More than half a month has passed in the blink of an eye, and Baishi Tower Academy has officially started school for more than ten days.
During this period of time, while living as an auditor, Richard continued to obtain what he wanted to know from White Rock Tower Academy. He gradually became familiar with many situations in White Rock Tower Academy, and many of his own Research has also made breakthroughs.
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Half a month later, Baishi Tower Academy Library.
This is a building more than ten meters high. From the outside, it looks like a flat cylinder, made of large white boulders, and is quite impressive.
Inside, there are three floors in total, and Richard is currently on the first floor.
In front of a long wooden table on the first floor, Richard had a closed book with some kind of yellow leather cover in his hand - "Human Skin Record: A Complete Introduction to Spells", which he had just finished reading. At this time, he was flipping through a book called "The Mysteries of Magic Pattern Spells—The Wizard Toltai's Notes."
"Wow!" Richard was highly concentrated, flipping through the book very quickly, and memorizing knowledge quickly. Occasionally, I would stop somewhere, fall into deep thought, recall the knowledge in "The Chapter of Monroe", and conduct some verifications.
On Richard's side, Sitting was Gro, with a book in front of him called "Keduodi's Insights: How to Become a Qualified Wizard Apprentice".
Gro frowned, put a finger on the page, and read word for word, still muttering in a low voice. Although his reading speed is a bit slow, Gro's attitude is also extremely serious compared to Richard. However, the longer he read, the tighter his brows became because he couldn't understand it more and more.
What is "optimal construction of legal sources"? What is "effective increase in melting speed"? What are "key elements for mana operation"? What is "mana channel opening"
Gro, who was not even skilled in meditation, was completely unable to figure out how to become a qualified apprentice wizard.
After watching for a long time, Gro couldn't help but raise his head and looked at Richard to say something. But he saw that Richard was deep in thought, and with a "gudong" sound, he swallowed his saliva and swallowed what he wanted to say.
At this moment, Richard, who was thinking with his head down, suddenly sharpened his eyes and looked around, as if he sensed something wrong.
Gro was stunned and quickly asked in a low voice: "Your Excellency Richard, what's wrong?"
"Uh, it's nothing." Richard said vaguely, his eyes still scanning the surroundings. At this moment, Richard clearly felt that a ring on his finger became hot, like a red-hot iron.
The temperature of the ring changed very suddenly and without any warning, and this ring was the ancient ring given by Old Maren who was on the giant wheel to take revenge on the White Stone Tower, which made Richard suspicious.
Richard remembered that when Old Malen gave him the ring, he said: This ring is related to a secret of the White Stone Tower. If the secret is unlocked, there will be unimaginable benefits.
So what does the ring being hot mean now
Was it triggered by something related
Richard continued to scan the surroundings, but did not find anything special or any special situation: most students in the library were reading books quietly, and some of the remaining students were holding books. Put it back on the bookshelf, some people stood in front of the bookshelf looking for the books they wanted to read, some people took the books to the door service desk to check out the borrowing matters, and some people...
Everything is normal, nothing is wrong.
So... is it because it is at a specific point in time that causes the ring to heat up on its own
Richard continued to guess, but he felt that after a brief moment of burning, the ring on his hand cooled down little by little and returned to normal, as if nothing had happened.
Richard was extremely confused, but after thinking for a long time he couldn't find any clues, so he had no choice but to give up and prepare to conduct research again when he had the opportunity in the future.
At this time, Richard thought of something again, looked at Gro and asked: "By the way, is it almost time for swordsmanship lessons?"
"Um, um..." Gro said after a moment's hesitation, "I haven't heard the bell ringing, so I probably haven't..."
Just in the middle of what Gro said, there was a "dong" sound outside the library, and the dull sound of the huge copper bell being struck spread throughout the college. This means the end of one class and the arrival of the next class.
"Uh, okay." Gro said quickly, "The bell is ringing. It's almost time. Let's go to class, Mr. Richard."
"Yeah." Richard nodded, stood up, put the books on the table back on the bookshelf, and walked out of the library.
When he reached the door, Richard stopped, rubbed the ring he got from Old Maren, his eyes flashed slightly, and finally followed Gro out.
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quite a while.
When a slightly crisp copper bell rang, more than 20 students had gathered in the open space in front of a small forest in Baishi Tower Academy, all of whom came to learn the elective "Swordsmanship and Apprentice-Level Close-Up" "Battle (Moco)" course, Richard and Groo are one of them.
For Gro, the reason for taking the course was simply because... it was cheap.
Yes, cheap—what a sad reason.
Although Gro is a prince, he can't help but feel embarrassed after arriving at the White Stone Tower. Even though he brought some precious jewelry with him and sold it for nearly a thousand gold coins, he obviously couldn't afford the high consumption of the White Stone Tower, so he had to make careful calculations.
This made him regret it very much. Richard had heard words like "I'm so stupid, I would have brought more valuable things if I had known" more than once.
For Richard, the reason for studying this course is not that it is cheap.
Because he had a large number of crystal coins from the mysterious wizard in the space iron ring, Richard could take the most expensive course, but he didn't really want to do so.
After all, the most expensive course is just to teach a relatively powerful spell. In Richard's opinion, there is no qualitative difference between mastering one more spell and mastering two more spells. If you really want to make some breakthroughs, it is better to follow your own plan and study the entire spell system and the magic pattern mechanism to gain a lot of benefits.
If possible, he would not take any course.
In fact, because of his status as an auditor, Richard felt that he would not receive much attention if he really "cut class" every day.
But being cautious, with only ten days of school starting, Richard didn't want to take too many risks, and thought it would be better to continue pretending to be an ordinary auditor, so he chose to study the same course as Gro, a real ordinary auditor.
In addition, Richard is indeed somewhat interested in apprentice-level close combat swordsmanship in the current world, and wants to see how it is different from ordinary swordsmanship.
With this thought in mind, the sound of footsteps sounded, and Richard saw a man in his thirties wearing a tight-fitting gray hunting suit walking out of the woods.
The other person's appearance was ordinary, but his eyebrows were extremely weird, as if they had been specially painted with charcoal, and the paint was extremely uneven. At first glance, it looks like there are two pickled black catfish hanging above the eyes.
Richard noticed that there were three black ravens embroidered on the chest of the opponent's gray tight-fitting hunting suit, which meant that the opponent was a third-level wizard apprentice - if he were a wizard, there would be a symbol embroidered on the chest. Miniature white stone tower pattern.
From this point of view, the opponent may be the kind of being who is at the peak of the third-level wizard apprentice and has been unable to break through for a long time. He may have been in the academy for more than ten years. Maybe, the other party specially opened such a course out of compulsion to serve the college. Then, it's hard to say the opponent's strength.
Not only Richard thought so, the other students also had this speculation after seeing the man.
Black catfish... Well, no, the man walked out of the woods. With a glance, he was keenly aware of the suspicious looks of many students.
The man did not get angry, but said in a deep voice: "I know what you are thinking. Do you think that because I am not a wizard, you feel that I am not capable enough to teach you
snort! Let me tell you, I, Moko, was once a wizard. It was only because he was injured and his level dropped that he became a wizard's apprentice. Maybe I won’t be able to break through again in my lifetime, but I can still teach you kids who have just entered school.
Of course, you can also choose not to believe it. I am too lazy to explain anything to you. This is the first class. If you don’t want to learn, you can leave directly. Someone will refund the crystal coins for your elective courses. And if you want to learn, just follow me. "
After the man finished speaking, he turned and walked into the woods.
Everyone in the clearing in front of the woods was stunned for a moment, then looked at each other and followed.