Every year on June 6, entrance exams are held at the Yabei Cathedral.

The Cathedral of Yabe, located in the 1st arrondissement of Cárdenas, was built in 1621 on the Nativity calendar, almost the same age as the United Kingdom of Augustus.

From the moment it was built, the Cathedral of Yabel was the largest church in the whole of Cárdenas, and it has undergone a total of three renovations and expansions over the years, each time increasing its size, so that it is by far the largest church in the whole of Barnes. It is also because of its size, which can accommodate up to 12,000 people at a time, which is fully capable of meeting the needs of the large number of students in the annual entrance examination of the Cárdenas Mission School, that it was chosen as the location for the annual entrance examination.

In addition, because of the entrance exam, the first district is open to everyone from June 6th to 8th every year, and many residents of other districts, especially the civilians of the lower districts, choose to visit the first district on this day to see what the first district is like, which they are not normally allowed to enter. As a result, after a year has passed, a hidden festival has gradually formed, and every time at this time, the people in the first district will be much more than ever, especially near the Yabei Cathedral, which is even fuller.

Norman experienced this feeling of overcrowding.

"Who touched me!"

Norman yelled and turned his head to look, but there was a huge crowd of people behind him, all looking at him innocently, and he really couldn't find who was touching him just now. So in the end, he could only reluctantly twist his head back, and continued to squeeze forward with the crowd, pulling "Thomas" with his right hand, for fear that he would be scattered by the crowd - thanks to his superhuman self-healing ability and Dagonit's treatment of broken arms, his right hand is now healed, no different from before he was injured.

There are too many people!

Norman squeezed "Thomas" forward and complained inwardly that it was the first time he had seen so many people since he arrived at Cárdenas.

Thinking about it, Norman looked left and right again.

It was a very wide street, large enough for four carriages to walk side by side, and now people were crowded on both sides of the street, leaving an empty lane in between, and between the crowd and the lane, it was soldiers in armor who kept order, one every few steps. It is also because of the presence of these heavily armed soldiers that pedestrians do not jam the lanes.

At Norman's side, "Thomas" was panting and sweating as he squeezed forward with the crowd.

"Are you okay?"

When Norman saw him like this, he couldn't help but ask.

Although this kind old man looked completely different from Thomas, his voice was exactly the same as Thomas, and he always claimed that he was Thomas, so Norman had to take him for Thomas for the time being.

Thomas waved his hand, smiled, and continued to move forward with the crowd, "I'm fine." As he spoke, he craned his neck and looked ahead, "It's Yabei Cathedral in front of you, right? ”

Norman also glanced forward and nodded.

"Well, it's almost there. ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a horse-drawn carriage drove by in the empty lane on the left.

Norman subconsciously turned his head to look and saw that the window of the carriage was open.

At the moment when the carriage passed by, he followed the window and saw a familiar face inside—Justin Combe.

This did not surprise Norman, because the middle lane was originally intended for black-robed mages and nobles, and he had already seen several black-robed mages and students passing by in carriages along the way, and beside Justin, he did see the black-robed mage Lambert.

Justin also saw Norman, which Norman was very sure of, because he saw Justin's gaze focused on him, and then shifted slightly, it should have moved to Thomas, and then, Justin's gaze was a little puzzled, as if he didn't understand why a black-robed mage was huddled with these civilians.

But Norman couldn't see more information, because the carriage had already moved forward through the crowd, and he could only see the butt of the carriage......

In front of the gate of Yabei Cathedral is a huge flat square, also named after Yabei, called Yabei Grand Square, which can accommodate up to 5,000 people at the same time.

Now the square was densely packed with people, all of whom came to see the excitement once a year, and in the middle of the square, near the church gate, a large empty space came out.

The open space is not a natural formation, but it is also the large open space in the middle that is formed by heavily armed soldiers who maintain order and block civilians at the scene.

Now there are many people gathered in this clearing, and if you look closely, you can see that at the center of each pile of people is a person in black mage robes, some men, some women, some old and some young.

This is the black-robed mage and their students.

When familiar black-robed mages saw each other, they would approach each other to greet each other, and stand and chat for a while, covering various aspects such as current affairs, economics, and spells, while their students stood respectfully on the sidelines.

"Ingmar, are you finally willing to crawl out of your filthy kennel?"

"I didn't want to come, but as you know, this year's policy is different, and I can't come if I don't want to. ”

"Who's to say it's not? Damn the weather, you should have stayed in the mage's tower and studied the spells, but now you're standing here with the sun on top and the Father on top ......"

"But this year, fortunately, the number of people taking the exam is lower than in previous years, otherwise if you had brought students to take the exam in the previous year...... I don't want to recall, it's a painful experience. ”......

Horse-drawn carriages were not allowed to be parked in Yabei Square, and after the newly arrived black-robed mages got out of the carriages, they all walked into the central clearing, passing through a makeshift guard set up by a group of soldiers.

All this was seen by Norman.

"Don't be nervous. ”

He turned his head to cheer up Thomas beside him, "Do you see? Let's just walk over there, go through there, and then enter the clearing, stand with the black-robed mages, and that's it, it's as simple as that." ”

He was afraid that Thomas would retreat now and would not be able to withstand such a big scene - to be honest, there were so many people at the scene, and the sound was rumbling and rumbling, and he was slightly afraid.

But the old man, who had the same voice as the old drunkard Thomas, was much calmer than he had imagined.

"It's pretty simple. ”

The old man said this, smiling slightly, "Then let's go." ”

After saying that, he took the lead in squeezing out of the crowd of civilians, and after tidying up the mage robes on his body, he walked towards the open space where the black-robed mages gathered in the middle.

Norman was stunned for a moment, but immediately reacted, and quickly squeezed out of the crowd to follow, following the old man in the same way as the students of the black-robed mages.

The makeshift sentry in front of the clearing in the middle was the part that worried Norman the most, and the part that was most likely to be exposed, but things went more smoothly than he expected: perhaps because he did not expect to have the audacity to impersonate the black-robed mage in front of so many people, or because he did not dare to be too rude to the honorable black-robed mages, the soldiers, including the non-commissioned officer who seemed to be their leader, did not carefully examine Thomas.

After seeing Thomas's mage robes, which were identical to those of the other black-robed mages, and the mage badge pinned to his chest, they all saluted in a routine manner, and then respectfully watched Thomas and Norman walk through the sentry and into the clearing.

Everything went smoothly as Norman expected.

Is it really that easy?

Norman was incredulous.

He had asked the Knights Templar to help him with a lot of possible plans, but none of them worked.

Of course, it can't be said that they are completely fine now, after all, they are still in the square, they haven't even entered the door of the church, and there are so many black-robed mages around, I don't know what will happen next. So it's best for them to pretend to be hidden now, obediently stand in the corner and wait, which is the safest way.

"Don't run around!"

Seeing that Thomas was still walking in after coming in, Norman quickly grabbed him and said in a low voice, "Are you afraid that others won't know that you are impersonating?!"

Then he pulled Thomas back into a no-man's corner, where there was no black-robed mage, and there was no need to worry about someone coming over to talk to him.

And the sneaky movements of him and Thomas were watched from a distance by Justin, who had already entered.

“...... Is this the creator of the cage of the ancient saying? ”

There was a black-robed mage talking to Lambert, but his eyes glanced at Justin beside Lambert from time to time.

"I thought that the person who could create such a thing full of wisdom must be a person with a lot of life experience, but I was surprised that he was so young. ”

It is not difficult to see from his eyes that this black-robed mage admires Justin very much, and if it weren't for Justin's teacher standing in front of him, he might have to open his mouth to invite Justin to become his student.

Lambert smiled slightly, his face lit up, and he seemed extremely proud of his student, "Yes, he is the one who created the cage of ancient words. As he spoke, he introduced the two of them, "Justin, this is Conrad Brown, he is a black-robed mage, and he helped me a lot on my way to becoming a black-robed mage. Mr. Brown, he's ......"

Conrad laughed and interrupted Lambert, "Justin Comb, I know his name, or rather, a lot of people in all of Cárdenas know his name now. And in the future, with the spread of this great creation of the ancient cage, many people in the United Kingdom of Augustus will also know this name, and he will be the pride of our Cárdenas......"

Justin's status as a student is very special, when the two black-robed mages are talking, the other students are obediently standing behind them, only he can stand beside Lambert and participate in the conversation between the two mages, and his status is transcendent.

And as the "cage of ancient words" was mentioned again and again, Justin's expression was a little strange now, not completely proud and proud, but as if he had something on his mind.

Lambert, who was his teacher, was the first to find out.

"Justin, what's wrong with you?"

Justin glanced in Norman's direction again, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Teacher, that black-robed mage over there is a little strange......"

His voice was steady, but his heart was beating fast.

It turned out to be this guy!

Don't let this guy go to the church school, or he'll be finished!

You'll have to do everything you can to stop this from happening!