Chapter 96 Clubs and One Month
One month passed quickly.
In the public botanical garden, Locke had a handover with the first-class wizard apprentice Hughes Coffman. There was no need to meet, but Hughes Coffman came to the 500-acre public magic field area that Locke was responsible for half a day in advance.
Hughes took a few glances at the five hundred acres of public magic fields, his eyes sparkling. He did not expect that a newly promoted first-class wizard apprentice would take care of the magic fields so well.
The second-class wizard apprentice in the Public Botanical Garden looked at Hughes Coffman unexpectedly, "Sir Coffman, why are you here? The handover time should be tomorrow..."
Hughes Coffman waved his hand, dismissed the assistant, and then walked towards Locke with a smile. "Hello, I am Hughes Coffman, and my wizard mentor is Harlan Vera."
"Specialized in transfiguration and botany magic, and a formal breeder." Hughes Coffman is a handsome middle-aged man, who looks to be in his thirties. He looks very shrewd, with a smile in his eyes, and is not so unkind.
He is a relatively traditional-looking white wizard, wearing a light white wizard robe with blue stripes on the shawl as decoration, and a white wizard hat. In the current view of Locke, his magic power is indeed unfathomable, and he does not know what level it is.
Different from the third-class wizard apprenticeship stage and the second-class wizard apprenticeship stage, the gap between wizards at the first-class wizard apprenticeship stage is extremely large.
The mana power of a wizard who has just become a first-class wizard apprentice is probably in the early 200s at most, but for those wizards who have been a first-class wizard apprentice for more than ten years, their mana power is likely to be five or six hundred.
And this is just about mana alone. The gap between the two sides in knowledge, spell experience, and the number of certificates will be very large.
This is also the reason why Locke is relatively quiet in the public botanical garden.
His background is not enough. In the eyes of outsiders, he lacks several years of accumulation and enthusiasm, and has not yet reached a level where he can truly trade.
After all, it is extremely rare for a Wood Elemental [Son of the Element] to advance quickly like Sophia Witch.
It can only be said that the son of the element is born to be the proud son of heaven.
Locke could not see the depth of Hughes Coffman, so he just nodded slightly to him and briefly introduced his situation.
Hughes Coffman's eyes brightened slightly. "Augustin, you take care of these magic fields very carefully, how about we become a partner in the future?"
Locke was confused. "A partner?"
He reacted instantly, "You mean, we jointly maintain these five hundred acres of public magic fields, and try to choose the same magic field in the future to perform the voluntary labor of the college?"
Hughes Coffman smiled and said: "As expected of a person who became a first-class wizard apprentice within two years, you are really smart."
h "There is indeed some relatively deep water inside this public magic field."
"You have also seen that first-class wizard apprentices cannot do free voluntary labor for the college for a long time. They have their own things to do. So helping the college take care of the public magic field basically takes only a few months a year to do it. Therefore, there are often several first-class wizard apprentices working on the same part of the magic field. "Some first-class wizard apprentices are taking care of public magic fields out of free voluntary labor; some first-class wizard apprentices are hired by the academy to take care of the magic fields at the expense of magic stones. Of course, there are also a few cases where they owe money to the academy and can only use labor to repay the money."
Hughes Coffman said: "This has caused some problems."
h "When a person is only responsible for short-term things, it is easy for him to ignore the long-term benefits of a thing."
"But this will make our work more difficult in the next month." Hughes Coffman laughed: "So, we usually form a team and invite reliable first-class wizard apprentices to take care of specific magic fields."
"The area you are taking care of now is the magic field that our group takes care of regularly."
Hughes Coffman praised: "Augustine, you take care of it very well."
"It seems that you are very attentive, I was a little worried at first."
"How about we work together and be a partner. There are two first-class wizard apprentices in my group, and they are also official breeders."
Locke nodded. No wonder this senior first-class wizard apprentice came to find him. It turned out to be because of this kind of thing.
In this way, I will indeed have an interest relationship with them.
Wizards are very realistic, and as long as there is such a connection of interest, they will definitely try to make contact.
Locke thought for a while and said, "I can join temporarily."
But I need to think about it."
Hughes Coffman immediately understood Locke's concerns and smiled: "No problem , our club are all mature breeders and will not increase your workload."
Hughes glanced at Locke in surprise. Generally, newly promoted first-class wizard apprentices rarely express distrust of older first-class wizard apprentices.
It seems that this newbie should have something unique that makes him stand out.
Hughes Coffman said: "Augustin, you haven't joined a club yet. The first-class wizard apprentices within Lilith Cottage Academy will form some societies of their own. They will join each other and exchange information, or, similar to our situation, form a new society together for some common interests."
"Old first-class wizard apprentices generally join more than a dozen societies."
Hughes Coffman said with a smile: "When you become familiar with everyone in the future, you will soon join more societies. Now, the society I formed - Coffman Public Magic Field Breeding Society invites you."
Hughes handed Locke a piece of paper. "The address above is the address of our club. In fact, there is nothing good to go to. We usually don't go there."
"First-class wizard apprentices are very busy."
"But we will stay in that club room. You can also stay there when we perform voluntary labor this year." Which month of the year should I arrange myself to perform voluntary labor on the public plantation for the college? "
Hughes Coffman raised his index finger and said: "The reason why I formed this society is because I encountered a very hateful situation when I first became a first-class wizard apprentice..."
"He poured... grass spirit gel into the magic field."
Locke has learned the knowledge of potions for more than two years, and immediately said: "Grass Lingsu? That kind of thing should have been banned long ago. Although it can eliminate weeds and diseases in the magic field and strengthen the vitality of the magic plants, it will pollute the soil, cause [wood element hardening], and cause damage to the magic. The semi-permanent pollution of the field..."
Locke is different from ordinary breeders. He also has a certain understanding of potions. Caolingsu gel is one of the masterpieces of potions. However, this kind of thing with extremely side effects is still used by some breeders today.
Hughes Coffman looked at Locke in surprise. "You know this very well, so I don't need to explain it. That's right, the first-class wizard apprentice in front of me actually poured grass spirit element directly into the magic field to save himself trouble. The magic field deteriorated, and it happened within a month of my responsibility, and many magic plants died..."
Hughes Coffman's face was not very good, as if he was thinking of something bad. "In the end, I was the one who took the blame, because his wizard mentor was more powerful, and he was stronger than me."
"Just compensating for the losses was a pain in the ass. Fortunately, the college did not ask me to compensate in full at that time, and I also rescued two-thirds of the magic plants."
"This is me. The purpose of establishing the society is that I don’t want this to happen again. Joining my society will be beneficial to both you and me."
"Augustine, you are a trustworthy breeder... assistant."
Locke curled his lips, and the breeder was a breeder, and he also added an assistant.
Forget it.
Locke had no intention of arguing with Hughes Coffman about this title. These first-class wizard apprentices had stayed at this stage for too long, so they became very fussy and had to distinguish every level clearly.
If it were Witch Sophia, she probably wouldn't care at all whether this person was a breeder's assistant or a breeder, and would call everyone "breeder" uniformly.
After all, she felt that in the end, these were just a transition to becoming a senior breeder.