Black Iron’s Glory

Chapter 61: Diary of the Magician of Landers I

As Claude expected, this diary, written by Master Landers, might as well be called a memoir at first. Because Master Landers had been promoted to a tertiary magician by the time he wrote the diary, he stood out among more than a hundred junior magicians and apprentices in the magic tower that was later blown up by gunpowder, and finally had a separate room on the basement floor to serve as his bedroom. It is also where the individual stands alone that Master Landers used the rewards of several Sullivan gold coins he earned to buy a notebook made of plaque paper to write a diary...

So at the beginning of the diary, Master Landers was tired of talking about his childhood experiences, his family, his parents' hard work, his brothers and sisters' friendship, and so on. The first dozen pages of the diary were filled with memories and memories of the home from which he had left. But Claude noticed from these dozen pages of journals that Master Landers was proud to have succeeded in promoting himself to a tertiary scribe, which took only four years, from an illiterate 14-year-old to a tertiary scribe, who believed he had lived up to the expectations of his parents and the magical gift he possessed.

Because Master Landers writes his diary in Gukherz, Claude reads it slowly and occasionally has to look through the dictionary for more frivolous words. But from these dozen pages of memories that Master Landers wrote, Claude found that it seemed that the magician was not as evil as the legends of the Farea continent.

The Landers Mage wrote that his home was in Bai Lu Village, on the shores of picturesque Lake Bai Linga. Well, this Claude knows, is the predecessor of White Deer Town. But Master Landers added that the entire southwest region, now the three southwest counties, including Bai Lu Village, are the owners of the Magic Tower of Bai Lu, the territory of Magistrate Ronk's Seventh Ring. It's just that Grand Master Rohnke explored the mysteries of magic and, having no time to deal with these vulgar things, entrusted everything on the territory to the three magical families.

In addition to his parents and himself, there were eight people in the family of the Landers Mage, two brothers and two sisters, and one who did not like the Landers Mage very much, and the Landers Mage did not like her grandmother very much to live with them.

Landers' father had a small fishing boat, and every morning he woke up in the dark with two brothers of the Landers magician to fish on Lake Beringa. The family also had five acres of land and a small vegetable garden, which was left to the mother and a sister, and a cattle and a horse, which was the responsibility of Master Landers as a child, who cut a lot of grass every day to feed the two large livestock.

Grandma and sister of Master Landers do a lot of chores at home and feed more than a dozen chickens. The family is busy all day long, but every year the harvest is handed over to half of the housekeeper the magical nobleman sent to collect taxes, leaving only eight young and old people with barely enough to keep their clothes warm.

Looking at the two brothers and a sister of the Landers Mage about to grow up, it was time to consider their lifelong events. The parents of the Landers Mage began to get anxious and sad and didn't know how to get a lot of money so that their children could start a family and get married. And that's when the magic apprenticeship test begins again every decade.

The so-called Magic Apprenticeship Test is a magical talent test conducted by the Rohnke Seven Ring Grand Mage on children throughout the territory of the Southwest Region, who are between the ages of five and fifteen. Children who have been tested for magic talent will be brought to the magic tower for training as magic apprentices. If they are under the age of 12, they should be registered and tested again by the age of 12. If the magic talent has not changed, they will be brought to the magic tower for apprenticeship...

Can magic talent change? Claude was deeply confused. But the next diary soon excited him, because Master Landers said that his hearing had been very acute since childhood, even if the grandmother whispered in front of her parents, saying that he was lazy again today and didn't take good care of the big livestock on both sides of the family, he heard clearly, so even if the grandmother treated him equally in front of his brothers and sisters, he still didn't like her, even a little disgusted...

Master Landers said that sometimes he went to feed cattle and horses, cattle and horses grazing on the grass, and he lay on the grass. But even if you close your eyes, the surrounding scene and the bull horse's movements will still appear in your mind, as if you had seen them yourself. Isn't it the same as in my case, Claude thought, as if this Landers magician is also very spiritual...

The magician who came to Bai Lu Village to test the magic talent of the children was a bearded magician who wore a black robe, looked serious and was a terrible person in the eyes of the children.

But this terrible magician came into the village with the housekeeper who collects taxes every year with his guards, and the notified villagers were honestly waiting in a long line with their age-appropriate children to test their magical talents.

Master Landers' parents lined up with him and his sister at the end of the line, with more than 40 families in front of them, and more than 50 children to be tested.

Bai Lu Village should be the last stop for the magic talent test throughout the southwest, standing next to that terrible magician with a dozen kids in the same style of grey robe, men and women, all proud to stand there at this moment, looking at the children who are testing their magic talent.

Quickly tested, but none of the children in front of the Landmaster were tested for their magical talents. Soon it was the family of Landers magicians, his parents asked his sister to test it first, the test item was a transparent crystal ball, the black-faced magician had his sister stare at the crystal ball, Landers magician seemed to see the crystal ball flash green, then heard the black-faced magician announce that the wood element affinity three, did not pass.

Finally, it was Master Landers's turn to test, and he looked carefully at the crystal ball in front of him and wanted to reach out and touch what it felt like. But the black-faced magician didn't give him the chance, he just pointed to the crystal ball and told him to stare at the crystal ball and see what was in it.

The Landers Master discovered that this transparent crystal autumn seemed to have an implicit invisibility of what it was, colorless and transparent, much like liquid flowing inside a crystal ball. But the more this happens, the more it attracts the attention of Master Landers' efforts to see what it really 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 flash of the flame, the different things, like clouds in the sky, sometimes like sheep, sometimes like houses...

When the colour of the spark in the crystal ball gradually faded and turned into that colorless, transparent liquid, the Landers magician came back to his mind, and as soon as he looked up, he saw an unusually surprising look on the magician's face, which had always been dark, he was almost screaming, fire element affinity 9, mental strength 8, you were excellent, you were chosen.

In his diary, Master Landers said that a year after the Magic Tower became an apprentice, he learned to read and possess a certain basic knowledge of magic before realizing that the crystal ball was called the Magic Talent Test Ball, the owner of the Magic Tower, a magical object created by Master Ronk himself and used exclusively to test the magic talent.

In the eyes of a wizard, every man in this world possesses a gift of magic, and mortals are no exception, but more or less. They call magical gifts elemental affinity, divided into five levels, one to two, low, three to four, ordinary, five to six, general or qualified.

But if it's a mortal, then forget it, training needs to consume a certain amount of magic resources, and it can be troublesome to move to the next level. But if it's the magicians or the relatives of the children of the magical family, a level of elemental affinity of five to six means that we can still try to save them.

For those magical aristocrats who occupy the majority of the power of magic resource allocation, there is a saying that goes deep into their hearts that talent is insufficient and resources are pooled. Just like Claude's previous computer games, the Renminbi player is the god that the game operator deserves the most attention.

Even if a regular player spends a lot of time and effort getting his or her game character to the top, he or she is still no match for the Renminbi players. All they need to do is spend some money to fully arm their game character with all kinds of advanced props, and then hang and abuse you in all kinds of ways...

Elemental affinity ranges from seven to eight, which means that even mortal children deserve to be cultivated by a magician with an excellent magic gift. It does not take much magic resources, and it is normal for these elements to be promoted to a five-ring magician as long as they learn basic magic knowledge and, thanks to their efforts to cultivate and accumulate time. By then, they will be eligible to become competent assistants and one-sided magician directors of senior magistrates.

The highest level of magical talent is Elemental Affinity 9 to 10, which is already a category of geniuses. If the children of the magic family were found to have such a high element of affinity, the magic family would certainly celebrate with joy, and the family would not have to be sad for at least two or three hundred years to come.

Unfortunately, the children of the mortals, who have such a high magical gift, will not help their future. In the end, they are nothing more than black iron magicians of five levels. In this regard, they are not even as good as the children of a magical family with an element affinity of five to six, and the magical resources available to those people are those that the children of these mortals could never hope to receive in their lifetime...

In addition to checking the affinity of the elements, the magic gift also checks the mental strength of the tested person. Generally, a tested subject with high elemental affinity has no less mental capacity.

Just like when Master Landers was tested, he was a fire element affinity, so when he stared at the crystal ball, the colorless magic liquid in the crystal ball turned into a flame representing the fire element because of his focus, and how much light he reflected as his affinity increased. This light may not be perceived by him because of his concentration, but the magician standing next to him can clearly see it...

And the more mental power reacts to changes in the test fluid in the crystal sphere, the more mental power the subject, the liquid in the crystal sphere that he is interested in, will change several times, and time will last longer.

Like Master Landers, the spark in the crystal ball was like a cloud, changing into images and patterns, and that was actually his mental strength being reflected on the crystal test ball, and also being seen by the next magician.

Master Landers didn't know what Blackface meant when he said you were chosen, he was just scared. Soon, however, the tax housekeeper came to his parents and congratulated their children on their choice, announcing that since Landers had become an apprentice in magic, the family could be exempted from all taxes.

The news was a big surprise for Landers' parents, who could finally confirm that it was a good thing that Master Landers was chosen. So when they came home, they held a grand celebration, invited left neighbor and right to come to celebrate. At the same time, they desperately filled their bellies with poor quality wheat wine, and didn't forget to talk about the vision of not having to pay taxes. The family will soon become rich, and in two or three years you can build a new room for your grown child...

It was a huge blow to Master Landers, and the family seemed to forget that he was going to follow that dark-faced magician out of this familiar town the next morning and embark on an unpredictable journey. He was very scared, very scared, and very lonely. After all, he was a 14-year-old teenager who had never left town to go anywhere else, or followed a group of strangers...