Chapter 467 The Sweeper

Chapter 467 The Sweeper

Speaking up so soon?
Saul had thought that the other party would at least hold out until they showed him around the academy.

When Pound first appeared and didn’t spare any compliments, Saul guessed that the other party might be trying to recruit him.

Since he even informed the trainees at the city gates of his physical features, they must have already known about the news of the Wizard Tower tipping over and Golza’s departure as well.

Although Sol was still Golza’s apprentice, he was practically no longer organized.

By sending out a solicitation to him at this time and feeding him well, he could both get a powerful formal wizard and ingratiate himself with Golza.

“Brother Sol, this place is so interesting, why don’t we stay here?” As a Nightmare Butterfly, Penny was fond of crowded places.

It would be even better if it could be allowed to dream with abandon.

If Saul could stay here for a longer period of time it would be possible to consider this solicitation.

However, he still had a wizard tower to raise, and looking at the Baiden Academy in front of him, although prosperous, the matter of withholding wages could threaten a full-fledged wizard, so it was obvious that none of them were too generous with their hands.

…… Or, there are any key resources monopolized by the dean.

Saul lowered his head and pretended to consider for a moment, then said with an apologetic smile, “I’m sorry, Dean Pond, there will be other arrangements on the mentor’s side, and I won’t necessarily be able to stay here for long.”

Pound was a bit surprised, “What, will the Golza wizard be back?”

“That …… mentor didn’t say so explicitly.”

Dean Pound didn’t give up immediately, he took a step back and said, “Then, what about honorary mentor? It is not necessary for you to stay at the academy every day to teach the students, as long as you participate in some research topics.”

Saul smiled and didn’t answer this time.

Pound sighed and understood what Saul meant.

“It’s a shame. After hearing about you, I really admired you. I never thought that the strength of magic power, spiritual power, or elemental perception could represent a sorcerer’s talent. I think the real talent should be a sorcerer’s mind as well as the spirit of never giving up on research.”

Dean Pound pointed behind him at this sprawling Baidong Academy, “Back then, there were many seniors and juniors who followed my mentor, but in the end, I was the only one who became a Second Order.”

“My talent was almost at the bottom among them, but I never gave up on my studies. It was through this spirit of never giving up that I was able to take a Baidong Academy with a small remnant of soldiers and develop it into what it is today.”

Dean Pound’s mentor would be the same Third Order that moved mountains and buried hundreds of wizards in the Drooping Hand Valley more than a hundred years ago.

It seemed to have passed away shortly after Baidon occupied Archaeust City.

In that case, it seemed that Dean Pound was quite an impressive person to have developed Baidong Academy and Archaeust City to the present day – regardless of the means he used for now.

And at this moment, Dean Pound’s words changed, and he actually invited Saul once again, only this time the position was changed to another one.

“It’s really too bad that someone as powerful as you can’t join the Bayou Duo Academy! Let’s put it this way, Saul you majored in dark attribute sorcery, I wonder if you’re interested in evil spirits?”

Did the evil spirits Kismet spoke of come from here?

Immediately revealing a slight expression of interest that he was forced to suppress, Saul jokingly and tentatively asked, “With Worshipful Movement Academy being so strong, coupled with the prosperous Archaust, the evil spirits in this neighborhood should be rare, right?”

Dean Pound, however, shook his head and sighed, “Evil spirits originate from the human heart, and the human heart is the most difficult to speculate on. In order to facilitate Baidong Academy’s development and trade, we have gathered a large population in Archaeust. With more people comes more things to do, even if we have figured out a way to try to constrain their free time as much as possible and make them follow the rules of work and rest, it is still difficult to avoid accidents.”

Saul did not show it on his face, but in his heart, he was unimpressed. Human nature was more inclined towards freedom, and suppressing it hard would only trigger strong resistance.

No wonder he found a strange phenomenon when he entered Archaeust.

During the working hours, it was surprising to not see a few outgoers on the streets, obviously being strictly restrained at their posts.

And these ordinary people were unable to inaugurate leisurely occupations where they could enjoy their lives.

Advertising the life of the city of Kaukoust so beautifully was only to attract more hard laborers.

Saul now even suspected that the book, Little John the Farmer, was simply a bestseller that they promoted in order to attract people from the surrounding villages and towns into the city.

After the ordinary people with little insight, who entered the Archaeust with hopes for a better life, were again pulled forward by the carrot dangling in front of them.

They might not get the good life they wanted, but Archaeust became more prosperous because of the influx of these people.

“Are you expecting me to do the work of cleaning up evil spirits?”

“Yes. There is a specialized occupation in Baidon Academy called cleaners. They are responsible for dealing with the evil spirits born in the city as well as in the academy, and only the most powerful third level apprentices as well as full-fledged wizards are capable of such work.”

Dean Pound’s expression became serious.

“Evil spirits can seriously affect our work efficiency, production capacity as well as cause panic among ordinary people. Although we are wizards, if these ordinary people cry out and want to leave Archaeust, we don’t have a good way to stop them.”

“Even if we threaten their lives and make them stay in Archaeust, the work efficiency will be greatly reduced.” Dean Pound let out a sigh, “This is also the experience that Baidong Academy has learned over the years, for the mistakes it has made.”

Hearing Dean Pound say this, it should have happened once that ordinary people trying to escape ended up being suppressed to stay in the city.

Then it seems that the Evil Spirit Disaster was definitely not just born in these few years, it might have become a hidden danger to Baidong Academy long before.

However, Evil Spirits should be a very rare and hard-to-birth type of special consciousness souls.

It usually appears frequently in places where a large number of deaths have occurred or where sorcerers have seriously polluted the area.

If it was a place where ordinary wizards lived, even if they often did research experiments, they would at most give birth to a lot of grievous spirits. It would not give birth to such a large number of evil spirits that would give the dean a headache.

Saul blinked his eyes.

I’m afraid that there is an even bigger secret within this academy as well as the entire Archester City.

This was not out of his expectation.

After learning that there were so many sorcery props within Archaeust City, he had thought that it must have hidden dangers.

And with so many evil spirits, it was likely that ordinary people were paying the price for such a reform.

“Don’t worry, we are all well aware of the dangers and dangers of evil spirits, and we won’t let you risk your life for nothing. We have a rule that once an evil spirit appears, the one who discovers it first will be rewarded, while the one who disposes of the evil spirit will be able to reap more sorcery resources, and that evil spirit will also belong to the one who disposes of it.”

Sol showed a visibly impressed expression, and this time he didn’t have to think for long.

“So, is there anything else I need to do if I become a scavenger?”

(End of chapter)