55: Chapter 55 Compensation

It obscured the blood-red hue of the battlefield and the severed limbs and fragments of the Ghouls.

At this moment, Ross's situation was much better than that of Vera and Edmund.

Only the corners of his clothes were slightly soiled.

However, the bodies of Vera and Edmund were not nearly as tidy.

Vera had long since activated her Monster Cat bloodline during the previous battle with that group of ordinary Ghouls.

Although she had recovered some mental power by hunting Walking Corpses, her magic power had not yet recovered.

As for Edmund, he was in an even more pathetic state.

As the front-line meat shield in the recent battle, he had almost single-handedly blocked the charge of all the Ghouls.

Even the Iron Armor Spell cast around his body had become dim and dull.

The giant Ghoul that appeared after the earth-shaking tremor just now, as well as the exaggerated effect of Ross's Magic Flame being ineffective against it—

all left this Level 2 Wizard Apprentice feeling terrified, and at this moment, Edmund's heart was simply filled with relief.

Rejoicing that if he had been inside the cave back then, as long as he had hesitated for a little longer—

and failed to release his magic owl, he and his sister wouldn't know if they had any chance of returning to the academy alive.

Ross looked at the shaken Vera and Edmund,

and couldn't help finding it amusing, although he had also been startled by the imposing momentum of that giant Ghoul.

However, Ross's mindset was very steady, and he quickly calmed down.

"Before things reached a dead end, the academy's rescue arrived."

Although Ross's inner self had just recovered from the panic of the giant Ghoul bursting out of the ground moments ago,

yes, although Ross's spells could cause little impact on this Ghoul with Official Wizard-level strength,

nevertheless, the experience of falling into this secret realm space this time still gave Ross an unexpected harvest.

Just during this period, Ross's mental power was already approaching the threshold of 1000 points of mental power.

The realm of a Level 2 Wizard Apprentice was already beckoning to Ross.

Even if the academy hadn't dispatched an Official Wizard in time to rescue them,

Ross estimated that once his mental power stabilized at 1000,

he would also have enough strength to evade the attacks from the giant Ghoul.

After all, although this giant Ghoul had Official Wizard-level strength, like those ordinary Ghouls, it suffered from various debuffs of mental confusion.

Besides, weren't there two other Wizard Apprentices covering for him?

At this moment, an image flashed through Ross's mind:

In the deep wilderness forests, if you encounter a bear or some raptors, as long as you have companions, and you run faster than the others,

you won't be in any danger.

Although everyone was an academy wizard, if a real life-and-death crisis struck, his bond with the other two hadn't reached the point of entrusting their lives to each other.

Of course, Ross wasn't that heartless either.

It was just that amidst the recent panic, like a revolving lantern, he had indeed quickly thought of many ways to cope.

Speaking of which, taking on external commissions from the academy still carried considerable risks.

After this time, he should easily avoid taking on any more external commissions outside.

He would just wait to develop steadily in the academy, whether planting magical plants or trying to brew potions.

He had plenty of ways to earn magic stones.

Let this kind of external thrill be endured by the adventurous siblings like Edmund.

At this moment, Ross's gaze also shifted back to his nominal mentor-in-charge, Wizard Ian.

Of course, not his own personal mentor, but the mentor-in-charge for all newly enrolled Wizard Apprentices.

Ian, who was right before them, was facing the three of Ross.

He looked extremely young, and it was unclear whether he was genuinely young or had taken some kind of potion that preserved one's appearance.

But he looked like he was in his twenties, not more than his thirties.

He wasn't much older than Ross, and might even be younger.

He wore a dark gray robe embroidered with indigo tassels at the collar, and runes knitted with silver thread appeared on the collar and cuffs.

He had a head of slightly messy brownish curly hair and light golden, amber-like eyes.

At this time, Ian's voice sounded:

"It seems you have all sobered up."

"I didn't expect the source material for this academy commission to have such a huge flaw."

Ian explained that the academy's commissions were generally vetted.

Commissions like this outside were even more rigorous.

Yet for unknown reasons, there turned out to be such a massive loophole.

This kind of secret realm space—

especially the "spatial fragments" generated during the process of the Wizard World "digesting" other worlds, or called "secret realms"—

was definitely not something Wizard Apprentices like Ross could handle.

Of course, there were also some lucky fellows in the Wizard World.

Some lucky ones might accidentally stray into planes or worlds being devoured by the Wizard World.

These spaces might not only lack otherworldly enemies or monsters,

but might also contain resources such as wondrous items and rare magical plants.

This was also converted into resources that could be utilized by wizards under the impact of laws after the Wizard World interacted with other worlds.

The kind Ross and the others encountered belonged to slightly dangerous micro-spatial fragments.

This space seemed to have quite a lot of space along its sprawling boundaries,

but in reality, the distance from the boundary to the attractive core area where Ross was was at most a bit farther.

"However, since you reported it in time this time, the academy will not embezzle your merits. Afterwards, 20 academy points will be transferred to you."

Wizard Ian said.

"Thank you, Lord."

"Thank you, Your Excellency."

Ross, Vera, and Edmund responded quickly.

None of the three were fools; if they kept harping on the flaw in the academy's commission,

perhaps they could get a bit more compensation, but in the eyes of the academy, they would probably leave an impression of being insatiable.

After all, strictly speaking,

the three of them were just ordinary Wizard Apprentices in the academy, and even the academy couldn't guarantee that its task commission information was 100% accurate.

Otherwise, that wouldn't be called a commission, but rather "door-to-door service".

Besides, the three of them also received compensation of 20 academy points.

This could almost be exchanged for four ordinary wizard models, or 20 times that, which was 400 magic stones.

For ordinary Wizard Apprentices, this was an astronomical amount of compensation.

Even Ross was slightly shocked by the academy's lavish spending for 0.3145926 seconds.

"It seems the value of this secret realm should be very high."

At this moment, Ross's mind was no longer on the 20 academy points he had just obtained.

And why worry about things already in hand?

Instead, the academy's reaction made Ross realize something.

There must be some other value to this secret realm that he wasn't clear about.