Mage Adam

The first-year course does not require apprentices to attend every time, and there is no such thing as roll call. As long as you have no problems and are sure to pass the year-end withdrawal assessment, it doesn't matter if you don't come all the time.

That's what Adam did, and he never showed up for anything other than the first round of classes.

Medicine knowledge is to let apprentices understand the properties of various plants, and to prepare highly poisonous poisons, that’s right, poisons. Medicine knowledge does not teach healing but only kills. But there is also an interesting side. Through the understanding of plants, various seasonings can be prepared, which is very useful for magic cooking.

The current teaching of alchemy knowledge is close to material science and metallurgy. It is obvious that the core content is not taught. The method of refining metal to make it firm, and not knowing how to draw runes in it is nothing more than ordinary things.

Body training knowledge is to teach apprentices who have the qualifications of body training mages to train magic power into the body. It is an elective course and is not included in the final assessment. However, the body refiner is an official mage, and his appearance...is very curious, and he doesn't look like a human being at all. Adam guessed that the higher content should include the study of blood and DNA.

Adam, who had learned about the assessment standards, never appeared in the classroom again, and spent the rest of the time in the library except for the unshakeable breakfast every day.

Reading is very expensive, knowledge is very expensive, this is Adam's most intuitive feeling. The reading of each book requires a payment of different quantities of energy stones, and the reading time is stipulated. Repeated reading requires repeated payment. Fortunately, Adam has a computer-level memory. place.

The library is divided into levels, and new apprentices can only read the content of the first level, and the content of the higher level cannot be read even if they have money.

But even with only one floor, there are countless books. One day after Adam was addicted to reading and didn't count his wealth, he suddenly found that the balance was insufficient.

There are quite a few old bookworms in the library. These senior apprentices are not as shallow as the group of Adam’s contemporaries. After being amazed at Adam’s reading speed at first, they found that Adam possessed terrible memory and comprehension ability. With the most basic spiritual aptitude, coupled with such talent, even if they can't be sure whether Adam can become a mage, at least there is no problem in becoming a senior apprentice like them. So they agree that Adam has the right to talk to them on an equal footing.

Moreover, this kind of talent is easy to win the favor of official mages, and becoming their experimental assistant, at a low level, can already be regarded as having a bright future.

"Adam, do you remember where the book "Elementary Enchanted Plants and Their Properties" is kept?" Eliot Pierce is an old bookworm and the pharmacy tutor of the apprentices. Specialized in the production of potent poisons, according to what he said, in the last tower war, he used the poison he made to kill all six senior apprentices.

"Botany bookshelf, the sixth column on the third floor." Adam casually reported the location, still looking at the book in his hand that he couldn't afford to read, "The Initial Changes of the Fireball Rune Group".

"Oh, thank you." Elliott thanked and was about to leave. They were used to asking Adam when they couldn't find the books they needed, and Adam never let them down. It's just that Adam used to read books without looking up. This time he found Adam in a daze?

"What are you? There are no energy stones?" Elliot asked narrowly beside Adam.

Adam put the book back on the shelf, distanced himself from Elliot indifferently, and said, "That's right. Please stay away from me, Mr. Elliot."

Poisonous creatures are obviously not welcomed by ordinary creatures. Although everyone does not reject him, they are not willing to get too close. Adam still remembers the bad hormones that were rapidly secreted in his body after meeting Elliot for the first time.

Elliot curled his lips, stopped as he said, and complained: "I said, my own poison has an antidote,

It won't hurt you. "

Adam was unimpressed: "But it wasn't a pleasant experience."

"Okay, you shallow people, you have no way to appreciate the beauty of changes in physical properties." Elliot muttered and said, "Adam, I have a way for you to earn energy stones, do you want to listen to it?" ?”

"certainly."

Elliot said in a bewitching voice: "I lack an assistant in my laboratory to record the experimental data for me. I fired the idiot before. Adam, your memory is definitely qualified for this job. How about it? Do you want to come? help me?"

Adam suddenly remembered that James' invitation was not very important, so he didn't add it to the memorandum, and it seemed that it was the next rune knowledge course...

"Don't worry, I will never use you as a test product. That's not allowed by the college. It's just for me to record the data. And you can pass the pharmacy test directly." Seeing that Adam didn't speak, Elliott induced him again.

It would be good to be an assistant in the laboratory, but the poison laboratory is obviously not a good choice. Adam thought of this and said to Elliott: "Mr. Elliott, do you know Mr. James?"

"You can just call me Elliott, James? Of course I know, he should be the meditation teacher of your group, right?"

"Well, yes, he invited me to be an assistant in his lab on the first day."

Elliott understood: "Is that so, he hasn't given up yet?"

Adam asked suspiciously: "Is it difficult to find an experimental assistant?"

"Well, it depends on the situation. The labs of official mages are never short of assistants, and the apprentices are worse, but James' meditation lab is an exception."

"Why is he an exception?"

Elliott said: "You should have heard his knowledge of the mage's armor, right? You think it makes sense, don't you?"

"Um."

"But in fact, the mage's armor is not that important. Well, I can't say that, it should be said that it is not the most critical during the apprenticeship stage. The mage's armor is adjustable, and this adjustment can be made at any level. James's Therefore, he was obsessed with studying meditation during the apprenticeship stage, only because of his lack of aptitude. At first, he barely reached the spiritual power of a unit, without any soul tendency, and the elemental affinity was also very low. So he wanted to advance to the official level through pure spiritual power. Mage."

Eliot went on to say: "Before the Tower War, there were a few people who were in the same situation as him to experiment with him, but unfortunately, those people died, and the surviving apprentices didn't quite agree with his ideas. What about subtlety? Anyway, in the apprenticeship stage, our lifespan is limited."

Adam learned about lifespan through communication with senior apprentices, because the energy levels of ether and magic power are too high, flesh and blood and fragile souls need to bear a great price to carry and use them, although there is a spiritual However, it also greatly reduces the lifespan of apprentices. Generally speaking, if there is no special medicine to prolong their life, apprentices can't live for a hundred years.

Eliot concluded: "So, we all think that he is wasting time, and the official mages in the academy are not very supportive of him, but because his research can slightly improve the efficiency of meditation, so his project was not cut. Lose."

"That's it." Adam was thoughtful, and what Elliott said made sense, but Adam felt that James' research was not wrong, at least he agreed with the statement that it was easier to get through the weak stage.

Seeing that Adam was silent, Elliot persuaded: "Adam, with your aptitude, you don't need to study how to improve the efficiency of meditation. You must know that in the apprenticeship stage, we must first ensure that we can advance in a limited life. That kind of research If you are interested, you will have plenty of time to do it after becoming an official mage."

Elliott's advice was mostly sincere except that he wanted to hire Adam. After Adam thanked him seriously, he said: "I am very interested in his research direction, and I need to find out more. Thank you for telling me this. Elliott."

Eliot sighed helplessly, waved his hands and said, "Well, it's up to you, you are always welcome in my laboratory." He had a reason for his helplessness, if James' laboratory is like this because it has no development prospects If it is bleak, then his experiment cannot recruit people because it is not popular. It is definitely not a good experience to be with those horrible poisonous plants and poisonous creatures every day.

Adam meets Crystal on the way out of the library.

Crystal was very distressed. She was purely compatible with the air (wind) element. Among the three magic rune groups left by Mage Black, except for the wind blade, it was very difficult for her to master. In addition, no matter how great the pressure of the college is, it can't keep up with the life and death on the ship, and her wisdom displayed in a desperate situation can't be used. She can only look at the poor balance in the identity token, and want to find two kinds of air magic in the library. study.

She also saw Adam for the first time in a few days, and because of the previous incident, she didn't know how to talk to Adam.

"Adam, you... hello." Crystal stammered.

Adam stood on the side of the road and replied calmly: "Hello."

Crystal plucked up his courage and said, "Ah, Adam, why haven't you gone to class recently? Have you really given up on yourself?"

Because of being isolated? She didn't say that.

Adam looked at her strangely. He didn't know why she said that suddenly. With his relationship with her, it seemed that he hadn't reached this point yet, right? Human logic is a strange thing.

Even though he thought so, Adam still replied: "No, it's too simple." After finishing speaking, he ignored her and walked straight towards James' laboratory.

Leaving Crystal alone in the wind, "Too simple? This kind of reason... is simply..."

After a long while, she put away her thoughts and walked towards the library. At this time, she felt that those companions who were gossiping behind their backs were too ridiculous. It turned out that in Adam's heart, he was not the same kind of person as them.