Chapter 16
The five gold coins had a very good effect. The middle-aged man was called Chelsea. He not only told Li Hao about his identity, but also found her a very good roommate.
"Let me tell you, the roommate I found for you has excellent talent and has already learned a spell. I heard that a formal magician has taken a fancy to her and wants to take her as a student. Many people are very eager to be her roommate."
Upon hearing this, Li Hao quickly declined, even without anyone in the livestream telling him to. "I don't need a roommate who's incredibly talented. I just want my own dorm room. Preferably one with a window that lets in some sunlight."
"Your request is quite modest. For a mage apprentice like us, T, it would be much easier if we had a roommate to help us get started early." Chelsea was puzzled by Li Hao's idea. This further confirmed that Li Hao was an aristocratic girl, and she looked spoiled at first glance.
"I'm used to sleeping alone, so I'm afraid I won't be used to it if there's someone else sleeping with me," Li Hao explained.
"Okay, I have a lot of private rooms here. I'll arrange a spot for you with a good view."
These five gold coins were well spent. Li Hao needed to live stream, and after discussing with the people in the live streaming room, it would be better to have a separate space.
Along the way, Chelsea told Li Hao a lot of things to be careful of. First of all, if you see someone wearing a black robe, they are the official mages. Grey-robed apprentices like them need to avoid them and bow. They must be extremely respectful. Here, the Mage Tower will not care if the official mages kill them. Apprentices often go missing, but as long as the matter is not serious, the Mage Tower will not intervene. However, fighting between apprentices is not allowed, at least not openly.
Chelsea spoke casually, but Li Hao was terrified when he heard it.
He also reminded Li Hao not to do anything out of line, because doing something out of line would attract other people's attention, which was not a good thing in Mage Taco.
"Be careful in the Mage Tower from now on. If anything happens, you can come find me. I'm not a formal mage, but I've been in the Mage Tower for so many years, so I do have some connections." Chelsea said this with a bit of arrogance. "But you know the rules, right?"
The rule is that you have to use gold coins to purchase it.
This is also because Chelsea looks at him like an aristocratic girl, who must have a wealthy family to say such things.
Among the things the academy distributed was a class schedule, which listed which classrooms would have different courses.
Generally speaking, there is a new employee training session every ten days, which teaches the most basic courses. New students who come in within ten days will take the course together for the first week, and this course is free.
According to Chelsea, 200 points is not enough. You need points to attend classes, do experiments, and even use the meditation room.
Even asking questions to the teacher required points. However, a lack of points was a common occurrence for those with average qualifications. Apprentices with superior qualifications were often accepted as students by formal mages, where their treatment was different. The teacher covered most of the student's expenses. Much like an investment, they would select promising apprentices and make the initial investment. Once the student became a formal mage, they would need to support the teacher, perhaps by helping the teacher find materials or assisting with tasks.
This wizard tower is like a pyramid with strict hierarchy. At the top are three third-level wizards, which are the three floating towers that we saw outside at the beginning.
Then came the thirty or so second-level mages, followed by nearly a hundred first-level mages, and finally their nearly five hundred mage apprentices.
Don't underestimate the 500 apprentice mages compared to nearly 100 full-fledged mages. It seems the ratio of becoming a master is ten to one. However, these apprentices come and go every day, some give up and leave, or leave because they can't afford the expenses of the Mage Tower, and some even die. Those who stay in the Mage Tower, like Chelsea, also take on the chores of the Mage Tower and become lifelong apprentices.
The number of apprentices is not fixed. Sometimes, when there are many mage apprentices, the number can reach thousands.
These apprentices were divided into three classes. They wore gray robes with stars on their chests representing the number of spells they had learned. After learning three spells, they could receive the black robes of a formal wizard.
The gray robe with stars is better than the one without stars, and the one with two stars is better than the one with one star.
People like Li Hao, who have just started and have not learned anything, are at the bottom of the pyramid.
Chelsea has two stars who want to do well among the apprentices, but he is already very old. At the age of 50, he still has not been promoted to a formal wizard, which means that his hope of promotion is very slim.
Chelsea took Li Hao to a room and said that the light in the room was good and there was a window.
"You are lucky. Tomorrow is the latest round of freshman orientation. There are 21 new students this time. The mentor is Hansen Gene." Chelsea gave Li Hao a final reminder and left.
He walked around the room so that the people in the live broadcast room could see the environment inside clearly.
"Okay, we will discuss the next plan. You should take a rest first." A voice came from the headset.
What we found in the Mage Tower today is enough to keep the entire base busy.
Based on the 3D model created from the paths Li Hao had walked, the entire Mage Tower was at least a hundred meters tall. Converted into ordinary residential buildings, this would have over thirty floors. And then there was the size: it was enormous, almost the size of a football field. This size was completely inconsistent with what he saw from the outside, and that was just a quick tour.
"This is space technology, definitely space technology. Let Li Hao investigate it quickly. If we can get this space technology, it will be great!" said a scientist with fifty-year-old hair with great excitement.
"Let's put this aside for now and eat one bite at a time. That wizard tower is very dangerous, so we need to proceed cautiously. Don't rush. Our initial plan was to investigate potion making and the principles of spells. As for space technology, we can put it on the back burner." Director Luo stepped in to silence the overzealous scientists. Their passion for academics transcended life and death. It wasn't that they were selfish and didn't care about Li Hao, but rather that they prioritized their own survival over science.
"Space technology! As long as we master it, our entire scientific community will see earth-shaking changes. We won't have to worry about anything else." This physics expert had originally not wanted to come, but he had refused every request from above to come to the base. However, he had never expected such a world-shaking discovery to be made here.
Travelers, another world, magic, levitation, space, etc.
Every one of them will drive scholars all over the world crazy. This big guy will not leave even if he is driven away now. He will die in this mysterious base.
"Professor Zhu, you can discuss this with Professor Zhao." Director Luo was a master of checks and balances. He couldn't afford to offend the highly respected Professor Zhu, who had made significant contributions during the founding of the People's Republic of China. However, Professor Zhao was a medical leader, his status comparable to Professor Zhu's.
While the two bosses were arguing about what was more important, Director Luo quickly asked everyone else to go to the conference room to discuss the next plan.
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Although the room in the wizard tower was not as big as the one in the hotel, some of the utensils inside made Li Hao feel as if he had returned to the modern world.
In the evening, she went to the cafeteria to eat a meal. She did not attract much attention in her gray robe. Li Hao noticed that the gray robe apprentices ranged in age from children in their teens to middle-aged and elderly people with hair in their fifties.
The only people eating in the cafeteria were the gray-robed ones. The people in the livestream had already compiled statistics for her: 50% of the gray-robed people were one-star, 10% were two-star, and the rest were no-stars.
Before Li Hao fell asleep, Director Luo and the others finally outlined the next day's plan. The first was a fixed week of free basic classes.
For other elective courses, there are only two classes per day in the Mage Tower, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Each class is only offered once a week.
Simply put, the content of the class depends entirely on the teacher. If you're unlucky and the teacher only teaches basic material, then the class is wasted. Each person can only choose two free courses. Of the fourteen courses, Li Hao could only take two.
If you want to learn more, you need to purchase it with points. If you purchase by session, each session requires 10 points.
So, those two free courses were incredibly important. They were discussed at length within the base. One was a sure thing, the pharmacy course, but the other was a much harder choice.
In the end, Director Luo stepped forward and asked Li Hao to make the final decision.
Let the department that submitted the plan give its own reasons, and Li Hao will choose the one that can convince him.
Finally, Li Hao chose the Magic Equipment class. Her choice of this class had nothing to do with the base's plan, but was mainly related to her attributes. Fire attributes suited her to the Magic Equipment class, and this class was also recommended by Chelsea.
The class officially started. Holding the map, Li Hao arrived at the classroom smoothly under the guidance of the voice in the headphones.
As soon as she opened the door, she saw quite a few people already seated in the room. She found a seat near the front and sat down. She adjusted her posture to give the camera a clearer view.
Looking around, most of them were teenagers, though Li Hao's face looked identical to theirs. Twenty-one people, including Li Hao, totaled twenty-two, all present. Everyone was very quiet, waiting for the teacher.
The door swung open. A black-robed figure walked in. Li Hao was surprised because this black-robed mage was actually a teenager. Yes, a boy with a childish face. He even looked younger than many of the people present.
"Time's up, class begins." He waved his hand, and the open door slammed shut. "First, let me explain to you the nature of a mage."
The boy looked immature, but his lecture was very fluent, and it was obvious that he was not reciting the content for the first time. He spoke very quickly, not caring whether anyone understood him or not, and just recited the text word for word.
Li Hao's vision of learning magic was completely shattered. It sounded even more hypnotic than a math class. Li Hao tried her best to follow the other party's content. She took out ordinary paper and wrote down her notes.
Meditation enhances a mage's spiritual power. The higher the aptitude, the higher the spiritual power gained through meditation. Mages must construct a spell model in their minds. Using their spiritual power to guide their magical energy, they can then cast a spell only after constructing a perfect spell model. The higher their affinity, the smoother the magic power they can summon from their spiritual power.
In order to cast spells successfully, sufficient mental strength and proficiency in calling upon magic power are both essential.
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