Reborn as a Mind-Reading Empress
Chapter 982: He Can Learn Magic

Chapter 982: Chapter 982: He Can Learn Magic

After a tea break discussing the get-up with her maids, Arabella headed to Sibruh again with her assistants.

Riley was the one who teleported them this time since Alwin was already there.

Alwin stayed in Sibruh last night doing experiments with Ivan and the other researchers.

Thus, Alwin waited for their arrival instead.

He remained invisible once again, though.

The researchers were told about Alwin’s identity, but they were all promised to keep it a secret. The same with the fact that they found the disease was intentionally created and spread in Sibruh.

They were being careful with the information they spread about the disease, or else it would create another panic.

It could cause territories or kingdoms to blame each other for this, even if none of them were involved.

They did not want this to happen, so they would likely not reveal that the disease was intentionally created with experiments and magic.

If other magicians hear about it being possible to create such a thing, there may be nations that hire magicians and researchers to create one as well and use it against their enemies.

Thus, they all agreed not to announce it unless the situation necessitated it.

In their past life, the truth about the disease being intentionally created and spread was not revealed to the public.

{How was the experiment?}

Arabella talked to Alwin telepathically through her summoning ring.

{It’s done.}

Alwin replied nonchalantly like they were just talking about breakfast.

’Is he saying it’s completed now?’ Arabella raised a brow at Alwin’s reply.

{What do you mean done?}

She asked again for clarification.

{We completed it last night.}

{Already?!!}

Arabella ended up gawking at him. She even stopped walking, so everyone did as well.

She quickly fixed her expression before they saw it.

She continued walking to the hall the Marquess was guiding them to, like nothing had happened.

{Yes.}

’What?!’

Arabella understood Alwin already knew about it since he recovered his memory of it recently.

But if they do it too easily, like they had known about it all along, people might get the wrong idea about them.

He could have at least spent two or three days pretending to experiment on it, like he did not know it.

{Couldn’t you have at least pretended to put effort into it instead of doing it in one try? What if they get suspicious? And can’t you explain in more detail? Geez.}

Arabella reminded him of the possibilities that could be thrown at them the instant people get suspicious of them.

{It wasn’t me who completed it.

Your assistant, Ivan, was excellent.

It was quite nice working with him.

When I used magic to enhance his eyes so he would be able to see the magic spells cast on it, which was why he could not investigate it further, he quickly understood how the spells worked.

He knew the ancient language, so he was able to read the magic circle and understand what it was used for.

Thus, I only had to undo the spells and guide him here and there.

When he finally got access, he worked quickly and experimented repeatedly until he found what the creators of the disease altered to make it.

And he did not stop there, he immediately continued to experiment for ways to treat it, now that they knew what to fight against.

Count Cordelia and the others joined in as well once I stepped back.

After several hours, with Ivan’s genius and everyone’s experience combined, they found a way to treat it.

Their next experiment in the next few days would be to keep on trying it on actual plants.

I already asked someone to teleport plants from the neighboring territories so that they could work on them in the next few days.}

Alwin did explain as she asked.

{Wow! Amazing! I already knew he was a genius, but this is still surprising! He beat my expectations once again!}

Arabella was stunned by Ivan’s genius once again.

He always beats her expectations.

{Of course, the other researchers also did well. Perhaps, I should pay them a visit and reward them all for their hard work.}

{I’m sure they’d love it. But save it for later. All of them passed out from exhaustion and are currently sleeping.}

{Passed out?!}

Arabella blinked twice at Alwin’s words.

{Yes. They did their best to keep up with Ivan and ended up staying awake as much as they could, too. Ivan processed things too quickly, so it was probably several times more exhausting than doing their usual experiments.}

{I see...}

Arabella finally understood.

For competent researchers like them, envy and doubt were only temporary.

Once the actual performance truly showed them what Ivan could do, they did their best to keep up instead of being hateful of him.

This was true with her assistants as well.

They get envious of Ivan’s special arrangements, but since all of them were excellent talents as well, they understood how amazing Ivan was since they could see his actual performance go beyond their expectations. Thus, even if it was amazing and frustrating at the same time, they had to accept it and try to reach him instead of being hateful.

{I finally understand why you give him special treatment.}

Alwin praised Ivan.

{See. I told you! He is more than worth it!}

Arabella said it with pride.

{I’m tempted to make him my assistant.

Since he already understands the ancient language and can even read magic spells and remember them accurately at a glance, if I just teach him a bit of magic and help him develop a mana core, I’m sure he’ll be a great magician.}

{What?! Wait, wait, wait. No poaching! He is my assistant.}

Arabella glared at Alwin at the look he was giving her.

{Come on. Are you really going to limit someone with so much potential to being your assistant for his whole life? With magic, his life can also be prolonged. His genius will be maximized even better.}

Alwin pointed out facts and silenced her.

Arabella thought about it, and Alwin was right.

It might even be better for Ivan’s future.