Lord of Rot

Chapter 254 Failed Test Results and Night School

In January, when it was still cold, a teenage boy with yellow hair, wearing a new cotton-padded coat that obviously didn't fit him, sniffled and asked his friend: "Little snake, do we have a chance to be selected?"

He is still young, but he speaks in an old-fashioned way.

The boy who was called Little Snake had a cold face, and his eyes were full of uneasiness: "I don't know."

The lord suddenly said that he wanted to test the qualifications and recruit magic apprentices.

Anyone who is not a fool knows what magic means.

Those noble scholars gained the respect of lords and even kings as ordinary people.

Even if you don't know this, you can still hear magic legends from the stories told by some traders, bards, or the elderly at home.

It is said that as long as you possess magic, you can escape from a mediocre life and become a master.

There are many people coming to participate in the test today, and the Lord has no age limit for participating in the selection, so you can see children who are just learning to talk, and old people who use crutches and have limited mobility.

Everyone wants to be a magic apprentice.

"Father said that you must dress neatly when you enter the castle to meet the lord." The yellow-haired boy pointed at the clothes on his body and chuckled: "These are new clothes prepared for my brother, so I put them on first."

While chatting, the lord finally arrived.

Most people have met the Lord from afar and have never had a close chat with him.

Especially the children, who have been listening to the lord's story for a year, when they saw the lord in a coat approaching, their little faces suddenly tightened, and their eyes were full of excitement.

Li Qi turned around and took a look. Unexpectedly, there were many people he had an impression of.

For example, the bard's son Pilit, the first honorary knight Little Gazelle, etc.

There were many older people at the scene.

He deliberately did not set an age limit. Magical Farmer is not based on physical strength, but on mental strength. Maybe your mental strength will be stronger as you get older.

But this group of old people came with the same mentality as "getting a magic egg". They wanted to blindly catch a dead mouse, and Li Qi happened to think so too.

This is only the first batch of experiments, because Li Qi has no restrictions on his identity. Both civilians and serfs have the opportunity to come. Those who cannot come have work at hand, otherwise the entire porcupine collar can crowd into the castle. .

The Porcupine Castle could hold all two thousand people, but its operation was completely paralyzed.

"Scholar Thomas, I'm sorry to bother you," Li Qi said.

"Yes!"

Thomas scholars began to explain psychic powers, how to use them, how to detect them, etc.

These nearly a hundred people were feeling dizzy as they listened to Thomas scholars' talk about spiritual power.

"...Okay, I'll call on the names," Scholar Thomas said.

Hearing this sentence, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and finally finished speaking.

"Pilite"

The bard's son stepped forward with a sullen face.

His life in the Porcupine Territory is pretty good. He has his own house and the lord will give him part of the money every month. Pilit's job is to talk about the lute and sing.

When he pinched the sapphire and exerted force for a while.

He blushed but got no response, so he had no choice but to leave.

"Next"

Li Qi sat on the chair and watched quietly.

In his imagination, the appearance of a proud man in his own territory did not happen.

One by one they came forward, but to no avail, they turned around and left.

They can't squeeze out even 1 unit of spiritual power.

It can be said that he has no talent as a spell caster.

Li Qi reflected in his heart: "Did I guess wrong? Or is it that the ratio of two spellcasters in the entire territory is already very high."

There were more than two thousand people, and one Akke and one Pitz were born.

With a probability of 1000:1, he had no one to compare it with, but since it was said to be an era of rising magic tides, this ratio always felt wrong.

After a round of testing, all...failed.

"After all, I thought too much. How could a spell caster be like a cabbage? 1000:1 should be an extremely high probability."

There is another possibility.

Maybe they are too nervous, or they haven't learned to control their spiritual power. Even if there is a minimal amount of spiritual power left in their bodies, they don't know how to draw it out.

Li Qi suddenly remembered what Brass Dragon said.

"The influence of bloodline, bloodline..."

The influence of bloodline can stimulate talents in a high-demon environment, so it is obviously unrealistic for Hippogriff to stay with this group of people.

But looking at this group of people, Li Qi had another idea.

After sending people away from the castle, Li Qi said: "Scholar Thomas, I think maybe we can change our approach. I want to open a night school."

"Night class? Sorry sir, I don't understand."

Li Qi looked at the confused Thomas scholar. Akeke and Pitts who were helping him were also very confused.

He said: "Oh, by the way, before talking about night school, I should first explain to you what school is."

"A school is a place for planned and organized education," Li Qi said with a simple analogy: "Just like when you teach an apprentice, you can only do it one-on-one, but in a school you can teach to dozens or even hundreds of people at the same time."

"But this cannot guarantee the correct transmission of knowledge." Thomas scholars expressed doubts about this education method.

The research of scholars is generally fraught with danger.

The most representative of them is Betty. Her alchemy triggers explosions very frequently. If there are hundreds of people without someone to look after them, hiss, the scene will be very tragic!

"We can do the most basic ones first," Li Qi said. "Maybe I'm too radical. I shouldn't expect them to become spell casters when they can't even count from one to ten."

"Start with the most basic arcane knowledge, wait until they can memorize and understand it, and then try it," he said. "Not only that, I am also planning to add cultural classes to teach arithmetic and the reading and writing of common language."

"You mean to teach the most basic knowledge, which is certainly feasible," Scholar Thomas said, "but I'm afraid it won't meet your expectations, especially since these courses are held in the evening. I guess night school is a night school, right?"

"Yes." Li Qi nodded, and then said: "If it is opened during the day, fewer people will come. Moreover, sacrificing part of the rest time can be exchanged for knowledge that changes your destiny. There is nothing more cost-effective in the world than this. "

Knowledge is private. Nobles can generously give food, money, lives, etc. to people, but they will never give knowledge.

Anyone with a slightly flexible mind will know how important knowledge is.

Li Qi's idea was very simple. Let Thomas Scholar act as the "Hipeagle" among the crowd, and then send Akke and Pitts there so that they could influence the bloodline, which might intensify the talents of some people.

Of course, the most important thing is that Li Qi asked Zhui Na to smash the dragon mine gems and place these gems in the temporarily prepared classroom.

If he could be infected and produce a dragonborn, it would be considered a profit.

News of the night school spread quickly.

The class location was chosen in the castle.

Because the porcupine collar can't find more space.

Different from the qualifications for detecting magic during the day, those who come to night school at night are all young people who are engaged in manual work, and the majority of them have failed to become craftsman apprentices.

They think this is an opportunity for them to change their destiny. Even if they can't become a magic apprentice, if they can learn arithmetic, they might have the opportunity to work in the city hall in the future.

Then there are teenagers, and then there are energetic children.

The number of women is greater than that of men. Reach speculates that it may be because the role models of Acker and Pitts make people think that women have a better chance of becoming spellcasters.

Everyone knows that being a magic apprentice is a good thing for reaching the sky in one step, so even the elderly want to try their luck. It's free. If you don't come, you won't get it.

But after spending time and money to learn, these people will turn around and leave without hesitation.

Even cultivating spellcasters is no longer the main goal. Li Qi changed his mind and regarded it as cultivating talents. If you can't learn arcana, you can always learn arithmetic. No matter what kind of talent you are, you are a good talent if you can speed up the development of the territory.