Episode 28
EPISODE.14
The first day of the tower’s selection.
On the day the selectors arrived, the entire academy was bustling from early in the morning.
In line with the professors’ movement to greet the select officers.
Most of the entire school was out to watch them arrive.
As if proving that fact, the front gate of the academy was packed with students.
From the 4th graders in the graduating class who have to face the screening officers directly, to the 1st graders who just entered this year.
Nevertheless, the professors did not restrain or control their movements.
It was only to finish the leadership in the line of putting order to some extent.
It was most likely because he thought that seeing the wizards belonging to the Mage Tower in person would be a great stimulus and nourishment.
Their murmur resonates throughout the academy’s front gate.
However, there were also a few characters who were far from the fuss.
Despite being in the senior year, a few who were virtually confirmed to fail. And.
“after.”
After morning workout.
Russell, who washed himself in cold water and returned to his room in the dormitory, was one of them.
“Then where?”
Returning to his room, Russell reached out.
I opened the window in my room.
Drizzling tak-.
Leaning on an old, soiled chair in the corner of the room, I gazed at the front door of the academy through the open window.
‘They are selectors.’
before returning to the past.
Even before the time regression, I had visited the selectors from a distance like now.
However, if there is a difference…
‘Is it that, unlike back then when I was a failed student, I am now participating in the selection of the tower?’
The academy’s best inferior student.
and a dropout.
It was practically impossible for Russell, who had both titles, to participate in the selection of the top.
soon
“Come, come!”
A student who looks like a freshman shouts out loud as he sees the wagons arriving in front of the academy.
The wagons each have a flag symbolizing the magic tower they belong to.
Counting the number of wagons, it seemed that most of the magic towers that existed in the kingdom actually sent selectors.
‘Who came to the selection hall this year?’
Checking the mark on the flag, digging through the old memories, checking the faces of the falls.
“Huh!”
“omg!”
A whining sound could be heard from everywhere.
The tumult and tumult at the front door rose higher than before.
The burning rose door was the moment the carriage door hung with the flare rose was opened.
chuck chuck.
What came out of the carriage was a man with a burly physique that could hardly be called a wizard.
The robe he’s wearing because of his muscles are so full that it looks like it’s going to explode at any moment.
If the robe had a mouth, it looked like it would scream ‘Kill me right now.’
Besides, how bulging eyes and thick eyebrows are.
It is an overwhelming and impressive appearance that reminds one of a tiger in his head without even knowing it.
Of course, it wasn’t just his appearance that surprised the students.
An appearance that seems impossible to forget once you see it, because what is more shocking than that appearance is his identity.
“uh. cut me Boone…?”
Someone stuttered and muttered, and someone else continued.
“Crazy tiger.”
The moment when the student who unknowingly muttered ‘Crazy Tiger’ and the sturdy man who got off the carriage met their eyes.
“Heeep!”
With the sound of hiccups, the student’s body collapsed on the spot.
The sense of intimidation created by the man’s gigantic figure and status was as overwhelming as that.
Russell also knew about the man.
can’t know
‘Vermilion Ulsen.’
A man with a more famous nickname than his real name, ‘Crazy Tiger of the Flame Tower’.
He was one of the war heroes produced by the Salt Tower during the war with the Empire in the past.
‘The image of him rushing towards the enemy with magical energy burning intensely like flame all over his body
is truly a mad tiger…’
Rumor has it that the nickname ‘Crazy Tiger’ was given to him by soldiers of the Empire who feared him.
The so-called sword master and the so-called great wizard of the 7th and 8th circles, superhuman.
Although he has not yet entered the master class, he is considered to be a strong man of the Tower of Flames, who is expected to surpass the superhuman wall at some point.
Also, if you consider the excellent magic skills of the 6th circle, he is a skilled person who can not only take the position of dean of a decent academy, but also the position of the head of a small magic tower in a province.
That was a man named Vermilion Wolsen.
Above all, he was also the first disciple of Daria Snowwhite, the owner of the salt tower.
‘Master’s first disciple, for me…’
In other words, Vermilion Wolsen is not only Russell’s death penalty, but also Hubert’s death penalty.
To think that he would visit the academy as a screening officer.
There was only going to be an uproar.
‘hmm.’
Russell, who had been staring at him quietly, tilted his head.
‘By the way, was he the one who selected this period?’
No way.
Not just this time.
Even if you shake all the memories of the past, there is no memory of Vermilion coming to the selection hall.
‘That means-.’
The point of contact between you and your Master.
The only thing he could think of was that a part of the future he knew had changed because of that contact point.
The reason why somewhere in my heart is uneasy is-.
‘It’s probably because there’s no guarantee that this changed future will always work positively for me.’
It was like that right now.
All he knows is the value and fame of the magician Vermilion. I didn’t even know what he was like.
‘After all, you can’t know anything about being a person until you experience it.’
There is no reason to be favorable to yourself just because you are the same brother-in-law.
How will Vermilion’s coming as a selector really affect him?
It was while Russell was thinking about him.
Vermilion looked up as she got off the wagon and crossed the aisle of crowds of children.
I turned my gaze wide and swept over the children, and soon went farther away. Staring at the window of the dormitory seen from the main gate, he muttered softly.
“I found it.”
Red eyes with black hair. It is a feature that is not difficult to recognize.
That kid must be the one Master accepted as the youngest this time.
likewise.
‘Is Hubert a pampered student?’
A smirk spread across Vermilion’s face as she stared at him from afar.
‘It’ll be fun.’
It was a laugh that was difficult to guess.
.
.
Even after that, wagons carrying selectors arrived one after another at the academy.
Selectors sent from the magic towers in various places.
Most of them belonged to the minor magic towers in each region, but there were also those who did not.
They were the selectors of the Magic Tower, which is classified as the so-called Four Great Magic Towers of the Royal Capital.
Wangdao White Pagoda and Wangdao Yellow Pagoda.
and.
‘The magic tower of water and ice, the spear tower.’
Unlike the Wangdo White Tower, which was not given a name by the royal family because the owners of the tower were still in the 7th circle.
Like the Flame Tower, it is a part of the Four Demonic Towers of the Royal Capital that have been given the letters of the spear.
‘It’s home to wizards from the 8th Circle like Master… the headquarters of the blue tower-type wizards in the kingdom.’
Russell, recalling the information on the window tower that naturally popped into his mind, gave a meaningful look.
If it was an ordinary academy, it would have been a big topic just for two of the four demon towers of the royal capital to attend.
However, at Walkerhill Academy, where Russell was located, all of the four magic towers attended.
This was also proof that Walkerhill Academy, unlike other places, was treated as a prestigious school.
The faces of the professors I knew in advance, as well as the students.
Emotions of pride stretched across the faces of everyone at the academy.
How many people can be sent to the Mage Tower, and how many people can even the king send to the Mage Tower?
With such anticipation amplified, the selection of the top. The first day began.
* * *
The selection of the tower was carried out in three steps.
The first of these is the written exam.
This written test, also called the graduation test, was, in fact, the only test that even those who had failed could take it.
‘It’s a new feeling.’
Russell smiled awkwardly as he brushed away the questions on the written exam.
‘If I get a high score on this test, I can take the second test.’
Unfortunately, Russell, already classified as a failing student, was not even given a chance to take the second test.
‘Even though I got an almost perfect score.’
In any case, these are problems that have already been solved.
In addition, although it went into a little deepening, the problems consisted of magic theories at the level of learning at the academy.
Solving the problem was easier than drinking cold soup.
The result is, of course, number 1.
[Russell Raymond, chief of the 1st exam]
After passing the 1st exam with the best score, what awaited him was the 2nd exam, an interview.
There was still a little time left before Russell’s turn, as the interview was conducted in order of name rather than grade in the first test.
‘It’s an interview with the selectors of the Magic Tower.’
Russell closed his eyes, feeling his heart race for something he had never experienced in his previous life.
He sat in the waiting room and quietly waited for his turn.
To sit like that for a while.
Kiki-
“…?”
Someone enters the waiting room with the sound of old hinges.
A look of concern lingers on his face, which looks hardy.
It was Hubert.
“Gyo…”
Russell, who was about to call him Professor, hesitated for a second.
I thought that I should call him the death penalty.
“professor?”
After thinking about it for not too long, I chose the word professor.
I don’t know if it’s a private place.
As he hadn’t graduated yet, he needed to use a proper title in a public setting, and more than anything else.
‘Because I’m not familiar with the word death penalty yet.’
“Hmmmm. You haven’t entered yet. Good luck.”
Hubert, who found him, approached him with an awkward expression and looked nervous for no reason.
It seemed that it wasn’t just because he entered the waiting room as a professor.
‘Among the other professors, there were several who came in to relieve the tension of the student in charge.’
Meanwhile, approaching Russell, he glanced around.
After staring at the door leading into the interview room for a while, he opened his mouth.
“Actually, I came to tell you something about the death penalty.”
if the death penalty.
“Are you referring to senior Vermilion Ulsen?”
“That’s right. The death penalty has long been a long time ago…”
That moment.
The door to the interview room opened and a voice called out to him.
Hubert, who glanced inside, sighed and lowered his head.
“No. Nothing.”
He patted him on the shoulder with a weak hand and encouraged him.
“Then do a good interview and come out.”
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