Albert, the old headmaster, was a rare true scholar, a point that the head maid had emphasized to Merlin on the way to the school.

Merlin didn't pay much attention to this at first, after all, the person who can be the principal of Aldrich House is naturally a very learned person, and a learned person is not a scholar, what is so strange.

It's just that when he flipped through the memories of the original owner, he immediately straightened his attitude.

In this world, fanatical knowledge-seekers will eventually face a choice between a fork in the road in life, whether to follow the path of a wizard or to become a pure scholar.

And at this time, your choices will also determine whether you are a person or not in the future.

Wizards, this is a profession that transforms knowledge into witchcraft that represents power, and their pursuit of knowledge is actually the power contained in the knowledge they pursue, and the more knowledge a wizard knows, the greater his power.

However, fair trade, equivalent exchange is the truth of the world, you get power, then you must pay the corresponding price, the price of becoming a wizard is that you will have to give up your human identity from now on, that is, I will not be a human being.

Once you have chosen to follow the path of a wizard, from the time you learned the first witchcraft, you will go further and further on the path of inhumanity.

Those powerful wizards, apart from being like individuals on the outside, are already something else on the inside, and it's impossible to say if you will care about what you cherished when you were a human at that time.

The so-called scholars are the opposite choice of the wizard's path, they are not willing to give up their human identity, they do not pursue knowledge for power, but simply want knowledge itself, and the lifelong pursuit of scholars is only to one day use knowledge to interpret the world, so that the human race can become better and stronger.

Men will eventually run out, but knowledge will endure, and scholars believe that among their descendants there will always be new knowledge-hungry people who will rise up, who will carry on their life's work, step on their shoulders, and use them as a ladder to finally reach the temple of truth.

Hawkers, to put it bluntly, wizards are the so-called all the great power to themselves, and what they pursue is self-detachment. Scholars, on the other hand, pay more attention to the totality of human beings and the inheritance of knowledge, regard each person as a ladder, and ultimately seek the collective detachment of all mankind.

Of course, although the choices are different, but wizards and scholars don't look down on each other like in the bloody novels, and they can't wait to beat their brains out, in fact, the two groups of people are united, and the relationship between the wizarding association and the scholar's organization of the Hall of Truth is good enough to wear the same pair of pants.

After all, wizards are cold-blooded and ruthless, but they only love knowledge, and the temple of truth is equivalent to knowledge.

Often, after a major theoretical breakthrough in the Academy of Truth, the Wizarding Association will use that theory the next day to try to develop a new kind of witchcraft, and in the same way, if the Wizards Association suddenly comes up with a terrible witchcraft, then the research team of the Temple of Truth will be dispatched to strive to make the witchcraft clear and clear, and organize the data into a theoretical report as thick as a dictionary, and then seal it in the knowledge treasure house of the Temple of Truth.

So, don't look at those scholars are all weak, but if you don't offend a certain scholar with a long eye, then I'm sorry, you have caused a big problem, maybe you get up the next day and wake up, and there is a circle of strange people in robes around your bed who are looking at you with the eyes of a vegetable market.

There was once a god who didn't have long eyes who laughed at a certain university scholar, and then there was no more, nothing more than a meteor in the night sky, rare materials in the specimen room of the Hall of Truth, and a few god-level spells added to the Wizards' Guild's list of forbidden books.

It is precisely because of this relationship that the old headmaster's school is short of talents, and will be the first to write to the Wizarding Association to borrow someone.

But how many people in this world can maintain themselves in the face of the temptation of power?

Not to mention anything else, just the longevity, wizards can use witchcraft to transform their bodies after giving up their human identity, and their lifespan will be extended by hundreds of years, while scholars will stick to the pride of mankind and die in less than a hundred years.

How would you choose between living as an inhuman being for a long time or dying with the pride of being a human being?

After all, there are only a few people with that kind of pride, and the vast majority of people are afraid that they will not hesitate to choose the wrong person.

Whenever a person's knowledge reaches the qualified level, the Wizarding Association and the Hall of Truth will send an invitation to that person, and of course, every year the Wizards Association is full of newcomers, and the greatest wish of the old scholars of the Hall of Truth is to find an heir before they die.

This is the reality, true scholars, this is a rare profession, but every scholar is also worthy of respect, because each of them is a real person.

Speaking of which, the original owner used to take the route of a scholar.

Because of the curse of the Night Stalker on his body, the original owner was treated as an inhuman monster since he was a child, and it is precisely because of this that the original owner cares about his human identity during the day, even if he is 90 years old, but he is not willing to practice any magic or witchcraft, he is afraid that it will cause him to really become a monster completely.

As for Merlin now.

To be honest, he's realized that there are limits to being human, and he's tempted to shout that I'm not human, but....

"Ah, I don't have enough san."

Glancing at the 80 SAN points left on his attribute panel, Merlin's heart was in tears.

He had wanted to teach himself a few magic games according to the occult knowledge in the original owner's memory, but he had just taken out the materials, arranged the ritual, and made the preparations, but before he could recite the spell, it was a san check without warning, deducting his four points of san.

This learning magic is to burn the value of san, who can withstand this, can't afford to learn it.

And this is the reason why Merlin finally chose to accept Cynthia's invitation to come to the college as a professor.

This is the path arranged by Cynthia for the original owner who is always unwilling to give up his human identity, in the library deep in the academy, there is the inheritance left by his brave father back then, and the inheritance of the brave is the magic unique to human beings, and it is also the only magic in this world that can be learned without giving up human identity.

But in the depths of the school map embassy, it is a forbidden place in the forbidden land of the academy, outsiders can't enter it at all, God knows how many magic traps are set up there, even Cynthia, a ghost woman, is not sure that she can sneak in directly, and Merlin has no hope.

So he can only go through formal channels, and the minimum threshold for formal channels must also have the title of professor.

Although it must be difficult for the old principal, a true scholar, to know the interview questions without thinking about it, but this professor Merlin should decide today.

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