Chapter 83 Companion Flower
The world outside doesn't seem that scary.
Away from the wizard tower, the lives of ordinary people might be similar to those in the ancient times of Thor's previous life.
However, the next second, Mentor Kaz's words broke Thor's fantasy.
“Enclosed carriages like that are basically used to transport materials.”
"Material?"
"Most of them are corpses contaminated from the outside world. After all, there are only so many people in the wizard tower. If you were relying on the corpses produced in the tower, you would have been out of work long ago."
No wonder Thor had never seen the appearance of many of the corpses.
"Will the surrounding towns take the initiative to send people over?"
"They don't have that ability. It's basically the third-level apprentices who take the initiative to collect the contaminated corpses. It can be regarded as a disguised way of protecting the safety of the surrounding territories. Otherwise, why do you think they are willing to send their children here?"
Kaz smiled, and it was hard to tell whether his smile contained more pride or mockery.
The two walked towards the garden.
As they approached, the small window of the wooden house opened and a middle-aged man with a sallow face poked his head out.
His facial features are relatively flat, except for his nose which is very prominent and long, like Pinocchio.
It may have also been remodeled.
"Master Kaz, good afternoon!" He greeted Teacher Kaz warmly.
Kaz nodded in response, then pointed at the man and said to Thor: "That's the gardener. After you choose the companion flower, he will teach you how to cultivate it."
Thor nodded quickly to the gardener, who responded with a bright smile showing his big yellow teeth.
The two men walked to the garden gate, and just then a breeze blew by, and the aroma of baking bread entered Thor's nose.
It looks like a garden, but it actually looks more like a vegetable garden.
The land was divided into several plots, and rows of flowers were planted on them. The flower stems were slender, but the buds were large, and each flower had only two leaves.
Some flowers are in full bloom, while others are still buds.
When the wind blows, it looks like rows of big-headed dolls dancing.
The bread aroma is more intense.
Even though he had already eaten, Thor still felt hungry.
"Teacher, are these companion flowers?"
Kaz raised his chin. "All of them. Companion flowers are just a general term for a type of plant. They look different, but their growth process and characteristics are the same."
The two of them shuttled between the ridges of the fields.
Thor always felt that the flowers seemed to be turning their heads along with their figures, but he couldn't tell the front and back of the flowers.
"This type of companion flower likes to eat rotten air. So it cannot be grown in ordinary soil. After you pick the flowers, go find the gardener and ask him to transplant them into small pots for you and give you a bag of flower fertilizer."
Flower fertilizer?
Thor paused.
Is that the kind of fertilizer he almost became?
"The companion flower bears fruit about every six months. Each plant bears one fruit. There are many kinds of fruits, and the probability of bearing different kinds of fruits is different. There is no means of targeted cultivation for the time being. The blue ones are fruits that can increase magic power, and the red ones can enhance physical fitness..."
Thor quickly took out a pen and paper from his backpack and started taking notes.
Kaz glanced at Thor and shook his head. "You should have recorded it a long time ago. Green can detoxify, purple is poisonous itself, and if it's white, remember to hand it in to the wizard tower."
Thor paused in recording the action, and after waiting for a while, Kaz did not continue.
"Teacher, is there something wrong with the white fruit?"
"That's not the case. White fruit stabilizes the spirit body, and the tower is short of it. If you can really cultivate white fruit, it will be no problem to exchange it for 20 credits."
20 credits...half year's salary! Really worth the money! When Sol looked at the flowers again, he felt like he was looking at a mountain of gold.
"It's hard to transplant those that have already bloomed, so just pick a bud."
"Yes, mentor." Thor put away his notes and approached the field.
There are hundreds of flowers in the flower field, most of them have bloomed, and a few are in the form of small buds.
Because it involved credits, Thor did not act quickly. He tried to guess a companion flower that could produce white fruits through his own observations.
At worst, blue fruits will do.
But the flowers grew in a random pattern. Different colors, different shapes, some like roses, some like tulips, and none of them bore fruit.
The ones that should have produced results have already been picked.
Just as Thor was observing carefully, the faint voice of Teacher Kaz came from behind him again.
"Rum, does he want you to go under his name?"
Thor stopped to observe and turned around immediately.
After a very brief hesitation, he admitted honestly, "Yes."
Kaz nodded, showing no sign of being angry.
"I also discovered that. You chose me as your mentor for another reason."
The fact that Thor chose Kaz as his mentor was of course Kong Sha's doing. The potion temporarily increased Thor's perception of dark element particles, surpassing light element and becoming the element attribute Thor could perceive the most.
This also made Thor, who might have originally chosen Rum as his mentor, choose Kaz without knowing it.
"Do you regret it now?" asked Mentor Kaz.
"No regrets." Thor responded immediately.
So, not only for the sake of licking his mentor, Thor really felt that he had nothing to regret.
If it weren't for the opportunity given by Kong Sha, Thor wouldn't even be qualified to become an apprentice.
Instead of blaming Kong Sha for her calculations, it is better to regard it as the price of becoming an apprentice.
This is in line with Senior Byron’s values.
Kaz curled his lips and smiled, but the smile was a little cold.
"Yes, now that you have undergone a wizard body transformation, your body has already leaned towards the dark attribute. There is no chance to regret it."
Thor immediately felt that the sunlight on his body was not as warm.
He immediately emphasized: "I really don't regret it, mentor! If I hadn't worked in the morgue, I would never have been able to complete the transformation..."
Oh no, I almost let it be known that I embezzled money.
Thor quickly shifted his focus, "...and I quite like working in the morgue, it's especially suitable for concentrating on research and study."
I don’t know if Kaz realized that Thor had stolen the materials, but his expression looked obviously much better.
"Ah..." Teacher Kaz hunched his back, stood with his hands behind his back, and sighed softly, "If only everyone could learn to be content like you."
Others? Who? Why not? Ever since he knew the identity of the tower master, Thor suspected that the job in the morgue might also be assigned to him by the tower master.
The tower master had asked him to study corpses and souls, so how could Thor dare to disobey? Besides, he was not speaking against his will, and the work in the morgue was indeed very suitable for him now.
I just didn't expect that Teacher Kaz would express such emotion.
This made Thor feel vaguely uneasy.
Whose dissatisfaction could make Teacher Kaz so depressed?
Kaz took the initiative to end the topic, leaving Thor with a lot of questions.
"With your current abilities, working in the morgue will be no problem. As long as you can submit all the materials on time, I will let you pass the test."
Will the monthly tests be this easy from now on? "Thank you, instructor. I will complete it."
Thor was originally worried about how much witchcraft the instructors would ask him to learn during the second test.
He has a lot to learn now, so his study of witchcraft can only be slowed down.
Thor remembered that the test content of Senior Mark seemed to be a task-oriented test like organizing the laboratory.
This made him more certain of his original guess: the wizard tower was not actually a school, but an institution.
The apprentice's initial rapid learning is on-the-job training. If the newcomer is not competent for any job after training, he will be dismissed.
The Wizard Tower is a very strict unit, and even the dismissed employees must use themselves as nourishment to contribute to the Wizard Tower.
In this way, the two newcomers who left the classroom first during the test and who had not even learned a single compound rune were actually very dangerous.
Recall that Thor didn't seem to see them in class today.
Could it be that they have been "fired"? "Thank you, instructor. I will keep working hard to complete it." Thor once again promised his instructor earnestly.
"Okay." Kaz turned around and started to walk back. "Take your time to choose, and then go find the gardener. Just be back to the tower before sunset."
(End of this chapter)
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