Chapter 1687 Bruce Wayne and the Sorcerer's Stone (Part 2)
The otherworld was still filled with curling white mist, and the tall buildings on the skyline looked like mirages in the sea of clouds. On top of the common foundations of Gotham City, many magical buildings floated in the sky.
The most conspicuous of them were several undulating Gothic spires. The cylindrical spires floated in the sky, and each spire was connected by a floating staircase. If you look closely, you can see some students in wizard robes shuttling between them.
Each spire was surrounded by many long Gothic windows with inner arc corners on top. Looking in from the windows, students were standing or sitting in the bright public activity room, either chatting quietly together or sitting alone at the desk reading.
Facing the window was a huge bookshelf that occupied half of the curved wall. There were projections of almost all the books that could be found in the magic world. Some students brought ladders to the top, took down the big books, and stacked the books higher than their heads. Then they staggered to the desk with them in their arms and began to bury their heads in reading.
One of the older brown-haired boys was standing in front of the felt board at the door of the common activity room, pulling out the nails used to fix the previous schedule, and then nailing the new schedule. After nailing it, he took a look at his work, nodded with satisfaction, clapped his hands and said.
"Dear second-year students, please don't forget that the latest magic theory class has been moved to tomorrow afternoon. You need to bring the small essays you wrote after the last class. Professor Schiller will comment on them."
As soon as he finished speaking, a noisy female voice came from behind: "Kane! My good class leader, what is the topic of your essay? Let me see it quickly, I really can't write a single word."
The boy called Kane looked back at the red-haired girl behind him. He frowned and said, "Ms. Spencer, I'm not saying anything bad about you, but didn't you listen to Professor Schiller's requirements for homework in class?"
"Actually, I listened, but I didn't understand." The boy with a messy red hair looked at the red-haired girl behind him. He frowned and said, "Miss Spencer, I'm not saying anything bad about you, but didn't you listen to Professor Schiller's requirements for homework in class?"
"Actually, I listened, but I didn't understand." Miss Spencer with curly hair scratched her hair hard, and then said, "You know, I have been living with my mother in Metropolis, and I just came back recently. I really don't understand the complicated code words of you Gotham people."
"What does this have to do with that? It's all written in the textbook..."
"Come on, come on, save me!!! Why do I have to hand in my homework as soon as I come back?!!"
Another sharper scream came from the door. Kane and Miss Spencer turned around together and saw a girl with platinum hair rushing in. She stopped in front of the class table with a sudden brake, stared at the class schedule carefully, and let out a louder cry.
"Harry, didn't you take a three-month leave? Why did you come back early?" Kane asked with some concern.
Harley opened her mouth, showing a slightly complicated expression, and then said: "It's hard for me to explain to you, but, okay, have you ever imagined that you are a complete love-brain in another universe? I'm really fed up with her!"
"Joker, clown, clown, it's as if she can't live without the clown! Our business was doing well, but she had to spend energy to make a big surprise for her cookies. She is such a hopeless stupid woman. I will never work with her again!"
Kane and Miss Spencer looked at each other and found that neither of them understood what Harley was saying, but they didn't mind, because they knew that this girl named Harley Quinzel was a little crazy, often saying shocking things, and was a very typical Gotham genius lunatic.
This academy has a high tolerance for such people, or in other words, after experiencing the first few months, any normal person would stay away from this magic theory academy, because the things studied in this academy are too difficult, obscure and crazy.
The magic in the DC world is not a power that appears out of thin air. Most of it comes from angels and demons. If you want to study magic theory in depth, you have to study the origins of demons and angels. You always have to touch some religion and theology. To study religion and theology, you can't avoid studying history and culture. It can be said that many words in this knowledge cannot even be found in the dictionary.
Even for adults, studying history, culture and religion is a very boring thing. How many children of this age can have the patience to study these things.
If this is the case, there should not be many talents in this college at this time. However, although there are not many people in the public activity room at this time, it is conservatively estimated that there are more than a dozen people. This is just one of the public activity rooms, which means that this college has recruited many students.
It can be said that most of the students in this school are native Gotham people, and they are native Gotham people with better backgrounds. In short, almost all of them are descendants of Gotham's big families.
This brown-haired Kane is a descendant of the Kane family, and Miss Spencer is the second daughter of the young leader of the Spencer family of the Twelve Families. Similarly, there is the youngest son of the Lawrence family branch who is standing in front of the timetable, and Miss Drake, the niece of Drake of the Drake family and Tim's cousin.
These students are actually children with magical talents from various families. Most of them are not heirs of the family. They are either the youngest sons of the main line or children of the branch.
Most of these children will be arranged to study art or philosophy. They have extraordinary inspiration and patience. In addition, they have a good family background, are not short of money, and do not need to compromise for practicality. They can study what they like.
What else can Gotham children like? It must be the strange black magic knowledge! So where can you learn this kind of black magic knowledge? Of course, it is the School of Magic Theory, or now it should be called Rodriguez College.
After the first few months of course experience, most students have learned the styles of these colleges. They also abandoned the special names such as magic theory and magic crafts that were officially formulated by the school at the beginning, and began to call these colleges directly by the dean's surname.
The dean of the School of Magic Theory is Schiller Rodriguez, so it is naturally called Rodriguez College. Similarly, the School of Magic Crafts is called Zatara College, and the School of Magic Power is naturally called Strange College.
After personally experiencing the teaching styles of several deans, most students have also formed bizarre stereotypes about each college.
Needless to say, Rodriguez College is a place where rich people study, with strict hierarchy and many rules, and it is difficult for ordinary people to integrate.
So either you are a crazy genius or you are a rich heir, otherwise it is better to stay away from this strict professor.
The School of Magical Arts and Crafts taught by Zatanna Zatara is welcomed by a considerable number of students, especially those poor children from poor families who hope that learning magic can bring about essential changes in their lives.
As the saying goes, if you master a craft, you will never starve. These children are more inclined to learn technology, and Miss Magician is particularly patient with students and very gentle when teaching. Constantine, who also teaches in this college, is also humorous and easy-going, and often likes to joke with students.
Therefore, Zatara College has the most relaxed atmosphere among all the colleges. Everyone is laughing and tinkering with magic machines, brewing potions, drawing magic circles, and carving runes together. In the future, they will become the mainstay of the magic craft industry.
The atmosphere of the Strength College, also known as Strange College, is relatively fanatical. After all, Strange is a fanatical human racial supremacist. He is more inclined to a sense of honor and mission in educating students.
Simply put, the slogan of Strange College is to study for the rise of mankind, constantly temper strength, hone one's mind, and focus on sublimation just to protect the safety of the earth, so the students gathered here are either brave or have a great sense of responsibility.
However, these three colleges alone cannot satisfy this group of students. Some people just want to learn everything and know a little about everything, but they don't specialize in any one. Instead, they prefer to run around between several colleges, develop interpersonal relationships, and organize various activities. In short, social terrorists actively develop future connections in the magic world.
Such students are also useful to the magic world. After all, a society cannot have only technicians, scholars and guardians. It always needs managers, politicians and businessmen.
So in addition to the three colleges, a separate Magic Balance College was opened, and the dean of this college was none other than Bruce Wayne, so this college was called Wayne College.
Of course, this is also the result obtained after many considerations. After all, if important personnel of the official organization of the magic world in the future are to be produced in this college, then they had better have a dean who is deterrent enough. In order to strengthen the connection between the magic world and the real world, this dean had better have a certain influence in the real world. Bruce Wayne is the best choice.
And the stereotype of this college is also very classic. In short, those who can enter this college are all smart people. They can read the eyes, read the atmosphere, and win over people. Organizing activities, establishing clubs, and establishing friendly relations with students from each college are what they do most often.
In this way, after the basic structure of the four colleges was determined, the students chose their own colleges according to their preferences. In order to establish the characteristics of each college, each college also chose its own representative color and designed its own college emblem.
The representative color of Rodriguez College is black, which is exactly the same color as the professor's daily suit. The shape of the college emblem is the top view of an open umbrella, on which is engraved a rune representing knowledge in the magic world, a bit like an X and an A superimposed together, which does not look lively at all.
The representative color of Zatara College is purple, and the college emblem is the shape of the side of the magician's hat with two symmetrical steam cloud patterns, and there are dark patterns of gears and potion bubbles below, which looks very complicated and luxurious.
The representative color of Strange College is gold, which is mainly based on the color scheme of Kamar-Taj. The college emblem is a pattern of a globe on an inverted triangle, with a circle of small runes around the globe, which means "full focus, sublimation of power", which looks full of passion and power.
The representative color of Wayne College is blue, which is the color of Bruce's eyes and the color of authority in human society. The college emblem is the shape of the Wayne family's family emblem, with two hands clasped together, which looks calm and powerful.
In addition to students who have experienced the course experience and chosen their favorite college, there will be a group of new students enrolled in the near future, most of whom missed the first semester because of the long journey or something they were not prepared for.
"Hurry up, stop writing. You can't finish it anyway. Today the freshmen are going to be sorted. Don't you want to go and see?" Harley stood by the door and waved to the people in the room and said, "We have to pull the smart newcomers to our college, and we can't let others snatch them away."
"Harley, are you sure you..."
"Stop talking nonsense, otherwise the freshmen will definitely be deceived by the guys in the Blue College. They are the best at deceiving people, just like Bruce Wayne. Let's go!"
Kane, Miss Spencer and several other students had no choice but to follow Harley. They walked through the stairs between the floating spires and went all the way down to the auditorium.
But before entering the auditorium, Harley met a confused little boy outside the side door. Harley walked over and patted his back, which scared him.
Harley asked in confusion: "Who are you? Why are you here?"
"I'm a freshman this year. The Bat wrote to me and said I am."
"Then why don't you go into the Sorting House quickly? It's about to start."
"But I can't find the door..."
"Why are you so stupid? Isn't the door right over there? Come with me... By the way, what's your name?"
"Me? My name is Barry, Barry Allen."
Harley's eyes lit up.