138: Chapter 138 School Recruitment

Nie Ning checked the surroundings and finally confirmed that the Corruptor was truly dead.

Not long after, Lida rushed back with his men.

Looking at the scarred earth, his eyes were full of wonder and envy.

He wondered when he would be like Nie Ning, or if he would never be able to reach that level in his entire life...

"How is it? Where are the corpses?"

Nie Ning glanced behind Lida but did not see those two corpses.

"Reporting, My Lord, the corpses have been sealed according to your request and have already been sent back to the Federation Branch by others."

Lida replied honestly.

Nie Ning nodded.

It had to be said that the changes in Sunny and Kara were indeed unexpected.

He had encountered many Corruptors before, but cases of directly transforming into a soul of corruption were quite rare.

And compared to Corruptors with physical bodies, a soul of corruption was clearly much more difficult to deal with.

If it weren't for his own countering Power of Corruption, combined with the fact that the Two-Faced Man had too little time to grow, it would have been hard to say who would have emerged victorious.

Even so, it still destroyed the already rusted coffin nail.

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Nie Ning looked at the severed limbs scattered around; these people were just unlucky.

Normally, since Kara and Sunny were born from obsession, they should have sought revenge on Martin and Jerry.

And that was the terrifying part of the Power of Corruption.

The Power of Corruption distorted the Two-Faced Man's obsession, expanding the scope of revenge to the classmates who had helped the poor last time.

If it grew further under this corrosive state, the hunting range would spread to all classmates, and eventually even everyone in the entire city would be included.

This was a Corruptor—distorting the will of living beings, truly the enemy of all life.

Nie Ning's gaze shifted to Martin and Jerry.

Seeing Nie Ning look over, the two showed looks of terror.

But Kara and Sunny's fathers were distraught; the death of their children was too great a blow to them.

Not to mention their family relations had always been very stable; who could have thought such a thing would happen.

Nie Ning didn't say much; now that the matter was over, it would be handed over to the City Lord's Mansion shortly, and he wouldn't involve himself in the judgment.

Of course, the main reason was that many people had died this time, and he certainly couldn't take the blame for it.

He had done what he should, and the remaining trouble could be left to the City Lord to handle.

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Next, Nie Ning went to take a look at Lilith.

Under Norma's protection, only three students, including Evinny, and several parents survived.

Nie Ning had already done his best to save this city.

Two Guards died in the line of duty, and the rest of the dead were students and parents, which was a significant blow to those families.

Fortunately, Lilith was fine, and that was enough.

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When the people from the City Lord's Mansion arrived, Nie Ning took Lida back to The Federation.

They came to the room for storing corpses, where rows of morgue cabinets were arranged, with a long table-style operating table in the middle.

When Wizards deal with Corruptors, they usually find clues from the injured to analyze the abilities the Corruptor possessed, which is why such a place was built.

As soon as Nie Ning entered the room, a stench hit him.

Lida frowned slightly and hurried forward to open the smelly morgue cabinets, which were labeled with Sunny and Kara's names.

Nie Ning stepped forward to examine the corpses and found that the originally intact bodies had rotted and were oozing pus, as if they had spent months in a damp environment.

This was something Nie Ning hadn't expected.

The soul of corruption actually had such a connection with its original body.

Seeing this, Nie Ning ordered Lida to record the state of the corpses.

Killing a Corruptor would earn a reward from The Federation; even if the Corruptor was already dead, one should still strive for what was due.

After making the records, Nie Ning burned the corpses with a fire and used the formation in the room to disperse the dense Power of Corruption.

After finishing all this, Nie Ning finally returned to the manor.

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Ten days later.

Midas Academy.

Nie Ning looked at the students on the playground below, listening disinterestedly to the old principal's rambling, looking utterly weary of life.

On the podium in front of the playground stood a runic pillar with a crystal ball.

Nie Ning had originally forgotten about the spirit testing instrument.

Because the issue with the Power of Corruption was very serious, he would not use that method to seize characteristics again in the short term.

But then Lida hinted to him that this was public property, which reminded him of this forgotten device.

As for this test, it was already the fifth school Nie Ning had visited.

This kind of thing didn't originally require him to come in person.

The reason he came was actually that he had the idea of choosing a successor.

Although Ska City wasn't exactly in decline, it wasn't a particularly great place either.

The aptitude of the apprentices in The Federation wasn't good, or rather, people with high aptitude wouldn't be sent to a place like this.

For low-level wizards, aptitude was still extremely important.

For someone like Lida with lower-middle aptitude, the speed at which he painstakingly improved his strength might not even match that of an ordinary person with high aptitude.

Not only the cultivation speed, but even the success rate of promoting to a wizard was different.

Unfortunately, ordinary wizards were not suitable for transplanting a crystal core, and his own situation could not be replicated.

Compared to a human, he was more like an exotic beast now, and one that had hunted for beneficial genes.

If it weren't for his own reckless maneuvers, insisting on using fusion sorcery, it might have been easier to advance if he had used other Branded Sorceries instead.

But it was precisely because of this that he could obtain the powerful force of multi-elemental fusion.

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After visiting five schools, Nie Ning had only found seven people with wizard aptitude.

Among the seven, two had substandard aptitude, four had low aptitude, and one had talent comparable to Lida's.

Nie Ning was very helpless about this; with such aptitude, ten years of cultivation might not even lead to the peak of a Witch Apprentice.

However, if there was no other choice, he could only choose to train Lida.

After all, Lida was already available, and Nie Ning didn't want to keep picking.

As for those with apprentice aptitude, The Federation would distribute resources for their training.

Compared to a Wild Wizard, wizards recruited by The Federation needed to sign a contract.

It wasn't an overly harsh contract, because The Federation's sheer size meant that excessive terms would only cause dissatisfaction among the wizard community.

If a powerful wizard were to emerge from among them, it would be useless to regret or beg for mercy later.

Nie Ning also had a Wizard Agreement, and the terms recorded on it weren't too strict.

The only point to note was that another wizard must take over the duty of guarding, or he must complete a ten-year term before he could choose to leave.

Nie Ning didn't know when he would leave, so training a successor early was a way of preparing for a rainy day.

As for relying on The Federation to send someone, it would be a miracle if those people didn't try to stick to him like glue; there was no way they would dispatch another wizard here.

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