chapter 4
4 – to the center.
The price of the restaurant was reasonable, perhaps because it was out of the plaza near the station. Ed, who ate a full plate of food that was more stimulating than the weak food he ate in the North, took out 10,000 energy from his pocket.
It would be difficult to show him taking money out of a necromancer license, so he took out 30,000 energy before leaving the inn, and thanks to that, he was able to finish the meal without much friction.
Ed finished his dinner and walked around the area for a while to help digest the food, but returned to the inn when it was dark enough for the magic lamp to turn on.
When Ed returned to the inn, a woman with purple hair who looked like the innkeeper was sitting at the counter. If the innkeeper had long purple hair that reached her waist, she had hair just above her shoulders. She was reading a book wearing glasses, perhaps because of her poor eyesight, but she raised her head when she felt a presence.
“Silver hair, blue eyes.”
Hearing her whispering voice, Ed was convinced that she was an eccentric trying to recruit necromancers to serve as assistant instructors at the Cetin Divine Academy.
“Hello. Are you a guest from the North?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
She seemed to be confident, so Ed answered plainly without lying.
“Help me!”
She said with a low profile that Ed didn’t expect. Looking at the two hands gathered in front of the chest and tightly clenched, it seems that he desperately wants a necromancer as an assistant instructor at Cetin Divine Academy.
Ed had no good memories of the professors at Terus Academy, who usually showed an authoritative figure. After all, in order to give good grades to aristocratic students in the same grade, he tried various tricks and broke them all. However, it was immediately apparent after graduating that the sons of noble families, except for Gray, did not care much if Ed was the chief.
‘Because the academy is the end of equality.’
Ed, who was a commoner but graduated from Terus Academy with the top rank, enlisted as a soldier in the guerrilla army, but nobles with lower grades than himself became lieutenants of the captains in the rear. As a result of overcoming the difference in starting point and establishing a major, he got the surname Frozenborn, but in the eyes of the nobles, Ed was still a commoner who was good at work and a commoner who stole the place of a super-class necromancer.
“Let’s listen to the contents first.”
So when she came out in that position, Ed became interested in Cetin Divine Academy.
*
Glodia woke up Glowin, who had been sleeping for a while, made her look at the counter again, and headed towards the necromancer and a nearby teahouse. It was late, so there were few customers, so it was a good atmosphere to share personal stories.
“My name is Glodia, and I work as a professor in Cetin.”
Glodia bowed her head to the necromancer in front of her. When Glowyn said that a necromancer had come to the inn, she honestly didn’t believe it, but she could tell that it was a necromancer just by looking at her appearance.
With cold-looking silver hair and dark blue eyes, he resembled the appearance of Necromancer nobles. Of course, people with that appearance were not found only in the North, and seeing that their body lines were different from the necromancers who mainly commanded from the rear, there was a possibility that they were mistaken for necromancers due to the color of their hair and eyes.
But my sister said she had seen the necromancer license. There were many technicians who could make magic tools in the north, and the peak could be said to be the Necromancer license. There were many scholars who tried to study the Necromancer License, which contained subspace magic on a thin business card, but they came to the conclusion that ‘it cannot be made unless you are in the North.’
Ed took out a necromancer license from his pocket and held it out to Glodia.
“Ed Frozenborn, currently a level 7 necromancer.”
Ed introduced himself, thinking that useless adjectives such as ‘ex-class necromancer’ or ‘captain of the 7th guerrilla brigade’ were unnecessary. The woman who introduced herself as Glodia looked carefully at Ed’s necromancer license and returned it.
“What level is a 7th-level necromancer?”
Ed was speechless at Glodia’s innocent question. He was able to summon the highest level summoned Death Knight, and even the Skeleton Knight was able to enhance its power to the level of the Death Knight. In addition, he had knight-level physical abilities and was able to arm himself with cold magic or attack the enemy directly. He can also use curses and necromantic skills at the top level of the academy, but he is a 7th-level necromancer because he can only command summons from a distance of 25m.
“Whoa…. The range to give orders to the undead is short. It’s about 25m.”
Ed sighed and explained to Glodia why he had become a 7th grader.
‘Isn’t 25m such a short distance?’
Glodia knew a little about the rank of a necromancer as she was a professor at Cetin Divine Academy, but she didn’t know that the distance at which she could give orders was determined, so she engraved new information into her head.
“Are there any restrictions on the types of summons that can be summoned or something like that?”
“I came down from the north on a little impulsiveness, so I don’t have any summons right now. But I can use any type.”
Glodia was a bit disappointed, but she remembered that she didn’t need such a powerful person because what she wanted was a necromancer.
“But why are you recruiting necromancers as assistant instructors at Cetin Divine Academy?”
If left alone, it seemed that his Glodia would only take information, so Ed proceeded with the story. Even in the job advertisement, only the recruitment of necromancers and the amount were shown, but what they actually did was not written. Glodia listened to Ed’s words and pulled out a piece of paper from her bag and held it out to Ed. What Ed received was a lesson plan, a practical lesson on whether he could defeat the undead when he actually faced it, and a plan for performance evaluation.
‘Because I only need three skeletons and the arena isn’t that big.’
Ed felt that if he tried, he could. Putting down the syllabus, Ed asked Glodia.
“Isn’t there a need for a teacher’s license?”
“Yes. I’m an assistant instructor. If there’s a problem, I’m supposed to be responsible.”
“As I said before, I don’t have any summons. Can you provide me with a skeleton?”
“Yes. Fortunately, I got a skeleton for training in advance.”
Destroying the skeleton of the necromancer called as an assistant instructor would cause problems, so I saved a skeleton for practice, and Glodia thought it was really fortunate.
Ed asked one last time.
“Do you give me a lot of money?”
“If you sign a contract right away, I’ll give you a bonus as well.”
The practice written in the lesson plan was two weeks later. Considering today was the weekend, there was only a week left, so Glodia was in a hurry. It could make it a bit more nerve-wracking, but the bonus Ed was looking for wasn’t much in a way.
“Can I take the skeleton used for practice instead of money as a bonus?”
After all, if the necromancer recruited as an assistant instructor left, it was a skeleton that would be thrown into the warehouse. Glodia thought briefly and nodded.
“I prepared a total of 10 skeletons, and I expected them to be completely destroyed during practice, so I saved enough. I think I can give you up to 3.”
“Okay. I’ll work as an assistant instructor.”
“When Monday comes, I go straight to Cetin and register as an assistant instructor!”
Glodia held out her right hand and Ed took it. Glodia, with a big smile on her face, waved her hand up and down, and Ed smiled slightly at the smile.
‘I had no intention of doing anything related to necromancers before eating, but I never thought I would do it right away.’
Ed thought that if he could earn a decent amount of money and obtain a skeleton before leaving Rika Coast, there would be nothing better than this. For about a month, I planned to spend some time touring the Cetin Divine Academy.
*
When Ed and Glodia returned to the inn after completing their verbal contract, Glowin yawned and said.
“Haam… Glodia. How did things work out?”
“Yes. I decided to sign a contract with Mr. Ed Frozenborn.”
Glodia stretched out her hand and pointed at Ed.
“Yes. That happened.”
“Really? Then the guest will have to stay for about a month? I can rent a room for a month and make it cheaper.”
Since it was 50,000 Enel per night, I thought that in 30 days it would be 1.5 million Enel, and if I were to spend 27 million Enel, I would quickly spend it. Then Glodia spoke to Glowin.
“Unnie, I’ll pay for it, so give me a family discount.”
“Really? That’s all right. Guests from the north, go upstairs and rest. We’ll take care of it.”
“Then, please take care of me for the time being.”
Ed went into room 201 because it would not hurt him.
When the sound of Ed entering the room was heard over the stairs, Glowyn asked Glodia.
“Glodia, did you ask why you came down from the North?”
“Oops! Didn’t I ask that?”
“Is there a possibility that you fled from the North by committing a crime?”
“It’s not entirely possible, but Setin isn’t a scarecrow to the extent of being controlled by a single 7th-level necromancer.”
Hearing Glodia’s confident words, Glowyn smiled.
‘Ed Frozenborn is not an ordinary 7th class necromancer.’
Glowyn, the owner of an inn on a purple moonlit night and a member of the Information Guild Color, was worried about her younger brother who had fallen into disobedience, so she investigated Ed Frozenbone and heard the absurd reason that the reason why the limited express was demoted to 7th grade was because the regulations for the necromancer license test had changed.
‘I think it’ll be interesting, so I shouldn’t tell you.’
Glodia felt a slight chill when she saw Glowyn’s smile.
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Glodia’s approximate appearance!