Chapter 4 Three Elements of a Wizard Apprentice

Murder, entrance exam.

These two unrelated words put together made Richard feel that the world was really wonderful.

"An entrance exam that requires killing people? That's the page you read."

Richard was a little suspicious that this was a prank. What kind of college would need a group of murderers as students?

Ellie sobbed and handed the admission rules to Richard. At this time, the magic light in the room happened to light up. Richard, who had learned wizarding language, took advantage of the light to open the dog-eared pages of Ellie's book.

The page reads:

Before entering the academy, preparatory wizard apprentices must take an entrance exam. The exam is called Life and Death Race and the content is as follows:

Preparatory wizard apprentices will receive a crystal ball and seven bottles of nutritional potions that can replace a day's food at the beginning of the exam. The preparatory wizard apprentices must arrive at the designated location of the academy within fourteen days and carry at least two crystal balls.

Those who do not have enough crystal balls and fail to arrive on time within fourteen days will lose their admission qualifications.

Note: The college does not provide repatriation services. If the apprentice loses his admission qualification, he must return to his place of origin.

After reading the admission rules, Richard threw them to Ellie, turned around, climbed onto the bed, took out his own admission rules, and turned to the same page.

Exactly the same content as above.

This is not a joke.

"It's a little uncomfortable now."

Richard closed the code. He didn't know why the academy did this. It put so much effort into recruiting apprentices like them and transported them to the academy, but then used an entrance exam to screen out half of them.

But one thing he knew clearly was that this question was meaningless now. He was already on the airship.

So now he must find a way to pass the entrance exam as soon as possible.

Among these preparatory wizard apprentices, there were lower-class farmers and upper-class nobles. Most of the civilians were just like Richard, malnourished and thin. But those nobles have strong bodies and martial arts learned since childhood.

Every noble is a knight. This saying is widely circulated in the Plantagenet Kingdom and is regarded as the foundation of aristocratic rule.

In the Kingdom of Plantagenet, knight is not just a title, but a symbol of personal strength.

Every knight is a strong man who can walk as fast as he can while wearing plate armor and holding a two-handed sword.

And in the Plantagenet Kingdom, a noble's title must be inherited by a knight.

Therefore, these descendants of nobles may have poor moral character and poor brains, but their bodies have been trained since childhood, and even if they are lazy, they are far better than ordinary people.

Competing with such a group of people, civilians like Richard basically have no hope of survival.

"Impossible. Since the college recruits civilian students, it is absolutely impossible not to give them any chance to resist."

Richard felt like lightning and immediately took out the three books issued by the academy.

The Wizarding Academy would never waste energy on designing a test that civilians could not pass. They must have left something behind that was enough to bridge the gap between students.

Richard spread out three books on the bed, one was a wizarding dictionary, the other was admission rules, and the last remaining one had a more direct name, called——

"How to Become a Wizard's Apprentice"

[Material: "How to Become a Wizard's Apprentice"]

[Information that can be extracted: basic meditation method, magic return construction, four basic tricks]

[Refining consumption: 7 mental power]

【Whether to refine】

"refining."

…

At one end of the airship is the wizard's rest cabin.

"Arelie, how much do you think these apprentices can survive this time?"

Taylor looked at the sea of ​​clouds outside the window. The flying height of the airship was about two thousand meters. Looking out the window from this height, the sea of ​​clouds seemed to be land.

"More than four thousand. This time, the exchange of crystal balls for magic stones has been cancelled. No one should deliberately hunt them."

Next to Taylor, the muscular woman holding the sword on the door panel replied casually, leaning against the bulkhead.

"I heard that the dean suffered a big loss in the plane war and needs to replenish the number of wizards as much as possible. The students of these years are blessed!"

There was a sigh in Taylor's tone. Once upon a time, he was also a ruthless person among the apprentices.

As a result, he failed to be promoted once and was unable to be a wizard for life.

Now I can only work for the college to make ends meet.

Looking at these preparatory apprentices, Taylor, who is over a hundred years old, always thinks of his younger self.

"By the way, why didn't you see that guy?" Taylor asked.

"There are a few little guys this year who are smarter. We gathered some magic stones and asked him to come over and explain the meditation method."

"Oh?" Taylor was a little surprised, "Isn't this illegal?"

Ariely shrugged: "If you don't tell me, if I don't tell you, how will the big shots in the academy know.

Besides, those little guys spent magic stones, which complied with the principle of equivalent exchange. Even if the academy knew about it, they would only praise those little guys for their brains. "

But Taylor shook his head.

"The teaching materials written by the dean are simple enough. If they can't learn from this level of teaching materials, then even if they come in, they will just wait to die.

After all, you have to walk the path of truth by yourself. If you can succeed by taking a shortcut, can they still take a lifetime of tricks? "

…

Room 225.

Richard sat cross-legged on the bed, trying to calm himself down.

After refining "How to Become a Sorcerer's Apprentice", Richard has fully mastered the theoretical knowledge of meditation.

The so-called meditation method is the magician's method.

The main function is to help wizards increase their mental power and restore their mental power.

"The three elements of becoming a wizard apprentice are connecting to the sea of ​​souls, building a return of magic power, and engraving spell marks. The most difficult of these is connecting to the sea of ​​souls."

Richard tried to adjust his state according to the information in the book.

According to the book, the stronger a person's mental power is, the easier it is to connect to the sea of ​​souls.

As long as he connects to the sea of ​​souls, his meditation is half successful.

As Richard's heart calmed down, he began to engrave runes in his spiritual world.

There are three runes for the basic meditation method. When Richard completed the rune engraving, his spirit suddenly seemed to be separated from the body and fell into a bottomless abyss.

The abyss was silent and time and space seemed to not exist.

Richard's spirit did not know how long he stayed in this abyss. Boredom, loneliness, and fear surged into Richard's heart like a tide.

But he endured it all.

Because this is the only way to connect to the sea of ​​souls.

Finally, after falling for an unknown period of time, Richard's spirit finally touched the sea of ​​souls.

In an instant, Richard saw the endless starry sky.

"The sea of ​​souls reflects the material world. Every plane of the material world is a star in the sea of ​​souls. This spectacular scenery has influenced every wizard who has seen it, so later wizards also called the material world - the starry world."

The records in the book flashed through Richard's mind. At this moment, his thoughts seemed to overlap with countless wizards over the past tens of millions of years.

"This is so beautiful."

Richard sighed, and then began to leave his mark in the sea of ​​souls.

With this mark, he can connect to the sea of ​​souls more easily.

"What mark should I leave?" Richard looked at the endless starry sky, and a sense of loneliness suddenly surged in his heart.

Being a stranger in a foreign world, every time I look at the starry sky, I miss my family.

Richard used his mental power to turn into a pen, and then drew a five-pointed star in the sea of ​​souls.

After doing all this, Richard's mind began to be a little trance.

The basic meditation method can only allow him to stay in the sea of ​​souls for so long. If he wants to stay longer, he has to find a more advanced meditation method.

In a few seconds, his spirit returned to the material world.

At this moment, he has completed the most difficult and important step in becoming a wizard apprentice.