The next day, plump Tommy, thief Terry, Jill, and even Leo got up early, waiting for Rody. After Rody got up, he handed Tommy a piece of paper and slowly said, "The method of roasting meat is simple. You and Terry can do it. This is the ratio of various ingredients. As for the love intelligence game, there are a total of ten questions. I estimate that no more than one hundred people in the entire Felic can solve all the questions. Don't worry about everyone getting free drinks. The answers are on the back of the paper, covered with an invisible potion, visible only with magic ripples or revealing sand."

"Good heavens, I can't even solve these questions," Tommy exclaimed after looking at them.

One of the 'easy' questions was: A bartender can pour 38 glasses of white wine or 78 glasses of red wine in a minute. How many glasses can he pour in a minute if he mixes both?

Tommy, swallowing hard and wiping his sweat, calmed himself down to look at a 'medium' difficulty question: To buy a silver armor, each new student of the academy has to pay 5 silver coins, but they are still 45 coins short. If each pays 7 coins, they are only 3 coins short. How many new students are there, and what is the price of the silver armor?

Everyone was stunned, with no idea where to start, except Tommy, who dared to look at the 'hard' question: If 5 glasses of grape wine, 4 glasses of white wine, 3 glasses of red wine, and 2 glasses of barley wine cost 1496 copper coins, then 4 glasses of grape wine, 2 glasses of white wine, 6 glasses of red wine, and 3 glasses of barley wine cost only 1175 copper coins, 3 glasses of grape wine, 1 glass of white wine, 7 glasses of red wine, and 5 glasses of barley wine need 958 copper coins, and 2 glasses of grape wine, 3 glasses of white wine, 5 glasses of red wine, and 1 glass of barley wine cost 861 copper coins. What is the price of each type of wine?

"Rody, are you sure couples in Felic's capital can solve such intelligence questions?" Tommy almost collapsed.

"I think those who can solve these questions should go directly to the Felic king and apply to be the finance minister!" Terry, confident in his brains, felt a 'storm hammer' hit his head just by glancing at the questions.

"This is easy," Rody said indifferently, "I have already set five 'easy' questions that can be solved with a little mental arithmetic."

"How to add eight '8's to equal 1000, how do you calculate that, Rody?" asked Dean Burke, who appeared suddenly.

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"I can't think of it without a reward," Rody startled the elusive Dean Burke, but his expression was unchanged.

"I have a magic notebook. If you want to borrow it, you must answer my three questions," Dean Burke said with a smile, looking more like a demon than an angel.

"If it's eight '8's, then it's 8+8+8 plus 88, plus 888, exactly 1000," Rody answered quickly, impressing everyone with his extraordinary arithmetic skills and reaction speed.

Leo was dumbfounded, unable to comprehend such calculations.

Jill seemed pleased, occasionally stealing glances at Rody from under her lowered eyelashes.

"What's the simplest way to add and subtract the numbers 123456789 to get 100?" Dean Burke asked again.

"123 minus 45 minus 67 plus 89, exactly 100," Rody answered, as if it was as easy as eating beans. The crowd cheered for him, although they didn't know how useful Dean Burke's magic notebook was, but solving such nearly impossible questions was an achievement in itself.

"Rody, if there are eight identical balls, one slightly lighter than the others, and you have a magic scale that you can only use twice, can you find the lightest one?" Dean Burke asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Yes, it's easy," Rody nodded confidently, silencing the crowd's cheers and applause.

"How?" Dean Burke asked.

"Take any six, put three on each side. If they weigh the same, then weigh the remaining two. You can tell which is the lightest. If the first six are uneven, then weigh three on the lighter side, any two will do. This is too simple, but Dean Burke, you wouldn't go back on your word, would you?" Rody's explanation made everyone realize the difficulty of what seemed like a tough problem was made simple by Rody.

"I'll lend it to you for a month, but only if you survive the death training and come back alive," Dean Burke said, leaving before Rody could protest.

Hearing about the death training cast a shadow over everyone's excitement.

For a long time, nobody spoke.

"Rody, are you going on a long trip?" Finally, it was shy Jill who asked in a mosquito-like voice.

"Are you going somewhere? Are you not doing business anymore?" Tommy panicked, now understanding why Rody had given him the recipe for the grilled meat and the love intelligence questions. Although he could do business, without Rody as the backbone, Tommy always felt spineless and desperately wanted Rody not to leave the academy.

"I have something to do, but I'll be back at the start of school," Rody said with a faint smile. "The business of grilled meat and drinks is up to you."

"Don't worry, we will make it thrive," Terry nodded earnestly.

"I'll supervise him, don't worry. I won't let him drink secretly, haha!" Tommy's words, meant to be serious, ended up being humorous.

Jill also spoke but hesitated, looking up quickly at Rody then looking down, saying nothing.

After saying goodbye to Tommy and the others, Rody hired a carriage and headed towards Agardopolis.

There's nothing more attractive to Rody in this world than improving his abilities.

Perhaps there are life-threatening dangers ahead, or he might accidentally become food for filthy goblins, his skull used as their shaman's ornament. But Rody, eager for new knowledge and capabilities, willingly heads towards his goal, knowing the dangers, like a moth to a flame.

This world respects the strong, and if Rody were content with being ordinary, he could live his entire life in Whitestone Town.

Choosing to study abroad, he embarks on a path a thousand times more challenging than that of ordinary people.

Although he doesn't understand why Dean Burke and the beautiful tutor mentioned the death training and the goblin cave, Rody knows they wouldn't say such things without reason. They're not planning to burn him at the stake as a necromancer, but subtly reminding and hinting him, guiding him with something he can't yet understand. Maybe the goblin cave is the turning point for his magical advancement.

Thinking of this, Rody is excited, eager to reach his destination.