Diary of a Dead Wizard - Chapter 790

Chapter 779 Sparks

“Are you really going to use the cat’s gratitude?” Paul looked at his good friend Nero disapprovingly.

Nero took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, feeling the heat in his chest turn into coolness.

He smiled bitterly, “Paul, you know me. I’m already thirty-five this year. Although people of all ages can be promoted to formal wizards, if I can’t be promoted before the age of forty, my mentor will no longer support me. At that time, in order to repay my debt, I must go to the Practice Institute to do the most dangerous energy-consuming work.”

Level 3 apprentices often need to pay a lot of magic crystals and resources to continue to be apprentices in the lecture hall, or find a better mentor outside.

But not everyone has a strong background and someone is willing to support them to study.

In Sky City, if wizard apprentices sign a contract, they can obtain a lot of resources and wealth. But at the same time, if they cannot be promoted to formal wizards before the number of years specified in the contract, they must go to the Knowledge Institute or the Practice Institute to do the most dangerous energy-consuming work.

This is different from those who apply to the two institutes. Many people who do energy-consuming work never come back. Even if they come back, they are panicked as if they have escaped death.

But without signing the contract, most apprentices would have no chance to continue their studies.

Therefore, even though this contract has swallowed up the lives of a large number of apprentices, many people still go to sign the contract every year.

It is for the possibility of being promoted to a formal wizard.

Because in Sky City, first-level and second-level apprentices can’t live a good life. If

they are not third-level apprentices, they are not qualified to work independently, and they don’t even have the right to give up this lifestyle.

Paul looked at his friend and could only remain silent.

If he hadn’t accidentally had a daughter, Mina, he would probably have signed his name in the contract issued by the Institute of Knowledge.

For the sake of his daughter, he can’t take risks anymore, and he has lost the opportunity to go further forever.

He opened his mouth, but still didn’t say the promise that Thor made to him a few days ago.

On the one hand, Thor may not like to see him give up the opportunity to ask for help to others; on the other hand, Nero has been listening to Thor’s class, but hasn’t he been promoted?

Paul closed his mouth, his face gloomy, looking like a terrible murderer who would stab people at any time.

Seeing Paul like this, Nero smiled instead.

“You see, it’s because of you that people don’t dare to approach you.” He patted his friend on the shoulder, “Don’t worry, someone has recently figured out how to circumvent the curse of ‘The Cat Returns’. I heard that several people who have used it have not been in trouble. And we are already level three apprentices, and we have a certain resistance. You don’t have to worry too much.”

Nero was comforting Paul, and at the same time comforting himself, “I’ll tell you when I find a way to circumvent the curse. You can try it, maybe you can be promoted to a formal wizard directly!”

But Paul was not tempted at all, and shook his head, “Forget it, I can’t get into trouble.”

He also has a daughter.

Now Sky City is still under martial law, and it is very difficult to leave the city. He has not yet grabbed a place .

If he gets into trouble in Sky City, Mina…

He dare not imagine what Mina will encounter.

Seeing that the air pressure on his friend was even lower, Nero could only shake his head, “Forget it, then I’ll try it myself.”

Conversations like Nero and Paul also happened in other places in Sky City. It just happened mostly among the weak, and the curse didn’t even cause new deaths, so it didn’t attract the attention of the upper class.

But sometimes, if weak power accumulates enough, it can also ignite a prairie fire.

After the first connection attempt, although Thor failed to find Pearl’s coordinates, he was sure that their research direction was correct.

Afterwards, the two sides got together to discuss the improvement plan, and Ophelia suggested making a second attempt in a month.

Thor originally didn’t want to delay for so long, but Ophelia said that the mechanical heart had to be repaired every time it was started, which would take about a month.

But Thor always suspected that a month might just be an excuse for Ophelia to delay him.

But there was no way to refute it.

After returning to the lecture hall, Nathan began to follow Thor’s instructions and let the servants who were also forced to stay in Sky City and couldn’t leave to sell imitations of white porcelain cats to the market.

The servant was just an ordinary person, and everyone knew that he was definitely not the real mastermind behind the scenes, but because of this, no one knew that the person behind the scenes was actually an equally inconspicuous formal wizard.

That’s right, under Thor’s one-on-one guidance, Nathan successfully promoted to a first-level formal wizard.

During this period, in addition to completing the tasks assigned by Thor, he spent the rest of his time studying hard.

Because he didn’t know when Thor would leave Sky City, and when Thor left Sky City, I’m afraid no one would be able to guide him to study so accurately.

Therefore, Nathan wished he didn’t even have time to rest, and just wanted to improve himself as soon as possible.

Another week later, Thor received the second invitation from the Institute of Knowledge.

This time, after considering it for a day, Thor finally agreed to work at the Institute of Knowledge.

At the same time, he took this opportunity to secretly bring the white porcelain cat to the Institute of Knowledge.

Gradually, the legend of “Cat’s Gratitude” that was only circulated among apprentices also spread among low-level wizards.

For formal wizards, cat’s gratitude basically cannot affect their research, but it is okay to bring some help occasionally.

Moreover, after people have studied the way to circumvent the curse that may drown people attached to cat’s gratitude, its side effects can be ignored.

These crude white porcelain cats have gradually become a kind of inexpensive witchcraft props.

Even some second-level wizards will use cat’s gratitude before conducting experiments with high uncertainty to increase the success rate of their experiments.

Thor still maintains the personality of a first-level wizard in the Institute of Knowledge. He handed over the project from the academy to Nathan, who had just been promoted, and only gave him a few pointers when he was free occasionally.

Nathan, who had just been promoted, had to face problems that he should not have faced at this stage.

On this day, Thor had just handed a report written by Nathan to a second-level wizard in his team, and was blocked by wizard Ona at the door of the Institute of Knowledge.

Ona looked at the gate of the Institute of Knowledge behind Thor, and then looked at the wizard robe on Thor, and said with some resentment: “Wizard Thor, if you really like the Institute of Knowledge, the city lord can also arrange a position of vice dean for you. Why bother to spend your days among low-level wizards?”

There was no one else around Thor, otherwise they would be surprised how Thor knew the wizards directly under the White Glazed Castle.

Thor shrugged and did not explain deliberately, “This is also a confirmation of what I have learned.”

Ona still couldn’t understand that a third-level wizard was studying the topics of first-level wizards all day long. Isn’t this a waste of resources?

But generally, high-level wizards have very strange tempers. Ona used to think that Thor was a little abnormal. Now seeing that he likes to pretend to be a low-level wizard, she suddenly felt that he was worthy of being a high-level wizard and could do anything.

(End of this chapter)