Rose Merchant House

Just then, a crisp ringing sounded outside, accompanied by the floor trembling up and down. Kant glanced outside and saw a White Bear, like a snow-capped mountain, emerging from the pitch-black forest.

On the White Bear's back sat a Frost Church. As the White Bear plodded forward, the bells atop the church spire rang melodiously in the wind.

"Dojibil is here again. Looks like she's brought another batch of laborers," Kant clicked his tongue.

At that moment, a yellowed sheet of parchment drifted down from the church on White Bear Dojibil's back. Floating as lightly as a feather, it slowly descended before the windowsill of the Magic Cottage.

Kant opened the window and reached out to take the parchment inside, muttering, "Let me see which unlucky wizard organizations have sent laborers this time."

"Thirty-six apprentices from Breeze Valley, with the highest being intermediate apprentices... Seventeen apprentices from Heaven Tree, with the highest being advanced apprentices... The White Ren Family has sent seven low-level apprentices." Kant read as he looked. These were all apprentices assigned to this base, though in Kant's eyes, they were more like laborers—or rather, cannon fodder.

"Huh? Sanders, look what I found. Your Savage Cave actually has an apprentice assigned here too, and an advanced apprentice at that." Kant asked in puzzlement, "Didn't you say Savage Cave wouldn't be sending any apprentices?"

Sanders was stunned as well. The ones Savage Cave had sent to the Abyss this time were all high-end combatants, so there was no need at all to send cannon-fodder laborer apprentices to the Abyss to fill graves.

Therefore, when Kant said that an apprentice from Savage Cave had arrived, Sanders was genuinely somewhat surprised.

He raised the black short staff in his hand and pointed through the air. A gust of wind swept up