Monster Hunting High School

While the freshmen were chatting among themselves, Nicholas stood aside and waited patiently.

As Zheng Qing guessed, he was not a senior student at First University.

But it cannot be denied that he is an old student of Jiuyou Academy.

Nicholas Green Oswall is a first-year student at First University's Nine Colleges. This was his third year at the school—he had already failed the final exam for freshman promotion twice.

Dean Yao of Jiuyou College had a frank conversation with him at the end of July.

"If you are still unable to go further by the end of the third academic year, I'm afraid the school will re-evaluate your admission qualifications. This will not only affect your future wizarding career, but also Liz's future admission applications."

The scene of the conversation is still vivid in his mind, and Nicholas can even easily recall how many times Professor Yao smoked his pipe that day.

Because of this, he is full of fear about the upcoming new school year.

He was not worried that he would not be able to become a regular wizard, but that he was worried about his sister, Liz.

Nicholas was born in the northern part of the town of Beta, where magicians gathered.

In the "Wizard Code", magicians are considered to be wizards with "limited behavioral capacity". In other words, wizards recognize the magicians as wizards, but have reservations about their spellcasting abilities.

Because the magician's ability is too weak.

Most magicians can only pull a little white rabbit out of an empty hat; or build a castle from a deck of playing cards; the most powerful one can only turn a bouquet of roses into a flock of little white doves.

For wizards, this ability is on the level of a preschooler.

Their weak abilities even make them incompetent for the work of wizard apprentices: the spirits of magicians are easily damaged in wizard laboratories, and their bodies cannot withstand the pressure of alchemy workshops.

All in all, there is no way for a magician to find a suitable job in the wizarding world.

No suitable job means no stable income.

It means the hardship of life.

Many magicians have tried to stay away from this life. However, the qualities they had always expected to be recognized for became the shackles that bound them.

The "Measures for the Management of Wizard Behavior" promulgated by the Wizards' Union has placed very strict restrictions on the secular lives of wizards. It clearly stipulates that without permission, wizards are strictly prohibited from staying in Baiding society for a long time, engaging in Baiding profession, or having deeper economic and other interactions with Baiding society.

As a result, these poor people could only survive in the reservation allocated for them by the Umbrella Union.

The young and strong ones gritted their teeth and went into the dark forest, doing gathering work that ordinary wizards would disdain to do, and even served as bait for some black-hearted hunting teams; the old and weak ones huddled in the corners of the streets, playing some tricks, hoping to I hope a kind person will drop a few coins.

To wizards, they are as disgusting as cockroaches.

The die-hard wizards believe that the existence of the magician reduces the mystery of the wizard and makes the distance between the wizard and Baiding seem less distant, which is a blasphemy against magic; in the view of the radical wizards, the magician is a failed evolver. He even opposed the identification of a magician in the Wizarding Code.

So much so that now, calling any orthodox wizard a 'juggler' is just like calling a normal person an 'idiot' or 'retarded', which is a very serious offense.

Nicholas's mother, Mary Greene, was a conjurer.

But, she is a beautiful magician.

Whether it is the world of mortals or the world of wizards, whether in ancient times or now. Beauty has always been an outstanding talent.

Perhaps God felt that the beauty bestowed on her had been too generous, so he withdrew some of his gifts in other ways.

Such as her children.

Nicholas and Lizzie were certified as magicians soon after their birth.

This is tantamount to sentencing them to a life of hard labor.

Mary is a brave woman. She does not want her two children to repeat the tragic life of the magician.

So she broke into the werewolf's bonfire feast.

She succeeded.

Lizzie and Nicholas are gifted by the drunken King Oswall.

She failed too.

The crazed werewolf viciously hurt her during the dinner party.

When she staggered home, blood had stained her whole body red.

"Live well and take good care of your sister."

These were the last two words she said to Nicholas.

All her life, this woman could only do the little trick of turning a handful of thorns into a bouquet of lilies.

But this brave woman used her life to complete a great magic - allowing two children who were destined to be magicians to re-enter the wizarding society.

Nicholas felt his eyes were a little sore. He blinked and looked at the young newcomers in front of him.

Once upon a time, he stood here and listened to the stories of his predecessors telling the story of this hall and this university.

Now, the seniors who told the story have graduated, and the friends who entered the school with him are also busy in the laboratory.

Only I am still wandering in the corridor on the first floor of the first hall, bearing the malice of the world, shamelessly praying to my former classmates for a credit reward.

Liz deserves a better future, and she must go to First University.

For mother.

Nicholas murmured, his eyes firming up again.

"Let's continue." He clapped his hands, interrupting the lively discussion among the freshmen.

"The murals on the wall behind the corridor describe the history of wizards. Those magnificent scenes and majestic pictures are all traces of wizards' existence in this world."

Zheng Qing stared at a picture in fascination.

In the painting, a wizard wields a staff and confronts a ferocious beast. The void behind them was dark, and they were surrounded by thunder, fire and lightning. Red magma rolled under their feet, and the surrounding space distorted in their vision. The earth-shaking momentum seemed to break through the wall.

Nicholas stood in front of him, blocking his view.

He looked at the young people in front of him, recalled the warnings of his predecessors, and repeated those words to these newcomers:

"What you need to pay attention to is: don't be overly obsessed with history. No matter how grand and great history is, it is time that has passed; and the future is at your feet. It is easy to lose yourself if you are obsessed with history."

The eyes of the newlyweds are reluctant to leave these murals.

Nicholas nodded with satisfaction.

He turned around and introduced the first hall to the freshmen:

"There are a total of nine gates on the first floor surrounding the entire hall. One is the gate behind us, which leads to the outside world. Four of the remaining eight gates lead to the four colleges and four to the four research institutes. "

"The four colleges are Jiuyou College, Alpha College, Atlas College, and Starry Sky College. Everyone should know it. The four research institutes are the Alchemy Research Institute, the Astronomy Research Institute, the Witch Medicine Research Institute, and the Divination Research Institute. Of course, there are also places like the Astrology Tower and Fu Yuyuan, which are also very famous research institutions, but those places are not open to lower-grade students.”

"Nine gates are in this hall, but there are countless gates in the four colleges and four research institutes. The secrets need to be explored slowly by yourself. Maybe there are a few doors in the teaching building. After passing through, you will directly appear in In the center of the first hall; or on a section of the wall that you pass every day, there is a door leading to Beta Town."

"But behind more doors is just a classroom."

"The lintel of each door has its own unique signs and symbols, or mottos. As long as you pay attention, you will not go wrong."

"Just like the gate of Jiuyou College's 'School', its lintel has six words symmetrically written on the left and right - Tian Xing Jian, Terrain Kun. Only by knowing the meaning of these six words can we cross the threshold and truly enter the school. among.”