Sometimes, the things in this world were just that wondrous.
Saine, a Level-5 Peak grand magician who had never taken a disciple, had finally wanted to accept a chief disciple, only for heaven to deny his wishes.
That day, when Saine returned to the Holy Tower laboratory, Meili informed him that she had failed to recruit the person.
"What? Sun Holy Tower refused to let her go?" Saine asked with a frown.
He truly had never dealt with Sun Holy Tower before. If its tower master or dean refused to give him this courtesy, there was not much he could forcibly do.
"No. Dean Milady of Sun Holy Tower was very accommodating. He has already agreed to transfer Catherine's Holy Tower contract to our Ash Holy Tower."
"Master Milady and the Sun Holy Tower he represents were even quite willing to give us this courtesy. They do not need our Ash Holy Tower to pay any additional price," Meili replied.
"Then why..." Saine asked in confusion.
"Because that little girl herself does not want to come to Ash Holy Tower." Meili gave a bitter smile.
"What?" Saine said in astonishment.
Catherine came from an ordinary farming household in the Bairen Empire.
Since she came from the commoner class, Catherine did not even have a surname of her own.
(In the Wizard World, only the noble class was qualified to possess their own surnames.)
Catherine's childhood had been very happy. In this regard, she had it better than Saine had in those years.
At the very least, Catherine still remembered many things from her childhood. She remembered the loving parents she once had, as well as an elder brother as tall as a mountain.
But Catherine was also unfortunate. When she was twelve, bandits descended without warning, plundering the village