The Righteous Player(s) - Chapter 997

[Chapter 40 “Old Man” Bernardino]

The young apprentices surrounding Bernardino obviously did not have any respect for Bernardino.

——If it was simply because of a bad background or desperate, he entered the Tower of Black Glory as a teaching assistant.

Sooner or later, they will become their classmates, or just passersby who pass by them.

After all, this “anonymous apprenticeship” can be considered a job in itself.

If teaching assistants can be regarded as regular employees, then “anonymous apprentices” can also be regarded as “temporary teaching assistants”.

Even though you have to perform some of the more dangerous “teaching tasks”, you will still be paid after all.

And because the teaching tasks performed are more dangerous, there will be some additional subsidies.

The final income will be slightly higher than that of teaching assistants.

There are indeed some apprentices in the Tower of Black Glory, who really have no money, but have a strong “desire to rise”.

After they have experienced the life of “anonymous apprentices”, they will not be excluded from other apprentices when they become formal apprentices.

By then, the apprentices will even hold a banquet for the new apprentices to celebrate.

And their experience during this period will also become their valuable experience… After all, not all incapacitating wizards have also used various types of incapacitating magic by others.

The rich experience when they were released would actually help them when they learned the soul-inferior spell.

But for Bernardino, who has tried and failed, these wizard apprentices have no good attitude.

This homeless stray dog with a decadent temperament, always hunched over his waist, has been in the Tower of Black Glory for a long, long time… He is only middle-aged but still dreams of becoming a wizard one day.

For them, especially those apprentice wizards who gradually felt the gap between people in the learning process, Bernardino’s existence was an insult to them.

Most of them have deeply realized that they will never be able to step into silver in their lifetime, let alone become a wizard of the golden order.

Even the graduation exam is extremely difficult…

Just entering school, the excitement and excitement when I came into contact with magical spells… have been diluted a lot after realizing that I am only a mortal after all.

At this time, a middle-aged man who had studied hard for more than 20 years without becoming a formal wizard said that he wanted to become a wizard apprentice.

As we all know, wizard apprentices mean nothing.

If you can’t become a wizard, you’re just an ordinary person who can’t stay awake even in dreams.

The significance of a wizard apprenticeship is that it can advance to a wizard.

So what does Bernardino want to do?

What does he want to prove?

Does he think spells are so easy to learn?

Does he want to be a wizard?

Does he think that he can learn this knowledge and become a full-fledged wizard easier than them after doing chores in the wizard’s tower for more than 20 years and listening to courses with similar content for more than 20 years from the experimental bench? ?

It’s like the old man who cleaned the dormitory toilet in the university, asked the students in the mathematics department to ask for math problems, and wanted to teach himself to be admitted to the mathematics department and become a mathematician.

His move can indeed be called “motivated and studious”, and his attitude should be encouraged – but it will undoubtedly annoy and even irritate the students.

Especially after they fail their final exams.

At this time, the blood pressure of those apprentices was about to explode when they saw Bernardino holding a notebook and studying spells seriously…

So even though Bernardino was in his early forties, the students still called him “the old man”.

In wizarding towers full of young people, even the mentors rarely have long white hair and beards as in fairy tales.

Because the aging body is really uncomfortable.

As long as the conditions allow, the great wizards will use various rituals to adjust their bodies to a healthy level as much as possible without getting too old; and if they are so old that they cannot even be saved by rituals, they will not come at all. The Wizard’s Tower teaches.

Even though he was only in his early forties, Bernardino, who already had white hair and looked like he was in his fifties, was almost the oldest person in the Tower of Black Glory.

— but that’s not the whole reason to call him “Old Man”.

The apprentices of the Black Glory Tower can understand people’s hearts better than other wizard towers.

If their enemies are calm, they rarely reveal their flaws.

Compared with forcibly attacking, it is naturally a more effective method to use verbal means to make the enemy mad and irrational and generate more emotions.

In other words, the wizards of the Tower of Black Glory have to learn the skills of “taunt” and “provocation”.

For Bernardino, the most vicious words are not “idiot”, “madman”, “weird”… but “you are old”.

The title “Old Man” reminds him all the time – he has wasted most of his life in the Tower of Black Glory, but he has not even become a wizard apprentice.

And he has entered the stage of aging.

As his brain becomes dull, his learning ability and physical strength further deteriorate, the possibility of him becoming a wizard becomes less and less likely.

A lifetime wasted, suffering and torment – no one can blame it.

Because it wasn’t that he was imprisoned here by someone, or that he lost his talent because of someone’s assassination…

From the very beginning, UU reading www.sonicmtl.com was his own fault.

He could have been a good sculptor, but he wanted to study natural philosophy; he could have made it to Denisoah Theological Seminary, but he lost something.

He could even go back to his hometown – he could still be a sculptor by admitting his adoptive father and asking for his help.

But he has a good face, and he doesn’t want to and dare not go home… He would rather wander the streets, or even become a living teaching material for the Tower of Black Glory.

After so many years, he didn’t even write a letter to his adoptive father… Because it has been many years, Father Ludwig must have known for a long time that Bernardino brought his money and letter of introduction back then, in fact did not enter the seminary.

Even Father Ludwig, maybe dead.

By the time Bernardino was thirteen or fourteen, Father Ludwig was forty-five or six.

And he is now forty-two years old, and his adoptive father may have died of illness or old age.

He was more and more afraid to go home – for fear that when he returned to his hometown, all he saw was the grave of his adoptive father.

He wasted his whole life, he didn’t learn any crafts or master any skills, and the money he earned was not enough to live a stable life until his old age… Even before his adoptive father died, he didn’t have time to bury him.

“Old Man” is an unremarkable nickname.

It was the most vicious words for Bernardino.

At first, it was only used by one or two people, and later it was spread more and more.

In the end, even other tutors and new students will call him that…because he has gradually become a real “old man”.

——Bernardino lived in a hell he voluntarily entered.

Today’s second chapter, finally delivered…

Okay, start writing tomorrow’s update woohoo

(End of this chapter)