Chapter 1 One of the Iconic Buildings at the Edge of the Magic Engineering Institute - The Old Liberal Arts Building

Ikerite Academy is located in the Magic Engineering Institute's old liberal arts building, one of its iconic structures.

This classical building with red brick walls and relief carvings was once a school building where magic engineers displayed their imaginative ideas a century ago. After several decades of renovation, it became a public building for the Ikerite Academy, providing magic engineering technology to students of other departments.

The first floor is a public magic engineering technology service center.

The second floor is the new magic engineering technology creative workshop of Professor Bora Ao, a leading figure in magic engineering research.

The third floor is the Student Management Committee.

In the past, Lan Qi often spent his time in the Student Council room on the third floor.

But from now on, he would be working and studying on the second floor every day.

Professor Bora Ao's research workshop on the second floor often echoed with slight mechanical sounds and the immersive working sounds of magic engineer puppets in the laboratory.

Of course, Professor Bora Ao now had two more students.

"Professor Bora Ao, have you made the arrangements with Dean Loren?"

Lan Qi walked to a wide experimental platform, placed a semi-transparent blue drawing into the identification instrument on Professor Bora Ao's desk, and asked.

Just standing in front of the experimental platform, a unique aroma mixed with magic potion and machine oil wafted over. A mechanical arm driven by magic stones was precisely assembling a seemingly complex device, and a black crystal screen next to it displayed lines of complex calculation formulas and newly entered drawings.

Although Lan Qi's talent in magic engineering was far inferior to Lan Fu and Professor Bora Ao, Professor Bora Ao found that he was good at drawing design blueprints.

So, the division of labor between his two disciples was very clear.

"It's settled, it's none of my business after that."

Professor Bora Ao shook his head and said.

This was his disclaimer.

After speaking, he used his magic engineering glasses to examine the small and exquisite parts placed next to the drawings again.

According to Lan Qi's idea, Bora Ao gave Loren an invisible magic earphone called "Love Instructor," claiming that it was a newly developed intelligent love guide from the Magic Engineering Institute.

It could usually give Loren some advice and suggestions when he felt confused.

At critical moments, it could not only help him plan his dates in advance, but even teach him how to deal with any situations he encountered during the date.

Loren immediately felt like he had found a savior.

His date with Juliana was the day after tomorrow, and it was too late for last-minute cramming, but fortunately, the all-powerful Professor Bora Ao gave him a new prop.

But in fact.

The other end of the "Love Instructor" was connected to Lan Qi via communication magic.

On the day of the date, Lan Qi would guide Loren in real time, telling him how to date the Undead Sword Saint Juliana via voice chat.

"Don't worry, Professor Bora Ao, this is foolproof. I guarantee there will be no problems."

Lan Qi said firmly.

Bora Ao looked at Lan Qi's sense of responsibility and nodded for the time being.

It was just a date, how much of an accident could it be?

"Then Professor Bora Ao, I'm leaving today."

Lan Qi looked at the time and said to Professor Bora Ao.

Their laboratory did not have a rigid schedule of working hours, as long as they finished their work ahead of schedule, they could leave at any time.

"See you tomorrow, Lan Qi."

Professor Bora Ao knew that Lan Qi wanted to go to the Student Union to take a look. After all, he often ran into Lan Qi coming down from the Student Council room on the third floor last year.

Before Lan Qi could tidy up his tools in front of his work station, he turned around and saw the Great Love Poet walking over.

"Professor Bora Ao, is this right?"

Lan Fu, wearing a first-year school uniform, came to them with a magic engineering component and asked Professor Bora Ao.

Bora Ao took the component, observed it with his magic engineering glasses, nodded, and began to tell the Great Love Poet what to do next.

Lan Qi was not in a hurry and listened from the side.

Anyway, it wouldn't hurt to learn more.

Since coming to the Magic Engineering Laboratory, the Great Love Poet had become eager for knowledge. Without Professor Bora Ao instructing her, she seemed to have unlimited energy and couldn't stop in the laboratory, even more diligent than Lan Qi. Of course, when she took action, she consumed Lan Qi's magic power.

Without Lan Qi's supervision, the Great Love Poet seemed to go to and from school on time every day, without any intention of skipping class, and like Hyberian, she was diligent and self-disciplined.

Finally, until the Great Love Poet handed in her work and walked towards her work station with a new drawing, Lan Qi also walked with her in the same direction outside the laboratory.

"Your skirt, don't fold it like that, it should be to the knee. The student handbook has a dress code guide."

Lan Qi thought for a while and reminded her.

The style of school uniform he chose for the Great Love Poet, the skirt would normally reach the knee, but the Great Love Poet shortened the skirt on her own initiative, revealing her thighs.

The Great Love Poet stuck out her tongue at Lan Qi, peeled back her eyelids, and then ignored him and ran to the experimental platform.

"Sigh."

Lan Qi knew that the Great Love Poet wouldn't listen to him on such trivial matters.

Although it was not mandatory, the school reminded students that they should dress more appropriately and in accordance with etiquette.

Lan Qi was also afraid that Talia would see the Great Love Poet's outfit and think that Lan Qi had deliberately designed the skirt into a short skirt because he liked looking at her thighs.

But it wouldn't be a big problem if it was really discovered, it wasn't like he was making Talia wear it.

Lan Qi thought to himself, tidied up his work station, pushed the chair back under the table, and left the laboratory alone to the corridor.

As the last rays of the academy's setting sun disappeared, footsteps echoed in the quiet air. He followed the winding staircase to the corridor on the third floor.

The familiar third floor, a wide corridor dyed golden by the afterglow of the setting sun, was displayed in front of him.

Above the high ceiling, several exquisite small chandeliers emitted light, gently covering every inch of space, and the dark red wood-carved walls were occasionally decorated with gilded patterns.

"Once my civil commissions are completed, I should be able to live such an ordinary life every day."

Lan Qi walked on this corridor that extended to the end and led to the Student Council room, and seeing the scenes in the campus outside the window dyed red by the setting sun, he couldn't help but sigh.

Three of the four shadow worlds of the Blood Moon Devastation had unknowingly passed, and the only remaining civil commissions and academic projects he had were the surveys of the Krete Empire.

The goal of retirement was getting closer and closer.

Thinking so, Lan Qi arrived at the deep red double door.

Lan Qi had not seen Senior Lu Weixier in the Student Council room for more than a year.

Hyberian should have returned to school at noon, but she might have left school now.

The once lively Student Union was probably left with only the president sitting in his office chair every day.

Lan Qi knocked on the door in the afterglow of dusk, and the sound echoed in the quiet room.

"Please come in."

A gentle and steady male voice came from inside the door, as always.

As expected, the president was always there.