Chapter 661 Young Alchemist
The most powerful Saint Wizard Dean Colen of the academy accepted apprentices again after a hundred years. This news spread throughout the entire Mitis Wizard Academy through the virtual spiritual space in an instant.
Mitis Wizard Academy is one of the few wizard academies in the Five Rings Wizard Islands. It is a typical wizard academy with high requirements for easy admission and strict graduation. There are rich resources, countless knowledge, a good environment, and knowledgeable mentors. As long as you are willing to work hard, you can achieve something.
Where there are people, there is competition. Mitis Wizard Academy is no exception. It can even be said that the competition here is also very fierce. Except for not being able to kill or maim, other places may not be much different from the outside world. Identity background is also very important here, and this so-called background is not the background of the outside world, but the backer: the teacher in the academy.
If you want to live better in Mitis Wizard Academy and get more resources, becoming a disciple is a shortcut. However, Mitis Wizard Academy, which has tens of thousands of wizard apprentices but only more than 200 teachers, is not so easy to become a disciple. The reason is very simple: the number of places is limited.
The teachers at the Mitis Wizard Academy are divided into different levels. Saint Wizards are in the first level and have five quotas. These quotas refer to student quotas. Once graduated, they will no longer occupy these quotas. Moreover, none of the five Saint Wizards currently have full quotas, and Dean Colen has no students at all.
Second-level wizards are divided into two levels, one is a senior teacher with two quotas, and the other is a special teacher with three quotas.
First-level wizards are just junior teachers with one quota, but these quotas are not fixed. Professionals have quota bonuses. Professionals have one more quota, master-level professionals have two quotas, and if they are grandmasters, they have three quotas. The Mitis Wizard Academy has more than ten masters of various types, but there is only one grandmaster, and he is still a very useless appraisal grandmaster.
The source of the news is no longer verifiable, but the rumor changed beyond recognition half an hour later. It changed from the dean accepting apprentices to the dean wanting to accept apprentices, and the candidates are all the current wizard apprentices. Then everyone started to discuss how powerful the dean's disciples would eventually become. Then an imaginary character appeared. The dean's last disciple from a hundred years ago returned to the campus and was ready to take over the dean's position. The dean retired and was ready to go home to retire.
The source was untraceable, and the final conclusion was unreliable, so many wizard apprentices believed the middle part, that the dean was ready to accept disciples, and the test of accepting disciples was definitely not that simple. Selection was required in the early stage, and there were still five months before the Five Rings Wizard Academy Competition. Could this competition be the prelude to accepting disciples?
Many wizard apprentices heard the news and began to show themselves. Not to mention the newly enrolled wizard apprentices in their teens and twenties, those wizard apprentices in their forties and fifties were also very tempted. If they were tempted, they would take action. On the one hand, they followed their connections to find other teachers to inquire about the background, but without exception, they all failed.
Some well-informed wizard apprentices came to the second-level wizard for help, but they were greeted with a look like a fool.
The second-level wizard warned the wizard apprentice earnestly: You must know yourself correctly. It is not easy to be a disciple of a holy wizard. If you cannot become a formal wizard before the age of 30, you will never graduate after becoming a disciple of a holy wizard. Such a disciple will be too embarrassing for the holy wizard.
Failed again today! Corey walked on the road with his head down, swinging the hammer in his hand unconsciously, and his mind was full of doubts. Why did he fail? His own casting hammer method is obviously very good, and the iron forging is also decent, but why did the master still give him an unqualified grade? Is alchemical casting really that difficult?
Corey is a child from an ordinary family in an ordinary town. His father is a blacksmith. Since he was a child, he has admired his father for making weapons for those warriors and knights. The weapons made by his father are famous within a radius of 100 miles, but his father is not satisfied with the weapons he forged.
When he was young, Corey once asked his father about his doubts when he was drunk. His drunken father told him all about magic rune equipment, magic tools, and other things. It turned out that his father was not only a blacksmith, but also a great warrior-level mercenary. From him, little Corey learned about the more colorful world outside and the vastness of the forging world.
The mercenary group where his father belonged was not large in scale, but very strong. It had one official wizard, two great warriors, one great knight, and more than 20 high-level professionals. Then, they were wiped out in a mission to defeat Warcraft. Except for his father and another wizard who escaped by chance, all others were killed. The disheartened father chose to retire, and the wizard visited his father again 20 years later and brought himself here.
The magic beast was killed by the promoted wizard to commemorate his deceased comrade. The wizard brought him the wizard meditation method, a magic book, and ten low-grade magic stones, and left him at the Mitis Wizard Academy and went out again to continue his mercenary life.
Corey was not happy in the academy. There were wizard apprentices everywhere. They were well-educated and had a good accumulation of knowledge, while he was just a bumpkin from the countryside, a bumpkin who knew nothing except ironwork.
I am already 25 years old, but I am still a second-level wizard apprentice, and I was promoted half a year ago. I have been practicing for ten years now. My qualifications are only excellent, but my knowledge level is at the bottom among the new wizard apprentices who have been promoted for ten years. Even if they have just been wizard apprentices for a year, many people can already defeat me in wizard knowledge.
Corey has learned a lot of things. He will try to get almost all free courses and try hard to pass the assessment, but most of the assessment results are unqualified. In the end, he chose alchemy casting. Then, he worked hard for ten years and was still only a first-level alchemy casting apprentice.
"What went wrong? Is it really because my qualifications are too poor?" Corey muttered to himself, with a frustrated look on his face.
"My classmate, how do I get to the alchemy office building?" Suddenly, a strange young voice sounded next to him. Corey looked up and saw a badge, a badge that made his legs feel weak.
"This, this, this is the alchemist's badge?! That's right, the badge of a formal alchemist, ah, you are the master of the foundry?" Corey stood up in a hurry, and his flustered look was very honest, which caused a burst of laughter from the wizard apprentices around him, but Corey couldn't laugh at all. The casting hammer in his hand fell to the ground with a "clang", smashing his foot.
Corey immediately jumped up and bounced back and forth holding his feet. Suddenly, he thought of another big man next to him, and hurriedly put his feet down and stood up. Only then did he have time to worship the formal foundry carefully. Then, he saw a boy and a girl, two young people wearing wizard apprentice robes, handsome men and beautiful women who were younger than himself, and the foundry badge that he had been thinking about was worn on the boy.
Is he really a formal foundry? Could it be that he is a fake? Could it be that the gang deliberately disguised himself to tease him?
No, wait, it is a serious crime for a non-professional to forge a professional badge. Is he real? But it's not right. How could such a young wizard apprentice be a formal foundry master? I have never heard of such a young foundry master in the Mitis Wizard Academy. What's more, he doesn't even know the location of the alchemist office building. This is very unusual.
Seeing the wizard apprentice who was dumbfounded and even muttered to himself, and expressed all his doubts, Xiao Weier and Lilith looked at each other and couldn't help but smile faintly. He was also a fool, but at least he didn't look like a person who would play tricks.
"My title of alchemist foundry master was obtained through certification outside, and I need to report to the alchemy office building of the academy. I just saw this classmate holding a foundry hammer in his hand, and I thought you were an apprentice in the alchemy building, so I disturbed you. If it's not convenient, we can..."
"Ah, oh, that's it, Mr. foundry master, please forgive me, I, I was too excited just now, and being a foundry master has always been my dream." Corey hurriedly performed the etiquette of an apprentice facing a formal professional, and Xiao Weier also returned a simple etiquette.
"First-level alchemy casting apprentice Corey has met the master foundry master. It is my honor to serve you. Please follow me." Corey put the casting hammer into the storage bag, and then took the two boys and girls to the alchemy office building, introducing the situation as they walked.
"Our academy is very large, more than ten times larger than the city where I came from. There are all kinds of professions. Among them, alchemist is the most popular profession. Among alchemists, alchemy foundry masters and alchemy pharmacists are respected figures in the city. However, compared with alchemy pharmacists, foundry masters are more suitable for men. They swing a huge hammer and knock..."