Chapter 779 Sparks
"Are you really going to use the cat's revenge?" Paul looked at his good friend Nero disapprovingly.
Nero took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, feeling his chest change from hot to cool.
He smiled bitterly. "Paul, you know me. I am already thirty-five this year. Although people of all ages can be promoted to formal wizards, if I cannot be promoted before the age of forty, my mentor will no longer support me. By then, in order to repay my debt, I will have to go to the Practice Institute to do the most dangerous and energy-consuming work."
If a third-level apprentice wants to continue to study in the lecture hall or find a better mentor outside, it often requires a large amount of magic crystals and resources.
But not everyone has a strong background and someone is willing to sponsor their studies.
In Sky City, wizard apprentices can obtain a lot of resources and wealth if they sign a contract. But at the same time, if they cannot be promoted to formal wizards before the contract period, they must go to the Institute of Knowledge or the Institute of Practice to do the most dangerous and energy-consuming work.
This is different from the people who applied for the two academies. Many of those who went to do energy-consuming work never came back. Even if they came back, they were in a state of panic, as if they had escaped death.
However, without signing a contract, most apprentices would have no chance to continue their studies.
Therefore, even though this contract has consumed the lives of a large number of apprentices, many people still come forward to sign the contract every year.
Just for that little possibility of being promoted to a formal wizard.
Because in Sky City, level one and level two apprentices don't have a good life either.
Without the qualification of being a third-level apprentice and being qualified to work independently, they do not even have the right to give up this lifestyle.
Paul looked at his friend and could only remain silent.
If he had not accidentally had a daughter named Mina, he would probably have signed his name in the contract issued by the Institute of Knowledge.
For the sake of his daughter, he could no longer take risks and forever lost the opportunity to take further steps.
He opened his mouth but still didn't say what Thor had promised him a few days ago.
On the one hand, Sol might not like to see him give up the opportunity to ask for help to others; on the other hand, Nero has been attending Sol's class, but he also failed to get promoted. Paul closed his mouth and frowned, looking like a scary murderer who could stab someone at any time.
Seeing Paul like this, Nero laughed.
"You see, it's because of you that others are afraid to approach you." He patted his friend's shoulder, "Don't worry, someone has recently figured out how to circumvent the curse of 'The Cat Returns'. I heard that several people who used it didn't get into trouble. And we are already level three apprentices, so we have a certain resistance. You don't have to worry too much."
Nero was comforting Paul, and at the same time comforting himself, "When I find a way to circumvent the curse, I'll tell you. You can try it, too. Maybe you can be promoted to a formal wizard directly!"
Paul was not moved at all and shook his head, "Forget it, I can't let anything happen to me."
He also has a daughter.
Sky City is still under martial law and it is very difficult to leave the city. He has not yet secured a spot.
If something happens to him in Sky City, Mina...
He couldn't even imagine what would happen to Mina.
Seeing the pressure on his friend getting even lower, Nero could only shake his head and said, "Forget it, I'll try it myself."
Conversations like the one between Nero and Paul also happened in other places in Sky City, but they mostly happened among the weak, and the curse didn't even cause new deaths, so it didn't attract the attention of the upper class.
But sometimes, if weak forces accumulate enough, they can ignite a prairie fire.
After the first connection attempt, although Thor failed to find Pearl's coordinates, he was sure that their research direction was correct.
The two sides then got together to discuss improvement plans, and Ophelia suggested making a second attempt one month later.
Thor originally didn't want to drag it out for so long, but Ophelia said that the Mechanical Heart needed to be repaired every time it was started, which would take about a month.
But Saul always suspected that a month might just be an excuse for Ophelia to delay him.
There's just no way to refute it.
After returning to the lecture hall, Nathan began to follow Thor's instructions and let the servants who were also forced to stay in the Sky City and unable to leave put imitations of the white porcelain cat into the market.
The servant is just an ordinary person, and everyone knows that he is definitely not the real mastermind behind the scenes, but because of this, no one knows that the person behind the scenes is actually an equally inconspicuous official wizard.
That’s right, under Thor’s one-on-one guidance, Nathan successfully became a first-level official wizard.
During this period, apart from completing the tasks assigned by Thor, he spent the rest of his time studying hard.
Because he didn't know when Thor would leave Sky City, and once Thor left Sky City, there would probably be no one who could guide him so accurately in his studies.
Therefore, Nathan wished he didn't even have time to rest and just wanted to improve himself as quickly as possible.
A week later, Saul received his second invitation from the Institute of Knowledge.
This time, after considering for a day, Thor finally agreed to work at the Institute of Knowledge.
At the same time, he took this opportunity to secretly bring the white porcelain cat to the Qiuzhi Institute.
Gradually, this legend of "The Cat's Return of a Favor" that was only circulated among apprentices also spread among low-level wizards.
For formal wizards, the cat's gratitude has basically no impact on their research, but it can still provide some help occasionally.
Moreover, after people figured out how to circumvent the curse that comes with the cat's return of gratitude, which could potentially drown people, its side effects can be ignored.
These crudely crafted white porcelain cats gradually became a cheap and high-quality witchcraft prop.
Even some second-level wizards would use the cat's favor before conducting experiments with higher uncertainty to increase the success rate of their experiments.
Thor still maintained the persona of a first-level wizard in the Academy of Knowledge. He handed over the projects he received from the academy to the newly promoted Nathan, and only gave him some pointers when he was free occasionally.
Nathan, who had just been promoted, had to face difficulties that he should not have to face at this stage.
On this day, Thor had just handed over a report written by Nathan to the second-level wizard in his team when he was blocked by the wizard Ona at the door of the Institute of Knowledge.
Ona looked at the gate of the Institute of Knowledge behind Thor, then looked at the wizard robe on Thor, and said with some resentment: "Wizard Thor, if you really like the Institute of Knowledge, the city lord can also arrange a position of vice-president for you. Why do you have to muddle through among the low-level wizards?"
There was no one else around Thor, otherwise people would be surprised how Thor knew the wizard directly under the White Glazed Castle.
Thor shrugged without explaining, "This is just a confirmation of what I've learned."
Aona still couldn't understand why a third-level wizard spent all day studying the topics of first-level wizards. Isn't this a waste of resources? But generally, high-level wizards have strange tempers. Before, Aona thought Thor was a little abnormal. Now that she saw that he liked to pretend to be a low-level wizard, she suddenly felt that he was indeed a high-level wizard and could do anything.
(End of this chapter)
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