Overpowered Archmage Doesn’t Hide His Talent chapter 139

139 – No need.

… Time seemed to slow down.

Plan.

It was in front of the mansion that I ran into him.

Confident eyes swaying red beneath the pitch-black hair. Sharp jawline and sharp eyes. His appearance was not much different from the past.

However, their facial expressions were so different.

I even felt the illusion that the temperature around him had gone down for a moment at his expressionless expression. No longer did he have the gentle face he had glimpsed in the past.

Scarlett has doubts.

Will that coldness be able to melt in the distant future?

If she endures day by day and perseveres endlessly.

Will there ever be a day when we see once again the gentleness we saw in the fragments of our memories when we greet the spring of a year when the buds are budding?

Scarlett’s life was both a blessing and an original sin.

It must have been a blessing to have survived the curse, but it was the original sin that took away the fiancee’s unique abilities. It was a life with contradictions forced upon his shoulders.

Suddenly, a scene flashes through my mind.

It was a scene I had already seen once in the annex.

─Hey, can I ask you some magic you don’t know about?

This was the voice of little flan.

In order to learn magic, he was busy running around. Despite the fact that he had to show his flaws, he was willing to do so every time.

─I can’t. You are so incompetent

A schoolgirl with blonde hair shook her head. There was a lot of contempt in the girl’s eyes as she looked at Flan.

Haley.

It was the name written on the girl’s name tag.

─Flan.

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─Huh?

─You keep asking me to tell you something when you can’t even do it. What else is your purpose? Are you doing this because you’re interested in me?

Scarlett’s heart was broken the moment she saw that scene.

Plan had no reason to put up with such an insult. But he laughed it off every time, and silently tried to prove something new.

When she found out that the proof was for herself, who was infinitely shabby, her heart felt broken.

“Why do you look at people like that?”

The cool tone of the flan hit my ears.

Her mind flashed. Scarlett lost her thoughts at once, and a throbbing pain arose in her heart.

“….”

Silence fell for a moment.

“Get out of the way.”

The man quietly passed him by.

Scarlett stared blankly at her figure. Looking at her wider back than before, countless thoughts run through her head.

But yet, there was nothing that could be said in words.

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Returning to the mansion, I looked at work first.

“Have we gathered like this already?”

Sitting in a chair, I first looked at the list of investors handed over from Maiev and the trend of the amount.

Now, it would be good to see that virtually all issues related to ‘finance’ have been resolved.

Even if the amount of gold coins runs out on the way, there will still be no worries. Her second princess, Aurora, had obviously promised her support.

“This is enough.”

The act of seeing the best blueprint and compromise when resources are limited. I was free from the problems most would have.

Now it’s time to take the next step in the plan.

After closing Maiev’s report, I rang the bell on the desk. It was to call the head maid.

About 10 seconds later, Katarina appeared.

“Yes, young boy. Did you call?”

Katarina bowed her head and politely bowed her head. She looked very much like a maid.

But she was not alone.

“Excuse me, Bocchan.”

“Excuse me.”

Other maids came into my room one after another. A mobile cart-shaped tray filled with desserts is carefully placed in one corner of the room.

I narrowed my brows and asked the maid.

“What is it?”

“In case anyone gets bored while doing work…. I prepared only luxurious things.”

“Did you prepare it?”

“Yes. That’s right.”

But I didn’t miss Katarina’s voice quivering and her eyes turning towards her door for a moment.

I caught a glimpse of her black hair sticking out through the crack in her slightly open door.

“….”

However, as the expression suggests, it was only a fleeting moment. Soon after, the presence at the door was completely erased.

I shook her head in agreement.

“No need. Get rid of everything.”

“Oh, I see.”

“And there must have been something that arrived at the mansion.”

“I took care of it. Please wait a moment.”

Katarina vacated her room, and she returned a moment later with her scrolls in her arms. They were all about the ‘school’ of magic.

She didn’t want to waste time, so she had Yusiah send her to Judith’s mansion the types of magic schools that exist in this world and their simple characteristics.

However, it arrived quite quickly. It was worthwhile to deal with her while playing luminous puzzles.

“Brother. Next Tuesday, there is a meeting for the next head of household. Are you attending?”

“A meeting for the next family heads?”

“This is a meeting called ‘succession’. Until last year, Lady Scarlett attended.”

“Then why didn’t you ask Scarlett?”

My gaze meets the head maid in the air. Katarina let her shoulders tremble and cast her gaze down.

“I already asked, but the lady said that she no longer has any intention of being the head of household.”

Is it true that he will keep his promise like a knight?

“Is this a small gathering attended by all the next head of household?”

“Absolutely not. Only good families who have completed the verification are barely eligible to attend.”

“Okay. Not consider.”

I nodded her head in a short reply.

The meeting of the next head of household was a pretty attractive proposal.

Since I plan to gradually transform Judith into a family for me, it would not be a bad idea to open a path with prominent families in this world.

It was also the best place to reveal your identity.

“Let’s go out now.”

“Yes, son.”

Katarina bowed her back and walked away.

Looking through the scrolls handed down from Yusiah, I see that information about the magic schools in this world is clearly organized.

By the way, I already know to some extent. I’ve often heard or seen it on the way.

A total of 12 schools have been identified.

Compared to the previous world, the number is far less. In other words, magic that should have been researched has not yet been studied.

“… First of all, 12 people.”

Even if the number is smaller than in the previous world, it is necessary to capture them first.

In order for the newly built mage tower to be truly reborn as a ‘cradle of magic’, it must be able to unite all of them and receive sincere recognition.

Warfare between schools was not uncommon in the former world. And that always slowed down the development of magic for about 20 years.

“That much is unacceptable.”

It would be a waste of time even if they put their heads together and purely pursue the development of magic, and the sight of them fighting and biting each other was unacceptable.

“Me, young boy.”

While I was thinking about that, Katarina entered again. A golden envelope was in her hand.

“A message has just arrived from the imperial family.”

“Yes.”

My name was clearly written on the envelope.

This is possible because the second princess, Aurora, already knows that I am Judith.

I opened the overly antique envelope. The content was extremely simple. It was just a sentence emphasizing that I will visit the imperial palace today.

… No, there was one more thing.

“Discussion?”

After discussing magic with the court mages, there was something to pass on to Aurora, and as soon as she confirmed it, a good plan came to her mind.

The plan to unite the various schools in the Mage Tower is like turning on a light bulb in a dark place.

“If the place is not the Imperial Palace but the Magic Tower….”

Second Princess Aurora, if she goes directly to her mage tower, there will be no schools that will object to her.

How to get around.

How to summon the aurora?

… It wasn’t difficult.

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Plan’s visit was not far off.

Aurora’s words were delivered quickly and accurately. Half of the escort knights stood by her side, and the princess looked at him.

“Ban. What do you think of this part?”

Aurora holds up her paper with one hand, and with the other hand points to the place where her message is written. It was part of the magic discussion.

“… The court mages are also very good. I wonder why it has to be a plan.”

Ban answered as honestly as possible. Aurora nods slowly as well.

“Yes. You’d be curious about that I expected it.”

“Don’t you see the future in the first place?”

“Your future will be clear even if you don’t look.”

“It is because knights are honest.”

“You are just simple.”

“Yes.”

Ban calmly accepted Aurora’s words. It’s been a few years now, so I’m quite used to these conversations now.

“Flan is going to be at the academy all the time.”

“Yes.”

Aurora recalled some of the information she had obtained.

The fact that a task force for Plan is set up, and that alone is not enough, that even a new mage tower is being built.

Ruthless and reckless wizards are replete with history, but Plan was almost the only one who made progress while building grounds.

“I will raise him in the imperial palace.”

So, Aurora’s primary goal was to keep Flan in her palace and raise her as her own.

“….”

When the escort knight did not return her answer, Aurora lowered her stance and looked at her classmate’s face.

“Hey, why is there no answer?”

“Oh, sorry.”

Ban shook his head hurriedly. Aurora suddenly confirmed that Ban’s future could not be read.

If something doesn’t read, it must mean that the subject was thinking about flan.

“Ban.”

“Yes. Princess.”

“I thought about flan.”

“Yes.”

Aurora stared at her class with eyes that seemed to tell her everything, and he couldn’t help but open her mouth.

“Is Plan really a human being that can be tamed? I was thinking about it for a moment.”

“How pitiful.”

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She rested her chin on one hand as if feeling unwell. The inner chambers of the second princess became quiet.

“There is never anything I cannot tame. At first, I will hold on to the discussion as an excuse, but gradually I will put her on a leash to live here.”

There was nothing she hadn’t put in her hands, and even if it was in the hands of someone else, she would absolutely take it.

She killed if she felt like being taken away. She was just a weak girl, and that was the secret to her survival.

Ban opened her mouth with a difficult face.

“There are people who prefer to break rather than bend. Princess.”

“Breaking it is also a way to tame it.”

Aurora twisted her mouth and glanced at him.

“Also, everything exists in the imperial palace. With a cage this big, he’ll be satisfied in the end.”

She was confident that she could tame anyone. She was none other than she, who wielded the whip herself.

“Is it time for him to visit?”

“One minute later.”

Aurora quietly closed her eyes.

Doong─

After a while, a drum sounds, announcing the meeting time.

However.

Even when I opened my eyelids again, the scenery did not change.

“….”

Aurora slowly rolled her tongue in her mouth. Once again, she slowly lowers and lifts her eyelids.

“… ?”

But this time, the scenery was the same.

5 Minutes.

10 Minutes.

And it was the same after 30 minutes.

“What is it….”

Aurora murmured as she narrowed her brows.

And finally it started to get noisy outside. It seems that someone has finally arrived, but the second princess was lost in thought for a while.

How should we regard being 30 minutes late? If she had no reason to satisfy her, she would surely be prepared for her severe punishment.

However.

─The third princess has arrived!

A sound echoing outside the boudoir.

“….”

It wasn’t Plan that visited the imperial palace this time either.