“Ugh…”

I slowly opened my eyes, feeling a terrible headache as soon as I did. Everything around me was fuzzy. However, I could see a couple pairs of eyes staring at me as if I were some kind of lab rat.

Those pairs of eyes were those of my students who were all around my bed, looking at me with troubled expressions. After all, with the fight I had just gotten in, it was only a normal reaction. They had just discovered a lot of things that I had hidden from them, so it only made sense for them to be this way.

Then, as I regained vision, I could faintly hear excited voices shouted from all over.

“He’s awake!”

“Chief! The professor is awake!”

“Come check it out!”

The sound of each voice was faint, but I was able to deduce what they said.

“How much time has been since I’ve been bedridden?” I asked as I slowly tried to raise my back to rest against the back of the bed I was in. However, as just as I tried to move, I felt my muscles aching terribly. I could barely move a single muscle.

“Uh…has it been a week already?” Ariella said as she tilted her head, trying to think. “Yeah, it’s been pretty much one full week since you lost consciousness.”

My eyes widened. That meant that a full week had passed, and all of my students still had memories of my fight against Zoe.

‘I knew I shouldn’t have done something like this. There’s a chance that they spread some of this information…’

“Call the chief. I need to talk with him privately.”

The students were confused as to why I was asking to see him right away after waking up. However, they couldn’t understand the state I was currently in.

Within a few minutes, the room cleared up, and only Zale and I were left inside it as we looked at each other in the eyes.

“Is there a problem?” He asked me with a slight frown, unaware of the gravity of the situation.

“I need you to go through all of my student’s memories one by one and see if any of them spread what they saw in my fight against Zoe. I need to make sure nothing was leaked. If something came out of this place, then…that would probably mean that I have become the enemy of most races in the world. After all, it looks like I am “stealing” from them.”

Those races would also be extremely wary of someone as powerful as me. That’s why they would probably try their best to get rid of me. Still, I still had some hope that no one had done anything against me.

“I understand your concerns, young one. I will go look through all of their memories right away.”

With those words, Zale left the room and left me all alone inside it.

My real power, my title, has a Sage needed to stay a secret from the world, or else…there was a good chance that I would become the enemy of many, many people. Of course, I wasn’t too worried about my survival since I believed I could survive through most situations. But if my identity were to spread, then my whole situation would be a lot more complicated.

People would become wary of my abilities the moment they saw me, and that was the last thing that I wanted. I wanted to continue roaming the world secretly, and I did not want to go through another purge, especially since if the information spread this time, it would go directly to some of the biggest powers in this world, which wasn’t something that I could easily deal with compared to before.

More than an hour passed, and finally, Zale came back inside my room. However, the look on his face definitely wasn’t one that I liked seeing.

He looked gloomy. It was clear that he had gotten some bad news.

“I won’t waste time with you. One of your students has filmed a video of you and has sent it to their parents based on its looks.”

“Who is it?” I asked.

I knew that it couldn’t be Jackson. I had removed his phone because of what he had done last time. I had also made sure that he had no other accomplices back then. So, I simply couldn’t understand who it was.

“It was Jackson again. He got help from one of the other students who gave him their phone.”

I gritted my teeth.

I truly had become naive. Something like this would have never happened in the past. I would have made sure of it.

Spending that much time with my students made me aware of what was happening. I had been too soft on Jackson’s punishment, and he did not believe that I could go against his family. I already knew his train of thought, but I still didn’t do anything about it.

Still, I didn’t show the emotions rising within me to Zale. I kept them inside, slowly nodding my head.

“I see. Do you know if that video has spread in the outside world?”

He shook his head. “I would have to send Phoebe to check. However, none of the students seemed aware that such information was going around in the outside world.”

I nodded. There was still a chance that this video had only gotten into the hands of the Emperor, which meant that it still wasn’t too late. However, I would have to talk to the Emperor as fast as possible.

However, this was just a waste of time. I would once again have to delay going after Zero…just how lucky could that bastard be?!

‘Maybe I could call him, after all, I still have no idea what happened after Alexandra came back.’

With this thought, I looked over at Zale and smirked. I had an idea, and I hoped it would work.

“Call Jackson, I want to talk to him alone.”

Source: Webnovel.com, updated by NovelKeep