Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 61—The Diary of Master Rands

As Claude expected, the diary written by Master Landers was not as good as the memoir. Because Master Landers had been promoted to a third-level rune mage when he wrote this diary, he stood out from the more than one hundred low-level mages and magic apprentices in the magic tower that was later destroyed by gunpowder. A separate room on the first floor of the underground is his bedroom. It is also because of the individual's independent space that Master Landers used the rewards of several Sullivan gold coins he obtained to buy a notebook made of this rune paper to write a diary…

So in the opening of the diary, Master Rands tirelessly talked about his childhood experiences, family situations, the hard work of parents, the love of brothers and sisters, and so on. The first ten pages of the diary are full of memories and mourning for the home that they have left. But Claude still noticed from the ten-page diary that Master Landers had the pride of being able to successfully promote himself to a third-grade rune mage. It took only four years, from an illiterate fourteen-year-old to a third. The grammar clerk, Master Landers, believes that he has not lived up to the expectations of his parents and the magic talent he has.

Because Master Landers used the ancient Hez language text to write a diary, Claude looked very slow, and occasionally had to look through the dictionary to find some relatively unfamiliar words. But from the dozens of pages of memories written by Master Landers, Claude found that it seems that the magician is not as evil as the legendary Freia Continent.

Master Landers wrote that his home is in the village of Whitestag, on the shores of the picturesque Beringa Lake. Well, this Claude knows that it is the predecessor of Whitestag. However, Master Landers added that the entire southwestern region, now the three southwestern counties, including the Whitestag village, is the owner of the magic tower of Egret, and the territory of Lonke's seven-ring. It was only Master Lonke’s ambition to explore the mystery of magic, and to take care of these mundane things, and entrust all the things in the territories to the management of the three magic families.

Master Landers has eight people in his family. In addition to his parents and himself, there are two older brothers and two sisters. In addition, there is another one who doesn't like Landers Master very much, and Master Landers doesn't like her very much. They live in their home and live with their family.

Randez’s father had a small fishing boat. Every morning, the two brothers with Master Landers went to Bailinga Lake for fishing. There are five acres of land and a small vegetable dish in the house, which is taken care of by the mother and a sister. In addition, the family also has a cow and a hummer. This is what Lord Rands was responsible for when he was a child. He cuts a lot of grass every day. To feed these two large animals.

Master Rands’s sister and sister have to do a lot of housework at home, and they have to feed a dozen chickens. The family is busy all day, but the annual harvest is handed over to the magic nobility half of the housekeeper who collects the tax, and the rest can only make a young and old eight barely maintain a food and clothing.

Seeing that the two brothers and a sister of Master Rands are about to grow up, it is time to consider their lifelong events. The parents of Master Landers are anxious and worried. I don’t know how to make a lot of money. Let your children get married and get married. Just then, the magic apprenticeship test began every ten years.

The so-called magic apprenticeship test is a magical talent test conducted by Lonker's seven-ring Master on children throughout the Southwest Territories. The children tested were between the ages of five and fifteen. Children who have been tested for magic talents, who are over the age of 12, will be taken to the magic tower to develop a magic apprenticeship. Those under the age of 12 will be registered and will be tested again at the age of twelve. Magic talent Without change, I was taken to the magic tower to become an apprentice…

Can magic talent change? Claude is deeply puzzled. But then the diary soon made him excited, for Master Landers said that his hearing from a young age was very sharp, even if grandma whispered in front of her parents, saying that he was so lazy today that he did not take good care of the big livestock of the family, he heard very clearly, So even if Grandma treats him the same in front of her brothers and sisters, he still doesn't like her, and even hates it …

Master Landers said that sometimes he went to cattle and horses, cattle and horses grazing on the grass, and he was lying on the grass. But even if you close your eyes, the surrounding scenes and the movements of the cows and horses will still appear clearly in your mind, just like you have witnessed. Isn't this the same as mine? Claude thought, it seems that this Landers Master is also very strong…

To test the children's magic talent in Whitestag Village is a bearded magician who wears a black robe and looks serious and is a terrible person in the eyes of the children.

However, this terrible magician was accompanied by a housekeeper who took the guards to collect taxes every year. The villagers who were informed were very honest with their age-old children waiting for a long queue. Magic talent test.

Master Randez’s parents took him and his sister to the end of the team. There were more than forty families in front and more than fifty children to test.

The Whitestag village should be the last stop for the magic talent test throughout the Southwest, and there are dozens of ten-year-old children in the same style of gray robes standing next to the horrible magician. There are men and women, and they are now They are standing there very proudly, watching the children who are undergoing magic talent testing without a word.

The test was fast, but none of the children in front of the Rand Master were tested for magic talent. It was soon the turn of the Landers Mage family, whose parents asked his sister to test first, the test prop was a transparent crystal ball, and the black-faced Mage asked his sister to stare at the crystal ball, and the Landers Mage seemed to see the crystal ball flashing green, and then heard the black-faced mage announce that the Wood element affinity was three, unqualified.

Finally, it was the turn of Master Landers to test. He carefully looked at the crystal ball on the shelf in front of him. He wanted to feel his hand and feel it. But the black-faced mage didn't give him this chance, just pointed to the crystal ball and told him to stare at the crystal ball and see what was inside.

Master Landers discovered that this transparent crystal autumn seems to have a faint thing that makes people unable to see what it is, colorless and transparent, much like liquid flowing inside the crystal ball. The more it is, the more it attracts the efforts of Master Landers to stare at it, and see what it is…

Master Landers was not disappointed. He finally saw what was inside the crystal ball. It was a fire burning, and the more it burned, the more red the color, the flames flashed and changed into a variety of ways. Like the clouds in the sky, sometimes like sheep, sometimes like a house…

When the color of the flame in the crystal ball gradually dimmed and became the colorless and transparent liquid, Master Landers returned to God. When he looked up, he saw the face of the magician who had been black face exposed. An unusually surprised expression, he is almost shouting, the fire element affinity is nine, the mental strength is eight, you are very good, you are selected.

In the diary, Master Landers said that after the magic tower became a magic apprentice, he learned literacy and had a certain basic knowledge of magic. He knew that the crystal ball was called the magic talent test ball and was the owner of the magic tower. A magic item reworked by Master Enke, specially designed to test magic talent.

In the eyes of the magician, everyone in this world has a magic talent, and mortals are no exception, just more or less. They refer to the magic talent as elemental affinity, divided into five levels, one to two, low, three to four, normal, five to six, generally or qualified.

However, if it is a mortal, then it will be considered. The training needs to consume a certain amount of magic resources, and the promotion level will be very troublesome. But if it is those mages or relatives of children of the magic family, the level of elemental affinity of five to six means that you can also try to rescue.

For the magic nobility that occupies most of the magic resource allocation rights, there is a saying that they have a heart, that is, talent is not enough, resources come together. Like the computer games of Claude's previous life, the RMB player is the most worthy God of the game operator.

Even if you have a lot of time and effort for a normal player to train your game character to a high level, you can still rival those RMB players. With a little money, they can arm their game characters with all kinds of advanced props, and then they can hang and abuse you with all kinds of tricks…

The elemental affinity is seven to eight, which means that you have a good magic talent, even if it is a mortal child, it is worth training for the magician. No need to spend a lot of magic resources, these magical apprentices with a degree of affinity of seven to eight, as long as they learn the basic magic knowledge, with their hard work and accumulation of time, it is normal to be promoted to a five-ring mage. By that time, they will be qualified to become high-level mages' assistants and independent masters.

The highest magic talent rating is elemental affinity of nine to ten, which is already a genius classification. If the children of the magic family are found to have such a high degree of elemental affinity, then the magic family will be celebrated with great joy and enthusiasm, and the family will not have to worry about it for at least two or three hundred years.

It is a pity that those mortal children, who have such a high magic talent, will not help them in their future. Anyway, in the end, it is nothing more than a black iron master of the level five-ring. In this respect, they are not even as good as the children of those magic families with a degree of affinity of five to six. The magic resources that those people can get are those that mortal children can't hope for in their lifetime…

In addition to checking the affinity of the elements, magic talent can also check the mental strength of the testee. In general, the test subject with high element affinity has little mental strength.

Just like the performance of Master Landers when he was tested, he is a member of the fire element, so when he stares at the crystal ball and concentrates on it, the colorless magic liquid inside the crystal ball will change to represent the fire because of his concentration. The flame of the element, and how much light reflects with his affinity. This light himself may not be noticed by his concentration, but the magician standing next to him can see clearly…

The amount of mental energy is reflected in the change of the test liquid in the crystal ball. The higher the mental strength of the testee, the liquid in the crystal ball he cares about, will change several times, and the time will be more Lasting.

Like Master Randez, the flame inside the crystal ball is like a cloud, changing and changing into various images and patterns. This is actually his mental power being reflected on the crystal test ball, also by the magician next to him. Look in my eyes.

Master Landers didn't know what the black-face mage said when you were chosen. He just felt scared. But soon the housekeeper who took the tax collection went to his parents, congratulations on their children's election, and at the same time announced that because Landers became a magic apprentice, their family's tax can be completely waived.

This news is a big surprise for Landers' parents, and they can finally confirm that the selection of Master Landers is a good thing. So when they got home, they held a grand celebration and invited their neighbors to celebrate. They were desperately trying to pour the bad ale on their stomachs, and they didn’t forget to talk about it without paying taxes. The family would be very Quickly get rich, and in two or three years, you can build a new house for your grown-up children…

This was a big blow to Master Landers, and the family seemed to have forgotten that he would follow the black-faced magician to leave the familiar town the next morning and embark on an unknown journey. He was very panicked, very scared, and felt very lonely. After all, he was a 14-year-old boy who never left the town to go somewhere else, or followed a group of strangers…