Chapter 11: The White-Skinned Mushrooms
Chapter 11: The White-skinned Mushrooms
Saul’s first public class is none other than Wiccan text learning.
The class was not taught by a sorcerer tutor or even a third level apprentice.
It was just a second level apprentice who didn’t look like anything special.
His mind was not on teaching at all, and he was obviously taking this class just to earn credits for the task.
He spoke very quickly and didn’t let anyone ask questions.
Kori puffed up her face in anger after raising her hand for the third time and being ignored.
“Alright, at this point in the lecture does anyone feel dizzy or even nauseous and want to vomit?” The second level apprentice in charge of the lecture finally raised his head and asked everyone a question.
Seven or eight people in the large classroom raised their hands, obviously all newcomers.
“Heh,” the apprentice in charge of lecturing sneered, “With such poor mental strength, I really can’t figure out how you guys passed the test.”
He snapped the heavy book on the podium closed, straightened his back, and clasped his hands to his chest.
“Noah’s script, the most versatile and basic of the wizard scripts. If you can’t even view this text for more than an hour, then I advise you to simply give up on advancing to the second level.”
Those few newcomers who raised their hands snapped and retracted their hands under the table again, their faces red with shame. There were also people who were indignant, but didn’t dare to explicitly retort.
The second level apprentice flexed his knuckles to thump on the shell of the book.
“This is too basic, there’s nothing to talk about, when you go back to study on your own, if you can read the book continuously for more than one and a half small hours without feeling dizzy, only then are they all considered qualified. If the time is longer of course the better, but don’t force it too much, I don’t want you all to die a large number of people so quickly.”
Why did this man suddenly turn kind and specifically remind everyone?
Saul felt that he must have another purpose.
Sure enough that second level apprentice’s next sentence was, “If you guys are really too stupid and need to ask me questions, then remember to take magic crystals or credits in exchange.”
His eyes landed on Kori who raised her hand a few times raising her eyebrows.
“Guess you guys don’t have much money right now though, bunch of white skinned mushrooms.”
He grunted and picked up his books, dashing out the front door of the classroom with his chin raised.
“White-skinned mushrooms?” Kori asked Saul, twisting her head in confusion, “What does that mean?”
Saul’s tattered memories didn’t contain any knowledge about it.
Instead, the non-newcomer first level apprentice in the back row stood up and answered Korrie while organizing his books, “White-skinned mushrooms, the weakest, the least valuable, and heck, the most delicious.”
Most of the people in the large classroom dispersed with a crash, and the ones who remained were still this new batch of apprentices.
Dozer, who had flattered Korrie yesterday, walked over to him quickly, his friend Rocky following him with a timid face.
Dozer pulled Koli s sleeve and said, “Koli why are you still with him ……?”
“What do you mean?”
Dozer had seen the way Saul had cleaned up Duke yesterday and was a little afraid to look Saul in the eye.
“There are secondary seniors targeting him, so don’t you get implicated.”
He didn’t dare to mention the matter of Saul cheating to pass the apprentice test in front of Saul, and only thought of waiting for a chance to tell Kerri privately, advising him to stay away from Saul, and preferably move away from next door to Saul, so as not to be implicated.
“You think the others are just going to be friendly to us? Heh, white-skinned mushrooms!”
Kori walked away with a twist of her head, clutching her book, emulating the look of the second level apprentice who had taught the class as he left.
Without Korrie in the middle of the room, Dozer hastily took a few steps back and eyed Sol warily.
And Saul bowed his head and picked up the books and papers he had packed up on his desk, ignoring Dozer as he walked straight out of the classroom.
When Saul left, Dozer turned back to Rocky in exasperation and said, “How dare he ignore me?”
Rocky frowned straight away, “Let’s just stay away from him.”
The second public class was in half an hour, a meditation class.
Saul followed the requirements in the apprentice manual and took the new crystal ball he received yesterday to another large classroom.
This classroom was fan-shaped, with high sides and low corners, thick cushions on the floor, and again many people were seated.
Saul even saw a few second level apprentices in it. He found an empty seat and sat down, and also reserved a place next to him for Korrie.
Only just as he sat down, a newbie apprentice to his left silently picked up the crystal ball in front of him and switched places.
“Childish.” Saul rolled his eyes in his mind, he wasn’t a twelve year old, this level of ostracism couldn’t affect him.
Almost before the class started, the twisted braided Korie just flopped down and sat on Saul’s left.
Saul silently collected the book pressed on the right cushion.
“I went to ask for a price.” Kori told Saul, “…… It’s so dark!”
“You have magic crystals?”
The newly minted apprentices didn’t have any credits yet.
“Pocket change.”
Class time arrived quickly, and even after that, the person in charge of teaching hadn’t come yet.
The newcomers began to whisper, while the older apprentices sat very quietly with lowered brows.
Saul flipped through the meditation book in his hands, which had a bizarre and confusing illustration every few pages.
It didn’t take long to get dizzy gazing down at the patterns, much harder than reading Noah’s text.
Saul carefully avoided the patterns and read only the text of the book.
It was just that the words on it were obscure and hard to understand, and there were many rare words that he didn’t recognize at all.
Saul frowned like he did yesterday when he first saw the book.
At this time, there were finally footsteps again, and Saul looked up, only to see a tall blonde beauty, holding a lizard-like crocodile-like creature walk in.
She walked all the way to the far corner of the classroom, loosened the lizard or crocodile’s chain, and stood with her arms crossed.
“First time newcomers put your crystal balls aside and listen to me first, those who have learned will meditate on their own first.”
One by one all the older people around them turned to their books on their own and cupped to hold their crystal balls in their palms, eyes half closed.
“Is this meditation?” He said mentally.
The beautiful blonde instructor in front of him began to speak again, “I’m Monica, majoring in the thunder element. If you’re taking my class this afternoon, remember not to bring metal objects with you.”
Before Saul could realize what her words meant, a blue arc of electricity suddenly rose from Monica’s face.
The arc of electricity appeared and disappeared quickly, but left a charred mark on the left side of Monica’s face up to her neck.
Monica raised her hand and tore it off, directly tearing off that scorched black skin in its entirety, revealing the bright red musculature underneath.
No blood flowed out, but the bulging muscles looked incomparably oozing.
Especially when this huge scar appeared on the face of a beautiful woman, the strong contrasting impact made many newcomers lower their heads and dare not look at it again.
Saul gritted his teeth and looked towards Monica, having already seen images like that horrible half of Kong Sha’s head, he could still hold on with just that.
“Click click click click click click click ……”
The lizard-like crocodile-like creatures on the ground surprisingly began to devour the charred skin Monica had thrown down.
It was truly crunchy!
Saul and Kori were silent in unison.
Each and every one of these wizards was weird as hell, and it was hard to find a few that looked normal, but actually weren’t quite normal on the inside.
Saul looked down, looking at his white fingertips that were flowing out of his sleeve.
If and when he became a wizard, would he also become a human like a monster?
Kongsha’s face, the melting little fat man, the disgusting and horrible mentor Guido, and the mentor Monica in front of him who tore off a layer of beauty skin every now and then ……
Is turning into a monster the price one must pay to become a sorcerer?
(End of chapter)