Weird Wizarding World

   Chapter 172 Pure Talent Seed

  The depths of the tin saint school.

   Here, there is an old-fashioned castle building complex.

   Looking at the familiar mottled and old castle walls, Atbold seems to have returned to the era hundreds of years ago.

   At that time, there were no steam locomotives running with black smoke on the wide roads of Neustadt, and no railways winding like snakes... At that time, he was still young.

   Converging his thoughts, Atbold continued to move towards the castle.

   He hasn't forgotten the purpose of stepping here today... Lilian is still waiting for his good news.

   Walking step by step, the moment he entered the castle, Atbold's originally hunched back gradually straightened.

   The tall body that was originally ricketed, and now it has jumped up again!

   The sun came in from the door behind him and hit him, casting huge black shadows on the grey marble floor.

  As he stepped forward step by step, the wrinkles on Atbold's face that were chiseled like a knife, also seemed to be brushed by an invisible big hand, and gradually stretched and became flat and smooth.

   He regained his middle-aged appearance.

   A middle-aged formal wizard walked towards him in the corridor. A little gold on the feather badge on his chest showed his strength as a first-order wizard.

   "Are you..." The middle-aged wizard asked, his expression was puzzled at first, then he frowned, and murmured in a shocked tone:

   "Your Excellency Rudolph?"

   "Long time no see, little Tota."

   Atbold smiled and replied lightly, walking without stopping, crossing Tota and continuing to move forward.

  Tattoo—

   The crisp footsteps echoed in the marble-floored promenade.

   Watching Atbold's disappearing figure, Torta's face gradually became sad.

   After pondering for a moment, he blessed himself with auxiliary witchcraft, and the radiance flashed, and the corners of his clothes automatically moved without wind.

   Immediately after, he made a slight leap, his body levitated, and he flew forward quickly along the corridor on the left.

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   and the other side.

  Atbold continued to walk silently in the corridor, the distance of each step was as precise as a measurement.

   Frankly speaking, he didn’t have much hope of achieving his goal today…

   Even if it's just a small request for a membership in the Athos Society.

   After a while.

   Just as he was about to reach his destination, a team of wizards in gray robes came towards him.

   "Rudolph."

The white-bearded wizard headed by    said in greeting.

   "Rob." Atbold stopped, his eyes swept across the wizard in front of him.

   Sure enough, he finally found the figure of Tota who he had just met.

   "Are you here this time...?" Rob asked straight to the point.

   "I have a student who wants to join the Athos Society."

  Atbold looked blankly away from Tota, who was bowing his head, and turned his head to answer Rob.

"Athius will..." Rob was slightly startled, put on a smile and said, "Old friend, as you know, your faction is not eligible to obtain such resources... This matter was determined decades ago. "

   "There's no way to change it now, I can't change it... Lord Lalaire can't change it either!"

   "I want to see Larryl," Atbold interrupted.

   "Lord Lalere is busy with experiments..." Rob said with some embarrassment, "It's better not to disturb him."

   "Rob." Atbold's tone cooled down, but a faint smile appeared on his face instead, "I think I should still be qualified to meet Lalair."

  "..." Rob's face turned pale, and he couldn't keep a smile on his face.

   At this moment, a voice came from behind Rob.

   "Your Excellency Rudolph, Lord Lalere is the mainstay of the Tin Saint School. You should be more considerate. How can such a trivial matter that was decided long ago waste your precious time?"

  Atbold's expression did not change, he looked at the reputation, and the speaker was an unfamiliar young wizard.

   Judging from the feather badge on the chest, it should be a first-order wizard…

   Atbold couldn't help sighing slightly in his heart.

   A first-order wizard, when did he dare to speak to him in such a tone? !

   What made his mood even more complicated was that... he didn't have much anger in his heart.

   It seems that his emotions are already like flowers outdoors in summer. The head and brains are devastated by the scorching sun and the high temperature. Even the petals are curled up, and they have no strength to bloom again...

   But if you look closely, you can notice that Atbold's arms hanging down from his sides are slightly tense, and the outline of muscles like a knot in the roots of a tree emerges.

   "Herald!"

  Rob rebuked the young wizard behind him without any pain, and then turned to observe Atbold's expression.

   Atbold let out a long sigh in his heart, but he kept his faint smile behind, and emphasized again:

   "Rob, there are some things I don't want to say a second time."

   As his voice fell, the wood-colored veins began to spread to all parts of the body along the chest.

   soon spread to Atbold's exposed neck and chin.

  The invisible and terrifying momentum is like a tsunami, rushing towards Rob and the others!

   "Stop it!" Seeing this, Rob hurriedly shouted, "I'll take you to see Your Excellency Lalaire!"

  Atbold glanced at Rob lightly, and the green lines like the veins of leaves instantly dissipated from his neck and retracted into the center of his chest.

   "Let's lead the way." Atbold said lightly.

   A gloom flashed in Rob's eyes, but he didn't say much, just pursed his lips and turned around.

   He took a few steps forward and whispered to a formal wizard.

   Then, after seeing that he used his sorcery to leave quickly, he slowly took a step forward and led the way.

   "What's the air of the old thing... Whoever doesn't know it's just a jerk."

   At this moment, a faint voice came from the wizard team.

   Atbold's footsteps paused slightly, and his eyes swept away indistinctly, and he found the speaker... It was Herald who had just spoken out in the team.

   But he didn't say much, just pretended he didn't hear it, and followed Rob forward.

   Of course he can have a seizure.

   But it happened, which meant that Lillian's request must be hopeless, and it was impossible for him to win a qualification for Colin to participate in the Athos Society.

   The group walked silently.

  Rob, as the only second-order wizard, walked in the forefront.

   Atbold was close behind.

  The rest of the first-order wizards are scattered, and Atbold is hidden in the middle.

   just walked for a while.

   A familiar meadow came into view of Atbold.

   A spired gray-and-white castle stands alone in the middle of the grass.

  Rob walked in with him and came to a conference hall on the second floor.

   The characteristic rough stone walls are covered with neat brown floors.

   On the floor is a long brown wooden table that can seat at least twenty people at the same time, surrounded by a circle of upholstered chairs.

   In the main seat at the far end of the long wooden table, there is a middle-aged wizard with rare white hair. His face is stern and serious, and the deep wrinkles between his eyebrows seem to never be healed.

   "Lord Lalere." Babu greeted him respectfully, and then took the rest of the wizards to sit on the left and right sides of the long wooden table.

   "Lalaire." Atbold also greeted lightly, pulled away the other end of the long wooden table in front of him, and sat down on the chair facing Lalair.

   "I already know your purpose, Your Excellency Rudolph." Lalere said solemnly, watching Atbold.

   "So, what was the result?" said Atbold.

   "I'm sorry." Lalaire shook his head, "The contract cannot be changed, and the agreement made back then cannot be changed, Your Excellency Rudolph."

   "No room for negotiation?" Atbold asked blankly.

   "There is no room for negotiation." Lalaire raised her hand, put it on the table, and shook her head.

   "It's been almost sixty years... Is the school really unacceptable?"

  Lalaire's serious expression loosened slightly, and sighed:

   "Your Excellency Rudolph, the school has always kept sympathy. Except that the apprentices you accepted cannot enjoy these resources, the rest of the treatment is the same as that of other factions...

   That apprentice... Colin, if he can really advance to a formal wizard, his assigned position and work will not be reduced in any way... Except that some resources cannot be obtained, the rest are no different from the rest of the factions..."

   Atbold was silent.

  Lalaire got up slowly when he saw this.

   "Your Excellency Rudolph, you are old and injured, so why bother thinking about this."

   After saying this, he seemed to be thinking of something, and Lalere sighed:

   "Sometimes... maybe ordinary is the happiest."

   After saying that, he turned and left the room.

   crunch—

  The wooden door shook and made a screeching noise, and Atbold sat silently in his place.

   The dialogue is short, but in fact there is really nothing to say.

   Yes, yes, no, no... For such a result, he was not unexpected, but he always had a glimmer of hope.

  I didn't expect that sixty years later, the school's attitude still hasn't loosened in the slightest...

  ‘Things in those days…’

   Atbold's expression darkened, and he sighed in his heart.

   "Your Excellency Rudolph, please come back."

   Rob on the side also stood up and said slowly to him.

  Atbold raised his head and glanced at him lightly, without speaking, he stood up slowly.

   Then he walked out slowly.

   "I already said that Mr. Lalair can't change it, and it's just a waste of time to come here... ah ah ah!"

   Susu.

   Countless green spots appeared under the skin of Harad who was talking, and they kept wandering like living bugs, causing Harad to feel the pain like an ant devouring his body.

   The expressions of the other wizards on the side changed greatly.

   "Your Excellency Rudolph!" Babu said solemnly, while waving his hands to perform sorcery.

   One after another witchcraft brilliance continued to sprinkle on Herad...but it didn't have much effect.

The    mutation continues.

   Those green spots gradually spread on Harad's skin, forming lines like veins of leaves, followed by the sound of popping one after another.

   One after another, where the veins converged, bright red flowers turned out from under Herad's skin, and then bloomed.

The process of    seems to be very painful, and Harad has been unable to even groan, and can only slump to the ground, scratching himself with his hands in vain.

   But he didn't dare to touch those eerie red flowers, he could only scratch elsewhere.

   Under the force, bloodstains appeared in an instant, and then a little blood spilled out…

   "Rudolph!" Babu looked even more anxious and shouted again in a deep voice!

   Atbold paused slightly.

   "Don't worry, I'm prudent, the flowers will naturally wither after a month, and he will return to his original state... It's just that the process may be a bit difficult."

   "As a member of the school, how dare you do this!" Babu asked sharply.

   Atbold chuckled:

   "As a first-order wizard, how dare you offend me again and again?"

   "He doesn't understand the rules of honor and inferiority of the school... Or is this what you instructed?"

  Babu's expression froze.

   Although Herald didn't instruct him, he did deliberately let him go...

   He could have snapped as soon as Gerard started talking, instead of saying it without pain...

  Atbold withdrew his gaze, restrained his expression, and left the castle slowly, leaving only the ugly-looking Babu and his party.

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   In the afternoon.

   Colin Residence.

   A stagecoach galloped up and slowly stopped in front of his door.

   Lilian walked down with an ugly face.

   Thinking of what Atebold said just now... she didn't know how to tell Colin.

   And, what worries her most is—

  When Colin knew that he couldn't join the Atius Society, and knew the real drawbacks of their faction...

   Perhaps, like the previous apprentices, he chose to leave and change to another mentor.

   After all, according to Colin's current talent, most factions would be willing to accept him.

   Gently exhaled, and Lillian knocked on the door.

   After a while, the door slowly opened.

   "Sir Lilian." Renee greeted respectfully.

  According to the master's previous instructions, she took Lilian directly to the living room, and then walked to the second floor.

   "I'll go and tell the master."

   Lilian nodded.

   Not long.

  Colin walked slowly down the spiral staircase.

   "Lillian-senpai, come to see me today, is the matter of the Atius Society already settled?"

   He looked at Lillian and asked with a smile.

   Lilian paused for a while, and a rare embarrassment appeared on her fair face.

   "Scholar Colin, you may not be able to participate in the Atis meeting."

   Colin was slightly startled.

   Then Lillian told Colin most of the facts, and told Colin what was special about the lack of resources for their faction apprentices... but did not explain the root cause behind it.

   "So..." Colin nodded, his heart inevitably sinking.

   Looking at Colin's depressed expression, Lilian tugged at the broken hair next to her ear, hesitated and said:

   "So, Junior Colin, if you want to continue participating in the Athos Society..."

   "Maybe we can only consider changing tutors..."

After    finished speaking, she couldn't help sighing, already expecting Colin's choice.

  ‘Change tutors? ’

   Colin was startled, this seemed like an attractive choice.

   But soon, he shook his head, although he had been very peaceful since joining the school for a few months.

   However, the factional struggle in the Xisheng School is fierce, and he had a deep understanding of it when he joined the school. In the past few months, he has also heard relevant gossip from Marjorie and others one after another...

   What's more, when you change your mentor, you may no longer be able to be as free and free as you are now, without a job.

   After pondering for a moment, he continued to ask:

   "Lillian-senpai, what exactly is the Atis Society?"

   "Well, as I said, the role of the Atis Society is to help the best group of wizard apprentices under the Supreme Council get better talents when they advance to the official wizards."

   "Yeah." Colin nodded, and suddenly asked again:

   "Athius Society, why can you improve your talent?"

  Lilian organized a moment of language and explained:

   "St. Peter's Wizard once said, "The purity of a wizard's seed of talent depends on the degree of his own knowledge. ""

   "Do you remember the requirements when you first broke through the senior wizard apprenticeship?"

   Colin frowned, a little uncertain:

   "Be as thorough as possible with the knowledge of meditation."

   Lilian nodded.

   "There are similar requirements when advancing to a formal wizard."

   "If you can master all the knowledge of witchcraft, meditation, etc. you have mastered before advancing, then you can cultivate more pure talent seeds."

   "But in fact, most apprentices are unable to grasp all the knowledge they have learned thoroughly, so the purity of the talent seed will be affected, and the talent will be affected."

   "As for the Athos Club, there is a special strange object called Athos. Its only function is to temporarily forget the knowledge you have not mastered."

   "So..." Colin replied calmly, but he was very fortunate in his heart.

   Fortunately, I failed to participate in the so-called Atis meeting!

   With the help of golden paper, he doesn't have to worry about the lack of thorough knowledge he has learned!

   It just takes a little more time.

   I think the monthly pass is still more than 200 to 1000, so I need a little ticket.

   The 500 monthly ticket that I said before will add one more update, and now it is almost enough to add two more updates, so let's cast a few votes to make up.

   In this case, plus the previous ones, I owe you 18 updates, I feel like this will be more motivated to explode next month hahaha

   (end of this chapter)