Suo Luo-Lie Yan, born into the Turin Blazing Flame Family, possesses an unknown B-grade bloodline talent and is a Three-level Wizard Apprentice.
Due to his generous spending and straightforward personality, Suo Luo-Lie Yan enjoys considerable prestige among the senior Wizard Apprentices at White Coral Academy. His first interaction with Jia Na was half a month ago.
Besides completing academy tasks to earn credits, another way Jia Na earns credits is by purifying contamination for other apprentices for a fee.
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Humans who have mastered extraordinary abilities have undergone a qualitative sublimation in their Life essence compared to ordinary mortals. However, precisely because mortals have peered into the extraordinary and shaken the authority belonging to the Divine, an invisible Curse transforms into contamination, constantly invading the souls of all extraordinary beings.
For ordinary mortals, this contamination does not have a substantial impact. But for extraordinary beings, this contamination will continue to deepen until—the soul's ecological balance collapses, personal wizard's will is extinguished, and all extraordinary power returns to the Divine, turning them into puppets who only know how to spread faith.
This situation is commonly referred to by extraordinary beings as "soul contamination."
Furthermore, the prying of Extra-territorial Gods and the stirring of evil gods have made the rule power of the Wizard World extremely unstable, also causing a large amount of radioactive material to permeate the magic power. With a slight lapse in attention, the bodies of extraordinary beings who absorb magic power will undergo deformation, also known as "physical contamination."
In this extremely poor extraordinary ecological environment, the "Wizard Gathering Place" established around the Magic Tower was born.
Wizards utilize their control over rule power and simultaneously build a protective barrier with their excellent wizard's will to isolate contamination, protect the order of extraordinary beings, and resist the malicious erosion of Extra-territorial Gods and evil gods.
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As White Coral Academy is built within a Three-level Wizard Gathering Place and protected by the protective barrier, many senior apprentices within the academy still choose to leave the barrier and explore undeveloped resource points in pursuit of advancement, despite the risk of contamination.
And Suo Luo-Lie Yan was a Three-level apprentice who would stop at nothing for advancement, willing to risk contamination to explore secret realms.
Even though Suo Luo-Lie Yan had the backing of his family and possessed many Purification potions, due to a betrayal by a fellow "brother" from his clan, Suo Luo-Lie Yan nearly capsized in the gutter.
Not only did he lose all his Wizard equipment, but he almost lost his Life as well.
Having suffered this misfortune, Suo Luo-Lie Yan, severely injured and contaminated, did not immediately return to his family to avoid being ambushed and killed. Instead, he quietly returned to White Coral Academy through a secret path, planning to first exchange credits for Purification potions to clear the contamination.
However, that fellow "brother" from his clan seemed to have made two-pronged preparations. The day before, the other party had already exchanged all the existing Purification potions in the academy. They had even preemptively bribed several apprentices who seemed to have a good relationship with Suo Luo.
As soon as Suo Luo appeared, his whereabouts would be completely exposed under the other party's surveillance, and even without the contamination acting up, the other party's severe injury Curse would cause him to die silently that very day...
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Infighting within Wizard families is always more brutal than outsiders see.
Even the nobly born Suo Luo-Lie Yan felt unprecedented despair at this moment.
Looking around, he found that the only one he could ultimately trust was surprisingly just the Raven that the academy used to distribute tasks...
Holding onto his last shred of will to survive, Suoluo anonymously posted the task.
When posting the task, he didn't dare to describe his contamination in detail, only roughly drafting the task content as: he had a magic pet that was affected by a petrification Curse, and hoped someone could dispel the Curse for it.
As time passed little by little, Suoluo, who had already decided to give up and was preparing to return to his family to fight for his Life, was informed by the Raven that a first-year Wizard Apprentice named Jia Na-Luo Lan had accepted this "dispel Curse" task.
Seeing that the task recipient was a first-year apprentice, Suoluo was a little disappointed, but with a mentality of treating a dead horse as a living one, he met with the task recipient.
That afternoon, when Jia Na, holding a Celestial Sparrow, actually appeared before Suoluo, his deep impression of Jia Na was not only due to her unparalleled appearance but also her Purification ability, which was several times stronger than the effect of Purification potions.
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At this moment, looking at Jia Na's calm face with a smile, Suoluo's last memory suddenly froze on the first sentence Jia Na said to him after completing the Purification:
"Your situation is completely inconsistent with the task description, so I need to charge extra credit compensation..."
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"Senior Solo—"
"Oh, sorry, I was a bit distracted just now."
"It's okay."
Looking at Suoluo, who was about a head taller than her, Jia Na also stood up from her chair to show politeness.
"Thank you for your invitation, but currently, I do not want to sign a contract with any family."
"I don't need you to sign a contract..."
Looking at Jia Na's distant yet polite smile, Suoluo, who knew he might have said the wrong thing, also closed his mouth in time and led the conversation elsewhere.
"Sorry, perhaps my expression caused a misunderstanding. I just wanted to repay you for saving my Life last time."
Looking at the unnaturalness beneath Suoluo's bright smile, Jia Na's brow furrowed almost imperceptibly.
"For that task, I already charged extra credits according to the Wizard's equivalent principle... So, Senior Solo, you don't need to dwell on this matter, besides, I don't want to get involved in trouble..."
Recalling the task content of "dispelling the petrification Curse for a magic pet" accepted half a month ago, and the dishevelled scene Jia Na actually saw of Suoluo, although she didn't know the inside story, the other party's anonymous and modified task content made Jia Na feel alert.
After all, as a White Coral Wizard with no background, Jia Na, although she wanted to accumulate high-quality connections, these connections also needed to be carefully identified for their pros and cons.
Otherwise, by the time she was sold out, it would be too late to regret it.
Suo Luo-Lie Yan, who understood the implied meaning, naturally guessed what Jia Na was worried about.
"Miss Jia Na, please rest assured, what you are worried about will not happen... Otherwise, I would not be standing here alive today."
In the past half month, Suoluo, who returned to his family in full condition, completely disrupted the other party's plan, and the exposed truth also led Suoluo to naturally implement almost bloody cleansing methods against the fellow clan member who dared to harm him.
Along with the other party's cronies, he also silently cleaned them up, leaving no future troubles...