Chapter 33 Exams and Duels
The full name of the Magician Qualification Examination should be called the National Unified Qualification Examination of the Knowledge Alliance Magicians. As the name suggests, since it is a national unified examination, the location can naturally be in the capital Elichar.
The members of the exam are mainly composed of two parts. One is graduates of several officially recognized magic academies, including Natia Central Magic Academy, accounting for about 70% of the quota. The other is the so-called Noriko born, and as long as she has a letter of recommendation from a magician recognized by the alliance, she can take the exam.
Of course, there are only so many places for the exam, and most of them are born in the orthodox college. Even if the remaining wild paths are complete and the application is submitted, they may not necessarily be able to take the exam of that year. There are even extreme examples of waiting for ten years for the exam qualification.
Of course, Lu Xi belongs to the second type. Fortunately, he has a strong backer, otherwise it will be possible at least the next year.
There are 2,000 test quotas this year, but there are no more than 150 new magicians in the Academic Alliance every year. You can imagine how terrifying the elimination rate is.
But once you pass the exam and become a formal magician of the Academic Alliance, you will not only receive subsidies and officials, but also enjoy various privileges and worship of the masses. It feels like a lifetime of one test.
Since this system is the case, then naturally some people fail once, continue to do it again the second time, and even continue to take the exam until they die. Perhaps they are just a magic apprentice in old age.
Lu Xi followed the crowd and walked through the Star Square along the South Sky Cross Avenue, and then he saw the thick and quaint metal gate at the entrance of the Aofa Palace. The people around him, whether they are old or young, have a cute "magic apprentice". For example, in front of him, there was a white-haired old man, who looked a few years older than Orusello. He accidentally thought he was sending his grandson to take the exam.
Lu Xi looked at the waiting and watching crowds on both sides and easily found Primra and Alantis at the gate of the school.
Inside the gate is the Aofa Palace, and no one can enter except the candidates and the staff of the examination room. Therefore, Lim and Alan can only wait at the gate.
The two should have seen Lu Xi in the team. Lim still nodded to Lu Xi with an expressionless face, but there was also a look of concern in the emerald eyes. Alan smiled at Lu Xi and made a cheerful gesture.
Lu Xi always felt that this scene was so similar to the college entrance examination that year, so he had to give the two people a thumbs up in a pretended manner.
As the candidates all entered the academy, the quaint metal gate slowly closed, isolating the hustle and bustle of the bustle of the bustle city and the depression of the solemn examination room.
Through the square of the Academy, through the main hall, and after a few corridors, there is an indoor square almost the size of three football fields. There are more than 2,000 sets of tables and chairs neatly placed, and quills, ink and paper are placed on each table.
Standing on the podium in front was a man in his forties and fifties wearing a robe of knowledge alliances. His sleeves and shoulders were embroidered with complex patterns, and his emblems of three hexagrams were dotted in the middle.
The hexagram represents the class of magicians in the academic alliance, and also represents the strength and status of the mage. If a magician encounters a mage with a higher star position than him, even if he has a higher public office in the government or army than the other party, he should respect him first.
After becoming a formal mage, every magic apprentice is qualified to embroider a star on his cuffs or collar. By the way, as one of the four great magicians in the Federation, Orusero is five-star.
The mage on the rostrum should be the examiner of this exam. He watched the candidates take their seats, clear his throat and began to speak.
The square was very large, but the mage obviously used amplification magic, which made the voice clearly reach everyone's ears. The content of the speech was naturally an uninnovative style. He first praised the sages and educational celebrities of the Academic Alliance and the Federation, and praised the great achievements of the current federal leaders. Finally, he reiterated the discipline of the examination room, emphasizing: If you cheat, you will be taken out for three months and then you will be a coolie for three months. Finally, you will be deprived of the examination qualification for life.
This is actually a waste of time.
Not only are there nearly a hundred invigilators in the examination room, but there are also surveillance magic and traps. In such places, unless the strength of Orusero is almost the same, but if you really have that kind of strength, can you still cheat?
The test paper was quickly distributed. The first test was runes. Lu Xi opened the test paper, roughly scanned the test questions, and started to do it confidently.
The prescribed time for the exam is two and a half hours, but Lu Xi only took an hour to finish all the test questions. He did not check it again like others, and he did not have the idea of getting full marks or first names anyway, so there is no need to waste time in this depressing examination room.
When Lu Xi handed over the test paper, the examiner just glanced at him but said nothing. When he was about to leave, he happened to see a candidate coming over with the test paper, and it should be the second one to hand over the paper.
She was a girl with seventeen or eighteen years old with blue bangs and long shawls. She was wearing a black robe, which should be the school uniform of Natia Central Magic Academy, with beautiful eyebrows and positive facial features. Although her facial features were not as beautiful as the top beauty, she had a capable and elegant atmosphere, and could be regarded as an intellectual beauty.
Lu Xi ignored the other party's surprised expression, just nodded and smiled, and then left the examination room first.
The exam room was already full of people, and they should be relatives and friends of the students. Lu Xi squeezed through the crowd. The road behind the exam room was full of carriages, and one of them was engraved with Russell's double-headed red dragon emblem. The coachman bowed to Lu Xi and opened the car door for him.
At this time, Alantis and Primula were both sitting in the carriage, with coffee tables and snacks on it.
"I'm fighting the sea of questions hard in it, but you're living a leisurely life."
"Oh? It's coming out so soon. It's not that I've handed in the blank paper." Alantis said with a smile.
"Don't worry. If someone else knows that Orusero's disciples even have to hand in the blank papers for the qualification exam, wouldn't I be embarrassed to throw them to the goddess?" Lu Xi said, making a reassuring gesture to Primra.
"I don't think you are like this." Alantis shrugged, and a look of memories gradually appeared on his face. "Thinking about the past, I also passed the exam one by one. It seems like I was yesterday. In the blink of an eye, it has been eight years."
Starting to recall youth means that you are already old. Lu Xi was too lazy to resonate with this guy who was about to become an uncle. He poured himself a cup of coffee, took a beautiful sip, and then asked slowly: "You, the chief secretary of the military minister, accompanied me as an apprentice exam every day. Is it really okay? Is it okay to ignore the official affairs of the military department?"
"Huh? Didn't I tell you? I'm on vacation these days."
"take a vacation?"
"Of course! You won't think that as a teacher, as the secretary of the military affairs, there is only me, a secretary? We all take turns to rest."
"Stop?"
"Yes! It's rotation every half month. Of course, I'm the chief and I have to work more. But even so, I have nearly a month of paid leave every year. The income is also very good. If I work for another ten years, it's not impossible to buy a three-bedroom apartment next to Elichar Square."
“…”
"Actually, in this industry, I'm all doing a bad job. Other heads of ministers or senators' secretaries are enough to buy manors and villas in second- and third-tier cities."
"…The politician's secretary is really good."
"Why, you are also moved? Haha, then at least you have to ensure good results in this exam. Otherwise, why should you be assigned to a good unit?"
"Yes, yes, yes, one exam will determine your life." Lu Xi shrugged.
Alantis pondered for a moment, slowly put away his smile, and his tone suddenly became a little more serious: "However, from tomorrow, I will be busy, and I will never come to accompany you in the exam again. You have to be careful..."
"Look at what you said, no matter how old Elichar is, I won't be lost without you."
"Even if I don't come, you can continue to use this carriage. How could you get lost?" Alantis shook his head, "I'm worried about another thing."
"What's up?"
"Hey, you didn't forget it?"
Lu Xi tilted his head and thought about it seriously for a long time, but finally shook his head. Alantis took a deep breath and finally wiped off the black thread behind his head: "That boy from the Veranda family, have you forgotten your agreement with him?"
"Ah, who are you talking about? I really don't remember what agreement I can make with a man!"
"I mean Duyd Verander, uh, that seaweed head, did you really forget?"
"Ah." Lu Xi tapped his palm with his right fist, and finally realized it suddenly, "You can say it was that seaweed head. What about Duyd, what about Veranda? Who can remember such indecent names?"
Alantis couldn't help but smile bitterly and said, "No wonder they want to duel with you."
"What, duel?"
"Yes, he has handed the official duel to the teacher, and said that you have agreed. As long as you sign, the duel will officially begin and you can't even control the law."
Lu Xi recalled carefully and finally dug out the memories of the time from a deep gully in the cerebral cortex. It seemed that at that time, when the other party was in a coma, he did make some harsh words in front of the dog legs. To be honest, if you consider it literally, it seems that he really agreed to the other party's duel...
"It's weird. I also reported my name at that time. Why didn't he send the duel letter to the Colorful Rose Island and what did he do to Master Russell?"
"Haha, maybe I don't dare. After all, Master Orusello's unreasonable reputation spreads as far as his reputation."
"Well, think about it carefully, the teacher is really not a reasonable person... By the way, what did Master Russell say about this duel?"
"'I am really worthy of being a disciple of Mr. Orusello, haha."
"It's 'hehe' again?"
"Yes, it's 'hehe' again."
"I knew there would be no good things, but it doesn't matter anyway." Lu Xi thought about it and always felt that such a duel was boring. He was about to refuse, but he heard the prompt sound again.
(System prompt: the host triggers the C-level mission "Saicai Tou's Counterattack". You offended one of the most famous playboys in the Federation. Seacai Tou hopes to have a dignified magician duel with you. Victory conditions: defeat Seacai Tou. Failure conditions: be defeated by Seacai Tou. Victory reward: reward experience 3000. Failure reward: As a time-travel protagonist, even a playboy cannot beat it. You will get the talent "The No. 1 defeated dog in history", reduce the spiritual attributes by 10, reduce the efficiency of cultivation of all professions and skills by 25%. When encountering enemies with higher overall strength than you, you will force to enter the "Fear" state)
"I'll take your lungs." Lu Xi secretly cursed the increasingly unscrupulous system, and then said, "Brother Alan, please send a letter to that 'Saicai Tou'."
"Why, are you going to apologize? This is also a wise choice. Although he is not a thing, he still has some real skills after all. He is already a two-star mage, and you are still a magician after all..."
"Who said I want to apologize?" Lu Xi glared fiercely and said seriously: "Tell that seaweed head, if he wanted to be made into a pickle jar, I would naturally fulfill his wish. Three days later, on the afternoon of the 18th, see you in Yuanye in the east of the city!"
"ah?"
"What, that's it."
"Hey, such a big thing, you should think about it. You should know that the duel is a sacred contract passed down from the Era of the Gods. Once it goes on, no matter what happens, even if both of you die, the others, including the government, cannot interfere, unless any of you admit defeat..."
"So what? Everyone else has come to the door, can't you escape?"
"It's not a problem. He has two stars and you're just an apprentice. Even if you don't accept it, no one will laugh at you."
"Who says no one can make jokes? Don't forget, I am the disciple of Orouchello, the disciple of the great 'Dragon Slayer', the disciple of the 'King of the Aofa'!"
"Do you think Master Orusello will be happy because of such a false reputation?"
"You are wrong," Lu Xi's face showed a confident smile. "I'm not trying to go to the danger without any tricks because I'm a teacher's disciple; but because I'm a teacher's disciple, I have the confidence to win."
Alantis sighed helplessly and said to Primra, who had been silent, "I said Lim, your master is so stubborn, don't you persuade him?"
Primra was silent for a while before he said slowly: "No matter what decision he made, I will stand by his side."
Lu Xi couldn't help but grin and laughed. He stretched out his hand to Lim's shoulder, then smugly raised his chin and nostrils to Alantis: "Did you see it? This is the real comrades and partners who can support their backs, between souls. Envy? Envy?"
"Forget it, I can't tell you." Alantis spread his hands and shook his head helplessly. "But why do you have to make the duel three days later?"
"Nonsense, the exam was completed on the morning of the 18th. Of course, I can only go that afternoon."
If others knew that they were about to participate in a high-risk activity of life and death, wealth and honor, they might have already become weak and trembling, let alone exams. However, in Lu Xi's view, the so-called duel is the same as going to play after the exam. They still go to the exam with a hundred times energetic every day, and then they are always the first to hand out the papers.
In this way, time entered the morning of the 18th, which was the last subject "basic runes". He was the first to hand in the exam room in front of everyone.
Lu Xi stretched in the corridor outside the examination room and was about to leave when the second person who handed out the paper also came out.
It was the girl she met in the first exam. She looked a little complicated when she saw Lu Xi with a face.
"Oh, you handed in the paper too?" Lu Xi said with a smile.
"Yes," the girl nodded, as if she was a little reluctant to speak.
"My name is Lu Xi, uh, Lu Xi Berenkast, what about you?" When Orusero was registered as Lu Xi, because the name "Lu Xi" did not quite match the name habits of Gabeya mainland, he was given his surname. Lu Xi had no objection, anyway, the name given to him by the mother of Heaven was still there.
The girl hesitated for a moment and finally reported her name: "My name is Saixiliu Moore."
"Depending on your appearance, you should be a fresh graduate of the Central Magic Academy?"
The girl nodded. She looked at Lu Xi, pondered for a moment, and finally asked: "I think you hand in the paper so early every time, don't you need to check it?"
"Haha~~Aren't you just one or two minutes later?"
"It's different," the girl shook her head, "I'm just good at memorizing. History and runes are basically in the books, so I do it quickly. However, it only took you one hour to each subject, and even included subjects such as potions, alchemy and engineering that require a lot of calculations. You are really amazing..."
"Oh, don't say that. I may not be faster than others. Just like you said, I haven't checked every one of them."
"Ah? This is a qualification exam, you don't worry..."
"What are you worried about? I'm not going to get first place anyway, I'll just pass." Lu Xi smiled and waved his hand, and looked at his pocket watch, "Oh, I have a date, so I'll leave first. I'm very happy to meet you, goodbye."
Chapter completed!