"Where have you been for the past two days?"

"I went to see my brother, who was studying at the Knight Academy. ”

"Knight Academy?" Wesley looked at Donner, who was dressed plainly, even a little shabby, and was a little puzzled.

"A knight patronized him. ”

"Are you alright?"

"What's the matter? I'm fine. ”

"If I don't ask, are you going to hide it from me all the time? I heard them say that Karl they embarrassed you that day?"

“...... You mean that? I said why are you so weird today? It's just a little thing, it's gone. ”

"I think you should tell me......," Wesley thought for a moment and added, "It's not fair that they're doing that." ”

"For a poor person, the pursuit of fairness is a very troublesome thing, and besides, I can't beat them, there is a huge disparity in strength, how can there be fairness? Okay, I'm very good, how can you be a mother-in-law. Look, there's another beautiful woman over there, and you're not on it?"

Wesley didn't actually go up and talk, "I have an idea." He said to Donner, with a look of rare seriousness.

"I've wanted to say it a long time ago, you can't do that, you have to be subtle. ”

Wesley didn't pick up.

During dinner, there was a knock on Mr. Victor's door, and it was Lucia who had come to Donner.

"The maid said you were Professor Victor's assistant?" Lucia looked at Donner suspiciously.

"Seems to be...... Is there something you're looking for me?"

"Wesley just challenged Carl, nine o'clock in the evening, the Academy's Magic Arena?"

"Wesley, challenging Carl?"

"Yes, what did you tell him today?"

"I didn't say anything. ”

"They're all rushing over to see now, and wesley and Carl are dueling for Lucia, and I hate to hear rumors like that. I saw what Carl did to you that day, but no matter what, I think it's shameless for you to egging Wesley like this!"

"You're here to tell me what you think?" Donner smiled wryly.

"Don't you want to go and see their duel?

"Miss Lucia, you're angry when you hear rumors that they're dueling for you, have you explained it to those people?"

"What's the use of explaining, it just makes things worse!"

"You're quite right, so I don't want to explain anything for myself. Donner said this, and turned back.

"You're a bastard......" Lucia probably had never been treated like this before, and shouted hatefully at Donner's back.

"That beautiful student in the third year, there's a hand, Donner!" Victor smirked at Donner at the table, and the maid must have told him the visitor's name.

"She's here to tell me I'm a shameless bastard. ”

"Tell me how you did it?" Victor seems to have shifted his curiosity about naturalism to the study of gossip.

"You're boring. Wesley challenged Carl, thinking I had provoked it. ”

"Who is Carl, and why did Wesley challenge him?"

"God knows, maybe it really has something to do with me, and Wesley will be in trouble if he gets hurt. ”

"Why did Wesley get hurt?"

"Carl is one of the top 10 masters in the academy. ”

"Donner, do you know how the so-called top ten masters of the academy are discharged?"

"I don't know. Is it a trial result?"

"Trial? Don't you know that it's another way of saying winter and summer travel? A couple of familiar students, who spend two or three months in a scenic area, might hunt a few wild boars to taste the game, and come back to write a pretentious report, what's the use of that kind of?"

"How did that come out?"

"The devil knows how it came out, it could be a few so-called duels like mime performances, or it could be public opinion created by small groups of students, but the only thing that thing does is make people laugh. Do you know, there was a year when the number one master of the academy was actually not even a magic apprentice, and he was stunned to pretend to be a goofer until the graduation assessment. ”

"Is it true that only graduation is assessed in the academy?"

"Of course, otherwise, how can those pretending fools stay in the academy and continue to pay tuition? If there is a school-wide assessment, I dare say that one-third of the students above the fourth grade will drop out. ”

"The annual Martial Demon Conference Competition, you can't mess around, right?"

"Martial Demon Conference, that's an even bigger joke! The magic apprentice's casting radius is pitifully small, and the reserve knights are all wearing armor, and they will stun you if they get a little wounded. ”

"The magician is so weak?" Donner was surprised.

"Of course not! A first-level mage can easily deal with a first-level knight. ”

"But the vast majority of the students in the academy can't be promoted to a first-level mage in their lifetime, since they can't beat the preparatory knights, why don't they go to the knight academy? ”

"Don't you know that magicians live a little longer? Alright, Donner, with what I know of Wesley, you should worry about his opponent tonight. ”

"Can I go to the Demon Arena and see it later?"

"Of course, I don't restrict your personal freedom, you're just my assistant. ”

"Doesn't the school pay the professor's assistants?"

"Oh, you forgot? you're my personal assistant, and it has nothing to do with the school," Vic chuckled, "The assistants the school hired for me are idiots. ”

"I haven't been paid by you. ”

"What I'll give you is more useful than wages, and you'll know when the time comes. Oh, Donner, do you really need money?" asked Victor earnestly.

"I'm kidding you. "Of course Donner needs money, but the help that Mr. Victor has given him is indeed more precious than money.

After dinner, Donner asked for the location of the Demon Arena before heading out.

Walking on the path by the lake, the lights and shadows of the student dormitory on the other side, and the magic academy under the starry sky are more mysterious than during the day. The boy was already wearing the thick cotton clothes he had just purchased, and he finally no longer needed to use his will to resist the cold.

Walking through the quiet teaching area at night, Donner saw for the first time the Academy's Colosseum, a small Colosseum that had been cut in half. The entire building can probably accommodate two or three thousand people, and now there are only seven or eight hundred people seated, considering that there are more than two thousand students in the academy in total, the audience size of today's duel can be regarded as huge. Donner walked back from the front row and sat down farther away, not seeing Lucia.

"You'll see the magic right away. Donner was inevitably a little excited.

Dozens of huge stoves in a half-circle illuminated the arena in the center of the arena, and the flickering firelight reflected the faces of the audience in the front row. After a while, the dueling sides walked into the arena with a referee.

The crowd boiled.