Early the next morning, officials and envoys from the palace seemed to arrive at the Liszt family mansion and sent a royal document on rewarding Chen Daolin.
Although the title of knight is the lowest of all the titles of nobility, once it is added with a prefix such as "court", it immediately becomes extraordinary.
Along with the canonization of the documents, there is also a badge token, and a set of special red magician robes, which is a symbol of the palace mage Of course, a court magician like Chen Daolin is actually just an honorary title, and true allegiance The mysterious team of court mages of the royal family is still fundamentally different.
A court magician like Chen Daolin is, to be precise, just a nominal court magic advisor.
A court magician like him could enter the palace and ask to see the emperor, but he never had the power to approach the white tower.
After receiving these rewards, to Chen Daolin's surprise, the two palace titles he possessed could also bring him a lot of royal allowances every year.
Although this money may not be a lot, it is enough for a medium-sized family to have food and clothing in a city like Yanjing for a year.
Seeing off the envoy of the palace, Chen Daolin went out to the headquarters of the Magic Guild that he had longed for for a long time.
The General Association of Magical Guilds is located in the west of Yanjing.
There is a large circular square, and the Magic Guild is right in the middle of it.
Contrary to what Du Wei had thought before, the base camp of the magician, who was known for its legend and mystery, did not seem to be "mysterious" at all Breath.
A circle of tall white columns was erected around the square, and the whole presented a diamond-shaped column, forming a magic array, which provided lighting all year round, and even in the dark night, the magic union was brightly lit.
It is said that the light of this magic array has been since nine hundred and sixty years When it was founded, not a single day has been extinguished to this day.
The flame of magic is eternal and represents the prosperity of the magical civilization in this world There are six passages in different directions above the square, leading to the center of the square, a tall building with a six-pointed star.
If you take a bird's-eye view from the air, you will find that the circular plaza on the periphery, together with the solemn theme building of the magic union in the square, forms a very standard six-pointed star pattern.
Although Yanjing is densely populated, it is full of liveliness.
But at this moment, Chen Daolin was standing in the square outside the headquarters of the Magic Union, and when he looked around, there were few people in sight.
The square was empty, solemn and quiet.
In fact, the headquarters square of the Magic Guild is not forbidden for people to come and walk, but idle people are not allowed to enter the six-pointed star building of the union headquarters.
But because of the reverence for magic, ordinary citizens would never dare to come to this square to wander around, even if they have nothing to do.
You know, in most people's minds, magicians are weird and unapproachable monsters, and they are dangerous Chen Daolin stood in the square, looking at this six-pointed star building, with the architectural standards of this era, there is no doubt that this building is very magnificent and amazing, and in the center of this six-pointed star building, a tall tower rises, echoing the white tower in the direction of the palace in the distance.
There is no real "gate" under the six-pointed building.
Chen Daolin circled around the square, and first observed the middle of the Magic Guild of the famous continent from the outside.
Each of the six concave corners of the six-pointed star building has a door, to be precise, a doorway.
There is no door panel under the employee-shaped opening, but it is completely unblocked.
From the outside, you can clearly see people coming and going in this union building.
Chen Daolin looked at it for a while, then took a deep breath, his face was serious, and he looked at the entourage behind him.
Captain Hook, and the Liszt guards.
Captain Hook insisted on protecting Chen Daolin closely, while the werewolf Chuck stayed at home to protect Barossa and the others because he was too eye-catching.
"Wait here."
Chen Daolin said slowly: "The headquarters of the trade union, except for magicians, no one is allowed to enter. ” As he spoke, Chen Daolin walked towards a doorway.
As he walked through the doorway, Chen Daolin clearly felt a wave of magic power sweeping around him, and it was not until a trace of magic power was also released on the magic badge he wore on his chest that the magic power fluctuation of this scan faded.
Chen Daolin's heart moved, this is the access control of the magic union, but it is very advanced.
After walking into the six-pointed star building, Chen Daolin unexpectedly found that the space inside the building was larger and more spacious than it looked from the outside.
When I looked up, the ceiling was ten meters above the ground, but I couldn't see any stone slabs, but the smoke made by magic simulated the sky, but there was the moon and stars shining at the same time.
The floor under his feet is paved with marble, smooth and visible, without a trace of dust, and bright enough to shine the shadow of a person.
There weren't many people in the hall, and the occasional people walked by, mostly in silver robes.
In the Roland Empire's mage rank, high-level mages wear white robes, and mid-level and low-level mages wear gray robes.
The court magician wears a red robe.
There is also a type of magic bachelor scholar who is recognized by the Magic Guild or the Academy of Magic, wearing black robes.
These are all recognized as official magicians.
And in the Wizardry Guild, there is another kind of people, who are marginal people between ordinary people and the wizard class.
These people are the legendary "magic apprentices".
In fact, they are the attendants and servants who serve the magicians.
The traditional costume of a magic apprentice is a silver robe.
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Chen Daolin has always been a little puzzled by this phenomenon, in his opinion, the silver robe is much better than the gray robe he wears.
But why can a magic apprentice wear a silver robe, while a mid-level and low-level mage can only wear an ugly gray robe?
When Chen Daolin stood in the hall and looked around, there were occasional magic apprentices walking by, and when he saw Chen Daolin, he would politely bow his head and salute, after all, this guy was wearing a gray robe that symbolized the identity of an official magician.
Chen Daolin wandered around the hall with great interest.
He soon discovered something that interested him: Two wide passages stretch out on either side, all lined with quirky shops.
It sells all sorts of strange magic materials, magic items, and even some special antiques and the like.
For a moment, Chen Daolin suddenly had the feeling of visiting a commercial center like Wanda Plaza in the real world.
The shops on both sides are large and small, and there are various signboards.
For example: xxx wand franchise.
XX Potion Shop is a 600-year-old brand.
XX equipment shop, new arrival magic crystals xxx Magic Pet Franchise, to provide you with the most professional magic pet domestication services.
As far as the eye can see, there are dozens of such shops on both sides of the hall corridor.
Unfortunately, it looks like the door is full of birds and sparsely populated.
The apprentices were all in a hurry, some carrying piles of papers, others carrying buckets and brooms.
As for the "customers" who are really hanging out.
Chen Daolin looked carefully for a while, and found that there were only seven or eight people wearing formal magician robes, including himself.
Moreover, these seven or eight magicians all looked indifferent, and they would never communicate with each other or greet each other.
Everyone is cold-faced, walk into the shop and take a look at it, and once someone else walks in, they leave immediately, and they don't linger.
Chen Daolin visited several shops in a row, and whenever he met other magicians, he would leave immediately when he saw Chen Daolin coming.
Obviously, for magicians, they are very proactive, and they never want to be seen by other peers when they are purchasing magic materials.
In fact, Chen Daolin's storage already has a lot of magic materials.
After all, his teacher, Mrs.
Stone, can be a high-level magician, and she is also an alchemist, and all kinds of magic materials that she has stored all her life are cheaper than Brother Darling.
Chen Daolin casually looked at two magic shops, one sold magic crystals, and the other specialized in customizing all kinds of magic wands.
To Chen's surprise, the shops here do not accept any currency or worldly goods.
Even the gold coins of the Empire are of no use here.
The only thing that is accepted by the shop here is: exchange The most primitive barter.
Chen Daolin took a fancy to an earth-based wand in the wand shop, and what he practiced most deeply now was the earth-based spells, although the dragon's tooth sword was sharp, it was not as easy as a special earth-based wand.
Unfortunately, when Chen Daolin asked the price, the other party proposed to barter, and Chen Daolin was obviously a little uncomfortable.
The owner, an apprentice magician, made a list of various materials that the shop needed to buy, and told Chen that he could accept any item on the list in exchange for the earth-based wand.
After Chen Daolin read the list, he thought about it in his heart, but instead of trading, he chose to leave.
After shopping around for a while, Chen Daolin found that all the operators in the shop were magic apprentices in silver robes.
After a few casual words with someone, he finally figured out the situation.
It turns out that half of all the magic shops here belong to the magic union in terms of ownership.
For example, the wand shop is like this, half of it belongs to the magic union, and the other half belongs to a certain magician who does not want to reveal his identity, and generally speaking, the people who open the shop here are alchemists, because only alchemy has the ability to produce so much Magical equipment.
Alchemists open these shops in order to use their abilities to make things and then exchange them for other materials they need.
Magicians don't do it to make money, they only open shops to get what they need.
Of course, it is impossible for the magicians to run the shop here, so they will leave it to their own magic apprentices to manage.
In fact, all formal magicians recruit their own magic apprentices.
After all, as a magician, if you still use ordinary people as servants, it is a very humiliating and undignified thing in the wizarding world.
After learning about these things, Chen Daolin couldn't help but think about it: it seems that he is also going to recruit a few magic apprentices It's not too difficult to recruit magic apprentices.
As the Empire's magical civilization flourished, especially in the last hundred years, the number of mages increased tenfold.
The establishment of the Imperial Academy of Magic has cultivated a large number of magical talents for the Empire.
And the prosperity of magic will also attract more people who are interested in magic to devote themselves to it.
Of course, due to talent, not everyone can become a magician, and most of them stay at the level of magic apprentices all their lives because of their lack of talent.
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However, magic apprentices are also very popular, at least magicians are willing to recruit such servants and assistants, and when doing magic experiments on their own, those complex and dangerous magic materials are obviously not allowed to be handled by ordinary servants.
And one has received it completely The magic apprentice educated by the magic system is the most ideal assistant and servant.
If you want to recruit magic apprentices, there are generally two ways now, the first is to go to the Imperial Academy of Magic, every year there will be many students who have not graduated from the Imperial Academy of Magic, in order to increase their knowledge, they are willing to work part-time for those who are ready to recruit magic apprentices during their studies The formal mages serve a bit like a college student part-time job in the real world.
Of course, there are also many people who are still not talented enough to become magicians after graduating from the magic academy, so they can only survive as magic apprentices and seek employment.
And the second way is in the Magic Guild.
The Magic Guild has an organization similar to a recruitment office, which registers magical apprentices who are looking for work in their spare time, and magicians who need to recruit magical apprentices can go to the recruitment office to choose the person they like.
In fact, although magician is a very difficult profession to enter, magic apprenticeship is considered by more and more people to be very promising Because the salaries of magic apprentices are generally very high First, being able to complete the learning of a complete system of magical knowledge means that at least this person's IQ will not be very low, and he should be relatively smart and studious, but he cannot become a magician due to talent.
Second, magicians, that is, employers of magical apprentices, are usually very wealthy, and this wealth is different from the worldly rich, the biggest manifestation of which is that magicians have always taken money, not money, a precious gem that the world thinks is expensive, maybe in the devil In the eyes of the mage, it is just a rotten stone, a superb gem, and in the eyes of the mage, it is nothing more than a secondary magic stone used to enhance the magic power.
As for gold, in the eyes of magicians, it is even more worthless scrap copper and rotten iron.
Therefore, magicians have always been very "generous" in terms of money towards their magic apprentices, and this generosity is based on the unequal values of everyone.
Thirdly, the work of a magic apprentice is not very hard, because magicians are not manual laborers.
The main content of the work of magic apprentices is generally in the magic laboratory, to help their employers, and at the lower end, that is, to serve the magician The personal life of the employer, serving tea and water, etc., is no different from that of ordinary servants, but the income is ten times or even a hundred times, and in fact, most of the magician employers are not very particular about the details of life, and they do not use people to serve them, and most magicians are sloppy ghosts.
The job of a magic apprentice is generally that of an assistant conducting magical experiments, similar to that of a scientist's assistant researcher.
Fourth, the employer's status is special, and most people dare not provoke you.
In this world, even if you are the steward of a noble family, no one will necessarily look down on you when you go out, and when you meet a wealthy and powerful family who is richer and more powerful than your master, they will step on you.
But if your employer is one Congratulations, magician, even those nobles will be polite to you, because everyone knows that you should never provoke a magician easily Such a profession is high-end, atmospheric, high-grade, and has a good income In recent years, more and more people have entered the field of magic, even if many people know that they have no magical talent and will not be able to become magicians in their lifetime, they still cut their heads and drill into the magic field, in fact, they are going to the profession of magic apprentice For this reason, the Imperial Magic Society's free magic training classes have been full almost every time since its birth, and those wealthy families are also eager to let their children go to the Imperial Magic Society's magic training classes to learn, so that they can become promising in the future "Apprentice of Magic".
And the more formal, Imperial Academy of Magic, the number of audit students every year is also the most sought-after thing.
Even if you can't become a magician, you can become a magic apprentice, and you can guarantee a lifetime of prosperity and worry-free food and clothing And just when Chen Daolin sighed, he discovered a strange thing.
Standing at the door of a shop specializing in the production of magic scrolls, Chen Daolin saw a magic apprentice in a silver robe walking in the distance.
This guy doesn't seem to be very old, just in his twenties, and he should be about the same age as himself.
It looks very delicate, the silver robe is fluttering, and along the way, it seems that there is wind under his feet.
When this guy walked, he raised his chin slightly, and there was a faint hint of arrogance between his eyebrows.
And at this time, a scene that surprised Chen Daolin happened Originally, there were seven or eight magicians in this hall, who were magicians, not magic apprentices Those seven or eight magicians, although they were all just middle-level low-level mages in gray robes, at least they were all formal mages.
However, watching this magic apprentice walk all the way, wherever he went, the people next to him would immediately stop and bow to him.
If it was said that other magic apprentices saluted this person, it would not surprise Chen Daolin too much.
To Chen Daolin's surprise, even those few magicians, when they saw this year's light magic apprentice coming, they would honestly stop and stand aside, and some of them bent down to salute this person , some took off their hats to salute, and their faces were all warm and kind and even a little flattering smile without exception The magician salutes the apprentice Chen Daolin's eyes widened.
And what surprised him the most was the attitude of this young magic apprentice, when the people around him saluted him, even if the person who saluted was a magician far higher than him, this guy did not stop for even a second When the other magicians took off their hats and bent over him, the guy still held his chin up, and he didn't even glance to the left and right There is such a great magic apprentice Chen Daolin's curiosity was immediately aroused.
He quickly turned around and walked back to the magic scroll shop beside him, and stood in the door, watching the magic apprentice pass by the door.
At this time, Chen Daolin turned around and asked the operator of this magic shop curiously, "Who is that person?"
The owner of the shop was also a magician apprentice in a silver robe, but he looked quite old, at least forty or fifty years old.
This man stood beside Chen Daolin, and watched with him the "best magic apprentice" outside walk by the door.
Obviously, the eyes of this shopkeeper actually showed undisguised envy Even Chen Daolin saw a trace of yearning and worship in his eyes Hell, it's worship The dignified headquarters of the Magic Guild, the core of the Empire's magical world, is actually so respectful, even awe, and worship of a magical apprentice After the shopkeeper came back to his senses, he glanced at Chen Daolin, and then whispered in a tone of admiration: "He is Xiao De" This tone made Chen Daolin very uncomfortable to listen to.
Because of the other party's tone, it seems to have a certain taste, as if as long as the name is said, others will naturally know.
It's as if the name is known to everyone, and everyone knows it.
A magic apprentice The operator looked at Chen Daolin's blank expression on his face, and was also quite surprised, and then couldn't help but ask: "Your Excellency this mage, are you from other places?"
"Hmm."
Chen Daolin nodded, he heard the meaning of the other party's words: "Why is this person very famous in Yanjing just now?"
Before the operator could speak, his face suddenly moved slightly.
Chen Daolin heard the movement behind him, turned his head, but found that the guy named Xiao Del actually turned around and walked back, walked straight to the door of the magic scroll shop, and stepped in.
The operator immediately left Chen Daolin, hurriedly took two steps to meet him, bowed with a smile, and said cautiously: "Lord Xiao Del, do you have any orders?"
The young magic apprentice also showed a smile on his face, but this smile obviously had a bit of reserve, and said lightly: "The roll of parchment that I ordered here the month before last, I have been waiting for a few days to use it, I don't know if you have prepared it." ” The operator immediately smiled all over his face, and quickly nodded: "It's time to arrive, do you take it now, or" "I'm not going to take it."
Xiao Del shook his head: "I have to go out of the magic academy again."
You can send it to me in the evening. ” After speaking, under the resigned laughter of the operator, Xiao Del turned around and walked to the door, but as if he had just seen Chen Daolin, he paused slightly, turned his head and glanced at Chen Daolin.
This glance was very casual, and then it seemed to be very lazy, nodding to Chen Daolin, and then, looking at Chen Daolin who was smiling and looking at himself but did not say anything, this Xiao Del actually frowned, then raised his head and strode out.
After Xiao Deer left, Chen Daolin turned around and asked the shopkeeper: "He just looked at my eyes, and finally frowned and left, but it's strange, I didn't say a word, could it be that I offended him somewhere?"
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The proprietor looked a little strange, and then smiled bitterly: "Probably because you didn't salute him." ” "Salute" Chen Daolin almost didn't call out. salute An apprentice magician would blame an official magician for not saluting him This seems to be the other way around Chen Daolin smiled bitterly: "Hearing what you said, I thought I was a magic apprentice, and he was a magician." ” His voice was mocking: "This Xiao Deer, what is so powerful about making you welcome me so much I originally thought that the Magic Guild was a sacred place, but I didn't expect such a thing to be upside down.
This guy I just made a clear magic probe for him There was no magic fluctuation on his body.
This man is so arrogant, is he the chairman of the Magic Union?"
"Well, not really."
The operator shook his head and smiled bitterly.
"Since there is no father who is the chairman of the magic union, how can this person be so arrogant" Chen Daolin frowned.
"Because he doesn't have a father who is the president of the Magic Guild," the operator said with a wry smile, "but he has a mother who is the president of the Magic Academy." ”: