Only Wisdom Awakened - Chapter 79

Chapter 79: Rewards …?
“Beep..”

“Beep..”

“Bee-

The ringing phone was picked up by an elegantly dressed man.

The mechanical voice from the other side soon spoke:

“Have you taken care of it?”

“Yes” replied the man.

Lying behind him, on the cold concrete that was now painted in red, were the bodies of countless men.

“That’s good, these bastards had become quite a nuisance in the last few months.

To think they would try and produce drugs even when the market is already monopolized, I guess they were eager to die.

..

How were they?”

“Hmm, not bad I guess, I’ll give them a five out of ten, there was a B-class so I had to get a bit serious”

“Oh! Already a B-class, I guess they didn’t expand in the underworld only by luck.

Well, I’m sure it must’ve been quite easy for a sixth rank magician, isn’t that right?”

“It wasn’t that difficult”

[newly promoted sixth rank mage, vice guild master of the Asura Guild.

Zachary Barne]

“It seems like sir has plans to proceed with project Charlie”

“Really? I’m sure it must not be so easy taking on so many experts, after all..

bringing down the awakened academy painstakingly created by the association is quite the difficult feat”

“Don’t worry about that, I heard that N°2 will be sent there”

“Then there’s nothing to worry about”

“No, you are wrong about that”

“How come?”

“There is a monster among the professors this year”

“You must be talking about him.. hm yes, rethinking about it, I think that just n° 2 won’t be enough”

“You will have to take action, it’s a direct order from the lord, are you able to get out without the consent of your guild master?”

“Pff, that puppet isn’t even worth mentioning,

If it wasn’t for me that fool would already be dead ten times over by now, also, he’s becoming more and more addicted to the new product”

“Haha, you truly are a devil!”

“Will I just have to kill the students?”

Asked the man with a composed tone as he used his handkerchief to clean his face of the stains of blood.

“No, there wouldn’t be the need to trouble an expert such as you, you’ll have to kill some teachers, I’ll send you the list right now”

“Alright then”

..

On the list, the first target displayed was:

[name: Hans richter

Position: magic class teacher]

“Hans richter? If it’s that crippled trash than I won’t have to worry about anything”

…

In the meantime, at the awakened academy..

An immense flame lit up the sky, acting as a second sun, soon, it descended, pulverizing the monster to smithereens.

“Is he really.. a crippled man?”

A couple of hours earlier..

Inside the classroom, Hans had called the four winners of the matches.

“I will now give you some personal advices to improve your overall strength”

“Colton, the way you fight is honestly really refined, your casting time is short and you have good control over your body.”

The boy looked quite happy about the praises, but his smile soon faded as Hans finished his comment.

“However, you are too arrogant, this time you got away since the opponent wasn’t skilled and experienced, but what would you have done if closing her eyes was just a trap, you would’ve run directly into it.”

“Also, your mana flow isn’t really stable, probably because of the fact that you focus most on displaying the spell instead of improving its performance, and the way you pronou….”

Hans talked for five whole minutes, and the student’s ears were about to burst, so when Hans asked: “understood?”

He didn’t lose a second and replied: “yes”.

“Now, passing on to you..”

said Hans watching Logan.

“Your choice was incredibly smart and interesting, to think that you were able to analyze the situation to that extent…

However, it would be better for you if you were able to read the mana, after all, if your hypothesis of her powers turned out incorrect then it would’ve been game over.

For the next week, come to me around six o’clock, I’ll guide you towards the state of mana influx”

The eyes of all the students lit up, as they watched their classmate astonished.

They all had a single question in mind:

“Why him and not me?”

They looked like puppies that were about to cry, so Hans reassured them a bit.

“Eh-ehm, don’t worry about it, we will do it at the end of the year, it’s just an anticipation”

Like puppies with their ears down, they all replied in a sad tone: “okay”

“As for you Claire, stay behind later, I’ll tell you then”

“Hm, okay” said the girl, curious about what he wanted to say.

“Austin, you have just reached second circle, so you might have to stabilize it, come to my office at five o’clock, I’ll teach you an efficient method.”

“Now go, and don’t tell the others what your rewards were”

While three of them were walking outside of the classroom, Logan thought to himself, and wondered about Hans’ decisions.

‘These are all valuable teachings, how could he give them away just because we won the spar? There must be another objective.

Does he perhaps.. want to take us as his apprentices?

Taking disciples is something very common amongst the high ranking awakened, since much progress has been done from the catastrophe to this day, it would be very difficult for someone if they wanted to climb up the ranks as a newly awakened person.

So in a form of apprenticeship, not only the master teaches the disciple, but he also protects him until he is strong enough to take care of himself.

And when the apprentice grows, as his master, the awakened also gains a lot of fame and protection.

But no normal awakened can take on disciples, since they swear to protect them, then they must have the strength to do so.

Only S-rank awakened can take on disciples, sometimes there are exceptions with tier-6 mages, but for someone like him to take disciples… will he be okay?’

..

“Claire right?”

Hans was sure, since the skill told him, but he just used the chance to hook up a conversation.

“Yes, what did you let me stay behind for?”

“Claire Carter, does that mean you are Benjamin’s daughter?”

“Y-yes that’s right”

‘Is he going to talk to me about the marriage, I hope not, it would be so awkward’

“Okay then, come with me”

{stealth} Hans cast the tier-3 spell without even chanting, surprising Claire.

“Follow me”

” where are we going?”

“To a place that will help you grow”

They passed by various students and teachers while heading towards their objective, but none of them noticed their presence.

‘Wow, amazing! Is this really only a tier-3 magic? we almost came in contact with the PE teacher before but he didn’t even sense anything strange’

Even if she did not want to be impolite, she could not hold back her curiosity, and asked Hans some questions:

“Teach, weren’t you supposed to be crippled or something? And what about your circles destroying? It was all over the internet, even my classmates who aren’t awakened were talking about it”

“My circles did break, and I am indeed crippled”

Said Hans expressionless while walking forward.

“Then how are you using magic”

“Well it’s simple, I’m not completely crippled, just limited.”

“Then does that mean you can only use a portion of your powers?”

“Mh”

“About how much?”

“I’d say, not even a tenth”

As they walked, the academy wasn’t visible anymore, and they ventured in the woods.

‘What is he thinking of doing to me? Does he want me to train under a waterfall like in some novels or something?’ Though Claire, not feeling safe getting so far from the campus.

“Here we are..”

Hans moved out of the way, to let the shining light in front of him touch Claire’s eyes.

‘This is.. a gate.

Why is this it here? We have to alert the other teachers!

we are all in danger!

they’ll come outside if we don’t clear it quickly!

what then? What would we do then?

Please no, I don’t want them to die I don’t want anyone to-

Hans’ hand was laid on her shoulder.

He had seen her quite shocked, so he made sure to keep her mentality stable.

“Don’t worry about this, it’s only an F-rank gate, not to talk about one professor, maybe even a party of students could clear it.

‘Ah.. thank god it’s only F-rank’

She came back to her own senses.

“Han- teacher, how did you know it was here?”

“I just found it while exploring”

Replied Hans, even if he had actually sensed it while meditating, the mana around gates becomes twisted and tedious, so when he meditated, and his sensibility to mana was heightened, he found this place.

It wasn’t really believable,reason why he lied.

“But teach, why have you brought me here?” Asked the girl seriously intrigued.

“Why? Of course.. you’re going to clear it”

-huh?-