Chapter 05: Self-study time
If with Angel's magical talent and yearning for magic, he will eventually embark on the path of magic exploration, then Angel's parents' move to ban Angel from enrolling in the Academy of Magic is undoubtedly the biggest mistake Angel has experienced in his life.
That's the reality. If something is "inevitable", then the more you suppress, the more powerful the final rebound will be, and it will even make you lose the ability to guide that you could have otherwise. For example, Angel's current state, due to deception, his parents have completely lost control of him.
If there was a rope that held him in tow, it was probably his mentor Amos. The status of a magical apprentice is extremely important to Angel, and the mentor who gave him the special enrollment qualification is even more important.
What? His mentor has been on a business trip, and he won't be back anytime soon?
Okay, now that the last rope has been cut as well, the real rampage is begining.
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"Do you have time at any time?" the head of the Vascular Council was stunned.
"Yes, there is time at any time. Angel replied earnestly.
"But...... Don't you have a course?"
"I'm a special recruiter, and I've already passed the skipping exam. Now I'm an experimental assistant to my mentor, Amos Magus. Experiments are my course. ”
"I know that. ”
"Then the Amos Magus went on a business trip and couldn't come back for the next year. ”
"On a business trip?"
"Yes. ”
"Can't come back for the next year?"
"Yes. ”
"Okay, that's really any time there's time. The Academy's arrangements for you are really different from ours. The elder spread his hands helplessly.
"So you can arrange a job for me right away, now. ”
"No problem. The president, who was sitting in his office chair, casually flipped through the book of arranging work, glanced at the records, and looked up at Angel: "You said that you are free at any time, then I will fill the line for you." Maybe you just need to take a certain amount of rest?"
"No, no. I don't need to rest. Angel shook his head.
"Okay, then I'll have a full schedule, twelve hours a day. The president picked up the pen and wrote quickly in the workbook.
After writing, the president filled in the receipt, stamped it, and handed it to Angel. Standing up and stretching out a hand towards Angel: "Welcome to the Vascular Management Committee, I very much look forward to you making different achievements in your position." ”
"I'm looking forward to it. Angel replied.
The two men shook hands across their desks.
The president sighed: "I have a hunch that you will become one of the backbone of the maintenance committee. ”
"Of course. Angel replied with a smile.
......
Just as Angel was naturally embarking on the crooked path of becoming a member of the maintenance committee and earning subsidies, the school slowly ...... It's time to start the fryer.
The fryer that has nothing to do with Angel, mainly because the magicians have begun to take leave in large areas.
"Your mentor is also on leave?"
"Yes, we're all in the classroom waiting for him to come to class. As a result, the class was over, and he came. He poked his head in and told us that he had taken a year off...... I didn't even say what the specific reason was. ”
"Our mentor has also taken a leave of absence...... It's similar to your mentors. ”
"Oh my God, have all the mentors taken leave together? So what are we going to do?"
"I really don't understand. Is this something really going on?"
......
At this moment, there is no one who is most troubled than the teaching clerk Bernice.
She held her forehead, and her expression was almost like something that had just happened to a bolt from the blue. Looking at Daliana standing in front of her, she asked, "Are you kidding?
Who is Daliana?
Okay, I know you forgot. It was Consul Cornelia's subordinate and deputy. When Jones came to Lorgosianny, she was in charge of leading.
Daliana looked at Bernice with a smile and replied, "Not all, isn't there still a part of the magicians who haven't taken leave?"
"There are a total of 860 magicians in the Academy of Magic, and only 60 of them have not taken leave. Even the dean and the members of the Wizarding Committee are gone, and there is not a single one left. ”
"Isn't it?"
"If you do this, you might as well just stop the magic academy. ”
"That's not going to work. In the future, Lorgotseni will need more magical talents. Lady Cornelia even hoped that the Academy of Magic would expand its enrollment immediately. It's absolutely impossible to get it to stop. ”
"But what you're doing is stopping it. Bernice said to Darienne solemnly, "How am I going to explain this to the students? They don't know that almost all the magicians have taken leave. When they come to their senses, they will all come to me and ask. ”
"That's what you're doing, I can't answer. I'm sure you'll be able to figure things out of your own scope. Daliana smiled and replied, "Her Royal Highness and Mistress Cornelia agree that the Magiers should be allowed to do more important things. As for students...... Maybe you can let them study on their own? I think that's a good idea. Let them swim in the boundless sea of magic. ”
Bernice's expression almost collapsed, but there was nothing she could do.
Because this is an order, an order without any room for manoeuvre.
"Okay, you go back first. I...... I don't know what to do with it yet, I have to think about it. ”
"Come on. ”
As she spoke, Daliana nodded slightly, then turned to leave.
In addition to Bernice, there were a dozen or so other academic staff in the office, all of whom were standing, looking at Bernice who was sitting at her desk with her hands over her face.
After a while, Bernice let go of her hands covering her face: "Even we don't know what they're doing, how can we explain it to the students? Make an unclear announcement? Let them study on their own for a year?"
"Maybe we can arrange classes for as many of the sixty magicians as we can?" said one of the academic staff, "and the pressure of their classes is very light. You can let them put down their research first. ”
"It can't be. Which magician doesn't value research more than his own life?" said another member of the academic staff next to him, "I suspect they left us sixty magicians just to make sure that the graduation exams for the new magic apprentices will be held as scheduled. ”
"I don't see anything more important than the proper functioning of the Academy of Magic. ”
"I'm not in favor of complete self-study, which is tantamount to trusting in the self-control of all magic apprentices. We all know that it's not something to be trusted. Bernice stood up with her desk on her feet and said, "Try to convince the remaining wizards to add classes." If you can't convince them, try to give them things to do. It's better to keep them busy than idle. Thankfully, the funding was still the same, and they had paid the magicians who had been transferred. During this time, their salaries are not covered by the Academy of Magic. This means that we have a lot of extra money that we can use to use. ”
"I'm in favor. ”
"I'm in favor of it too. ”
"Yes. ”
"Yes. ”
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"The content of our maintenance committee is very complicated, if you want to divide the general scope...... Actually, I can't divide it because it's too miscellaneous. Almost everything that can't be found is in our hands. I can only introduce you to the general work. Walking slowly with Angel in the academy, the head of the maintenance committee introduced him to the basic knowledge of the maintenance committee all the way: "The first is safety. The safety of the College is our responsibility. So, we have to arrange for people to patrol every day. Four groups during the day and eight groups at night. However, there are not many people needed in each group, and only three people are enough. In addition to guarding against people infiltrating the campus, we also have to deal with disputes between students in the college. ”
"Infiltrating the campus, isn't our college open to the public?" asked Angel.
"Yes, but if it's someone with a bad intention, they won't go through the front door. After all, it's too easy to be spotted by walking through the main entrance. In addition, we need to beware of people doing things that violate the law on campus. For example, theft, vandalism. ”
"To put it bluntly, it's the security team. ”
"That's right, that's what it means. We have absolute jurisdiction over the Academy of Magic, and under normal circumstances, the Cartier vigilantes will not enter here. The good thing is that we have a lot of space, but the bad thing is that we have to take care of everything. Of course, no one actually came here to do anything. After all, there are all magicians here, and there are only magicians. The force value of any mage is not too low, and the cost of breaking the law here is much higher than outside. We're mostly dealing with trivial things. ”
As they spoke, they saw two students arguing from a distance, and a member of the maintenance committee was standing next to them, trying to mediate.
"Yes, that's it. Pointing casually to the members of the Vascular Management Committee who were mediating, the president had already led Angel to turn around and walk down a corridor: "We have an obligation to stop any disputes, including the use of force. But we don't have the right to decide. The right to adjudicate is a matter for the Wizarding Council. Only they have the right to define who is right and who is wrong. ”
"So the general idea is that we're law enforcement, but we're not judges. ”
"Yes, that's it. And then there are many, many others. For example, proctoring, all written exams in the academy are proctored by us. We have to send someone with us for all our outings. There's also dormitory management, which is our main focus. ”
"Dormitory management?"
As they spoke, they had arrived in front of the dormitory area of the Academy of Magic.
It was a large four-storey building, carved in wood, with a rounded shape, like a giant bird's egg. The perimeter is decorated with a huge number of branches that resemble the branches in a bird's nest. It looks like a real bird's nest.
This is a metaphor for the cultivation of excellent mages for the Lorgotsenni and the Blood Elves.
"You don't live proofreading, do you?"
"Yes. I live in my own home. ”
"Sure enough. No wonder I feel like you're not very familiar with what we do. Pointing to the dormitory building in front of him, the guild leader continued, "Dormitory management is the most frustrating thing, because you never know what an apprentice magician will be hiding in the dormitory. ”
"What's hidden?" Angel asked hesitantly, "Is this important?"
"What if they were doing experiments in the dorms?"
"Hmm...... Why don't they experiment in the lab?"
The president glanced at Angel helplessly: "Well, you are different from us. You can use the tutor's lab. But you have to know that this is a privilege, and not every magic apprentice has it, especially for the younger ones. The labs in the school are very limited, at least not so many that they can be used whenever you want. ”
"So...... Explosion?"
"Explosions don't usually happen. He's an apprentice in magic, and he wouldn't be stupid enough to do explosive experiments in his own lab. But the list of other problems is too numerous to count. For example, the smell was experimented with a nauseating and vomiting smell, and everyone was forced to leave the dormitory and had to wait for the whole day until the smell was all gone before they could go back in. For example, in Otherworldly Summoning, we even tried to catch an Obinismon in the dorm block. ”
"Obienismon...... What's that?"
"A kind of otherworldly summoned beast, it's not aggressive, but it's definitely a headache. There are also experiments that can create germs for skin infections. Smoke that turns black as long as it is contaminated and is very difficult to clean off, and so on. Sometimes it's not even an experiment. A few years ago, there was a senior who brought a magic material into the dormitory, and when he graduated, he didn't take it with him. The magic material has deteriorated...... It then volatilizes and attaches to every object in the entire dormitory. Although it will not be harmful to the blood elves, it has an unpleasant smell. It took us half a month to wash every item repeatedly before we finally got rid of the smell. The president spread his hands, then continued to walk forward, leading Angel into the dormitory.
The member of the Vascular Council standing in the doorway nodded at the two of them.
"See? We have to have someone here on a permanent basis. Keep an eye on everyone to see if they are carrying magical materials into the dormitory area. We also have to search every dormitory regularly, mind you, be regular. Once a week, to be exact. Of course, that's just a deterrent. In fact, we rarely find anything by searching the dormitory. After all, we can't search every nook and cranny ourselves, and they won't allow us to do so. Unless it's particularly stupid. But you know, normally a fool can't get into the Academy of Magic. ”
"So how exactly do we solve these problems once and for all?"
"No, we've never fully solved it. Even now, there are still accidents in the dormitory almost every month. Some months may not have one, but some months may have an accident several times. ”
"That sounds terrible. ”
"Yes, so we need more talent, more people, more money. However, the Council of Wizards refused to approve our proposal. They claim that magicians need freedom, not restraint, though they also feel that experimenting in dorms is a terrible thing to do. This side is the girls' dormitory, and the other side is the men's dormitory. Without a special reason, except for members of the maintenance committee, they are not allowed to enter the dormitory of the opposite sex. Mainly to reduce unnecessary trouble. ”
"Okay, I kind of understand the dormitory thing. ”
"You probably understand?"
"Yes. ”
"No, you haven't. ”
As they spoke, two girls walked by, one of whom glared at the president of the Vascular Council. The other, who didn't star, rolled his eyes.
"Look, you understand with that. The chairman said helplessly: "Everyone has a little misunderstanding about us, yes, just a little bit. I promise. ”
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