I Became an Unknown Professor at the Academy

“I pay my respects to you.”
I passed by the creature, which bowed its head to me without resistance.
“Woo-jin…”
Her lips were bitten so hard that the area around her mouth was stained red with blood mixed with the rain.
“That’s a bad habit.”
“Ugh…”
When I placed my hand on her swollen lips, something other than the rain flowed down her cheeks, staining them red.
I straightened her wet hair, then reached out my hand.
The fairy, lying dead on Claire’s palm, came to rest on my palm.
“Claire.”
“Yes.”
I had already told her beforehand, so she acted as soon as I called her.
“Yesol, take the children and step back.”
“Yes, my lady.”
Yesol, who had been frozen by her superior’s command, slowly backed away, holding the children who were making a fuss. Despite this, her gaze remained fixed on the small creature on my hand, indicating that she had grown quite fond of it.
“You too, step back.”
Swoosh!
The men quickly retreated at my warning filled with killing intent.
“Then…”
Claire bowed her head and took a few steps back.
I spread my magic power, creating a thin barrier between the creature, which was still bowing its head to me, and myself.
“Lift your head.”
“Yes, my lord.”
A gaze filled with pure reverence, without a trace of falsehood, reached me.
“How long can you hold on?”
The creature was holding onto the scale, which was trying to fulfill the transaction, according to my will.
“Five minutes. If I push myself a little more, I can last up to ten minutes, but in that case, I will fall into a deep sleep for about ten years in human time.”
“Hold on.”
“Yes, my lord.”
This is the first time I’ve seen the creature in its manifested form. However, ever since that night when I was freed from the long seal, the chains of God, Greed, which is also someone’s creation like me, has followed me as it does now.
I placed my other hand on the fairy, which was neither dead nor alive, on the verge of both.
“Cough…”
“My lord..!!”
I wiped the dark red blood that had flowed from the corner of my mouth with my sleeve.
‘I can’t do this twice…’
For me, who does not have a physical lifespan, lifespan is less valuable than the dust floating in the air. That’s why I tore off a piece of my soul to balance the scale.
As a result, my internal organs are twisted, and blood is trying to flow up my throat.
Fortunately, My soul will slowly fill the empty space over time. However, the memories of the missing part will not return.
For now, I have no way of knowing which memories have been lost, as they have literally been torn from me.
“Huff.”
I took a deep breath and focused my mind.
The more sensitive my senses became, the sharper the pain of my twisted organs felt, but it was still bearable for me, who was no longer human.
Swoosh!
The greed that I had been suppressing began to seep out of my body, following my will.
“Arrogant…”
As soon as I released it, Greed tried to break free of my will.
I poured all the magic power stored in my heart to suppress it.
Swoosh!
Greed made a sinister sound, like a snake.
However, it was foolish to try to control it with my damaged body, as I couldn’t even control it when I was in perfect condition.
‘Follow my will.’
So I decided to compromise with it.
‘If you do that, I won’t completely suppress you.’
Squirm!
“Phew…”
Greed squeezed my empty heart, from which the magic power had been drained.
Baek Hana, the fairy lying dead, and Greed, which was running wild like a mad horse.
‘If you want to be swallowed by nothingness, keep running wild.’
They have something in common: they don’t listen to good advice.
Sigh…
The force squeezing my heart disappeared.
It seemed afraid, probably because it had been suppressed by nothingness, which had briefly awakened due to my will, in addition to my own will.
‘As long as you don’t cause a disturbance, I won’t suppress you anymore.’
So follow my will.
Swoosh!

Greed, which had been trying to coil around my heart, slowly gathered on my hand, where I placed the fairy.
‘Bring it.’
Flash!
The red energy seeped into the fairy’s body.
“Kuk…”
The breakdown of my body accelerated as the burden to sustain the inferior being was added to the loss of a part of my soul.
‘Even in this state…’
The reason I didn’t revive the fairy right away was simple.
It’s much easier and less burdensome to take from the dead than from the living. That’s all there is to it.
Gulp.
“Ptooey.”
I spat out something that was too dark to be called blood.
“Huff.”
I felt like I might lose consciousness if I lost focus for even a moment.
My heart rate was slowing down, and my hands and feet were trembling due to the lack of blood circulation. However, I didn’t suppress the power of greed.
It wouldn’t speed up the process, and most importantly, I couldn’t let any impurities mix in.
After what felt like an hour, but was only a minute…
Swoosh…
The power that had seeped into the fairy’s body emerged.
‘Come back.’
The red energy, which seemed to contain a rainbow-colored mass, seeped into my body.
At the same time, a warm feeling touched my emotions, which were in a state of unpleasantness due to the pain.
‘It’s not mine.’
I naturally guided Greed, which was trying to assimilate me, deeper into my being, where even I couldn’t see the end.
“Kyaaak!”
“Ugh…”
As soon as it touched nothingness, greed ran wild.
‘As long as I exist, you will not disappear…’
Greed gradually calmed down, as if it had understood my intention, and descended with what it had taken from the fairy.
“Kikik…”
Greed wriggled in fear.
I opened my eyes, which I had closed.
‘You must protect it until it is fully transferred to the fairy.’
There was no response, but I could feel that Greed had accepted my intention. It must have realized that it wouldn’t disappear even after touching nothingness.
“Cough…”
“My lord…”
“Hold on for one minute… just one minute.”
“It’s enough…”
I nodded and burned the blood that had flowed out and onto the ground.
It was enough to use the magic power floating in the air.
Gulping.
I forced down the blood that was trying to come up, and looked at the fairy on my hand.
‘I hope there’s no major damage.’
Her life was fine.
It was never completely dead in the first place, and as soon as the creature moved the scale again, the fairy’s empty lifespan would be filled again.
The concerning part was the changes in the fairy due to what I had taken with greed.
What I had taken from the fairy was a part of its emotions that had swelled up until the very end.
Joy, happiness, and the pain of separation.
I wondered if the fairy would be the same as before when it woke up…
“My lord…”
“…”
The time had come, and I nodded.
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Suddenly, a thin barrier was erected, preventing anyone from seeing what was happening inside.
Baek Hana anxiously looked back and forth between Baek Woo-jin, who had entered the barrier, and Claire, who was standing outside as if guarding him.
As they waited, unable to hide their anxiety and impatience, something caught everyone’s attention.
“Huh?”
“Huh…”
Everyone’s gaze turned to the sky.
The heavy rain that had been falling moments ago had stopped as if by magic.
“Huh? Huh…?”
Edyn, with her eyes swollen from crying, looked up at the sky and made a foolish sound.
This was because the dark clouds that had filled the sky were now scattering in all directions as if they were alive.
Crack, crack!
The children’s gazes, which had been fixed on the sky, turned to the thin, glass-like barrier that had shattered.
In the space where the barrier had disappeared, Baek Woo-jin stood alone, wearing a black jacket.
The woman who had been handling the scale was nowhere to be seen.
“Are you okay…?”
“Shut up…”
Edyn swallowed, and Maria covered her mouth with a cracked voice.
“He’s coming.”
Baek Woo-jin approached with Claire.
Baek Hana clenched her fists as she saw him getting closer.
She didn’t want to cry again.
“Woo-jin…”
“…”
Baek Woo-jin, who had approached with Claire, didn’t respond to Baek-hana’s call. Instead…
“Beep… Beep-ee…”
He placed the fairy, who was curled up with its thumb in its mouth, on his palm.
“Peep—”
“Shut up…”
“Ack…!”
Edyn, who had been hit in the throat, rolled on the ground.
However, no one paid attention to Edyn. They all just stared at the fairy, who was breathing comfortably.
But Baek-hana’s expression was not good.
‘…The smell of blood.’
For a moment, a strong scent of blood reached her nose as she stretched out her arm. It was the same smell as Baek Woo-jin’s blood, which she had smelled once before.
“Huh…?”
Baek-hana closed her mouth after looking at the fairy and then up at where Baek Woo-jin had been standing moments ago.
He was no longer there.
“The professor has some business to attend to, so he left.”
“Oh…”
Baek-hana nodded at Claire’s answer.
She knew that he had the ability to hide his appearance.
“Now, we should start preparing.”
“Huh?”
Except for Edyn, who was lying on the ground, the children looked around in confusion.
Claire didn’t answer and turned around.
“You too, come over here.”
The graduates, who had been standing apart, approached cautiously.
“Stand behind the children.”
“Oh, yes. What about this junior?”
“Maria.”
“Huff…”
Maria helped Edyn, who was lying on the ground and twitching.
“Stay still. Yesol.”
“Yes?”
“You too, stand.”
“Me too?”
“Yes.”
Yesol was startled by her superior’s command, but quickly regained her composure and stood in an empty space.
“Good.”
Claire took out her smartphone from her pocket.
She focused on the group that had gathered together.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
The night sky was decorated with fireworks, and she captured the moment.
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.
“Damn… It wasn’t a miracle, but a real fairy.”
Somewhere in the Arena Academy, where no light entered.
One of the graduates who had hidden with Kim Kyung-tae at the designated location but had remained hidden until the end, not revealing himself.
“Tsk, it didn’t even show up on camera…”
At first, the fairy was visible, but after the mysterious barrier disappeared, it disappeared from sight. However, the atmosphere, which had been like a funeral, brightened up, indicating that the fairy must have been revived.
“One person’s testimony isn’t enough, and if I can convince a few more people to sell the information to a place like the Clock Tower, I might make some money—”
“Kwaaaak!”
“Ack… You…?!”
The man was startled by the person who appeared without a sound and grabbed his neck.
Thud.
And that was it.
In an instant, the man’s neck was broken, and Ahn Hyundo, the middle-aged man, sighed as he looked up at the moon in the sky.
“From now on, if I make a bet with that guy, I’ll be the monster, damn it…”
The chairman threw the man with the broken neck into a suitable place, then flew off to find another graduate.

P.S. Hello Everyone! I’m VarieTL. I hope you are all enjoying my work! I only wanted to announce that I have posted a new Novel on the site 🙂 The novel is called: Survive the labyrinth with EX-grade traits (SLEXGT) Summery: Seo Do-jin, 25 years old, wins the lottery. He won 2 billion won. He wanted to escape his miserable life as an orphan, but he gets caught up in the isekai of a man he bumped into on the street. There is no way back. All that’s left are a few traits that were traded for 2 billion won. Yes. Since it has come to this, let’s become strong in this other world. Let’s go. To the Great Labyrinth.