“You only found ten talents. It’s your fault anyway,” Wallace mumbled a complaint.
“Really? I’ll leave the recruitment job to you next time,” Sunders said.
Wallace’s face turned green. He quickly waved his hands and faked several coughs, “I’m too old for this. Let’s ask the youngsters to do this job…”
Sunders sneered, “We’re of the same age.”
“…” Wallace was speechless.
“And I’ll make it clear again. Nine talents, the winners from deathmatches in the nine chambers. Not ten,” said Sunders.
Wallace cast a side-look at Sunders, “Then what was about that bird kid? He isn’t one of the talents? Just so you know, I already checked. He has 15 spiritual power, so he’s absolutely a talent.”
Sunders smiled, “Because he is my student.”
Apart from Flora and Ness, who already knew the matter, Wallace and the red-hair witch both stared at Sunders in shock.
Sunders… THE Sunders actually found a student for himself?!
…
It took some time for them to get over their surprise and return to their original temperament. Now, Wallace and the red-hair witch began to inspect Sunders’ new student with extra care.
Wallace watched Angor’s movements and manners for a long time.
“I don’t think the kid goes well with Sunders.”
Sunders did not say anything. Instead, he directed a terrifying gaze at Wallace as if throwing knives at him.
“… Ahem! The talents have waited for quite a while now, and we already see their reactions in the situation. Let’s start talking about our impressions,” said the gray-haired old shortie, Ness. They dropped the talents on the plateau to test their psychological properties, which was the last test before they were admitted into Brute Cavern.
Ness never showed up in front of the talents during their trip, but he had been recording their characteristics in secret. After finishing this final test, he would create personal profiles for them, and write down comments about these talents together with Sunders.
The comments would be left on their profiles. Usually, wizards referred to these comments when they chose their apprentices.
These comments were different from the messages used for students in mortal schools. Mortals usually described good virtues, such as kindness, friendliness, and generosity. These things were not important standards for wizards to determine apprentices. For wizards, selfishness, arrogance, cruelty, and irritability were sometimes better traits.
“Who’s going first?” Ness looked around.
“I’ll do it,” said the red-hair witch as she stepped up.
Ness nodded, “We’ll start from Fiery Charm then.”
The witch called “Fiery Charm” reached out a hand and pointed to one of the talents, “I’m interested in the young man called Orlando. He’s willful, childish, and self-centered, but he knows how to control himself, and he has a sharp mind. When interacting with his friend, he had shown great loyalty.”