In Wanta City, even if you do nothing, you have to pay a citizen tax of five gold coins to the tax officials every month; and outsiders who do not have citizen qualifications need to pay a settlement tax of fifty gold coins every month.

So there are basically no poor people in Wanta City.

The villa that Ender purchased is located in the north of Wanta City, only one street from Mait Basic Training School.

This is one of the upper-middle-class residential areas in Wanta City. Of course, Wanta City can be considered a middle-class class, and in any other city on the mainland, it can be considered a rich man.

"Mr. Antel, wish you a smooth exam." As Ender's carriage drove out of the garden, the neighbor Mrs. Mann was returning in the carriage, and she smiled and greeted him.

Mrs. Mann was a lady of about thirty years old and graceful, with the title of viscountess. Her daughter had learned from the same teacher as Ender.

Her husband has passed away and only has one daughter. In order to avoid the struggle between the family for the viscount after her husband's death, she took her daughter to Wanta City to settle down. Even the legends in Wanta City did not dare to act wildly, and the influence of a viscount noble was basically zero.

There are not only mages in Wanta City. In addition to mages and scholars, merchants, adventurers, mercenaries and even those who avoid disasters have a place here.

"Thank you for your good words." Ander pressed his hat and gave a gift to the convertible carriage.

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"Mr. Antel, your scholar exam has passed. This is your scholar proof document. Please keep it. Now please go to the 11th Spell Testing Site for casting display."

After a full four hours of examination, scholar Jacques handed the exquisite gold-plated scroll to Ander.

This is a scholar certificate awarded by Wanta City. It is at least thirty percentage points higher than the scholars in other places. It is a scholar recognized by the entire continent.

Nothing elsewhere is easy to cheat, but in Wanta City, you can try cheating in the exam?

The examination room is located in the extension building of the Mage Tower, and there are seven or eight kinds of spells used for monitoring alone. If someone who is capable of cheating under this kind of monitoring is still possible, it is not unacceptable to grant him a scholar's document.

Take the certificate from the Jacques scholar, Ender bows his head to thank him, and then walks out of the examination room.

Wanta City has strict requirements for beginner mages and must be proved by scholars before the next exam can be conducted; while other places often conduct spell casting exams directly, and scholar qualifications are not required at all.

This is also one of the reasons why the mages from Wanta City regard other local spell casters as wild paths.

The No. 11 magic test site was not difficult to find. When Ande pushed open the door, there were already two men and one woman inside, and three young people were waiting in line. Ande was the fourth person to come in.

Seeing Ande come in, the three of them nodded to him and showed a nervous smile.

"Kalia, it's your turn." The two examiners were not old, and they looked only thirty years old at most. They were both wearing the standard robes and clothes of the first-level mage among civil servants in Wanta City.

The girl in a white robe stood up and walked into the circle in the middle of the floor. Although the robe was covered, Ender could still see that the girl's legs were shaking.

"Report the name of the spell you will cast." Examiner Robert said gently, allowing the girl to relax a little.

"I want to use the arrow shooting and oil my feet."

"Well, a good choice, one has attack power, the other can escape danger quickly. Now show your arrow shooting technique, by the way, the target is there."

Examiner Mahart pointed to the other end of the room, a huge target with a diameter of two meters leaning against the wall. The room on the spell test site was not too big. Although it was narrow and long, the target was only ten meters away from the place where the girl stood.

Kalia took a deep breath, took out a crossbow arrow that had been prepared and held it in her palm.

"Mara-Kaen-Taruto-Jay's tears and Mimomi-Winnra-Putt!"

As the rhythm of chanting was undulating, light blue light spots visible to the naked eye gradually condensed around the crossbow arrow and penetrated into the crossbow arrow.

(Snake shooting technique is a zero-ring trick of the change system in many DNDs, but according to its power and composition difficulty, I list it as a one-ring spell. After all, this spell involves changing the composition of physical properties. If the zero-ring spell is so powerful, the mage would be too outrageous.

Zero-ring tricks should be things like light dance and breeze.)

The girl's spell was chanted for half a minute before it ended. At the moment when the last byte was spit out, the crossbow arrow in the palm suddenly flew out, and the crossbow arrow shot out by a light crossbow was inseparable from the speed and power.

With a 'ding' sound, the crossbow arrow did not shoot on the target, but hit the stone wall, rebounded and flew up, and fell to the ground.

"Ah--" the girl screamed, her eyes could not help but be covered with a layer of mist.

Initial mage and mage apprentice are two different classes in Wanta City - uh, that may be wrong. In any place, the initial mage and mage apprentice are both two classes.

However, Wanta City is different from other places. The mage apprentices here are not regarded as spell casters, and naturally they cannot enjoy the various benefits of formal mages. For example, the initial mages in Wanta City do not have to pay the citizen tax of five gold coins per month. Not only the initial mages themselves do not pay, but their entire immediate family members do not have to pay.

Business tax will also be significantly reduced - this is the preferential treatment for the caster's headquarters for the caster.

If you are an alien beginner mage, you will be treated the same as the citizens of this city in terms of taxation, which means that the residence tax of 50 gold coins per month is directly exempted from five gold coins per month, and the application for joining Wanta City is preferred.

And this corresponds to the fact that you have to pay fifty gold coins to apply for a preliminary mage exam. Whether you pass the exam or not, these fifty gold coins will not be refunded.

"Ahem, don't worry, we only test whether you cast successfully. Whether you ejaculate accurately has nothing to do with this exam."

Seeing that Kalia was about to cry, Mahath quickly spoke to comfort her.

Wanta City is prosperous and peaceful, and the people here are more sympathetic, and Kariya also looks like a girl next door.

Although she is a little older by universal standards, there are many otaku among the mages, and her tears are still very lethal to the two examiners. If she had changed to a big guy like Ende, she would probably not have received such treatment.

The exam went on and soon after Kalia passed, perhaps because there was a successful example in the front, and the two young men in front of Ander passed the assessment smoothly.

This is not surprising. People who can pass the scholar exam at this age have no shortage of hard work and intelligence.

The two examiners were a little confused.

He is cheating. There are facilities for detecting enchantment equipment in the room, so the other party definitely did not use items to cast spells - Besides, even if he uses enchantment equipment to cast spells, the energy fluctuations are not like this.

And the spell effect does exist.

But do you want to say that he didn't cheat? These two spells shouldn't be the same energy fluctuation characteristics anyway.

"Robert, Mahart, he passed the preliminary mage assessment and brought him to see me."

A female voice sounded in the air.

"As for orders, mentor." The two of them agreed quickly.

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There are many mage towers in the City of Wanta Towers, but not many so that every mage has its own mage tower.

The Eunice mage that Ender is going to meet now does not have his own mage tower.

Her lab—or studio—is located above Ender’s examination room, inside the same building.

But this is not bad. After all, this building itself is an extension building of the Mage Tower. It has its own energy channel connecting the Mage Tower, which can continuously extract energy from the Mage Tower.

(If this mage Eunice stays in the mage tower, Andr, who has a ghost in his heart, may not be willing to see her.)

It is no exaggeration to say that this is an incomplete mage tower - this may be more advanced than the model of using the elemental pool left after the destruction of the mage tower in Suffolk City, which provides energy for the alchemy room and workshop.

"You guys go down, I want to talk to this Mr. Antel," said Master Eunice.

Eunice is a middle-aged woman with long wavy blond hair, no crow's feet on the corners of her eyes, white skin and plump figure, and she looks like she has put a lot of effort into maintaining herself.

If Ender hadn't had amazing eyesight, he could see the tiny wrinkles on her skin. In the eyes of ordinary people, this mid-level female mage was only thirty years old at most.

"Mr. Antel, you actually can't cast spells, but you are a high-level warrior yourself, right?" After asking Ander to sit down, Master Eunice revealed the truth about Ender's casting in the first sentence.

"Master Eunice, I don't know what you mean." Of course, Ender refused to admit it, otherwise the certificate he received would have flew.

"Don't worry, I have no malice." Eunice's smile can even be described as sweet: "Wanta City welcomes all kinds of talents. High-level warriors should be respected wherever they go. You can take the title of a beginner mage if you want."

Although mages are regarded as other professions at the higher level, they are rewarded by extensive knowledge. In terms of combat power, high-level warriors still have to beat mid-level mages. Even high-level mages, if they are not prepared enough, they will not be able to beat high-level warriors.

What's more, advanced warriors who can pass the scholar's exam must look up to them even if they are advanced mages.

There are not many high-level warriors in Wanta City to study. After all, there are no fools who can reach the end of the warrior profession.

In order to break through the legend, the advanced warriors racked their brains one by one. There is definitely more than Ende who wants to get inspiration from the mage profession.

"This is the proof of the initial mage that I have prepared for you. You can use it to borrow knowledge at the corresponding level of the library, or you can join the university school to study." Master Eunice took out a bronze badge and handed it over, with a complex hovering line on it.

"Uh, then what do you need me to do?" Ender asked after taking the badge.

There is no free lunch in this world. People have no relatives and no reason to help.

When Master Eunice heard Ender ask what he needed to do, the smile on his face became more and more charming.

Her upper body leaned forward thirty degrees and approached Ander and said, "Mr. Antel, our Midatra School is going to organize an exploration of the underground gap recently. It will be of great help to us if a trusted high-level warrior joins our exploration team."

"Of course, in order to protect everyone's rights, you have to sign a contract - don't worry, we can sign at the temple of the Notary God, and we will definitely not suffer any losses."
Chapter completed!