The Lord Demon King is Unfathomable!

Chapter 1199 - 357: Shadows Beneath the High Tower_4

The insights within regarding Source Power and the Void Realm are so naive that they're laughable. Even though he himself has never been to the Void Realm nor truly understood the roots pursued by the Tower of Great Sage, he knows that such matters are not for ordinary people to pontificate about.

However, considering the scroll contains a good amount of words, and the handwriting is neat with a sufficiently serious attitude, it's still quite easy to achieve a passing grade.

The written test of the winter recruitment, after all, is merely an initial screening, and only those who didn't become apprentices would take it too seriously.

Minos was certain that the person he swapped with was clearly a powerless and unimportant bookworm, who probably dreamed of sneaking into the Academic State, maybe even sold his family property for it. If not, that guy wouldn't have written so many words in the snowy weather.

No one would stand up for such a person.

As for why he was so certain, it was because he himself used to be such a person.

If he likes exams so much, then he can take it again next year.

Yankov listened and finally breathed a deep sigh of relief.

He thanked Minos profusely, as if the other was a great benefactor to the Gage family, then hurriedly left the tavern.

Minos rubbed the storage ring on his knuckle, feeling a sudden pride, as if he had already reached the peak of his life.

What does it matter if the Gage family is wealthy enough to rival a nation?

In front of a respected Mage, are they not as humble as a dog!

With confidence as firm as steel, he decided that before returning to the Academic State, he would first go to the Traveler Camp to release some energy with mortal girls.

Yet when he eagerly arrived at a corner of the camp, he was shocked to find that the women who had gathered there to do business had vanished overnight, leaving only a few empty tents smelling of cheap perfume.

How strange.

He returned to the tavern to inquire with the bartender, and the bartender vaguely mentioned that it seemed the women were taken away by Sir Richter's guards the day before.

"Nominally, this is his territory... though he doesn't often come here. You know, such matters are after all not acknowledged by Saint Sis."

Minos looked at the bartender incomprehensibly.

"By Saint Sis... he still remembers he's a Knight of Saint Sis, though I heard he doesn't even care about the Undead."

That Undead Mage seems to have some ties with the Academic State; he recalled an upperclassman mentioning to them, warning not to trouble themselves, not to play the hero for merely dozens of silver coins, as that's beyond the capacity of those with only Bronze-level power.

The bartender seemed slightly flushed and coughed as he spoke.

"That may be, but Sir Richter is still quite diligent; I heard he eradicated the Undead in Pompeii Village a few days ago."

That guy alone?!

Minos was dumbfounded, but didn't bother to dig deeper. He was already feeling quite disappointed, so could only drink a glass of dull spirits alone and leave in dismay.

However, at this very moment, he didn't yet know that a small mistake of his would bring great trouble to him and the Mages behind him.

The three assistants responsible for grading the papers didn't realize that the perfect score scroll they graded was a "commodity" swapped by their colleagues.

It was only due to their academic vision and knowledge reserves that they maintained fairness in the insignificant matter of "grading," and were moved by the talent demonstrated in the six thousand word "thesis."

In the past hundred years, it was unprecedented for the three assistants to unanimously give a perfect score to the same scroll.

After all, the tests were subjective with no standard answers.

It was almost impossible for a mere mortal to simultaneously impress three Mages with silver or even gold-level power.

Yet there were so many coincidences in this world, and this highly improbable event occurred just like that.

Moreover, this scroll even caught the attention of true elites in the Tower of Great Sage—Professor Hector, a Platinum-level powerhouse!

However, neither Professor Hector nor the other professors eyeing this legendary apprentice realized what exactly the scroll they placed on the scale was...