Lorne said, "Senior Locke, we two are the normal phenomenon. We still have three years to advance to second-class wizard apprentices."
"What you did was abnormal."
Locke smiled. "Don't call me senior. We've always been friends."
"It's fine for others to call me senior, but you two lived with me for a full year. Having you call me senior feels strange to me."
Pierre and Lorne secretly breathed a sigh of relief, seeing that Locke hadn't changed his attitude at all despite the huge difference in status now, and felt grateful in their hearts.
Lorne pointed at Pierre and said, "Dear Locke, this time Pierre has something he wants your help with."
Locke looked at Pierre with confusion.
Pierre's face reddened, then he spoke, "Dear Locke, you have more experience than us, so I wanted to ask you to look at this contract and see whether I should sign it..."
Pierre handed a contract to Locke.
"Locke, you know my family's financial situation is quite ordinary, and I'm very short on money. If there's such an opportunity, it would be wonderful."
Pierre said somewhat excitedly, "Senior Anglon promised to give me fifty magic stones per month. But Lorne suggested I come ask you. You have more experience, and Locke, you're a first-class wizard apprentice like Senior Anglon."
"You understand that world better."
For third-class wizard prospects, fifty magic stones per month was obviously a huge sum.
So Pierre, whose family was relatively ordinary, found it very difficult to resist such a 'huge' temptation.
Locke quickly scanned through this contract, his expression changing from casual to serious. He closed the contract and sternly looked at Pierre. "Do you often have allergies, like when you go to certain areas, your skin suddenly turns red, or you get runny nose, or even inexplicable fever and stomach problems? These things happen randomly whenever you move to a new place?"
Pierre was stunned, because this was obviously unrelated to the contract's content, but Locke had spoken his private secret. "How did you know, Locke?"
"I rarely tell others about these things because I don't think it's necessary."
"Moreover, I've seen doctors in the mortal world, and they said it's just my personal constitution problem. I've bought some simple potions at Lilith's Cottage, but they didn't help much after drinking them."
Pierre shrugged. "Sometimes the symptoms even get worse."
Locke said seriously, "Because you have a relatively rare low magic resistance constitution."
"You've been targeted by that Anglon fellow. He's looking for you not to make you an assistant, but to use you as his experimental material. I advise you not to sign, or you'll have difficulty maintaining human form."
Locke didn't mind that his advice to Pierre might offend Anglon or anything like that.
Not to mention such a small matter would be hard for Anglon to know about.
Even if he knew, it wouldn't matter much.
After all, making enemies with a first-class wizard apprentice over one sentence, unless the other party was mentally ill, was unlikely to happen.
Moreover, Pierre was his past friend, so if anyone was being offensive first, it was actually Anglon.
Even if Anglon was a veteran first-class wizard apprentice with relatively high status, since he had no business connections with him, it didn't matter much.
Pierre was obviously startled. "Using me as experimental material? But why? I'm just an ordinary wizard prospect."
Locke shook his head. "Low magic resistance constitution is extremely rare. Normally, any living being has a certain degree of magic resistance ability, otherwise just living in this medium-magic region wouldn't allow them to live long."
"Every organism's own life force gives them a certain degree of magic resistance ability, it's just a matter of strength. For example, Berserk Rhino, their skin has high magic resistance abilities far beyond what humans can match."
Locke warned, "Among humans, a small portion have special constitutions with much lower magic resistance than other humans. So whenever they go to a strange environment, they'll experience vomiting, stomach problems, rhinitis and other symptoms due to magic allergies."
"In severe cases, they often don't even live to adulthood."
Pierre was shocked. He, an ordinary wizard prospect, actually had such a unique constitution, and had lived to adulthood, even becoming a third-class wizard apprentice.
Locke said, "Now you understand, your situation is extremely rare."
"People with low magic resistance constitution, because their magic resistance is very low, don't easily interfere with potion effects, making them the best experimental subjects for potion studies."
"Magic resistance interferes with medicinal properties and may cause unclear observation results, so from an observation perspective, lower magic resistance is definitely better, making it easier to observe potion effects. This point is different from considerations needed when actually taking potions."
Locke continued, "Generally, potion experiment subjects choose those naturally low magic resistance races, but those races aren't human and have very different internal body structures from humans. How medicinal properties would change in human bodies becomes uncertain."
"Someone like you with both low magic resistance that won't interfere with medicinal properties, who is also human, and even more wonderfully is a wizard apprentice, is extremely rare."
Locke thought seriously, "Giving you fifty magic stones per month is really ridiculous. He's just bullying you for not understanding. If you really consider becoming an experimental subject to exchange for magic stone resources, I think you should at least ask for a higher price."
"Giving you one hundred magic stones per month would be more appropriate."
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Locke was already looking at Pierre with the gaze one uses for protected animals. He was also about to obtain his potion master assistant certificate, and honestly, Locke was somewhat tempted.
Lorne elbowed the stunned Pierre and said with envy, "I really envy you. Who would have thought you're also one of the chosen, Pierre."
"Just being someone's experimental subject, you can earn one hundred magic stones per month. Such an enviable talent."
Pierre pushed his hand away. "What kind of talent is this? I've become a lab rat!"
Pierre looked at Locke. "Even if I'm going to be an experimental subject, I want to find someone reliable. I might as well be Locke's experimental subject."
Locke shook his head in refusal. "One hundred magic stones per month is also no small expense. I'm recently just learning to make Focus Ointment and don't need such a high-level experimental subject... no, don't need to trouble you."
"Yes, that's it. Whether to sign or not, you still need to consider it yourself."
He wasn't Pierre's parent after all. There were plenty of wizard apprentices in Lilith's Cottage who would actively serve as experimental materials for Anglon to earn magic stones.
This was also a choice.