When Nick Ironcastle awoke from his long dream, he saw not the familiar ceiling, but the silvery starry sky that had entered the middle of the night.

The night sky has always been like this after the change of day, the stars are brighter than the double moon, because of these bright points of light, the light of the night is even like the cloudy sky of the previous day, probably because it has just woken up, so there is still a little confused reason, the young dwarf subconsciously muttered: "Who turned on the light?" ”

"Who knows, it's probably the Seven Gods."

Then, Nick heard a familiar female voice, with a slight hint of lazy softness across from him: "You woke up late." ”

"Karin?" Turning over and sitting up, because he heard the voice of his friend, the dwarf instantly sobered up a lot, he looked up, and saw the red-haired girl holding an iron rod, poking around in a pile of bonfires in all kinds of boredom, and on the left and right faces of the bonfire, his other two teammates Makarov brothers and sisters were eating dry food with water, looking at the momentum, it was like two bears.

Seeing this, Nick's stomach immediately became hungry, and he couldn't help but let out a moan, after which the dwarf, who was completely awake and recalled all his previous memories, immediately shouted and asked, "Karin, what time is it now?" Is the trial over? ”

"It's late at night the next day."

The red-haired girl threw a piece of wood into the campfire, as if she was tired, Karin, who had always been full of energy, said in a soft voice at this time: "The trial lasted for two days and one night, and it is over. ”

Speaking of this, she raised her head a little depressed, frowned and looked at the dwarf, and complained, "Although I don't remember very clearly, I think I should have failed...... Nick, you're almost the last to finish the trial, did you pass? ”

"Did you fail even Karin?!"

Not paying attention to the latter words, the young dwarf's eyes widened in surprise when he heard his friend's complaints.

Wintercastle Academy, the first team of the mage department, the four members are all outstanding students in the academy, they have their own characteristics, each has a specialty that surpasses other students, the head of the academy Ivan Makarov is the captain, and his sister Amira Maklov, Karin and his dwarf Nick are the team members.

In this squad, the captain Ivan has excellent spell combat ability and good swordsmanship, his magic and magic that can create high-temperature flames, and with a special staff, he can shoot hundreds of explosive missiles in an instant, in terms of firepower alone, it can be said that it is the first in the entire Wintercastle.

And Amira, as a genius favored by many professors, and even the principal of Nostradamus, even surpassed her brother in magic ability, ranking first in the academy, and most of the mages who can only use one or two attributes of magic, this girl is born with the ability to control all attributes of the elements, and can smoothly switch between various basic spells in battle, and the powerful enchantment with a stable bow and crossbow skills, one person can hunt dozens of low-level monsters in the forest.

Nick himself, on the other hand, is proficient in self-strengthening techniques - Rock Skin, Might, Dexterity Leap, Keen Vision, and Giant Transformation...... This kind of self-strengthening magic that has actually involved some silver realms, he has long been able to skillfully cast it in a second, and the strong physique and various buff spells that are completely incompatible with the mage allow him to easily nail to the front of the team, help his teammates relieve pressure, and be able to cast spells smoothly.

Several of them teamed up to match, even if it was hunting silver-level magical beasts, it was not a strange thing, but Nick, who was familiar with everyone in his team, knew that the strength and personality of each of them were too extreme.

Captain Ivan Makarov, who usually seems to be an approachable young man from the Northlands, is easy-going and calm, and seems to give his opinion after careful consideration of everything, but in fact, Nick knows that his captain is a madman who can't be controlled at all once he fights, and he is a mage who draws his sword and rushes directly into the group of monsters to release the storm of blades without magic power, this kind of human dwarf is the first time he has seen it even in the legendary story.

Amira Makarov, a virtuous and sweet-looking beautiful girl, Nick admitted that he agreed to join the team at the beginning because of Amira's appearance, but after getting along for a long time, that bit of closeness and admiration has long been wiped out - unlike her brother who is a reckless man, this sister's favorite thing is to lurk in a hidden corner and put cold arrows, and coldly throw one or two spells for sneak attacks, and the dwarf suspects more than once that Amira is actually a spy lurking in the mage department of the Stalker Department, Is that sinister and cunning style of squatting in the grass really a mage who is known for his nobility? Aren't the Northlanders talented in wrestling with bears?

As for Nick Iron Furnace himself, he actually knows that he is a strange person, although there is a battle mage in this world that is similar to the existence of a demon and martial arts double cultivation, but with a 'mage' like him who purely relies on buff blessings and then fights with force, I am afraid that it is a shame among all mages - there has never been a mage who can't even use the hand of a mage!

But Karin is different.

Unlike Ivan, who seems to be approachable, but is about to explode with hatred in his heart, different from Amira, who seems to be cute and dignified, but is actually unscrupulous in order to achieve his goals, and even more different from his own unprincipled faction who doesn't care about magic and martial arts in order to become stronger, Karin, as the daughter of a knight, is the only person in this team who really wants to learn magic and has really learned magic.

When Ivan was driven by impulse to rush into the pile of monsters to kill, there was always someone to clear a way for the return of the Northland youth for his palace, when Amira's hidden place was discovered, there was always someone by his side to deal with the approaching threat, and when he was besieged by powerful monsters and was about to be unable to support it, there were always people who could use one or two not profound, but extremely subtle spells to solve the field.

If the three members of this four-person team have their own strengths, then Karin is the core of the team that condenses these three into a team, although Ivan is the captain, but it is only in name, and the command of the team has always been in the hands of this ordinary-looking red-haired girl, she may not be a genius in strength, but she definitely has outstanding intelligence, even if Nick usually fights with Karin, but he also believes in each other from the deepest heart.

But such Karin, who actually said that she failed? Karin, the most powerful of them all, didn't pass the trial, so what about the others?

And at this moment, it seemed to sense Nick's surprise, and Ivan, who was hungry and hungry because he hadn't eaten for two days, raised his head, and while chewing the dry food in his mouth, he said clearly: "We didn't fail, but it's hard to say whether we passed the trial or not." ”

Saying this, he turned slightly in the other direction, nodded and motioned for the dwarf to turn his head to look, and found that in a clearing not far away, there was a group of neatly arranged academy students and knights who were in a coma, and in their ranks, there were several white-robed priests who were using the provincial executives from time to time to observe the complexions of these unconscious people.

"Those are all failed fellows, according to the words of the lord, that is, they did not pass the trial, and a part of their spiritual power was sacrificed to the seal of that god as a sacrifice."

Swallowing the last bit of dry food in one gulp, Amira picked up her brother's words, and the Northland girl, who didn't have to maintain a beautiful girl's posture in front of her friends, patted her belly extremely indecently, and sighed: "It's so comfortable...... By the way, Nick, you haven't said if you passed the trial or not - everyone's mission seems to be different, but the later you wake up, the more complete you are, and you're almost the last one to wake up. ”

The dwarf, lost in thought, recalled the tasks he had experienced in that environment.

It was a hard trial, first of all, all kinds of puzzles and spell tests, used to test the basic skills of quick intelligence, qualification and magic power, Nick as a wonderful dwarf, quick intelligence and qualification are considered first-class for a mage, otherwise there is no way to enter the mage academy, and just to test the basic skills of magic does not need to use other spells, he just used the body strengthening spell to get a high score.

And the next is a small trial, most of which are about the choice of human nature, the examination of the heart and decisiveness, it just so happens that the dwarves usually have three positive views, do things badly, and for the so-called injustices and evildoers with bitter intentions, they are all broken with a fist, Nick doesn't even remember if he has thought about it, this level passed quickly.

And in the end, there is the trial of one's greatest weakness...... Thinking of that, the dwarf's face changed slightly, and his heart tightened suddenly.

In the illusion, boiling lava spread under his feet, and scenes that made him unforgettable reappear in front of his eyes, making his breathing suddenly shorten.

"Well, don't think about it if you don't want to think about it, the last step of the trial is really a little uncomfortable."

Seeing this, Karin immediately got up and comforted, she walked to Nick, who was not good-looking, and handed him dry food and water in the other party's grateful eyes, and the red-haired girl sat next to the dwarf, and said to herself with some emotion: "Everyone has a past that they don't want to talk about, but for me, it's also a good thing to be able to see my weaknesses clearly." ”

"yes."

The young dwarf, who had always been accustomed to shouting loudly, whispered to his friend this time, and he saw the Makarov siblings clenching and even bursting out of their fists, knowing that the other party was the last survivor of the mountain village slaughtered by the dragon, Nick had already guessed what the other party's trial was. In the next moment, he recalled the result of his trial, and the complicated emotions in his heart churned, and finally turned into silent emotion.

"I passed the trial." In front of several of his friends, the dwarf Nick Ironforge said lightly, "I have conquered my fears. ”

And in his heart, the originally faint voice of will began to churn and roar, until finally, it turned into an indestructible pillar of faith, supported in the spirit world of the dwarves.

Stay alive.

He thought so. Conquer the world, become stronger, and live always, forever.

And just as the group of four was surprised by the young dwarf's answer, a man walking in the sky with his weapons stood above the clouds and looked down at the earth.

The black-haired man's flight is not a recoil of some kind of force to gain upward momentum, but rather a more subtle and fundamental force than the primitive method, such as the use of magnetic levitation, or for example, the isolation of his own gravitational pull.

Joshua walked in the clouds, his body flickered with countless tiny silver points of light that were almost invisible to the naked eye, and every instant, the silver points of light absorbed a large amount of free energy and matter from the surrounding atmosphere, transforming into a part of themselves, and at the same time, they combined in a certain natural form, interweaving a new kind of rune, and then using the power of this new rune to transform the man's body.

All the details of the land came into his eyes, and Joshua stared at the squads resting around the campfire, and his mind flipped through the 'information' about these trials.

The god of the river, Sinur, almost overloaded himself because he tried to find out his weaknesses through calculations, but the god of power came down and repaired his mark, so for all the trialists, everything was not affected, the only difference was that the warrior was directly connected to Sinur's core god illusion before, allowing him to see the trial process of all those who participated in the trial.

Now, the warrior's mind is swirling with information about several people who have passed the trial, or rather, fulfilled Sinur's requirements.

Unlike most people who think that Joshua is just joking or rumors, the warrior is really planning to take one or several disciples now, not just because it is boring, but because it is necessary.

At this moment, the Northland Count of the Radcliffe family is already a legendary powerhouse, one of the top combat power in this world, his existence can increase the overall strength of the entire Mycrove Continent by several percentage points, if he is willing to accept a few disciples and leave his own legendary inheritance, then it is normal to continue to increase the overall strength by a few percentage points, and the entire Moldavian Territory will undoubtedly get a huge increase in strength because of this.

Of course, Joshua is not narrow-minded and unwilling to spread the existence of his own lineage, he has always felt that it is people who determine the quality of a cultivation method, the wisdom that can understand those knowledges, not other messy things, if it were not for this, there would not be more than thirty quasi-inheritors in the Grandia world.

However, Joshua was also very demanding, and he did not allow any of his students to be indiscriminate. Thinking of this, the warrior recalled that he was the only apprentice in his previous life, and he did not ask these students on the Mycrof continent to compare with that one (1), but at least to be above the best.

It just so happened that there was a god of mist descending on the Northland, as gods, they would never favor anyone, but the fairest, they were chosen as their heirs, even if they were not geniuses, they were absolutely unique.

"So, I'm not competing with Nostradamus for students."

Under the suspicious gaze of the Shenji siblings who were flying with their master on their side, Qiao Shuya walked with his hands in his hands, the corners of his mouth slightly curled, and whispered to himself: "I am the inheritor of those gods. ”

After all, the mist of divine doom in the previous life is a copy, but the mist of divine doom in this world is a real inheritance, and there is a fundamental difference between the two, flipping through the information of the trial, Joshua has used layers of pictures in his mind, and he has seen several people he is very familiar with.

Let's not talk about a few inheritors from the world of Grandia, they are all from the desperate world of the last days, it is not surprising that they can pass the trial, and the warriors care about a few of the Wintercastle Academy.

Ivan Makarov, Amira Makarov, Karin Sindra, and Nick Ironfor, all four of whom have roughly completed the trial, are the youngest and most potential among those who meet Sinur's requirements, and surprisingly among them, the rune dwarf Nick has the highest degree of completion and is currently the number one candidate for the successor in Sinur's heart.

These four people are all familiar to Joshua, because they are the first group - the first team of Wintercastle Academy, they have been occupying the first position in the credit list from beginning to end, and have completed many difficult tasks that they should not be able to complete at this level, and have received many awards from Master Nostradamus and him, and the warrior remembers that he even gave them the healthiest white dragon egg.

- Is it rare for a whole group to succeed?

This anomaly undoubtedly intrigued Joshua, who looked carefully at the scene of their final trial.

After half a ring, the warrior, who had roughly browsed it, narrowed his eyes slightly.

The wind is terrible, the night is silent, and the crackling sound of burning flames spreads through the air with the loud sound of the house collapsing, and in the forest village set ablaze by dragon fire, the brother and sister who do their best to contend with the fire dragon who destroyed their hometown, with traps, courage, wisdom and a little luck, finally succeed in the death of a male and female fire dragon couple.

Courage, tenacity, and perseverance to the point of madness make these two men.

The horn is melodious, the north wind is howling, and in the black forest at the foot of the Great Ajax Mountains, endless monsters are pouring into the fortress like a tidal wave, and at that time when the fortress is completely surrounded, it is no longer only crying, praying that her father can return alive The girl stood at her father's side with a new attitude, and the descendants of the knights showed extraordinary command art and magic skills at this time, and with her own wisdom, she exterminated wave after wave of monsters that came by surprise.

Her intelligence, keen observation and scheduling skills make her shine.

And in the end, it is a bright underground cavern, lava boiling, heat spreading, accompanied by a slight earthquake, a sudden magma reservoir backflow caused a remote underground dwarf village to be swallowed up by overwhelming golden-red lava, and the village that survived except for a dwarf child who survived because of his parents' desperate burning blood power protection, now ushered in a real mage, the dwarf back then was different from his parents who could only use bloodline spells, and he studied hard for many years. He was already able to quickly use more than a dozen different blessing spells, and he could only use these spells, and he managed to save everyone in the village by running out of magic power.

Years of perseverance and determination to never give up have made an ordinary child grow into a man who knows how to take responsibility.

"In order to win, you can do everything you can to become stronger, courage and the madness that lurks in your heart."

"In order to succeed, you can do whatever it takes to fight for it, and you have the obsession of never giving up."

"I want to inherit my father's ambition and become a respectful presence that everyone looks at, and wisdom, skill, and communication skills coexist."

"Want to ......" summed up the deep thoughts of the trialists and saw the essence of their hearts, Joshua, who was choosing a disciple, suddenly frowned, this was not death, but felt a trace of strangeness: "Want eternal life?" Just want to be strong, immortal, no reason? ”

Where did the immortals come from? If you look closely, you are still a dwarf, why is your consciousness so high.

Joshua didn't find it strange, in fact, the pursuit of immortality and pure strength as an ambition is not only not strange, but also a very lofty ideal, this kind of person with a vast world in his heart and his own pursuits is no wonder that the Lord of the River will be listed as a candidate for the successor, but ...... How did he become a mage?

And a dwarf who can't do any spells except for his own strengthening spells, what's the difference between this and a warrior, no, this is a different kind of warrior at all! （3）

Thinking of this, Joshua was a little thoughtful, he raised his hand, and silver-gray points of light converged from all over his body, and then formed a misty mist like stars in the palm of the warrior's hand.

Although this mist may seem light and thin, it seems to be non-existent, but it is the power of steel that the warrior has comprehended through many worlds. The mist was only a statement it showed in the mortal world, and it was just such a little bit of his own power, and the power of steel condensed was more than a small mountain, and if it touched the earth, it would even sink directly into the center of the earth.

And the power of steel, itself is derived from the existence of magic and vitality, in his inheritance, the two are not incompatible, but where energy is, there must be a place that can be linked to each other and used each other.

"In that case......"

Muttering to himself, Joshua looked at the quartet who were talking to each other in surprise around the campfire, and the rudiments of such a practice appeared in his mind: "There is something to be given to them to confirm." ”

"Hotaru, Rin."

He suddenly ordered, and the warrior said to the Shenji siblings in a relaxed tone that he hadn't seen in a long time, "In a few days, when they are all rested." ”

Speaking of this, he pointed to the people under him: "Call those people to the lord's mansion to meet me." ”

Thank you, Sinur, for the good ones you have picked.

But now, it's all mine!