Chapter 25: After the Event

Then, Heath pretended that nothing had happened and continued to carry out the mission he had received, hunting high-level demonized beasts.

After the hunt, Heath continued to wander in the forest for a few days until he returned to the tower a week later.

Walking into the tower, Heath turned his head and carefully observed the expressions of the people passing by, but he saw that everyone was still in a hurry and looked the same as usual.

‘It seems that the tower didn’t have any special reaction. That’s true. After all, they are just two insignificant unofficial Apprentices. Wizards don’t have the time to care about their lives.’

Heath felt slightly relieved.

Although he had preliminarily confirmed the attitude of the tower, Heath, who was still worried, still wanted to understand the situation in more detail.

Therefore, after handing in the mission, he bought a bunch of ingredients and invited a few Apprentices from the same period to his house for a barbecue.

The fact that Heath, who was a loner, suddenly treating everyone to a meal obviously surprised everyone. However, each of the invited Apprentices gave him face. After all, he was one of the five Apprentices who had already meditated on runes.

The few Apprentices that Heath invited were of the gossipy type. There was no need for him to deliberately guide them at the dinner table. Someone had already brought up the matter regarding Karina.

A girl said, “Oh right, Heath, I remember that Karina came from the same place as you, right?”

Heath nodded. “Yes, why?”

The girl looked surprised. “You still don’t know, right? She murdered the Grimm Brothers and defected from the tower.”

Heath pretended to be shocked. “Is that true?”

A girl next to him added, “Of course it’s true. Now the whole tower is talking about it. It’s said that even Wizards have asked about it.”

Heath frowned. Wizards had also asked about it? It couldn’t be that serious, right?

He quickly asked, “What about the result?”

The girl said, “What other result can there be? That’s it. Those two scumbags, the Grimm Brothers, deserve to die. Who would waste their energy for them?”

“It’s not completely impossible, right? Hasn’t the tower strengthened the registration of students to the mission area?”

“There’s no time to take care of it. There are so many Apprentices who go missing every year. I don’t believe that all of them encountered high-level demonized beasts while doing missions…”

Everyone quickly began to discuss, and Heath smoothly learned more details from it.

It was more or less the same as his previous judgment. The death of the Grimm Brothers did not cause much of a stir in the tower. It only added a bit of gossip to the Apprentices.

Some people might have been angry, such as the official Apprentice that the Grimm Brothers were loyal to, but it was not enough to stand up for them. In the end, they were just two dogs. After they died, they could just find two more. Who would have the leisure to avenge them!

In short, the matter passed just like that. The Wizards issued a symbolic notice warning the Apprentices to follow the rules and register formally. Nothing else happened. Everything was the same as before.

Heath’s worried heart finally relaxed completely.

At this time, a girl asked, “Heath, I heard that you killed a high-level demonized beast. Is this true?”

After the problem was solved, Heath was in a good mood. He smiled and pointed at the delicious food on the table. “Then why do you think I invited you to dinner?”

The Apprentices immediately burst into an uproar. They were amazed and envious.

“It’s too amazing. Although it’s a beast, it’s said that its strength is comparable to that of a high-level Knight!”

“It must have earned a lot of Magic Stones.”

“I really envy you for having the strength of a Knight. You can do hunting missions as soon as you come. You don’t have to go to the plantation and the gathering area every day like us…”

Because they did not have the slightest fighting strength, they could only accept the missions of gathering and planting. This part of the mission was also the most tiring. Not only was the reward given little, but it was also very tiring. It was no different from the serfs outside.

In comparison, although the hunting mission was a little dangerous, it was much easier. The reward was also high. Moreover, they could hone their spells during battle. It was more than one level higher than gathering and planting.

“I really hope that I can meditate and produce runes as soon as possible. When I learn spells, I can go and accept hunting missions.”

“Have you accumulated enough Magic Stones to buy spells? 800 Magic Stones. It will take more than half a year if I don’t eat or drink…”

“When the time comes, lend me some. Once I learn spells and accept hunting missions, I will pay you back very soon.”

“What if you don’t pay me back? Hehehe, is it a flesh-and-blood repayment?”

“Bah, shameless…”

After eating and drinking, everyone began to suggest playing [Command], a game similar to truth or dare.

However, Heath rejected them.

He knew what these Apprentices were like. On the surface, they were all well-dressed, but after drinking a few taels of yellow wine, they were all more open. They took off their clothes and sexually flirted with each other. They could do anything, but after a few rounds, they could turn this place into a sex den.

This was where he lived. He did not want to make a mess, and in the end, he had to clean up the scene.

In addition, he did have something to do with his cultivation at night. He could not waste his time on these meaningless things.

The girls saw that Heath was such a killjoy, so they left one after another.

The boys were speechless. “Heath, you really don’t understand romance. Can’t you tell? The girls were very interested just now. Tonight was supposed to be a wonderful night…”

Heath chased them out.

Creak!

The door closed.

After closing the door and windows, Heath returned to the room and blew out the white candle on the table. He used the moonlight to quietly study the spell he had just obtained today.

He raised his hand and with a thought, a small water snake quickly surged into his palm and swayed in his hand.

He first tried to control the water snake to turn into a shield, then he took out a small knife to cut a wound for the small water snake to heal. Both spells were successfully completed.

Looking at his fingers that were rapidly healing and recovering, heath exclaimed, “The healing spells of water-type spells are indeed powerful!”

In terms of learning spells, most apprentices would only choose to learn in a direction with strong elemental affinity. This was also the advice that Cassandra gave them when she tested their talents. After all, the higher the affinity, the easier it was to learn.

However, Heath did not have this problem. This knowledge did not need to be understood or trained. It could be mastered directly by extracting it.

Of course, this did not mean that he could learn whatever he wanted to. The problem of affinity still existed. Some high-level spells could not be learned without sufficient affinity.

‘I wonder if elemental affinity can be extracted?’ Heath thought greedily.

Supernatural powers were addictive. Once one got involved, one would not be able to stop. Every spell in the Wizard World was extremely attractive to him now. He really wanted to learn all of them.

“Forget it, I’ll think about it in the future. Now, I should focus on training and improve my strength first.”

“Before I have enough strength, I still have to behave myself. If outsiders find out about my little secret, it won’t be worth it…”

With this in mind, Heath gradually calmed down the greed in his heart.

Then, he closed his eyes and began to meditate. Although his strength mainly came from extracting, when he had time, he would also cultivate through normal meditation. It was a little less, but wasn’t a grasshopper also meat?

Heath was still planning to become an intermediate-level Apprentice in half a year. Of course, he had to work harder…

…

Time passed quickly. Half a year passed very quickly.

Shadow Tower, library.

Most of the facilities in Shadow Tower were fee-based, and the library was no exception. All the books in it could not be lent out and could only be read inside. The fee was 1 Magic Stone per hour.

At this moment, in the new book section of the library.

Heath took the books off the shelf and flipped through two pages in his hand. He seemed to feel that it was not appropriate, so he put them back. He looked like he was choosing books to read.

But what no one knew was that every time he took the books down and flipped through them, a voice that only he could hear would ring in his ears.

[Beep, successful extraction. Obtained knowledge, ‘Human Selection of the Old Land’.]

[Beep, successful extraction. Obtained knowledge, ‘Introduction to the Human World on the West Coast’.]

[Beep, successful extraction. Obtained knowledge, ‘Selections of the Sixteen Kingdoms at the Edge of the Forest’.]

[Beep, extraction successful…]

At the same time, large chunks of knowledge from the books surged into Heath’s mind. Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, he quietly put the books into his head without missing a single word.

Half an hour later, Heath pretended that he had not found a satisfactory book, threw down a Magic Stone, and left the library.

The tower’s mission area had a mission to collect book knowledge. Every once in a while, the tower’s Wizards would sift through the book knowledge collected by the Apprentices and update the library’s books.

At this time, Heath would come to the library and record the knowledge in his mind through extraction.

After eight to nine months of hard work, the entire library had been emptied by him. In a single round of profound knowledge, even some Wizards could not compare to him…

“Senior Heath!” At this moment, a shout came from behind.

Heath turned his head and saw a beautiful girl he had never met walking towards him.

The girl came in front of Heath, took out a pink invitation card, and handed it to Heath. She lowered her head and said shyly, “I am Anne from Forgotten Land 176. Next week is my birthday. I would like to invite Senior Heath to attend my birthday dinner.”