I Got a Fake Job at the Academy Chapter 7

◈ Episode 7 False Identity (2)

The outside of the hair is gray. The inside is a beauty with strange two-tone hair in light pink like the color of cherry blossoms.

The president smiled brightly and accepted my greeting.

“yes. Nice to meet you, Mr. Rudger. Are you feeling better than that? He says he was involved in a terrorist incident.”

“It was nothing. Because I was helped by the Knights of Cold Steel at a dangerous moment.”

“oh. I’m really glad about that. I was pretty nervous too. I’m a new teacher who was chosen after a long time, but I was worried about what to do if I got hurt. If that happens, we lose face, right?”

Seeing him openly talking about his face, it seems that he is definitely not an ordinary personality.

but. Isn’t everyone who has risen to a high position originally twisted somewhere?

Especially if it’s a family of wizards.

So did my master. The woman in front of her must be the same.

It wasn’t too surprising.

“Are you not feeling well or anything like that?”

Watching the president stare at me with a gentle smile on his face, I wondered if something had been discovered.

Come to think of it, has the president met Rudger before? So maybe you’re noticing that I’ve changed?

As anxious thoughts passed by, her voice awakened my thoughts.

“I’ve only seen it on paper, but it’s the first time I’ve seen it in person.

Fortunately, it seemed that this was the first meeting between Rudger and the president.

I replied with a sigh of relief.

“Thank you for the compliment, even if it’s just empty words.”

“no. These are not empty words. If this is the case, the reaction of the students will be hot, right? You are such a handsome man.”

“It’s an overstatement.”

“Okay, take this for now.”

The president held out a piece of paper to me.

“I announced it in advance, but it’s good to have a thorough contract. The contract period is 2 years. The pay is as written there. Food and beverages are provided automatically, so keep that in mind.”

I accepted the contract and inspected the contents carefully.

I didn’t think it was too much of a big deal because I was going to get rid of it as soon as the preliminary status came out anyway.

That is until you read what is written inside.

‘Oh, what is it? wait for a sec.’

What was written in the contract was truly eye-opening.

‘The monthly salary is 30 imperial gold coins?’

One imperial gold coin is equivalent to 1 million denars in terms of the continent’s common currency, the ‘denar’.

In other words, 30 imperial gold coins equals 30 million denars, which is close to 300 million won in terms of the Earth where I lived.

This is a whopping one month’s salary.

300 million won a month. At this point, he had to doubt whether he was taking his organs, but this is Seorn Academy.

It was the number one magic academy in the empire.

Even in the district where I lived, the annual salary of one instructor at Gangnam Academy was not up to 10 billion won.

It is quite possible.

‘And a bonus is attached by semester, and another bonus is attached at the end of the year? Is it even possible to increase salary based on performance? If the students’ evaluation of the faculty member is good, it goes up?’

Even if you go really well, you’ll get a bonus, and if that’s the case, your annual salary will exceed 500 million denars.

The contract period is 2 years, so the total is over 1 billion denars.

With this money, you can live anywhere you go. You can even do a side job if you get permission.

gulp.

I involuntarily swallowed my saliva.

It’s great that the salary is this much, but the support money when conducting classes is enormous. Up to the fact that additional subsidies may come out depending on the evaluation of teachers.

In addition to that, you can find a house separately, and you can eat meals here, so there is no need to spend money unless it is a dire situation.

‘If you hold out for two years, one billion denars. In terms of earth money, it’s a whopping 10 billion won. Even that was taken to a minimum. If you do well, you can even raise the salary, and it is possible to extend it after the contract ends.’

It was a condition that could only be seen as crazy.

Is this the best academy in the empire?

The life I’ve lived so far… … ?

“how is it. Are you okay?”

“… … Not bad.”

Not a bad level. this is awesome That too is an invitation.

Take a deep breath and read the contract again.

It wasn’t a dream either. It’s literally like a golden pumpkin rolled in whole.

But there was a fundamental problem.

‘It’s true that Seorn is great enough to pay this amount of money, but at the same time, the weight he has as Seorn’s teacher is significant.’

Indeed, will I be able to endure the position?

Can I really work as an educator in this place where all kinds of geniuses are prevalent?

‘No way. It must be rather a miracle that my lowliness does not come to light in one day.’

Still, I am confident in bluffing and bluffing myself. It’s because I grew up in an environment where I might die if I didn’t do that.

I quickly shook my head and analyzed the situation.

‘If you look at the salary alone, it’s attractive, but it’s just as burdensome. But I’ve already come this far and can’t refuse. Rudger has already become a teacher here. And I became that kind of Rudger Chelsea.’

Can you say no in this situation in the first place?

My appointment as a teacher has already been confirmed, but now I can’t suddenly say I won’t do it. Then, of course, you’ll think it’s suspicious.

In fact, the answer I had to give was as if it had been decided.

‘In that case, I have no choice but to do it.’

I have now made up my mind how to use this Ludger Celish identity.

All you have to do is close your eyes here and endure for two years.

okay. After two years, this life can be over. Isn’t it better than the military because you pay a lot of money and move freely?

Thinking that way made me feel at ease.

I handed the contract to the president and opened my mouth.

fraud. Bluff. catch the mood.

Because that’s my specialty.

“The contents of the contract. I checked everything.”

“great. Then, I wish you well in the future. Mr. Rudger.”

“yes. I will leave it up to you. President.”

I shook hands with the president who smiled at me.

It was a secret that he was sweating desperately to keep his expressionless because the corner of his mouth was about to rise.

* * *

After the meeting with the president, I followed the guidance of Mr. Wilford, who was waiting outside, and headed to the assigned accommodation.

Shall we call it Seorn Academy?

Even the teacher-only building that exists on the site looks expensive.

I couldn’t believe that the two-story house I had seen in fairy tales was my home.

“There are still three weeks before the start of the semester, so you can rest well until then.”

After that, Mr. Wilford led the wagon and disappeared.

Even when leaving, he did not forget his moderation, and he was truly a model of a gentleman.

‘Shall we go?’

Grabbing my suitcase, I entered the house.

I felt it when I saw it from the outside, but when I came inside, the feeling was quite different. Pretty much all the furniture was there, and there was not a single speck of dust to be seen.

I checked the bathroom just in case, and this was surprising as well.

The bathroom, which was filled with pure white tiles, looked nothing strange even if it was used by aristocrats. Hot water comes out well, and there is even a bathtub where you can take a bubble bath.

It’s understandable because it’s a world where the magic revolution took place.

dump.

After checking every nook and cranny of the house, I sat down on the soft sofa.

‘From now on, I’m an academy teacher… … is it.’

So many things happened during this day.

I was unintentionally caught up in terrorism, mistaken for someone else, and even happened to come to Seorn Academy to work as a teacher.

It’s just a wonder how it ended up like this, but since we’ve come this far, we can’t escape.

If I suddenly disappear now, they will gossip about a person named Ludger, and as long as my real face is sold, I will have no place to set foot in the Empire.

It was so fatal that the real face was sold, not even a disguised face.

In the end, I had no choice but to act as Rudger Chelsea.

Right now.

“Whoa. It’s hard.”

It has been 27 years since I came to this world.

I was reincarnated in this world, without any special abilities and with only the memories of my previous life.

However, the existence of parents in this life was so deadlock that in the end I had to survive on my own.

At the same time, it is a strange life that has passed the crisis of death several times while getting caught up in all sorts of incidents.

Even for me, the current situation is just embarrassing.

How did you become an academy teacher?

It is also the top Seorn Academy in the Empire.

I want to be able to put this simply in the word ‘how’.

‘This is actually a fake job.’

It wasn’t even what I was aiming for, it was a disguised job.

But even so, I couldn’t stop now.

It was the so-called symbolic position.

The moment you get off here, you get eaten by a tiger. That was my situation now.

A fight between falling down and being eaten by a tiger, or whether the tiger gets tired first.

‘okay. 2 years. You only need to last 2 years. That’s enough.’

It was a car that needed a new identity anyway.

Under these circumstances, the status of Rudger was very attractive.

Ludgar Celisch is a man who came over to the Empire from a distant land. Here he would never run into anyone who knew him.

I still decided to find out a little more about Rudger, just in case.

I took Ludger’s suitcase and went upstairs to the bedroom. Upon entering the room, I closed the curtains on the window and inspected the interior of the room carefully. It was to prepare for possible external surveillance.

‘It doesn’t take anything.’

I want to feel better now, so the moment I open the bag.

rattle.

“hmm?”

what is this. Is your bag locked?

I checked the leather suit case in detail. Upon closer inspection, a tiny magic circle was imprinted on the metal lock.

‘This… … It’s a security magic.’

It’s not large, but that’s why it was thought that a magic circle with a high degree of difficulty, requiring detailed mana management, would be engraved in a place like this.

‘As expected, it’s because she’s a teacher who is assigned to Seorn Academy.’

One step away from the suitcase, I thought about what to do with this.

It wasn’t that I gave up, it was to figure out a way to open it.

‘It would be convenient if I had reagents, but I’ve already sent my luggage in parcels, so I have no choice but to use another method.’

I took a handkerchief and wetted it right away. Leaving a wet towel by my side, I took a stick and started a small fire at the end.

It was [Pyro], which could be called basic manifestation-type elemental magic.

Although the size is only about the size of a lighter flame, the heat is considerable.

I held the fire on the tip of the stick to the lock of the suitcase.

The hot heat started heating up the brass.

A few minutes later, when the brass was heating up and turning red, I held out a wet towel.

Chi profit.

The heated metal quickly cooled with the sound of water evaporating. In an instant, the lock was twisted, and the magic circle engraved on it was also twisted.

Of course, the effect of the magic circle did not disappear.

Because magic isn’t so easy.

‘But I can make a gap in the solid wall for a moment.’

just now.

Without missing a moment, I shot my mana sharply and pierced the center of the magic circle.

An important part of the magic circle that can be called the “nucleus”.

Parching!

‘done.’

After destroying it, the effect of the magic circle disappeared.

At the same time, the lock opened with a click.

‘Opening something like this is a piece of cake.’

It is not uncommon to have magic circles or barriers engraved on suitcases like this.

Most wizards are very sensitive to security, so security magic is close to basic knowledge.

If you can’t open it yourself, ask your acquaintances or a company that specializes in engraving.

In this case, if you try to remove the security magic by force, a spell that discards the contents will be activated.

It was an expression of the extreme ideology unique to magicians, that they would destroy their data only when it was revealed.

However, in order to safely dispel the security magic, it is necessary to analyze the magic to see how it was implemented. Of course, the process took a very long time, and I couldn’t afford it because I was in a hurry.

So, this was the method I chose.

A method that is close to a trick, without the need to analyze magic.

‘It’s enough to know where the magic circle is engraved and what material it is made of.’

Usually, the place where such a magic circle is engraved is made of strong metal. Because you can’t engrave a magic circle on an entire leather bag.

Leather is very inefficient as a medium for transmitting magical power.

The same goes for cloth or paper. Except for the parchment made by peeling the skin of a demon tree, it was impossible to engrave a magic circle or barrier on cloth or paper unless you were an Arch Mage of at least 6th rank or higher.

Conversely, metal has a reasonably good conductivity of magical power.

The most popular are iron and brass. Better materials are silver, gold, and platinum.

The best ones are jewelry made of gemstones, but since the material itself is so expensive, it is not used unless you are a high-ranking aristocrat.

Of course, cheap iron or brass had to be used most popularly, and I was fully familiar with the strategy of the two materials.

A method of heating the metal engraved with a magic circle to expand it, then rapidly cooling it with cold water to cause it to contract again.

The magic circle engraved on the metal is displaced and twisted in the process of expansion and contraction of the metal.

Even if it is dislocated like this, the magic circle will try to automatically restore it to the point where it doesn’t cause much trouble.

However, the gap that arises at that time is very fatal.

At that moment, I pour my mana sharply to destroy and nullify the magic circle’s key spells.

‘I’m glad it worked out well.’

Well, it’s not a commonly known method, it’s just a trick made by appropriately applying scientific knowledge.

Since most wizards are those who are obsessed with history and tradition, they often neglect science.

As a result, there were a lot of cases where we didn’t prepare for this part, and that was what we wanted on the contrary.

‘A real madman would have carried a steel case covered in magic circles.’

Fortunately, Ludger Celish wasn’t quite like that.

I opened the suitcase and checked the contents to see what was inside.

‘Hmm, this.’