It is difficult for the average person to remember someone they met a few times a year ago and only spoke a few times. When we meet again, there is a feeling of familiarity at most.

But Orondo won't.

[Eero Grief: Former apprentice mage apprentice from Lordan Rembrell, eighteen years old]

The Eye of Truth has information about the waiter in front of him, who was one of Orondo's classmates in the public classroom of Violet Academy a year ago.

With the exception of Neras Elam, there are only a few apprentice mages who have crossed paths with him.

With the help of the Eye of Truth, few memories of Eero Sadwind automatically came to his mind.

The former apprentice mage apprentice was the son of a wealthy merchant from the wealthy Lordan Rembrell, but he didn't have much money.

Looking at this former classmate who was dressed as a waiter and holding a wine tray in his hand, Orondo smiled, "Hello." I'll remember you, Eero Sadwind. You're from Brill. ”

There was an obvious look of surprise on Ero's face, and his hand holding the wine plate trembled a little, "You actually remember me!" You are so dazzling in Dalaran, and I ......"

His voice was low.

Orondo looked at the sad wind and asked curiously, "You...... Why are you wearing this dress? You work here. ”

An apprentice mage would be a waiter! And it is also a place where mages like Dalaran are supreme, which is a little incredible.

"Yes." Ero whispered. "A year ago. No tutor wanted to choose me as their student. According to the rules, I can only leave Violet Academy. But I don't want to go back to Brill like this, I want to be a mage, I want to be a mage of Dalaran! I chose to stay. ”

"But......" he said with a wry smile on his face. With my family, life in Dalaran is relatively easy. But without Kenrito's help, my path to becoming a mage would have been extremely difficult. ”

"My father was no longer willing to support me, and he asked me to go home and help with the business. I don't want to go back, I stay, I need to live, I need to study, all of this needs money. ”

"I work in Dalaran and study at the same time. The senior ball attendants at the Lordaeron embassy were well paid, and a few friends and I came here. ”

Orondo was speechless.

Elan did this, although it sounded a bit of a work-in-law. But Orondo knew it wasn't. Because of the work-study period, I work part-time while studying at school.

However, Elan, who has been abandoned by Dalaran's official education, is difficult to become a Dalaran mage unless he is extremely lucky.

Orondo looked at the mage apprentice, who was much older than himself, and the yearning for mages and arcane arts on his face made Sir Sephorosa feel like he was seeing the students in the Hope Elementary School in his previous life.

That's the yearning for knowledge.

Sometimes it's not a good thing to have too good a memory, and the incident reminded Orondo of a "Kenrito Monthly" paper he had read. In that paper, the mage boldly raised the question of a former apprentice mage apprentice like Ellan Grief.

As mentioned earlier, if you are not selected by a formal mage to become a full apprentice within one month of your apprenticeship, the apprentice mage apprentice must leave Violet Academy.

The paper claims that about 3,000 trainee mage apprentices come to Dalaran every year, and generally 500~800 will become formal apprentices, and eventually about one to two hundred people will become official Dalaran masters.

Except for the more than 200 people who finally achieved the right result, the remaining 2,000 people will lose the opportunity to obtain formal mage education in Dalaran unless they are extremely lucky.

So, these 2,800 apprentice mage apprentices who have lost their qualifications, are they really stubborn and have no mage talent?

Perhaps most of the apprentice mage apprentices are indeed not qualified, because there are more ordinary people than intelligent people in any world. Mage is another profession that requires extreme intelligence, extreme intelligence.

But the 2,800 or so mage apprentices who are eliminated every year really don't have a few good seedlings?

Missing! Because Dalaran's teaching system is actually extremely unfair in the eyes of Orondo, who comes from Earth!

Since its establishment, Dalaran has pursued a mentorship system learned from Quel'Salas.

The so-called tutor system means that one teacher teaches several students. Mentors who want to take in students choose a few of the apprentices as their own students. Under normal circumstances, there will be 2~5 students around the formal mage.

It takes about 2~5 years for these students to become full-fledged mages. In other words, a formal mage can train up to five formal mages in about 5 years, and 100 regular mages can train 500 mages in 5 years.

It only takes 5 years for 10,000 full-fledged mages to train 50,000 mages, and in a few hundred years, the entire Azeroth will be mages!

However, in reality, it is impossible to calculate this at all, not to mention the quality and talent of students. Even the mages themselves rarely admit 5 students in 5 years.

With the exception of a few mages who are obsessed with power or have other hobbies, most mages are single-mindedly in pursuit of arcane truth. There is no doubt that teaching students will take a lot of mage's energy and distract them from the pursuit of arcane truth.

Most of the real mages don't like to take students very much—isn't it nice to concentrate on the study of the arcane?

You know, taking in a student comes with an extra responsibility, and not every mage is as good at teaching disciples as Antonidas. Not every mage apprentice is as worry-free as Kel'thugad and Orondo.

So under normal circumstances, a Master Dalaran will have 2~5 students around him, but they basically only accept one student every three or four years. It's almost like a student being promoted to a full-fledged mage and then taking in an apprentice.

And there are many mages, not even apprentices, who concentrate on the study of arcane and ignore the world. Even Kenrito had no choice but to do it, and issued several rules to reward mages who were willing to teach their students.

What's more, due to the particularity of the mage profession, it is very serious in kryptonite, and money and power are at least the same to support the exploration of the mage's path.

This alone has left many gifted civilian mage apprentices to remain minor mages for the rest of their lives, or simply unable to become full-fledged mages - they don't have the money to explore the arcane on their own.

The paper concludes by claiming that due to the unreasonable education system in Dalaran, or the lack of enthusiasm of mages in teaching their apprentices, at least hundreds of good mages are missed every year, and eventually become ordinary people.

This is a serious waste for Dalaran, and a serious waste for the Arcane.

The author of the paper did not come up with a solution in the end, perhaps the author actually had some ideas in mind, but did not have the ability or courage to say them.

Orondo had seen it before, but this time he met Eero Sadwind, and after listening to his situation, he just remembered this paper and Dalaran's situation.

After thinking for a moment, Orondo patted the shoulder of the former apprentice mage apprentice, who was actually taller than him, and said softly, "Everything will be fine." ”

"Yes! Everything will be fine. Hérault laughed too. He has been working part-time to earn money, and the money he earns is used to buy research materials and magic scrolls, and Ero believes that he will one day become a real mage!