you feel anxious and strange, don’t go.”
“Whoa, what should I do?”
Adele grunted in agony.
She was reluctant to ignore it, and I was afraid that there would be something dangerous if I went.
If I was alone, I would somehow get rid of it with magic, but now I am with Valdes.
He is also a great swordsman, but when it comes to losing his body his, he is of course worse than magic.
“What do we do…”
“Then let’s go…”
That time when I was trying to lead them to the direction I had no choice but to go.
“Aaaaa!!”
“…… !!”
A scream was heard in the distance.
The coachman’s voice.
Adele, without hesitation, quickly turned around and headed back to the coachman.
“I’ll go first!”
Adele uses various magics and gets ahead in an instant.
Valdez pretends to run after her, only to stop her at her feet as her Adele figure disappears.
And in the opposite direction. So, I ran in the direction of what Adele felt.
‘It’s nice that there’s no surveillance here.’
Arriving deep in the forest in an instant, Valdes spoke to a man he met.
“Take them to a deeper place. Just in case, strengthen the seal.”
“All right.”
At the command of the Demon Prince, the intelligence unit moved the box he had brought from afar, and its contents inside.
Valdez muttered as he watched the box disappear into the depths.
“Sorry, Roberta. It was a chance to die clean here.”
It was a real surprise.
The system’s inspections were strengthened, so Roberta was not allowed inside, and eventually, with the help of Yueli, she was hidden in the academy’s practice forest. No one doubted that she was a professor and that this place was frequented by her practice.
But to think that Adele would feel Roberta, whom she brought after having been sealed quite thoroughly.
Is it bloodline? There was no doubt that her own blood was also in the body that Roberta was writing about now.
“Kkeukkeuk. It’s so fortunate. After finishing it neatly, unlike the two who are sad, one is alive.”
Valdes, who burst out with a sinister laugh, left immediately and returned to Adele.
