Whispering Verse

Shade nodded and wrote down what the doctor said about Rhodes card identification.

But in fact, he didn't really expect that the cards in his hand were genuine. Although judging from the performance of the former detective before his death, he was definitely an avid Rhodes card lover, but after all, he was just an ordinary person, and his income was barely middle-class. , it is impossible to have such a precious thing.

As for the museum that the detective introduced before he died, it was probably a black market center for counterfeit Rhodes cards, so Shade thought that if he had time, he would go to the Prophet's Association for appraisal first, and then go to the museum after he felt completely at ease.

After confirming the loan from the group and settling the tuition issue, the admission process officially started.

Shade originally thought that the college would send someone over, but all the procedures were handled by doctors:

"Remember, we are correspondence sorcerers. The academy provides us with knowledge. We need to meet the required credits through study and examinations, and obtain practical credits through academy tasks. This is the relationship between us and the academy, which is somewhat similar to a special employment system. . You don’t need to pay too much attention to the academy, at least not until you climb the glacier in the far north with us and enter the academy.”

The doctor waved his hand, and the writer thought that Shade would be able to fully understand this in a few weeks.

The two formal ring wizards need to inform the college that a new correspondence class ring wizard is about to enroll, and the way to contact St. Byrons Comprehensive College is the measure of the poet-level [relic] [the poet Cohen's manuscript].

The poet Cohen was also a student at St. Barons Comprehensive College, but that was in the last century. Although there were only female spellcasters in the Fifth Age, the academy also recruited a small number of male students to conduct certain studies that did not require extraordinary powers.

The number of pages in his relic manuscript exceeds three digits, and each page can carry information and small objects to the manuscript cover.

This is the main way for St. Byrons Comprehensive College to communicate with correspondence course magicians, as well as distribute textbooks and submit assignments. Among them, the manuscript pages of Doctor Schneider's group are kept by the most senior doctor in the group.

It was a parchment roll, but it was quite large, almost the same as an unfolded book. There is no word on it now, it looks very old, and you can even see threads shaking on the page.

"The first is your basic information, as well as tuition fees."

The doctor asked Shade to use a blue pen to simply write information such as address, age, occupation, past experience, etc. on a piece of letter paper, and then placed the envelope containing a stack of banknotes on the manuscript page.

As the light flashed, the envelope containing the gold pound and the paper with the message disappeared.

After tens of seconds, a receipt emerged from the manuscript page. The receipt was written in the two languages ​​​​Darian and Kasonric that are currently used in the Old World. The amount of the payment was written, and there was even the name of the college. Official seal.

“What a professional.”

The receipt was temporarily placed at the doctor's office, and Shade returned the money before getting it back.

"Then there is a trust test. The academy needs to test whether the correspondence magicians who are admitted are cultists, or people who have hidden ulterior motives in the past. The academy also has its own secrets, which cannot be easily known to outsiders."

The doctor said easily.

"How to test this?"

Shade was a little worried. There was no need to worry about the original owner's troubled brain. He was worried about his status as a time traveler.

When the doctor heard Shade's question, the doctor had not yet spoken, but Miss Dorothy Louisa answered first, with a smile on her face:

"I really miss you. This is already standard procedure - please write an article of no less than 800 words on your thoughts on good, evil, and disorder."

"Um?"

Shade thought he heard wrongly.

"This step is also to ensure that the enrollees are literate. The college does not accept illiterate students. Shade, I know you don't know much about literacy, so you can simply write."

The doctor said kindly.

"But why writing an article? I thought it was a polygraph-type Q\u0026A."

Just writing the article made Shade relieved. What he was afraid of was lie detection questions and answers. Once the question "passes", he may be in big trouble.

"After all, there are ways to cheat in polygraph tests, but the article reflects a person's continuous thoughts, attitude and nature that one does not know. This is more reliable and more characteristic of the times.

Oh, detective, this is not an era of chaos, an era of civilization and steam. Of course, the entrance test must be more civilized. "

The writer lady leaned on the sofa slightly relaxedly. She enjoyed watching others being forced to write articles.

So Shade was forced to take an "entrance essay test" of 800 words. He could listen and read, but speaking and writing relied on the knowledge given by the voice in his head, so it was still very difficult. But this also allowed Dr. Schneider, who was watching this scene, to confirm that his investigation on the original owner Shade was correct.

Good and evil versus disorder is a relatively big proposition. Eight hundred words may seem like a lot, but if you really write carefully, you may not even finish the beginning.

In line with the principle of writing less and making less mistakes, Shade divided this entrance test into four paragraphs. The first paragraph is about beautiful words, the second paragraph is about good and evil, the third paragraph is about order and chaos, and the fourth paragraph is a summary.

This way the ideas flow much more smoothly, and Shade is very good at writing in this way.

While Shade was writing the entrance exam, the doctor was not idle either.

The standard admission process of St. Byrons also includes having the ring magician of this group lead the gifted person to solve a mystery-related incident to determine whether the gifted person's character is suitable for becoming a ring magician.

It is enough to recycle the [Life Countdown Pocket Watch] in the morning, but you also need to submit a report to explain the performance of the talented person.

So Shade writes a short essay, and the doctor writes a report, which may be a bit more troublesome. But Miss Louisa was quite happy because she was the only one who didn't have to write anything.

While the two men were lowering their heads to write, she sat there holding a teacup and looking at them, with an indescribable expression of comfort.

The essay and report were sent away in manuscript at the same time. It took half an hour before an admission notice with Shade's full name was sent. The admission assessment is "Excellent". During this period, the three of them had been talking, spreading some basic knowledge to Xia De.

"In fact, the entrance assessment only has excellent and unsatisfactory results, rather than being divided into excellent, exceeding expectations, passing, failing and terrible like the academic year assessment and year-end summary."

The doctor also said softly.

"This is the academy's little trick to gain your favor."

The blond writer also added.

Shade felt funny about this, but he also realized that the academy was indeed very formal and not a small organization.

"Then next step, I will help you officially become a ring warlock and open the door to the extraordinary. Only after you obtain the core runes can you determine the professional academy you will join. As for the textbooks and study materials, they will be sent in three days. After all, the academy Prepare these things as well.”