Chapter 35 Desertion
To be honest, with the way Kongsha-senpai looked, Saul felt that she shouldn't need a brain anymore.
He hurriedly lowered his head, afraid that Kongsa-senpai would think he was mocking her.
"Remember?" Kong Sha's grip on Sol's shoulders tightened slightly.
Sol immediately broke out in a sweat from the pain.
"Remember, remember." He said in a loud voice.
Kong Sha finally let go of him, "Remember, at least one level one apprentice's brain a month."
"But what if there aren't that many first level apprentice corpses?"
Kong Sha looked at Saul condescendingly, the warmth she had just shown had long disappeared, revealing her true colors that she hadn't had time to hide.
"That would require you to think of a way on your own. Remember, I won't give you a second potion if the quantity isn't enough."
Kongsha walked away.
Leaving Saul with a small vial of potion.
The potion came in a glass bottle with a cork stuffed in the mouth, which was covered with a small piece of leather and wrapped with silk thread.
Fear of leakage.
But the first thing Saul did after Konza left was to painstakingly uncap the potion.
The potion was clear, and some bubbles were created from shaking it.
With a stern face, Saul leaned forward and took a gentle sniff.
A faint fishy odor.
Not to say it smelled too bad.
Saul hastily capped the bottle and resealed it with leather.
With a thought in his mind, he immediately sat down and began to meditate.
After a long time, Saul opened his eyes.
"Meditation efficiency, improved a little. Although it's only a little bit, but because my magic power is so small, instead, I can clearly feel it. There is indeed an improvement."
Sol looked incredulously at the potion on the table.
Just by smelling it, he could actually feel the difference.
This medicine, so powerful!
If one really swallowed it in one gulp like Kong Sha said, and then slept for a day and a night, wouldn't he or she be able to turn into a walking elemental particle absorption machine?
But the price to be paid behind the scenes was also immense.
The hardcover book reminded him that if he drank it all, he would become someone else's spell casting material in three years.
What would you be in that time? A mass of dead flesh rich in magic? Or a walking corpse?
Sister Kong Sha, on the other hand, told him to drink it all within a month!
Saul's face was expressionless as he kept the vial close to his body.
Even without the hardcover book prompting him, he had no intention of taking this potion at all.
Leaving it behind, for one thing, was to appease Kongsha, after all, this white and long thigh he still planned to hug down and use to fight against Sid.
Secondly, this potion was horrifyingly effective, and Saul also wanted to find a chance to study it properly. It's just that the expiration date of only one month is too short.
"Perhaps the hardback book can assist me in making some improvements." Saul still couldn't let go of the great improvement brought by the potion, "After all, it's a divine medicine that can improve meditation efficiency by taking a whiff of the odor."
"Wait, a sniff is fine?" Sol fell into deep thought.
...
The next day, Saul, who had a black eye, met Korie, who also had a black eye, in front of the public classroom.
The two looked at each other and tacitly refrained from commenting on each other's appearance.
Walking in unison and moving in unison, they came to a familiar corner, pulled out chairs, and sat down together.
Just as they sat down, Kagome yawned abruptly.
Teardrops squeezed out of the corners of her eyes and were mercilessly wiped away with the back of her hand.
"You seem tired, did you stay up late again?" Though it wasn't really Saul's place to talk about anyone else.
"I'm just feeling the time crunch, those bad guys aren't going to give us time to grow up."
The "bad guys" that Korrie was talking about were the Mutual Aid Society that had made her abnormal ten days ago.
Always proud of herself, Korie's academic progress was one of the fastest in the group of new students. With the exception of Saul, who couldn't see past her progress, Korie thought she had worked very hard.
However, ever since she was inexplicably parasitized in the Mutual Aid Society and was still unaware of it, Korie realized how ridiculous it was to only think about comparing her progress with the same group of apprentices.
Even if there was only a small difference of one rank, there was a huge gap between the hunter and the prey in general.
Weakness was the original sin!
Looking only at your feet while climbing a steep mountain will cause you to ignore the boulders falling overhead.
So she tried harder.
What it meant to liver and roll was evident in Kori.
Saul didn't know Kori's determination, but he was well aware of Kori's pride.
The experience at the Mutual had stung Kori's jaw and made her bow her head.
Saul was also well aware that Korie, though a genuine little girl, would not be brought down by this little setback.
"Have you noticed," Korrie whispered to Saul as she stared at a corner of the classroom, "they don't seem to be acting as creepy as they did the other day now."
Saul was still looking down at his book, his eyelids fluttering up a bit.
In the front corner of the classroom against the edge, Dozer and Rocky were still sitting next to Duke, but they were both talking to the girl in the row behind them.
Kori said the girl's name was Jenna.
She had once stopped Saul to invite him to the Mutual Aid Society, but Saul had disliked her so much that he hadn't even had a chance to ask until the end of the day.
Jenna still looked a little shy, but could tell that inside she was enjoying being accosted by boys around her.
Though he only glanced at it, Saul also saw that Duke's demeanor was a bit distracted, and Dozer was smug.
Only Rocky, who didn't think much of himself, glowed when his eyes fell on Jenna.
"Ah youth ..."
But thinking about how all these people seem to be in the Mutual Aid Society, Saul changes his tune, "This fleeting youth."
"I've observed them these days." Kori continued to whisper to Sol, "Except for the first day back, when they acted differently. They haven't had the strange reactions since then that they had then. I've quietly inquired though, and it seems that the support group has been in existence for a few years now."
Established for several years? Then did those older siblings around them also have many members of the mutual aid society?
Thinking that there might be some kind of parasite in all of them, perhaps turning into bizarre puppets at any time, Sol and Korie shuddered.
It was as if you were walking down a hallway and everyone you passed by was unconsciously grinning.
"It's impossible for everyone to be a member of the Mutual Aid Society, doesn't Senior Byron have the means to deal with them?" Saul cracked.
Kori bit her lip a little, she still woke up sometimes with nightmares and reached for the scar on her head.
"But Hokage Byron doesn't want to get into their business either. Jenna asked me to go to the party again two days ago, and I didn't go."
Saul hadn't been invited again, but he was somewhat finding it a bit tricky as well.
This kind of organization was trouble when it stuck.
Sometimes you couldn't just not participate if you wanted to, especially when the organizers behind it had impure intentions.
"You have to be careful not to let them target you."
"It's okay, I told Jenna that Mentor Guido asked me to help out in his lab." Kori ruffled her hair a bit, "They wouldn't dare mess with Mentor."
She suggested to Sol again, "If you're not doing anything, go look for Byron-senpai. If the organizers of the Mutual Aid Society find out you're close to Senior Byron, they might not dare pester you."
Sol, however, shook his head, "Senior Byron is approaching thirty, and he's about to leave the Sorcerer's Tower."
Saul told Korie about the fact that if she couldn't advance to the third level of apprenticeship by the age of thirty, she would be discharged.
Kerrie was surprised and could barely suppress her voice, "So that's how it is, no wonder those second level apprentices who defected to the nobles are all very old one by one, and were actually demobilized from the Sorcerer Tower."
"I wonder when we will be able to get out of this high tower?"
Saul had never been out of the Sorcerer's Tower since he crossed over, and even his range of activities was limited to just a few places.
It was so close to forgetting what the sun looked like.
If it wasn't for the fact that he was filled with studying and working all day long, leaving him no time to think about it, Saul might have been locked up and gone crazy.
Chapter two is here too!
(End of chapter)