Chapter 201 - 2: I Will Stand Out, Mo Ning Is Favored by a Wizard Again

Chapter 201: Chapter 2: I Will Stand Out, Mo Ning Is Favored by a Wizard Again

"Hey buddy, I know you’re feeling down. Once I’m done with work, I’ll come over and chat for a bit."

The leopard head’s ears twitched slightly, but it still didn’t open its eyes.

Mo Ning sighed and walked briskly toward the entrance of the Taming Center.

Behind him, the beast heads atop the stone pillars stopped swiveling and no longer stared at him.

A hundred meters away, in an office high up in the Taming Center, a First Level Wizard in a white robe stood before a three-meter-tall, floor-to-ceiling window, his gaze locked on Mo Ning’s figure.

Every scene that unfolded on the path—including the subtle changes in each beast head—did not escape his eyes.

He had also clearly heard every word Mo Ning said.

Catching a sound from so far away might seem difficult, but for a Wizard, it was a simple matter of a Level Zero Witchcraft. Forget a hundred meters; they could hear the fluttering of a mosquito’s wings from several hundred meters away with perfect clarity.

The essence of sound is vibration. Capturing distant vibrations with Witchcraft was exceedingly simple.

"What an interesting little fellow," the Wizard murmured softly. "No wonder the one from the Deep Red Rose is so concerned about him."

He had seen many newcomers hurry past the beast heads, but never had anyone, like this kid, consistently greeted them with a smile.

For the first ten days, the beast heads completely ignored him. But the kid persevered for a month, and now several of the heads were willing to respond.

This had left a very deep impression on him.

This person’s name was Budi, and he was the Chief Wizard of this Taming Center.

He rarely appeared before the Apprentices, but almost no one knew that he was aware of every single move they made.

「Half a minute later.」

Mo Ning reached the end of the road.

Standing here, he could feel the building’s overwhelming, oppressive presence even more keenly.

There was no door ahead, only a mottled stone wall with some moss growing on its surface.

The stone wall was covered in marks from blades and chisels, faintly forming the image of an Iron-Horned War Rhinoceros.

The First Level Magical Beast that the new students had seen at the academy’s entrance was precisely an Iron-Horned War Rhinoceros.

No. 35 Taming Center raised a total of eighteen Iron-Horned War Rhinoceroses.

However, they were not yet two hundred years old and hadn’t reached the level of a First Level Magical Beast. Their combat power was somewhere between that of a Second Level Apprentice and a Third Level Apprentice.

Besides the War Rhinoceroses, there were several other kinds of Spiritual Creatures here, numbering over a hundred in total.

Mo Ning raised his left hand, revealing a metal badge engraved with an Iron-Horned War Rhinoceros, and activated it with his Spiritual Power.

"ROAR—!"

A high-pitched, desolate beastly roar erupted from the stone wall.

The image of the Iron-Horned War Rhinoceros suddenly sharpened. An illusory War Rhinoceros strode out from the wall, and a dark, gaping hole cracked open behind it.

Within the hole coiled a darkness as thick as ink; nothing could be seen clearly.

As usual, Mo Ning first gave a slight nod to the illusory War Rhinoceros before stepping into the opening.

「In the office upstairs.」

The First Level Wizard Budi watched this scene unfold through an image displayed on the glass, and the corners of his mouth couldn’t help but curve slightly upward.

’What an interesting kid!’

he thought to himself again.

Over the years, countless newcomers had passed in and out of the Taming Center’s entrance, but this kid was the first to persistently greet the "Guardian Door Spirit."

It wasn’t that no one had tried to greet the Door Spirit before, but they’d give up after one or two attempts—the Door Spirit never responded.

So, they concluded it was merely an Artificial Soul of low intelligence and stopped bothering with it.

Only this unique kid had apparently made the greeting a mandatory part of his daily routine when entering and exiting.

「Soon.」

In the image, Mo Ning’s figure was swallowed by the darkness.

Budi immediately saw the Guardian Door Spirit flick its short tail gently before turning back into the stone wall, causing the opening to disappear.

That wagging tail was a sign that the Door Spirit was in a good mood.

Such a sight wasn’t something one could see every day.

And since this kid had arrived, the Door Spirit had done it several times already.

Budi sighed softly. "What a pity."

To be honest, he genuinely wanted to keep this kid and was even willing to offer him unconventional benefits to have him work at the Taming Center long-term.

Because the longer he observed, the more he believed that if this kid were to stay here for a few years, the Taming Center would undoubtedly undergo significant changes.

But this was not realistic.

Budi couldn’t afford to offend that Rose Arbiter.

「Inside the Taming Center.」

As the darkness before him receded like a tide, Mo Ning saw the scene in Taming Room No. 7.

This Taming Room was home to two War Rhinoceroses.

A cacophony of sounds rushed into his ears, making him slightly uncomfortable.

"AOOO—AOOO—!"

It was the cry of a War Rhinoceros.

Mo Ning instantly detected an emotion that was three parts impatience and seven parts playfulness.

His ’plug-in’ had been analyzing War Rhinoceros sounds for a whole month and had long since established a highly sophisticated analysis model.

"Barce, ah—ah—what are you doing? Don’t—don’t come over here!"

It was the voice of his colleague, a newcomer named Andy, and it was filled with pure terror.

Barce, of course, was the name of the War Rhinoceros.

From the sound of it, the guy was on the verge of a mental breakdown.

And Andy was one of the newcomers from the previous batch.