Chapter 168: Please, You Must Join My Team

After the gasps, the crowd in the registration hall gradually calmed down.

The look they gave Ye Lin started with shock, but slowly, a trace of pity began to emerge.

Forbidden Spellcaster, level 28, blind.

With these three keywords linked together, everyone naturally knew what had happened.

It was nothing more than using an extremely powerful forbidden spell to grind monsters, only to end up grinding their eyes blind.

After all, the Forbidden Spellcaster profession is inherently extremely damaging to the body.

Those who had originally intended to befriend Ye Lin and latch onto a rising star hesitated; a level 28 freshman was worth befriending, but if that freshman was a Forbidden Spellcaster, it was a different story.

To put it bluntly, regardless of his high enrollment level, it wasn't certain he would even survive until graduation.

"A Forbidden Spellcaster... let me see which class I should assign you to... wait a moment."

The teacher in charge of freshman registration was currently having a headache.

Generally speaking, class assignments were divided by profession; for example, Fire Mages were all assigned to one class, and Water Mages to another, which made teaching more convenient.

But a Forbidden Spellcaster... it felt like he could be assigned to any class, yet also like he couldn't be assigned to any.

After all, every type of forbidden spell existed; the Forbidden Spellcaster profession was completely omnipotent, and their combat power at the same level was terrifyingly high. The only drawback was dying young.

Besides, teaching a Forbidden Spellcaster... how would one even do that? Teach him how to use forbidden spells? Which teacher would dare take that job? One semester in, and they'd likely be missing limbs.

"Hiss..."

The teacher bared his teeth and clawed at his hair, feeling a splitting headache; he had been struggling for nearly ten minutes and still hadn't decided on an arrangement.

"What's wrong, Old Jia? Why are you looking so miserable over freshman registration?" another teacher in a plaid shirt who happened to be passing by asked with a smile.

"I don't know which class to put this student in," Old Jia said, feeling somewhat aggrieved.

"Oh? Is that so? What level and what profession? Let me see." The plaid-shirt teacher became interested.

"Level 28."

The plaid-shirt teacher's eyes lit up.

"Forbidden Spellcaster."

The plaid-shirt teacher's eyes went dark.

"See? I don't know how to arrange this either. Should we ask the director?" Old Jia rubbed his temples, feeling a headache.

"That works... wait! Hold on!"

The plaid-shirt teacher seemed to have thought of something and slapped his thigh hard.

"Why not assign him to Professor Shen? Hasn't it been five years since any student was willing to follow him?"

"Ah? Professor Shen? You're not joking, are you?" Old Jia's mouth twitched slightly.

"No! Isn't Professor Shen always researching some immortality technique in his spare time? He's always muttering about 'crowds of people, one seat in the gallery,' and since Forbidden Spellcasters are short-lived, it fits perfectly with the topic Professor Shen is researching!"

The plaid-shirt teacher grew more enthusiastic as he spoke.

"Exactly! Think about it, if Professor Shen really succeeds and creates an immortal Forbidden Spellcaster, our Daxia Academy will have produced a true dragon!"

Old Jia was still somewhat hesitant.

"That may be true... but since Professor Shen came to Daxia Academy, he has taken on 10 students in total: one became a vegetable, two became paralyzed, three became permanently disabled, and four suffered mental breakdowns. The person has already had it rough enough awakening as a Forbidden Spellcaster; isn't it a bit much to assign him to Professor Shen?"

"Take a gamble! Turn a bicycle into a motorcycle! Forbidden Spellcasters don't live long anyway; what if Professor Shen actually pulls off that immortality technique of his?" the plaid-shirt teacher pondered and replied.

Old Jia also felt that the plaid-shirt teacher made some sense, but he remained hesitant.

After all, Professor Shen was someone who really couldn't be complimented.

Ye Lin sensed that something was wrong and asked with some confusion.

"Teacher, is Professor Shen very weak, or what's the matter?"

Old Jia glanced at Ye Lin and sighed gloomily.

"Strength, Professor Shen certainly has it, otherwise he wouldn't be able to serve as a professor at a place like Daxia Academy. It's just... Professor Shen's train of thought and the things he researches have always been a bit different from ordinary people..."

Following that, Old Jia gave Ye Lin a detailed account of Professor Shen's past exploits.

Professor Shen had always provided one-on-one guidance to his students.

In the first year, he took on a student with super-strong talent whose profession was Black Knight.

Professor Shen researched some strange skill, claiming it could transform the student from a Black Knight into a Headless Knight, allowing him to ignite hellfire all over his body, become impervious to blades and spears, and double his combat power.

The student followed the instructions, and sure enough, he gained immense power, but he lost his head.

Professor Shen tried his best to rescue him, and although he managed to save the student's life, the student became a vegetable.

The family came to the school to make a scene, and Professor Shen was given a sound beating by them.

In the second year, Professor Shen didn't dare to mess with that Headless Knight thing again, so he took on another student.

This student had equally strong talent and was a Summoning Mage who could summon powerful monsters from the Demon Realm to fight for her.

Professor Shen created a tailor-made skill for this student; after casting it, the student could summon a monster twice her own level, which was undeniably terrifying.

But... at the time, that level 25 student did indeed successfully summon a level 50 monster, but the moment the summoning succeeded, the student was also teleported to the Demon Realm.

Thanks to Professor Shen's great strength, the student was quickly rescued, but she didn't know what she had seen; after being brought back from the Demon Realm, she was so frightened that she suffered a mental breakdown.

The family came to the school to make a scene, and Professor Shen was given another sound beating by them.

In the third year, Professor Shen took on a student whose profession was Grave Digger.

Grave Diggers could dig up dead corpses and refine them into immensely powerful corpse puppets to fight for them.

This time, Professor Shen restrained himself a lot and didn't dare to research any strange skills for the student, but he took the student to dig up the imperial tomb of the previous Daxia Emperor.

After being caught by the guards protecting the imperial tomb, both were given a sound beating; Professor Shen was tough and fine, but the student was beaten into a state of paralysis.

The family came to the school to make a scene, and Professor Shen was given another sound beating by them.

In the fourth year, Professor Shen took on another student... this time the student became permanently disabled, and Professor Shen was given another sound beating by the family.

Take a student, get beaten by the family.

These seven words were enough to summarize Professor Shen's teaching career over the years.

Over these years, not a single one of the topics Professor Shen researched had ever succeeded.

In the years he couldn't get students, Professor Shen reflected on his mistakes.

He didn't think there was a problem with his research; instead, he felt that the students he took on were too physically frail, which led to the repeated failures of his research topics.

Consequently, in recent years, Professor Shen began researching things related to immortality, referred to as the Immortality Technique.

Professor Shen firmly believed that as long as the Immortality Technique succeeded, all his other research topics would succeed along with it!

After listening to Old Jia's introduction of Professor Shen, Ye Lin's eyes grew brighter and brighter; at this moment, there was only one sentence in his heart!

"Please, you must join my team!"