268 Entrance exam: Ninth School
The Great Hall of Venerne, the heart of the Academy of Venerne, a huge building in the administrative area of the Academy, looks like a Colosseum built with countless huge rock stacks?
When he first got out of the carriage, Wutong was startled by this huge building, because this appearance is really not related to a place like the Great Hall, and the construction of this Great Hall is not a brick and stone cement, but a complete giant strip of stone, without using any adhesive, directly stacked together!
Can't imagine it just by description? The pyramid is made of any building material, but the pyramid is triangular, and the Vinaen Auditorium is a bird's nest or Colosseum-style circular building, and there is an oval eggshell dome above it, which is not so much an auditorium for opera, performances, and conventions, but a large bunker
The Venerne Auditorium, which is incompatible with the delicate and beautiful architectural style of the surrounding area, stands abruptly in the center of the college area, and looks like it should be a place for the college to hold important meetings and large-scale performances, claiming to be able to accommodate 100,000 people at the same time!
When they were led into the auditorium by a robed scholar waiting outside the auditorium, they finally knew why the robed scholar stared at him intently for a long time after seeing him get off the carriage, and in the process of leading the way, he looked back at him frequently with strange expressions on his face.
This welcome scene is too big, isn't it?
The entire Venaen Great Hall, which can accommodate 100,000 people, was actually crowded with crows, and as far as the eye could see, not only the seats were full of people, but even the aisles were full of dense crowds, some people who had no place, and even floated directly in the air, don't be surprised, for the mage, floating in the air is not too difficult to do.
Although they float in the air in a variety of strange forms, some directly flicker and float in the sky, some are idle and bored, some are sitting cross-legged on a looming, pot-lid-type translucent "plate", and one or several people sit on a floating blanket, and there are a pair of transparent wings flashing behind their backs, like a bird-like fan
As a result, in the auditorium that can accommodate 100,000 people, there are far more than 100,000 people.
Well, for the first time, Wutong felt the reason why the Venane Academy was called a "Spellcaster Academy", and also knew why Vajra Pea said before that the Duchy of Andel was the only country on the Kovare continent that would not be drawn into the war!
In a world where [trainee mages] can be honored and become nobles, in a country with hundreds of thousands of mages, who is impatient to dare to provoke?
This is just such an academy as Venan, in the Duchy of Andelle, every city has a large number of educational institutions, even a small village, it is said that there are perfect schools, and in the world of "Endless", which is set in the Middle Ages, knowledge is almost a term directly linked to the caster!
The most terrifying thing is that, it is said, that Venane is only an academy known for its academics, and in the Duchy of Adele, there is another academy that is even more famous and has a greater number of spellcasters, specializing in the study of spells, which is located in the southern border area of the Duchy of Adele, overlooking the entire Lake Galifa.
Led by these two major education centers, a large number of enchantment research institutes, alchemy research institutes, and other institutions such as the Aoneng Magic Machinery Academy are scattered throughout the entire Principality of Andele, although Ander is not famous for his combat power, but no monarch of that country will have a brain in the water, and is willing to try to provoke a war against Ander.
Don't worry about the Duchy of Adele organizing these spellcasters into an army, no one will do that, and no one can do that, because even the monarch of the Duchy of Adele does not have the ability to order the casters to step on the battlefield and become war machines, and the casters of the countries also have a tacit understanding not to participate in the war.
For the war, Adele's rulers have always been very calm, because once a large-scale war broke out, it brought political and market fluctuations to Adele, which annoyed a certain ** division who was concentrating on research
Those ** masters who study and research all day long have a very bad temper, for example, a certain person is studying how to improve the [Acid Splash] in the 0th order spell, trying to enhance its corrosive power through secret medicine, but he finds that the acid rot stone on the market is not available, maybe he will be very annoyed and fly to the battlefield to fight the next acid waterfall No matter what country the guys below who are holding weapons and ping pong are from that country, how many mages will care about nationality?
Okay, it's crooked, back in the Wiener Auditorium, being watched by more than 100,000 people is a feeling of a god, maybe the vast majority of people can't feel it in their lifetime, and Wutong doesn't feel like he's here to report to the teacher, but to have a concert.
After the robed scholar who led the way led them to the entrance, he waved at them, and Wutong didn't even hear him chant or make any spell gestures, an invisible force field disc appeared under their feet, holding them up and flying into the center of the circular auditorium, displaying them in front of everyone like exhibition monkeys, he was not even a spellcaster, Wutong was very suspicious, the Wiener Academy was sweeping the floor of the high-level mages.
Involuntarily nervous to the point that his legs trembled for a while, only to find that not far in front of him, there was a large carpet, and a long table was placed on the carpet, and a row of white-haired and white-bearded old men sat in the back like the judges of the Avenue of Stars, staring at themselves, while his eight tutors of various departments and schools were standing on the side of the big carpet and looking at him, and there was not even a small bench to sit on.
Wutong felt that it was as if these people had already known when they were going to Fairhaven and when they would come to Venern Academy to report, and they were ready to come and watch him in advance, he was just a small player, and he was just a [trainee mage] who had just come out of the trial island, what was worth it that more than 100,000 high-level spellcasters interrupted their important spell research and came to watch him?
"Little Beria, this little guy is your disciple? The chief of this edition? ”
In the center, a white-bearded old man "judge" turned his head and looked at the old mage Beria with a smile, who was nervously sweating Wutong! Little Beria? How old is Mr. Beria? It seems that Whitebeard is just a little shorter than the old man who judges, and he is actually called "Little Beria"?
"Yes, Your Excellency." Old Master Beria didn't feel anything wrong with being called "Little Belial" at all, and replied respectfully and briefly.
"Well then! Let's start the 'entrance exam' for this little one! ”
The white-bearded "judge" looked at Wutong with a smile: "It's really funny, how did this little guy come up with the idea of winning the chief of the eight schools at the same time?" And I'm curious how he did it? ”
Wutong probably understood what was going on, maybe it was because he accidentally won the position of the chief disciple of the Eight ** Sect of Venane Academy, so this year, the eight chief disciples of the Eight Sects that should be there in theory were the only ones left in this session of Venane Academy
The other academies have eight school leaders, but there is only one in the Venane Academy, so this matter is a big problem!
An old mage stepped forward, and like the eight teachers of Wutong, he also had a wooden bench to sit on, perhaps to avoid suspicion, his eight teachers could not act as the examiners of his entrance exam, so the old mage was in charge.
There is no difference between this old man and the old man in the large row of judges, in other words, including his eight teachers, all the old mages except for their slightly different clothes and body shapes, they all look the same, all have white hair, white eyebrows and white beard, and people are dizzy when they look at it.
After the old mage examiner stood up, he first threw a ball of magic light that he couldn't recognize at Wutong's body, and then said to Wutong, "Apprentice, you can start to release all the spells you have mastered. Note that this is all, not just the spells you memorize per spell bit. ”
Wutong froze, and tried to release a necromancer system 0th order spell [Preservation Organ] that he had no memory, and sure enough, he was no longer limited by only twelve spell slots, and was not even limited by energy value, and the spell he released just now did not consume his own energy value at all.
So, like a juggler, Wutong released all the 32 0-order spells he mastered, and those who could release it to themselves were released to themselves, and those who could not be released to themselves were released to the old mage, anyway, with his level, even if he was exhausted to death, it was impossible to cause any damage to the group of old men in front of him.
"Pretty good!?"
The old man in the center of the review said with some surprise: "You actually have mastered 32 Rank 0 spells?" That's a rarity! This is a record in the history of our Wienern Academy, right? Who kept the records of the previous chiefs during the entrance exams? ”
"It's me, Your Excellency." Old Mage Belial said respectfully, but didn't seem to be very happy: "My record is 28 Rank 0 spells. ”
"Hmm! In other words, this little guy has surpassed the teacher before entering the school, right? The old man laughed teasingly.
But Old Mage Belial said solemnly: "Your Excellency, I don't think that mastering too many factions' spells at the same time is a good thing for a spellcaster apprentice of his age!" ”
"That's it! All right! Little Beria, erudition isn't a bad thing, is it? ”
The judge looked at Wutong with a smile: "I heard that you also have a very peculiar spellcaster talent, and a potential high-pure-blood warlock bloodline?" ”
Sycamore is puzzled, what does it mean? A peculiar spellcaster talent? Does it refer to his full value of intelligence, caste, instantaneous memory ability, spell self-learning ability, and spell mastery ability?
As for the high-pure-blooded warlock bloodline, Wutong doesn't know what it means, but he just guesses that it may have something to do with his charismatic caste, and if he wants to become a warlock, the key to his surname is charm.
Next, the old mage examiner drained his energy again, testing the speed at which his [meditation] specialty could recover his energy value; Let him transcribe a scroll to test his [transcribing scroll] expertise; took out some spell items to test his proficiency in [Document Interpretation] and [Spell Recognition] skills; Create terrifying noises and chaotic fluctuations in his ears for him to cast spells and test his [focused] spellcasting ability; Let him and the old mage examiner perform spell battles to test his spell casting speed; sent a dozen scholars to ask questions like bombers, testing his [geography], [history], [nature], [religion], [plane], [place], [nobility], [royalty], [mystery], [architecture], [engineering], [dungeon], and so on, a dozen disciplines and dozens of classified [knowledge] skills; even took out a lot of materials to test his various [crafts] and [majors], and bombarded them in turns, almost baking the sycamore for the exam!
"Your Excellency, in addition to the [Summoning Pets] specialty, the apprentice has not yet summoned the Pets and cannot be tested, the apprentice has mastered: [Pharmacy], [Secret Medicine], [Enchantment], [Heraldry], [Alchemy], [Runic Symbols], [Carving], [Linguistics], [Identification], [Archaeology] and some other specialties, [Knowledge] Skills have basically reached level 10 in each sub-sub-item, and each major sub-item has basically reached level 23"
The old mage examiner was shocked and reported to the dean of the Venane Academy: "The casting speed is evaluated as [five-star], the energy recovery speed is evaluated as [five-star], and the level of knowledge mastery is evaluated as [five-star] at the apprentice level."
"Okay, we've all seen it."
Not only was the old mage examiner shocked, but His Excellency the Dean seemed to be shocked, and even the eight school teachers of Wutong were also shocked, because after they chose Wutong as a disciple, they didn't have how to teach their knowledge at all, because the apprenticeship level didn't need to teach anything at all, and the real learning started after the official inauguration, and they hadn't even officially started to be Wutong's teacher, at most, it was just a name, that is, all of this was mastered by Wutong through "self-study"!
"It's incredible! I'm curious how you did it, apprentice! In just two months, you've completed coursework that would have taken others 10 years to complete! His Excellency looked at Sycamore in amazement.
"Burning two million gold coins quickly, isn't it awesome? You didn't force me, what about me? Wutong sneered, but he couldn't explain anything in front of so many people, so he could only shrug his shoulders.
"So, apprentice," His Excellency looked at Wutong, "which school do you plan to specialize in?" ”
"Uh" Wutong scratched his head stunned, although before leaving the island, he probably knew that before he officially took office, he needed to face the choice of specialization, but in front of so many people, he suddenly asked him to choose, and he really couldn't decide for a while, especially when his eight teachers were all staring at him with wide eyes.
Although choosing to specialize in a school will increase the strength of the specialized school by an additional level by 2 levels, and gain an additional +2 [Spell Identification] level for spells in that system, and each level can prepare an additional specialty school spell.
However, if he chooses to specialize in one school, he needs to give up the other two, unless he chooses to specialize in [prophecy], and he only needs to give up one school.
The problem is that Wutong was the first to learn from Belial, so the old mage Belial is his enlightenment teacher, but the school he likes the most is the [Plastic Energy Department] and the [Spell System], two factions with powerful attack spells, but the old Mage Belial is the [Change System] Why is it not difficult to choose what you call him?
Although Belial is just an NPC in the game, but in the game "Endless", the IQ of NPCs can no longer be described by the two cold letters of "AI", and the surnames are extreme, if players dare to treat NPCs as a piece of code and ignore their feelings and thoughts, I am afraid they will taste quite serious consequences.
Secretly observing the expressions of his eight teachers, the old mage of the [Change Department] Beria stared at him with wide eyes, and the [Necromantic Department] Mage Steve looked at him with very gloomy eyes, inexplicably reminded him of this necromancer, the skeleton Linda who served as a servant in the terrible hut.
shuddered, among the other teachers, except for the teacher of the [Prophecy Department], Lao Shen, the other teachers were all looking at him with fierce eyes, because among the eight schools, only the [Prophecy Department] could not be abandoned, so Wutong suddenly felt so much psychological pressure!
The scene fell silent all of a sudden, the atmosphere became more and more condensed, and the Wutong scratched his ears and cheeks were covered with cold sweat, just when he was about to make a decision, His Excellency the Dean suddenly smiled and beckoned to Wutong: "It seems that the little guy doesn't know how to choose, so let me do a test and decide which school he chooses to specialize in!" ”
Wutong breathed a sigh of relief, his eight teachers also breathed a sigh of relief, the old man and the old lady around him, including a large group of mage old men around him, and even the more than 100,000 onlookers who were isolated from the "examination room" at the beginning of the entrance test were also relieved.
The invisible stand disc under his feet was stretched out by His Excellency the Dean, and it automatically floated to the big carpet, Wutong hurriedly ran to the desk of His Excellency the Dean, only to see him take out a small spell scroll with a smile and hold it in his hand, and said to Wutong: "I will open this scroll in a while, you must use [Transcription] to transcribe the spells you have memorized within ten seconds, well, directly copy them on your spell book." ”
All the old mages collectively rolled their eyes, and Wutong was also embarrassed, what is the difference between this and drawing lots?
But so many high-level mages didn't dare to refute the words of His Excellency the Dean, what opinion did he dare to put forward as a junior mage apprentice?
"Ready? So get started? As he spoke, His Excellency suddenly ripped open the scroll, there was no text on the scroll, but rows of arcane handwriting quickly appeared, Wutong didn't have time to think too much about it, his eyes stared at the arcane words on the scroll, and quickly released a [copying] to transcribe the spell he remembered.
Ten seconds was so short, Sycamore didn't even dare to blink his eyes, time passed, and the scroll turned into a blank piece of waste paper, sighing, Sycamore had the energy to carefully see what he had copied down:
Arcane Mark [General System]: Tier 0 This spell allows the caster to engrave a rune or mark representing a person on any material without causing damage to the item, the mark can be visible or invisible, if you create an invisible mark, [Detection Arcane] can make it glow, so that it becomes visible, of course, it may not be able to understand it. The sigil cannot be removed, but it can be removed by the caster himself, or by [Erasure]. If the Arcane Sigil is placed on a living organism, it will gradually fade due to normal wear and tear in about a month. To cast a summoning spell, you must first cast an Arcane Mark on that item or creature.
Another tier 0 spell, but what kind of school is [General System]???
Wutong looked up at His Excellency the Dean in confusion, only to find that his eight teachers were glaring angrily at the white-bearded old man in front of him, but the old man smiled and announced with a smile: "Sure enough, it's a very amazing talent, apprentice, you actually memorized the only Tier 0 spell of the Ninth School [General Department] within ten seconds!" Then, I announce that you will become a [General Mage] who specializes in the [General Department] school! ”
Saying that, without waiting for anyone to object, the old man threw a ball of arcane energy at Wutong in a very rogue manner, fixing his school of specialization!
(To be continued)