The Academy's Strongest Undercover Professor

Because my students were still in the process of waking up, I decided to give them a hand for a short moment.

The goblin was moving FAST, very fast, and it was already a few hundred meters away from the camp where everyone was sleeping.

"Everyone, I will keep your enemy away for a few moments, but please be prepared to fight once I come back. I won't help you then, so get ready!"

"What are you even talking about?!" One of the students asked me, shouting.

"Oh, nothing much. There's a goblin running in our direction, and I need you guys to try to kill it."

"A goblin?" Ariel muttered, confused as to why Caedrel would make such a big deal out of something so insignificant.

Goblins are creatures that she could beat with her little finger, so why was their professor, who was extremely powerful, creating such a big thing out of something so simple.

The more she tried to think about it, the less it made sense and the more confused she became as a result.

"Yes, it's a goblin that's a little special. You'll see. Anyway, wake everyone up. You'll need all the help you can get!" I said with a smile followed by a wink.

Ariel was confused but nodded. After all, I wasn't the type to make jokes like that, right?

Well, maybe I was, but it wasn't a joke this time around.

Ariel and all the students around were in the process of waking everyone up when I left to meet up with the goblin.

The reason why the goblin was so powerful, and we hadn't seen a single monster in the entirety of the Royal Forest, was simple. It had killed everything within it.

That meant that the goblin I was about to face had managed to either scare away all monsters or kill all the monsters facing him, which meant that it was EXTREMELY powerful. Something that none of my students would even expect in the first place.

I quickly arrived where the goblin was and landed right before him, observing him for a good minute, noticing that he was much bigger than what I had expected.

There were purple lines emerging surging from all over his body with every step he took, and he was about five times the size of a normal goblin with huge muscles.

'This goblin...was it demonified just like Cyclops?' I thought in the back of my mind.

The Cyclops and its black heart were something that I had somewhat forgotten about for some reason; however, when faced with this goblin, it resurfaced right away.

Perdere, or whoever it was, was doing tests on monsters in the Royal Forest.

That was what I could figure out with the limited information I had.

Still, I made the same decision as before. I would let my students face it. After all, they had to prepare themselves for the future.

Demons were coming back stronger than ever. They needed to get strong enough for when that time came.

Nevertheless, the goblin seemed to be able to sense my strength as he didn't attack me right away, which meant there was a chance that he wasn't completely taken over by the demonic energy residing within his body, which was surprising because I had never seen something like this in the past or on the battlefields.

'Just how many things do I ignore about the demons...' I thought, the more about everything they had done while I was away on the battlefield.

If the goblin was able to think somewhat and Perdere was able to mass-produce those demonic monsters...ah, I didn't even want to think about it.

Our chances of winning against them would plummet.

The goblin kept looking at me as he walked around me, trying to find a way to attack me. However, it seemed that he wasn't able to.

"Let's just keep this up for a few minutes. They still aren't ready," I told the goblin with a smile, as I could feel all my students running around, trying to get ready for the fight ahead of them.

"Kikiki!" The goblin muttered.

"Ah, I thought you were about to speak. Good thing that they still haven't figured out how to do that. Otherwise, we would have probably lost right away."

Still, the goblin seemed to want to communicate with me as he once more made monster noises, which was quite worrying.

"Oh well, I would love to continue this conversation with you. But it seemed that they were finally ready to welcome you. Good luck, and try not to hurt any of them. Otherwise, you'll die without even realizing it."

I threatened him even if I knew there was no point. It just felt good to say it out loud.

I disappeared from in front of the goblin, leaving him extremely confused for a few seconds. However, he quickly forgot what had just happened. He shook his head and started running toward where my students were waiting for him.

I just watched from above with a smile as I wondered how they would be able to deal with it. After all, it was unlike anything they had ever faced before.

Still, as much as I was excited about that, I couldn't wait to find out more about the monster. I wanted to see if its heart was similar to the Cyclops I had found.

I also couldn't help but think that there was someone else in the Academy who was working for Perdere. Another teacher, another student, I had no clue. But I had a strong feeling that they were watching me closely, like a hawk.

Nevertheless, when I arrived over to the students. It seemed they were well-prepared. Ariel was once more the one telling everyone what to do. But they seemed a lot more confident than when they had faced the Cyclops.

They were getting stronger, but it wasn't fast enough.

They needed to get stronger twice as fast or they wouldn't survive in the future.