Chapter 147: The position of a Reader

"You met all of them at once?"

"I did, yes."

"Wow…"

Sam was soon done with the meeting with the deans and the headmasters. It did not take them as long as they had thought about so it was at least a good thing.

He was out on the lowest floor of the academy mountain now, and above them, shining just as brightly as it always has been, the dome of realistic sky mimicked the endlessness of the true sky outside.

Here, inside the academy mountain, there were various natural and artificial systems that made life here possible.

There were some critical elements of this ground level that acted as the foundation for everything existing above, and considering how there were several floors inside of the academy mountain, they were looking at something truly extraordinary right now.

"The bigger surprise is how you are a Reader now… you're confirmed a Reader, right?"

"Yup. The first of my kind."

There has never been an instance where someone just became a reader right off the start. The tests that the deans conducted despite knowing his true identity were not easy.

From basic knowledge to the things that someone in that position must know, as someone who had gone through all of this in the past, he knew very well just how the things worked here.

Also, even though he was only a professor in the post-apocalyptic world in his past life, he was still someone who knew almost everything there was to know about the academy and how things worked here.

"Wow… shouldn't we celebrate then?" Rainin, holding three sweet-candy skewers in one hand and four meat dishes in another, was saying that right now.

"Right…" Sam obviously had a judgemental look on his face as he looked at the Serulian boy. He left Lexie with someone like her.

Perhaps that was a mistake.

"Why are you looking at me like this? This isn't even mine!"

"And yet you look happy to just hold them."

This guy was diving into the wrong river right now. It wasn't up to me to stop him just yet, but if he wanted to challenge nature, he was free to do as he wished.

He will not find what he was looking for in this side of nature, but we humans are miserable creatures, with miserable ambitions, high on hope.

There are many canon events in our life. And watching his magic knight, the sigh that left his lunges was all the exhaustion that had accumulated within him.

"Gimme one."

"What, no. It's Miss-." Even before he could finish his sentence, Sam took the stuff from his right hand and left him with the sweets.

He had been running around doing all kinds of difficult things so he was exhausted already. He did not want to argue with a good boy with a crush so, he ate a few of the dishes as the two of them reached the place that Sam had sent Lexie to scout earlier.

"Young master~!"

The moment she saw him, a brightness unlike anything he had seen while he was with her bloomed on her face.

"Lexie." Sam did not have any special reactions to her cheerful greetings as he smiled at her lightly.

As she came closer, however, he lightly bowed to her and patted her head when she was bowing back to him.

"How's it?"

They were standing before a big building right now, one that did not fall behind any of the ones that were in this important-looking residential area.

"It's amazing! There's so many things here, ugh! I couldn't even look at the first three floors properly!"

Now that he was an official reader with a Codex of his own, he was bound to be treated differently within the academy.

This place was one of the basic benefits of being in his position, a secluded residential area that was meant for the readers like him.

The entire place belonged to him now, along with all the available facilities and basic resources of this place. And, along with this, he will have many different things at his disposal going forward from here.

This was just the start for them.

"I'm happy you liked it. We could also ask for something more traditional if you want."

"What? No! This is good, we will be better off with a change of things."

The tall building had twelve floors but it was completely different from an estate that they are used to.

This was a one single structure that had everything we needed contained within it. If we don't want to, we wouldn't even need to leave this place.

There are already many people here to take care of the building and the ones who would live here, so, much like the other readers, he can easily spend weeks or even months without going outside.

'Readers are mostly those who get too absorbed in their research.'

On one side, they can stay stuck in these houses for months and on the other side, they can very well never visit this place even once throughout their time as Readers because there are better places on the higher floors of the academy mountain.

"Alright then. Since we are going to party anyways, we should first take a few things with us, right?"

There are rooms full of inventories for all kinds of things: From food to beverages to the material for alchemy and enchantment, this place should have all that we want.

"Okie~!"

"Fine, let us go."

Rainin handed a new skewer to Lexie before walking behind her as the two followed behind Sam who was excited to see how this place would look… but, right as he was going inside, Sam's eyes widened.

"And then you will…"

Two workers who wore the badges with the number of this particular building that identified them as someone working here, passed by the new residents of this place.

They were just like any other person who worked here, but, one of them was someone that Sam had remembered from his past.

He looked the same as he did in the past… and while he did not know this, he was apparently assigned to an unexpected place.

'Those little…'

He knew what this was. But, there was a smile on his face right now.

"Hmm? Young master." He had stopped in his path so Lexie was surprised. But, as he glanced backwards, the smile on his face slowly faded away.

'It won't be the same anymore.'

He was no student this time. His start was different.

And not just that, since he will be working under him from this point on, it seems the relationship they develop would be a lot different as well.

"Ah, it's nothing."

He walked inside with the smile still present on his face.

This was the oldest friend that made it to the end of the world with him, someone who protected them all on the last island, as well as a friend that was dearest to him.

"Hello."

"Oh! You must be the new Resident! H-hello!"

The party of three could have their own living spaces since the academy had accommodation for all of them, but they had already registered themselves as Sam's employees.

They can now work closely with him in his assigned facilities. And along with that, now that they were inside the academy… they were free to do his dirty work for him as well.