Diary of a Dead Wizard - Chapter 83

Chapter 83 Companion Flower

The world outside doesn’t seem so scary.

Leaving the wizard tower, the lives of ordinary people may be similar to the ancient times in Thor’s previous life.

However, the next second, the words of mentor Kaz broke Thor’s fantasy.

“Such closed carriages are basically used to transport materials.”

“Materials?”

“Most of them are contaminated corpses from the outside world. After all, there are only so many people in the wizard tower. If you rely on corpses produced in the tower, you would have been out of work long ago.”

No wonder Thor had never seen the appearance of many corpses.

“Will the surrounding towns take the initiative to send people here?”

“They don’t have that ability. It’s basically the third-level apprentices who take the initiative to collect contaminated corpses. It can be regarded as a disguised way to protect the safety of the surrounding territories. Otherwise, why do you think they are willing to send their children here?”

Kaz smiled, and it was hard to tell whether his smile was more proud or more sarcastic.

The two walked towards the garden.

When they approached, the small window of the wooden house was opened, and a middle-aged man with a sallow face poked his head out from inside.

His facial features were relatively flat, only his nose was very prominent and long, like Pinocchio.

Maybe it has also been transformed.

“Master Kaz, good afternoon!” He greeted Kaz warmly.

Kaz nodded in response, pointed at the man and said to Thor: “That’s the gardener. After you choose the companion flower, he will teach you how to cultivate it.”

Thor nodded to the gardener, and the gardener smiled back with a bright smile full of yellow teeth.

The two walked to the gate of the garden, and a breeze blew by, and the aroma of baked bread entered Thor’s nose.

It’s called a garden, but it’s more like a vegetable field.

The land is divided into several pieces, and there are rows of flowers planted on it. The flower stems are slender, but the buds are not small, and each flower has only two petals.

Some flowers are in full bloom, while others are still buds.

When the wind blows, it looks like rows of big-headed dolls dancing.

The aroma of bread is even stronger.

Although he had already eaten, Thor still felt hungry.

“Teacher, are these all companion flowers?”

Kaz raised his chin. “All of them. Companion flowers are just a general term for a type of plant. You can see that they look different, but the growth process and characteristics are the same.”

The two of them shuttled between the ridges of the field.

Thor always felt that the flowers seemed to be following their figures and turning their heads together, but he couldn’t tell the front and back of the flower heads.

“This type of companion flower likes to eat rotten air. So it can’t be planted in ordinary soil. After you pick the flowers, go to the gardener just now and ask him to transplant them into small pots for you and give you a bag of fertilizer.”

Fertilizer?

Thor paused.

Was it the kind of fertilizer he almost became?

“Companion flowers bear fruit about every six months. Each plant bears one fruit. There are many kinds of fruits, and the probability of bearing different fruits is different. There is no means of targeted cultivation for the time being. Blue is a fruit that can increase magic power, and red is a fruit that strengthens physical fitness…”

Thor quickly took out a pen and paper from his backpack and began to record.

Kaz glanced at Thor and shook his head. “You should have recorded it long ago. Green can detoxify, purple is poisonous. If it is white, remember to hand it in to the wizard tower.”

Thor paused in recording, and after a while, Kaz did not continue.

“Teacher, is there any problem with the white fruit?”

“That’s not the case. White fruit stabilizes the spirit body, and the tower is short of it. If you can really cultivate white fruit, it will be no problem to exchange it for 20 credits.”

20 credits… half a year’s salary!

It’s really worth it!

Thor looked at the flowers again and felt like

he was looking at a mountain of gold. “It’s difficult to transplant those that have bloomed. Just pick a flower bud.”

“Yes, teacher.” Thor put away his notes and approached the field.

There are hundreds of flowers in the flower field, most of which have bloomed, and a few are in the form of small buds.

Because of the credits, Thor did not act quickly, and tried to guess a companion flower that can produce white fruit through his own observation.

At worst, blue fruit will do.

It’s just that these flowers grow in a random pattern. Different colors, different shapes, some look like roses, some look like tulips, and none of them bear fruit. Those

that should bear fruit have been picked.

Just as Thor was observing carefully, the faint voice of Teacher Kaz came from behind him.

“Rum, do you want you to go under his name?”

Thor stopped observing and turned around immediately.

After a very brief hesitation, he honestly admitted, “Yes.”

Kaz nodded, but there was no sign of anger.

“I also found out. You chose me as your mentor for another reason.”

Of course, Kong Sha was the one who chose Kaz as Thor’s mentor. The bottle of potion temporarily improved Thor’s perception of dark element particles, surpassing the light element for a time and becoming the element attribute that Thor perceives the highest.

This also made Thor, who might have chosen Rum as his mentor, choose Kaz without knowing it.

“Do you regret it now?” Teacher Kaz asked.

“No regrets.” Thor responded immediately.

So, not just for licking the mentor, Thor really felt that there was nothing to regret.

If it weren’t for the opportunity given by Kong Sha, Thor wouldn’t even be qualified to become an apprentice.

Instead of blaming Kong Sha’s calculations, it

‘s better to treat it as the price to pay for becoming an apprentice. This is in line with Senior Byron’s values.

Kaz curled his lips and smiled, but his smile was a little cold.

“Yes, you have undergone the witch body transformation now, and you have already leaned towards the dark attribute. There is no chance to regret it.”

Thor immediately felt that the sunlight shining on him was not so warm.

He immediately emphasized: “I really don’t regret it, mentor! If I hadn’t worked in the morgue, I would never have been able to complete the transformation…”

Oops, I almost said that I embezzled money.

Thor quickly diverted his attention, “… and I quite like the work in the morgue, especially suitable for concentrating on research and learning.”

I don’t know if Kaz heard that Thor stole the materials, but the other party’s face was obviously much better.

“Alas…” Teacher Kaz hunched his back, stood with his hands behind his back, and sighed softly, “If only everyone could learn to be content like you.”

Others?

Who?

What’s not content?

Since knowing the identity of the tower master, Thor suspected that the work in the morgue might also be arranged by the tower master.

The tower master asked him to study corpses and souls, how could Thor dare to disobey?

Besides, his words were not against his will, and the work in the morgue was indeed very suitable for him now.

But he didn’t expect that Teacher Kaz would express such emotion.

It made Thor feel uneasy.

Who was so dissatisfied that made Teacher Kaz so melancholy?

Kaz took the initiative to end the topic, leaving Thor with a lot of questions.

“With your current ability, there is no problem working in the morgue. As long as you can submit all the materials on time in the future, I will pass the test for you.”

Will the tests every month be so simple in the future?

“Thank you, teacher, I will complete it.”

Thor was originally still worried about how much witchcraft the teachers would ask him to learn in the second test.

He has a lot to learn now, and the study of witchcraft can only be slowed down.

Thor remembered that the test content of senior Mark seemed to be a test of the nature of the task of organizing the laboratory.

This made him more certain of his original guess:

the wizard tower is not a school, but a unit.

The initial rapid learning of the apprentice is the on-the-job training. If the newcomers after the training are not competent for any job, they will be dismissed.

The Wizard Tower is a very strict unit, and the dismissed employees must also use themselves as nourishment to shine for the Wizard Tower.

In this way, the two newcomers who left the classroom first during the test and did not even learn a single compound rune were actually very dangerous.

Thinking back, Thor did not seem to see them in today’s class.

Could they have… been “dismissed”?

“Thank you, instructor, I will keep working hard to complete it.” Thor promised the instructor again seriously.

“Well.” Kaz turned and began to walk back, “Take your time to pick, and go find the gardener when you’re done. Just go back to the tower before sunset.”

(End of this chapter)