Chapter 18 Borrowing Money for Development
"Did he offend anyone?" Thor asked.
"I heard that he brought a book of high-level elven language with him, thinking that he could study it after becoming an apprentice. But he was found in the flower bed this morning." Keli approached Thor and deliberately used a low and hoarse voice to scare him. "I heard that he cut his legs into several pieces and buried them in the soil as if they were plant roots. When he was found, he almost bled to death."
"Can it be saved?"
"Who knows? Anyway, it had already been taken away when I rushed over." Keli felt a little regretful.
"Aren't you afraid?" Thor looked at Keli, a girl in her teens, with some surprise.
Kelly held her chin in her hand and murmured, "Before I came here, I knew what the wizarding world was like. It's similar to my family, people always die inexplicably."
The crazy new apprentice was just a small episode, and Keli quickly turned the topic to her experience of carrying a bucket to meet mentor Gudo yesterday.
"...I feel like Mr. Gudo is quite willing to teach me, but he just can't control his vomiting. The bucket I prepared for him was half a person's height, but it was still full of vomit in less than an hour. I really don't understand how he can eat so much!"
"Heh..." Thor felt both disgusted and amused.
Kelly suddenly turned her head to look at Thor, "You finally smiled. When you first came in, you looked like a walking corpse."
Thor's smile faded and he rubbed his face with his hands.
Did he look so haggard? Only the straightforward Keli would say that.
The person in charge of teaching the basic cognition of all things is a second-level apprentice.
He was skinny and had sunken cheeks, looking more like a corpse than Sol.
He didn't pay attention to interaction during class. He just read the contents of the book in a flat and monotonous tone, which made Sol drowsy.
Saul simply opened the book and read it himself.
Because of yesterday's rich and colorful experience, he didn't have time to preview today's content.
The basic knowledge of all things is like a hodgepodge of biochemistry, history and geography.
Anything that can be recorded in a wizard apprentice's textbook has some witchcraft characteristics.
For example, Thor saw a kind of grass in the plant chapter that could increase people's magic power.
But the price is that the person who takes it will become a mindless puppet. Rather than helping people increase their magic power, it is more like sacrificing oneself to refine magic crystals for others.
There are ten books on basic knowledge of everything in the universe, each of which is ten centimeters thick. It is impossible to finish reading them quickly.
Thor picked out the ones he was interested in and occasionally looked up to stretch his muscles.
At this time, he saw that two of Kelly's former followers, Dozer and Locke, were sitting next to Duke and muttering to each other.
Ke Li on the side did not say anything about this.
"What are you looking at?" Kelly noticed Thor's gaze, followed his direction, and noticed the little movements of Doze and the others.
She curled her lips. "They want to isolate you. How childish, like little kids."
This class turned into a self-study class, and later some people even started to learn knowledge from other courses.
The second-level apprentice on the podium simply read the first section of the book once, and then started reading other books, completely ignoring the people below.
"No wonder I didn't see many old apprentices in this class. I guess they all know it's useless." Keli muttered. She regretted not bringing other books.
"Keli, can you lend me some magic crystals?" After thinking for a long time, Thor finally plucked up the courage to say to Keli.
"What do you want the magic crystal for?" Keli looked over warily. "I won't do a deal that's a one-way deal!"
"I want to borrow two books from the library."
"Someone just went crazy reading a random book, aren't you afraid?"
Saul said sincerely, "I won't read anything else, but I really need some special books right now."
Kelly didn't ask Sol specifically what book he wanted to read. After hesitating for a moment, she took out five black translucent diamond-shaped pieces from her wallet.
"I can only lend you five. You have to return them to me...return them to me..."
"Ten."
"make a deal!"
“Do you need to write an IOU?”
"certainly!"
Saul tore a page from a blank book, and the two men made their first monetary transaction.
After the first class, the second class was the rune construction that everyone was looking forward to.
Rune structure is the basis for performing witchcraft.
However, to everyone's disappointment, the instructor of this class was still just a second-level apprentice.
This guy went even further. He only explained the most basic rune drawing once and let everyone practice on their own.
Many newcomers only understood half of what he said and wanted him to repeat it again, but he asked for money! When Sol heard that he had to pay, he simply gave up.
He recalled the knowledge points that had just been taught, and when he felt that he remembered them clearly, he began to draw the first basic rune in his mind.
With his eyes closed, the first basic rune was clearly imprinted in Thor's mind.
He opened his eyes and was stunned for a moment, somewhat incredulous.
"I think I have...remembered it?"
In order to prevent his eyes from remembering it but his hands from not remembering it, Sol picked up a pen and wrote it again on a blank piece of paper.
He opened the book and compared the runes he had written with those in the book.
Exactly the same! Even the curvature of each line is the same! Thor closed the book and tried again. This time he used a special pen and ink, and followed the instructions of the lecturer on the stage, and began to pour the magic power in his body into the tip of the pen.
It was a bit difficult to write this time.
Magic power must be output evenly and coordinated with mental power to construct a basic rune.
If any of these steps are not done properly, the rune will collapse, the mana will become ineffective, and it will become an ordinary pattern on a white paper.
Thor was concentrating.
Then,
Success! Although it was only drawn on ordinary white paper, the surface of the rune was flowing with a strange color, and the magical fluctuations emitted were clearly felt.
"You, you succeeded?" Keli widened her eyes and murmured.
She originally wanted to spend some money to listen to the explanation again, but when she saw that Thor succeeded in one try, she suddenly felt that it might be possible if she studied it further.
Thor didn't pay attention to Keli's voice, his eyes had already turned to the next basic rune.
The second one.
success!
A big success! The third one.
success!
The fourth one.
……fail.
Thor frowned.
This failure was not because the runes he memorized were wrong, but because he did not have enough magic power.
Could it be that his magic power could only sustain three runes? Or was there something wrong with the way he output his magic power? Thor finally realized the dangers of insufficient magic power.
No wonder Kong Sha thought she had it all figured out, no wonder Mentor Kaz didn't even want to look at her.
Thor's chest rose and fell violently for a few times, and finally slowly calmed down.
"Why are you panicking?" he said to himself, "Haven't you made up your mind?"
Thor took out the crystal ball and the picture of the walking monster and began to meditate to restore his magic power.
Having less magic power also has its advantages, it recovers faster.
We must learn to look at things dialectically.
Thor's successful drawing of three runes in a row had already attracted the attention of the whole class.
Not only the new apprentices, but also the old apprentices and even the second-level apprentices on the podium were shocked by the series of magic fluctuations from Thor.
There were even a few newcomers who were planning to spend a lot of money to hire a second-level apprentice to teach them, but they turned around and prepared to ask Thor for advice.
But when these people saw that Thor just drew three runes and began to meditate, they began to hesitate again.
Could it be that there was something wrong with the newbie's rune construction? Besides, I couldn't just go over and interrupt someone's meditation, right?
Duke in front rolled his eyes, turned around and said something to his two companions, picked up his rune and rushed to the podium - every apprentice coming from outside had some magic crystals prepared on him.
The second-level apprentice on the podium seemed very satisfied that Duke was the first to find him. He lowered his voice and said a lot to him, which made the newcomers in the audience envious.
And Duke always cooperated by showing an expression of sudden enlightenment and "so that's how it is".
Angela, who was sitting at the edge of the classroom, slowly slid her lovely big eyes from the podium to the back of the classroom, and finally fell on Thor, revealing an interested expression.
(End of this chapter)
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