Above the mage!

Chapter 199 Legacy (Two in One)

Leaving the library, Gao De was in a good mood.

Another big thing accomplished.

Gao De felt that except for the beginning, his luck had been pretty good.

Especially after entering Seres College, I met quite a few noble people.

Whether it was Jelika who gave her a large sum of financial assistance, or her mentor Jose O'Kenley.

"It's time to tell my mentor the good news of my promotion to the next level." Gao De said secretly.

After successfully getting his ID card upgraded yesterday, he first went through the process at the committee and then visited the library.

After finishing these things, it was already very late, so he didn't bother He Xi.

Such a major event should be reported to the tutor as soon as possible.

Therefore, Gao De immediately walked towards the Gavin Building which belonged to the Rune Department.

Entering the building, he walked straight in as usual.

However, the Gavin Building, which was originally rather deserted, was somehow even more deserted today, with not a single person to be seen.

It was not until he arrived at the door of the rune workshop that he realized the door was closed.

In front of the workshop, he saw several people wearing the standard uniforms of the Seres Academy. They should be the official staff of the academy.

They did not have access to the rune workshop array, so they could not go in and could only wait outside the gate.

"Student Gaode?" asked one of the leading middle-aged men when he saw the person coming.

"Yes."

"I have something to inform you. Director He Xi is ill."

Godard clenched his hands tightly.

The word "sick" went around in his mind.

He couldn't describe the feeling, but he just felt an inexplicable pain in his heart.

Maybe it's because he clearly understands what it would mean for He Xi to fall ill at this age.

"Teacher, where is he now?" Gao De asked in a low voice.

When we left Gavin Building, it was drizzling.

Gao De remained silent and rushed to the college's medical clinic.

"We must do our best to treat Director He Xi. Director He Xi has worked hard in the academy for so many years, and now he is exhausted and collapsed on the ground. The academy has treated him unfairly!"

Inside the clinic, a middle-aged male mage with a sharp and mean look was spitting and shouting loudly, fearing that others couldn't hear him.

Seems to be the vice chairman of the college committee.

The fairly spacious corridor of the clinic was packed with people.

Gao De glanced around and found that he had met many faces in Gavin Building.

These are the instructors of the Rune Department, and most of them are here.

In addition to them, there are also people from the college committee.

"Why did you come!"

The speaker was Donnie Usher, the current head student of the Rune Department. He looked arrogant and accused in a condescending manner.

"As Professor He Xi's only student at the moment, he has been ill all night, and you are here just now?"

Following Donny Usher's accusation, everyone in the corridor looked over unconsciously.

Gao De acted as if he didn't hear anything and didn't choose to respond to Tang Ni.

He walked straight to the door and asked the medical practitioner standing there about the situation.

"How is Mr. He Xi doing now?"

The wizard shook his head. "It's not optimistic."

Gao De pretended to push the door open to see He Xi's current condition, but he didn't expect a hand to reach out and hold the door.

"Director He Xi said that he doesn't want to be disturbed and needs to have a good rest."

It was the vice chairman, looking at Gao De with a bad expression.

Although Gao De didn't know where his hostility came from, it was obvious that this person was not friendly to him.

Gao De frowned and was about to say something.

At this time, He Xi's familiar voice came from inside the door.

"Is it Godard? Let him in."

This situation seems familiar.

It's also just a door away.

It was just that it was in the rune workshop before, and that old voice was not as weak as it is now.

Gao De looked up at the vice chairman's hand holding the door, but did not say anything.

"Hmph!" The vice chairman threw his hand away in dissatisfaction.

No one stopped him, and Gao De pushed the door open to go in.

His hand paused suddenly and his movements became much lighter.

The room was quite spacious, with a large bed and a table.

Gao De took two steps forward and came to the bed.

He Xi was lying on the bed, not looking well, with his eyes slightly closed, as if he was resting.

"Here I come." Seeing Gao De coming in, he opened his eyes and looked at Gao De.

"Teacher." Gao De looked at He Xi with mixed feelings.

It was only in recent days that he and He Xi became truly familiar with each other and began to communicate beyond runes.

But this time is too short.

"I successfully became a first-ring mage yesterday," he said.

Hearing this, He Xi's cloudy eyes brightened up instantly.

"Not bad, not bad," he praised repeatedly. Halfway through, he waved his hand and said, "Sit down first."

At the same time, He Xi supported himself on the bed and sat up.

He Xi is very old.

Gao De had previously noticed that the old man's face was showing more and more yellow-brown spots.

But what was unexpected was that the sick old man had an unusually radiant face at this moment.

"I'm afraid I can't make it this time."

As soon as they stood up, He Xi's first words made Gao De silent.

"I sent someone to call you last night. Why did you come just now?" he asked.

Gao De was silent for a while, then slowly said: "No one came to inform me."

"How could that be?" He Xi's subconscious question came to an abrupt end.

He understood something.

He Xi said "Oh" and took a long time to let out a sigh.

"The interference constant is correct," he said. "I was afraid I wouldn't be able to tell you in time, so I hurriedly sent someone to call you last night."

After saying this, He Xi smiled with satisfaction.

As he laughed, he suddenly coughed violently.

While coughing, he searched his body and took out a piece of parchment and a deed.

"for you."

Gao De took the parchment and the deed.

The parchment is a will.

The date of signature is the beginning of this year.

The deed was the contract signed between He Xi and Dean Gavin.

The deed indicated that the Rune Workshop was permanently transferred to He Xi, and below it was the seal of Dean Gavin and the official seal of Ceres College.

"The Rune Workshop is left to you, including everything inside. My information, materials, and research results are also left to you."

"In my final days, finding an heir would be a way to give an account of what I have researched for hundreds of years."

"This is the secret code of the Rune Workshop Array, remember it." "I could have left you some money." He Xi said, "But in the end, I used up all my savings to verify the interference constant."

"I also left something at the Saint Sean City branch of the Oakenley Chamber of Commerce. It's also for you, but I didn't write it in my will."

"Don't let outsiders know about this, and remember to keep it a secret."

Gao De put down the parchment, looked at the old man with a strange look in his eyes, and remained silent for a long time.

He Xi murmured to himself:

"I have been learning alchemy from my father since I was a child. My aptitude is average, neither good nor bad."

"When I was sixteen, my father passed away in an accident while testing alchemical weapons for the family. Since then, I have developed a rejection of alchemy."

"But my family is famous for its alchemy skills. How can a member of the family reject alchemy?"

"I can only try to hide my rejection of alchemy."

"It was not until I was twenty years old, when I first came into contact with runes, that I discovered what I was truly interested in. From then on, I could not stop." The old man's throat surged and his eyes began to wander.

"When I was thirty, I became a second-level rune master. It wasn't that it took me ten years to become a second-level rune master, but my mage level limited the speed at which I could become a second-level rune master."

"At that time, I was wondering, why among all the magic arts, the magic of runes is restricted by the magician's level?"

"In 9326, when I was thirty-five years old, I discovered that there might be logic and rules in the arrangement of runes."

"I began to devote myself to the study of rune rules."

"In 9365, I was seventy-four years old. After thirty-nine years of research, my mage level remained the same, but I did discover six major rules. Although they are not complete, they have taken shape."

"I took the results of my 39-year-long efforts and submitted them to the clan, but they didn't even pass the clan's initial review and were thrown out like garbage."

"I returned home in despair and was devastated for a long time. In a fit of anger, I threw the result into the trash, but I didn't know that my mother secretly picked it up."

"In 9366, when I had already given up the six basic rules of runes, my mother came back excitedly and told me that someone in the family recognized my research results.
I believed it, but I waited and waited, but there was no follow-up."

"Later, I put aside my pride and went to inquire about it. I found out that it was my mother who used my father's pension to bribe the family's auditors and sent the results I threw away to the family's Lingsi Building."

"Isn't it ridiculous? Nearly forty years of research results passed the initial review through bribery, but in the end they still couldn't escape the fate of being regarded as garbage."

"Then, for twenty-three years, I locked myself in my room, never leaving the house, and never touched runes again, a subject I thought I would devote my life to."

"In the spring of 9389, my mother fell ill. Before she passed away, she held my hand and said that she believed my research results were remarkable and hoped that I would prove it to everyone. It was not that my results were not good, but that their vision was not good."

"I know that her original intention was never to prove anything. Why would she care about these things?"

"She only cares about her children. She just knows the pain I've been going through since I gave up Rune. She wants to help me get rid of the pain and cheer me up again."

"She never understood what I was researching. She just believed her child was fine."

"That year, I was already 98 years old, but I still hadn't grown up. I even made my mother worry about me before she passed away. Gao De, do you think I am unfilial?"

He Xi's breathing was becoming more and more rapid.

"Don't think about the past anymore." Gao De held the old man's hands tightly with both of his hands.

"But I can't get through it." He Xi murmured.

"After my mother passed away, I left my family and went far away to continue studying the six basic rules of runes."

"During this period, I traveled to many places and countries, and finally stayed in Seres College."

"I am really lucky to have met you in the last days of my life."

"With your help, I did it. I proved that the six basic rules of runes are correct and exist. But it was too late. She couldn't see it."

From 9389 to now 9656, there have been so many storms, so many sorrows and hardships, which finally turned into just a few words from He Xi's mouth at this moment.

"She can't see it, and I did it, so what's the point?"

"Others say I'm stubborn, you say I'm pure, I accept it all. Actually, I have regretted it. If I had never come into contact with the rune and stayed with her, would the ending be better?"

It is said that a gentleman never does anything to feel guilty about in his life.

But who can really live a life without any guilt?

"She never blamed you." Gao De comforted softly.

A mother’s tolerance is a fertile breeding ground for genius.

"But I blame myself." The old man's voice became unclear and his breath became shorter.

The old man's hands in Gao Deshuang's hands suddenly tightened.

"Mother--"

He used up the last of his strength and shouted softly.

This was the first and last sentence He Xi said after coming into this world.

The clenched hands softened little by little.

Jose O'Kenley closed his eyes.

Gao De hung his head and said nothing.

Birth, aging, sickness and death always happen suddenly and without reason.

The drizzle outside the window suddenly stopped.

The air seemed to be clenched and was very stuffy.

Gao De was stunned for a long time before he finally digested the sad news of the old man's passing.

He stood up, opened the door, and spoke to everyone who was still waiting outside.

"Teacher He Xi is gone."

Gao De was still immersed in a slightly confused and sad mood.

But it was different from what he thought.

The crowd who had just been clamoring outside the door, seemingly very concerned about the old man's health, now did not show any sadness.

The most obvious ones are the vice chairman and Donnie Usher.

The two men had expressionless faces and remained silent, as if they were thinking about something.

After a while.

The vice chairman took a step forward and looked straight down at Gao De: "He Xi should have told you the secret order of the rune workshop array, right?"

"give it to me."

There was an unquestionable arrogance in his tone.

Gao De was suddenly pulled out of his sad mood.

He narrowed his eyes and looked at the vice chairman who had a cold and arrogant expression.

Obviously, the other party was not sad at all because of He Xi's death.

Even the noisy instructions just now outside were just for show.

This is normal.

What was abnormal was that He Xi’s body was not only warm, but had not even been buried yet, but the other party was already so impatient.

It's a bit too blatant and shameless.

Gao De knew that the opponent was at least a third-ring mage.

But it didn't affect his anger.

"Why should I give it to you?" Gao De asked after a moment of silence.

Gao De's answer obviously exceeded the vice chairman's expectations.

He laughed out of anger, "The Rune Workshop is an asset of the academy. It was only lent to He Xi before, but now that he's gone, we should take it back."

"That's not the case," Gao De shook his head gently, "This rune workshop is not borrowed by Instructor He Xi, but is his asset."

"Teacher He Xi has signed a transfer agreement with Dean Gavin."

"And now, my mentor has left the rune workshop to me."

"So, this rune workshop is now my property, not the property of the academy."

"Haha. What are you?"

The vice chairman saw Gao De refutating him like this, pointed his finger at Gao De and scolded him loudly: "The things in the academy have always belonged to the academy. Not to mention you, a student, even if He Xi was still here, it would be impossible for you to own them privately."

People who are engaged in academics always tend to think that things are too simple.

Even at the beginning, He Xi had already made things complicated.

Living people will never recognize things belonging to the dead.

Those who are alive only care about their own interests.

(End of this chapter)