Above the mage!

Chapter 200 Posthumous Affairs

"We have to follow the rules, don't we?" Gao De raised his head and looked at the vice chairman.

"The ownership of the Rune Workshop is written in black and white."

He spoke word by word, "Let's put that aside for now. Even if the Rune Workshop is the property of the academy, you are not qualified to ask me directly for the Rune Workshop's magic circle secret order."

"You don't represent the college."

The vice chairman was stunned.

He never expected that this student, who came from a civilian background, could talk to him so calmly and rationally.

"I'm the vice chairman of the college committee. Why can't I represent the college?" Then, he came to his senses and said angrily.

"Even if you are the vice chairman, you are not qualified to represent the college unless you can produce the college's documents." Gao De shook his head and was not scared by him.

"Moreover," he said, his voice gradually getting louder, looking directly at the vice chairman, "Director He Xi has just passed away, and his body is still warm. As a senior member of the academy, isn't the most important thing for you to do now to take care of Director He Xi's affairs after his death?"

"He has not even been buried yet, but you are so impatient to open his rune workshop. Are you planning to steal something?"

Gao De's face was angry and excited.

Half of it was pretended, as there were many Rune Department instructors on the corridor who had rushed over after learning that Director He Xi was ill, and he needed to stand on the moral high ground in front of everyone. The other half was a true expression of his feelings.

The rabbit dies and the fox is sad.

Although the instructors of the Rune Department did not like the director who was gradually marginalizing the Rune Department, they did not understand why the vice chairman was so anxious to enter He Xi's rune workshop.

But the old man hasn't even been buried yet, and the college is so "impatient" that it seems a bit too inhumane no matter how you look at it.

Their gazes towards the vice chairman also began to change slightly.

The vice chairman also noticed this strange atmosphere.

He really didn't dare to go too far.

At least you can't go too far in public.

"Director He Xi has no relatives, no wife, and no children. The college will take good care of his funeral."

He turned his gaze towards the wooden door and spoke to Gao De and everyone on the corridor.

The strange atmosphere finally subsided a little after these words.

Gao De looked at the vice chairman coldly, not giving him any room for maneuver, and said loudly, "Then please go back now. As Director He Xi's student, I want to personally see him off for the last time."

After saying this, Gao De didn't even look at the vice chairman, reopened the door, walked in without looking back, and then closed the door.

Gao De silently watched the old man's peaceful face being covered with white cloth and his thin body being wrapped up. He bowed deeply to the old man's body.

The suicide note was written at the beginning of the year.

In the last days of his life, the old man wished he could devote all his time to the derivation of the interference constant.

Under the circumstances at the time, the fact that he still remembered to take the time to write a suicide note could only mean that the old man had already realized that his death was approaching.

While listening to the countdown to death, he calmly made derivations and calculations, and he was still teaching himself.

What a moving spiritual state this is?
The old man was pushed out of the room with the cloth.

Gao De also followed him out.

Outside the door, everyone on the corridor consciously stepped aside, leaving space in the middle to allow the old man's body to pass.

Gao De, as the old man's student, followed behind.

"It's just a magic circle. Even if you don't give the secret order, with the power of the academy, it's only a matter of time before you open it." A voice sounded in Gode's mind when passing by Tony Ether.

【Communication technique】

Goder raised his head and glanced at Donny Usher indifferently.

The chief student of the Rune Department looked at Gao De expressionlessly, but there was a thick resentment in his eyes.

He used his family's channels to check on Gao De and found out that he was indeed a guy without any background but with a little luck.

Therefore, he increasingly felt that the world was unfair to him.

Over the years, he has always been the most outstanding student among all the students in the Rune Department.

In terms of seniority, he is also the most impressive one.

Then, a country bumpkin who joined the college with a letter of recommendation became He Xi's student as a chess piece used to annoy He Xi by the dean's intention.

He Xi hasn't accepted students for a long time.

As the head of the Rune Department, even if Shell Ian was the dean, it was not easy for him to openly force He Xi to accept students, but Gao De was admitted with a letter of recommendation from the former dean Gavin.

Not to mention his rights as a top-ranked student, He Xi couldn't refuse this student just because of his relationship with the former dean. But how could a country bumpkin really understand runeology?

Why can a pariah really be valued by He Xi?

Even let the old man leave all his inheritance to him?
Donnie didn't understand, nor did he want to understand.

The old man is dead anyway.

Gao De also knew that if the academy wanted to enter the Rune Workshop and take it back, there would be countless ways to do it.

Although the Vice Chairman’s opinion today is not supported by any written document, it certainly represents part of the will of the academy, not his personal opinion.

But in front of the academy, Goder's power seems too small.

But why are you so eager to enter the rune workshop that you don't even want to do the superficial work?

Gao De lowered his head and fell into deep thought.

Gao De was not sure whether there were outsiders who knew the six basic rules of runes, but at least he was the only one who knew about the existence of the interference constant.

It’s not because of this. If the academy really knew the existence of the six basic rules of runes and believed in their correctness, the Rune Department and He Xi would not be so unpopular.

Why?

Rune diagrams, information, and rune workshops have all existed for a long time. The academy didn't see how much importance it attached to them before, so it shouldn't be so anxious about it now.

It must be something that has only appeared recently.
"But in the end, I used up all my savings to verify the interference constant."

The old man's words gradually emerged in Gao De's mind as he was thinking, and they became clearer and clearer, so clear that he could vaguely see the context behind them.

He Xi is a third-level rune constructor.

He was able to travel to so many countries, build such a large rune workshop by himself, and study the six basic rules of runes without any pressure for so many years, all thanks to his identity as a third-level rune constructor.

The wealth that this identity can bring.

This old man must have a lot of savings.

What on earth did he do to make him use up all his savings in just half a year?

A third-level rune constructor invested so much money in the last moments of his life, so what he created must be extraordinary.

The academy probably noticed the old man's actions and gradually discovered what he was doing.

Rune Constructor Gaode gradually had the answer in his mind.

Apart from high-level rune constructs, what else could make such a wealthy and powerful academy so eager to "eat up the whole family"?

I can't keep anything that He Xi left behind.

Gao De carefully went over the details of the matter in his mind and came to this conclusion.

He was just a student at Seres Academy, a first-ring mage who had just been successfully promoted.

No matter what your identity is, you are just a small figure in front of the will of the academy's upper echelons.

Moreover, compared to the possible high-level rune constructions that the academy currently values, Gao De understands that the truly valuable things should actually be the complete six basic rune rules that He Xi had finally deduced.

Gao De was not sure whether, if the Rune Workshop was really taken away, anyone would be able to discover what the old man had made from the vast amount of information and realize the great value contained therein.

But he didn't dare to gamble.

Because he understood that if this were to happen, then Ho Xi's research results over three hundred years would eventually become someone else's medal of honor.

No one could resist changing the name "Newton" to their own.

The six basic rules of the rune must and can only be written with the name "Hossie O'Kenley".

But what can I do in the face of this huge academy?

It seems that no matter what you do, you are just like a moth flying into a flame.

Gode ​​now understood the significance of those mages in academy uniforms outside the rune workshop.

Of course he wasn't waiting there to inform him that He Xi was ill.

Their purpose is to guard the rune workshop.

Prevent others from entering the Rune Workshop before the will of the academy's upper echelons.

This other person now refers to Gao De.

Because after He Xi left, he was the only one who had the secret order of the rune workshop array.

(End of this chapter)