Chapter 185: Apprentice Assessnt Departnt
Translator: Kris_Liu Editor: Vermillion
The coaches drove smoothly across the streets, and then slowly stopped in front of the huge tower in the center of the sky city.
It was not easy for the apprentices to realize how magnificent the tower was when they were looking at it from afar, however, when they ca close to it, Heidi, Layria and the other apprentices’ hearts were full of wonder, as they had to stretch their necks to look up to barely see the spire of the tall tower.
Unlike the mysterious and gloomy towers in the ancient magic empire ti, the tower’s outer layer was made of so kind of silver-gray material that sparkled with tallic gleam. The thrilling beauty of this building was sothing beyond the apprentices’ words.
This was one of Lucien’s favorite styles, hence he had a pretty good first impression of the congress.
Seeing that both Lucien and the apprentices were all so surprised, Lazar felt very satisfied. After Felipe and the other sorcerers walked through the gate, Lazar clapped his hands gently and smiled. "The na of the tower is also Allyn, the sa as the na of this city, and Allyn is the ultimate dream of most sorcerers. All right, let’s go. As it’s already four fifteen right now, we need to talk to the staff in the congress by six. After six, there are only security people here."
"Mr. Lazar, can we co back tomorrow? We are so tired that we need to rest," asked many of the apprentices because they were afraid to take the arcana test, and even Annick was a bit hesitant.
Lazar led Lucien and the apprentices to the gray stone steps in front of the tower, "As you just arrived today, I’m sure all of you are tired, but you need to tell this to the congress staff responsible for testing you on your own, and they will arrange another ti for the assessnt. What I have to remind you all is that, without going through the exam, you can’t get the two badges—one for magic and the other for arcana, and that can make many things quite troubleso. The earlier you start the study of arcana and magic, the sooner you can be a true wizard or witch."
Lazar was not telling the apprentices to take the test when they were tired, but to make the best use of their ti.
Soon they walked in front of the gate of the congress tower. The silver-colored gate was engraved with many mysterious patterns.
When they were just about to walk in, two big black eyes suddenly appeared on the gate, blinking in a cute way, "On behalf of all the arcanists and sorcerers, I welco you all to Allyn."
The voice was delightful. The gate was greeting them.
"Co on, Prospell, you never welcod like this," joked Lazar.
"Because only now I’ve sensed the sll of youth," answered Prospell cheerfully.
Turning around to the stunned apprentices, Lazar introduced, "Prospell is a very powerful alchemy life born together with the congress tower. It was Douglas and several other grand arcanists who brought Prospell into life and it took them quite a long ti to collect the special incomplete souls required. You can see lots of alchemy lives in the headquarter of the congress of magic. In this respect, nowhere can compete with the congress."
Since Lucien first talked to an alchemy life in Viscount Carendia’s castle, he found great interest in building an alchemy life, so he could not help asking, "Lazar, when we can learn about alchemy life?"
"First you gotta have an arcana tree about soul in the school of Necromancy, and, at the sa ti, you have to learn at least basic alchemy knowledge. Then, when you finish learning all of those things and then beco a senior-rank mage, you can start making an alchemy life," said Lazar casually.
"Sir, if you’re interested in making an alchemy life, please make a lady. I got fed up with all of these male alchemy lives living in the towers in this area long ti ago!"
Sohow, this alchemy life looked quite a bit obscene in Lucien and the apprentices’ eyes.
Seeing that Lucien did not really respond, Prospell laughed in a bit embarrassed way, "I’m just joking, haha... Apprentice Assessnt Departnt is in zone three, first floor; Sorcerer Administrative Departnt, zone four, first floor; zone five, Task Zone, for accepting and releasing tasks; Conversion Departnt, zone six, first floor, for exchanging your money, materials, items or information for arcana points, or vice versa. Common Arcana and Magic Library is in zone one, and Magic Exchange Office, in zone two."
Lucien listened carefully to Prospell to follow the information.
"If you want to do any ditation or experint, you can go to the second to the ninth floor, where we have ditation rooms, all kinds of labs, constraint rooms, energy rooms, magic gardens and so on. Of course, you gotta pay money or arcana points to use them. On the tenth floor, there are the headquarters of the two major journals, Arcana and Magic."
"Then what about the other journals?" asked Lucien.
"The headquarters of the rest of the journals are either sowhere else in Allyn, or other countries, hosted by the many divisions of the congress," explained Prospell.
"Thank you for explaining, and please go ahead." Lucien nodded politely, treating the alchemy life like a real person.
"The offices of the several boards and the exclusive lounges for the board mbers are on the eleventh to the fifteenth floor; qualified arcana and magic research groups can apply for the use of the rooms on the sixteenth to the twentieth floor for free; on the twenty-first to the twenty-fifth floor, we have the best labs designed for different fields of research; high-level Arcana and Magic Library, high-level constraint rooms and material warehouses are on the twenty-sixth to the thirtieth floor; the thirty-first floor to the thirty-fifth floor are reserved for the mbers of the highest council, but I heard that, recently, they’re considering to separate the thirty-first and the thirty-second floor to be the academy for training junior-rank mages..." Prospell continued.
Obviously, Prospell was a very talkative alchemy life, and the lots of information totally confused the apprentices.
"Anyway... co in here now," said Prospell, and then he started singing:
"Don’t touch around, cuz that’s my muscle.
"Don’t touch the wall, cuz that itches .
"Don’t vandalize anything, cuz organs are always vulnerable."
...
Accompanied by this strange song, when Lucien, Lazar and the apprentices walked into the silver hall, the first thing that appeared in front of them was a one-ter-diater round disc, engraved with complicated magic circles. Around the disc, there was a yellowish green cover, extending from the first to the second floor.
Around the hall, there were signs labeling six different zones.
"The elevators are over there," introduced Lazar. "How about we go to the Apprentice Assessnt Departnt in zone three first, and then the Sorcerer Administrative Departnt in zone four?"
"No problem." Lucien did not mind at all.
...
There were rows and rows of different rooms in zone three. A lanky, old man dressing in old school style was there.
The old man’s na was Sion. He said seriously to the apprentices, "All of you register first, and then you will receive arcana assessnt. Based on the results, you all will be assigned to different schools."
"Mr. Sion, all of us are very tired right now since we just arrived in Holm this afternoon, and then we spent another three hours on the train again." Katrina was not being shy. Regarding herself as one of the leaders of the apprentices, she felt that she was responsible for making this request.
Facing the reasonable request, although he was usually pretty stubborn, Sion still nodded, "Then register first, and then do the assessnt tomorrow morning at nine. All of you can stay in zone three to rest for the night, but since you don’t have both badges, keep in mind that you should not leave zone three."
"We won’t. Thank you, Mr. Sion," said many of the apprentices.
When the apprentices all finished doing their registration, Sion noticed Lucien. "You’re not one of them?" asked Sion a bit confused.
"Mr. Sion, I’m a sorcerer." Lucien smiled.
Sion looked quite surprised, then he took a quick glance at Lucien from head to foot, "You’re not even twenty... You seem to be very gifted with your spiritual power. If you want to study Astrology or Light-darkness, or if you’re interested in studying mathematics, you might want to join us, Tower."
Lazar looked at Sion and quickly cut in, "We talked about this before, and Mr. Evans said that he wanted to focus on studying arcana first before making any decision."
"Interesting. Not many young people are thinking like this nowadays anymore." Sion smiled, "Tower is relatively neutral compared to most of the groups in the congress, and we usually just follow the direction of the congress, suitable for sorcerers who do not want to get involved in all those conflicts. All right, all right... I’ll stop, or Lazar’s gonna cry in front of now."
There were two badges on Sion’s robe: one was black inlaid with two stars, and the other was silver with two black circles on it, looking rather cold and mysterious. According to Lazar’s introduction, Lucien could tell that the forr was the badge for a level two arcanist, and the latter was for a second circle sorcerer.
Noticing that Heidi, Layria and many other apprentices were busy with reviewing what they had learned, Sprint frowned a bit. "It’s just useless making efforts at the last mont."
Hearing what Sprint just said, Heidi hurriedly ca to Lucien, "Mr. Evans, do you have any better suggestion then?"
"Having a good rest is the most important thing." Lucien nodded, "I agree with Sprint. Maybe just roughly leaf through the books a bit."
Both Annick and Layria nodded behind Heidi, they looked at Lucien, "Will you co here tomorrow, Mr. Evans? When we’re taking the test?"
"I will." Lucien smiled, "I would like to know whether I’m a good teacher."
Seeing the apprentices were encouraged by his words, Lucien felt so softness in his heart. Then, he turned around and said to Lazar, "What about going to the Sorcerer Administrative Departnt now? By the way, if I want to make exchanges in Common Arcana and Magic Library or in Magic Exchange Office, what shall I use? Arcana points only or I can also use Thales?"
"Either." Lazar grinned, "But Evans, you gotta activate your arcana badge before going there, or you can only have so free basic arcana and magic books given by the congress. When you reach a certain knowledge level, you can take arcana assessnt in the Sorcerer Administrative Departnt. If you can pass the test, you can get a basic arcana point to activate your arcana badge."
Lucien frowned a bit and asked, "If I want to get this done sooner, can I just submit a new spell?"
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