"That's it..."Xia Yan listened to Fingal's words and nodded thoughtfully.

It seems that the competition within the Kassel Academy is quite fierce...

"Maybe we can go to the Subway next door and have a chat while eating." Fingal suddenly clutched his stomach and said uncomfortably, "I feel like I'm having stomach cramps after not eating for too long." ”

Xia Yan said resentfully: "Then I should send you to the hospital instead of the restaurant." ”

"No, junior brother, you still don't know much about my stomach." Fingal cried out in anguish, "A classic tuna sandwich cures it better than the medicine prescribed by the doctor." ”

"Okay, okay." Xia Yan rolled his eyes and said, "I suggest that American hospitals officially add tuna sandwiches to their prescriptions." ”

Fingal smiled wryly.

"But I do get a little hungry." Chu Zihang touched his stomach and asked Xia Yan, "Why don't you go eat a little together?" ”

“Of course。” Xia Yan smiled and said to Chu Zihang...

As a global restaurant giant with more than 30,000 chains, Subway is known for its nutritious and delicious sandwiches. Compared to the hamburger fried chicken that has dominated the fast food industry, Subway's healthy ingredients have a wider audience.

Xia Yan remembered that there was a Subway branch next to Shilan Middle School, but he really hadn't been there once.

"Senior brother, you must try the tuna sandwich here." Fingal whispered in Xia Yan's ear: "With tomatoes, pickled peppers and pickled cucumbers, that taste will definitely make you unforgettable." ”

Xia Yan nodded, and then chose a submarine sandwich.

Fingal shook his head regretfully, and then looked at Chu Zihang again.

Chu Zihang quickly avoided Fingal's gaze, pointed to the submarine sandwich that Xia Yan had just selected and said, "I will have the same food as it."

"It's a pity." Fingal sighed, "Confidants are hard to come by. ”

"It's because there are fewer people who smell like you, senior brother, right?" Xia Yan said disdainfully.

Fingal suddenly covered his chest, and said with a swaying eye: "It's heart-piercing, Lao Tie." ”

After ordering, the three of them found a table in the corner and took a seat. Outside the restaurant, the entrance is still full of people. Even through a layer of glass, they can feel the noise outside.

"Let's eat a little slower." Fingal suggested, "Stay in their shop and blow the air conditioner a little longer." ”

"Then I suggest that everyone stop halfway through eating, and take the remaining half away when they get on the train." Chu Zihang told a cold joke.

"Then how can we let the foreigner next door see it, and think we can't afford it!" Xia Yan jokingly said: "There should be another one, one for each person." ”

"Well said!" Fingal gave Xia Yan a thumbs up, then stood up suddenly, waved to the waiter at the front desk and shouted, "We ordered everything just now!" This gentleman pays for it! ”

The waiter gestured OK to Fingal, then printed out an identical bill.

Xia Yan held his head in his hands and fell on the table in pain.

……

"Good afternoon, two freshmen." The ticket inspector of the CC1000 train looked at the two frosty Asian boys on the platform and the silly strong man standing on the sidelines.

"Hey... Why don't you say hello to me? Fingal angrily confronted the ticket inspector.

"Actually, I've suggested to the principal many times that you, a repeater, be expelled." The ticket inspector spread his hands and said, "Every time you leave on this train, I spray the whole car with Versace's perfume." ”

"Uh—" Fingal was speechless.

"Please make sure this guy waits for the next train, I won't go back to school with him." Xia Yan pointed at Fingal and said with deep hatred.

The ticket inspector nodded towards Xia Yan with a smile.

So Xia Yan and Chu Zihang followed the conductor to the platform, leaving Fingal alone to squat in place and cry bitterly.

The high-speed train stops on the tracks, its headlights blaring. The car is black, with a streamlined body, and the dazzling silver-white arabesque pattern unfolds on the black paint surface, gorgeous like a work of art.

Xia Yan and Chu Zihang walked into the train, the carriage was in an elegant European style, the four walls were decorated with Victorian-style patterned wallpaper, the portholes were wrapped in solid wood, and the dark green leather sofa was embroidered with gold thread, and there was no detail that was not exquisite.

Xia Yan and Chu Zihang both changed into the school uniforms of Kassel Academy, white shirts, dark green suits with silver thin edges, dark rose red scarves, and the world tree school emblem of Kassel Academy embroidered on the chest pockets.

"Good afternoon, students!" An old man walked in from the opposite compartment and introduced himself: "I am Professor Guderian of the Kassel Academy, and you are in charge of admissions. ”

Professor Guderian had deep glasses on the bridge of his nose, his gray hair was fluffy, not permed but not combed for some time, he was wearing a sloppy suit and a pair of fat pants, and he looked like a raunchy scientific maniac.

"Hello Professor!" Xia Yan and Chu Zihang stood up from their seats and bowed politely.

Guderian smiled and waved his hand, then asked casually, "Coffee or hot chocolate?" ”

"No need Professor, I just finished a bottle of Coke." Xia Yan refused.

Professor Guderian looked at Chu Zihang with a smile again.

"Me too." Chu Zihang echoed.

"Okay." Professor Guderian reluctantly said, "Then let's get started." ”

He sat opposite Xia Yan and Chu Zihang, took out two documents from his briefcase and put them on the table.

"There are two non-disclosure agreements here that you need to sign." Professor Guderian pushed the two documents to Xia Yan and Chu Zihang.

Faced with that strange document written in Latin mixed with English, Chu Zihang signed his name without hesitation. Xia Yan was stunned, and then signed under the document that belonged to him.

Professor Guderian carefully put away the papers, "As an accredited university registered with the U.S. Department of Education, Kassel Academy has always been committed to providing high-quality education to students with special talents and recommending jobs. Our normal duration of study is four years, and if you don't have enough credits, you can repeat a grade. Our school is a classical closed education, all students must live on campus, and at the end of the course, we will issue you an official degree certificate, but unfortunately, this degree certificate may not help you find a corresponding major in other universities, so if you want to study for a master's degree or doctorate, you can only choose this school. ”

"It doesn't seem very serious." Xia Yan complained.

"No, it's serious, our degree definitely meets the requirements of the Ministry of Education, I mean, our major is special," Professor Guderian pondered the words, "very special." ”

"Do you know the seminary?" Professor Guderian continued: "Theological schools are a special kind of college, and their students mainly learn about God; There is also the medical school, where the main object of their research is the human body mechanism; There are also business schools, which are mainly interested in the age-old proposition of 'trading'. The Kassel Academy is also a special institute that we study ...... Dragon. ”

"Dragons?" Xia Yan's heart was in a trance.

Even Chu Zihang's cold eyes swelled with brilliance.

"Yes." As he spoke, Professor Guderian stood up, grabbed the corner of the canvas from the huge oil painting hanging on the wall, and shook it open.

The hideous picture was exposed to the light, and the moment Xia Yan's gaze touched the painting, he felt as if he was about to be sucked in by a huge force.

The sky is iron and blue mixed with the color of fire, and the only giant tree stands, and its dead branches stretch in all directions, weaving a dense web to support the cracked sky. The wasteland was covered with dry bones, and black beasts were rising from the depths of the pile of bones, their wings hung with skeletons, and after spreading their huge membranous wings, black flames stood out from the sky.

"It's shocking, isn't it." Even though he had seen it countless times, Professor Guderian was still a little excited.

"Yes." Chu Zihang said with some emotion.

"Xia Yan." Professor Guderian looked at Xia Yan, who was staring at the oil painting with empty eyes, and couldn't help but stretch out his hand and wave it in front of his eyes.

"Professor." Xia Yan came back to his senses and responded to Professor Guderian.

Professor Guderian continued with satisfaction: "The black dragon in the painting is the Dragon Emperor Nidhogg. According to the Norse mythology of the Old Edda, at dusk of the gods, it will bite off the roots of the World Tree, Igdrasius. On that day, the world was destroyed. ”

Professor Guderian's fingers swept over the neatly booked hardcover books on the shelves, "If you know Latin, you can read the names of these books, "Genealogy of the Dragons", "Dragons and Spirituality", "Solomon's Key", "Dragons", "Dragons", "Dragons", "Dragons...... This is the accumulation of thousands of years, countless generations of searching for dragons and studying dragons, and the Kassel Academy is the culmination. At the Kassel Academy, you can choose from different disciplines such as alchemical engineering, magic mechanical design, dragon lineage theory, etc., and the ultimate goal of all courses is... Slay the Dragon! ”

"This has been going on for millennia in places you don't know. Humans have written this history without dragons, but there are dragons in every line of another history. But this secret is so amazing that if it is leaked, it is impossible to judge the consequences that may result. So we call the 'Bloodborn', a number of families who have held this secret together for thousands of years, and have taken on the mission of slaying dragons, and they have continued to cultivate offspring who are skilled in fighting, spells, magic, and alchemy, sending them to the battlefield of dragon slaying, and burying the efforts of the dragons' revival again and again, until today, the Kassel Academy inherits everything they have. Guderian held out his hand to the two of them and finally said, "This is the Kassel Academy." ”

"I hope I can learn more about dragons in the academy." Chu Zihang took the lead in stepping forward and shook Professor Guderian's hand.

Xia Yan looked at Guderian's earnest gaze, sighed slightly in his heart, and then also held his outstretched hand.

"Welcome to the Kassel Academy." Professor Guderian smiled, "From now on, you have officially become a... Dragon Slayer. ”

Slaughter... Dragons?

The boy's eyes drooped thoughtfully.