My Magic Age

We, the magicians who took the primary inscription qualification exam, followed a magician into the Inscription Union headquarters building. We walked nearly a hundred meters to the right along the semicircular steps and came to the entrance of a corridor. This is already the second floor of the Inscription headquarters building. Walking in the corridor, I couldn't help but look to both sides.

The walls of the corridor were painted with a layer of white paint, making the entire corridor look particularly bright. There were many drawings of magic patterns hanging on the snow-white walls. These drawings were framed. There were labels on the wall under each magic pattern frame. There were clear notes on them: A certain magician designed the magic pattern array in a certain year and month, and then began to briefly introduce the function of the array, etc.

If it weren't for the fact that I was about to take the exam, I really wanted to take a closer look at all the magic pattern array drawings framed in this corridor.

Norbert walked behind me and saw me looking around, as if I was very curious about the furnishings in the Inscription Union Building. He felt very strange and asked me: "Ji Jia, are you looking for something?"

My eyes reluctantly withdrew from the magic pattern drawings on the wall, and I said to him: "Ah! No, I'm looking at the paintings on the wall, Norbert, you see, these paintings seem to be some magic pattern construction drawings!"

Norbert's eyes widened, looking at me as if he was staring at a monster, and his words were full of questions: "Ji Jia, you haven't been to the Inscription Union headquarters before, right?"

I touched my head, smiled, and said to him, "Isn't it forbidden for outsiders to enter here? There is a sign on the wall next to the gate saying 'No entry for outsiders'. How dare I just break in! I wanted to sneak in once, but was stopped by the guard at the door."

Norbert looked at me with a wry smile and said to me, "Oh my God! Where is your inscription teacher? Has he never brought you here?"

It was only then that I realized that it was no wonder that Norbert seemed very familiar with this place. It turned out that he often followed his inscription teacher to the headquarters of the Inscription Union.

Unfortunately, Yekis scholar is not an inscription master, so he is not qualified to enter the Inscription Headquarters Building. Although I pass by this building every day, I have never thought of taking a look inside.

So I said to Norbert: "Well... Speaking of which... Actually... The teacher who taught me inscriptions was not an inscriptionist. He didn't seem to know that there were so many drawings of magic runes in the corridor on the first floor of the Inscription Union, because I never heard him mention it."

I hesitated a little, but after thinking about it, I decided to tell the truth.

Scholar Yekis is a very good inscription designer. He just couldn't pass the junior inscriptionist exam. He can bring the power of every rune in the magic rune structure to the extreme. He can shuffle the order of magic runes and then form a new magic rune pattern, so that the magic rune structure still has the original magic effect. Just based on this point, he is much stronger than many inscriptionists who have passed the qualification exam.

Hearing what I said, Norbert probably overturned some of his understanding of magic. He couldn't help but cover his mouth with his hands and exclaimed from the depths of his throat: "My God, how did you learn the inscription technique? Where did your recommendation letter come from? Shouldn't this recommendation letter be written to you by your inscription teacher?"

Only then did I understand why the Yekis scholar asked Lord Bruce to write a recommendation letter for me. It turned out that this kind of thing should have been done by him.

So, I said, "This recommendation letter of mine? It was written to me by Bruce, the vice president of our institute."

Norbert was even more surprised when he heard me say this, and said, "Wow, Jijia, who are you? Even the vice president of the institute has to write you a recommendation letter in person."

Maybe it was because we were a little too engrossed in our conversation, maybe it was because the whole team was whispering, or maybe it was because the magician who led us into the headquarters of the Inscription Union Building was a little impatient. The magician who walked in front suddenly stopped and turned to our group and said, "Everyone, please don't make loud noises in the union building."

The effect was obvious. When he said this, the whispers in the team stopped immediately.

At this time, I realized that he stopped in front of a row of rooms. Those room numbers seemed very simple. Probably because this is the second floor, so the room numbers all start with "two". I stretched my neck to look inside. There were rooms like this on both sides of the corridor.

The magician had a poker face, his chin was very sharp, his lips were very thin, and when he spoke, his lips hardly moved, and his voice was very low: "Next, please show your recommendation letters..."

...

The bright sunlight shone in from the window, leaving long spots of light on the desk and the bottom board. Five questions were printed on the yellow magic parchment. I spread the paper flat on the table, but did not rush to answer the questions. Instead, I looked around. Not far to my left, a middle-aged magician was sitting. He frowned slightly and concentrated on thinking about how to answer the first question.

The room was large, but there were only ten magicians sitting there. The desk was large, but everyone was far away.

Just a few minutes ago, a magician hurried in with a large bundle of magic parchment, and distributed the magic parchment rolls in his hand to each magician who took the exam, and then strode out of the examination room with the remaining magic parchment without looking back.

The next scene that I found incredible was that there was no examiner in charge of the exam room, and no one told us how long it would take to hand in the papers. We were just left here.

Some magicians had already started to answer the first question, and everyone was busy with their own work. No one tried to communicate with others. The other nine magicians in the exam room where I was were middle-aged people much older than me. They didn't even make eye contact. They waited for the rolls of magic parchment to be handed down, and then they lowered their heads and wrote furiously.

Norbert was assigned to another exam room. He didn't expect the first written test to be like this.

There were a few green-tailed yellow-feathered orioles chirping on the apple tree outside the window, which made me a little upset, because the first written test question was about fire magic, which I was not good at.

In the Green Empire, almost all magicians advocate fire magic, because the Green Empire has the most complete fire magic heritage, so it is expected to encounter the question of fire magic runes in the first question and answer. However, this question seems a bit tricky. It actually asks: How to draw a complete "linked fireball" magic skill on the primary magic pattern structure?

What! This is simply impossible.

I scratched my hair in distress, thinking for a while, but I still felt a little confused. Seeing other magicians in the examination room answering questions quickly, I immediately realized that I should not be too entangled in this question. I looked down first and at least wrote down the questions I knew.

Fortunately, the second question became a little more normal. Although it was a little tricky, it was at least within my acceptable range.

I quickly finished three written test questions in one breath, straightened up and stretched my body, and rubbed my slightly sore shoulders. At this time, I realized that other magicians were still filling in the answers on the magic paper, but they began to write and stop, and they would also calculate on the rough paper.

The reason why I was able to write down the answers on the paper so smoothly was that I had basically encountered similar problems in the magic laboratory of the Yekis scholar. At the beginning, the Yekis scholar and I also worked very hard to cross the river by feeling the stones bit by bit. Our only advantage was that once we chose the right way, we would not go wrong again the second time.

The experience accumulated over such a long time gave me a strong practical ability. I didn’t expect that the written test questions also asked some tricky solutions to difficult problems. It was not the kind of test I thought about, such as reciting obscure magic runes, or drawing a magic pattern array on the paper.

I soon wrote the fifth question. After reading the question, I didn’t rush to write down the answer. Instead, I silently recalled the magic pattern assembly drawing that Senior Dylan gave me, and then drew the simple drawing of the ‘collapse’ magic pattern assembly in the last small space of the paper.

The fifth question asked me to draw a space-based magic pattern assembly on the paper... It was really a ‘coincidence’.

I turned my head and looked at the bright sunshine and blue sky outside the window. The faint smile on Senior Dylan's face when he met me in my rental house that day came to my mind. No wonder he was concerned about my inscription master qualification exam that day, and when he knew that I was determined to take the Imperial Capital Junior Inscription Master Qualification Exam, he insisted on giving me a "collapse" magic pattern construction drawing.

After answering the next four questions, I turned around and rethought the first question: How to draw the "continuous fireball" magic skill on the primary magic pattern construction? How to draw a third-level fire magic on the primary magic pattern construction? First of all, without considering the bearing capacity of the Warcraft leather armor, the structure of the primary magic pattern construction alone is difficult to give the "continuous fireball" magic pattern array enough mana, which is a big problem. Moreover, as a first-year student of the Royal Magic Academy, although I was assigned to the second class of the fire system, I have not learned the "continuous fireball" magic.

That's right, although I saw Jonathan and Hiram release the "Continuous Fireball" during the battle in the Yello plane, I don't know the magic pattern array of the "Continuous Fireball" at all.

After thinking for a long time, there is no better solution, so I just write something randomly, at least to make the paper look better! Of course, I can't write it completely randomly, so I drew the magic pattern array of the "Small Fireball" in the blank space under the first question. At this time, an idea suddenly came to my mind: Although the "Continuous Fireball" is not a continuous launch of three small fireballs... but it's almost the same!

But how to draw the magic pattern array of the "Big Fireball"...?

Forget it, small fireballs are small fireballs, small fireballs are also pretty good.

So, I began to explain in Imperial language how to use three ‘small fireballs’ to imitate ‘continuous fireballs’, but the power seemed to be much worse, so I wrote under the first question: A total of fifteen small fireballs can be drawn on the complete primary magic pattern structure. If fifteen small fireballs are released at the same time, it can simulate a magic effect similar to ‘continuous fireballs’…

Hey, wait, it seems that Noah’s black oil spell can also be added. Can this be called ‘combination magic’?

Not long after I finished answering the first question, the magician who had walked into the examination room to distribute the test papers came back again. As soon as he entered the door, he started collecting the papers without saying a word. I looked around and observed that most of the other magicians had not finished answering. They looked helplessly at the papers on the table being taken away, revealing a look of regret.

Just as the magician who collected the papers left, the magician who brought us into the Inscription Union Building appeared at the door again. He said to us with a poker face: "Next, we will enter the second round of the exam. Follow me."

Then, he took us into a large laboratory. There were at least hundreds of test benches in this laboratory. Various primary magic inks, primary magic gem bases and different styles of magic engraving pens were prepared on each test bench. We followed the instructions and entered the front of the test bench. At this time, I saw Norbert in the crowd again. This time, I was lucky that he was assigned to the test bench in front of me.

The two of us stood one after the other, with only a test bench between us, so it was no problem even if we spoke in a low voice.

Norbert whispered something in front of me: "Damn the examiner, he is so perverted. Can't he set questions properly? The last question is about the space magic pattern construction. I think I failed this time. I heard that the last question has the largest score. Jijia, how did you do this time?"

I thought that except for the first question, I was not sure, so I said: "Probably... okay, anyway, I filled in all the blanks."

Norbert probably thought that I was hiding the embarrassment of not being able to answer the questions, so he comforted me and said: "It's okay, this kind of junior inscription master qualification exam is held every year. If you can't pass it this year, we will continue next year!"

I could only bite the bullet and say: "...Okay."

The leather armor for making the magic pattern construction is prepared by the magician himself, because the second link is to make a magic pattern construction on the spot, which requires personal design elements. The Inscription Union cannot prepare some unique magic leather armor, so these unique magic leather armors are prepared by the magicians who take the qualification exam.

Of course, every piece of magic equipment must undergo the most rigorous inspection to prevent some magicians who are taking the qualification exam from tampering with it.

When it was my turn to check my magic equipment, I quickly placed a fish skin hood on the laboratory table.

Fish skin hood...