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Chapter 558 - 526 Lanci’s Business Capabilities

Lanci and Hyperion sat in the Dean of the Magic Engineering College’s office, having a relaxed chat with Professor Bolao for quite some time.

Upon learning of their purpose for visiting, Professor Bolao quickly authenticated their back-to-school procedures, and both of their Shadow World challenge licenses were unfrozen.

"Loren has been busier than ever before; there are even rumors spreading around the school lately that he’s secretly plotting many things. Ridiculous. Even though to most students the Great Priest Loren is like an elusive dragon, he has always been upright. Students who often see him, like you, should know better than anyone else," Professor Bolao said, shaking his head and sighing.

These students must have read too many novels, always imagining that the gentle and easygoing Loren might one day suddenly transform into the ultimate villain with an overwhelming presence.

"Of course, with him not around, my workload has also increased."

Many tasks that ordinarily required the Dean of the Sage Academy’s authority could only be reviewed by Professor Bolao, the Dean of the Magic Engineering College, when Loren was absent.

"I heard from a fellow student in the Arolan Kingdom’s academic visiting team that Ichrite Academy is the harshest on its own people; I didn’t believe it at the time, but it turns out to be true. However, why isn’t anyone discussing me?"

Lanci asked, curious.

He always felt that his classmates respected him a lot; the typical novel-like scenarios of face-slapping mockery—those were something he hardly ever encountered.

It was Hyperion who encountered them more often.

So, she actually seemed more like the protagonist while he was probably just a supporting character.

"..."

Professor Bolao took his teacup and glanced absently at the early morning light rising outside the window.

His old experimental workshop was right below the student council room, and he often heard about the many good deeds Lanci did when mediating conflicts and disputes.

It could make for a full season of a campus series.

"...Everyone is young; none really wants to end up in prison," Hyperion muttered under her breath.

"But isn’t it right to send someone who tries to offend a Duchess to prison or give them the appropriate punishment?"

Lanci tilted his head.

"Dear."

Hyperion intended to retort Lanci’s comment, but remembering that the Duchess referred to herself, she couldn’t bring herself to speak.

Although Professor Bolao said this, the look he gave Lanci did not hold much expectation,

"Your talent for magic engineering is decent, but you are not an exceptionally rare genius. More importantly, you don’t really like magic engineering, nor are you likely to dedicate your life to it. To be honest, I think you are management material, and there’s no need to waste your talent on magic engineering."

Professor Bolao cut to the heart of why he did not choose Lanci.

He had watched Lanci progress through the entire process of becoming a Platinum Level Cardmaker.

It was evident that Lanci’s ability to produce an Epic Card depended not only on his unnaturally high artistic sense and exquisite control over the craft but also heavily on the aid of the summon [Great Love Poet].

Or rather, she was the key reason why Lanci could produce an Epic Card.

"What I mainly want is for you to teach me and the Great Love Poet. She really likes magic engineering, and she should be able to keep up with you. I’ll learn as much as I can."

Lanci’s proposal was akin to a buy one, get one free deal: gain one disciple, receive two assistants.

Although allowing Lan Fu to learn advanced magical engineering was a dangerous affair, she had pretty much reached the pinnacle of what she could learn from books on magic engineering. If she wasn’t given some new coursework to occupy her time, she would become restless again.

"I’ll think about it. The main issue is that I’m very busy at the moment, and I’m not sure if I’ll have the time to take on students next year,"

Professor Bolao mused for a long time before finally responding.

"Is there anything I can help you with?"

Lanci naturally understood what Professor Bolao meant.

They had just arrived here today and had heard Professor Bolao talk about his busy workload.

This just so happened to touch upon an area where Lanci excelled.

Civil disputes, organizational management issues—they were his strong suits.

"Maybe there is, maybe there isn’t. You almost managed to help me a great deal,"

Professor Bolao shook his head and sighed.

In the end, the problem was still related to Loren.

Although he greatly acknowledged the personal business capabilities Lanci had demonstrated in the first semester, one couldn’t expect Lanci to help Loren solve all his problems—that would be asking too much of a student.