The Blockhead Became an Overpowered Magician

54 – Couplet (1)

“……”

Ern cleared her throat and filled her money bag with

.

‘Why are you doing this? .’

She felt like it would be more of a hassle if she didn’t get paid.

“….”

“……”

There was silence.

The adventurers were waiting for Erne’s verdict.

‘… ‘Should we go beyond this?’

Ern suddenly felt eyes on her from behind. Lia was watching with interest.

‘Um…. Still, since I’m a professor, I guess I should take some action.’

It was an occasional occurrence for first-year students at the academy to be deceived.

In the long run, it was a loss for the adventurers, but not everyone in the world thought long into the future.

“Everyone, let’s take out our adventurer cards.”

The adventurers hesitated for a moment, but then remembered that they were in no position to question such a thing and hurriedly took it out.

Ern looked at their names one by one and spoke.

“I hope that there will be no unpleasant incidents between adventurers and wizards in the future. Especially if you are a Kagon student.”

They nodded vigorously.

“Cancer! Of course! I’m reflecting on it! I’ll never let something like this happen again!!”

“And I will definitely tell the wizard’s words to other adventurers!!”

He seemed ready to sell his soul with his mouth.

Only after Ern nodded her head with a satisfied expression did the adventurers feel at ease.

I left the adventurers hugging each other as if they had just barely survived a disaster and went to Lia.

“Did you get everything?”

She was carefully holding a magic stone and a green gem the size of her fist.

“Yes. But what is this?”

“Give me a moment.”

Lia handed over her jewels to Ern.

[Goblin King’s Jewel]

[The energy of the earth is condensed in the cave. The power of earth attribute element magic increases slightly.

You are reading this text! You’re not on the verge of starving to death underground, are you? I hope you escape!]

“….”

Just looking at it, the item description was meant to boost the player.

In fact, Ern came in without knowing the shortcut, but she couldn’t find the way and got a bad ending.

‘I was really upset about this at the time.’

As Ern looked at her jewelry with a complex expression, Lia asked.

“Why? Is it fake?!”

“Why are you worried about that…?”

“It’s important…!”

“…This is a magic item. It strengthens earth attribute magic.”

“Oh… Now that I think about it, the professor is good at appraising items!”

Leah was honestly impressed.

The world of magic is vast. Magical science was divided into various fields and even into various schools.

‘You weren’t just good at fighting.’

In order to appraise an item, mana had to be flowed in an elaborate manner to closely understand its structure.

‘I heard it’s very complicated!’

Although Lia was unfamiliar with the field of enchantment and appraisal, she had heard about its difficulty anyway.

“That’s right.”

Ern did not correct Lia’s guess. Because if I were to ask, she was right.

“Lia, what kind of earth element magic have you learned?”

“I learned one thing: manipulating the earth.”

‘Then it won’t be of any use to him yet.’

The 1st circle earth attribute magic Was exactly as its name suggests.

It was a skill that could be used to create stairs by massaging the ground as desired or to keep the opponent in check.

But it only stopped there, it was not an offensive type of magic.

Therefore, even if Lia had the ‘Goblin King’s Jewel’, it would be of no use.

“This is an item that is not suitable for earth manipulation. Let me keep it for now.”

Ern put the green gem in his inventory.

“….”

Lia looked at the spot where her jewelry was with a wistful expression.

“…Why?”

“Oh, no…It’s nothing…”

Leah decided to just keep her mouth shut. Her conscience was too pricked to say anything about the jewel.

Of course, it was true that he defeated the giant goblin alone, but it was only possible because of Ern’s help.

In fact, looking back on this expedition as a whole, there was nothing to say even if he took all the commission reward.

“What is it?”

But when Ern urged her to answer, Lia spoke reluctantly.

“It’s just a gem…? It’s also enchanted… I thought I could make a lot of money if I sell it…”

As she spoke, she was twisting the ends of her hair, perhaps feeling embarrassed.

“You should think about using something like this, why do you even think about selling it first…”

“Ahahahaha….”

Lia’s way of thinking was different from Ern.

It was like, why use an item when you can just sell it?

Making money was her way of life.

“You really shouldn’t sell the things I lent you…?”

“I never really thought about that!”

Lia protested unfairly.

Ern said shamelessly after seeing her truly aggrieved look.

“Uh… Okay, I understand… Sorry.”

“….”

“…Anyway, I’ll lend you this later when you grow up and learn 2nd circle earth magic.”

Ern somehow felt like her parents were stealing her child’s allowance on holidays.

***

I guided the adventurers through a shortcut and came out of the dungeon after hearing overwhelming gratitude and an oath of loyalty.

Ern and Lia rented a carriage and returned to Kagon just as they had done before.

“Let’s go to the guild first and collect the settlement first.”

“Yes.”

The two went to the adventurer’s guild and stood in line. Eventually, I came face to face with the receptionist I had seen in the morning.

‘… You finally came back.’

There was no need to check their adventurer cards again.

The employee, who remembered Ern and Lia’s faces, took out the ‘Western Dungeon Goblin Suppression’ request form from the drawer.

‘Is this also a failure?’

Looking at them without even a backpack on, it seemed like they hadn’t even been to the dungeon properly.

The employee spoke in a businesslike tone.

“A fee will be charged for request cancellation.”

“I succeeded.”

“Yes?”

If the goblins had been subdued, there should have been at least a pouch containing the magic stone, but I couldn’t find anything like that.

“Please give me a basket.”

Hearing Ern’s confident voice, the staff member held out the basket without any hesitation.

-Too-doo-duk

Then magic stones poured out of thin air.

“……”

“Over there?”

“Ah, yes. Uh… I’ll check…”

The employee thought while looking at the magic stone.

‘Why is this wizard… A request like this… ?’

I didn’t know.

‘As expected, all wizards are weirdos….’

He thought that he should tell the receptionist Sasu later about the strange things that happened today.

“Yes… Your performance has been processed, and here is your compensation.”

“Take care.”

When I left the Adventurer’s Guild, the sun was already setting.

Meanwhile, Lia was staring at Ern endlessly.

‘… ‘You look like a dog.’

It’s not an insult, it really looked like a puppy waiting for food. If it had a tail, it would be swishing by now.

Lia’s expectations as she waited for her reward were sky high.

“Now.”

“!!!”

Ern handed over all of the money she had just received to Lia.

“You did as I asked today, so I’ll give you everything as a promise.”

“Thank you!”

“Take some magic stones too.”

Today they exterminated far more goblins than the number stated in the request.

Of course, in addition to the ones submitted to prove the fulfillment of the request, there were also some magic stones left over.

“This too?!”

Ern also gave Lia a fist-sized magic stone that she had gotten from the Goblin King.

“You defeated the Goblin King alone, right?”

“Wow!”

Lia’s eyes sparkled.

‘Honestly, I feel like it’s not enough compared to what I rolled today….’

In fact, the ‘lower-level goblin subjugation request’ itself was done by Lia alone.

Ern only took care of the miscellaneous mobs in her last hollow, leaving the rest of the subjugation entirely up to her.

‘Still, I’m happy so….’

Now that we have achieved the results we both wanted, isn’t that enough?

Ern decided not to interfere with Lia’s happiness.

“Thank you for your hard work today. See you next time.”

“Next time? Maybe…”

“Okay. If you have any requests, please let me know.”

“Yes! I like it!”

Suffering tended to be glorified.

Lia had already forgotten how hard she had worked today.

Her head was filled with thoughts of ‘monopolizing the remuneration’ and ‘additional compensation’.

‘… Anyway, I definitely know how to persuade Lia.’

In the end, it was money.

In order to have a happy ending, Ern was in a position where he had to bribe the student.

‘… Something seems to have gone the other way?’

Professor who gives money to students… ?

Erne felt her heart tighten.

‘There’s nothing I can do because I don’t have enough class time.’

She could do whatever she wanted during combat practice, but that wasn’t enough.

In the end, she had to continue interacting with the Named even outside the academy.

‘First of all, it’s good because the main character is simple.’

Every time she rolled, she just had to give a little reward.

‘I need to control it well.’

If I gave her too much money at once, she might lose motivation, so I had to do it in moderation, like I did today.

“What are you doing tomorrow?”

“I was planning to go out with my friends tomorrow.”

It was also important to organize a party based on her intimacy and lead a bachelor’s life.

“Okay. Be friendly.”

“Yes.”

“And don’t forget about Galen’s magic store. I don’t want our students to suffer any harm.”

“Yes! I will definitely say it.”

“It’s great.”

***

Time goes even faster on the weekends.

That strange law seemed to apply equally in the game world.

Weekdays arrived quickly.

Students who had fun over the weekend headed to class tired.

Ern also went to work looking tired.

‘I want to sleep more…’ .’

It was because her drunken husband didn’t let Erne sleep until late at night.

-Err! Touch this!

-… Why do you talk like that?

-Huh?

-No…. This is the Silence Veil spellbook.

-Big! As expected, it matches well!

A strange research craze had come to Rogera.

Erne arrived in front of her lab and checked her mailbox.

‘… Is he really the president again?’

『To Professor Erne.

I want to discuss something about Dalian.

Kendrix』

‘… ‘It’s coming.’