Chapter 185 Apprenticeship Assessment Department
Several carriages drove smoothly through the streets and slowly stopped under the huge magic spire in the center of the city in the sky.
I didn't feel it from a distance, but when I got in front of me, Heidi, Leilia and other apprentices were full of amazement, because their necks needed to look up very tired to see the spire of this magic tower. And unlike the ancient eerie and mysterious magic tower, its outer layer is made of silver-gray material that shimmers with metallic light, giving it a thrilling beauty that apprentices cannot describe.
"Uh, a modern metallic building." This type of building is one of Lucian's favorite styles, and his favor for the Magic Council has suddenly increased a lot.
Seeing Felipe and the others in front disappeared at the gate, Lazar lightly high-fived and smiled: "This is the magic tower where the council headquarters is located, also called Alinge, a paradise that many magicians yearn for. Okay, let's go in, it's already 4:15 p.m., and the staff at the council headquarters will be closed at 6 o'clock, and there are only a few left-behind guards responsible for the security and monitoring of the entire city."
"Mr. Lazar, can you come back tomorrow? We are so tired and need to rest." Many magic apprentices were quite afraid of the arcane level assessment and asked, even Annick was a little hesitant, he had not experienced the accumulation of success again and again, and his confidence had not yet been completely established.
Lazar took Lucian and the magic apprentices to the gray stone steps in front of the Magic Tower: "You just arrived today, fatigue is indeed a problem, but you need to raise it yourself to the gentleman or lady in charge of the assessment, and they will reschedule the assessment for you. However, if you have not experienced the assessment, you will not be able to receive the two badges of magic and arcane, and many things will be more troublesome. And if you start learning arcane and magic one day earlier, you can become a true magician one day earlier."
He did not let the apprentices be assessed in a tired state, but reminded them not to shirk after a day's rest.
Soon, the group walked to the silver-gray gate of the Magic Tower with countless mysterious patterns painted on it.
Just as Lucian and the others were about to go directly through the half-open gate, two big black eyes suddenly appeared above it, blinking and looking at the opposite side:
"Welcome to Alinge, I welcome you all on behalf of all Arcanists and Sorcerers."
A light and pleasant sound came from the gate, and the two metal doors swayed back and forth, as if waving hello.
Lazar laughed and said: "Prospelle, you have never welcomed me like this."
"Because I smell the breath of life." Prosper didn't care about Lazar's jokes.
Lazar turned to the stunned apprentices and introduced: "Prospel, the powerful alchemy life fused with the Magic Tower was refined by Douglas and several other great arcane lords who spent a long time collecting special mutilated souls. Hehe, there are many alchemy lives in the council headquarters, and there is no place more luxurious than here in similar aspects."
Lucian has been curious and interested in alchemy life since the castle of Karun Erdia, and at this time he couldn't help but ask: "Lazar, how many rings do you start learning the knowledge of alchemical life?"
"First you need the Necromancer's Arcane Knowledge Tree about the soul, and then you need to learn the alchemy of life harmony. Wait until these studies are completed, and when you become a high-level magician, you can make alchemical life. Hehe, so in the ancient magic empire, only high-level magicians can have their own magic towers." Lazar casually introduced.
Prospel's voice suddenly lowered: "This gentleman, if you are interested in alchemical life, please refine a lady in the future, the magic towers around me are all annoying males!"
This image of alchemical life was immediately equated with obscenity in the eyes of Lucian and others.
Seeing that Lucian did not answer, Prospel laughed dryly: "Haha, I was joking. Well, the "Apprentice Assessment Department" is the first floor and three areas, and the "Magician Management Department" is the first floor and four areas. The first floor and five areas are the "mission area", where you can accept tasks and release tasks, and the first and sixth areas are the "Exchange Department", which helps you exchange your money, materials, items, intelligence, etc. for arcane points, or vice versa. The 'Ordinary Arcane Library' is the first floor and one area, and the 'Magic Exchange Room' is the first floor and the second area."
"If you want to meditate and experiment, you can go to the second to ninth floors, where there are meditation rooms, magic laboratories, bondage rooms, energy rooms, magic gardens, etc., of course, you need to pay money or arcane points to use. The tenth floor is the headquarters of the two periodicals "Arcane" and "Magic", and the rest of the journals are either in other parts of Alinge or in different cities in several kingdoms, hosted by different organizations or branches of the Magic Council of different countries."
"The eleventh to fifteenth floors are the offices of several committees and the exclusive lounges of the committees, the sixteenth to twentieth floors are the places where qualified 'Arcane and Magic Research Groups' can apply for free, the twenty-first to twenty-fifth floors are the best magic laboratories in different fields of research, and the twenty-sixth to thirtieth floors are the 'Advanced Arcane and Magic Library', material warehouses, high-level summon restraint rooms, etc. The thirty-first to thirty-fifth floors belong to the Excellency of the Supreme Council, but I heard that the Supreme Council recently wants to set aside the thirty-first and thirty-second floors as an academy to try to teach low-level magicians......"
Prosper crackled a series of words that kept bursting out, leaving the apprentices stunned.
"Okay, you guys go in quickly." After Prosper finished speaking, he sang a song out of tune:
"Don't touch it randomly, that's my muscle."
"Don't touch the wall, I'll be itchy."
"Don't destroy public property, the internal organs are always fragile."
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The first thing that appeared in front of them was a circular silver hall, in the center of the hall there was a one-meter-diameter disk with a complex magic circle depicted on it, and around the disk was a yellow-green light shield, extending to the second floor.
Around the hall are marked with six areas and a stairwell.
"That's an elevator." Lazar introduced, and then asked Lucian for advice, "Let's go to the 'Apprentice Assessment Department' in District 3 first, and when the apprentices are arranged, I will take Evans to the 'Magician Management Department' in District 4, no problem, right?"
"No problem, after all, I also coached them for a while." Lucian didn't mind, watching the magicians and apprentices coming and going dressed in Holm-style, and followed Lazar towards the third district.
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There were rows of rooms of different colors in the third district, and an old gentleman with slender cheeks and old-fashioned clothes received Lazar and Lucian and others.
The old gentleman named Simeon said solemnly to the apprentices: "You register first, and then I will provide you with an arcane basic assessment, and when I figure out your arcane level and tendencies, I will arrange for you to enter different magic schools."
"Mr. Simeon, we just arrived at noon today after enduring the turbulence of the Storm Strait, and then took the magic steam train for another three hours, and we are already very tired, can we postpone the arcane assessment until tomorrow?" Katrina herself was not afraid, but she considered herself one of the leaders of the apprentices, and at this time, she did not hesitate to stand up and ask for everyone.
Although Simeon was old-fashioned, he was not hard-hearted, so he nodded: "Then you register first, and come here at nine o'clock tomorrow morning for the assessment. Tonight I will arrange for you to rest in the guest room in the third district. Remember, you don't have arcane and magic badges, so you must not go out of the third zone."
"Thank you, Mr. Simeon, we will definitely remember." The apprentices were overjoyed one by one.
Seeing that they had finished registering one after another, while Lucian stood aside and did not move, and his clothes were obviously in a mainland style, Simeon said with a slight doubt: "You don't register?"
"Mr. Simeon, I am an official magician." Lucian smiled.
Simeon's old-fashioned face showed a little surprise, and then he looked Lucian up and down: "A magician who is less than twenty years old? The spiritual talent is outstanding. If you want to learn the magic of astrology or light and darkness, or concentrate on the study of mathematical knowledge, you can consider joining our 'Tower'."
Lazar looked at Simeon with "mournful" eyes: "Mr. Evans wants to concentrate on learning the basics of arcane first, and wait until he has an official arcane level before choosing."
Simeon wore two badges, one with a silver star on a black background, like a deep starry sky, but only two stars, and one with a silver background against two black rings, cold and mysterious. According to Lazar's previous introduction on the train, the former is the badge of the second-level arcanist, and the latter is the badge of the second-ring magician.
After listening to Lazar's words, he showed a rare smile: "Now it is rare to be such a sober young man, who knows how to study and research with peace of mind first, rather than indulging in the invitations of various organizations. Evans, our tower is a relatively neutral organization, in line with the council, there are many arcanists who like to study and explore and don't like to fight, hehe, okay, I'm going to cry if I say Lazar again."
Chatting here, Heidi, Leilia and others kept chanting and reciting theorems and laws, etc., which made Splinter frown slightly: "The learning of arcane is in ordinary times. There will be an assessment tomorrow, and you won't have any effect like this."
Awakened by his words, Heidi rushed to Lucian: "Mr. Evans, is there a good way to review?"
"I agree with Sprint in this regard, you have practiced enough, what you need to do tonight is to have a good rest and simply browse."
Annick and Leilia nodded, looking at Lucian with some reluctance, and said at the same time: "Mr. Evans, will you come to see us for the assessment tomorrow?"
"If nothing else, I will come." Lucian smiled and nodded, how do you know how my guidance task has been completed if you don't come?
However, after seeing that he agreed, Annick and the others cheered softly, Lucian's heart softened a little, and he turned to Lazar and said, "Let's go to the Magician Management Department. By the way, Lazar, can you only use Arcane points to borrow books or exchange magic in the 'Ordinary Arcane Library' and 'Magic Exchange Room'?"
"All of them." Lazar looked at Lucian amusedly, "But, Evans, the first condition for entering these two places is that you have an activated arcane badge, otherwise you can obediently study with the basic books on arcane and magic given free by the council. When you have learned to a certain extent, you can go to the 'Magician Management Department' to apply for the arcane assessment, and if you pass, you will get a basic arcane point to activate the arcane badge."
Lucian frowned: "The easiest way to activate the arcane badge is to submit a new magic?"
(End of this chapter)