Mary wasn't confident in Rocky. All the interviewees looked at him like he was a joke and kept laughing in his face. None of them believed that Rocky was the one the clan was looking for.
"Young man, what's your name?" Harry asked.
"It's Rookie," replied Rocky impassively. He looked like he wasn't affected by all the mocking stares the people were giving him.
Meanwhile, as soon as Rocky said his name, the people around them burst into laughter.
And Mary's face broke out into a satisfied smile. She seemed to enjoy the sight of Rocky being humiliated.
"Where do you live?" Harry continued to ask, heedless of the ruckus going on around them.
"I'm from a remote country," Rocky added.
"And your parents are..." Before Harry finished his question, Rocky chimed in, "If you want to test me, then do so already. I think Miss Mary can't wait any longer to humiliate me."
At this statement, Harry and other beast curers looked at Mary, whose face had darkened in an inscrutable expression. She nodded at them as if to say 'get on with it'.
"It's very important to have a solid foundation when learning the art of Beast Curing Skill, and the basic foundation is to be able to identify the herbs and flowers that are used for healing the wounds of different spirit-manipulated beasts. If you want to be a disciple of the Xiao Clan, you need to learn to identify more than ten kinds of herbs first," one of the beast curers said to Rocky.
Then, a disciple of the Xiao Clan brought out ten kinds of medicinal materials from a plate and walked up to Rocky.
He was about to show them to Rocky, but Rocky barely glanced at them and said, "You don't have to do that."
After hearing that, Mary said, "Now you know how naive you are. You can't even recognize ten kinds of herbs. Don't overestimate yourself." She sounded haughty and self-satisfied at that moment, as she thought that Rocky had given up.
"Miss Mary, you misunderstood me. I said I don't want to see them, but that's because I already recognized them," Rocky said with a small smirk. He said that on purpose since he knew that Mary would misunderstand, and he wanted her to feel like she had won before he slapped her with the truth. That was more satisfying for him.
Mary immediately frowned. Harry and other beast curers also looked at each other, because Rocky didn't even take a closer look. How could he identify the ten kinds of medicinal herbs with one glance?
"Then, name all of these," Mary demanded, as she gestured to the ten herbs. Her eyes were narrowed in suspicion at Rocky. She was convinced that he was just playing a trick and was trying to bluff his way out of trouble.
"Maud, yarrow... Fire yellow... Shamrock..." Rocky spoke out ten names calmly.
"Miss Mary, he's right," the beast curer said to Mary, surprised.
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