At noon, Baron Pike Calland was reading a book in his study, and although more than ten years had passed quietly, the Baron still seemed to be the same, but his hair was slightly grayer. www.biquge.info Of course, fifty-five years old is not a twilight of life in Todder, but a prime of life. You know, if you don't encounter any accidents, ordinary civilians can live to be ten years old, not to mention that the baron is still a high-level swordsman with some strength.

The Baron's study was still the same: reports of various colors were piled up on the table, dusty as if no one had ever sorted them out. Surrounded by tall brass bookshelves, the only window is obscured by gray curtains. The dome was inlaid with a few crystal-like things that shone brightly, and the air was filled with the faint scent of blue leaves.

At this moment, the light in the room suddenly flickered a few times, and then slowly dimmed.

Pike, who was reading in front of the bookcase, glanced up at the dome, muttered a few disgruntled words, and got up to the wall. The brown-gray wall features a palm-sized metal mechanical box with stripes running out of it and down the wall to the crystal on the dome.

The baron reached out and pressed a button on the metal box, and with a crisp click, a gap appeared in the middle of the box, and a somewhat gray white crystal card bounced out of the gap, and the light in the study disappeared completely. In the darkness, he took out a brighter white crystal card from his bosom and inserted it, feeling the light on his head regain it, and the baron nodded with satisfaction.

He was using a magic crystal card that was widespread throughout the shattered world. These crystals are the same size as magic cards, but have a few simple carvings on the surface that are used to store mana, which can be used as a source of mana for many mechanical or magical purposes.

Of course, there are many different standard specifications of the magic crystal card, such as the mana that can be stored in the white crystal card in the baron's hand, which can probably support the lighting crystal in the study to release a month's light day and night. And it is said that the purple crystal card of the highest specification can light up the entire Toddle plane in the same time.

Looking at the crystal card in his hand, the baron instinctively felt a pain, and then realized that it was just the most ordinary white crystal card, so he generously waved his hand and threw it on the messy table, shaking some flying dust.

Just as he was pondering whether to order some more magic crystal cards, Eddard's voice came from outside the door: "Master, Master Merlin is ready. ”

Thinking that little Morin couldn't use magic cards, and thinking of his father's instructions when he left home two years ago, the baron couldn't help but sigh softly: "Call him in." ”

Indeed, Merlin cannot use magic cards.

Any child, at the age of **, should be able to use the card of the Zero Ring spell to create a few sparks or a few pieces of light and something like that. The method is also very simple: you only need to touch the card with your hand, such as the zero-level spark card, and there is no need for other steps at all, and the innate magic in the body will automatically flow to the card, so as to activate the simple spell model in it, and release a few sparks around, the stronger the magic power, the more sparks.

But Morin can't, he has magic power, and he's not weak, and he can also inject it into the card, but it doesn't work, and at best it makes the card a little hot - no different from the temperature of covering it with the palm of his hand.

At first, Baron Pike thought that there was a problem with the cards, after all, there has never been a precedent on the mainland that cards cannot be used, and all human beings are born with the most basic magic power, so that they can use the simplest magic cards, which is common sense.

But when Merlin was given many cards to use, none of which could be used, the Baron finally believed in this fact, which was even more puzzling than Morin's magical memory skills.

What made Pike even more confused was that his father, who was Morin's grandfather, had a flash of excitement on his face when he learned that Merlin couldn't use cards, and the baron swore that he was absolutely right. After that, no matter how he asked, his father kept silent, but went through the library alone for a long time, and then immediately went out and didn't know where he went, only saying that he was looking for something, leaving behind a black crystal card and a word of instruction: Morin must develop in the direction of a mage.

This is also the reason why Morin, who was walking into the study, looked depressed.

"Do you have to choose the direction of a mage, grandfather is too unreasonable, I can't even use magic cards, which magic academy will want me!" Merlin said to Baron Pike with a resentful glare in his blue eyes.

It's not like he's complaining, you know, in Todel, magic cards can be said to be a common tool, more or less every class will use high-level or low-level cards, but if there is any profession that is completely inseparable from magic cards, it must be a mage, and the combat strength basically comes from the collection and use of magic cards

Being stared at by little Morin's gaze, the baron moved his ass and shirked: "This is your grandfather's order, but I didn't say it." ”

Mo Lin waved his hands wildly, and shouted a little anxiously, "What do you want me to do if there is no magic academy!"

Baron Pike was even more weak-hearted, his dark blue eyes stared at the corner of the bookshelf, and he coughed lowly, "Then come back first, I should be able to get you into a good magic academy, but you still have to choose the direction of a mage, and your grandfather's words are rarely wrong." ”

In Todder, the transmission of knowledge and skills is very important, there are also a variety of academies, some teach agricultural production techniques, some teach combat skills, and some contain many aspects, and there is a very well-known academy on the edge of the Duchy of Lothar - Victor Combat Command Academy, which specializes in teaching the skills of combat and command, and has produced many legendary commanders.

However, only academies that can train mages can be called magic academies, such as the most famous of them, the Illuvita School of Magic. As a result, the Academy of Magic is also the one with the highest requirements and the least admissions.

Therefore, it can be imagined how confused and surprised Morin was when he heard the baron's words, he looked at his father suspiciously, and asked, "Really, even if I can't even use magic cards?"

The baron coughed dryly again, thinking of the name on the letter, and his tone was much more steady, and replied, "Naturally, it is true." His old face was slightly hot, and he continued: "I have already arranged it for you." ”

Merlin was even more puzzled, and muttered, "Dad, do you have such a relationship?" I read in the book that the back door of the Magic Academy is very difficult to get through. However, he was relieved, and added with a big grin: "Then I will believe you for the time being, anyway, there is no academy to ask me at that time, I will go to the town and say that you have bragged and blown your face, so that the uncles and aunts will laugh at you! Tell grandpa when he comes back, and let him punish you to kneel on the slate!"

"It's not like that, it's not big or small, and there's no aristocratic etiquette!" The baron said angrily: "I see that you can stay at home, and you don't need to take the test with the junior academy in the afternoon, and then the magic academy will naturally admit you!"

"That's not going to work, even if no magic academy wants me, I'm going to help Barron cheer up, we've already agreed to meet at the door. Maureen grimaced and hurried out of the study.

Barron's full name is Barron-Ressa, a good friend of Morin, a Kadir from the Eternal Winter Icefield, also known as a barbarian, who came to the Duchy of Lothar with his uncle who was a merchant a year ago in order to enter the Victor Combat Command Academy, and temporarily lived in Harry Harbor, where he met Morin at the Junior Academy.

As for the Juvenile Society, it is a traditional society throughout human countries, which is mainly responsible for the basic education of young people over the age of ten in the region, selecting talented people to participate in the tests of senior colleges, and helping those with average talent to find suitable general colleges or work directions for them.

This year, for example, Lawson Woodman, the teacher in charge of the Harry Harbor area, selected only Maureen and Barron to take the test.

Back in his room, Morin changed into black civilian clothes, simply packed his clothes, and carried the package that Ed had helped prepare - which contained the light armor dagger and shield used for training, and then hurried to the door of the mansion, waiting excitedly. Although he may not have any results in this test, after all, it is also a rare grand gathering, so the young man's heart is still full of longing.

Because Victor College is too famous and recruits very few students, there will be no teachers who go far away to recruit students, so every year there will be many teenagers like Barron who come from far away, and because of the proximity to the Principality of Lothar, the talented teenagers in the Principality want to try it out, so it gradually evolved into a national test, and the heads of other colleges recruiting students in the Principality of Lothar also admit students based on the performance of this test. And those teenagers who came specifically to be admitted to Victor Academy, if they failed but performed well, will also receive invitations from other colleges.

The summer afternoon sun was scorching and sharp, and the exposed air turned into a viscous heat wave, and Morin, who was waiting at the door, suddenly narrowed his eyes, because there was something more dazzling than the sun in his field of vision—a bald head.

The bald head belonged to a burly boy, and at first glance, no one would believe that it was a twelve-year-old boy: he was a whole head taller than Maureen, with big dark eyes, thick eyebrows and thick lips, a high nose and short ears, a rough gray leather waistcoat, a flat-headed stone hammer on his back, and a belt around his waist. The most striking thing is his bald head, which shines like a hot fireball in the scorching sun, so bright that people can't look at it directly.

"Barron!" Morin shouted, and then a sprint accelerated towards the burly boy, and was about to crash into the boy's body, but instead of stopping, Morin jumped up, and at the same time made a fist with his right hand and struck straight out, shouting, "Look at the fist!"

However, Barron was not surprised by Morin's sudden punch, as if it was commonplace, and seeing that Morin's sharp punch was about to hit his chest, he still dodged. His right hand was spread out, seemingly casually blocking his chest, but he accurately grasped Morin's fist between the lightning and flint, and his thick arm was slightly bent and unloaded, and his body was unmoving.

Seeing that his fist was easily instantaneous, Morin was not frustrated at all, and laughed: "How about it, Barron, even my grandfather has to nod and praise this punch when he sees it." ”

Having apparently completed his grandfather's demanding training, Maureen's self-confidence was already bursting.

Barron let go of his hand, touched his shiny bald head, and hesitated, "Hmm...... The acceleration at the beginning is good, but as for the power...... Count the weight and momentum...... About two hammers?" the Kadir boy's voice was rough, and his voice was even deeper when he hesitated.

The power of two hammers is the term of the Kadir people, and the standard unit is called two kiels, which is about the strength of two adult men, about two hundred kilograms.

When Mo Lin heard this, he was not happy, and exclaimed: "What do you mean the power of two hammers?! This is the strength of two kiels, I am already a second-level apprentice, I am not yet twelve years old!"

Barron looked at Merlin a little blankly, and wondered, "Then...... After?"

Feeling that he was playing the piano to the cow, Maureen said a little weakly: "Shouldn't you have a very surprised expression, and then praise me for being a genius?" ”

Barron's expression became even more dazed, and his rugged features became as stiff as a puppet.

Glancing at the huge stone hammer behind Barron's back, Morin suddenly deflated and lamented: "Okay, okay, you are a genius, you are about to reach the strength of a seventh-level apprentice of the battle rank, you Kadir people are all geniuses!"

There are nine levels of apprentices, and only then can they be counted as official professionals, and seventh-level apprentices have the power of about seven hammers in one blow, but the absolute strength is less than three kiels, which is only twice the strength of ordinary people. Like Morin now, his strength is probably only three points more than that of ordinary people, but don't underestimate these three points, before you can't exercise your magic power, any progress requires extraordinary talent and endless sweat.

In addition, the broken world, whether it is a war or a legal job, the source of power is magic power, the war job uses magic power to supply the energy of **, and the law uses magic power to support the spell model, as for why magic power is not called fighting qi or something else, it is because this energy comes from the sea of magic, and the sea of magic was discovered and named by the scholars and mages of ancient Issuen.

Barron was a little embarrassed to be praised, and said with a smile: "Our patriarch also said the same, I will definitely become a powerful general in the future." ”

"If only the general just had to charge. Morin silently added something later, but he didn't say it, because he didn't want to discourage the Kadir boy's confidence.

Almost at the same time, a middle-aged man's loud voice came: "If only the general had to charge." ”

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