Chapter 43: Auditors
Kaichi handed the list he had prepared to Cole.
Cole took it and said, "I'll pay you first, so that I won't be able to pay you except for an accident." ”
"Are you reluctant to give it if you fail?" said Kaichi with a smile.
"No!" Cole shook his head, "You can run away if you fail, but I don't have to." ”
Cole looked at Kaichi and continued, "I look at you, your teacher should be from the academy, right?"
"Why do you think so? You're right, I'm going to the imperial capital, I'm going to the academy to get ready to enroll. Is this easy to see?" Kaichi was curious about Cole's accurate guess.
Although he felt that his disguise was really not very careful, he didn't want to achieve the effect of the legendary woman disguised as a man, but why did Cole feel that his teacher was from the academy, and was there any sign that he couldn't do it.
Cole said, "Although you don't think it yourself, the graduates of the academy teach mages differently. You see the way you look, although the clothes are not expensive, they are very clean, and although you are wary, you are kinder to people. And from the conversation, you can find that you have a good foundation, a wide range of magic knowledge, and a relatively complete range of knowledge. All of this shows that your teacher is knowledgeable and wealthy, and can focus on learning magic. Generally speaking, the majority of those who meet this condition are college graduates.
"Although not necessarily those who are from the academy can mix well, most of the good ones are from the academy, and even if they are not from the academy, most of them will go to the academy for further study for a period of time. ”
Jia Yi asked, "Then I heard you say that, aren't you a graduate of the academy? Could it be that you are self-taught to become a mage?"
Cole said: "Although I studied at the college, I was not considered a college graduate. You should know that except for the official students, the rest of the mages are allowed to observe, but they need to pay for it completely at their own expense. I was not admitted at that time, I was an auditor, and I was not a regular student of the college. Speaking of which, although the college's auditor system gives students like us who are not admitted a chance to improve, it is indeed too expensive. Basically, about three auditors live one full-fledged student. ”
"Hearing you say that, there are a lot of auditors in the academy. ”
"Of course, there are many students in the college who will not be admitted every year, and in order to get closer, even if they are not admitted, they will stay in the college as an observer, and each student only has a six-year study period, and no matter how they study, they will be forced to graduate. But many students don't learn well and stay to continue to audit. ”
Although Jia Yi knows the academy, it is the first time that someone has introduced it so clearly, although Yimu told him some things about the academy, but he didn't say it too specifically, saying that he would know everything when he arrived at the academy, no matter how much he said, it was better to experience it himself, but Jia Yi always felt that he was lazy.
Or is there something sad?
But all this did not solve Jia Yi's doubts, he said, "Okay, but after all that, why do you think that I can run away and you have a better chance? Is it because my teacher is from the academy?"
"Yes, that's because of that. I've also been in the academy for a long time, and the excellent mages who graduated from their academy always like to train their students, saying that they let them experience more and go on the road alone or something, aren't you like that?"
Jia nodded: "Yes, the teacher let me go to the academy alone to report, and also taught me the skills of survival in the wild." ”
"But when it comes to training students, they will always prepare a lot of magic props, and no matter the rest, there will always be several life-saving props, even if they encounter danger, they must ensure that they can escape. I've seen you more than once or twice. ”
Jia Yi had to admit that Cole was right, but there was one thing he didn't know, although his teacher was a graduate of the academy, he failed to break through to the white-robed mage before graduation, and his strength regressed significantly, and he became a junior gray-robed mage from a senior gray-robed mage. So the most Imu prepared for Kaichi was a magic shield, a variety of magic shields, which can be used in rotation. There are no magic items that can be used to escape.
"Okay, I'll go back and prepare the materials first, and I'll send them to you before the evening. Cole began to take his leave, they didn't have much time, and even if they didn't sleep, they might not be able to draw a few magic scrolls the rest of the time.
Cole went back with Kaichi's list, and in addition to preparing magic materials for Kaichi, he also had to prepare some himself, and he also had to make some scrolls for Ace to use. Before coming to Jiayi, Cole had already met with Ace and invited her. It's just that Ace is just a magic apprentice, and the output can't be used or assisted, even if she makes spell scrolls, she can't do it.
But her reconnaissance skills will bring great convenience to this operation, and it is well worth bringing with her. So Ace's safety also needs to be considered by Cole.
In the evening, Cole came to Kaichi's residence with a lot of magic materials and handed them to Kaichi. These materials are only part of the story, and there will be more to come, but it will take some time to raise.
But these materials can already make Kaichi move first, waiting for the materials while making the scroll.
Jiayi packed up his things, went to the store where the letter was sent, and rented a quiet room. The hotel is full of people and is easily disturbed, so it is not as professional as the Chamber of Commerce.
He first hung a Do Not Disturb sign outside the door, then turned on the magic lamp, and after the door was closed, he carefully arranged several warning spells. The ashrams here are sealed and stone-built to avoid disturbances, leaving only a few vents. Each ashram is particularly strong, not to prevent anyone from breaking in, but to prevent the mage inside from doing some dangerous experiments and blowing up the house. Even if a fire breaks out in a house built in this way, it will not affect other buildings.
It's just that when you close the door like this, it's pitch black, but luckily there's a magic lamp.
Open flames such as candles are not allowed in the magic lab, not only because the light emitted by candles is not bright enough, but also because you don't know if the things you make are flammable and explosive, and even produce flammable gases. For example, when Jiayi was making glyceryl trinitrate, he went to the front of the candle to observe the nature of the finished product by the light of the fire, and I couldn't imagine that there was any other possibility besides an explosion. And a good mage laboratory will also set up a shielding device outside the magic lamp to ensure that the magic lamp will not have any other spell fluctuations except for the light, of course, the laboratory that Jiayi is using now does not have this device, this is just a rented laboratory for the public.
Kaichi laid out all the utensils and took out a roll of "parchment", which he had not bought himself, but the first layer of parchment provided by Cole. Although this is parchment, parchment is not all made of parchment, but at the beginning parchment paper was made of parchment, and later, all the paper made of leather was called parchment. The paper that Jiayi uses now is made of the leather of the demonized horned antelope. Although the antelope is a type of antelope, it is not a sheep, but is more closely related to cattle.
In fact, each piece of leather can be divided into many sheets, but only the top layer of leather retains the texture of the leather, which is of the best quality and lighter, which is an excellent paper for scrolls, and the rest of the parts are relatively inferior, and are generally used for other purposes. What Cole provided to Kaichi was all parchment.
Jiayi was reluctant to use such good paper when he used to learn to make scrolls, although he was already rich, but he has always behaved quite childishly and pursued cost performance. He has always felt that scrolls are consumables, and paper is fine as long as it does not affect the success rate of making scrolls. And he has practiced sketching for a long time, his hands are particularly steady, plus a special pen, the requirements for paper are not so high, just need to be smooth and smooth, write smoothly and do not bite the paper.