Magic Academy's Genius Blinker - Chapter 116
Chapter 116
Item Presentation (7)
The Tower of the New Moon.
With the somewhat childish yet clearly defined goal of ‘world peace,’ they operated covertly and were considered to be at least ten years ahead in unique magical technology.
The Tower of the New Moon produced countless spells and items, one of which included the ‘Mutation Mask.’
Although it only lasted about three hours, it could change the shape of one’s face.
While there were many spells to alter one’s face, they were easily detected by magic sensors and were ineffective against mages of a certain level.
However, the Mutation Mask altered the facial skin itself, so there was little chance of detection.
It was the perfect magical tool for disguising one’s identity.
Kaen used the Mutation Mask to infiltrate the Golden Platform today.
Cleaner Kim Clean.
That was Kaen’s disguise.
The role of a cleaner was convenient for frequently observed buildings, as it allowed easy understanding of internal structures and didn’t raise suspicion no matter where one was.
“Hey, you! What’s a cleaner like you doing here, slacking off?”
Kaen subtly turned his gaze toward the man who approached him, yelling.
The man, whose belly protruded, seemed to be a staff member managing the Alchemic Hall.
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Although he flinched at Kaen’s intense stare, his anger only grew, prompting him to shout even louder.
“You’re glaring at me now? Get to the corner and start cleaning! Today is a day when many important people are visiting, so don’t stand out!”
“Oh, this guy’s ignoring me, huh? You’re in for it now…”
As the staff member raised his hand towards the motionless Kaen, someone intervened to stop him.
“Please, stop.”
“What now, who are you?”
Annoyed by being ignored by the cleaner, the staff member was even more infuriated by the young boy who stepped in, but quickly regretted it.
“…Baek Yu-seol?”
“Yes, you know me. So, how about you leave now?”
“Uh, well…”
The staff member couldn’t help but recognize Baek Yu-seol, Alterisha’s partner, causing him to waver.
“The cleaner was… messing up the view here…”
“There is no lowly profession. If you ask me, you’re more problematic. If you keep yapping, I’m going to get really pissed. So, leave now.”
“O-of course.”
The staff member quickly nodded and ran off without looking back.
*Sigh…*
Baek Yu-seol glanced at Kaen.
I didn’t help him out of kindness. I just saved that staff member from getting killed by Kaen.
“Well, take care.”
Though I saved the staff member, I didn’t want to interact with Kaen, so I quickly turned my back. But Kaen spoke first.
“Baek Yu-seol. Let’s talk.”
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I flinched for a moment, but I forced myself to act nonchalant.
“Did you forget your cleaning area?”
“Don’t joke around. I know you’ve seen through my disguise.”
“…Yes, so what?”
The Mutation Mask wasn’t perfect. A mage with extremely high perception could see through it.
Kaen assumed that Baek Yu-seol, who easily saw through Hyeijin’s illusion before, would naturally see through his Mutation Mask as well.
Baek Yu-seol.
To Kaen, this secretive boy was particularly intriguing.
Was it special because of his immense power at the age of seventeen, enough to defeat a 6-risk Dark Mage?
No, that wasn’t the issue.
He had made the rigid Master of the Tower of the New Moon, Rudelik, easily set aside his own will and even question his convictions.
“As you know, quite a few Dark Mages have infiltrated here. I don’t know what they are planning, but they haven’t made any moves yet. That doesn’t mean they aren’t dangerous.”
Baek Yu-seol stared at him as if to say, “So what?”
“How do you plan to handle this? This place seems quite important to you.”
What do you mean how?
I wasn’t going to do anything.
That was my true intention, but saying that wouldn’t satisfy him.
Once Kaen made up his mind, he never changed it. But I didn’t want him hanging around here.
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‘Nothing good comes from getting involved with that New Moon Tower jerk.’
The technology of the Tower of the New Moon was the best in the world in the original game. Until Alterisha appeared, that is.
The chief developer and inventor of the Tower of the New Moon, ‘Hamajin,’ was introduced as the greatest magical engineer of his time. However, he appeared as a character who envied and was jealous of Alterisha’s abilities.
He intentionally hindered Alterisha’s research, threatened her life, and stole her technology, leading to his eventual exposure and expulsion by Rudelik.
Not stopping there, he even sided with the Dark Mages, developing their technology to frustrate the players immensely.
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Currently, Hamajin had significant influence within the Tower of the New Moon. If he ordered the Extermination Squad to sabotage Alterisha, it would be very troublesome.
It would be wise to quickly drive out the Extermination Squad before that happened.
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“I’ll protect it. It’s an important place for me. But I’ll handle it. Please leave.”
“The Dark Mages are hiding their identities thoroughly. I won’t leave until they are exposed.”
Damn.
The thought of that stubborn man digging in his heels sent chills down my spine.
I couldn’t leave him alone, so I quickly spoke.
“That’s fine. I can filter out the Dark Mages to some extent.”
“…Do you have the ability to sense Dark Mana?”
“How great would it be to have such a convenient feature? It’s not that. It’s a type of ‘Deep Learning.’”
“Deep Learning…”
Hearing an unfamiliar term, Kaen’s eyebrows twitched. That was exactly my intention. Throwing in some technical jargon would make my words more credible.
“Yes. Think of it as a kind of deductive ability. I observe objects and people from a multi-dimensional perspective, throw that data into the ‘sea of consciousness,’ observe patterns, analyze, cluster, and classify the information, and then predict the results.”
“…I see. I fully understand.”
Kaen nodded with a stern expression. In truth, he didn’t understand at all, but he didn’t want to admit his ignorance.
‘Understand? Yeah, right.’
I, too, didn’t understand what I was saying. I was just using the skill of ‘pretentious jargon throwing’ to make it sound good.
“As a result, I successfully analyzed the information of everyone gathered here.”
“That’s… hard to believe. Observing everyone here doesn’t make sense.”
“Should I show you proof?”
When Kaen nodded, I activated [Mentalist].
It’s a trait that combines information such as the target’s tone, gestures, and expressions to understand their current state and emotions.
Moreover, with the Bulbul Glasses on, I was ready.
The observation and information analysis ability of these glasses were so fraudulent that they could analyze what even the tiniest speck of dust was if focused on.
Using both the Mentalist and Bulbul Glasses together consumed a lot of mental strength, but for a brief moment, I could imitate the protagonist of the novel ‘Sherlock Holmes’ that I enjoyed reading on Earth.
“You have pets at home. Two cats and three dogs… no, four dogs. You have illegal Creamshoe cats hidden away, right?”
Kaen’s expression hardened as if wondering how I knew, so I quickly explained.
“Ah, don’t misunderstand. There’s fur on your clothes. I catch those small details.”
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“…Impressive.”
“You had Mont Blanc pasta for lunch today? Unfortunately, it seems you didn’t have a partner to dine with. Otherwise, they would have pointed out the sauce on your collar.”
“That wristwatch isn’t expensive and is quite old. Seeing you wear it, I assume it was a gift from someone precious? You don’t seem to be an avid watch enthusiast. The hands aren’t aligned. Or… perhaps it’s set to the Eastern Continent’s Lahendel standard time.”
There was almost nothing wrong with what I said. The accuracy of my words, based on solid reasoning, made them irrefutable.
“Was I correct? You must miss someone in Lahendel. The watch model is something clockmakers in Arazin commonly used 60 years ago… So it wasn’t from a lover, but rather inherited from your mother. Back then, women preferred that model. It must have been tough leaving your homeland to work in the West.”
“…How did you know I worked in the West?”
“You originally had fair skin, but your face is tanned. The scars on your wrist and neck aren’t from Dark Mages but from a mage’s spell. So you must have been in a profession that fought humans in the West…”
Pretending to ponder, I looked Kaen up and down.
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“Judging by your gait and stance, you’re a soldier. If your unit fought humans in the West, it was probably Rakshun’s… no, Blue and Red’s unit? From your speech, you seem to have held an officer rank.”
“…You got it right.”
“Want me to continue?”
“No. That’s enough.”
Kaen waved his hand as if disgusted. Honestly, his entire body was covered in goosebumps, and he even felt a tinge of fear.
If he could deduce this much information with just a brief observation and some hints, then the ‘Deep Learning’ ability to identify Dark Mages was believable.
‘This isn’t ordinary observation.’
I had initially thought he was just powerful for his age, but that wasn’t the issue.
Baek Yu-seol’s greatest weapon was his brain.
At seventeen, he had solved the 300-year-old enigma, the Random Aeration Cross Formula, showcasing a mind far superior to any machine, with exceptional observational skills and extraordinary deductive abilities.
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It was now understandable why Rudelik took an interest in him.
‘Perhaps this boy could fill the empty spot of the 12th seat…’
Kaen thought as much before shaking his head. The ’12th seat’ wasn’t something just anyone could occupy.
Baek Yu-seol, although a perfect mage with both brains and brawn, was still far from being able to fill that seat.
However, being a young boy with immense potential at the age of seventeen, he could indeed fill that spot in the future.
If Rudelik considered Baek Yu-seol a candidate for the 12th seat and showed interest in him, it would indeed affirm the Master of the Tower’s wisdom.
*Phew…*
Kaen’s thoughts were unknown to Baek Yu-seol, who sighed with relief.
‘Thank goodness he told me to stop. Damn, the headache.’
Using the Mentalist and Bulbul Glasses’ observational and analytical abilities simultaneously drained all his mental strength. A severe headache pounded, and cold sweat formed on his back, but he couldn’t reveal that he was exhausted from analyzing just one person, or his lie would be exposed.
“Anyway, I’ll handle things here, so please step back.”
“…Alright.”
Since this place was especially important to Baek Yu-seol, he wouldn’t handle it carelessly. Given that Rudelik saw potential in him, it was safe to trust and leave it to him.
“Retreat.”
Kaen’s words echoed like a command, and the Extermination Squad members who had infiltrated the Golden Platform revealed themselves one by one, then vanished like mist.
“Phew…”
Baek Yu-seol sighed in relief, thinking he had safely sent away the Extermination Squad, one of the most dangerous groups in this world.
He turned around.
Alterisha was still busy conducting interviews, overwhelmed by the crowd but smiling brightly, which made him feel proud to watch.
‘I need to help her continue her research happily.’
I would thoroughly block any Dark Mages from entering Alterisha’s faction.
* * *
It was a weekday again, and Stella’s students attended classes as usual.
Thump!
As Flame placed a thick textbook on her desk and sat down, several female students gathered around her.
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“Hey, Flame. Did you watch the item presentation video that came out recently?”
“Wasn’t Assistant Alterisha so charismatic?”
“Right? She spoke so calmly, but it made her seem so competent and smart.”
“Geniuses really are different.”
Flame yawned. She had stayed up late studying the third-year curriculum last night.
As someone who had attended high school in Korea, Flame was very diligent about advanced studies.
“No.”
“This is all the rage lately, and you didn’t watch it?”
“Oh, you didn’t watch because your husband didn’t appear?”
Flame felt a bit irritated by the teasing tone and the word ‘husband’ but held back. Reacting would only make them happier to tease her.
“No. I was just too busy.”
“Then do you want to watch it now?”
Honestly, it was annoying, but since it was the presentation of one of the main characters, and she couldn’t ignore her friends’ goodwill, she decided to watch.
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“Since the beginning of the history of magic, technological revolutions have…”
Alterisha’s presentation played on a small magic screen.
A black portfolio. Walking among it, Alterisha spoke naturally as if conversing with the audience.
‘Wait?’
This presentation seemed oddly familiar. Unable to shake the feeling of dissonance, Flame couldn’t focus on the video and kept thinking.
Then she remembered.
‘This is similar to the presentation of the ‘Half-Eaten Apple’s Yourphone…?’
The technological revolution that brought all the world’s information to the small hands of Earth’s people.
Smartphones.
Alterisha’s item presentation was strangely similar to that famous presentation that announced the start of smartphones.
No, it wasn’t just similar.
It was exactly the same.
As a fan of the ‘Half-Eaten Apple’ company’s CEO, Flame couldn’t miss this. She even planned to use that presentation technique herself later.
‘Could Assistant Alterisha be from Earth…?’
No, that couldn’t be. The person to be suspicious of was Baek Yu-seol.
But that was strange too.
Hadn’t she initially suspected him of being a ‘rofan possessor’ like herself? But he knew nothing about the original rofan’s progression and had even richer knowledge of small details and the future that Flame didn’t know.
Baek Yu-seol accomplished things that only a regressor could do and knew things only a regressor could know.
‘What the heck is going on…?’
Flame’s mind was filled with confusion.
End of Chapter
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