Chapter 105: The great Prime Headmaster
"Headmaster! What are you doing here?!"
Short, ordinary looking, and childlike.
These are the things that one says when meeting the top authority of Stanox, the Prime Headmaster... or headmistress, as it should be.
But people usually just call her the headmaster. And she’s a dwarf.
"What do you mean? I’m just a visitor!"
"A visitor without an invitation is an intruder!"
"But I’m the headmaster!"
Ian was not the only one who had known this person as a scholar of Stanox. Every adult in this room knew this short, brown haired, rainbow eyed, petite dwarf.
She held the highest position at the most prestigious learning institute of the world.
She was one of the people teaching Ian right now, as well as someone who had taught Lady Mililian, Lady Isha, Lady Leha, and Volcanus.
Unlike Ian who was in higher education, they had only studied there as students, but they still knew her well.
This wasn’t the first time she had come to this castle. In fact, she had been here numerous times.
She was also a close acquaintance of the Sungrade patriarch, so, it wasn’t a problem that she was here but, she was here uninvited and she was spying on them all.
"Your bad habit of eavesdropping hasn’t gone, I see." The patriarch looked at her as if someone was looking at a hopeless child.
She was older than any of them but she was still more a child than even Alex or little Mime.
"Teehe~. You know me so well, Agnus. Now now, tell them you invited me so they shut up."
"I did no such thing-."
"See! The Sungrade patriarch invited me to his birthday himself! Who dares question his absolute verbal invitation?"
With a proud look, she didn’t even let him finish his words.
She was a force of nature that one cannot win against anyways.
"Anyways...!" She shouted to take everyone’s attention away from her and pointed at the little white bird first.
"That thing is crazy!" Nyx had been chasing after her ever since she arrived here.
She was the wind. She was every single wind that had been flowing in this entire territory.
As the best Mystique Arts specialist of the world, she was a literal Demi-god.
And yet, a young phoenix had somehow not only tracked her core, it had been going around the territory destroying every point of connection she was using for her Mystique arts, something that was practically impossible for a mortal.
"Chirp!"
She was running around for her life all this time, and at the end, that bird still got her.
Nyx was extremely proud of his achievement. In fact, when he hopped back to Sam, the master patted the young phoenix, secretly proud of what he had done.
"Chirp~."
It was an unexpected praise so he was especially happy. At the same time, now that his chase was complete, he fell asleep on top of his master’s head.
"I went there and he was there and then I was here and he was here and then there and then here! I’m so mad!"
She was four feet ten. In a room where the average height of the people almost reaches six feet.
Even Sam was over six feet after his physical transformation.
Able was taller than her, and if that wasn’t enough, Alex is almost four feet five right now. The strongest mystic tamer of the world was barely the height of a ten year old.
But that’s not the point.
She’s a dwarf. For dwarves, she was of a perfectly appropriate height.
Additionally, she’s very pretty. Even compared to their sister, Mariabell, she is quite pretty.
But her attitude was insufferable.
"This party has been so fun, you know? When I came, I saw all of your cradles. Those jerk Guardians didn’t let me see the Salamanders again! Hmph! They’re mean as always! But it’s been soooooo fun following you around."
She suddenly looked at Sam and in a blink of an eye, she was standing right before him.
"You’re soooooo fun. So fun. I loved the way you use your mystique arts as well!"
It was certain that she saw him dealing with the imperial maid. It wasn’t a problem, certainly, but she was not exactly the kind of person you’d want to tell your secrets to.
She’s good at keeping the important ones, but she’s also one of the biggest gossips of Stanox.
Some people over there also call her the (Exhaler of Rumours).
"Also! Where did you find an Az-Map?!"
In another blink of an eye, she was standing before Alex, the piece of parchment that Sam gifted to Alex now in her hands.
"This is soooooo cool...!"
She was loud. She was loud and her words were clear enough to reach every single person at least twice.
It was funny, almost fascinating, how she spoke once and they heard the same thing twice.
"An Az-map?"
"Those things really exit?"
Including the patriarch, the rest of the people who found out about the identity of the item were all either surprised or confused.
"Hmm? What’s an Aezi map?"
However, those who had never heard of something like this, including Alex and Able, were ever more curious about its identity.
"That’s right." Still, this was a gift that Sam was giving to Alex. "That’s called an All-knowing Zone-specifying map."
He walked forward and took away the map from the headmaster and gave it back to Alex.
However, while his hand was still on it, he infused a little of his golden energy into the piece or paper.
"It’s a special ancient artifact that allows one to get a map of their surroundings or practically any specific area they are in."
Since they were inside the Sungrade castle’s specific room, Sam set the parameter to be this certain castle.
Thus, when the map for the castle was created, the specific room they were in was glowing green on it, indicating their current location.
Also, this wasn’t a static map but an interactive one.
One can change the parameters however they want, and while doing so, they will display certain special objects, the so-called treasures, that might contain some value.
If one is highly specific, they can also find certain items in any particular area.
This was something people called a ’treasure’.
And he didn’t have to pay even a hundred gold coins to get this invaluable treasure.
"There are only eight of these known to us." Even as the Headmaster of Stanox, she had only held one of these before.
And that was also in the core museum of the academy mountain so it doesn’t count.
"I know about another one besides this so you cannot have this one." Sam gave the headmaster a stern look, telling her that Alex’s gift was off limits.
But, his words did not discourage her. Instead, she had an utterly excited look that very moment.
"No way! No way no way no way! You’re lying." She didn’t believe him at first. But, she glared at him to confirm his lie. However, she was surprised once again.
"You’re not lying?! What?! How?!"
She was too loud.
Most of the people here didn’t like that aspect of hers.
"Tell me. Tell me tell me tell me. Quick!"
She wanted to go and snatch wherever it was as quickly as she could. And considering how she can move across continents in an instant, getting to the location wouldn’t be too difficult to her.
Not that Sam was going to give it away that quickly.
"Get out of here, let us finish, and find me at first light. Do that and I might just-."
"No need to say further."
She placed a finger on his lips and turned around.
"I wish you a very happy birthday dear."
She kissed Alex on the forehead, placed a little pendant across her neck, and vanished in the same winds that had brought her here.
Whimsical? Quirky? It was hard to describe this person.
But the people of this world knew one thing: as pretty and playful as the headmaster of Stanox may be, there was a reason people called her the [Witch of Calamity].
Her name, her actual name, was only known by a very few people in the world.
In the academy, people only called her headmaster or by her countless titles.
There were a few names associated with her, but they didn’t know whether it was really her name or not.
She was endlessly kind and endlessly wise.
No one really knew just how old she was since she had been in charge of Stanox for over three millennia, but they knew she shouldn’t be messed with.
And, if there was someone from the same future as him, then they would know the only person that had endlessly messed her with: her favorite student, colleague, and research partner, Professor Sam.