Chapter 34 (1/2)

Chapter 34: Visualizing My Work

After being seen off by the unexpectedly cooperative Irudo and Mora, I went out.

In my breast pocket are the scrolls of blank white parchment that he gave me.

My physical description must have already circled around, as I see people surrounding me at a distance. Though not to the level of the fevered reception that I got the day I arrived, their gazes are still filled half with respect and half with awe. Well, the eyes of the villagers back in Yuule were more heavily colored with fear, so I suppose this is still better.

“Alright, let’s just get going.”

I try my best to look full of confidence by straightening my back and walking composedly.

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My destination is the Magician Guild. Yes, I remember the way now.

“Have you come to accept our offer from yesterday?”

The only person who comes out is the Vice-Leader of the Lelis Magician Guild, Yahman. Oh well, I suppose he’ll do for today.

I tell him that I want to see all the records that this branch has on anki, and that I want to sit in on an actual training session of the magic soldiers.

“Umm…… But showing the guild’s records to outsiders is……”

“‘Outsider’?”

I exaggeratedly repeat what he said back to him and look straight into his eyes while putting strength into my abdomen.

“Though it is important to stick to every single word of every single rule in effect, this investigation is indispensable for my consideration of the offer from the other day. Are you unable to help me?”

If I go about this like my usual self, I would deprecate myself a bit more. However, as a ‘Great Wizard,’ I can’t very well go around bowing left and right for merely this level of negotiation.

“N-, no, I am not saying that you are an outsider…… Y-, you’re already at least a, um, consultant! Yes, I shall make the necessary arrangements immediately.”

“Glad to hear it. Convey my greetings to Heldol-dono for me too, will you?”

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Before anything else, I need to know more about the anki.

Inside the Guild’s large library, I pulled out every single book and scroll that had the word ‘anki’ in its t.i.tle.

“Uohh, my back……”

After several hours of concentrating on the records, I realize a dull pain and let slip a moan.