My Endless Life.

Chapter 53 Academy and Mentor

The England School of Magic is located in the southern part of Lankana, the capital of England.

Its area occupies almost one-third of the entire southern region and is the largest building complex in Lankana City except for the royal palace.

The academy is divided into four major departments, which are classified and named after the colors of gemstones.

The four major departments are the 'Ruby Department' which mainly studies combat magic and related skills.

The Blue Crystal Academy where students learn auxiliary magic and healing magic.

The Yellow Agate Institute manufactures magic items and studies magic alchemy.

And the 'Green Emerald Academy' which studies magic theory and creates magic.

The four gem colors represent four different schools of magicians, and the 'mentor' that Li Qi chose at this moment is the magic professor of 'Huang Yuan'.

His name is Derian Flores, and he is the dean of the Yellow House.

England's admissions system is very interesting. In addition to the normal annual assessment of young people, there is also a 'special admissions system'.

Every professor in the academy has one special recruitment quota every year, with a maximum of three quotas accumulated. People can enter the academy directly without taking exams, taking talent tests, or even paying tuition.

Normally, these places are reserved for children of nobles, or for talented commoners who cannot afford to attend school.

But as luck would have it, Amy had a special spot.

The person who gave her this position was Dean Derian of the Huang Institute.

And now this quota is in Li Qi's hands. Because of this, he was personally accepted into the academy by Derian's students.

"Teacher usually works in his alchemy room and rarely sees people. Today, I heard that someone was recruited using a special recruitment quota, so I wanted to meet you in person."

Taking Li Qi into Huangyuan, the senior brother with brown natural curly hair explained to Li Qi.

The senior brother’s attitude was very good. Perhaps because there were only a few disciples who could become the dean, he was very enthusiastic towards Li Qi, his junior brother.

It was during this period that Li Qi realized that ordinary students were basically not qualified to become the dean's disciples.

Most of the students do not have their own teachers. They are just like normal students, with a class of about ten people and one class teacher.

People like Li Qi, who become the dean or a professor's disciple, are either extremely talented or have used the backdoor.

Li Qi's senior brother, the naturally curly young man named Joe Lal, seemed to believe that his teacher would not let anyone take advantage of the back door, so he was very enthusiastic towards Li Qi.

He thought Li Qi was chosen by the teacher because he was very talented.

Li Qi didn't explain, but talked to Qiao with a shy smile on his face.

The two of them talked, one listening at a time, and soon they arrived at Drien's alchemy room.

Bang bang bang.

Joe quickly knocked on the door of Derian's alchemy room. Li Qi was waiting beside him, but there was no movement for a long time.

I looked at Qiao in surprise, but found that Qiao's expression was somewhat helpless:
"The teacher is probably immersed in his own world again..."

As he spoke, he took out a key from his pocket and said to Li Qi:

"When you become the teacher's student, remember to ask him for a spare key. If you come to see the teacher and there is no response when you knock on the door, just use the spare key to go in and find him."

"Is that okay?"

"It's okay, because if the door can be opened with the spare key, it proves that what the teacher is researching is not important. On the contrary, if the door cannot be opened with the spare key, it proves that the teacher's research is at a critical moment. Don't disturb him at this time."

"I see. I've learned my lesson."

Li Qi nodded slightly, but he had a complaint in his heart that he didn't say out loud.

He really wanted to know, what would he do if the dean died in his alchemy room and the spare key couldn't open the door?
Just because this question was too rude, Li Qi wisely didn't ask.

Qiao inserted the spare key into the door lock and turned it gently. With a click, the door opened, which meant that what their teacher was researching was not important.

Li Qi also saw Qiao heaved a sigh of relief, then he pushed the door open and walked in, and said directly to the man inside who had his back to them:
"Teacher, I have brought here the new student who has just joined the school. He is the one who used the special recruitment quota." "Oh..."

The white-haired old man with his back to the two of them responded softly but did not turn around.

Li Qi took the opportunity to look around the furnishings in the alchemy room.

chaos.

Very messy.

This was his first impression of this place.

In the small room, there are wooden tables of different sizes, which are filled with all kinds of incomprehensible things.

Li Qi also saw some gears that were very different in style from those here, as well as gun parts.

There was a closet on the wall, and inside it were bottles and jars that Li Qi couldn't understand. Near the corner of the room, there was a display shelf, on which were placed a planetarium, animal and plant specimens, and a strange beast skull.

All in all, the overall style here is more in line with Li Qi's impression of "The Wizard".

Mysterious, strange, and... incomprehensible.

After taking a general look at the environment here, the old man with his back to Li Qi seemed to have finished the things in his hands.

He turned his head to look at the two people behind him, glanced at Joe, and finally looked at Li Qi.

Li Qi also looked at him, and their eyes met.

If nothing unexpected happens, the white-haired old man standing in front of Li Qi is Dean Huang, Derian.

Compared to the mess in the house, Derian's appearance is quite decent.

He had a slightly bald head of white hair and a gray beard that connected to his temples.

There was a gold-framed monocle on his left eye, and his slightly cloudy brown eyes were staring at Li Qi intently.

He looked at Li Qi for a while before asking him:

"You are... the little genius recommended by that girl Amy?"

"I don't dare to call myself a genius. I just think I have some talent in magic."

Facing his future mentor, Li Qi will not hide his talent.

Because the higher the talent, the more you can learn in the future. I believe that the dean in front of me will not be stingy in teaching a genius more magic.

What surprised Li Qi a little was that Professor Drien seemed to disagree with him.

Derian frowned, turned around and searched for something in a box beside him. After searching for a long time, he finally found a crystal ball and placed it on the table closest to Li Qi. He pointed at the crystal ball and said:

"Put your hand on it."

"What is this...?" Li Qi was a little curious about what this crystal ball was.

Joe explained: "This is a talent detector. We usually use it to detect the talents of magicians."

"I see……"

Li Qi nodded, but wondered why it was different from what he saw in Uno.

Uno's talent detector is a headband device with five balls on it. When the headband is worn on the head, the number of balls that light up represents the level of magical talent.

If one is not lit, it means you don’t have it. If all five are lit, that is top-level talent.

Li Qi had all five lights on at the time, so not long after entering the barracks to study magic, he was promoted to the rank of Private First Class.

This is the magic talent detection mechanism for Uno, but I don’t know if it’s the same for England.

How can I judge the talent level with just a crystal ball?

(End of this chapter)