Death Wizard Diary.

Chapter 306 Return

Before Rockai and the others appeared, Thor appeared at another entrance to the Wizard Tower.

This passageway is not for vehicles, but it leads directly to the fifth floor of the Wizard Tower's East Tower.

His mentor, Kaz, had personally guided him through that journey once before.

Thor was completely concealed in his large cloak as he moved slowly forward, watching every turn on the slope.

Having encountered no one else along the way, Thor reached the fifth floor of the East Tower relatively smoothly. Upon arriving there, he looked at the upward and downward passages, pondered for a moment, and chose to go down.

For the sake of the Sound-Grinding Fruit and the mark within his body, he hoped that the first person he would contact upon returning to the Wizard Tower would be the Tower Master.

Aside from the tower master, anyone who tries to approach him could be a maintainer of the Soul-Losing Flower mark.

If Thor wants to see the Tower Master, he can choose to go up to the 19th floor—he has access to the Tower Master's private library there.

Alternatively, go to the second warehouse and ask the tower master himself to come down.

After comparing the distance and safety of the two, Thor felt it would be better to trouble the tower master instead.

Not knowing how long it would take for the people guarding the entrance to the wizard's tower to realize they weren't in the carriage, Thor quickened his pace again.

It was nearly 6 p.m., and most of the students were wandering around the library, registration room, and various laboratories on the sixth floor. As Thor went down, he encountered fewer and fewer people.

However, when he arrived at the second floor of the East Tower, he unexpectedly encountered Chrome, who had just come out of the second morgue.

This first-class apprentice took over Thor's job in the morgue, and when they first met, he even used his companion goblin to provoke Thor.

But today he actually walked out of Hayden's second morgue...

Thor glanced instinctively into the second morgue, but saw no one else, only a few corpses hanging in mid-air by ropes, moving on their own without any wind.

Although Chrome was curious about the sudden appearance of a person on the second floor of the East Tower, he did not steal a glance at the face under the cloak.

The longer he stayed in the Wizard's Tower, the more his initial impulsiveness and arrogance were washed away, and he learned what it meant to be cautious in his words and actions, and to restrain his curiosity.

Unexpectedly, the person in front of him stopped, without turning around, but his voice came through.

"Where is Hayden?"

"Senior Hayden?" Chrome finally raised his head slightly and glanced at Thor. "He applied to leave the tower a month early and is no longer here. I'm currently in charge of the second morgue."

They've already left the tower?

Thor nodded stiffly, ignoring Chrome, and walked straight into the dark corridor.

Chrome stood still until Thor was out of sight in the corridor before looking up and peering into the depths of the second floor of the East Tower.

"That just now, it looked like Senior Thor." A mud-monster-like companion fairy was attached to Chrome's head, and the two of them had the same expression, with their eyes wide open and mouths slightly agape.

"My God, he's changed so much! He seems even more imposing now. Could he have already advanced to the third-level apprentice level?"

After saying that, Chrome immediately shook his head in denial, "Impossible, impossible, how long has he been at level two?"

However, despite his verbal denial, he secretly believed that Thor had already been promoted.

"Ah, I also want to become such a skilled apprentice, and then be chosen by the Tower Master to be his disciple. Guagua, do you think I have a chance?"

The companion fairy above his head jumped up and called Chrome back to reality from her reverie.

The boy immediately jumped up too, "Oh dear, we still have to go change the materials, or my sister will rot."

Thor was unaware of the shock that only Level 1 Chrome was experiencing; he was still surprised by Hayden's sudden departure.

"When others recruit followers, the recipients immediately bow down and worship. Why is it that when I want to recruit a follower, the other party packs up and leaves before I even have a chance?"

He shook his head, and with mixed feelings, pushed open the door and entered the second warehouse.

Nearly a month later, he finally returned. He wondered how the senior student who replaced him was doing.

Inside the storeroom, the apprentice who had taken over Saul's job was holding a lamplighter to maintain the number of candles in the storeroom.

Thor was somewhat surprised when he saw the other person's face.

"Treasury money?"

Kukin glanced at Thor with a slight turn of his head, nodded briefly, and then turned back to continue lighting the candlesticks.

"Wait a minute, these candles are acting up today. I need mental energy to keep them from going out again."

Kukin had worked in the second warehouse for many years and was very experienced in his work.

Several candlesticks on the candlesticks kept going out today, and the number of candles burning has almost dropped below ninety.

Kukin carefully lit the candle, protecting the flame from going out immediately. It was only because of his experience that he succeeded; anyone else would likely have been frantic and sweating profusely by now.

At the same time, as the former warehouse manager whose job was taken by Thor, Kugin also wanted to make a name for himself in front of Thor.

But as he struggled to keep the flame burning, he didn't notice that when Thor saw that the number of bright candles had dropped to the threshold, his first reaction was to glance at the group of corpses standing in neat rows.

Then, as Kukin was lighting the candle, he found that his work suddenly became incredibly easy and smooth.

Each candle is lit only once, so there's no need to wait in place for several minutes to see if it will go out quickly.

He lit twenty candles along the way, then put down the lamp and looked back at the much brighter hall with a blank expression, feeling as if the experience had just happened was a dream.

"It seems the crisis has been resolved. As expected of Senior Kugin." Thor smiled slightly, sincerely praising him, and then walked steadily through the horde of zombies towards his experimental table.

His gaze swept over the cabinets and table, confirming that the seals he had left behind were still intact. The spiritual imprints he had left on them were also unchanged.

"Do you need to check again? I can hand it over anytime." Kukin came over with the lamplighter, a smug smile on his face, clearly excited from lighting more than twenty candles in a row.

"Alright." Thor turned to look at Kukin, tearing off his cloak with one hand. "But why do I remember that I wasn't handing over the cloak to you when I left the tower?"

Kujin wasn't nervous. He skillfully put away the lamps and took out the warehouse registration book. "The apprentice who handed over the duties to you found Master Katz after working for three days and voluntarily gave up the mission."

Thor didn't understand. "Why?"

Kukin paused, hesitated for a second, and then handed the manual to Saul. "Not everyone dares to face their mentor directly. Especially since he was so unlucky. He'd only been here three days when he was called over by Mentor Rum and Mentor Anze to deliver materials. In the end, he was forced to help Mentor Anze for an afternoon, and I heard he was almost dead when he came back."

This wasn't the case when Saul worked in the second warehouse, where he often only had a task once a month, to the point that he sometimes forgot he was even employed.

He pondered to himself, "The newcomer just took over my job and was scared off by the mentors... Could it be on their part, trying to find someone else to manage the warehouse? Could it be that the vault... is the one who maintains the mark?"

(End of this chapter)