Chapter 56 – The Temperamental Tutor

Chapter 56 The Temperamental Mentor
He had just kept his attention on Sol’s potion, but as soon as he turned his eyes, he realized that there seemed to be something wrong with Sol’s left hand.

Saul raised his left hand and pulled his sleeve up to his elbow, revealing his left hand that had turned a dark gray and the front of his small arm that was dipped in a light gray color.

Kaz wrapped his arms around Saul’s left hand and silently spat out a string of incantations from his mouth, after which, Kaz’s eyes blossomed with a strong light.

This strong light was fleeting.

Saul, however, had the uneasiness of being stripped and seen through.

“Dead man’s bone, wrapping heart grass, sulfurized liquid, and some strange materials ……”

Kaz slowly lowered Saul’s left hand, and when he looked at him again, the look in his eyes was incredibly complicated.

“It’s amazing that you managed to complete a brand new sorcerous body transformation program for your own situation.” In addition to exclamation in Kaz’s tone, there was also a hint of panic, “How did you dare so much? Aren’t you afraid of death?”

Saul had already thought of a reply.

“Fearful, but other than that there is no other way I can get my magic value to 10 joules before the test.” Saul lowered his head and looked at his left hand with a heavy expression, “I just thought, my left hand is like this anyway, even if I fail, the big deal is that I don’t want the whole hand.”

Kaz first snorted coldly, “Hmph, do you think you’ll be safe if you fail and cut off your left hand?”

Then he was puzzled, “Why do you need magic power to reach 10 joules?”

Not waiting for Saul to answer with a speechless face.

Kaz suddenly remembered the test requirement he had casually proposed when he couldn’t see Saul.

“Ahem,” he couldn’t say that he had forgotten about this matter, and could only find a way to make up for it, “Even if your magic power doesn’t reach 10 joules by then, as long as you let me see your efforts and progress, it’s not like I can’t be lenient.”

Kaz brushed off this life-threatening trifle, and turned to ask Saul, “What ability does this arm of yours have now, and can it have been tested?”

Sol withdrew his hand, unable to say whether he was happy or disappointed in his heart.

“Through the initial transformation, my magic power has improved a lot, and has now stabilized at 13 joules. It has also improved slightly in spiritual power. In addition my left hand can resist normal damage and to some extent sorcery damage. To what extent …… didn’t dare to try more.”

Kaz listened to Sol’s description in a calm tone, stroked his own chin and stole a glance into Sol’s eyes.

He felt that this young apprentice was still too little informed, and was clearly not aware of the value of this sorcerous body transformation program of his for other apprentices.

No, he couldn’t let this fellow get carried away either.

“But there should be a very big problem with this program of yours.” Kaz walked around Saul, “The enormous magical power gained from the sudden transformation may directly break down your mental body, putting you on the verge of cognitive collapse. A first level apprentice would have a hard time resisting that, either blowing up in a blast, buzzing mad, or ……”

Kaz stopped behind Saul, his voice suddenly turned cold, like the deep sea under the dark night in the middle of winter.

The temperature inside the corpse room also plummeted.

Saul opened his mouth and spat out water vapor that condensed into white frost.

He felt like he was going to freeze to death.

The air froze, and the oxygen breathed into his lungs seemed to turn to ice.

Kaz slowly reached out and pressed his hand to Saul’s head.

“…… Or to ask it another way, are you, still Saul?”

Tangible murderous intent traveled from the top of his head into his brain, as if he had seen the scythe of death behind him.

Once the answer is a little slow, the body will be separated from the head!

Saul tore his mouth open and desperately squeezed out a sound, and the taste of rust suddenly overflowed in his mouth.

“Yes!”

Kaz’s hand retracted.

The temperature was beginning to rise.

All the discomfort around Saul disappeared and there was no blood in his mouth.

It was as if everything that had just happened was just an illusion.

“Good.” Kaz turned back to Saul.

Everything that had just terrified Saul was actually nothing more than a verification sorcery that he had cast. “The mental body wasn’t confused to an abnormal state, it seems you did get lucky and survived the collapse of your mental body. But luck can’t favor you forever, next time this kind of transformation, it’s better not to experiment with yourself recklessly.”

“Yes, mentor.” Sol lowered his eyes.

He had thought that Mentor Katz would also pay for his transformation program, or use teachings or threats in exchange.

But he didn’t expect that Kaz didn’t seem to be very interested, the other party saw most of his experimental materials at a glance, and also pointed out the biggest flaw of the program.

It seems that the sorcerous body transformation used by his first level apprentice could only startle second level apprentices like Byron, and it still wasn’t worth grabbing in the eyes of a formal sorcerer.

This was good.

Saul’s heart was relieved, “This way I can not have too much concern about the mentors forcibly demanding the transformation program.”

“Mentor Kaz,” Saul looked up again, although there was still some discomfort in his heart because of the experience he had just had, he should still ask what he needed to ask while he had the chance, who knew that Kaz’s next appearance would be in a few days.

“I see that the rulebook says that you need to be at least a second level apprentice to apply for a live experiment, so do you think I can apply early now?”

Kaz nodded, “You do have a talent in this area, taking dead rules to restrict you is rather a hindrance. It seems that you have put a lot of effort into the Corpse Refining Guide, in that case ……”

Kaz’s voice suddenly paused, and there was no follow-through for a dozen seconds.

Saul couldn’t help but look up to see Kaz’s mouth half-open, as if someone had pressed the pause button.

“Mentor?” Saul asked carefully, while shifting his weight and getting ready to retreat.

He was afraid that Kaz would blow up too.

“Ah!” Kaz suddenly snapped back to his senses, his eyes glaring with a ferocious light, “Living body experiment? Oh, did I give you the Corpse Refining Guide to read it carefully or not? Did I give you that book just to let you circle around dead people?”

The mentor who had just shown satisfaction in his eyes suddenly flipped his face.

Is everyone here schizophrenic?

Saul hurriedly lowered his head and obediently admitted his mistake, and didn’t dare to retort, but could only spit in his heart.

“It’s all about corpses being refined, don’t you play with the living if you don’t play around with the dead?”

“You have come to the corpse room for so long, seen so many contaminated dead people and so many alienated materials, can you only think of these on the surface?”

Kaz’s spittle was flying and his fingers thumped the long table.

Saul furrowed his brows a little and looked at Kaz suspiciously.

Hadn’t he come to the necropolis to fill the job that was temporarily unfilled? Did the teacher have other deeper intentions?

Seeing that Saul still didn’t understand, Kaz scolded with hatred, ”Stupid thing, how did I praise you in the first place? What talent do you have? Soul talent, soul talent!”

Kaz scolded Saul for not doing his job and wasting his talent, and finally slammed the door in anger.

Leaving Sol alone, he was completely baffled.

What do you mean by not doing his job?

“All of my materials were turned in on time. Although I secretly hid a lot of it, the amount submitted definitely reached the passing line. How is that not doing your job?”

What do you mean by wasting talent?

“Wasn’t it my mentor who said that I was talented in checking for alienation and contamination? And where am I wasting it?”

Soul talent?

“Teacher did praise me for my high soul talent, but he then said that my dark attribute perception was low, and that having such a high soul talent was purely just boosting the chances of seeing ghosts. Does he think I’ve seen too few ghosts?”

Because Kazi changed his face several times, Saul originally wanted to ask him about the reason why 0th rank sorcery had different effects on ordinary people and sorcerer apprentices, but then he forgot all about it.

He now didn’t even have the interest to continue the experiment, and could only sit blankly on the bench, pondering the deep meaning of Kaz’s words in a confused manner.

He sat motionless until the candles on the teleportation table flickered to life, reminding him that it was time to get to work.

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