My Magic Age

The defense room was a little dim. There were no windows around the room, only a skylight above my head. The pale yellow light formed a beam of light that shone down from the ceiling and covered me, giving me the illusion of standing on the stage.

My magic box was slowly opened by the magician sitting at the edge of the long table. He first took out my questionnaire, pondered for a moment, and then asked me: "Ji Jia, your recommender is Bruce Scholar of the Magic Academy?"

"Yes, sir." I said.

Hearing my answer, the seven magicians sitting behind the long table took a deep breath.

The magician at the edge put his hands on the tabletop of the long table and asked me impatiently: "So, Lord Bruce is your inscription teacher?"

I replied: "That's not the case, sir, my inscription teacher is Yekis Scholar of the Magic Academy."

Hearing my answer, I didn't expect these magicians to be more surprised than before, and they all sighed.

The magician at the edge of the long table exclaimed, "So you are the disciple of the magic scholar who has never been able to become an inscriptionist, but can design a perfect primary magic pattern structure?"

I didn't expect that the Yekis scholar was so famous in the Inscription Union. Obviously, the seven magicians on the field have heard of his name.

"Yes, sir." I said.

The magician said, "I see, no wonder you have a letter of recommendation from Lord Bruce. I admire Yekis Scholar very much. Let's take a look at your written test paper."

His tone became softer, and then he unfolded the magic parchment scroll in his hand, and said while reading, "...Oh, the answer to the first question is not very good. Do you think that fifteen small fireballs fired at the same time, plus a black oil spell, can become a mixed magic comparable to 'fireballs in a row'?"

My first defense in my life started in such a situation. I knew that the answer to the first question was made up by myself, but I still had to seriously explain the reason why I wrote it this way: "Fifteen small fireballs are released at the same time at the same frequency, theoretically..."

The paper roll was turned around in the hands of seven magicians, and the seven magicians shook their heads gently. Only one magician held the paper roll and said, "This is a very innovative answer!"

Among the seven magicians, only one magician had a slightly positive evaluation of my first question and answer.

I didn't expect that the third defense would be about answering the content of the first two exams.

No matter what kind of outrageous answers were given on the paper, the examiners would ask in person. No matter how special the answers on the paper were, they would reveal the mystery in the defense. On the contrary, the examiners would just brush aside those questions that were answered in a standard way.

My first question was brought up, and it was obviously far from the real answer.

Although my answer was a bit far-fetched, but... it was a special answer after all.

For the next three questions, the seven magicians did not ask any questions. They set their eyes on the fifth question. My magic parchment scroll was passed around in their hands, and finally fell into the hands of one of the magicians with a tornado and lightning emblem embroidered on the cuffs of his magic robe. He looked at the magic pattern construction drawing on the scroll carefully.

The room was a little dark. I couldn't see the embroidery on the magician's cuffs, but a stream of magic light suddenly flashed on his magic robe, and my eyes caught it at that moment.

After looking for a long time, he said, "A very delicate space magic pattern structure. If I'm not mistaken, this magic pattern structure should be used on magic gloves?"

"Yes, sir." I answered.

"What is the name of this magic pattern structure?" He touched his nose and raised his head to ask me.

I saw his eyes in the darkness.

His pupils seemed to contain two electric sparks, which were so dazzling in the darkness, but the dazzling light only existed for a second and then disappeared.

I said, "Honkai gloves."

He looked at the magic parchment again and whispered, "The name is very appropriate. Are you a space magician?"

I answered honestly, "No, I am a water magician?"

He asked curiously, "Why do you study space magic? And from this design, it is difficult to have such a clever idea without a certain in-depth understanding of space magic."

I guess this is also the question that the other magicians have always wanted to ask. The answer to the fifth question is too delicate, which makes the seven magicians have some doubts.

"This summer, I went on an adventure on the Vashj plane with a senior from the Royal Magic Academy. He taught me a lot of space magic knowledge." I said this to the magician.

I said this sentence to deliberately mislead them, making them think that they learned the design of this magic pattern structure during the summer vacation.

In fact, I didn't say that the 'Honkai gloves' were learned at that time. I just said that I learned a lot of space magic in the summer.

But the magician didn't dwell on this issue too much. He suddenly said, "Oh! So you are a magic student of the Royal Magic Academy? The senior who participated in the plane training with you, couldn't it be Dylan Hurstler?"

I said, "It was senior Dylan."

Hearing what I said, the seven magicians on the field raised their heads in astonishment again, and their eyes fell on me.

The magician with lightning elements and wind elements embroidered on his sleeves exclaimed: "You are really lucky. You actually participated in the plane experience with this year's rising star in the magic world in the Imperial City. So, you also learned some other space systems." Magic pattern array?"

I said, "Yes, Your Excellency."

He asked further: "Can you show us a simple space magic pattern array on the spot?"

I said without hesitation, "Of course."

The magician asked me: "What do I need to prepare? In addition to the leather of the warp beast and the starry sky ink, are there any other materials needed?"

I shook my head, stretched out my hand and quickly drew a light blue magic circle. As I chanted the spell in my mouth, countless water elements condensed from around my body, forming a large transparent water ball. Under the flexible control of my fingers, the water ball was finally shaped into a light blue test bench composed of water elements.

Finally, I whispered out: "Ningbing!"

A test bench appeared in front of me, and then I quickly took out a blank piece of magic parchment from my magic belt bag, put it on the bench and unfolded it, then took out half a bottle of starry sky ink, picked up the magic engraving pen and dipped it in I dabbed the magic ink twice and started drawing on the magic parchment.

A moment later, a 'Directed Teleportation Magic Scroll' appeared in front of me. Instead of tying the magic parchment into a scroll with a Malian grass leaf like before, I kept the scroll unfolded. state, allowing the magic lines on the scroll to slowly evaporate mana.

The magician came quickly from behind the long table, picked up the magic scroll I drew, took a look at it and said, "Teleportation scroll?"

I nodded and said, "Yes."

The magician brought back the directional teleportation scroll in his hand. The magic scroll was passed back and forth in the hands of those magicians. Finally, it was passed to the old magician sitting in the middle of the long table. He only heard him say: "The magic lines are drawn well." Yes, since you can draw the teleportation scroll of the space system, it seems that you really have a certain understanding of space system magic, so I declare that your written test answer sheet has passed."

He stretched out his finger and tapped the test bench in front of me. The ice test bench turned into fine ice powder and disappeared around my body.

The magician next to him took out the 'fish skin hood' from the magic sealing box, and then said with a smile: "Let me see what amazing things the students of Yerkes Scholars can do in the production of magic patterns." "Excuse me, Jijia, tell me about your design and production of the magic pattern."

I stood in the center of the room and watched the fish skin hood fall into the hands of seven magicians in turn.

I said loudly: "This is a fish skin hood. I drew a magic pattern of 'Flexible Thoughts' on it. In fact, I didn't make many changes. I just made the fish skin hood before." During the process, I discovered that when the fifth magic line of "Flexible Thought" moves a little closer to the central torso of the fish-man skin, the magic on the fish-skin hood will undergo wonderful changes. "

One of the magicians asked casually: "Oh? What kind of change?"

There was a lot of dissatisfaction in my tone, probably because my magic pattern construction was a bit too simple.

I replied: "The magical effect of the 'Flexible Thoughts' of this magic pattern construct will no longer exist, and what follows will be a certain increase in the wearer's mental power!"

At this time, the fishskin hood just fell into the hands of the old magician in the center. He was silently checking the magic patterns on the fishskin hood. Like other magicians, he did not have the courage to wear such an ugly fishskin hood. Above his head, he was checking the magic effect. Hearing what I said, he raised his head and asked, "Oh? The increase in mental power? How much is it approximately?"

"Let me try it!" As he said that, the magician next to him took the fishskin hood and put it on his head. Then the expression on his face was a little wonderful: "Oh...oh...oh! It's really amazing."

Hearing this, the old magician took the fishskin hood and put it on his head. His expression changed slightly, and then he took off the fishskin hood and silently handed it to another magician beside him. The hood was put on the head, and the expression on the face changed a bit. Then, the seven magicians took turns wearing the fish skin hood to experience it.

"Did you discover this?" the old magician asked me: "Do you know the magic effect of 'Flexible Thoughts' has changed? What is the reason for this?"

I nodded first, and then said honestly: "I don't know that."

"You haven't asked anyone else?" the old magician asked.

I shrugged and said, "I don't think it's that special. Maybe it's just an interesting mutation of magic skills."

Finally, the fishskin hood was passed back to the old magician. He gently stroked the fishskin hood and said to me: "It belongs to the category of 'quick recovery of mana' magic patterns. For any junior magician, For masters and intermediate magicians, having it will be helpful for meditation and will greatly increase the speed of magic practice. This thing is quite popular in the empire's magic market. "

He smiled slightly and continued: "Speaking of which, I'm afraid this is beyond the scope of what you are learning now. Since you have been exposed to this, I might as well explain to you what this is all about." This is a magic pattern construction that has come into contact with the category of life magic patterns. To be precise, this magic pattern construction should be a fusion of water magic patterns and life magic patterns, so that the magical effect of primary water magic can be upgraded to extremely rare. An intermediate magic effect that increases mental power.”

"The magic pattern of life?" I repeated it. Although it was not the first time I heard this term, I still knew very little about the magic pattern of life.

The old magician said to me: "The so-called life magic lines refer to the magic lines formed by the natural magic lines in the body of the monster. Most of these magic lines are recessive. Even if we know their existence, we can't tell them. It’s hard to figure out their context. The so-called magical properties of Warcraft leather are due to the magic patterns of life on these leathers.”

He added: "Many magicians in the imperial capital are scholars of the magic pattern of life. They have spent their whole lives searching for the complete veins of the magic pattern of life on the leather of these monsters, looking for the opportunity points for the combination of the magic patterns of various lines and the magic pattern of life. , it is a pity that to this day, the life magic mastered by our Green Empire is still very limited. In contrast, the lizard wizards are ahead of us in this regard. They often use the heads of various monsters to make 'head marks'. These imprinted weapons have some special magic hidden inside them.”

"The magical effect of 'increasing mental power' on this fish skin hood is obviously the fusion of 'flexible thoughts' and the life magic pattern in the fish-man's body, accidentally forming a very wonderful magic pattern structure."

"The chance of such a magical change occurring is almost one in ten thousand."

"Generally, when these two kinds of magic patterns meet together, it means that the production of the magic pattern array has failed... The chance of success is very slim. It seems that this is at least the second time you have succeeded in making it, but you have the courage to be a junior inscription master. It’s really courageous to draw this on the exam.”

"... Or are you very confident that you can successfully make the magic pattern structure of this fish skin hood in the examination room?"

I nodded...

All seven magicians from the Inscription Union headquarters stood up from their seats and said in unison: "This is impossible..."

…

The entire defense process lasted more than two hours. When I walked out of the defense room, the second middle-aged magician in the queue turned a little green from waiting. He looked at me in silence as I walked out happily. Then he looked at the group of magicians waiting in the dark behind him. Under the summons of the magician who led us to the lecture theater, he gritted his teeth and quickly walked into the defense room.

The magician who led us did not allow me to stay in the lecture hall. He silently looked at the junior inscriptionist badge on my chest, nodded to me to express his approval, and then motioned to me It's time to go out.

I was at the door of the lecture theater, glanced inside, and saw Norbert sitting in the classroom, looking at me with his mouth open.

I pointed outside, and then made a gesture to indicate that I should go first.

He nodded slightly, opened his mouth and said a silent word. According to the shape of his mouth, I think he was saying: If I have a chance in the future, I will come to the Magic Research Institute to find you!

I gave her a thumbs up and said I could do it at any time, and then I was urged out of the lecture theater by the magician guarding the door.

…

Catalina sat on a bench under the apple tree, holding a few red apples in her hand. She distributed them to several civilian children, dismissed them, and told them not to come here and poke apples casually. When caught by those magicians and nobles, they had to peel potatoes for those magicians, which frightened the children and threw them away in a rush with apples in their arms.

I walked up to her, and she raised her head, revealing a youthful and beautiful face, with a faint smile in her ruby-like eyes. She saw the inscriptionist badge on my chest and asked me with a smile: "Have you finished the exam?"

I smiled and nodded...