"Ta-ta-ta..."
The group of people moved forward, along the road, and soon arrived in front of a three-story wooden building. Lilith raised her hand to signal the entire team to stop.
After stopping, Lilith took a deep breath, as if she was a little scared, and the next moment she tried hard to maintain a smile, quickly walked to the door of the wooden building, and knocked on the door.
Not long after, there was a "squeak" and a woman in her forties walked out of the door. The other person didn't look much different from an ordinary woman, but on the other person's shoulder, there was a black spider the size of a fist, which made people's hair stand on end.
The other party didn't think there was any problem at all, and exchanged a few words with Martha with a normal expression. Then he approached the team, glanced at it a few times, nodded to a girl with excellent qualifications, and walked back into the wooden building without saying anything. .
Martha immediately pulled the girl who was favored by the opponent out of the team, and also picked out two more from the team with lower talents. Saying "It's your luck to be valued by Master Anais, don't give me ink marks, get out of here", kicked and beat the three people into the wooden building, and continued to move forward with the team.
After that, the team stopped many times, and Martha kept pulling people out. The number of people in the team became smaller and smaller, and finally only half a dozen people were left.
This can also be seen in the difference in how students are treated in Jungle House and White Stone Tower:
Baishi Tower trains a large number of students according to a certain system. During the training process, they only focus on studying and not on life. In the end, the best students are selected and absorbed into the company, which is regarded as a credit system.
In the jungle cabin, a wizard chooses a few students to teach them. How much the students can learn and how powerful they can become all depends on the wizard. This kind of paternalistic management method that grasps learning and life is more similar to a mentorship system. As for the advantages and disadvantages of this method and the credit system, only those who have experienced both can tell clearly.
"Ta-ta-ta..."
After another assignment, Martha was about to move forward with her team when suddenly a black shadow flashed across and blocked the way.
Looking over, he saw that he was a male wizard in his thirties, with sunken eye sockets, rough skin, and a weather-beaten look.
Martha recognized him. His name was Quentin. He had an intermediate level of cultivation as a first-level wizard. He had lived in the gathering place for many years. He was relatively solitary and had little contact with the people in the gathering place. Therefore, everyone in the gathering place, including her, knew each other, but it was only limited to acquaintance.
Seeing the other person standing in front of him, Martha frowned, but not wanting to offend anyone, she asked aloud: "Quentin..." She originally wanted to call him "Master", but after thinking about it, The opponent was just an intermediate first-level wizard who was a little more powerful than her, and had not made a breakthrough for many years, so she finally swallowed the two words.
"Quentin!" Martha called out, "What are you going to do?"
"Nothing." Quentin responded, "There are just some things that need to be dealt with, so I need a few students..."
"You need students? Isn't this against the rules?!" Quentin was interrupted by Martha before he finished speaking.
As Martha spoke, she read the scroll Lilith had given her before and said with certainty: "Well, it is indeed against the rules. If you need it, you should have mentioned it earlier. But Master Lilith Your name and request are not on the list given to me, which means that you have not proposed it before, so you cannot be assigned students. Otherwise, if you are assigned, the other wizards who have applied long ago will not have students. How inappropriate! "
"I know it's not appropriate." Quentin said, his expression calm and expected, "But I also know that every time we recruit students, there will be more students. What I want is the extra students, not It affects your normal distribution."
"Hmph, what you said is very light. The extra students are to prevent special accidents from happening. They are all given to you. If something happens, will you be responsible?"
"I won't embarrass you." Quentin said, lowering his demand, "I only need one student. Besides, if you agree, this thing will be yours."
As soon as he finished speaking, Quentin raised his hand and threw a glass bottle at Martha.
After Martha caught it, she saw that the small glass bottle was filled with light green liquid. She pulled out the stopper and took a sniff. Her face changed slightly. She looked up at Quentin and asked for confirmation: "It's Troman's potion." ?”
"The best among Troman's potions." Quentin gave a definite answer.
"But why do you have this thing in your hand? Toroman potion is rare on the entire east coast, right? It is only popular on the main continent over the legendary Thousand Mountains." Martha looked at Quentin with a slight expression. It was strange that he couldn't see through the other person.
Quentin still had a poker face and a calm expression. After listening to Martha's words, he said calmly: "How can I have it? Don't worry about it. As long as you understand that using this potion, even if you can't be promoted to A first-level wizard and an intermediate level can also save a lot of time. Because this potion can strengthen your body and improve your mental strength greatly. And I use this bottle of Toroman potion to exchange for one You shouldn’t lose money on the extra students, right?”
"This..." Martha hesitated for a moment, obviously a little moved, but she did not lose her mind. "It is indeed not a loss, but even so, a student with excellent qualifications cannot give it to you. Master Lilith said, excellent The students with the qualifications have already been decided by someone, so at most I can choose one for you from those with ordinary qualifications or lower qualifications."
"Okay." Quentin looked like he was easy to talk to. "I don't need to have great qualifications, just ordinary ones."
"What about this?" Martha immediately pointed to a girl in the team and asked Quentin. The girl she was referring to had average qualifications, but her appearance was the most outstanding among the entire team. If Quentin had some special ideas, he would definitely be satisfied.
Who knew that Quentin shook his head after taking one look and responded: "I don't want her, she... is too beautiful and does not meet my requirements. What I want is ordinary, the most ordinary kind, do you understand?" "
"The most common kind? What exactly do you want to do?" Martha obviously didn't fully understand.
"Then I'll choose it myself." Quentin said, walked to the front of the team, looked at it several times, stretched out his hand, pointed at a boy and said to Martha, "That's him, keep him, you You can take the Toroman potion away."
"Deal." Martha was not a sloppy person. She glanced at the person Quentin had chosen. Although she didn't know what Quentin was looking at, she quickly pulled the person out of the team and led the others to the front. OK.
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Richard stayed where he was, watching the team go further and further, then turned a corner and disappeared completely. The expression on his face did not change much, but he felt a little weird inside.
Quentin, who suddenly jumped out, actually chose him? And the reason is that he is the most ordinary? !
Well, what should he say about this? !
For the infiltration plan, he deliberately disguised himself as the most ordinary and inconspicuous student, and his appearance was specially processed to facilitate subsequent actions.
After all, this is latent infiltration, not a draft. The more ordinary it is, the safer it is and will not be noticed. It's best if you lose it in a crowd and can't tell it apart at all.
He worked hard to move closer to this standard, but who knew that it was precisely because of this that he was caught out by the wizard named Quentin.
this…
Richard felt a little speechless, but he could only face the reality and adjust the follow-up plan accordingly according to the development of things. As for fine-tuning or directly implementing the backup plan, it depends on what Quentin wants to do.
Richard looked at the direction in which the team was disappearing and thought like this. Quentin next to him suddenly said: "Don't be dazed, follow me."
With such meaningless words, Quentin turned around and left. Richard was stunned for a moment and had no choice but to follow.
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