The Academy's Strongest Undercover Professor

Chapter 81 Chapter 80 - An Ancient Tribe

"Did something happen while I was gone?" I asked as I got back and saw something quite unusual from my students.

All of them were seen in a circle, talking about things. The main speaker was Ariella. It seemed she was talking about some of the things I had done back at the Auction House, which might have been a small problem since I didn't want it to spread in the first place.

'Hm...should I erase their memories about it?' I thought in the back of my mind, as I didn't want this information to spread.

After all, this could put everyone at risk, and that was the last thing that I wanted at the moment.

However, I decided against it. I didn't believe that one of my students would spread that information. Maybe I had softened a little, but that was still my decision for the moment.

"Ah, no! Everything was great. Ariella was just talking to us about how cool you were back at the auction house!"

I rubbed the back of my neck in an embarrassing manner. "Right, well, it wasn't nothing too impressive."

"Hmpf, so you did something more impressive than everything she just told us?!" Darla asked, her eyes filled with stars.

It had been quite some time since I had spent some time with her since all the other students had arrived. But she was looking much better than before. It seemed I had given her some much-needed confidence, especially with everything that had been happening within her family.

"Maybe, I did...maybe I didn't. Who knows? Anyway, everyone gets up. We're not stopping until we reach the Snowy Mountains!"

I expected some cheers, but it seemed that they didn't quite like what I had just said.

Oh well. Too bad. We were still going to do it.

***

A day had passed, and we were now definitely getting to the northern parts of the continent as the cold and glacial gushes of winds intensified, brushing against all our faces. We were on the verge of reaching the snowy parts. But more importantly, we were finally outside of the Royal Forest.

As soon as we got out, we managed to see a village from far away. My students were asking to rest there, and I wasn't too sure if it was a good idea.

There was...I don't know how to say it, but some kind of weird aura surrounding that village. It was a vibe that I had noticed as I had gotten closer and closer to the Snowy Mountains.

'Oh. Bad energy? They can detect demonic energy?'

That was the conclusion I came to from the little of what he said. However, I still needed to know more about it.

"What kind of bad energy?"

"Bad. Hurt our people. So, leave before happens to you."

My students were all behind me, hearing this conversation, knowing that things would get a lot more dangerous the more we approached the Snowy Mountains. After all, we were right at the frontier from entering that territory. It was either we went back or we continued ahead.

"I'm sorry, but I can't leave. We need to go to the Snowy Mountains. Could we stay the night here?"

"Wait. Me ask chief of tribe."

'Tribe?'

I looked back toward my students with a frown on my face. After all, I ignored a lot of things about this world. So, there was a chance that one of them had information about them.

One of the guards was still looking at us without saying anything. However, I didn't mind him.

"Do any of you know about this place? Olivia?" I asked Olivia since she was the most likely to have heard of it in the past.

"Mhm, I'm not too sure. I read somewhere in a book that there was an ancient tribe living near the Snowy Mountains, but that was the only place that it was ever mentioned."

"Anyone else?"

There was no answer.

"Was something, uh, special mentioned in that book of yours?"

"Yes, they were said to be a Superior Form of Humanity."