"It turns out that when I went to the association two days ago, those people were busy with this...... Well, that's a bit of a surprise. ”

Lynn's fingers kept massaging her temples, trying to relieve her aching brain, but it seemed to have little effect. The portrait on that poster lingered in Lynn's mind like a nightmare.

"Is it really the rumored super-great mage association that made this thing?"

Kika looked at the poster, and felt an indescribable sense of disobedience in her heart - this kind of propaganda poster that made people laugh and cry was actually made up by the Mage Association itself. You can say that this is someone who maliciously slandered and intended to smear the image of the association!

"I don't really understand, but this poster does have a little strange feeling......

Even Val, who likes octopuses, thinks so, and it seems that this poster is hopeless!

"The most important point now is that the group of people in the association are too neat! As soon as the front foot Sharise left, it seems that posters have already been distributed to Bobo Town...... Luckily, neither Lynn nor I claimed to be a member of the association. ”

Now that I think about it, my usual low-key is really helpful!

Aisha and Lin looked at each other and both smiled happily.

"I said, you two are a little nervous! Aren't you members of the association, it's time for you!"

Obviously it has nothing to do with herself, but among the people present. Well, Aisha looked unnervous about reading, and Rin was lying on the table because she had been busy for a long time. Val's words didn't have much to do with her in the first place, so she didn't seem worried, or rather, she hadn't figured out what was going on......

"Hmm...... Kika-chan is such a nice person, he cares so much about us......"

"Yes, yes, Lin, I'm so touched - come on, touch your head~"

"Enough of you!"

Kika immediately jumped up from her chair. He took a few steps back: "Who cares about you! The two of them are obviously elders but they are completely in shape, I'm worried that I will be dragged down by the two of you!"

Kika was initially curious about the image of the master in Rin's mouth, but after meeting for the first time. I was surprised why Lin had such a gentle and beautiful young master...... However, after getting along for a while, Kika also knew very well why Lin would have that kind of personality - compared to Aisha, Lin was really nothing.

In terms of character, it's definitely terrible. Preference Sha's attitude towards people is also very subtle. It obviously gives people a very kind and gentle feeling. But it seems that they are not far away, not close, and they can't get closer. If you hadn't spent a long time with Aisha, I'm afraid you would have been deceived by Aisha's disguise, right?

No, honestly, it's hard to say if it's a disguise...... Kika even thinks that this is the true face of Aisha.

It's true that he's a good person, but there's something really scary about the bad taste hidden under the exterior - the bad taste of ordinary people is just the degree that bothers the people around them. And the bad taste of a person like Aisha, who has great strength and endless means, is an existence that can make people's spines cold.

Thankfully she doesn't hate herself and Val? I still gave myself a lot of care...... Although sometimes Kika would rather not have those "cares" - according to Lin, Aisha's original interest was basically only "flirting with Lin", but now it has become "flirting with Lin", "flirting with Kika", and "flirting with Rin......

If it were anyone else, it would be sad to have this kind of interest left in life, but Aisha's case is the kind of person who has experienced most of the "interest" and now only thinks about the existence of obedience to nature.

"Hawkers, in the terminology of the industry, Qika's behavior is called 'tsundere'~ Although Lin is also a little tsundere, but after all, she is not a purebred tsundere~"

"Uh, you just say it directly......"

Lin still felt embarrassed, and after being inadvertently affected by Aisha, she scratched her cheeks with a little blush, turned her head away, and temporarily withdrew from teasing Kika.

"Speaking of which, is it really that simple for Sharis, just that we can do a cutscene together?"

This kind of behavior always feels full of immediacy, and Lin knows that there are not many people who really care about the model at the auto show...... In this way, it is estimated that it will not be able to attract mages who have the ability to join the association, right? However, for the public, some young and beautiful girls can indeed make them leave some positive images of the association in their hearts. It has nothing to do with the position of the association itself, a shady organization full of strange and bad old men, no matter what, it will leave a bad impression in people's hearts.

“...... Alas. ”

Aisha sighed helplessly at this time.

"Wet sauce, you are ...... At this time, I suddenly lost my confidence! What else is there to hide?"

"Although Salith said that she would try to find as many women as she could get on the table, ah......" Aisha took out a piece of paper from her pocket, unfolded it and handed it to Rin, "I just found out from the headquarters that there are only women in the association who meet the characteristics of 'young', 'beautiful', and 'normal'. ”

Lin was shocked, and already had a bad premonition, reached out to take the paper, and looked down.

“......”

Lynn read very quickly, and she had finished reading it in a flash, but she was silent for a while, and then she reluctantly put the paper aside and held her head with both hands.

"Original...... Is it just the three of us......"

It's not that there are only three who are eligible, but from beginning to end, there are only three women in the association! one Aisha and one Lynn, plus one Saris......

"What have those old men done in the last few decades? Not even a single Obasan! I said yes, every time I went, I never saw any other female members. Is it true that in the past few years, there have been no women at all? This is truly a 'magician' association!"

Lynn grabbed her head and roared for a while, then something suddenly came to mind.

"That's not right. In any case, it is impossible to say that there are no strong and learned female magicians in this country, right? How can it be that for decades, no one has joined, and the resources in the association are much broader than those of working alone, isn't it?"

"Well, yes, but they all seem to have made another choice......

"Well, is there anything more competitive than the association?"

Lynn's knowledge of magic is still very shallow. But she also thinks that, at least in this country, for mages. If it's a scholarly mage who wants to delve into the mysteries of magic, it shouldn't be possible to resist and refuse this place, right?

"Well, if you're going to talk about strength, it's actually not as strong as our side - although the association is established within the empire. However, because of the policy, the empire is not binding on the association. Therefore, it still attracts people from many other countries to come, and even in the entire continent, there should be no mage organization with more background than the association. Of course, if it is competitiveness, because the association values mind and knowledge more than strength, it is actually inferior to those 'processing plants' whose purpose is to train batteries...... After all, you also know that the strength of this world is hard currency, and most people are very realistic~"

"That's understandable...... But. You can't say that there aren't magicians among women who are passionate about this, right?"

"There must be, but for women. If it is a situation with similar strength, do you think they would choose to work with a group of strange old men, or can they see beautiful elves every day?"

"Fine...... Elve?"

What's going on?

"Because it is an academic exchange, the elves are not too averse to those who have no fighting spirit, and it is good for them to do so, so the elves also have a special place on the outskirts of their territory for magicians who are eager to learn. Therefore, compared with the beautiful elves, the bad old man on our side is not competitive at all, and the requirements for knowledge over there are not as strict as here, so there have been no newcomers in the association for almost ten years~"

"Have you finally felt a crisis lately?"

So I came up with such a strange poster...... Do they think that there is an inevitable connection between "attracting the younger generation" and "heroic dramas for children"? Come on, older children won't be much interested in this!

"To be precise, it's because you and Salith have finally awakened their sense of crisis. ”

In the past ten years, it seems that because there is no comparison, a group of people are very familiar with each other, and after ten years, they are unconscious, and they know that with the recent addition of Lynn and Sharis, this group of old men finally found that they had lost touch with the times, and the association was full of musty smells. After checking again, I found that over the years, competitors have become fatter than themselves......

"In short, what is popular now is an institution like XX College that has the name of education and is actually teaching cadres......"

"Then, the difference between the two major classifications of the mainstream is to teach how to use martial arts to fight and how to use magic to fight, and even some other disciplines that should have nothing to do with fighting will take the ability to fight as an important assessment criterion, such as the alchemy department compared to who made the weapon tiger, and the potions department compared to who made the poison tiger...... Is that so?"

"That's pretty much it...... Well, it's actually normal, isn't it?"

Ahaha, this is a standard and royal configuration, the protagonist can develop his strength here, and he can pretend to be 13 girls, and he can also punish the evil less, whether it is pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger or the king overlord's qi crushing the flow of the most cowardly, you can mix it in the wind and water......

Lin said that she remembers these standards very well - for example, there must be a cute girl administrator in the library, cheats are scattered everywhere on the shelves, there are few rampant in the school, and there will be a ring competition at the end of the semester, etc., almost all of them are jokes that can be memorized backwards.

As Aisha said, it's really normal in a sense.

"Is it because of the pressure from these colleges...... No, it's understandable because the elf started it, but according to what Aisha said. Most of the XX colleges and associations are not in conflict at all, right......?

According to the routine on the other side, those who come out are heroes based on their strength, and most of them are arrogant and full of self-confidence. The problem is that their little firepower can't be used at all in the eyes of the old men of the association, right?

"That's not the case. ”

Aisha shook her head, leaving Lynn a little stunned. Not only Rin, but even Kika and Val on the side were a little confused.

"After those colleges have developed over the years, it has been a big blow to the association. Seeing that Lynn and the others were unresponsive, Aisha explained, "Magic is a science that takes time to immerse itself in, and it is the foundation of magic. It's not magic, it's knowledge. It's not just the guild folks, I think so - because magic can do more than martial arts. Even in terms of the ability to destroy the things around you, it is much higher than martial arts. If you don't lay the foundation at the beginning, use the reserves of knowledge to promote the progress of magic, and simply aim to 'release magic'. is undoubtedly on the wrong path. Magic wasn't born for destruction and fighting. Most of the students who came out of those academies already used magic as a weapon—a fireball of wind blades at every turn...... However, as you know, these skills are also part of magic, but they are only incidental to the development of magic. But these people regard it as the subject of magic...... In the present era, because of the existence of numerous academies, there are many more magicians than in the past, however. What most people can do, a processed magic guide can do. The magic they wield. It's like stuffing a cannonball into the chamber of a cannon and firing it directly, fixed and mechanical. The association will not have any interest in these rigid and unartistic people, no matter how much others tout, the so-called forbidden spell mage is just a big humanoid bomb, except to oppress others with fear, there is nothing to do~...... What's bad is that the current mages are basically like this. ”

This is what Aisha only learned about this time.

Previously, because Aisha had never been too lazy to pay attention to current affairs, she didn't know what to do, which made her feel a little bored, and the model of "contemporary magic" that had only developed in the past hundred years. And almost 20 years before Aisha was "born", this was already the general environment.

Although Aisha also admits that this model does have a great contribution to the popularity, but if "fast food" affects "dinner", Aisha still cares a little - after all, Aisha also came from ancient times, more or less, there is still some "nostalgia".

"In other words, it's no longer a matter of being robbed of new blood, but not being replenished with new blood at all?"

“...... Even if there are some people in the new generation who love magic, for them, the mysterious and powerful elves must be more attractive than those bad old men, and the name of the elves is originally synonymous with 'powerful', so the few new blood left has arrived over there~"

In short, if the association can no longer find new blood to flow in, in another twenty years, the organization can close its doors.

Lynn suddenly understood something.

"It turns out that the reason why these old men would pose in this kind of embarrassing pose in heroic dramas...... It's not because they're mistaken about the difference between young people and children, but because they're trying to attract children in the first place?

"Yes, that's right. ”

After receiving Aisha's affirmative reply, Lin finally patted her chest and breathed a sigh of relief - fortunately, these old men's thinking was still very normal and clear, and their judgment was very correct, and Lin thought that they had a collective convulsion...... It's just that it may be that their "artistic taste" is still a little bit different from ordinary people.

"If the tradition of magic can be continued, the Guild will not mind changing the established pattern. Aisha sorted out the information she had received from Salith and said to Lin, "Because the current environment is relatively bad, the association feels that it can follow the model of those academies and carry out a similar form of 'freshman selection', and select some potential children to enter the association, as apprentices of some old mages, and continue this tradition in the traditional way of teaching by word and deed...... Okay, don't look at me like that, I also know that the old men are also very afraid of trouble, but this time even if they are lazy, they must bite the bullet - it has reached the critical point of the life and death of the association, and they can't help it. Now that the order has been given to death, there are no formal members of the students, and everyone must develop at least one apprentice~"

As for the teaching attitude and quality, there is really no need to worry about this, although there are a lot of strange facts, but they are still good people, and they will definitely find their own wishes if they want to find an apprentice, and they will definitely teach well. Because they have a good heart, they don't have to worry about any abuse of apprentices or anything like that - well, maybe be careful, remind them not to do dangerous, flammable and explosive experiments in front of apprentices?

"Salith is still very right, if it's propaganda, a group of bad old men really don't have much appeal...... There are no full members of the students...... Doesn't that include me?"

"Hard indicators~" Aisha looked at the panicked Lin happily, and the corners of her mouth also raised, "Don't worry, because I already have you as a disciple, so I'm very idle, right?"

"What about our office?"

"The three of us on our side were all dragged down by your enthusiasm at the beginning, so we will never allow you to retreat, right?"

Aisha glanced at Kikabi, who took Val in a knowing way and stopped him in front of Rin.

"Can't escape, store manager~ (laughs)" (to be continued......)