The Male Lead Is Obsessed With My Health Chapter 185

Silence fell.

“……”

“……”

Everyone was at a complete loss for words.

The first one to regain their senses was me.

[The brightest shining star blesses you]

…So it wasn’t a dream after all.

Ever since I’d heard that star-rank mages were chosen by the stars, I’d quietly wondered, How exactly does that selection work?

A small white star hovered above my head, pouring down light as if performing a baptism.

So this is what it means to be chosen?

Honestly, this sight bothered me far more than the fact that my floating-light spell had grown to nearly ten times its original size. Cold sweat trickled down my back.

Uh, um…

“What in the world is this…?”

Someone finally broke the silence.

And at that very moment—

[The darkly burning star blesses you]
[The lucky 777 star blesses you]
[The star of knowledge and wisdom blesses you]

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Endless alerts rang out, and the space above my head grew blindingly bright.

“Ugh…”

Under the fervent, almost feverish gazes of the stunned star-rank mages, I let out a groan.

“Wait—she was chosen by the stars?”

“And not just one?”

“…Seriously?”

I’d only come here to look around—how did this turn into this?

That time I casually visited the Mage Tower and somehow became a legendary magical prodigy.

 

 

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The Mage Tower was thrown into chaos.

I’d always thought that if there were ever a stage to flip upside down, it’d happen someday—but I never expected to flip the Mage Tower first.

“This phenomenon denies my seventy-three years as a mage.”

“How—how is this even possible?”

“The stars chose her… like this?”

“I want to study her.”

“I want to dissect her.”

“To think… such unfathomable talent existed!”

Mages are born with the influence of the stars, and they bloom when chosen.
But an ordinary person—someone who didn’t even know how mana worked—being chosen first?

“Genius!”

“A super-genius!”

“A once-in-a-thousand-years genius!”

Have you heard of a specimen-grade genius?

That’s me.

No—weren’t you the ones who said I had no talent, you quacks?!

Beloved by the stars?

I don’t need this kind of love!

I just came here to learn how to make elixirs—how did things end up like this?

At first, the mages were so shocked they’d frozen like statues. But once they snapped out of it and began swarming toward me like a pack of dogs, I genuinely feared for my life.

Fortunately, they weren’t trying to hurt me—just to identify the types of stars that had blessed me—so I cooperated.

And the conclusion they reached was—

“A star-rank mage blessed by all the stars… that doesn’t exist in Mage Tower history, does it?”

Apparently, every single star had blessed me.

Amid the star-rank mages, who were reeling in shock at this unprecedented event, only the radiant protagonist, Chloe, smiled brightly.

“So Arellin really is a genius?”

The dazed mages muttered among themselves.

“She is a genius.”

“I’m living in the same era as a true genius.”

“Wait—if she received the blessing of all stars, does that mean she can use fusion magic?”

“Does that mean we can establish the true hierarchy of magic fields?”

The mages’ eyes had fully gone wild now, all of them locking onto me.

“Lady Arellin, would you like to learn the most magnificent fire magic?”

“The pinnacle of magic is spacetime magic! Learn this and you can teleport anywhere!”

“Scholarship must begin with fundamentals. Won’t you study Magical Theory with me?”

“With me… beautiful light magic…”

Faced with the exact gaze professors use when hunting graduate students, I bolted immediately.

“I—I’m just going to go home now.”

 

 

 

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My wish to go home didn’t come true.
It was all because of the Sky Tower’s strict entry restrictions.

“Ah, why on earth can’t I go down to the Mage Tower without a wizard’s help…!”

My visit to the Mage Tower, which was supposed to be just about learning elixir recipes, was growing into something completely out of control.

I want to be alone.

I want to go home!

I was hiding while suddenly playing tag to avoid the wizards.

Then I suddenly felt someone looking at me and looked up, flinching.

“Huh?”

A distinctive robe and golden eyes.

A look you’d never forget once you saw it, so I blinked.

Isn’t that the wizard who helped me at the auction?
So, a grand wizard?

“Huh? He’s gone.”

What was that, did I imagine it?

Come to think of it, didn’t they say earlier that the tower master, the grand wizard, was absent?

“I guess I was mistaken.”

Just as I relaxed and stood up—

“Found you!”

“There you are!”

I ended up face to face with two wizards.

“Ugh.”

That was a mistake. I should’ve moved faster.

“We won’t hurt you.”

“Come on, be good. Please come this way.”

“Do you think I’d fall for that?!”

I glared at them with full suspicion, and the two wizards carefully approached me from both sides, like they were catching a stray cat.

How can I escape?

As the circle around me tightened and I bit my lip nervously—

Kwa kwa kwa—bang!

Suddenly, a huge noise rang out and the ground shook violently.

“Aaah!”

Just as I was about to fall from losing my balance, a wizard lunged forward and caught me, frowning.

“This just now……”

“I think it’s real.”

The wizards’ expressions turned serious.

“No, can’t those guys even clean properly?”

“Isn’t there a problem?”

The wizards talking among themselves fell silent when they looked at me.

“Is something wrong?”

Maybe because they saw my anxious face, both of them shook their heads hard.

“No, nothing’s wrong!”

“Oh, this sound? It’s because of an experiment, an experiment.”

“Hahaha.”

“Hohoho.”

I briefly wondered if I should pretend to believe such obviously fake conversation, when the two whispered in low voices.

“If you think about it, it is an experiment, right? A magical biological experiment? Maybe?”

“Agh! Shut your mouth! What are you saying in front of a kid?!”

The wizard in the white robe punched the careless wizard with loud thuds, then smiled at me and held out his hand.

“I won’t say you have to learn magic, so shall we go back for now? We also need to check your condition, Miss Arelin……”

I looked at him with distrust.

How am I supposed to believe that’s not a lie?!

At that moment, with a ding, large letters appeared on the ceiling.

「Notice: From now on, proposing magic lessons to Miss Arelin is prohibited」

“Oh, a notice popped up.”

So no one in the tower could miss it—the same message appeared not only on the ceiling, but also on the walls and the floor.

「The order of magic school lessons will be decided later through wizard duels. This is a temporary decision by Bregemin」

It seemed Bregemin had already been convened in that short time.
Well, the way the wizards had rushed around with shining eyes earlier explained it. It was really scary.

“Shall we go now?”

I never fully dropped my suspicious gaze, but in the end, I took the wizard’s outstretched hand.

 

 

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Outside the Mage Tower.

Three senior-grade wizards who had come out to do so-called “cleaning” let out sighs.

“Isn’t this a waste of manpower?”

“Stop talking nonsense and hurry up and finish cleaning.”

“Ah, I’m exhausted.”

Since internal guidelines now required moving in groups of three instead of pairs after the last incident, even if they ran into most dark mages, they had the advantage.

“In the first place, they’re wizards too, so why are they hunting other wizards?”

“They worship a nameless dark star. Do you think they’re sane?”

“Damn traitors…….”

Moments like this made it easy to understand why the temple sent inquisitors.

“Hurry up and exile them.”

The Mage Tower’s punishment for traitors was either execution or exile to the stars, but lately they tried to exile them whenever possible.

They needed to find out how the senior-grade wizards who were kidnapped had been driven into rampages.

“Grrk, do you think we’ll let ourselves be caught so easily—!”

They were just about to exile a dark mage who was desperately casting spells with a broken arm and a dangling sleeve—

“-!”

Before they knew it, thick fog spread out and tightened around the senior-grade wizards’ breathing.

“Ugh, this is—!”

“Run!”

A senior-grade wizard sensed something wrong and tried to escape, but lost strength inside the fog and became helpless.

As if their earlier advantage had been a lie, the three powerful senior-grade wizards were captured in an instant and lost consciousness.

After that, from beyond the fog, a small child stepped into view.

“It’s hard to control things in this form.”

A child who looked about eleven years old smiled.

“Lord Cheyen.”

The dark mage who was on the verge of death greeted the child. Cheyen stared at the towering Mage Tower and the Sky Tower above it.

Those intense star energies felt earlier were probably gathered there.

And among them, one particular presence…….

“Our little lady heads straight here as soon as she wakes up. How disappointing.”

When Cheyen reached out and touched it, the solid protective barrier surrounding the Mage Tower fiercely resisted and rejected Cheyen.

Wooooong—

Watching the barrier shake as if rejecting Cheyen’s very existence, Cheyen let out a small laugh.

“So this still isn’t enough…….”

It couldn’t be helped, since the seal had only recently been released.

“Hm, I’ve already eaten all the star fragments, so there’s nothing left to eat.”

Looks like more wizards would need to be hunted after all.

Cheyen smiled as he thought of the owner of this barrier—and the one existence beyond it that he wanted to see more than anything.

“See you next time, Master.