my age of magic

Chapter 279 79. Honor and Merit

The Hall of Honor is one of the few buildings in the Academy of Magic with a defensive circle. In order to cater to the largest defensive surface of the magic circle, the outline of this building is an unconventional round building with a high vaulted roof. The grand hall built with an all-wooden structure, the exquisitely carved wooden structure on these beams, shows the most exquisite craftsmanship of the carpenters in El City. The senior sister who took us to familiarize us with various places in the college is only a rough idea. Explain that this is the place where the college records the achievements of students and teachers, but she didn't say clearly what the achievements are.

Later, I learned that the achievements in the academy are similar to points. The way to obtain them can be: complete various tasks issued by the academy to earn achievements. This kind of achievement is often determined by the difficulty of the task and the difference in the merit value a lot of.In addition, if you get A+ in the final exam of each subject, the college will reward you with ten merit points.The last one is to provide rare magic items such as precious magic materials or monster specimens, potion seeds, etc. to the academy, and the academy will exchange them for corresponding merit points.Often in the fourth grade, many seniors like to swipe their achievements in the hall of honor in order to exchange for a desirable item in the hall of honor before graduation.For example: magic weapons, magic books, magic scrolls, magic accessories, etc. In the showroom of the Hall of Honor, there are many precious things. These things are difficult to buy even with money or magic spar. Only the merit points of the college can be exchanged.

Once, Ying Li and I passed by here during our morning jog, talking about what this round building is for. The answers of the two of us were different, and no one convinced the other. We tried to find the right answer. So when I walked into this hall, I realized that this is the place to receive the mission of the academy.At that time, I sighed and said: I don’t know when we will be eligible to come here again.

The entire hall of honor is built in the very center of a magic circle. The magic circle was originally built to protect the precious items in the showroom of the hall. It is said that twenty magicians took two years to complete the large-scale The magic circle, when there is a crisis, the magic circle can open a large energy shield, which can just protect the entire hall of honor.

The morning sun shines on the stone steps, stretching my shadow very long, and the cool wind blows past my ears, feeling a little itchy.The fresh air has not been warmed by the scorching sun, and every breath is a relaxing enjoyment. This rare coolness only exists for a moment in the morning. After a while, after enough heat has been accumulated on the earth, the hot day It's time to start.

I came to the entrance of the hall of honor alone, looked up at the tall main entrance, and marveled at the meticulous craftsmanship of the craftsmen.In front of the main entrance of the Hall of Honor stands a stone slab with several large characters engraved on it: Weak people are not welcome here.This is the hall of honor of Zhanzheng College. I heard from Sister Guoguo that she earned her first pot of gold by doing tasks here. Until now, I am still hesitating in my heart whether to take the wolf in the magic pocket. If it is exchanged first, the materials on it may be even more precious.Maybe I should go to the auction house to exchange for some magic crystals, which is more affordable.

In fact, in the exhibition hall, what really attracted me was the magic carpet hanging in the innermost part. It is said that this is a flying carpet woven from the fluff of the silver Pegasus that lived in the elf dynasty. It is the same as those magic brooms. All belong to the magician's flying tool, and every magic apprentice will have the opportunity to learn the 'flying technique' after he truly understands the manipulation of magic power.

I am very envious of those seniors flying on magic broomsticks. I watched them fly out of the city one by one on the roof or tower on the broomstick. I quietly asked Ya: When can I learn? 'Flying'.

Ke Ya told me: I have to wait until I have a strong enough ability to control magic. 'Flying' is an elective course in the second year of the Magic Academy. Not every magic apprentice is willing to learn 'Flying'. It is very important for magicians. Their magic control ability is very strict, and they also have certain requirements for the magician's reaction ability and space control ability. Finally, the "flying technique" has a certain degree of danger. Just for fun.

Every magic item is very expensive, including the magic broom, which usually consumes magic crystals when used.

Not every magic apprentice has an expensive magic crystal, Ya said to me: that is a game for the rich.Later, when chatting with Ying Li, I also talked about magic flying props such as magic brooms. Ying Li thought that this kind of simple aircraft was extremely unsafe, and told me that his brother had a magic broom, which had been thrown in the One side has not been used for a long time, if I want to learn 'flying'.She can find the magic broom out of the warehouse. Anyway, instead of leaving it in the warehouse full of dust, it's better to take it out for me to use.

I'm just saying wait until the second grade has flying lessons. When I was with Yingli, the superiority she showed occasionally made me breathless. I knew she might be from a noble family. The child who came out from here has received a very good education since she was a child, but I don't want to take advantage of her. I don't think there is any way to straighten my waist in front of her.

After this incident, I paid special attention to the information of flying magic equipment. After reading some materials in the library, I realized that the magic broom is just the easiest and cheapest flying equipment.Many magicians prefer flying familiars. They don't need to consume their own magic power, and they fly faster. Advanced flying familiars can even understand human language, but I have never seen anyone in El City Have ridden similar creatures.

Later, I learned from Fatty Bobby that there are three most precious magic items in the showroom, which require nearly ten thousand merit points to redeem. It is said that these three magic items have been placed in the showroom for many years. A magic wand made of branches from the world, a magic carpet made of silver Pegasus fluff, and a mysterious magic book. The significance of these magic tools is greater than the meaning of exchange, and they belong to the hall of honor of the Magic Academy. .Of course, there are some other precious magic items in the hall of honor, which is also the purpose of my coming here. I want to see if there are any things worth exchanging.

Before going to Xinliu Valley, I will find a way to buy a consecrated magic robe that can increase the casting speed, a magic gun carefully crafted by a dwarf master, and some magic scrolls with first-level magic skills in seal carving, so as to increase my own strength. After all, it is an unknown and dangerous small world.I also inquired about Xinliu Valley with the Yerkes scholar from the side, and he said to me: There are opportunities everywhere in Xinliu Valley, but it is also accompanied by danger. In short, there is no harm in preparing more first-level magic scrolls.

The showroom in the hall of honor has the largest collection of these low-level magic scrolls. It is said that these are drawn by the seniors of the third and fourth grades and the magic teachers in the academy. They use these magic scrolls to exchange for merit.I pushed open the heavy wooden door of the hall of honor. The hall was filled with the strange smell of magic potions. There were many large wooden boards on the wooden walls around this hall that could accommodate nearly a thousand people, and many mission orders were pasted on it. .

Originally, I thought I had arrived very early, but nearly a hundred senior seniors gathered in the hall of honor, huddled in front of the wooden board, waiting for the new missions issued by the magic teacher in the academy, and among these missions, find the most suitable ones for yourself. Yes, often some simple tasks will be snatched up in the first place.

I also took the opportunity to go over to watch the excitement, and found that there are three most popular tasks among the issued tasks:
The task of delivering errands is to send some urgent items to other cities. This requires the magic apprentices to use the flying magic tool 'magic broom' to complete it. It is hard work, but the advantage is that it is a very stable income.

Investigation missions that require keen logical thinking and clever brain thinking are more troublesome. Not only do magic apprentices need to be smart enough, good luck is also very important. They often try to investigate the authenticity of some event clues, but this kind of mission unexpectedly It is also a popular task.

The last type is the task of customizing the magic scroll. Usually such a task lasts for a long time, and often after receiving such an order, the magic apprentice doesn't have to do anything else for the whole semester.However, this kind of task also has its disadvantages, that is, the level of inscriptions is not good enough, and if the failure rate of making magic scrolls is too high, it will lose money.

Of course, there are also some tasks with rich rewards, such as going to some inaccessible places to collect some rare magic herbs, or going to some dangerous places to find some rare magic ores, or finding some materials on Warcraft, and even wanted some defectors The evil magician of the magic guild, the reward for these tasks is not only the merits in the magic academy, but also some special tasks, the magic guild will add a large amount of magic crystals.

Some clients will even come up with other attractive rewards. I see that there are all kinds of tasks on those wooden boards, and there is even a task to help Mrs. Frank, the dean’s wife, get back her glazed eye. flower cat.

"New here?" A voice sounded beside me, and I unknowingly followed the crowd to the corner of the hall of honor, which is also the end of the task board. A magician with tortoiseshell glasses raised his eyebrows and asked Me, he habitually pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose and looked at me seriously.

There is a desk in the corner of the hall, and a thick sheepskin account book is spread out on top of the desk. He holds a magic engraving pen in one hand and a cigarette in the other hand. Seeing that I am a little stupid, I don’t care. Maybe he All rookies in his eyes look like this. He lowered his head and wrote quickly on a volume, and then kept asking: "Name... What year did you enroll... Oh, you are actually a freshman this year ? This is not the place you should come to! Well, since you are here, let’s register, anyway, it’s half written, which magic class are you in... Water magic class? My God, you are actually in Heidi's mother-in-law's subordinates, no wonder they don't understand anything..."

He really talked a lot, but when he finished speaking, it happened that when the engraving pen in his hand stopped, he finally asked me to press a handprint on the grid with my name on it, and then touched it from the drawer. He took out a sign, threw it into my arms and told me: "Don't lose it, it will cost money to replace it!"

This heavy silver plate must have been mixed with mithril, otherwise it would not be so hard. The front of the plate is a relief of the entire Magic Academy's exterior, which is very vivid and lifelike.As for my name and an extremely simple bust on the back, I don't know when this magician engraved it.

"Teacher, what is this brand for?" I stood aside and asked weakly.

The magician wearing glasses sitting on the chair looked at me in surprise, saw that I was not joking with him, and his face was extremely serious, so he said to me: "This is a merit card. , you must go to my level, and then I will record your merit points, or if you want to exchange items in the showroom, you must also register with me!"

Seeing that I hadn't left, he casually said, "Are you still ready to take on the mission?"

I shook my head and just whispered: "Teacher, I want to exchange items!"

"But you don't have any achievements at all, and you can't exchange for the magic items in the showroom!" The magician wearing glasses was annoyed by me, and waved to me directly to signal me to go away, and there was a large group of seniors behind He doesn't have time to chat with me while waiting in line to check in and pick up tasks.

I looked up to the top of my head, and the board above happened to be a list of some rare magic herbs and rare ores. These rare magic materials, magic schools have never been too many.Next to these lists is a general list of monster types. The above types of monsters are very detailed. Some of the materials on monsters are also rare magic materials. The academy also purchases them all year round. Some students have obtained some of these materials through field training. Such materials can also be exchanged for achievements in the hall of honor.

My face was a bit dazed, I looked up at the list of monsters, and pointed to the magician wearing glasses: "Teacher, I want to exchange the head of a hellhound for merit..."

With a crisp sound of "click", the magic engraving pen in the hand of the middle-aged magician in charge of the registration fell on the table and rolled back and forth on the sheepskin account book. After hearing what I said, his face was full of surprise Then he lowered his voice and said to me: "The School of Magic does not advocate using the power of the family to hunt monsters and come to the school to exchange merits. It is not honorable to say this, you have to think about it!"

...In fact, I really want to say, this is really what I hunted!
This is a second-level high-level monster. There are many magic materials that can be used on this monster, and the value is relatively high.

A hell hound's head and a complete front leg were exchanged for a total of [-] merit points.The former is three thousand and the latter is five hundred. The hellhound’s head is covered with a mouthful of sharp teeth and its eyes are rare magic gemstones. It also has a complete magic core in its head. The low-level magic core of the swamp zombie obtained on Yi Gaoyuan is different. It already belongs to the category of intermediate magic core, and the magic crystal contained in this magic core is also more valuable.

The old appraiser who collected the head of the hellhound stroked the smooth incision on the leg bone with admiration, and said to himself: "What a superb space blade is needed to cut off the leg bone of the hellhound. This time really opened my eyes!"

In the end, I still looked at the magic carpet in the deepest part of the exhibition hall and sighed. To exchange that magic carpet requires at least [-] merit points, and I can't get it back in a short time no matter what!That being the case, I think I will save the merit points for the time being, and go back to receive some tasks in the hall of honor, and see if I can get the required merit points little by little.

This time I looked very carefully, and I focused on the series of tasks of drawing magic scrolls. After all, I have an advantage over others. The talent of magic perception, precise magic control ability, and efficient magic recovery ability make I have an easier time crafting magic scrolls, and even the Yerkesian scholars praise me, saying I'm made for a scribe.

But the conventional magic I have learned now is only two kinds: "Ice Shield" and "Healing".

Inscribers can only draw the magic that they are proficient in, just like fire magicians can only draw 'fireball', and I can only draw these two kinds of magic that I have mastered.My eyes quickly searched the task board for the magic scroll task of making these two magic skills, but after reading dozens of lines at a stretch, I still couldn't find a suitable one, even the demand for 'healing' magic was very high. Rarely seen.

Just when I was about to give up, at the bottom left corner of the quest bar, I found a quest that matched my needs, but it seems that this quest has been written for a long time: five 'healing scrolls' are required, and the reward is 25 points merit points.The following words were crossed out with a magic pen, and it was written again: Reward [-] Merit Points.

If I hadn't seen this quest, I'd probably have picked up those quests for making scrolls of magical energy, which in my opinion are also profitable.

Just when I was accepting the task of making the magic scroll of "healing technique", the middle-aged magician wearing glasses who was in charge of registering me advised me with a sigh: "Try to exchange your strength and labor for those you What you want makes more sense.”

I humbly nodded again and again, and quickly took back my merit card, saluted him very politely, then turned and walked away. Seeing me turn and leave, the middle-aged magician was still shaking his head and sighing!
(End of this chapter)