"Welcome to the White Stone Tower." The sorceress Modesty said with a smile. The next moment her smile suddenly faded and she turned into a serious look. She looked at the crowd and said, "But how long can you stay here? It depends on your respective abilities."
Um, this...
Everyone was stunned. Modesty stepped to the side. After taking a few steps, she turned around and looked at the people who were still there. She coldly reprimanded: "What are you doing standing around like a bunch of stupid geese? Are you ready to take a bath in the eyes?" ? Didn’t you see I was leaving? Follow me!”
"Uh, yes." Everyone was excited and hurriedly followed Modesti a few hundred meters away and stopped in front of a stone house in the corner of the small square.
With a "squeak" sound, Modesty opened the door of the stone house and walked in. She first fiddled with the door frame and then sat down behind a table in the stone house.
Looking at the people outside the door, Modesty said: "Okay, now I am going to give you a talent test before admission. Each of you comes into the room in turn. Who is first? Don't let me waste time! Hurry up. !”
Everyone looked at each other, and just as they were hesitating, Richard saw Nancy walking out first and entering the stone house.
Richard noticed that the moment Nancy entered the stone house, a bright light flashed at the door, as if some kind of magic prop was working. It must have been used to test the wizard's talent - this method was better than the previous death in Cuijin City. The spell used by the dropped third-level apprentice Hual saves trouble.
Sure enough, after the doorframe flashed with light, Nancy walked into the stone house. Modesty raised her eyebrows, her expression softened, and she said slowly: "Hey, is she a high-level talent? She is still a beautiful girl. Tsk, not bad. .May I have your name?"
"Nancy." Nancy replied.
"Nancy." Modesty nodded, rummaged under the table, and then took out a rectangular metal nameplate with rounded corners, two centimeters wide, seven or eight centimeters long, and several millimeters thick. The surface of the metal nameplate shines with a bright golden luster and looks very solid. I don't know what kind of metal it is made of. There are a series of characters on the back and a miniature image of a white stone tower, while the front is blank.
"Nancy, what a good name." Modesty said to herself, her green-white fingers gently crossed the front of the metal nameplate, a "rustling" sound sounded, metal powder fell on the table, and Nancy's name had already been It is engraved in the middle of the front of the metal nameplate.
Throwing the metal nameplate with the name engraved on it to Nancy, Modesty said: "This is your identity plate. With it, it means that from now on, you are already a student of White Rock Tower Academy— Well, elite student. Okay, there’s nothing else to do now, just go out and wait.”
"Yes." Nancy said, walking out of the stone house.
Modesty raised her head and shouted: "Next!"
A boy walked in, and the door frame of the stone house flashed, and the light was much weaker than Nancy's before.
Modesty's face tightened, and her originally gentle voice turned cold: "A moderately talented person, or a boy who doesn't look very good."
The corner of the boy's mouth in the stone house twitched unnaturally.
"But it's okay, he can be considered a formal student." Modesty said, looking at the boy and asking, "What's your name?"
"Terenjuli Ashborn Ang Gustaf." The boy read out his full name quickly.
"Terenjuli Ahi..." Modesty stopped after repeating only half of it, frowning: "Such a long name?!"
"That's right, Teacher Modesty." The boy explained quickly, "I'm from Amal, and where we have tradition, we add the name of the more outstanding person from our father's and mother's clan to our name. Among them, my father’s family had a general named Ang Gustav, who had won many wars. My mother’s family had an outstanding poet named Ashbern, who wrote many recited poems. So I just..."
"Stop!" Modesty interrupted the boy coldly and said unceremoniously, "I don't care where you are from or what traditions you have, but I don't like your name so long. .”
"That… "
"From today on, your name will be changed to John." Modesty directly changed the boy's name to the most common name, which has nothing to do with the original name. She also had a firm attitude and could not refuse at all, "John It will be your only name!"
The boy couldn't help but look at Modesty with his eyes wide open, his expression dull, obviously he didn't expect this.
My name is long, do I have to change it? Isn't this unreasonable? His original name had been used for more than ten years, and now he changed it to John without any preparation. Is this a bit too sudden
Ten thousand wild horses galloped past the boy's heart, but looking at Modesty, his lips opened and closed for a long time, but he didn't dare to refute even a word.
At this time, Modesty had already pulled out another metal nameplate, which was the same size as the one given to Nancy—a rectangle with rounded corners, two centimeters wide, seven or eight centimeters long, and a few millimeters thick. However, the material is somewhat different. The color is silver-white, which looks a bit inferior to Nancy's golden nameplate.
"brush!"
Modesty's white fingers quickly ran across the name tag, John's name was engraved on it, and then she threw it to the boy.
"Go out, next." Modesty said.
"Uh, yes." The boy who had changed his name to John took the silver nameplate and walked out with a somewhat hesitant expression.
The next boy walked in.
Modesty took out a silver nameplate and clasped it in her hand. She looked at the new boy and opened her mouth to speak. Her tone was not as cold as before, but rather lazily and she asked: "What's your... name again?"
"I..." The boy hesitated.
"Hurry up!" Modesty urged.
"I... my name is John." The new boy answered quickly, and finally added quickly, "Teacher Modesty, my name is indeed John."
Modesty: "..."
There was a moment of silence in the stone house.
"John?!" Modesty stared at the boy with sharp eyes.
The boy was a little scared and quickly tried to prove that what he said was true: "Teacher Modesty, I swear, my real name is John, and my full name is John Borrows Bacon."
"John Borrows Bacon?" Modesty narrowed her eyes and rubbed her fingers on the metal nameplate. The metal powder fell down, the name was engraved, and then she threw it to the boy.
The boy saw that it was clearly engraved on it: Bacon.
"From today on, you are not allowed to be called John. Your name is Bacon—only Bacon."
Boy: "..."
Modesty waved her hand: "That's it! You, get out and be the next one!"
The boy who changed his name to Bacon walked out helplessly, and another boy walked in.
Modesty opened her mouth, looked directly at the boy who came in and said, "Don't tell me, you are also called John."
"I..." The third boy was obviously a little nervous. He was shocked by Modesty's strong aura and didn't say anything for a long time.
Modesty impatiently took out a silver nameplate, swiped her finger, carved the name, and threw it to the third boy.
After the boy took it, he saw another very common name clearly engraved on the nameplate—Johnson—meaning John’s son.
Boy: "..." I instantly felt like I had countless more dads.