Diary of a Dead Wizard - Chapter 13

Chapter 13 The Difficult Path to Study

Thor didn’t know how he walked all the way back to the dormitory.

He slammed the door, threw all the books and crystal ball on the bed, and slowly slid down to sit on the bed.

“Why can’t I sense many dark elements? Is it because the element particles in the classroom are unevenly distributed?”

Thor thought of this, immediately opened the book, picked up the crystal ball, and kept sitting on the ground, and began to meditate and immerse himself.

This time he sensed dark element particles, but they were still pitifully few, even less than the white ones.

“White is light, how is it possible? When I tested it, I clearly had the highest perception of dark elements.”

“Could it be that Sid did something at the time? It’s unlikely. If he didn’t want me to pass, what’s the point of tampering with element perception?”

Although he was not very willing, Thor finally thought of Kong Sha.

The picture in his mind was fixed on the bottle of healing potion Kong Sha gave him.

“If the element that I perceive the most is not the dark element, then that bottle of potion is most likely to temporarily change my mental power.”

Thor knew from the beginning that Kong Sha must have some purpose in helping him become an apprentice, and now he is just confirming this point.

He let out a long sigh, dropped the crystal ball, and looked up. It was almost time for the afternoon class. He

couldn’t find Kong Sha to question him about meditation, so he could only take it one step at a time.

He didn’t see Keli when he went out again.

His plan to ask her about her meditation status failed, so Sol could only walk to the 15th floor of the East Tower alone.

Instructor Kaz has a dedicated laboratory, which is right there.

Most ordinary apprentices who want to get guidance from their mentors need to go to the laboratory – when the mentors are doing experiments there, they may answer a few questions.

But more often, apprentices are reluctant to go to their mentors before they encounter bottlenecks.

The answers they get are more likely to be “You don’t even know how to do such a simple thing?”, “Didn’t I explain this question?”, “I don’t think you need to wait for the next test, you are eliminated now.”

Only the angry newcomers who have not seen the mentors yet will be excited to see the mentors up close.

Because Sol had a lot of things on his mind, he didn’t feel excited at all when he went to the 15th floor.

He came to Instructor Kaz’s laboratory and looked into a pair of eyes as soon as he pushed the door.

The owner of those eyes suddenly showed a rich variety of emotions, including surprise, anger, fear, and forced calmness.

Thor looked at Duke and scraped his chin with his white knuckles.

Duke immediately looked away.

After all, there were still slightly purple marks on his face.

Don’t dare to provoke, don’t dare to provoke…

Not many apprentices chose Kaz. There were only three of the twenty newcomers.

Thor, Duke, and a cute girl named Angela.

She seemed to be unaware of the conflict between Thor and Duke. Her big eyes flickered and there was a quiet smile on the corners of her mouth.

There was also a young man wearing a second-level apprentice badge in the laboratory who was packing up.

He saw the three people standing quietly in the laboratory, and greeted them: “Teacher Kaz usually doesn’t come so early in the afternoon. You can come around 3 o’clock in the future.”

He laughed again, with an unclear meaning.

“Of course, you can also not come.”

After a simple greeting, the laboratory was quiet again.

The second-level wizard apprentice turned around and was busy, with no interest in continuing to communicate with everyone.

Seeing that Instructor Kaz had no intention of showing up early, Thor simply took a book and found a table without any clutter to sit down and study.

The other two also found a place to read.

There was a gap between the three of them and each other, and they were clearly separated.

Because he had too many things on his mind, Thor was unable to concentrate on reading this time. Every once in a while, he would look up to confirm the time.

Finally, when the hourglass reached 3:30 in the afternoon, the door of the laboratory was pushed open again.

Everyone put down their work and stood up.

“Instructor!” The second-level young apprentice greeted him with a smile.

Following his line of sight, Thor saw a thin, dry, white-haired old man.

The other party looked very old, with wrinkled skin and slightly cloudy eyes, making Instructor Kaz look like he was over 90 years old.

Kaz walked in slowly, his steps were very steady.

He did not respond to the second-level apprentice, but just glanced around the laboratory.

Thor found that the second-level apprentice seemed very nervous.

“My request is very simple.” Kaz said to the second-level apprentice with a cold face, “Put the used things back to their original places. If you can’t even do this, don’t come to my laboratory in the future.”

The second-level apprentice couldn’t hold back the smile on his face, and said embarrassedly, “Yes, mentor, I will clean it up today.”

“When is your next test?”

“In a month.”

“Okay, then test whether you can clean up the laboratory.”

“Yes.”

Thor noticed that the second-level apprentice was relieved after hearing Kaz’s test requirements.

After that, Kaz looked at the three newcomers, “Come here and stand in front of me. Are you going to let an old man like me walk over?”

The three people hurried over and stood in a row in front of Kaz.

Kaz’s gray pupils swept over the three people one by one, and when they finally fell on Thor, he suddenly asked in a bad tone: “Why is your magic so low?”

Duke, who was standing on the other side of Angela, brightened his eyes, and he seemed to be hesitating whether to take the initiative to help Thor “explain”.

Just as he was about to speak, the wound on his face started to hurt, and he couldn’t make a sound.

Thor knew that he couldn’t hide his situation from the official wizard, so he took the initiative to say, “Teacher, my talent for magic is not very good, but my talent for mental power is OK.” But

Kaz didn’t buy it, “Without magic, but only mental power, that’s a scholar, not a wizard. A wizard can’t just read books.”

He muttered again, “Is it impossible to find a decent apprentice outside now?”

Thor was mentally prepared and was not hit by Kaz’s words. But if even his own mentor looked down on him, how would he continue his studies in the future?

“Teacher, I will work hard to improve my magic, please give me a chance.”

Kaz rolled his eyes, “How hard? Witchcraft transformation? Okay, as long as your magic power increases to 10 joules within three months, I will consider you to have passed the first test, otherwise… my laboratory will never have too many materials.”

Joule is the unit of measurement for magic.

When the wizard apprentice is tested, the black crystal is responsible for measuring the magic power in the human body.

Generally, it is required to reach 10 joules before the age of fifteen to be considered qualified.

However, Thor’s magic talent is definitely less than 10 joules, and may even be less than 5 joules, otherwise Teacher Kaz would not think that he has no chance at all.

It is indeed difficult to complete the goal that originally took three years to complete in three months.

Thor took a half step forward, intending to ask the teacher for some time.

But Kaz raised his hand and stopped Thor from speaking.

He said to Duke, who was gloating, and Angela, who was sympathetic, “You two follow me.”

“You,” he glanced at Thor, “learn from Mark first.”

Mark was the second-level apprentice in the laboratory.

After Kaz finished speaking, he took the other two newcomers out of the laboratory, not knowing what they were going to do or where they were going.

Mark was not surprised and sent them to the door.

After Teacher Kaz and his group left, he closed the door and went back to the cabinet to organize his things.

He didn’t even pay attention to Thor’s meaning.

Thor was not depressed, because there was a Kongsha behind him.

Now he has met Kongsha’s requirements and has become Teacher Kaz’s student.

I think she will convey the next order to Thor soon.

It’s just that Kong Sha mostly uses Thor.

She ignored Thor’s situation and forcibly influenced his elemental perception, probably to make Thor choose Mentor Kaz.

If Thor wants to take advantage of Kong Sha’s influence to become stronger, then he can no longer let the other party treat him as a cannon fodder that can be abandoned at any time.

He must walk carefully between refusing the other party’s dangerous orders and obtaining the other party’s protection.

First of all, the study of witchcraft must never stop.

“Senior,” Thor took the initiative to walk behind Mark, “Can I help you clean up?”

Mark turned around, not surprised at Thor’s choice at all, as if he had been waiting for him to speak.

“Alas, you newcomers don’t have magic crystals or credits, so you can only do manual labor. For the next month, you will be responsible for cleaning the lab, and I will spend an hour every day teaching you.”

Thor looked around the small but full lab, and said hesitantly, “Cleaning the entire lab? Senior, I don’t know if my current ability will delay your work.”

“Of course I won’t give you all the work. I will tell you the precautions, and you only need to be responsible for the final finishing.”

Mark suddenly raised his hand, and a mouth opened in his palm, and a bright red tongue stretched out, almost licking Thor’s face.

“If you don’t concentrate on your work and make mistakes, I will tear your skin off!”

(End of this chapter)