Section 21: Franklin
When God closes a door for you, it will inevitably open a window for you, a proverb that Franklin has always believed.
Although he can't cast a spell, although he is 36 years old and is still only a mage apprentice, although he will never be able to become a mage in his life, but he is not doing well now? He is a "gray-robed mage" in the third district where the mage apprentices live, and he earns a good salary by teaching ancient languages, he has a beautiful and hard-working wife, he has three good mistresses, he eats red meat and drinks wine every day, and he has a smart 8-year-old son...... In addition to not having the title of nobleman, he lived a very comfortable life.
If Norman hadn't shown up, Franklin's life would probably have gone on like this, but Norman showed up.
Franklin first noticed that something was wrong with his homework: among his nine students, Bernie and Baker had always been at the bottom of the old language grades, but in the past two days, Franklin found that their old language skills had suddenly improved by leaps and bounds, and he had completed all the word formation homework he had assigned him to do a week's work overnight!
This is unique among the nine students, and even Feron, the student with the highest level of ancient Chinese, has not yet completed it, and after Franklin's review, there are very few errors and omissions, only two or three mistakes.
Then Franklin noticed the scars on the faces of Bernie and the others - not that the scars on their faces were not obvious, but because these troublemakers were often injured, and Franklin was used to seeing them. But in the past, every time they were taught a lesson, these guys must have been thinking about how to take revenge for the next few days, but this time it was different: these guys didn't know if they were beaten stupid this time, not only did they not puff up, but they smiled all day long, as if they were not the ones who were beaten into pigs' heads, and they didn't know what they were happy about, which was really strange.
After noticing these two strange phenomena, the curious Franklin paid special attention to this aspect, and after two or three days, he finally collected some relevant information from the students: there was a "terminator of ancient language homework" in the third district, as long as any difficult and complicated ancient language homework was brought to him, he could help you solve it for free, which was a student savior, and the way to contact him was through Mr. Franklin's student Bernie.
Obviously, the abnormalities of his students were caused by this "old language homework terminator". And this strange unprofitable Mr. Terminator also aroused Franklin's great interest, and he was very curious to know what this fellow, who was probably also a mage's apprentice, wanted to do.
For this reason, Mr. Franklin called Bernie and the others over and asked him everything about Norman in detail, and when he learned the details and details, his heart turned upside down: how did this guy not sound like a mage's apprentice, but like an ordinary person who had never learned an ancient language before, and was learning and selling on the spot?!
But if that's the case, what a genius this guy should be!? Such a genius, as long as a teacher teaches him well, is almost destined to become a mage. But he would do this kind of robbery of ancient language knowledge, obviously without a teacher......
Franklin's mind suddenly came alive as he thought of the entrance exams to Cárdenas Church School, which was less than a month away.
As the main city of the lord of Barnes, the annual entrance exam to the Cárdenas Church School is not only a matter for the residents of Cárdenas, but also for the whole of Barnes. Every year at this time, people from all over Barnes and even from the outside of the country will rush to Cárdenas to take the entrance exam to the church school, after all, entering the church school has a very high possibility of becoming a nobleman, which is an opportunity to change the fate of the rich merchants and the second sons and daughters of the small nobles who cannot inherit the title of nobility, not to mention how attractive it is to those commoners.
However, the number of admissions every year is only 50, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as thousands of troops crossing a single-plank bridge, and the battle is tragic.
In this annual event, most of these 50 places were divided among the students of the real mage masters, and there were not many left for others. For example, last year, among all the students of the "Gray Mage" in their third district, only 3 passed the entrance exam, and this result is already the most brilliant result achieved in the third district in recent years, the 3 students entered the gray robe mage of the Cárdenas Church School, and this year's tuition fees have also risen, and the highest price has directly doubled, but the rich merchants still squeezed their heads and wanted to send their children under their doors.
Franklin was also a beneficiary of this kind of thing: one of his students also entered the Cárdenas Church School, so he charged more than many gray-robed mages. And now, it seems, there is another opportunity in front of him.
The Mr. Terminator in the alley seems to be a genius who learns ancient languages, and he has no teacher, what if he can be his teacher?
The end may be that this genius Mr. Terminator will improve his knowledge in all aspects, especially the ancient language, by leaps and bounds under his own month's targeted study and training, and then fight his way through the thousands of people in a month and successfully pass the exam of the Cárdenas Church School. And if he really is as genius as Bernie says, maybe he will not only be able to enter the Cárdenas Church School, but even be the best among the 50 people, and take down all the students of the real mages!
Then, Franklin seemed to see all of Cárdenas...... No, the whole of Barnes was flocked to his doorstep with a great deal of wealth begging him to take their children as students, and to double his tuition...... Oh no, twice as much!
By the way, he could also see the surprised and ridiculous faces of the mages who were usually high-minded, especially the old-fashioned old guy Ernor who asserted that he would never be a mage in his life.
"You can't be a mage in your lifetime with all your thoughts on Quintalan. ”
For Franklin, Erno's words from twenty years ago were always vivid, and he would always remember that haughty and disdainful face.
Franklin especially wanted to see how shocked and incredulous his students would look when they saw that his students were not as good as his Franklin's.
It's true that I didn't become a mage, but my students defeated yours completely!
This can be regarded as a revenge and a raised eyebrow.
That's why Franklin came to Norman today, and why did he come to take in the students with three red and white stripes...... The scars on Bernie's face are obviously not decorations, this is probably the genius of the old saying Mr. Terminator has a strong tendency to violence, if he really does it, Franklin does not have the confidence to subdue him with his own small rib body, so he specially invited 3 red and white stripes to accompany him - let the people of the public help him with his personal affairs, for the status of the mage apprentice above the ordinary people, it is not difficult to do this.
And Norman's performance also made Franklin glad that he had found a few bodyguards to accompany him, otherwise, he would have been like Bernie and them, this guy's bestiality really surprised him. Of course, Norman's subsequent performance of the old language shocked him even more.
At the end of the conversation, Franklin deliberately used the old language to verify whether the Terminator had learned the old language before or if he had really only learned it from his own students, and the results of the verification were both satisfied and shocked.
Satisfied, in terms of Mr. Terminator's mastery of ancient languages, he is indeed learning ancient languages from Bernie, and the amount of ancient language is comparable to the range of his teaching.
He was satisfied, and he was shocked because Norman's genius was beyond his expectations: pronunciation, memorization of ancient words, comprehension of meanings, all of which were perfect, and Franklin was especially shocked that Mr. Terminator had a comprehension of some of the ancient words!
If it were Bernie, he would have answered this question according to the example sentences he had taught, but this Mr. Terminator was the first reaction to answer how big he was below, and he only answered how old he was after asking again in detail, which shows that he really thoroughly understood and mastered the meaning of this ancient word, and it was the kind of mastery that was fundamental, not the kind of rote memorization of example sentences on the surface.
This is often the extent that only true mages can do, but for this Mr. Terminator, it is likely that it is only the result of a few days of study.
How strong does this require?
Franklin couldn't have imagined. (He didn't know that because of the reason why those barrages have been brushing "how old?", "18" and "D" for many years, Norman has taken "how old below" and "how old above" as standard questions for the question of "how old", and how old has become the second meaning)
The only thing Franklin knew was that he had to take this student!
In the future, he will not only be able to enter the church school, but he will also be able to become a real mage, a black-robed mage, and even a red-robed mage, a blue-robed mage, and even a white-robed mage......
And he, Franklin Wood, as his teacher of initiation, will share in his glory!
This Mr. Terminator will change his fortune in Franklin.