A Very Efficient First Lesson

A distant relative is better than a close neighbor, and although this close neighbor, Korie, was straight up and a bit uncomfortable, Saul also happened to use this as a way to ask for information.

He was just about to open his mouth when he saw someone approaching from one end of the hallway.

The man was walking at a brisk pace and making a loud announcement at the same time.

"All newly promoted first level apprentices, come to the last classroom on the tenth floor of the East Tower at nine o'clock sharp for the first public class!"

"All newly promoted level one apprentices, be at the last classroom on the tenth floor of the East Tower at nine o'clock sharp for the first public class!"

Someone heard the voice, opened the door and came out, asking a question, but that person didn't answer, and after delivering the message to himself, he went up the slope at the end.

Some of the new apprentices had gathered in the corridor to talk to each other, the atmosphere was lively and everyone was full of hope.

"Corrie!"

Two more boys ran up to them, one of them with soulful eyes spoke, "Let's go to class together."

Kori, however, just flicked them a glance and without even answering, turned to Sol, "Let's go over there now."

The two who were left out didn't show an angry expression, but instead looked at Sol with slight scorn as well.

Saul realized that these people were afraid that they also thought that their talent was strong, but he couldn't explain this kind of thing, so he just nodded his head and agreed to accompany them.

Now that there was still some time before nine o'clock, almost all of the newly minted apprentices rushed to the East Tower at the first moment they learned of the news.

The Sorcerer's Tower itself was supposed to be a cylindrical shape, wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, and then split in two in the center, becoming the East and West Towers.

Both the east and west towers were semi-circular, separated by a thick wall in the center, with traversing passages only on the fifth, sixth, tenth, and fourteenth floors.

These passages would be closed up at night, not allowing people to pass through at will.

Saul had seen the passage doors when he cleaned the corridors, but he had never been allowed to enter the East Tower.

Following the crowd, he made his way through the passageway to the East Tower for the first time.

The sixth floor of the East Tower didn't have the linked rooms on the West Tower side, and as far as the eye could see, it was covered with gray walls painted with symbols and patterns that Saul couldn't understand at all.

Just one glance made Saul's eyes dizzy.

He sidestepped his head to avoid it, and then he saw that Keri on the side had kept her head lowered, and had no intention of gazing at the wall at all.

"This guy, seems to really know a lot."

"Pfft, pfft."

Two people in front of them didn't divert their eyes in time like Saul did, and fell to the ground in a daze.

The crowd walked past them, and no one reached out to help.

Saul walked past those two people and watched them struggling to get up, and the vision in his heart for the future life of a sorcerer's apprentice suddenly diminished a lot.

...

"Everyone be quiet!"

Saul and the others were in the last classroom on the tenth floor of the East Tower, and had been sitting there for about ten minutes when a man in his fifties finally stepped in through the front door of the classroom in a furious manner.

He quickly walked to the front of the classroom and put one hand on the lectern.

"First class, the rules of the Golsa Witch Tower, I'll only go over them once, and I'll eat anyone who comes back and asks me again! Vomit ..."

The man bent over and vomited very appropriately after that.

A large puddle of green goo landed on the floor, splattering everywhere, with a few fingers mixed in, falling, popping up, and falling again.

The apprentices sitting in the front row jerked backward, hitting the tables in the back row with a clanking clatter.

Saul, who habitually sat back, lowered his head, not looking at the image that made his stomach turn. The man standing on the stage was angry and straightened up after throwing up and yelled again, "Quiet!"

No one dared to move again, even if it meant holding back their nausea.

"First, is to enroll mentors based on elemental affinity. My name is Guido, I'm a tutor of the poison system, and I can teach those of the gold system as well, so if any of you have any talent in this area, you can choose me on the form!"

Sol looked down, the table was empty.

This Guido tutor hadn't conjured up a form like in the movies, and no one had shown up to hand them out.

He hastily spread out the booklet in his arms and took notes with his pen.

At the same time there was a rustling sound around him, it was actually Korie who moved in unison and took out a pen and paper from her backpack and started recording.

There were about twenty people in the classroom, and almost more than half of them had prepared their own pen and paper.

Those who didn't, wanted to borrow from the person next to them, but didn't dare to open their mouths and be noticed by Guido.

On the stage, Mentor Guido was still speaking, speaking at a fast pace.

"... First level apprentices, first learn the public classes. Including sorcery text, all things cognizant, meditation, runes, and then finally touch the lower level sorcery!"

Saul dribbled his pen like a fly, and couldn't really keep up, so he simply used the words of his previous life to simply record.

"... Don't waste your time, because you don't have time to waste! First level apprentices are assessed once a month, and the first assessment is in three months! If the appraiser believes that you no longer have the possibility to grow,"

Guido paused here as he narrowed his eyes and looked around the apprentices in the classroom and said grimly, "Then there is no need for you to be trained."

Thor's hand shook, pulling a long tail out of a word. He silently started another line and continued writing.

"... Finally, a reminder to read the book in front of you and not to think about what's there, that's only for second level apprentices to think about."

Saul didn't understand this piece, what did "other" mean? Sorcery?

"Well, that's it, I'm off." With that, Guido turned and left the classroom faster than he had entered.

Without the dreaded tutor, the crowd began to talk, and the classroom erupted in a flurry of voices.

Saul didn't participate in the discussion, he stared straight at the notes he had just taken, as if in a daze.

"Is your left hand innately like this?" Korie's voice sounded again.

Saul had just been in a hurry to take notes and habitually pressed the booklet with his left hand, which was naturally seen by Korrie, who was sitting beside him.

Saul didn't hide his hand anymore and said as if nothing had happened.

"No, it's the day before the big day like this."

Kori frowned and pursed up her lips, as if she were caught in some sort of century-old dilemma.

At that moment, a young man once again walked through the front door of the classroom, a smile on his lips and a stack of papers in his hands.

"It's ten minutes shy of nine o'clock, and you're all here early, which is good! As apprentices, we are meant to take all the time we need, only early, and sometimes being on time, is a form of tardiness."

The youth tapped the stack of papers in his hand and tightened his smile slightly, "I'll go ahead and send you the forms for signing up as tutors and the rulebook for the Wizard's Tower. In a few moments Mentor Guido will come to give the first lecture. You guys have to keep quiet, Mentor Guido doesn't like noise, don't ask if you have any questions, read the manual. I will explain more in a moment."

The stage was silent.

The youth was satisfied that the apprentices in this class were obedient, and told to be quiet immediately.

He stepped off the stage ready to hand out forms and manuals to everyone when he stepped on something slimy.

The youth looked down and raised his foot to see a severed finger stuck to the bottom of his shoe twitching slightly.

He looked back up at the new apprentices and asked with a twitch at the corner of his mouth, "Mentor Guido, he ..."

"He's already here." A girl sitting in the second row whispered back.

(End of chapter)