Anna realized as soon as she closed the door that she had reacted too much.
The main reason was that she had seen the devil possessing another person downstairs before, but she didn't expect that he would change to another person immediately. She was really unprepared.
Ana thought for a moment, then walked in another direction, then came back, knocked on the door again, and after getting the consent of the person inside, opened the door with an apologetic smile on her face: "I'm very sorry, I thought I Wrong move."
Although Anna's reason was a bit strange, her expression was impeccable. And without knowing the truth, how could Rotgar unreasonably guess that Anna was scared to shrink back because she found out he was here
He didn't even pay attention to this little incident, waiting for Anna to come over slightly cautiously.
Rotgar has not chosen the next person to possess Anna, and he does not want to miss too much about Anna. Therefore, after getting the process of testing the affinity of natural elements from the memory of the previous possessed staff member, he attached It turned out to be the "instructor" on duty today.
The last person he possessed fell into a coma after he left, and it would probably take a long time for him to wake up. He stuffed the person under the table.
"This is my application form. The mage who did the test asked me to come to you." Anna handed her application form to the devil, feeling a little depressed.
She had had enough of the torture when the devil was her teacher. Now that she had just joined the Mage Association, she didn't expect that he would be the guide. She felt that she would know less about a lot of things she should know.
Rotgar took the application form, looked at it carefully, wrote down Anna's current address and her elemental affinity, and then found out the next series of procedures from the instructor's memory.
He picked up a bunch of keys on the table, stood up and opened one of the cabinets in the back row.
Anna accidentally looked down and was startled when she saw the person hiding under the table. The plot of a thriller about "a corpse under the table" suddenly appeared in her mind. When she took a closer look and saw that it was the person possessed by the devil before and he was alive, She quickly stepped back and stopped only after making sure that she could no longer see the person from her angle.
She's very good at pretending not to know.
Rotgar quickly took out a black brocade box from the open cabinet and came back. He put the brocade box on the table and said to Anna: "This is the certification badge of your mage apprentice. If nothing unexpected happens, it will always be there." If you keep using it, every time you level up, gold stars will be added to it. This is also your voucher for accessing various public facilities of the association."
Because of the memory of the conductor, Rotgar read this passage exactly as it was written.
"Okay, I get it!" Anna carefully picked up the brocade box and opened it. A badge about the size of a beer bottle cap was lying quietly on the white silk.
She took it off and saw a line of very small words written at the bottom of the badge: Black Cloud City Magic Association.
She pinned it on her left chest. From this moment on, she was a real mage apprentice!
After Anna pinned the badge, Rotgar continued: "Every new mage apprentice can get three one-on-one introductory courses for free. You can go to the third floor to register and coordinate. The association has its own library. Members can use the elementary library on the first floor for free, and the upper library on the second floor is charged for each use. All books are not allowed to be borrowed."
Originally, the guide should patiently guide the new members of the Mage Association to understand the entire association, but Rotgar felt tired of being an emotionless repeater. After saying this, he was too lazy to say anything more. He threw away a manual. To Anna: "See the rest by yourself. If you have any questions, come here and ask the guide."
Anyway, he won't be the one blabbering about this by then.
"Oh, okay." Anna nodded repeatedly and obediently took the manual titled "Management Rules of the Black Cloud City Mage Association."
He looked very impatient. Did he think she wanted to see him that much
She put the manual away and said, "If there's nothing else, I'll leave first."
Rotgar nodded coldly. Seeing Anna go out and close the door, he took the key and took out a copy of the roster of the Black Cloud City Mage Association. The roster is not a secret, and the introduction of the association members is limited to information that can be easily known such as age, title, and mage level.
There are a total of one hundred and thirty-three registered mages in the entire Black Cloud City Mage Association, including five four-star mages, thirteen three-star mages, thirty-six two-star mages, forty-seven one-star mages and three-star mages. Twelve mage apprentices. Now with the addition of Anna, the total number has increased to one hundred and thirty-four.
Rotgar first looked through the list of four-star mages, but he thought they were too old. Next up was the three-star mage, who was also quite old. He had to reluctantly flip through the list of two-star mage, combined with the memory of this body, and finally picked someone with decent appearance, family conditions and strength.
After Anna left the second floor, she did not immediately go to the third floor to book a one-on-one introductory course. Instead, she found a corner in the lobby on the first floor to read the manual. In the past, when she bought any new electronic products, she always used to read the instructions first.
She knew that it was very difficult to get some knowledge from the devil. Fortunately, she had been mentally prepared, and now there was no psychological gap.
The "Heiyun City Mage Association Management Rules" are somewhat thick. The contents are mainly divided into two parts. The first half is some programmatic things, explaining the requirements of the association for members, including not using personal behavior to discredit the association and maintaining the association. Honors and more.
Behind him was the president of the Black Cloud City Association, a four-star mage. The association also had committees. Anna counted them. There were seven committee members, including five four-star mage and two three-star mage. All important affairs of the association were handled by The president and eight members of the committee met to make a resolution. Because everyone's name was quite long, she was almost in the majority.
The staff of each department of the association are not written in this manual. You need to go to the office area of each department to read it.
Ana glanced at the front, but when she saw the back, she became more serious, because it involved the rights she could enjoy after spending five gold coins to test and join the Mage Association.
Five gold coins, almost all of her property. If she couldn't take all the benefits she deserved, she would feel very much at a loss!
After briefly glancing at the catalog, Anna discovered that studying in the Mage Association mainly relies on self-study, and there are some regulations for establishing a teacher-student relationship.
First of all, qualified children take the test at the age of seven and join the Mage Association to become a mage apprentice. As a beginner, they know almost nothing about the world of mages, especially children from wealthy civilian families who have never had a mage in their family. Literacy education about the world of mages is needed.
Therefore, the fairly humane Mage Association will give away three introductory literacy courses for free, with one-on-one teaching. How much you can learn depends on your own comprehension ability. Anyway, one class is one hour. And if you want to hire a teacher to continue literacy, you will have to spend money, one gold coin per class, and this is an ordinary one- and two-star mage. Three- and four-star mages will not do this.
As for aristocratic families who already have mages, there is no need to spend this literacy fee.
Anna couldn't help but sigh when she saw this. Being a mage does cost money, and the five gold coins needed to test the element affinity are a huge sum of money in her opinion, but for the entire mage career, it is a drop in the bucket. It can even be said that it is a drop in the bucket. The benefits provided by the Mages Association.
She looked further down and found that krypton gold has its own learning method, and liver has its own learning method.
For members of the association, many of the public facilities affiliated to the association are free, such as the library that the devil mentioned just now. You can read as much as you like in the elementary library. There are also free study rooms, meditation rooms, martial arts arenas, pharmacy rooms, etc. Of course, there are also paid ones, which will provide more protection.
The association also has a public canteen that provides free food, but this is mainly used by civilian staff. Generally, mages are nobles and will not stay in the association permanently, and they are not willing to eat free food with civilians.
There are some scattered regulations at the back. For example, to determine the relationship between teachers and students, you need to register with the association. Teachers and students will have a certain relationship of honor and disgrace. If a student makes a big mistake, the teacher will also be responsible.
Finally, regarding the details of how the Logistics Department could purchase mage robes, Anna fell into silence.
The overall style of the mage's robe is the same, but it can be customized to add empty crystals, which means that defensive spell circuits are embedded in advance like a staff. Blank mage robes are sold for one gold coin each, and upwards are available for dozens or hundreds of gold coins, with no upper limit.
She can't even afford a mage's robe... If she's short of money, she definitely can't be the protagonist of a male video.
Anna calmed down her emotions, read the manual carefully, and put it away carefully.
First of all, get the free benefits in your hands! Although Dibian taught her a lot of knowledge, it was free anyway. It wouldn't be a bad thing to consolidate it more, and maybe she could learn something new.
Anna went to the third floor and knocked on the door outside the room marked "Course Registration Office".
Before going in, she was mentally prepared to face the devil again, but fortunately the other party was not one.
The person at the registration desk was a woman in her thirties. After hearing Anna explain her purpose, she showed a professional smile, took note of her situation, and then said: "Master Anna, I will arrange a course for you as soon as possible. You can go to the service desk tomorrow morning to check the registration results."
Anna was almost flattered. Then she thought about it. Although ordinary people working in the association were exposed to mages every day, in the end they were still ordinary civilians. And she was already a mage apprentice. Even if she was not as well-dressed as the woman in front of her, she could become She is a mage and noble, but the other party is not, so she will naturally be respectful to her.
It was only then that Anna gradually realized that her life had begun to be different.
Of course, since the threat of the devil was still hanging over her head, she couldn't relax.
Ana thanked her and planned to go to the library to take a look after coming out.
She has a mysterious love for libraries. She didn't have the conditions before, but now she can see all kinds of books. How could she not go and take a look
Anna followed the simple map drawn in the manual and arrived at the two-story library. As an internal library of the Mage Association, it is certainly not as big as the provincial or municipal libraries she has been to before, and is probably a little bigger than the ordinary Little Xinhua Bookstore.
The library on the first floor is divided into two parts. The inside is open-shelf books, and the outside is a study room filled with tables and chairs. At this moment, there are about ten people in the study room immersed in reading. There are children about ten years old wearing mage robes, and teenagers aged fifteen or sixteen.
Anna was wearing a badge, and the staff at the door just glanced at her badge and paid no attention to her.
She glanced around, and from here she could see that there were many people walking around beside the bookshelf with open books, and no one was not wearing a mage's robe.
Anna felt out of place, but she knew that as long as she had a thick skin, she could overcome any embarrassment!
In a pilgrimage mood, Anna was just about to walk into the open-shelf library when she heard a discordant sound coming from the side.
"Natalie, I heard that you are getting married? Congratulations!" The speaker was a tall girl, about the same age as Anna, with a beautiful and fair face and a proud look. She was obviously a child of a noble family.
"The other person's family must be very rich. I really envy you, Natalie. Your fiancé is already seventy years old. If you marry him, you will become a widow immediately and get all his inheritance!" The other one is slightly shorter. The girl also covered her mouth and deliberately said she was envious, but her eyes were full of ridicule.
The object of ridicule by these two people was a short girl with blond hair. She looked like she was only fourteen or fifteen years old. Her long golden hair made her light green eyes shine brightly. Her face was flushed at the moment. He almost jumped on his feet and shouted: "Don't talk nonsense! If you are jealous, just go get married yourself, I will let you!"
"That's not possible. That's a good husband that your father picked out thousands of times to find you. How dare we compete with you? Besides, we are about to become two-star mages. Which two-star mage would marry a stinky old man?" Tall Slender said. The girl's narrow eyes narrowed slightly, and she sneered mercilessly.
"You, you guys!" The short blond girl was trembling with anger, but she couldn't defeat them.
At this time, although the staff on the side were a little hesitant, they still came over and reminded: "Three Masters, this is the library, please keep quiet."
The tall girl and her friend ignored the staff member, looked at the short blond girl with a smile, and then left victoriously.
Anna withdrew her gaze when the staff stepped forward to stop her. She had just arrived, and when she didn't know anything, it was best not to meddle in other people's business.
She entered the open-shelf library and walked around in front of each bookshelf like a butterfly in a flower, looking at the names of the books on the shelves to satisfy her curiosity. With so many books, she will have plenty of opportunities to read them in the future, so there is no rush.
Besides, she didn't know which book she should start reading. She should wait until she consulted the literacy teacher for advice.
Anna is an anomaly here for not wearing a mage robe, which naturally attracts a lot of strange looks. Fortunately, the skirt she is wearing today is just bought. It is barely enough to squeeze into the ranks of "rich families". It is said that some down-and-out nobles also have it. Probably, so those glances didn't linger for long.
While passing another bookshelf, Anna saw a blond girl sitting on the floor beside the bookshelf, her head buried in her knees, she seemed to be crying, her shoulders shrugged.
Recognizing that this was the girl who had been stopped and ridiculed just now, Anna paused in her steps. She was still hesitating whether to leave or mind her own business, when she saw the girl named Natalie raised her head because she noticed something.
Seeing Anna standing nearby, looking directly at her, Natalie's face instantly turned red, and she stammered urgently: "You, what are you looking at... go away!"
"Feel sorry."
Anna felt that it was really embarrassing to see someone else crying, and since the other person asked her to leave, she should leave quickly.
Anna turned to leave, but as soon as she took a step, she found that the hem of her skirt was being pulled. She turned her head and looked down, and saw Natalie pulling the hem of her skirt with red eyes. The moment she turned back, her face changed. Red, but said nothing.
Ana hesitated for a moment, should she hand over the tissue at this time, right
She took out the linen handkerchief and handed it over and said, "Clean."
Natalie took the linen handkerchief, wiped the tears on her face, blew her nose, and said vaguely: "I will give you a new one..."
But she still didn't let go of Anna's skirt.
As long as you don't wipe your nose with her skirt, you can say anything, it's only five silver coins.
Because they were almost done visiting the library and there was nothing important to do when they got back, Anna waited patiently for Natalie to calm down.
After a few minutes, Natalie finally calmed down.
During this period, her hand kept holding the hem of Anna's skirt. Anna couldn't move, so while waiting for her, she picked up a book from the bookshelf and read it.
"You..." Natalie said, but stopped after saying one word.
Anna put the book back, looked down at Natalie and said, "Do you want to stand up and talk? If you squat like this for a long time, your legs will go numb."
"Really?" Natalie frowned and stood up. The next second she staggered, so scared that she quickly hugged the bookshelf, "It's really numb!"
Anna: "... let's go out and talk, don't hinder others here."
Natalie nodded repeatedly.
Anna helped Natalie out of the open-shelf library and sat down in the corner of the study room.
There can be some sounds in the study room, and there are also young mages who come together to communicate with each other, so it doesn't matter if Anna and Natalie whisper a few words in the corner.
"Tell me, why are you holding me and not letting me go?" Anna asked.
Only then did she take a closer look at the badge on Natalie's chest. It was black with no stars. It was a mage apprentice like her.
Unexpectedly, Natalie was also looking at her badge at this time, and she seemed a little happy: "You are still a mage apprentice like me... How many times have you participated in the promotion assessment?"
Natalie was fourteen or fifteen years old. A mage apprentice with average talent would have become a one-star mage long ago, but she was still a mage apprentice, which showed that her talent was really not good enough.
But she met Anna, the mage apprentice who was older than her. She probably felt that she had found an ally, so she was very happy now.
Anna couldn't bear to attack this little girl who was crying sadly before, and said vaguely: "Isn't the promotion test difficult?"
Natalie didn't realize that Anna didn't answer her question at all. When she heard Anna's words, she grabbed Anna's hand excitedly, as if she had found a companion: "Yeah, you think it's difficult too! I even passed the test with a score of 7 I haven't passed it yet, I feel like I will never be a one-star mage in this life!"
As she spoke, her eyes turned red again.
Anna didn't need to ask, she just told her situation: "My father said that if I fail the next test, he will let me get married... But I don't want to marry an old man, that old man Seven wives have died!"
Anna thought silently, then you are quite destined, both of you are on the same page as Qi Gang.
"That's quite a coincidence. I was also forced into marriage by an old man who was about to die, and I just escaped here." Anna said. The devil is several thousand years old. It is not too much to say that he is an old man who is about to die, right
Hearing that someone was worse off than herself, Natasha instantly cast a sympathetic look at Anna. She seemed to be inspired by something and said suddenly: "I understand, you mean I can escape too?"
Anna: "... No, I mean, there are people in this world who are worse off than you. What problem can you solve by crying? Aren't you allowed to get married only if you can't make it through? Then you can show it to your father!"