Heaven's Greatest Professor

Chapter 47  Departure (2)

"By the way, will you give me a ride to the city?"

"I see no other choice," June agreed, "considering you don't know your way and would probably get into trouble with your personality."

"What is that supposed to mean?"

June laughed. "I'd say you won't be in one piece for long with that personality unless you have the strength and backers to back you up."

"It's not that bad."

"I didn't say it was bad," June added. "But you beat the crap out of an Arcane Academy official."

"That guy kind of deserved it," Warden snorted.

"Maybe, but the exchange between you two gave him an opportunity to make a court case out of this. I don't know if you're aware that House Walt is quite influential."

Warden groaned. "So the guy would go crying to his daddy to have me put into prison, or will it be worse than that?" n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

June shrugged, the smile still lingering on her lips. "You have humiliated him in front of students and a few guild members. After experiencing his outburst the other day, I don't think he'll go silently."

"But he'll surely go," Warden mumbled. "I'll make sure of it if he comes at me again."

"Of course, I'll make sure he gets his punishment in due time," June added. "However, I don't think it will be anything more than disciplinary service for a few months. Humans tend to look at someone's whole family background before disciplining them."

So he would be free of any counterattack from the Professor Noble-Ass for a few months. And oh yeah, Warden had shortened his nickname, as the other one was quite a mouthful. Still, this one suited him just as well.

"Also, you saved the lives of many villagers as well as Liam and Kiara, who is almost my mentee," June said. "I'm treating you like this on account of all that."

"And here I thought you have fallen for my dashing looks," Warden chuckled.

"Literally, half of the elves look better than you," June snorted.

"At least it is compared to elves," Warden muttered. "I found nothing upsetting about that. Besides, I have a beard, which gives me some extra points."

"Yeah, like a homeless bum," June retorted.

Warden couldn't deny that, not with how his beard looked at the moment. He needed a trim or shave, but unfortunately, more important matters always prevailed over grooming himself.

They returned to the village with the news of the dungeon. The guild men had no problem implementing June's order, but the professor only glowered at Warden as he stood next to the impressive Elven woman.

Thankfully, he didn't shout at him maniacally like the last time, though the anger had only taken root in his heart. Even with supernatural powers, Walt's injuries were far from healing. Void energy tends to have such effects.

"Professor June, will it be possible for you to give me a lift back to the academy?" Walt asked at last. "As you can see, I'm in need of medical care. My family will owe you one if you can—"

"Sorry," June said without even letting him finish. "I have to inspect a few more regions on the way back, and Sir Warden will be going with me. So there isn't space for another person. But don't worry, I've sent word of your deeds back to the academy. They'll be sending rankers. Hopefully, they won't take a fortnight like you."

June's voice was soft, but the words were far from it. Walt knew he had messed up real bad that someone of June's character would never want to involve herself with him again.

With June turning away, he persisted in glowering at Warden venomously again.

Warden didn't give him any attention and went to bid goodbyes to the kids. Warden didn't think it would take much time, but he was mistaken, as there were plenty of others to show their gratitude. Onia had prepared lunch for them, and it was a lot, considering Warden eats equal to a dozen people.

Kelsa, the local apothecary, gave a few of her brewed medicines and alcohol, which Warden greatly appreciated as she thanked him for saving her.

Last but not least, Xiv stood with the leftover loot the villagers didn't think they should take. It was most of it, discarding only wolf furs and hearts.

"How am I going to take all this stuff?" Warden laughed, looking at the handfuls of weapons the bandits left behind. Of course, he could use his second aperture ability and see if he could throw this stuff into the subspace.

Thankfully, June came to the rescue before he even had to try. "I have a spatial cube, leave them to me. I'll return them to you after we reach our destination."

With that, she brought out a cube from her robe. It expanded to many times its size, astonishing all the villagers.

"Throw stuff in one by one," she commanded.

"Oi, leave the spear," Warden said, taking the spear in hand. It was a fine spear, standing over five feet, full metal build, with some basic enchantments like rust-proof and empower.

"This is for you, Xiv." Warden handed it to the boy. "Though nothing special, it still has some uses left in it."

"Warden, I can't--" Xiv began, but Warden cut him off.

"Why? Because this is a dull looking, bad parting gift?"

"No, no, this is not mine. I can't take something like this. It's clearly an artifact."

"It's a sorry excuse for an artifact," Warden snorted. "I'm sure you'll get use out of it by copper rank."

June closed the spatial cube and collected it, so there was no way for Xiv to return it anymore.

"Thank you," Xiv said, red-faced.

"I wish I could teach you some spear moves," Warden said, ruffling his hair. "But I guess we have to wait for some time."

Finally, with a cheerful smile on his lips, Warden departed, flying away on the Starfire Crane along with June.