Karliu is a third-rate city in the Papal States, part of the Duke's family of Orsini, and is far less prosperous than the capital city of Firemont, but at least it has churches, bazaars, factories, and any other public buildings that one might need.

No one can completely deny the value and expanding tendencies of the city that Karl Stream creates every day, as well as the magical Noble Academy of St. Calle's innovative combination of magic and new industry.

Although the Karl stream is taxed much more than in other cities to protect the current situation, at least there will be no poor people who cannot afford to pay taxes and homeless people begging in the streets, because they will be driven by the guards into the forest beyond the boundary, as the law stipulates in black and white.

The sun rises quietly on a new day, and the ringing bell in St. Karlliu's Academy also signifies the beginning of today's first class. The entrance to the college is a large wooden door encased in metal, inlaid with ivory carvings with a shiny sheen.

When you try to enter the St. Carl Stream Noble Academy, you will clearly realize that you are in a magical world at the turn of the era, the mechanical gears creak, the steps of magic float one by one, only the students of the nobility are qualified to access the mysteries of magic, and only these children can afford the high tuition fees of St. Carl, although most of them are only third-rate nobles living in this third-rate city. They only came here with their parents exchanging the looted folk fat and ointment for their children in exchange for a diploma from a noble college.

Of course, St. Carlius College also has a large number of very good teachers, who are hired as experts in various fields, and are the most prominent pride of this school, some of these teachers are of aristocratic origin, some are more proficient in art, industry, or astronomy, and are familiar with the integration of magic and all kinds of wonderful scientific phenomena, which is why the college has many subjects and has set up teaching buildings such as observatories, alchemy workshops, etc.

The main teaching building of the Noble Academy of Magic, a chapel made of red brick, marble and iron, is different from the conventional rigid style, the teaching building has Gothic carvings, and there are two knightly stone carvings standing in the huge arched doorway.

As soon as you enter the stepped classroom, you will immediately notice that the classroom has a semi-circular design, starting with the blackboard, and the students' seats are arranged in rows and rows, presenting a ramp-like shape. Each seat is higher than the height of the seat in front of you, allowing everyone to see what's on the blackboard.

The classrooms are also designed to be filled with sunlight and air circulation, allowing everyone to focus on the teacher and the blackboard at the front of the classroom. Comfortable seats and spacious classrooms were treated only by aristocratic students in a prosperous era, and as for how the children of the poor were educated, at least no one in this classroom cared.

When the old teacher hunched over and swiped his thin fingers on the blackboard, words composed of magical elements appeared in front of the students, he gently cleared his throat and continued to add to the knowledge points just said: "Therefore, the rapid development of industry is inseparable from the heyday of magic, people use magic to melt metal, and use magic to shape metal, including the well-known source of steam power, is also the basic principle of relying on the form of magic array. ”

The teacher's lean body and a strand of whiskers on his jaw made him look like an old goat walking upright, occasionally lifting the extremely high prescription lenses on the bridge of his nose. "Everyone should know that there are many types of magic, most of which are innovated through continuous inheritance, but magic also has its taboos."

In the front row of the classroom, the black-haired teenager Cesare Hunyadi sat there, with a blank face and he listened carefully to the lecture and took notes, and the interesting thing is that the seats in the row of seats in the classroom can accommodate almost twelve students, but the row where Cesare is extremely empty, and even the seats in front of and behind him are deliberately vacated, if he is not a school bully, then he must be an extremely unpopular student, the fact is obviously the latter.

Some of the students whispered all about Cesare, and due to the vicious rumors of the Hunyadi family, Cesare's origins, his sister, and why he was an out-of-place freak were always the subject of conversation among the students. Although they had kept the volume down as much as possible, it was inevitable that some gossip would still reach Cesare's ears, but Cesare didn't care, as if he was used to this strange gaze.

And not all of the students were deliberately isolating Cesare Hunyati, a brown-haired teenager with a little freckles on his face sat next to Cesare. The boy's name was Sandino, the son of an out-of-town baron, and Cesare's only friend in the city.

Although Sandino looked dumbfounded a lot of the time, but this is also his lovely place, at this moment he raised his eyes to look at the teacher who was engrossed in the lecture, and then stood the book on the table with both hands to cover his face, and whispered to Cesare beside him: Hey, hey! Cesare? Can you hear ME? ”

"Hmm." Cesare nodded and responded perfunctorily.

"You remember this weekend was the school prom, right?" Sandino continued to whisper.

"Hmm." Cesare hummed faintly, his cold expression not showing interest in anything other than teaching, or the perfunctory response was already the result of his most enthusiasm.

"Don't just uh-huh, I'll tell you the big news, I may have found a dance partner, do you remember the daughter of the rich man Yvette, I think she seems to be interesting to me, she agreed to dance with me." As he spoke, the corners of Sandino's mouth couldn't help but rise, with pride and excitement.

"By the way, have you figured out who to dance with? Don't tell me you're going to dance with your own sister, it's too cheesy! Eh, have you tried to ask Veratia, I've always felt that she has feelings for you, and she probably likes a mysterious and handsome guy like you. ”

When Sandino finished a long list in one breath, Cesare still wrote something in his notes, completely ignoring him. And when Sandino wanted to raise his voice a little and continue to speak, Cesare suddenly stopped the quill in his hand, raised his head to look ahead for a moment, then turned his head to look at Sandino, and said helplessly: "I think ......"

"What do you think? Doesn't Verratia like you? Sandino urged.

"No, I just think the teacher is watching you." Cesare's eyes flicked forward, and with Sandino's trembling gaze, he looked at the face of the teacher in front of him, and the facial features of the goat, which was not good-looking in itself, were even more angry at this time, and the teacher pushed his glasses and gently tapped the blackboard. "Sandino, please stand up."

"It's... Teacher, I'm sorry teacher......" At the moment when Sandino stood up, there were bursts of snickering in the classroom, for the heirs of this group of high-ranking nobles, the status of the son of a baron was already very low.

"Could you please answer what is taboo in magic, or what should we not try to do with magic? Say one of them and you're ready to sit down sir. The teacher restrained his anger and asked politely.

"I... Belch... If I think about it, I remember it seemingly... It's..."Sandino's face was flushed, and after thinking about countless wrong answers in his mind, he finally lowered his head, and said in an extremely low voice: "I don't know ...... teacher" After speaking, there was another ridicule in the classroom, and the embarrassed Sandino hated to pry open the crack in the floor of the classroom and sneak in.

Just when the teacher decided to continue to ask Sandino questions, making him even more embarrassed, he found that Cesare next to him raised his hand, for this student who is inextricably related to the Hunyadi family, the teacher didn't want to have anything to do with him, but he still called his name by the ghost, "Cesare, it seems that you want to answer this question?" ”

"Yes, teacher." Cesare naturally stood up and replied, "The taboo of magic is that it is not to question or challenge the authority of the Bible, for example, it is the Lord's prerogative to create life, we must not use magic to make any attempts at it, and we should respect all living beings in the world." ”

Despite the discrimination of Cesare's eccentric family and his indifference and withdrawal from all things, it is impossible to deny Cesare's seriousness and knowledge in his studies. Listening to Cesare's answer, the teacher nodded in satisfaction.

As the answer says, not only is magic and industry coexisting on this continent, but the power of faith is also extremely important, not to mention that this is within the territory of the Papal States, where the Lord is above all else, and the Pope is above all else.

"Well, although Cesare-san answered very well, Sandino-sandino, you also have to listen carefully." The teacher waved his hand helplessly and asked Sandino to sit down. Just as Sandino was about to sit down, suddenly Sandino's chair was pulled out by an invisible force, and in the back row of the classroom, Boris, a repeater, could be seen doing it, a guy who was troublesome but very hard backstage. Everyone in the school knows that he is Master Gallen's most loyal "lackey".

Just as Sandino was about to fall, a stronger force pulled the chair back, and Sandino happened to sit on the chair that had been pulled back. At this time, Sandino didn't know what was happening at this moment, but Boris behind him could see it clearly.

It was magic, he used the levitation technique to remove the chair, and the other person used the traction technique to pull the chair back, and the mana was much better than his, yes, he could see it clearly, it was the "freak" Cesare. Boris gritted his teeth, broke the quill in his hand, and thought to himself, it's okay, let's settle the account together later.

Sandino sat down and noticed that his chair had shifted position, and he paused for a moment until Cesare patted him on the back to bring him back to his senses. "Pay attention to the lecture, or the teacher will call your name again" "But what did you ...... just now" "What do you think, next is the mechanical engineering class, have you completed your homework?" ”

"Huh? What! There was also homework in that class??? ”