The days of learning black magic in another world

This is not a busy street.

Mixed with the dirty and messy atmosphere of human society before modern civilization, everything on the street looks dark and dirty.

For example, the boy selling newspapers on the street, he was wearing clothes made of rags, and there were black marks on the cloth, because it had been accumulated for a long time, so it was difficult to judge what the black was...

But there were respectable people on the street, too, like the gentleman whom the newspaper boy had greeted.He was wearing a neat tuxedo and gold-rimmed monocular glasses. When he saw this dirty child coming up to him, he waved his cane impatiently. When he waved his cane, he obviously didn't intend to simply scare the other party, and he didn't think about it at all. But will it really hit the opponent?

But the boy had obviously experienced many battles, and while yelling, "Aren't you going to get a copy of today's newspaper?", he ran under the waving cane like a slippery eel.

The gentleman cast a final glance at the newspaper boy who was already behind him, turned and left, not noticing that the boy ran past under his cane, and snatched a copper coin from his pocket.

"Stealing skill points plus +10"

"Experience value plus +10"

"Congratulations on your upgrade, the current level is LV.9, the upgrade reward white bread x1, and the general currency x10 have been distributed to the backpack, please check it in time"

"..."

"Ren Yuan, you really have a pair of dexterous hands."

Many people once said to Ren Yuan that the teacher who taught him magic and the people who watched him perform were always surprised and praised: "It's really an unforgettable skill."

Now, those butterfly hands and impressive feats are used to steal items from people passing by.

If the gentleman had paid more attention just now, he would have found that this slippery little loach was different from the nagging children he usually encountered. Little Loach, hidden under the curled bangs, has only complete calmness and consideration in his eyes.

Ren Yuan sold the remaining newspapers on this street, collected the change and walked to "home".

His new "home" was one of a row of townhouses near the sewer, and the strange smell went straight to his head.

Ren Yuan still remembers how long he retched when he woke up here on the first day. He never imagined at that time that after only half a month, he had already gotten used to the surrounding environment.

He walked into the room that belonged to him, and calmly stuffed the black bread on the table under the bed. Although the black bread was as hard as wood and tasted like it, it was also a precious food. of white bread wasted.

"Two, four, six... sixteen... eighteen... twenty."

With fluffy white bread in his mouth, he repeatedly counted the common currency rewarded by the system twice, and let out a long sigh of relief.

"Finally enough."

Things started half a month ago.

The last picture of Ren Yuan before he lost consciousness was the terrified crowd he saw when he fell from a height. I don’t know if it was because he fell too fast, or those people were so frightened and distorted. The picture he saw was more like A collection of many abstract The Scream.

This is the first time in ten years that he has missed a hand during a performance. Once he missed it, he lost a big one and sent himself directly to hell.

Well, he thought hell might be better than sewers.

When he opened his eyes again, or rather, before he had time to open them, he rolled over and leaned against the edge of the bed and retched frantically—that unique smell that only a sewer can have, a mixture of various rotten smells He couldn't control his body's instinctive reaction at all.

When he finally got used to it with difficulty, he leaned against the wall and closed his eyes to recover. At this moment, he found that there was something more in his mind.

That's a system, more precisely, a game system.

The character image in the upper left corner clearly outlines his current appearance, a messy little hairy child, the occupation in the upper right corner says "thief", and there are two experience bars in parallel at the bottom, one is character experience, the other is It is stealing skill experience.

Ren Yuan was stunned for a moment, he would occasionally read online articles, so he naturally knew that he would use the game system to cross this kind of routine, but... his face was a little weird, could the goal of this system be to make him a "King of Stealing Kings"?

He couldn't help covering his face, this goal in life feels a bit bad...

But he wasn't so lofty that he didn't touch the system at all, no matter what, he was a golden finger.

Before dawn the next day, he followed the memory of this impoverished body to the yard of the "boss" of all the orphans in this townhouse.

They lined up to receive the newspapers, and then went to sell them on the street. If they could sell all the newspapers, they would be paid two loaves of black bread, enough to fill their stomachs for a day.

Well, it was also this reward that made Ren Yuan decide to rely on his system for a short time to live. After all, he had seen black bread in his own house, and it was too hard to use as a murder weapon... completely It can crack the skull of a grown man.

The task given by the system only requires "to complete a theft", and does not make any regulations on the quality of the theft or the value of the items obtained by the theft.

Ren Yuan observed the street for a while, and finally selected his target.

It was a tall and haughty little fat man, his hair was combed back properly as if he had applied ten catties of oil, and his chin was raised high - Ren Yuan doubted whether he could see the road clearly, walking like this was really difficult. Can't wrestle?

Ren Yuan walked straight to him, with a timid expression on his face: "Master, do you want a newspaper?"

The little fat man was stunned for a moment, logically he should have waved his hands to let these poor people who smelled of sewer go away, but this guy looked like he was about to cry...

The little fat man hesitated, pinched his nose and said, "Well, let's have one."

Ren Yuan was also taken aback by this moment, he just wanted to use the pretext of selling newspapers to get close to the other party and take away the decorative button on the back of his clothes.

But the problem was not that big. He immediately realized that he took out a newspaper with joy on his face, and said gratefully: "Thank you, little master, thank you, thank you..."

Until the moment when the little fat man took the newspaper and left, he stood from the front of the other party to the back of him very naturally, still shouting "thank you", but hooked his fingers very lightly, and put the button in his pocket .

"Stealing skill points +10"

"Experience value +10"

"Congratulations on your upgrade, the current level is LV.1, the upgrade reward white bread x1, and the general currency x1 have been distributed to the backpack, please check it in time"

After that, he did the same thing again, but as the level increased, the experience bar also multiplied. He didn't dare to collect too much at one time, and the speed of leveling up could barely be kept at the level of white bread.

He didn't move any of those common currencies, because in the memory of the original owner, there was a heavenly place in this dark and always gloomy city, and that was Rhodes College.

Rhodes Public School is the most prestigious school in this city, and it will send many "celebrities" to the city every year. It is called a public school because it was originally established by Earl Rhodes for ordinary people who have no chance to study. Earl Rhodes passed away, and Mr. Rhodes still remembered his father's wish, but he really had no brains and no common sense. He wiped away two tears, thinking that since ordinary people can afford to go to school, it is probably a way to lower the level of education. Some tuition fees.

"Hey, you only need [-] silver coins a year to enter Rhodes College."

Little Mr. Rhodes thinks that he is a big, top-notch kind person, but he doesn't know that compared with the tuition fee of [-] silver coins a year in other aristocratic schools, [-] silver coins is naturally much lower, but for real commoners To put it bluntly... there is no difference between twenty silver coins and one hundred silver coins.

In order not to make Rhodes Public School cold, many little nobles who wanted to curry favor with the Earl's family sent their children of the right age to study here. After a long time, the public school became another real aristocratic school.

But these are not the main points in the memory of the original owner.

"Ah—do you know Rhodes College?"

"Where?"

"It's a place like heaven! It is said that every meal has white bread, and the white bread can also be eaten with potato soup and grilled steak!"

"What's a steak?"

"Hmm... I don't know, it's meat, it's a kind of meat."

"Wow, how much does such a meal cost?"

"No need, no money at all."

"And there is a warm dormitory, several sets of new clothes, no need to work every day, this is heaven."

It is indeed a heaven-like existence, except——

"Ah, twenty silver coins... hiss—"

It's paradise to pay a fee to enter.

And Ren Yuan had already saved enough for the entrance ticket.