Departing from the island of Lante, the boat travels for two days and one night to the city of Dorne.

The sunset is like fire, and the shouts of the unloading of goods, the shouting of the ticket sellers, the quarrels, and the solicitation of customers on the wharf are all kinds of accents one after another; the fishy smell of seafood, the smell of meat, sweat, and perfume in the restaurant are mixed and intertwined into the unique atmosphere of the wharf. Victor lowered his head and pulled Donner through the crowd quickly.

"Ah, isn't this honorable Mr. Victor!" a middle-aged man dressed as an aristocrat suddenly spoke, followed by a large group of luggage-carrying attendants, who also seemed to have just disembarked from some boat.

“...... You've mistaken someone, I'm not Victor......"

"You're really kidding, I also had the pleasure of talking to you at the Martial Arts Conference in April, my nephew Aubrey is in the third year of the Academy of Magic, do you have any impressions? I'm Viscount Trump......"

"I don't know any Aubrey, you recognize the wrong person. Victor didn't look back, and continued on his way, leaving Viscount Trump and his party awkwardly standing in place.

"These people are so troublesome, but fortunately I covered it up well, otherwise he would have been endless. ”

Is that a good cover-up?, Donner sneered as he struggled to keep up with him.

The two spent the night at a hotel near the docks, rented a carriage early the next morning, and finally arrived at Tris School of Magic at noon.

The carriage drove slowly from the entrance of the college, and the road was lined with ancient oak trees, the huge canopy of which almost blocked the sunlight, and a few young men occasionally walked under the trees, the rustling of scattered fallen leaves. The path turned a corner, and there was a pool of turquoise blue lakes, which did not occupy a large area, and the magic academy was built around the lake.

In the oak grove on the south shore of the lake, a dozen small cottages are dotted around, one of which is Victor's residence.

"Don't be inhibited, Donner, you'll be living here from this day onwards, and tell me if you need anything," Victor told the servant to clean up a bedroom for Donner on the second floor, and his own lab and bedroom were on the third floor, "and we'll continue our research in a moment, and I'll start writing a paper on graphics at once." ”

Donner was a bit restrained, and the bedroom Victor had arranged for him was almost as big as a tavern on the island of Lanter, and the mattress looked as soft as a cloud.

Dinner filled the table, and Victor and Donner sat at opposite ends of the long table, and when Donner looked at the dish, the maid would immediately bring the plate to him, and tried and tested. Victor quickly finished eating, he put down his knife and fork, did not go to get the cloth handed by the maid, but wiped his mouth with his sleeve, and said: "Watching the young man eat, my appetite has also improved, you eat quickly, I will wait for you in the laboratory on the third floor." ”

Donner quickly ate a few bites and also went up to the third floor.

Victor's laboratory is like a museum of curiosities, with all kinds of strange flowers and small animals, and many strange instruments that Donner has never seen before.

The magic spotlight illuminated Victor's test bench in detail, and he was writing and drawing on the snow-white paper with a delicate ruler, when he saw Donner coming, he hurriedly beckoned: "Donner, tell me again about the generalization of the right-angle edge theorem...... Why am I halfway through my drawing and it's not right?"

The mathematics of this world is still at a very primitive level, and Victor's geometry foundation is almost blank, Donner does not feel that he has the ability to give him a comprehensive enlightenment, he can only try to turn the other party's interest to other aspects, such as chemistry, physics and even biology, fortunately, with the science education he received in his previous life and the ability to read and memorize, even if he talks in generalities, he can also make Victor fascinated.

After a long journey and discussions late into the night, when the old and the young were a little tired, Victor asked the maid to pour two cups of soothing fruit tea and drink with Donner.

"Why is the academy so deserted, there are no students?"

"Starting from July, there are three months of summer trials, and when the trials are over, it will be lively, and after half a month, it will be the day when new students are recruited every year, and then there will be more people, chickens and dogs jumping. ”

"Recruiting new students, do you need exams like Knight Academy?"

"Exams, what bullshit exams? Pay the money and you can come. ”

"Isn't it necessary to test your magical talents, elemental affinities, or something?"

"How to test?"

“...... For example, if you touch the crystal ball, if you have talent, the crystal ball will light up......"

"Haha...... Where did you hear that...... It's so imaginative, crystal ball...... Test Talent ...... Haha...... "Victor almost squirted the tea.

"Then can anyone come to the Academy of Magic?"

"Two thousand gold coins a year for tuition, as long as you can afford it, the more people who come, the better. ”

"It's so expensive...... Anyone is coming, too?"

"Don't you hear the word magic tax, don't you hear the word magic tax? Every nobleman's child will be sent to the magic academy at the age of thirteen, and the nobleman who can't afford to pay the tuition is still a nobleman. ”

"But the Knight Academy only has a hundred gold coins a year. Is a magician so noble?"

"A mage is not necessarily nobler than a knight, but only a mage...... Comparatively expensive. ”

"How many students are there in the Academy of Magic?"

"There are more than 2,000 new students every year, and ninety percent can be eliminated in the first year, and there are only dozens of students who can persist in the six-year school system. ”

"Wow, you have to have more than four million gold coins that year?"

"Why are you going to calculate this, it's less than 10,000 pieces of magic spars to be replaced, and I have to change a spar for this table lamp in three years. If the magic academy only relied on tuition fees, it would not be able to open a long time ago. ”

"Heavenly ...... It's too extravagant, I said, I can't eat and drink for nothing here like this, right?"

"You're mine...... Assistant, how can it be said that you eat and drink for nothing?" Even though Victor was so thick-skinned, he was still a little hesitant when he said the word assistant, after all, he had listened to Donner's class all night.

"But I can't stay in this building all the time, can you? Oh, and yes, there's ...... Can you teach me how to read?"

"Donner, you're illiterate? Hahahaha, you're illiterate. You kid, it's scared me out these days, I said how can there be a genius like you, but you, can't read......" This time, Victor really leaned back with a smile.

Donner huffed downstairs and went to sleep.

However, Victor did not forget Donner's request, and from the next day, he spent a little time every day teaching Donner the language, and after consulting with Donner, he found him an errand in the library.

The library is not large, there are two floors, and Donner's job is to clean the first floor - the second floor is a precious book stack, which is not open to students, and Donner certainly can't go up. Virgil, the librarian, had been polite to Donner since he saw that he had been brought over by Professor Victor himself, but Donner didn't care.

On his first day on the job, Donner received his first month's pay, a gold coin. One gold coin can be exchanged for ten silver coins and a thousand coppers, which is a huge amount of money in the Lante Island, but after listening to Victor's remarks about tuition fees, Donner has a little doubt that he is being exploited. However, this did not affect his work attitude: he cleaned up all the dust accumulated during the holiday, carefully wiped the furniture and table lamps with clean water, and did not let go of any inconspicuous corners, wiped all the floors on his stomach, and then did it again. No one would come to check how clean the floor was, and no one would even care, but this was the way Donner did things, pouring his heart and soul into specific matters, and he enjoyed it as if he were practicing. When he buried his head in wiping the floor, there was a moment when he felt as if he was still working and studying at the university in his previous life.

Then, the summer trials were over, and the academy was really lively.