73. Light and Darkness
On such a sunny afternoon, the warm spring breeze made the tender willow branches on the side sway in the wind. The two seniors standing in front of the registration prescription table had an unnatural smile on their faces. They looked at Senior Andre with some embarrassment, couldn't help but want to take a step forward and remind him again that it was obviously not a wise move to offend a very potential inscription master because of a newborn. After all, the circle of inscription masters said that it was not small, but it was definitely not very big.
Senior Andrei's mouth with a confident smile, he glanced at the senior at the registration office with a faint smile, and the words he had already put in his throat were stuck in his mouth, and he just 'stammered'. Senior Andrei reached out and patted the senior on the shoulder, and then said calmly: "I will go and talk to him on the other side of Ivan."
"Andre, we have a magic exchange meeting in the afternoon. We don't have much time left for us. Let's take him to the club to complete the procedures!" Alessio raised his face and looked at the sky, frowned slightly, and a hint of anxiety appeared in his eyes.
With the recommendation of Alessio and Andre, the process of Noah and I joining the Sword and Rose Society suddenly became very simple, and there seemed to be no more complicated procedures, which also eliminated some very troublesome procedures.
The silver-haired boy Lorenzo and his friends were left aside. Lorenzo stood in the crowd, his face silently staring at me with a gloomy face. Seeing Senior Andrei preparing to bring Noah and me into the martial arts hall, he couldn't help it. He stood up from the crowd and said, "Senior Andrei, please wait, please think carefully, Senior Ivan said hello to my brother!"
Seeing Andre looking up in confusion, Laurenzo barely squeezed a smile on his face. It was not easy for Laurenzo, a noble prince from a wealthy family in the imperial capital, to do this.
"Who is your brother?" Andre asked Laurenzo with his eyebrows frowned, and the word "Chuan" between his eyebrows became clearer and clearer.
"Laurentzo's brother is senior Diego." A friend behind Laurenzo said the man's name aloud.
Laurenzo proudly raised his chest high, like a rooster in the arena lifting his chin high. The crowds around him exclaimed in awe, and it was obvious that they were also full of envy for the wealthy and nobles.
Andre and Alessio showed a look of shock on their faces. Andre reluctantly smiled dryly: "You are Diego's younger brother, are you a member of the Surrey family?"
"That's true, Senior Andre." Laurenzo made his smile look natural, and then added: "My brother Diego and Senior Ivan are close friends. I think he will come over to explain this to you."
Only then did I understand that the reason why the silver-haired boy Laurenzo targeted me like this is because he knew Ivan, or it could be said that Ivan and Laurenzo's brother should be friends, and Laurenzo's brother happened to be the top leader of the Sword and Rose Society. I guess that Laurenzo could join the Sword and Rose Society so soon, which should have something to do with his powerful brother.
Although I messed up his tricks and plotted against the small plan in the magic pharmacy class before, I think everyone just said a few harsh words to each other, and obviously he knew me a little, and knew that I still had some tricks. Maybe I felt that the students from the North had some practical experience, so I was unwilling to have a head-on conflict with me.
"Diego... is really troublesome!" Alessio smiled bitterly on his face, but although he said that, his eyes were still unmoved.
The Andre next to him also frowned slightly. It could be seen that things became very troublesome. Although Andre and Alessio did not buy Ivan's account, they had a deep fear of the brother Diego that Laurenzo mentioned.
"Will it make you embarrassed?" I asked tentatively to Andre and Alessio in a low voice. The implication was that if it was very difficult, then let's forget about joining the Sword and Rose Society! I continued, "As for... over there, I will explain it to her!"
It is obvious now that Alessio and Andre are the recommended people that Chig had found for me, but the hesitation in their eyes was also seen by me. I was not used to making others embarrassed. Noah stood beside him and grew up, looking at me with a surprised look on his face, and said to me in a low voice: "Gija, I really find that I can't see through you anymore."
I blinked at him and signaled that I would explain it to him when I turned around, but it was not convenient to tell him why Alessio and Andre stood up for me.
Andre carefully put the rune sword in his hand back into the scabbard, hung it back to his waist, and then said freely: "Actually it's not that serious. In the club, we and that guy Diego belong to two different teams. And as long as we spend this year, Andre and I will graduate from the Royal Magic Academy smoothly. At that time, we will return to our respective provinces, so we naturally don't pay more attention to these people from the "Imperial Capital Gang"!"
"Imperial Capital Gang?" This is obviously a new term for Noah and me.
"A group of guys who grew up in the imperial capital, think they are from orthodox families and nobles with higher status and superior status. In fact, they are extremely annoying everywhere they go, a group of arrogant guys." Andre said coldly.
Then, Andre glanced at Laurenzo, and I finally understood why Andre disliked Laurenzo so much. It seemed that they belonged to two different factions! Obviously, in Andre's eyes, Laurenzo and his friends were new members of the "Imperial Capital Gang", and there was nothing we could do about it! The number of magicians who were promoted to the Royal Magic Academy in the Imperial Capital Junior Magic Academy was almost several times that of other magic academys. These nobles who came from the local noble forces of the Imperial Capital were obviously a force that could not be ignored in the Huang Family Magic Academy, and were given a not-so-sighted name "Imperial Capital Gang".
"We don't have to wait here, let's go. I'll take you to the martial arts hall to see. This will be the place where you spend most of your spare time. When the president comes later, we will recommend you two directly to the president." Alessio reached out and hooked his hand on my shoulder and said very kindly.
Obviously, between Qige and Diego, the "Imperial Capital Gang", Alessio decided to choose the former without hesitation, but I also had some doubts whether Qige personally handled this matter!
Noah said politely: "Thank you two seniors!"
Andrey smiled and waved his hands at the two of us, saying freely: "No need to thank us, we are just entrusted!"
Recently, Noah's original deep-rooted aristocratic ideas have changed a lot. After entering the Royal Magic Academy, he gradually began to discover that the advantages of the great nobles who were originally in Palestina Province have no advantage here. In the Royal Magic Academy, magicians with aristocratic status account for most of the students. It is precisely because the noble families can have more abundant magic resources and more complete magic inheritance. They have received magic enlightenment since childhood. At the initial starting point, they took several steps before the civilian magicians. Their foundation is also very solid and solid. Therefore, most of the people who can stand out among the many magic apprentices in various junior colleges. They come to the aristocratic families. Rather than being outstanding in magic talents, they are better said to be piled up by various magic resources.
So when Noah's sense of superiority gradually disappeared from the Royal Academy of Magic, he gradually became much more mature.
A few of us walked through the dark corridor at the entrance of the martial arts hall. There was a very flat square martial arts training ground in the courtyard inside the martial arts hall. Under the eaves around there were half-meter-high wooden floors paved with good oak boards, and were painted with very smooth varnish. The floors under the eaves of the whole room can be rested. There were weapons racks not far from the surrounding area, and there were all kinds of weapons on it.
There were even a row of targets hanging on the wall of one house, but there were no wooden bows and arrows. It seemed that the bow technique could not be practiced at any time.
At this time, there were already some students wearing moon-white witchcraft light armor on the martial arts field, who were competing with each other on the martial arts field. However, it was obvious that these students still did not break free from the cage of old ideas. The fighting method they adopted was the very old and conservative form. Almost most members on the field would choose a wooden shield in their hands, and in the other hand they were carrying a wooden dagger that replaced the "Spell Blade" or a wooden sword that replaced the "Magic Sword". Most of the process still focused on long-range magic attacks, mostly fireballs, wind blades, rocks and other spells. They shot each other back and forth. Often, when a student held a shield and made beautiful dodge or blocking actions in the face of the soaring magic, he would welcome some cheers around him.
Obviously, these members have no idea of close combat at all. After all, they are magicians. How could they abandon the advantage of long-distance magic attacks and choose to use their weak bodies to fight in close combat? The so-called fusion of swordsmanship and magic to make themselves stronger is just to practice how to accurately and flexibly avoid the enemy's magic skills during the battle without the use of magic shields.
There are inevitably some small disappointment in my eyes. There are many enemies here that are different from the martial arts hall I imagined!
Andre took Noah and me and I sat down on the wooden floor under the eaves, saying that he was just waiting for the president to arrive, and recommended Noah and I to her, and their mission was completed.
But what I didn't expect was that after I signed up with a group of friends at the registration office outside the martial arts hall, Lorenzo and his friends walked into the martial arts hall. Obviously, Lorenzo's momentum was very different from before. They stood on the edge of the martial arts training ground, just like Noah and I, watching the members of the field discussing each other. From time to time, there were some girls wearing white knowledge suits in the martial arts hall. Obviously, these girls were all above the level, especially outside the white skirts of these female magicians, they also wore a ritual suit, which made me feel a different taste.
A young man with a well-proportioned figure with a young silver-haired man stood beside him. He looked much more mature than Laurenzo, his eyes were sharper, and he was wearing exquisite magic pattern light armor, which looked particularly energetic.
At this time, I suddenly heard someone in the martial arts training ground say with a little surprise: "Diego, Laurenzo, you have brought these kids too!"
Easy-going is the laughter of those people and the greetings with acquaintances, and their circle seems more lively.
And here, there were some people who greet Andre, but they didn't expect that the people in the two circles seemed so out of place and had no intersection between them.
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Just as we were quietly waiting for Lucia, the president who had quickly grown up with the "Sword and Rose" club in just three years, we did not expect that Diego, a young silver short-haired man who had been surrounded by many members, had passed by everyone and walked towards us alone, and then stood in front of Andre and put on a proud stinky face.
Diego had a sneer on his face, and he was fiddling with a secret blade in his hand. It was a dagger like a recurve knife. His legs and hands looked extremely slender. He was wearing a light armor of an ice snake lizard. The entire armor was engraved with magic pattern arrays. Such a gorgeous magic pattern structure added a lot of charm to him. He had a hint of the proud smile unique to the imperial capital. He just glanced at me with the corner of his eyes and said lightly: "What can a water magician do in the arena? Letting him join our Sword and Rose Club is not wasting the quota of new members of the club?"
Alessio frowned slightly and said, "Diego, you are a fire magician with the inheritance of fire magic. It is a bit too much to evaluate the water magician in this way!"
I have to say that Diego and his cousin Laurenzo both have very handsome outlines on their faces, their smiles are full of evil spirits, and they still have some noble temperament when they smile, but they still say something ugly: "So what? A water-based garbage actually wants to join us Sword and Rose..."
"Do you want to have a conversation?" I sat on the wooden floor under the eaves, my feet drooped, but my face was facing the dazzling afternoon sunshine. I squinted my eyes and looked at Diego, and then said to him calmly.
"Wow..." Some people around us who were secretly following us couldn't help but exclaim.
Senior Diego also looked at me with disbelief, with two sharp lights ejaculated in his eyes, and said in a deep voice: "What did you say?"
"I want to invite you to have a duel with Senior Diego!" I said in a plain tone, then a faint smile appeared on the corner of my mouth, and then said: "Since you are questioning our water magicians like this, please fight me. I think I will let you get to know our water magicians again..."
For a moment, the members of the club who were practicing combat techniques and magic in the martial arts hall came to an abrupt end in the hustle and bustle, and the entire registration office became silent.
Everyone's eyes were staring at Diego and me. Many people looked at me with incredible eyes, thinking that they must have gained something and had a crazy mind that would have riskedly challenged a second-year senior. This senior was not an ordinary unknown person, but a top student in the second-year magic student in the Royal Academy of Magic. Diego has some family-style magic inheritance, which made him famous in the Sword and Rose Society.
In front of everyone, Diego became a difficult situation, because before I sent a challenge invitation, Diego did say something to question the water magician. Although most people thought that Diego was right, this kind of remark involved the factional dispute between the magicians and had some factional discrimination. This disharmonious argument was explicitly prohibited in the Magic Guild. Therefore, I fought to maintain the reputation of the water magician. It was difficult for Diego to refuse in such a situation.
For Diego, such a duel, whether it is agreed or not, is not a glorious thing for him. If he defeated me in the duel, it would be said that he would not win. Although I would inevitably suffer some flesh and blood, my reputation would not be damaged, but would make more people know me. Of course, Diego could not lose, so when he heard me stand up and when he questioned the water magician, he asked him for an invitation to compete, which made Diego's face look extremely ugly.
He stared at me with gloomy eyes, as if he was going to force me back directly with his eyes, while I looked at him bravely without giving in.
Chapter completed!