My Magic Age

Thin mist-like clouds shrouded the edges of the ringed peaks of Monte Mazzaro, making the peaks look like ethereal shadows.

A glass window in the corridor was blown open by the wind, and the north wind blew the remaining snow on the window sill to the floor. The chandelier in the corridor was swayed violently by the wind. I walked up and closed the window. Unexpectedly, the wind direction changed, and the white silk The curtains were sucked out of the window by the strong wind, so I had to put down the white paper, hold on to the window and stretch out my hand to pull the curtains back.

A hand stretched out from behind me and helped me hold the window, allowing me to successfully pull the curtain back.

I turned around to thank the man, only to find Mr. Freeman, the dean of students, standing behind me. The expression on his face was like the 'J' on the playing cards, and his two black, thin, upward-turned beards were particularly expressive. , he lowered his eyelids and looked at the white paper bound with parchment in my hand, and said to me in a light tone: "Jijia, the bell for class has already rang, why are you still standing in the corridor in a daze instead of Going to class?"

"In addition, this is the third grade teaching area. If I remember correctly, your classroom should be downstairs!" He turned to look at the classroom sign on the other side of the corridor and asked me.

"Director Freeman..." I was about to explain that I was just brewing my emotions at the door of the classroom. After all, it takes a little courage to step onto the podium for the first time.

"No need to explain, hurry up and go to class. Not every teacher can tolerate his students being late!" Director Freeman interrupted me, waved his hand calmly and said to me.

Several seniors were passing by in the corridor at this time, trying to sneak into the classroom while Director Freeman was teaching me a lesson.

"Dear students, my words are also warning you." Director Freeman added at the right time to their backs. Unfortunately, those seniors did not dare to look back or stop, and quickly disappeared into the classroom. door.

"Um...director, I teach in this classroom." I stood up straight and said to Director Freeman.

"Why did you take the third grade magic class?" Director Freeman asked me in surprise.

I turned my head and glanced at the bronze classroom door, and said to Dean Freeman: "The academic affairs department of the college arranged for me to take an elective course on water magic runes here, Director Freeman!"

"..."

Director Freeman froze in place. After three seconds, he waved to me, then turned and left.

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Walking into the somewhat noisy classroom, the door covered with copper skin made a long creaking sound, and the classroom quickly became quiet.

I stepped onto the podium, and the eyes of the seniors and sisters in the classroom wearing various magic robes fell on me. They looked at me with surprise. Fortunately, no one whistled or whistled in the audience at the same time. boos.

I stood on the podium, placed the white paper bound with magic parchment on the podium, and pretended to be calm and said to the group of third-year seniors and seniors: "The Academic Affairs Office of the college arranged for me to teach all seniors and seniors. class, then in the next class, I will introduce this relatively special water magic rune to you in detail. Good afternoon, seniors and sisters, I am a second-year fire magic student in the second class of the college. My name is Jijia! "

After hearing my self-introduction, the classroom exploded with a bang.

The seniors in the classroom were whispering to each other, and the senior sisters were also whispering. No one wanted to believe this fact.

"Holy crap, isn't this the kid who defeated Senior William on the roof of the teaching building?" A senior's voice came out from the noisy discussion.

"It's really him!" Someone immediately echoed.

"I heard that he is from the North." Then someone in class introduced my origin to the surrounding students.

Some insiders also told some stories about my love life: "What does this mean? As a first-year magic student, he married Teacher Qige and Princess Yingli of Haiyinsi. How could he come to teach us?" "

Then I started getting some questions: “What can he teach us?”

Just when the classroom was in chaos, the back door of the classroom was quietly pushed open, and several runes teachers walked in quietly from outside the door. Scholar Sean and Vice President Hastings were also among this group of people. The magic student sitting in the back row couldn't help but exclaimed: "Vice Dean, Scholar Sean..."

Everyone in the classroom turned around and looked at the back door. The classroom suddenly became silent. One of the seniors in a gorgeous magic robe stood up from his seat. With a hint of uneasiness, he looked at the magician who walked in from the back door. They asked: "Teacher Constantine, Teacher Albert, Teacher Atli, you..."

Under the leadership of Vice Dean Hastings, these magic teachers sat in the empty seats at the back of the classroom in an orderly manner. One of the teachers in the runes department raised a finger and whispered to the magic students in the classroom. Said: "Shh! Please keep the class quiet. We are here just like you now to learn this water magic rune."

"Jijia, can you start now?" Vice-President Hastings raised his hand on his seat and asked in a calm voice.

"Yes, Vice President!" I quickly stood up straight on the stage and answered loudly.

I picked up a piece of blue chalk from the desk and quickly drew a wonderful water rune on the blackboard. Then I tried to relax and said, "As everyone knows, the water magic currently known in the Green Empire is There are three hundred and seventy-seven runes in total, but the primary water magic runes we have access to are less than two hundred, and this rune is a special rune that is completely outside of these runes. It comes from a book of Janna Language magic book..."

"Its drawing method is different from the previous way of drawing runes..."

"...So this fish scale-like stacked magic pattern is the basic writing method of this rune. You can try it and experience it."

This new water rune is also a big challenge for me. It is not difficult to explain the theory on the blackboard, but the difficulty is to use the water magic element to activate this rune in front of me. I can only do it ten times. I only succeeded in drawing it two or three times, so the most embarrassing thing for me was to condense the water element five times in a row to draw this "д" shaped rune.

It wasn't until the last time that a relatively stable magic rune pattern was formed in front of me. The light blue lines flashed intermittently with the light of the water element, and the whole classroom burst into applause.

I took out a silk handkerchief and wiped the sweat from my forehead. This method of drawing stacked lines was also what Princess Ariel told me the day before yesterday through Ying Li. I can only do this to this extent for the time being.

The bell rang for the end of get out of class. I picked up the magic white paper on the podium and slowly walked out of the terraced classroom. The seniors and sisters in the classroom stood up one after another, even the deputy dean, Mr. Hastings, who was sitting in the back row. Scholar Sean and the rune department teachers also stood up and watched me leave.

In this way, I became the youngest rune teacher in the history of the Royal Academy of Magic, although I can currently only master five very strange water runes.

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Walking through the square in front of the college's teaching building, there will always be some seniors and seniors who greet me very friendly.

There is a small artificial lake around the water ecological park in the garden behind the college. The artificial lake is surrounded by a lush forest. In summer, this path is completely blocked by the lush branches and leaves, and few people will walk this path. , but in the winter when the leaves withered, this path was revealed again. Noah, Shirley Newman, and Senior Vernon and I walked through this path to the back door of the college. When we walked out of the back door, we found the backstreet of the Magic College. This street Many magic shops were opened.

Senior Erica and Senior Hailibu's potion shop is just across the street, but it is said that the potion shop closed down last week. Recently, the entire potion market in the Imperial Capital has not been very prosperous. , only with a stable supply of magic herbs can the magic medicine store continue to operate.

A few of us came to the backstreet of the Magic Academy to find a street-facing shop for Senior Vernon. After Senior Vernon successfully refined the red copper solution in the academy's laboratory building, he couldn't always occupy that laboratory. Firstly, the laboratory resources of the Royal Academy of Magic are relatively limited, and secondly, the laboratory at the academy still lacks privacy after all, so Senior Vernon and Noah discussed renting a shop outside the academy and setting up an alchemy store. studio.

"...So, when we enter the third grade, you will also give us a few special runes lessons?" Noah asked, looking at me with a depressed look.

The snow on the back street of the college near the high southern wall showed no signs of melting, but it was heavily trampled by pedestrians, making the road a little slippery.

Places with snow always remind people of the Northern Territory. Counting that the surface of the Benma River has almost been frozen by ice during this period, those barbarians on the ice and snow tundra should also cross the Benma River and enter the Northern Territory.

I lowered my head to avoid an elm branch that protruded diagonally from the courtyard wall, and said, "Probably not. I think the rune teachers in the college should have mastered the drawing methods of these five water runes by then!"

"What do you think of that shop?" Senior Vernon stopped and looked at a two-story townhouse facing the street across the street and asked us.

This small western-style building has two floors, a roof and an attic. There is a professional manager standing at the door of the building. When he saw Senior Vernon and Noah, he waved vigorously. As we crossed the street, the manager picked up his backpack from his backpack. He took out a bunch of keys and opened the door, and asked us to go in and see the layout inside. This is a common single-story structure in the imperial capital. As soon as you enter the door on the first floor, you will see a very spacious living room, with a small Next to the dining room and kitchen are two guest rooms and a staircase leading upstairs. Upstairs is the master's living room. There are a total of three bedrooms, one large, two small, one of which has a terrace, and a simple living room on the ridge. In the attic, there is a small basement dug under the stairs leading to the second floor. There is a small courtyard of more than 20 square meters behind the small foreign-style building. The whole building is compact and elegant.

This type of building is very common in the Third Block. The biggest advantage of this small foreign-style building is that it is only one wall away from the Royal Academy of Magic.

The professional manager of the housing and property union took us into the living room and introduced us to the origin of the small western-style building: "The owner of this room is a noble lord from a southern province. He only went bankrupt after losing a plane war. Will sell off the property in the Imperial Capital..."

Noah and Senior Vernon walked around upstairs and downstairs. It was obvious that Senior Vernon liked this small mansion very much. He even walked around the backyard filled with snow.

Noah waved his hand to the professional manager impatiently and said, "Okay, can you come up with some fresh reasons? You guys have said all these old-fashioned stories. Let's talk about the price!"

The professional manager wiped the sweat from his forehead, with a smile on his face, and said to Noah: "Needless to say, all the magicians can see that this loft is in a very advantageous location. Currently, this place in the third block is The rental price for lofts is very transparent. It costs three gold coins per month and requires at least one year.”

Only then did I realize that the monthly rent for such a small foreign-style building actually cost three gold coins. No wonder those villas in the common areas of the Imperial City were shared by several civilian families. However, the price of this kind of loft in the sixth block could be at least half.

"Is this loft for sale?" Noah patted the dusty sofa and asked the manager.

It could be seen that this small western-style building seemed to have been abandoned for a long time, and there was thick dust everywhere in the room.

The manager was slightly startled. In his eyes, those of us magic students at the Royal Academy of Magic who want to stay in the Imperial City as the graduation season approaches will probably look for a house in the Imperial City and rent a house in the third district with the magician's living allowance. The house can still be sustained by gritting one's teeth, but few magic students who are about to graduate will directly spend money to buy a small western-style house. Mainly magic students with aristocratic family backgrounds will not choose to live here, and civilian families will not choose to live here. Most of the graduates cannot afford it.

He said to Noah diligently: "Of course it is for sale. If the entire payment is settled at one time, it will be one hundred and fifty magic crystals. If it is a mortgaged installment payment, the down payment will be thirty magic crystals, and then you can pay monthly If you repay three gold coins, this attic will belong to you in thirty years. Of course, if you can repay one magic crystal every month, you only need to repay it in fifteen years."

Noah glanced at Senior Vernon and made a decision for him directly: "Of course, this kind of loft must be settled at once, but it only costs one hundred and fifty magic crystals..."

The manager quickly patted his chest to ensure that this small foreign-style building was of high quality and low price: "I assure you, this price is the lowest price in this loft!"

Noah shook his head and said: "That's not what I meant. One hundred and fifty magic crystals can be paid to you in full, but..."

He made some requests, but didn’t know what to say, so he turned his attention to Senior Vernon. Senior Vernon also looked confused and looked at me. I hesitated and looked at that person. The manager said: “We hope that when this small western-style building is handed over to us, The roof has been renovated, the exterior walls need to be repainted, the floors in the house are so old, look at the curtains that have faded in places that are always exposed to the sun, the bathroom is so small, and the tub inside is cracked , I want to know if these fabric furniture can still be used?…”

"I can promise you... to renovate the roof, repaint the exterior walls, replace the floors, room wallpapers, and curtains with new ones. In addition, I can also give you a brand new set of walnut furniture." The manager immediately promised.

It doesn't actually cost much to repair the house and replace the furniture. But once you do it, you realize that it takes more time than you imagined, and you still have no clue when doing it. You always see something and think about it. They will do it first, only to find out later that some projects need to be done again, and that is the worst part.

As if he was buying a house for himself, Noah waved his hand again and said to the manager: "Then it's settled. Have you brought the magic contract?"

The manager quickly took out a magic scroll from his backpack and said with a smile: "I've got it, Your Majesty the Magician."

"When will the renovation be completed and we can move in?" Noah pressed the magic contract scroll and stared at the manager and asked.

The manager immediately replied: "The interior decoration is very easy and can be completed in about a week. As for the roof renovation and wall painting, we have to wait until spring."

In this way, with Noah's intervention, Senior Vernon bought a small western-style building of his own in the third district of the Imperial Capital...