In the library, Sivi found Sophia hiding in the corner of the reading room where she usually stayed, quietly reading a book.

Obviously, I just experienced that kind of thing, and I can't calm down so quickly anyway.

Sivi looked at the stubborn girl, sighed involuntarily, and then regrouped the smile on his face and walked towards her.

"Yo Librarian"

The girl's gaze moved from the tome in her hand to Sivi's face, and then immediately moved back: "If it's to comfort me, don't be it, I'm fine now." ”

"I don't have that kind of work." Sivi didn't care about her tone, but continued to make a nonchalant look and said, "I just wanted to ask where I can find the alchemy recipe and treatise on the antidote, I'll be useful in the next class." ”

"In that case, in the fifth collection area, there should be related books on several shelves with initial D, and I personally recommend "Voodoo Formula" and "Roman Talks - On Mineral Poison and Biotoxin" in the "Mad Roman" series. If it's just a general theory, the standard alchemy formula? Potions is also a good choice. ”

Although Sophia seemed a little unhappy, as a librarian, the girl dutifully answered Sivi's questions in detail.

"Are you familiar with all the books in the library?"

Seeing that she casually reported a bunch of book titles, Xiwei couldn't help but ask with some curiosity, "Or have you already read them all?" ”

"There are so many books in this library, how can you read them all." The girl's eyes did not take off the book in her hand, and she replied casually, "Except for the forbidden book area, I probably only read about a third of it." ”

"You've seen so many!?" Xiwei was really scared this time, although she had long known that this girl liked to soak in the library, but she didn't expect to really finish so many books. However, he immediately asked with some suspicion: "Shouldn't it just be a mouthful?" ”

The girl closed the tome in her hand with a snap, stood up and stared at Sivi, and then began to recite with her not fully developed breasts: "Twelve grams of dried wormwood, twenty-three grams of bezoar, and fifty milliliters of Normilan wine......"

Although at first glance it may sound chaotic and unorganized. However, Sivi, who also had some knowledge of Potions, immediately noticed the key point: "Wait, is this ...... you are reporting?"

"Formulations of generalized interpretation agents." The girl's unkempt beige ponytail was proudly cocked, and the expression on her face was extremely natural to say what Sivi noticed: "It has a good effect on most of the toxins. Even so, do you think I'm just reading books? ”

"Forehead ......" Xiwei embarrassed. It seems that his unintentional words have provoked the girl: "Okay, okay, I admit that you are not knowledgeable." ”

Sophia glanced at Sivi, sat down again, picked up another book, and read it.

"But since you know that thing about this theory. Why can't you pass the entrance exam? ”

Although Xiwei didn't plan to ask about the girl at the beginning, but now that the girl's question has been revealed by others, he naturally can't continue to turn a blind eye: "Regardless of the rest, the results of the theory test must be fine, right?" ”

Sophia seemed a little unhappy with Sivi's repeated interruptions to her reading, and it was rare that she had forgotten what had just happened. When he was immersed in the sea of books, he brought out that topic again, didn't he make the books he was reading taste bad!

The girl looked at the innocent Xiwei angrily, and after the two looked at each other for a few seconds, the anger in the girl's cheeks was empty, "That's right, I have had a perfect score in the theory exam for three consecutive years." She simply closed the book and said to Sivi: "But at the same time, I failed the magic practice exam for three consecutive years, so I can only barely hang on to the passing line. ”

…,

I heard that the girl's words were not finished. Sivi honestly kept his mouth shut. Waiting for her next.

"I was born in the Lange family, so I have no problem with my affinity for the elements, but my magical talent is very bad. The amount of mana that can be stored is difficult to maintain even in the hands of a mage. In this way, no matter how much magic knowledge I have, no matter how strong my affinity for the elements is, I will not be able to perform magic other than magic missiles. Sophia seemed to be talking about someone else's business, and she looked very indifferent. But Xiwei heard the girl's sadness and pain under this indifference: "The goddess of Qiyao is really cruel." Gave me the honorable surname Lange and a great affinity for the elements, but it didn't give me the basis to turn it all into strength. No matter how hard I try. The final result won't change - without magic, you're not even a magician! ”

Her old strong shell was completely shattered at this time, and in Sivi's eyes, Sophia was no different from the little girl who wrapped herself tightly in a quilt for fear of thunder.

"What are the main uses of moleweed?" Sivi touched his chin and suddenly asked coldly.

"It can also relieve the ulcers caused by magic, and it can also be used as an important auxiliary ingredient in anti-black leech medicine." The girl, who had been looking a little sad, immediately blurted out that it seemed that she did have a lot of theoretical knowledge about potions.

"Please cite the meaning of the rune 'Luna' and at least the three main types involved in enchantments."

"'Luna' is derived from the Elvish language, which originally means 'quiet moonlight', and is generally used as a word meaning of 'silence' and 'rest' in human magic art, and is mainly involved in enchantments such as 'magic interruption', 'spell extraction' and 'mana recovery', all of which are advanced enchantment types. Anyway, you won't even be able to learn this for three years, why do you ask this? ”

"The third question is, what is the difference between 'mammoth' and 'sea mammoth'?"

"Tetrapods and marine reptiles, although the names are very similar, but these two are not the same species at all, okay."

Then Sivi asked some completely unrelated questions one after another, and after Sophia patiently answered them all, she looked at Sivi strangely: "What nonsense have you been asking since just now?" ”

Instead of answering her directly, Sivi walked to the window and pushed it open.

Towards evening, there was already a gentle evening breeze carrying the afterglow of the setting sun blowing in from the window. The spring wind brought a sobering taste, stirring the brim of Xiwei's robe and hat, he showed a fighting smile, and said seriously something that would make others feel extremely arrogant when they heard it: "I, ah, sooner or later, I will establish the No. 1 magic academy in the world and become the number one academy in the world." ”

“…… Are you still dreaming. Sophia was already stunned by his words: "That kind of thing is clearly impossible to succeed." ”

To be honest, it wouldn't be too surprising if Sivi said that she wanted to become a great mage or a legendary mage or something, after all, that was the dream of all magicians, and no one would laugh at their dreams. What's more, the current Sivi does have the dual capital of youth and talent (in their opinion).

But to establish the world's No. 1 magic academy is too foolish to dream. Not to mention the others, with the country as the backing, and the founder is also a legendary mage, the Julian National Academy of Magic is only ranked in the upper reaches of all the colleges in the Eastern Plains at this time, and it is a certain distance from the top three, let alone surpassing the saint? Doragon Academy.

Even if Xiwei really founded a magic academy with strong faculty and rich resources, but word of mouth and everything depends on time to accumulate slowly, and before it has a certain historical background, no matter how fanciful you say about your academy, there will not be too many students to join.

That's the reality.

…,

Except for a few people with outstanding talents and very wealthy acquired conditions, there is an insurmountable distance between the reality and ideals of ordinary people.

Like Sophia, she came to the Academy in order to pursue her dream of becoming a great magician, regardless of the results of her talent determination. Even though her family did not give her even a copper in addition to tuition fees because of her almost runaway behavior, she still studied seriously while working as a part-time librarian, relying on the meager subsidy and free meals from the college, and she has been gritting her teeth and working hard for three years.

The ridicule and insults of her classmates who did not know the truth, the well-intentioned but hurtful persuasion of the professors, and the results of the final examination, which were completely disproportionate to the hard work she had put in, did not make her give up hope.

But what came out of the end was not success, but a ruthless blow to reality. This filled the girl's heart with frustration and confusion about the future - is it really wrong to stick to your ideals? After all, human beings can't jump out of the circle of talent that God has set for themselves?

"Whether I succeed or not is my business." Sivi pressed his hat and turned back to the girl with a gentle but firm smile, as if he would never give up his ideals no matter what difficulties and dangers he encountered: "Before that, Sophia? Miss Lange, would you like to be a professor of alchemy at my academy? ”

“…… What do you say? The girl felt that she had misheard.

"You've passed my test, and your knowledge of alchemy alone is enough. Become a professor of alchemy at our college! Sivi said without hesitation: "Anyway, if you can't make the cut this year, you'll be expelled from school, right?" In that case, you can simply join my academy! ”

Was that a test......

The girl looked at Xiwei with a look of hope, lowered her head and thought about it.

Time passed minute by minute, and Xiwei didn't mean to urge the girl, just knocked on the window edge like that, looking at the scenery of the mountain city, and let the color of the western sky become more and more vivid.

It wasn't until the time was about to close that the girl took a deep breath, looked up at Sivi, and gave her own answer.