Chapter 21: Many Troubles (2)

Tragedy!

I finally caught up with the time travel and came to a magical world to learn magic, why must I be stared at by a teenage girl as an enemy?!

"Soth, as a fire green mage apprentice, I can't remember the complete fire elemental arrangement, I'm disappointed......"

Alright, Professor, it's not once or twice that you're disappointed!

Besides, the periodic table of the fire element is as thick as half my thumb, and I'm not Scott, so I can only memorize it!

Saying...... Don't you keep using that kind of motivating children?

"So, Lavia-san, try to write this periodic table!"

Get!

It seems that the professor is addicted to this trick......

"Okay, Professor Hodd!"

The girl named Lavia Fahualia has proud fiery red hair, which is very thin and pure, and looks like a burning flame from a distance, and her bright green eyes are the best proof of the Fahualia family.

Fahualia is the surname of an old imperial aristocratic duke, and Lavia's grandfather, the Archduke of Fahuaria, is also famous even among the imperial dukes, thanks to the fact that he led the army to quell the rebellion and rebellion of Mostis decades ago, and is one of the very few dukes authorized by the empire to organize a regular army.

Therefore, it is not surprising that the Fahualia family has a 'sword' type on the coat of arms.

In the final analysis, the empire is a country with an aristocratic feudal system, and most of the army is scattered in the hands of various dukes and counts, and in foreign wars, it is the armies of these dukes and counts that act as the main force, similar to the generals we know.

But the difference is that generals generally do not have the qualifications to own fiefdoms, and this world is different.

In fact, an empire can also be seen as the composition of countless principalities of different sizes, and the head of these principalities is the Grand Duke, who is directly appointed by the Emperor, and the duke, earl and other counts are set up according to their contribution to the empire, and there is no relationship between superiors and subordinates. I won't mention it here.

Lavia Fahualia is the granddaughter of the Grand Duke of Fahualia, born in the large city of Newland in the northwest, and is said to be born with magical fluctuations, and has a far more affinity for the fire element, so the Grand Duke of Fahualia sent his most precious daughter to the Reochs Academy.

Like most of the children of the nobility, Lavia had been exposed to magic before coming to Reox, of course, because of her age and status, the magicians of the Duchy did not dare to teach her any magic, but even so, Lavia knew much more about magic than ordinary people.

Professor Hodd saw this early on.

Lavia's grades were the highest and hardest working students in the Fire Blue Magic class, and her affinity, perception, and actual work with the fire element were far higher than the rest of the students......

Even Lavia herself thinks so!

As the child's natural surname, they all want to be the most valued student of the professor in the class, and Lavia is the same, from the beginning of the school to the present, Lavia has answered almost every question of Professor Hodd perfectly, and she has also memorized all kinds of fire magic and various techniques taught by Professor Hodd, but ......

Recently, Lavia has come to realize that Professor Hodd is not asking questions because he values himself, but for someone else......

A taciturn, unsociable, impolite commoner with dark blonde hair, who wanders in class one after another!

That hateful fellow is called Thos......

Truth be told, Lavia did not mean to look down on commoners, it was because of the teaching of the Grand Duke of Fahualia that she could tolerate 'an impolite commoner' walking in front of her, albeit uncomfortable.

However, Lavia found it difficult to accept Professor Hodder's 'approach' from the bottom of her heart, which may have stemmed from her aristocratic status, and she felt that she had been slighted and humiliated.

However, a good aristocratic education did not make Lavia jealous, and with a little dissatisfaction and curiosity in her heart, she gradually began to pay attention to the boy named Soth......

As when they first met, that guy was still so cold, which made Lavia a little incomprehensible - when a commoner sees a nobleman, even if he doesn't stammer, he should pay attention to etiquette, right?

But that guy doesn't!

He was the first to step out of the carriage in front of all the nobles in the carriage......

He doesn't like to talk, hmm...... Probably don't like talking to strangers, except for talking to Professor Hodd, Lavia has never seen him talk to any of the students in the class, never!

All he did most often was to be in a daze during class - Lavia couldn't figure out what was more appealing outside the window than the magic taught by Professor Hodd?

Whenever Professor Hodd asked the guy a question, Lavia secretly hoped that he wouldn't answer, and it turned out to be exactly what she wanted: the guy barely answered Professor Hodd's question in full.

But looking at the guy's face without care, Lavia's happy mood because of Professor Hodd's praise suddenly fell into a trough.

In a word, Lavia didn't feel that there was anything outstanding about that guy, if he had to say it...... That can only say that he has a good temper and doesn't care about other people's ridicule and provocation.

That's what Lavia thought at first, but after three months, she gradually understood that the guy wasn't good-tempered, on the contrary, she now thinks it's a kind of indifference......

That guy always had this feeling in his eyes......

Lavia remembered that her grandfather had taught good nobles to learn to tolerate the rudeness of their subordinates or commoners, and Lavia always remembered......

The guy's approach was very close to what his grandfather said, but from the look in his eyes Lavia, it was not tolerance, but indifference, coldness, and his disdain......

Disdain, is it because he looks down on others? As a commoner? What qualifications does he have? This guy has no merit except for the beautiful color of his hair! Lavia bit her lip fiercely.

That guy only passed the History of Ancient Magic exam through the make-up exam, like many civilian students.

However, Lavia didn't care about one thing, what she cared about was the fire elemental aura on his body that was getting stronger and stronger day by day.

Lavia was sensitive to the aura of the fire element, and she could feel that Professor Hodd was the person with the strongest aura of the fire element in the classroom, but after him, it would be the boy named Soth, not herself......

Could it be that in the fire type of blue magic, that guy is more talented than himself?

Or are you not trying hard enough?

How can this be, I have never slackened!

Finally, during a potions class one day, Lavia saw how quickly the kid named Soth could unleash a fireball......

Fast! Very fast!

It's just a blink of an eye......

And the fireball he casts contains much more energy than his own......

How so......

"Lavia?" a puzzled reminder sounded in her ear.

"Huh?" Lavia came back to her senses and saw Professor Hodd standing in front of her with a magic wand and looking at her with a smile, her ears suddenly turned red, and she hurriedly said, "I'm sorry, Professor Hodd, I'm ...... I ......"

"Hehe," Obviously, after adding a student like Jiang Zhe, Professor Huo De already had a great immunity to wandering in class, and said with a smile while pinching the front end of the magic wand, "Don't be nervous, Lavia, I just want to ask you: when a fire magician is in danger, what magic should he use to protect his life, just in terms of fire blue magic." ”

Lavia thought for a moment, then stood up and replied, "It's the [Fire Wave Technique] and the [Ring of Resistance], Professor!"

"Very good, very good, please take a seat!" Huo De was very satisfied and asked the student in front of him to sit down, then looked at the back of the classroom and shook his head slightly.

To tell the truth, among the dozens of students in this classroom, Professor Huo De values two people the most, one is Lavia in front of him, and the other is Jiang Zhe who is in a daze in the back.

In Professor Hold's opinion, the female student named Lavia is theoretical, and the hard work of this kind of student will make all the professors feel very satisfied in the class, of course, the power of the fire magic she casts is not weak, but it is only not weak, far from reaching the standard of Hodd's classroom satisfaction......

Maybe in this classroom, only the child who was in a daze in the back could satisfy Professor Hodder, that child was an applied type, he hated to memorize any fire element cycle arrangement, he didn't like to flip through the materials, he liked to explore in his own way.

I remember that at the beginning, the girl named Lavia was the most intense fire elemental student in the class, but only three or four months later, the child named Soth far surpassed her, and the fire element around him was so thick that even Professor Hodd felt incredible.

This rate of growth ...... Could it be that the kid is maintaining the magic and fireball skills that he can only do twenty-four hours a day?

How is that possible for a child who is new to magic?

But the kid named Soth did it!

Strange, Professor Hodder had been to the child's dormitory, where the child was napping on the couch in the outside room, with three fireballs swaying around him......

Professor Haud was dumbfounded, and his heart was amazed.

This kid is a natural magician!

He has incredible talent, and is smart beyond all his peers, a genius!

Perhaps, this child can really do things on his own......

Professor Huo De has secretly regarded Jiang Zhe as his apprentice, and while teaching him real skills, the standards he has set for Jiang Zhe are far from being attainable by ordinary students.

On the whole, that kid made Huo De very satisfied, but ......

Professor Hodd wondered, was his course so boring?

Alas, it would be great if Soth could work as hard as Lavia and absorb all the theoretical knowledge......

However, after learning about Jiang Zhe, Professor Huo De gave up, this child is not born to be able to calm down and read books......

And Jiang Zhe didn't know about all this.

Aside from feeling inexplicable with the hostile look at the girl, Jiang Zhe simply didn't want to stay in the classroom - maybe he had spent too much time in his previous life.

In addition, compared with Professor Huo De's theoretical knowledge, Jiang Zhe was more concerned about whether he could better control the fire element, and whether he could achieve the step of compressing the element......

To be honest, Jiang Zhe doesn't like to read aimlessly, he is used to turning the book when he encounters a problem, which is simpler!

However, it seems that in order to let Jiang Zhe take the initiative to find answers to solve problems, Professor Huo De usually lets Jiang Zhe turn the book himself, except for pointing out some key skills.

As for where to go, what better place to go than Reochs' library?

But when it comes to the library, Jiang Zhe can't help but think of a person, a girl with light blue hair, Dia Pallas.

It was a very quiet girl, and somehow, Jiang Zhe sometimes couldn't help but feel a familiar feeling, and he couldn't say it.

The two often met in the corner of the first floor of the library, as long as Jiang Zhe went, they could basically meet her, and they could see her seriously reading a very thick magic book, the kind of literature that Jiang Zhe would never touch.

Like this......

"Hey!" Jiang Zhe's greeting was always so simple.

"Hmm?" The girl who was seriously looking at the magic materials raised her head suspiciously, and after seeing Jiang Zhe, she smiled a little, stroked the messy hair on her forehead, and said gently, "I haven't seen you recently, Soth." ”

"It's not strange," Jiang Zhe shrugged, sat down opposite Dia, and said weakly, "If it weren't for the impossible, I wouldn't be very willing to come here......"

Dia smiled slightly, put down the book in her hand, and teased her face, "I know, if you come here, you'd rather go to sleep, right?" As she spoke, she put down her hand and said gently, "Soth, I think it's always good to have more knowledge if you want to become a magician, isn't it?" I remember that you studied fire blue magic, I saw a book on "Fire Elemental" a few days ago, it might be suitable for your ......"

"Spare me!" Jiang Zhe shook his head weakly.

Dia's eyes were a little disappointed, but in addition to being disappointed, she felt a little funny, she studied water blue magic, and she was also very sensitive to the fire element, she could feel that the fire element in the junior in front of her was very strong, making her faintly have the illusion of being close to the flame.

"Your professor is Professor Hodder, right?

"Forget," Jiang Zhe scratched his head and said while flipping through the book, "I don't like theoretical things very much, I feel that there is a big gap between them and proficient application, I am used to encountering problems first, and then solving them......"

"Giggles," Dia smiled, holding her chin and looking at Jiang Zhe opposite, and said softly, "It's been a long time since school started, Professor Huo De should have taught you a lot of magic, right?"

"No," Jiang Zhe didn't raise his head, shrugged his shoulders and said, "I only have one fireball technique!"

"Fireball Technique?" Dia was stunned, feeling the strong fire elemental aura on the boy opposite, and said in surprise, "Professor Hodd only taught you a second-level magic?" She felt a little incredulous.

"It's not us," Jiang Zhe raised his head and corrected, "It's just me, he only taught me this magic, saying that he wasn't going to teach me any magic until the fireball he cast satisfied him......"

"How come?" Dia was a little puzzled, and suddenly saw Jiang Zhe flipping through the literature without a head, and asked strangely, "What are you looking for?"

"Tricks for compressing elements or something. ”

"Pressing ...... Compression?" Dia frowned suspiciously, and suddenly seemed to think of something, her eyelashes trembled, and she looked at Jiang Zhe incredulously. Even if she wasn't a fire-type blue magician, she wouldn't have known that compressing the element was one of the most important parts of fire-based damage.

He...... He's already this far?

How much time has this been......

Isn't he only in the first grade?

Compressing the fire element, even the third-year ones can't do it......

"It's strange, Professor Huo De is talking about this one......" muttered quietly, Jiang Zhe frowned and flipped through the book in his hand.

After hesitating, Diya stood up, walked to Jiang Zhe's side, and said softly, "I'll help you find it!"

I have to say that Jiang Zhe is really not suitable to find the information he needs from a large number of documents, and after the book was handed over to Dia, in just five minutes, Dia found what Jiang Zhe was looking for.

"Here!" Diya handed the book back to Jiang Zhe, sat next to him and asked with doubts, "Such a very advanced technique, and it is very dangerous, are you sure?"

"I don't know, let's try it, in fact, I've tried it many times, and it feels like it's always a little bit worse, there's no way, so I'm looking for information, I remember Professor Huo De said that a fire mage who hasn't learned compression skills can't be a qualified fire mage......"

"Yes...... Dia's lips moved, and she looked at the junior in front of her with curiosity, something that a third-year student might not be able to do, he ...... Can it be done?

After thinking about it, Dia softly encouraged, "Soth, I'm sure you can do it!"

"Yes!"

Two hours later, Jiang Zhe finally copied all the materials he needed on the parchment on the table.

Maybe Jiang Zhe alerted Di Ya beside him when he stretched his waist, Di Ya raised her head, glanced at Jiang Zhe, and said softly, "Is it finished?"

"Yes!"

"So you're going back?"

"Yes!" Jiang Zhe shrugged and said, "What about you?"

Looking at Jiang Zhe and then at the unfinished literature on the table, Dia smiled and said, "I also feel a little tired......

Returning the borrowed books back to their original shelves, the two walked out of the library.

At this time, two senior students approached him, and one of them was excitedly saying, "I wonder what kind of prize the dean will come up with this year?"

Another student smiled and said, "It shouldn't be bad! Reox is the largest magic academy in the Empire!"

As he spoke, the two walked past Jiang Zhe and Dia.

"What prize?" Jiang Zhe was puzzled.

"It's a tradition of the Reonx Academy," Dia explained with a smile, "Every year, the academy organizes two expeditions and treasure hunts, and the prizes are wands, gems, and other items that increase the power of magic, or scrolls, as they mentioned earlier......"

"Amplify the power of magic?" Jiang Zhe's heart moved.

"Giggles," as if seeing through Jiang Zhe's thoughts, Dia said with a giggle, "But it's a pity, Soth, the academy rules that only students above the fourth grade can participate in this kind of activity......"

"Uh, why is that?"

Smiling slightly, Dia explained, "The location of the event is in the woods behind the academy, don't look down on it, I heard the professor who taught the lecture say, in fact, it is an enchantment, there is a magic array leading to a distant forest in the depths of the woods, but it seems to have been abandoned because of something, but there are still many beasts in the woods, and sometimes there are magical beasts that can cast magic, so the academy strictly prohibits students from entering the woods behind the castle......"

"It seems that there is such a thing - Professor Hodd seemed to have been reminded when he first came to Reox. Jiang Zhe nodded and said.

"And this expedition is in that woods - the professors of the academy will hide the prizes in various hidden places in the woods, and at the same time hand out maps that will mark all the locations where the 'treasures' are hidden......"

"Isn't that easy? Why only the seniors? Just watch out for the beasts in the woods?"

"Stupid!" said Dia, "and something else! As I said, the map will show all the locations where the magic items are hidden, so what about passing by two groups of people arriving at the same place at the same time?"

"......" Jiang Zhe understood, it turned out that this was a 'assessment' to test the magic level of the students in disguise.

"Understood," Dia chuckled and said softly, "If there are too many people involved, the professors of the academy will be too busy, besides, how can the first-year students defeat the senior students, if something goes wrong, it will be troublesome......" Speaking of this, she said with a little regret, "Actually, I also think it's much more interesting than the ball, if Lady Luck is on my side and lets me get a water blue stone set on my wand, giggle, then I will be more confident of passing this year's year-end assessment......"

"It's too troublesome to carry a wand with me, I don't think I'm too lazy to bring it, and it's still negotiable to be lighter......"

"Discuss......?"

The last few words are far from being heard.

PS: When I saw the cover of the book, I burst into tears......;