The Author Is Speechless
Chapter 213: A job?

Chapter 213: A job?

Romos is an empire that has numerous histories and legends buried under its great land. It is the strongest country on the Magus continent and covers about 68% of its land. Since ancient times, Romos was known as the land of legends where great magicians from all over the world gathered. Not only that, but demons also joined hands with humankind to create a great land and turn it into a paradise.

They had created labyrinths, mazes, magic towers where magicians studied magic and so much more.

This is where everything went wrong.

Since the world was connected to the tower of heaven, it identified paradise as a cheat and sent heavenly guardians to destroy it all. The mortal knows about this incident as angels curse.

After the great destruction, all the ruins, advanced magic technology, towers were lost from the heart of Romos and went back to ground zero.

The demons who also went through the destruction understood the reason and opposed the king’s plan to rebuild the kingdom. The human magicians went with the king and kicked out Demons from their land.

This is when they were marked as the cancer of humankind. The demons were just trying to save the world from the angels’ destruction but ended up being marked as the destruction of humanity.

After they were kicked away, they went inside the labyrinths they created that were buried under the ground and sealed the gate with ancient magic so nobody could enter and snatch the remaining advanced technologies from it. They are now working as the guards of those technologies to save the world from getting destroyed all over again.

’So the reason why they want someone who knows ancient language is to figure out the way to get inside the ruins and discover its hidden treasures. Not bad. But since when did the ancient Romos language become a subject of study?’

Viktor asked, "Is the ancient Romos language taught in the families of nobles?"

The lady smiled and said, "You must be a commoner then. Yes, the ancient Romos language is taught in every noble family of Romos. But nobles don’t do odd jobs so these language-related job posts are always empty. You’re not a noble but somehow you learned this language. I’m impressed. Here you go, an approval card. The butterfly pub is next to the river bridge. You can sign a contract and start working for them tomorrow."

"Ah.. okay. But here is 600 gold for the books. I will use them well."

The lady was shocked to see a bag of gold coins on the desk. They were all real so she said, "You’re a noble, aren’t you... why are you hiding your identity? A commoner can never carry this much gold."

"That’s a secret..."

The lady again said, "These are ancient books copied from the real book. There are some pages that contain an unknown language. Are you sure you want to buy them?"

"I already paid you a big sum. I’ll take my leave now. Have a nice day."

’She’s quite the talker...trying to use her charm magic on me-_-.’

After walking for 10 minutes in the crowd, he reached the butterfly pub. He then pushed the wooden door and smelt the reek of weed and alcohol. It was more of a drug club than a friendly pub.

’This place is actually a shady place...’

He then took a seat in front of a bartender and said, "I’d like to order a black hat man."

"Do you have a pass?"

Viktor showed him the card from the elf lady and again said, "Do I have to remove my mask? I can feel eyes on my back."

"Actually, you are lucky that you are hiding your identity. Follow me, I will show you the way."

The half-masked man walked inside a room and told Viktor to take a seat. There were also 3 people sitting inside the room with different-looking approval cards in their hands. So he assumed the job notice was distributed all over Romos, not just in Nippo town.

One of them was an elf with white brown hair. She looked pretty young but the wounds on her hand looked old. She was an archer Viktor thought,

’Judging by her hands, she’s more than 200 years old. So it’s not just me who can read illusion texts. This world is filled with so many mysteries.’

He took a seat beside her and looked at the wall in front of him. He wasn’t sure if everyone could see through the illusion magic but he understood the task.

The wall around them was nothing but an illusion. There were people sitting behind the illusion to judge them.

As instructed, Viktor stood up and took an apple from the table beside them.

The others were confused and irritated by his ill-mannered act so they said, "Young man! What are you doing! Put that back! You don’t eat food that isn’t offered to you, scumbag!"

Another of them said, "Let him be. Those commoners don’t know anything about etiquette. It’s just a matter of time before he gets kicked out."

Viktor ignored their talks and took that Apple from the other side of the room and placed it on the empty bowl on the table. He then took one apple one by one from this side to that side of the room until the bowl became empty.

At the very last of his process, he munched on the last apple and the illusion went off. The hidden judges became visible around them.

The three participants were shocked to see what was going on. At that moment, an old man said, "Participant of the elf lady. What is your name?"

"My name is Grimm."

"Grimm, an odd name for a human like you. How did you figure out this childish play? We didn’t come up with any better ideas so we just made something out of fun. But you were able to see through a childish play hidden behind my illusion magic. You’re not an ordinary magician after all. What is your elemental magic?"

"Fire, ice, darkness."

"D..darkness? What a rare elemental magician you are. Guards, please show the failed participants their way out. I want to have a chat with Mr Grimm."

After the others were kicked out, the old man took Viktor inside another room and offered him a cut of tea.

"Thank you for the tea."

"Ah.. don’t worry. It’s my duty as a principal of a magic school to welcome a new teacher."

"Pardon?"

"Looks like the elf lady didn’t tell you anything. You’re going to become a new teacher in Syford Academy and teach our students Romos language and illusion magic."

Viktor was speechless...

After a moment of silence, he said, "A teacher you said. Are you sure you’re giving this job to a trusted person? I might be a spy from a different country and harm the heroes."

"I already know about you. You’re Viktor but Jeo erased your identity. You’re known as Grimm who destroyed the newly discovered dark gold mine to stop the other kingdoms from invading their land. You also received an elite member card from the black guild. An elite member will become a teacher in my academy, isn’t that honourable?"

Viktor shook his head and said, "So I guess it’s useless to hide my face." Viktor took off his mask along with his hoodie. His shiny white hair began to reflect the bright light of the room and his silver eyes almost charm the old man.

"Dear lord... You’re like a god born with both appearance and talent. I don’t see any faults in you."

’I am a demigod after all. You’re not wrong after all. You have good eyes. I will grant you my blessing when I will get back to my body-_-.’

"Ahem!! Let’s not talk about that anymore. I am embarrassed."

"Hohohoho!!! Young boy, are you confident in teaching the otherworldly heroes? If the crown prince finds out you’re a commoner, he might cause an occurrence. How about adding a surname?"

"North, Viktor E. North."

The old man laughed and said, "If that’s what our young prodigy says. Viktor E. North huh? That’s a nice name. Let’s get along from now on. I hope Jeo won’t mind it at all."

"Ahaha.. I’m not sure..."

’Why everything is accelerating so fast!! A teacher at a magic school? Well, at least I’m not a student this time. And with this new job, I can observe the rumoured heroes from the other world. I wonder what world they are from. Earth? I need to know why this earth summons people from the other world and how they do that.’

After Viktor got an approval from the headmaster of his job, he left the pub with a teacher’s identification. The rest of the identity work was left to the headmaster so walk straight into a diner to eat his meal. He was in an avatar so human food was important to keep his body alive.