Chapter 8 Testing
The Dark Blue Main Tower is not a magic tower built in the usual way, except that it is more than three times the height of a normal magic tower, and it is more than twice the diameter. This means that the total area of Deep Blue is more than ten times that of a normal magic tower, and that's not counting the huge outbuildings complex. The cost of such a magic tower is unimaginable, and there are more than 10,000 people living directly and indirectly around Deep Blue, which is simply the size of a small city. But Deep Blue is like a huge monster, and it can handle ten times as many supplies every day as a city of the same size. At such a scale, the Deep Blue building is already a work of art in its own right.
For the circulation of goods, Deep Blue has its own deep-water port, and more than a dozen berths that can berth giant ocean-going vessels are carved out of the hard reef by magic. On land, three major highways connect the deep blue from three directions, and at least five or six towns along the highway prosper because of trade.
Deep Blue is located at the apex of the ice floe bay in the northwestern part of the continent and is also the estuary of two large rivers. The vast area of the floating ice bay is completely the sea, and the distance from the Xinghui Peninsula at the southern end to the Hengdong Mountain Range on the northern line is more than 1,500 kilometers. During the winter, the ice floes enter a freeze period, and only the southernmost coastline is navigable. The dark blue port is located at the end of ** and belongs to the ice-free port.
Deep Blue's location is very important, it has convenient transportation, and it guards one of the three main passages of the Ice Ocean Continent to the south, and the ferocious polar gray dwarves and demonic beasts can only choose to go around the Sunset Canyon in the east, which is more than a thousand kilometers away, not to mention, and needs to directly face the Thor Fortress of the Holy Alliance Empire. However, the few major battles after the completion of Deep Blue made the Polar Gray Dwarves prefer to attack the Thor Fortress rather than try Su Helen's methods again. This woman has been ranked alongside the most terrifying evil god in the legends of many tribes of the Polar Grey Dwarves. And when she officially broke through the level 20 mark and promoted to the legendary mage, Deep Blue completely turned into a peaceful land.
Even the Grey Dwarves, known for their ferocity and prowess, are reluctant to spoil the peace here. Gradually, the area around the deep blue became a beautiful and prosperous land.
That's the history of Deep Blue.
The narrator of this history is an old mage who is nearly 100 years old, his magic power is not very strong, and the level of the eighth level is almost the most fleshy color that Richard has seen in the dark blue. However, the old mage is very good-looking, his voice is subdued, and his mastery of the history of Deep Blue is second only to Su Hailun. His role is simple, to explain history to visitors to Deep Blue. For a new apprentice like Richard, learning about the glorious and glorious past of the deep blue was the first lesson of his magical career, and it was even more important than magic and talent testing. The latter determines which path a magician can go further in the complex world of magic, while the former, as Richard understood much later, determines whether or not a certain magical apprentice can go down the path of magic.
Richard's status is different from other magic apprentices, he is a disciple recruited by Su Helen himself, so one day of history study for ordinary apprentices has become three days. If you want to tell the history of Deep Blue for three days, it is indeed a test of the old mage's level.
The history in the old mage's mouth naturally omitted many details, and deliberately ignored many key things. However, there will always be trade-offs in the history of official writing, what can be said and what can only be forgotten, it is all learning. Being able to piece together a fairly complete picture in his mind, Richard has already fully developed his intelligence and true talent.
Three days of brainwashing still had a significant effect. At least now when Richard sees Su Helen again, he will definitely not regard her as an innocent white girl, and he has no urge to take a bite. A woman who is feared even by gray dwarves and ice beasts cannot be overstated.
Of course, this result was certainly not the old mage's original intention, but he wouldn't know either. In the eyes of most people, Richard was a quiet child, so quiet that he rarely had an extra expression, he had never seen him smile happily, nor had he ever been seen crying after being reprimanded or bullied, and he would do whatever he was asked to do immediately, and he did it meticulously and impeccably accurately, not at all like a child who was only ten years old.
In Richard, there was no sunlight at all.
After three days of history lessons, it's time for the next magical talent test. Richard was ushered into a special hall, and he was dazzled by the array of alchemical utensils. There were more than twenty mages busy in the hall, and the one in charge of the test was a great magician, and when Richard used his 'real' ability, he saw not a magician at all, but a burning ball of magical power! This is a great magician of at least seventeenth level, who can serve as a court mage in any empire, but he was assigned to test his talent.
Richard was stripped of his clothes, pressed to a cold metal chair, and wrapped in various straps, and then the Grand Magician himself carefully stabbed several crystal needles into Richard's body. The whole process was painful, but Richard silently gritted his teeth and endured it. Just looking at the formation, he knew that the test was not trivial, and he had never heard of such a big move in the talent test. The detection of ordinary apprentices is to throw a level 0 magic at the crystal ball. However, these mages treated the ordinary testing ritual as the most important form of magic, all of them were strict and serious, their movements were neat and neat, and all the qualities of high-level mages were fully displayed.
What Richard didn't know was that behind the one-sided transparent magic wall, Su Helen was comfortably leaning back on the sofa, paying attention to the inspection ceremony. Although she was holding the notes of the legendary mages of the previous generation in her hand and reading vigorously, and kept grabbing fruit snacks and filling them in her mouth, the methods of the legendary mages were by no means something that ordinary people could guess, even if she didn't use her eyes and ears, she had hundreds of ways to monitor what was happening around her. Under Su Hailun's gaze, all the mages did their best.
Deep Blue has only one master, and that is Su Helen, who is a servant except for her. As long as it can make her happy, then the mage's salary will likely be increased by fifty percent immediately.
A mage approached and put a beaker under Richard's nose and told him to inhale all the mist that had risen inside. After a few moments, Richard's consciousness was blurred, but he remained lucid, vaguely aware of what was going on around him.
Strange sensations began to come from all over the body. After a moment, a faint voice was heard saying, "The elemental affinity is high, and the flame and shadow and divine aspects are slightly stronger. Talent element, none. ”
Then there is the severe pain, which is the test of Richard's bearing capacity for elemental destruction, and the most basic component of magic resistance. After another moment, the voice once again announced the good results of the elemental resistance.
Then, Richard's consciousness suddenly felt as if a needle had been pierced, and the severe pain actually acted directly on his soul! Although Richard was in a coma, Richard still couldn't help but convulse, but his body was firmly bound, and he was unable to escape at all.
"Excellent mental power, close to genius. Hearing this comment, Richard finally relaxed, and it turned out that he was still in the test. And the reviews it gets seem to be very good.
And then there were the meticulous tests of his bodily functions, and what Richard didn't know was that the mages of these classes had even tested his male talents, and came up with a rating of quick availability and excellent potential, which was even higher than his magical talents. The test lasted three hours and resulted in a report that was more than 20 pages thick.
During this period, Su Helen read a total of two notebooks, experimented with a new magic concept, and ate ten catties of fruit. However, he never left the surveillance position.
Eventually, when Richard came to his senses, he was told that his magical talent was rated as excellent overall, with no specific inclinations. At the same time, he also has a qualified martial arts talent, and if he wants to be a martial arts professional, he may be able to reach eleven or two in this life.
Richard was very pleased with the excellent evaluation, and after his mind relaxed, he was immediately a little unsteady on his feet after being exhausted by the long test, so he was taken down to rest. On top of the excellent, there is at most one evaluation grade, right? Richard judged with the common sense he had gained these days. And the rank of that genius will not always be there, it will only be given in certain circumstances.
But the boy didn't know that the grades of his evaluation form were different, and there were five evaluation grades above the excellent, namely Genius, Excellence, Legend, Unique, and Su Helen.