When Ryan Carter woke up, he found himself lying on the small wooden bed in the storeroom, his body soaked with cold water. Across from him, the chubby Jack was holding a small wooden bucket, struggling to stand on a stool, about to pour the cold water from the bucket.

The weather was already a bit chilly, and Ryan Carter was drenched and freezing. Seeing that the chubby Jack was about to dump another bucket of water on him, he suddenly shouted, “Jack, what are you doing?”

The chubby Jack was standing on a rickety, discarded stool. Startled by Ryan Carter’s loud shout, his heart skipped, his foot slipped, and his hand shook. The cold water in the small bucket was suddenly dumped right onto Ryan Carter’s head, and even the bucket itself flew out of his hand, landing squarely on Ryan Carter’s chest.

“Ugh... I say, Jack, are you trying to kill me?”

After being doused with a second bucket of cold water, Ryan Carter shivered uncontrollably from the cold. His chest, now hit by the small bucket, hurt like hell, and he immediately grimaced and howled in pain.

“Sorry, Brian, I thought the first bucket didn’t wake you up. The stool was already wobbly, and then you shouted, which scared me and made my hand shake, so I accidentally poured the water on you!”

The chubby Jack looked embarrassed, grabbed a rag from nearby, and started wiping Ryan Carter’s body, trying to dry the water off his neck first.

But then Ryan Carter let out a pig-like scream, stumbling away in a panic, and quickly said, “Jack, the rag you’re holding has bone powder left over from necromancy experiments! That stuff pricks like little needles—are you trying to stab me to death?”

“Ah... Sorry, Brian, I didn’t mean to, I really didn’t mean to!”

Jack was a bit flustered too, quickly tossing the rag far away, secretly relieved that the side he grabbed didn’t have any bone powder on it.

“Achoo... Achoo... Forget it, forget it. Jack, why am I here? I remember Buck, that bastard, used me as a human shield and I got hit by that little witch Lisa’s Soul Pain, didn’t I?”

Ryan Carter sneezed, his neck bright red, and hurriedly stripped off his wet clothes. He found Brian’s pitch-black towel nearby and quickly wiped the cold water off his body.

“Brian, you have so many scars!”

Hearing Jack say this, Ryan Carter couldn’t help but seriously examine his body for the first time. Everywhere he looked, there wasn’t a single spot without scars. He sighed inwardly, feeling a pang of sorrow for Brian’s experiences.

“Scars are a man’s memories and medals. What do you know? Hurry up and tell me what happened after I passed out?”

“After you were knocked out by Soul Pain, classes started at the Dark Academy. Lisa just said a few words and rushed off to class. I called Uncle Sharu, and the two of us carried you back!”

“So it was Uncle Sharu who came. Right, what did Lisa say before she left?”

While wiping himself down, Ryan Carter nodded as he spoke. Uncle Sharu was the oldest necromancy janitor, over fifty years old, and usually treated Brian and Jack quite well. Ever since Brian came to Babylon Magic and Martial Academy as a janitor, Sharu the janitor had already been working there for over a decade.

“Lisa said you were just unlucky. If the Soul Pain had hit Buck, since Buck is a magic apprentice, with his mental strength, his soul would only hurt for three days. But you’re not a necromancy student, you don’t have any mental strength, so you’ll probably be in pain for a month. She said you disturbed her sleep yesterday, and even put rocks in your pants and kicked her foot, so she won’t help you relieve the Soul Pain!”

“Damn it, that Lisa actually dares to treat me like this. I’ll get her sooner or later!”

When Ryan Carter heard this from Jack, his face immediately turned cold and he cursed out loud, which startled Jack quite a bit. He thought, Lisa has been treating you like this for a long time, and you’ve never been able to do anything about it.

After Ryan Carter finished cursing, he thought for a moment and said, “Buck is a magic apprentice, so with mental strength, he only hurts for three days, but I have to suffer for a month. Heh, I’m talented—if I learn some necromancy, maybe I’ll be fine in three days.”

“Brian, you’re a janitor, how could you learn magic?”

“Then how do magic students learn magic?”

“First you have to meditate and sense magical elements. Once you have mental strength, you study the knowledge in magic books, practice magic according to the spells, and ask the magic teacher if you don’t understand something!” Jack thought for a moment and answered as if it were obvious.

“Isn’t that it? I can meditate too. Once I have mental strength, I can use magic books to learn the spells and practice magic, right?”

“But you don’t have any magic books!”

At this point in the conversation, Ryan Carter very amicably walked over to the chubby Jack, suddenly put his arm around him, and said with a big smile, “But I have you, don’t I? Don’t you clean the library?”

Jack was startled, quickly moving away from Ryan Carter, and said nervously, “Brian, are you asking me to help you steal books?”