Chapter 6: The Mage's Certificate (I)
The Mage Guild was originally just a small guild, but over the centuries it has grown to become the largest formal spellcaster organization in the famous continent. Here in Noyer is one of the chapters, medium in size, but not with much authority.
Over the past few years, the Castle Lord's strength has become higher and higher, and coupled with his issuance policy, it is difficult for most spellcasters who are not loyal to the Castle Lord to mix.
However, happy to meet is not a mage, so there is no need to care about other people's rights disputes and internal contradictions.
The Mage Guild is a large, three-storey building that looks unremarkable from the outside. But if you have the ability to see the magic aura, you will find that there is a lot of magic auras on the entire building, and I'm afraid it's all kinds of protective spells and magic traps.
Inside, there was a hall where many people who looked like attendants or apprentices were stuck here to study the esoteric books in their hands. Of course, there are many people who are pretending, and they probably won't be able to learn a famous name even if they take the book backwards.
Xi Xiangyu walked straight to the service desk.
"Hello, can I help you?"
"I'd like to be able to test the permission to cast spells and use magic devices, as soon as possible. γ
As he spoke, many people who were reading books on the side read it.
Since the new city lord issued that rule, many people have come to the Mage Association to verify it, but only a handful of them can pass.
Casting spells in the city requires a mage ability of level 3, and the use of magic items requires a level 4 level, which makes it difficult for a large number of poor students who used to work part-time by selling Tier 1 spell casting services to continue their studies.
If high-level warriors lose money, poets make money, priests rob money, and rangers eat money, then the position of mage is simply a money burn.
It costs money to copy scrolls, it costs money to copy books, it costs money to create things, and it costs money to study. If you don't have money, you can't learn half a spell, let alone learn knowledge and make experimental progress.
Therefore, there are many people who are very concerned about those who can verify the caster, and when they hear a young voice saying that they want to verify it, they are even more concerned, and this is the way people are.
"According to the policy, the spell casting license needs to be at level 3, and the magic item license needs to be at level 4, and if there is a mage certificate of the same rank or higher issued by the Mage Guild, you can skip the assessment. β
The ushers behind the service desk Xu was too young to think that he could meet the requirements, and gave him another choice.
"Of course, you can also sign a contract from the lord to pledge your allegiance, so that each license can lower the requirements by 2 levels. β
That is, to reach Tier 1 or Tier 2. Some of the apprentice mages signed the contract out of impatience, but many more refused such overlord clauses in the dignity of the mage, and some mage mentors even expelled these compromised students from the school.
"If I want to take the sixth-order mage certificate, how many days will it take at the earliest?"
"I'm sorry sir, the Noyère chapter doesn't have the qualifications for the 6th level assessment, and it's ......"
This kind of high-level mage assessment is not child's play, can you pass the test casually?
"Heh, what about the Fifth Order?"
"I'm sorry sir, this branch can only assess a maximum of a fourth-order mage, and the certificate will be obtained on the day of the exam, and two other permits will also be issued. The registration fee is 400 gold coins, and half will be returned if passed. β
Happy to meet happily paid the money and then followed the assessors to the second floor, when he left, the apprentices on the first floor were boiled.
"Sixth-order mage, why can't he go to heaven, I'm twenty-seven this year, and I've been an apprentice for ten years, and I'm only close to the second-order, looking at his age, he can learn for twenty years since he was born?"
"That's right, the difficulty of each level of spells is increasing exponentially, how can a young person have such great attainments. β
"I can't conclude that there is still a genius in this world, and he may really have a fourth-order spell-casting ability to be assessed. But the 6th level is estimated to be in the limelight, after all, the assessment qualifications of the branch can be easily checked. β
"But if he really passed the 4th level assessment...... I must worship him as a teacher! I will definitely have a future with such a young mentor. β
Just when the apprentices were talking, Xi Xiangyu had already come to the examination room on the second floor.
Facing as many as 30 difficult test papers in front of him, he sighed with emotion.
"(That's why exam-oriented education is unacceptable.) οΌγ
The apprentices are right, don't talk about the 6th-order mage and the 4th-order mage, he is not even a 2nd order mage.
But when he learned that the assessment of the Mage Association was not only a spell casting assessment but also a written test, he knew that not to mention the 4th level, he had even passed the 6th level exam.
Written...... Isn't it just a gift for a happy encounter?
He can pass with his eyes closed and write blindly, and he doesn't need to prepare for the exam at all. What's more, his own arcane knowledge and spell recognition ability and knowledge in all aspects are no worse than any mage of this level, just a written test, a full score in the test scares them.
After writing 30 papers in about an hour, the examiners took him to the casting room, where an old man was already waiting.
"Vice President, I've brought him here. β
"Faust, it's really incredible to be a fourth-order mage at your age, don't make a sudden mistake when you're here. Come on, cast three Tier 4 spells for me to see. β
The old man didn't seem to believe that he could really cast a fourth-order spell, so he leisurely drank tea on the seat next to the spell casting room, and didn't look at the happy encounter.
In order to scare him into losing his mind, he saw that Xi Xiangyu was actually a kind of spell, and Xi Xiangyu raised his hand and a green ray accurately hit the vice president.
After being hit by the ray, the vice president was shocked by the force field of emerald green shimmer all over his body.
"Dimensional anchor! what do you want to do!"
"Dimensional Anchor" is a fourth-order mage spell, and the creature that is hit will almost completely prevent cross-border travel within a few minutes, which means that once the mage is hit, most of the spell teleportation spells will not be used at all within a few minutes, and the maximum survival guarantee will be lost.
The old man's return was a dissociation ray, but it was easily dodged by the happy encounter that had been prepared for a long time.
"Isn't it a spell casting test? You're the only one here, I don't cast spells on you, who do I cast spells. γ
The expression of the happy meeting at this moment was not to mention how innocent it was, which made the old man believe him for a while.
"Shoot the floor!"
"Okay, okay, you see, I'll start now. γ
While focusing on the happy encounter, the old man muttered in his heart.
Just now, it was a dimensional anchor with fixed hair and silent hair super magic, otherwise it wouldn't have been cast without chanting and movement, otherwise how could I not notice and get hit. Anchor ...... Magic Dimension It turned out to be a 6th-order arcane!
Feeling the wavering in the old man's heart, he smiled with his back to him, and directly cast 3 spells in succession.
The shock in the old man's heart at this moment was incomprehensible.