In the afternoon, Ark set out to inquire about the Howling Wind Bluff, and he was not long in coming, returning in just over an hour.

"My lord, no one has ever heard of this place name, but one bard said that he seemed to have seen a similar place in terms of the characteristics of the place name, more than 200 kilometers north of Gwent Forest." Ark brings back a vague message.

Link thought for a moment and said, "Well, you go get a bounty investigation mission, and we'll pay someone to investigate this place, and when there's news, contact me." ”

"Yes, sir." Ark nodded.

During this time, Link has been packing his bags, and Lucy is also on the side to help. She is usually a very capable woman, but at this time, she is chattering, all kinds of advice, just like the old mother, I can't wait to follow Link to the East Valley School of Magic.

Link was both troubled and heartwarming, and finally had to stuff a lot of daily necessities into the space pendant, such as towels, thick quilts, a change of clothes, and even a variety of delicious snacks specially made by Lucy, etc., everything, almost filling the space pendant.

Early the next morning, Link got into a hired carriage and headed all the way to the East Valley School of Magic.

Nothing to say all the way.

More than an hour later, the gate of the East Valley School of Magic appeared in front of him, and by the door, the goalkeeper Vincent was still basking in the sun in his garden, and when he saw Link getting out of the carriage, he sneered: "Boy, I thought I would never be able to see you in my life, but I didn't expect you to really enter the Academy of Magic." ”

Although in Riverdale Town, Link is already quite famous as a magician, but the East Valley School of Magic is a paradise-like existence, in which magicians are above the top and don't care about the lives of ordinary people at all, and Link's reputation has not been passed on at all.

Coupled with the cover of Verola's hidden feathers, in Vincent's eyes, Link is still the poor boy with low magical talent.

Link, of course, didn't take Vincent's ridicule to heart, and gave him a mage salute and smiled, "yes, I feel lucky too." Then, Mr. Vincent, I'll go in first. ”

"Go ahead, don't let your good luck down." Vincent nodded, although the talent was not good, the young man was very humble, and he regarded him as an ordinary magic apprentice in his heart.

The number of such apprentices he has seen every year is less than a thousand, and there are also eight hundred, and he will not pay attention to it at all.

Link walked into the East Valley, behind which was a flat path, walked all the way along the trail, about a few hundred meters away, a corner appeared, walked over, the vision suddenly lit up, and suddenly opened up!

Ahead, there is a very vast valley.

The golden sunlight cascades down like a waterfall, and there is a spacious flat area in the middle of the valley. On the flat ground, there are blue-topped and gold-edged magic towers standing up, and at the top of the towers, there are countless brilliant magic runes flowing, and the torrents of elements are staggered and crisscrossed in the air, connecting the towers together like spider webs. Between the towers, dotted with flowers and greenery, a stream meanders around the Academy, the clear water glistening in the sun.

What a look of the Magic Capital!

It's a beautiful place, but it's a pity that it won't be long before it will be in ruins. In Link's heart, there was admiration and regret.

Although he now has obtained the demonization rune, which has initially sabotaged the plans of the dark elves, the dark elves are not dead people, and they will definitely find another way to free the demon Taruvis.

What kind of means will the other side use? Link couldn't guess that the only thing he could do was to keep up his strength before disaster struck, and if disaster did happen, he wouldn't sit idly by.

Near the mouth of the valley, there was a huge square, and from time to time people walked by, all magicians, who looked hurried, as if they were racing against time.

At the front of the square, there is a huge statue of a magician.

Link walked over and looked at the nameplate at the bottom of the statue, which read: 'Founder of the East Valley School of Magic, the first dean, and the 8th level Grand Magician Imberland. ’

Here's what the dean said: "For magic to last, it must do two things." First, the search for truth. Second, seek the power to defend the truth! ”

Link couldn't help but nod: "This old gentleman really understands people." ”

Crossing the square, Link took out a piece of paper, which was the route map given to him by Verora: "From the square, follow the widest road, all the way in, the third tower on the left, there is a hound statue standing at the door, I found it." ”

Wizard Bell is a level 6 and has a high status in the East Valley Academy of Magic, a member of the core 6-member council of the Academy, and his magic tower is obviously taller than the surrounding towers, and the decoration is more elaborate and luxurious.

Walking to the door, Link summoned a magic water mirror, a little trick that Link learned when he was bored, he tidied up his clothes, and knocked lightly on the door.

After a while, the wooden door opened, and it was a young magician who looked at his age, about thirty years old, and Link observed the other party's information.

Draco

Level 2 ordinary magician

Identity: One of the apprentices and assistants of the wizard Bell.

The information is sketchy and doesn't show the magic that the opponent has mastered, but that's enough.

Draco saw an ordinary young man standing outside the door, the magic energy on his body was as if there was nothing, thin and pitiful, his brows furrowed slightly, in the morning, the mentor Bell greeted him, saying that a young man would come to learn magic, and let him receive him on his behalf.

Originally, this was just a trivial matter, but when he saw this teenager, Drake suddenly felt disdainful in his heart: "A waste who came in through the back door!" ”

Here's what he had to say about Link.

Draco is not good at hiding his emotions, but he also knows that although such a person is a waste, he can get the instructions of the mentor himself, and he should be not shallow in the background, so it is not easy to offend, after frowning for a while, he asked with a cold face: "You are Link, right?" ”

"Yes, I am." Link saw the contempt in his opponent's eyes, but he didn't care, he had come to learn magic and investigate Wizard Bell by the way, and he didn't have time to pay attention to anything else.

"Did you bring a letter of recommendation?"

"Of course." Link handed over a letter from Verola to him, which was written by Anne in her capacity as a member of the Abel royal family, and it carried a lot of weight.

Taking the envelope and looking at the roaring lion mark printed on the fire paint, Draco felt a pang of irritability in his heart: "What a lucky boy, I don't know what kind of ability I can climb to the royal family." ”

His expression became colder: "Come in." ”

Follow Draco into the hall on the first floor, which was large and brightly lit, with many tables and chairs, and many young people were here, numbering about thirty people.

Some young people are immersed in hard reading, some are quiet and meditative, and some are experimenting with magic. In one corner of the hall is a large semicircular bookcase filled with books, at least more than three hundred.

On the other side of the hall, there is also a small wine cabinet, behind which there is a bartender, and on the edge of the cabinet, several young people are chatting softly while drinking, a bit like a tavern. Link listened to a few words and realized that they were talking about magic.

"The learning atmosphere is very strong." Link sighed.

He carefully felt the aura of magic energy on these young people, and he found that the young people here were at least the level of intermediate magic apprentices, and many of them were one step closer to becoming full-fledged magicians.

"That's a lot higher than Fleming College." Link sighed in his heart.

Draco took Link to a table in the far corner of the hall and stopped: "This is your place, you are an auditor, when there is a tutor teaching, you can only listen, you can't ask, and you can't affect the order of the class, understand?" ”

In a word, Link only has the right to participate, not the right to speak, because his magical foundation is too low, and the questions he asks will delay the time of other formal apprentices.

But that's enough.

Link nodded, "I remember." ”

"Good. Follow me and I'll take you to your room. ”

Drake walked towards the corner of the hall, and Link hurried to follow. Eventually, the two stopped in front of a small low door under the spiral staircase of the hall.

"This is your room."

This was originally a storage room under the stairs, it was very narrow, and it was originally unoccupied, but the tutor temporarily arranged for a person to come in, and the other rooms were full, and the tutor spoke in a somewhat casual tone at that time.

Draco felt the attitude of the mentor, he didn't care much about this apprentice, but he had to make arrangements because of the identity of the other party, so he made the decision to arrange Link here.

As he spoke, he opened the door, and inside the door was a small room of less than five square meters, with a small bed, no table, only a bedside table, but a small window, and the floor was very clean.

Link only had magic in his heart, and he didn't care much about his external living conditions, otherwise, he wouldn't be living in the attic of the Riverdale Hotel, he nodded, thanked him, and entered the room with his luggage.

He didn't have much luggage on the surface, just a few changes of clothes and a few magic books to hide his ears, and he just stuffed it into the bedside table.

Draco was still standing in the doorway, and seeing that Link was fiddling with it, he continued, "One last thing, as an apprentice in magic, you still need to complete some daily tasks. What magic will you do now? ”

"I know how to squirt." Link said, this is Verora who greeted him in advance, and his current status is a very junior magic apprentice.

"Stabbing? Very good. Drake turned to one of the apprentices in the hall and shouted, "Warwick, bring me a stack of blank scrolls!"

The apprentice who was called Warwick soon ran over with a large stack of blank scrolls, and when he handed the scrolls to Drake, he glanced sympathetically at Link in the room: "This guy is really unlucky, he lives in the worst room in the entire magic tower, not to mention having to do the most tiring work of drawing magic scrolls. ”

Drake sent Warwick away, and with an indifferent expression, he used the mage's hand to empty the stack of scrolls on Link's bedside table: "I heard that you have studied at other magic academies for a while, and you know the basics of drawing scrolls, right?" ”

Link nodded, "I will." ”

Drawing magic scrolls is a branch of enchantment, Link's current level of enchantment, in this magic tower, if you don't count the level 6 magician Bell, he can definitely rank first, just a magic scroll is naturally not a problem, before entering the syndicate's lair, he prepared more than 20 scrolls for himself.

Of course, this skill can't be shown in the Bell Magic Tower, and even Link has put away his own matchstick, and now only uses an ordinary tabula rasa wand that he has made casually.

"That's good. If you take these, you have to complete at least three stone stabbing scrolls a day, and a finished scroll can only allow two additional blank scrolls to be scrapped, and if you exceed them, you will have to compensate. A blank scroll with 3 silver coins. But if you complete the scroll, you'll be paid 1 silver coin. The corresponding silver ink and rune pen, you can find Warwick just now to get it. Do you understand? ”

When Link heard this, he couldn't help but secretly complain: "It's really dark, a zero-level magic scroll can be sold for at least 6 silver coins, and the cost is definitely not more than 2 silver coins, and the price of an ordinary blank scroll like this only needs 50 coppers, not to mention that only 1 silver coin is given to complete one, and an additional damage actually has to accompany 3 silver coins." It's no wonder that every famous mage in the game is so rich that it turns out that he earns money by exploiting his apprentices. ’

However, although it is not very fair to the magic apprentice, if one is willing to fight, the other is willing to suffer, and it is nothing.

Link keenly felt that this should be one of the important economic resources of a magic tower, and in the future, he would definitely have his own magic tower, and he would also have his own magic apprentice, in the spirit of learning, he nodded respectfully and said, "I understand." ”

"Very well, so be it." Draco turned and walked away, and he slammed the door to his room shut.

The room fell silent, and Link sat down on the bed and let out a long breath.

A message flashed through the horizon.

Mission: Enrollment completed.

Player Free Points +5.

This task was taken on when he first arrived in Gwent Forest, and it was only then that he was completed.

Mission: Promotion.

Content: Truly master level 1 magic and become an official magician.

Mission Reward: Free Points +15.

Link had already mastered level 1 magic, and even developed super magic techniques and created whistles, so this task was completed directly as soon as it appeared.

As a result, Link's free points were increased by 20 points, and his 30 mission reward for escaping the syndicate's lair brought the free points to 50 points.

'There's a month and a half left in my magical weakness period, it's almost over, so I'm going to save on these things, and when I'm fully recovered, I'll buy another high-level magic!' Link thought so.

At this time, another message began to flash in the field of vision, and Link looked over.

Mission: Promotion

Content: Truly master a level 2 magic and become a level 2 magician.

Mission reward: 25 free points.

This quest was then completed as well, as Link had mastered a 2-shot defensive magic: Guardian Enchantment.

As a result, Link's free points reached 75.

There was another flicker of information in the horizon, and when I opened it, it was another promotion task.

Mission: Promotion

Content: Truly master a level 3 magic and become a level 3 magician.

Mission reward: 40 free points.

Well, it looks like this mission can continue forever, which is good.

Then he now has three missions on his body, one is to promote the series of missions, one is to investigate the mage Bell, and the other is to find the cliff of the howling wind.

'It's a busy task. Link sighed, pulled out a blank scroll, and began to draw a flat magical structure of stone thorns on the scroll.