Sassen is the imperial city of the Empire and the birthplace of magic.

Of course, at the time, magic was not called magic, but alchemy, and magicians were called alchemists.

The emergence of alchemy can be traced back to a thousand years ago, when the orcs were defeated and driven by the alliance to the far west of the continent, but humans discovered that in the mountains southeast of the continent, some terrifying creatures were more powerful than the orcs.

These terrifying creatures, dragons!

Dragons pose a great threat to the lives and property of humans and other races, and many warriors go to slay dragons, but these warriors soon discover that dragons are not strong enough to be defeated by force alone.

At that time, the elves had been forced to hide in the jungle, they were no longer human partners, and other races, such as dwarves and barbarians, also had very tense relations with humans, so humans could no longer ask for help from their former allies.

At that time, there was a special profession among human beings, called smelters, which was the predecessor of alchemists, and they first created some substances with a killing surname on **, and these formulas were the prototypes of magic.

Subsequently, alchemists further discovered that some verbal communication with dragons could weaken or even limit the dragon's activities during combat, which was the origin of the curse.

As the dragon amassed a large amount of treasure, which stimulated some greedy people, they began to find ways to obtain these treasures, gathered a large number of alchemists, improved alchemy, and in order to distinguish them, their improved alchemy was magic, which in modern times is called ancient magic.

By the time of King Sassen I, magic was further refined, and there was a distinction between black and white magic.

Dark magic is mainly a variety of enhancements, curses, attacks, transformations, summonings, and body control, but it also has a small amount of enchantment magic and magic that shares the lives of others, and is used as a means of lethality.

Black magic is not necromancy, and white magic has no special effect on the black mage itself.

White magic is mainly a variety of healing, enchantment, summoning, blessing and mind control, and then there are also range magic such as [Holy Light] and single attack magic such as [Light Arrow].

If the white mage is the fair use of magic, the black mage is the existence of discovering the dark side of magic.

In modern times, the means of using magic have become more abundant, white magic can also attack, and black magic can also defend.

It is worth noting that blue magic, that is, natural magic, falls into the category of black magic to a certain extent.

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Orechen, a piece of land belonging to the imperial city of Sassen, means "birthplace" in ancient language.

The Sassen and the most famous building of the Empire, the Sasson Academy of Magic and Wizardry, Heliryox, is located here, which means "the remnants of the Sage".

Helireox, or Reox for short, was the place where magicians lived hundreds of years ago, and at that time, there were no less than 30,000 magicians living here, and it was a "city of magicians".

Politically and in terms of jurisdiction, Orechen was subordinate to Sasson, but was not guarded by the Imperial Royal Knights, because it was the "free land" of magicians, a promise made to the dark mages hundreds of years ago.

Also, the Empire has no right to instruct any of the Riox Dark Mages to do what he does not want to do, however, the Ryox Dark Mages are obligated to assist the Empire to a certain extent.

Overall, the dark mages of Reochs are free and have a bright future. After graduating, you can choose to become a royal magician and be treated as a nobleman, but you can also do your magic research in peace of mind.

However, most of the Riox Dark Mages chose the former after graduation, because the study of magic requires a lot of money, and it is not something that individuals can afford.

Overall, becoming a mage is the best option to step into the upper echelons of the empire, provided that you have outstanding talent and are a powerful black mage.

If that's the case, not only the Empire, but even the Reochs Academy of Magic, will ask you to become a professor.

Therefore, strong strength is the premise of everything!

And Jiang Zhe understood this truth in his last life......

But before he had this powerful strength, Jiang Zhe encountered a trouble, a very embarrassing trouble......

The old drunkard Niemann was right, although the twenty gold coins left by the old Roy to Jiang Zhe were a lot of wealth, they were far from enough to enroll in Reox, not to mention, Jiang Zhe only had less than eighteen gold coins on his body now......

Somehow, he suddenly remembered a phrase he had heard in his previous life: Heaven is merciful, but just - sometimes behind what seems lucky is often greater misfortune!

Tut!

Indeed, Jiang Zhe was undoubtedly lucky to arrive on the last day of Riox's enrollment of students, but what about this luck?

Looking at the notice on the wall of the Reoks School of Magic, he was not interested in admiring the moving words and the flowers blooming next to the notice, what he cared about was the admission requirements written on it:

1. There must be the recognition of parents, relatives or guardians.

2. Those who are over 10 years old and under 20 years old, and those with outstanding talents are not included.

Three: 500 gold coins are required to be paid for learning magic, room and board.

"Five hundred gold coins, why don't you grab it!" Jiang Zhe was very angry about this, and then, he remembered a cold joke: because it was faster than robbing money......

Looking at the originally noisy crowd outside the Reoks Academy of Magic, now it is gradually decreasing, many little ghosts have registered accompanied by their parents, waving happily to their relatives in that gate, and then looking at his side, Jiang Zhe can't help but feel a little lonely.

Money cannot be used externally, but it is absolutely impossible without money! Jiang Zhe once again confirmed the accuracy of this sentence.

"So......" A middle-aged magician in a magic cloak looked at the crowd nearby, and seeing that there were no more students to sign up, he turned to a very old magician with gray hair next to him and said, "Almost, Dean?"

"Well," the old magician nodded, glancing at the crowd, and smiling, "Wait!"

Following the old magician's line of sight, the middle-aged magician suddenly saw a child about ten years old squeezing through the crowd, running in front of him, and said, "I want to learn magic!" The child has dark blonde hair, which is very rare.

Looking to the left and right suspiciously, the middle-aged magician asked, "Child, where are your parents?"

That kid was Jiang Zhe, carrying a dozen gold coins in his arms, he had been standing in the crowd for about two hours, he had been hesitating, but when he saw that the Reox Academy seemed to be showing signs of stopping recruiting students, he couldn't bear it.

"I'm here alone!"

Listening to those firm words, the old magician smiled slightly, he had long noticed this child standing in the corner of the crowd, quietly looking at this side, and the yearning in his eyes......

"Alone?" the middle-aged magician was startled and asked without hope, "Then kid, do you have five hundred gold coins?"

"I don't have ......"

Sure enough, the middle-aged magician frowned, looking embarrassed, and was about to speak, when he suddenly heard a chuckle from beside him.

"Son, where are you from?"

Dean?

"West, from Ron's West!"

"Ron......" The old magician pointed his finger at the corner of his forehead and thought about it, only to remember that it was a small city to the west, and to the west of Ron, wasn't that ......

The old magician frowned, and said in a deep voice, "Son! Lying is not a commendable thing!"

"I don't think it's a commendable thing to be unreasonably suspicious of others!" Jiang Zhe said.

The old magician's silver-white beard trembled, and he looked at the child in front of him, and he found that although the child was wearing a shabby dress, his eyes were very determined, and he did not look like a ten-year-old child at all.

"That's right, I'm sorry, little one, but unfortunately you don't meet the criteria for admission......"

"Your Excellency the Honored Magician, do you mean the third one?" Jiang Zhe said lightly, but there was a hint of mockery in his tone.

What a funny little ghost!

Waving his hand to tell the middle-aged magician beside him to stand back, the old magician nodded and said deliberately, "What if I say yes?"

"Then I'll have to go back, after all, you're a respected archmage......"

"Hahaha," the old magician laughed, and he felt more and more that the child was very interesting, and lowered his body and asked, "How do you know that I am a great magician?"

"Intuition!" Jiang Zhe shrugged, and then, he looked at the old magician and said seriously, "Dear Great Magician, do you know, I have always believed that although a person is poor now, it does not mean that he will continue to be poor in the future......"

"......" the old magician was stunned.

"So, if you can, the five hundred gold coins, please allow me to owe ...... first"

The middle-aged magician had a strange expression on his face, and turned to look at the old magician, only to see that he was pondering something.

"Why do you want to learn magic, child?" asked the old magician in a very heavy tone.

"No why, I want to be a powerful black magician, it's as simple as that!"

Powerful Black Mage......

The old magician seemed to remember something, looked at Jiang Zhe, showed a little smile on his face, nodded and said, "Very good, kid, remember, you owe the Reokes Academy five hundred gold coins! Hmm...... That's five hundred gold coins a year!"

"Hmm?" Jiang Zhe was stunned, suddenly understood, nodded and said, "Yes, I will remember!"

"Very good, let's go inside!"

Looking at the child's back, looking at him who didn't care about being pointed at because of the old clothes on his body, the old magician smiled slightly, and said to the middle-aged magician next to him, "Very interesting little guy!"

"Heh, hehe!" the middle-aged magician barely laughed twice, he was surprised by the child's boldness, but after thinking about it, he hesitated and said, "Dean, is this good?"

"There's nothing bad about it, it's just five hundred gold coins, and those nobles may have more than that in a meal...... Self-confidence is the premise of being a magician......"

I have a hunch that Reochs seems to have recruited a great imp in the future......

"What's that kid's name?"

"Uh, didn't you ask?"

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