"That reaction was genuine and intense."
After carefully observing the Fat Wizard's reaction, Dr. Xiao took off his glasses and slowly polished them, muttering, "...Looks like he really wasn't dreaming."
"Ow!" The fat man sucked in a breath, his eyes brimming with tears. "Y-you... why did you stab me? If you suspected hallucinations, you should've stabbed yourself!"
"Stabbing myself would hurt much more... Besides, didn't you tell me to 'give you one'?" The doctor put his glasses back on and asked in surprise, glancing at the Red-faced Male Wizard.
Zhang Jixin nodded steadily in confirmation.
"I didn't tell you to..." The Fat Wizard rubbed the deep indentation the Quill Pen's tip had left in his flesh, furious.
Zheng Qing hurriedly stopped the minor infighting among his companions.
"A spell with a Legendary aura attached to it has to be worth at least dozens of jade coins, right?" He had just recovered from the reward Professor Yao had announced and was counting on his fingers, eagerly calculating its value.
"Dozens of jade coins?"
Xiao Xiao shot him a sidelong glance and sneered. "You really have no sense of value... A spell sealed by a Legendary Wizard would sell for at least a thousand jade coins at Wander Bar... If the sealed magic is special, or if it's a large-scale destructive spell, it could be worth even more."
"I know that an auction house in Jinling Market auctioned off a Legendary Rank spell called July Flowing Fire last year. It ultimately sold for the high price of four thousand seven hundred jade coins..." Zhang Jixin immediately offered a very specific point of reference.
Four thousand seven hundred jade coins?!
Zheng Qing nearly bit his tongue when he heard that number.
As a publicly funded student, his annual scholarship amounted to only ten