While the freshmen chatted on their feet, Nicholas stood by and waited patiently. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

As Zheng Qing guessed, he was not a senior student at First University.

But it can't be denied that he is an old student of Jiuyou Academy.

Nicholas Greene Oswall is a first-year student at First University's Nine Schools. It's his third year at the school — he's already twice failed his final exams for freshman promotion.

Dean Yao of Jiuyou Academy had a frank conversation with him at the end of July.

"If you can't go any further at the end of your third year, I'm afraid the college will reassess your eligibility. This will not only affect your future wizarding career, but also Liz's future admissions. ”

The scene of the conversation is still vivid, and Nicholas can easily remember how many times Professor Yao knocked his pipe that day.

Because of this, he is full of fear for the upcoming new school year.

He wasn't worried that he wouldn't be able to become a full-fledged wizard, but that he was worried about his sister, Liz.

Nicholas was born in the northern district of Beta, where the pranksters gathered.

In the Code of Wizards, a pacter is considered to be a wizard with 'limited capacity'. In other words, wizards recognize the magicians' status as wizards, but have reservations about their ability to cast spells.

Because the trickster's abilities are too weak.

Most magicians can only pull a white rabbit out of an empty hat, or build a castle out of a deck of playing cards, or do nothing more than turn a bouquet of roses into a flock of white doves.

For wizards, this ability is to the extent of a preschooler.

Their weak abilities make them even incompetent for the work of wizard apprentices: the spirit of the trickster is very vulnerable to damage in the wizard's laboratory, and their physical body cannot withstand the weight of the alchemical workshop.

All in all, there is no way for a trickster to find a suitable job in the wizarding world.

Not having a suitable job means not having a stable income.

It means the hardship of life.

Many pranksters have tried to stay away from this life. However, the qualities they had always expected to be recognized became a shackle that bound them.

The "Measures for the Management of Wizards' Behavior" issued by the Wizarding Alliance imposes very strict restrictions on the secular life of wizards. It clearly stipulates that without permission, it is strictly forbidden for wizards to stay in the Baiding society for a long time, and it is strictly forbidden for wizards to engage in the Baiding profession or have economic and other deeper exchanges with the Baiding society.

As a result, these poor people can only survive in the reserved land allocated for them by the Umno Alliance.

The young and strong, gritting their teeth, went out into the Black Forest, doing the scavenging work that ordinary wizards disdained to do, and even became bait for some black-hearted hunting party, and the old and infirm, huddled in the streets and alleys, playing some little tricks, hoping that some good Samaritan would drop a few coppers.

To wizards, they are as disgusting as cockroaches.

Recalcitrant wizards believe that the presence of a trickster reduces the mystery of the wizard and makes the distance between the wizard and the white ding seem less distant, which is a desecration of magic, and to the radical wizards, the trickster is a failed evolutionary, and they even oppose the identification of the trickster in the Wizarding Code.

So much so that now, to call any orthodox wizard a 'trickster' is like calling a normal person an idiot or a 'mentally retarded', which is a very serious offense.

Nicholas's mother, Mary Green, was a trickster.

It's just that she is a beautiful trickster.

Whether it's the world of mortals, or the world of wizards, whether it's ancient or now. Beauty has always been an outstanding talent.

Perhaps God felt that the beauty bestowed upon her was too generous, and took back a little gift by other means.

Like her children.

Nicholas and Liz, shortly after their birth, were recognized as pranksters.

This is tantamount to sentencing them to a lifetime of hard labor.

Mary was a brave woman who did not want her two children to repeat the tragic life of the prankster.

So she broke into the werewolf's bonfire feast.

She succeeded.

Liz and Nicholas are gifted by the drunken King Oswall.

She also failed.

The mad werewolf hurt her viciously during the dinner.

When she staggered home, the blood had stained her all over her body.

"Live well and take care of your sister. ”

These were the last two words she said to Nicholas.

For the rest of her life, this woman would only turn a handful of thorn grass into a bouquet of lilies.

But this brave woman used her life to complete a great magic - to bring two children destined to be tricksters back into the wizarding society.

Nicholas felt his eyes a little sour, and he blinked, looking at the young newcomers in front of him.

Once upon a time, he also stood here, listening to the stories of his predecessors about this hall, this university.

Now, the storytellers have graduated, and the friends who came to school with them are busy in the lab.

Only himself, still wandering in the corridor on the first floor of the first hall, bearing the malice of this world, for a credit reward, cheekily begging his former classmates.

Liz deserves a better future, and she has to go to the first university.

For the sake of mothers.

Nicholas muttered, his eyes firming again.

"We continue. He slapped his face, interrupting the lively discussion among the freshmen.

"The mural on the wall behind the hallway, which describes the history of the wizard. Those magnificent scenes and majestic pictures are all traces of the existence of wizards in this world. ”

Zheng Qing stared at a picture scroll in fascination.

It depicts a wizard wielding a staff and confronting a monstrous beast. The void behind them was dark, and they were surrounded by thunder, fire, and lightning. Crimson lava rolled beneath their feet, the space around them distorting in their vision. The earth-shaking momentum seems to break through this painting wall.

Nicholas stood in front of him, blocking his view.

He looked at the young people in front of him, recalled the admonitions of his predecessors, and repeated those words to these newcomers:

"You need to be careful: don't get too caught up in history. No matter how great history is, it is a time that has passed, and the future is at your feet. Immersed in history, it's easy to lose yourself. ”

The eyes of the newlyweds reluctantly leave these murals.

Nicholas nodded in satisfaction.

He turned around and introduced the first hall to the freshmen:

"There are nine gates on the first floor of the hall, one behind us is the one leading to the outside world, and the remaining eight have four leading to four academies and four to four research institutes. ”

"The four academies are Jiuyou Academy, Alpha Academy, Atlas Academy, and Star Academy, everyone should know it. The four research institutes are the Alchemy Research Institute, the Astronomy Research Institute, the Witch Medicine Research Institute, and the Divination Research Institute. Of course, there are also places such as the Astrological Tower and the Fu Gong Temple, which are also very famous research institutions. It's just that those places are not open to younger students. ”

"Nine gates are in this hall, but there are countless gates in the four academies and four institutes, and the mysteries of which are for you to explore slowly. Maybe there are a few doors in the school building that will appear directly in the center of the first hall when you walk through them, or maybe a gate to Beta Town will appear on the section of the wall you pass through every day. ”

"But behind more doors is just a classroom. ”

"Each door has its own unique sign and mark, or proverb, on the lintel, and you will not go wrong if you pay attention. ”

"Just like the gate of the 'school' of Jiuyou College, its lintel is symmetrical with six words on the left and right - Tianxingjian, terrain kun. Only by knowing the meaning of these six words can we cross the threshold and truly enter the university. ”