Chapter 92

Hehe, Yerkes has spent a lot of money again, I feel a bit embarrassed!

"Thank you, Cook!" Mo Fei was very grateful. It was because of the previous incident that his father received good treatment. Of course, Mo Fei learned this from his father later. Although people outside always thought it was Dinkos, Mo Fei knew that Cook played a significant role. Dinkos had secretly explained the situation to Mo Fei, thinking that Cook had some feelings for this senior sister.

In the past month, Lyle's potion laboratory has become famous. Almost every week, different high-quality potions appear. Sometimes they are healing potions, sometimes agility potions. Moreover, ten days ago, an extremely high-quality healing potion appeared. Although it was just a beginner potion, it sold for 200,000 gold coins, which is a sky-high price considering that beginner healing potions usually cost only a few gold coins. This potion was eventually resold to a noble who loved collecting, fetching 500,000 gold coins. Lyle's potion laboratory became famous overnight. However, some people noticed that all these high-quality potions were beginner potions, and there were no intermediate potions at all.

Actually, all these high-quality potions were made by Cook. If it weren't for the mental energy required to make intermediate potions, Cook wouldn't be unable to make them. Even so, Cook's spatial bag was filled with dozens of potions suspected to be of perfect quality, a few of which were extremely high-quality, and almost none were high-quality. Cook was now in a strange loop where the quality of the potions was very hard to lower. As long as they succeeded, they were almost always extremely high-quality. To make high-quality potions, one had to deliberately make mistakes, which was a significant test of skill and had a high failure rate because the degree of control was very difficult to grasp.

After Mo Fei thanked him, he left. Cook's basic hunter training was also over because school was starting in three days. Cook planned to go shopping because the Unrivaled Academy emphasized not just theoretical teaching but also practical application, and the tasks assigned by the mentors were mostly practical.

The three days passed easily. Little Lei was now wearing a white baby outfit. Don't underestimate this small baby outfit; it cost Cook hundreds of thousands of gold coins. The outfit was made from the silk that Kaka spat out after advancing. Although it was just a small vest and shorts, it had extremely strong resilience and defense. For this, Cook paid over twenty crystal coins, as crystal coins had no attributes, and Kaka needed to replenish energy. This outfit was finally not damaged by Little Lei. The hundreds of thousands of gold coins were spent on having an alchemist make it, not including the cost of materials.

After Kaka advanced, there was a noticeable magical fluctuation, though it was quite dim. Kaka's body size didn't increase much, just a bit larger than a thumb, but its appearance became more ferocious. Kaka still preferred to hide on Cook's body. Big Mouth had just advanced the day before, but its body became even smaller. However, Big Mouth's intelligence clearly improved, and it could easily deceive Little Lei. The others didn't change much.

Little Lei, on the other hand, became quite plump, almost comparable to Mitch's earth-type magic bear, which already weighed dozens of kilograms. However, Little Gray was afraid of Cook and Little Lei and wouldn't show any respect to anyone else. If Little Lei was at home, Lucy's unicorn turtle would follow her around, much to Lucy's annoyance.

"Mike!" Cook and Dinkos stood at the exit of the magic guild's teleportation array, waiting to pick up Mike.

"Boss!" Mike heard Cook's shout and immediately rushed over.

"Hehe, Mike, this is Dinkos, a light magic user! Dinkos, this is Mike, a very rare air magic user!" Mike decided to train as a magic warrior because the entire magic guild had no air magic mentor. Of course, there were spells and incantations for air magic, so Mike was admitted on an exception basis. However, he would have to train and explore on his own. These were the experimental subjects of the Unrivaled Academy and the magic guild, officially called "research students," meaning they would study and train on their own, with all expenses covered by the Unrivaled Academy.

"Hello!"

"Hello!" The two exchanged a magic user's salute, then the three of them got into a carriage together.

Back at the Unrivaled Academy, Mike looked at the students coming and going and asked in confusion, "Boss, didn't you say there were only about two thousand students here? Why are there so many people?"

"Hehe, the two thousand refers to the officially admitted students. There are also students from various guilds, students recommended by the magic guild's branches, and students like Cook who attend as auditors. There are also people with connections who work as servants and attend as auditors, so the number is quite large." Dinkos explained.

"Is there any difference?" Mike asked again.

"Of course. Only officially admitted students face strict exams. Other students can skip exams without any issues from their mentors. However, these people are willing to participate because the academy, regardless of a student's status, grants graduation certificates to those who meet the requirements." Dinkos explained with a smile.

"Oh!" Mike finally understood.

"Hey! Isn't that fatty? I heard you actually made a name for yourself while I was gone?" Just as Cook and the others were about to return to their dorm, a burly man in a magic robe blocked Dinkos's path and said loudly, his words filled with mockery.

"Hehe! Flattery, I'm at least better than some brainless lumps." Dinkos replied without backing down.

"Haha, with your low-level light magic, I can take both of you." The burly magic user laughed, and Cook noticed that there were a few others behind him, clearly a team.

"Hmph!" Dinkos immediately wilted and dragged Cook and Mike away.

"Wait, fatty, who are these two idiots? And they're even carrying a baby? Is it yours, fatty? Haha!" The burly man reached out and blocked Cook and the others, mocking Little Lei.

"Who are you calling an idiot?" Cook blinked and asked.

"Idiot, you... you scum!" The burly man immediately replied, then slapped Cook.

"Hmph!" Cook's figure shrank, dodging the slap. He coldly hummed and pulled out a bow and arrow.

"Good kid, you actually dare to use a weapon!" The burly man laughed coldly, and his companions formed a fan-shaped encirclement.

"What are you doing?" At this moment, a guard appeared and shouted.

"Kid, consider yourself lucky. I'll get you next time." The burly man saw the guard and said menacingly.

But Cook smiled and said, "That's if you get the chance." With that, Cook walked straight to the guard. When the guard saw Cook's identity badge, his expression changed, and Cook said a few words with a smile.

"Bold! Guards!" The guard, clearly a captain, shouted.

"Yes!" Instantly, a team of ten guards gathered around the captain.

"Arrest these criminals." The guard pointed at the burly man and his group with his large sword.

"Yes!" The guards immediately surrounded the burly man and his group, and the magic arrays on their armor lit up.

"Wait, wait! How are we criminals?" The burly man saw this and shouted, because students could carry weapons, but they dared not use them. If they did, they would face the guards' pursuit and, if the guards reacted in time, the magic defense arrays would crush them.

"You dare to openly rob new students! Follow us to the guard department for an investigation." The guard captain shouted.

"Bullshit! New students have nothing worth robbing?" Soro shouted, answering with disdain.

At this moment, Cook spoke up: "You just wanted me to hand over the potion that Lyle's mentor rewarded me with, and you said you'd get me if I didn't."

"Potion, what potion? Which Lyle's mentor?" Soro asked, confused.

"Hmph! This is Cook, Lyle's mentor's dedicated assistant. You dare to treat a dedicated assistant like this? The guard department will not allow it. Guards, take them away!" The guard captain shouted again.

"Wait, who did you just mention?" Unfortunately, Lyle's mentor also came to the comprehensive hall to see if any new students wanted to learn alchemy, as Cook had already surprised Lyle greatly, and Lyle wanted to find another one.

"Mentor! I just finished this potion, but a companion came to report today, so it took some time!" Cook took out an extremely high-quality agility potion and showed it to Lyle.

"Extremely high-quality potion!" Lyle was immediately excited when he saw the potion. After hearing Cook's explanation, Lyle's eyes were on fire. Because of Cook, the headquarters of the magic guild and the academy had increased funding for the potion department and replaced a large number of advanced tools, so Lyle's reputation had reached its peak. Lyle would not allow anyone to ruin such a good thing.

Lyle originally thought Cook had cheated with some unknown method, but when Cook provided a precise material addition schedule, Lyle followed it and successfully made four secondary invisible magic potions out of ten attempts, one of which was high-quality.

Cook was forced to do this. Running the Magic Eye would change his pupils, so he had to use a time flow method to make potions. Although the purity of the materials could cause slight quality variations, the success rate was high.

Cook's method was quite simple: he just programmed the potion-making process, which was already common on Earth. Lyle hoped Cook would research more potion formulas and their time flows, especially since there were numerous formulas, with dozens of categories and hundreds of types of low-level formulas. Overall, Cook's level was still too low, so Lyle couldn't force him, but he wouldn't allow anyone to ruin things.

"Good! Good, you dare to rob Lyle's dedicated assistant? I order you to arrest these people as the head mentor of the potion department. They might be spies sent by other forces." Lyle put a big hat on them.

"Mentor, mentor, we didn't, we didn't!" Soro immediately wilted, as the head mentor of the potion department was a prestigious title.

"How did I hear someone asking who Lyle is? You guards, aren't you going to act? Do you want me to complain to the guard department? Really!" Lyle shouted without giving them any face.

Cook then pretended to be merciful and said to Lyle, "Mentor, can we let them off? After all, it's not easy for them to be here!"

"Hmph! Such people should be expelled. Zogot, record their names and find out who recommended them. In the future, our potion department will blacklist these people and their backers." Lyle realized there were people behind them and immediately gave orders.

"Mentor, mentor, we...!"

"Shut up! Bang!" The guard, already furious from Lyle's shouting, knocked Soro out before he could finish speaking.

This incident caused a huge stir among the students. Cook became famous, and the students present knew not to provoke him. Cook didn't expect this to avoid many troubles. After accompanying Lyle's mentor to the laboratory, Cook returned home.

"Tsk tsk, Cook, I didn't expect you to be so devious. That Soro is also a graduate student, a rare force-type magic user. He often drains others' strength and adds it to himself, making him a bully in the academy. Force-type magic is very hidden and hard to detect, so many people have been tricked by him." Dinkos said excitedly as soon as Cook returned.

"Cough, you're the devious one, Dinkos. Is it really the start of the semester?" Cook asked irritably.

"Of course it's the start of the semester. What did you expect?" Dinkos asked, puzzled.

"No opening ceremony or anything?" Cook asked weakly.

"No opening ceremony, but there is an opening trial. Each combat and support class has one, but it's a month later." Dinkos looked at Cook with confusion and explained slowly.

Cook didn't expect there to be no opening ceremony but still asked, "What's the content of the trial?"

"It's simple. Combat classes compete in capturing magic beasts, while classes like scrolls and potions compete in making these items. As long as they succeed, they pass, or they can obtain certain materials." Dinkos gave a brief explanation.

However, when Cook arrived at the Hunter class the next day, he was still shocked. There were only about twenty people in the Hunter class, with only two beginners and eighteen intermediates, including Mo Fei. The mentor was a legendary half-elf with pointed ears and a tall figure. Cook couldn't tell if the mentor was male or female because the chest looked both male and female. Cook also noticed that at least half of the eighteen intermediate hunters were there because of the mentor.

"Ah!" Cook sighed inwardly. When he accompanied Lori and Mitch to the Fire Magic class, there were over a hundred people, with twenty new students, and some were still on missions outside.

"Everyone, welcome the new students, Naida and Cook! Let me introduce myself. I am Kellina Duns Muddawa Nom..." Kellina smiled and began.

When Cook heard the mentor's voice and the long name with obvious elven phonetics, he was even more puzzled: "Damn, is this mentor male or female?"

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