Diary of a Dead Wizard - Chapter 7

Chapter 7: The First Lesson of Extreme Efficiency

A close neighbor is better than a distant relative. Although this close neighbor, Keli, was a little uncomfortable with her straightforwardness, Thor took the opportunity to inquire about the news.

He was about to speak when he saw someone walking over from one end of the corridor.

The person walked quickly while announcing loudly.

“All new first-level apprentices, be in the last classroom on the tenth floor of the East Tower at nine o’clock on time for the first public class!”

“All new first-level apprentices, be in the last classroom on the tenth floor of the East Tower at nine o’clock on time for the first public class!”

Someone heard the voice, opened the door and asked, but the person did not answer. He delivered the message on his own and went upstairs along the slope at the end.

Some new apprentices gathered in the corridor and whispered to each other. The atmosphere was lively and everyone was full of hope.

“Keli!”

Two more boys ran over, and one of them with bright eyes said, “Let’s go to class together.”

Keli just glanced at them lightly without even answering, and turned to Thor and said, “Let’s go now.”

The two who were ignored did not show any angry expressions, but looked at Thor with a little fear.

Thor realized that these people probably also thought that he was very talented, but he couldn’t explain this kind of thing, so he just nodded and agreed to go with him.

It was still some time before nine o’clock, and almost all the new apprentices rushed to the East Tower as soon as they heard the news.

The wizard tower itself should be a cylinder, wide at the bottom and narrow at the top, and divided into two in the middle, forming the East and West Towers.

The East and West Towers are both semicircular, separated by a thick wall in the middle, and there are only passages on the fifth, sixth, tenth, and fourteenth floors.

These passages will be closed at night, and people are not allowed to pass through at will.

Thor had seen the passage door when he was cleaning the corridor, but he had never been allowed to enter the East Tower.

Following the crowd, he passed through the passage for the first time and came to the East Tower.

The sixth floor of the East Tower did not have the row of rooms on the West Tower. All he could see were gray walls with symbols and patterns painted on them that Thor could not understand at all.

One glance made Thor dizzy.

He turned his head to avoid it, and saw that Keli beside him had been looking down, with no intention of looking at the wall at all.

“This guy, it seems that he really knows a lot.”

“Plop, plop.”

The two people in front of him did not shift their gaze in time like Thor did, and fell to the ground in dizziness.

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

Thor walked past the two people, watching them struggling to stand up, and his longing for the future life of a wizard apprentice suddenly diminished a lot.

…

“Everyone be quiet!”

Thor and his friends sat in the last classroom on the tenth floor of the East Tower for about ten minutes, and finally a man in his fifties walked in from the front door of the classroom in a hurry.

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

“In the first class, I will only explain the rules of the Gorza Wizard Tower once. If anyone asks me again, I will eat him! Ugh…”

After the man finished speaking, he bent over and vomited in a very appropriate manner.

A large pool of green mucus fell to the ground, splashing everywhere. There were a few fingers mixed in it, falling, bouncing, and falling again.

The apprentices sitting in the front row leaned back suddenly and hit the tables in the back row, making a clanging sound.

Thor, who habitually sat in the back, lowered his head to avoid looking at the scene that made his stomach churn.

The man on the stage was very angry. After vomiting, he straightened up and shouted again: “Quiet!”

No one dared to move, even if they had to endure the nausea.

“First of all, you sign up for a tutor based on your elemental affinity. My name is Gudo, and I’m a tutor for poison. I can also teach gold. If you have talent in this area, choose me on the form!”

Thor lowered his head, and the table was empty.

This tutor Gudo didn’t produce a form like in the movie, and no one showed up to hand out the forms.

He quickly spread out the book in his arms and took notes with a pen.

At the same time, there was a rustling sound beside him. It was Keli who took out paper and pen from her backpack in unison and started taking notes. There

were about twenty people in the classroom, and almost half of them prepared paper and pen by themselves.

Those who didn’t prepare wanted to borrow from the people next to them, but they didn’t dare to speak, and Gudo noticed it.

On the stage, tutor Gudo was still talking, and his speed was very fast.

“…First-level apprentices, learn the common courses first. Including witchcraft characters, knowledge of all things, meditation, runes, and finally touch low-level witchcraft!”

Thor wrote so fast that he couldn’t keep up, so he simply used the words of his previous life to record.

“…Don’t waste your time, because you don’t have time to waste! First-level apprentices will be assessed once a month, and the first assessment will be in three months! If the assessor thinks that you have no possibility of growth,”

Gudo paused here, squinted his eyes and looked around at the apprentices in the classroom, and said gloomily: “Then there is no need for you to be trained.”

Thor’s hand trembled, and a word had a long tail. He silently started another line and continued writing.

“…Finally, I remind you, look at the book in front of you, don’t think about anything else, that’s something that second-level apprentices have to consider.”

Thor didn’t understand this part. What did “other things” mean? Witchcraft?

“Okay, that’s all, I’m leaving.” After Gudo finished speaking, he turned around and left the classroom, faster than he came in.

Without the scary mentor, everyone started to talk, and the noise in the classroom suddenly exploded.

Sol did not participate in the discussion. He stared straight at the notes he had just taken, as if in a daze.

“Is your left hand like this from birth?” Keli’s voice sounded again.

Sol was in a hurry to take notes, and habitually pressed the book with his left hand, which was naturally seen by Keli who was sitting next to him.

Sol did not hide his hand again, and said nonchalantly.

“No, it was like this the day before yesterday.”

Keli frowned and pursed her lips, as if she was stuck in some century-old problem.

At this time, a young man walked in from the front door of the classroom again, with a smile on his face and a stack of papers in his hands, and walked to the front desk of the classroom.

“It’s ten minutes before nine. You all arrived early. Very good! As apprentices, we have to make good use of every moment. It’s better to be early than late. Sometimes being on time is also a kind of lateness.”

The young man tapped the stack of papers in his hand and restrained his smile a little. “I will first give you the registration form for the tutor and the rule manual of the wizard tower. In a while, tutor Guduo will come to give the first explanation. You must keep quiet. Tutor Guduo doesn’t like noise. If you have any questions, don’t ask. Read the manual. I will explain it again in a while.”

There was silence in the audience.

The young man was very satisfied. The apprentices of this class were very obedient. They would be quiet immediately when asked to be quiet.

He walked off the stage to distribute forms and manuals to everyone, but he stepped on something sticky.

The young man lowered his head, raised his foot and saw a broken finger stuck to the sole of his shoe and twitching slightly.

He looked up at the new apprentices again, and asked with a twitching mouth: “Teacher Guduo, he…”

“He has been here.” A girl sitting in the second row replied in a low voice.

(End of this chapter)