Trajan's Exclusive Free Extra Story: Becoming the Red Dragon's Disciple (Seeking Monthly Votes)

Cloud Marsh Wetland, Golden Crown Mountain, twenty years ago.

After going through three rounds of interviews—one online interview and two in-person tests—a group of mentally exhausted Second-Ring Wizards walked down from the mountainside of Golden Crown Mountain.

This was a special recruitment drive for Plant Hunters. These thirty Second-Ring Wizards had already passed countless trials to enter the talent pool for the Plant Hunter training program. After three more rounds of interviews, only the thirty of them remained.

In this final round of interviews, they had been interviewed by the Red Dragon Witch, the Green Dragon Witch, the Blue Dragon Wizard, and the other staff members.

Trajan slowly descended the steps along the mountain path. He gazed toward the four peaks of Golden Crown Mountain, one large and three small. Even though it was already dusk, the mountain's corona still hung over the summit like a divine radiance, magnificent and dazzling beyond compare. A five-A tourist attraction like this could usually captivate people, but for the three thousand Second-Ring Wizards looking for work, there was no heart to admire it. No matter how beautiful the scenery was, it seemed ordinary in their eyes at that moment.

A young wizard around Trajan's age, Argos, walked up beside him and asked, "Mr. Trajan, I didn't expect to meet you here. When we were exploring the ancient ruins in the Four Bright Waters of Wizard Land, I still have to thank you for lending me a hand. Without you back then, I wouldn't have known how to get out of that maze."

Trajan waved his hand. "It was nothing."

"Mr. Argos."

Argos's eyes lit up. He had not expected Trajan to remember the name of the wizard he had once helped. He felt respected, and he enjoyed the feeling immensely.

"I wonder how