novelraw Chapter 1144: Go Study
Chapter 1144: Go Study
So, there are people in Cassau who want to join the fight against the cult. They seem to be Hunters. Well, they all have Hunter Cards. I can see that.
These people saw me or Victoria in the past when we were fighting the cult. Well, it’s probably neither of us. They only recognize us from my horse, Ray.
And now that they know someone is riding Ray in this city, they want to ask me if they can join the war.
"What? You want me to make you stronger?" I asked.
"Yes!" one of them shouted.
Seems like they are in a party together. There are about seven of them. Are they from the same party? Seven seems to be a lot of people.
"Why don’t you just go to the university? You can learn to get stronger there," I said.
"That is that. It’s just a university. They are there only to make themselves feel good and it doesn’t help you get stronger at all," he said.
"You are stupid. Totally stupid. That’s just your pride talking. You can’t get into a university so you decided to make yourself seem higher by saying things like that. Just go to the university to make you stronger," I said.
I don’t want to train him if he can’t respect those who graduate from university. I’m a university professor after all.
Many of the soldiers and agents are graduates from university. Some of them were not. So they are actually being told to attend one so they can investigate the city where their university is while acting as the student there. And it will be good for them to graduate as well.
"Fighting is better than learning things in the university," one of them said.
"And that’s why you’re stupid. I’m a university professor. I taught almost everything I know in the university. And there are other mages with other elements that can be said to be one of the strongest in said element teaching students as professors. They are also participants in the war. There’s no way we wouldn’t teach students anything that won’t make them stronger," I said.
"Umm... but fighting will make us stronger," someone said.
"Then do that! Why would you ask for someone’s guidance if you already know what to do?"
"We’re not strong enough."
"Then fucking learn something! Go to university or something!"
"There’s nothing to learn there!"
"There are so many fucking things you can learn there! You’re just way too stupid to incorporate those knowledge in real battle! Don’t ask me anything stupid! If you want to die in war, just do it yourself!"
I give up. These guys are idiots.
Three women and four men. They’re all idiots. They should just focus on fighting and don’t ask me to make them stronger if they can’t even pay attention in class.
"But—"
"Stop talking anything else. If you think university is useless then I’m who is also a university professor can’t teach you anything. Get stronger on your own. If you’re lucky, maybe you can get someone to teach you. Try joining the army or something. Now fuck off!"
They want to get stronger. But they don’t know how even though it’s kind of obvious. We have a famous university here. But they don’t think it’s useful.
I can tell that they don’t want to train. They just want to get stronger without putting any effort. They just hope that they can suddenly get stronger and defeat everyone. I don’t need to be a mind-reader to know this.
"...Fuck it."
Someone among them became angry. And he even reaches out his hand and aiming at me. He’s casting a magic at me.
I can tell that it’s mostly just an expert level fire magic. There’s nothing for me to be afraid of.
As soon as the fire appeared in his hand, it approaches me. Then I used air magic to erase the fire.
"What? How?!"
"I told you, didn’t I? It’s air magic. And I teach classes about this in university. There are a lot of soldiers who are graduates from university. They are risking their lives fighting the war. If I let you join the war, you will disrespect those soldiers who have been fighting for this world for so long. There’s no way I’m going to teach you anything when you’re so disrespectful. Go to sleep."
Then I use sleeping gas on the man who cast fire magic. He fell asleep instantly.
"Take him away. And there are a lot of ways to get stronger. But I won’t ever teach people like you how. Leave because I’m pretty sure you guessed who I am since you’re here so you should know that I can even kill master level mages easily. And none of you are that strong," I said.
All of them then leave in fear. I hoped that they would be great people with good potential to be stronger. But if they have so much pride in themselves without knowing anything at all, there’s no way I would teach them.
And I’m a university professor. Unless it’s someone I know well or my own disciples, I will only teach at the university. They can easily go there but they insist that going there is useless. Well, that’s not my fault at all though.
For example, it has been several years since I move to Cassau. And I have taught for a few years even if it’s mostly Sara who is teaching. But most air mages who graduated from here became quite the marksman. They joined the war and became quite well-known.
Then Sara also teaches earth magic. Wendy is also more famous as a professor who teaches wind magic and fire magic. That’s how from Cassau we have the best air mages, earth mages, fire mages, and wind mages from the university.
That’s four elements at least. The other elements also have good professors. So if anyone wants to get stronger, they can try to attend the lectures.
Wendy, Sara, and even I never take attendance. I never do it because I don’t remember anyone’s faces or names. But for those two, it’s because they allowed anyone from other classes or even those who aren’t even student in the university to take their classes. Their goal is to make people stronger. So they don’t mind if people from outside of the university take classes.
So if people want to get stronger, they can go to the university. They don’t have to officially be the students there. But I bet no one knows about it. It’s not like Sara and Wendy letting everyone knows about it.
We won’t force anyone who doesn’t want to study to come. But if you want to learn, you can come. It’s simple like that.
...Should we spread the news? Then people who want to get stronger can attend lectures.
Or maybe we can just make a seminar or something. Some master level mages of one element will get together and people can come and ask them questions about that one element. Doing that will help, right?
Though we have to be careful because it will be easy for the cult to learn as well.
Well, that’s not up to me.
Those seven people from before left. But I can see that there’s still one more person hiding behind the wall peeking at me.
I’d like to say that he’s suspicious. But he’s too young and too weak. Probably just awakened his element this year and skipping introductory school.
"You heard me. If you want to get stronger, studying is one way to do it. Then incorporate your knowledge in real life situation. If you are a hunter as well, you can easily gain more experience. Then you will find a way for you to fight better than before by incorporating the knowledge you learn and your experience. Now scram!"
The guy didn’t expect that I would notice him. But he listened carefully before he left.
At least we have one good listener. Right, go back to school.
Just by revealing my identity once and I got people like them coming here. It won’t be long before my popularity soared. Well, if the Kings have no plan to increase my reputation, it won’t soar.
And rather than me, I guess the Kings want to make Angela who was the winner of the tournament and also our strongest mage to be the hero. They prefer her to me. Though Angela will probably ask for my opinion about it.
Still, it’s a good result after just revealing my identity once. One out of eight people I met decided to listen and grow stronger. But the other seven might think the same now after I put that guy to sleep in an instant. Maybe the result will be positive.
University is good. Though if they want, they can learn from anywhere. It doesn’t have to be at the university.
Those seven people need to know that. But they also need to know to not make fun or insult people who are trying hard to get stronger by going to a university. They need to mind their manner.
I think I will have more visitors after this. Let’s take a break now.