Chapter 171

Chapter 171 Severin’s Counterattack

Ai Xi said worriedly, “Locke, no matter what, you acted too confident out there. These patients were originally pushed to us by them, so now they have even more reason to push them to us…”

Angelo shook his head, stopping Aisi from continuing, saying, “Aisi, Locke is a better potion master’s assistant and breeder than us. Trust his judgment.”

Ever since Locke sold a memory ointment in the shop where Angelo worked, Angelo realized that Locke’s talent in alchemy was even greater than his.

Aisi nodded. “I was just reminding Locke. After all, this kind of cursed being is quite tricky. If you’re not careful, it might end up in your own hands.”

“It lowers our rating. We won’t be recognized as an outstanding therapist at the end of the year. Our team’s rating has been gradually improving recently.”

“That’s why everyone chooses to avoid it. If it weren’t for the academy’s mandatory requirement, who would accept victims of this difficult new curse? Moreover, this curse is interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary.”

“It’s very easy to make. Trying to cure him will result in a loss, or failing to cure him will result in a lowered rating.”

Ai Xi raised a brow and said, “I think the happiest person right now is Carrie Ackerman. This morning, I saw her gloating over her misfortune. Her studio wants to monopolize the three excellent therapists and one outstanding therapist spots this year.”

“So, she considers the normal teams within the treatment center as her main opponents. She must now think that our team is no longer a threat to them.”

Locke was sitting at his workstation, reading a B-level article borrowed from the public library.

Locke looked up at Aisi in confusion. “Aisi, there are only two first-class wizard apprentices in their studio. Are they trying to monopolize four spots?”

Aisi explained, “Now, in addition to the one who is in the permanent treatment center with Carrie Ackerman, they also have many first-class wizard apprentices and potion master assistants who often come to their studio in Angron, irregularly, occasionally.”

“This way, the Potions Master’s assistants won’t have to come every day for several hours every month like we do. They can just come every now and then.”

“But they have a large record of treating patients and a large number of excellent reviews. Therefore, they are likely to monopolize the four reward spots in the treatment center.”

Angelo continued, “They are probably all students within the network of their mentor Harlan Vera, their seniors and juniors.”

“Their network of relationships is extremely vast. As an outstanding student at Harun Vera, Angron must also create benefits for his fellow students. Likewise, those students can also help him.”

“So, he can use this format to set up a studio, reducing the workload of his junior students. At the same time, he can create a very good treatment record within his network to ensure that most of the spots can fall into his studio.”

Angron let out a sigh. “The evaluation criteria for the four spots is mainly based on the number of treatments and the problems solved. Angron Studio has an advantage in both of these areas.”

“I suspect that in the end, they might even pile up the number of patients they treat on a few people for the sake of rewards, completing the exchange of benefits within their internal network.”

In a sense, this is the benefit of being a student of an academic clique.

Angelo said, “These four places were originally set up by the Healing Center to reward us, the resident potion assistants. Who knew that Angron and his group would take advantage of this loophole?”

Angelo sighed. “Anyway, wherever there’s profit to be made in the academy, there’s always someone like this popping up.”

At his workstation, Locke nodded. “Let’s focus on our own work first. This is the only thing we can control.”

Angelo said, “That’s right.”

Locke looked down at the information, his eyes flickering. Indeed, due to Angron Studio’s large staff and Angron’s strength, it was very likely that they would have monopolized the four special quotas set up this year.

But in fact, their team is not without advantages at the moment.

If my guess is correct, there should be a lot of special patients coming in the next month.

“I’m no longer an assistant breeder. I’m now a full-fledged breeder and also an assistant potion master.” Locke thought, “So if the number of magical plant curses increases, the academy will probably assign me as a priority to solve the problem.”

“Even if they send a Breeder to assist the Alchemist Assistants, they probably won’t be able to surpass me. So, this year, it’s possible that we can compete with Angron Studio for a reward spot, or even the sole Outstanding Healer spot!”

…

A mortal village on the edge of Lilith’s hut’s territory.

At this time, all the mortals in the entire mortal village have died, but their bodies are controlled by black magic. They don’t know that they are dead and still live as usual.

Provides shielding for the dark wizards hiding here.

Severin was in the village’s makeshift underground laboratory when an ordinary first-class dark wizard apprentice hurried into her lab to report the news sent back by the transaction partner at the Healing Hands Clinic.

Severin was wearing a black robe with a hood covering her appearance, but when she turned around, her appearance almost scared the ordinary first-class wizard apprentice who belonged to the same wizard organization.

Severin’s appearance, while retaining the animal appearance of a vampire, her face looked like patches, pieced together, one square after another, and different parts of her body even had different colors.

This only means that the different parts of her body do not come from the same source.

Severin raised her brows in anger. “That breeder named Locke actually dared to publicly defy the curse I designed?”

“Damn it. Locke Augustine… a nobody who just became a first-class wizard apprentice, actually dared to mock my work in public. How ridiculous.”

“ridiculous.”

The ordinary first-class wizard apprentice looked at Severin with some fear. “Lord Sagamore, I think the other party simply isn’t skilled enough to detect the full extent of your curse.”

“He’s just a newly promoted first-class wizard apprentice whose talent level is said to be not very high.”

“You also know how lacking in magical knowledge newly promoted first-class wizard apprentices are… In your eyes, there’s not much difference between them and second-class wizard apprentices.”

Severin turned around, her tone becoming more intense. “So what? I’m going to make that White Wizard named Augustine know the price of despising me, the Great Curse Master of the Blood Curse Tribunal.”

“I’m going to teach him a painful lesson he’ll never forget!”

“Field, convey my order to triple the intensity of all previous actions. I will design a curse on Lilith’s Hut and more first-class wizard apprentices of their allies.”

“When the victims of my curse fill their Healing Hands Clinic, I wonder if they can still believe that my magical plant curse is just an insignificant curse.”

“Hahahahahahaha…”

“I hope that the young breeder can still be so confident this time.”

(End of this chapter)