chapter 19
19. Hmm, a common slave?
It was very crowded near the main entrance. It was reminiscent of a boot camp because it was filled with a procession of countless people.
I read on Wiki that the admission season of Caseus Academy every year feels like this.
There are less than 100 students enrolled each year, but the number of applicants exceeds dozens of times. Anyone can take on the challenge, but if you graduate, it’s an opportunity to change your life.
Even the general department is fully exempt from tuition, so applicants from all over the continent flock to it. Even their parents and escorts, there is no separate market for dottegi.
Since I have to wait a bit to get in anyway, I decided to check my status once again.
“Status window.”
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Name: Wicker Pidia
Occupation: Slave Trader ΘΘΘΘ (CEO)
Professor Jeong ☆☆☆ (new)
Target ☆☆☆
Swordsman ☆☆☆
Trader ☆☆
Inspection ☆☆
Baroness ☆☆
……
Adventurer ☆
Peddler ☆
Mercenary ☆
……
Rank: Baron
Class: B-class adventurer
Skills: Professor Lv. 8 (New)
Merchant Lv. 7
Swordsman Lv. 6
Magic Lv. 2
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Hmm.
For some reason, the level of the Professor skill was already high.
It’s a skill that was opened when I acquired the full professor job, and I don’t remember teaching anyone in my life.
If you can guess.
– Someone on the Internet you don’t know your face is wrong! I can’t stand this!
Maybe it’s because I’ve spent a lot of time on Wikinite, reading and editing documents, and dragging opponents to the forum and destroying them with kibae when there’s a fix war.
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– List of faculty skills
[Overwhelming Lecture Lv.8]
[Persuasion Lv.8]
[Speed Reading Lv.8]
[Thesis Writing Lv.9]
[Beautiful Pronunciation Lv.7]
[Powerful Eloquence Lv.7]
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As I was reading the skill description and thinking about how to use it, someone grabbed my arm.
“Hey, applicants for menial jobs need a security check. Make sure to check the notice straight away!”
I was a security guard at the academy. When I turned his face and met his eyes, he frowned even more.
“Looking at your age, you’re not even an applicant, are you? It doesn’t seem like he’s even a guardian, so it’s suspicious. Follow me!”
Good. It was suitable for getting directions.
The guard shoved me on the back and led me along a byway to a passage outside the city wall. There, at first glance, people who looked stern were gathering and being interrogated.
The League and the Jang doctor, all of them, were all in the name of the name of the name.
“One more.”
“I don’t even get tired of it. Even what, slave trader? I managed to wander around the academy. Surely you wouldn’t be an applicant with that face?”
The assembled guards burst into mocking laughter. I walked forward and questioned the captain of the guard.
“Does this inner passage lead to the inside of the academy?”
“What? Then what to do Those of you who can’t even change your name tag because you don’t have a decent job are hopeless. Go back without false hope.”
“Seeing that there is a castle, it seems that he is a noble, so he can’t understand the subject. Your status at the academy is garbage. Don’t even think about stuttering.”
The guards bared their teeth. I confirmed and memorized each of their races and nameplates.
“Phil, Bemmert, Ullule, Mundoo. Everyone remembered.”
“What?”
“Item box.”
A black hole appeared in the air to my right.
“It’s called an item box… ?!”
Ignoring the startled guards, I reached out and pulled out an item from inside.
The black card I received from the president was the academy’s highest grade pass.
As I lightly ran my finger along the center line, the card that recognized my mana shone brightly.
“Huh?”
“What? What was that….”
“Huh uh uh uh!!!”
While most of them were riding, one was shocked to find out what it was. Immediately he fell to his knees. It was about the sound of breaking joints.
“Are you a Chair Professor!! Sorry! I didn’t think you’d be in a place like this… !”
At the word chair professor, the other guards saw the pass and immediately began to kneel.
“Sorry!”
“Please forgive the rudeness!”
There were whispers among the applicants who were being interrogated.
“What is a Chair Professor?”
“Don’t you know that? You mean the best professor in the academy! The king here is the king!”
“But why is the nameplate like that?”
“I don’t know why, but it’s a b*tch. Slave trader professor!”
I gestured to the guards to get up.
“Guide me. Where should the office of the professor in charge of the earth department go?”
“I will escort you right away! Let’s go together!”
A lot of guards stood on either side of me in line with discipline. With them, I went through the passage through the castle wall and headed inside the site.
“Hmm.”
After passing through the thick walls, I felt as if I had arrived at Taoyuan. Rather, the sun was bright inside and the wind was refreshing. Was it the influence of the blessing or the strong protection of the goddess?
The site was enormous. It was to the point where I couldn’t put everything in at once. There are various buildings and fields for all kinds of research.
The academy was still on winter vacation, and there were only 2nd and 3rd graders left, so the number of students must have been small. Nevertheless, the inside was lively and the number of faculty members seemed to be larger.
“Is that building a training ground?”
“Oh yes! It’s a swordsmanship training ground! The back is an archery field!”
“Okay. Guide them one by one.”
After that, whenever the guards saw a new building with high spirits, they told me the name and purpose of it.
It seemed that the site could be divided into areas of martial arts, magic, healing, utilization, research, and club activities.
The last area we arrived at was the dormitory area. There was a crown of fire with a splendid exterior, a crown of splendid water, and a crown of wind reminiscent of a church.
“This is the earth coffin, Professor!”
After walking around the site for a long time in the mood of taking a walk, we arrived in front of a building.
I gave my opinion calmly.
“Is it a graveyard?”
“No, dorm… no see.”
There was a building made of wood and stone in a dark forest because it was not maintained. It was large, but it looked like ruins, as if it had been swept away by demons.
I let out a sigh.
“Well then, can I go back now?”
As I turned my head, the guards trembled.
“I still remember your names.”
“I am so sorry! I’ll apologize like this, so somehow… !”
“I don’t need any more apologies. I already got it, so it’s not worth much to me. I’ll take what’s good for me.”
“Yes? If it benefits….”
“It’s a deal.”
I took out a pen and paper, scrawled, and handed it over to the guards.
“When applicants with this badge come, pass through the checkpoint and report. They probably won’t have any problems anyway. I will forgive you in return.”
“Oh, I see! Thank you!”
The guards saluted me and ran away.
I looked again at the earth coffin.
Three years from now.
I don’t like the lighting rate, but it’ll be cool in the summer.
President bastard, just mess with the internal facilities. I’m going to pull out all the remaining hair. I have to balance it, so the beard too.
I opened the door and entered the dormitory.
“It’s squeamish.”
It wasn’t the smell of not being cleaned or being looked after. The building itself was great, like an academy.
This smell that was thickly spread from the lobby was the smell of losers.
“Won.”
I made eye contact with a few sophomores passing by in the hallway on the second floor, but none of them were very lively. They showed little interest in me and trudged on their way.
I walked down the hallway and found the professor’s office. Without hesitation, I opened the luxuriously decorated door and entered.
“Ah, cool, you’ve arrived! Cool, cool!”
There was already a woman inside.
My waist-length curls, which had not been wrapped for days, were tangled and tangled, and looked quite uncomfortable. The loose clothes hung over her large chest, making her look more baggy and worn.
Looking at her big eyes behind her glasses, she was holding a bunch of books and papers, so she must have been tidying up her room. Even without looking at her nameplate, her job was quite predictable.
I was a slave.
No, it was a mistake.
I was a graduate student.
***
“Where are you going?”
“Academy.”
Aisha froze in place as if her eyes were met with her Medusa at the one word Luca said calmly.
“Lucas.”
“Yes, sister.”
“I took you in and took care of you when you first came to the Empire.”
“Yes.”
“I would go see you once a week, ride that f*cking mountain, teach you swords, and cook for you.”
“Yes.”
“No matter how much the emperor ordered it to start, you and I became family, right?”
“Yes.”
Quaaang!
Aisha couldn’t stand it and the aura she emitted ground her.
“Then if you’ve done enough, you shouldn’t have to go home!! I just caught the demon king, what kind of academy is this academy! Can’t I go back without you? The emperor that torai will go back without you, and he will have a lifetime !! ”
Luka, on the other hand, answered with a calm face and her tone did not change.
“I’m going to the academy.”
“aaah!!! Why! Why are you doing this!!!”
Sword Saint Aisha.
Apart from Luca, she was officially the continent’s youngest swordsman and was called a sword prodigy.
From birth, she grabbed a sword and cut down every man who approached her with strong force. She enlisted at the age of 16, attained the swordsmanship at the age of 20, and was granted the rank of general at the age of 22.
Because of that strong and arrogant image, not a single man approached her until she turned 31 after 10 years.
It’s too late now that the expedition has taken two years and crossed the line of 30.
Now I have to seize the last chance to meet a fresh man who is a soldier and a swordsman.
“Academy takes 3 years!”
The aura she burst out filled with resentment made her heaven and earth cry above and below her.