"Huh? A dwarf architect from a Gaia temple is coming to visit? Sure, tell him to come on over. Teacher's out surveying right now, but he might be back soon."
The chosen construction worker on duty at Scarlet Castle received a reminder from his senior, Samoyed. When he learned that a Silver Dwarf priest had come all this way to visit Old Chen, he immediately started tidying up the Stone Masons' Guild's city office.
The apprentice architects studying there were all called into action, cleaning the courtyard before their "esteemed guest" arrived.
Old Chen was easygoing, but as an old-school intellectual, he still cared a great deal about proper etiquette. If he lost face in front of a dwarf architect from "another world," the construction worker would definitely get a stern scolding from his advisor in real life.
Professor Chen had originally been "lured" into the game by the crafty construction worker, who had dangled the unusual architectural styles of dwarves and elves in front of him. Now that a proper dwarf architect was coming to visit, there was no way Old Chen would pass up the chance for some "professional exchange."
Everyone might cheerfully say in public that the game was a lot of fun, but Old Chen was a real professor, a genuine member of the intellectual elite. It would be unrealistic to think he hadn't formed some thoughts of his own after spending so long in the game.
Still, the old man was cautious.
Whether he was reading young people's chatter on the forums or talking with his three students in real life, he never voiced an opinion on the subject. But he hadn't decisively gone AFK, either, which showed that so far, he was quite satisfied with his "gaming career" in his later years.
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