Above the mage

Chapter 200 Aftermath

"There are always rules to follow, aren't there?" Gao De raised his head and looked at the vice chairman at eye level.

"The ownership of the rune workshop is clearly stated in black and white."

He said, enunciating each word clearly, "Putting all that aside, even if the Rune Workshop is the academy's property, you have no right to directly demand the Rune Workshop's magic array token from me."

"You do not represent the academy."

The vice chairman was taken aback.

He never expected that this student from a common background could talk to him so calmly and rationally.

"I am the vice chairman of the college committee, why can't I represent the college?" he said angrily after regaining his senses.

"Even the vice chairman is not qualified to represent the academy unless you can produce the academy's documents." Gao De shook his head, not intimidated by him.

"Moreover," his voice grew louder as he looked directly at the vice chairman, "Director He west has just passed away, his body barely cold. As a high-ranking member of the academy, shouldn't your most important task right now be to handle Director He west's funeral arrangements?"

"He should be laid to rest in peace. He hasn't even been laid to rest yet, and you're already so eager to open his rune workshop. Are you perhaps planning to steal something?"

Gao De's face showed anger and agitation.

Half of it was an act; there were many rune department instructors in the corridor who had rushed over after learning that Director He Xi had fallen ill, and he needed to stand on the moral high ground in front of everyone. The other half was a genuine expression of his feelings.

The rabbit mourns the fox's death.

Although the instructors of the Rune Department did not particularly like the director who was gradually marginalizing the Rune Department, they were also unclear as to why the vice chairman was so eager to enter Hosie's Rune Workshop.

However, the college is in such a "rush" before the old man has even been buried, which seems rather inhumane.

The way they looked at the vice chairman also began to change slightly.

The vice chairman also noticed the unusual atmosphere.

He certainly didn't dare to go too far.

At least in public, we can't go too far.

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

He turned his gaze to the wooden door and spoke to Gao De, as well as to everyone in the corridor.

The strange atmosphere finally calmed down a bit after those words.

Gao De looked coldly at the vice chairman, giving him no room to maneuver, and said loudly, "Then you may leave now. As Director He Xi's student, I want to personally see him off on his final journey."

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

Gao De watched silently as the old man's peaceful face was covered with a white sheet and his frail body was wrapped up. He then bowed deeply to the old man's remains.

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

In the final moments of his life, the old man wished he could devote all his time to deriving the disturbance constant.

Given the circumstances, the fact that the elderly man could still find the time to write his will can only mean that he was aware that his death was imminent.

While listening to the countdown to death, he calmly performed deductions and calculations, and was also teaching himself.

What a moving spiritual realm this is!

The old man was pushed out of the room, cloth and all.

Gao De also followed him out.

Outside the door, everyone in the corridor consciously stepped aside to make way for the old man's body to pass through.

Gaode, as the old man's student, followed behind.

"It's just a magic circle. Even without the secret order, with the power of the academy, it's only a matter of time before they can open it." A voice echoed in God's mind as he passed Donnie Erther.

[Communication techniques].

Gao De raised his head and glanced indifferently at Donnie Erther.

The top student of the rune system stared straight at Gao De with a blank expression, but his eyes were filled with resentment.

He used his family's connections to check Gaode Maps and found out that Gaode Maps was indeed a guy with no background, just a bit of luck.

Therefore, he increasingly felt that the world was not fair to him.

Over the years, he has consistently been the most outstanding student among all the rune system students.

In terms of seniority, he is the most accomplished.

Then, a country bumpkin who joined the academy with a letter of recommendation, under the dean's deliberate intention, became Hosie's student as a pawn to annoy Hosie.

He west hasn't taken on any students for a long time.

As the head of the Rune Department, even though Shel Ian was the dean, he couldn't openly force Hoshi to accept students. However, Goddard was admitted with a recommendation letter from the former dean, Gavin.

Putting aside his rights as a top-tier student, He west simply couldn't refuse this student because of his relationship with the former dean.

But why should a country bumpkin really be able to understand rune literature?

Why should a commoner like him be valued by Hosie?

Even to the point of having the old man leave all his inheritance to him?

Donnie didn't understand, and didn't want to understand.

Anyway, the old man is already dead.

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

Although the Vice Chairman's statement today is not supported by any written documents, it certainly represents part of the Academy's will, rather than his personal opinion.

Compared to the academy, Gaode's power seems far too insignificant.

But why are you so eager to get into the rune workshop, without even bothering to do the bare minimum?

Gao De lowered his head and fell into deep thought.

Gao De wasn't sure if anyone else knew the six basic rules of runes, but at least he was currently the only one who knew about the existence of the interference constant.

It's not because of this that if the academy truly knew about the existence of the six fundamental rules of runes and believed in their correctness, the rune system and Hoshi wouldn't be so unpopular.

Why is that?

Rune diagrams, data, and rune workshops have all been around for a long time. The academy didn't seem to value them much before, so they shouldn't be in such a hurry now.

It must be something that has only recently appeared.

"But in the end, to verify the interference constant, I used up all my savings."

The old man's words gradually surfaced in Gao De's mind as he pondered them, becoming clearer and clearer until the underlying details were faintly visible.

He west is a third-tier rune constructor.

He was able to travel to so many countries, personally build such a large rune workshop, and devote himself to studying the six basic rules of runes without any pressure for so many years, all thanks to his identity as a third-tier rune construct master.

The wealth that can be obtained through this identity.

This old man must have had a lot of savings.

What exactly did he do to spend all his savings in just six months?

A Tier 3 Rune Constructor, investing so much money in the final moments of his life, must have created something extraordinary.

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

With the rune construction, Gao De gradually found the answer.

Besides high-level rune constructs, what else could possibly make a large and powerful academy so eager to "devour" such a treasure?

He couldn't protect anything Hosie left behind.

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

He was just a student at the Seres Academy, a newly promoted first-circle mage.

Regardless of their identity, they are all just insignificant figures in the face of the will of the academy's upper echelons.

Moreover, compared to the potentially high-level rune constructs that the academy currently values, Gao De understands that what is truly valuable is actually the complete set of the six fundamental rules of runes that He west has finally deduced.

Gao De wasn't sure if, if the rune workshop were indeed taken away, anyone would be able to find the old man's work from that massive amount of data and realize its immense value.

But he didn't dare to gamble.

Because he understood that if that were to happen, then He Xi's more than three hundred years of research would ultimately become someone else's medal of honor.

No one could refuse to change their name to "Newton".

The six basic rules of runes stipulate that the name "Hosey Oakenley" must be written on the runes.

But what can I do in the face of such a behemoth as the academy?

It seems that no matter what they do, they are just like moths drawn to a flame.

Gao De now understood the significance of those mages in academy uniforms outside the rune workshop.

Of course, he wasn't there to wait and be informed that Jose had fallen 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.

The "other person" in this context refers to Gaode Maps.

Because after Hosie left, he was the only one who possessed the secret command for the rune workshop array.

(End of this chapter)