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Chapter 196: The Awesome Magic Apprentice

Early the next morning, officials and envoys from the palace came to the Liszt family mansion and delivered a royal document on rewarding Chen Daolin.

Although the title of knight is the lowest of all the titles of nobility, once it is added with a prefix such as "court", it immediately becomes extraordinary.

Along with the canonization of the papers, there was also a badge token, and a special set of red mage robes, which was a symbol of the court mage - of course, a court mage like Chen Daolin was actually just an honorary title, and there was an essential difference between the mysterious court mage team that was truly loyal to the royal family.

A court magician like Chen Daolin is, to be precise, just a nominal court magic advisor.

A court magician like him could enter the palace and ask to see the emperor, but he never had the power to approach the white tower.

After receiving these rewards, to Chen Daolin's surprise, the two palace titles he possessed could also bring him a lot of royal allowances every year. Although this money may not be a lot, it is enough for a medium-sized family to have food and clothing in a city like the imperial capital for a year.

Seeing off the envoy of the palace, Chen Daolin went out to the headquarters of the Magic Guild that he had longed for for a long time.

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The General Assembly of the Magic Guild is located in the west of the Imperial Capital. There is a large circular square, and the Magic Guild is right in the middle of it. Contrary to what Du Wei had thought before, the base camp of the magician, which is known for its legend and mystery, does not seem to have the slightest "mysterious" atmosphere.

A circle of tall white columns has been erected around the square, and the whole has a diamond-shaped column. A magic circle was formed, which provided lighting all year round, and even in the darkness of the night, the magic union was brightly lit. It is said that the light of this magic array. From the time it was founded 960 years ago, to this day, not a single day has been extinguished. The flame of magic is eternal, representing the endless prosperity of the magical civilization in this world!

There are six passages in different directions above the square. Leading to the center of the square, a tall building with a six-pointed star.

If you take a bird's-eye view from the air, you will find that the circular plaza on the periphery, together with the solemn theme building of the magic union in the square, forms a very standard six-pointed star pattern.

Although the imperial capital is densely populated, it is bustling everywhere. But at this moment, Chen Daolin was standing in the square outside the headquarters of the Magic Union, and when he looked around, there were few people in sight.

The square was empty, solemn and quiet.

The Magical Guild's headquarters square wasn't actually forbidden—just that idle people weren't allowed to enter the six-pointed star building at the Guild's headquarters.

But because of the awe of magic. Ordinary citizens are even idle. I would never dare to come to this square to hang out. To know. In most people's minds, magicians are eccentric, unapproachable monsters with a strange temperament, and dangerous!

Chen Daolin stood in the square. Look at this six-pointed star building, in terms of the architectural standard of this era. There is no doubt that the building is very grand, and in the very center of the six-pointed star building, a tall tower rises, echoing the white tower in the direction of the palace in the distance.

There is no real "gate" under the six-pointed building.

Chen Daolin circled around the square, and first observed the middle of the Magic Guild of the famous continent from the outside.

Each of the six concave corners of the six-pointed star building has a door, to be precise, a doorway.

There is no door panel under the employee-shaped opening, but it is completely unblocked. From the outside, you can clearly see people coming and going in this union building.

Chen Daolin looked at it for a while, then took a deep breath, his face was stern, and he looked at the entourage behind him.

Captain Hook, and the Liszt guards. Captain Hook insisted on protecting Chen Daolin closely, while the werewolf Chuck stayed at home to protect Barossa and the others because he was too eye-catching.

"Wait here. Chen Daolin said slowly: "The union headquarters, except for magicians, no one is allowed to enter. ”

As he spoke, Chen Daolin walked towards a doorway.

As he walked through the doorway, Chen Daolin clearly felt a wave of magic power sweeping around him, and it was not until a trace of magic power was also released on the magic badge he wore on his chest that the magic power fluctuation of this scan faded.

Chen Daolin's heart moved, this is the access control of the magic union, but it is very advanced.

After walking into the six-pointed star building, Chen Daolin unexpectedly found that the space inside the building was larger and more spacious than it looked from the outside.

When I looked up, the ceiling was ten meters above the ground, but I couldn't see any stone slabs, but the smoke made by magic simulated the sky, but the sun, moon and stars reflected each other at the same time.

The floor under his feet is paved with marble, smooth and visible, without a trace of dust, and bright enough to shine the shadow of a person.

There weren't many people in the hall, and the occasional people walked by, mostly in silver robes.

In the Roland Empire's mage rank, high-level mages wear white robes, and mid-level and low-level mages wear gray robes.

The court magician wears a red robe. There is also a type of magic bachelor scholar who is recognized by the Magic Guild or the Academy of Magic, wearing black robes.

These are all recognized as official magicians.

And in the Wizardry Guild, there is another kind of people, who are marginal people between ordinary people and the wizard class. These people are the legendary "magic apprentices".

In fact, they are the attendants and servants who serve the magicians.

The traditional costume of a magic apprentice is a silver robe.

Chen Daolin has always been a little puzzled by this phenomenon, in his opinion, the silver robe is much better than the gray robe he wears. But why can a magic apprentice wear a silver robe, while a mid-level and low-level mage can only wear an ugly gray robe?

When Chen Daolin stood in the hall and looked around, there were occasional magic apprentices walking by, and when they saw Chen Daolin, they would politely bow their heads and salute - after all, this guy was wearing a gray robe that symbolized his official status as a magician.

Chen Daolin wandered around the hall with great interest.

He soon discovered something that interested him:

Two wide passages stretch out on either side, all lined with quirky shops. It sells all kinds of strange magic materials and magic items. There's even some special antiques and stuff like that.

For a moment, Chen Daolin suddenly had the feeling of visiting a commercial center like Wanda Plaza in the real world.

The shops on both sides are large and small, with a variety of signboards.

For example: xxx wand franchise.

XX Potion Shop is a 600-year-old brand.

XX Equipment Shop, New Arrival Magic Crystal!

xxx Magic Pet Franchise. Provide you with the most professional pet domestication services.

As far as the eye can see, there are dozens of such shops on both sides of the hall corridor.

Unfortunately, it looks like the door is full of birds and sparsely populated.

The magic apprentices who came and went were in a hurry. Some are hugging piles of documents, while others are busy with buckets and brooms.

As for the "customers" who were really hanging out, Chen Daolin looked carefully for a while and found that there were only seven or eight people in formal magician robes, including himself.

Moreover, these seven or eight magicians all looked indifferent, and they would never communicate with each other or greet each other. Everyone was cold-faced. Feel free to walk into the store and take a look. And once someone else walks in. Leave immediately, and never linger.

Chen Daolin visited several shops in a row, as long as he met other magicians. Seeing Chen Daolin coming, they all left immediately.

Obviously. For magicians, they are very active in their own **, and they never want to be seen by other peers when they purchase magic materials.

In fact, Chen Daolin's storage already has a lot of magic materials. After all, his teacher, Mrs. Stone, can be a high-level magician, and she is also an alchemist, and all kinds of magic materials that she has stored all her life are cheaper than Brother Darling.

Chen Daolin casually looked at two magic shops, one selling magic crystals, and the other specializing in customizing all kinds of magic wands.

To Chen's surprise, the shop pù does not accept any currency or worldly goods.

Even the gold coins of the Empire are of no use here. The only thing that is accepted for the pù transaction in the shop here is......

Exchange!

The most primitive barter.

Chen Daolin took a fancy to an earth-based wand in the wand shop, and the most profound thing he practiced now was the earth-based spells, although the dragon's tooth sword was sharp, it was not as easy as a special earth-based wand.

Unfortunately, when Chen Daolin asked the price, the other party proposed to barter, and Chen Daolin was obviously a little uncomfortable.

The owner, an apprentice magician, made a list of various materials that the shop needed to buy, and told Chen that he could accept any item on the list in exchange for the earth-based wand.

After Chen Daolin read the list, he thought about it in his heart, but instead of trading, he chose to leave.

After shopping around for a while, Chen Daolin found that all the operators in the shop were magic apprentices wearing silver robes.

After a few casual words with someone, he finally figured out the situation.

It turns out that half of all the magic shops here belong to the magic union.

This is the case with the wand shop, for example, half of which belongs to the Magic Guild and the other half to a magician who does not want to be identified - in general, the people who set up pù here are alchemists, because only alchemy has the ability to produce so many magical devices.

Alchemists open these shops in order to use their abilities to make things and then exchange them for other materials they need.

Magicians don't do it to make money, and the only purpose of opening a shop is to get what they need.

Of course, it is impossible for the magicians to run the shop here, so they will leave it to their own magic apprentices.

In fact, all formal magicians recruit their own magic apprentices. After all, as a magician, if you still use ordinary people as servants, it is a very humiliating and undignified thing in the wizarding world.

After learning these things, Chen Daolin couldn't help but think: It seems that he is also going to recruit a few magic apprentices?

It's not too difficult to recruit magic apprentices.

As the Empire's magical civilization flourished, especially in the last hundred years. The number of mages has grown tenfold. The establishment of the Imperial Academy of Magic has cultivated a large number of magical talents for the Empire.

And the prosperity of magic will also attract more people who are interested in magic to devote themselves to it.

Of course, it's because of talent. Not everyone can become a magician, and most of them stay at the level of magic apprentices all their lives because of their lack of talent.

But. Magic apprentices are also very popular, at least magicians are willing to recruit such servants and assistants, and when they are doing magic experiments themselves, those complicated and dangerous magic materials are obviously not allowed to be handled by ordinary servants. And a magic apprentice who has received a complete education in the magic system is the most ideal assistant and servant.

If you want to recruit magic apprentices, there are generally two ways now, the first is to go to the Imperial Academy of Magic, and every year there are many students who have not yet graduated from the Academy of Imperial Magic. In order to increase their own knowledge. Willing to work part-time during their studies, they are willing to work part-time for full-time magicians who are ready to recruit magical apprentices - somewhat similar to the part-time work of college students in the real world. Of course. There are also many who have graduated from the magic academy and are still not talented enough to become magicians, so they can only survive as magic apprentices. Seeking a job.

And the second way is in the Magic Guild. The Magical Guild has an organization similar to a recruiting office. Magicians who are looking for jobs are registered, and magicians who need to recruit apprentices can go to the recruitment office to choose the person they like.

In fact, although magician is a very difficult profession to enter, magic apprenticeship is considered by more and more people to be very promising!!

Because magic apprentices are generally well paid!

First, being able to complete the learning of a complete system of magical knowledge means that at least this person's IQ will not be very low, and he should be relatively smart and studious, but he cannot become a magician due to talent.

Second, magicians, that is, the employers of magical apprentices, are usually very wealthy! And the biggest manifestation of this kind of wealth is that magicians have never taken money properly! A gem that the world thinks is expensive may be just a rotten stone in the eyes of a magician, and a superb gem is nothing more than an auxiliary philosopher's stone used to enhance magic in the eyes of a magician.

As for gold...... In the eyes of magicians, it is even worthless scrap metal.

So, magicians have always been very "generous" in their money with their apprentices! Of course, this generosity is based on the unequal values of everyone.

Thirdly, the work of an apprentice magician is not very hard, because magicians are not physically active. The main content of the work of the magic apprentices is generally in the magic room, to help their employers, the lower end, that is, to serve the personal life of the magician employer, serving tea and water, etc., and the ordinary servants are no different from ordinary servants - but the income is ten times or even a hundred times! In fact, most of the magician employers are not very particular about the details of life, and they do not use people to serve them, most of the magicians are sloppy ghosts, and the work of magic apprentices is generally the assistant work of conducting magic experiments. Similar to a research assistant for scientists.

Fourth, the employer's status is special, and most people dare not provoke you. In this world, even if you are the steward of a noble family, no one will necessarily look down on you when you go out, and when you meet a wealthy and powerful family who is richer and more powerful than your master, they will step on you. But if your employer is a magician, then congratulations, even those nobles will be polite to you, because everyone knows that you should never provoke a magician!

Such a profession is high-end, atmospheric, high-grade, and has a good income!

In recent years, more and more people have entered the field of magic, even if many people know that they have no talent for magic and will not be able to become a magician in their lifetime, they still cut their heads and drill into the magic field, in fact, they are going to the profession of magic apprentice!

For this reason, the free magic training class of the Imperial Magic Society, almost from its birth to the present, every session is full, and those wealthy families are also very eager to let their children go to the magic training class of the Imperial Magic Society to learn, and they can become a promising "magic apprentice" in the future.

And the more formal, Imperial Academy of Magic, the number of audit students every year is also the most sought-after thing.

Even if you can't be a magician, become a magic apprentice. It can also ensure a lifetime of prosperity and worry-free food and clothing!

And just when Chen Daolin sighed, he discovered a strange thing.

Standing at the door of a shop specializing in the production of magic scrolls, Chen Daolin saw a magic apprentice in a silver robe walking towards him in the distance.

This guy doesn't seem to be very old, just in his twenties. You should be the same age as yourself. It looks very delicate, the silver robe is fluttering, and along the way, it seems that there is wind under his feet.

This guy walks when he walks. Slightly raised his chin, there was a faint hint of arrogance between his eyebrows.

And at this time, a scene that surprised Chen Daolin happened!

Originally, there were seven or eight magicians in this hall...... Attention, it's a magician, not an apprentice!

Those seven or eight magicians, although they were all just middle-level low-level mages in gray robes, at least they were all formal mages.

However, watching this magic apprentice walk all the way, wherever he went, the people next to him would immediately stop. Bow to him.

If it was the other magic apprentices who saluted this man. It won't surprise Chen Daolin too much. What surprised Chen Daolin was. Even those magicians would honestly stop when they saw this young magic apprentice coming. Standing aside, some of them bowed down to the man. Some took off their hats in greeting, and their faces were full of enthusiasm and kindness without exception...... There's even a smile that flatters the taste!

Enchanter...... Salute to the magic apprentice?!

Chen Daolin's eyes widened.

And what surprised him the most was the attitude of this young magic apprentice! when the people around him saluted him, even if the person who saluted was a magician far higher than him!

When the other magicians took off their hats and bent over him, this guy still held his chin up, and he didn't even glance to the left and right!

There is such a good ...... Magic apprentice?!

Chen Daolin's curiosity was immediately aroused.

He quickly turned around and walked back to the magic scroll shop beside him, and stood in the door, watching the magic apprentice pass by the door.

At this time, Chen Daolin turned around and asked curiously to the operator of this magic shop, "Who is that person?"

The owner of the shop was also a magician apprentice in a silver robe, but he looked to be quite old, at least forty or fifty years old. This man stood beside Chen Daolin, and watched with him the "best magic apprentice" outside walk by the door.

Obviously, the eyes of the proprietor of this shop actually showed undisguised envy...... Even......

Even Chen Daolin saw a trace of yearning and ...... in his eyes Adore?!

Hell, it's worship?!

The dignified headquarters of the Magic Guild, the core of the Empire's magical world, how could these people be so respectful, even in awe, and worship a magic apprentice?!

"He ......" After the shop operator came back to his senses, he glanced at Chen Daolin, and then whispered in a tone of admiration: "He is Xiao Deer!"

This tone made Chen Daolin very uncomfortable to listen to.

Because of the other party's tone, it seems to have a certain taste, as if as long as the name is said, others will naturally know.

It's as if the name is known to everyone, and everyone knows it.

One...... Apprentice of magic?

The operator looked at Chen Daolin's blank expression on his face, and was also quite surprised, and then couldn't help but ask: "Your Excellency this mage, are you from other places?"

"Hmm. Chen Daolin nodded, he heard the meaning of the other party's words: "What...... Was this person famous in the emperor just now?"

Before the operator could speak, his face suddenly moved slightly.

Chen Daolin heard the movement behind him, turned his head, but found that the guy named Xiao Del actually turned around and walked back, walked straight to the door of this magic scroll shop, and stepped in.

The operator immediately left Chen Daolin, hurriedly took two steps to meet him, smiled and said cautiously: "Lord Xiao Deer, do you have any orders?"

The young magic apprentice also had a smile on his face, but this smile obviously had a bit of a reserved taste, and said lightly: "The roll of parchment that I ordered here the month before last, I have been waiting for it for a few days, I don't know if you have prepared it." ”

The operator immediately smiled and nodded quickly: "It's time to come, do you want to take it now, or ......"

"I'm not going to take it. Xiao Del shook his head: "I have to go out of the magic academy again." You can send it to me in the evening. ”

After speaking, under the resigned laughter of the operator, Xiao Del turned around and walked to the door, but as if he had just seen Chen Daolin, he paused slightly, turned his head and glanced at Chen Daolin.

This glance was very casual, and then it seemed to be very lazy, nodding to Chen Daolin, and then, looking at Chen Daolin who was smiling and looking at himself but did not say anything, this Xiao Del actually frowned, then raised his head and strode out.

After Xiao Del left, Chen Daolin turned around and asked the operator of the shop: "He just looked at my eyes, and finally frowned and left, it's strange, I didn't say a word, could it be that I offended him somewhere?"

The operator's face was a little strange, and then he smiled bitterly: "Probably...... It's because you didn't salute him. ”

"Salute?!" Chen Daolin almost didn't call out.

Salute??!!

How would an apprentice magician blame an official magician for not saluting him?!

This...... It seems to be the other way around!

Chen Daolin smiled bitterly: "Hearing what you said, I thought I was a magic apprentice, and he was a magician." ”

His voice was mocking: "What is so powerful about this Xiao Del that makes you so welcome? I originally thought that the Magic Guild was a sacred place, but I didn't expect such a thing to be upside down. This guy ...... I just probed the magic clearly, and there was no magic fluctuation on his body. This man is so arrogant, is he the chairman of the Magic Guild?!"

“...... Well, it's not. The operator shook his head and smiled wryly.

"Since there is no father who is the chairman of the Magic Guild, how can this person be so arrogant?" Chen Daolin frowned.

"Because...... Although he doesn't have a father who is the president of the Magic Guild......" The operator smiled bitterly, "But he has a mother who is the president of the Magic Academy." ”

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