Chapter 32: A Chance Encounter
A friend once said that this world is quite ruthless. Because no matter how misfortunes a person encounters, it continues to rotate without hesitation.
Liqi thinks this is of course nonsense. There are so many people who encounter misfortune every second. If the world has to take responsibility for it, it may have collapsed due to excessive burdens. And then again, the "world" that encounters misfortune is usually not the "world", but often the "people".
Complainting against others cannot change the status quo. As long as people still have the power to continue to act, they have the opportunity to change themselves - this statement is of course a righteous theory. However, when people are already in trouble, they basically don’t think about the righteous theory to convince themselves.
For example, now, Liqi is a little bit jealous of complaining. She has been walking on the winding path for almost two months, and from time to time, she can see several apprentices walking in the opposite direction. Perhaps because of some delay, they did not catch up with the time when the troops went to the cafeteria.
Despite this, they can at least buy the remaining bread and fill the energy they consumed in the morning. On the other hand, she has no idea about these things, but she has no idea about them. Fifty-calon says more or less, and a little saving is enough to satisfy the weekly expenses of ordinary students.
She was very upset that she lost the money at one time.
Except for the loss of her coin bag, she actually made her mood worse, there was nothing else that made Liqi unhappy. On the contrary, she felt that she had a good decision to change her goals in time and choose to walk around the teaching building - at least she saw a lot of research-worthy things.
The Katris Academy was not as huge as it is now when it was founded. At the beginning of its establishment, it only used several rural mansions centered on the Theory Department building. These rural mansions were basically all local upper-class people who gave the houses that they had not used for a long time to the college.
In addition to the poor pioneers who came to Katris who could be described as "wild land" at that time, there were also some small nobles or merchants who could only come here to find a way out for various reasons. These were the people who asked to establish an educational institution.
Ordinary pioneers have to work hard every day and night for their livelihood. These "upper class" have extra time to consider how to maintain their cultural level. The parents devote their savings to various industries, and also consider sending their children to school to learn various knowledge.
Against this background, Katris Academy was established.
As time goes by, Katris is developing, and its expanding settlement attracts more immigrants to come. People with a little spare money will also send their children to the college for training. Over time, Katris Academy has become increasingly famous and its teaching has also achieved fruitful results.
In order to accommodate the growing number of students, Katris College has been expanded again and again - those apprentices who graduated from the college and achieved success are happy to build a building named after the surname of their family in their alma mater so that later generations can know their own deeds.
In this way, with the theoretical department building, one of the oldest buildings in the college, as the center, walking slowly along the path, the nearby buildings compiled a development history of the Dominic architectural style. These buildings not only have the exterior style, but also the interior decoration preserves the style of the time.
The buildings surrounded by a strong historical atmosphere. If Curt was here, he would be happy to buy a camera and put every corner of the old building into her favorites. And he would definitely take it out before resting every day.
Liqi doesn't like historical events, but such buildings are pretty good, which makes her feel like she is in a different time and space and feel the daily life of people at that time. However, she is not immersed in her memorial to the past, but is observing the cube arrays and decorative symbols portrayed inside the building.
A long time ago, in that era when spells and education were monopolized, the academy began to teach spells. It was also one of the few academys that early tried to popularize spells to ordinary people. The result of this was that the academy had left a mark of spell products everywhere.
From these protective cubes decorated in details, we can see the style of using spells at that time, which was simple and direct, using the most primitive artificial magic input method to drive the operation of the overall structure. They will spread the magic power into bricks that connect the same structure to enhance their stability and resistance.
Such ancient cubes are usually used to maintain the safety of important buildings. However, similar methods were abandoned more than fifty years ago, and most areas have switched to more cheap and easy to mass-produce protective structures. This small square with replaceable core drive is much more practical than artificial cubes.
As the times move forward, backward will always be eliminated by the advanced, and old-fashioned will be replaced by brand new. This is the argument that the development of this era is not applicable. If the things left behind in the past are not applicable, a few will be left to throw them into the museum, and the rest will be swept into the past garbage dump in one fell swoop.
Throw away all the useless things - Liqi doesn't like this statement very much. Perhaps these things do not conform to the trend of the world moving forward after all, but just because they "have no use anymore", they deny all the things that carry memories... Is this behavior really "correct"?
Her hand gently stroked a vague ancient text. Even if there is a magic cube array that maintains the integrity of the building to protect the ancient house, it is still impossible to cover everything. These texts have traces of maintenance, but now they are forgotten and gradually weathered in time.
The sun rises and sets, and it repeats itself day by day. Whether people are happy, sad, laugh or angry, they must welcome the arrival of every day. Time moves forward freely with unchanging pace, and everything that has accompanied it will inevitably become dust in the sound of its progress.
"If you have the courage, say it again!"
When Liqi was in a trance among these ancient spell decorations, a roar suddenly pulled her back to reality.
Who is clamoring in such an old house?
Liqi was quite unhappy about her nostalgia being suddenly interrupted. The anger that had been suppressed by the traces left by these ancient spells suddenly rose again.
The college is the place to study, and it is unreasonable to quarrel in a place where such important spell materials are retained! Do they plan to use spells as a means of quarrel and blow up this building? If spells are used like this, such students should go home!
With a lot of resentment accumulated from the lack of food, Liqi planned to find the inconspicuous apprentices in the direction of the sound. She wanted to preach them hard and vent her displeasure.
Of course, this behavior has another name - venting anger.
The architectural style of this building is obviously different from the theoretical building. The doors used with wood as the main body are also sliding doors made of wooden boards. These wooden doors without glass inlaid on the door can well cover the figure of the peeper hiding behind it.
"So what if you say it again? Let me say it a few more times." This is another person, a somewhat arrogant male voice coming from behind one of the door panels, "You would actually choose to do such a rough job as a mercenary for your livelihood. It is simply a shame among the ranks of magicians!"
It seems that the person who speaks is also a person who holds the viewpoint of the previous era, Liqi thought to herself.
Spells have not been popularized for more than a generation. Many people still believe that spells are superior. "Spell" is a technology that should be used by "qualified people". People who master spells should be inherently superior.
On the contrary, mercenaries are indeed a rough job in the eyes of many people, especially those who think they are "elegant" spells. Many spellers from talent dispatch institutions are unwilling to work with mercenaries, and the result is that these "vulgar" mercenaries accept tasks that should belong to them.
The apprentice of the Sorcerer ended his studies in the academy. After graduation, most graduates will go to various talent dispatch agencies under the management of the Spellcasters Federation. Cutting off people's wealth is like killing parents - the relationship between the spell and the mercenary can be imagined to be a bit different.
The door was not closed properly, and a gap left behind allowed her to peek into the inside through the crack of the door.
In the empty room, several teenagers stood opposite each other.
Five teenagers between the ages of seventeen and eighteen stood on this side near Liqi. They turned their backs to the door and blocked the only exit of the room.
Standing at the front was a very strong male apprentice. He should be the oldest among these people and was a lot taller than them. His brown hair was tied up by a ritual headband and he would use a long staff when he was holding an ancient spell in his hand.
Such decoration is very strange. Liqi doesn't remember that the college still has ancient spell casting courses. These ancient spell casting equipment should not appear in the hands of the college's apprentices. Such things that do not meet the times are of great value and should not be held by several apprentices.
This doesn't matter. What made Liqi more interested were the other people who confronted them.
They only had two people, and compared with the apprentices who blocked the exit, they were obviously on the weak side. The leader was Oscar, whom he met not long ago. He protected another thin boy behind him, while also staring at the apprentices who were blocking their way out angrily.
The teenagers present were naturally wearing school uniforms, and Liqi couldn't see the badge on their chests. However, the edges of their clothes were decorated with rich red, blue, yellow and white fabrics. This color matching style was only used in the uniforms of the apprentice of the Department of Elements, and these people were undoubtedly senior apprentices of the Department of Elements.
The situation was obvious. There was a little friction between Oscar and these senior apprentices who shared the elementary department with him, which eventually led to such a situation.
None of the people present noticed Liqi peeking from the side, but just stared at each other.
Chapter completed!