The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 39 Exchange Meeting (Seeking Follow-up Reading)
"Apprentice exchange meeting?" Richard accepted the invitation.

"Well, it's just for us formal apprentices to get together and get to know each other." Eric explained, and then he added, "Almost all formal apprentices will participate in this exchange meeting."

"I see."

After a few more polite words, Eric, having completed his mission, stood up and asked to leave. After all, he wanted to invite more than just Richard as an apprentice.

After he left, Richard asked, "Brother, who is this senior Eric? He seems very strong."

"Strong, that's right. This guy is the apprentice of our Vice President Alex." Chucks replied, "By the way, Junior Brother, do you have a female companion tonight?" Chucks suddenly winked at Richard, "If not, Senior Brother, I'll introduce you to two."

"I'll make sure you have a good night."

"No, Senior Brother." Richard smiled and shook his head, rejecting Chucks's kindness, "I have a female companion."

"You have a female companion?" Chucks was stunned. His taciturn junior brother actually had a female companion. But he immediately approached Richard with a gossipy look on his face and said, "Junior brother, you actually have a female companion? I thought you had already embraced the truth with your body and mind, and only had knowledge in your heart?
Tell me, brother, what school of thought are you from? Which master do you follow?"

"I study the dual schools of Shaping and Cursing, and I follow Master Susanna." Richard didn't hide anything. After all, they were fellow apprentices, and they had a long time to live together. He couldn't hide this even if he wanted to.

"Oh! You're awesome, Junior Brother!" Richard gave a thumbs up to Chucks, who was beaming with joy. "Master Susanna hasn't accepted an apprentice for many years, but she accepted one this year, and you managed to get her!"

Richard smiled and said nothing.

"Since you have a female companion, I won't introduce you to someone else." After saying that, Chucks' smile faded and his expression became serious. "But before I go, I have to make it clear with you."

"Exchange meetings are just for fun. Don't take the boasting and flattery seriously. Don't waste too much time on so-called relationships. As long as you are strong enough, you don't have to maintain relationships. Relationships will come to you automatically.

Just like today, you just delivered a batch of concentration potions to my senior sister's store yesterday, and Eric came to your store today to wait for you to come back. If you didn't make any achievements, Eric would just leave an invitation for me to pass on to you instead of waiting for you here in person. "

Chucks spoke in a deep tone, as if he had suffered losses in this regard in the past.

"Yes, brother, I understand." Richard responded with the same seriousness.

"Now that you know, go back and prepare." Chucks stood up and patted Richard, "Brother, I'm waiting for you to shine and charm everyone tonight."

……

At night, on the 72nd floor of the Central Black Tower.

Richard took Ellie's arm and walked to the door of the exchange venue with the invitation in hand.

Tonight Richard changed into a neat black suit with a badge on his chest and his leather shoes polished to a shine. Ellie, standing next to him, changed into a black long skirt and wore a sapphire necklace around her slender neck.

"This should be it." Richard looked at the two humanoid mechanical guards in front of the door and thought that Eric was really ostentatious, even the mechanical puppets were humanoid.

Most wizards can't afford a humanoid mechanical puppet.

Richard took out the invitation from his arms and handed it to the guard. The guard swallowed the invitation in one gulp, and a sound of gears rubbing against each other came from his body.

"The identity has been confirmed. Richard is Master Joelord's official apprentice. You are welcome to attend the exchange meeting." The guard bowed slightly to Richard.

Ellie followed suit and handed her invitation to the guard.

"Identity confirmed, Master Susanna's official apprentice, Ellie, you are welcome to attend the exchange meeting."

Entering the hall, the entire hall is magnificent and golden, which is incompatible with the dark and gloomy style of the central black tower.

The apprentices who arrived early gathered in groups of three or five, drinking and chatting with each other. Most of the formal apprentices were descendants of wizards. Unless they were people with special talents like Richard Ellie, most of the other apprentices had to wait until the first bloody exam before they could be accepted as formal disciples by the wizard.

Richard glanced around the hall and saw many apprentices in the corners who looked very powerful.

“Presumably these people are the ones who were accepted as formal apprentices after the bloody examination,” Richard thought to himself.

As a wild apprentice recruited from mortals, Richard naturally did not know the descendants of wizards. Before the exchange meeting started, Richard took Ellie to a corner and sat down quietly.

There were many hidden talents in this exchange meeting, and he felt it would be better for him to remain a nobody.

As the time approaches, more and more apprentices gather in the hall. Most of these people know each other, and their relationships are good or bad. When they gather together, friction is inevitable.

An apprentice who was as strong as a chimpanzee suddenly roared at the apprentice in front of him. Judging from the fluctuations of his magic power, his strength had already reached the level of a mid-level apprentice.

"Kachman, you bastard is still alive!"

While roaring, the apprentice swung the staff in his hand towards the apprentice in front of him with the force of thunder and lightning.

The staff in the apprentice's hand is more like a long stick bone than a staff. A crystal ball is usually placed on the top of the staff, but he wrapped the crystal ball with a layer of metal spikes, and runes were engraved on the spikes.

At this moment, the runes on the spikes are shining with magical light.

"Hehehe, Lark, you are still so stupid."

The apprentice who was hit laughed strangely, and neither defended nor dodged, but just watched the staff fall quietly.

boom!
"Lake, I remember I told you not to be impulsive in today's exchange meeting." A figure appeared in front of Lark, and Lark's staff that was as powerful as wind and thunder was grabbed by him. No matter how hard Lark tried, it did not move at all.

"Do you forget it?"

A powerful wave of magical power emanated from the figure, causing Lak's body to tremble unconsciously.

His instinctive reaction kept warning him that if he resisted... he would die!
"Hug, hug, hug... Sorry, Senior Eric. I didn't mean it. Please forgive my stupidity!"

Lark suddenly bowed deeply to Eric, and his trembling voice was completely different from before.

Eric looked at Lak coldly and threw Lak's staff aside.

"Lucky for you, I'm in a good mood today."

After that, Eric came to the center of the hall with a wine glass and started knocking it with a silver spoon.

The noise in the hall fell silent, and all the apprentices turned their eyes to the organizer of the exchange meeting.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I am very pleased to welcome you to the apprentice exchange meeting I am hosting." Eric smiled and bowed slightly to everyone, "Everyone present is a formal apprentice of the masters in the Black Tower, and the future pillars of the academy.

The purpose of my exchange meeting is to hope that you can communicate with each other and enhance your relationship. So I hope you can control your emotions and not lose the face of the masters behind you.

You must know that calmness and restraint are the first qualities of a wizard."

After that, Eric picked up the wine glass and drank it all in front of everyone.

"Now, the apprentice exchange meeting officially begins!"

(End of this chapter)