Hunting High School

While the freshmen were chatting, Nicholas stood aside, waiting patiently.

As Zheng Qing guessed, he was not a senior student at No. 1 University.

But it cannot be denied that he is an old student of Jiuyou Academy.

Nicholas Green Oswald, a first-year student at Nine Colleges at First University. This is his third year at the school -- he's already failed the final exam for freshman promotion twice.

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

"If you still can't make further progress at the end of the third school year, I'm afraid the college will re-evaluate your admission qualifications. This will not only affect your future wizarding career, but also affect Liz's future application for admission."

The scene of the conversation is still vivid to this day, and Nicholas can even easily recall how many times Professor Yao smoked 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 regular wizard, but that he was worried about his own Little Sister, Liz.

Nicholas was born in the northern part of Beta Town, where magicians gather.

In the "Wizard Code", jugglers are identified as "restricted capacity" wizards. In other words, wizards recognize jugglers as wizards, but have reservations about their ability to cast spells.

Because the magician's ability is too weak.

Most magicians can only pull a little white rabbit out of an empty hat; or build a castle from a deck of playing cards; the most powerful thing is to turn a bouquet of roses into a flock of white doves.

For a wizard, this ability is at the level of a preschooler.

Their weak abilities even make them unsuitable for the work of wizard apprentices: the minds of magicians are easily damaged in wizard laboratories, and their bodies cannot withstand the heavy pressure of alchemy workshops.

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

No suitable job means no stable income.

Means the hardships of Life.

Many magicians have tried to stay away from this kind of life. However, the qualities they have always expected to be recognized have become their shackles at this time.

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

As a result, these poor people can only linger on in the reserved land allocated for them by the Umno League.

The young and strong, gritted their teeth, went to the Black Forest, did picking work that ordinary wizards disdain to do, and even served as bait for some black-hearted hunting teams; He hoped that a kind-hearted man would drop a few coins.

To wizards, they are as repulsive as cockroaches.

Die-hard wizards believe that the existence of magicians reduces the sense of mystery of wizards, making the distance between wizards and Bai Ding not so far away, which is a blasphemy against magic; in the eyes of radical wizards, magicians are failed evolutionaries, they He even opposed the "Wizard Code"'s identification of the identity of a juggler.

So far, calling any orthodox wizard a 'magus' is like calling a normal person an 'idiot' or 'retarded', which is a very serious offense.

Nicholas' mother, Mary Green, was a conjurer.

However, she is a beautiful magician.

Whether it is the world of mortals or the world of wizards, no matter in ancient times or now. Beauty has always been an outstanding talent.

Maybe God felt that the beauty bestowed on her was already too generous, and took back a little of the gift in other ways.

Like her children.

Nicholas and Liz were recognized as magicians soon after they were born.

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

Mary is a brave woman, she does not want her two children to repeat the miserable life of the magician.

So she broke into the campfire feast of werewolves.

She succeeded.

Liz and Nicholas were given Talent by the drunken Oswald King.

She also failed.

The mad werewolf hurt her viciously during the dinner party.

When she staggered back home, the blood had already stained her whole body red.

"Live well and take care of your Little Sister."

These were her last two words to Nicholas.

All her life this woman would do nothing but the trick of turning a handful of brambles into a bouquet of lilies.

But this brave woman used her life to accomplish a great magic—letting two children destined to be magicians set foot in the wizarding society again.

Nicholas felt his eyes a little sore, he blinked and looked at the green newcomers in front of him.

Once upon a time, he also stood here, listening to the seniors tell the story of this hall and this university.

Now, the seniors who told the story have all graduated, and the friends who entered the school with me are also busy in the laboratory.

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

Liz deserves a better future and she has to go to First University.

For mother.

Nicholas murmured, his eyes became firm again.

"Let's continue." He slapped his hands, interrupting the lively discussion among the freshmen.

"The murals on the wall behind the corridor describe the history of wizards. Those magnificent scenes and majestic pictures are all traces of wizards' existence in this world."

Zheng Qing stared at a scroll with fascination.

In the painting, a wizard wields his staff and confronts a ferocious giant beast. The void behind them was dark, and thunder and lightning surrounded them. The crimson magma rolled under their feet, and the surrounding space distorted in their vision. That earth-shaking momentum seemed to break through the wall of the painting.

Nicholas stood in front of him, blocking his view.

He looked at the young people in front of him, recalled the warnings of the seniors, and repeated those words to the newcomers:

"What you need to pay attention to is: don't be too obsessed with history. No matter how magnificent and great history is, it is time that has passed; and the future is right under your feet. It is easy to lose yourself if you are addicted to history."

The eyes of the newcomers reluctantly leave these murals.

Nicholas nodded in satisfaction.

He turned and introduced the first hall to the freshmen:

"There are nine gates on the first floor surrounding the entire hall. One is the one behind us, which leads to the outside world. Four of the remaining eight gates lead to the four colleges, and four lead to the four research institutes. "

"The four colleges are Jiuyou College, Alpha College, Atlas College, and Starry Sky College. Everyone should know it. The four colleges are Alchemy Research Institute, Astronomy Research Institute, Witch Medicine Research Institute, and Divination Research Institute. Of course, there are places like the Astrology Tower and the Fulu Academy, which are also famous research institutions. It’s just that those places are not open to lower grade students.”

"Nine gates are in this hall, but there are countless gates in the four colleges and four research institutes. The mysteries in them need you to explore slowly. Maybe there are a few doors in the teaching building, which will appear directly in the In the center of the first hall; or a section of the fence you pass every day, there is a gate leading to Beta Town."

"But behind more doors is just a classroom."

"The lintel of each door has its own unique signs and marks, or proverbs. As long as you pay attention, you will not go wrong."

"Just like the gate of Jiuyou College' Xuefu', its lintel is symmetrical with six characters - Tian Xingjian, Geographic Kun. Only by knowing the meaning of these six characters can you cross the threshold and truly enter the university among."