Fake Professor, Misunderstood As Strong - Chapter 50

The Banquet of Stars! Part-1.
The Royal Palace, Throne Room.

*Tap**tap*

The rhythmic voice of a finger tapping on a solid surface again and again rang out in the throne room.

That finger-tapping sound made all of the members attending the ‘meeting’ feel nervous.

The only person who could make all of these grade-2 mages feel nervous here, is none other than Mark’s father and the grade-1 mage, Reynald Kalashnikov.

His other hand held a luxurious wine glass that contained the most expensive wine in the human empire.

As he sipped the fine wine, Reynald’s golden eyes stared at the person bowing towards him with a face covered in tears and snouts.

“So, what you are trying to say is that your family failed to protect the town that was entrusted to you and you came running back to me after the whole town was massacred?” (Reynald)

“T-that, y-your highness, i-I had no other choice-”

[Grade-1 Earth Magic: Gentle hand of the earth god!]

Before the other party could bring forward any excuses, Reynald waved his hand, and a gigantic magic circle appeared above the other party’s head.

A ‘hand’ made of condensed earth elements shot out of the magic circle and hit the other party with such speed that his body burst apart and turned into a puddle of meat and blood.

A huge amount of blood splattered everywhere and even stained the clothes of the nearby grade 2 mages, making them retreat in fear.

After squatting a grade-2 mage like he was some random fly, Reynald waved his hand and ordered the maids to clean up the area.

“Utter garbage, can’t even accept their failure properly, I would have given you a lighter punishment if you hadn’t tried to justify the death of so many innocent people, just to hide your own incompetence…” (Reynald)

The person Reynald killed was the head of a vassal family under the Royal family’s command.

His family was given the responsibility to protect a small town, but due to their irresponsibility, monsters made it past the city walls as the magic barrier was not repaired on time due to corruption.

Only the head of the family survived in that massacre and escaped with his life.

Reynald already had all of the information beforehand, so he knew all the ‘ins and outs’ of this matter, Underestimating Reynald’s information gathering channels is a mistake only a fool can make.

While watching the throne room getting cleaned by the maids, Reynald waved his hand to dismiss all of the other grade-2 mages, as they had already completed the reporting session by now.

The grade-2 mages finally heaved a sigh of relief after they left the throne room.

None of them wanted to get turned into a puddle of meat and blood, so they hurried back home, not daring to stay too long in this place.

They only came to give their annual reports on Reynald’s summons; otherwise, they wouldn’t have come here even if someone had paid them for it.

Watching their retreating back, Reynald shook his head and thought to himself:

‘Corruption has started to become extremely rampant in these few years… if this continues… thousands of lives will be lost… there are major flaws in the current government…’ (Reynald)

Reynald is a person with great insight; he knows a lot about politics and stuff.

Originally, it was the responsibility of the royal family to take care of the populace when they were in power, but two hundred years ago, the commoners started major protests and demanded freedom.

Seeing the major protests, the royal family had to comply, they agreed to withdraw and helped in conducting the first ever elections.

The law and constitution were formed, and a proper government was formed for the first time.

Although it suppressed the ruling power of the royal family, other things in the royal family were totally unaffected.

The royal family has always produced mages of Grade 1 in each generation, so there is no one who can completely eradicate their power.

The previous head of the royal family was a benevolent person, he agreed with the common folk and helped them gain individual rights.

But two hundred years have passed since then, and corruption runs deep in today’s politics.

The Royal family also had these issues in the past, but they were usually dealt with by the grade 1 mage, a.k.a. the king of that generation.

But the current government doesn’t have anyone to keep them in check so things have become dangerous for the common folk.

‘The vassal family head’s associated with our family have also started to receive large amounts of bribes from the government… making them corrupt… things are not looking good in the future…’ (Reynald)

‘How will you handle it, Mark?’ (Reynald)

Reynald knew that his son will be the next king after him, so he was interested in how Mark will handle the chaotic times that were about to come.

Just when Reynald was enjoying the wine while contemplating about the future in his mind.

His mischievous daughter, Alice, came running into the throne room.

“Father! Big bro Mark is an illegitimate child!!” (Alice)

“cough!!! Cough!!! W-what the!? Cough!!” (Reynald)

Reynald chocked on the wine and coughed violently like an asthma patient. Even the wine glass fell down, which made the maids feel frightened.

“Ahem! Cough!!! Ahem!” (Reynald)

[Basic Magic: Clean!]

Reynald used his mana to control his breathing after casting a simple spell to clean the wine stains from his clothes.

Only then did he reply to Alice calmly:

“Who told you such nonsense-” (Reynald)

*BOOM!*

Just when Reynald was about to question Alice about it, the ceiling of the throne room broke apart and a woman wearing full plate armor appeared.

Her whitish-pink hair swayed in the air and made her look extremely beautiful, but instead of fascination, black lines appeared on Reynald’s face.

“L-let me explain-” (Reynald)

Before Reynald could explain himself, the lady swung her sword, and a gigantic arc made of condensed mana came flying at Reynald, nearly splitting his throne it two.

(It couldn’t harm Reynald as his mana shield is too strong…)

But the lady was still not claimed by this, she walked towards Reynald and placed her sword near his neck, but didn’t thrust it forward. (Even if she thrusts it, it won’t do anything to the mana shield…)

Reynald looked at Alice and said in a helpless tone.

“Explain yourself!” (Nadia)

With a creepy smile on her face, Nadia glared at Reynald in anger.

“Alice, explain things properly to your mom, she is misunderstanding something…” (Reynald)

“Mom, look at this news! It’s trending!” (Alice)

Nadia stepped back momentarily and took the smartphone from Alice’s hand.

The news on trending were:

[Conspiracy theory!! Prince Mark might be an illegitimate child!!]

[Jareth blaze favors Prince Mark greatly! Is he his father!?]

When Nadia and Reynald saw that news, both of them felt angry at it.

Reynald waved his hand, summoned his secretory and ordered him to get rid of this false rumor.

“This is pure bullsh*t! Immediately block all accounts who are spreading about this thing and hold a press conference to show Mark’s legitimate right to the throne!” (Reynald)

The secretory nodded his head and left in a hurry.

Seeing that it was just a false alarm, Nadia placed her sword back into its scabbard with a look of disappointment.

Reynald heaved a sigh of relief after seeing that she had calmed down a bit.

He then smiled and asked:

“By the way, what were you doing while wearing the armor at home?” (Reynald)

Nadia puffed up her chest in pride and replied:

“Of course I was training! A warrior must keep training to retain their wits!” (Nadia)

Nadia was not born with a magic circuit, so she became a knight instead.

Before marrying Reynald, she was considered one of the strongest knights out there.

And even now, she is as strong as a grade-3 mage.

“I see.. I see, good!” (Reynald)

Reynald nodded his head in response to her words.

Just when the two were busy talking, Alice pouted her cheeks and glared at them both.

“You two are ignoring me! I am not talking to you anymore!” (Alice)

After saying that, Alice ran away with an angry look on her face.

Nadia and Reynald could only shake their heads at their daughter’s mood swings.

Just then, the head butler arrived at the scene and saluted Reynald and Nadia.

“Hmm, you seem troubled… what happened, Olin?” (Reynald)

“Your highness, the principal of Ivan’s university has requested for you to join an online meeting with him…” (Olin)

“Reject it! Do we even need to bother with that old fox? Just reject whatever he wants to say… I have no time to waste with a traitor…” (Reynald)

“Uh, your majesty… he said he wants to negotiate with you about something important… he wants to sell you a secret spell…” (Olin)

Hearing those words, even Reynald was shocked.

“What? Is he pulling a joke again?” (Reynald)

“No, he said he was ready to sign the mana contract too…” (Olin)

“hoh… things just got a lot interesting… what could have made him take that decision, I wonder… interesting…” (Reynald)

A look of contemplation appeared on Reynald’s face as he heard such an interesting thing.

‘Today might not be as unlucky a day as I was originally thinking…’ (Reynald)

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Author’s Notes.

Yo! It’s your beloved author here! It seems Reynald resembles his son a lot, he even married a yandere waifu himself! What a chad!

Question of the day:.

Who do you think is a better grade-1 mage?

1. Reynald (At least he has a waifu…)

2. Nathan (He nearly got beaten by Abella…)

3. Jareth (He is not even a grade 2 yet but, bro’s a hacker!!)

By the way, don’t forget to use those power stones and also leave a review if you like the story. Comment your opinion about the chapter. Your support is my motivation.