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Chapter 75: Solving Misunderstandings First

The Sita dormitory, which was a safe zone for apprentices, was also a dangerous area for him who was once a servant. Saul also often felt something strange when walking through the dormitory area at night.

But the floor where the mentor was located, on the contrary, did not have that weird and dangerous feeling.

Not at all.

Was it that full-fledged wizards had greatly improved their ability to control their powers, or had all the dangers gotten to the point where they were contained and unobtrusive?

Saul came to the end of the corridor and glanced up the ramp.

Mentor Kaz lived on the seventeenth floor.

Normally, he rarely appeared in the lab and corpse room, was he also using the dormitory as a real lab like Mentor Rum?

As for the eighteenth floor and upwards, all of them were the tower master's private space.

It was said that the Golza Tower Master was a second-ranked sorcerer, only the kind of super-strong second-rank that was incomparably close to the third-rank.

As for how strong it is, no one has ever described it, and it is only known that the five tutors are all completely at the beck and call of the tower master.

A second-order sorcerer was a height that Sol could not touch at all right now.

Thinking of the resentful spirit on his body, Saul temporarily put aside his desire for a formal sorcerer and accelerated his steps to leave this floor.

When Saul arrived at the second laboratory on the fourteenth floor, he realized that the door to the room here was open.

Saul walked to the door and probed to look inside.

This lab was much smaller than Mentor Kaz's lab, there were no rows and rows of cabinets for storing materials, but there were many more operating tables.

The most striking thing in the middle of the room was a high-backed chair made of metal with double armrests. A few thumb-thick ropes dangled below the chair.

Directly opposite the chair was also an operating table, behind which stood a man.

The man with curly brown hair and a second level apprentice name tag pinned to his chest was expressionlessly burning something in a fire pit.

A small amount of green smoke rose from the fire pot, sometimes dispersing, sometimes gathering, and finally dissipating on the roof.

Fearing that the other party was doing experiments, Saul did not make a sound to disturb him.

In case he startled the other party, a hand tremor lost all his efforts, and the other party then blackmailed himself would not be good.

Saul stood in the doorway, intending to wait for the other party to discover him before entering.

Who knew that just as Saul's footsteps stopped, he heard the person inside say, "Why don't you come in? The door was left open for you."

"Senior Nick?" Saul asked tentatively.

Nick looked up, green smoke circling his face, "You remember me?"

"..." How could Saul remember him, it was clearly a name he had just heard from Mentor Rum.

"Oh well, looks like you've forgotten." Nick lowered his head again, and his face showed no sign of anger.

It was as if not being remembered was normal.

"Come in, close the door, and I'll give you the do's and don'ts of the place."

Saul walked in as instructed and stood next to Nick.

Nick was about eighteen or nineteen years old, but with a calm and steady air, he looked more like a thirty-year-old uncle than Senior Byron.

"I heard you work in the necropolis?"

"Yes, Senior."

Nick nodded, "Corpse room work is often with the dead, here it's often with the living."

Nick looked sideways at Sol, "I'm good at observing emotions, and much of the sorcery I'm currently learning has to do with emotions."

Elder Nick actually revealed his specialty right off the bat?

Saul's brain turned quickly, this should be the key that would be used in the experiment in a while, that's why Nick stated it beforehand.

Mobilizing emotions?

That doesn't sound very impressive.

Is it offensive? Is it making people cry and laugh?

Wait a minute!

Saul snapped his head up to look at Nick.

He remembered who Nick was!

He had a thousand strange ways to die in his diary, one of which was death by laughter.

Nick, was the same senior who was the one who did Cid's side when he was testing the newbies for Saul's group!

So he died laughing at the time, but it was actually Nick who made the move?

The other side was also one of Sid's killing moves? Nick was still being introduced expressionlessly, but he didn't know that Saul was already preparing to pull out his pocket.

"... Our experiment here is also based on observing the emotions of spirit bodies, and my mentor appointed me to lead this part. The mentor said that you are good at directly observing spirit bodies, so he let you come over to cooperate with the experiment ... Your emotions fluctuate a lot, is there something wrong?"

Nick turned off the fire and the green smoke dissipated a little bit, eventually nothing was left in the fire pit.

"You are the senior who tested us in the beginning?" Saul secretly put his left hand in front of his body, while his right hand held a small bottle in his coat pocket.

"Yes." Nick put away the fire pit and rummaged under the console for two more ear wraps, one hanging around his neck and the other handing it to Saul.

"Sid and I are usually working partners, so I went with him when he took on the task of testing the newcomers."

Saul took the ear packs in his left hand but didn't put them on.

Nick was a friend of Sid's?

He held his right thumb against the small bottle.

"Mentor Rum is no longer going to pursue the matter of Syd." Saul moved Rum first, hoping Nick was a sensible man and wouldn't get his hands dirty in the lab.

But Nick was more sensible than Saul thought.

He put down the experimental instruments he was organizing in his hands and turned his head.

"You're still nervous ... Never mind, in order to keep Sid from being a hindrance to our future work, I think I need to clear things up with you from before."

Nick's expression remained light, unable to tell if he was saddened by Cid's death.

"There's no need to be hostile towards me, in a sense, I even saved your life."

Saul, still pinching his earbag, stared up at Nick.

"On the day of the test, there was something unusual about Sid. He's usually bad-tempered and foul-mouthed, but it still took me by surprise when he suddenly stepped in and killed a new apprentice."

Nick narrated calmly.

"You know, one of the rules here is that everything in the wizard tower is the property of the tower owner. So any loss that causes the tower owner to incur for no reason can be punished."

"So at that time, I was surprised, if Cid really disliked that little fatty, he would have just directly driven the person to become a slave or killed him secretly. Why suddenly strike in public?"

"Later, oh, it was very later, after hearing that you killed Cid back, I reacted. Cid killed Little Fatty, probably as an excuse to kill you afterward. Anyway, you were just a reserve apprentice at the time, dead or not, I don't care."

"And Cid secretly encouraged me to kill the unconscious you, explaining that we wouldn't be punished for this strike." Nick lowered his eyes, "Because people who didn't pass the test nor were demoted to servant status weren't considered property of the Wizard's Tower – I didn't notice that you were a servant at the time, and almost let him talk me into it."

"Sid was always good at catching loopholes in rules and hearts, luckily I was more sensible." Nick nodded a little, seeming quite proud of himself.

It was really because of Nick that Saul was "laughing his ass off" in his journal at the time!

Saul's teeth were chattering as he listened.

Although Sid is dead, but when he realized that the other party had done so much poison, Saul will still be angry, want to kill the other party once again!

During the test, because of the diary's affirmation of Saul's judgment, Saul didn't follow the normal order of other people's tests, but avoided the lowest-talent magic and tested the other two first, and fainted after obtaining the feedback that he had a high mental talent.

Perhaps sparing his talent, or perhaps thinking that he might be held accountable for killing an apprentice whose talent was still undetermined, Nick eventually spared Saul.

Nick ruled that Saul passed, and Sid's calculations fell flat, leaving him to watch Saul become an apprentice and a more valuable possession of the tower master.

If he were to kill Saul again, his actions would need to be more stealthy and costly.

Saul was silent for a moment, following Nick's example of hanging the earwrap around his neck.

"Thank you Senpai, if it wasn't for you, I probably wouldn't have been able to pass the test and just died or turned back into a servant to be bullied."

If Saul ever returned to the servant area, neither the boys he had shocked nor the housekeeper Saul had taunted would let him go.

In the end, it would be a dead end.

Nick stared down at the console, rubbing the stubble on his chin with his free hand, "In fact, the apprentice entrance test doesn't actually make it mandatory for all three talents to reach the standard. As long as you are recognized as having cultivation value, you can also pass the test, so you don't need to get too hung up on your abilities. But there is one thing you should remember, remember! It's me who determined that you have cultivation value, and that's why I let you live."

Sol nodded vigorously, he would remember.

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(End of chapter)