Wizard: The exploration panel keeps me pure.

"it is good."

"She doesn't...? What did you say?"

Hearing the boy's reply, Mas, who was about to offer some advice, couldn't say it and just stared at him blankly.

"I know what you're trying to say, senior. Don't worry, I'm only here to complete my academy mission, and I don't want to know anything else."

Ron smiled, but his words left the middle-aged man momentarily stunned.

He seemed to see in this junior the shadow of the geniuses he had seen:

What a heartless and ungrateful man!

Aren't you curious why I told you not to have too much contact with her?

"I'm not curious, I'm not interested in these things. Senior, let's talk about the academy's guard duties instead."

"Oh, okay, let me tell you about our responsibilities first."

Although he didn't understand why his junior could agree so readily, Mas immediately realized what was going on and gave Ron a general account of his experiences in Nurse City over the past year. Ron finally understood what he needed to do next.

In short, it means acting as a representative of the Red Moon Tower, assisting the local governor in maintaining regional stability, and handling extraordinary events as needed.

Of course, he, as a novice wizard apprentice, couldn't handle things that were too difficult. In such cases, he would need to contact the academy using special methods and have them send someone to handle it.

"By the way, junior, there are a few things you definitely need to pay attention to."

"Don't underestimate Nurs just because it's a small town. There are quite a few wizards here. There are more wild wizards like that old man from the Rang family than you can imagine. When a senior was stationed here before, he led the formation of a secret society."

"The main purpose of this rally is to stabilize those people and prevent them from causing large-scale destruction for some special reason."

"In addition, the rally also organizes regular auctions. If you're interested, I can take you to see them; it should be in the next few days."

Upon hearing this, Ron immediately smiled and nodded in agreement: "Of course, thank you very much, Senior Maas."

"It was nothing, no need to be so polite."

The carriage traveled slowly along the street, weaving through the bustling crowds, and finally stopped in front of a three-story villa.

"We're here, junior. This is the academy's headquarters in the city, and also where we usually live. How is it? Not bad, right?"

The two stood in front of the villa, and Mas pointed to the house in front of them and asked with a smile.

"Yeah, it's much better than I expected. Senior, do you usually live here alone?"

"No, I also employ some people who live here and help me with some household chores. You know, we don't have much free time, so it would be too extravagant to spend time on these kinds of things."

The middle-aged man smiled and shook his head, explaining to him with a helpless tone, then, as if remembering something, asked:

"By the way, the contracts of the people I've hired are about to expire. What do you think? Should we continue using them, or hire a new batch?"

"this......"

Ron hesitated, unsure how to answer.

Seeing his hesitation, Mas slapped his forehead: "See what I said, it's okay, just do what you think is right, don't worry about me, after all, this place is your territory for the next period of time."

Upon hearing this, Ron breathed a sigh of relief; this was precisely what had been his hesitation.

Now that the other party has brought it up, I don't feel any guilt anymore.

"Senior, I think I'll just hire a new batch of people. I'm really sorry to disappoint you."

It wasn't that she suspected her senior had any ulterior motives towards her; it was just his personality—he was always cautious. Besides, these people were hired by others, and she probably wouldn't be very comfortable using them herself. It would be better to hire a new batch of people. After all, it wasn't spending magic stones, so she didn't care.

The middle-aged man seemed to understand his thoughts, nodded, and pointed in the direction of the street to the south, saying:

"In that case, you just need to go to the employment market in the South District. The people there are pretty good. I'm currently using employees hired from there."

"Just keep walking down this street, then turn right at the first fork in the road. It's just a few steps away. You can go and see if there's anything suitable after I leave."

"Okay, I understand."

Seeing his relaxed expression, Mas said no more and smiled as he invited him into the villa in front of him.

From the outside, it didn't seem like much, but once inside, Ron discovered that the interior was extremely elaborate: classical and elegant murals, furniture depicting various magical arrays, and magical energy particles filling the surrounding air.

"You felt it?"

Mas seemed to have anticipated this scene and asked with a smile.

"Senior, what's this?"

The middle-aged man didn't rush to answer his question, but instead asked him in return, "Junior, do you know how long the city of Nurs has a history?"

"have no idea."

"Three hundred years, a full three hundred years, and this academy's stronghold has been here since the city was first built."

A thought suddenly struck Ron, and he exclaimed in realization, "Senior, you mean these things were left behind by the previous seniors?"

"clever."

"Come, let me show you the other rooms."

Following the other person up to the second floor, several rooms appeared on both sides. Mas pointed to one of them and introduced it to him:

"This is the archives. Every resident here needs to write a report before leaving, one copy of which is left here and the other is taken back to the college."

"This is the library, filled with the notes of our predecessors, as well as some experimental reports..."

After explaining the functions of several rooms to him, they returned to the living room.

Sitting on the soft sofa, Ron kept replaying what Mas had just told him in his mind, and suddenly something dawned on him:

No wonder everyone in the academy looks down on wild wizards. This is just the accumulation of knowledge from the students stationed in Nurs City alone. It's unimaginable how profound the knowledge accumulation of the academy must be over such a long period of time and among so many wizards.

That's the difference.

He couldn't help but sigh inwardly, finally understanding the meaning of that saying: true wisdom is always something that is refined over time.

"Junior, I've done the math. The gathering is in two days. Once I introduce you to the wizards in the city, our mission handover will be complete."

"At that time, everything here will be in your hands."

"Stay here for the next couple of days and get familiar with things."

"Okay, senior."

Ron was very obedient and didn't say anything; what the other person said was indeed correct.

Even from the worst-case scenario, even if there are some shady dealings behind it all, it's not something I can get involved in.

"Okay, that's settled then. I'll tell you about some other ways to handle problems, so you can use that as a reference if you ever encounter them."

"Okay, thank you, senior."

With a wave of his hand, Maas began to tell him about some of the things he had encountered during his year of service.

Bandits, corrupted creatures, corrupted and defiled...

Time passed slowly, and soon it was evening. A servant came to remind the two to have dinner.

"That's about it. As long as you pay attention in your daily life, nothing serious should happen."

This sounds a bit like setting a flag, but since the other person was just trying to put his mind at ease, he couldn't really say anything.

Dinner consisted of plain white bread with some roasted meat and fruit wine. Looking at these things, Ron actually started to miss the rats in the academy cafeteria.

"Is the pollution too severe?"

He couldn't help but start to doubt himself: what normal person would like to eat snakes and rats?

Shaking his head, he cleared the jumbled thoughts from his mind and slowly savored the "delicious" food in front of him.

Before he knew it, two days had passed in the blink of an eye, and Ron had settled down completely. Taking advantage of this quiet time, he picked up his previous training rhythm again.