Chapter 48 – Betty
Translator: Xaiomoge
After the first round of screening concluded, a total of more than 5,000 students met the standard in terms soul aptitude. The majority of the students possessed level-4 soul aptitude.
The second round of screening began soon after the first round, and then the roster was immediately announced. Of the more than 5,000 students, 4,000 were weeded out, with only more than 1,000 remaining.
Of the students with level-5 soul aptitude or higher, no one was eliminated. A for the students with level-4 soul aptitude, they had to combine into their background and connections to get the chance to enter the Warlock College Antalya to study.
For ordinary students without any background, unless they possessed level-5 soul aptitude or higher, it was fundamentally impossible to get the qualifications to enter the Warlock College Antalya to study. Under normal circumstance, Yang Feng had any qualifications to join the Warlock College Antalya to study.
“Congratulations to you that passed the second round of screening, you got the qualifications to join the Warlock College Antalya to study here. You have three years to study all kinds of knowledge. After three years, there will be another screening! Those who haven’t advanced to a level-1 Apprentice Warlock will be eliminated. Do your best!” The the day after the screening, the students gathered in a large square of the Warlock College Antalya, where an expressionless black-robed official Warlock gave a speech.
Shortly after the black-robed Warlock was finished, Yang Feng and the other students were approached by students one year their senior.
“Hello, I am Betty, a student one year your senior! Are you the Steel Lord’s nephew Yang Feng and niece Shi Xue?” A beautiful girl with a head full of blonde hair, a fiery figure, some freckles on her face, and fair skin walked up to Yang Feng’s group of two and asked with a smile.
When Betty got close, she carefully examined Shi Xue’s peerless appearance, and a glint of jealousy flickered past her beautiful eyes, and then she plastered a sweet smile on her face.
Yang Feng responded with a faint smiled: “That’s right, I am Yang Feng and this is my little sister Shi Xue.”
Betty uttered with a smile: “The college has arranged for me to be your guide and help you gain a basic understanding of the Warlock College Antalya. Please come with me!”
Yang Feng nodded, and then he and Shi Xue followed Betty into the Warlock College Antalya.
“The Warlock College Antalya is split into the outer and inner court! The outer court is where students who have yet to become Apprentice Warlocks like us stay. The inner court is where the elite students who have already promoted to Apprentice Warlocks reside and study. Before receiving a summon, were aren’t allowed to casually enter the inner court. Otherwise, we’ll be punished.”
As she took Yang Feng’s group of two for a walk, Betty informed them about the Warlock College Antalya’s dos and don’ts.
The Warlock College Antalya possessed a strict strict hierarchy. Official Warlocks as well as Apprentice Warlocks resided in the inner court where the ancient energy absorbing tree was located.
The Warlock College Antalya’s inner court was perpetually shrouded by a powerful energy force field, which separated the college’s inner and outer courts. The inner court was enveloped by formidable magic energy. As such, practicing cultivation there was by far more beneficial than in the outer court. The inner court was the quintessence of the Warlock College Antalya.
As she explained, Betty handed Yang Feng a price list: “Studying the various bodies of knowledge in the Warlock College Antalya isn’t free. This is a price list and a schedule for the various courses.”
Continent’s common language: 20 gold coins per lesson. Basic ancient god language: 100 gold coins per lesson. Basic dragon language: 100 gold coins per lesson. Basic fiend language: 100 gold coins per lesson. Basic elven language: 100 gold coins per lesson. Basic study of planes: 200 gold coins per lesson. Basic mathematics: 20 gold coins per lesson. Basic geometry: 20 gold coins per lesson. Basic anthropology: 20 gold coins per lesson. Basic melee-arts: 20 gold coins per lesson. Basic politology: 20 gold coins per lesson. Basic war tactics: 20 gold coins per lesson ...
The price list contained a variety of courses, illustrating that a large amount of gold coins was required to learn any given piece of knowledge. Ordinary people couldn’t afford to study them. As for aristocrats, they would get a headache once they saw the amount of gold coins they had to spend in order to be able to attend those courses.
As for lesser aristocrats such as Zhao Jiang, the income of several generations would enable them to attend four lessons of basic fiend language at most. This perfectly illustrated how expense knowledge in this world was.
On the Turandot Subcontinent, knowledge was firmly controlled by greater aristocrats with Warlock bloodlines. For ordinary people, unless their soul aptitude was incredible and they were lucky enough to get a Warlock inheritance, it would be very hard for them to have any remarkable achievements.
Body-Tempering Warlock intermediate secret method: 10,000 gold coins or 90 low grade magic stones (can be cultivated until the level-3 Apprentice Warlock rank).
Yang Feng’s gaze fell on the last line, and his eyebrows creased, saying: “Body-Tempering Warlock secret methods are so expensive. How can ordinary people have so much money to learn this secret method?”
Betty said with a slight smile: “The Warlock College Antalya provides loan services. Each student may acquire a Body-Tempering Warlock secret method in exchange for a three-year interest-free loan. Other bodies of knowledge can be freely taught to others. But as for Body-Tempering Warlock secret methods, once it was discovered that they were transmitted to others, you will be reduced to a slave of the Warlock College Antalya as punishment.
Yang Feng’s eyes flashed with admiration, and he mused: “What a brilliant method! Thus, just in tuition fees, the Warlock College Antalya can easily collect 90,000 magic stones every year. Knowledge is wealth and power, this statement describe’s the Turandot Subcontinent’s inner workings the best.”
After he looked at the prices in front of the courses, Yang Feng rejoiced in his heart: “Fortunately, I have the Steel City’s wealth at my disposal! Otherwise, I really wouldn’t be able to afford to study here!”
Betty warned them: “The ordinary students who lack money can go to the mission hall to accept missions. However, for people like us who haven’t reached the Apprentice Warlock rank, those missions are very dangerous. You shouldn’t accept them.”
Yang Feng nodded. The Steel City’s sphere of influence was practically equivalent to half of the Fernandro Principality, netting him enormous wealth each day. He naturally wouldn’t go and accept those dangerous missions. Before promoting to an official Warlock, he wasn’t interested in adventuring.
Betty kindly warned: “Apart from the Body-Tempering Warlock secret method, for each qualifying mark that you get from the courses, you’ll get 1 point, while for each excellent mark, you’ll get 5 points. 100 points can be traded in for a level-0 spell model. Of course, if you want to buy a level-0 spell model instead, then you’ll have to fork out 20 low grade magic stones. Basic god language, basic fiend language, basic dragon language, and basic elven language are the prerequisite courses in order to learn a lot of powerful spells. Mathematics and geometry are crucial for constructing spell models. Basic biology is the prerequisite course for the study of variation and the study of bloodline variation. If you wish to become an official Warlock, then you should start thinking about the direction in which you want to develop, and then study the corresponding prerequisite courses.”
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