Chapter 269
Chapter 269 On the Flying Ship
The ticket price of the flying ship was calculated on a per person basis.
It wasn’t really expensive, but neither was it cheap. Two hundred magic crystals for every passenger.
This basically made it impossible for ordinary peasants and low-level apprentices to ever take a ride on the flying ship!
Greem would never receive more than ten magic crystals per month back when he was an apprentice adept. If one deducted the basic cost of borrowing books, renting the lab, and purchasing magical materials from his income, he would barely have any crystals left at the end of each month.
And if he wanted to increase his income? The only way would be to take on the apprentice missions put out by the Adept’s Association.
However, such missions often required travelling to faraway places. Moreover, there would occasionally be a need to take the risk of venturing into hazardous areas. It didn’t matter whether it was the wild plains, the ancient woods, or some hidden ruins. All of these would contain hidden threats that were lethal to apprentice adepts!
Two hundred magic crystals was an unimaginable sum of money for most low-level apprentices. Only pseudo-adepts would be able to bear such a cost. Thus, almost all of the people on the deck, with the exception of Snorlax and Alice, were adepts.
Only adepts were allowed to stay in the first and second levels. Even Alice, who was a pseudo-adept, could barely get a cabin on the third level. This was the same level as the human nobles. On the other hand, servants like Snorlax could only squat in the damp, dark fourth level.
The low-class servants were not allowed in the upper levels during the flight. This was to prevent them from affecting or interrupting the good moods of the adepts and noble lords. Their meals and biological needs had to be dealt with on the fourth level. They had to endure any sort of humiliation or bullying in silence. Otherwise the guardian adept responsible for guarding the safety of the ship had the authority to throw them overboard.
Even though Alice already had some understanding of the situation, she was still unavoidably upset when she had to endure this inferior treatment. She pouted and walked towards the end of the corridor with Snorlax. The steps to the lower levels were there.
After all, this was a world where adepts reigned supreme. If Greem wanted to let them stay by his side, he would likely draw the ire of the other adepts. Some privileges were reserved only for adepts!
This was a classist atmosphere that the adepts had intentionally created. It could not be easily shattered.
Greem randomly picked an unoccupied room and pushed the wooden door open.
Perhaps due to the rune on the plaque detecting magical energy, it started to let out a pale glow.
This room was simply a small cabin room. There was a wooden bed affixed to the corner of the room. The bedsheets were fairly clean. Apart from this, the only furniture in the room was a small desk and chair. These were made of redwood and seemed to be fairly sturdy.
A window the size of a washbasin was placed in the wall, right above the bed. The window was made of a transparent crystal glass. The material was most likely hard vulcanized crystal. Such crystal glass might look thin, but it was difficult to break with ordinary knives and swords.
Greem performed a basic inspection of the room. Having confirmed that there were no hidden arrays or special energy fluxes in the room, he closed the door and sat on the chair.
He reached into his storage belt and rummaged around for a bit. Finally, Greem pulled out a thick and heavy book with gold lining and a black cover. He started flipping through the pages, focusing all of his attention on its contents.
A small line of words appeared in his sight at the lower right corner of the page he had flipped to.
The soul reigns above the material, and the mind is the product of the material and the Spirit.
— Kane.
These… these were Kane’s notes on magic. Kane of the Two-face Adept.
Password of the Mind!
Honestly, the fire spells that Greem had mastered all prioritized might. They had tremendous firepower. This truly made him powerful and gave him an edge in combat, but it also prevented him from obtaining any decent spoils from combat.
This ‘Password of the Mind’ had been a fortunate acquisition. If Greem hadn’t been agile and quick enough to grab it from the enemy’s storage belt, it probably would have perished in the ferocious flames, along with all the other items the Two-face Adept had on them!