Chapter 1: Beginning
Enriel School of Magic, is the largest magic academy in the Enriel Empire. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 The Info Empire has invested a lot of manpower and material resources in this magic school, in order to train more powerful mages to resist the attack of cultivators from the north. The school has a history almost as long as the history of the Empire, and it is said that thousands of years ago, the founder of the school was a good friend of the Empire's founding fathers.
Of course, this is no longer verifiable, and almost no one believes, and the glorified and not ordinary serious historical records have cast a veil of mystery over the truth of thousands of years ago. There is almost no one to study these - those who can do it are not interested, and those who are interested in it are afraid of the Imperial Gendarmerie who may come to the door at any time. Therefore, if nothing else, these truths will be buried in the dust of history forever.
The weather in April has begun to reveal a hot atmosphere, especially at half past one in the afternoon when the weather is clear, and the sun is enough to make most people feel uncomfortable. But at the entrance of Enriel's School of Magic, many adults and children braved the sun, sweating profusely at the closed school gate, waiting for the moment when it would open.
Because they are about to face a turning point in their fate: the path to nobility that begins with the dust if they have the talent to become a mage, or the path to nobility that they can only climb up from the position of a civilian or a soldier without the talent of a mage.
The empire stipulates that all ten-year-old children can and must come to the empire to take a free qualification test, and if they pass, they can become mages, fight for the empire, and join the battlefield against cultivators, glory and promotion and fortune are waiting for them. It seems that only saying good and not bad is not the common denominator of a certain country in a certain world, and as for what happened to the defeat and the death in battle, no one will say it, and no one will ask.
This slogan is still very inciting to civilians who have little knowledge, Lu Tianhao looked at the middle-aged man with a pious face next to him, and thought silently. Maybe we shouldn't call him Lu Tianhao now, we should call him Renard Carmel, which is his name in this life.
So far in this life, he was just a ten-year-old child of an ordinary tailor in the Enriel Empire. In his previous life, he was a young man named Lu Tianhao on the earth who had just joined the work. One day he received an anonymous courier, and after opening it, he found that it was a black book engraved with special symbols, although Lu Tianhao had not learned the words of those symbols, but he instinctively recognized the meaning of these symbols in his heart as "The Book of Death".
Lu Tianhao didn't think too much about this slightly second-class name, and opened the book directly - Renard Carmel in this life regretted his actions countless times, because after opening it, his memory as Lu Tianhao ended here. Renard Carmel spent six years in a daze, and when he was almost seven years old, his brain development was basically completed, and he awakened his memories as Lu Tianhao. But that's where the pain begins:
It's a dreary world, with no lights, no stars, no television, no computers, no mobile phones, just machines that run like machines, a country that operates in a magical world for war, and their opponents are cultivators. As for what the situation of the cultivators was, and why his own country was fighting with the cultivators, Renard knew nothing at all.
And as Lu Tianhao's personality, he can't imagine why mages and cultivators belong to two fantasy professions with different settings, and they have to fight for life and death. And his several attempts to interrogate all ended in failure, because the civilians did not know.
Lu Tianhao is not stupid, so after he knew that there were mages in this world, he was still pretending to be an ordinary, introverted child. He also wanted to pretend to be a normal child, but he really couldn't have the slightest interest in those children's plays. The confusion about the future, the longing for his parents and girlfriend in his previous life, also made Lu Tianhao unhappy.
Fortunately, after several years of adjustment, Lu Tianhao has basically adapted to the state of this world, and the civilian parents of Renard in this life did not think too much, they did not know much except for feeding and clothing their children and raising them. Except for one thing: Your Excellency is great, and becoming a mage means honoring your ancestors!
Although Renard couldn't help but feel terrified after hearing the reason for greatness and glory, he had to face this fate under the double pressure of the country and his parents. As for sneaking out and living on your own? Well, there are slave traders in this world who are much more excessively than the human traffickers of the previous life.
As Renard wandered, time passed minute by minute, and finally, the school gate opened. Several mages in blue dresses flew out of it and began to maintain order among the children and parents. They don't have any amplification equipment, but everyone can hear what they say clearly, and they unconsciously have a conviction from the bottom of their hearts, so that people unconsciously obey their every order. Renard thought that maybe that was what spells were for, even though he hadn't seen them at all.
All the parents were stopped outside the school gate, and the children lined up neatly under the command of the mage and began to enter the school. Renard didn't pay attention to the huddle just now, but after lining up, he realized that there were at least fifteen hundred of these children. If it were on Earth, being able to get a group of ten-year-old bear children to line up in a neat line in under a minute would be a legendary achievement. In this world, though, it seems simple.
The whole team silently walked through the campus that was larger than Tsinghua University that Lu Tianhao had ever seen, without making a sound, everyone was unconsciously moving forward at the same speed, no one wrestled, and no one was left behind. The buildings on the campus are not magnificent, they are all simple three-story to ten-story small buildings, but Lu Tianhao has never been affected by spells, so he doesn't dare to speak, but his eyes continue to show the eyes of other children who are shocked and curious, and then think about the bungalows in the civilian area of the imperial capital, Renard knows that these houses are already very beautiful.
Although the mages who came to greet them were polite and polite, several of them did not look at them the whole time. During the channeling, the mages remained silent, and none of them said a word.
The silence and oppressive atmosphere made Renard uncomfortable. After walking for a long time, the mages finally led the group to a stop in front of a building. The building is large, with twelve floors and three entrances. Several staff members came out to guide the children into many teams, went to different floors, and started their own tests. Renard and nearly a hundred people made it to the fifth floor and began to silently line up to prepare for their mage qualification test.
He didn't know what kind of mood he was in, what kind of result he was expecting, his curiosity instinct wanted to let him touch this spell system that was completely different from science, to gain the glory and wealth of this world, and to repay the kindness of his parents in this world. But he also knew that if he could become a mage, then he would definitely have to face more and more brutal battles. When the third child, who had been judged to have no qualifications to become a mage, came out of the testing room dejectedly, Renard finally had an idea in his heart: he really didn't want to continue to be ordinary.