Chapter 166: The Smallness of Self
Wizards, gods, elementalists, warlocks, and arcanists looked at the difficult and obscure words introduced in the books, as if the world had just opened a door for him.
And he had the idea that the author of this article did not consider himself a certain kingdom or a certain continent, but spoke of his own plane.
What is this, and from this superficial literal meaning, it is difficult for Locke to guess the true meaning of what it represents.
Putting away the book, called the Arcane Journal, Locke decided to go back to Angelina to do some research.
Books in the library can be borrowed, but the amount of points required is huge. Locke still has about a thousand points, I don't know if it's enough.
"This book?" a middle-aged woman-looking library officer rummaged through the Arcane Journal that Locke had just shown her.
"I didn't expect you to find this magazine from hundreds of years ago. "The woman doesn't seem to be a stranger to the Arcane Journal.
Locke was silent and didn't know how to answer, he hadn't heard of anything like magazines.
"Eight hundred points, send it back in a month!" the female administrator raised her hand and branded the book with a magical brand. He is also a high-level apprentice-level powerhouse.
"Okay. Locke painfully handed over his score card, representing his more than 1,000 points, which shrank by half in an instant.
Locke was not in a hurry to go home in the afternoon, Angelina was still doing experiments, and the time to go home was uncertain.
He first went to the school where Christine, Xia Qian and others went to pick them up.
"Brother!" Christine jumped into Locke's arms, ignoring the strange stares of the others in the academy.
"What about Xia Qian and Leah?" asked Locke, touching Christine's little head.
"Sister Xia Qian is studying economics, and Sister Leah is doing math. "Christine has always called Grace aunt, but she called Xia Qian and Leah, who are the same age as Grace, sister, and the confusion in the title has existed since the beginning.
This academy for several women to go to school, in Princeton is also a famous women's college, the area is not much worse than the branch of the Imperial Royal Academy, several teaching buildings have risen from the ground, and they are far away from each other, Locke is too lazy to go to Xia Qian and Leah one by one, just sit at the school gate and wait for them to come out.
Not to mention anything else, Princeton's architectural skills alone are many times greater than that of Faustin, who has never seen a building with more than four floors in Flor, the royal capital of Faustin, but in Princeton, there are few buildings with less than three floors in the aristocratic quarter.
Sitting on the stairs at the foot of a teaching building more than ten meters high, Locke lay on it, basking in the sun.
Christine is like a well-behaved cat, leaning on Locke to quietly enjoy this moment of tranquility.
This is the time of year when some students come and go, and many people point fingers at this strange duo.
Although his body was relaxed, Locke kept an eye on his surroundings.
"Why are you here?" Rafi, dressed in a knight's suit, strode over to Locke and the two, holding his sword and stepping on iron boots.
"Come and see you. Locke straightened up and took a good look at Rafite's outfit.
Sure enough, this little maid still looked better in a military uniform, and Locke secretly made a judgment in his heart.
Rafi was also pulled into the academy by Grace to study, and she studied knightly disciplines, this little maid after more than a month of cultivation and study, the childishness of the past faded, and there was an extra heroic spirit.
Locke's Johnson potion still has some on hand, and he plans to give some of it to Rafe after a while, so that she can be promoted to a low-level squire.
Is Locke really poor, he is not poor. Those precious potions brought from Faustin, and a few random ones were enough to solve his current predicament, but it was not yet then.
Many times, the value of potions is not measured by money, and Locke feels that he will not sell those potions that are useful to him even if he asks Grace or Angelina for money.
In the afternoon, after picking up the women, they returned to the mansion in a carriage.
Grace also took a few subjects in the academy, but it was not as full-time as Xia Qian and Christine, after all, she was not young, and what she could learn in school was limited, and a lot of knowledge, Grace would have known a long time ago.
"Wizard?" Angelina looked at the magazine that Locke had just handed her, and opened it curiously.
Locke had only read the first article in the Arcane Journal, and he hadn't read the rest yet.
"You don't need to know much about this now. After reading the Arcane Journal roughly, Angelina said to Locke, who had been waiting for a long time.
"There's a lot of stuff I haven't touched right now, let alone you. Angelina explained, "Perhaps, you will not know more until you are promoted to the rank of high-ranking squire and come into contact with the knight's hall. ”
Through Angelina's narration, Locke knew that whether it was the Omore Empire, the Faustan Kingdom, or other kingdoms on the continent, high-level squires were a dividing line, and only when they reached high-level squires could they be accepted by the Knight Palace, one of the two major organizations.
in order to understand the world, the true face.
Magicians are a little better, they only need to reach the mid-level magic apprenticeship, and they will have the opportunity to enter the Holy Tower to study, and some talented ones will be valued by the Holy Tower even when they are low-level apprentices.
After a few months of studying in the Wizard's Branch, Angelina was clearly exposed to something deeper.
Angelina's legend is that she is an official magician-level uncle, and the two of them visited it in person two months ago.
The adult also happened to be teaching at the Wizard's Branch, but it was the kind of nominal position that didn't really teach the students.
The current tutors who teach Angelina and other entry-level apprentices are still mainly high-level magic apprentices and mid-level magic apprentices, in a sense, they can be regarded as their seniors and seniors, although they are a little older.
Many of the magicians Locke has seen, except for Angelina and her classmates, are mostly gray-haired old men, with very few middle-aged and young people.
"Everyone was blocked from the mid-level apprentices. Angelina sighed, just like the bottleneck of a knight is a high-level squire, a mage also has a level.
For low-level magicians, middle-level magic apprentices are a difficult hurdle that every magician must go through, and only by rushing over can high-level apprentices be expected to reach it.
That uncle had promised that as long as Angelina could reach the middle level of apprenticeship, he would recommend him to study in the Holy Tower, and Locke would also have to reach the level of a high-level attendant before Angelina became a middle apprentice, so that they would not be separated.
Locke was also present at the time of these words, and he knew how far he needed to go in order to achieve that goal.
There are only five years left for the two of them, and after five years, the master will end his vocational teaching mission and return to the Holy Tower.
The need to improve the strength is imminent, but fortunately, with enough potions, Locke only needs to follow the instructor of the Knight Perseverance Academy step by step, learn all kinds of theoretical and practical knowledge, and after the foundation is more solid, hit the threshold of the middle-level squire.
Two months later, whether it was an equestrian class, a combat confrontation class, or a weapons and equipment training course, half of the nearly ten knight courses that Locke had signed up for had already been carried out.
Locke's qualifications are average, and most of the rankings in each subject are only in the middle, only the actual combat training is a little better, after all, he is a soldier who has been on the battlefield, and compared to others, he is better in terms of experience.
On the whole, Locke's total ranking is still in the forefront, which has surprised many people.
Those who are not convinced, there are also those who come to the door to challenge, these noble children are prevalent in duels, Locke didn't want to cause trouble, but there are endless people picking on thorns, Locke, who is used to going straight in the barracks, finally broke out one day and cleaned up all the guys who doubted his rank and ability.
Princeton's student rankings are important, and whether they graduate from a local position or are loyal to the royal family, the top will consider the overall ranking of the students. This represents their future.
Locke will certainly not stay in Princeton after graduation, it is possible to return to Faustin, it is possible to follow Angelina to Santa Tower, and he prefers to go out alone for some years.
The more knowledge he learned, the smaller he found himself, and Locke found that during the years of studying at Princeton, what he grew the most was not the improvement of strength, nor the richness of knowledge reserves, but the understanding of the world, which became more and more blurred.
Locke wants to explore the truth of this world, just like when he was a child, he followed old Locke step by step to explore the barren back mountain that was extremely mysterious in his eyes at that time.