Volume 1 Chapter 2 (1/2)
It’d be great if there was a desk fan
“Hot! So hot!”
A loud complaint suddenly resounded through the room, instantly causing an echo.
“That’s right, why is it so hot? It’s simply driving people to death!”
“Right, I wish that I can take off all my clothes!”
“Scram! Rem, you idiot, there are girls here!”
[TL Note: I feel pain translating his name as Rem, but it’s technically the same characters…..]
“Che, Wella, are you considered a girl?”
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Hearing the complaints of his coworkers, Xu Yi looked up. He wiped off the perspiration pouring out of him with his sleeve.
It was indeed quite hot.
Without knowing it, he had already been working at the Camilla Magic Tower for a month now.
It was already the beginning of July and they were in the middle of summer, so naturally the weather was very hot.
During this month, he had been doing odd jobs in the magic research laboratory under the Great Magician Camilla. He hadn’t participated in the magical research work at all.
Xu Yi wasn’t surprised by this. For someone like him who had had several years of work experience on earth, he was very clear on the fact that new people had to slowly do foundational work before they were slowly integrated.
Not to mention, his magical power was not outstanding at all among his coworkers and the matter of his interview had already spread. Right now, the others all treated him as someone who Young Miss Still had let in through the backdoor, so there were quite a few coworkers that looked down on him.
“This fellow, is it because he looks a bit good that Young Miss Still has set her eyes on him?”
Xu Yi could only reveal a bitter smile at this. Since seeing Still at the interview that day, he hadn’t seen her a second time in this entire month. He learned from chatting with his coworkers that Still was Great Magician Camilla’s granddaughter, but he knew nothing else about her, so god knows how this rumour had spread.
Of course he was clear that these so called rumours had no basis at all.
So he didn’t explain them at all and only focused on working hard, while also increasing his level of magical knowledge by observing the experiments of his coworkers.
Xu Yi’s talent was indeed quite good, although he had only been observing from the side, his level of magic had increased by quite a bit in a single month.
After all, Great Magician Camilla’s level was not something the teachers of the Senkaiser School could match. Even if it was an experiment he had only arranged a bit of, its level was much higher than what Xu Yi had learned in the Senkaiser School.
“That’s right, when I was called over by his excellency Great Magician to report in, found that his room was very cold. Why is that?”
The one who spoke was Rem who was called an idiot. After passing the Magicians Guild’s certification test, he was graded as a Fifth Grade Magician, being placed third among the seventeen people in the research lab, including Xu Yi. He was a very extroverted person, being a fiery existence in the research lab.
“Idiot, his excellency Great Magician’s room has a large scale Frost Array set in it, of course it would be cold.”
The one who responded was Wella who Rem had complained about. She was a Fourth Grade Magician, being weaker than Rem. She had a serious personality and didn’t skimp on reprimanding Rem normally, but most people could see that she treated Rem rather special. They had already been secretly placed as a pair by others.
“Oh? Then why can’t we place large scale Frost Arrays in our laboratories?”
“You still don’t believe me when I call you an idiot! Just setting a large scale Frost Array costs thirty gold coins, not to mention it requires ten High Grade Magic Crystals to maintain each day, which requires five gold coins. That takes a hundred and fifty gold coins each month. I say, Rem, how much do you get paid each month?” Wella snappily responded.
“This…..ha, ha……” Rem gave to dry laughs and didn’t dare respond.
Xu Yi knew that even though Rem’s monthly salary was high, it was no more than thirty gold coins. Not mentioning the consumption of the large scale Frost Array, he didn’t even have enough to set one down.
In the entire Camilla Magic Tower, the only room that had a large scale Frost Array was the respected Great Magician Camilla’s room. There were no other rooms that had one.
“Actually, I was lucky enough to visit Great Magician Eisenkel’s Magic Tower last time, they had Frost Arrays in each room. There was even red wine in each room…..” A rather timid voice spoke up.
This voice belonged to the one closest to age to Xu Yi and was the weakest in the lab, Sarash. Because she was placed last among everyone in the lab before Xu Yi arrived and she had a weak personality, she would be rather timid at all times.
“Great Magician Eisenkel? Isn’t that one of the richest Great Magician’s in our Lampuri Kingdom? Their situation is naturally better than ours. Tell me, why is it even though they are both Great Magicians, Great Magician Eisenkel has so much money and our respected Great Magician Camilla doesn’t even have enough money to install Frost Arrays for us?”
Rem let out a long sigh, but he found that no one sympathized with him. He looked around in a daze and found that everyone was looking down, clearly signaling that they didn’t want to speak to him.
He only saw Wella glaring at him, signaling him with her eyes.
Rem instantly understood and knew that spoken too much, saying the wrong things. He quickly lowered his head and didn’t dare say anything else.
Xu Yi who had seen everything from the side couldn’t stop his lips from raising and revealing a smile.
Rem’s questions made him remember his professors when he was a graduate student. The better ones could pull in more topics, so naturally they earned more. The weaker ones would naturally earn less.
Of course, there were differences in professors that earned more. Some would share the rewards with the students under them, letting everyone be happy.