While the freshmen were chatting among themselves, Nicholas stood aside and waited patiently.
As Zheng Qing guessed, he was not a senior student at First University.
But it cannot be denied that he is an old student of Jiuyou Academy.
Nicholas Greenoswall is a first-year student at Jiuyou College, First University. This is his third year in school and he has already failed the final exam for freshman promotion twice.
Dean Yao of Jiuyou College had a frank conversation with him at the end of July.
"If you are still unable to go further at the end of the third academic year, I am afraid that the school will re-evaluate your admission qualifications. This will not only affect your future wizarding career, but also Liz's future career. Application for admission."
The scene of the conversation is still vivid in his mind, and Nicholas can even easily remember how many times Professor Yao smoked his pipe that day.
Because of this, he is full of fear for the upcoming new school year.
He is not worried that he will not be able to become a regular wizard, but is worried about his sister, Liz.
Nicholas was born in the North District of Beta Town, where magicians gather.
In the Wizarding Code, magicians are considered wizards with limited behavioral abilities. In other words, wizards recognize the magicians as wizards, but have reservations about their spellcasting abilities.
Because the magician's ability is too weak.
Most magicians can only pull a little white rabbit out of an empty hat; or build a castle from a deck of playing cards; the most powerful one can only turn a bouquet of roses into a castle. Into a flock of little white doves.
For wizards, this ability is at the level of a preschooler.
The weak abilities even make them incompetent for the work of wizard apprentices. The spirits of magicians are very easily damaged in wizard laboratories, and their bodies cannot withstand the pressure of alchemy workshops.
In short, there is no way for a magician to find a suitable job in the wizarding world.
No suitable job means no stable income.
It means the hardship of life.
Many magicians have tried to stay away from this life. However, the qualities they had always expected to be recognized for became the shackles that bound them.
The Wizards’ Behavior Management Regulations promulgated by the Wizards Union have placed very strict restrictions on the secular lives of wizards. It clearly stipulates that without permission, wizards are strictly prohibited from staying in Baiding society for a long time, engaging in Baiding profession, or having deeper economic and other interactions with Baiding society.
As a result, these poor people can only survive in the reservation allocated for them by the Umbrella League.
The young and strong ones gritted their teeth and went into the dark forest, doing gathering work that ordinary wizards would disdain to do, and even served as bait for some black-hearted hunting teams; the old and weak ones huddled in the streets. Corner, playing some tricks, hoping for a goodThe beloved dropped a few coins.
To wizards, they are as disgusting as cockroaches.
The die-hard wizards believe that the existence of the magician reduces the mystery of the wizard and makes the distance between the wizard and Bai Ding seem less distant, which is a blasphemy against magic; in the view of the radical wizards, the magician They are failed evolvers, and they even oppose the identification of magicians in the Wizarding Code.
To this day, calling any orthodox wizard a magician is just like calling a normal person an idiot and a retarded person. It is a very serious offense.
Nicholas' mother, Mary Greene, was a magician.
It’s just that she is a beautiful magician.
Whether it is the world of mortals or the world of wizards, whether in ancient times or now. Beauty has always been an outstanding talent.
Perhaps God felt that the beauty given to her was too generous, so he withdrew some gifts through other means.
For example, her children.
Nicholas and Lizzie were recognized as magicians shortly after their birth.
This is tantamount to sentencing them to a lifetime of hard labor.
Mary is a brave woman. She does not want her two children to repeat the tragic life of the magician.
So she broke into the werewolf's bonfire feast.
She succeeded.
Liz and Nicholas were gifted by the drunken King Oswall.
She also failed.
The crazy werewolf viciously hurt her during the dinner party.
When she staggered home, blood had stained her whole body red.
"Live well and take good care of your sister."
These were the last two words she said to Nicholas.
Throughout her life, this woman could only do the little trick of turning a handful of thorns into a bouquet of lilies.
But this brave woman used her life to complete a great magic, allowing two children who were destined to be magicians to re-enter the wizarding society.
Nicholas felt his eyes were a little sore. He blinked and looked at the young newcomers in front of him.
Once upon a time, he stood here and listened to the seniors telling the stories of this hall and this university.
Now, the seniors who told the stories have graduated, and the friends who entered the school with him are also busy in the laboratory.
Only myself, still wandering in the corridor on the first floor of the first hall, bearing the malice of the world, shamelessly praying to my former classmates for a credit reward.
Liz deserves a better future, and she must go to First University.
For my mother.
Nicholas murmured, his eyes firming up again.
"Let's continue." He clapped his hands, interrupting the lively discussion among the freshmen.
"After the corridorThe murals on the walls describe the history of wizards. Those magnificent scenes and majestic images are all traces of the wizard's presence in this world. "
Zheng Qing stared at a painting in fascination.
In the painting, a wizard waved his staff and faced off against a ferocious beast. The void behind them was dark. They were surrounded by thunder, fire and lightning. The red magma was rolling under their feet, and the surrounding space was distorted in their field of vision. The earth-shaking momentum seemed to break through the wall.
Nicholas stood there. In front of him, blocking his view
He looked at the young people in front of him, recalled the warnings of his predecessors, and repeated those words to these newcomers
"What you need to pay attention to is. Don't get too hung up on history. No matter how grand and great history is, it is all time that has passed; and the future is at your feet. It's easy to lose yourself in history. ”
The newcomers reluctantly left these murals.
Nicholas nodded with satisfaction.
He turned around and introduced the first hall to the freshmen
p>"There are nine gates surrounding the entire hall on the first floor. One is the gate behind us, which leads to the outside world. Four of the remaining eight gates lead to the four colleges and four to Four institutes. ”
“The four colleges are Jiuyou College, Alpha College, Atlas College, and Starry Sky College. Everyone should know it. The four research institutes are the Alchemy Research Institute, the Astronomy Research Institute, the Witch Medicine Research Institute, and the Divination Research Institute. Of course, there are also places like the Astrology Tower and the Talisman Academy, which are also very famous research institutions. It's just that those places are not open to lower grade students. ”
“Nine gates are in this hall, but there are countless gates in the four colleges and four research institutes. The secrets inside need to be explored slowly by yourself. Maybe there are several doors in the teaching building, and after passing through, you will appear directly in the center of the first hall; or on a section of the wall that you pass every day, a door leading to Beta Town will appear. "
"But behind more doors is just a classroom. "
"The lintel of each door has its own unique signs and symbols, or mottos. As long as you pay attention, you will not go wrong. "
"Just like the gate of Jiuyou Academy, its lintel has six characters symmetrically written on the left and right: "The sky is strong and the terrain is Kun." Only by knowing the meaning of these six words can we cross the threshold and truly enter the academy. ”