Soul of Burning Steel

"Did you know? The academy is about to conduct a comprehensive assessment for everyone!"

Starfall 833, May 21st, Nissier Snow Mountain, Winterhold College, even though summer has come to the entire continent, the temperature of the ice field is still cold.

Of course, these have nothing to do with the students in the college. Whether it is extremely hot or cold, the constant temperature circle can fix it to the most suitable temperature for human survival. Inside, a group of teenager-looking boys and girls were sitting at the table, chatting softly while reading difficult spell books.

An older, more mature-looking red-haired girl was holding a notice in her hand, and said to the friends beside her with a mysterious expression: "I specially asked to come in advance from the instructor! Look, I heard that before The prizes for the three~ are very generous, and the lord has also generously given extra rewards this time!"

"Hey, how generous is it?"

On the side, someone immediately asked curiously, and others immediately asked: "Will the lord come too?"

"Of course!" Responding decisively, the red-haired girl straightened her face, and her eyes shone with a mature light: "I don't think I need to remind you, your parents must have told you that we are here In this academy, study hard to become a mage."

Of course no reminder needed. Most of the boys and girls sitting at this table nodded silently.

In the beginning, everyone came to try to see if they had the talent to become a spellcaster just because they wanted to become a mage and change their established destiny.

But soon, the parents of those children who successfully passed the test realized that the first batch of local mages cultivated by this academy would undoubtedly be the first batch of local mages in the Moldavian territory. The first batch of established spellcasters under that lord.

——Behave well and try to get into the eyes of the lord as soon as possible!

The so-called competition began at this time. There is no doubt that outstanding people can be rewarded, they can get the attention of the big man, and after graduating from this academy, they can also be reused by the big man immediately. If so, then Everyone will work towards this.

"Wait, Ivan, why didn't you react at all?"

Speaking of everyone, there are still some people who are not very interested in this, and the boy who made the red-haired girl question suspiciously is one of them.

Sitting at the corner of the table, the platinum-haired boy who had been silently flipping through the heavy books in his hands raised his head. He couldn't continue reading after being asked by his friend, but he said helplessly, "Karin, this comprehensive Isn't the sexual evaluation held once a month? We have participated twice, even if the lord comes, there is no need to be so excited, right?"

"I knew you would say that."

Nodding, the red-haired girl named Karin snorted, and then retorted: "But this time is completely different from the previous evaluation, Ivan, I know you were in the top ten evaluation last time, you My younger sister even won the first place twice in a row, but this time it may not be the case!"

"oh."

Ivan replied lukewarmly, raised his brows slightly, and looked at Karin with a very flat look. The other party couldn't stand it, so he took the initiative to explain: "Okay, don't stare like that. Look at me, I say yes!"

After calming down, Karin tidied her hair, and then said in a deep voice: "The previous evaluations were nothing more than ordinary exams, but all subjects were mixed together. From time to time, I had to do a few experiments and dissect some monsters. corpse, but this time the evaluation is different, it is said that actual combat drills will be conducted!"

Waving the notice in her hand, the red-haired girl showed everyone the writing on it: "Look, we not only need to complete the exam, but also need to survive in the wilderness for a week near the snow-capped mountains by ourselves. Those who can't survive will be followed." The instructor rescued them back, but this test is worth zero points, and those who can survive can only be regarded as passing, and only those who bring back prey can get high marks!"

"Survival in the wilderness? Does that mean living in the snow and the forest?"

"It's nothing difficult. My father is a hunter. I knew how to find food in the forest since I was a child!"

"This is a terrible situation. My scores in ecology and natural science are not high...and what if I encounter a monster halfway?"

"We are mages, why do we do such a thing?"

There were scattered discussions, but since it was in the library lobby, everyone's voices were kept low, and even Ivan frowned slightly, as if he was thinking about the difficulties and challenges involved.

"Don't worry, the instructor has already expelled the dangerous monsters nearby, so the most we have to face are opponents of the level of frost slime and giant wild boar. According to the spells we usually learn, even if we can't beat them Can run away too."

Seeing this scene, Karin was in a good mood, so she threw out another big news: "Not only that, after returning, we can rest for three days, and then there will be the last test—the ring battle!"

This is much easier to understand than survival in the wilderness. Everyone present understood what it meant in an instant.

"strangeness……"

At this moment, Ivan spoke, and the boy rubbed his chin with some doubts: "To be honest, it hasn't been long since we started learning magic, right? Even a genius like my sister hasn't given a formal revelation. To become a real professional, survival in the wilderness can still be understood, it can be regarded as a test of our practical ability to manipulate the knowledge we learn on weekdays, but the students are fighting each other..."

Having said that, he shook his head, as if he was talking, but in the end, he could only express his thoughts truthfully: "Several apprentices shot magic shocks and small fireballs at them, and from time to time they failed because of insufficient magic power. In the end, it will definitely turn into hand-to-hand combat... For the instructors, isn't it just watching a monkey show?"

What the platinum-haired boy said was indeed very reasonable, and everyone else in the room nodded in unison, feeling a little strange, but Karin retorted flatly: "For those adults, it is true, but Ivan, you should also know that those of us were not trained to be master mages."

Speaking of this, the red-haired girl's eyes dimmed a bit: "This is the Northland, close to the Black Forest of the Great Ajax Mountain Range, our mission is to grow up quickly, and then fight the Kuroshio... From the very beginning, we have been We need to cultivate our awareness of fighting, although the first ring will definitely be ridiculous, but it is much better than dying in the fortress in the future."

"Ivan, you should understand too, right?"

Of course I understand.

Nodding silently, the white-haired boy knew what the other party meant.

Karin in front of her is the leader of this small group. At the beginning of the establishment of the academy, she immediately used her enthusiastic personality and outstanding leadership skills among the children to attract many talented students. Wan can be regarded as one of them.

Of course, it is impossible for the red-haired girl to learn it by herself. Someone must have taught it by example. Karin also said that it was taught by her father, and the red-haired girl's father was a knight in the Black Forest Fortress. Long, who died in the Great Kuroshio two years ago, he taught his daughter this leadership skill in order to make her a knight and inherit his position.

From the very beginning, Karin understood that most of the first batch of students in the academy would not become masters studying in the mage tower, and a large part of them would go to the battlefield. It can be seen at a glance that the lord of this territory, that adult will definitely go to the Great Ajax Mountains or the Ice Field to open up new territories in the future, and these mages are the main force among the pioneers.

Of course Ivan understood, because he was the same.

His parents died in the disaster of the dragon. From the very beginning, he didn't want to be a mage studying in the academy. His goal was to slay the dragon.

In this world, there are many kind and friendly dragons. There are many dragon lords in various parts of the continent, like the mount of the lord. The black dragon living in the snow mountain lake is not evil at all. He will take some students to play diving in the snow lake. Ivan's goal is not these giant dragons, but his goal is those evil dragons that act recklessly and attack humans everywhere.

This is his motivation to study and also his dream. Not only Ivan thinks this way, but Amira also thinks so. The two brothers and sisters have already made an appointment. The most powerful dragon slayer in the world!

Through Karin's explanation, everyone present understood the meaning of the evaluation soon.

"It seems that I need to make up for the ecology of the snow mountain recently. I don't want to be rescued by the instructor in embarrassment."

"Yeah, what is the most monster nearby? Snow rabbit or frost butterfly?"

"I haven't practiced much in actual combat yet... Hey, Bella, let's try it in the open space later?"

"Okay, don't be beaten and cried by me then!"

Many people have begun to invite friends with better relationships to practice in actual combat, and some people who are more worried about survival in the wild feel that they need to catch up on this knowledge. All in all, everyone has found their goal and started effort.

But Ivan got up, walked to Karin's side, and asked for the notice from the red-haired girl.

This notice was obviously just finished. It seemed that the girl really asked for it from the instructor. After a quick glance, Ivan found that the content on it was not different from what Karin said, but it was more detailed and worded. Be more rigorous.

"Joshua Van Radcliffe, the honorary headmaster of Wintercastle College, the lord of Moldavia... will give an additional reward to the student with the first overall score."

While muttering the above content softly, Ivan glanced at his companions around him. Most of those excited boys and girls were admirers of this adult. In order to perform well in front of their idols, they would naturally work harder.

"I don't know what the reward is."

After finishing speaking, his eyes glanced at the pattern of a treasure chest next to this sentence. The treasure chest was drawn so lifelike that it was no different from the real thing. Ivan just glanced over it at first, but immediately felt that something was wrong, and immediately turned his head back Read it carefully.

"Wait, isn't this the box I sent to Instructor Theodore a month ago?"

What happened a month ago was not too long ago for Ivan, not to mention that it was because he and his sister sent these two boxes to Mentor Theodore that he got the voucher to borrow books from the library.

The important thing is that he knows what's in it!

"Those dragon eggs!"

Taking a breath, Ivan fell into a long silence. Many thoughts flashed through his mind, and the more he thought about it, the more likely it became.

At that time, Instructor Theodore took the dragon egg to Snow Mountain Lake, and then there was the sound of fighting, and then the battle subsided, and it was the lord who brought Instructor Theodore back to the academy... The black dragon at the foot of the mountain seemed to be a Mother dragon, although I don't know why the mentor was attacked by it, but these things do seem to be related!

Could it be that the reward is a dragon egg? ! Would the lord be so generous?

No, the lord has always been generous, and for him, no matter who gets this dragon egg, it belongs to his power, and this kind of reward may be to attract more students from other places to come to him. Come to Winterhold to study, he will definitely do it!

——And, if he or his sister wins, then in the future, the two of them will bring a dragon to slay the dragon?

Thinking of this, the platinum-haired boy couldn't help being slightly taken aback, his expression was weird, he seemed to want to laugh, and he seemed to want to sigh at the same time.

But in the end, he murmured softly amidst the laughter of the students around him.

"It's... ironic."

After finishing speaking, a flame of fighting spirit was ignited in his eyes.

If the protagonist is not Joshua but this kid Ivan, then it is really a nostalgic academy rpg plot... Of course, the protagonist is not the devil.

The main storyline of this volume is about to start, don't worry, I can't keep typing this book, right?

The reason why I didn’t update yesterday is that my glasses were broken, I accidentally crushed them when I got up, and I went back to my dad to get new glasses in the afternoon...