"You know what? The academy is about to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of everyone! ”

In the year 833, on May 21, the snow-capped mountains of Nissière, the academy of Wintercastle, even though summer had fallen on the entire continent, the temperature of the ice fields was still cold. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Of course, these have nothing to do with the students in the academy, whether it is hot or cold, the thermostatic circle can fix it to the most suitable temperature for human survival, and during the afternoon break, in the library hall, a group of teenagers and girls who look like teenagers are sitting at their desks, looking at the difficult spell books, chatting softly.

An older and more mature red-haired girl held a notice in her hand, and said to her friends with a mysterious face: "I specially asked for it in advance from my mentor!" Look, I heard that the prizes for the top three ~ are very generous, and the lord also generously gave additional rewards this time! ”

"Huh, how generous?"

On the side, someone immediately asked curiously, and the others immediately asked, "Will the lord also come?" ”

"Of course!" gave a decisive reply, the red-haired girl's face was straight, and her eyes flashed with maturity: "There shouldn't be any need for me to remind you, your parents must have told you that we came to this academy to study hard and become a mage." ”

Of course, there is no need for reminders. Most of the teenagers and girls sitting at this table nodded silently.

In the beginning, everyone only came to try to see if they had the talent to become a spellcaster because they wanted to become a mage and change their predetermined fate.

But soon, the parents of those children who successfully passed the test understood that this academy was undoubtedly cultivating the first batch of local mages in the Moldavian territory, and they would be the cornerstone of the power of the mages in the Northlands, and the first batch of formed spellcasters under that adult.

- Behave well and try to get into the eyes of the lord as soon as possible!

The so-called competition began at this time, and there is no doubt that excellent people can be rewarded, they can get the attention of big people, and after graduating from this academy, they can also be reused by that adult immediately, and in this case, everyone will work hard in this direction.

"Wait, Ivan, why didn't you react at all?"

It's everyone, but in fact, there are still some people who are not very interested in it, and the teenager who made the red-haired girl wonder and ask is one of them.

Sitting in the corner of the table, the blonde boy who had been silently flipping through the heavy classics in his hand raised his head, and he couldn't continue to read the book when he was asked by a friend, but said helplessly: "Karin, isn't this comprehensive evaluation once a month?" We've both been here twice, so there's no need to be so excited, right? ”

"I knew you would say that."

Nodding, the red-haired girl named Karin snorted, and then retorted: "But this time is completely different from the previous evaluation, Ivan, I know that you were in the top ten last time, and your sister won the first place twice in a row, but this evaluation may not be!" ”

"Oh."

Lukewarmly replied, Ivan raised his brows slightly, he looked at Karin with a very flat look, and the other party couldn't stand it, so he had to take the initiative to explain: "Okay, don't stare at me like this, I just said it!" ”

After settling down, Karin straightened her hair, and then said in a deep voice: "The previous evaluation was nothing more than an ordinary exam, but all the disciplines were mixed together, and from time to time I had to do a few experiments and dissect the corpses of some demonic beasts, but this evaluation is different, it is said that there will be actual combat drills!" ”

Waving the notice in her hand, the red-haired girl showed everyone the handwriting on it: "Look, we not only need to complete the exam, but also need to survive in the wilderness near the snowy mountains alone, and those who can't survive will be rescued by the mentor who follows, but this exam is considered a zero score, and those who can survive can only be regarded as passing, and only those who bring back extra prey can get a high score!" ”

"Survival in the wilderness? Does that mean living in the snow and forests? ”

"It's not difficult, my father is a hunter, and I know how to find food in the forest since I was a child!"

"It's a bad thing, I don't score well in ecology and nature...... And what if you encounter a monster on the way? ”

"We're mages, why do we do this?"

There were scattered discussions, but since it was in the library hall, everyone's voices were low, and even Ivan frowned slightly, as if he was thinking about the difficulties and challenges.

"Don't worry, the mentor has already expelled the dangerous demonic beasts nearby, so the most we have to face is opponents of the level of frost slimes and giant boars, according to the spells we usually learn, even if we can't beat them, we can run away."

Seeing this scene, Karin was in a good mood, so she threw out another big news: "Not only that, but after we come back, we can rest for three days, and then it's the last test - the ring fight!" ”

This was much easier to understand than surviving in the wilderness, and everyone present instantly understood what it meant.

"Strange ......"

At this moment, Ivan spoke, and the young man touched his chin with some confusion: "To be honest, it hasn't been long since we started learning magic, right?" Even if it's a genius like my sister, there is no formal revelation to become a real professional, and survival in the wilderness can be understood, which can be regarded as a test of our ability to actually manipulate the knowledge we learn on a daily basis, but the students fight each other in the ring......"

Speaking of this, he shook his head, as if he was saying something, but in the end, he could only tell his thoughts truthfully: "A few apprentices cast magic shocks and small fireballs against each other, and from time to time they fail because of insufficient magic power, and in the end they will definitely turn into hand-to-hand combat...... For the instructors, isn't it just watching a monkey show? ”

The blonde boy's statement was indeed very reasonable, and everyone else in the audience nodded in unison, feeling a little strange too, but Karin retorted neatly: "For those adults, this is true, but Ivan, you should also know that we people were not cultivated to be mages." ”

Speaking of this, the red-haired girl's eyes darkened slightly: "This is the Northland, close to the Black Forest of the Great Ajax Mountains, our mission is to grow up quickly, and then fight the Kuroshio...... From the very beginning, we need to develop a sense of fighting, and while it will certainly be ridiculous to fight in the first ring, it is much better than dying in a fortress later. ”

"Ivan, you should understand too, right?"

Of course I understand.

Nodding silently, the white-haired boy knew what the other party meant.

Karin in front of her is the leader of this small group, and at the beginning of the establishment of the academy, she immediately used her enthusiastic personality and excellent leadership among the children to generalize many talented students, and Ivan can be regarded as one of them.

This technique, of course, cannot be learned by the red-haired girl herself, there are definitely people who teach it by word and deed, and Karin herself said it soon after, this is all taught by her father, and the red-haired girl's father is a knight captain in the Black Forest Fortress, who died in the Great Black Tide two years ago, and he taught his daughter this kind of leadership skill, so that she wants to become a knight and inherit her position.

From the very beginning, Karin understood that most of the first batch of students of the academy would not become masters who studied in the mage tower, and a large part of them would go to the battlefield, without the mention of other adults, she could see from her eyes that the lord of this territory, that lord would definitely go to the Great Ajax Mountains or ice fields to open up new territories in the future, and they, the mages, were the main force among the pioneers.

Ivan, of course, understands, because he is the same.

His parents died in the dragon disaster, and he didn't want to be a mage studying in the academy from the beginning, and his goal was to slay the dragon.

In this world, there are many dragons that are kind and close to humans, and there are many dragon lords in various parts of the continent, such as the mount of the lord, the black dragon living in the snow mountain lake is not evil at all, and it even occasionally takes some students to dive in the snow lake, Ivan's goal is not these dragons, his goal is those evil dragons who are wanton and attack humans everywhere.

This is the motivation for his learning, and it is also his dream, not only Ivan thinks so, but Amira also thinks so, the two brothers and sisters have already made an appointment, they will aim for the lord and become the most powerful dragon slayer in this world!

Through Karin's explanation, everyone present understood the significance of the evaluation in the near future.

"It seems that I need to make up for the ecology of the snow mountain recently, and I don't want to be rescued by the mentor in embarrassment."

"yes, what's the most monster in the neighborhood? Snow Hare or Frost Butterfly? ”

"I haven't practiced much yet...... Hey, Bella, will we try it in the clearing? ”

"Okay, don't be beaten to tears by me then!"

Many people have begun to invite their better friends to practice in actual combat, while some people who are more worried about surviving in the wilderness feel that they need to make up for this knowledge, and in short, everyone has found their purpose and started to work hard.

Ivan got up, walked over to Karin's side, and asked for the notice from the red-haired girl.

The notice had obviously just been prepared, and it seemed that it was really from the girl who had asked for it from her mentor, and after a glance, Ivan found that the content on it was no different from what Karin said, but it was more detailed and the words were more rigorous.

"Joshua Van Radcliffe, Rector Emeritus of Wintercastle Academy, Lord of Moldavia...... Additional rewards will be given to the students who place first in the overall score. ”

Whispering the above content, Ivan glanced at his companions around him, most of those excited teenagers and girls were admirers of this adult, and in order to perform well in front of their idols, they would naturally work harder.

"I don't know what the reward is."

After speaking, his eyes swept to a treasure chest pattern next to this sentence, this treasure chest is painted lifelike, no different from the real thing, Ivan originally just swept it over, but immediately felt that something was wrong, and immediately turned back and looked at it carefully.

"Wait, isn't this the box I sent to Mentor Theodore a month ago?"

What happened a month ago was not long ago for Ivan, not to mention that it was because he and his sister helped Tutor Theodore send these two boxes over that he got the voucher to go to the library to borrow books.

The important thing is that he knows what's in it!

"Those dragon eggs!"

With a gasp, Ivan fell into a long silence, many thoughts flashed through his mind, and then the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was possible.

Mentor Theodore took the dragon egg to Snow Mountain Lake at that time, and then the sound of battle was heard, and then the battle subsided, and it was the lord who took Mentor Theodore back to the academy...... The black dragon at the bottom of the mountain also seems to be a female dragon, and although I don't know why the mentor was attacked by it, these things do seem to be connected!

Could it be that the reward is a dragon egg?! Would the lord be so generous?

No, Lord Lord has always been generous, and for him, whoever gets this dragon egg is also his power, and this reward may be to attract more students from other places to study in Winterhold, he will definitely do it!

- And if he or his sister wins, then the future is for the two of them to take a dragon and slay the dragon?

Thinking of this, the young man with white and blonde hair couldn't help but be slightly stunned, his expression was strange, as if he wanted to laugh, and seemed to want to sigh.

But at the end, he muttered softly.

"Really...... Satirize. ”

After speaking, a flame of fighting spirit ignited in his eyes.