CH 66.1

Spring is in full bloom and I’m running as fast as I can through the courtyard where yellow flowers on the flower beds are in full bloom.

The main building where the principal’s office was located, where I had just been summoned, is a short distance away from the research buildings which are crowded with laboratories.

This is so that even if the research buildings were to explode, the students would not be harmed.

Strangely enough, this school had had three “one in a million” disasters in its three hundred years of history.

Each time, the research building will be rebuilt or renovated and now, there are four research buildings.

Leaving the magic construct research lab, I walked through the children, who looked like new students, at the entrance of the main building. I hurried up the stairs straight to the principal’s office.

If the principal wanted to talk to a student alone, that means there’s a problem.

If it was good news, my boss, Professor Marino, would have already given me some hints beforehand.

I managed to climb the stairs, sweating hot, or maybe cold, and caught my breath before knocking on the heavy door of the principal’s office.

「Come in.」

「Excuse me. I’m Sawadi Slayra, a research student of the Magic Construct Laboratory.」

「Yeah.」

I entered the principal’s office with a sense of excitement and then, I saw a familiar face along with the principal.

「Yow, it’s been a while, Dr. Sawadi. Have you grown taller?」

The one who asked me that is Baron Gosushin, a handsome middle aged ex-military man with a clean shaven face.

I healed him before when he had lost his magic organ and was about to die. We have been sending each other seasonal news ever since.

We hadn’t seen each other since my wedding so it had been almost a year.

「Baron Gosushin! It’s been a while and it looks like you haven’t changed at all……」

「Yeah, I’m doing great. Thanks to you, I had my second son the other day.」

「Heh……? Ah, congratulations」

How old is he? Well, I guess he’s that healthy now.

「Thank you. I’d love to take time to talk with you but today, I’m a messenger.」

「Huh?」

「You should have heard that Viscount Rizdan has been put in charge in the special dungeon zone in the south, right? And it’s currently in a pretty bad shape.」

「Yeah」

「It seems like a few herds of monsters that we failed to hunt have broken through the fenced entrance. They leaked out and started breeding around the special zone and the number of super behemoth has been increasing.」

「That seems to be the case.」

「The truth is, there’s not enough people to exterminate monsters from the dungeon due to the removal of personnel from every chivalry of every region. And I think Rizdan already asked for your help since you have a large number of soldiers….」

「Yeah….that happened.」

「From what I heard, it sounds like he tried to buy them from you.」

I can only smile bitterly.

They kept telling us to sell slaves or have them stationed there 24 hours a day. However, they won’t be given the treatment and will be used as disposable pawns so we rejected them no matter how many times they ask.

I don’t really care whether there would be a dungeon outbreak or not since Torquiva is a walled city and it will just cause a little bit of damage to the vast wheat field.

「The country wants doctor to help manage the dungeon. If doctor is willing to lend us manpower, we can send the knights to more appropriate areas.」

「I think you are expecting too much from a mere few hundred slave adventurers.」

「They are indeed only a few hundred but they are a few hundred under “you”. The military has also thought of buying defective slaves and turning them into soldiers but healing mages are too proud to do so. I has never materialize.」

「Is that so?」

「Anyway, we want your help but that old man Rizdan was getting in the way. Thus, the army prepared this.」

Baron Gosushin pulled a red leather envelope from his bag and shouted “Research Student Sawadi Slayra!”.

「Yes!」

In that instant, my brain stopped working and my body began moving on its own.

It’s a movement that I was made to practice until I could do it subconsciously, when receiving something from a superior.

「You are appointed as an Associate Professor of Torquiva Magic Academy’s Magic Construct Laboratory!」

「I’m honored!」

Hnn?

Associate professor!?

According to the previous announcement, I would only be assigned as assistant professor!

I skipped two levels!

「Given how much you contributed to the army, a lot of people supported your appointment as an associate professor. It has been delayed until it was finalized.」