bookpower Chapter 240 : Chapter 240
Chapter 240 : Chapter 240
In front of the Academy main building.On the large bulletin board visible to everyone, notices recruiting major trainees targeting Academy students were posted.
Most were places requiring a magician’s abilities, such as workshops within Marcellent or assistants to the Magician Association in the capital.
The 1st-years were checking the notices according to their majors.
Since it was the first practical training they were going out for from the Academy, the 1st-years’ expectations pierced the sky.
Above all, the fact that they could legally skip lectures excited the students’ hearts.
Moreover, being able to work in a field they were usually interested in was also a huge advantage.
“...Recruiting trainees to work at Marcellent Magical Beast Rental Shop.”
“Magical Beast Rental Shop, crazy! It's fantastic.”
“Did you see the new magical beast that came into the Marcellent Magical Beast Rental Shop this time? If I get accepted here, I can be with it for a few days, haa...”
Cryptozoology majors made excited expressions at the thought of entering the Magical Beast Rental Shop and being with new magical beasts.
But soon they realized reality.
“Wait, check the recruitment number here.”
“Don't tell me... they are recruiting only two people?”
Tension began to hang between them who had been feeling camaraderie sharing stories about magical beasts until just now.
“Are you guys going to apply here?”
“Of course. What about you?”
“I have to do it too, of course.”
It was a natural story, but the training sites popular with students were fixed, and the competition rate was high as much as they were popular.
In a way, everyone gathered here was a potential competitor.
Cryptozoology majors kept silent for a moment before opening their mouths.
“...You guys give up.”
“I absolutely have to see the new magical beast coming in. You give up.”
“I won't miss this opportunity either, absolutely.”
They engaged in a battle of wits more seriously than anyone.
Of course, there were also students who seemed not very serious about major practical training.
They were Edward’s friends.
“I want to submit an application here. Marcellent City Guard Assistant Magician.”
“You're applying here when they only recruit one person? If you get accepted, I'll take out all the money in my wallet and give it to you.”
“What? Then let's seriously bet everything including my wallet too.”
Edward ground his teeth watching his friends betting even here.
“...Stop it, you guys, seriously.”
“What's wrong, Edward. Are you ashamed of us?”
“Isn't that obvious?”
As Edward got annoyed, his friends joked around.
“Betting like this makes you prepare harder for the interview too.”
“Right, so you bet something too. How about 1 gold if you fail the interview?”
“...You crazy bastards!”
There was also someone choosing Major Practical Training while being filled with completely different thoughts.
Inette was scouring the notices to find an opportunity to stay out of the Academy even a little longer.
“Unconditionally long ones, unconditionally over a week...!”
Just by looking, it was an expression wanting to escape immediately.
Gusto, who was reading the notice next to Inette, shook his head and muttered.
“Major Practical Training is not going out to play.”
“Wh-who said I'm going to play? That's really funny.”
Inette, feeling guilty for no reason, jumped up.
“It's because I want to learn for a longer time!”
Inette’s shout was heard from far away.
Radel, who went to the Grade Representative Meeting, stopped his steps at the familiar voice while crossing the Academy main building.
And discovered the 1st-years gathered in front of the bulletin board looking at the Major Practical Training recruitment notices.
It seemed interest in Major Practical Training was hotter than expected.
Radel, as the representative of the Black Falcon Dormitory, felt very glad about his friends’ academic zeal.
“Everyone is passionate. I should go look too.”
It was the moment Radel moved his steps toward where his friends were to examine the notices too.
“Hey, are you the 1st-year representative?”
Suddenly, unfamiliar people with threatening expressions blocked Radel’s front.
Blue ties.
Looking at the uniforms, they seemed to be 3rd-year seniors from the Blue Eagle Dormitory.
But their appearance was too mature to call them teenage boys.
At a glance, one would believe even if they said they were in their late 20s.
When such mature-looking seniors blocked Radel, a grim atmosphere was created.
Even the 1st-years far away noticed.
“Those guys? What are they doing to Radel right now?”
Inette discovered the unusual appearance of the seniors and Radel and furrowed her brow.
However, it wasn't a momentum to run immediately like before.
“It seems people who always need the Supreme Deity’s touch gather around the Prince.”
Gusto also just watched while shrugging his shoulders.
Other 1st-years were the same.
“...Oh no.”
Someone groaned while feeling pity.
“...Those seniors, oh no.”
Of course, they weren't worrying about Radel...
Not knowing they were receiving the 1st-years’ gazes all at once, the seniors took Radel and disappeared somewhere.
The remaining 1st-years could predict how their fate would flow not too difficultly.
* * *
The secluded back of the Academy main building.
Radel was surrounded by seniors with grim impressions.
“Do you have any business with me?”
When Radel asked calmly, the seniors frowned.
“If you knew we were seniors, shouldn't you act tactfully on your own?”
“Yeah, by now you should figure it out on your own.”
Figure out what on my own...
Radel couldn't understand the seniors’ words.
Still, this situation was familiar.
Because there were frequent occasions of meeting big friends from the Black Falcon Dormitory in secluded alleys at the beginning of the semester.
But coming with 3rd-year seniors was a first.
Radel thought anew that his relationship with Academy seniors had been smooth until now.
Even Senior Pasion, whom he had just met, kindly warned him, didn't he?
‘I think stupid guys among our grade might go find you. So I'm telling you just in case.’
According to Senior Pasion, there were occasionally strange seniors in the Academy.
He also added that if they appeared suddenly, don't panic and respond calmly.
Indeed, this was a jungle named Academy.
Aren't the professors strange from the start?
It made sense that there should be seniors like this occasionally too.
“Ha... Do we have to tell you things like this one by one?”
“Exactly. This guy is really funny.”
“If you are curious why we came, look back on your usual conduct!”
“Right! The tricks you guys pulled during this sports festival!”
Seeing the seniors picking a fight abruptly, he thought Senior Pasion was right.
Why bring up the sports festival story that’s all over now?
They were definitely strange seniors.
“Yes? I don't really understand what that means... Don't tell me you are doing this because we won?”
Radel asked with an expression that he really didn't know.
Seeing that, the seniors’ faces distorted.
“Do you think that was a fair victory? You won by using fouls that don't make sense!”
“Right! So you must hand over all the charm potions you guys received to us.”
“If you have a conscience, returning it to the real owner would be right, huh? Keuhehe!”
Eventually, they were doing this because they wanted the charm potions.
“Phew...”
A sigh leaked out of Radel’s mouth.
He wasn't even surprised.
Didn't Radel kindly teach the big friends in the past because they wanted so many things too?
That one shouldn't covet other people’s things.
Sometimes, even older seniors forgot basic common sense.
Although Radel couldn't use Heal, he knew one method to cure such symptoms.
It was exactly physical therapy.
“Wh-what? Why are you taking out a water pitcher from your bosom?”
Now, as a junior, it was time to teach the seniors what they had forgotten.
* * *
Cretian Empire’s Best Adventurer Guild.
White Snake Guild.
Recruiting Combat Magic majors massively.
Preferential treatment for 4 major element spirit contractors.
Recruitment number: 3.
“This isn't bad either.”
Conquering unknown Dungeons with experienced dungeon experts!
We wait for you at the Marcellent Dungeon Attack Team with a family-like atmosphere.
Combat Magic majors, Summoning Magic majors can apply.
Recruiting 2 people.
“Here is okay too.”
Inette examined the Major Practical Training notices recruiting Combat Magic majors.
Although she stopped by the bulletin board every day to look, she hadn't found a place she liked yet.
Tunia, who was looking at the bulletin board together, asked Inette.
“Are you going to apply for the Dungeon Attack Team?”
“It's not bad, but not good either, so not really. Did you decide?”
“Not yet.”
Tunia was also continuously looking into notices recruiting Alchemy majors.
Workshops making potions good for the skin or factory-type Alchemy Workshops famous in Marcellent caught her eye.
Currently, she was making hangover cures in a personal Alchemy Workshop inside the Academy, but if she went to a factory-type workshop in Marcellent, she would be able to learn the method of mass-producing potions.
Then it would be possible to sell the Dice Shop’s hangover cures even more than now.
“Apprentice Holy Knight, what about you?”
When Inette asked, Gusto shrugged his shoulders.
“I am also not yet.”
“Really? Then I should ask Radel where he is going.”
It was then.
Radel appeared late in front of the Academy main building to look at the notices posted on the bulletin board.
“Coming as soon as we speak. Radel! Over here!”
Inette waved her hand to Radel.
Then, a few seniors who were looking at the notices flinched in surprise upon hearing Radel’s name and tried to avoid the spot.
They were the 3rd-year seniors who disappeared with Radel last time.
But before they could leave, Radel, who discovered them, greeted them gladly first.
“Oh, aren't you the seniors from back then? You went back well last time, right?”
“Yes? Ah, yes. Thanks to the Prince...”
They were seniors completely different from the appearance seen before.
Although the grim impressions were the same, their two hands were gathered politely.
And somehow they seemed anxious too.
As if difficult memories came to mind upon seeing Radel.
“I see. So do you have any notices you like?”
“Yes? Ah, no.”
“Seeing that you said you needed charm potions last time, it seems there was a place you wanted to go. Right?”
“N-no... there isn't.”
Despite Radel’s friendly question, the seniors only denied it vehemently.
They even said this while sweating cold sweat.
“It's true, Prince. We are fine going anywhere.”
“Yes, really. So we will get going...”
“Is that so? You are fine going anywhere...?”
However, as soon as their words fell, Radel’s eyes shone.
“Just in time, that's great.”
“...Yes?”
The pupils of the seniors, sensing ominousness, began to tremble.
“It's a bit much for me to go alone... There was a place I really wanted someone to go with me.”
Radel looked around the seniors and smiled warmly.
“Right. How about our seniors apply with me? Since you have a lot of experience, I think it will be really helpful if we go together.”
“Yes? W-we?”
“Yes, seeing last time, you used Heal well too.”
Saying that, the notice Radel picked up had this written on it.
Horizon Knights.
Remote areas that no one wanted to go to.
It was the Horizon Knights’ major trainee recruitment notice.