This wizard only wants to take students.

Chapter 98 Gagarin's Ambition
Port Daton, a small port town not far from Kosay Island.

However, rather than a town, it is more like a small or medium-sized fishing village that can accommodate small ferries. Most of the boats moored at the port are small fishing boats of local villagers. As for the ferries or merchant ships, there are only a few throughout the year.

However, many fishermen in Daton Port are actually secretly engaged in the smuggling business. During the season when moonlight moss grows most vigorously every year, they will secretly use their fishing boats to smuggle some adventurers to Kosay Island, and then pick these adventurers up after the agreed time.

Although this business is extremely risky and the market is only good for less than two months each year, as long as they can get a few orders, the money they make will exceed what they earn from a year of hard work fishing.

It is for this reason that, despite the fact that every year there are incidents in Port Dutton where ships are destroyed and people die due to triggering defensive magic arrays or encountering accidents during navigation, the villagers here still "stick to" this business of making money.

Some of the experienced villagers have even mastered the "secret route" after a long period of exploration and have become professional "ferrymen".

For example, Lao Huosen is such a ferryman.

However, he is nearly 50 years old and can no longer withstand the hard work. In the past two years, the ferry work has gradually been transferred to his son Tom.

But the mysterious guest who had been living in his house recently always made old Huo Sen a little worried.

Although this guest was very generous and even paid all his expenses with golden coins, Old Huosen, who had been dealing with adventurers on the ship all his life, noticed something was wrong with this guest.

Not to mention that it is not yet the main time for collecting moonlight moss, and there seems to be unrest on Kosay Island recently. The fact that this guest came alone without any tools and has been staying at home for such a long time and has almost never left the attic does not make him look like an adventurer who comes here to collect moonlight moss.

In fact, Old Huo Sen doesn't care too much about the intentions of his guests. After all, the fact that he can live as a ferryman for such a long time has a lot to do with his attitude of not asking, not probing, and not meddling in other people's affairs over the years.

But the problem is that ever since this guest arrived, strange things always happen at home.

First, the fishing cat that had been raised at home for many years suddenly went crazy and scratched his wife. Then, his daughter's personality seemed to have changed strangely during this period. Sometimes she would even sit in a daze on the chair or lie on the table, like a lifeless doll.

These changes always made old Hosen a little uneasy. If Tom hadn't owed a large sum of money when he was sailing, he would never have been willing to let this strange guest live in his home again.

Suddenly, old Huo Sen heard a muffled sound of something falling from inside the attic.

And then, there was a wailing sound that was not something a human could make.

"Sir?" Old Huo Sen walked towards the attic cautiously, but after opening the door, he found that under the hood of the mysterious "guest" was actually an exquisite and strange puppet body.

"Ah..." Old Huosen opened his mouth, but he couldn't move the next moment, so his body was entangled by countless tiny silk threads. These silk threads quietly penetrated into Old Huosen's body, and some of them even penetrated into the soul level.

As the puppet's fingers moved slowly, old Huo Sen, whose body was originally quite stiff, began to blink his eyes, and then his mouth gradually opened and closed.

Click...click...

As the puppet was constantly adjusted, old Huo Sen's movements gradually became more lively from the initial stiffness, and even at the end, he had a gentle and kind smile on his face.

"Go out and get ready. I'm going to land on Kosay Island tonight." The puppet looked at Old Huo Sen and put on his hood again.

"Yes, sir." Old Huo Sen replied with a smile.

After the "new puppet" left, the puppet clenched his fists in anger and unwillingness, and then smashed a crude decoration on the bedside into pieces.

"Oh, Bennett... My poor Bennett..." The puppet seemed to be sad, or angry, but it was difficult to see any human emotions on its exquisitely painted face. Even when it gritted its teeth, the corners of its painted mouth were still slightly upturned.

"Who killed him? My Bennett... shouldn't have..." The puppet kept muttering in a low voice, but soon his tone became a little bit gnashing of teeth. "Damn Bennett! Damn the ruins restrictions!..."

But soon, the puppet calmed down, and its delicate eyes polished from stone stared straight at the old wooden boards on the side of the attic, and its tone was very calm.

"No matter who you are, I will find you. I will definitely find you!"

……

"Chuckles..." Lucian was teasing a few beauty clams at the edge of a lake on the floating island. Perhaps because they had lived in the scroll world for generations, these beauty clams were not afraid of humans at all, and they did not have a natural hatred and wariness towards wizards or humans like the wild beauty clams Lucian had bought before. Instead, they seemed to be somewhat curious and close to humans.

Even when Lucian tried to invite them out to take a look, he easily persuaded several of the beauty clams to follow him out of the scroll space.

This greatly facilitated Lucian and allowed him to collect the tears of the beauty shell in a gentler and more effective way.

For example, just now, he just used his mental power to manipulate the water flow to perform a few interesting actions, which made these little guys giggle. One of the younger ones even laughed until tears came out.

"It is said that the Moonlight Tribute made with the tears of joy of the Beauty Shells is more effective than ordinary tears." After carefully collecting the two tears just now, Lucian interacted with these Beauty Shells to maintain their relationship. After that, he ended today's collection and returned to the ancient study in the center of the floating island.

"Lord Lucian." Gagarin was standing solemnly at the door of the study. Seeing Lucian return, he hurriedly bowed and saluted with an extremely humble attitude, even with a hint of flattery in his humility.

The time spent following Lucian was quite comfortable for Gagarin, even more comfortable than when he worked under Lillia before.

Moreover, in terms of resource allocation, Lucian was much fairer than Lillia, who was exploiting people to death. He was even willing to trade with Gagarin and his friends, giving them the opportunity to use some materials in exchange for the potion [Moonlight Tribute].

This was something Gagarin had never imagined before.

These visible benefits also attracted Gagarin, making him rack his brains to squeeze into Lucian's core circle and he was extremely eager to become Lucian's student.

Judging from the strength Lucian has shown so far, even if he has not yet been promoted to a formal wizard, he is not far from this level. Once Lucian is promoted to a formal wizard, then as a disciple of a formal wizard, he will have a big backer and a strong thigh in the academy.

What’s more important is that Lucian seems to be very protective of his students and is extremely generous to them!

You should know that Kali is now receiving baptism. This is the biggest treasure in the ruins, which is enough for a third-level wizard apprentice to fight for at all costs.

But Lucian gave it directly to Carly.

This was an opportunity enough to be promoted to an official wizard, but Lucian gave it up.

How could this not drive Gagarin crazy? He didn't even expect to be treated like Carly. If he could enjoy half of Carly's treatment as Lucian's student, he would be very satisfied.

In order to become Lucian's student, Gagarin worked very hard during this period. He even made a plan. Even if he couldn't become Lucian's student right away, he hoped to build a good relationship with Lucian during this time in the secret realm, at least become a subordinate that Lucian could use more easily, and then gradually gain Lucian's trust...

With a plan in mind, Gagarin was particularly diligent and hardworking during this period. When he had nothing to do, he would take the initiative to wait at the door of the study for instructions, as if he was Lucian's personal butler.

"Yeah." Lucian smiled at Gagarin.

Gagarin's behavior these days was very obvious, and Lucian naturally saw the intention of his actions. However, the number of students bound to the system was extremely precious, and Lucian could not emotionally bind himself to Gagarin just because he deliberately flattered him these days.

Not to mention, he currently has no vacant binding quota.

However, Gagarin's active approach gave Lucian a new idea. Perhaps he could use Gagarin's active approach to explore a new model for treating non-bound students.

After all, Lucian's ultimate goal is to change the cruel wizard order in the Greybone Academy and even in more areas, and the endless exploitation of lower-level wizards by upper-level wizards.

However, to achieve this, he also needs to find a new model to balance the interests.

After all, Lucian couldn't ask all high-level wizards to take care of their students as selflessly as he did. He was so generous because the system helped the students pay the "tuition fees".

But other wizards did not. If the mentors were required to take care of the students, from a certain perspective, the original oppression of students would turn into oppression of mentors, which was definitely not desirable and could not be achieved in the long run.

So Lucian needs to find a new order to help other wizards achieve a new balance of interests.

And now, perhaps I can try to achieve this new balance on Gagarin.

(End of this chapter)