Abe the Wizard

If the Drillmaster knew Abel ran 100 miles, there was no way he would tell him to just run 15 laps. A whole lap was just around 500 meters. That wasn’t enough of a warm up.

Abel causally jogged under 15 hateful gazes. He maintained a normal speed. He didn’t want to try too hard or get punished.

He did 1 lap, 2 laps, and 3 laps. Drillmaster Cooper began to frown when Abel reached lap 15. He didn’t care how weak wizards were. They were all the same anyway. But he didn’t want to see someone disrupting their flow, and Abel was that someone.

Drillmaster Cooper fixed his gaze on Abel. His body could definitely run faster, but all he did was drag on. He didn’t even sweat after completing 15 laps. At that moment, the 15 wizards had just completed their 17 laps, and they were basically dying. The contrast was clear.

To Drillmaster Cooper, Abel was mocking the 15 wizards and disregarding him.

Seeing Abel was about to stop, Drillmaster Cooper yelled, “K3516, go run another 2 laps. You should run the same distance as everyone!”

Abel gazed at Drillmaster Cooper. He couldn’t really understand why he was targeting him, but still, he just did what he said.

When Abel finished his jog, the other wizards had also regained their breath. “Gather round!” Drillmaster Cooper yelled.

15 wizards stood in a line, so Abel followed and stood at the end of the left side. Drillmaster Cooper gazed at him and didn’t say anything. That spot was quite suitable for Abel’s body.

“I don’t care about your background, or how powerful you will become in the future. At this moment, I am your trainer, and you are just a normal warrior. You must master all warrior skills to pass the training, no matter your background.” Drillmaster Cooper continued to yell.

Everyone knew he was speaking specifically to Abel. You had to have some kind of extraordinary background to join the training halfway.

“Yes, Drillmaster!” The 15 wizards yelled together.

Abel was a little surprised. Even though a wizard was basically a soldier once they got their military card, Drillmaster Cooper could still make all of them follow rules in 2 months. That was quite something.

“K3516, I didn’t hear your reply. Every time I say something, you have to reply with Yes Drillmaster or No Drillmaster!” Drillmaster Cooper quickly walked in front of Abel and yelled at his face.

“Yes, Drillmaster!” Abel didn’t care too much about Drillmaster Cooper targeting him. This was Miracle City; everyone knew it’s a city organized by military command just by the look of it. At that moment, Drillmaster Cooper was his boss; he just had to suck it up if the request was not too unreasonable.

“Good. Next up, Drillmaster Layard will teach you how to treat wounds on the battlefield!” Drillmaster nodded and yelled again.

Abel then followed in the back of the line. When Drillmaster Cooper left, and Drillmaster Layard took the lead, the entire line let out a breath of relief.

Suddenly, a young wizard in front of Abel turned his head back and said, “Hey K3516, I am k3515, we were just putting up a show for Drillmaster Cooper just then. No one is actually angry at you!”

K3516 was a wizard with blond hair. He looked like he was around 30 years old. Maybe he didn’t care too much about preserving his identity, so he did not wear a mask. At that moment his attitude was completely different from a minute ago.

This made sense. Wizards weren’t stupid. They all knew they could not offend a wizard who broke the rules and joined the training half way.

“Hello, I just got here. So I still need a lot of help from you!” Said Abel with a friendly voice.

Most of the wizards were wearing a mask. As Wizard Dunn had said, masks were a tradition for wizards. They had to let go of their past identity and become a human wizard. Therefore most wizards, especially the ones with inheritances, respected this tradition.

“K3516, you have good endurance. I’ve been here for 2 months, and I can barely even finish the run!” Said k3515 with a pair of admiring eyes.

A weak body was the weakness of Wizards. It was very rare to see a wizard with a body like Abel. Normally, the shorter you stayed as an apprentice wizard, the less your body would be corroded by mana. There was a saying; there was no short wizard journey. Therefore, under these long years of training, their bodies corroded by mana. Although they had Body Potion to help them heal, they could just have the body of a normal person at most.

“I was just born like this, that’s all!” Abel replied gently.

Abel then gazed at Drillmaster Layard leading the team and continued, “Yeah, I see everyone is afraid of Drillmaster Cooper, but how come no one is afraid of Drillmaster Layard?”

K3515 looked around and whispered, “Drillmaster Layard is not strict. As long as you don’t make a mistake, he won’t punish you. It is like Drillmaster Cooper has some kind of grudge with wizards; he was already unreasonably strict to us ever since the first day. If we made a mistake, he would hit us. He really trained wizards like soldiers, and everyone got a fair bit of beating from him here!”

“Didn’t anyone report him?” Abel asked weirdly.

Wizard had the most respectful occupation in the Holy Continent. Even the lowest rank apprentice wizards had a relatively high status within the common world. However, in Miracle City, wizards were being beaten around by a Drillmaster? That was hard to imagine.

“No one wants to stir up trouble; we are just like new soldiers. We’ve only 3 months of training. I heard the wizards in the past were also like this!” K3151 shook his head.

The day of training had finally ended, and the sky began to get dark. By that point, Abel had interacted with most of the wizards–From k3501 as k3516. Although he didn’t know their names, he could sense that they were all rank 6 wizards.

“K3516, let’s go eat together!” K3515 yelled at Abel. He was the first person he met in the team, as well as the closest person.

It didn’t matter if k3515 was pretending to be nice or he was really this friendly, Abel was still happy that he could interact with someone in a place like this.

This place had finally looked a little different from a normal military camp after today’s training session had ended. The Drillmasters had left, so the wizards were allowed to do their own thing. There were 16 wizards, but only 10 of them had shown up for dinner.

“K3515, are we allowed to go to another place for dinner? Abel asked curiously.

“Some wizards in here are from big families, so they are not used to eating food like this. They will often use magic gems to buy some food!” Said k3515 with a smile.“So, there is no training at night?” Abel continued.

“Of course not. We are wizards; the training at night is the most important. As long as you come back to the camp in time, you can go anywhere you want.” K3515 explained.

By this point, Abel finally noticed the special privilege of wizards in here. No matter how military-like this place was, a Wizard would still have their privileges.

The dinner is free, so Abel had no choice. Still, it was not as bad as k3515 had described. It was basically similar to the food he had in Morton magic tower.

White bread with some butter–a lot of butter, a cup of honey water, smoked fish, a little piece of beef, and a bowl of beans. Maybe they were trying to help wizards recover. Abel knew if everyone in Miracle City could eat like this, their expenses would be astronomical.

K3515 began to laugh when he realized what Abel was thinking “This is a Wizard meal, normal soldiers just have brown bread and some meat soup. The knight’s meals are a little bit better. They have white bread instead of brown bread.”

When Abel heard what k3515 had said, a word flashed in his head “privilege.”