24. Mage College
After taking the aether crystal, Master Santa said, "Go inside, don't waste my time. ”
The mage was the first to enter, the apprentices followed, their eyes were full of nervousness, and after Adam's feet stepped into the teleportation array, the runes emitted a silver light, which formed a protective layer on each apprentice's body, and then Adam only felt his body twist towards the center, this feeling was indescribably uncomfortable, as if the whole body was forcibly stuffed into a small hole.
In the next moment, another feeling came, and the body once again experienced the torture it had just experienced, but it had become withdrawn from the hole.
Several of the other apprentices began to retching violently, and even Adam couldn't resist the urge a little.
When Adam regained his sight, he had already arrived in another place, and with a wave of his hand, Mage Erin sent a mist of water into everyone's bodies, and the uncomfortable feeling was much lessened.
"This is the reason why the fragile body cannot withstand the reaction brought about by the teleportation, and it is also the reason why we did not directly take you from the desert island to the mage continent. "Now that we've arrived at the Moldor Tower, you'll be joining the rest of the apprentices for the entrance ceremony later. ”
"The Moldor Elemental Tower?" William repeated the name in confusion, isn't it the Mage Academy?
Mage Black explained flatly: "That's right, it's the Moldor Elemental Tower, and the Mage Academy was just established by the owner of the Tower at the request of the Mage Council, and this matter will be explained later." ”
Mage Black paused for a moment, then continued, "For the sake of getting along fairly well along the way......"
The apprentices are full of slander, and the pleasure of death is built?
"I would like to give you a word of advice, you must be careful before making a choice, once the contract is made, you have no chance of backtracking. Oh, and one more thing, try not to get into conflict with your native apprentices until you have enough knowledge. ”
Everyone followed the mage out of the room where the teleportation array was located, and found themselves in an extremely large hall, surrounded by scattered pedestrians, looking at them with incomprehensible information in their eyes.
"Don't look around, inside the tower is the residence of the mage, and if you accidentally anger a mage, no one can save your life. ”
Everyone's hearts sank, and they hurriedly restrained their curious gaze, and through Master Black's words, they realized that the academy was not a paradise, and as an apprentice, it was really not a scarce resource.
Soon, they walked out of the hall, and when they looked back, they realized that they had actually stepped out of a huge tower suspended in the air, the tower was extremely high, and from the spire of the tower, which was invisible to the naked eye but could be easily perceived, a torrent of energy flowed throughout the tower, making the elemental tower look less like a fixed building, but like a 'rocket' waiting to be launched at any time.
Beneath the Elemental Towers were a series of ordinary-looking buildings that were arranged in a circle around the tower, and Adam noticed that some of the buildings had some of the same newcomers coming out of the building, and were led by the mage towards the designated location.
"Native apprentice?" said to Adam in his heart, each of the native apprentices had extreme pride on their faces, and the undisguised disdain they showed when they occasionally crossed the desert island apprentices, just like seeing a countryman entering the city for the first time.
The clothes of the native apprentices were far more luxurious than theirs, and Adam found that each of them had more or less magical items in their hands, and the total amount of mental power was stronger than theirs.
"Because you've been living in a high-magic environment, do you have a stronger understanding of magic?"
The crowd eventually converged on a plaza made of unknown material, dark but crystal clear, looking like obsidian.
This group of apprentices totaled more than 100 people, and all but six of them seemed to be local apprentices, and the positions of the two groups were distinct, showing an extremely obvious sense of rejection.
The mages no longer led them, but walked towards the high platform in front of the square, where there were already three mages standing, all wearing black robes, after the guides walked up to the high platform, the leading mages coughed lightly, Adam felt the pressure coming, instantly suppressed all the conversation, and the square became extremely silent.
The black-robed mage nodded with satisfaction, and then said, "I'm Victor, the dean of the Moldor Mage Academy. First of all, welcome to Moldo. ”
The apprentices were still silent, and Dean Victor obviously didn't care if the apprentices reacted, and continued: "In the first year, you will receive free education, including basic courses such as rune knowledge, elemental knowledge, potion knowledge, alchemy knowledge, and body refining knowledge, and you must choose the next research direction within a year. ”
"From the second year onwards, you have two options, the first is to sign a contract with the great Moldor Extradimensional Mage, which stipulates that after becoming a full-fledged mage, you will follow the Moldor Extradimensional Master for three dimensional battles, or serve as a Tower Mage for three hundred years. On the other hand, you can continue to enjoy free education. ”
"The second is to study at the academy as a freelance apprentice, where you need to pay enough value to acquire knowledge, and the cost is determined by the instructor. You are free to move, and you can choose to leave at any time after becoming a full-fledged mage. ”
"Of course, this is only possible for you to become a full-fledged mage, and during your apprenticeship you must follow orders and fulfill your obligations. ”
After Dean Victor finished speaking, he left directly, and then the other two black-robed mages explained some details, including some fees that still needed to be paid during the first year of free stage, including accommodation fees, library borrowing fees, etc., as well as stipulating the scope of what apprentices could move freely and the scope that they needed to apply to enter.
One of the good news is friendly to the apprentices on the desert island, the monsters killed by the apprentices of the Moldor Academy, in addition to the cost of handing over to the guides and the maintenance of the ship, will be converted into power stones and returned to the apprentices to maintain the most basic living expenses.
With that, all the mages left, and some senior mage apprentices took over and led them towards their assigned dormitories.
Along the way, Adam carefully analyzed the words of the mages, and found that the conditions of the mages were not too harsh, there were no unacceptable conditions, but he didn't know if there was a verbal trap, but with the pride of the mages, he should not bother to deceive the apprentices.
The desert island six were all relieved, what they had been worried about before was the cost, except for William, who had an apprentice father, and Ophelia, who had half a small energy vein, the others were completely poor, and it was undoubtedly a good thing to sign a contract to get knowledge for free.
Seeing their relieved expressions, the native apprentice on the side sneered unabashedly, and the full malice contained in the laughter instantly angered Randy, this poor apprentice on a desert island has a very sensitive self-esteem after entering the academy.
The native apprentice ignored Randy's angry glare at him and said, "A redneck is a redneck (to explain here, I deliberately gave it a dip, this word in the West refers to a foreigner with little knowledge.) Do you think the conditions of the academy are very good? Ha, listen, it's for official mages, you really think you can be mages? ”
"What are you talking about, bastard!" Randy said angrily, trying to teach the native apprentice a magical lesson.
The native apprentice shrugged off Randy's threat and didn't even take a defensive stance, saying in an even more disdainful tone, "Looks like you haven't figured out where you are, idiot. ”
William hurriedly grabbed Randy, who was about to lose his mind, he had already seen the senior apprentice who led the team show a dissatisfied expression, it was obviously unwise to cause trouble before he first arrived and didn't figure out the situation, he said to Randy: "Randy, calm down, you must not make a move now, I will explain to you later." ”
Seeing Randy, who was still angry, the native apprentice raised his eyebrows contemptuously, put his palm across his throat and made a throat-slitting gesture before tilting his head and leaving.
William whispered to Randy: "If you attack him just now, you will definitely die, in full view, attacking without a duel is a sneak attack, and the rest of the people will not let you go, and no one can save you." ”
Randy calmed down, and he couldn't vent his anger, he poured his anger on Adam, and said in a tone that was deliberately low but just enough for Adam to hear, "Guy who can only fight in the nest, phew." ”
Adam didn't feel a wave in his heart and even wanted to laugh, in his opinion, this kind of dispute that was obviously in the same class but started for ridiculous reasons such as geography was stupid, and Randy was like that, and so was the apprentice.
The veteran apprentice didn't say anything about it, he had seen a lot of such situations, as long as it didn't get in the way of his mission, it didn't matter to him whether the newcomers lived or died, all he needed was to take them to the dormitory.
The apprentice's room is a two-person room, thanks to Adam's bad popularity, no one wants to be with him, even William, who has an ambiguous attitude, will not deviate from the will of the group at this time, Adam doesn't care, it's obviously better to live alone.
The senior apprentice said indifferently, "The fee will be deducted from the power stones converted to you," and then he looked at Adam: "As for you, you have to pay double portions." ”
Adam nodded.
After the senior apprentice finished speaking, he turned to leave, and everyone walked to their own rooms, the room was very good, the academy was not harsh on the apprentices in this regard, Adam didn't care about this, he was thinking about Dean Victor's words.
"Plane Battle, Extradimensional Mage. "Adam is particularly concerned about these two words, is the mage really a creature beyond the dimension? can actually start wars against other worlds on his own, then the extradimensional is a level above the official mage, which means that he is beyond the constraints of the dimension?