Magic Academy's Genius Blinker - Chapter 127
Chapter 127
Stella Magic Knights (5)
T h is wa s c o p i e d f ro m ki n g m tl. or g
I had a dream.
A dream where everything was burning.
In the dream world, nothing was spared.
The Aether World, which had achieved brilliant civilization, was destroyed by a single entity, and even Stella Academy was not spared.
In the middle of those ruins.
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Aiselle stood alone.
No one survived.
In the place where everyone had disappeared, Aiselle quietly walked through the desolate world.
There was no sadness, no anger, no despair.
She lifted her head.
She met eyes with something.
It was alive and yet not alive. Could that creature, which drove everything to death, even be called life?
The disaster slowly approached Aiselle, opening its mouth to say something, and just at that moment…
“…Huh!”
She came to her senses.
And she met eyes with a girl who had her face close to hers.
It was her friend, Marillen.
“Hello?”
She greeted her with a pretty smile like a crescent moon.
“Aah?!”
Thump.
“Kyaa!”
As Aiselle screamed and shot up from her seat, she collided foreheads with Marillen.
“Ouch…”
Holding her forehead, Marillen groaned.
“I’m not that ugly, you know. It hurts when people get scared just by looking at my face…”
“I-I’m sorry…”
Realizing she was in a hospital room, Aiselle understood she had fainted.
“How long has it been?”
“Almost a whole night.”
“Yeah. You must’ve studied so hard that you collapsed from exhaustion.”
There were other friends in the room, visiting under the pretext of checking on her while chatting and munching on snacks.
“Exhaustion…”
“Yeah. Don’t you remember? The doctor said you collapsed from overwork.”
“Geez, the ones who study well always overdo it. How much more are you trying to achieve with such good grades?”
While it was true she had been overworked, it wasn’t to the point of collapsing.
Rather, the reason she fainted…
Remembering why she had fainted, Aiselle’s face gradually hardened, but her friends couldn’t understand.
“By the way, it was kind of surprising. When you fainted, some Stella Knights were guarding you.”
“Yeah. Felt like we were nobles, pretty cool.”
“Knights…”
“Yeah. But they left just as you woke up.”
“Oh…”
Aiselle rubbed her forehead, thinking for a moment, then faintly smiled.
“Thanks for visiting.”
“Huh?”
Seeing her expression, her friends were momentarily stunned.
The gentle sunlight streaming into the room and the soft breeze made Aiselle’s beautiful smile even more radiant, leaving them momentarily mesmerized.
Then, as they regained their senses, they scrunched their faces.
“When a pretty girl makes a pretty face, it’s disgustingly beautiful.”
“Don’t do that.”
“Huh?”
“Just… don’t.”
Seeing her friends start chatting again, not making too much noise despite being in a hospital, Aiselle felt genuinely grateful.
For a moment, as someone entered the room, it fell silent.
“You’re awake. We have things to discuss, so you will be discharged immediately.”
The General Commander of the Stella Knights, Arain.
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He had come personally.
* * *
Walking alongside Arain, Aiselle couldn’t hide her discomfort.
It had been fine when they walked in the deserted Stella Orion Tower, but now, walking through the academy, they attracted a lot of attention.
…
Arain, regardless of her discomfort, kept his stern expression and walked towards the First Main Tower.
The destination was the principal’s office.
‘Why here…?’
Knock knock!
As Arain knocked, the door opened automatically.
Click!
It closed.
“Huh…?”
Before she knew it, she was inside the principal’s office.
“You’re here?”
The principal of Stella Academy, Eltemon Eltrine, greeted them while still organizing his study.
Seeing his youthful smile, Aiselle, momentarily dazed, quickly understood the situation and was taken aback.
‘What is this…?!’
The principal’s office, and meeting the principal himself!
Arain bowed slightly to Eltemon and stepped back.
“I will take my leave.”
“Alright. Be more careful next time.”
“Yes, sir.”
Click!
Arain left quickly, and Eltemon, smiling, said,
“We need to talk, don’t we?”
“Yes? Ah…”
Understanding Eltemon’s intentions, Aiselle nodded and sat down.
“First, I have a question.”
“Yes…”
“Did your father ever tell you not to trust Arain?”
Startled, Aiselle trembled. Her father indeed said that often.
“How did you…”
“Well, he had his reasons. Especially, he disliked people like Arain. But you didn’t follow your father’s advice and nearly died because of it.”
“Huh?”
Eltemon waved his hand in the air. Magic activated without a staff, warping the space, summoning a teacup and teapot, and pouring tea in mid-air.
“The Library of Stars isn’t something a mere 3rd-class mage can handle. You had a 99.99% chance of dying.”
“W-What?!”
Not knowing it was that dangerous, Aiselle’s voice raised in shock. Eltemon laughed.
“Well, the fact that you didn’t die means you hit the 0.01% chance. Congratulations. Maybe you should buy a lottery ticket? Though you’ve used all your luck, it might not work.”
“D-Dying…”
99% chance of dying?
She hadn’t heard that at all.
“You wouldn’t have. If Arain wanted to use you, he wouldn’t emphasize the danger, right? Gullible Aiselle Morf fell for it and accessed the Library of Stars.”
He was right.
It was her mistake to trust Arain completely. Without questioning the risk, she followed his words to save Baek Yu-seol and accessed the Library of Stars.
“But honestly, Arain was sincere. He really wanted to save Baek Yu-seol. During the process…”
Eltemon met Aiselle’s frightened eyes.
“He didn’t care what happened to your life.”
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“I see…”
“Haha, don’t worry. I gave him a stern talking-to. He won’t do it again.”
Even with those words, Aiselle’s heart still pounded, remembering she had escaped death once.
“My personal opinion…”
Eltemon, who was grinning, suddenly spoke seriously, making Aiselle focus.
“This isn’t a miracle or coincidence. Something… some fate saved you.”
“Fate…”
“The Library of Stars doesn’t seem to reject the descendants of the Twelve Disciples.”
Why?
Aiselle couldn’t understand and fidgeted, but Eltemon found it fascinating.
“Isn’t it interesting? A library of knowledge that discriminates against people. This is closer to ‘mystery’ than magic. As a mage interpreting reality through magic, I find it funny, but there are many unreal things in this world that I don’t know. The Constellatio Project is one of them. Even I don’t know the secrets it holds.”
However.
“You peeked at some of those secrets. With your eyes, ears, nose, skin, tongue, and mind. How did it feel?”
Bang!
Eltemon put both hands on the desk, leaning forward with an excited face.
“Was it thrilling? Exciting? Scary? Were your curiosities satisfied? Are you satisfied?”
“Um, um…”
Aiselle, terrified, stepped back, trembling, and Eltemon realized his mistake, stepping back.
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“…Sorry. I got a bit excited.”
He sipped his tea calmly, but his fingers were trembling.
Like someone experiencing withdrawal symptoms.
“Anyway… You must never reveal what happened there.”
“Why?”
“The knowledge there is the will of the heavens.”
He spoke calmly.
“Leaking heavenly secrets defies the will of the heavens. Your head will burst, and you’ll die.”
She realized how dangerously she had acted.
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“But… there are exceptions.”
Eltemon took out his staff. Seeing the principal’s staff for the first time, she gasped.
The mystical staff, like a bundle of white branches, was called ‘Carbi Sicututu.’
It was specialized in handling space magic, one of the rarest staffs in Aether World.
Boom!
He struck the floor with his staff, and a mysterious golden light enveloped the room.
“The principal’s office has a special spell. If I wish, I can isolate it from the world for a short time. The cost is a significant reduction in my lifespan…”
Eltemon licked his lips.
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“For the chance to hear about the Library of Stars, it’s a cheap price. So, tell me. What happened there?”
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Aiselle closed her eyes, took a deep breath, and began slowly, with a trembling voice, to recount what she saw.
“The world… was burning.”
A red meteor shower filled the sky. A black dragon brought destruction, and no one could oppose it.
But one person.
“Baek Yu-seol… he was walking towards the black dragon.”
“I see. So that’s how it ends.”
Eltemon wasn’t surprised, as if he had expected it.
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“It was so scary… Stella Academy was burning, and I thought it was real…”
However, Eltemon, who didn’t react to the world’s end, showed a strange reaction to Stella Academy’s destruction.
“Did you say Stella was burning?”
“Yes? Yes…”
“I need a more detailed description.”
“Um… It looked like half-destroyed ruins. At first, it was unrecognizable as Stella.”
“Really?”
Why this reaction?
Was Stella more important to him than the world? If the world ended, Stella’s destruction was inevitable, wasn’t it?
What part surprised him?
Aiselle’s question remained unanswered as he asked the next question.
“So, did you see what caused Stella’s destruction? What happened to the people?”
“Well… The buildings were all collapsed…”
“Were they destroyed by the meteor shower?”
“I’m not sure…”
“What about the people? Why did they die?”
“I-I don’t know…”
“Try to remember how they died. There must have been injuries. Were they killed by the black dragon, or perhaps by someone else…”
“I don’t know!!”
Thud!
Crash!
Unable to bear the continuous questions, Aiselle shouted as she stood, causing Eltemon’s teacup to fall.
Eltemon remained silent.
‘Ah.’
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Realizing her mistake, Aiselle turned pale and tried to apologize, but Eltemon bowed first.
“Sorry. I was in a hurry and couldn’t be considerate.”
When he looked up again, his face was pale, as if he could collapse any moment.
It wasn’t an illusion.
Blood was trickling from his lips.
“…Next question. You don’t seem to want to recall this part.”
“Aren’t you overdoing it…?”
“No. This is fine…”
Eltemon’s trembling hand held the teacup. His obsession with the tea, even while looking like he might collapse, seemed almost mad to Aiselle.
“Perhaps that was… something from the past…”
Eltemon’s voice was much slower now, a sign of exhaustion.
“The past… The world has never been destroyed.”
“Yes. But there are beings who can manipulate time in this world…”
Twelve Divine Moons
Silver Age November
“Perhaps that being tampered with the world line…”
“No way…”
If true, what Aiselle saw was an event from the distant past.
“But Silver Age November’s time only repeats, it can’t change anything. It’s an event from the past, but also a future event.”
“The world’s end in the future…”
“…Yes.”
It wasn’t hard to guess the timing. In the Library of Stars world, Baek Yu-seol facing the black dragon looked about ten years older than now.
This raises a question.
“…Silver Age November’s clock must repeat around someone. So, it’s likely that someone who turned back time still lives today. But the problem is not knowing who…”
When Eltemon coughed lightly, blood came out. Meanwhile, Aiselle thought of something.
She hadn’t told him, but… she had definitely shouted at the Library of Stars to show her about Baek Yu-seol.
But normally, if someone’s past was shown, wouldn’t it show their childhood? Showing events from a ‘world line before turning back time’ wasn’t normal, was it?
‘Could Baek Yu-seol be…?’
A thought crept into Aiselle’s mind.
At the end of the world, fighting alone against the black destruction, Baek Yu-seol. If he had turned back time after failing to stop the black dragon and prevent the world’s end…
‘Could it be true?’
The pieces fit together in her mind.
Why Baek Yu-seol acted the way he did. His deep thinking, exceptional combat sense, vast knowledge. Even his mature demeanor for a teenager.
‘No, no. I don’t know anything yet…’
But if true.
Having failed to stop the world’s end and forced to turn back time, what was Baek Yu-seol thinking at that moment…
“Aiselle…”
Eltemon, barely alive, spoke.
“We don’t know anything yet… To prevent the world’s end, we need more stories… But your current power is not enough…”
Meaning Aiselle needed to grow stronger. If not…
“…If you could access the Library of Stars with another Twelve Disciples’ descendant and combine your strengths…”
“P-Principal!”
Finally, Eltemon couldn’t hold on any longer and collapsed, the barrier breaking.
Thud!
“Principal!”
“Are you alright?”
The knights, who seemed to have been monitoring the room, burst in and urgently took Eltemon away. Watching them, Aiselle stood stunned, unable to do anything.
Her mind was filled with truths she didn’t want to know.
End of Chapter
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Então o final que o mc viu no jogo é uma antiga linha temporal pra eles nesse mundo