The Academy's Strongest Undercover Professor

Chapter 88 - Aether

Zoe seemed to know more about this energy than I did. After all, they had probably researched it quite a lot since Phoebe was affected by it.

"Come with me. We have to tell the chief about your new power."

"W-Wait. I'm too weak to stand up just yet. It hasn't been a long time since I lost over 50% of my strength by losing my soul."

Zoe didn't seem to care as she just grabbed my arm and wrapped it around her shoulder, basically dragging me to the chief's house.

As she did so, we heard a distinct voice coming from behind us; it was Ariella's, who just watched with a frown.

"P-Professor, what happened to you? Why aren't you able to stand straight?"

I smiled. "Don't worry, everything is fine. The training was just a little too rough, and I pushed myself too hard. I'll be in top shape tomorrow. Go back to sleep..."

Zoe nodded as if acknowledging what I had just said.

Then, Ariella continued to look at us from far away, clearly worried about the state of my body. After all, it was the first time in her life that she was seeing me in such a weakened state. She might have thought that I was invincible in her mind.

Nevertheless, a few more moments passed by, and we arrived at the house of the chief, entering without even knocking.

The chief was sitting in the same chair as when I had met him for the first time, not even sleeping, and he smiled as we walked inside.

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"I was waiting for you, young one."

I frowned.

"Our God said that this power was related to the one we possess and that to learn how to use, he should use our knowledge."

I wasn't even surprised that he said information about my meeting with God since it was clear that Zale had already gone through all the memories from my conversation with that God.

Then, after uttering those words, he turned to look in my direction.

"Don't worry. You will regain your strength fast. Your talent is unlike anything I have seen before in my life. You will reach even greater heights with this power in due time."

I nodded as I knew that he was once again telling the truth. However, what worried me was the amount of time that I would have to wait for such a thing to happen. Getting as powerful as before was bound to take a lot of time. I didn't believe that it would be possible in three months.

"Do you still believe that I will be able to win against Zero in three months of training?"

He closed his eyes for a few seconds, most likely looking into the future.

"Yes, I believe so. There is no reason why you wouldn't be able to."

Those words did give me some confidence; however, I was still worried that something would go wrong and that I wouldn't be able to fight him during that time.

"I'm curious, still," I suddenly said. "Now that I have this power, the blood from Zero isn't needed to treat Phoebe anymore, right?"

Zale nodded. "As long as you master this energy fast enough, no, it won't be needed. However, if you don't, then yes, we will need some of his blood to create a certain potion."

"And that potion of yours, could it heal those who are affected with demonic energy? For example, monsters."

Zale closed his eyes again.

"Probably, however, nothing is certain."