Vol. 3 - Chapter 4 - Special Council of the Magic Knight Academy - Siegfried Granblue

“We will now commence the meeting regarding the dismissal of Lord Grey Ines Navarro as a professor.”

The pitiful young man with black hair who was forced to be the facilitator let out a deep sigh and presented the agenda.

“Grey is nothing more than a 13-year-old boy with an origin as a lower class aristocrat. Moreover, he imitated the instructor at the time of the examination. With that , it's already clear from the beginning why he would fail at the professor's meeting. And you bastard Sieg, you not only scheme against other instructors but also acknowledge him as one. Shame on you.”

The Vice Principal stood up vigorously, sprinkling his saliva as he screamed. The other half of the professors who had been replaced by the new ones also spoke contemptuously of Grey.

You bastard, you want to reach that far?

After the imperial council, they asked Emperor Georg to approve Grey's appointment as professor, and since then, a series of unusual events had occurred.

A provisional meeting of the board of directors of the Magic Knight Academy was suddenly held, and about half of the professors expressed their intention to resign, which was then approved.

There were two ways to make the professors lose their positions here: the board of directors and the faculty council.

In the board of directors meeting, the person in question also needed to consent for dismissal. Otherwise, even if it was the director, he couldn’t remove them.

It isn’t necessary to have the consent of the person to be dismissed by the board of professors, but instead it is necessary for 80% of the professors to vote that there were special reasons why they were not suitable to become professors.

In this way, it took a great deal of effort to become a professor at the Magic Knight Academy, and even to resign. In fact, there had only been a handful of resignations, and even then, they had been for personal reasons.

Until now, events like half of them resigning at once was simply unheard of. Or should i say they yield to the vast amount of money those professors have piled up. That wasn’t something that should have happened in reality. Yes, only if it weren't for the involvement of that fanatic

(most likely it was handed down by the Lord of Internal Affairs).

It was after the Imperial Conference that Sieg applied for approval from Emperor Georg. That fanatic must have left the place one step ahead. If that was the case, he must have heard about the approval of Grey as a professor from his good friend, the Lord of Internal Affairs, and tried to take advantage of the situation more efficiently.

What a pity he didn't know he was swimming to his doom.

That fanatic's goal was to put that monster Grey at the helm of this Empire. To do so, he could even sacrifice his former compatriots and the Emperor he was supposed to serve without hesitation. He is that kind of fanatic.

In short, these new professors were akin to lamb sacrifices destined to become the cornerstone of the nation as villains. However, only the attendees of the Imperial Conference knew about his background. The other half of the remaining professors had no way of knowing.

“I'm sorry, but the appointment of a professor requires a certain level of achievement and the approval of 80% of the faculty council. He has done an exceptional job of reviving some of the lost magic and 80% of the Faculty Council is in favor of him. The professor's approval process is in order.”

“That's right. I can also attest to the appropriateness of the Faculty Council's decision to appoint Lord Gray as professor.”

The professor of the Combat Magic Department agreed with Rebecca, and soon the other half of the professors voted in favor of Grey's appointment in succession.

Looking at the self-satisfied face of the Vice Principal aroused one's impulse to beat him hard.

I could easily guess the purpose of these people refusing to accept Grey as a professor to this extent.

By convention for noble ranks, Magic Knight Academy's graduation was needed but it was at best just convention, so one could substitute it with professor qualification. Saying it in reverse, if one didn’t hold the title of Magic Knight Academy's student or qualification as professor, then he couldn’t hold the title of noble rank.

That was the basis for pure blood aristocrats to deny Grey's title together with taking over the materials of the land of Radol. That would be the case.

However, there was no way that Grey would permit such things. Supposing that it was enforced then the war between Grey and the pure blood aristocrats was inevitable. The winner would be Grey, without even thinking about it. That fact was the quickest way to centralize the power that the Lord Warlord was planning.

In any case, minor decisions such as the organization of classes would be decided by a majority of the faculty. As long as they had the majority, they had the rules.

Was he also aiming for this?

Sieg also took the final resistance while cursing the Warlord.

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“I'm sorry for saying something unnecessary.”

After the end of the conference, Oscar Lanswick, the professor of the postgraduate Life Magic Research Department who was forced to facilitate the meeting, bowed deeply to Sieg and the other old professors. Oscar Lanswick's name was frequently heard these days. As I recalled, he is a genius who developed a new kind of life magic.

He was appointed as a professor at this time. I expected him to be a staunch supporter of the Ex-Emperor, but judging from the way he was acting, he might have just been forced into it because he couldn't say no.

“No, it couldn't be helped. Don't worry about it.”

However, it was almost a complete defeat for Sieg and the others.

The faculty meeting had decided that all the students who had been placed in Class G had to be placed in the top 40 of the entire school. That would be impossible, no matter how many Greys there were.

But giving up here would be deplorable.

Grey by no means is a Saint. If it became necessary, he would thoroughly overrun them so that they would never rise up again. This stance was evident in the earlier battle with the Royal Army. If we turned a blind eye here, countless blood would be spilled in our homeland. That was the only thing we had to avoid.

One wrong step and civil war would break out. From here on, we needed to be as careful as if we were threading a needle.

It wasn’t about what we could do but what we must do. Sieg began to desperately search for a way to avoid a bloody future that had a high probability of happening.