121. Chapter 121 – Ranqi’s filial piety.
Chapter 121 – Ranqi’s Filial Piety
Twenty minutes later.
The fifth floor of the main building of the Magic Engineering Academy.
The floor-to-ceiling glass windows filled the entire hallway with natural light, and from time to time, the teaching staff of the Magic Works Academy walked by, while the carpet laid on the original wooden floor reduced the sound of footsteps and noise.
Wearing a black classical-style suit with a white shirt and gold tie, with a diamond-shaped cross of holy radiance patterned on the buttons and lapels, Loren, the Dean of the Sage Academy, led Ranch to this floor from the stairway.
They walked on the left side of the walkway covered with glass walls, talking about something every now and then, their voices friendly and clear, like youths and teenagers who were also teachers and friends.
The way led past some other offices and classrooms, toward the dean’s office.
“Dean Loren, can you lend me your [Primordial Slate – Wind]?”
Ranchi asked with a smile.
The first Slate holder he had met was probably the one with the gentlest personality among those who belonged to the ranks of the strongest in the world, and he didn’t feel any sense of distance around Loren at all.
“Alas, there’s nothing I can do with you, I’m going to rush over to the church later, the northern continent seems to be in turmoil lately, causing affairs on the side of the Church of the Goddess of Fate to surge as well, so when I’m free in a few days, let someone inform you to come to my office.”
Loren sighed helplessly as if he knew Ranchi would open this mouth.
Generally speaking gold level card makers were not qualified to make this kind of request to him, and although Ranchi’s status as a platinum level card maker hadn’t fully come down yet, Loren very much recognized Ranchi’s qualifications as a card maker, and he was more than likely not going to make things difficult for his own student.
The magic artisan observing the stone plate was not something that could be finished in a moment, probably he needed to spare at least one to two hours for Ranqi.
“Thank you, Dean!”
Ranchi happily thanked.
Soon.
The two arrived at the door of the Dean’s office.
Loren could actually come over today without having to come in person.
It would be fine to just have the teacher from the Magic Engineering Academy take Ranchi to see Professor Pollao.
However, Loren was particularly uneasy, fearing that Ranqi would further offend Professor Pollao, so he accompanied Ranqi to come along.
Since the last second round of entrance examination, Loren rushed to the Magic Engineering Institute to ask Professor Pollao to finish grabbing and repairing the Artificial Shadow World Starting Terminal, and Loren’s side didn’t get the approval for special reimbursement, he didn’t dare to come to see Professor Pollao for a long time.
This time, because of the platinum level card maker affairs of Ranchi, the culprit, it was finally necessary to meet Prof. Pollao face to face, and Loren felt that another scolding was unavoidable.
When Loren was still a student of the Sage Academy, Professor Pollao was already the dean of the Magic Engineering Academy.
Obviously, he was also the chief freshman of the Sage Academy in the beginning, but he never thought that he could mess with the dean’s side of the Magic Engineering Academy across the faculties.
The more he thought back to his peaceful student days, the more Loren felt that Ranch was outrageous.
Loren stopped his thoughts and raised his hand to knock lightly on Professor Pollao’s door.
Knock knock.
“Come in.”
After getting an answering sound, Loren turned back to Ranch:
“Don’t go into the Dean’s room without me calling you later.”
Loren and Ranqi explained, then he himself pushed open the door stiffly and entered the Dean’s Office of the Magic Engineering Academy.
Immediately after that.
Standing at the door of the dean’s office.
Ranch soon heard a chorus of curses and reparations coming from the Dean’s room –
“This repair will cost at least 8,000 pounds! Who’s going to pay for this? You or us? If it’s coming out of the Academy of Magical Engineering’s funds, I’ll make that kid lose his skin anyway!”
“Don’t worry, I’m already applying for special funding with His Majesty the King, if I really can’t handle it, even if I personally spend the money, I won’t let the Academy of Magical Engineering lose half of its research funding.”
“……”
It seems that Dean Loren was scolded even more by Professor Pollao during the entrance exam in the first place.
“You let me meet that kid.”
Accompanied by this voice through the door came from inside the door.
All Ranch saw was the doorway to the dean’s office suddenly open, and a gentle breeze floated into the dean’s office holding him up like a cloud.
The space of the dean’s room in this avant-garde style building was also filled with streamlined design and a clear sense of geometric lines, and the windows were wide and transparent, allowing daylight to freely flood the room, forming a dynamic picture with the bustling campus landscape outside.
At the heart of the office, a spacious white table like a surgical table stands out, neat and organized, and gleaming in the light with its sleek silver-colored metal stand.
Professor Pollao was sitting at the table, scrutinizing Ranch with a slightly furrowed brow.
Loren, who stood at the side of the office with his head hanging down, flicked his fingertips as he apparently carried Ranch in with his wind magic. Rancic touched the ground on his toes and steadied himself on the carpet of the dean’s office, watching in surprise as Dean Loren broke into a grin.
In his heart, he couldn’t help but sigh that Dean Loren’s magic was too convenient, if only he could levitate with himself all the time.
With that, Ranchi gazed back at Professor Pollao, whose expression had not yet dissipated his anger.
He actually probably understood why the old man was angry.
It was because he had just heard the complete conversation between the two outside the door.
At this moment in time, inside the dean’s chamber of the Magic Engineering Academy, the atmosphere was unusually dry and depressing, and the air could almost be cut apart.
The anger in the air that was close to erupting but had been hardened and suppressed by him was like a heat wave that filled the chamber soundlessly and suffocatingly.
All Loren was asking for now was for Ranch to settle down.
Don’t piss off Professor Pollao.
However, right before Loren’s surprised gaze.
Not only did Ranchi not retreat, he instead walked over to Professor Pollao in a big way.
He stopped in front of the table, looked sincerely at this old master of magic craftsmen, and owed him a salute:
“Professor Pollao, regarding the issue of research funding, I actually have a solution.”
“What?”
Professor Pollao asked suspiciously as he wrapped his arms around himself.
A huge sum of eight thousand pounds was not a small amount of money even for Loren, what could a student in Ranchi’s district have sworn to be able to solve it with his hands.
Ranch smiled assuredly, then said:
“You do this, first ask Dean Loren to help you continue to apply for research funding from the King’s side, and instead of writing ‘repairing the Shadow World Initiation Terminal’, change the reason to ‘further research and development for existing problems’. Then you can write a fine to my father, Noel Wilford, for the cost of damaging the terminal, and send it along with my confession of guilt. If the king’s side doesn’t approve it, you can take the eight thousand pounds from my father, if the king’s side approves it, you take the eight thousand pounds from the king’s side first, and the eight thousand pounds from my father’s side we will split it seventy-thirty, seven for you and three for me. The sums on both sides belong to each other without conflict, and it is not considered an impost to the king for a share of the funds.”
Ranch finished closing his palms as if the problem had disappeared.
“Hiss-“
Professor Pollao took a deep breath of cool air at his words and stared carefully at Ranchi for a few moments.
After the most important issue of funding was solved, and he might even earn a large sum of money in return, looking at this Ranchi, who was about to become a platinum level card maker at such a young age, Professor Pollao only felt that the more he looked at him, the better he looked at him.
This was the kind of talent they needed at the Magic Engineering Academy that could turn the meter upside down!
“You kid is very good, it seems that in the future, we can invite you to help us test the safety hazards of the new magic props more often, you are undoubtedly the best candidate for a tester, and I appreciate your divergent thinking.”
Professor Pollao stood up and walked over to Ranqi and patted his shoulder, his tone of voice was more than a little bit instrumental.
From the fact that Ranch was able to say such deranged words, it was presumed that his father, that Mr. Noël Wilford, should be quite a family man as well.
“Professor Pollao, I especially admire you, I have long been your fan, I read all the books of your writings in the South Vantina Collar before, and I would like to take more of your classes in the future, and I will definitely be obliged if I need a security test.”
Ranqi rubbed the back of his head, he naturally understood what Prof. Pollao meant, and said with a humble naive smile.
Pops’ side would be considered to be paying for tuition, as well as investing in the great construction of Magic Engineering.
Moreover, when Pops learns later that he has excelled so much in his studies, he will surely be very happy as well!
“Aside from the Card Maker’s Association side of things, most afternoons you can find me on the second floor of the old Liberal Arts Building, just downstairs from the Student Union, I basically stay in that lab to develop new magic engineering props, you can come over to help me out when you have some free time, and you can ask me directly if there’s anything you don’t understand in magic engineering. ”
After many years, Professor Pollao finally met the young man who made him feel more optimistic.
Talent was one aspect.
The main thing was that it was very up to date, and that was the key.
Far away.
A place about to be forgotten by this sudden harmonious and cheerful atmosphere.
“……”
Loren just watched as Ranch naturally discussed a quick way to get money with Professor Pollao, the most eccentric person in the Magic Engineering Academy.
For a moment it stuck in his throat.
What the hell was he getting this scolding for just now?
What was the reason for his own earlier scolding by Professor Pollao for the sake of Ranchi?
Loren only felt unworthy on earth now.
He finally realized that whether it was during the entrance exam, whether it was in the Shadow World, or whether it was the work of the student council.
When confronted with everyone’s conflicts, Ranchi could always easily come up with ways to make everyone feel as bad as if they had eaten a fly, yet did solve the problem and satisfy everyone’s demands as much as possible.
It’s really pure life that this gate species has survived this long in peace.
Tomorrow starts Shadow World!
(End of chapter)