69: Chapter 69 identifies, and welfare

After Ross finished communicating with the half-elf scholar, Ross also left the Hall of Knowledge.

Right now, he needed to make a trip to the registration center of the Elius Wizard Academy.

The registration center was not far from the Hall of Knowledge; in fact, the two buildings were on the same street.

In the academy's auditorium, aside from that portion who had not advanced to Level 3 Wizard Apprentice—

After the students were eliminated, the remaining students automatically registered as Level 3 Wizard Apprentices here.

Therefore, it was also Ross's first time coming here.

The registration center before him was a treehouse made of a huge Cuban mahogany tree, and this huge piece of wood still had some vines entwined around its body.

Where it connected with the ground, they interlocked to form a sturdy structure.

Serving as the registration center of the Elius Wizard Academy, it recorded the changes in the wizard Ranks of the various Wizard Apprentices.

Before him sat a dwarf Level 2 Wizard Apprentice at the front desk.

At this moment, he was sitting there idly, fidgeting with the feather pen in his hand.

Within half a second of Ross's footsteps sounding and stepping into the treehouse, the dwarf quickly straightened his body and sat up properly.

Ross said to this dwarf who was obviously slacking off a bit:

"Hello, my name is Ross, and I'm here to update my wizard Rank."

At that instant, the dwarf apprentice transitioned from his sudden upright sitting posture into a working state.

Then, seeing that Ross still wore three silver Wizard Apprentice badges on his chest, he roughly understood that he should have advanced to a Level 2 Wizard Apprentice.

Then the dwarf apprentice respectfully said to Ross: "Hello, Senior Ross, I will update your records right away."

Judging by age, the dwarf apprentice before him should be quite a bit older than himself.

Although he didn't have much of an impression of the students in this cohort, this dwarf apprentice was clearly not among them.

The reason he called him senior was probably because his wizard Rank was higher than his.

So he naturally called him senior, which was the so-called rule of the strong being revered.

"Senior Ross, please take this badge representing the Level 2 Wizard Apprentice. From now on in the academy records, you are an official Level 2 Wizard Apprentice."

"In addition, the academy will also issue a benefit to Level 2 Wizard Apprentices every month, which is 5 jars of [siling ointment] per month. This is an ointment made from a magic potion that can increase Mental Energy."

"Of course, the academy does not supply it without limit. If you cannot make a Breakthrough to a Level 1 Wizard Apprentice within 5 years, this benefit will be cancelled. Even if you ultimately fail to Breakthrough to an Official Wizard, these benefits will be counted as the academy's investment, serving as part of what you will repay the academy at that time."

No wonder Professor Pulang asked him to come here to register his wizard Rank.

Although that Level 2 Wizard Evelyn previously said that today's Wizard World was still fair to wizards,

but as the saying goes, absolute fairness means absolute unfairness.

No matter how fair it is, there still needs to be differentiation.

Advancing to a Level 2 Wizard Apprentice meant that Mental Energy had reached the level of 1000.

Furthermore, from a practical perspective,

after advancing to a Level 2 Wizard Apprentice, not only would the power of spellcasting become stronger and actual combat capability stronger, but the probability of a Breakthrough to an Official Wizard would also increase.

This was also the reason why the academy would increase its investment.

Although if one failed to Breakthrough to an Official Wizard, all of these would be settled afterward.

However, in Ross's view, these were inherently a kind of resource provided by the academy, and investments also needed to recover costs.

Therefore, regarding these matters mentioned by the dwarf apprentice, Ross did not feel any discomfort.

Right now, Ross was just looking at the five jars of [siling ointment] in his hand, still somewhat curious about how strong its effect of increasing Mental Energy could be.

But obviously now was not the best time to try it; he should wait until he returned to his residence to study it.

"In addition to related benefits, as a Level 2 Wizard Apprentice, you can almost enter and exit most public buildings in the academy. For some magic knowledge that Level 3 Wizard Apprentices are not qualified to visit or try, you can also purchase them, and the purchase restrictions on some knowledge and props have been lifted."

"Aside from these benefits, you must also undertake certain obligations. As for specific duties, they will be arranged through your mentor. This is also the direction of work for a Level 2 Wizard Apprentice after finding a specific mentor."

"The related contract, which is the contract you signed with the Hogwarts Wizard Academy, will also be changed from the initial entrance contract to the contract signed by a Level 2 Wizard..."

He hadn't expected that just registering his Wizard Apprentice Rank would take half a day.

These scattered benefits, obligations, regulations, codes of conduct, and related contract signings all required a lot of time.

These contained the specific investment of the Elius Wizard Academy in Ross, as well as the obligations Ross needed to undertake.

Even the Wizard World was much more civilized, as he had learned in his general knowledge classes.

Like in the barbaric era, Wizard Apprentices had almost no status; basically, they just followed the assignments of Official Wizards or the assignments of factions.

But the current way, relying on contracts to list the benefits one could obtain or the obligations one needed to fulfill item by item, actually made people feel at ease.

Besides, these clauses were not unchangeable. If one was outstanding or excellent enough, they could naturally earn a large amount of magic stones to buy back their freedom.

Of course, if Ross was just an unremarkable Wizard Apprentice, he would most likely try his utmost to advance to an Official Wizard before the age of 60.

Either succeed and then embark on an unknown path of the strong,

or fail and become half a slave of the academy, buying back his own freedom.

Ross was naturally confident; these contracts were merely a mutual restraint between both parties.

At this moment, seeing that Ross had digested this news, the dwarf apprentice continued speaking to him:

"Senior Ross, your enrollment registration time is less than half a year from now, which means you advanced to a Level 2 Wizard Apprentice within a year. There are regulations for this in the academy's rewards; you can choose one of the following magic items as a reward."

"This is the related reward list."

This was a scroll recording quite a few magic props or items.

On it were quite a few items that could greatly enhance the strength of Wizard Apprentices.

The rewards organized by the academy were probably also to urge Wizard Apprentices to advance quickly, and it was also a reward for Genius wizards.

"There are quite a few things on this list. Let me see what's on it?" Ross said.