The Dean Has Arrived

The tuition fees of the orthodox magic academy are extremely expensive.

Even Wise's parents, who couldn't read a single word, knew this, and they, who didn't even have the money to send little Riddle to private schools run by ordinary villages and towns, were worried about it.

Father Wise took two pounds of poultry eggs from his own poultry nest and sent them to the old village head's house. Besides begging the old village head who can write for help to answer the letter later, he also hoped to find out about the magic school. How much is the tuition fee for a year.

Fortunately, the old village chief also made tumbleweeds when he was young, and he has been wandering outside for a long time, and he also knows something about these things that are usually regarded as anecdotes.

He told Father Wise that the more formal magic academies charge five gold coins a year, while the private magic academies organized by some big nobles charge a little more. However, judging from the fact that the admission notice sent by this Edric College did not indicate the fee, it should be the default fee of five gold coins.

Five gold coins? ! And it's only been one year!

Papa Wise only felt his heartbeat stop for a moment.

After returning home, Papa Wise took a tobacco straw and smoked cigarettes one by one, making the whole house shrouded in smoke.

In the eyes of the villagers, magicians are equated with those high-ranking noble lords. They think that it is extremely lucky for little Riddle to be favored by those lords. As long as he can graduate from school, little Riddle will naturally To be one of those gentlemen, you don't have to continue to be like yourself, sowing seeds and sweat in the fields all your life.

Parents naturally hope that their children will be successful in the future and live a better life than themselves. then. Father Wise gritted his teeth and made a decision on the matter, and decided to send little Riddle to that magic academy to study.

He dug out a black clay pot from the solid brick-like mud under his bed, and sealed the mouth of the pot with sediment. The weight is not light, and there is a heavy feeling when holding it in both hands. After pulling out the clay pot, he smashed the old pot to pieces amidst the exclamation of his wife.

Immediately, the copper dice flowed all over the ground along with the fragments of the pottery pots, and there were even a lot of silver coins inside, which are the so-called silver coins.

This is the money that the Wises and his wife started saving after the birth of little Riddle. They originally planned to wait until Riddle was an adult to buy a family property and marry a wife for him, but now it seems that they have to be used in advance.

But even so, there is still a big gap in funding. After all, Riddle was only nine years old, and the Wises and his wife had only saved a little more than three and a half gold coins in nine years, which was still far from five gold coins.

So Father Wise, who had always had a good face and was honored as a stubborn cow by the villagers, let go of his self-esteem for the first time. Along the village entrance, families begged grandpa and grandma to borrow money, and finally, after saying countless good things and writing countless IOUs, they collected five gold coins and left three silver coins for little Riddle to use as living expenses.

Although he was still young, Riddle also felt how heavy the bag containing the gold coins and the admission notice was in his hand. If Papa Wise hadn't insisted on him going to school, maybe he would have given up the chance to study at the Magic Academy long ago and continued to be his wild child in the village.

Fortunately, he was still a child at heart, and his longing for the Magic Academy made him forget his sadness quickly. I began to look forward to the 30th of Acorn Moon day and night.

The small village couldn't hide anything, and soon the news that little Riddle was admitted to the Magic Academy spread throughout the village. The morning of the 30th of Acorn. Although there was only little Riddle holding the admission notice outside Wise's house, everyone, including the Wise couple, secretly watched the movement outside the door from the house.

After waiting for about an hour. Little Riddle's patience was almost exhausted, and when his attention gradually shifted from the entrance of the village to the ammunition in the grass, someone's exclamation suddenly sounded.

"Look at the sky!"

So all of a sudden, the people in the whole village looked up at the sky, and then saw a scene that they will never forget.

It was a huge boat.

The nearly 40-meter-long airship broke through the clouds, and the rafters and bridge pulled out countless white ribbon clouds like airplane wing clouds from the clouds. The flat bottom broke through the thick clouds that blocked the morning sun, occupying Everyone's field of vision came towards the ground with an aura as if a meteorite had fallen!

The unique golden-red light of Chaoyang immediately cast a slanted beam of light from the hole in the cloud layer, which happened to cover the airship, making it seem as if it was sailing along the light.

Then the villagers suddenly realized that if they landed at this speed and angle, little Riddle would be crushed into meatloaf 100%! And little Riddle seemed to be petrified, and stood there motionless, not even the anxious cry of Father Wise was heard by the little boy.

Just when everyone thought the little boy would be smashed into a puddle of flesh like that, the huge airship stopped suddenly, but the huge wind brought by the inertia still caused Riddle to stumble.

Afterwards, a short but awe-inspiring body hovered 20 centimeters above the ground half a meter away from little Riddle, staring at the boy who had become dumbfounded due to a series of astonishing events with lightbulb-sized eyes, and said asked him.

"Ask you, are you Edric's new student, Riddle Wise?"

***

Fasten the seat belt, sit on the airship Liaoning (named by Xiwei), and watch the village where he was born from getting smaller and smaller from the round window. Riddle doesn't know whether he is more excited or nervous more.

Besides him, there were quite a few children in the cabin. Judging from their attire, they seemed to range from wealthy businessmen to peasants, and their average age was around ten years old. I don't know how this magic academy selects students. Admitted.

After a while, the airship climbed to a sufficient height, and after the vibration of the hull was reduced a lot, news came from the sound transmission tube that they were allowed to move freely. Tired of the view outside the window that was nothing but clouds, little Riddle immediately unbuckled his seat belt and started wandering around the cabin.

Because the most important magic energy engine and the captain's room have special guards and protective magic. And the way to the deck is not open to these little guys with thin arms and legs because of the air pressure, so the leprechaun in charge of the Liaoning is not afraid of these little guys running around.

"Hey, are you the one who just came up?" A kid in suspenders, a striped shirt, and an oversized beret saw Riddle, who seemed a little overwhelmed. Started talking to him.

"That's right, it's me." Riddle replied immediately, but he probably thought of the politeness his parents told him before leaving, so he took the initiative to show his favor to the other party: "My name is Riddle Wise, how about you? "

"Kamiyu Skria." The kid wearing the beret replied with a smile, and then he started chatting with Riddle very familiarly.

Why he used to work in the magic workshop to make money, the boss of the magic workshop is very dark and the enchanting skills are super bad, the fruit of Nicasla is delicious and so on. in a string. Excessively said it very naturally.

At the same time, he also easily pulled out many things from Riddle's mouth, of course most of them were trivial things.

"Riddle, do you know about the vampire invasion war that happened not long ago?" The friendship between the children was easy to establish, and they chatted for a long time. The two of them had already become very familiar with each other. Kamiyu grabbed Riddle's neck and asked carefully in his ear as if talking about some state secret.

"Kamiyu, it's so itchy..." Unfortunately, Riddle didn't intend to cooperate with Kamiyu, and immediately broke free from his arms. Scratching his ears: "I also heard Uncle Nibo say that in the tavern, saying that those vampires were beaten away by Her Majesty's Royal Knights and Eagles before they could enter."

After finishing speaking, the little boy still had a regretful expression on his face: "Don't look at me like this, I am also a reserve member of the village's self-police force! If they dare to come in, I can let them taste the power of the crossbow in our village!"

In fact, Riddle just wanted to put money on his face in front of the friends he had just met. The reserve members of the police force were joked by the captain of the police force and their group of brats a few months ago, and the so-called crossbow is just a bowstring in the village very tightly. The old bow that even the number one strongman in the village couldn't fully draw was used as waste, and it was loaded on a broken cart like a crossbow. The weak weapon that uses the rocker to mount the crossbow, not to mention the slow winding, the power is only passable, and the biggest result is only a long-distance shot to death of a rhinoceros.

"Just kidding, at that time the vampires had already entered the empire, okay?" Kamiyu mercilessly exposed Riddle's hearsay and said: "It should be because it is too remote! Although there are still royal knights and the War Eagles, but the Imperial Army was beaten and retreated steadily at that time!"

"Liar, in that case the empire would have been finished!" Riddle argued with a blushing face.

"It seems that you really don't know anything." Kamiyu said with an expression of "I can't help you": "Have you heard of the academy we are going to now?"

Riddle shook his head in embarrassment. Let alone Edric College, he has never even heard of St. Doragon College, which is the number one school in the Eastern Plains...

"I knew it." Kamiyu had such an expression on his face, and then he leaned in front of Riddle and said mysteriously: "I heard that the reason why the empire was able to hold this time is entirely because of this academy! It is said that this academy During the decisive battle, it flew directly above the vampire legion, and then released a forbidden spell to directly blast the vampire legion away!"

"Really, really!" Riddle opened his mouth wide and said in disbelief.

"Why did I lie to you, besides, didn't you see the one who just disembarked to pick you up? Do you know what that is?" Kamiyu continued to seduce Riddle's curiosity with his appearance.

"That... is a bit like a goblin..." Riddle scratched his head and thought for a long time, and finally said uncertainly.

"Stupid, that red hat is a kind of goblin! It is said that one can rival an army!"

"so smart!"

"of course."

Just when Riddle became more and more in awe of Xi Wei's academy because of Kamiyu's misleading, the airship finally completed the task of picking up freshmen and began to return to Sky Island... . )

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