Chapter 93 Birthday Gifts
Saul picked up a pair of long black up to the elbow gloves from the long table in the corpse room.
The gloves were specially customized to fit very well on the skin and were thin enough to hold items without a noticeable sense of separation.
Moreover, the material of the gloves was resistant to dirt and water, and they weren't very easy to set on fire, which justified the price of the customization.
Crucially, it doesn't interfere with Sol's spell casting.
It's just that it's a bit of a pain in the ass to wear.
These very snug gloves were just troublesome to wear.
Saul put it on his left hand first.
These gloves were very jerky inside and could not be lifted and pulled smoothly.
At that moment, a thin black tentacle reached out from the back of Saul's neck and nimbly helped Saul pull the edges of the glove apart, helping him put it on smoothly.
"Thanks, Zo."
This somewhat bizarre-looking tentacle was none other than a part of the Soul Eater Devil Swamp that Saul had inadvertently brought back from the abandoned laboratory at the bottom of the Wizard Tower's garden.
After a few confirmations and checking the information, Saul was basically certain that this little tentacle wasn't too dangerous.
In particular, this tentacle can be removed from the back of his neck with a "boing" sound with just one pull, and did not leave any wounds.
Obviously, it was not parasitized on his body.
After helping Saul put on the gloves, Algae obediently shrunk back.
Saul named this tentacle Little Algae because it didn't want to be like the huge, terrifying and aggressive black tentacles in the bog, but instead resembled the core consciousness of the Soul Devouring Demon Bog.
At first, that core consciousness looked like a seaweed ball, so Saul directly gave it the simplified name Xiao Zao.
Little Algae was sometimes silly, and sometimes very resourceful. It always followed Saul and never showed up when there were outsiders.
Whether it was the mentor or the senior, they didn't find anything wrong, or they did but only took it as research material that Saul carried with him. No one disputed this.
The environment of the corpse room is somewhat similar to the environment where Xiao Zao originally lived, and Xiao Zao has even gained a circle of weight in the few days that he stayed by Saul's side.
With the gloves plus the spell formation drawn on the bones, Saul finally didn't have to be careful of Tutor Monica's escaping currents when he was in class.
Saul had just put the things away, when there was a regular knocking sound from outside the door.
Before Saul could get there, Keri's voice came through the door.
"Open the door, open the door, it's your birthday!" Keri's voice had little rise and fall, sounding like she was saying "open the door, open the door, it's time to check the water meter".
As soon as the door opened, Saul saw Kerri standing outside the door holding a square box.
"Happy Birthday!"
How the box looked familiar, Saul turned around and saw the rows and rows of small boxes sitting on the console.
Turning his head somewhat tongue-in-cheek, Saul reached for the box in Kori's hand and invited her in.
People in this world didn't seem to be in the habit of celebrating birthdays, least of all sorcerer apprentices.
After overhearing Korrie's day of birth, Saul casually gave her an unnamed reagent number one that he had concocted relying on his diary on that day.
Like this kind of nameless reagent, Saul had made many kinds of them in the process of exploring the transformation of the witch body, only that most of them were useless or even harmful.
And the use of this reagent number one was that it could weed out certain impurities in metals, making them all harder.
He thought that Keri, who majored in metallic, might be able to use it, so he gave it to her as a gift.
Who would have thought that this small gift would have touched Keri so much, she had never received a gift that was simply a celebration for herself.
She asked Saul for his birthday and has been celebrating his birthday every year since then as well.
The rune of resistance to the electric field that Thor had drawn on his hand bone was the gift Kori had given him last year.
It was quite valuable.
"Is it worth anything?" Saul asked casually, placing it on the table to open it.
"How can something from me not be worth something?" Kori clasped her hands to her chest, anticipating the look on Saul's face as he finished unwrapping his gift.
Saul finally opened the small, tightly wrapped box.
There was a piece of cotton cloth stuffed inside the box, and lifting it revealed a thumb-sized blue fruit.
"This is ... "Saul only felt familiar at first, then finally remembered, "This is the fruit of the companion flower?" "Yes." Kori nodded heavily.
"Or a fruit that can increase magic power value?" Magic power value had always been a pain in Sol's heart.
Especially after reaching 45 Jiao, Sol's speed of raising his magic power was stuck again.
And a blue fruit of a Companion Flower could help Sol raise his magic power by at least 1 Joule.
It's just a pity that the cultivation of this fruit is uncertain, and it's not easy for them apprentices to get companion flowers.
The first companion flower that Sol got bore a blue fruit.
Later, he got two companion flowers as well through work and exchange.
It was just a pity that they never cultivated white fruits.
"Both times you gave me birthday gifts were too timely, it seems like I'll have to prepare a better gift next time."
Korie nodded "mmmmm", she was never polite in that regard.
"If you have your way, give me some of the more specific toxins."
"What do you need toxins for? Aren't you a metallic major?" It was the first time Saul had heard that Korrie needed a poison.
"My mentor is majoring in toxic attributes after all, and many of the topics and objects he studies are related to toxin reactions." Korrie shrugged her shoulders.
It seemed that after becoming a second level apprentice, one would be qualified to do some research projects with their mentor.
As for Saul, apart from going to Mentor Rum and Senior Nick from time to time to cooperate in some experiments that were not very difficult, he usually only had work in the corpse room.
Of course, such he was actually envied by the other apprentices.
"Well, forget about that for now, I actually made a birthday cake, go back to the dormitory and eat it together ..."
"No... let's forget about this one."
"I promise it's better than last year's."
"Can't! I have an experiment and I can't stay in the washroom tonight."
"No way!" Kori turned behind Saul and pushed on his back, "All the food is fresh this time!"
Saul wasn't good at pushing really hard, and could only resist with difficulty.
At that moment.
"Sorry, didn't mean to eavesdrop, what's a birthday cake? A new kind of poison?"
Nick stepped out from behind the scarlet door of the necropolis and raised his hand in greeting to the two men.
With an outsider in the room, Korie immediately withdrew her hand and resumed her high-strung demeanor.
"Uh, good afternoon Senior Nick." Sol straightened his collar, "Birthday cake is actually a food that celebrates the day of birth."
"Do you still have the custom of giving gifts on the day of birth back home?" Nick walked in and raised his hand to hold a piece of letter paper up to Sol, "That's just as well, I've got some good news here as a gift for you."
Saul pulled the piece of letter paper from between Nick's two fingers, unfolded it, and looked down to read it.
Immediately afterward, a flash of joy appeared on his face.
"It's a letter from Senior Byron!"
Hearing Byron's name, Korie also looked over with some curiosity.
Only she kept her politeness and didn't come closer.
Saul read it quickly, and the expression on his face gradually turned into surprise and disbelief.
He looked up and asked Nick, "Senior Byron said that he invited us to go out and do a mission together ... What does this mean?"
Nick replied calmly, "It means literally, as long as the mentors agree, with an invitation from a third level apprentice, even if you're a first level apprentice, you can participate in missions outside the tower. And the mentors have never disagreed."
Nick then raised his hand and clapped twice.
"Congratulations, you can go out now."
It hits the shelves on Friday, and the next chapter is a testimonial for the shelves
(End of chapter)