I was an apprentice in Ferren

Chapter 190 After the War
The 10th of the month of the blazing sun.

"Are those bastards from Yalach hoping I'll die? What do you mean by the Spider Extermination War? I was just trying to avenge my apprentice. Don't they know Rose is petty? What if she sends an avatar to kill me? How can that idiot Manshi defend against that?"

Lavoisier returned to his demiplane after finishing the meeting in Yarakh. He cursed the contents of the newspaper before accepting the porcelain bowl Sophie handed him. The half-elf sighed helplessly, "You still know, huh? You're really something now. The Silvermoon Federation even sent you a congratulatory letter and said they would establish diplomatic relations with the academy and send more apprentices."

"If you want to give it away, then give it away. Isn't it perfect that someone's giving you money? If I weren't short of cash, do you think I'd want to mess with those guys? If it weren't for the old man giving me half of the Iron Demon, I almost wouldn't have made it back." Lavoisier said, taking a sip of the meat porridge, finding the taste somewhat novel: "Who made this?"

"DuPont and Judy probably came up with it. He's been busy lately making oil from sesame seeds and eating all sorts of random things, but it always tastes pretty good."

After the half-elf finished speaking, she looked down at the apprentices in the square below who were repairing the iron golems. After Lavoisier's great victory, golem studies suddenly changed from a must-learn major for civil engineers to the most popular subject.

Even special taxes that should have been difficult to pay were all successfully paid within three days.

It's not that the apprentices didn't know the power of golems, but the cost of such things was simply too high. Architecture students usually apprenticed with the academy's construction teams and used the academy's golems when they got to the construction site. Other disciplines, on the other hand, had to acquire the cores and operational experience themselves. How could a newly graduated mage afford such time and money costs?

Even the average tutor in the academy might not have the financial resources or casting skills to handle a steel golem.

But things are different now. Lavoisier, who returned from underground, brought back more than 160 steel golems of varying degrees of damage, including his prized mithril and adamantite golems.

The two legendary golems naturally required the headmaster's personal repair, but the main force of this war, the Iron Golem, could be used by these apprentices for practice repairing.

Suddenly, forging platforms sprang up all over the back mountain of the academy. The molten iron and the heat energy of the fire element emitted a suffocating heat, making the already hot June unbearable to live in. Even the elm trees in the square, which should have been in their prime, withered and turned yellow.

However, this was nothing to the apprentice. The first-level spell of Constant Temperature could last for 24 hours. As long as he didn't fall into the molten iron, he could withstand it even by the furnace. The fire-casting instructor's loud voice often rang out. This old dwarf had been very busy these days, but judging from his expression, he seemed to be enjoying it more than suffering.

DuPont was one of them. As the vice president of the student council, he didn't need to work with several other students to study a golem. Instead, he occupied a badly damaged golem and would try to repair it every afternoon to improve his forging skills.

Before Lavoisier returned last month, he had successfully learned the Fireball spell and officially entered the third ring, finally allowing his mage level to surpass the warrior level again, no longer a hidden mage barbarian.

If that senior student hadn't never returned, his abilities and vague qualifications would have been enough to take over the role of president, or he could have entered the internship period in his fourth year and graduated a year early.

For DuPont, the latter is clearly more cost-effective.

Student council positions, which offer no real benefits and consist only of a bunch of unpaid duties, are just a nuisance to him. He wouldn't even bother with them if they weren't forced upon him; he would have just dumped them all on the other staff members.

He won't need this kind of position to embellish his future resume; as for whether those staff members will cause him trouble...
What a joke! This guy has powerful connections now, why would he be afraid of these things?
Upon reaching the control panel, DuPont glanced at the temperature sensor, nodded, put on heavy cotton gloves, grabbed the handle, and shouted, "No loitering!" A simple, honest voice responded from beside the mold. DuPont then gripped the heavy control lever and slowly pressed it down.

As he moved, the enormous 'iron kettle' slowly tilted, its lubricated gears and chains turning slowly. As the kettle reached its designated position, molten iron poured into the cast iron mold. Instantly, the heavy mold's temperature soared, causing Pete, who possessed the blood of a red dragon, to involuntarily take two steps back. While temperature control spells could cool people, this thing could only normally protect against environments from -20 to 70 degrees Celsius; above that, fire resistance was more reliable.

Seeing that his Golem Studies and Engineering had both reached the intermediate level, DuPont wiped the sweat from his forehead, thinking to himself that upgrading these things really takes a lot of time.

The learning ability brought by high intelligence is not limited to magic. It can be said that with high intelligence, one can also quickly master things like music and dance, although due to their own attributes, they may not be able to do them perfectly.

It can be said that if he puts in a little effort for a month or two, many experienced masters who have studied for more than 10 years may not have as much theoretical experience as him.

But theory is just theory. Whether it's golem studies or engineering, you need a lot of hands-on experience to improve. In order to improve his basic experience, he even went into the workshop and started hand-rolling screws on a lathe in the first few days, which made a group of dwarven craftsmen who were called in call him a monster.

They witnessed DuPont transform from a novice apprentice who couldn't even use a file or reamer into a ruthless craftsman who started making his own tools in just a few days, and whose skills are now more proficient than many 50-year-old young men with mustaches.

According to those dwarves, DuPont must have been blessed by Moradin.

However, DuPont did not respond to these voices. Instead, he bought batches of the best Bergmann beer from Aleville, hoping that these secretive old dwarfs could teach him some details that wouldn't be written in textbooks.

Although these dwarven craftsmen were certainly not as skilled as the master forgers, all of them, except for apprentices, were at least senior engineers.

There are even a few master craftsmen who are more than capable of teaching me at an intermediate level, so there's no need to trouble that golem master.

And the person who helped him was Pete.

Although Connor dared not provoke DuPont upon his return, Pete, a supposedly dim-witted dragon vein sorcerer with an intelligence of only 9, was ostracized by him. Upon hearing of this, DuPont recruited Pete into his civil engineering department, for which he received much praise.

Conversely, Connor's situation is even more difficult. This noble young master, who used to have followers everywhere he went, is now all alone. It is said that he has transferred schools and is preparing to study in Yarach. He will not be studying here next year.

DuPont completely ignored the matter and simply focused on his apprenticeship at the academy, becoming much quieter than usual.

It's best to let others do the talking; it's pointless to waste your breath on it.

Helping the other party was just a casual gesture, but it turns out that Pete actually has quite a few good qualities.

(End of this chapter)