Grey Rain Country - Named because a grey rain inevitably falls during the tender season every year.

It's a state of professionals through and through, where power is not held by the traditional king or pope, but by a "High Council" of master ministers from six branches of the Legendary Order.

This council nominally needs to "consult" the nobles before making a decision, but in fact, anyone with a discerning eye knows that in this country, the aristocracy is a complete ornament, and the six master-level powerhouses completely control all the power, and the legendary organization behind them makes the gods dare not meddle in this country, so this "high council" called "democracy" is actually a dictatorship, and it is also called the "parliament of six"!

There are a total of six legendary organizations that control the country of Grey Rain and have designed key branches here, namely: the "Mage Guild" that is everywhere on the continent of Faeron, the "Sage Council" that has a leg with the gods, the infamous "Santarin Society", the "Beheading Alliance" that is rich in berserkers, the neutral spellcaster organization "Thoughts of Truth", and the least popular "Thieves' Guild".

All six of these organizations have established branches in the small and vast Grey Rain Country, where they are in charge of the country's military and political power, and on the other hand, they control the gathering and trade of the precious magical plant "Grey Zelan".

One of the key branches of "Thoughts of Truth" is located in the southern swamps of this country, and as a relatively high-profile key branch, the "Thoughts of Truth" branch of the Gray Rain Country is far from being comparable to those "dispensable" small branches set up in the fringe areas in all aspects.

In this key branch, there are five master-level spellcasters sitting in it, and the head of the branch is a long-established nineteenth-level prophetic mage.

The branch also has more than 30 official-level powerhouses and hundreds of mage apprentices.

Thoughts of Truth is very committed to mage education, and almost all of their key divisions regularly recruit apprentices and train mages, and every member above the official level is obligated to take some time out of their time to teach apprentices unless they are on a mission or have applied for "continuing research", and this branch is no exception.

It's the middle of the autumn harvest season, and the first day of the next month is a big day to be reckoned with among the countless poor people, nobles, and even many professional families in the Grey Rain Country—because the three spellcaster organizations will begin recruiting a new batch of apprentices on that day.

The three spellcaster organizations recruit apprentices once every fifteen years, and only recruit teenagers over the age of ten and under twenty as apprentices each time, so for ordinary people, the opportunity to join the legendary organization and become a spellcaster is only once in a lifetime.

Therefore, even if there is still a month before the apprenticeship recruitment date, countless poor families and aristocratic families in the Gray Rain Country have begun to prepare with great interest, in this extremely rigid and cruel world, the son of the poor is almost inevitably a poor, and the son of the noble may not be able to continue to be a nobleman, so becoming a professional is almost the only chance for the poor to ask for poverty, and it is also the inevitable choice for the nobles to ensure their family status.

How could anyone not be prepared for this unique opportunity?

Recruiting apprentices is also a very important or troublesome thing for the three spellcaster organizations with a complete education system (the Mage Guild does not recruit apprentices), after all, it is quite cumbersome and highly valued.

For "Thoughts of Truth", this time period is even busier, as a semi-academy mage institution, "Thoughts of Truth" chooses apprentices and never looks at talent rather than background, so its apprentice recruitment method is to send a formal mage to lead a group of probationary-level mages to cities and towns to test the school-age teenagers and girls with mage talents and bring them back to the academy.

It's only one thing that takes time, and most importantly – the process of recruiting apprentices is not necessarily so peaceful.

You must know that although the ordinary people who have the qualifications to become spellcasters are one in a thousand, the number is quite enough, but those with better talent are really rare, and in this case, the three caster organizations will compete for those apprentices with the highest talents.

Don't think that this kind of competition will be so good for the apprentices to choose by themselves, all neutral spellcaster organizations generally follow the principle of "first come, first served", the side that finds the apprentices first will take the qualified apprentices directly, and the evil camp organizations like the "Santarin Society" will generally grab the apprentice halfway, and if you can't grab it, you will be completely destroyed, anyway, it will not make you happy to replenish new blood. (Don't ask the apprentices if they want to, what are the apprentices' thoughts for the caster organization?, can they eat it?).

It is precisely because there is competition from "peers" and unreasonable robbers blocking the way, so the action of accepting apprentices is also vividly called the "new blood war", for the full-level mage who has received the task of "recruiting apprentices", this job is not a comfortable and tourist-like job, but a job that has to rush at full speed at every turn and even start fighting without saying a word, and most importantly - the number of apprentices brought back is not enough to be fined!

On this day, seeing that the fifteen-year-old "Recruiting Apprentices" task was hanging on the task panel again, several formal-level spellcasters were rarely hesitant in the hall of "Thoughts of Truth".

It is precisely because of these formal-level powerhouses who usually live in seclusion that they stop here, and the usually bustling task hall is scattered and quiet, and all the mage apprentices are tiptoeing from the edge of the hall slowly, not daring to let out the atmosphere at all, for fear of disturbing the thinking of the "formal mage masters".

"This time, the reward is even more generous than the last time, and with a full thirty exchange points, you can buy a copy of the "Hazy Mist" potion"!

A short, full-level mage stood in the middle of the hall and whispered to his companion next to him, pointing to the "Recruit Apprentices" quest icon at the top.

Next to him stood an ugly female mage with half of her face charred and skinless, and the same official-level female mage unceremoniously responded to the short mage's words:

"Don't just think about the task reward, those red robes have been restless again recently, in the last "Recruiting Apprentices" task, Mei Di even got into it, she is a twelve-level official mage!"

"That's because she's too stubborn, she doesn't know how to run when she meets two red-robed madmen............"

"If you run away, you will lose money, and if you don't bring back an apprentice, do you know how much exchange points you have to lose, and you don't know the face of "Truth Thought" to die for money......... I... Woohoo......"

As soon as the second half of the female mage's words came out, the short mage jumped up and covered her mouth.

Of course, she was very unhappy when she suddenly covered her mouth, but when she just shook off the "dirty hands" directory on her mouth and looked at the short mage fiercely, she saw that the short mage, who was usually not afraid of heaven and earth, was looking behind her flatteringly.

The female mage, who had a sense of foreboding in her heart, turned her head away mechanically, and then ...... She saw an old man in a gray robe with gray hair and an old strip of cloth covering his eyes standing silently behind her.

"Ke...... Master Kirkweilun, you ...... Why are you here......"!