Act Eighty-Five. The road to the exam room
Not long after Reiner's plan to take one test paper a day began, the first mock test quietly arrived.
This time, the exam was organized by the Promotion Committee of the Rainbow Tower, and the mock exam was conducted with a unified examination paper, which was comparable in difficulty to the official examination, so that all apprentices who were interested in becoming a full-fledged mage could test their learning results.
For this reason, the examination room for the mock examination is also arranged by the promotion committee, and the schools that apply for the examination will be divided into several examination rooms according to the geographical division, and the examination room of the Crescent Academy is in Torundo, the capital of the province of Ammonet, where it is located.
At least five schools of magic and magic conduct mock exams in Toleondo's exam rooms, and some of them go on to prestigious schools.
Reiner investigates the volunteers, and this time there will be four students who will take the mock exam, in addition to Dana, who is required, and the school girl Fina. Nabistin, a sixth-grader, is Lhea. Filnaga and Euleeka. Celsetta.
In fact, the student council president, Elimia, as a sixth-grade student, was also supposed to take the mock exam, but she didn't sign up, so Reiner naturally didn't force it.
As for Reiner himself, of course, he will also take this opportunity to take the mock exam to prepare for the next official promotion, which should be a hot hand.
Together with Claire, who takes care of the students, the six of them embarked on a journey to Torento.
During the short trip, Reiner also got to know the remaining three students who took the exam this time.
Fina. Nabistine comes from a family of magic, but his father has not achieved anything for many years and is still tinkering with some inexplicable magic, but fortunately, Fina herself has a good talent and studies quite hard, so it is not a big problem to advance to a formal mage.
She was more reticent than Dana, and when it came to her family, Fina always flickered in words, and didn't seem to want to mention it.
Lya. Filnaga is the daughter of a baron, and her ancestors were born of a mage, so she has some origins, but in her opinion, her hope of being promoted is very slim, and she is afraid that she can only become a noble wife in the end.
She's a bit of a talker, and even makes Reiner feel a little verbose, but she's still cute.
Eulaka. Celseta came from a merchant family, and his hometown was in Torudo, running a spice shop, and he was quite wealthy, and his parents wanted to make Euleka a mage and enter high society, so they sent him to the nearby Crescent Academy to study magic.
Euleka has been helping her parents with the shop before, so she is good at dealing with people, and it is also thanks to her and Leia that the atmosphere becomes lively along the way.
It was already late at night when I departed from Crescent Academy and arrived in Toorondo, and the official exams would be the morning after tomorrow, so tomorrow was a day for these students to rest and relax.
By the time they arrived at the Emerald Oak Hotel, the people in the carriage were quite tired, Dana had already fallen asleep on the soft backrest, and Claire had used her as a large pillow, and Leia and Eulaika no longer spoke, and their heads seemed to fall asleep soon.
Fina remained awake, but she was still reading with a pocket book, and at this time, she was staring at the night scene outside the window in a trance, silent.
Reiner opened his eyes, he had been meditating until before, and he found that this would relieve fatigue somewhat, and because of this, Reiner was the first to get out of the car.
"Mr. Ian Gray, you've finally arrived."
Out of the lobby of the inn came a thin man with a beard, who was none other than the owner of Reiner's alchemy workshop in Torudo. Osborne, and surprisingly, he wasn't a teacher himself, just an ordinary businessman.
"Mr. Osborne, thank you for your hard work."
Reiner shook the other man's outstretched hand and thanked him heartily, and when Mr. Osborne heard that Reiner was coming to Torondo, he immediately offered to help arrange the room, and now it seems that he was really enthusiastic.
"No, no, no, it's best to be able to maintain cooperation with you, Mr. Ian Gray, you know, Coke's income has now reached 20% of my alchemy workshop's income, and this is only the result of more than half a month."
Mr. Osborne is one of the more clever factions, and after hearing about Coke and the franchise, he immediately went to Crescent Academy to reach an agreement with Reiner and became the general agent of Coke in Torondo, and now with this novel drink, he has properly suppressed his former opponents.
"This is the closest and best renovated hotel to the exam room, and it is the most difficult to book a room during the exam season, but I am familiar with the owner here, so I got a room."
Mr. Osborne pointed to a nearby building, which was supposed to be the headquarters of the Magical Society in Torondo, with five stories standing out among the low buildings.
"Look, there's the place where the magic test is going to be."
"That's wonderful, Mr. Osborne, I'm really tired of you this time."
Reiner bowed slightly, indeed, they had seen several students in apprentice robes walking through the hallway, presumably students from some magic school.
Turning to the sleepy-eyed ladies, Reiner said.
"However, my students are very tired and want to go back to their rooms early to rest."
"Hehe, of course, please come in."
Mr. Osborne didn't say anything more, but led them into the hotel, where they were given two double rooms and two single standard rooms, with four students living in double rooms and Reiner and Claire each having a standard room.
Looking at the layout of the room, Reiner nodded with satisfaction, it seems that it is always right to have more friends and partners when you are away from home.
After sending the ladies back to their rooms, Reiner and Mr. Osborne had a few more drinks in Reiner's room, and talked about business, and Mr. Osborne was surprised by many of Reiner's insights, and made him think that the young man before him was no less thoughtful than an experienced businessman.
Just as Mr. Osborne got up to take his leave, they heard a commotion downstairs.
"What, how come there is no room?"
It was a pompous and loud voice, which made Reiner frown, it was late at night, and he didn't want anyone to disturb Claire and her rest.
"What's the situation?"
Reiner pushed open the door and saw Claire, dressed in plain pajamas, hugging her pillow and yawning her head out of her room.
"What's wrong?"
She spoke slurredly, as if she would fall asleep in the next second.
"It's nothing, you go back to sleep, I'll take care of it."
Pushing Claire back into the room, Reiner glanced at Mr. Osborne, and the two of them walked briskly downstairs.
“...... I still had rooms when I came to see last week, and there shouldn't be that many students in Brooklyn and Phoenix this year, Mr. Fox, are you trying to embarrass me? ”
The other side seemed to be arguing, and Mr. Reiner and Mr. Osborne also arrived in the lobby and saw the source of the commotion.
"Tsk, it's this guy."
Mr. Osborne stammered, as if he had met an acquaintance.
Reiner looked over and saw that they were two boys in apprentice's robes, who looked like two brothers, and behind them were a well-dressed couple, presumably the parents of the two brothers.
And the voice was made by the man standing at the front, with a big belly.
Suddenly feeling that the other party seemed a little familiar, Reiner looked at it and realized that this bloated man was the guy who was on the bar with him when he was on the plane boat to Lake Wagner.
"It's really not like a rivalry."