"Ah! My little brain is full of knowledge that I shouldn't be able to handle at my age. Ah, my light skin has also borne the handsome grace that I should not bear at my age. ”

It's already late spring in the year 2733 of the imperial calendar, and Mu En is about to celebrate his tenth birthday.

Maybe it's the inker black, and I always feel that his personality is more and more similar to Anschel.

In these four years, Muen has completed all the subjects in the elementary course, in addition to the knowledge of the secondary professional college he is studying, he has also studied the "Introduction to Potions", "Introduction to Puppetry", "Introduction to Circle Studies", "Introduction to Traces of Magic", "Theory of Space Magic", "Imperial Magician Code", "Etiquette", "Political Science" (Aristotle once had a book called "Political Science") , so it should be regarded here as the philosophical works of the sub-elves, used to dialectically argue the relationship between politics and philosophy) and the "History of Elven Philosophy" written by the elven sages. In addition, he passed the intermediate level test in Elvish language.

Where can a child understand philosophy? It's still the philosophy of elves!

In addition to this, he has all the common sense knowledge taught in a normal secondary school.

"If you want to open up," Ansher laughs, "the more you study, the more scholarships you get, and that's a good thing." "He's always looking at the excitement and not thinking it's a big deal.

Mu En lay on the table, his eyes were blank and said: "Roll the calf, normal people, I have just entered the middle school at my age, and I am almost done with my studies." Still overdone!"

Ansher laughed, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Everyone who can come to the tower basically comes here like this. Of course, they may not have such good conditions as you, and they may not learn as much as you. But it's always something that you have to learn sooner or later, and you can think of this as a way to exercise your mental control. ”

"I just feel like I'm languishing! What are the subjects I haven't finished yet?" Muen has lost his dreams, and every time he finishes everything on the schedule, the next day there will be a new lesson on his desk.

"There are no new courses. You can take a week off from today, and then you will have the graduation exam for the cultural foundation, after which you will only need to get the mage qualification again, and you will officially be counted as a graduate. This sentence was not said by Ansher, it was a vicissitudes of life, and Mu En looked up and found that it was the mentor who had not taught him in four years.

There was still a number of courtesies, and Muen stood up and bowed to Tavasis.

Tavasis bowed slightly, and then said: "The written part of the graduation examination will only test your courses in a normal secondary college, but you must achieve excellent grades in every subject, otherwise it will be counted as a discarded exam, that is, a zero score. The written examination for graduation is only once a year, and you will go to the outer courtyard to conduct a unified assessment with other students. By the way, I don't think your magic circuit seems to be improving much, but that's okay, the professional test can be done at any time, just make an appointment a week in advance. After you pass the theory, you can go out to study for two years. When you're twelve, you report to a college of higher learning. ”

Mu En scratched his head, he didn't have any problem with the fact that only those who excelled in the exam were considered results, after all, it was usually like this, but he didn't quite understand why he wanted to go out to study for two years.

"You're stupid, you're too young to attract unwanted attention. Ansher licked his lips, thinking that he had entered the academy at the age of thirteen, and had been classmates with Medanzo in the Tower at the age of seventeen, and had been treated as a monster by others all the way.

Mu En didn't really care about these things, he just asked himself if he could go out and play now.

Tabasis nodded, and Munn ran out cheering like the wind.

"Do you think he's going to run straight downstairs or upstairs?" Ansher asked.

Muen's classroom is on more than one hundred and seventy floors, and in order to prevent the tower's magicians from consuming too much mana by climbing the building, the tower has a teleportation circle every fifty floors, and it is also the only known place in the empire that has a two-way transmission circle. Except, of course, for the top two hundred floors, because the height of the tower is where the grandmasters cultivate.

And it's very interesting that the energy consumption of the two-way transmission circle is actually twice as low as that of the one-way transmission circle, and the principle is that the two-way circle can be used as a terminal, and the one-way circle has to pull the female end back. Therefore, the one-way circle is also technically more difficult to implement.

Tavasis was not in the mood to think about such frivolous things with Ansher, and he took out a letter with the Pope's stamp on it: "Look at it. ”

Ansher bowed his head and read the letter seriously, and said: "The change that allowed His Majesty the Pope to write the letter himself must be more serious than it seems. He looked up with a serious expression, only to find that Tavasis was gone.

“...... Can you not run away every time you finish speaking? Ansher felt speechless.

In the spring day of the forbidden court, the nobles woke up.

"Your Highness, it's time to study. The royal servant stood outside the tent with his head bowed and whispered to the inside.

After a while, a young man of fifteen or sixteen years old, dressed in thin clothes, came out of the tent, he was the fourth among the princes, and the eleventh among all the royal heirs. Named Naboo, the attribute of the magic circuit is spiritual.

Seeing the prince come out, the servant immediately knelt down and saluted.

"It's my battle trial this afternoon, isn't it?" asked Naboo as he picked up the man.

"Back to Your Highness, it is indeed twilight today, but there are still political theories to learn during the day. The servant replied.

At the age of fourteen, Nabu passed the written exam of the Intermediate Academy of the Tower, but due to the special circumstances of his mental attributes, he failed the professional test for a long time, although he was still very young, only sixteen years old.

"Ah...... I shouldn't have chosen a medium combat study as a professional exam subject in the first place, if I had chosen the magic circle study, I would have graduated a long time ago. "Naboo's magic concentration has already reached the standard qualification of a magician, but the subjects of the secondary school leaving exam are indispensable.

With a sigh, Nabu sat down at his desk and began his study for the day. Near noon, a subordinate ran in and whispered in his ear, "Your Highness, Your Highness Muen has come down." ”

Nabu was pleasantly surprised: "Really? That's a fart." Where is he?"

"I'm here!" Muen jumped from the roof and landed firmly outside his tent.

Nabu hurriedly got up: "Why are you free to come over today?"

"Hey, the exam is coming up, and they're giving me seven days off. Muen shrugged.

"Seven days? Isn't that the day of the Intermediate Academy's written exam? My God, you're about to graduate from the Intermediate Academy? You're only ten years old!" Nabu was surprised at first, and then lamented, "Worthy of being a genius among the geniuses of the Tower......"

Mu En patted him on the shoulder and comforted: "I don't feel like I'm talented, but there is a group of people who have been chattering around you every day, and you can be like me." ”

Naboo rolled his eyes, "You're irritating me." ”

"I'm clearly encouraging you. By the way, when you came, I heard them say that you are going to take the exam this afternoon?" asked Muen.

"yes, five o'clock in the afternoon. I thought it was too difficult for me to choose a battle test for the mental circuit. At the mention of this, Nabu was depressed.

"You don't need spiritual attributes, and you can chant magic with other attributes, right?"

"It's a lot of consumption. ”

"It's over, you don't care if he consumes a lot or not. And you can also get close to the examiner with physical strength. Mu En gave him another trick.

"Is that okay?" Naboo was clearly caught in a blind spot where he could only fight against magic.

"Of course you can! My senior brother told me that as long as the result of the battle is not the process, just win. So you don't care about that stuff, you just like that, and like that. As he spoke, Mu En gestured, and dubbed the action in his mouth while gesturing.

Naboo was amused and said to him, "I'll see if I'll try it in the afternoon." ”

"You're just studying, aren't you? You learn first, let's have dinner and play in the afternoon." Mu En said that he would go out for a walk first and not disturb him studying.

"Eh, you study well to help me see how to solve this kind of problem. Nabu motioned for Muen not to hurry away.

Mu En was still very confident in his mastery of knowledge, so he came up to take a look, and after looking at it for a while, he found that something was wrong.

"I haven't studied it, I can only tell you how to solve it from a philosophical point of view, but the gentleman who taught me philosophy said that it would be a fool to apply philosophical theories directly to something as complex as politics without thinking. Mu Enchen smiled and said that he couldn't help.

"You won't, aren't they embarrassed?!" Nabu was very indignant, as the prince, he naturally knew Mu En's identity, although Mu En was still a stupid boy who didn't know anything when the two first met, but how could they help people grow up very fast.

"You learned this, you should know, I haven't learned it. The mages of the Tower are forbidden to participate in national politics – except for my master. So I can't help you. By the way, your sister is in the palace, right?" Mu En finally tried to see the dagger.

"You're only ten years old!" Naboo had a look on his face that I knew as soon as I guessed.

Mu En's sister is the seventh princess Inanna, and the child naturally doesn't understand what love is, but he just thinks that sister is very good-looking, so he just wants to be close.

It's a hazy human instinct.

"Just to say hello, I'm finally going to see her." "Mu En wants to cover up.

"She has to go to school, how can she be in the palace all the time. Naboo looked at Muen with disdain.

Mu En said strangely: "But I saw her last time I came." ”

"Big brother...... The last time you were here was New Year's time. At that time, the academy was on vacation. ”

"Ahh Hearing that the princess was not there, Mu En instantly felt bored.

Princess Inanna is a gentle person, so she has a good reputation in the government and the opposition, and is called the princess who is most like her mother. He is twenty years old and is studying at Wendy College.

They went to meet Annu VII, returned to Naboo's palace for lunch, and in the afternoon they rode out of the city to hunt. The so-called hunting is Nabu holding a bow and shooting arrows, and Muen applauded next to him. No way, he was too young to have a lot of strength, and most of his combat studies were about skills, and the tower's mage said that he wouldn't be able to start exercising his body until his tenth birthday.

The harvest was full in the afternoon, and he hit five hares and a deer, and in the process, Mu En also learned some simple ordinary trace knowledge from the prince by the way, although they were all fragmented and unsystematic.

Of course, there were some accidents, such as when they happened to run into a hunting bear, and the bear was probably hungry and saw the two of them chasing like crazy. If it weren't for a few psionic guards a few hundred meters behind them, they might have to give up the pony under their crotch in exchange for their chance to escape.

At about half-past three, a psionic janissary rode up to Naboo's side and said, "Your Highness, it's time to go back, you still have a test." ”

Nabu was a little reluctant, he looked at Mu En, Mu En shook his hand and said, "Go back quickly, you can only take the exam once in two months, it's too early to finish." I can stay in the palace for a few days, not in a hurry. ”

Nabu nodded and said to the four psionic guards, "Okay, drive back to the palace." No, drive to the outer courtyard. ”

In the assessment field of the outer courtyard, people have already left, and there is a fixed number of people who participate in the assessment every day, and it doesn't matter if they come early or late. Each candidate has ten minutes to defeat the Tower's examiners, who will fight the candidates with a certain amount of mana, and if they pass, they will graduate.

Of course, before the real battle begins, it is necessary to test whether the candidate can break through a certain level of defense, otherwise it will be automatically disqualified.

"A little nervous. "This is the sixth time that Nabu has come to take the test.

"Don't be nervous, you'll have a mental impact later, and then a physical impact, rush in front of him, a left hook feint and a right straight punch, and if he can still prevent it, give him a broken kick. Mu En was frantically pointing at Naboo's side, and of course these words were exactly the same things that his senior brother had said to him.

Gradually, all the people in the examination room are gone, and in order to avoid exposing some secrets of the royal family (we don't know about the specifics, we don't dare to ask), the princes and princesses are often the last in such assessments.

The examiner stood across from Naboo, and did not show any emotion because of his royal countenance.

"Guess what the examiner is thinking right now. Ansher's voice rang abruptly in Muen's ears.

Mu En was startled and turned his head and asked, "Senior brother, don't you have to teach me that I have nothing to do after the class?"

Hearing this, Ansher hissed and picked up Muen's ear, and then Muen hissed as well.

"Why is a child's mouth so poisonous?" Anschel taught.

"Wrong, wrong, brother, I was wrong. "Mu En's heroes don't suffer immediate losses, so they quickly admit their mistakes.

"So what do you think the examiner is thinking? Ansher asked nonchalantly.

Mu En shook his head and said, "How do I know what he thinks." ”

"He's thinking, do you know how many royals I beat up!hahaha......" Anschel laughed, but when the laughter subsided, he noticed that the atmosphere had become very quiet.

"Why don't you laugh?" Anschel asked.

Mu En thought about it, and it seemed that the next words were difficult to say, and he thought of one word in his limited vocabulary, so he risked his ears being plucked again and said, "Senior brother...... You don't realize your joke...... Is it embarrassing?"

Rumble!!!

A flame burst around the two of them, and Mu En flew out of the stands.

Ansher cut and muttered, "This kid isn't as cute as he was when he first arrived," and left the exam room.

It's really a brother who loves each other.

On the school grounds, the magister in charge of the assessment said that irrelevant personnel were forbidden to enter the assessment area, and then another fire explosion spell blew him back.

"Fire, he didn't chant a spell! his circuit attribute is fire!" Muen reminded Nabu as he flew through the air.

Naboo burst into tears, gave him a thumbs up and shouted, "Thank you!

In the evening, His Royal Highness the Prince, who finally passed the exam, paid out of his own pocket and invited Mu En to eat at a famous restaurant in the imperial capital, not that their dishes were better than the royal family's imperial meals, mainly to express his gratitude.

There was also a small episode during the meal, where a young man who hated the nobles attacked His Royal Highness and was captured and taken away by the psionic guards.

"The third brother is relatively bad, maybe he provoked someone. Alas...... It's also strange that the royal family's appearance characteristics are too obvious to be recognized. At the dining table, the prince with thin lips, strange gray pupils and hair color said helplessly to Mu En, "I envy your pale blonde hair, I think it's beautiful." ”

When Muen heard this, he pulled his head and sent it to Naboo, making him laugh.

"I've read in the book that the teenager collided with the powerful, and as a result, he escaped death several times, and finally stabbed the enemy's family, a proper protagonist setting. Mu En teased as he thought of the boy who was the same age as Nabu and possessed junior mage-level magical powers.

Nabu elegantly scooped up a spoonful of dessert and said with a smile: "What are you afraid of, I am the apprentice of Tavasis who is doing it opposite." He originally wanted to say "the Holy Magister of the Certainty", but he remembered that Annu VII had instructed him that he must not tell Muen his exact talent, otherwise he would probably go to an extreme because of vanity. Therefore, Mu En has always only known that he is a genius in the general sense, and he does not think that he is much better than the students around him, that is, in the tower.

"Tavasis' apprentice is only ten years old, and he is not even a junior mage. Moreover, in the novels I have seen, they are all wastewood protagonists but have constant adventures, much more powerful than those geniuses. The last palm slapped to death a dozen geniuses like me. Mu En scoffed.

"Then don't you have to practice hard so that you can protect me in the future. Naboo joked.

Mu En made an exaggerated vomiting expression and said, "You are six years older than me, Your Highness, you should protect me." ”

"Then what do you think that was just now?" Nabu pointed back at the psionic guard behind him, deliberately showing off, "See, my family." Isn't that what I'm protecting you?"

"But the person he's going to beat is obviously you, okay?" Mu En rolled her eyes.

"Then if it weren't for them, you, as a friend, wouldn't you be able to help me?

Young people seem to have endless interesting stories to tell and endless skins, and this kind of vitality may be what the old people crave.

A month later, Mu En learned that she had successfully passed the written test. After his birthday in early August, he would leave the Tower and hike all the way to the realm of the Elves, the legendary Forest of Avalon.

In August, Muen's birthday came as scheduled, and he didn't make a big splash, but he booked an elegant courtyard in a hotel in the imperial capital, and all the grandmasters and Tavasis who had taught him attended the birthday party. His parents also made a special trip from the province of Aldan to accompany him on this birthday. Prince Nabu and his sister, Princess Inanna, who Mu En had been thinking about, were also dragged from the palace.

Standing at the door of the courtyard, His Royal Highness the Prince playfully winked at Mu En, as if to say, "How is it? I pulled my sister over, is it funny?" Mu En's face was slightly red, and he seemed a little embarrassed.

"The age difference of ten years is really not a problem in our race. Ansher snickered as she whispered into Muen's ear.

Hearing this, Mu En was even more embarrassed, raised his hands and blasted his senior brother away, and the senior brother laughed and saluted the two imperial heirs and left.

Mu En's life is actually very closed, all the people he met in the imperial capital for four years are elders, and most of the exchanges are because of problems in learning, so for so many years, only Nabu of the royal family is a peer, although the senior brother Ansher has a different personality, but he is actually forty years old this year. Princess Inanna is just a person who she has met a few times and is impressed by when Nabu took Mu En to wander around the forbidden court, but in fact, there is no communication.

The study tour after his birthday is actually a hope that Mu En can have more opportunities to communicate with others.

But this birthday, Mu En felt a little strange, he seemed to feel that his parents were different, but he couldn't say what was different.

When he was a little drunk after drinking a little, he seemed to see a figure with long black hair flashing across the room.

After waking up the next day.

"Muen, wake up, His Highness Nabu has come down to see you off. Ansher shook Muen awake.

"Huh, do I have to leave today?" Mu En was confused, a little surprised.

"What you said yesterday, leave today, go early and return early. Well, it's the cost of the journey, your clothes and the book you haven't opened yet, "Instant Seclusion" are in the box. Ansher placed the box on the bed.

"I've got to have some time to watch it, too...... Where's my mom and dad?"

"The mentor told me that they are gone, and now they are in charge of Ardan's pharmaceutical business, so there must be something. ”

Hearing this, Mu En was even more strange, and there was a strong sense of uneasiness in his heart.

Ansher didn't give him time to think, and stuffed a few gifts he had given him into his arms: "This is the brooch I gave you at the original apprenticeship ceremony, and inside is a one-time spell that will activate itself when you feel a magic fluctuation that can threaten your life. The inscribed magic is the Aurora Barrier, which is dragon magic, a one-time one, and the other is a one-time gift given to you yesterday, specially designed for your study tour, it looks like a watch on the outside, but inside it is a magic called 'Flame of the Burning City', which is also disposable. Although the name is very exaggerated, after all, it is a sixth-order magic created by my father, specializing in all kinds of disobedience. When you want to use it, take the dial and point it at someone else and then convert your magic into a thunder attribute injection, which is an insurance mechanism. ”

Mu En took two things in a daze: "What level of magician can this spell kill?"

"The Aurora Barrier can block the explosion of the magic circuit at the level of a high-level magister, of course, if you really encounter an attack of that level, although you can block it, you will still be injured. The Flame of the Burning City is a large-scale fire attribute magic, and when it is just released, there will be an explosion, and then it will scatter special flames that are difficult to extinguish, and generally speaking, a mage who is not a refined defense can't bear it. Ansher said. I think that in the beginning, in order to carve these two magic into these two small objects, they added up to make him faint three times.

Mu En looked at the two things in his hand with a stupid face, slowly raised his head and asked, "Is it so dangerous to study abroad?"

"Don't be afraid, it's just prepared. By the way, I have prepared a lot of money for you, because I am afraid that you will be deceived and starve to death on the road, in addition to a price list of some commonly used items, you have to buy things and look at the price list, don't be deceived pants as out. Ansher muttered bitterly.

can't blame him, who is a senior brother, for worrying too much, after all, on the bright side, Mu En has no protector on the bright side of this study tour.

After listening to his senior brother's words, Mu En felt even more scared.

"The outside world is so dangerous...... Mu En thought silently.

Before leaving, Mu En asked his senior brother if he could go back to Aldan first to see how his house was doing. But Ansher said that as far as he knew, it seemed that Muen's parents were not in Ardan now, and he didn't know why.

Mu En hesitated for a moment, but gave up the idea of asking, and turned to leave.

At the door of the outer courtyard of the tower, Nabu had been waiting for a long time. After this parting, Nabu is going to study at the Spiritual Attribute Toth Academy, and he doesn't know when he will be able to see him again.

Nabu gave Mu En the horse that Mu En used to ride when they went out on a safari together, and sent him all the way outside the imperial capital, and when the two separated, Nabu took out a letter that his sister had written. Mu En felt flattered, but Nabu said that he could not open it until a month after Mu En had set off, otherwise the ban placed by his sister inside would make the ink fade, and Mu En agreed.

Naboo patted Muen's horse and gave his parting words.

"Originally, the Tower decided that if you go to the Forest of Avalon, they won't help you in any way. But they didn't say you can't accept help from others, or that you can't take different modes of transportation. I feel a very powerful magic weapon in you, but the aura of that magic weapon is gradually disappearing by itself. Presumably this is also a gift from your senior brother. ”

Then he paused, looked at Mu En seriously, and said, "Every friend you make with your heart, they will help you when you embark on your journey, even if you can't come in person." Personnel is like this, life is still the same. I am reminded of a famous saying of the elves - we need not be afraid of separation, for one day we will meet each other. With that, he took two steps back, pointed with his right hand to the sky, then to the ground, and then held his arm to his chest.

The meaning of this liturgy is: May heaven and earth bless you. And combined with the romantic and philosophical sentence of the elves he just said, the meaning of this benefit is even more: even if it takes a long time, the next time we meet, whether in heaven or on earth, we will definitely meet again. So, be brave and don't worry about each other.

"Why are you talking so sensational......" Mu En understood what he meant, and his nose was a little sour. He jumped off his horse and hugged his friend.

Then, before disappearing from Naboo's sight, he slowly led his horse.