"Since I failed the Death Assessment, the ship fare came to ten Magic Stones, and the airship fare came to twenty Magic Stones."
"Faced with that sky-high bill of thirty Magic Stones, I could only join the Guard Army."
"What does the Guard Army need to do? How did those friends of yours die?" Arro wanted to know why Narcissus's friends had died, and whether clearing out these Evil Creatures would pose any hidden dangers to him.
Narcissus glanced at Arro. "Naturally, they died in battle."
"Died in battle?"
There were many ways to interpret dying in battle. They could have died surrounded by enemies, died after prolonged combat, or died upon suddenly encountering a powerful foe.
The end result was the same, but the level of danger to Arro was not.
"That's right. To join the Guard Army, you first have to become a Beginner Wizard Apprentice. Only after becoming a Wizard Apprentice and gathering your own Mental Strength can you move freely within the Anomaly Space."
"But you know that if you fail the assessment, the Academy won't issue a Meditation Technique for free."
"So, we could only owe the Academy another ten Magic Stones as the registration fee, and another thirty Magic Stones for the Meditation Technique."
"Year after year, if we don't risk our lives, when will we ever get free?"
Risk our lives?
Since those people had chosen to risk their lives, they must have also had the option of clearing monsters. So many people were doing it—then clearing these evil spirits probably wouldn't mean certain death for me, right?
After passing through the dilapidated Corner Path amid the Ruins, Arro and Narcissus immediately arrived at the Mysterious Great Hall on Battle Corner Street.
This place was slightly different from when they had entered