You Have Been Invited to the Auction House of the Gods - Chapter 84

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84

 

 

 

Lee Seo’s answer was naturally ‘okay’.

 

She had no choice to begin with anyway.

 

The Magic Tower couldn’t provide her with suitable education after all.

 

The magic she used for the first time opened up new horizons for her.

 

Enough to instantly melt away all the humiliation and subtle contempt she had experienced at the Magic Tower, along with the love-hate relationship with magic that had grown alongside them.

 

Honestly speaking, insisting on staying at the Magic Tower when she couldn’t do experiments or magic—nothing at all—would have been a foolish choice.

 

I packed a few more pieces of bread for her at the cafe.

 

We decided to stamp the contract tomorrow.

 

Since she was a minor, we needed her guardian’s consent too.

 

Somehow Jin-woo ended up with one more task, but the guy was burning with motivation at the mention of ‘space-time mage’.

 

I guess burning with motivation would be the right way to put it…?

 

He was muttering strange incantations like ‘Please make the weekend go slowly…’ while tapping away at his keyboard.

 

The situation was neatly resolved.

Now it was time to wrap up the problem I had been putting off.

 

Ever since Lee Seo cast ‘Slow’, messages had been pouring into the Golden Fragrance message box.

 

I opened that message box.

 

[Finally… someone who can use my magic again!]

[Nobody…! Reply to me right now.]

[It’s okay, I can wait a little… No I can’t! Please check quickly…]

[Photo]

 

Maybe I just… shouldn’t open it.

 

***

 

Yoon Yi-seo’s admission to the Magic Tower was due to good luck.

 

That was all there was to it.

 

She didn’t have any exceptional talent for magic.

Nor had she awakened abilities worthy of special recruitment.

 

No, she didn’t even know she had awakened.

 

Her parents were the same.

 

It was something they learned after she received the Magic Tower professor’s recommendation.

 

Her awakening had occurred in the womb, so there was no way to notice it.

 

The Magic Tower she visited during a middle school field trip, where a professor who recognized Lee Seo’s mana capacity wrote her a recommendation letter.

 

That changed her life.

 

After receiving the recommendation letter, the admission process went smoothly.

It wasn’t just any professor’s recommendation—it was from the Dean Professor, so his influence was considerable.

 

The problem started after that.

 

She followed the classes well at first too.

She became able to sense her own mana and learned about the theories of constructing magic.

 

Her grades remained quite high as well.

 

The problem began after magic practicals started.

 

She understood all the theory and methods.

But when she tried to put it into practice, her mana wouldn’t budge at all.

 

The mana that had been so cooperative with her remained immovable no matter how hard she tried.

 

At first, the professor comforted her too.

Her understanding of theory was excellent, and she did possess mana after all.

 

The Magic Tower lent her a private practice room,

and her friends dove into research together to figure out what the problem was.

Rather, they got excited like true scholars, calling it a ‘special case’.

 

But that passion didn’t last long.

Days, weeks, months.

Yoon Yi-seo’s research data was forgotten under the ‘pending’ category.

 

From around that time, no one spoke to Yoon Yi-seo.

 

It wasn’t that they were trying to ostracize her.

 

It was just that as the grade levels went up, a mage who couldn’t use magic was bound to be left behind.

 

Whether doing team projects or experiments together, without magic… that damn magic, they couldn’t work together.

 

Though she studied in the same space, she became ‘a person who wasn’t there’.

However, it wasn’t that they ignored or bullied Lee Seo either.

It was just— their interest had simply disappeared.

 

‘Indifference is quite cruel.’

 

If they had at least cursed at her, she could have poured out her emotions together with them…

 

A year passed by in such idle time.

 

She no longer had the strength to say anything or any reason to make excuses.

While Other Students were conducting Advanced Experiments,

she quietly stared only at her fingertips in the corner of the Laboratory.

 

Mana bloomed softly at her fingertips.

 

‘It obeys so well like this, so why does it act up when I try to use Magic?’

 

As time passed, even the reason for her being at the Magic Tower became hazy.

 

‘Should I just quit now…’

 

That was the day she first had that thought.

It wasn’t expulsion.

It was just organizing things herself.

 

If she had devoted a year at the young age of a second-year middle schooler, hadn’t she worked quite hard?

 

But strangely that day, her steps didn’t head toward the Dormitory.

For the last time—

She felt like trying just once more.

 

So she turned her steps toward the Library.

In that place where Ordinary People could also enter, there was no need to worry about being watched.

 

In the place she found with the intention of starting over from the beginning, Lee Seo met a strange Mister.

 

A Mister with Thick Glasses so thick you couldn’t see his eyes, wearing a Training Suit carelessly, with the kind of appearance you’d see around Noryangjin Goshiwon.

 

The air around that person alone was particularly distorted, which caught her attention.

 

‘What’s the reason for using Distortion Magic in a place where Ordinary People can come?’

 

But what surprised her more than that was the action he was doing under the desk.

 

‘Drawing circuits without Mana?’

 

Now his appearance and such didn’t matter.

 

She didn’t know who he was, but at that moment she could know for certain.

 

‘That person might be able to solve my problem.’

 

So she ran over recklessly.

 

“Mister!”

 

The Man stopped.

 

She had called out to him, but couldn’t think of what to say.

 

I’m a mage from the Magic Tower, but I can’t use Magic?

She’d be fortunate if he didn’t pity her for going crazy at such a young age.

 

What came out after fumbling around like that was this.

 

“Mister, what kind of Magic is that?”

 

“What?”

 

The Man spoke bluntly.

 

“Mister, I mean the Distortion you’re using on your appearance.”

 

With some unknown courage, words suspecting his identity popped out.

 

And she immediately thought ‘oh no.’

 

What if this person was an S-rank villain hiding his identity?

Wouldn’t something terrible happen to her?

 

At the same time as that thought, flames blazed up in The Man’s eyes.

 

Seeing that, Lee Seo executed a Strategic Retreat.

 

That was her first meeting with him.

 

***

 

And the next day.

 

Lee Seo truly used Magic for the first time.

The scene of the Test Paper slowly falling in that moment when time seemed to stop was still vivid.

 

It was Basic Magic she had attempted for over a year.

 

And to think that was the moment she succeeded…

 

That Mister might unexpectedly be a kind person.

 

With both hands full of Bread Bags, she thought so.

 

Teaching magic and even guild membership.

 

This actually worked out well.

Rather than being treated like an invisible person at the Magic Tower and enduring uncomfortable meals,

joining a guild with dignity and properly learning magic was the right choice for her future.

 

‘Come to think of it, I didn’t even ask what the guild’s name was.’

 

Still, since they had connections with the Ashin Guild Master, it should at least be a mid-tier guild.

 

With the thought that ‘I can now use magic,’ nothing else could enter her mind.

 

The next day, early in the morning, she visited the professor’s research lab.

 

She had already visited the Administrative Office yesterday to process her withdrawal application.

 

The reason she came to see the professor was to give her final farewell to the one who had recommended her.

 

“So you’re saying you’re quitting?”

 

“Yes.”

 

She didn’t mention anything about the guild or space-time magic.

 

She didn’t want to cause any unnecessary misunderstandings.

 

Though the process had been lonely, she wanted to end things on a good note.

 

The professor seemed surprised for a moment, then unexpectedly smiled.

 

“I see. I even wrote you a recommendation letter, but I feel sorry for not taking better care of you.”

 

“No, Professor. I’m really fine.”

 

Fine indeed, she was about to leave to open new horizons in magic.

 

“Alright. I’ll respect your decision.”

 

“Thank you.”

 

“Even if you’re leaving, shouldn’t you leave some trace of having been at the Magic Tower?”

 

“Excuse me?”

 

“I happen to be conducting an experiment I’ve been researching today. I’d like to ask for some simple assistance.”

 

“Assistance…?”

 

“Yes. It’s something simple. I’m thinking of putting your name as the second author on this research paper.”

 

The professor took a sip of tea.

 

“I’d appreciate it if you could think of it as my small way of making up for not taking better care of you.”

 

How could she refuse when he asked like that?

 

“If it’s something that will finish quickly, I’ll do it.”

 

Lee Seo nodded.

 

“You said you have plans this afternoon, right?”

 

“Yes.”

 

“Then let’s go right away.”

 

The professor immediately moved to his private laboratory.

 

The moment Lee Seo crossed the threshold of the laboratory—

She lost consciousness.

 

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