Chapter 115
Two months later.
The gradual descent of the flying ship in the center of the square signaled that the compulsory mission of the Underground Cave had come to an end.
Just like the time when they came here, it was the same masculine guy wearing a golden armor who was in charge of escorting them back.
When he saw Greem and the other apprentices, a smile with unknown meanings emerged on the masculine man’s face.
“Hahaha, little bastards, how was the life in the Underground World? Let me see… not bad, not bad at all! Out of ten apprentices, there are still seven of you left. It looks like those underground fellows are being courteous to you. Eh? How come there is one additional Pseudo-Adept? It seems someone is doing pretty well! Haha, is that little beginner apprentice the first one to get killed? How brave is the mere beginner apprentice to come to this place, he was just courting death! Hahaha…”
Hearing how the masculine man lectured them with a self-entertaining manner, an unsightly expression appeared on the faces of these few apprentices.
During the last underground patrol for the mission team, they were struck by a planned ambush from the Fallen Apprentices. The Advanced Apprentice, Bruce, was killed on that trip, while the rest managed to flee with different degrees of injuries. Hence, when they heard the mocking words from the masculine man, they immediately lowered their heads, as their eyes were filled with flames of anger.
With a bitter expression, Greem bowed slightly and greeted, “Master Sammir, I’m the Beginner Apprentice you mentioned!”
While he was still on the ship, Greem gave the crowd a rough gaze. Within seconds, the Chip had given him the numbers of apprentices he saw: thirty-seven apprentices. Including the nine apprentices on the ship, the total was only forty-six. Comparing to sixty-two apprentices that had attended the mission, one-third of the apprentices were gone.
Presumably, among all Adept Towers, a depletion ratio like this was considered the highest. And obviously, the reason for this was closely related to the slacking off of Adept Anderson, the master of Swampy Tower. In the previous years, Greem and all the other apprentices were locked up in this magical swampy land, a place with sparse resources. During normal days, in order to carry out a magical experiment, they even had to restlessly harvest the materials themselves or exchange with other apprentices.
As the result, compared to those apprentices from other Adept Towers, the overall strength of the apprentices from Swampy Tower was shockingly weak, and they were poor to a jaw-dropping extent. And by participating in the dangerous apprentice training with such overall strength, any minor accident would be a life-threatening event for them!
Even for those apprentices who had lived through the training mission, most of them completed their mission with the poorest results, hence their improvement wasn’t much. On the contrary, led by Ellen, the ten apprentices who stayed back were covering their face with a flattering smile. Facing with these apprentices who risked their life but harvested a little, they felt that they really had great foresight and had made a wise decision.
But, when the last batch of nine apprentices stepped down from the flying ship, everyone at the scene couldn’t help but change their expressions drastically!