Chapter 34: Eating What Makes Up for What
"He's twenty-nine years old." The woman skimmed her lips, "If you can't become a third level apprentice at thirty, you won't have a chance. The tower master naturally won't raise waste, and apprentices must leave the tower within a month after they turn thirty."
"If you want to find him, you can go to dormitory 1016." After saying that the woman was about to close the door.
"Please wait," Saul hurriedly put his hand against the door, "May I ask senior sister, was it you who dealt with that body without wounds today?"
The woman was a bit impatient, "Yes, why?"
"There was something weird about that corpse."
The woman sneered coldly, "I've dealt with the danger up there, the rest is your job."
After saying that, she ignored that Saul's hand was still on the doorframe and was about to directly close the door.
At the last minute, Saul hastily retracted his hand.
He stood outside the gate, pondering.
"Sure enough, the first procedure of the corpse room is something like removing evil spirits, while the second and my third are what collects the materials. And my job is really more of an aftermath, while trying to check for flaws."
As for this schoolmate's cold attitude, Saul didn't take it to heart.
The vast majority of people in the Sorcerer's Tower were extremely cold.
Instead of thinking about getting others to bestow kindness, it was better to make oneself strong while making others fearful.
Saul took two steps back, picked up the bone chopping knife from the ground, and walked slowly back to his place of work.
"Also got an important piece of information today." He cleaned the blood stains on his hands, "If you can't become a third level apprentice at the age of thirty, you don't have a chance. I'm twelve years old, and I still have eighteen years to go."
"Uh, it's too far away ... I'd better find a way to pass the third month's test first."
If one couldn't pass the test, if one couldn't get rid of the eyeing Sidhe, then all the planning for the future would ultimately be a bubble.
Time passed bit by bit, and the blue hourglass descended to seven o'clock in the evening.
Saul returned to the dormitory and waited for Kong Sha.
He sat on his dormitory bed with his elbows on his knees and his hands crossed and clenched in front of him.
White skin and pale bones crisscrossed.
One hand was cold to the touch, the other numb.
It was thought that today Saul would be able to figure out exactly what Konza needed him to do.
What all this setup was for.
One in the morning.
Saul vaguely heard a rattling at the door.
He walked over and opened the door, and saw Konsa, wearing a hood, standing in the doorway.
She was wearing a long dress with a soft texture that resembled a nightgown, and she was still standing there alluringly, like a landlady who suddenly wants to come and attack you at night.
Kongsha, who had already been here once, walked straight to Saul's desk and sat down, while Saul closed the door but kept standing in the doorway without going over.
"What's the point of standing so far away? It's not like I'm going to eat you." Kong Sha lightly laughed.
What the other party said about eating was definitely eating in the literal sense.
Seeing that Saul hadn't moved anywhere in half a day, Kong Sha didn't urge.
She crossed one leg and leaned back leisurely.
"How much magic power do you have?"
"...4 Jiao." Sol lowered her head and made a face of shame and indignation.
"Heh," Kongsha wasn't surprised, she was even satisfied with the answer, "Now are you going to insist on not taking the potion I gave you? You can only have two months left, do you think you can raise your magic power by another 6 joules in two months?"
Saul clenched his teeth, his hands trembling, and it took a long time before a voice emerged from between his teeth.
"Please, senior sister, save me."
After saying these words, his entire body's strength was unloaded, as if he had lost hope.
The corner of Kong Sha's mouth hooked as if she was going to taunt Saul a few more times, but when she thought of something, her brows flowed and her expression actually became a bit milder.
"If you look obedient in the future, I naturally won't let you die on the test two months later. And if you can do the things I've explained to you, I can also give you other potions to ensure that your potential overdraft isn't so complete, and maybe there's still hope to rush a third level apprentice."
Saul's head snapped up and his eyes glowed anew.
"Really, senior sister?"
Konza smiled again, her expression gentler.
"What, not thinking about becoming a full-fledged wizard?"
Sol lowered his head, his cheeks blushing. "I already know how hard it is to become a full-fledged wizard ... I just hope I can become a third level apprentice before I turn thirty and not have to be kicked out of the wizard tower."
Hearing Sol's words, Kong Sha's expression shifted.
"Third level apprenticeship ... of course you have to become a third level apprentice before the age of thirty, I can't imagine that you've even heard of this."
Feeling that the opposite schoolmate's state wasn't quite right, Saul, who had his head lowered, raised his eyes quickly and glanced at them, then immediately withdrew his eyes and continued to make an appearance of having resigned himself to his fate.
Kong Sha was currently a second level apprentice, and didn't look like some teenage girl in appearance.
Did she also desperately want to become a third level apprentice?
Kong Sha, who had returned to her senses once again, was no longer interested in poking fun at Saul, she took out a small pill bottle and threw it in front of Saul, who didn't check it and caught it with his hands, nearly dropping it to the ground.
"This is the first potion, the effectiveness can only last for a month, so you must drink it all within a month. After taking it, your meditation speed can be greatly increased, and it will allow you to reach about seven joules of magic power before the test. I will come back to you the night before the test and give you the second potion."
"The second potion can temporarily raise your magic power by three joules. There is absolutely no problem in mixing up the test the next day."
"Remember, this is the last chance I'll give you!"
Sol held the potion bottle, the liquid was transparent and clear like a bottle of pure water, "Can I ask what the name of this potion is?"
Kong Sha let out a "Ha", "Even if I tell you all the ingredients, you won't be able to dispense it."
But what Kong Sha didn't know was that although she didn't tell Saul, Saul still knew in another way.
[Solar Calendar 314, June 25th, Sunny
Today is a really good day. You got a bottle of "Elemental Goblin's Ultimate Filth".
Are you really going to take this?
Well, there's nothing you can't take as a wizard. Drink one drop, and your magic power recovers quickly; drink one bottle, and your magic power skyrockets.
Wait, drink a bottle?
After three years, you will become an excellent spell casting material~]
Saul looked at the last line on the hardcover book, his eyelids fluttered slightly, and he purposely made an embarrassed face, rubbed his nose, and asked the question again.
"Then what do I need to do? It's only then that Sister will give me the second potion."
Konza sighed softly and pressed her knees together as she stood up.
She walked over to Saul, and one slender white jade finger gently scraped Saul's cheek.
"I've always liked how self-conscious you are. Are you working in Mentor Kaz's necropolis right now?"
Although Kong Sha intentionally controlled her tone of voice, while also picking at Saul with her hand to disturb his mind's attention, Saul still keenly realized that School Sister Kong Sha cared about the fact that he was working in the Corpse Room.
"Could it be that Kongsa-senpai's goal from the beginning was the corpse room?"
This would explain her deliberate move to change her elemental perception.
Because of Sol's high mental talent and poor magical talent, it was convenient for Kongsa to make a move and become the best candidate to take over the corpse room job.
Then ...
Saul timidly looked up at Kong Sha with a look of trying to hide, "Senior sister, you can't take out the things in the corpse room. There are people watching at the end of the corridor."
Kongsha withdrew her hand, "Just a blind and deaf slave."
Saul quietly waited for Kong Sha's next words, a burly man who could guard the entrance to the corpse room on the second floor was by no means simple even if he was blind and deaf.
"You keep this."
Kongsha took out another piece of soft leather.
That piece of leather was pale yellow with black stripes on it. Turned inside out, it was also inscribed with dazzling rune arrays, and Saul hurriedly folded it back after just one look.
"This piece of leather is used to wrap materials. Wrap it with the spell formation facing inward and the pattern facing outward, so that slave won't be able to smell the material on you."
Saul, who had already started using the materials in the corpse room to refine witch body transformation materials for himself, would not feel guilty about such behavior.
It was death if you didn't do it.
He wasn't naive enough to think that he was part of the Sorcerer's Tower and should defend its interests.
"Then what kind of materials does School Sister Kong Sha need?"
Kong Sha leaned over and pressed her hands on Sol's shoulders.
The cloudy liquid in the glass head poured forward, and an eye emerged and pressed itself against the wall glass wall, all staring deathly at Sol.
"I need the brains of a level one apprentice, preferably a level two."
Sorry, sorry for being late, got up late and forgot to check for typos.
(End of chapter)