In the corridor on the second floor of the dormitory, the girl looked at Richard seductively: "Come on, help me clean the room. You won't regret it."
"Not interested." Richard said directly.
girl:"… "
Richard turned around and walked downstairs, poured out the sewage, and walked up again.
The girl was still standing in the original place in the corridor, pinching her waist and looking unhappy.
Richard ignored him, walked straight into the room, and closed the door with a bang.
Girl: "..." At this moment, she secretly said in her heart: You are cruel, just wait!
…
Later.
Richard was packing his luggage in the room and planning something when suddenly there was a knock on the door.
"Bang bang bang!"
Richard raised his eyebrows, walked to the door, opened it, and saw the girl he met before, standing outside leaning against the door frame, holding two pieces of papyrus in her hand.
"What?"
"The college has announced the course schedule for this semester. I saw that you are new here and you are doing a good deed, so I got a copy for you and gave it to you!" the girl said, handing over a piece of papyrus in her hand, which seemed to indicate something. Pointing, "I really like to help people, unlike some hateful people who won't even do a little favor."
Richard shrugged, without saying anything else, and took the papyrus from the girl's hand and scanned it quickly.
I saw that on the papyrus scroll was a form with densely written words.
The top line is: White Rock Tower Academy’s latest course fee details.
The next line, from left to right, is: course name, type, elite students, regular students, and auditors.
The next few lines, from left to right, are:
Basic spell universalization, compulsory, cost 0, cost 0, cost 0.
Elementary introduction to spells, compulsory, cost 0, cost 0, cost 0.
Continue to scroll down, and the content begins to change:
Evocation water type·Acid branch spell·Basic introduction (Hamas), elective, cost 2, cost 3, cost 5.
Evocation water type·Ice branch spell·Intermediate mastery (Hekda), elective, cost 5, cost 7, cost 10.
Evocation of fire, pyrotechnic spell, advanced mastery (Lux), elective, cost 10, cost 15, cost 20.
…
Transformation Structure Department·All branches of spells·Junior entry (Tosco), elective, cost 9, cost 15, cost 20.
Transformation structural system·hardened skin spell·intermediate mastery (Raki), elective, cost 20, cost 30, cost 50.
…
Spiritual Protection System·All Branches of Spells·Basic Mastery (Quinnes), elective, cost 15, cost 25, cost 40.
…
The entire list lists countless courses, but they can generally be divided into two types: compulsory and elective - this is the teaching method of Baishi Tower. It is not like a compulsory school. In Richard's opinion, it is more similar to the teaching method on modern earth. University.
Among them, the required courses are free and must be studied by students. But correspondingly, it does not have much gold content. It just popularizes some basic knowledge, and this knowledge can be accessed in the college library.
There is a fee for elective courses, which are set up by each named wizard personally and will teach them the knowledge or spells they are more proficient in. Each student can choose to study according to his or her own situation. In theory, as long as you have enough time and enough money, you can learn all the courses taught by wizards. This is the dream of many good scholars, but most people are limited by money, especially auditors.
In the White Stone Tower, the elite students with gold nameplates, the formal students with silver nameplates, and the auditors with black nameplates are three completely different classes. This class gap is extremely obvious in three aspects of course study: exemption quota, course fees, and wizard treatment.
The course exemption quota is a subsidy provided by White Rock Tower Academy to students' learning courses, allowing students to take some elective courses for free.
Generally speaking, the quota for elite students is much higher than that for formal students. As for the auditors, well, sorry, no - no matter which course they want to take, they have to pay for it.
And even if they pay, the prices for the same course for the three types of students are different. Elite students will get discounts, which can reach 50% or even 40% off, and formal students can also get 30% or 20% off. As for the auditors, well, it’s fine if I don’t increase the fee for you.
The wizards who teach the courses treat the three types of students differently.
Generally speaking, elite students will be valued by many wizards. In the courses, they will naturally be taught carefully and even make small mistakes. Formal students, well-behaved, ask questions, and the teacher will choose whether to answer them according to his mood. As for the auditors…
What is an auditor? The word "side" and the word "listen" mean that although you pay the most, you can only sit in the corner and listen obediently - you are not allowed to speak or ask questions, just like the air, no Can affect anyone. Once you do something wrong, or the teacher is in a bad mood and feels that you have done something wrong, he can find any reason and kick you out without you even being able to refute.
For auditors, being "specially treated" by wizards in elective courses is actually nothing, because... most people have no elective courses to take.
Most of the time the auditors spend in the academy, they are trying to earn some crystal coins to support their lives. Nothing is free inside or outside the academy. If you want to survive, you have to work hard.
In Richard's view, auditors are more like a cheap labor force than students. The college is obviously taking advantage of the auditors.
But even if most auditors know this, they will be willing to be used because they want to take a chance on the one percent or one thousandth chance to become a real wizard, and then there will be earth-shaking changes. In their eyes, persistence is victory, and maybe success will come tomorrow.
However... most of the auditors were eliminated at night before the dawn of success - White Rock Tower Academy has been eliminating students, especially auditors, with a particularly large proportion being eliminated. However, White Rock Tower Academy has nothing to worry about, because after a group is eliminated, new auditors will be added in a steady stream.
This is the White Stone Tower, and this is the cruel reality.
Richard was thinking about these things while browsing the course schedule.
The girl at the door looked at Richard and browsed for a long time. She thought she had guessed something and said, "Hey, you have been looking for so long. Do you think you have no money and can't find any elective courses? I can help you!"
"Huh?" Richard looked up at the girl. Naturally, he was not without money. The crystal coins he obtained after killing the mysterious wizard in the Space Iron Ring were enough to live in White Rock Tower Academy for a long time, but he was curious about the girl's intentions.
The girl said: "I can find you an opportunity to make money - clean the room for me, and I will pay you. How about that? It's reasonable, right?"
"Well..." Richard raised his eyebrows and did not answer immediately.