บท 648: First Artificing Lesson

The room was silent, with a dense air of confusion filling it thoroughly. The first to speak up again was Partax, "You want me to waste my time with a place like that? Why would I do anything of the sort?" he asked, clearly thinking that a task like this was below him. Far, far below him. But Eiro didn't care; he had wanted to upgrade the security of the Academy for a while now, but he didn't know where to start exactly. Something at that scale was still beyond his capabilities as an artificer. But for Partax, it should be the easiest thing in the world.

"To make up for your mistake, as well as simply because I'm asking you to," Eiro explained simply, but Partax wasn't convinced, "What, so just because you have some information I want, I have to do whatever you want me to?"