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The word squire does not mean the same thing as a squire among wizards.

In shamans, in addition to the teacher-student relationship, there is also a relationship - a contractual relationship, that is, the identity relationship between the employee and the follower.

Needless to say, the teacher-student relationship can be called the strongest bond in the wizarding world, it can be said that when the teacher-student relationship is determined, the two sides have been closely connected together, sharing glory and risk, in the eyes of outsiders, it is a whole, so the teacher spares no effort for the education of students, and students must also do their best to maintain the teacher's inheritance. Among the people Gehr had met, such apprentices were Ebu Aili and his personal apprentice Brazina, and apprentices like those who studied and worked in the Spell Tower, who were not much higher in status than hired hands.

In the teacher-student relationship, although there are high and low identities, the personalities of both parties are generally equal, and to some extent, they can be regarded as partners who explore the path of wizards together, but it is different when it is replaced by a contractual relationship.

A contractual relationship can also be seen as an extension of a type of employment relationship, but it is far more intimate than a general employment relationship because the contractual relationship is for life. Somewhat similar to the teacher-student relationship, the employer in the contractual relationship must train the follower in accordance with the exchange obligation between the shaman, and the follower must fully pay his loyalty and follow the mercenary for the rest of his life, but in a sense, the follower can be said to be the private property of the employee, and the two parties do not have an equal personality relationship at all.

Such followers are also known as wizarding acolytes.

Now Serena said to be Gehr's squire. That's what it means.

Gerer wouldn't have been surprised if Serena had been making this request for several years. Because for wizard apprentices. After all, there are only a few people who can break through the barriers and become wizards, and if they fail to advance, what will they do? Some will find a way to cling to a wizard, while others will continue to stay here in search of the last shred of hope.

Becoming a vassal of some wizard as an acolyte may also be a way out for such an apprentice.

However, it is rare for a newly enrolled wizard apprentice to make such a choice.

"Serena, tell me, what's going on?"

"I ...... I probably won't be able to stay in the academy any longer. ”

"Why?" Gehr was a little puzzled, she had only been enrolled for a few days, why couldn't she stay?

"My parents found out about my withdrawal from Cerolisi Academy to join Promisu Torch Wizard Academy, and came in this morning. They didn't believe I could become a wizard, thought I was wasting my time, and demanded that I drop out of school and return to Cerolisi Academy. Serena remained in her same position, but her tone and slightly quivering shoulders showed her psychological fluctuations.

"Then you become my squire, and I can help you?"

"Yes. Serena finally looked up, her face sad and looking depressed, "If I can find someone who can help me, then I can stay." ”

said. Serena glanced at Gere, and the meaning was already there.

Gehr's face was calm, but his thoughts were spinning rapidly.

Wizards tend to cultivate several followers in order to train assistants or deal with things that would waste their time. However, this usually requires a sense of trust that has been cultivated over a long period of time, and the contract will be signed only after having a foundation of trust, so most followers will cultivate it from a young age. The foundation of such trust is stronger when you are older. They have all formed their own worldviews, and it is difficult to change them. There is also no guarantee that there will be such a betrayal.

From this point of view, the choice of Serena as a follower is not appropriate.

But on the other hand, Serena is also the most suitable follower for Gehr, if Gehr wishes to leave a pawn on the wizard's side......

For Gehr, he already felt that the time to leave here was approaching, the war was coming to an end, and he could be regarded as having gained a lot of things, as long as the treatment of the soul wound was settled, he would return to the control area of the patron at any time, after all, his real power system still belonged to the patron, and the wizard system could only be regarded as a reference for him, if he wanted to go further, then he had to go back.

But he is still very optimistic about many things in the wizarding system, and it is impossible to abandon them all, so Serena is useful.

However, the pros and cons still need to be carefully considered, so he didn't agree immediately, just looked at Serena and asked calmly: "Why did you choose me? I'm just an apprentice, why don't you find a full-fledged wizard?"

"You are now less than eighteen years old, and you can already build multiple spell models, and there is no backlash, which means that you have a good foundation, excellent talent, excellent learning ability and mental control, and I am very confident that you can become a real wizard. ”

Serena nodded affirmatively, and after glancing at Gehr's face again, she immediately followed, "There is no one around me who is better than you, and...... Officially, a wizard wouldn't have taken a fancy to me. ”

Gell nodded, as if considering something, and didn't answer, leaving Serena unsure if he was inclined to agree or refuse.

As time went on, Serena's face began to turn pale, and her body began to tremble a little, as if her thoughts had drifted toward the worst in Gehr's silence.

"You are my last hope, I can satisfy you whatever you want! really, anything!" her eyes began to glisten with tears, and her tone became pleading. "I really don't want to live like this without hope. ”

She stretched out her hands to grab Gehr's hand, and the quilt without the pull immediately slid down her body, revealing a youthful body wearing only a light bandeau and a short skirt that covered the hips, and her white and delicate skin glowed softly under the reflection of the light.

Gehr still grabbed her right hand, looked at her calmly, and said lightly: "Don't get excited, calm down." ”

It took a while for her mood to settle down.

"Tell me your details. Seeing that Serena had calmed down, Gell asked again.

Seeing that Gehr did not refuse, Serena rekindled some hope, withdrew her left hand to wipe away the tears, looked at Gehr, hesitated for a moment, continued to grasp Gehr's right hand with her right hand, and began to speak.

It turned out that Serena's family was also a branch of a powerful local nobility, a powerful marquis family in a nearby country. This is also thought about, unless ordinary people are directly accepted as apprentices by wizards, they can't afford to pay the expensive tuition fees if they want to ask for learning, even if the tuition fees charged by a secondary wizard academy like Cerolisi Academy, if there is no accident in an ordinary family, even if they don't eat or drink, they can't work for a hundred years, so don't look at the Cerolisi Academy, which is full of service-oriented apprentices, doing the work of serving wizards and formal apprentices, but in fact, most of them are from aristocratic or wealthy merchant families.

Serena and Buonie are like that.

Since very early on, Serena's family has been trying to enter the wizarding realm, and each generation of gifted children will be sent to the Aishi Rift or a related wizard for training, but maybe her family is not very lucky, there has not been a formal wizard in the past hundred years, and the best result is to reach the peak of apprenticeship, but it just can't cross that door.

This kind of effort has never stopped, and Serena, as the most qualified one in this generation, has received the most rigorous education and training since she was a child, which consumes a lot of resources of the entire family, so when she was considered unable to become a wizard, her family was under great pressure, so that she was not allowed to enter the Cerolisi Academy, engage in service apprenticeship, and in the future, she will also marry a good wizard apprentice under the arrangement of the family, so as to hope that the bloodline of the next generation will be better.

Serena and her family couldn't resist this decision, and it was the price she had to pay for a noble child like her who had failed on the wizarding path.

Compared to Serena, a person like Buonie who came from a merchant family was much less stressed, and the family didn't expect much from her, so she could live more comfortably.

It's just that Serena has been unwilling to go on like this, until Gehr's appearance rekindles her hope.

However, Serena was a little hasty in her decision to continue the wizarding path, and did not consult her parents, so that when her parents stopped by to visit her a few days later, they suddenly found that she was no longer at the Cerolisi Academy, but had run to the Promisu Torch Wizarding Academy, and immediately came to the door in shock, asking their daughter not to continue to do what they saw as "stupid things".

In order to convince her parents, and more importantly, to get the whole family to agree to her continuing the wizarding path, she thought about it and could only come to Gehr.

However, there was one passage that she didn't say, that is, she felt that Gehr had a good attitude towards her, and that it was better to commit directly to Gehr than to be appointed by the family to marry an apprentice in the future, so that the ending would be much better. And she also handed over Gehr's information to her parents, and asked them to hand it over to the family for verification, as long as Gehr's excellence is proven, then even if the two are not married, as long as Serena can conceive Gehr's child, she can also get the support of the family.

This is what wizarding families or families who want to enter the wizarding realm often do, in order to pursue the perfection of the bloodline to improve the wizard qualifications of the next generation, so as to achieve the purpose of changing the future inheritance qualifications of the entire family, they will choose to let the children of the family marry and have children with excellent wizard qualifications, and many families are slowly transforming from a mortal family to a wizard family in this way.

"Are you ready, then?" said Serena's words, and Gell muttered for a moment, slowly speaking in her nervous mood. (To be continued......)