Orthodox magic academies are expensive.

Even Wise's parents, who couldn't read a single word, knew this, and they were of course worried about it, even if they didn't have the money to send little Riddle to a private school run by the township.

Daddy Wise took two pounds of eggs from his poultry nest and sent them to the old village chief's house, in addition to begging the old village chief who could write to help reply to the letter later, and also hoping to find out how much the annual tuition fee of the magic academy was.

Fortunately, the old village chief also made tumbleweeds when he was young, and he wandered outside for a long time, so he also knew something about these things that were usually anecdotes.

He told Daddy Wise that the fees for more formal magic academies were usually five gold coins a year, while private magic academies such as those privately organized by some big nobles were a little more expensive. However, judging from the fact that the admission notice sent by this Adric College does not indicate the fee, it should be the default hardware fee.

Five gold coins?! And it's only been a year!

Daddy Wise only felt his heart beat to a halt.

When he got home, Daddy Wise took the straw and smoked one cigarette at a time, so that the whole room was filled with smoke.

In the eyes of the villagers, the magician is the same as those high-ranking aristocratic lords, and they think that little Riddle is definitely lucky to be favored by those big masters, as long as he can graduate from school, little Riddle can naturally become a member of those old men, and he doesn't have to continue to be like himself, sowing seeds and sweat in the fields all his life.

Parents naturally hope that their children will be able to have a good life in the future and live a better life than themselves. Thereupon. Daddy Wise gritted his teeth, put things to rest, and decided to send little Riddle to the magic academy.

He carved out a black clay pot from the solid brick-like mud under his bed, and sealed the mouth of the jar with heavy clay. The weight is not light, and there is a heavy feeling when you hold it with both hands. After pulling the clay pot out, he smashed the old jar to pieces in the screams of his daughter-in-law.

Suddenly, the copper horns flowed to the ground along with the fragments of the clay pot, and there were even a lot of silver dollars in it, which was the so-called silver coin.

This is the money that the Wise and his wife began to save after the birth of little Riddle, and it was originally planned to wait until Riddle is an adult to buy him a family property and marry a daughter-in-law, but now it seems that it will have to be used in advance.

But even so, there is still a big gap in funding. After all, Riddle was only nine years old, and the Wise couple had only saved enough money for a little more than three and a half gold coins in nine years, which was still a big gap from the hardware coins.

So Daddy Wise, who had always been good-looking and was respectfully called a stubborn cow by the people in the village, put down his self-esteem for the first time. Along the entrance of the village, the family begged grandpa to borrow money from grandma, and finally after saying countless good words and writing countless IOUs, they scraped together five gold coins, and left three silver coins for little Riddle to use as living expenses.

Despite his young age, Riddle felt how heavy the bag with the gold coins and the letter of admission was in his hand. If it weren't for Daddy Wise's insistence on him going to school, perhaps he would have given up the opportunity to attend the Academy of Magic and continue to be his wild child in the village.

Fortunately, he was still a child, and his yearning for the magic academy made him quickly forget his sadness. I began to look forward to the 30th of the Acorn Moon day and night.

The village couldn't hide anything, and soon the news of Little Riddle's admission to the Academy of Magic spread throughout the village. On the morning of the 30th of the month of Acorn. Although there was only little Riddle with the admission notice outside the Wise house, everyone, including the Wises, secretly watched the movement outside the door from the house.

I waited for about an hour. Little Riddle's patience was running out, and his attention gradually shifted from the entrance of the village to the insects in the grass, when someone suddenly screamed.

"Look at the sky!"

All of a sudden, the entire village looked up at the sky and saw a sight they would never forget.

It was a huge ship.

The nearly forty-meter-long airboat broke through the clouds, the rafters and bridges pulled out countless white banded clouds like airplane wing clouds from the clouds, and the flat bottom of the ship smashed through the thick clouds that blocked the morning sun, occupying everyone's field of vision, and descending towards the ground with a momentum like a meteorite falling!

The characteristic golden-red glow of the morning sun immediately cast an oblique pillar of light from the hole in the clouds, which happened to envelop the airship, making it look as if it was sailing with the light.

Then the villagers suddenly realized that if they landed at this speed and angle, little Riddle would be 100% crushed into a patty! Little Riddle stood there motionless as if frightened, and not even the anxious cry of Daddy Wise reached the little boy's ears.

Just when everyone thought that the little boy would be smashed into a puddle of flesh like that, the huge empty ship suddenly stopped, but the wind brought by inertia still caused Riddle to stumble.

Then, a short but awe-inspiring body hovered twenty centimeters above the ground half a meter away from little Riddle, stared at the boy with bulb-sized eyes, who had become dazed by a series of astonishing changes, and asked him.

"You are the new recruit of Edric, Riddle? Wise? ”

***

Fastening his seatbelts, sitting on the airboat Liaoning (named after Xiwei), watching from the round window as the village he was born in became smaller and smaller, Riddle wondered whether he was a little more excited or nervous in his heart.

There were a number of children in the cabin besides him, and judging from their costumes, it seemed that there were people ranging from noble magnates to commoner farmers, and the average age was about ten years old.

After a while, the airboat had climbed to a sufficient height and the vibration of the hull had subsided considerably, and a message came from the microphone tube that they were allowed to move freely. Little Riddle, who was tired of the view of clouds outside the window, immediately unbuckled his seat belt and began to wander around the cabin.

This is because the all-important Magic Engine and the Captain's Room have special guards and protective magic. And the road to the deck is not open by these little guys with thin arms and legs because of the air pressure, so the little demon in charge of the Liaoning is not afraid of these little guys running around.

"Hey, are you the one who just came up?" A small child in suspender work pants and a striped shirt and a large beret sees Riddle, who seems a little overwhelmed. And they began to talk to him.

"That's right, that's me." Riddle replied immediately, but probably thinking of the politeness that his parents had told him before leaving, he took the initiative to show the other party: "My name is Riddle?" Wise, what about you? ”

"Kamiyu? Sklaia. The beret boy replied with a grin, and then he began to talk to Riddle with great familiarity.

He used to work in the magic workshop to make money, the owner of the magic workshop is very dark and the enchanting skills are super bad, and the fruits of Niagasla are delicious, and other messy topics have been strung together by him. Overly said it very naturally.

At the same time, he easily pulled out a lot of things from Riddle's mouth, most of course, trivial things.

"Riddle, do you know about the vampire invasion that happened not long ago?" The friendship between the children is easy to build, and the chat is long and chatting. The two men had become extremely acquainted, and Kamiyu grabbed Riddle's neck and asked softly into his ear as if he were talking about some state secret.

"Kamiyu, it's so itchy......" Unfortunately, Riddle didn't intend to cooperate with Kamiyu, and immediately broke free from the crook of his arm. Scratching his ears, he said, "I've heard Uncle Neber say that the vampires were beaten away by Her Majesty's royal knights and vultures before they could get in. ”

After speaking, the little boy still had a pity on his face: "Don't look at me like this, I am also a reserve member of the village self-police team!" If they dare to come in, I'll give them a taste of the power of that catapult in our village! ”

In fact, Riddle just wanted to put gold on his face in front of the friends he had just met. The reserve members of the self-police team were joked by the captain of the self-police team with their group of imps a few months ago, and the so-called stone crossbow was nothing more than a bowstring in the village. Even the first strong man in the village could not fully open the old bow was recycled and loaded on a broken cart in the shape of a crossbow. Using the chicken rib weapon of the crossbow on the joystick, the winding is slow, and the power is only passable, and the biggest result is nothing more than shooting a rhinocarous tooth beast from a distance.

"Just kidding, at that time the vampires had already hit the empire, okay." Kamiyu ruthlessly debunked Riddle's hearsay: "I didn't hit you because it was too remote!" Although there are still royal knights and vultures, the emperor was defeated at that time! ”

"Liar, in that case, the empire would have been doomed a long time ago!" Riddle argued, blushing.

"It seems that you really don't know anything." Kamiyu had a 'I can't do anything about you' expression: "Have you heard of the academy we're going to now?" ”

Riddle shook his head awkwardly, let alone the Adric Academy, even if it was the number one saint in the Eastern Plains? He hadn't even heard of Doragon Academy......

"I know the way." Kamiyu had such an expression on his face, and then he leaned over to Riddle and said mysteriously, "I heard that the reason why the empire can hold on this time is completely because of the relationship of this academy!" It is said that this academy flew directly above the vampire legion during the Armageddon, and then released a forbidden spell to directly blast the vampire legion away! ”

"Really, really!" Riddle said with his mouth wide open, incredulous.

"What am I lying to you for, besides, didn't you see the one who just got off the boat to pick you up? Do you know what it is? Kamiyu continued to look like Bai Xiaosheng, seducing Riddle's curiosity.

"That...... It's kind of like a goblin ......" Riddle scratched his ears and thought for a long time, and then said uncertainly.

"Stupid, that's called a red hat, it's a kind of goblin! It is said that one can rival an army! ”

"That's amazing!"

"Of course."

Just as Riddle was becoming more and more in awe of Sivi's academy because of Kamiu's misdirection, Airship finally completed the task of picking up the new students and began to return to Sky Island...... (To be continued)

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