My Magic Age

The melodious bells echoed from the rooftops of the Imperial Capital Junior Magic Academy, and the silent campus suddenly became noisy.

Young faces ran from the buildings, with boys running in the front. They were wearing wide magic robes, like black rain butterflies, passing through the arched corridors, and their flexible bodies shuttled back and forth between the marble columns engraved with reliefs. The flying hair and sweat were accompanied by laughter and playfulness, making the campus full of joy.

The girls walked in groups of three or five, shoulder to shoulder, walked down the stairs, and strolled in the garden where the grass was just growing. Their sweet smiles made them look more confident. The identity of magicians destined them to have a very good future.

Many male magicians like to learn powerful magic skills because they are active by nature, like to fight, and like adventure. Most male magicians will follow some adventure groups to adventure on a continent or plane when they are young, or join the military camp and become combat mages with the army, serving the Green Empire and fighting for a higher title.

Unlike male magicians, most female magicians yearn for a comfortable life. Most of them will work in places like magic academies, magic guilds, and magic research institutes, becoming assistants to some great magicians. There are also many female magicians who choose to study magic potions, enchantment, inscription, jewelry, etc., and then become professional magic craftsmen in a certain chamber of commerce.

A small magic apprentice wearing a soft magic apprentice robe appeared at the gate of the academy. He looked at both sides of the street in a panic, holding a black magic book with ancient patterns in his hand. After a slight hesitation, he ran north along the shrub wall on the side of the road.

A row of magic caravans were parked on the street in the distance. The coachman had driven the caravan to the gate of the magic academy, and walked down attentively, opened the door, and waited for his little master to come out of the academy.

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The fourth grade classroom of the magic academy is at the top of the teaching building. The last class this afternoon is ‘astrology’. When the bell rang, the boys in the class had already dispersed. Constance, the magic instructor of astrology, looked helpless at the crowded scene in the classroom. Among this group of students, children from noble families accounted for more than 80% of the total number, and there were even several children from the Duke's Mansion in the class.

It was rare for these children from noble families to wait patiently until the last minute in the last class.

Constance, the magic instructor, chose to swallow the last few words back into his stomach. He slowly closed the magic books on the desk, sorted out the lesson plans on the desk, walked out of the classroom, fell behind these magic apprentices, walked down the stairs, walked out of the teaching building along the corridor, and after the last class, he did not need to return to his office and could go home directly.

Constance, who had just stepped out of the gate of the academy, saw the gorgeous carriages at the gate of the academy and shook his head secretly.

"Teacher Constance, I want to ask you a question." Constance heard a quiet and sweet voice behind him.

He turned around and took a look, and found that it was a group of female students in the classroom, who were standing behind him holding magic books.

The girl who spoke was standing among the group of girls. She had a beautiful dimple on her fair face when she smiled. Although her facial features looked delicate, she could only be called pretty. She stood quietly in place, looking graceful, like a lotus on Weiyang Lake. Her graceful temperament was the best among all the girls. Her long black hair fell like a waterfall, and was casually tied behind her head with a ribbon.

He paused slightly, and said calmly: "Ying Li, what's your question?"

The wide black magic robe could not cover Ying Li's youthful body. She hugged a thick magic book in front of her chest, with a faint smile on her face, and looked at Constance seriously. Her besties all stood aside quietly, no one said anything to stop her, and no one echoed her.

Girls in the imperial capital have a kind of paranoid arrogance. They think that the time outside of class is completely their own and they can do whatever they want. So at this time, no one wants to think about those headaches of "astrology". This subject is not a compulsory subject at the end of the semester, so there is no need to take it too seriously.

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I stood under the tree across the street, sitting on the guardrail and eating golden wheat cakes with the minotaur. The minotaur Luka ignored the strange looks of those passing by. The tail on his butt was swinging naturally and casually, and his expression was leisurely. It seemed that as long as there were wheat cakes to eat, Luka would have full happiness.

Scholar Yekis did not invite me to have lunch at noon. By this time in the evening, my stomach was already rumbling with hunger. I was worried that if I went to a restaurant far away to eat, I would miss Ying Li's school. I didn't have the courage to wait for her at her door. Besides, the roads in the imperial capital were so unfamiliar to me, so I naturally had to wait at the entrance of the academy and was reluctant to leave.

In the imperial capital, it was rare to see people eating on the street. The nobles generally did not do this. According to the rules of etiquette for the nobles, this was very rude. They would rather eat in the carriage or just starve. The pride and superiority of the nobles were infinitely magnified here.

People on the street would be surprised that a young man in a magician's robe would squat on the street so indecently, and would stay with a cow and eat wheat cakes, looking like a countryman.

The contemptuous eyes of the pedestrians made me realize the disdain in their eyes, but so what?

When the junior magic apprentices at the school gate left one after another, some magic caravans also drove away from the school gate one after another. The school gate welcomed some senior magic apprentices. It seemed that they had a stronger magic aura. Some of them were like me, no longer wearing the gray and white striped dedication magic suit, but wearing magician's robes with magician's medals on their chests.

Obviously, those senior students who have become magicians raised their chins high when walking, and they looked like they looked down on people.

It is said that people in the imperial capital are extremely arrogant. Now I have a deep understanding of this.

Then I saw Ying Li among a large group of female magician apprentices pouring out of the school gate.

Three years have made her height soar. From a distance, she is one of the tallest girls. Perhaps because she has been running and exercising in the morning, she looks slimmer than before.

She is wearing a white magic suit and holding a black magic book with gold inlays. The breeze blows her face and messes up her silky hair.

She stands among a group of classmates, smiling and listening to their discussion of magic knowledge points in class. She stands quietly in the crowd. Although she is talking and laughing with her classmates, the dimples on her face reveal a quiet and beautiful girl next door.

Although she stands in the crowd, she always looks so lonely. The moment she walks out of the magic academy, an eagle cries in the air. She pauses and looks up at the lion eagle flying freely over the king's city on the floating mountain in the distance. A yearning color appears on her face. At this moment, her heart is not here.

I quickly put the golden baked wheat cake in my hand into my arms, then patted the baked cake crumbs on my hand, and was about to stand up and walk over to give her a surprise.

Then, I saw her suddenly take a few steps forward and say a few words to a very mature-looking magic book. When I approached them, I heard Ying Li say: "A friend of mine told me that by referring to the star map at night, you can determine your location. On a night with stars, you will never get lost. Is this statement correct?"

The mature-looking magician turned around, glanced at Ying Li behind him, pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose, and answered seriously: "That already involves the star map in 'astrology'. Your friend must be a student of the Royal Magic Academy. Our junior magic academy does not offer this subject. It is difficult to distinguish the subtle changes in the starry sky by relying solely on the weak mental power of magic apprentices. But this statement is theoretically valid."

I thought to myself: That sentence was said when I was watching the stars at night and chatting with Ying Li. Although it was suspected of bragging, it was absolutely true.

Then I heard the magician say: "You can divide his words into two parts. The first part seems easy to understand, that is, you will not get lost on a starry night. As long as you find the big stars in Perseus under the starry sky and identify a direction, you will never get lost."

I stood in the crowd and listened quietly to the magician's answer.

This sentence may be applicable in the Green Empire, but it is not so effective on the Pai Plateau. There is no reference in the endless wasteland. If two people start from the same starting point, as long as they walk in a different direction by half a degree, they will be several kilometers apart after walking for half a month. It is difficult to meet at this distance in the wasteland. Therefore, in the eyes of the beast hunters, identifying star maps is the most basic skill.

Then the magician said: "The second part of this sentence is to determine your position. This is difficult because you need to be able to perceive the most subtle changes in the star map, and the starry sky throughout the night is not static. The star map at the same time and position every night is also completely different. Although this is not a difficult task for those astrology masters, you must know that it is difficult for beginners like you!"

What the magician said seems to have some bullshit truth, but what is Ying Li's admiring eyes!

I couldn't help but walk up and said loudly: "For the star map in the night sky, we don't need to remember the trajectory of every big star. We only need to remember the trajectory of fifty big stars to form the initial star map in our sea of ​​consciousness. Of course, we also need to remember the distance between several big stars close to the horizon and the horizon. Usually we stretch our arms and use our fingers instead of gauges to measure this distance, and then we can lock our position under the starry sky."

The magician's eyes lit up when he heard my words, and he turned his head to look at me in surprise.

But I just stared at Ying Li and continued, "As long as we know how to determine our fixed position under the night sky, we won't get lost at night..."

Ying Li looked over, and our eyes met in the air. I looked at her, and she couldn't believe her eyes at first. Her slightly parted pink lips slowly opened, revealing a section of white teeth, and then the smile on her face slowly turned into surprise, like the melting ice and snow on the snowy peaks...

Originally standing in the crowd, Ying Li was elegant and gentle, and her whole body was full of the breath of a noble princess, but when she heard my voice and saw me talking in the crowd, she rushed to me desperately at this moment, and the black hemp pendant as big as a walnut on her snow-white neck swung in front of her chest, and a layer of water vapor rippled in her beautiful starry eyes. In the surprised eyes of the classmates around her, she suddenly threw herself into my arms.

The tie on the ponytail behind her head suddenly fell off, and the black satin-like soft hair suddenly spread on my shoulders and hugged me tightly.

There was a booing sound from all around, I supported Ying Li's soft shoulders and pulled her away from my arms. I didn't want to be watched by them in public.

"Ying Li, it seems that you will not choose to go back to the dormitory with us today, so let's go first!" The messy voices of Ying Li's friends sounded behind me, and then they turned around and ran away with laughter.

A sweet-looking girl wearing a black magic apprentice robe squeezed out of the crowd and asked Ying Li beside me: "Ying Li, Quentin will hold a dance party at home next week, do you want to go?"

Ying Li stared at me intently, and the corners of his eyes seemed to be a little wet. He ignored the girl's question and just shook his head slightly.

"Ying Li, don't you like chatting with those merchants who came to the imperial capital from the North to do business and talk about those interesting things in the North? Quentin found a North caravan that just arrived in the imperial capital this time. They have a lot of interesting things to tell you. Don't you really want to go and see it?" The girl was still unwilling to give up, and stood aside to persuade Ying Li.

Ying Li turned his head to look at her impatiently, then turned his face and said to me with a smile: "I'll take you to a quieter place!"

I complained to Ying Li: "If possible, you can choose a restaurant. I've been waiting for you outside the college for a long time, and my stomach is empty!"

Ying Li said without hesitation: "Okay, I know a restaurant that makes very authentic roasted demon antelope meat. The owner of the restaurant used to be a businessman. He often went to the Pai Plateau to collect demon antelope skins and can roast authentic plateau-style barbecue. Let's go and try it!"

I nodded and agreed and said: "Okay! But don't forget that my followers only eat vegetarian food."

Ying Li took my arm, his bulging chest pressed tightly against my arm, and walked towards the street corner with me. After walking a few steps, he seemed to remember something, turned around and said to the girl who was expecting good news: "I don't want to go, if you want to go, go, don't always think about dragging me, I don't want to hear any news about the North now."

Then, Ying Li turned his head and looked at me and said: "It's no longer necessary!"