Pass the priest in white cassock and go up the curved escalator to the second floor of the mansion.【】
This is a small study room.
Tables and chairs made of logs, antique bookshelves, and the thick and dazzling collection of books on the bookshelves make the entire floor bathed in the fragrance of books.
Alpha students wearing white robes sat behind the table in twos and threes, quietly flipping through the books in front of them.
Occasionally, some curious eyes would glance at the red-robed wizard going up the stairs, and then they would quickly converge and immerse themselves in the boundless magical world again.
Zheng Qing walked through it and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
Although the four colleges have different methods of selecting students, the characteristics of all successful students are the same.
No one can succeed casually.
Even in the Alpha School of Law, which emphasizes the inheritance of blood and the importance of talent, students who can achieve something will still go through the study process of never letting go of books and forgetting to eat and sleep.
In this process, different colleges just focus on different directions.
For example, Jiuyou Academy focuses on examinations and hopes that every student can lay a solid foundation and train the correct way of thinking; Alpha Academy focuses on talent and hopes that every student can ignite the holy flame of thinking and burst out in the moment of learning.
Sparks of wisdom; Starry Sky Academy focuses on practice, hoping that every student can apply what they have learned, and truly integrate the use of magic into daily behavior and into blood memory; while Atlas hopes that every student can apply what they have learned in the pursuit of truth.
Keep working hard on the road and never forget your original intention.
While thinking about it, the servants had already guided Zheng Qing to the top floor of the mansion.
At the entrance of the stairs is a silver-white classical-style carved wooden door with a vaulted ceiling.
There were two white-robed servants standing upright on both sides of the door.
Several students were lining up quietly in front of the door, waiting for the opportunity to enter behind it.
The servant who guided Zheng Qing upstairs walked straight past the queuing students, whispered a few words to the two waiters guarding the door, and then waved to Zheng Qing to follow him inside.
Zheng Qing was stunned, looked at the other students in line awkwardly, lowered his head and followed.
But after taking a few steps, he was forced to stop.
A girl stopped in front of the two of them.
"We were here first, why did we let them go first?" The witch blocked the door, lowered her voice, and glared angrily at the waiter guarding the door.
This witch is short, with pale skin, short black ear-length hair, dark green pupils, and somewhat high cheekbones. Judging from her appearance alone, she is not outstanding.
Zheng Qing looked at her quietly.
When he was baptized in the chapel on the first floor, this girl was in front of him.
He vaguely remembered that the witch's name was Louise Cody, and she seemed to be the heir to a manor.
"Classmate Zheng Qing holds an invitation letter from His Excellency Augustus," the waiter looked at her gently without flinching: "If you have any objections, you can submit the corresponding appeal form to the Disciplinary Committee."
"If you have no objection, please do not obstruct our normal work."
The witch pursed her slender lips, took a step back unwillingly, and glared at Zheng Qing fiercely.
Zheng Qing smiled apologetically at her.
However, this smile seemed more like provocation and ridicule to her.
"Zheng Qing?" The witch looked at the young wizard, her tone full of gunpowder: "That genius talisman master from Kunlun that Arthur said? Why are the public-funded students from Jiuyou College doing in Alpha Castle!"
Before Zheng Qing could speak, the waiter on the side had bowed slightly and signaled Zheng Qing to come in.
"this way please."
"Sorry." Zheng Qing said vaguely, then passed the witch and followed the waiter into the lounge.
The silver-white carved wooden door was then closed tightly again, blocking the angry witch outside.【】
Compared with the first two floors, the area of the third floor of the club is slightly smaller, and the people coming and going are also a little sparser.
The layout of the entire floor is semi-open. Looking around, there are no tall decorations in the field of vision, and the space seems much more open.
The ceiling, walls, and even the carpet underfoot are all silver-white, completely matching the color of Alpha Academy.
Low square coffee tables are placed unevenly in this space.
Each coffee table is surrounded by a cream-colored soft leather low-back sofa.
Between the sofas, ferns with wide branches and luxuriant leaves are planted as natural barriers, creating small compartments to prevent gentlemen.
Among these plants and sofas, there are also exquisite brass telescopes, slowly rotating armillary spheres, simple and thick sundial and moondial, and occasionally a few gorgeously dressed flower sperms, carrying straw baskets, walking among the leaves.
Jumping around.
The servant guided Zheng Qing deep into the room, to a coffee table next to the floor-to-ceiling window.
The tall plants around this coffee table are exceptionally rich, almost completely separating it from the rest of the environment in the house, making it appear very quiet.
A wizard was half lying down, with most of his body buried in the milky white low-backed sofa.
There was a crystal ball placed on the coffee table in front of him.
"She is the minister of the Foreign Affairs Department of the First University Student Union," the wizard lowered his head and fiddled with the crystal ball in his hand, his voice sounding a little tired: "Fate is so magical... everything is decided for you when you are not aware of it.
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"What?" Zheng Qing was a little confused.
He looked to the side as if asking for help, only to find that the servant who had brought him here had disappeared without a trace.
When he turned around, the wizard had stood up and stretched out his hand to him.
"Zheng Qing." The other party smiled, held Zheng Qing's hand, and shook it with certainty: "Nice to meet you."
"Your Excellency Augustus?" Zheng Qing smiled nervously: "This is my honor!"
The hands of this Alpha boss are very cold and very broad.
Of course, he is also very tall.
The long golden hair is as bright as the sunshine outside the house, and the blue eyes are comparable to the sky that can accommodate the sunshine.
Compared with this handsome appearance, Augustus's attitude was very gentle, even casual.
"Would you like some coffee? Ambergris, phoenix nest, musk...or just pure black coffee?" The Alpha boss fell back on the sofa, held up the crystal ball, and stared at the tiny light above.
Point, with a very casual tone, as if chatting with a close friend: "The Blood Club has a goblin barista who has been serving for five hundred years, and the coffee he brews is very authentic."
Zheng Qing's mind immediately pictured a scene of an ugly goblin with an old face and a rag around his waist, feebly turning the hand grinder to grind the coffee beans into dry powder.
"Thank you!" The young public-funded student shook his head decisively: "I'm still used to drinking tea."
"Pure nine people." Augustus didn't feel dissatisfied, he laughed softly, snapped his fingers, and filled in the drinks they ordered on the menu handed by the elf.
Zheng Qing sat on the sofa hesitantly, feeling uneasy.
In the end, he decided to cut through the mess quickly and deal with the things to be done today first.
"I'm very sorry," he looked at the blond wizard in front of him sincerely, and said quickly: "I need to take the student union's recruitment exam on Friday night, so I can't attend the blood club's welcome dinner... I'm really, really sorry."
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter." Augustus waved his hand casually, raised his head, and looked at the young public-funded student with a smile: "As I just said... fate is always very magical, you never know that today will pass you by.
Will his figure become a nightmare in your future vision?"
Zheng Qing smiled in agreement.
Although he didn't understand what the big guy was talking about at all.
"On the road to pursuing magical truth, we must learn to control ourselves." Augustus suddenly changed the subject and told Zheng Qing a short story:
"When I was a kid, I once saw a fishman tying a snake to a stone by the lakeside and peeling off its scales one by one."
"That fish-man laughed strangely."
"The snake hissed and screamed."
"I couldn't help the justice in my heart, rushed forward, killed the fish man, and freed the snake from the stone."
"I think the snake would be grateful to me."
"However, the snake turned around and bit me."
"I know that this is its instinctive behavior...it is too scared and has been tortured for so long...it is purely a conditioned reflex."
"But I killed it anyway."
"Because I am also a conditioned reflex... As I said just now, it bit me."
"I regret this very much."
"I regret not only saving a snake, but also regretting killing a snake. I also regret killing a fish-man." Augustus looked at Zheng Qing with deep eyes: "I killed two lives in exchange for
A scar and lasting regret."
"What could be a more failed move than this?"
Zheng Qing listened to the story in silence without making a sound.
He always felt that there was some deeper meaning hidden under the Alpha boss's words.
"I heard that you made a deal with Soprano?" Augustus changed the topic again: "Then you must be careful...that man has never done a business that lost money."
"Although Friedman is a bit stupid...but he is a good person. Nothing excessive happened between you, which is very good."
"If you have any trouble, you can write to me."
Zheng Qing was horrified when he heard these plain words, and he wanted to prick his ears to deafen him.