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At Tiered Lecture Hall 108 of Caimon General University.
"If I offered you ten times your current mana, but the price was being hunted forever by an immortal snail, would you accept? Raise your hand if you would."
The strange question instantly turned the classroom into a sea of laughter.
An elf student in the front row laughed so hard he could not hold it back and raised his hand. "Professor, shouldn't you be asking who wouldn't accept?"
At the lectern stood an exceptionally elegant elf professor. Long black hair fell to his shoulders, framing a lean face and a pair of emerald-blue eyes that gleamed like sapphires. His lips were thin and glossy, his figure tall and pale. A dark gray trench coat draped neatly over his frame, and white gloves covered both hands.
He smiled faintly at the student's response. "Then what if it were eight times the mana, and the pursuer became a red wolf? Mm. It seems most of you are not particularly afraid of the most common predator in the natural forests."
He continued without pause. "And what if it were five times the mana, with the pursuer replaced by a Baby Fish-Slaying Dragon?"
This time, hesitation spread through the hall.
A Baby Fish-Slaying Dragon was infamous as a Silver Rank killer. Sorcerers had a saying about it that went, "Sorcerers lose their innocence at the Sea of Knowledge the first time, out of inexperience, and their second comes from getting thoroughly acquainted with the fast and fierce Baby Fish-Slaying Dragon."
Because the joke carried implications...
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