Professor Valesa Nalear

**Valesa Nalear** was the Professor of Principles of Advanced Magic at White Griffon Academy and the youngest Archmage of the Griffon Kingdom (until Lith). She was the traitor that orchestrated the civil war between nobility and commonfolk and was allied with infamous Alchemist Coirn Hatorne and Archmage Lukart. She was responsible for the mass insurrection where many students and some Professors committed crimes under effects of her slave items. She was an advocate for the civil war, believing the Griffon Kingdom beyond saving and needing to be destroyed to be rebuilt. She was also Lith's first crush.

## Appearance

Nalear had an oval-shaped face with delicate features and honey-blonde hair with shades of purple pulled back in a ponytail. She wore almost no makeup, and had an ample bosom. She had bright green eyes.

### Soul Vision

Nalear resembled a Banshee, wearing a dirty long white tunic stained with mud and blood. Her hair moved like she was in the middle of a storm, her eye sockets empty holes shedding tears of blood while her mouth was wide open in an eternal silent scream.

## Background

Nalear's parents were employed as household staff to a minor noble, and she was sent to the White Griffon. She had hoped to make friends and gain respect for her hard work, but failed to prevent hazing and violence, deciding instead to focus on magic. She matured during her third year, becoming the victim of more sexual harassment. The Professors blamed her for being unable to fit in and the Headmistress labeled her as overreacting to "practical jokes." Nalear finally got a Ballot after a r\*pe attempt, and Professor Vastor attempted to testify for her, but the Headmistress managed to silence Nalear with a large sum of money for her parents.

During the visit to the crystal mines in her 4th year, Nalear was ambushed in a r\*pe attempt. She fought back but was brutally beaten until she managed to detonate a crystal, causing a cave-in. She survived for over a week, subsisting on anything she could, repeatedly trying to use dimensional magic to escape until she Awakened her mana core thanks to her talent and the density of world energy in the mines. After investigation, the Headmistress and Professor in charge of the Mana Crystal subject were fired but the students were let go for lack of proof. Nalear practiced true magic during her recovery and used Spirit Magic to force her assailants to fail and be expelled.

She slowly descended into madness, raging at the unfairness of the system and hating the nobles and Royals. She attempted to gain power by racking up merits and accomplishments with the Mage Association, but failed without any allies. She decided to ally with Archmage Lukart as a double agent, enslaving his accomplices inside the academy and gaining control of all the dimensional boxes that arrived there. When Lukart gives her his master slave ring while attempting to flee the Kingdom, she kills him and his entire family, gaining control of all his allies and assets.

### Professor

During Lith's second class on his first day at the academy, he is avoided and shunned by most of his classmates due to his possessing a Guilty Ballot and having caused 3 girl bullies to be expelled in his previous class. Lith develops an immediate crush on her upon her entrance, calling her a "10/10 on [his] personal scale." She expresses disgust for his classmates' behavior and violently reprimands several, demonstrating Spirit Magic, before launching into a tirade about her past. Due to her commoner status and father's status as a lowly knight, she had experienced harassments and molestation and was victim to rumors and cruel traps. She proceeds to teach about multicasting and Tier 4 spells.

When the Kandria plague arises, Nalear reveals that she had insured Manohar was unavailable, resulting in Lith being sent to Kandria as the 2nd best diagnostician. It's also revealed that she was the culprit behind the poisoning of Marchioness Mirim Distar's daughter Brinja. Nalear had also arranged for the Clacker attacks during the mock exam and disabled the protections around the dimensional Training Hall. Nalear alerts Lukart, who sends a unit of Talons to wipe out the Queen's Corps escort and kill Lith, though Lith manages to escape and make his way to Kandria.

Later, during the second exam, Lukart asks Nalear to orchestrate Yurial's death to distract Archmage Velan Deirus from investigating him, but Headmaster Linjos had tightened security, preventing Nalear from acting. Lukart makes one last attempt on Yurial's life during their practical healing home visits, but Lith and his group easily kill the assassins.

During Balkor's attack on the academies, Nalear fights the Valors alongside Professors Ironhelm and Trasque before being purposely wounded to avoid suspicion and sidelined for part of the following trimester. Nalear returns at the start of the 5th year, teaching them the subject of Magic Creation. She develops plans to build military grade weapons for her "final act," and reveals she had been slowly siphoning Lukart's funds and assets as well as enslaving his accomplices.

Nalear ambushes Lith when he leaves Phloria's room with several enslaved students, using "anti-academy" weapons that are strong enough to knock him out but not enough to trigger the academy's protective arrays. She knocks Lith out and imprisons him inside a room closet with several enslaved students that stab him with the anti-academy knives every time he gains consciousness in order to keep him out of the picture. She captures Solus and stores her inside a dimensional box, though is unaware of her true nature.

Nalear brings an enslaved Professor Wanemyre to attack Headmaster Linjos in his office. She uses a power core unit to temporarily cause the tower's power core to shut down and disable all the arrays. She commands the large amount of noble students she had enslaved to commit atrocities against their fellow students to reopen the divide between nobles and commoners and trigger a civil war while framing Archmage Lukart and his accomplices. Linjos manages to subdue her, but unaware of Nalear's Awakened nature and Spirit Magic, is killed by Wanemyre.

Nalear encounters Solus as she tries to find her way to Lith, who infects Nalear with a sample of Balkor's venom. Nalear summons enslaved Professors Thorman and Binlow to attack Lith, but undercover Queen's Corpse member Amyla Farg intervenes and knocks the three Professors down. However, unaware of Nalear's Awakened nature, Amyla is knocked unconscious. Nalear nearly overpowers Lith with her superior core and experience with true magic until Orion, Jirni, and Phloria arrive. The three Ernas engage Nalear while Lith recovers, biding his time to rejoin the fight. Nalear attempts to stab Phloria, but Lith, having rehearsed the events of his vision repeatedly, manages to Switch with Phloria and kill Nalear.

After her death, Nalear's contingency plan activates, releasing to the public all the video recordings and documents incriminating many ancient noble households with colluding with Archmage Lukart. They reveal the plans for the civil war, proving the involvement of many nobles in funding Hatorne's work and providing the necessary resources for the improved slave items, finally allowing the Crown to purge the Court's most dangerous members.

## Quotes

* *"And what about you, ugly b\*tch? Why are you not laughing anymore? Why don't you go crying to your mommy, Duchess Baran? I want to see her face when I will rip your heart out in front of her eyes and make her eat it raw as an apology for being weaker than me!"* (Chapter 54)
* *"Your gift for failure has long stopped amusing me, Lukart. You can't be trusted with picking your own nose. I'll send my own men. You focus on packing your stuff. You are likely to screw that up too, but at least there shouldn't be any casualties."* (Nalear to Lukart, Chapter 191)
* *"The battle experience of three of them amounts to fighting acne! The last one is a deranged psychopath that only preys on the weak and magical beasts to make a quick buck."* (Chapter 193)
* *"Rise, my little lambs! The time has come. Your final order is the following: do whatever your heart wants! R\*pe, kill, steal! Have no fear for tomorrow because you don't have one. Show the whole world what kind of monsters you really are!"* (Chapter 304)
* *"I'm the victim! Why am I the one getting punished?"* (Chapter 312)

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 566: Round Two (Part 4)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Chapter 296: Magic Creation (Part 2)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Chapter 54: Alone In The Crowd
4. ↑ Chapter 61: Error Of Judgment
5. ↑ Chapter 315: Final Struggle (Part 1)
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Chapter 311: Agony (Part 1)
7. ↑ Chapter 312: Agony (Part 2)
8. ↑ Chapter 130: Traitor
9. ↑ Chapter 173: Scheming
10. ↑ Chapter 192: Helpless
11. ↑ Chapter 226: Mystery Box
12. ↑ Chapter 267: Codex (Part 1)
13. ↑ Chapter 299: Broken (Part 1)
14. ↑ Chapter 302: Rising Tide (Part2)
15. ↑ Chapter 310: Traitor (Part 4)
16. ↑ Chapter 316: Final Struggle (Part 2)
17. ↑ Chapter 317: Moving Forward (Part 1)