Chapter 3 Mentors
Passing on the torch from generation to generation is the only way for all civilizations to develop and grow.
The reborn Dalaran, under the advocacy of the Kenrito Council, gradually evolved into a magical city that leaned towards the academy. This city-state full of magic is like a never-ending beast, engulfing and devouring magical talents all over the entire Terran territory, and in turn cultivating a large number of mages who show kindness to Dalaran.
Dalaran, this new ancient country, in just a dozen years, has accumulated a lot of strength and began to gradually burst out with terrifying power.
In Dalaran, public magical education, especially the basics of the apprenticeship stage, is concentrated in Violet Castle, where there are several large cathedrals where mid-level mages give daily public lectures, although the content taught is extremely limited, but it is suitable for mage apprentices who are just entering Dalaran. Whether you are a pioneer with a foundation or a young person who is new to magic, you can receive the most formal basic education here, and then explore and polish your nascent spiritual power alone.
Theoretically, only a ring mage or an apprentice close to the strength of a ring will be admitted to the door by a senior mage, but the privilege of this thing will always exist in every corner of the world, in the initial stage of the cathedral, there will be some mage apprentices worship under a certain mage, although the mage apprentice who can be stationed in Dalaran, even if the family background is not noble, it must be a local powerhouse, and the waist is stuffed with Jin Naren is the minimum standard, but if you want to worship any middle-level or even high-level mage, you are either a child of a powerful family, or you have amazing talent, and you don't know how much Count Kenneree paid at the beginning, Kelreis, who has mediocre talent, worshiped a middle-level mage as soon as he settled in Dalaran, that is, the silver-haired old mage he saw when he first woke up, the middle-level six-ring mage Brighton.
In this world, only nobles are eligible to hang a surname that symbolizes family honor behind their names, before listening to Tyris's nonsense, the old mage was born in a wealthy merchant family in Stormwind City, and his ancestors have never had any nobles, so there is only a single name, but generally the glory of middle and high-level mages is far more than that of low-level small nobles, and the surnames hung on them will also be recognized by the major kingdoms, but many civilian mages in Dalaran will not care about this, compared to surnames that have no substantive meaning, they are more concerned about various magic experiments or the promotion of the ring, and the old mage Blairton is such a traditional Dalaran mage。
"Mentor!"
The entire thin body sank into the soft living room sofa, and Kyris was stunned to recall the information about the mentor in his memory. After waking up, especially after accepting the reality, he began to slowly contact Tirius, as one of the people who knew him the most well and had been with him for the longest time, contact with him helped him speed up the harmonious fragmentary memories to a certain extent, making himself more and more like the previous Kyris in all aspects, and after making sure that nothing was lost, he decided to meet another former Kyris who was most familiar with, his mentor.
After only a moment of daze, a mage appeared next to Kyrryth.
Shi Shiran, Master Blairton sat on the sofa, quietly looking at his apprentice.
"It's been a long time since a child has been promoted to a Ring Mage at the age of twelve, and while you've seen the dangers involved, I don't want this fluke to be the start of your gamble, Kyle. ”
The light brown pupils were extremely pure, and the slightly hoarse and tired voice indicated that the old mage had just undergone one or more magical experiments.
"Risk and opportunity are always entangled with each other, and higher risk always comes with greater gain, mentor. When the old mage frowned, Kelreth spoke slowly.
"But the absoluteness of a mage is a balance between the two, and if you calmly judge the weight of the scale, you can go further on the road of magic. ”
The slightly arrogant and slightly clever answer is a response that Kelreth has been thinking about for a long time, and it is also in line with his previous personality, which is fanatical about magic without some careful thinking.
"The path of our mages is not something that can be explained by the principle of constancy. The soothing eyebrows were soothed, and he was noncommittal about his apprentice's nonsense, but he also expressed a certain amount of joy, after all, he had not produced a genius mage in his vein for a long time.
"Move into the Mage Tower tomorrow, your room is next to Tiris, and by the way, let him show you around, he's been spending less and less time on magic lately"
At the mention of Tiris, the old mage sighed slightly.
Although Dalaran's mage education system has been continuously improved, it has an academic appearance, and the basic professor of the cathedral is the embodiment of this, but in fact, as long as the first ring mage is promoted, the road after that is the continuation of the ancient school, which is inherited by the high ring mage professor, and one-to-one is a common phenomenon. Aside from those who have no mentor and can only wait for one or two public explanations of mid-level mages in Violet Cathedral every month, coupled with some theories in the public magic book to explore their own magic path alone, apprentices with mentors are very safe and efficient to be promoted in the early stages, and this relationship between master and apprentice is the basis for the transmission and secrecy of various magic schools, and sometimes a pair of masters and apprentices are far more reliable than father and son.
When Tirius was ten years old, he joined the old mage's discipleship, and he was extremely helpless as a mentor when he became a ring, when he climbed to the top of the first level, and when he saw him stop and self-exile. But in terms of magical qualifications, it is already at the level of the soul, and no one can help except the legendary gods. Why are low-level mages more than ten times more than middle-level mages, in addition to some external factors, the limitation of qualifications is the fundamental reason, which is also the reason why the old mages are optimistic about Kelris, as long as the qualifications are good, in the magical state of Dalaran, there can be infinite possibilities.
Walking out of the Mage Tower, Kelreth always felt that the old mage looked at him with a trace of regret in his eyes. Looking back at the building behind him, as a six-ring mage, the old mage's mage tower is more than twenty or nearly thirty meters high, plus several underground floors, its scale can be seen, but this mage tower is only at the middle and upper level in Dalaran, and there are many more luxurious mages than it, the most magnificent of which is naturally a dozen or so pillar-like towers in Dalaran, symbolizing the authority of the archmage, although only seven are currently inhabited by the archmage. Under normal circumstances, in Dalaran, as soon as a mage is promoted to the middle rank, he will start to build his own mage tower, because there are various requirements for magic research and promotion after that. However, the need and building a tower are two different things, the cost of building a perfect mage tower is enough to make a wealthy six-ring mage destitute, and on the other hand, there are also cases where a local tyrant who has just become a first-ring mage builds a mage tower.
Many mages will live in the master's mage tower at the low-level stage, on the one hand, they can conditionally enjoy some functional equipment of the master's mage tower, and often listen to the teacher's teachings, on the other hand, the basic function of any mage tower is to condense the magic energy scattered in the space and increase the concentration of Rubik's Cube energy in the entire mage tower。
However, thinking that he could also settle in it in the future, Kyris was a little uncomfortable, after all, they had been together for a long time before, and it was okay to meet occasionally, if they were in contact every day, it would be easy to find out his abnormality, but fortunately, the mages were some dead houses, even if they lived next door, they would not necessarily meet every day. After that, be careful, get through the first few things, and it's fine.
Then, according to the memory, I came to a dark gray mage tower, and on the side of the door on the first floor hung a bright silver nameplate - the Tower of Initiation.
This is not only the place where the new mages of the First Ring are registered, but also the data storage of most of the mages in Dalaran, which can be regarded as a place such as an archive bureau for later generations.
Dalaran is a city-state, because of the destruction of the country more than ten years ago, before it was established again, many former Dalaran mages have already flowed into other countries. Although there are no strict restrictions such as the nationality system in this world, in the early days of Dalaran's reconstruction, various countries imposed certain restrictions on these mages, after all, no one wants the cherished mage resources left behind by spending a lot of effort to slip out again. For this reason, Dalaran could only make some compromises at the beginning, allowing these mages to be stationed in Dalaran as personnel from other countries, which was equivalent to the treatment of dual nationality, plus giving away a large number of mage apprenticeship benefits. Under the influence of Archmage Antonidas, Dalaran was able to gather the essence of the past, restore the glory of the past in just ten years, and burst out with more brilliant energy.
On the other hand, as Dalaran's apprentice, if he is promoted to a formal mage, he can choose to directly handle the agreement to officially stay in Dalaran City-State, or stay in Dalaran under the name but not naturalize, or leave directly, generally there is rarely a phenomenon of leaving Dalaran as soon as he leaves the teacher, after all, this is the real mage holy land, and whether he stays in Dalaran or not, the mages promoted from here are more or less kind to Dalaran, so that Dalaran clearly sends out a large number of apprenticeships, but secretly accumulates a large amount of mage power。
It is impossible for Kelreth to be naturalized in Dalaran, so he just made a non-naturalization registration, the person in charge is a middle-aged mage, and the mage ring position in Dalaran reflects the status of the mage to a certain extent, so the badge that marks the ring position is generally hung by the mage in the most obvious place on his body, the black primary level, the silver intermediate level, the pattern is a circle decorated with the same number of stars as the ring, and the mage's brooch is embellished with 3 black stars, representing that he is a three-ring mage.
Simply made some records and put it on the data scroll, the original review generally required the mage to cast at least one ring of formal spells, but Kelrith has not yet been exposed to a ring of spells, so he can only let go of the shackles of mental power, and release about eighty percent of the spiritual power fluctuations in front of the middle-aged mage, hearing the middle-aged mage's slightly envious congratulations, Kelrith was a little puzzled, it seems that his mental power index is not low at the same level, so which direction does the intelligence on his data represent, it will not refer to his own intelligence。
After putting aside the messy conjecture for the time being, and thanking the middle-aged mage who helped with the registration, Kelreth planned to turn around and leave, and he would go back to tidy up today, and he would start living in the master's mage tower from tomorrow.
As soon as he walked to the door, a pair of mages walked in outside, and when he saw the leading mage, Kyris was stunned, and cold sweat flowed down involuntarily.