Anatomy Class

Mental Strength: 1

Magic Power: 2

Constitution: 8

It had been nearly a month since Saine advanced to Intermediate Apprentice, yet his Mental Strength and Magic Power values had only crept forward by less than 0.1 at a snail's pace.

This was the normal pace of a magician's cultivation.

Meditation was grueling work. Only through persistent, uninterrupted practice could one slowly temper oneself over long years and reach relatively high values.

The Critical Point for an Advanced Apprentice's Mental Strength was 50 points. Saine still had quite a long way to go.

Advanced Apprentice and advanced magic were still rather distant from Saine. His foremost task now was to first learn and master a truly Intermediate spell.

Why "truly"? Because the Minor Fireball that Saine had personally improved and subtly modified could barely be considered an Intermediate spell as well.

"Now that I have a Crystal Ball, everything really is much more convenient."

"Besides testing my Mental Strength and Magic Power values, this Crystal Ball Senior Brother gave me also has some memory-storage and communication capabilities. It truly is marvelous." Saine said as he toyed with the translucent Crystal Ball in his hand.

The so-called "memory function" meant that this Crystal Ball could record certain information and even capture the current scene.

However, limited either by Saine's low Mental Strength or by the Crystal Ball's rather ordinary material, the amount of content this memory function could record was quite limited.

As for its communication capability, Saine could use this Crystal Ball to contact other magicians or Magic Apprentices who possessed Crystal Balls.

At present, Saine's Crystal Ball had only two communication contacts stored within it: Senior Brother Zorro and Senior Sister Fei'er.

"Since the laboratory was damaged, and Mentor needs some time to gather the experimental materials again, I won't need to report to Mentor every day for a while."

"The Academy's Public Classrooms will soon begin. Perhaps I can continue attending classes that interest me."

"The library as well. Among the Academy Rewards from the last Grade Assessment were a full hundred Academy Points. I can exchange them for knowledge related to Intermediate magic."

"Besides that, I also need to thoroughly study the five Magic Books I brought back from Mentor last time," Saine murmured softly.

Magicians were all busy. Even the Black Wizard Apprentices of the City of Mozhsuobula rarely had idle moments.

The faint sense of crisis and pressure to survive that lingered in their hearts drove every apprentice to seek more knowledge and power.

Although Saine did not need to report to Mentor every day for the next period of time,

once he planned things out a little, his time was packed full again.

"Hehehe, Saine, I never expected that after becoming Moxidu's disciple, you would still come listen to my class."

"Is Moxidu simply not good enough at teaching disciples?"

"You can join my faction instead. I'll give you a disciple's position." In the magic classroom, Formal Black Wizard Ke Suo Long let out a hoarse, strange laugh.

Of his two protruding eyeballs, one was large and one small, but what drew even more stares and terror was that this Formal Black Wizard had three mouths on his body.

For instance, the mouth speaking to Saine at this moment was the one on the back of his hand.

At Ke Suo Long Master's hoarse laughter, Saine, who had just entered the classroom, immediately bent slightly in respectful greeting.

However, Saine did not agree to Ke Suo Long's offer. Instead, he politely declined. "Master, your achievements in the fields of death and Corpse Refinement Synthetic Beasts are unmatched. But I have already become Mentor Moxidu's disciple. I must never betray my school."

"I have come to continue attending your anatomy class because I wish to behold and learn the Truth Dao of the death-related fields from you," Saine said sincerely.

Saine had a sweet tongue, and his attitude was highly respectful as well.

Ke Suo Long had only been casually speaking of betraying one's school.

If Saine had truly done so, Ke Suo Long would likely have been the first to worry about retaliation from Moxidu.

The battle between Formal Black Wizards that had taken place in the Academy and the City of Mozhsuobula not long ago had given many Black Magicians quite an eyeful.

Kaisersen of the Plantation had also become the private laughingstock of many Black Magicians.

Ke Suo Long had no desire to become a laughingstock, even if he believed his strength would not lose to Moxidu's.

"Fine. From now on, serve as my assistant at the Laboratory Table."

"Hehehe, these little brats have clearly been enrolled for at least one or two years, yet they are still useless trash who can't even handle such a trivial matter!"

"You're still better. You learn quickly, and your hands are steady. How did that fellow Moxidu get to you first?" Ke Suo Long muttered.

Ke Suo Long's praise and appreciation did not make Saine feel the slightest bit complacent.

From beginning to end, he remained cautious and vigilant, because he deeply knew the twisted and unpredictable temperament of the Formal Black Wizard before him.

Meanwhile, the dozens of apprentices who had long since entered this spacious classroom were all trembling like quails under Master Ke Suo Long's pressure.

Anatomy was a compulsory course for all apprentices at the Black Wizard Academy. From Entry-Level Apprentices

to Low-Level Apprentices, only those who mastered proficient anatomy techniques could be considered qualified Black Wizard Apprentices.

Many newly enrolled little brats were eliminated early because they could not accept the bloody scenes or found it difficult to deal with corpses and severed limbs.

As for what happened to them after they were eliminated...

On the Laboratory Table before Saine lay a curled-up apprentice corpse, around 1.2 meters tall.

The preservative fluid personally made by Master Moxidu had prevented any obvious decay from appearing on the apprentice's corpse.

Even the terror and pain he had felt before death were vividly displayed before Saine.

This apprentice had likely been enrolled for less than a year. He had passed the Black Wizard Academy's initial Mental Strength test and met the required standard.

But he had failed the Black Wizard Academy's internal environmental test.

Since he could not adapt to the darkness and cruelty of the Black Wizard Academy, dying early was his best release.

The only thing that drew sighs was that even after death, his corpse still had to make a second contribution to the Academy.

"Mm, then this class officially begins now."

"Saine, remove his heart first. Be careful not to cause any damage."

"Let these little brats see what true professionalism looks like, hehehe!" Master Ke Suo Long's hoarse laughter sounded beside Saine's ear.

Saine did not dare let his mind wander in the slightest. Holding a Surgical Knife in his right hand and steadying the experimental subject before him with his left, he calmly made the first cut.

Did Saine enjoy dealing with corpses? Or was he mentally deranged?

Not at all!

The reason he had come again to participate in Master Ke Suo Long's anatomy class was, on one hand, because he believed anatomy truly was one of the essential skills of a Black Magician. Otherwise, the Academy would not have made it a compulsory course for every apprentice.

On the other hand, after personally seeing Death Hand Mike's Corpse Refinement Synthetic Beast and Formal Black Wizard Kaisersen's Plant Monstrosity, Saine had begun to imagine that one day he too could create such powerful meat-shield servants.

A towering mountain began with the smallest speck of earth.

This anatomy class, which even newly enrolled apprentices had to master, was Saine's first step toward creating powerful Synthetic Beast servants in the future.

Do not forget that among Saine's Elemental Affinities, he also possessed considerable talent for the Dark Element.

This dark and negative environment would not affect Saine too greatly.

Perhaps this was also one of the reasons why Saine could adapt so well to the Black Wizard Academy's environment and receive Master Ke Suo Long's praise.