The Academy’s Professor is Overpowered!

Information

Status

Ongoing

Year

2024

Author

cerealissoup

• MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT!
  Jul 14, 2025
• Chapter 4: Even an Empty Academy is Busy (1)
  Feb 1, 2024
• Chapter 3: The Glorenstein Academy
  Feb 1, 2024
• Chapter 2: Glorenstein the City of Dreams
  Feb 1, 2024
• Chapter 1: Professor Ethan
  Jan 31, 2024
• Chapter 0: If you ever transmigrate, don’t become the second son
  Jan 31, 2024

Reviews

Community Reviews(10)

• ArxadRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  There's about 5 books on here that I regularly check to see if there are any updates and this is one of them, I love this book and the idea so well, I love that the view is from the professor even without knowing really anything about him. All the crazy and overpowered things you learn about him are from other people perspectives and your own personal inferences, making him seem not all that strong, and yet at the same time unbelievably powerful. Love love love it! The writers updates are also often and very helpful, thank you!
• ChabamboRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  This story is really entertaining to read.  The story is basically everything you would expect from an OP MC without much tension in it.  Well, only at first glance
  I'm editing this review because the second half of volume 1 has a greater focus on plot than I expected.  There is a serious storyline with amazing backstory written near the end of volume 1, which pushes the rating to a full 5 star for me.
  I love the direction the story is going in
• Cria de ElfoRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  This guy manages to be very good at what he does, humble, friendly and simply good people at the same time, in addition to having a sadder and more difficult past that still cannot overcome his good will and make him someone bitter and dark.  This is the type of overpowered lead that I love most.
  The grammar of the story is a little bad, things often get a little confusing and I even get lost in thought because I start to not really understand what is happening.
  Still, the story is great, the author fulfills my need for the super strong college professor genre and the title of the story says it all, not to mention the great images that the author uses to illustrate the story, so my most sincere fucks For bad writing, I'm going to follow this story and I bet it will soon be one of the top 1 stories on Rising Stars.
  Furthermore, I like to highlight the author's consistency and frequency, he simply provides many chapters, the work has been around for less than 2 weeks, yet there are already 33 chapters.  They're short, but still a lot of chapters.
  u can stop de read it now if u want, I need more words for publish it, so i will talk abouth things less important and in a bad english.
  The mc is also strong in physics and maybe magic things and political influences, he have a lot of friends in the days of war, because he is a realy likely person. He also have great conquers that made people be afraid of him. I think he dont think so much of himself, because he seems to really belive he doesn’t a special one, and respect so much him bosses, even seems that he could just take all the impire with his power and political influencess.
• Hannibal ForgeRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  The story reads like a Light Novel, and while this is only the first chapter, it leads me to believe the rest of the tale will be told in a similar voice.
  That being said, I laughed twice reading the first chapter, and that gives me hope for the story. If it doesn't take itself too seriously, it may become something great.
  I hope the author takes the premise and uses a more mature writing style to flesh it out, but I'll still enjoy it for what it is regardless.
  Keep it up, author!
• Glorious PotatoRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  The way it is written is different from the typical novels found in RR, but not something that makes reading this novel insurmountable. I understand as to why other people aren't used to novels written in this format, but I promise you that it is quite easy to get used to
  I recommend giving this novel a try as it has been a very good read so far; read through the entire thing in less than an hour.
  If the writing style of this novel isn't for you, well, at least you gave it a shot and if it is to your liking, congratulations on finding another novel to bookmark.
  If the author reads this review, I hope you add a "ATLAS POV" in the chapter titles since that chapter would be dedicated to another character that isn't the MC.
  Hats off to you author for writing this and hope there will be more chapters to come.
  Now beyond this is just random words to reach the 200 word requirement
  She sells sea shells by the sea shore. Dianna sells sea shells to earn money for school tuition. She sells sea shells by the sea shore. Dianna sells sea shells to earn money for school tuition. She sells sea shells by the sea shore. Dianna sells sea shells to earn money for school tuition. She sells sea shells by the sea shore. Dianna sells sea shells to earn money for school tuition.
• daynight dreamerRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  I enjoyed the novel very much, especially with the MC. He is a person who dons many hats, but there is one I think is the true one, he values his relationships. He may call it gaining chess pieces, but one can tell, he holds it dear to him and goes out of his way to protect it. He is easygoing, and i don't know if he is oblivious about it or just pretending( it gets pretty confusing) he is powerful. At first, I thought he knew, but something happened in the later story that made me wonder if he does know he is powerful
  So here is the context; one of his students gets caught up with her past. She is royalty and her being alive affects the legitimacy of the current king, so it's obvious he wants her dead so he sends people to the academy to kill her. One of the people sent was someone who had been to the war with the MC, and when he saw the MC he shivered with palpable fear. In my head, I thought it was because he had seen the MC in action and knew what he was capable of, but from the MCs POV he seemed bewildered as to why that person was afraid of him and chalked it up to his connections. The Mc doesn't seem like the oblivious sort. He has been shown to be quite intelligent. Would he really be unaware of his abilities after spending over a decade in a battlefield?
  The story is warm, but it also has its serious moments. We can slowly see bits here and there on the realities of war, especially from the MC's perspective. I'm intrigued to see more of his past slowly come out as the story progresses
• tauRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 4.0

  It's a lighthearted story about an isekaied guy who spent years growing stronger on the frontlines of a demon war, but somehow doesn't know that he is very powerful. He is assigned to teach at an academy for royal scions/hostages from around the world. Shenanigans ensue. The protagonist is also a very sociable guy, which is a nice change of pace in comparison with most of the genre. The story is just starting to actually develop, so I don't really have that much more to say, but it's a fun, engaging read.
  Unfortunately the story has one major flaw. It is written in first person for MULTIPLE CHARACTERS. There is nothing wrong with a first person POV if it is just the protagonist. Any POV changes then need to be in 3rd person for clarity. Here... I start reading "I did this and that..." and automatically imagine that it's our protagonist, only to realize that it's a completely different character, narratong in 1st person. This is terrible, confusing and somehow just feels deeply unpleasant to read. This absolutely needs to be fixed, switching alternate POVs to 3rd person.
  If the problem with POVs is rewritten, then I think this novel has potential. Some people point out strange formatting. I use text to speech, so I have no opinion on that point.
• WitchcraftMakerRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 4.0

  I've been enjoying it so far!
  Some points I really liked:
  - MC is an extrovert who knows the value of relationships and actively works on them!
  - MC is pretty smart and can figure things out on his own
  - The angsty bits were done quite well
  - The slow pace and slice-of-life are great. I love that this is an academy story that actually prioritises showing the academy life and not some unrelated stuff where MC wanders off to do his own thing 90% of the time
  - Decent amount of female characters AND almost all of them have no romantic inclinations towards the protagonist at all so far. Won't lie, when the first girl appeared as a damsel-in-distress, I was really worried that this will have the annoying harem vibe like certain popular Korean academy novels. But nope! Female characters are written on the same level as male characters, so I appreciate it!
  - MC's past looks interesting and I can't wait till we get to discover it in full!
  Some points that weren't my cup of tea:
  - Sometimes MC feels a little TOO invested in his students, or acts somewhat too childish for my taste
  - This story seems to be quite character-driven, so there is little description or things like magical theory/power descriptions. For some, this may be a plus
  - I wish there could be a bit more hints or direct shows of MC's OP-ness and what kind of power he can use exactly
  - I didn't take off any stars for this as it's not objective criticism, but I'm somewhat disappointed that MC is a sword/melee fighter and not a mage (unless he is concealing another kind of magical power he can use). Ngl what draws me into the academy novels is first and foremost the fact that MCs are usually mage or scholarly types. But as I've said, this was just a default expectation from the genre and it's not objective criticism, so I didn't bring down my score for this
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  To sum up: although there are some weaker points (for my taste), the story has been quite enjoyable and easy-to-read s
• AsteraRoyal Road

  ★★★★ 3.5

  The story is good with little to no grammatical errors though it isnt the most creative Thing Ive seen, its up there.
  Though there is one thing that bothers me and It’s a HUGE Issue:
  The Author doesn’t tell us sheep (family friendly)
  After dozens of chapters I still don’t know what the MC did for like 8 YEARS it’s to the point it’s not a “Mystery”anymore but just annoying.
  Everything else is fine tho
  [Im not a Native English speaker so forgive me for not writing that good(๑>◡<๑)]
• YzellothRoyal Road

  ★ 1.0

  I could not enjoy the story since every conversation physically hurts me.(exaggeration)
  I am not joking, every interaction the MC has reads like this: "Greetings good sir, my name is Ethan and I have never had a vacation"  The general answers unamused: " Funny, anyways go teach." Ethan after dreaming about his lost vacation, where he would relax and enjoy spending his money that he earned over the last 8 years [...lengthy description of something...] responds: "OK".
  OR my favourite:"Hey seat neighbour lets play cards" "OK" ...., Time-skip: The seat neighbour:"Goodbye Ethan you are my best friend" ,the entire train: "We love you Ethan, get us all pregnant, we will never forget you" without any further conversation,  joke or interaction that shows us why they like him.
  The conversations just do not feel real, more like they are just included to start a new lengthy description of something that probably won't matter.
  The story itself seems interesting and sounds similar to "Runebound Professor" with an OP, chill guy teaching others but the execution and general style is severely lacking.
  The best way to describe this story would be:" A story about a supposedly charismatic, funny and generally likeable guy written by an author that fails to evoke those emotions with his writing."
  You have to be funny when you try to write a funny/witty character, otherwise all  we readers get is: This guy is supposed to be funny. If he is funny/likeable/charismatic then show us how, do not just skip over it show me what is in your head when you think about how your MC behaves.
  This is just a review for the first 10 or so chapters, perhaps this improves as the story goes on, I just can not read further with the way things are.