Chapter 034: Come Back Alive
As Eli walked around the campus, he noticed that the young wizards around him would subconsciously avoid his gaze.
He knows why. The Wizarding Academy has reported that Eli has been suspended for a period of time due to his bad conduct in enslaving the Sound Demon Clan. At the same time, it is also announced that Eli has become a summoner, and he will complete some tasks for the Ministry of Magic to make up for his mistakes.
This gave Eli the impression of being powerful and evil in the minds of most of the young wizards of Gehras. They were shocked that Eli had become a summoner at the age of twelve, and would make irresponsible remarks about Eli's conduct in private.
At lunchtime, Eli was having dinner with Duoduo and Jaceline when Olivia walked up to him.
"I'm really sorry about the matter of the Sound Demon Clan. I tried to explain the situation to my familiar classmates, but they all thought that I was being threatened by you and did not believe some of the facts I had stated. I'm sorry because of my cousin, and you were suspended from school......" Olivia said to Eli with some mixed feelings.
"It has nothing to do with you. I was suspended from school for a while, and I was further isolated, and my classmates around me were both disgusted and fearful of me, and that was what the Ministry of Magic was trying to achieve. Even if there is no matter of the Sound Demon Clan, they can find other reasons, maybe in different ways, but the result is the same. β
Eli sighed, he was a little helpless against Olivia's character, who was prone to excessive self-blame whenever he had the slightest relationship with her. When Leopold provoked Eli, Olivia also apologized to Eli. But none of these things were her fault at all.
"I know you're working hard for the Sound Demon Clan, and I'm willing to help, if there's anything you need, you can tell me!" Olivia quickly added.
"Well, I'm leaving school in a few days, and we'll be in touch. Eli nodded.
He had thought that he had seriously injured Olivia's cousin, and that Olivia might not have much to do with him again. However, Olivia quickly turned the matter over in her heart, she felt that in her values, after all, it was her cousin's fault first, and Eli stopped in time, and her cousin is now recovering well. She still hopes to continue to learn more about electromagnetism from Eli, which she considers very esoteric.
"When the Sound Demon Clan is free, everyone will know that they have misunderstood you, you have never enslaved the Sound Demon Clan, but have been working hard for them, and you will be praised as a hero. Olivia cheered Eli up, and she did believe that with the talent Eli was showing now, there would be a day when Eli was showing.
At this time, Jaceline, who had been immersed in eating, raised her head, glanced at Olivia, and muttered, "Is she really stupid or pretending to be stupid?" β
Although Jaceline didn't speak loudly, Olivia could hear it clearly.
Confused, she asked Jaceline, "Don't you believe Eli is a good man?" β
Eli almost squirted out the drink she was drinking, and if memory serves, this is probably the second time Olivia has given herself a Good Person Card?
Jaceline asked Olivia, "Will Eli be a hero when the misunderstanding is resolved?"
Olivia replied, "Of course, everyone will be ashamed of the misunderstanding of Eli at this time. β
Jaceline scoffed, "You say they're going to be ashamed of what they didn't know about it?" No, when they find out they've wronged Eli, they'll just say, "Oh, that's what happened." Then move on to the next person you can blame. Will he become a hero if he fights for the freedom of the Sound Demons? Eli will only become a hero of the Sound Demons, and many Terrans will even hate him. The joys and sorrows of the intelligent races are not connected. β
"You can't think of people so badly. You don't know about the Terrans," Olivia argued.
Jaceline spread her hands and made the appearance of an adult telling a dark fairy tale to an innocent child: "Let me tell you." Most people want to be appreciated by others. But doing good deeds and doing great things is too difficult. So what's the easiest way to do it? Just condemn the people who do bad things. If the academy doesn't come up with an announcement condemning Eli, then it will take a lot of courage to be the first person to be corrected. But the academy has already given Eli a hat of bad conduct, and the others will follow and beat the water dogs, which is much simplerβyou don't need your own ideas, just go along with them.
Isn't it a pleasure to be a good person and vent your daily stresses in this way? And once you taste the sweetness, after the end of a sanction, in order to get a new pleasure, people will look for the next target of sanctions. At first, the purpose was to correct the bad guys, but gradually it became a forcible creation of sanctions.
What will happen if we later find out that we have made the wrong accusations? People will think: This is not my fault alone, everyone is wrong, and the law does not hold the people accountable. Besides, I just said a few critical words, and the Ministry of Magic can't convict me of a crime just because I'm scolding the streets, right?ββ they don't care about how much damage their rumors have caused to the person concerned.
It's not that I don't understand the human race, it's that you don't understand human nature. β
Jaceline lowered her head and continued to enjoy her meal, she had no intention of continuing the discussion with Olivia.
Olivia made an appointment with Eli to ask him about electromagnetic theory and left. She still felt that Jacelyn was a little one-sided, and she also asked Eli for her opinion, and Eli just smiled and said to her: "I hope that the people and things you will experience in the future will make you always feel that what Jacelyn said at this time is one-sided." β
In the afternoon, Xia Zuo and Fei Yi found Eli again. Fei Yi took Eli to her laboratory at the Magic Research Institute and gave him a comprehensive "physical examination", which not only included physical fitness, but also tested Eli's magical attributes and the power of the various offensive magic that he could currently release. Then Fei Yi began to devote himself to research. She promises to make Eli a wand and a pair of magic shoes that will speed up his movement before he sets off.
Saying goodbye to Fay and Shazo, Eli went to Steward's office. Stewart handed him the Ministry of Magic's certificate of designation as Eli's "summoner".
In this world, there is no overall division of the level of wizards, for example, necromancers and illusionists, the nature of the witchcraft they use is very different, you can only talk about who is weak and who is strong, but you can't say which one is more powerful overall.
It's like when Eli was on Earth in his previous life, you can't say who is better than the accountant or the programmer, they are not good at anything at all. But you can say that senior accountants are generally stronger in terms of business ability than junior accountants.
In this world, when it comes to a certain type of wizard, the Ministry of Magic also gives a hierarchy. Eli got the certificate of a second-order summoner at this time, and it stands to reason that Eli has just become a summoner, and he can only be recognized as a first-order at most, but Cyril's individual strength is too strong, and the Ministry of Magic thinks that the second-order is reasonable. This also takes into account that Eli's mastery of summoning witchcraft is not proficient enough, and he and Cyril are currently unable to use summoning witchcraft to form many subtle cooperation, so it is only second-order.
For elemental magic, which is relatively easy for most people to master, the Ministry of Magic only classifies the caster level of witchcraft, which is classified as a junior magician, an intermediate magician, and a senior magician. [1]
As for the qualifications of practitioners of advanced witchcraft such as necromancy and summoning witchcraft, the Ministry of Magic is divided into five levels. The higher the rank, the stronger the strength, and the difference in strength between the third and fourth orders is much greater than the gap between the fourth and fifth orders. For example, Cedric is a fifth-order illusionist and has already stood at the apex of human illusionists, while Stuart is a third-order illusionist.
Of course, these are all divisions of various wizard levels by the Ministry of Terran Magic, which are not consistent with the division system of other intelligent races. Because the racial talents of each race are different, like the blood clan, there are not many people who know witchcraft at all, so they naturally will not divide any junior high and senior magicians, but they will divide the movement speed of the blood clan and the self-healing ability of the body into four levels: "excellent, good, medium, and poor".
Eli didn't have a crush on Steward, but he remembered that Steward had said that he could ask him questions about witchcraft, so he took the lead and asked him a lot of questions about illusions. Because he desperately wanted to know how he could perceive the illusionist's guidance on his subconscious, and minimize the illusionist's influence on his mind.
To Eli's surprise, because many of the questions he asked could not be explained clearly in a moment, Stewart actually handed Eli a notebook. There are dense words on it, recording all his experiences in the process of learning illusions.
"As I said, I'm not your friend, but I'm never an enemy either. Stewards said as he handed Eli the notebook.
Eli was about to take the note, but hesitated for a moment and said, "I may not be able to return it to you, it should be important to you." β
Stewart smiled and asked, "Do you know what is the most important thing about performing a mission for the Ministry of Magic?"
Eli was a little surprised that Stewart would ask like this, he thought for a moment and replied, "Seeking truth from facts, being disciplined, and thinking from the bottom line?"
Stewart was a little confused, he didn't know where Eli came up with these words, he looked at Eli seriously, and only spit out a few words: "Come back alive." β
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[1] Regarding the certification of elemental magic and elemental magician, it seems to be quite verbose in the text, so let's distinguish it here, for example, Eli can release high-level elemental magic of the wind system at this time, but it cannot be said that he is a high-level magician of the wind element. This is also illustrated in the writing of the third chapter, through the narration of other young wizards in the third and fourth paragraphs.
Take the fire element as an example: you can release ten or more types of fire elemental magic, and you can be certified as a fire elemental junior magician;
You can release ten or more kinds of intermediate fire-type elemental magic, and at the same time, you can use fire-based intermediate elemental magic to cooperate with other elemental magic to play more than five kinds of magic combination skills, and the actual combat test results meet the standard, you can be certified as a fire-type elemental intermediate magician;
You can release ten or more kinds of high-level fire-type elemental magic, and at the same time, you can use fire-type high-level elemental magic to cooperate with other elemental magic to play more than ten kinds of magic combination skills, and you can be certified as a fire-type elemental high-level magician with excellent results in actual combat tests.
When writing a book for the first time, there must be a lot of shortcomings in the setting, and you can put forward any comments or criticisms.